skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could say many things about the difference between photography and painting of course, but I don't think the things said about these differences are "much the same". In the abstract, they appear superficially similar. When you consider the underlying details, they are worlds apart, and I think it's a category error to compare them directly.

Painting is painting. Photography is photography. AI images are AI images (a category that will be further subdivided as the technology matures, much like painting and photography make up a spectrum of skills and approaches).

They all sit in their own spaces, each with characteristics that make them more or less interesting. I'm personally far more interested in the kind of art that requires investment of human capital: mental, emotional, talent, skill, time, effort. I care about quality paintings and photos not just because of what they look like, but because of what it took to create them. Because of the emotions intrinsic to every brush stroke. Or the immersion of the photographer's consciousness in a real location that was difficult to reach. That human investment is core to the expression of the work, and to the interest it garners.

I do think AI tools will be transformative for traditional artists and will unlock new possibilities. They'll also enable a new generation of artists to turn their imaginations into visual artifacts they were previously not capable of creating. I think the same is true for LLMs and writing. But at the core of it all, these are all forms of human-to-human communication, and the process itself carries much of the message. Much of that message is lost to the medium when we abstract more and more of the process away.

As a thought experiment, consider food replicators in Star Trek. I can tell it what I want, and food appears. This is entirely unlike the process of making a high quality meal from scratch, and I wouldn't call myself a chef for having the ability to describe to a machine what I'd like it to do. This isn't to say there is no value in knowing how to instruct the machine well, but it's just a very different category of human activity.
When the government needs money (to support Ukrain, Isreal , just a couple of examples), it will collect money from everybody by making money worth less
Or transfer the bonds/treasury to Figma directly? Why go through the hoop when Figma too will just covert it to bond/treasury anyway?

Is that allowed?
I guess your comment is against the restrictive and rigid idea that peer review should be about making research papers more intellectually rigorous?
This is a really inaccurate factual understanding of the sequence of events here: I would urge you to look at the actual timeline of events around the CMA and the DOJ before you keep spreading it.
Or from the other perspective of the trade-off: One caveat with MSSQL is that ALL concurrent transactions must pay the overhead if _some_ transactions need serializable guarantees?
ClickHouse vs. BigQuery
It's confusing because while it does run the previous cells as needed, it does not update the "output" of those cells on the page. So it's not very clear what the dependencies are and what steps were actually executed.
Homebrew 4.2.0
This is exactly correct! It's an asymmetrical accountability mechanism.
I admire what you're doing! Ukraine still stands because of you and people like you.

Be sure, that despite having a destroyed house and maintaining Wasm3 I'm still resourceful enough to:

- donate money

- donate skills

- coordinate multiple mil-tech research groups

- run own business

- raise 2 kids

- ...

Cheers!
That was Marx's original theory - capitalism had to reach its full and complete development before it could transition into socialism. This is still understood in China as their rationale for supporting a market economy even in a supposedly 'socialist' country.
A friend shared this with me the other day after we were discussing the current drama: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-19/essays/chat-wars/

Apparently AOL eventually "beat" MSN trying to reverse engineer their protocol by exploiting a known buffer overflow in their own implementation, and then MSN fumbled by trying to leak the security issue to put pressure on AOL but being too transparent in their manipulations and losing the PR battle that ensued.
Micropayments on the internet don't work. Payment processors charge 30¢ per transaction, plus a percentage.

We are not in a system that allows for micropayments to work.

You list a very famous content creator. On the other hand, there are lots of content creators who actually are struggling, and not making half as much as a minimum wage worker despite working longer hours than full-time.

If you look at the Twitch leaks, the payment curve has a long tail; the vast majority of creators do not make very much at all, while the top creators tend to make out with multigenerational wealth in a year.

This is especially true with CS-sphere content creators, because computer scientists seem especially reluctant to spend money, ever, if it isn't required of them, as they are very good at justifying not doing so with "They'll be fine!"
In many cases, a sentiment that's right. In other cases, not so much. There are lots of Twitch streamers, open source software developers, and YouTubers that can't seem to find ways to monetize their content that work well. Oftentimes, these are some of the people that have the most interesting content!

If a person likes someone's content, they should find a way to financially support that, if they're able.
This sounds a lot like my experience. I have had the same issues as solo owner of the tech projects. What helped for me was setting up a complete staging environment, where all new features are tested by either your business users, or better a person to do sole QA. I would advise your company to hire a contract QA person if you can. Then set up your deployments to go to staging first, when everything is tested you should have some CI integration to deploy exactly what is in staging to production. This is what I pitched to my clients and it works much better. Then if issues arise they are usually due to inadequate testing in staging. Be aware there may be kinks to iron out in your deployment process at first, but once its solid it should not require many changes.
Payroll is done with ACH, not wire transfer. ACH is reversible so it has fewer controls. Wires are not (generally) reversable.
This btw is why Japanese cars are better than American cars.

It's objectively better to work in a unionized environment. Let's you be "lazier" and get away with half-asserey - great from the worker perspective but from the perspective of a prospective buyer, ideally your product is produced by people who work as hard as possible. The Japanese have a work-hard without half-assing attitude. This is why Toyota/Lexus have consistency the best build quality, stitching, etc in their cars. Their employees are mostly not unionized and not even paid particularly better than the American ones - but the Japanese work ethic is preserved.

This is also why "made in japan" toyota/lexus is prefereed to made in america/canada toyota/lexus.
Oh that's super nasty, is it mentioned somewhere in the doc?

Is it the same for repeatable read?
While I love technology, and I know they were given a challenge to use ceramics, I’d like to see this approach compared with foliage
The Toronto (Canada) public library has been out since October due to a cyberattack. Maybe they went on a library attack spree. Awful.
Hah, reminds me of this:

https://youtu.be/7C1Zaqu0wrw
That's the medieval equivalent of leetcode.

The problems that the imperial Chinese government had to solve was pretty much the same as the problem the Big Tech companies are trying to solve with leetcode.

In earlier times, it used to be that the exams were more freestyle, but when tens/hundreds of thousands of people compete for a handful of high civil service positions, people are motivated to cheat by memorizing essays pre-written by somebody else. And the open-ended questions had subjective answers that didn't scale. So they basically gamified the whole thing.
In sci-fi I loved as a child, everything the computer did on behalf of its owner was binding. The computer was the legal agent of the owner.

We need such laws today.

I was told by NameCheap's LLM customer service bot (that claimed it was a person and not a bot) to post my email private key in my DNS records. That led to a ton of spam!

The invention of LLM AIs would cause much less trouble if the operators were liable for all the damage they did.
I don't really get this point... HTML is not _that_ complicated. I mean is:

<h1>this</h1>

<h2>this</h2>

<h3>this</h3>

really "more complex" than something like:

# this

## this

### this

You still need to know that '#' means header / title, and that more of them leads to a lower header level... and this is just for the most basic concept of web pages: headers. Okay, even if it's not markdown, no matter what system you cook up, the syntactic complexity to support the huge number of elements that exist in HTML has to live _somewhere_ right? (Yes, you can argue maybe not ALL of the 100+ HTML tags aren't needed, but probably most of them are!)

While there is something to be said for mega purists who don't even like JavaScript, we're supposed to not even like HTML anymore either? I think at some point you have to accept that building things for the web involves some minimum level of complexity...
> Rust doesn't really have the reputation of moving slowly to adopt new features

There are some exceptions to this. Although there are possibly good reasons for such features moving slowly, a competing compiler could popularize them before they are stabilized in rustc. One example is generators[1] but there's a longer list in The Unstable Book.[2]

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/43122

[2] https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/unstable-book/language-feat...
I definitely got a lot out of Premium YouTube. I must watch an average of 3 hours per day.
Agreed. I think this is a good argument towards development of open LLMs.

If you're old enough, similar arguments existed about "open / free internet" and we're seeing some of the consequences of having it be controlled by mega corps.
Also, Tomas says he came up with the encoder-decoder (seq-to-seq) idea, and then Ilya and Quoc took over the idea after Tomas moved on to Facebook.

However, there is another statement by Quoc, saying this is not true: https://twitter.com/quocleix/status/1736523075943125029

> We congratulate Tomas on winning the award. Regarding seq2seq, there are inaccuracies in his account. In particular, we all recall very specifically that he did not suggest the idea to us, and was in fact highly skeptical when we shared the end-to-end translation idea with him. Indeed, we worked very hard to make it work despite his skepticism.

So, word against word. I'm not accusing anyone of lying here, one of them probably just misremembers, but this leaves also a somewhat bad taste.
There are indeed four entries saying "strong reject", but they all appear to be from the same reviewer, at the same time, and saying the same thing. Isn't this just the one rejection?

Also, why is only that reviewer's score visible?
Nucor looks like it's doing OK.
> We were ignored, slandered, and our votes were never counted. Literally, the State of Texas does not count votes in Presidential Elections for "third parties."

You understand that's by design, right? In most states (likely all, but I can't be bothered to check if there's an exception), a candidate has to register as a "write-in candidate" or votes writing in their names won't be counted at all. Ostensibly, this was done when people were actually writing on paper, and it might be impossible to count 100,000 unique write-in names if 100,000 voters voted for unique names.

Now, in the digital/electronic voting machines where there would never need to be separate first class candidates and second class "write-in" candidates, the system is preserved for whatever reason.
The year -539? Is this the year 540 BC or the year 539 BC?
and vienna has cheap housing, thanks to their social housing
Another way to say "decide they're against the merger" is "evaluate the situation and make a timely ruling that they oppose the merger as illegal."

Which is exactly what they were supposed to do. Adobe and Figma tried to argue with the regulators or find a compromise, but couldn't come up with a solution that satisfied all parties.

If you try to extract subtle implications from the phrasing of a commenter on HN, you're likely to jump to the wrong conclusion.
> Its either legal or not.

Perhaps I should introduce you to the legal system? Adobe proposes the merger, DoJ says they will sue to stop it. At that point, if the parties can't come to an agreement, it goes to the courts.

I think it's fine to argue our legal system is too slow, but again, this idea that regulators are just "dragging their feet" to slow things down is fundamentally incorrect. Regulators announced quite quickly they would fight this deal.
The one I tried was called Vocode
They really missed out on a perfectly good opportunity for “THROWkia” huh
holy shit the content on there is unhinged
If rust wants to replace memory-unsafe languages, it needs to cover their use cases.
Show HN: Restate, a Distributed Async Runtime
...and then our social relationships are judged on a default presumption of distrust?
Even a casual glance of the major Western media sites in the U.S. would confirm that Israeli doesn't appear to wield any influence over the Western media.

Right now, the top story on the Israel-Gaza conflict on NBC, WaPo, NYT, and LAT is the IDF accidentally killing 3 hostages. Stories from the last week include multiple reports about potential Geneva Code violations. And in the weeks before the ceasefire, there was a constant drumbeat of opinion pieces calling for a ceasefire.

Yeah, such influence they have... /s
This is why I refuse to turn off my adblocker on YouTube, and never will. I'm not rewarding YouTube with my money (for YT Premium) for being absolutely useless at vetting their advertisers. I'd rather just not use YouTube at all if it comes to it.
Die Geister die ich rief, die werd ich nun nicht los
This feels like the crux of the beeper battle. I can’t wait for the Aaron Sorkin adoption on a Netflix miniseries.
Could you record a demo of this?
You can throw N% of GDP at _anything_ and come out empty handed if the project is mismanaged. While true that the Apollo missions had the political and financial backing of the most powerful country on Earth it was by no means an assured success.

The point of the study is to look beyond the budget and try to understand why the project succeeded. What was done right. You can apply most of the same lessons to high and low budget projects.
I think you're missing the bigger picture - these are the failures that happened even with all the rigorous testing and procedures. Imagine what would have happened without these regulations in place. Of the incidents that seriously injured or killed astronauts, none happened in space. Of the incidents that happened in space, none led to the loss of any life. It's remarkable, especially considering manned flight itself had only been achieved 50 years earlier.
As stated by the law. 90% of everything, including such laws, is crap.
I think the main effect will be to push VC funded companies more towards sustainable growth, with less emphasis on growth at all costs. This strikes me as a good thing overall. That probably won't harm the fundraising prospects for solid businesses much if at all.

Highly speculative or hyped companies will probably have a somewhat more difficult time attracting VC investors, but so many of those turn out to be frauds or vaporware that I'm not too concerned. Companies like the ones that benefitted from the SPAC boom a couple years ago. Most of those ended up being highly overvalued companies that lost money for the post-VC investors.
Reminds me of a recent submission:

AI is a weapon to surpass Metal Gear https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38435978
Revenue actually is value (a subset of it) delivered to the business's customers. Enterprise value is a different thing. It's an important thing, but it's totally possible to have a business that delivers immense value to its customers and has very low enterprise value. We generally call these "not great businesses," but that doesn't make them not businesses.
I don't think it actually is obvious to many.

What will probably (and already is starting to) happen is that people will revert to deriving truth through tribalism rather than evidence.
If they are reluctant and only do it because they have to, are they really the right vendor for managed k8s?

What about them makes for a good trade-off when considering the many other vendors?
I think it’s multi causal:

- lack of social norms and established best practices around courtship. (Man making the first move, how to start the conversation etc.)

- a lot of communication happens publicly and has a permanent record - so mistakes are more punished

- Being approached is likely to be perceived as more negatively/creepy (me too movement etc.)

- Having fewer things in common. (In the 90s, everyone watched the same movies, read similar books etc..)

- Overabundance of alternative entertainment / having fun on your own

- Different dating behavior introduced by Tinder & Co with more short term/immediate reward loops

Here’s what I think isn’t the reason:

- “Those kids always being on their phones” (aren’t we all?)

- New generations being inherently less social
You completely misunderstood my comment. I don't understand how you could interpret it so wrongly?
> Micropayments on the internet don't work. Payment processors charge 30¢ per transaction, plus a percentage.

Paypal micropayments has it down to 5% + 9 cents.

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees#micropay...
Since due diligence can take 12-24 months, I wonder what other than a much lower valuation being worth it caused this

Did Adobe get or figure out enough tips and tricks for their other products?

I have used adobe a bit over the years but no relation to either group.

That is a lot of subscription to walk away from for a company who is good at subscription, unless one of their parked projects was able to be written in webassembly.
Depends on the type of the games you are looking obviously:

- 2023 shooters average just over 12h to complete

- 2023 RPGs 37.5h

- Battle Arena (all time) 433h

All in all average for 2023 releases is just under 20h _to complete_, which doesn't necessarily mean people actually played that much - the other article I've linked suggests that on average people got to less than half of the main story..
Forgot to mention that a sign of underdevelopment is the need for braces. I was borderline needing braces as a kid and I will be getting them as an adult to help fit my tongue in my mouth better. Much better to not need braces (at any age) or major surgery as an adult.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soldier_of_the_Mist
Yeah I have problems getting dates too, also because of my Android colored text bubbles.
who the hell mentioned racism. Or are you so stupidly stuck in brainless culture war crusading you think “dog whistle” is only associated with racism?
I recently started getting into Linux, I was able to load up four or five ISOs and cycle through them so painlessly. Very fun.
Here here. One word, nay, one letter in response:

X
The Patriot AI in Metal Gear Solid 2 was probably the most prescient prediction that Hideo Kojima has ever made, and it's even worse than even he imagined.

The irony of it all considering Kojima was also falsely accused of assassinating the Shinzo Abe just last year.

The Most Profound Moment in Gaming History: https://youtu.be/jIYBod0ge3Y
Invidious is a essentially a fledgling competitor, which uses YouTube's video storage. Invidious users are not on the YouTube platform. Or maybe have one toe on the platform, or something like that.

YouTube is by far the dominant video hosting platform in the world; I'm guessing they probably don't feel they require the network effects from alternative systems that bypass their UI and API. They provide a site and app that are used free-of-charge by billions, and get all the network effect they need from those.

If going after piracy of locally installed software were comparably simple, easy and cheap, similarly to blocking an IP address, everyone would do it. Mainly it's not done against individual users because it's prohibitively expensive.
Once the users have defeated the anti-copying measures in the software executables, they have gotten away with it. You'd have to send cops to their house to seize the warez.
That's true, given that the M-series gains are exclusively against Intel chips and are less performant than comparable AMD chips, upon which Apple's memory architecture is based.
As I said, I'm quite happy with that, but if we do something, let's do it right and not half-assed.
Do you actually believe that, or are you mocking a bit of startup-culture hubris?
How would that go down?

"I believe that someone currently has access to our customer database"

- "It's probably nothing. Carry on with your regular work. Nothing to see here."

Luckily for consumers, the do nothing approach to this problem is more costly than disclosing.
I only recently learned that Ventoy can also boot from Virtualbox VHD files and run them "on the metal".

https://forums.ventoy.net/archive/index.php?thread-416.html
I enjoy having high-value cards in my collection, but the best way to show them off is in a deck that uses them well. I'm not throwing my Surge Foil copy of The One Ring in a random Commander deck.
Slow Ways
A lot of this advice can be applied without much additional cost, too!

Whenever one of these "engineering lessons you could learn from aviation (or spaceflight)" threads comes up, there's always a few people who come out of the woodwork with the tired old "LOL aerospace has infinite budget" excuse. Yes, some things in aerospace are cost-prohibitive to bring to your company that does CRUD apps, but things like simplicity, minimizing interfaces, automation and so on probably wouldn't cost as much as you imagine. That hot mess of 50 microservices talking to each other through 20 layers of abstraction and frameworks in your code base probably cost more than a simpler one would. And things like attention to detail, thorough defect analysis and so on are more of a culture change than something your company has to pour money into.

As someone who used to work in the marine and aerospace industries, joining a "normal" application development company was a bit of a culture shock. It took some adjusting to what passes for Quality Assurance, Failure Analysis, Robustness, Stability, in regular commercial software.
Ouch - thanks for the feedback!
This article about the DoJ prepping to sue to stop the deal is from February: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-23/doj-prepa...

The idea, proposed by the comment I was responding to, that regulators were just twiddling their thumbs and then only gave a thumbs down to Adobe after 15 months is wrong and completely misunderstands how the regulatory process for merger approval works.
You eventually get to a scale where vetting is near impossible. Paying for premium brings them closer to a state where they don’t need advertising at all.
Honest question: are Japanese industrial workers (steel, auto, etc) significantly worse off (pay, conditions, security, etc) vs Americans? I sort of assume that at this point they are an advanced economy and there would be roughly parity.
Welcome to the world of antitrust, where almost everything is in a grey area and vibes-based. Never seen anyone who studied this area (and who didn't already work for a related Federal agency) who didn't conclude that this was a big mess, no matter their opinions on how it should work.