skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The big difference is that Apple isn't the largest advertising company in the world, and makes money through other ways.
Apple or Meta (WhatsApp) trying to take down something like this would almost certainly be viewed unfavorably by the ever-lurking EU regulators.
The term is actually soup up, supe up is incorrect. It comes from horse racing back in the 1920's, the slang for performance enhancing drugs given to your horses was soup.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/soup%20up#word-hi...
Not to mention, nearly everyone in power in the US has an iPhone, and Apple is a darling of the establishment in the left and the right, and virtually nobody else has any power.
All email users deal with the tyranny of email. They are just used to it. They don’t know how much better it could be.
Having worked with Lua and Elisp extensively, they have very different pros/cons profiles. In my experience, Lua is great as a scripting language - tiny, speedy, and completely dynamic. For "programming in the large(r)," Lua is just a little better than early JavaScript (i.e., tragic). The purity of the design - tables, metatables, closures, coroutines, and that's it - necessitates reinvention of tens of wheels (either in Lua or in the host app) when your codebase grows and complexity increases. Elisp provides two orders of magnitude more "bells and whistles" than Lua out of the box. Additionally, while Lua's primitives are extremely powerful, they are all strictly run-time constructs. Elisp has macros, so many abstractions can be (and are) shifted to compile time.

I use Awesome WM. It's essentially an "Emacs of Window Managers," and the codebase is very well written, with a small C core and everything else implemented in Lua. It's even very well documented. Yet, writing a nontrivial program (call it an "applet" or something) for Awesome is a nightmare compared to doing the same in Emacs.

LuaJIT is an excellent runtime, and Lua is a great IR, but writing it by hand for anything that's not strictly scripting within a previously established framework is challenging. It's to the point where I'm using Haxe to produce Lua for my Awesome scripts. I know a few people who use Haxe to script NeoVim, too. Really, having to reinvent inheritance and method resolution order every time you start writing Lua in a new project gets old fast.

I genuinely like Lua as a language - the same way I like Tcl, Scheme, and Io. They are all beautiful and powerful and perform very well in some scenarios. Elisp is ugly in comparison, but it's way more practical for medium-sized codebases. Being tied to Emacs is a considerable downside which limits its applicability, but focusing on language features alone, larger codebases are more practical to write in Elisp than in Lua. Plus, there's an escape hatch - Common Lisp or Clojure, pick your poison - for cases where Elisp actually doesn't cut it. There's no such easy way out for Lua.
i assume this is just a user-agent check though i don't expect regular users to know how to switch.
I’m not inside your head so I don’t know if you would agree, but I would love to see this say content that is deemed undesirable as opposed to just straight “undesirable.”

My problem with gray text is a bit different: Since the dumbness of crowds can happen even on HN, I’d like to be able read comments myself and decide for myself what to think about them.

With some topics the hater community is very strong, and comments get so light so fast they cannot even be read without some disruptive workflow, and they aren’t always useless comments.
To the level of destruction they cause the environment, health, and the contribution oil has in starting wars? Honestly, I don't know, but I think it's pretty unlikely to be even close to enough. And those taxes need to be spent on direct mitigation, not just on maintaining infrastructure for cars.
Horrible situation with the escaped chimpanzees, but in this tough situation, I think the zoo made the right call. Human safety comes first.
> we're not known for common sense when it comes to working hours

Sorry, what does this mean? As in sysadmins are notorious for non-stop working? (I've never been a sysadmin and I don't know any sysadmin tropes.)
Everyone misses Rdio.
> I always see comments like this on HN, and I struggle to understand why.

Many years ago Firfox was very slow

It has improved enormously, obviously, but some people never forget

It is a lesson. Never take your eye off the ball. Firefox did, back in the day, and Google ate their lunch
When is a car not a car? When it's a Swedish A-traktor
I haven't seen any evidence of corruption here - just pure malice and monopolistic behavior.
I’m curious, what do you use then?
Would that be $80B in 2020 or 2024 dollars? What vintage is your small LLM?
ReactOS is the best we've got.
Hard to bet against open.
At a previous employer we used an on-prem version of a popular software offering. It was great, but we obviously had to have people managing it.

At my current employer I chose to use their cloud offering. I thought, hey, it's just me here, and I don't have time to sysadmin yet another thing. A few weeks ago I needed to enable the REST API, and for them to create a KVstore. On-prem these are 2-minute processes (set a value in a config file and restart the process). In the cloud offering, you need to make a support ticket. It took 17 days, and that's only because I ended up doing half of it myself -- they enabled the REST API first, and I found I could use the REST API to make the KVstore.

I have some regrets.
No, Spotify's success happened back when they mostly ran on their own metal. Going for the cloud happened at the same time their innovation started to stall.
I've used Xero for years with Firefox without issues.
To be clear, I don’t think people actually look down on green bubbles vs. blue ones, it’s just that the presence of a green bubble in a Messages chat leads to numerous issues with threading, reactions, etc. (which is also something we can blame Apple for, but different than disliking a person for using an Android phone).
The amount of keyframes in animation is not even close to 24 and everything inbetween are called "tweens" for obvious reasons. From my understanding the tweens are actually drawn as well, but can be delegated to non-lead artists thus don't require as much artistic decision making. You get the key frames and then draw what you believe would be the transition.

I suspect with modern digital animation you could do a lot of the tweening automatically on the computer, but even then you would be carefully selecting them and fine tuning it to match your vision.

Then at the end you would actually have 24 frames per second to turn into your final video. You shouldn't have any frames where something is mid-movement and blurred between the two positions.
> that fact does not mean that there aren't a distinct class of people who, while they may incidentally do some labor in the marketplace, relate to the economy and derive support within it primarily through the returns of capital whose value is realized primarily by renting labor from the proletariat.

Yes, we call them retirees. Who, incidentally, as a group have a slight preference towards small town living.
Couldn't someone make a Docker instance that, inside it, contains the 2-3 other docker instances? I hear it's docker all the way down.
Finetuning is a useful workaround for cases when the context size is unsuitable for the task at hand. Anybody knows whether it was ever considered to finetune an LLM on the Linux kernel sources' history and its associated mailing lists?
What does this even mean? Can someone eli5?
Yeah it would have been great for finance, and the ocaml and ml langauge seems to be popular in some HFT firms.

Saddly i think even this boat has sailed since they added python to Excel now. A true miss opportunity.
and that's exactly the justification Apple needs to squash this. I'm not saying you're wrong (you're not), just that I'm pessimistic on this project's future.
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I must seem completely seem out of place nowadays, but I actually learned that in school in Germany. Not to the nitty gritty detail, of course, but we spent a double lesson on every reactor type. What I've taken from it and remember to this day is that you usually can determine the reactor type from the shape of the building.
Maybe this doesn't apply to your govt, but I live in the US and I don't have any confidence in the govt to "fix" tech related problems and get e.g. right to repair right.

Why?

Because they can't even solve the classic problems in front of them. Primarily healthcare. Healthcare is a thing that affects everyone. It's a problem as old as time. And it's vital to life. If the government can't get this right, what chance is there that we can trust them to regulate something like right to repair.
My employer is moving in the opposite direction, we want to move all of our customers from on-prem to our cloud. Not all customers might be happy, but many are. The customer doesn’t need to manage a server. The software gets a controlled, well-configured environment, and the customer can’t mess it up by installing random software or imposing half-assed IT policies. And our support people don’t need all the security theatre involved with accessing the customer network (VPNs, tokens, special laptops in the customer AD domain, etc…), they can just access the customer’s resources in our cloud and get to work.
LLMs are comprised of just three elements

Data

Compute

Algorithms

All three are just scratching the surface of what is possible.

Data: What has been scraped off the internet is just <0.001% of human knowledge as most platforms cannot be scraped so easily, are in formats that are not in text like video, audio, or just plain old pieces of paper undigitized. Finally there are probably techniques to increase data through synthetic means, which is purportedly OpenAI's secret sauce to GPT-4's quality.

Compute: While 3nm processes are approaching an atomic limit (0.21nm for Si), there is still room to explore more densely packed transistors or other materials like Gallium Nitride or optical computing. Not only that but there is a lot of room in hardware architecture to allow more parallelism and 3-D stacked transistors.

Algorithms: The transformer and other attention mechanisms have several sub-optimal components to them like how arbitrary the Transformer is in terms of design decisions, and quadratic time complexity for attention. There also seems to be a large space of LLM augmentations like RLHF for instruction following and improvements in factuality and other mechanisms.

And these ideas are just from my own limited experience. So I think its fair to say that LLMs have plenty of room to improve.
> The rendering engine doesn't really matter

I disagree. For the purposes of this conversation, I feel like it's the only thing that matters. The web doesn't benefit at all from a WebKit-based browser by Mozilla capturing some of the iOS marketshare. Websites will still have to cater to WebKit. Not Gecko or something new

> Mozilla is not exactly known for their friendly and refined UIs

I actually strongly prefer the Firefox app's UI to safari
For the life of me I can't understand why Spotify would need more than 3,000 employees.
I think the ethics problem probably lies on the shoulders of the bullies, not on Apple.
>No Apple ID is required

How are you going to send the messages? Whom from, a phone number?
Like I said, the US government should just adopt the existing W3C standard.

It's crazy to me that 10 years ago people were against the standard for government documents being essentially "whatever Microsoft office does", but in 2023, we've decided it makes sense for the standard for government web sites to be "whatever Chrome and Safari do".

And as I've pointed out, for historical reasons, we already have an adequate standard that the major browsers already support. So just target that standard. It happens that this is also the cheapest, simplest, most reliable way to do things anyway.
A theory can be untestable but also falsifiable. For example, while the multiverse theory/interpretation may be untestable, it could be immediately falsified if QM were falsified.

Popper's falsifiability criterion was more aimed at theories like Marxism, where it seemed that within the theory there was always something available to account for an exception or challenge.
> The reason people test with different browsers is not that they want to use non-standard features, it's that even standard features often do not work in certain browsers.

This is exactly why sites should be tested for their conformance with the standard rather than with specific browsers. Testing against specific browsers just encourages browser-makers to continue to avoid fixing their shit.
Agreed, and it needn't ever address Beeper directly. Simply fixing the "security hole" that allows invalid devices to register would put a knife in Beeper's back and needn't ever be acknowledged by Big Gray
Please oh dear god just let me pay for Firefox. This isn’t the nineties. I can and will afford it. I pay for Bitwarden, Fastmail, NordVPN, ElementaryOS. Just give me a paid version, Mozilla.
I find it insanely cool that Nordic workers have that level of solidarity and that capitalists haven't been able to legally hobble labor with absurd legal restrictions on the ability to strike like they have in most other countries.
I’m very enthusiastic about the possibility that someone will shortly build an AI plugin that identifies use of propaganda and “advertising techniques” as I browse the web. A lot of this stuff flies under my radar and having a guide to help me out is something I would really value, for me and my children.

I should add I’ve checked out whether ChatGPT can do this, and discovered it can do a reasonable job - even back in the days of 3.5.
Confusing name for the domain (Generally Intelligent) since it's the former name of a company in the AI/LLM area but does not seem to be related.
> you can't just change definitions like this

Of course you can, don’t be obtuse. Words can literally mean anything the speaker wants them to, language evolves.

This whole conversation is weird and unhinged. We’re talking about streams which are deliberately created to be public. From that perspective, if they’re not storing it the details about the stream then their target audience would agree that they’re not watching and storing data. This question is asking if the AI (ugh) is skynet (ugh) and is learning about streaming, and then saying “nope, just looking for a logo”.

Nobody cares about this “well actually” about metadata. English is a terrible medium for communicating technical information, and it’s doubly bad when the target audience neither knows nor cares about technical details.
They still sell you.

Just wait and it gets more.

Google didn't have ads in the beginning.
100% agree -- a horrible situation from start to finish.

You really don't want to be in the same room as a chimpanzee.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._James_Davis_chimpanzee_att...
As much as i love the CLR on technical level (as opposed to the JVM), and feel like Oracle is a much worst devil than MSFT. I completely understand the sentiment, msft have consistently done some very anti-community/open-source move with their open source offering.
If entering to win into a contest that may maybe get you exposure on mountain dew's 15k subscriber channel is what you call "getting a channel off the ground" you've already lost. It's a terrible deal. If you feature brands on your channel get paid for it, or stop doing it. Doing it for a chance to win exposure on a 15k sub channel, none of whom are there to watch you because thats not why they subbed to it, is selling out for nothing. Less than nothing. A chance at nothing, with nothing guaranteed.
The reality will probably be that the government will start supporting companies in their quest to lock down their hardware to prevent bad state actors from using the tech, but at the same time this is useful to track citizens.
Is that an example of "the experts didn't actually think of [simple explanation]" though?
Haha ok. My car doesn’t have my credit card info and never has, but to be fair it is in an associated account, so your point still applies.
Third paragraph:

> With Beeper Mini, your Android phone number is registered on iMessage
> So yeah, Google got AT&T to get off their butts, but it took Google 8 years to get to my address. Meanwhile, AT&T is still $70/mo, includes HBO (er, Max), and is reliable, so I don't really have any reason to switch.

I'm guessing Google's presence is also what keeps your AT&T bill at $70/mo.
The Problems with "Cloud-Prem"
If you think US suburban living is more detrimental than beneficial, the answer would be whatever level of taxation forces people to give up their suburban and a exurban lifestyles.
Taxes on fuel are clearly not enough, and not being spent on direct mitigation, which is necessary. The taxes need to, for example, be enough to pay for carbon extraction, plus the cleanup or costs of pollution from tire particulates, etc., etc.

America is totally governmentally dysfunctional and I have no solution (I'm not American, I live in the UK, which is not that much better.)
Your comment make it sounds like that's inherently negative. Google/OpenAI are drumming their message of "AI needs to be in the hands of the few" while Meta is actually releasing models and building a thriving open-source ecosystem. If they create an alliance so that the voice of "AI needs to be in the hands of everyone" then this is a splendid effort.

Despite the connotation, lobbying is about a group making sure that Washington hears about their opinion.
I'm born and raised in Poland until I was 22, and I visit often. Now living abroad.

Pierogi Ruskie is my #1 food when going back. That cheese filling with onion + a good dollop of sour cream. They are the best pierogi for me.
How many successful people are building bunkers? Isn't that just a pasttime of the very wealthy? There are a whole lot of regular successful people in this world that aren't building out doomsday scenarios in their spare time.

And I'd argue that for the most part these normal successful people are generally justified in thinking they are successful on the merits. Luck has a role, but so does grit.
I have had several sites refuse to work properly (American Airlines maybe? It was some airline) with every single add-in disabled and with every security feature I could find disabled.

I am with you that it's super rare, I have only had to open chrome due to it being that bad a few times, usually I just need to disable javascript blocking or enable more cookies. But there are legitimately sites that are just so badly written that they won't take your money if you use Firefox.

I guess Google meet has frozen video for me on Firefox, but I expect Google to intentionally break their website for people not using Chrome after the "DRM Website" thing struck them as a great idea. Using Google products at this point is just asking for more lockin when we should really all know better. At least Zoom is a different company from Google...

But overblown for sure, if I disable javascript blocking and cookie autodelete and temporary containers that keep the site from realizing I already logged in -- pretty reasonable issues -- 99.99% of the issues I have vanish.
Do you think that changing the focus of entire degree programs to be a single test would be an improvement? I don't.
I'm actually amazed that we're expected to damage and then repair the walls and ceilings just to move switches, lights and outlets around. Or connect the lights to a 4-wire RGB controller where they were previously connected with just 2 wires. Or run ethernet cables.

Some of this is solved in commercial spaces using modular dropped ceilings, but I never saw that in residential spaces and never anywhere for walls.
Phone autocorrect… thanks!
There is matrix.
How is the fine tuning actually performed? They have the data of drafts, and a prompt. But what does one do with it, more concretely?
Google stands ready to snatch our victory away.
For self hosted Sentry, look at Glitchtip (https://gitlab.com/glitchtip/glitchtip-backend/-/blob/master...)
Tell HN: MTN Dew Raid AI
>>> https://www.mountaindew.com/world/raid/

>>> HOW DOES THE RAID AI TECHNOLOGY WORK?

>>> During the live period, the RAID AI will crawl all concurrent livestreams tagged under Gaming looking solely for MTN DEW products and logos. Once it identifies the presence of MTN DEW, selected streamers will get a chat asking to opt-in to join the RAID. Once you accept, the RAID AI will keep monitoring your stream for the presence of MTN DEW, if you remove your DEW, you’ll be prompted to bring it back on camera, if you don’t, you’ll be removed from our participating streamers.

A social credit system in the making.
That privacy prevents organisations such as USWDS from seeing that it is in use as analytics are blocked.
Oh bleh, distinguished members of "the staff" that works there, one of those things, either way, these are all far below the CEO and 1M+
Coexistence - peaceful - darwinian. A circle that's hard to square.
It is all back now. Imagine walking your kids to school around this.

https://twitter.com/war24182236/status/1732091670479634695
In case you didn't see it, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38525978 (I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate) may interest this audience if for no other reason that the investigator discovered that Sparky, the pseudo-AI in MTGA, doesn't appear to be as stupid complicated as one may have suspected from the outside
What problem? Increased compatibility?
For the uninitiated this was a 4chan post from over a decade ago envisioning what the future dystopian online world would be like. In order to play future halo games you would have to watch ads, repeat slogans, and drink authentication cans of mntn dew. You can read the rest of the post here, worth it: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/632877-halo-4/66477630
Car features subscription: 1) create new product (car) -> 2) Lobby for a lot of regulation so only a few companies can make a product -> 3) Abuse market position to extract money from customers (car feature subscriptions)
As opposed to what? Paying with cash?

If your concern is trackability, then I'm pretty sure you can buy pre-loaded credit cards that are as anonymous as cash.

If you are concerned about convenience, it sure seems to me that swiping a card is easier than buying gas with cash is.

-edit- Oh you mean the Tesla thing. That's a nah from me dawg. I don't mind having the option, but having that as the _only_ method of payment is _incredibly_ anti-user.
Authoritarian governments exist, and are more common than democratic ones.

Besides, democratic corporations exist too. They are just incredibly rare.
Whenever this issue of iMessage crops up on HN, I’ve come to expect the usual points from both sides. However, the one thing that’s never addressed is the “why” of it all. For a group that ostensibly values openness and interoperability, why spend so much effort and energy to climb into a walled garden?