skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I still have no idea what the company is. (Is it an accounting consulting?) There's a post up there with the context, but I lack context for understanding most of it.

But, anyway, it's not an interesting optimization algorithm that limits all kinds of values in all kinds of ways, so I'm not digging any further either.

(And yeah, I know what capitalization tables are too. I even have had to build ingestion software for some once. That shortening of the name is really confusing, but looks like it's standard.)
"Fury" was based on (but not necessarily accurate) the Sherman tank "In the Mood"'s crew:

https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/article/american-tank-ace-...

>> Pool considered Richards one of the best tank drivers in Europe and always called him “Baby” when issuing driving instructions over the tank’s intercom. Richards was only five feet, four inches tall, but Pool bragged that Baby could “parallel park that big Sherman in downtown New York in rush hour traffic.” Bert was called “Schoolboy,” since he was just 17 years old, “still with peach fuzz on his gentle face.” Del was known as “Jailbird” since he was given the choice of the Army or prison after a manslaughter charge. Oller was known as “Groundhog” because of the stains on his face from constantly wearing tanker’s goggles. Pool stated Oller could “shoot the eyebrows off a gnat at 1500 yards.” According to his own account, Pool was called “War Daddy,” a name later used for Brad Pitt’s character in the feature film Fury.
I'm pretty sure those reports were confirmed by Raytheon as well, not that anyone involved is above lying. In any case I don't think my larger point about Russia's arms industry being a mess really turns on this point.
Those memory figures relate to parsing the linux kernel repo, so the parent's question still remains, if it matters to the rest of us?
>As good as ICBM MIRVs are and assuming a minor nuclear war is as bad as a bit one, if I had to choose to reduce capability on a tighter budget I'd make it about that.

This is what the UK did, in shrinking its nuclear forces to Trident submarines.
That applies to capitalism as well. For example, if you opt out of recognizing private property (in this case, by private property I mean things like land as opposed to personal property like someone's house or car) people with guns will come and destroy your personal property and/or throw you in jail.
Anyone could have been thrown off by that. But then I remembered that airplanes fly to and from cities, not provinces.
The statement about 1965 is not correct if you take into account dividends. The longest periods of being down (in real terms) is 1973-1985, 2000-2013, 1937-1945, 1916-1925
( https://observablehq.com/@tcgarvin/shiller-sp500 )
This gives a picture of the current rate of deployment, may not include the current year which was even more extreme. https://illuminem.b-cdn.net/articlebody/661dc49b524b0dd9f1ad...
Edit - never mind, had dates wrong.
That's a really weird argument. Copyright is a legal system created by the Constitution and statutes and administrative rules. It cares about whether you are "copying", and it cares about whether you're creating things that compete with the works of the original authors. It doesn't care about potential output spaces.

In this context, I don't see a principled difference between the model weights and really good compression. If I send you a gzipped copy of the latest bestseller book it's still copyright infringement. And it would still be infringement if I shipped it inside a software program that can _also_ reshuffle the words in a bajillion different ways, if there's a "copy" of the original work in there.
> I highly doubt Wizards of the Coast or whoever is going to want their premium products to lose copyright protections, so they'll need to keep paying artists.

WotC's latest round of layoffs (within the past month or so) hit the art staff especially hard.
We can use cap table data to help us improve the software or customer experience.

You’re right! For example in the above I interpreted it as a service they offered, not as a means of improving their own product. There were a few more instances where I misread it as a service being offered and not for internal means.

So yes, too far of a tangent. I was acting as if they were offering services meant to improve the internal processes of other companies and that cap tables have basically nothing to do with that.

As for managerial accounting, have you ever seen it in practice at a tech company? Has a manager ever tried to measure the cost of rapidly expanding a workforce? Or the cost of excessive meetings? Or the cost of poor architectural decisions? Or the cost of moving from one perfectly acceptable programming language or frame to another, more trendy option? Or the cost of having multiple programming languages across the organization?

If you read financial reportings you will consistently find internal accounting practice based completely on financial accounting. And EBITDA is a very questionable metric for financial reporting over GAAP. There’s a trade off with accounting. Is there a level of detail where it cost more than it saves? I’d say the tech industry as a whole is very far from that point. There’s basically no detail and no understanding from administration about the actual state of the business.

Berkshire Hathaway has been so successful because they don't give a shit about Wall Street projections and actually go and talk to management and walk the floors of the factory.

The tech industry relies completely on moon shots.

Massive digressions! But yes, I completely mistook parts of the article and was clearly more interested in standing on a soap box!

But I’m not wrong, either! :)
I’m intrigued and currently downloading this app. Love the idea of having offline direct access to this model. One small-ish thing though: Looks like the URL for the privacy policy (http://opusnoma.com/privacy) linked from the App Store page goes nowhere. Actually, opusnoma.com is likewise offline.
This is nonsense from a child in a bubble of privilege. His family connections got him jobs, and he has the hopeful optimism of a an upper-middle class child living in a gated community and going to private school. Of course he "found luck," it's easy to come by when you have wealth and resources backing you.

He's just repeating a bunch of woo woo self help books, calling other people losers for being members of reality, and taking credit for what his family gave him outright.
This reads like historical backlash against DnD, comic books, rock music, explicit lyrics, Somy Walkmans turning us into zombies, and the internet itself.

Very active social bubbles, yet the high minds of just a few decades ago fretted society would collapse and they’d be helpless since they’re so reliant on externalization of their real needs.

Can’t help but conclude this is less about fear of the state of the aggregate and more like personal existential dread if everyone is lost in goggles they won’t want to wipe your but in your care home years.
It is for the sake of copyright, if you want society to protect your work, provide evidence for your creative work. It seems rather simple to me.

Keep in mind that in the not so far future, producing art will be as cheap as consuming it, this means that the original benefits society got in return for copyright no longer applies, so why should they protect it?
> AI-generated images are not currently eligible for copyright

It’s a bit more nuanced than that. Here is the relevant policy statement, which notes that some AI-assisted works are potentially eligible for registration and have indeed been registered, while works that are primarily the product of an AI are not.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/16/2023-05...
Thanks, but wikipedia_en_all_nopic_2023-12.zim is still 56 GB, whereas the BZ2-compressed Wiki2Touch archives are only about 14 GB for the latest (and only 8 GB for an archive from 2012 which I'm using).
Ask HN: What network effects can a tool developed for solo use implement?
In the past, I've worked on products that have built in network mechanics. Meaning that if we were successful at onboarding 1 person, then because of their actions they'd likely invite more people. I've witnessed quick product growth as a result of such viral effects.

Now I am working on a tool that's primarily designed for solo use. It is an article generator that specializes in high-quality, factual article generation. My ICPs are indie hackers and early stage startups that need quality content but don't have full time teams working on content. I am hitting the wall thinking of how to implement some element of network effects into the product.

Here are some things I've considered:

* have a free version, but in the free-version embed links to aimd.app [pro: backlinks if works; con: anyone can just remove those links]
* allow to share drafts before publishing [pro: would expose the tool to some people; con: not enough virality]
* referral program. not really a network mechanics
* collaborative features. [pro: would increase number of people exposed to how product works; con: fairly complex problem, and cannot think of many use cases for it]

Not particularly happy with either of these.

What would you advise?
This is a horrible direction to start off. Especially given that we can't truly tell if an image is AI generated or not. What if I modify an AI generated image?

There's so many technicalities here that can be weaponized.
> you should have to produce some artifacts to back up that claim

Why would that be relevant in court? Just show the process of making the art.
If I had to vote the most important piece of Software in history, it wouldn't be Windows, MacOS or Linux.

It would be Excel.

There is a whole world of tech usage outside of Tech or Silicon Valley. It is not an exaggeration to say the world runs on Excel. Most if not all Fortune 2000 relies on it.
My old iPhone is in SOS mode after having ported its number to a new one. Perhaps, since their phone was lost, they needed a new phone, especially after having experienced what they did, and ported their number to that new phone.
If those HDF5 or .gguf or whatever file format turns out to be lossy decodable as images and texts, it shouldn't be considered kosher just like pirated and transcoded movies aren't considered lawful transformative original creations.
Do not download this.

I downloaded this on my 14 Pro and it completely locked up the system to the point where even the power button wouldn’t work. I couldn’t use my phone for about 10 minutes.
Are they randomly generated or you have a curated list? The difficulty increase too slow, but after 10 puzzles it starts to get tricky.
16,000 artists are pissed their work has been appropriated for this. The rest of the world's artists are devastated that they are not on the list.
The door can probably glide quite a bit farther, maybe?
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That's remind me of Nokia.
Maybe Apple has reached it's peak.
It might not look different but it feels different - year round weather is great

Coastal SoCal has the best weather in the world. Natural beauty in beaches & parks

LA & SF are world class cultural powerhouses. Silicon Valley is the tech capital of the world

How can it not be expensive ?
This app got through review pretty easily, especially since I flagged potentially offensive content which makes it age 12+. In comparison to social media these apps are positively angelic.
Just because something is better than an alternative doesn’t make it “good,” it just makes it less bad.
The only way to get a W10 LTSC license for a single user is through illegitimate channels. If you look on Reddit, you can usually find out how to obtain it. The ISO itself can officially be downloaded from Microsoft servers.
Yup, and even if the law decides against using copyrighted images as training data, companies such as Adobe are already ahead of the curve with generative systems like firefly which has been trained exclusively on licensed artwork.
The Castro podcast app and its website are down
It was also a nail-biting experience... you'd have to wait 20, 40, 60 minutes or more for a song to finish downloading to find out whether the mp3 was the right one or a song that someone had renamed. Many times the song had been renamed maliciously from something by a different artist and you'd have to start all over again.
The phones are trackable via gps
Photographs can be copyrighted, and all the human did was aim and press a button. Oh, and potentially travel to specific locations, adjust parameters, choose lenses, stage a scene, makeup, wardrobe, lighting, etc. etc. But none of those things are required for the image to be copyrighted
No, just age ratings
It makes perfect sense because much of the friction around generative ML models has to do with the data it was trained on. There’s not much reason to ban images generated by a model that was trained entirely on consensually gathered material.
Used an online calculator — even a meter falls takes the phone up to 10 MPH. Elsewhere in this thread 20 to 40 MPH was given as the terminal velocity of a phone. FWIW.
It’s in no way a strong claim, as the cleaning services of the New Orleans Police Department are also not police.

And it absolutely is how you, I, and every other employed organization works. You seem to not understand what a contractor is.
Steam Deck officially hits over 13,000 games Playable and Verified
Best way to use YouTube is to turn off watch history which (mercifully) nukes the feed on the main page. All that is left is search and subscriptions which is ideal.
>The cheapest phone Apple sells is actually only $429:

To the OP asking for ~€300 price range, that is ~$329 USD including Tax. For it to be ~€300 price range and including Tax. That is roughly asking for Apple to sell an Entry level phone at $270 USD. And that assuming the same exchange rate and pricing. Which we know Apple tends to charge a tiny little higher in EUR due to consumer right etc.
My nokia never needed a condom, it would vomit its battery upon hitting the ground but after a little bit of massaging, it was fine.
Can't you paste into Paint for the screenshots?
>These situations reveal the true preference toward status over accuracy: People would rather make an effort to preserve their status than to admit having made a mistake.

This is especially bad if it happens internally, with peoples self image.

I used to recommend to people to just get to grip with how big of a moron they are but this lead to all sort of other problems.
Framing it as managing expectations about ones competence for specific situations and moments and accounting for cognitive bias in the process seems to be much more palpable. With the inability of just taking the moron advice being a good example for what other difficulties you need to compensate for outside competence alone.
> I don’t see a point in spending $1500+ on a PC for diminishing returns in performance and game compatibility.

You can get a PC that can run modern games for far less than $1500; in fact, slapping a ~$200 GPU into a ~$200 office PC will get you 80% of the way there.

> It’s also common for new AAA PC releases to be much worse than their console counterparts.

The opposite is far more common from what I can tell (console versions are botched and have performance issues, f.e., Cyberpunk).

> I can cheaply buy used physical games and still have access the vast majority of the Xbox back catalog. 100% of the Xbox One library, 600+ Xbox 360 games, and 90+ Xbox games.

I can more cheaply buy digital games on Steam, have access to most of the once-Xbox-exclusive games that were inevitably ported to PC by Microsoft, and also play the thousands of PC-exclusive games. I also have access to emulators, and now, Sony is even porting their PlayStation games to PC. Also, Xbox Game Pass works on PC.

> The official Xbox Live servers for these older games are still up and maintained. It’s seamless for my non-technical friends and I to get into a COD MW2 lobby. On PC there are only community servers, and the cheaters are way more common.

I don't play Call of Duty so don't know much about that, but for most games, you will generally always have more server options and legacy game revival projects on PC.

I think the trade off makes sense if you like options. If you just want to play mainstream games like COD, consoles probably make more sense. Frankly, I'm happy that a game I bought on Steam in 2008 still works on my PC in 2024. I'm not happy that I can't play a PS3 game I bought in 2008 on my PS5.
AU drivers licenses are issued by each state, but same as the US they can be used as a national ID. And yep, they all have unique designs as well. However there is a baseline for the information they have to have on them, which is: Address, date of birth, first/middle/last name, card number, and license number.

The issue here is the license number is the one used for most verification, and that one is static. The card number changes every time the card is re-issued.

Examples of them are here: https://www.mygovid.gov.au/verifying-your-drivers-licence

A funny anecdote along the same lines:

A friend of mine recently moved from WA to NSW. If you move state, you have to apply for a new license within three to six months depending on the state. So he got a NSW license, it's a trivial process to convert your license thankfully.

He came back to WA to visit for a while, and tried to go clubbing. One bouncer read the post code from the address (like a ZIP code, only 4 digits instead) as his birth year because he had no clue what he was looking at... NSW post codes start at 2000, so you can see how this mistake could come up. WA post codes start with 6000 so there's no possible confusion there, until we reach the year 6000 at least!

Of course, the Date of Birth is still clearly labeled on every states driver licenses so this bouncer may also have been a bit daft.
Schrodinger's nuclear missiles?
They want it opt out vs opt in as they make more off ads.
Not exactly an online tournament, but watching German forklift tournaments on YouTube is oddly captivating. I paid for my office chair but I only needed the edge.
This has never happened ever in history. So many jobs were devalued by new machines. And the people doing them were never compensated.
Show HN: TEAMMATES: free tool for managing peer evaluations built by Students
Really interesting project - some SE student can dive right in
Could this obscure tax idea reshape American housing?
Interesting to know there is a company town named Hazardville.
> You don't need 3nm technology for missile systems.

> Russia is stuck at 140nm/70nm with no visible path forward but this is more than enough for this kind of application.

Latest fab processes isn't the problem I was referring to (but it could be part of it). It's the knowledge+expertise for controls systems. This could be guidance, detonation, communications, etc.

If any of those systems were imported they're now forced to either source the chips or develop it in country.

Developing it on shore is way more than a "140nm/70nm" process. You'll have to reverse engineer the current chip to communicate with all the other chips it has to communicate with. What if the chip you need to replace uses a smaller fab process? You possibly have to replace the sub-system. Well now you better hope you have the expertise to build that system AND have it work with all the other systems. How long would that take? How expensive is it just to maintain your capabilities vs before?

Again, for the few missiles, smuggling seems way better. Your ROI on black market cost for missile parts that never get used is amazing vs say a fleet of tanks.
What is the actual point you're trying to make here? The parent is right, you cannot answer those questions off the top of your head, even if you can, millions, or some obscure fraction of the population cannot.

Besides, the English invented this stuff and moved on. The Americans cling to it, but it's not some special part of the American culture which requires preserving.
safeguards. how do you imagine anything secure works at all anywhere?
I've never seen a single article about Android devices being so durable that it survived a great disaster, or saving its owner's life from polar bear or something.

I believe it's their PR plan.
A grossly misleading oversimplification.
I'm right there with you. I struggle to make sense of it, but I've found those messages useful as a counterbalance to the messaging or received from a religious upbringing, "I don't deserve any good thing," and martyrdom "real, true believers^TM will suffer. "

It's also helpful escaping the American bootstraps mentality, "hard work will bring you success," and my personal corolary, "if you're not working hard/struggling/suffering, you aren't doing enough."

The thought that success and happiness could just be available to me and that's okay and I don't need to feel shame about it is a pretty radical message that helps to counter my earlier programming.
I'm a bit confused - you draw parallels between artists whose work gets used in a training dataset and musicians who sign contracts with Spotify, but the comparison is very strained. The financial link with Spotify is obvious - the company pays some minuscule amount of money per use to directly use a product of an artist, in part for their own profit.

With AI, the situation is far from being that clear-cut. For one, the majority of datasets aren't comprised of capital-A Art with specific authors and attributions - a ton of it is just random information from around the internet, or just downright junk data. A photo I posted for free could conceivably end up in that dataset. Then, when a model is trained on that dataset and that model is used to make other outputs, are those outputs actually derivative with a direct link to some origin? If I generate a landscape using an AI, to whom exactly would I even owe money? Equally to all contributors in a dataset?
This is a great writeup and deep-dive into the conflicts of interest. Sounds like they are over-valued and simply _have_ to go into secondary markets
that description is a far cry from your original claim that it took you that much effort to get _audio_ working under linux with low latency.
The problem is "diversity" is too mealy mouthed for the specific finger they're trying to point- kids from Guatemala (or insert any other country with a high number of recent emigres) who don't speak or read English don't test well on exams with English language instructions for tautological reasons.

That's only part of the problem in blue states though, and does not explain the full discrepancy.
Many decent cases are relatively thin and don't add more than a few millimeters in my experience. It's only when you start getting into stuff like Otterboxes or similar that cases have a very chunky factor.
https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Neural-Science-Fifth-Kande...

As Jackson is to E&M, Kandel is to neuro. It's the text.
What if I use the iPad app?
Download times varied a lot. Because it was peer-to-peer, it depended on how good your partner's connection was and how close they were to you. If you got lucky and found someone on the same network (or just a really fat uplink), you could milk it by browsing their shared files list and grabbing anything that looked good. It was a nice way to discover new music!
My favorite got GUI is Fork: https://git-fork.com/ It supports drag and drop for several operations including merge, rebase, and stage/unstage (and probably more).
Worked on a product that did that cross-platform thanks to go, surprisingly simple to work with.