skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope more countries follow suit and then artists realize their music's value is closer to 0 than they think.
I don’t think the Boomerang app is theirs. It doesn’t show up in the link of their Google Play apps.

If it is, that’s Instagram’s trademark.
> If Serenity can do it

Microsoft, on the other hand, gave up on it.
If the fake reviews are indeed the reason why the apps were taken off the store, that does strike me as an inappropriate action. Take down the reviews, yes. But closing the developer account creates a big opportunity to eliminate competition by buying fake reviews for your competitors. There's also nothing developers can do to prevent this since they can't curate or reject reviews from what I know.

That said, other commenters are pointing out a very large revenue figure relative to the popularity of these apps. That smells more like money laundering or fraud. In that scenario, Apple should have been more specific in their communications.
I like that. And the numbers are way higher than a billion.
Have you thought about taking on the role of CTO?

Not sure if it's a possibility or something you even want, but it sounds like you're invested and have thoughts around the role.

Maybe if it comes to quitting..before you do that have a conversation with the CEO about taking on the role?
You did a beautiful job and you should be proud of it. Both the information and the aesthetics are a treat.

Can I ask what technology stack you used? For the images, the animations, and the voice over?

I’d like to be able to do something like this.
Held in deposit forever, ie until someone sues someone else or the money are forgotten
Apple holds it
I've done pro vaccine advocacy work like testifying as a parent at bill hearings. The anti vaccination folks testifying include nurses and will be very loud about that fact. We've also had problems where a nurse doing pre natal classes turned put to be anti vaccine.
You are burying the lead in your story. You should put that right at the top.
The journalists reporting on this are first in line.
> basically, we'll be selecting for the strongest... you know, evolution

Fortunately TANSTAAFL[0] applies to evolution as well, right? Specific adaptations come with increased metabolic cost, so e.g. strongly bleach-resistant bacteria should eventually start losing resistance to other antimicrobials/antiseptics. Right?

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_such_thing_as_a_free_lunch
To elaborate further on the ideological angle:

I've seen folks mention that it's about "the future" in a hand-wavy, abstract, nebulous sense. But their actions demonstrate profiteering, opportunism, and the greater-fool theory in action. Basically, for me, it seemed like all the ideology was intellectual cover (aka rationalizing) for plain ole greed, so they don't have to admit to themselves and others that it has nothing to do with the betterment of humanity and the future, and they just want to get rich quickly. To call it greed would be somewhat unbecoming, and the ideological arguments sounded good enough to assuage any psychological conflicts in oneself.

Might not be a generous interpretation, but if the ideology were indeed at the core of it, I feel like other areas of their lives would reflect said ideologies.

For the record, greed was at the core of my own interest in crypto when I was looking into it, so I could be projecting. Or it could be that said people and myself both experienced this as the driving force behind our interest in crypto as laymen.
Don't see why it couldn't happen. Offload data communications to it's own chip, one that connects to a StarNet. Locked down running a Java Virtual Machine presenting an optical browser to your eye retina's; surveillance controlled as it's hooked to your brains cortex via Elon's animal killing NutellaLink.
> For me, git becomes unintelligible when there's a crazy train-track map of branching and merging.

Consider finding peace by inverting your perspective: if your organization’s development process (for whatever reason, many of them legitimate) involves a crazy train-track of features being developed in parallel, isn’t it great that you're all at least using something that can keep track of it?

For a small team that should be unnecessary.

Frequent rebasing when you’re on a side branch of development is smart, but doesn’t conflict with my point.

Also, really, who looks back into the depths of history? There’s a reason a lot of backup schemes rotate a set of tapes over 30 or even 14 days. For that reason I am not a fan of rewriting history for “clarity”: I consider it wasted effort.

For the same reason I don’t care about branches for explorations that turned out to go nowhere — just mark the head abandoned and stop worrying about it.
If you’re not entertained throughout I don’t think there’s any reason to stick with it. It’s not like there’s some huge payoff at the end where “it all clicks.” It’s a fairly meandering journey across several disciplines with a lot of experimental literary techniques, and while it’s certainly intellectually challenging and rewarding, if you’re not enjoying the process there’s no reason to stick with it!
Video explaining with examples https://youtu.be/byfWscC87Vg?si=D1pnr5pXqS4Mqe8f
Apple allows “for X” and “powered by X” type app names per official policy cited by App Store reviewers

There are other patterns they allow that I’m unfamiliar with. Perhaps “X Maker” is one of them because it appears there are many other developer accounts using this pattern from a quick search.

The point is that using another trademark isn’t itself a violation necessarily
Everyone has been paying attention: the world of capital controls has been gone for 10 years and we let public figures play with themselves proclaiming the opposite. While they already knew that transaction whitelisting was a waste of taxpayer dollars and an impossible waste of private sector resources to do.

What you’re actually seeing is that everyone is using crypto as a public utility. Everyone as in all types of parties.

Crypto exchanges are not actually capable of pretending to play this game. Third party software has been created to attempt to flag transactions with an obvious sanctioned source, but the user unlinking that source is very easy. Binance reduced friction so much that users didn't bother doing that apparently either. Binance’s aspirations grew so big that they couldnt be just a website and server not incorporated anywhere. But basically every other centralized custodial exchange is the same.

It is simply not possible to play along with the state’s deprecated path of policing transactions. The most compliant exchanges will simply automate mountains of paperwork to FinCEN, the suspicious activity reports that the GAO points out are not read at all. Binance is in trouble for simply not doing that because the government doesnt really have a tool to police this either.

Many people have made this observation. Many people that made this observation are 10 years older now, have seen their own state fall apart and provided a convenience to the governance organization and people in that area. That’s how crypto propagates. The concept just waits until the human discovers a friction, and then flips them and all the nearest humans like nodes in a graph.

This understanding increases confidence in crypto from people that matter more than the pearl clutching people worried about “but criminals!” that don't matter, as it is predictable how more capital enters crypto from all sources around the world over time.

Its all quite relative, are we supposed to care that a Chinese citizen circumvented China’s capital control using crypto. Is a Chinese citizen supposed to care that someone on the US OFAC list can access international finance? in each country’s sphere both are “criminals”, but are they? Don't we value the freedom of the Chinese person escaping oppressive capital controls of their administration? Crypto supersedes this concept and debate, deprecating the need to debate it at all, capital flows.

These kind of court cases are instruction manuals to everyone that was on the fence. People that didn't have an example of anyone using crypto for goods and services or converting it to local currency now do. All they see is the exchange getting in trouble, nothing changing, and everyone including people on the OFAC list not getting in trouble or their assets frozen. More nodes flipped.
I'll take the other side of this argument and point out: it probably took decades if not centuries to start using paper currency. Will crypto fail? Maybe. But to say that people building an alternate currency to the one we currently have are "scumbag" is a bit much. They are building a financial system that we might one day decide is better than what we currently have available to us. Sure, some are opportunistic bad-actors, but 99%? I don't think thats fair.
They're being offered 8 million here, no?
Unbalanced pool of interested candidates is a factor, that's true, but the lack of interest is again a "boys club" syndrome from as early as school. And it's not like this "boys club" only happens at school stage and goes away at the workplace stage.

There are some physical jobs that have some gender bias due to their physicality. Software development is not one of them. This is like debating e.g. covid deniers or whatever nutjobs you will, not worth my time but not evidence fearing.
I find it weird to see people calling A* an 'AI technique'... Is BFS or DFS an AI technique too? I thought it's merely a search algorithm...
It's apple punishing you for their own failure to moderate the reviews posted to their store, which they're charging you $100+30% to access.
majority of the people will still use Chrome even if Google literally delists all blockers from the planet. One major reason being "browser migration". The guys on HN crying foul on most of these articles are a vocal minority. This s Google's version of "corner the market and raise the prices". They ll lost 2-5% market share at max
If you believe in Simulation theory, AI would be something like a fractal or a type of recursion in the simulation. It might not be “God” per-se but it might help us understand God. In the way building a simulated computer in Minecraft might help you understand the computer Minecraft is running on.
Meh. Yes that happens and yes it can be frustrating. But…

If users want something with long-lasting support and enhancements, that’s going to take work. The people who do this work are going to need to earn a living.

There are lots of ways to accomplish this. Advertising, altruism, one time purchases. But charging for a service can be a perfectly reasonable way of making it sustainable.
I consult to a company that only allows company issued laptops to connect to their network and prohibits use of company issued laptop for personal use.
Ideally we'd have both worlds -- but if we're aiming for AGI and we have to choose, using a language that lets you encode everything seems preferable to one that only lets you talk about, say, constrained maximization problems.
You misspelled Electron.

I can't remember the last time I saw a new Qt app.
Thankfully we have TCP retransmission.
I don't think Microsoft is audacious or competent enough to orchestrate a fictitious termination, that's a little too far fetched. The initial event _reeks_ of incompetence/AGI fear-mongering, not orchestration.

+24 hours - Nadella announcing the creation of an internal OpenAI and automatic employment offers to all OpenAI employees. Seems sensible. Microsoft's investment in OpenAI entitles them to 75% of all of OpenAI's net profit until they make their whole $13B investment back, not to mention retain ownership of 49% of OpenAI. Too much capital to play chess with, the division/auto-hire announcement still feels like it must have been done with a lot of hesitation and picking the least awful option, but what else? If the conclusion is that OpenAI's board is prepared to sabotage the company -- and the exceptionally vague (=> bullshit) reasoning OpenAI published for his termination supports that conclusion -- there's no other option.

But +48-72 hours, this is perhaps when the "holy shit" moment happened -- Bing's lifelong irrelevance as a consumer product and sudden ascension to relevance as Google's defense in an extremely serious lawsuit, and at least Google organically beat the other search engines.

The Microsoft board realized hemorrhaging OpenAI, whilst also probably owning xx% of all H100's (arguably the defining competitive advantage of GPT-as-a-Service co's), would almost definitely lead to them being in Google's predicament years down the line. By then, the FTC will not care that the "trigger" all those years ago was a board that became frantic about AGI, with Microsoft merely rescuing a ship that self-sabotaged.

So the chess started here, Ctrl+Z'ing everything, the overtly outward displays of compassion, some genuine, some perhaps encouraged, and everyone - including Sam - is back on the same page that Microsoft needs to back off, but crucially it has to appear as a reunification stemming from within OpenAI.

It is precisely at this point, in this chain of events, that the opportunity emerges for a OpenAI board replacement, with Sam being firmly on it, that is in line with Microsofts deep (arguably trauma-laden) desire to finally be the dominant player in something other than desktop operating systems.

No source, I doubt there will ever be, but this speculation of events, to me, lines up most with the actions of the parties involved.
> Just remember its not out of altruism.

I’ve always been curious what point is being made when people say this. Care to expand on it?
Normally I wouldn't upvote this because it feels news-adjacent, but this is a really interesting documentary. It's not impartial (no reporting on war will ever be) but it's very well-presented journalism and quite technically interesting. It's a harrowing look at what surveillance can turn into in an isolated space.
It's not exactly a huge leap.
> here in NZ...all major ISPs have completely ditched their fair usage policies.

I'm quite fond of NZ and I've heard good things about the quality of your telecoms regulation, but ....

We manage traffic which may influence your broadband performance. This means we might have to pause, restrict, end or slow the performance of your service if it’s necessary for us to protect our networks or manage traffic over our networks. See clause 6.6 of our General Terms for more details.

and

You need to use our services fairly – we’ve set out our rules on this at clause 2.6 of our General Terms.

and

Fair use by you: You must use our services fairly. This means you agree to use them in a way that’s not overly excessive or unreasonable. This policy is based on how most people use the service and helps us make sure everyone using it gets to enjoy it. If we, acting reasonably and in good faith, believe your use is excessive and unreasonable, we might need to restrict the service or stop providing it to you.

All from Spark NZ's conditions[1][2] for their "unlimited data" fibre product[3].

[1]https://www.spark.co.nz/help/other/terms/personal-terms/esse...
[2]https://www.spark.co.nz/help/other/terms/personal-terms/gene...
[3]https://www.spark.co.nz/online/broadband/buy-plan?category=f...
Not really because moral hazard occurs when you’re protected from consequences. Missing an early nosocomial infection means you’re now on the hook for very long admissions with expensive treatments and interventions.

Personal experience in US academia also suggests not, far more concern for early diagnosis of infection and IPAC than I saw practicing in Canada.
> What is the magic sauce that's going to make this effort suddenly produce a perfect browser?

Another Facebook of course. /s
One reason Google wants to remove V2 support is to make implementation changes that V2 currently prevents. This means that a Chromium fork that preserves V2 support will likely have to diverge further and further from Chromium over time (or rather, Chromium will diverge).
Luckily you can’t outlaw math!
For sure, this seems super suspect. Unless they mean Chilean Pesos, but that would seem far too low.
This is great! Nice work.

I made my own whisper & auto-typer which types what you say (forked whisper-typer).

I added OpenAI Q/A and RAG query feature so I could ask it questions (instead of auto keystroke typing) by voice command. For responses to questions, I used Eleven Labs - but even with latency optimized & streaming, it was slow, so disabled it.

I just swapped from OpenAI to Mistral 7b for Q/A querying. Much more responsive. Stoked to explore StyleTTS2 now!

Really glad that I came across your post. Thank you for sharing!
I take "where possible" to mean that what you describe should be considered an exception instead of a rule, which I agree with. I do have some thin services which are libraries, but above and beyond directly importing libraries is preferred. With edge functions becoming more popular, this also seems to be the preferred pattern, having "fat" edge functions with shared code, vs many small edge functions calling each other.
There's a difference between

- marking it as officially supported and asking the full price when it has never been run on a special hardware device running a custom OS (the steam deck that the person you're responding to mentioned)

and

- saying "we've tried on Ubuntu 24.04 default install with AMD drivers as well as Fedora 82, but ymmv obviously we know you love to tweak your setups just like us <3"
Often, people's intuition is wrong on very important ways, and something that works like they expect is sure to create footguns or just blow up by itself.

But I'm not sure git is a case of this. The DVCS that were created following people's intuitions were known to be slow and internally complex, but I have never heard about them failing. (And the slowness is obviously of a kind that can be optimized away.)

We just stuck with the worst UI ever devised in public for a VCS because of network effects.
I'll give you that it is indeed one judge actually being held accountable, to some mild degree.

Still not enough to convince me that this country is good or is capable of respecting its own documents and laws. It does what is convenient to it, no more, no less.

I will return the favor when the US inevitably pisses off another country and they invade.

Want to mistreat me? Enjoy defending yourself.
So rockstar devs are whiny entitled lil bitches, got it ;)

I stopped playing their shitty online games. Everything since San Andreas has been complete shit anyways.
It would be unsurprising if that was all intended from the start as a viral marketing campaign. I don't remember hearing that they ever got in any trouble with Sony, and they're pretty infamous for "taunting" others to sue them (and similar stunt language like "our lawyers told us we couldn't make this") in all their marketing.
A Fish Became Prison Currency
In a few years:

LLM: Hi!

Me: Please develop a browser that is full HTML, etc, etc compliant

LLM: No problem... download the source here.

Me: Thank you, but could you please optimize it for speed?

LLM: No problem, done.

Me: I have only 5 more minutes, could you please write a version in Rust, and two more in Go and C++? Ah, and support Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android and iOS. Don't forget to use the native WebView in iOS.

LLM: done.

Me: Could you please do me a favor? Remove all ads.

LLM: done.
Historically, here’s how it works: Suppose the police come to your door and say, “Hi, we’re investigating your neighbor for a crime and we would like to see the footage from your security camera for the last few days.” At that point, you can choose whether you share the records with the police. It’s up to you. You may demand to see a search warrant, but you do not need to. Your neighbor does not get a say in whether you help the police.

Here, the same pattern applies, but the scale of cooperation is staggering. “Quantity has a quality all its own,” on steroids. In the case of AT&T, their cooperation includes trillions of records and affects literally everyone who has used a phone since 1987.

The issue, according to the article, is not whether voluntary sharing of records is constitutional, but whether the public should have a right to know the details of how the system works.
Don't forget that google also has mozilla by the balls and can turn firefox into a community project at any time.
Not really understanding the benefit of running this at the edge to be honest? The additional latency for the request is absolutely negligible compared to the latency of LLMs/SD.
Not related but I have been recommending Douglas's new popular book "Surfaces and Essences: Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking". He has few lectures on youtube on this topic in case you want to explore the content of the book before jumping in.

> Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize–winning author Douglas Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander defend in their new work. Hofstadter has been grappling with the mysteries of human thought for over thirty years. Now, with his trademark wit and special talent for making complex ideas vivid, he has partnered with Sander to put forth a highly novel perspective on cognition. We are constantly faced with a swirling and intermingling multitude of ill-defined situations. Our brain’s job is to try to make sense of this unpredictable, swarming chaos of stimuli. How does it do so? The ceaseless hail of input triggers analogies galore, helping us to pinpoint the essence of what is going on. Often this means the spontaneous evocation of words, sometimes idioms, sometimes the triggering of nameless, long-buried memories. Why did two-year-old Camille proudly exclaim, “I undressed the banana!”? Why do people who hear a story often blurt out, “Exactly the same thing happened to me!” when it was a completely different event? How do we recognize an aggressive driver from a split-second glance in our rearview mirror? What in a friend’s remark triggers the offhand reply, “That’s just sour grapes”? What did Albert Einstein see that made him suspect that light consists of particles when a century of research had driven the final nail in the coffin of that long-dead idea? The answer to all these questions, of course, is analogy-making—the meat and potatoes, the heart and soul, the fuel and fire, the gist and the crux, the lifeblood and the wellsprings of thought. Analogy-making, far from happening at rare intervals, occurs at all moments, defining thinking from top to toe, from the tiniest and most fleeting thoughts to the most creative scientific insights. Like Gödel, Escher, Bach before it, Surfaces and Essences will profoundly enrich our understanding of our own minds. By plunging the reader into an extraordinary variety of colorful situations involving language, thought, and memory, by revealing bit by bit the constantly churning cognitive mechanisms normally completely hidden from view, and by discovering in them one central, invariant core—the incessant, unconscious quest for strong analogical links to past experiences—this book puts forth a radical and deeply surprising new vision of the act of thinking.
JerryRigEverything has a video about it that's worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byfWscC87Vg
Those high reward cards are only available to people with good to excellent credit, which probably doesnt apply to most of the people living paycheck to paycheck.

Also, given that you make thousands in cash back per year, this must equate to $100k/year in card spending or close. Not sure if you were posting to brag about your high income, but this article is not about people in the top 10% of income earners.
Why doesn’t anyone organize a protest or march for stuff like this? I would join that.
https://archive.is/YvkhM
Both of those sound totally reasonable to me! I don't know of any better ways to do that stuff and there's nothing risky about it.