skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It required at least 5 users to unlock unlimited storage from what I see online. $20 * 5 = $100. Not that it makes what he's getting any less than a steal.
> Those companies are heavily regulated though

Without that regulation it is a very different beast.

Having the government decide the platform cut would very much change the conversation.
No they don't. They create systems and act within in them. Subtle but important difference.
Ukrainian cyberattack brings down Russia's tax office
I don't know if it is part of the official report or not, but I'd bet that Starlink cutting off service in Ukraine to prevent them from launching an attack on Russian vessels in Crimea definitely played a part in this decision.
I hope that you are correct.

I fear that (allowing for the "someone with enough money and lawyers can make your life hell" effect) you are not.
TFA suggests that the previous communication on the matter stated that the account would go read-only, not that any data would be lost. Do you have any evidence that suggests other notifications were sent between?

The thread you link to above says “People using anywhere from 5.??TB all the way to 152TB … got the email” but I assume that email is the one already mentioned which states large accounts are going read-only.
You have to disable extension updates as well. Otherwise the browser despite being unable to update itself will continue to update its extensions. The browser theme is an extension.
Just posted a 1 star review on the app to complain about it (have been meaning to do it for a while) - wondering if it's not a bug to be honest
Ex-Automattic person here.

How is it at fault? I have no idea.

But hey, it's a WP site, with Jetpack and I'm sure with Automattic's 'shadow site' ability they can diagnose it.

They - Automattic - as I have said could do the decent thing and help Jack Monroe to restore her site to being functional.
The term "shemale" is usually confined to porn, where it refers to transgender women who still have their penis, rather than anything related to hermaphrodites.
I have an idea. Why don't we give new experimental AI systems their own off-grid nuclear power plants so they can't be switched off. There's no way that could go wrong.
Saw it at the Princeton Garden theater which is also old school, could have been plucked right out of the movie :-)
I'd think it would be because SpaceX probably argued that the trajectory with Startship launching 10s of thousands of satellites that it would meet the program requirements.
Similar thing just happened to me.

Click on link > Get API Key > "We are sorry, but you do not have access to Early Access Apps"

Since I'm the admin, I checked and confirmed that I do have access. It's enabled for both my account and the entire organization.

Whatever.
How is that what this author is doing? Did you read the article?
> my vacuum stops moving when it detects it crashed into something

In the home, fewer objects are in motion near the vacuum. But maybe if you have a lot of cats...
GitOps Guide: ArgoCD vs. Flux
Ukrainian mobile operator Kyivstar down due to cyberattack
Excel-erate your breath... or spreadsheet
When you make a noise from the voicebox, the noise is what's heard. It's modulated by the lips and tongue but the lips and tongue don't add noises, they just envelope them.

You have a point about "s" and "th" which is a whistling between tongue and palate.
Why does it need access to my google account?
If any given user needs x support hours a week, and their business pays for > x support hours a week, then support scales.

I guess as you scale up a business you want to get leaner and you accept lower margins, hoping to make it back by volume? Maybe that's what you mean?
In fairness, training machine learning models is definitely one of areas where only running when it’s cheap to run makes some amount of sense. It’s something you want done eventually, not something that is responding to an immediate need.

In practice…yeah. The machine’s your running your models on are expensive, the people working on the model waiting extra time to check the new model are expensive, and not keeping up with your competitors because you only work half the time is not generally a wise choice for someone like Microsoft.

I have worked for a smaller company that trained a model on AWS when spot instances were cheap…until they got large enough to purchase some hardware best suited to their use case that could run almost constantly, then doing everything except training their model in the cloud. So yeah I also doubt this makes sense in practice.
Sub Second Query Performance
The guide identifies two primary scenarios: queries that are not pre-aggregated and those that are.
If one-way sync will do, we (Estuary) have been investing in a NetSuite connector that we've _just_ started testing with a few customers. Both SuiteAnalytics and SuiteQL with full support for custom tables & schema.

[1]: https://docs.estuary.dev/reference/Connectors/capture-connec...
LLMs aren't statistical systems in any substantive sense. They are deterministic programs over the input sequence. They capture statistical relationships about words, but so do human minds. That they are sensitive to statistical relationships does not discount their ability to understand.
I agree, but I'm not sure why you don't think that is at least relevant if not partially responsible for people seeing humanity in a language model.

If we anthropomorphic animals and even vegetables regularly, what happens when something appears to talk back to us intelligently? I don't think these mechanisms are nearly as distinct as you make them out to be.
External to Google, I think we have little data, but we've heard that much internal behavior is based on individuals making data-backed cases for positive contributions to the company.

Which prompts the idea: does Google have a data-backed adversarial operation, as a check on all that activity and biased analysis?

For example, when someone says "I did X, which resulted in a Y% positive impact to Z, so pls gimme dat sweet promo yo"... there's another function of the company that can say, "It was actually only 0.2 that positive impact, in that isolated regard; but more importantly, it had costs to A and B, which our current strategy model suggests resulted in substantial net harm to the company. Please tell all your colleagues that disregarding A and B is not the way to get a promotion."
I stopped drinking soda many years ago because it's all just far, far too sweet for me. But a couple of years back, I started making my own (real) root beer because making my own means that I can control how sweet it is. I prefer mine with about 1/3 the sugar that is in most soda.
This made me laugh. It's very wrong. Unless I'm dumb, the answer we're looking for should be 1.

Sounds like the confidence of Gemini worked on you, though.
I agree, yours are practically identical in quality.
Starlink only cut off service in the occupied parts of Ukraine because you don't want Russia using Starlink there. The Ukrainian forces say Starlink has and is continuing to help them.

> Starlink in use on ‘all front lines,’ Ukraine spy chief says

> “They have proven themselves on the front lines. You can say what you want about whether [Starlink systems] are good or bad, but facts are facts. Absolutely all front lines are using them,” Kyrylo Budanov, head of the Main Ukrainian Intelligence Directorate, said Saturday, according to Interfax Ukraine.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/10/europe/ukraine-starlink-not-a...

Crimea is under occupied territory and didn't have Starlink activated, so it's wrong to say they deacivated it.
>If the goal is to get levels of performance that Starlink cannot provide, then this makes sense?

no, because the only reason Starlink doesn't currently hit the metrics is due to them having so many users joining. They could hit the metrics by temporarily halting signups, cutting off users, or delaying the Pentagon's massive deployment project.

Or Musk could cut off Ukraine's capacity, which the US military admits is consuming hundreds of millions in Starlink capacity that could be allocated to US consumers to speed up their internet

>U.S. defense officials had previously estimated that the annual cost for Starlink in Ukraine, which Musk mostly had been donating, will be hundreds of millions of dollars.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/01/...

The tech is proven to work, the FCC is just playing politics.
I didn't see the setting in my Dropbox account. Maybe because I have "Early access" disabled? Either way, not a fan of an opt-in setting that shares your data when it's supposed to just be a place to store files.

> Get access to products and features that Dropbox is still testing and evaluating, and give feedback to help our product teams build the best final product.
The authors of the original Imagen paper have gone on to create https://ideogram.ai/
> I would expect more that genre fiction readers will be browsing the section where all of the books are in their genre, and the cover will completely fail to carry any further information about the genre.

Yup, readers do definitely browse the section where the books in their genre are like you say. They also see book covers on Goodreads, TikTok (BookTok), YouTube (BookTube) Facebook, Instagram, book shelves, and a bunch of other popular places where they congregate. Whether they're browsing a dedicated section or not, if they're an avid reader of a certain genre or niche, they likely have expectations for what they want to read. Aside from a strong recommendation from a trusted source, the cover and blurb are the first things that will either catch their attention and communicate that this is a book that looks similar to other books they loved, or have them move on to another one that does.

> There's a semi-recent trend in fantasy novels for the cover to have an abstract image instead of art. (Compare: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/... for a "modern" cover, or https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/MEDIAX_792452-T2/images/... for a "traditional" cover.) Art is better.

Yup! The "abstract image" is what I meant by object cover. I disagree that object cover is better by default. Though I agree the specific _example_ of the object cover you linked is better than the specific example of the character cover you linked. You'll also note that the character cover you linked is for a book from 1994. That cover likely fit in very well with that niche at the time.

What's "better" ultimately depends on the goal and the market: if the goal is money and character covers are at the top of all the charts in those genres, a (more modern-looking) character cover will likely be "better". Right now there is definitely an object cover trend! Alternative covers are also popular in some genres now, like romance. In steamy romance, "manchest" covers used to be (and still are) especially popular, but some readers love to have a more tame paperback version with a nice object cover. This lets them take the book on the train or coffee shop without feeling awkward :)
Space X is launching Falcon 9 rockets multiple times per week with additional capacity for Starlink on the regular.

Space X is not Elon Musk. It's a company with its own staff, with its own track record, so let's set aside any emotional arguments about FSD from Tesla, which is completely unrelated and which itself is an extremely difficult problem to solve. The "recall" from Tesla, again a completely unrelated issue to SpaceX and the Starlink internet service, was simply a required software patch. Millions of vehicles get recalled all the time from all car manufacturers:

"Ford is recalling 870,701 of the bestselling pickups from 2021 through 2023"

"About a quarter of a million 2016–2019 models are under recall for a connecting rod defect that can cause the engine to stall or not start, including the Pilot, Odyssey, Ridgeline, and Acura TLX and MDX."

"2013–2018 Toyota RAV4s Recalled Due to a Potential Fire Risk
The increased fire risk stems from loose-fitting 12-volt batteries, with the recall affecting nearly 1.9 million RAV4s."

The Starlink service is popular, because it generally works, and it's better than what a lot of people even have available to them in many parts of the country or in specific situations (like fulltime RVers).
> It has fluctuated over time, but has almost always been over the minimum limits (25/3) IMO

SpaceX didn't apply for 25/3, they applied for 100/20. The rest of your comment matches my experience.
Assuming new kit would not be seized once it had data on…

Maybe looking for other online providers at that point to store secondary copies would have been an option, but not a cheap one.
Apple Set to Be Hit by EU Antitrust Order in App Store Fight with Spotify
Perhaps the AI can then figure out what to do with the nuclear wast....
I can’t let you interrupt my fine-tuning run, Dave.
Wonder how much money the founders walked away with
I think it is better not to block these sorts of pop-ups, they are part of the agreement to use the site after all.

Anyway the middle button is “refuse all” according to my phone, not sure how accurate the translation is or if they’ll shuffle the buttons for other people.

It is poor design to have what appear to be “accept” and “refuse” both in green.
the first defect of our humanity is its inherent violence being an acceptable expression in many common contexts so please explain to me how will AI be able to resolve this major drawback of our species?
Anti-building factions dominated the democratic party and have taken over zoning boards and other relevant councils at the local and regional level. Building anything requires navigating a byzantine bureaucracy and paying for expensive permits and the like. Most of all, people just don't want more things to be built. This is from 2018 but bar state-wide measures to force cities to build more, it hasn't improved much https://reason.com/video/2018/12/27/san-francisco-mission-ho....
I've had product managers for GCP lecture me that I shouldn't be using "preview" services (despite services being in preview for years), and then tell my I should have used a different service . . . that was also in preview.

If anyone’s ever been curious what working at Google is like, this sums it up perfectly…
I think, outside of some classic-looking hardbound books, too simple a cover--e.g. #2--from an unknown author would scream low-rent work. It's totally unfair. I sort of hate having to get a decent cover design for a book that's going to be mostly digital downloads. But I sort of feel I have to do something.
The sum is incorrect and the statement of "Julia's sisters are also her brothers' sisters, so the number of sisters Julia has is the same as the number of sisters her brothers have" is also incorrect. The brothers each have one more sister than Julia, since she is one of the sisters so she only has one sister. It's just reworded but still wrong.
You say EU I say India.
why on earth did they design the Node.js and Web APIs to be slightly different and incompatible? (edit: this might just be a bug/oversight on the landing page?)

Node.js:

const model = genAI.getGenerativeModel({ model: "gemini-pro-vision"});

const result = model.generateContent({ contents: [{parts: [
{text: "What’s in this photo?"},
{inlineData: {data: imgBase64, mimeType: 'image/png'}}
] }] })

Web:

const model = genAI.getGenerativeModel({ model: "gemini-pro-vision"});

const result = await model.generateContent([
"What’s in this photo?",
{inlineData: {data: imgDataInBase64, mimeType: 'image/png'}}
]);
Yes, making it reason made it even more wrong
I think this should be filled under sabotage of critical infrastructure.

It is either that or DRM means the OEM gets to remotely shut down entire train network whenever they like? Imagine the money one could make with such a service.
Create a movie from shared google photos albums.
Caption from Google Photos included in each item in final movie.
Download movie & Share it on social media.
No watermark included.
Meta's one is a really good try. I've used it recently for a lot of stuff. It has way less censorship than DALLE3 via GPT Pro. I did eventually get banned for trying to make too many funny horror pics though.
She was feeding herself and a child on seven pounds a week. My food budget for two people is like 20x that.

What she wants is at least for the wealthy to not say heartless shit like "just buy raw potatoes instead of frozen french fries."
Sure there are. One example: stop subsidizing corn for ethanol. The fuel used to plant, fertilize. harvest, transport and process the corn exceeds the fuel produced.
The Acknowledgments section on the page that GP shared says it's using BetterTransformer. https://huggingface.co/docs/optimum/bettertransformer/overvi...
Well, I think it's important to consider the competition in 2017 was not great.

The comparable competitive Android chip, also launched in late 2015, was the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820. That chip was widely known as being one of the worst Qualcomm chips ever made; for mediocre power efficiency, lots of heat generation, thermal throttling, and a buggy first attempt at 64-bit instructions. All that for a GPU that is, on paper, significantly weaker [1] (though, maybe the Switch's cooling could've helped close that gap a bit). But even then, you're dealing with Qualcomm, and everyone knows they are just the worst.

First, because Qualcomm loves royalties based on the device's MSRP, rather than a flat charge per chip. Nintendo probably wouldn't like that. Secondly, while NVIDIA GPU drivers are a proprietary blob, that's of little concern to Nintendo, and that blob can be easily adapted to run on any OS under the sun, including their own. Qualcomm - enjoy a hackneyed Linux fork, that's the best you'll get. From our perspective they're both pretty bad, but from Nintendo's perspective trying to add support to their custom microkernel Switch OS, one's clearly garbage.

Outside of Qualcomm... what else do you have for 2017? Exynos and MediaTek? I think it goes without saying... there are no upsides to passing on the Tegra X1 for a MediaTek from that era.

[1] Edit: I previously said 50% and 100% weaker, but that's very grammatically ambiguous; and FLOPs are a very bad metric of performance, because there are 3 different kinds of FLOP metrics floating around that aren't comparable (due to different levels of precision). Combined with the Tegra being designed for cooling and the Qualcomm designed for no cooling, it's hard to tell specifically how large the gap is, even though a gap is almost certainly there. I think my point still stands.
In what way is this argument any more productive than showing up to Pluto with a plucked chicken and yelling "BEHOLD! A MAN!"?

We can make all kinds of navel-gazing arguments about why LLMs and humans are identical but at the end of the day you'll go home and poop and the LLM will blissfully idle on a forgotten AWS compute instance burning a hole into someone's pocket and any idiot can see that you two are not the same in any sense.

Just because onthologies are leaky and fuzzy when applied to real world that doesn't mean there aren't tangible differences between things that are clearly different. I can construct a semantic argument for why deleting an LLM is akin to murder (and use it to either reason that deleting an LLM should be punished with the death penalty or that it should be okay to kill random people who annoy me) but that won't impress the judge or jury unless I'm trying to make a case for criminal insanity.

Making a machine do things humans can do but faster/cheaper/more has tangibly different implications than letting only humans do it. It should be treated differently for the same reasons that just because a public water fountain is free to use that doesn't mean you can put a hose on it and use it to water your lawn.
Hmm, I see. Thank you for the explanation! Sounds like a very different world than I've ever worked in :)
> but you're not paying Google to host your data.

My organisation (OpenStreetMap) is paying Google to host our emails.

They silently delete random ones, they never arrive at inbox.

(we are preparing migration to competing provider)

Paying does not help.
It makes sense once you make the somewhat arbitrary and questionable design decision to do everything with cameras. A 17,000 brand new minivan has a better driving experience re: console, space, and adaptive cruise, because it doesn't use cameras.
I guess the Model X somehow got classified as an SUV/light-truck, so they can sell it for much higher and still qualify for the subsidy. But it is questionable how many people who meet the income requirements for the subsidy are going to buy an 80k car in the first place.
> Because if you use the service you know it is capable of that and more today.

If you use their service, you know that it's capable of serving X amount of people at Y up and Z down with N latency? C'mon...
But if that's true, then what ground does the train company have for threatening the hackers? If you got hacked, then we weren't breaking your stuff. We were just undoing damage that someone else did to you as well as to your customer.
It was a GitHub repo that I made public that I didn't realise had a key in it.

And yes,it's bad practice putting the keys in code to begin with, and I knew better.
The problem here is what you think "supported" means

for example

>We have a role based access control system for all our products, this can be already done.

So you have a web portal where a Help Desk Tech can take a user request for a file to be restored back to a vm, open a web portal search for the indivual file then either download that file and email it to the user, or restore it back to the VM, or restore it to a completely different VM depending on the use case???

Veeam Does

>>Can be done by Proxmox VE's Ceph and ZFS.

Sure you can do it that why, but veeam has support for this in their product, in the UI that is already part of my work flow, this is what I consider a "OS Level or Storage level hack" it is not really part of Proxmox, but part of the underlying linux OS or Storage solution.

>>Builtin Support for Block Replication

Veeam use ReFS or XFS to only store one version of a block no matter how many backups are taken, this is done in the veeam software and works with their VBK file format. ZFS has some dedup which is what proxmox relies on but it works differently than Veeam, and seems to be less effective. These Block Cloning also works with the Data Format uploaded to S3 to massively save on storage costs

>> I have to ask, did you even test Proxmox Backup Server or is your list just guessed, or partially AI generated?

About 3 years ago...

Have you ever used Veeam? I have been using Veeam since version 9.5, and hold a VMCE certification
[dupe]

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38627156