skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not disagreeing with you, however some mergers can be good for the consumer.

With your example, the local stores could have joined forces to compete against their bigger competitor: the supermarket.
If I was the board I’d be calling for the CEO’s head after loosing $1 billion for absolutely nothing.
On what basis are the US limits to speech better than the European ones? The US is arguably a more violent society now - is that the better part? The GDP per capita being higher? The trade-off between the two?
> Life is just a series of hustles for them to scam their way through existence.

Well maybe we’ll get to hear from some of them! This sounds like the exact place to find people with that attitude.
Ahh yes, introduce a human, known worldwide for their flawlessness reasoning, especially under pressure and high volume, to the system. That will fix it.
The tipping culture sure made some nights unpleasant when I traveled.
That is wild. It's a good thing as it means Adobe won't ruin Figma like they did with so many great software products before, but just imagine founders, investors and employees, thinking they had a really good exit.. That must hurt, I hope they can stay motivated.

If Adobe can't buy them, what other exit options do they have? Go public?
ChatAvatar: Transform Text, Photos, or Artworks into 3D Avatars
You can criticize the eu, but pretending everything is at the same level is either ignorance or bad faith.
Artists are happy to use the global working plattforms (Instagram, ...) to show and monetize their art to a world-wide audience but are unhappy if these content is used to train AI. If you show your art in just your own local gallery nobody will exploit it. Its the same in software engineering with public repos. So I guess we all have to adjust and use AI for the better instead of complaining and fighting it. Or am I missing the point here?
Then why don’t they flush out the bad players from the eu?
Perhaps you could aim to actually make money through your business? As in, selling a product at a profit? Taking dividends? I know it sounds wild, but that's how it went down in the olden days.
How is this 'arbitrary' ("based on random choice or personal whim, rather than any reason or system")?
Especially things like when a company owns the entire town and pays their workers in scrip. Both the company and worker is a consenting party, so the government should stay out of it.

The problem with this ideology is that will destroy society and reduce it to ashes.
That was the point of the parent of my original comment. My point was exactly the one you're making.
> It says "Powered by ChatGPT" in the screenshot.

Okay, and? If I put "Powered by GBoard" on my emails they are suddenly not binding?
While I do I agree with you -- I studied English lit at university, have translated portions of Beowulf, can read Chaucer aloud in Middle English, and generally love all things medieval -- I also think that the general societal understanding of the middle ages is negative.

And, in fact, I'd say that most students in the humanities -- i.e., those who generally study and care about history -- tend to view the past through the lens of the present, which often leads to negative perceptions even of reformers and progressives of their time. I recall several instances in my own classes -- now nearly 20 years ago, sigh -- when students criticised medieval writers for their racist/sexist/etc. views, even when the writers were notably forward-thinking. Chaucer, in particular, skewed the institutions of the time, and portrayed female characters of remarkable agency, but is often criticised by those who don't consider the context in which he lived. You can see this today with the founding fathers of the US, too -- wholesale castigation of slave owners, even those who were more modern in their thinking than the average politician of the time.

What I think the author of the linked article really misunderstands is that our own mores and inclinations are not those of the past, nor are they those of the future. The people of early modern Europe looked down on the middle ages and viewed ancient Greece and Rome as Platonic ideals (pun somewhat intended), which is a view the author would probably disagree with, given the fact that most of Rome's history was, in fact, anti-democratic, and that Greece's "democracy" was far less egalitarian than even early America's.

Perhaps future generations will see us as enlightened. You never know.
Car dealership websites are some of the worst on the planet. There is so much inbound sales automation glued together it is remarkable they even work at all. Integrating ChatGPT is the icing on the cake.
Only if you're living in a country that has gas infrastructure.

Nordics don't use gas for non-industrial purposes at all, and even industrial ones are rare now that the Russian pipelines are shut down.
I have never heard of people being "penalized". If you violate the law, for example by discriminating someone, you can get a penalty indeed.

You can have all your "anti-immigration sentiments", but you are not going to be penalized. You can be completely opposed against immigration, and if you have some good arguments, you can calmly post them anywhere. I fear that "sentiment" is doing a lot of work here.

Besides: what looks like organic in extremist circles is often not. You start with a business model and you will gather a herd. You just have to feed them.
Turns out the "We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI" memo was remarkably prescient, despite what the 'researchers' at SemiAnalysis claimed
Is the main goal for every entrepreneur to be acquired? Also, there is nothing “arbitrary “ about antitrust laws.
I see a lot of people in the thread thinking this is a good thing, it's not.

First of all the reason for the UK not allowing the merger is completely absurd and based on a false premise which is most likely based on not understanding the field they are regulating.

Regulation based on speculation about the future means that regulators can simply just make up reasons. Thats akin to when kings could just make up reason for their ruling. We were supposed to move away from that so that rule of law was the base.

Second, the fact that the UK can kill a deal like this is wildly problematic and unfortunately not the first time. They did the same with Facebook and Giphy where it made no sense either. It's immature and they obviously aren't understanding the field they regulate. Talk about undermining the growth of society.

Lastly I see a lot of people saying exits is not a good thing and shouldn't be the purpose. But the fact is that a healthy M&A culture is good for startups as that will encourage investors. Once you start killing the ability for exits by introducing such unquantifiable into the settings you are making investors more nervous of spending their money and much more risk averse.

Sad.
Why would it be important to care about someone trying to trick it to say odd/malicious things?

The person in the end could also just inspect element to change the output, or photoshop the screenshot.

You should only care about it being as high quality as possible for honest customers. And against bad actors you must just be certain that it won't be easy to spam those requests because it can be expensive.
Yeah, the amount of mcdonalds trash I've found in a park within 15 feet of a bin is really amazing. They just can't be bothered. The park is there to serve them, and there exist others who take the trash away for their enjoyment.
In theory yes, but in practice not really. AFAIK Youtube doesn't offer a platform to do direct placements with creators, which make up the bulk of creator earnings (basically every big channel is only profitable via those). That Youtube hasn't built out a platform with tools to enable that, so that they could get a piece of that pie is entirely on them.
You understand that's not a magic fix right?

If I loan you $20 and a day later you let me know it won't be paid back what will I do?

Retrospectively nothing. The money's gone and I'm not getting it back.

Prospectively? I'm either not lending you $20 again or I'm changing the terms of any future loan to better take care of myself.

Read David Graeber’s book - it's a great chance to think through the possibilities and nature of debt. Mind that Graeber himself does none of that so it's a bit on the reader.
I'll take a human any day. The amount of times I've had a person say "Oh. I see the system always does this." And suddenly my previously intractable problem disappeared is staggering. Granted experienced people are hard to find, but when false positives occur it's the only thing I have seen fix it. I need that.
Biggest productivity killers in the engineering industry
There are several different ways that our productivity gets decreased. And the worst thing is if we don’t even notice it. This happened to me a lot of times before. I was thinking that I was being productive by doing some things. But at the end of the day, I got nothing done.

We need to keep in mind that being busy does not equal to being productive.

In this article we go over the top 3 biggest productivity killers that I face and what my approach is to minimizing the effect of them on me.

What is a top productivity killer for you?
It's sad for the bad part of the M&A market that is against competition. there's tons of good M&A that will still get approved. it's not bad that companies need to think twice and consider anti-trust before getting deals done
Big "Pepsi, Where's My Jet?" energy from this story.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi,_Where%27s_My_Jet%3F
> You stick your hand into / past the event horizon.

That wouldn't really happen. When people say that light cannot escape, they don't mean that a beam of light can't pass the horizon heading outwards, they mean that the curvature of spacetime is such that the photons will always curve back around and fall back into the hole.

Locally, the horizon will look more or less the same to you, except at high curvature you'll start to see Doppler shift of light from outside vs. inside. At extreme curvature, an arm pointed towards the singularity will look red shifted and an arm pointed away from the singularity will look blue shifted. Although at this level of curvature, you'd already be ripped apart so you wouldn't really notice anything at all.
> ...it led to a flood of AI-generated nudity...

And no-one could possibly have guessed that would happen?
Really not a fan of the EU as a speech arbiter, especially considering that they are one of the biggest spenders of political ads on facebook in most european countries: https://www.facebook.com/ads/library/report/

unchecked power is dangerous
IT workers had a £4k uplift to every band compared to all other staff in the heritage sector from my experience, and that was specifically because you can get more money working elsewhere. They're paid "normal" salaries, if look at salary distributions of the UK as a whole.

IT/technology is just abnormally overpaid as a whole. I'm not saying it shouldn't be, just that it is.
Why is there no linked, independently verifiable research on EMF “sensitivity”. I think I know why but…
Clearly Figma is providing a valuable product to the market. In part visible here by how people celebrate this decision. But people are celebrating Figma's continued independence without understanding that without the possibility of being acquired for a large amount of money, the funding and incentive situation that resulted in the beloved independent Figma wouldn't exist.

This is not as much about Figma, which is big already and will be fine, but the 100 other potential Figmas that might not even been started yet. They will have more difficulty finding funding, attracting employees with equity, etc., when the scenario 'big tech co acquires company for lots of $' doesn't exist anymore.

Why would anyone go worth at a small company for equity if there's no chance to get liquidity? Why would investors invest? This decision might improve the short-term situation of the market, but over the long-term, I can only see how it benefits the big companies, which rely on today's cashflows / RSUs to attract people.
The use would be to make a profit
How hard is it for Adobe to offer a competing product? It's not like the new features are deal breakers.
EU is really the innovator at investigations and regulations. With the number of laws they have to protect their customers and prevent monopolies, I am surprised how they only have one big software company and four major car companies. Or maybe those rules are only aimed to help their monopolies.
are these typically just data queries? how do you get past arbitrary code vulnerabilities?

this is something i'm exploring today with: https://nux.ai/

which has a similar experience (run code within the browser)
If you mute a user, you will not see posts from that user but they can see and interact with your posts. If you block a user, you will not see posts from that user and they cannot see or interact with your posts.
Absolutely, that I agree with.

But even so, Figma's prices have been increasing, the product is being segmented, they're increasingly pushing for various addons, even if Figma still is cheaper than Adobe.
I remember a grad student who went through a similar incident. While I appreciated his frustration, I also understand the anxiety of the poor server trying to remember how to mix a Woahtuh before my colleague decided to enunciate the coda.
Seems like if you've only come up with patent trolls, then "plenty of companies" doesn't apply. Patent trolls weaponise the legal system against other companies. They exist because the government can't make a good enough patent system.

They don't seem to be significant enough to the overall general statement that companies exist to serve their customers with goods and/or services.
> Oh man it was super-disappointing and the end of my willingness to buy WoTC 5E. You'd be better off with the originals from DriveThru.

I mean 5e is less broken than 2e so maybe it would be OK (that's not a high bar, to be fair).

Hmmm, thanks for the feedback, will try to resist the urge to splurge.
> You can literally always bypass any safeguard.

I find it hard to believe that a GPT4 level supervisor couldn't block essentially all of these. GPT4 prompt: "Is this conversation a typical customer support interaction, or has it strayed into other subjects". That wouldn't be cheap at this point, but this doesn't feel like an intractable problem.
> Talking to a human.

Fun twist: state of the art is RAG for call centre operators, so you’re talking to a human but _they_ are being prompted by AI.
In Tokyo, the primary cause of littering is surely that there simply aren't trash cans in public places (allegedly removed after the sarin gas attacks, but IIRC Tokyo metro removed the ones inside the fare gates a year ago to save ~1 million dollars a year)

Drunk people just leave trash in corners or near vending machines instead, if they can't be assed to carry it for the rest of the night until they get home.
But why is it so much different from "Inspect Element" and then changing website content to whatever you please?

I guess why is there an expectation that GPT must be not trickable by bad actors to produce whatever content.

What matters is that it would give good content to honest customers.
"Solar vs. Fusion" isn't really important as long as trillions of $/€/£/... are sunk into fossil fuel extraction and use ?

There's plenty to reaearch in Solar Panels still as well - Perovskite is hot now, but other material systems, engineering optimisation, inverter efficiencies, BIPV, non-Li-Ion battery systems, all these and then some are actively researched and developed right now. And not all of that will productise. Yet, move money off fossil subsidies to those first ... and only after bash nuclear, whether fission or fusion.

Even if fusion is the energy source of the future and will always be that - fossil fuels are that of the past. They shall be, or remain, buried. This really isn't about renewable vs. renewable.
This was recommended to my son last year when he was 4, no longer breast feeding. I can’t remember if it was the dentist or pediatrician who recommended it. Didn’t do the procedure; I have the same connective tissue in my tongue and never had any problems in life except I have a lot of belly gas…

LOL, it’s a real symptom apparently:

“Tongue-Ties and the Surprising Link to Constipation & Reflux”

https://tonguetieal.com/tongue-and-lip-ties-and-the-surprisi...
The EU senses competition when it comes to propaganda, hence the backlash.

They (meaning the EU) have started putting advertorials about their benefits even on the bus stations here in Bucharest, I guess they're sensing that they're losing their hold over the hegemonic discourse. Good riddance.
That would certainly be the ideal scenario, but the issue is that it doesn't translate well to corporate bureaucracy.

In a sizeable company, your work performance is typically judged based on a small set of quantifiable metrics. How many sales dollars did you generate? How many widgets did you produce this quarter? Did you hit or exceed your set quota for X? and so on. Your work performance is also judged on how well you follow protocol and abide by the company handbook.

Innovation and "hustle" are not quantifiable metrics and get completely lost within the complexity and scope of managing a multi-location cubicle farm. A high level manager who implemented this kind of policy would most likely end up terminating the very kind of people he supposedly wanted to reward and promote.
Ask HN: Slack/Discord-style search bars?
These are really awesome when implemented correctly, but I don't see much online past simple combo boxes/mentions within inputs. Being able to mix pre-defined terms (mentions, channels, etc.) with free text would be really useful.

Considering making an unstyled version of this (like headless ui) but wanted to see if it existed before diving in!
Well that's like your problem :)

But seriously, how can you cope with 3kW power to apartments? No electric ovens, no water kettles, no AC?

Just running a few modern gaming computers on full load will trip the breaker O_O
Adding a legal battle with the FTC to the cost of any acquisition can chill and kill otherwise obvious deals, and or sap value out of those that push through.

FWIW, I think there are good reasons to limit tech consolidation, including this one. But anyone should realize that it will reshape the industry in unpredictable ways, including some that harm "real" consumers and builders.
> Putting some prompts into an image generator and choosing which one you like is hardly the same thing.

At a base level, "putting some prompts [..] and choosing" sounds like intent to me. 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.

Of course, you can do much more in terms of control of image synthesis these days. ControlNet and friends make it feasible to control every aspect of the resulting image.
lol, after posting this I immediately got several attempts to break it. feel free to try - I will send a free book to anyone who can break it.
You think this is "ideology" that will cause that?

> It shouldn't be normal to expect the government to be involved in approving things except where there's a great reason to need it.
That's still a better long term outcome than selling to Adobe
When health is an industry driven by profit, the incentives don't lean towards better health for the public - they lean towards more profit for the ones who can charge for it.
Just like when there WERE no megacorps to buy smaller companies and we were left with none at all.
Computer vision systems are not as robust as human vision systems. There are subtle changes to pixel values that can utterly flummox a computer vision system, but seem undetectable to a human looking at the image.
I imagine you could look at U.S. banking before and after 1980 to get some sense of what an industry looks like before and after mergers became legal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depository_Institutions_Deregu...
Yeah, I get it, some founders start their startup motivated by a potential MA. And this is great for them.

However, as a customer, I absolutely hate this. Instead of finding a way to actually make the product/service self-sustainable, they just increase the number of (usually) free users. But once they sell, normally the new owner either shuts the service down or turns it into crap.
I build scrapers with rust, and use servo
> Seems like if you've only come up with patent trolls

I'm not sure how valuable it is to argue with someone who cannot read two messages up in the message hierarchy...
> It certainly isn't good for Adobe

It is good for Adobe: they'll be forced to make their products better.

...I hope!
I understand it to be wordplay on "no means no", a well-known anti-rape slogan. In repurposing the lingo to be a statement about venture capitalism, there is a lack of respect for the need for such a slogan.

I think men a tendency to trivialize that message because it scares us a bit. It's a message of rejection and shame so it's uncomfortable and we naturally to want to twist it around until it isn't threatening anymore.
I think the idea is to profit off the generation of it, not the output works themselves.
If a customer support is willing to recommend other car brands, that actually increases the trust in my view.
Ummm. This seems like a huge overreaction. Do you think the founder of Figma -- which is still worth $B's, making him obscenely wealthy 'on paper' (but 'on paper' in a way that most wealth is counted) -- plus, he likely sold enough via secondaries during the later rounds to be set for life -- is bemoaning his career path?

Furthermore, there's something like 20k M&A deals / yr completed in North America alone, the majority that are still life-changing wealth creation events for the founders.

So don't despair - 1 problematic anti-competitive M&A deal blocked by the government does not signal the end of entrepreneurship in the US.
The Chinese have done stuff like this for years.

If your immediate reaction to that is "no but actually they just want to substitute American propaganda for their own" then youre closer to understanding the EU motives than you realize.
Updating PE file imports on process start
Babak Sadighi, David Brossard on 20 years of access control and authorization
My favorite is what I call the “design to disappointment” flow. “Design your new BMW here!” You put in all features you want, it generates a configuration, and then you put in your zip code so it can tell you “Oops! That configuration isn’t available, give us your contact information so we can have a dealership tell you what they have in stock.”
Writing for Somebody
Unfortunately, you do pay a fairly large price for bytebuffers, even off-heap ones.

I saw a pretty jawdropping speedup moving from bytebuffers to the new foreign memory stuff with in the marginalia search index code. Most operations run about 50-100% faster, even discounting the rigmarole needed to deal with mmapping >2 GB files. Haven't dug too deep into why this is so I'm not entirely sure why, may have something to do with being able to declare non-shared memory ranges in the arena allocator, saves a bunch of synchronization maybe?

I can't wait for this stuff to leave experimental. It's such a quality of life boon for dealing with off-heap memory, having explicit lifecycle control is.
I hope they have big bank... Then again it would also be funny if bank crashed because someone was forced to transfer 1 billion.
I agree to be honest, I do find it refreshing too that they're both Willing to part ways instead of trying to manipulate the system. I don't think this could just customers but even the companies themselves I don't see a loss.