skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The faux-open models mean the models can't be used in competing products. The open code base means enthusiasts and amateurs and other people hack on Meta projects and contribute improvements.

They get free R&D and suppress competition, while looking like they have principles. Yann is clueless about open source principles, or the models would have been Apache or some other comparably open license. It's all ruthless corporate strategy, regardless of the mouth noises coming out of various meta employees.
> having customers complain about a UX is not the end of the world and nobody needs to be scolded about it

Sometimes that's true. Sometimes it isn't, and the bad UX is the seed that leads to a terrible destructive management overreaction.

Should an engineer be able to tell the difference? In some companies, I think that's a reasonable expectation, but in other companies, engineers are cordoned off and told what to do.

I'm reading the same article that others are, so I don't know. But I do see a lot of engineers get surprised in a way that could be prevented by just a bit of proactive thinking.
The government then seized all the McDonald's and reopened them. Apparently the food quality got slightly better too.
It seems like you are in favor of something that requires coordination, but don't believe in coordination. Is there a different way you think this could be achieved?
> we could 10x meat production

Isn't most corn fed to animals in factory farms?
Are they relatively new cars? I can't imagine doing this unless I had junkers. I know people driving Civics from 2010 that have no problems.
Because video is a terrible use for a headset, especially feature-length movies or TV series. I'll bet the number of people willing to watch for that long with a brick strapped to their face, unable to comfortably drink or eat, is extremely low. Netflix is probably seeing this app used for a couple minutes before consumers realize it sucks and go back to some real VR experiences, or resume on the TV. No wonder they're not launching on apple vision.
> just be respectful

IDK if littering wrecks is more respectful than putting them in a museum.
Celebrated in The Guardian:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/29/dr-strangelove-...
Thanks for the feedback and taking the time to look at it

Yeah, I really need better design and art direction. Those are skills I don’t have, so I’ll need to get help somehow.

By design, are you mostly referring to the UX. Like it’s confusing to add exercises? Or do you mean, you were expecting high quality images of people working out for the app screenshots and more graphics within the apps?
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Everyone has their opinions. There are so many opinions out there, it isn’t really clear what to do with them. Put them out there, fine, now everybody else just has to decide if they care.

One way to tell if you should care about an opinion is to check and see if the person professing it has taken any concrete actions toward getting the world to align with it.
This misses the point. The regulatory agencies have already applied the law. However, there are options to appeal these decisions, and companies choosing not to do so says something.

Furthermore, it is just common sense. If you signed a purchase contract for $1.5 Billion, and it is now worth $0.5 billion, no rational actor would want that deal to go through.
Over 20 years ago, at my first job, a co-worker told me that the evening before, he got a phone call from their best friend who phoned him in shock and told him they just survived a plane crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossair_Flight_3597
This is an example of where coming to the comments first saves you a click - this is just price controls packaged differently. Price controls not working is about as consensus a view as you can get in economics. In their example, you don't get cheaper Pepsi, you don't get Pepsi at all.

Hilariously, they mention price and wage controls during WWII as an example of it working! I think that's up for debate to put it mildly. One famous thing that came out of wage freezes at that time was health insurance provided by employers. Had to attract talent somehow and salaries were capped.

More broadly, I don't believe humans have the capacity to foresee second and third order effects of policies like these which is what makes them so dangerous.
I look at this as optimizing money, time, quality & enjoyment. The "enjoyment" part is an important component.

I hate doing some tasks, and even if they cost more/save me little time, I would still outsource them. For example, I don't like cleaning the house or doing laundry.
Making slides look good - I cannot do well or I don't enjoy it, so that would be in the quality/enjoyment category of outsourcing.
Some tasks that I enjoy doing or I don't mind doing - and it provides me with a switch in my "work activity" - I would do. Like, I don't mind washing dishes or doing minor home repairs. So, I would do those things and use them as 'rest' from other activities that require thinking, coding, etc.
True, however I don't know how well versed the author is. Back in my late teens when I was deep into 3D graphics and ray tracing, I knew a lot about that specific math but not much beyond it. To me, "transform" was crystal clear to mean some kind of linear transform, and I hadn't yet learned of the more general operator notion[1].

So I can see myself writing something similar thinking it was clear.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator_(mathematics)
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> I wasn't arguing that; my point was just that NAT won't stop any inbound connection, and if your inbound connections are being stopped by something... then the something isn't NAT.

NAT _will_ stop inbound connections in practice, unless you control the ISP. So in practice NAT provides more than enough security for typical SOHO users.

> Sure. Since I'm using RFC1918 on the inside you'll need to be on my immediate upstream segment to test this

Exactly. Which means that you need (in practice) to control the ISP for this attack to work.
If they hadn't opened the models the llama series would just be a few sub-GPT4 models. Opening the models has created a wealth of development that has built upon those models.

Alone, it was unlikely they would become a major player in a field that might be massively important. With a large community building upon their base they have a chance to influence the direction of development and possibly prevent a proprietary monopoly in the hands of another company.
If it were a feasible to raise the Titanic as a small aircraft, it would have been done.
We have a ban on gambling for minors, so if you see social media as more harmful than gambling (personally, I do) it probably makes sense.
I'm in Southern California and do most of my day-to-day shopping at Trader Joes and even I agree. Even with a diet that is really heavy on the expensive stuff like steak and avocados.

The most expensive beef I buy is prime top sirloin steaks at costco for $9-10/lb and ribeye roasts (that I cut up into steaks) at the local halaal market are $8/lb or less. Tenderloins for kebabs and filet mignon is $6-8/lb at Ranch 99 or Shun Fat. The most expensive chicken I get is Costco tenderloins for chicken tenders that sometimes rise to $7/lb but otherwise chicken breast is $3.5/lb or less. The oxtails and neckbone for good beef stock are more expensive than most of the meat I usually eat!

I suspect I'm just really privileged and don't know the meaning of a food desert. The number of ethnic grocery stores here in SoCal guarantees that it's easy to find a cheap source for every ingredient imaginable. The key is to shop there and not at the big names like Safeway, Vons, Ralphs, Albertsons, etc.
Loggers hired humans to haul 200-400lbs packs over rough ground that horses could not handle. Those humans were able to go all day with that much weight. If you have the proper way to carry it (on your head not your back!) humans use surprisingly little energy to move heavy loads. It is hard work though. Overall a horse can move more mass in a day if that is the goal, but humans are probably more economical just because humans eat so much less than a horse. (it wears on the body though)
Interesting take, I’ve been buying 25 year old Hondas as we can still get parts and they are cheap as hell to race.
https://archive.ph/7wPJ7
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Rear drum brakes are actually very effective. Definitely just as safe as alternatives, they are less prone to brake fade so I'd choose them in the mountains.

From the Google:

"Drum brakes can provide more braking force than an equal diameter disc brake. Drum brakes last longer because drum brakes have increased friction contact area than a disc. Drum brakes are cheaper to manufacture than disc brakes. Rear drum brakes generate lower heat."
Depends. It depends on who believes them, and what decisions those people make.

I realize that most folks don't have four decades' worth of experience, dealing with hardened criminals, con artists, and generally delusional people, to firm up their personal boundaries.

I've found that a good start, is not to do things like apply emotionally-charged labels to the folks doing this. If they are dangerous, or present a risk, they may be sanctioned, imprisoned, whatever.

But I have found, in my experience, that offering kindness, where none is expected, is often key to helping folks turn things around.

As I said, many of these people are living in their own personal hell, where they hate themselves, and the world around them, and that tends to set up a reinforcement feedback loop.
It absolutely did for smoking and drunk driving.
Not sure it's preferable to hire people at fb salaries to maintain a link shortener than just to use a reputable free one?
> I presume it's not much different in other countries, although gang on gang violence may distort the picture a bit.

If you count all homicides i would expect women to usually be the minority in most countries due to gang crime as you say. In france its the reverse, 67% of all murder victims are men. The data looks similar in the US.

In the french statistics certain crimes affect mostly women and other mostly men. 97% gang related deaths are men while 66% of intra-family deaths are women.

Germany:
https://www.bka.de/DE/AktuelleInformationen/StatistikenLageb...

France:
https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/5763555?sommaire=576363...

US:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/01/10/1066500/roomba-i...

> Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook [...] Robot would share test users’ data in a sprawling, global data supply chain, where everything (and every person) captured by the devices’ front-facing cameras could be seen, and perhaps annotated, by low-paid contractors outside the United States who could screenshot and share images at their will. [...] These workers then shared at least 15 images—including shots of a minor and of a woman sitting on the toilet—to social media groups where they gathered to talk shop.

To be fair, when the photo of a woman taking a shit was shared on facebook, her face was blurred.

Once something is online there's also the (less important but perhaps more likely) risk they'll send software updates that remove features, add adverts, force you to set up an account, and other nonsense like that.
If you’re charging constantly at stations and not your house, maybe.

Otherwise it’s like running your dryer. So just FUD.
Maybe your primary interesting in VR isnt gaming.
Has attitude thrusters, but they might be worried about it ending up in a worse position.
The next car I buy will almost certainly be from the 1980s if I can manage it.

Specifically, a first-gen Nissan 300ZX.

Partly, this is driven by personal interest in that particular car. However, I also see that there is still a healthy network of support for cars from before 2010. There are disadvantages besides the price to buying a newer car.
As always, the devil is in the details.

Larger companies can get better deals from their suppliers. It can be a nice alternative to bankruptcy for a company which is unprofitable on its own. It would allow for integrations which would be all but impossible with separate companies.

Of course in practice it rarely works out like that. Megacorps usually do acquisitions to get rid of competition or to obtain technology. The smaller company is almost always completely gutted within a few years, to the detriment of their original customer base.
Mistakenly published password exposed Mercedes-Benz source code
Europe outdoes basically everywhere on the planet on those things outside the US and China, and outdoes them in several fields too.
My cousin's 12th birthday, but OP probably meant the USA Bicentennial.
Thanks for the comment! By socially unpleasant - like toxic personalities? Where did you see it, GitHub or Discord? From the maintainer(s) or the other contributors / users?
I love the key change button. What would make this a truly awesome DJ tool is if you could go BACK to some arbitrary pattern, rather than only going forward. Am I missing a button/option for that?
Looks like a good idea, my only gripe is the base plan is too expensive for MVP products that are not earning anything yet.
Then why should this happen?

> If the community can organise a regular budget to pay for such devs, then you’d see a significant rendered snd toolkit updates. Same with other open source apps.
I do like my tech device ecosystems working seamlessly.

What's nice about each of the Apple, Google, and Amazon ecosystems is that the devices all work seamlessly within the ecosystem. This is much harder to do across companies.

Take for example, Beats headphones integrate seamlessly with the iPhone, MacBook Pro, and AppleTV.

Or Nest integrating with Google Home

Or Ring integrating with Amazon Echo.

There are tradeoffs to be made that benefit the consumer.
Is yet another company getting hoovered up by Amazon better for society than it going out of business? Honestly I don't know that's as obvious as you're making it sound. Hyper consolidation is arguably the biggest economic issue facing developed economies right now.

IMO there's no valid reason to allow a company the size of Amazon to make acquisitions, and instead the conversation should be about urgently trying to break Amazon up.
If a business cannot survive without an acquisition, then that business should not survive. An acquisition should be an avenue for success for the owners, but it should never be the endgame of a business (in my opinion).

Also, I bet $20 Amazon would have laid off a sizable portion of the iRobot workforce anyway just like Activision/Blizzard and Microsoft.
Because there's little to be gained save morbid curiosity. She did amazing things alive, celebrate that. Putting a wreck in a museum will emphasize her death.

Enjoy disagreeing...
They don't even turn up for burglaries, so I don't think someone is going to get their collar felt for watching a dodgy stream of Strickland/DuPlessis on their laptop.
Swiss startup raises $23M to build nuclear power plant based on thorium fission
No, I do not mean anything different from what I said: there is a correlation between appearance and intelligence, not perfect correspondence. The _data_ in social sciences in _unreliable_, because it is often _heavily_ _politicized_, no one wants to end up being a pariah as the authors of "The Bell Curve" had become.

Fiction authors across all cultures, ideologies and epochs, reliably underscore same facial features as the sign of intelligence; if this was entirely uncorrelated with the reality, this notion would not survive many thousands years.
You can probably tell roughly number (and size) of sofa, chairs, tables, shelving units in each unit. Amount of carpet vs floor space. Total floor space.

That lets you build a dataset of these numbers correlated with all the other things Amazon knows about you. Then target you for ads.

Maybe, it notices that your coffee table is smaller than average than other similar people/apartments. They also know you have previously bought dark colored fake wood furniture before. So they advertise dark colored coffee tables to you, in the price range you would be able to afford.
I agree with you that one needs dedicated study. I just don’t think Anki card is necessary — it’s great if it works for you, of course. The repetition comes from tons of reading, writing, and listening, and speaking, all intense and dedicated.

Essentially, I’m advocating learning like natives. There is an interesting contrast too: Chinese schools used to teach Chinese kids English with an emphasis on mechanical repetition: grammars, memorizing words with Anki-like mechanisms, and etc. The result? Generations of students knew no more than 4000 words after 10 years of learning English, let alone writing or speaking fluently. In the past 20 years or so, though, their elite schools changed course, trying to teach their kids English like teaching them Chinese. The result has been astonishing. For the first time, a generation of Chinese students in even elementary school can use English fluently.

I’m also speaking from my own experience: I’m fluent in English, Chinese. Can read novels like Project Hail Mary in Spanish, and N3 in Japanese. I can attest that remembering words has never been a problem with intensive reading. The repetition in reading is just so contextual, natural, and more frequent than using Anki card. Listening and speaking can be a problem precisely because I don’t do them often enough.
AI puts pressure on search, cutting into google's ad revenue. Meta's properties are less immune to pressure from AI.
Really funny story, it's hilarious that your ISP had a polite letter about this whole deal centuries ago. Where did ISP's go wrong?
This sounds like a good topic for an HN submission! what's the best article about it?
My utilities are pretty reliable, and they're all price controlled. My grocery store has milk in stock all the time, and it's because of price controls on milk.
The answers to these questions are at the links posted in a sibling comment a couple of hours ago.
Creates overhead and more bureaucracy.
Great Chrome feature! For those who haven't seen it, it also includes copy as PowerShell, fetch, and Node.js commands.
I have a feeling people will really demand local only for AI.

I’m not sure why the demand never materialized for other highly personal services like search, photos, medical, etc.

But I just have this hunch we all really want it for AI.
IME it's Fedora because it's still RHEL's upstream so they dedicate engineering time to actually fix stuff
> some of the apps like VS Code claim to be from microsoft, but are... unofficial?

Unless they have a verified checkmark next to the company/owner of the project it will be a 3rd party package of it. The name is mainly intended as a "This is from X" instead of "This is packaged by X" (unless you actually see the verified badge)
Isn't that the "business" model behind Thunderbird? Seems to have served them well, so far. But it's not clear how well that translates to less notable products or less visible library components...
Square Enix shouldn't have sold Deus Ex IP.
That's just morbid curiosity...
Personality Inference via Mobile Phone Sensors: A Machine Learning Approach
I was using the RSS feeds, but some time after I added my comment, this appeared:

> Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds are gone

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39179446

So besides the occasional forwarded link posted by someone else, one would have to browse YT (or search via a search engine) to find links to download.
> nationalization of the supply chain for food

Historically, that doesn't work out so well.
The 'no time to cook' stuff is also plainly false because of handy inventions like pressure cookers. Spend 10 minutes prepping the ingredients, toss them in, do whatever, when you're ready to eat - the food's ready to go. And it's not like roughing it or whatever - you can make some hella delicious meals with precious cookers, and you can get a reasonable one for about a day of minimum wage work.
If you want to do spreadsheets in VR then that's your prerogative, but it's still not accurate to say the AVP is a more premium substitute for the Quest in general.
> If the USA withdrew from this, farmers would likely switch away from corn. Within a few years we could 10x meat production. Large open pastures producing grass fed meats would be a far better choice.

First, you can't convert all current farm plots owned by independent farmers into contiguous grazing land, and second, animals need tons of vegetable nutrition. Lots of that corn is already diverted to animal feed - grasslands aren't going to be more productive for animal calories than engineered corn. That's why we actually need to be decreasing meat production - it's incredibly wasteful.

If you believe we could 10x meat production by replacing corn (which... we can't), we could just 200x vegetable production instead. Obviously that makes no sense to replace vegetables with vegetables on the same land and get orders of magnitude more crops.

The conclusions you should be drawing is that we should stop subsidizing corn for HFCS as an unhealthy high-calorie filler and instead subsidize nutritious vegetables like legumes.
I'd stop short of claiming it works "great," but it is indeed usable and I'd second this recommendation if you're forced to use Teams. The "app" is just electron anyway.
I wonder if it has something to do with Microsoft
Yikes. More than likely this was intentional planning by the attacker.
Roombas are a joke. My house is one floor. Engineered flat hardwood. A few low pile flag rugs. The best model Roomba just EATS them on the corners, dragging them around the room, getting stuck and causing chaos. It's 2024. We all don't live in carpeted 70s.
Farrell's used to provide free ice cream on "your" "birthday". At some point the US Selective Service purchased their birthday list to harvest new male 18-year olds, and (at least according to urban legend) promptly discovered that many a Seymour Butz or Phillip Michael Hunt who "just turned" 18 had never in fact existed.
Was going to downvote for unhelpful snark until I realized who this was.
This is a patch file from the repo that you listed. Does it not remove the problematic hard-coded URLs?

https://codeberg.org/librewolf/source/src/branch/main/patche...
You can't make a modern looking car! You have to make a car based on the Model T that's the only one in the public domain!
I don't know enough about the subject but I'm happy to learn! Right now it seems they're not benefitting at all, since a significant number of people are just pirating their content.

It seems like ideally you'd have a bunch of rights owners organize to create a single distributor that caters to viewer's desires. Maybe provide a seasonal pass to watch every game of your favorite team regardless of where they're playing? My understanding is that some sports require you to buy subscriptions with multiple different services if you want to follow your favorite team. This is obviously regarded as more favorable by the rights holder since they think they'll be able to get more money if people subscribe to their service rather than partnering with a different organization.

I don't know if this is applicable to the domain of sports, but in other industries sometimes there are local distributors which were relevant in the era of PPV or TV, but which have largely become obsolete in the modern era. Usually these entities become middle-men that just happened to keep owning the rights to media distribution, but which no longer do anything to provide value.
They are already the thought police. Try standing silently praying (not that anyone could tell from looking at you) near an abortion clinic.
They are consuming nicotine, and tobacco companies are invested in / are the companies producing products in that space. It seems functionally to be the same.