skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> None of the promised apocalypse materialized, because the marketing materials used to make the case for it were fundamentally wrong.

Keep in mind that states passed net neutrality laws [1], and large ISPs such as Comcast and Verizon tried to ban states from doing so [2]. Even so, the reclassification of broadband from Title II to Title I formally removed much of the FCC's authority to regulate ISPs at all [3]:

> A big part of the FCC’s plan involves rolling back the FCC’s tailor-made authority over broadband providers, then shoveling all remaining government oversight to an FTC ill-equipped to handle it.

> Why is that a problem? The FTC has no rule-making ability, and can only move to protect consumers after a violation has occurred. And that action can only occur if it’s painfully clear that an ISP engaged in “unfair and deceptive” behavior, something that’s easy for an ISP to dodge in the net neutrality era, where anti-competitive behavior is often buried under faux-technical jargon and claims that it was done only for the health and safety of the network.

Federal net neutrality rules were significant but nonetheless were a fraction of the broadband consumer protection debate. You are correct that an apocalypse didn't happen. Rather, the US already was mired in monopolization, fraud, and regulatory capture. These are problems net neutrality can provide only a bandage for. The FCC couldn't begin to help with the larger issues without restoring at least some of its Title II authority (regardless of whether the FCC would actually acknowledge the monopolization in the first place [4]).

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2022/01/28/courts-again-shoot-down-...

[2] https://www.techdirt.com/2017/11/06/comcast-urges-fcc-to-ban...

[3] https://www.vice.com/en/article/yw5d5g/net-neutrality-big-te...

[4] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/03/22/net-neutralitys-dead-tim...
Julia can cache JIT code between executions nowadays.
Yep that was me. Was using a relatives Netflix for years until the password sharing ban came in. I instantly created an account
Rack level disaggregated compute-memory-storage-accelerator architectures allow for dynamic partitioning/aggregation of hardware to suite concurrent workloads and their evolution over time and make it easier to achieve both cost efficiency as well as incremental, continuous and non-disruptive hardware upgrades.
> So we’ll do the whole @financialombuds thing and fill in a million faceless forms. But I bet that not a single person will ever turn up at her home, sit down with her and just talk to her. Shame on you @HSBC_UK

Such a weird place to look for care and comfort.

Let's grant that an elderly person needs assistance and compassion in this time, and as a community we should provide it. Would we want the bank to provide it? Hell no! There's an enormous conflict of interest there. In this situation I wouldn't want somebody from the bank cozying up to my mom and earning her trust. In fact, I'd go ballistic if they tried. Their financial incentives are to use that trust to persuade her not to exercise her full rights, to avoid her becoming aware of all the avenues of recourse available to her, to make her feel that everything will be okay if she lets the matter drop.

What we really want for someone in her situation, besides emotional support, is a savvy legal advocate who will let the bank know that she is aware of her rights and the bank's obligations, and that she has legal resources at her disposal.
It sounds like you shouldn't join a startup then. The very concept here is that you're taking some of this risk.
The founders come from Vice so yeah, hyperbole abound.
> in Italian pasta with seaweed mixed

All the rage at Italian/Japanese fusion joints (and honestly in Japan too - Japan loves pasta)
Python was also developed by academics.
FYI all you need to do (for now) is plain substitute the twitter.com with nitter.net. The links in comments are convenient, but it's trivial to DIY when faced with some twitter thread you want to read without a login.
Not if they sold secondaries.
The good news is that none of our memories, mental representations, or even current perceptions are "real" either.
That's why I had asked if the goal of the project was just to skip the laborious parts of compositing! haha

I'm with you on the lack of control of SD. It can create some amazing stuff but so frequently it's kind of just "put in some words and click until you get something you like then pull into an image editor to fix up issues" which ends up meaning I have to do some of the labor still anyway.
Medicare: 65,748,297 people enrolled [0]

Medicaid and CHIP: 85,614,581 people enrolled [1]

Military: 9.5 million people covered [2]

The US has not one but two of the largest single payer health insurance programs in the world.

Medicare alone has more people enrolled than any European country's single payer programs other than Germany (pop 83,294,633) and the UK (pop 67,736,802).

[0] https://medicareadvocacy.org/medicare-enrollment-numbers/
[1] https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medica...
[2] https://www.health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/MHS-Toolkits/M...
> they were dead in the water 6-8 weeks ago anyways.

That's an extremely short horizon. Normally it's more than a quarter out, at least.
And the safe half will be brimming with plentiful retro 8-bit CPU's, all the necessary support chips, and input/output devices? I can see this being a fun "what-if" project that provides a hobby but not as a serious solution.
still, whatever service is available on chrome is also available in safari. it s the app store that drives the gatekeeping
Isn't this the usual "accurate translation vs. localization" issue? There was a more poetic name for it, IIRC. It's an old problem.
Yeah, this is a weird article to have popped up on HN and probably pretty opaque to anyone not already versed in the topic. The "ecological" part here comes from ecological psychology [1] which, in contrast to cognitive psychology, tries to explain perception and action in terms of dynamical systems. The terminology is indeed very strange if you're not familiar with it.

When applied to sports coaching it basically comes down to:

- Skill is a matter of interacting with and adapting to the game environment (which includes the other players), rather than memorizing or automatizing correct movement patterns

- Humans are good at unconsciously figuring out how to move in order to interact with their environment, but bad at consciously controlling their movements

- So to teach people effectively, instead of telling/showing people what to do, you set up carefully designed practice environments and let them experiment and figure stuff out

[2] is probably a better introduction to this topic than the linked article.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecological_psychology
2. https://swordstem.com/2023/07/31/part-1-ecological-psycholog...
Fraud is absolutely rampant[1] and the police / "In-"ActionFraud will do absolutely nothing about it. Combine this with the banks having reduced costs and outsourced everything, and the outcome is cases like this one.

[1] https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeand...
After months of development I come to you with this early version of yb. Looking forward some community feedbacks !
Why? Why shouldn't we obligate businesses with dealing with the HUMAN results of the suffering they cause by not properly vetting people claiming to be you?

The very concept of a business exists at the whims of society. We can make them do better if we want.
Yeah, specially how Swift for Tensorflow ended up.

I keep looking into Julia and Chapel instead.
We're just getting started on it ourselves but it's a really fun problem. I think the useful thing from our findings so far is that simplifying the DOM representation really helps the model reason about state.
This just made me realize that things are back in stock regularly again. I suppose it happened slowly so I didn't notice, but shortages seem to be totally gone and things are back to 2019 stock levels.
Startups are not established businesses. They are inherently risky ventures.

If you want to be coddled and showered with benefits, go join a Fortune 500. Startups are not for you.
I've been playing with it a bit... the other day I asked ChatGPT the name of a certain animal in Urdu and it with complete confidence threw the name of a fruit at me.

That said ChatGPT is better at picking up dialect nuances. I can ask it to tell me how to say something in Egyptian Arabic, vs most translation tools will use Modern Standard.
Oh, hell, totally didn't think of that. Ugh
Me too, definitely can stand to lose a few pounds.

But I've also worked a good portion of my career in healthcare IT (claims benefit management, EHR), as well as a paramedic, seeing first hand the suboptimal care in ERs, hospitals, and SNFs (skilled nursing facilities). I have many physician and other HCP friends. SNFs regularly ship "annoying" residents to ERs because the staff deem them to be too high maintenance, resulting in a $2,000 bill each way for the ambulance, $3,000+ for the ER... and may do this multiple times a week.

I also grew up in Australia, and while that healthcare system certainly wasn't perfect, we spend far more here for similar outcomes.

My other passionate cause is end of life care - roughly, we spend more in the last year of someone's life on medical care keeping them alive, sometimes with horrendous quality of life (and often for family's benefit, not the patient) than we do in the previous ten years of their life, and we spend more in that ten years than we spend on the rest of their life. Forget "death panels", the more we allow death with dignity, or just better counseling for families that it's okay to let someone go, the better.
An easy thing for the scientists to test - check the dental plaque of people that eat a lot of Urchins e.g. Kina are popular with some people in New Zealand.
Sometimes getting a contribution into a FOSS project is more difficult than proving your application will halt.
Let me have the opportunity to really thank you for this it has been my goto library for scraping, while allowing also selenium syntax, the idea behind it is really great. Also the “elements below …” very nice

Please make the switch to selenium 4, so that it is kept up to date with the rest of the selenium ecosystem e.g. undetectable browsers
The way FOSS works engraves feature abundance - every contributor has some feature wish that they will add - most of them jumps on the project for that very feature. Both contributors and target audience values features and configurability, and "unpolished" parts (mostly meaning you need to click 2 submenus more, you need some config to be set or script it yourself) are not a problem. This is the very antithesis of a for-profit company being laser focused on some customer group and wanting to be cost efficient with resources.
Not really as too much time is wasted on broken or incomplete results. But i did notice it gives the impression of helping junior developers or those with lengthy but weak experience. These tools almost always produce immediately visibly broken code or are useful for trivialities. Google does it better when needed.
> The founders and executives walk away from this with $0.

Often after having forgone salary for a while, also.
But, if the Mona Lisa wasn't famous because of the theft, would you have even been aware of it to fall in love with?
That's great in theory, but you missed the part where the fraudsters stole all her money. There is no Legal Aid for cases like these. Charities or (in this case) relatives are the best hope for her.
The company can certainly be saved in a period of months. FedEx supposedly had less than a week of jet fuel opex remaining when the founder decided to try to win the missing money by gambling.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/fedex-s...
how is the lighting on the model? I assume you can't do anything other than overcast days, because the lighting isn't specified.
Oh. I'm adding it to my to-read queue then, and bumping Larry Niven up in the queue in general too. I've been meaning to read his works ever since I learned about Known Space / Star Trek connection.
I don't think its feasible to expect a global bank with literally hundreds of millions, if not over a billion, customers to be dispatching someone to do a household visit.
> “We believe people, especially teens, have the ability to change when given the opportunity, so we want to offer those opportunities,” says Badalich

Quote from the article. Teenagers are well known for testing boundaries. If you ban them for doing their natural behavior they will either leave and never come back, or just create a new account.
I switched from vscode to https://cursor.sh/ (using my own gpt api key, so basically it’s free).

While copilot assist autocomplete, cursor also is good at:

- refactoring existing stuff

- debugging errors across the code base

- explaining snippets

… it’s like a real pairing partner 24/7, who you can discuss with and also let it (re-)write code.
Dulse here.

Not uncommon in Canada, especially eastern coast.

You can find it in grocery stores sometimes. Price has nearly doubled in the last few years.

https://www.amazon.ca/stores/page/6A642280-AC30-4571-9ECB-08...
HSBC UK is pretty serious about fraud, actually.

Their fraud department calls me several times a year to enquire about any transactions out of the ordinary to the point I am very careful when I travel abroad because I know they are bound to flag the activity.
We plan to allow users to login with other accounts / signup with email + pw, just haven't set that up yet :-)
The even more terrifying part is that they are recreated when we remember. Ask me why I don't value eyewitness testimony.
Non-Chromium browser picks also don't swap out the system webview, meaning that if you click say, a link in Slack/Discord/whatever other app, you still end up with the Chrome browser anyway.

That's why I mention the system webview in the first place; it's a super insidious browser that solves a meaningful issue ("Electronification", where every desktop app is now running Chromium is solved by it's presence) but conveniently also grants full control back to Google, overriding other browser changes. (I once read some stats about this - system webviews are the majority of browser traffic on phones nowadays, because app developers love them; they can be tracked (the Google system webview reports back data to the main app about user behavior - IIRC the one Apple offers for non-browser apps is more of a black box though) and analyzed to see where users go from their apps, which helps with things like user profiling for advertisements).

Given that Android lets vendors force it to Google's implementation on a kernel level, it's also very much an avenue Google doesn't want users to figure out to change or to have competing implementations for.
I'm not at all "spamming" it, I posted it where it was relevant as an example of a problem I had with recent union activity?

I don't understand the issue with that? It's just as relevant to this thread's conversation.

I might be "double dipping" by using the same example? But I hardly consider a second post about the same topic to be spamming.

So...sorry for not leaving to find a different example that I found relevant to the conversation? But it was pretty much the same conversation about the same issues people may have with unions.
How about overloading `as` operator instead and use `alias` in place of `type`?

Something like `alias Numeric as int|float;`
> I'd argue the business failing is a strong counterpoint to that assertion.

That statement is pretty naive. There are plenty of things that can kill a startup without them having done anything specifically wrong at any level, let alone at the level of technical team.
Onfim – a child from 1200 whose homework notes and sketches were preserved
> In WW2 the infrastructure was destroyed

But it was rebuilt partly using massive Marshall plan investment which wouldn't exist in a world where several billion people have just died.
Hello DHH, when will Rails be typesafe then ?
They were banned for doxxing 13 year olds in call of duty lobby and calling them the N word... I'm sure everyone feels so much better now. That's what you need? Really...
The bbc video that is still up with 400k views states the false things as facts. Without the claims thing. They show the burning parking lot while stating that it's a completely destroyed and flattened hospital.
> Android is slightly better in that on the surface you can switch out the browser for say, Firefox (although Firefox on Android is a disaster)

When was the last time you tried it ? It has been my daily driver for years and I can't complain (ublock origin works on it :).
Is it cynical of me to think that if your kid can't write a high school essay without GPT, your kid is just very dumb?
So because this is a threejs canvas, we could build an interface to add lights anywhere, to adjust lighting on the model. this is an early version so it's not in there, but really easy to add in code. perhaps that will be the next feature.
It helps having a platform owner saying "thou shall write Koltin", while using the IDE from the company owning Kotlin.

Likewise most seats from Kotlin Foundation are from JetBrains and Google.
Oh absolutely. When I was growing up, people looked back 20-30 years at the hornet's nest of predators at "nudist camps" and other such things that masqueraded under the umbrella of "peace love and mung beans".

Now we look back at the world of AIM and ICQ and IRC as being just as bad.
The navigation and maps UI works great. The traffic data and routing based on traffic is bad. 80%+ of the time if I’m using maps it’s simply to find the fastest route and it’s not been good for that.
> I'd be worried if I were Midjourney specifically because Discord is a terrible user interface.

Yeah, Discord is just nasty for that. It got a little better when I found out how to create my own "server" (what?) so my stuff didn't get lost in a sea of other messages, but it's still not good.

I'll probably continue to put up with it until the moment when OpenAI images are of equivalent quality, but not after that.
That was the enhancement proposal targeting Java 9 which came out about 6 years ago.

For Java it’s a good saving because it reduces the overall heap size, and if JS has a similar distribution of objects then it should work well there as well. It may already do so, the internal storage format of things like strings and arrays is deliberately opaque.
According to what’s been said, they were chasing opportunities that they thought would finalize within that timeframe. 4-6 weeks ago they had good leads for closing a deal in 4-6 weeks. None of those happened to pan out this time, but every startup has been at a point like this where runway is coming up short. This is normal and expected operating conditions.
or maybe banks, and more specifically people who work at banks, should not be incentivized to screw their clients at every opportunity. which is to say, we should not have a legal, fiscal, and political regime which encourages or excuses this behavior. and, as people, we should not tolerate or accept it

you are, on the one hand, calling for "community" to provide for assistance and compassion and to respect basic human dignity. then, on the other, you accept and normalize this notion that all human interaction is explicitly transactional, and even adversarial. these are orthogonal goals.
Nobody wanted to "have a chance to explain themselves". I just wanna be told what got me banned, not a complex request.
There’s been some good points raised by both sides in the case but there’s still some logic that doesn’t flow.

* Google pays a rev share to Apple for being _default_ search provided and default was key: “no default, no deal”.
Apple turned down more money from Microsoft including offers to buy all/part of Bing.
Samsung also dallied with Microsoft for more money but also turned it down.

* This suggests that there’s some other reason aside from money that Apple is going with Google. After all, as Google points out, if competition is just a click away why wouldn’t Apple click away to another partner? This could be:

Google is just better. If Apple switched their users would notice and suffer/leave Apple.
There’s additional leverage that Google has that it is leveraging e.g. search ranking penalty? Access to other Google services (especially for Samsung), Agree not to compete in other areas (like their previous no-poach agreement they had).

So a couple of key questions:

1. Is Google really that much better to the _average_ internet user (note that HN crowd is not average in this regard)? Is there much risk to Apple to take the money from Bing and make them default?

2. Somewhat dependent on 1, but ff Google knew/know Apple or others are unlikely to switch because Google is that much better than why not exercise their market power and lower the rev share % they pay to others?

Feels strange for both things to be true - that Google is that much better AND that they don’t negotiate down their rev share.
For a lot of people, signal is not simply a User-User "texting" type application, but much more akin to slack or discord or matrix.

Many, Many reporters put their signal number in twitter bio seeking tips. Many activists (including me) use signal group chats to organize volenteers and staff, and publicly share room links. In other words, we have to either share our number publicly or buy a burner phone number if we want people to interact with us on signal.
Every time Tesla updates their UI there's no end of complaints about random changes or how oft-used functionality is now moved to obscure menus behind small tap targets.
Lot of passive voice everywhere for some odd reason
There is something uncanny in this painting, my take is that it’s not a woman that was painted.
I think there is a lens you can view LLM's in education through where they are a weapon for students to leverage against admins who want to waste their time
Thank you for your thoughtful response!

For me, an end-to-end solution would look like a model that can 1) read numbers in any format from the string, 2) manipulate and reason about them correctly, and 3) reliably output structured data if requested. No need for special encodings. Obviously, we're nowhere near that!

In the interim, I agree with you that a representation that explicitly encodes a mantissa and an exponent seems like a better stopgap solution. We human beings already do that to some extent -- e.g., we often think in terms of tens, hundreds, thousands, and so on, as numbers get bigger, and in terms of percents, basis points, and decimal points as they get smaller.

I wouldn't be surprised if large models internally will eventually learn implicitly to represent numbers as mantissas and exponents.
I used to own a Sony PS-F5, a portable vertical linear turntable.
if they can't do business at that scale in a way that is acceptable to most people they do business with, then why should they be allowed to do business at that scale at all?
Don't underestimate how much headcount is pouring over an array of analytics tools and split testing tools to optimize a commercial product compared to FOSS. For every dark pattern change that is made in a commercial product, perhaps 100 actual improvements/polish changes are made to workflows.
Yea you don't absolutely need a 3D model. The benefit of 3D though, is you can define any camera angle and perspective of the main product. now of course you just take a picture of a product from any angle if it were in front of you, but that's not always feasible. the use case here is scalable photo generation for ecomm stores with thousands of inventory items.

Additionally, 3d means more than just camera angle control. you can define a scene in 3D and send it into control net to produce a very specific image
Bet they manage to get someone out to your house if you stop paying your mortgage or car payments, though.
Only 8 years old but already dominating web search industry. They destroyed AltaVista within like 5 years.
Which animal?