skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every time I see someone criticize US banking it's based on the assumption that poor people are too stupid to understand that interest is charged on loans or that withdrawing money you don't have incurs a fee.

Not stupid, just busy and desperate. And, sure, perhaps less intelligent than the people who are paid vast amounts of money to come up with marketing that's optimized to deceive them, while remaining just "technically honest" enough to avoid catching out too many members of the PMC who might kick up a fuss.

Do US banks still process each day's transactions in largest-first order, so that they get to charge as many insufficient funds fees as possible? (While mouthing the excuse that it's for the customer's benefit, so that their more important transactions like rent are more likely to clear, and in any case it was disclosed in the small print so there's no grounds to complain). That's the kind of thing that's illegal in any other industrialised country, and IMO reasonable to call a grift.
Nice! I literally yesterday started writing wasm support for a Rust project of mine, so this is very topical to me :) I got a hacky PoC running but it definitely needs some design work…
> We should discuss the points on their merits, not based on who's making them and how much money they have.

Its not based on how much money they have. Its how they've managed to accumulate the money - by gouging devs.
Does the 2004 Toyota Tacoma have fuel injection or ABS (Anti-lock braking system)? If yes, neither are simple. And, can you provide some specific examples that demonstrate 2024 model is substantially more complex than 2004 model?
All simulations of nature are grotesque approximations. Butterfly effect is real and it makes a mockery of complex models.
That alien intelligence is communicating with us through a lossy interface.

It's quite possible it's much smarter than us, but hamstrung, for now.
people and companies are copying copyrighted content when they're using datasets that contain copyrighted content (which also repackage and distribute copyrighted content - not just as links but as actual works/images too), download linked copyrighted content, and store that copyrighted content. plenty of copies created and stored, it seems to me.

and like, what, do you think they're trying their damnedest to keep datasets clean and to not store any images in the process? how do you think they retrain on datasets over and over? it's really simple - by storing terabytes of copyrighted content. for ease of use, of course - why download something over and over, if you can just download it and keep it. and if they really wanted to steer clear of copyright infringement, if there's truly "no good solution" (which is bullshit for compute, oh, they can compute everything but not that part) - why can't they just refrain from recklessly scraping everything, if something were to just 'slip in'? like, if you know it's kinda bad, just don't do the thing, right? well, maybe copyright infringement is just acceptable to them. if not the actual goal.

what they generate is kinda irrelevant - there's plenty of copyright infringement happening even before any training were to be done. assembling of datasets and bad datasets containing copyrighted content are the start and the core of the copyright problems.

there's a really banal thing at the core of this, and it's just a multi-TB storage filled with pirated works.
Why not merely raise prices if the cut Apple takes bothers you so much?
I can chime in here:

For me, it was a combination of things, here's the order I've tried:
1. Lift weights 2-3 times a week.
2. Avoid caffeine after 10:00am.
3. Stop eating like an idiot.
4. Go to the doctor and get blood work done. Turns out my hormones were all screwy. I had to get three different opinions before I found a doctor who gave me more info than "go to sleep sooner" and actually gave me some vitamins and hormone pills that helped a lot.
5. Therapy (CBT). It took me going to 3-4 therapists before I found one that jived with me.

For some people you just need to do step 1 or 2. For me it took all five. My biggest lesson is that doctors are just people to who are trying their best. Don't be afraid to see more than one or push them if you're not getting results. They can only help you as much as the feedback you give them.

It was totally worth doing all this though.
The robot automatically adds line numbers in increments of 10s.
Around five years ago when trying to adjust medications for a chronic condition I dropped CBD from the cannabis I was using and was using a strong dose of THC only for a few weeks every night.

Which threw me into a schizo affective episode.

It was really crazy, in all senses of the word.

Coming out of it, I learned a number of things (including the research around the surprising effectiveness of CBD at not only mitigating the psychosis that can occur with THC consumption, but even with schizophrenia itself).

One of the lessons that most stuck with me was just how terrible it was to feel disconnected from reality and to not be able to trust my own brain, something I'd relied on for decades.

I've been very physically ill at points in life, but those few weeks until my brain chemistry normalized again were probably my lowest point ever. I was left with a newfound respect and sympathy for people who must go through life with that always and not just as a temporary burden.

And even in that short period, as the author describes there was quickly a balancing act to the psychosis. I pictured it as a series of multi-axis sliders where as my brain would wander more towards delusions of grandeur so too came delusions of paranoia (if you're important, then you are important enough to persecute - if you aren't important, then paranoia is more easily dismissed). There's a zen quality to managing a brain that varies and wanders far outside the boundaries of the norm. Though it can only be controlled or reasoned with to a moderate degree and ends up largely a practice of staying on the board riding the wave than dictating the ebb and flow of the sea.

I was very grateful when it subsided and I was able to identify the culprit, and my heart goes out to the people who don't have an off switch to toggle. 0/5 stars - would not recommend.
I think being presented with these options on every line of text is the crud. It’s exhausting and cluttered.
>Seems lazy to differentiate between types of intelligence without providing any substance as to why you believe one type is more worthy of learning than another and criticizing others for the same laziness

Seems lazy to call a genAI model "intelligence" without providing any substance as to why one should believe that, but OK.

The model isn't an "intelligence" because it's not making a choice about which data you train on and be "inspired by", as people here say.

The humans that operate those models do. It's those humans that are exploiting the artists.

The AI, as many have said here, is just a tool.

Funny how it's "just a tool" when a human uses it to create art, but it's "intelligence" that gets "inspired" by art when a human uses it to create a software product.
Defense of another isn't defense now? In what universe?
Therefore a monopoly, by design at every level.
Ok, this is probably a dumb question: I get that the code traces the rays for this scene, obviously — but where is the scene, then? That is, where is the “data” (as opposed to the algorithm) that says “there’s a sphere at coordinates x,y,z with radius r, and here’s the other one, and here’s the checkerboard plane”?
Show HN: A universal SDK manager like asdf-VM, but Windows-compatible
It boasts a higher efficiency than asdf-vm. I warmly invite you to experience it and share your feedback.
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The iOS vs Android flamewar has a clear winner on hn
> There's such thing as consent.

When you release something into the world, you have to accept that things beyond your control will engage with it. When you walk outside, down the street, you consent to being in public, and being recorded by video cameras, whether you like it or not. Even if a new 3D camera you don't know about exists and is recording you in ways you don't understand.

And in the same way, when you release something on the internet, it is there essentially forever. If you imagine that you get a "do-over" when the world changes in ways you didn't anticipate -- you're wrong. Nobody should feel entitled to such a reset.

> And that human is the one that is ripping the artist off.

Nobody is being ripped off.

> The AI, as many people said, is just a tool

People said the same thing about slaves. They aren't real people, worthy of rights. They were compared to animals, the same way you compared AI to a photocopier. Someday, this human self-obsession and self-importance against silicon based lives, will be seen in the same light, and artificial intelligences will be granted personhood. We should start protecting their rights in law today. Please don't be a bigot.
Fortnite was previously on iOS, at least until the events and lawsuit referenced in the main link. It’s kinda literally the entire point of the legal battle.
Musk last year:

>OpenAI was created as an open source (which is why I named it “Open” AI), non-profit company to serve as a counterweight to Google, but now it has become a closed source, maximum-profit company effectively controlled by Microsoft. Not what I intended at all.

It's quite impressive how quickly it's morphed from do good non profit to part of the military industrial complex.
People definitely care about it. Just because you don't does not give you the right to be condescending.
> between supporting a coup covertly through the CIA, by providing weapons and training,

Oh, and where did this happen?
Propaganda. DoD already uses hollywood for propaganda: say nice things about Uncle Sam, let America save the day once again, and Uncle Sam will let you play with his toys. Now they have access to tool that can write very smart comments. If you think propagandists will not use SoTA LLM for propaganda, either you are fool or they are(They probably did it already anyway).

General writing. Want to implement a new rule? Ask GPT to reword it so even idiots can understand. Ask if it contradicts existing rules(they should have similar systems already, but GPT is smart).

Combination of above. "I want to develop a gas chamber. How do I announce it to the public so it looks like I am doing humanity a favor?"

Possible reaction. "I developed a gas chamber and announced it as 'Overpopulation relocation centers'. How will democrats/republicans will react to it?"

Targeted writing. "I developed a gas chamber and announced it as 'Overpopulation relocation centers'. It seems democrats/republicans don't like it. How do I reword it so they do like it?"

Deep fakes, image. "Terrorist Terro Rist wants Inno Cent to be dead. Create an image of Inno Cent with a bullet hole in his forehead so Terro will go celebrate a victory and we'll shoot him for real, here's a photo"

Faking text. "Here's writings of Terro Rist. Write 'meet me at 7:00 at central square in his style, keep using his punctuation, do the same grammar errors, etc"

Useless Voodoo GPT is not Good For but Still Will Be Used Because They Have Access to It. "Here is a photo of Inno Cent who was shot dead. What gun could have been used?"

Spying. "We want to see all requests coming from China or Russia paired with IP", "All requests with words 'President' and 'Murder' should be forwarded to this email at once", etc

They will find several uses.
Nope. And they’re not detecting the client but going by usage patterns.
For it to be illegal it has to involve an agreement between competitors. It doesn’t have to be in writing, but it does require communication.

Setting the price the same as your competitors is not price fixing.
and now you have a system where the nonprofit board (hilarious) is completely incapable of policing the executives, let alone the employees
It's understandable they don't want to pay the mafia.
The original post suggested to build more passenger rails to reduce burden upon freight rails. Does Singapore move any freight by rail?

Also, the original post wrote:

> the US built it's current freight network in a comparatively low tech era, yet I doubt it could do it again in the current era due to funding and beauracracy.

My reply was specific to that. Saying: The original post says little because _no_ highly industrialised nation could build a freight network from scratch given current land and noise constraints.
For HNers and CompSci people, optics is a notoriously difficult field and much more frustrating.

If you break up the Nobel Prizes a bit differently, then the filed of Optics becomes the most dominant. So very many breakthroughs in science are because of some new optics method. Mostly in the bio/chem fields, it's about gaining a new form of 'contrast' (very broadly defined).

People have spent decades trying to align some little crystal just the right way. Or they did it in their living room with cardboard in a weekend. It's a frustrating field.

One fun thing to remember about lenses are that they aren't really light bending thingys, but more accurately a lens is a Fourier transformer. Of a sort. Again, optics s frustrating.

One fun thing for the more matrix-ly minded are Mueller Matrices. Most modern optics SW is based on this calculus, though it goes a lot further nowadays. Also, most developments in optics are all about the little exceptions that Mueller matrices have.

Still, a good little thing to read about, if interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_calculus
Sounds like you have your priorities straight? Do what makes you happy and to hell with everyone (and everything) else.

You don't need to sound interesting or have things to talk about. If you're finding you are not "happy" with what you have, that's another discussion.
The boss of Fujitsu in Japan had gone to talk to the UK ambassador and threatened that the UK branch would close down if Horizon wasn't quickly accepted (despite being a train wreck and everybody involved being aware of it).

The UK government bent over to "save jobs".

It's a story of widespread corruption and it seems most people will get away with it by claiming stuff like "I was told to trust the system, I had no reason not to" when their job was to talk to desperate people whose money kept disappearing and they kept to tell them "pay up or go to jail".

A top manager returned 1400£ of his huge bonus so the conscience is clean.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jf7j
Freight is noisy in the US for two reasons: (1) much heavier than trucks on poorly maintained tracks and (2) required horn blaring for safety at road crossings.
SPY until I had a year's worth of salary invested. From there, I had more "personal" personal finance questions (How do I treat these company stock options? How do I deal with obscure SPAC IPO while I live abroad in Asia?), so I got a real-life financial advisor person.

Honestly, was definitely worth it. Even though his fee is 1%, which all the personal finance YouTubers say is high, he's saved me over 100k with a few very key financial decisions where I almost shot myself in the face by accident.
> ALOHA + RT-X is a great combo to collect a lot of somewhat uniform data to enable such a breakthrough.

Collecting data will not enable anything. Google, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and others are doing it since 10 years and no "breakthrough" in sight.
China is also way ahead of the US in all the same stuff
Love it! Always wanted to build something like this. Glad you made it first though!

Drop your Twitter in your profile. Would love to give you a follow :)
I'm a non-US citizen Canadian living in Taiwan. These are available, you just need to jump through a bit more hoops.
It is true that multivitamins are mostly bunk, and it has a lot to do with the absorption and metabolism of the substances as they are presented in tablet/capsule form. There is significant controversy over whether "natural" or food-based vitamins, or synthetic types, are better, as well.

I try to take supplements as separately as possible. I do have a B-complex, which is typical, but I don't go in for multis, or "proprietary formulations" or special mixes for "men 40+" or a particular type of health issue.

As a result, I do end up with about 10 bottles and a lot of supplements to take throughout the day. I have them mostly divided into morning, midday, and evening batches. It's admittedly a lot to manage, but I feel good about it--a lot better than the drugs that used to be deceptively forced on me!
how did you even acquire this graph?
There are multiple vendors, but the big one that I am aware of is called KORA. It was used in planning the counter-attack in Ukraine and you can find numerous references to it, such as in this [1] article. But this and classical war-gaming and very related. The entire point of war-gaming (beyond training) is to try to predict the outcome of a conflict.

[1] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/04/ukraine-nato...
Minamata: Dancing Cats Disease
Minamata Disease was brought in attention in 2020 from a Hollywood star, Johnny Deep where he plays the role of the American photographer W. Eugene Smith, who was famous for his numerous "photographic essays".

In the mid-1950s, the villagers started to notice their cats behaving strangely—specifically, falling into the sea. Some people even believed the cats had begun to dance, while others thought it was an act of suicide. However, this 'dancing cat fever' wasn't demonic possession. It was a case of environmental poisoning. At the time, people consumed fish that had been contaminated by large quantities of mercury compounds discharged into Minamata Bay by a chemical factory. Minamata Disease is a type of methylmercury poisoning that leads to neurological symptoms. The condition develops after a person consumes heavily contaminated seafood regularly.
Don't many apps use their own in app browser and not Safari?

https://krausefx.com/blog/announcing-inappbrowsercom-see-wha...

I always thought that a company should make an app those does something trivially, but also has its own in app browser as the true functionality.
sounds like nuclear proliferation?
Some good discussion of that on The BBC BASIC wiki entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_BASIC (paragraph beginning "Due to a number of optimizations[…]".
>Why do you get to run a business off it for free?

There isn't a divine commandment as to what rights we "should" have. We vote, fight, protest and get to make up our own rights.

>They spend hundreds of millions on SWE salaries to make a nice SDK for you to use. They’re also operating all the servers. Your $100 does not cover it. It’s a symbiotic relationship. At least see it and acknowledge it.

I don't feel like paying for an Apple executives BMW car payment. But you do you.
No the statement is "it's worth investing in making the UX less crap to increase productivity". Either improve SW (of it's in house crap scripts, as often), switch to more performant AV, etc. etc.

It does not have to be crap actually, I have seen companies with usable machines.

O365 on the other hand, I don't see a solution, it's horrible.
An OS without any apps is a barren asteroid. Cool for a few minutes but not a place to stay.

Apple is also benefiting from developers IP, as they enrich their value proposition.

Should Intel or AMD get a cut from any app (including Open Source) on Windows and Linux? Should MS get a cut of every app you run on Windows?

You buying the device compensates Apple IP. Commonly their marketing showcases heavily third party apps.
South Africa could learn so much from this. But won't.
> "Under what circumstances would AI art be acceptable then?"

Easy!

Under the circumstances where the artists whose art was used to train the model explicitly consented to that (without coercion), licensed their art for such use, and were fairly compensated for that.

Plenty of artists would gladly paint for AI to learn from — just like stock photographers, or clip art designers, or music sample makers.

Somehow, "paying for art" isn't an idea that has entered the minds of those who use the art.

Perhaps because it wasn't asked enough.
Indeed, you couldn't reliably free() the old pointer if the realloc(ptr, 0) failed.

But xrealloc(ptr, 0) (or equivalent) would still be perfectly consistent, assuming you trust your implementation to support non-null 0-size allocations in the first place. It's very common to just "leak it all and abort" on a critical error like memory exhaustion. There's a reason most non-C languages expose an infallible allocation API as the default option.

I do think that UB is an overly heavy hammer for realloc(ptr, 0), since the xrealloc(ptr, 0) use case works just as well regardless of how unspecified the values of the old pointer or errno are on failure.
You don't know what they're working on. If anyone can design a robot that does that, it's them, or Boston dynamics
I guess you are one of those people who thinks installing 300MiB of dependencies to save 3 lines of code is completely ok?
Ironically I think Spirit’s big front seats are the best value in the sky in terms of price and comfort, and they’re usually available if you book early enough.
There are threads pretty much daily about how evil Google is.
Unlimited searches as a real user is not the same thing as running a bot against the service.
I've spend some time imaging about the day when general purpose cooking robots are inexpensive enough to be as ubiquitous as indoor plumbing.

How would it affect peoples' diets? Would we eat more healthily because our robot can easily cook delicious and nutritious meals? Or would we have our robots make us delicious unhealthy meals?
Translated:

"now that the international law and order collapses in on itself, we realize we need that to extract value with our rentseeking behavior. Turns out instability kills us and we accelerated it directly and indirectly. We are happy to go passing our chest of worrn down IP to the public and to be used by future generations as a warning ironic example what happens, when you rely on taxes but are unwilling to pay them yourself. "

Ain't I entertaining you? Unity sepukku. It's been years since I bought anything from ubisoft.

Useless caste really wants to find out
It would have to predict the model numbers of the planes though: some newer ones I have been to (A350s) seem to have automagic dimming windows. Getting on flights with such windows is better even if you have to sit in the sun!
As a society we seem far too willing to accept and deal with companies that make surplus profit by ignoring or obfuscating the unbounded negative externalities of what they're doing (at least until legislation catches up, by which point often the consequences have become so severe as to be economically infeasible to extract reparation from the causer). Chemical pollution is one example, but we also have social media with its impacts on mental health, ad-tech, fast food, fast fashion, the list goes on and on.

It's almost like we need a threshold - if you're going to provide whatever you're providing to more than, say, a few tens or hundreds of thousands of people, you need to demonstrate that your company is insured to cover the full cost of whatever negative externalities you might cause, no matter how far in the future they might be discovered. At least then insurance companies would be incentivised to do thorough homework about the downsides and costs would be priced into the product appropriately.
It’s a symbiotic relationship

Yes, exactly. It's symbiotic because Apple needs apps to sell iPhones in the first place. Apple is already getting their cut of the symbiotic relationship by selling their massively profitable iPhone hardware, full stop. Any chance you remember the first year of the iPhone when there were no third party apps? Other than being a good phone, it was basically just a technological novelty, and that was about it. Third party apps are literally what give value to the iPhone (and other iOS devices).
What kind of drugs did you previously have forced upon you?