skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Changing the polygons wouldn’t be enough. You would need to change architecture, textures, colors, story lines, game play and any number of things that define a unique work. People work hard to build brands. If they are successful they have the money to defend them from more vectors than most can anticipate.

Everything is a moving window … Many of these questions are answered by big legal cases with lots of money behind them … Or one person that tries it, and test the reasoning against market and law. Such person will incur much risk for potential big reward. You may be interested in reading on Overton’s window. Always be aware of consequences to this type of “efficient” thinking and your intentions for doing so. If you stay within the window the legal cases to date have defined as acceptable you may be ok.

Before attempting such a heist you need to understand many moving pieces of business, law, art, and philosophy. The amount of work it takes to get away with stealing a good idea is far more than creating a new good idea. Often the spoils of “cheating” are short lived. Use your imagination for good and the rewards are long lived.
Progress Deferred: Lessons from mRNA Vaccine Development
I recall watching this series as each episode dropped, truly memorable journalism showing history in the making. Also emailed with Simon Ostrovsky years later, very nice guy.
It wasn't in this post, but it was a separate rumor that the site would be deleted. This sounds crazy, but is exactly what other digital publications have done recently.
How much is the credit card fee and debit card fee in Europe? In China, it is capped to 0.6% and could be as low as 0.3% or less I believe.
Yafgaidwwnwirw-Yet Another F**** Good AI Demo Which Will Not Work in Real World
Please share list of AI products which worked great in demos but ultimately didn't find success in the business world.

I will start:

Google Duplex.
And those tasks will emphasize the creative in the future. At one time a human computer made a ton of money. However they’re a novelty today. Mathematics and computer science are a much more creative endeavor using mechanical computers than someone who could tabulate large numbers rapidly in their head.

I do think rote learning is about to seriously take a step back in the world and the future won’t reward the ability to turn the crank nearly as much. The white collar readjustment will be realizing memorizing facts is much less valuable than understanding and synthesizing.
Don't want to hate on the author's post but the screenshots being slow to load made me chuckle, understandable as images can be big and there were a lot, but just found it a little ironic.
that earnings remain same as this quarter for a few quarters (higher revenues, lower margins ofc). forward P/E is 30-40 range, typical for tech companies.

Apple has been making a bank on iPhones, with no major leap frog in 10 years.
Nvidia could do that too, hard but not unimaginable.
Glob of epoxy putty over the camera. Simple fix. Everyone's bloviating about how "concerned" they are, but nobody can even think of a simple step to protect themselves? This is a university with smart students in it?
Here is a link to it.
https://chat.openai.com/g/g-yqd1ORCYV-step-coder
So I think the answer to your question is ‘yes*’. In the sense that the ellipse is a function of the unit ball && the matrix A. In this sense you could say that all ellipsoids are linearly-deformed spheres.

But more probably, you would consider the sphere part to be essentially your basis vectors and not terribly informative. All the information is in the matrix. The only important data is the extent along each axis, not the fact that if you set all extents to 1 it happens to be a unit sphere
I cannot for the life of me fathom what the strategy was there. Buy a website and ban the biggest traffic driver to it? Tumblr is a ghost town now compared to what it was. Everyone moved on. Lighting $5B on fire to warm your house would have been more productive than what they did.
In engineering, how seriously do you investigate a report about one unit out of ten millions, compared to one in a thousand.
Are you sure it's one person with two heads and not two sharing a body?
Likewise, some would argue that Steve Jobs was a 'hands on' CEO. It's not wrong, just different.
> CEO, you should shut up

But then people will blame you for being a faceless entity and question how useful you actually are despite not knowing a single thing about either the situation or the business.

My view? It doesn't matter what you choose, its a spectacle, give the people a show from time to time. You don't even have to be right, you just have to be entertaining.
Oh wow this unlocked an elementary school memory I haven't thought about in awhile. I used to launch rockets with one of my teachers at my school's soccer field. I remember the smell of the engines distinctly.
The old government nationalized railroads and private roads for this exact reason. When a utility becomes embedded into and it’s needed to even function in society, it needs to be nationalized.

Regulatory capture has made that near impossible now. At least crypto throws another challenger in the ring and can give people and businesses an, albeit inferior, alternative.
M’kay.
Ongoing discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39474909
>The IRS now provides free tax filing.

For federal taxes only... and with silly limitations that exist... because lobbying? And oh by the way, the IRS isn't actually offering anything, they'll refer you to third parties that will then make money off of you if you have anything beyond the most basic filing, and also if you want to file state taxes.

So no, they don't actually do that.
I love Ruff and I am so excited to see python ecosystem developers tackling some really big and core table stakes problems with python. Especially now that it is being used beyond scripting and has become foundational to lots of apps.
The problem still remains that they have a number in mind about what I owe and I'm not allowed to know it until I file. Just tell me what I owe and give me the option to approve it. The IRS provides free filing, but if your taxes are complex good luck. If you are the one who prepared them you absorb the liability when the IRS comes after you. The likes of TurboTax are still in favorable positions despite the free option now being available.
I strongly believe that "having the two fields get initialized to Environment.TickCount" is the correct fix and using unsigned arithmetic is just a workaround. If you save the time of some event in some field, you either need to initialize that field with current time, or have special processing of "value not set" everywhere it is used, otherwise you're almost guaranteed to have some hard to debug problem somewhere in the long run.
What's up with the React site?

This is embarrassing...
I will never understand the desire some web platform CEOs have to publicly argue with users. This is something you learn not to do with the tiniest modicum of power - a lesson many of my generation learned being moderators on message boards.

It never ends well and it just makes your job more frustrating - best case scenario, it makes you look like an ass. Worst case scenario, it costs you actual money.
The burden of proof should be very high if you're going to wreck someone's academic career and send them to the dean of student integrity. "Computer Says It's AI" shouldn't cut it. A good lawsuit precedent is needed to smack down these guilt-or-innocent black boxes.
Someone didn’t read the article. Also not a complete solution.
The last time I looked at Slashdot comments (2021, give or take) they were low-effort trolls, racist/sexist, or just gibberish. Has moderation improved there or is it still a cesspool?
> What kind of leader has time to bullshit like this instead of running the company?

From the article:

Matt Mullenweg, CEO ... is supposed to be on sabbatical.

To me, it sounds like the common "finds it hard to disconnect from work" problem when someone is on leave.

Hopefully he manages to disconnect properly and get some real rest/recovery happening, leaving stuff like this to others as you've mentioned. :)
Prioritising quantity over quality is how this industry will destroy itself. Software quality was already in decline even before LLMs, blind trust in tools an existing growing problem, and things like this will only make things worse.
> I definitely think some people get offended too easily

That's basically the established culture of much Tumblr since forever.

It's surprising the CEO doesn't know that and doesn't know to not overly-engage, unless there's a clear objective. Especially as corporate tech authority figure on social media, which doesn't gain you any credibility among users.

Usually you'll never win or make them happy unless you're deeply in-group in their various community subcultures and learned the elaborate dance needed for social approval (Tumblr especially). CEOs of tech companies should have more important things to do than that and delegate.

Better to be hands off as much as possible, engage from the outside or via dedicated community employees who makes it their job, and work to make the communities as lively/happy as possible without getting into the weeds with individual users.
Go Webauthn Example
My guess is they will go AI generated content. Will pull the content of the website to use and style guide for the AI and prevent anyone else from training AI on their past content. Also I wonder if the lawsuit from New York Times against OpenAI has any impact. I could see new Vice owners try the same thing if New York Times were successful. But also, OpenAI defence is that they did not train on NYT archive but content that was quoting NYT. If I remember correctly VICE had a lot of NYT content that was heavily quoted. Maybe pulling all the content saves them from getting into endless wrangles in the future.
Interesting thought. I guess in a way AI is having its "sputnik" moment now.
I’m impressed you have such knowledge. HN is an amazing place.
How can I learn and Master programming in University
I have tried to pick up because of its large community and because it can be used for both frontend and backend. But I get so busy with school that I can't find time to practice. Sometimes it's even hard to get motivated. So how can I be consistent. So to all you who learnt programming back in University
What's your story
No, poster above you had it right. You've got it backwards.

We just can't afford the extensive investment into cinematic technology (cameras, lenses, props, etc) we used to...

So now we're reduced to just actually doing it. A shame really.
It's best to be honest up front about possible risks.
The problem is, the claim should be based on data. Not having a good mechanism to explain it is not evidence for it being a mental illness. There is very little evidence supporting that it's a mental illness.

For FM, a thing that has been classified as a mental disorder as late as 2016, spinal fluid pressures may have a role [1].

Medicine is just absolutely littered with these sorts of dismissals. This is why, at any point in time, you can look back 20 years to what was "standard practice", and be shocked.

[1] https://www.healthrising.org/blog/2018/02/24/pressure-mounti...
Honest, technical, humorous; Good comment!
We have the national branches of several well-known Fortune 500 companies as customers, and they rely on our Delphi-based software for their daily operation. As in, if our software stops they can't do their primary thing.

Our software is under active development, but we're transitioning away from Delphi. Mainly due to the difficulty finding developers who want to work with it, and C# and .Net now is a much more compelling platform than it was 20 years ago.

Doesn't help that desktop-oriented applications going the way of the dodo, effectively neutering the main selling point of Delphi: its RAD capability.
> Whats worse is some of them are fetched externally rather than bundled with the host code thus increasing latency and potential security risks

Some vendor SDKs can be built and bundled from NPM, but most of them explicitly require you fetch their minified/obfuscated bundle from their CDN with a script tag. This is so they don't have to support older versions like most other software in the world, and so they can push updates without requiring customers to update their code.

Try to use vendors that distribute open-source SDKs, if you have to use vendors.
Many Americans Believe the Economy Is Rigged
For example a site that I liked called The Outline stopped publishing content in 2020 and they leave the site online at least for now https://theoutline.com/
They could even issue an official stablecoin that could interopt with other cryptocurrency ecosystems.
All these tasks you listed - what makes you think an average CEO knows how to do any of them? How do you know if the company is doing well because of the CEO or despite them?
Private Equity Has Its Eyes on Child Care
Crossing your fingers that the user forgets to cancel is never "sustainable", it's predatory.
Vice Media Group is a conglomerate with a bunch of other stuff besides the magazine/website. An ad agency [1], a tv/film studio [2], another film studio [3], etc. It seems like they’ll be keeping a lot of that too. The linked message implies they’re shutting down the ad-supported journalism part of the company and doubling down on contract work.

[1] https://www.virtueworldwide.com/

[2] https://studios.vice.com/

[3] https://www.pulsefilms.com/
Visa and Mastercard (and American Express) are international networks. How could any individual central bank provide that?
It popped into my head today why I think this is the right comparison. When you power wash a wall, you reveal the color/texture it had before it was degraded by exposure to the environment. In an analogous way to how walls grow over with ivy, moss, and grime if they aren't maintained, websites tend to fall into disuse and become parking pages. So restoring the original content feels analogous to power washing the grime off a wall and revealing the original bricks.

It's subjective though, reasonable people may disagree. If someone did what you proposed and called it reverse graffiti, I wouldn't argue the point.
I know, but I liked the docu format and you can't really tell the same stories with the budget he's operating on.

(I love the Patreon tiers.)
reposted this link becaused it was black-holed a few minutes ago
Unless I'm mistaken it's Verizon who decided to do the ban, then automattic bought it for much cheaper because it was a ghost town.
Don't get why Automattic doesn't reverse the ban though.
Mine too! Apparently it's a loose ground wire, I'm going to attempt a repair at some point.
Extending the Goal Progress Theory of Rumination: Goal Reevaluation and Growth
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281537448_Extending...
At least when they’re public someone can buy a few shares to get standing and file a securities civil suit to attempt to rein it in.
What is the correct quantity of "senior" furniture craftsmen? How do we know there is a shortage? Unless there has been enormous wage inflation in the past few years then I am skeptical of any shortage claims.
Memory is part of compute. I have no idea why you've separated them.

>How exactly are you going to find enough data to feed these monstrous petabyte scale models? You won't! Your models will stay small and become cheap over time!

People have this idea that we're stretching the limit of tokens to feed to models. Not even close.

This is a 30T token dataset
https://www.together.ai/blog/redpajama-data-v2

It's just web scrapped which means all the writing largely inaccessible on the web (swaths of fiction, textbooks, papers etc) and in books are not a part of it. It doesn't contain content in some of the most written languages on earth (e.g Chinese. You can easily get trilions of tokens of Chinese alone)
hidclient will let your laptop pretend to be bluetooth keyboard and mouse.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180610141436/http://anselm.hof...

https://github.com/benizi/hidclient
Similar to what a dollar could buy in the 1950s, a single year would also last for many more days back then.

/s
Absolutely. It's all over the videos themselves too.
We'd also be curious to hear if you have a use case where you were using slog to mitigate something other than "sync write performance" and embedded log works worse.
What is the relative risk for walking in city? Public should be aware
The people they hired to do it for them, sold moderation as a service, according to the article.
I think CISA.gov is doing a great job of protecting the public.

They have a lot of influence with Congress, and they know hacking can be stopped by experts, technology, and good habits.

I would recommend you check them out :)

CISA.gov
That's a noteworthy difference. Maybe AI only becomes truly "human" when it can't be reset. Maybe only then we can truly trust it - because it has the capability to betray us and yet it won't. (if it does then we don't trust it any more)
The letter didn't say anything about actually taking vice.com offline, only that they'd stop publishing content to it.
Do you have a proposals how to tackle those challenges?
>>Extracurriculars, from what I recall, had no bearing on a high school graduate's university application. This also made it somewhat impersonal, but at least it was straightforward.

Ontario universities love extracurriculars now as the grades have inflated. The competitive top-tier programs require supplementary applications for each school. The Waterloo AIF in particular gets graded and then added to your adjusted high school mark, and is required for CS and engineering. I think other schools have supplementary ones that are sometimes optional if a program is less competitive.

When you have thousands of students with a 98%+ it becomes impossible to differentiate. Over 40% of Waterloo students graduated high school with a 95 or above.

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/an-explosion-in-a-students-...

It's hard to do a cutoff when you're working with the top 5 percentage points of the scale. Too much noise in the signal.

>>Rumour was that this was also in full force over 25 years ago for all Canadian universities, not only Waterloo, and not just in the last decade.

You're probably right but it's only been public for about a decade. People started making FOI requests for the list and posting it online for anxious high school students. For context the numbers are the expected percentage points your mark will drop by from HS to university.

https://github.com/aayushh-patell/Waterloo-Adjustment-Factor...
This is a non issue. The CEO is leading the co pan's vision and accountable for its execution. Of course you want them to be opinionated. They do need to be sensible and grow value, but requiring CEOs to just ignore everything and smile is not necessarily good.
not all relations, certainly -- but it's a sane "if you aren't sure what to use, do this"
Still somewhat different from Apollo since NASA had a bigger role then ?

https://www.construction-physics.com/p/building-apollo

Though notably here, the CEO is a former NASA cadre.
Yeah you're right, I think I did overgeneralise there. I was meaning more of the culture of "Mastodon users"; Mastodon itself has done a lot to help the open Web too.

Though I think "voicing concerns" is a bit of an understatement. I feel really bad for the developer of Bridgy Fed, working on their passion project and just getting caught up in all this heat and harassment.
+1

I would argue offense and defense are part of the same sports game. Soccer is a good analogy. Can you play pass?

J
Archive it?
Some of the trenches are there to solely produce biomass. They don’t don’t go into it in the video but it hints to me that they are trying to change the soil.

Now the ground is hard dirt and water runs off. The half moons capture water and makes it possible to grow a tree.

Roots will loosen the soil, and combined with biomass from the bushes in the trenches you can imagine there’s a path towards changing the composition to something more arable in the traditional sense.

To me it sounds like the editable crops are a carrot to keep the locals working toward a much longer term goal.
Chillin, https://chillin.online/app/editor, integrated complete video editing functions, just for 1.8MB
The fact that they don't offer any kind of free trial to me is insane.
Ethernet has provided it all along.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_crossover_cable
There’s a lot more than fees that pass back to merchants FWIW. Fraud etc does too. That insurance is generally borne by the merchant.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSLA/financials

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NVDA/financials
Except, with 80% of new homes having an HOA, who doesn't have one?
phew. I was worried my startup would be successful :) You gotta work on it full-time!

It’s an adventure. I did it for the learning and the growth, and the great technology hacking. Not to have a job :)

J
Have there been any measurable productivity gains in the past year?
Teens Take on Tech News
Just discovered TSARP, a daily technology news livestream. Their approach is to demystify tech and make the latest updates accessible in 30-minute episodes. They've already hit 70 episodes in a few months. Thought this might be of interest to the HN community as a way to keep up with tech news in a concise format.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSkAp1ejcCWPn4sN_FzZwGw?sub_confirmation=1
I did not drink coffee often. But i liked the coffee smell. I tasted it from a portafilter machine, that won me over. Beside that, over those 15 years, the cafe culture has developed a lot worldwide. Those hipster people make everything beautiful, financed by coffee.
Thanks for the informative reply.

It’s good to hear that it’s risk that is already mitigated.

Personally the thing that turns me off nuclear the most is that if things do go wrong sections of land basically become uninhabitable for thousands of years. I probably shouldn’t care but it seams like a major downside.
or if it’s encrypted
In my experience, Bing's image search is way better than Google's. Also, I'm not going to use a search engine that I have to log in or do a captcha for.
That happened in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment
> December 31st, 1969 posts

Unixtime is the number of seconds since 1/1/1970. Subtract a few hours for timezone post processing and you get 12/31/1969 as a date. Indicated time zero or null or missing value trying to get formatted as a date.
False equivalency. I am not required to "walk in the city" to participate in society or the economy.

Sure, we can educate everyone on the risk of walking around the city as long as we don't require long haul truck drivers to walk around the city in order to later do their job.
How is needing to train young people the same as deindustrialization exactly?
They do. 100 free searches. https://kagi.com/pricing
They're not copying or spoofing the chip on the card, they're skimming the mag stripe and getting the fixed credit card number, right? Then stealing your pin (second factor). I'm not 100% sure what methods they use for purchasing after collecting this info.

Couldn't we stop this today by rejecting transactions that use a mag stripe? Or just severely restricting them? My understanding is less secure transaction types have higher fees specifically because of fraud.

Mandating tap-to-pay (which has been in wide use for something like over 20 years now) eliminates this capture vector. I would love to opt-in to totp as a pin...while its used widely in tech I can see concerns with mandating it widely.

I feel like making this way more secure can be done with the tech already out there. It's the incentives that are preventing that from happening; i.e. the user is on the hook or it's "cheaper" to let the money get stolen.