skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What they need is to combine and meter. I.e. one $x0/mo subscription gets you access to a network of X newspapers, all with one log-in, no ads, and maybe coupons or some other perk. Then it gives you say 30 articles a month, and pays the publisher based on what you read. You're never going to get rid of freeloaders, so maybe have free-tier AI-generated articles and put thoughtful, detailed investigative reporting behind the paywall. Or (for the case of a local paper) have the free-tier not include photos, or grayscale photos, etc. Just tease them to pay for the real version.

Another way to monetize is to make it interactive and bring back comments. Allow a well-regulated peanut gallery for each article, but have it actively moderated, require people to use their real names, and set a high bar for what comments are even allowed. Have journalists actively engage with them. A comment will only be published if it adds value. Then encourage people to have spirited discussion about each article. And guess what, actively commenting will cost you admission.
They need to ditch Sundar, I don't know what the hell they are thinking. Google so badly needs reorganization.
I don't disagree at all, but the natural incentives for those federal agencies are to grow and to do more and acquire more staff and budget, not to cut back.
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> Encrypted data is bits and bytes like everything else. You can compress it. (Maybe not as well as unencrypted text, but still.)

Due to the pigeonhole principle, to be able to make some inputs shorter you have to make some inputs longer. The way compression works is by making more likely inputs shorter, while making unlikely inputs longer. But for encrypted data, if your encryption method is good (that is, not ECB mode), all possible values are equally likely (unless you known the secret key).
Praxis Founder Dryden Brown's Utopian Visions
Reading through some (admittedly very early) MLX docs and it seems that convolutions (as used heavily in GANs and particularly stable diffusion) are not really seeing meaningful uplifts on MLX at all, and in some cases are slower than on the cpu.

Not sure if this is a hardware limitation or just unoptimized MLX libraries but I find it hard to believe they would have just ignored this very prominent use case. It's more likely that convolutions use high precision and much larger tile sets that require some expensive context switching when the entire transform can't fit in the gpu.
They're still telling stories about how they got to watch BlueGh0st take the bag with his own hands. They begged to watch him eat, but that creeped him out a bit. They settled on an autograph and a handshake instead of payment. Ah, the life of a celebrity HN user.
'to say that...' is discussing which of the statements in the article is a better interpretation, 7 vs 60. It is not making any claims about the reasonableness of the 7 days to download the soon to be deleted data.
There are various groups that post popular stuff from one social media site to another, so this could be seen as a sort of piracy* I guess.

You can’t “pirate” Social Media’s original intended functionality, social interactions, because the content isn’t really the point. The connections are.

*I mean, if we have to misuse the term, which is actually about threatening to kill/killing people and robbing their boats, to mean unauthorized copying
When you buy a Tesla you are signing up for this. Some people don't like it but many do. (Most of these changes are genuine improvements.) There are plenty of competitors out there if you prefer to go without such a feature.
“Google Workspace Enterprise Standard”—do they have “Enterprise Pro” and “Enterprise Enterprise” tiers?
S4! Still available: http://www.supersimplestorageservice.com/
I’ve stumbled across bits of program code I’d call beautiful: simple, understandable, clearly correct, and… elegant. Win I find them, I experience the same feelings as when seeing a beautiful painting. My wife’s like “why are you smiling and laughing at words on the screen”, but it’s not the words, it’s what they’re saying and how they’re saying it.

That must be what a mathematician feels when they see a beautiful proof, or formula, or relation.
Comments on being an enterprise provider, and on the particular examples the article used...

> plan that was offered to Google “Enterprise” Workspace customers [...] phased out [...] since he’s using too much storage, they’re going to delete his entire account in seven days (later this week).

First, an enterprise service provider who disrupts your operations in any way should probably be penalized, such as when evaluating future spending.

But an enterprise service provider who gives you seven days before they willfully delete your data... I guess you'd activate the lawyers immediately, to give the incompetent provider's bureaucracy enough time to halt the deletion... before it gets dramatically more expensive for both companies.

(And in parallel, throw money at the problem of racing to migrate to a different vendor, or at least get backups. You can try to recover the cost from the incompetent 'enterprise' vendor later.)

That said (and also acknowledging the HN memes that Google doesn't do customer service, and that Google will probably shut down most services of theirs upon which you might depend)... there's an obvious pattern in the 3 examples that the article gave.

In each example, the account had come under US law enforcement scrutiny. HN has heard other anecdata, but someone reading only this article would reasonably suspect that law enforcement action was a factor: maybe the company simply doesn't want to deal with that headache, either specifically or as a general policy; or it's conceivable that in some cases they might be asked to cripple/disrupt a user. Neither would be great, for a massive sometimes-monopoly for often crucial services, in a country with a legal standard of innocent unless&until proven guilty.

There are some interesting questions around those few examples of how customers under LE scrutiny are treated, but also questions around the various other examples HN hears of from time to time. And the article using only examples of the former might make the reader not as sympathetic as they should be, to a more general problem.

(Though occasionally some of the latter "Dear HN, company ___ cut me off!" examples sound like they could conceivably belong to the former category, without the complainer mentioning that factor. Even when a company makes it clear they're too big to care about a small percentage of users/customers, that's not necessarily the only reason a particular one gets stomped.)
Imagen 2 on Vertex AI is now generally available
I'd love to store all my years of photos in the cloud and have someone else responsible for backups, but I just don't trust them for this sort of reason.

What if I failed to make cloud storage payments due to sickness or credit card being denied/whatever .. how long will they keep stuff before just deleting it?

This is just another possible cloud failure mode - the unreachable/unreasonable cloud provider just deciding to delete your account due to some error on their part.

So, it's multiple hard drives for me. I guess I should really put one in a fire-proof safe or something ... It really would be convenient to be able to trust Google/whoever with them!
Could someone elaborate how this is accomplished and if there is any quality disparity compared to original?

Repos like https://github.com/SYSTRAN/faster-whisper makes immediate sense on why it's faster than the original implementation, and lots of others do so by lowering quantization precision etc (and worse results).

but this one, it's not very clear how. Especially considering it's even much faster.
Some more discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628417
But Godot Engine "can do consoles" for a few years now. W4 Games isn't the first to provide a solution for this, nor will they be the last, due to Godot's MIT licensing.
The term is rightfully loaded, and it is being used correctly. The hazard being an OTA patchable software issue doesn't soften the risk, so why soften the language?
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS will enable frame pointers by default
Any halfway decent lawyer would try to prove that their client hasn't violated a law before trying to prove that the law is invalid.
I made a Music app for iOS that is geared towards offline libraries and has features like visualizer, EQ, sleep timer that I couldn't find anywhere else.

https://sakunlabs.com/muziqi
Ehh, their average speeds have gone down by half in the last 3 years (150 down -> 75 down). They chased profits by signing up more people at the expense of network saturation. Had they held this reduction to 100+ down, they would have remained eligible for the grant they applied for.
Bash one-liners for LLMs
Is it? I don't see android "recalling" android devices every update.
I don't think characterizing it as "stiffing the staff" is accurate. It's the staff's employers who are doing the stiffing.
This is a great article. How it ended up on HN I don't know, but can somebody please start submitting more like this, and fewer techno-babble thinkpieces by junior javascript contractors who host their own mail?
As commissioner Brendan Carr's dissent wasn't included in the article: https://twitter.com/BrendanCarrFCC/status/173469670679577812...
Parents sure, but you had nothing to do with your parents bringing you here.

Maybe your parents left you a few millions in a trust or even a billions worth family business... or your parents left you outside, in the streets, without school, making you beg others for food to survive.

You had literally zero choice of what family you're getting born into.
You have to tell them "under oath". In practice you can just lie though if your income isn't taxed in Finland.
https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples

Several people working on mlx-enabled backends to popular ML workloads but it seems inference workloads are the most accelerated vs generative/training.
Broadcom ends VMware perpetual license sales
Their bellicose behavior will only further tarnish their reputation. And the Barbara Streisand effect will ensure that everyone knows about it. Not a very wise move in a liberalized European market where news travel fast and competition is ruthless.

This time around corrupting the national politicians won't cut it to get the contracts — the European regulator is keeping a close eye on this and it's not known for being complacent with attempts to bypass its oversight.
Luckily for me I only drink the small 7.5oz cans... so I only ingest 6 cubes of sugar... oof. Still an improvement over my younger years. I don't have many 'addictions' in my life, but this vice has been with me for a long long time.
"Broadcom has moved forward with plans to transition VMware, a virtualization and cloud computing company, into a subscription-based business. As of December 11, it no longer sells perpetual licenses with VMware products. VMware, whose $61 billion acquisition by Broadcom closed in November, also announced on Monday that it will no longer sell support and subscription (SnS) for VMware products with perpetual licenses. Moving forward, VMware will only offer term licenses or subscriptions, according to its VMware blog post."
Their language handling was fubar'd years ago. There was a time that you could open the Google.com home page passing some query strings and it would let you search in English with non localized results BS.
Years later, and Google/YouTube don't care. YouTube's search is abysmal and will shove shitty results that have nothing to do with your search and the language that your Google account is set up.
Great questions. Gpt4 got the second wrong in my test, but corrected itself when I told it to review for errors. It got the other two right at first try.
What number is 237 in excess of? That is the number that Google should have advertised, instead of “unlimited”.
It’s a pretty common acronym

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Those are the days where you clean up all your email backlog, do mandatory yearly corporate BS training, update status reports, clean up Jira, etc. I also find that on those days, root-causing bugs is easier than trying to actually write code (that either fixes problems or creates new features).
"Legally mandated OTA update" would not be misleading.
The terms of these subsidies only allow 4X oversubscription.
recreation.gov notification "system" so i can seize the opportunity whenever a coveted backcountry permit opens up.

it's just a web scraper ran via github actions. i get emails whenever my subscribed permits changed.

i shared it with other people on reddit. they signed up through google form that triggered a gumroad payment link (via zapier). it also notified me about the new subscriptions so i could add them (via changes to the google form's google sheet and the notification triggered by zapier). i had two sign ups and donated the money to trail maintenance org.
Thank you, the report itself is more useful than most of the news articles.

TBH, this sounds like... not much. The alerts will be louder and more prominent, and maybe it can't be turned on close to stop signs or traffic lights now. Not that engaging it there was normal before. :shrug

The so-called "FSD" feature seems to be unaffected, since its operational domain was already different.
In memoriam: Betty Irene Moore, 1928 – 2023
> You also mention the time spent waiting for nuclear to come online but fail to consider that PV has consistently failed to reduce fossil fuel usage (in absolute or percentage numbers) even as the market share of it has skyrocketed.

You should look at flows rather than stocks.

> However, stocks are a lagging indicator. Stocks follow flows; the car fleet follows car sales. Flows are the leading indicator. In the early stages of a transition, flows present a very different story to stocks. For instance, it is frequently noted that fossil fuels account for over 80 percent of global primary energy and this number hasn’t budged meaningfully for decades.

> Rarely mentioned is the fact that renewables have been taking an increasing share of the growth in energy supply, and all of the growth in 2019-21. Moving the focus from stocks to flows moves the conclusion from no change to radical change. Concentrating on the size of the fossil fuel system today is like focusing on the large number of horses in 1900 — it was as good a guide then as it is now.

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/cp/138702709

For example, China's fossil use is set for structural decline since renewables more than make up the required grid expansions.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carb...
As someone who often held the job title of "design systems specialist" (usually mobile) many times, one thing that always helped was:

This is what standard iOS vs. Android elements look like out of the box, this is how navigations works out of the box, this is how some ux patterns (like various pickers) work out of the box. Now this is easy to change, this is more difficult to change, and this is something you should never change.

There you go, we have a good spine for a design system (and not just a component library), and we have a good starting point to fix the relationship between designers and developers, which is broken way too often, and hinders progress way too much.

It does require serious time spent in XCode and Android Studio actually writing at least hobby projects, but that knowledge pays off tremendously in building trust between teams.
Most people commenting on HN don't even read the article.
> I can only compare it to Stable Diffusion. But Imagen2 seems significant more advanced.

I wouldn't say this until we are able to try it for ourselves. As we know, Google is prone to severe cherry picking and deceptive marketing.
Nobody really makes any choices if you think about people biologically. I like to think people have some freedom and therefore some responsibility. Not too much. But some.
Show HN: KATA Teams – Summarize Slack, streamline standups, autogenerate updates
Hey HN! Do you find that there's a lot of work and time eng teams put in to just staying in sync with each other?

We do! That's why we are so excited to ship Teams, the newest part of KATA. Teams is designed to delete all of the toil and overhead of alignment, while getting everyone on the same page more async.

- See who's working on what each day, across GitHub, Linear, Jira, and your other tools so you don't have to ping people to find out if that ticket is done, or ask what they're up to
- AI generated stand up updates based on tool activity, no more remembering what you did yesterday to repeat yourself each morning
- AI generated Team updates for managers who hate writing team update emails (this is me in a previous life!)
- On-demand and automatically summarized Slack thread summaries
- Get started in minutes, (despite the name) it's fully single-player mode enabled

Check out the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V9dfqtqI1o and let us know what you think!

Oh, and it's free!

Teams isn't some standup bot replacement, we all have enough micro-tools. It's part of our larger KATA app which we're building to re-imagine how eng teams, especially distributed and hybrid eng teams, get stuff done faster and more async. Teams is free forever, and when your teams grow and work gets more complex, check out the rest of KATA.

Cheers to the builders.
In a first, scientists combine AI with a 'minibrain' to make hybrid computer
Sure. Neither you nor I were in the room, and the evidence is that the committee that was in the room evaluated those plans and it seemed more unlikely to meet the goals.

Given Musk's track record, it is very reasonable to treat any timeline with a shipload of salt. He literally took $thousands from thousands of customers for Full-Self-Driving upgrades that were to transform their Teslas into self-driving Uber/Lyft goldmines by 2021, not 2022, not 2023, no... oops, recall 2 million yesterday because of safety failures in "autopilot" that isn't. Even with the assumption that Starship is not part of the equation, Starlink still is falling down on bandwidth reliability as subscription exceeds capacity.
What happened to those thorium small scale reactors that Bill Gates was funding research on?
@ExoticPearTree - "Google is an advertising company with hobbies."

This should be Google's mission, purpose, values and tagline.
I'd argue the Federal government saw some of its greatest expansions during the civil war, and immediately following. Seconded only by the early 1900s. Ever since the civil war, OG America hasn't existed. The Confederacy was the more original of the two in spirit. But of course, all of the good aspects of the south are clouded by the false claim that the war was over slavery. I'm not pro-slavery, but I'm also not pro-north.
People's reactions may be "I like the final covers better". I get that, I think I do too. But I suspect that's because they're more like what we expect from book covers. They're safer and less experimental. A lot of times our aesthetic evaluations are just based on what seems more familiar—that 'mere exposure' effect—and we find post hoc reasons to justify a gut reaction. I'm not even sure that's a bad thing, from the publisher or the author's perspective: they just want a quick visual shorthand to tell people that a book might be for people like them. They're not trying for much more than that. But I want these designers to not be that cynical, and keep trying new things even if they just run up against brick walls, because that's the mechanism that slowly evolves visual design.
The final cover for Karl Ove Knausgaard's book is what caused me to pick it up years ago in a bookstore and buy it. Not sure I would have noticed the original design.
Had? He still has that option.

Just buy 48 seats of Google Workspace Business Plus to get 240 TB pooled storage.

237 TB is a lot of storage, 864 USD/month is actually pretty cheap to store it all in the cloud. For comparizon, Backblaze B2 costs 6 USD/TB which works out to 1422 USD/month.

As much as I despise Google, this is simply a case of RTFM.
> the ideas that keep coming up over and over are vertical farming, weed-killing laser robots and insect protein.

Ah, are drones finally gone? I'd love to tell farmers things about their land that I saw from above which they already know, for a horrendous price, and fly at a time that's no use to them.
> but you're not paying Google to host your data.

Funny, because they never seen to have problems hosting the advertising/surveillance data they collect on me. They never went "sorry we can't track you any more for free, will you type in you card number so we can keep surveilling you?"
He's SO enjoyable to watch!
Back can mean multiple things? That's a good thing? Sheesh. The Android back button as been broken for years.
I love being Canadian - "Not Available in Canada Due To Regulatory Uncertainty"
as long as we have had civilization scale organizing principles, we have had intelligence of a general nature. I feel much of the conversation at this point is litigating the past.... to what end though?

you mention consciousness relative to organisms and their possession of it. Yet if it is not understood well-enough in ourselves, how can you say something does or does not possess it?

back the original idea, if these intelligence of scale have existed as a guiding force (ONE can hope).... I imagine there is going to be a flag that will have to be flipped before there is the "imagined threat of doom timeline" transpiring.
How do you search the page via the url box? I don’t see the option
Modest 30x speedup
hey hn, supabase ceo here

this has been an ongoing effort to add branching support to several tools in the Supabase stack. We spent a lot of time adding multi-tenancy to the key tools and figuring out a good security model for development branches

for this initial release we've focused on GitHub and Vercel, and we'll eventually add other providers.

The database aspect works as you'd probably expect - we use migrations (managed by our CLI) to make updates to Preview Branches. when a PR is merged we run the migrations against the production database

this is the 3rd major release this week - we have a few more on Friday that will fit into the "branching" story
I wonder if the solution to this problem is to go full-scale DDoS-style mass copyright striking all the big channels in the platform until they change things so the system is less abusable.
To be rolled out in "2023.44.30" -- soon as part of the annual holiday update, which will get hype as a holiday update instead of a recall.

Nicely planned from a PR perspective. :)
> And choosing to use your privileges to patronise people whose lives are entirely beyond your experience and comprehension, is a choice

Not sure how that way of thinking is productive. Patronising people is bad in itself. Thinking that people you perceive as "privileged" can't comprehend you is a choice too and a form of ignorance.
I guess I'll just say that it's not obvious that language has much to do with consciousness, so it's not obvious that a language model has moved things into the shadows. Like, maybe we're in the shadows, but I don't think you can blame GPT 3 for that.

In 1974 philosopher Thomas Nagel wrote, "Conscious experience is a widespread phenomenon. It occurs at many levels of animal life, though we cannot be sure of its presence in the simpler organisms, and it is very difficult to say in general what provides evidence of it. (Some extremists have been prepared to deny it even of mammals other than man.) No doubt it occurs in countless forms totally unimaginable to us, on other planets in other solar systems throughout the universe. But no matter how the form may vary, the fact that an organism has conscious experience at all means, basically, that there is something it is like to be that organism."

He's clearly willing to recognize consciousness to non verbal creatures.