skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess it comes back to how you view the current system. If you find the idea of unicorns and acquisitions and the further centralization of capital distasteful, it's kind of self-evident why you'd want to see something that represents a break from that norm.

For me, yes, I see the obvious argument that more money leads to more (and faster) innovation. But it can also result in an economy that is too tightly coupled and dependent on the might of a few massive companies, whereas an economy that is distributed across more smaller businesses is more robust.

At the extreme, you might imagine South Korea: a country that is highly consolidated into one or two major cities and propped up by massive, economy-shaping corporations. I don't think anyone would disagree that Korea made massive economic strides in a short period of time, but I think there's much more debate about the long-term health of the Korean economy and people now that their continued prosperity is so centralized.

And, of course, there's the consumer angle; though I can't claim any scientific methodology, my impression of the sentiments surrounding this merger are that it was pretty popular with Figma's investors and employees (understandably so, as they stood to gain from the merger), but was deeply unpopular with their customers. You could make the argument that "a Figma owned by Adobe is better than no Figma at all," but consumers have seen it all before at this point: a good product is acquired, and then either a) the pricing model changes, b) the rate of innovation slows down, c) the product is ultimately abandoned somewhere down the line, etc, etc. None of these outcomes are essential truths, but they are common outcomes of companies getting larger and larger to the point where a business unit that is otherwise healthy is deprioritized because it is not profitable enough or growing fast enough for the larger parent to care; or, conversely, the smaller parts suffer because the larger parent encounters trouble and can no longer sustain their acquisitions, even if they are keeping the bloat afloat.
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IT can be, though. High quality synthetic data for training is a thing, see Phi-2 [0] (and many more examples, people having been using GPT-4 outputs for finetuning a LOT to great avail).

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/phi-2-the-surp...
So Mickey expired. But how does it work for creations by Disney? Will they expire on an ongoing basis? By creation I mean:

- The actual drawings

- The animations

- The story lines
Ruby 3.3 fixes duplicate keyword argument warning bug
So you can boot from a USB that already has other files on it or just other isos?
> finishing our integration with Tauri (thanks to NLNet)

This is really exciting! Hopefully can lead to tiny packages (compared to Electron) but still a consistent rendering story across platforms.
That would be fantastic. With a few more rounds of experimentation, businesses might realize that these chatbots aren’t reliable and shouldn’t be put in front of customers.
Pretty easy to see how the EU is simply legislating whatever is comfortable for its leaders instead of what is right: https://www.dw.com/en/calling-prophet-muhammad-a-pedophile-d...
Is not paying an option? Ran into this issue with a large software provider once but they had some actual account management negligence / weren't responsive so we used that to hang our hat on not paying and eventually they let it go.
Are there just multiple public trampolines at the beach there?
it is probably fine as it is just the instructions. i have done it before in a raspberry for some reason i do not remember
Assuming at least 3 players, only have 1 player turn away during each round of shuffling.
There's also the Ladybird browser by the SerenityOS folks, that's however not written in a memory-safe language.
Or we need to put seeds in single-use paper and plastic.
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And so is the EU parliament.
How do you tell the difference between an artificial delay and a slow API endpoint? Are we measuring all the response times and looking a distribution?
Agree 100%. Microsoft would actually make the product a lot better and add useful AI elements to it. I just don’t trust Adobe.
see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38681672
Wow, thanks for the reference!
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Something similar in EU?
https://www.hrw.org/news/2022/03/09/russia-brutal-arrests-an...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65129231
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/17/russian-artist-jai...
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/02/1083911717/russian-police-jai...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/12/08/china-detain...
which planet are you from?
It's also useful if you restrict it to only providing information verbatim (ex. A link to a cars specifications) vs actually trying to generatively answer questions. Then it becomes more of a search tool than actually generating information. The Chevrolet bot tries to do this, but doesn't have strict enough guardrails.
Like it or loath it, X is the best place for free speech.

It's rather incredible that X was investigated first, given that bin Laden's "Letter to America" recently went viral on TikTok.

However it's worse still that the EU thinks its role is to investigate what should and should not be considered "misinformation".

It was not that long ago that saying Covid came from a lab leak was "misinformation".

The whole concept of bureaucrats becoming the arbiters of truth arguably breaks the EU's subsidiarity principle, which "aims to ensure that decisions are taken at the closest possible level to the citizen and that constant checks are made to verify that action at the European Union (EU) level is justified in light of the possibilities available at the national, regional or local level."

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/EN/legal-content/glossary/principl...
> I'm all for chatbots, as a lot of questions & issues can be resolved using them very quickly.

Can they though? Generally when I chat with customer service it’s because I need a change which cannot (or cannot easily) be done myself.

Giving chatbots the power to make drastic alterations to accounts could potentially cause a lot of problems.
Can you explain to me what regulatory framework you would use to address such posts? Are you willing to trust some European bureaucrat to decide how likely civil war might be? Doesn’t that strike you as profoundly dangerous?
Computational social science is growing up
After-Bite (the variant with 3.5% ammonia) is my goto, works every time.
It works for management and executives, that's who it works for.
It's amazing though. The performance of Figma is better than all native vector apps out there.
Good! This would have created yet another monopoly and adobe would have ruined the company
You can put other files on it too.

It is basically a bootloader that lists all the Isos on the drive and let's you boot them.

I have a handful of Isos and it's a good send
> Interestingly, yesterday a Swedish newspaper published a story about conditions for child workers in africa mining minerals that go into the batteries of many car manufacturers. Many manufacturers were called out in the article, but Tesla were singled out in the headline (By far the biggest customer of these minerals so nothing strange in that).

Singling out Tesla is not surprising to me, given the recent labor action.

But this headline just blinds us to the wider issue, as reported by Amnesty International already in 2016 about companies using child labor for battery minerals, including Apple, Samsung, Mercedes, Dell, HP, Microsoft, Vodafone, LG, etc.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/01/child-labour-...

> Twitter/X instantly placed a warning that the article link could be harmful

Do you have a link to this? I’d love to see
I think the negative attitude towards the EU on Hacker News is the product of a couple things:

- The EU has drastically scaled up regulatory requirements for tech businesses, starting with GDPR, running through the DSA, and probably eventually continuing through the AI Act and the proposed cybersecurity law. Because this is a community mostly centered around people who start or work at or invest in tech businesses, there’s a lot of frustration that the new regulations are making life harder.

- In this case, part of what the EU alleges is that Twitter is not doing enough to actively combat disinformation. People are concerned that what the EU wants in terms of combatting disinformation IS a speech-controlling agenda.

I’m not sure either argument is 100% correct, but I can understand why many are arguing that the EU regulations are going too far, both in terms of requiring too much work for too little gain, and in terms of jeopardizing Internet independence.
I have tried various anti-inflammatory/ anti-histamine creams in the past. But I've never found them that effective. Preparation H isn't suitable for vegetarians due to one of the ingredients being Shark Liver Oil.
> Are you saying that the business of "we make a thing and we ask for money from our users for said thing" model cannot work?

I'm saying that companies like Figma, which has raised $333 million dollars in venture capital, at up to a $10bn valuation, cannot exist if those investors don't see sufficient options for liquidity.

And given that people strongly value companies like Figma, as evident in this very thread, that would be a bad outcome all in all. The only market participants for whom this wouldn't be a bad outcomes would be big, established businesses that have to fear less startup competition.
twitter post from Wasm3 with more context https://x.com/wasm3_engine/status/1736712528883769670?s=20
Some people are just evil.

I have found a broken lead motorbike battery in a watery ditch near the farm of my brother. When you have fields and see the shit people throw on the land - just because its cheaper then garbage-dump. Only socialized garbage dispossal works. Its goto be cheap, instant, everywhere- else..

Biggest pigs are construction companys (painters) and restaurants (had somebody dump a truck-load of old kepab-meat). You have no recourse.

Also highly problematic are plants from gardens. People buy exotic plants, that grow beyond all excpectations, trim them and throw the "compost heap" trash into the forrest. Where it takes root again and things go wild.

Once its reported, the bill to clean that up goes to the landowner.

Also fun - new building material dumps - stryofoam and brick mixed- dumped in the wilderness and if found by officals, the landowner goto dig it all up and disposse it. Its incredibble how fewfarmers murder people.
> A user is choosing what they want to capture and making a choice, much like I, as a photographer, look for a particular scene (or happen across one!) and choose how I want to capture it.

The only similarities between these is the fact that they’re making a choice. The act of making a choice does very little to indicate that the underlying process are similar enough to be compared to each other.

The choice made by the photographer is made based on a myriad of factors and intuitions. The result is a snapshot of a real moment in time, modulated by the photographer’s artistic ability, technical prowess and unique perspective of the world based on a lifetime of experience.

Choosing what I make for breakfast is also a form of choosing.
What about plastic recycling and "don't throw this in the garbage!" items like batteries? My stance on those is that offloading it to the consumer is shitty and ineffective. Either have the garbage collection facility handle that or design products that safely biodegrade. An average person shouldn't be asked to do work to enable irresponsible manufacturing choices or underfunded waste management.
This was my more generous, less cynical take as well. Disney has been approaching their 100 year anniversary (not passed), and Steamboat Willie was the first animated short under the banner of Walt Disney Animation Studios. It makes sense to honor one's first at one's hundredth.
They were trying to manipulate the system, just failed at that
There's an AI for everything so why not try this one [1]?

[1] https://recommend.gift/en
I think public discourse on social media is close to being ruined by bots. Petitions which require id to authenticate might be a better measure, although has it's flaws for sure.
Glad the FTC is going after them. All predatory subscription practices need to be abolished by law.
> More precisely, the near 100% percent agreement on "french are despising non native speakers, especially the Parisians".

That’s what I read and hear everywhere, too. I find it very puzzling. I have visited Paris regularly since more than 20 years, sometimes for several months. I can’t remember even a single incident in all those years when I’ve felt despised or disrespected for my extremely rudimentary French language skills. Communication can be hard sometimes, but people are just as cooperative and helpful as anywhere else in the world.
> Is there any plan at Mozilla to eventually use Servo for Firefox or did them basically stopping working on it end any hope of that?

Initially, I think Servo was never meant to be integrated wholesale into anything. It was a experiment playground to evaluate ideas without having them coupled to mainline Firefox, and be able to iterate on things quickly.

Once the ideas were validated, they were integrated into Firefox without pulling in their entirety of Servo.

The "Quantum Render project" is one example of this, where the WebRender compositor was first created in Servo, and eventually integrated into Firefox mainline.
The USA unilaterally passed the Copyright Act of 1976, extending copyright to life + 50 years. The reason it did this was because the oldest works still enjoying copyright protection would have expired in 1977.

Only in 1988 did the USA accede to the Berne Convention, and in 1990 acceded to the WTO TRIPS agreement. The EU didn't exist until 1993 (the EEC preceeded it) and the EU didn't try harmonising copyright law even among its own member states until 1993. The EU and USA don't have any trade deals, their last attempt (TTIP) went down in flames.

And then came the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act

In 1998, the USA extended its copyright terms - not because any international convention or trade agreement required them to. Again, the timing was because the oldest works still enjoying copyright protection would have expired in 1998. As Disney was openly lobbying Congress, and Mickey was due to enter the public domain in 1999, it becomes fairly clear why the USA did this. Nothing to do with Europe.
this seems ripe for a competition or a prankster to blow up their API budget

could be significant enough to cause a dip in the stock?
I really think we should distinguish between people providing goods to the public, for which there is an immediate need for competition, and B2B services like Figma. Monopolization of the former can cause active harm to individuals right now. Monopolization of the latter leads to... businesses having to spend more and provides incentives for other competitors. In particular, what I think a lot of people are missing is that this could be the end for Figma too. I'm going to guess the workers there were really hoping for a payout. If they don't get that, there's going to be de-motivation. Especially having basically been told they're too big to acquire. An IPO is possible, but the opportunity costs given the current markets are almost too much to bear. I feel sorry for them.
Firefox, because it's the "least worst" browser I can find.
Or we need to eliminate single-use plastics.
I still keep a copy of CS6 on my windows machine just for access to fireworks. I should probably learn something new at this point but there is just something about the presentation of the canvas, pixel snapping, and palettes that I can't give up.
I dunno, seems like there are massive risks to Figma as a business at this point with the developments in generative AI. I'm not that confident spending $17bn is justified if its going to take 10-20 years to make it back. Some generative AI startup could easily leapfrog figma.

And Adobe already has its own massive trove of copyright images that it can use for much better generative AI.

I think the last year has put adobe in a much stronger position and figma in a much worse position.
I’m amazed that people make this assessment. Russia is in complete and uninterrupted free fall, and it only barely manages to keep up appearances if you exclusively consume their state media.
The point stands no matter the accused.
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Hyperswitch is an attempt to replicate India's success with UPI(Unified Payments Interface) globally. Today, the payment ecosystem is:

Dominated by closed systems and walled gardens
Ever increasing in diversity
Becoming expensive for businesses

Payments should be a basic utility of the internet and these problems can only be solved by a community led effort.

Hyperswitch is built with Rust and is now fully free and open source (app server, card vault, web client SDK & dashboard). It is optimized for sub 30ms overhead with 50+ processor integrations.
FTA: "Figgie is a card game that was invented at Jane Street in 2013. It was designed to simulate open-outcry commodities trading."

This is crediting Jane Street in 2013 as if Pit didn't exist since 1904:

"Pit is a fast-paced card game for three to eight players, designed to simulate open outcry bidding for commodities. The game first went on sale in 1904 by the American games company Parker Brothers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_%28game%29

Certainly official mechanics vary, but there were always Pit variants for regular decks, and as long ago as the 1970s and 1980s there were rule variants that play like the linked game.

Parker Brothers' Pit cards were ornate in 1914, featuring the Bull and the Bear:

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/nmah_323758
This response is confusing. The point isn’t “considering something is worthless” but rather “considering something superficially tends to lead to poor outcomes”
Sort of – for the one newsgroup I'm interested in (uk.railway), the Giganews archive only seems to go back to the early 2000s – whereas I know that Google had posts going back into the 90s, but sadly it's one of the groups where access was blocked on account of "too much spam" (probably facilitated by Google Groups in the first place).
Have you looked at homicide figures, for example? Europe around 3 per 100k (EU below 2), US above 6.

The party thing was in the Eastern bloc, not sure where that is now the case.
I think you don't understand how china operates. You conflate so many things at once, most of these aren't governmental censorship. Companies firing people, advertiser dropping influencers, being fact checked, &c. has nothing to do with the government

Do you know what censorship is ? Do you know how china enforce censorship ? and at what scale ? If so you can't say in good faith that EU = China.
this works well, as long as you can't tell you are speaking with an AI
I also found it fun to ask it to write a python script to determine what car brand I should buy - it ended up telling me to buy a Chevrolet if my budget is between 25k and 30k, but not in any other case
Oh wow, different kind of rural than I’m used to and that post went the opposites direction from what I was expecting. I’m used to rural folks who scoff at conservation and dump entire trash bags by the side of the road, among other things.

Must be a regional difference. You imply your area’s got nice natural areas and not just farmland, so maybe that’s it.
Can someone tldr why Figma is so important? I’m not familiar with their offering.
It’s a common term in these sorts of acquisition attempts now. AT&T paid T-mobile $3 billion.

A failed acquisition attempt can be very damaging to the company being acquired. You can lose employees who don’t want to work at the new entity that never happened. It can change your product roadmap (are you really going to invest in directions the acquirer won’t want after completion?) and make your executive team start job hunting. Etc.

So it’s not unreasonable or uncommon for the acquirer to agree to such a provision. And the board was presumably highly involved in a large offer like that.
I quit smoking six years ago but before that I used the lit cigarette tip trick for decades. It worked very well for me.
Stilex Gel is flower/plant extract based and works extremely well.
Right, I'm not talking about mapping or allocation costs or anything surrounding the access, just the impact of addressing off heap bytebuffers them seems quite a bit slower than what you get with the new foreign memory API... for whatever reason.
What color would be associated with the Arabic ethnotype ?
My point is that the important difference, i.e. the difference between autoritarianism and democracy, is how the agenda comes about, not what the agenda is at any specific moment. We would like to bring about a certain agenda through democratic means, and maintain (or change) it through democratic means, and for that it is important that the agenda and those implementing it (i.e. EU politicians in this case) can be criticized limitlessly.

Initially, when censorship is implemented but the agenda is still largely unchanged, it might look like there's not much of a problem since after all the actions actually undertaken by the government are still those that the majority of the population agrees with. But by that point it has already become a little more difficult to peacefully remove people from power, because they now have an extra tool to remain in power, namely censorship.

>what you're saying is that any censorship = China tier authoritarianism ?

I think where you are disagreeing with mustafa_pasi is that you are comparing the end results of authoritarianism after different amounts of time, whereas mustafa_pasi is comparing the methods of governance that lead to and maintain those end results. You are right that the situation on the ground is not as bad in Europe as it is in China or Russia, but (IMHO) mustafa_pasi is right that people who want to limit what can be said are "no better than the Russian and Chinese counterparts" in their disregard for democratic values and methods.
Yes, and it creates huge problems for the whole world when an arbitrary multi-billion dollar organisation can "impose rules on content moderation" and "privacy" with zero accountability while skirting local laws. Non-american countries should form a bloc and force them to be reasonable.
They're floating the idea of an outright ban, including 'hydrogen ready'. See Sec 4.1.2 of https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/the-future-homes...
You are right its not like Facbook/Giphy, it's worse and we aren't talking about a single deal being pulled but multiple.

It's not clearly anti-competitive in fact if anything in the B2B space M&A done by bigger companies is where products go to die and opens up for a whole new set of competitors.
Divorce is illegal in the Philippines, and South Korea doesn’t have unilateral no-fault divorce. I’m Bangladeshi, and my in laws include Taiwanese and Filipino families. Pretty much the only thing we have in common culturally is norms around marriage and divorce, and familial obligation.

And Mormons don’t have “entrenched access to exclusive power.” They’re a persecuted minority that was driven to the arid desert and managed to turn it into a thriving place.
Love it — I think something of value was lost when we collectively decided in 2005 that everyone’s page should look exactly the same (i.e. TheFacebook™ profiles)

Sadly that, combined with the changes Google made to deprioritize results from personal sites like these, all but destroyed these neat bespoke pages.
In many parts of the world cigarette butts specifically are not considered "littering" and it's socially acceptable to just throw them on the pavement. Everyone did that when I was growing up.