skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, you didn’t feel comfortable relying on “another SaaS” app, and then go on to suggest Retool Workflows, which is itself part of another paid SaaS app? All those “shoddy” alternatives also have free tiers.
“ known as an ‘interchange fee,’ from the merchant, roughly 1.5-3.5% of every transaction”

This jumps out because it is such a wide margin. In reality the average interchange fee is 1.8%. Amex at their _highest_ rate, which is the highest of all the networks is 3.5.

So “roughly” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence which gets further amplified later in the article when they use it to multiply by the total credit volume.

I don’t know that it fully discredits the argument but it is certainly a weak rhetorical tactic.

In the payments space margins are measured in basis points, 2% seems small to laymen. 200 bips seems crazy big to anyone in the industry.
Nvidia is heavily overpriced at the moment. My personal prediction is that in the long term, Nvidia can expect a similar situation to what happened to Tesla, which involves a relatively slow price correction after the AI hype diminishes. The EV hype slowly died out, and we can see it reflected in the prices of all EV companies.
That isn't "safety". The word is being misused. Deliberately and dishonestly.
Just another step in the ongoing collapse of Vice Media

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media#Bankruptcy_and_sale...
Phind is great. I hope now they release their latest 34b finetune weights as they did with one of the first versions.
Open AI is building things for their own gratification. Open companies are building things for others to create things.
I gave up a domain I used to own in the last year or so. It was a mildly popular site that had been around for about a decade.

Within a few months someone else had snapped it up, created a site, used the same content (I assume from the Internet archive), and was using it to link farm.

At least that's what I thought when I saw the new site with a few links that were not there before.

I only discovered it because they also left the Gmail address that I was using for the site. So I got a couple of emails from folks wanting to update info on the site.

Feels a bit weird, tbh.

No way to determine who is behind it, and what would I do anyway?
I will chime in and say I also had a MacBook Pro screen replaced for dead pixels, no questions asked, no charge.
I'd piggyback this comment to ask if anyone could share how codebase prompts work?

Given the max tokens per request, do the extensions look at your currently open file, and use some vector similarity to find other files that could be relevant (if embeddings were generated for all files in the project), and then inject relevant source. And/or is it even more complex, by using AST parsing and creating embeddings out of actual linked functions?
Google Launches Gemma: A Family of Open-Source AI Models for Everyone
Anyone who invests in Reddit deserves to lose their money
Yes. In the sense that Mastodon is decentralized because there is no one Mastodon server. One may accumulate more users or be the "default" for the community of users, but there is no Mastodon server (much to the chagrin of many new users).

We don't even need the hypothetical "it will defacto become..." because Bluesky Social was, up till now, the ONLY way to participate in the community. They had 3 million users before federation, and now we can start to hook into what they've built, but the idea from the start was clearly not built around federation and decentralization, otherwise it would have been federated from day one, as Mastodon was. They can HOPE now, that people accept the federation concept, but there's enough gnashing of teeth around the pain of running Mastodon instance that it seems really clear that going from central to decentral is, if we're being intellectually honest, a bridge too far for most to cross.
Do people do enough debit card transactions to make this loophole worthwhile?
I avoid using my debit card as much as possible since the impact of theft is much worse for me as a consumer. I experience fraudulent credit card charges every few years, but it's not real money gone from my account.
I'd be much more annoyed if it was.
I think many many people would check local radio, not everyone lives on their phone or in a tech bubble.
Why do executives have to talk like that? It’s so off-putting.
At a guess, less than $0.50?

> Pay-per-use: $0.01-$0.10 per second of generated video, based on existing tools and computational demands.

https://medium.com/@christianray.drapete/openai-sora-underst...
Play to your leadership. Exceptions apply, but female bosses tend to appreciate averted crises more than male ones.

If your boss is male, let shit fail. You'll get hero points for responding to incidents.

A female boss will quickly suspect incompetence if things keep breaking (i.e. see how far half-assed DIY home repairs get you with your wife before she loses patience with you). Your hero points will come from mitigation.

This paradox comes up a lot in security. IME in this particular field the gender stuff is less relevant since everyone is paranoid. But when we run stuff up to C-levels, it's only the female execs and lawyers that really stop to consider possible issues-- the men just dismiss everything until it happens.
Interestingly enough, Sam Altman has ~$60M invested in Reddit and ~10% voting control.
I was looking into similar recently just wanting to do 10Gbps between two USB-C machines over USB with just a USB-C cable. Unfortunately most Ryzen boards still don't have Thunderbolt (which supports this natively and easily). And "dual role" USB controllers were quite uncommon (or as this article details, possible but not supported) until USB 3.2/4.0 - and even then it seems a bit hit and miss. It's totally crazy to me it's not easier to network two machines with a USB-C cable (without Thunderbolt).

I also love the part about the lock bit being cleared after a suspend, that seems to be such a common issue.. super common way to get SATA devices out of the state preventing secure erase for example.
>>Regardless you still have to spend time and money on extracurriculars since the 98% is a bare minimum. This means student activities and clubs aren't for socializing. They have been co-opted as a mechanism to create 10-person executive bodies so students can show they had leadership roles when applying to uni. A club that actually meets for its stated purpose imposes too much of a time commitment since competitive students need multiple leadership roles on their application.

Granted it's been over 25 years since I graduated, but I remember that Canadian universities (across the country) had a relatively "bare" set of requirements to get in, namely your grades. 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.

Have things changed now that (perhaps only Ontario) universities will also look at extracurricular to decide between candidates on the bubble?

>>Waterloo also has a comprehensive dataset of "adjustment factors" to weigh your average differently depending on your high school. This has been in place for a decade.

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.
The iQOO Neo 9 Pro 5G has arrived in India, boasting a powerful Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, 120W FlashCharge, a 50MP GN5 gimbal camera, and more
Open inkscape, and use the right tool for the job.
> LLMs don't regurgitate like you think they do.

"Copilot has been found to regurgitate long sections of licensed code without providing credit — prompting this lawsuit that accuses the companies of violating copyright law on a massive scale."

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/8/23446821/microsoft-openai...
How much of it is zuck buying up all available nvidia product at any price ? AI is a more credible obsession than the metaverse. So he could just buy all nvidia output for the next few years…
The proof is in the pudding. The pudding is that NASA of 2024 has no human space flight capability at all.
I only know that i know nothing, but lately libraries (not my own code) have been getting increasingly bloated... mostly true for big-ticket stuff such as Firebase or Meta's stuff.

Anything homemade performs faster than ever though, so engines are getting better but my code has stayed as simplest as ever and finding improved performance.
They might have an easier time naming things if they weren't exhausting names on killed products (;
"All your bips are belong to us!"
That's hard for me to parse as a human. Do you mean the plane is on the highway and causing a traffic jam?

Or is the highway literally being held by a humanoid plane?
https://www.cdc.gov/std/mgen/stdfact-Mgen.htm
> Bitcoin is decentralized.

Barely, if at all. Technically it can be decentralized, but Bitcoin's design promotes centralization, and the result is that currently Bitcoin can be controlled by either two entities (AntPool and Foundry USA) or three (one of the former ones plus F2Pool and ViaBTC) - and it's not going to get better.
AI can also watch your screen on Big Tech's behalf and market to you based on your porn watching habits. Or immediately alert interested parties of your torrent setup. Or allow a hacker access to your tax returns when they inevitably jailbreak said AI and it spews out the extremely sensitive personal information of billions of unaware people.
I made something similar, with more of a focus on small tech blogs:

https://blogs.hn

I’ve been wanting to add an omnibus RSS feed, but haven’t had the time. Let me know if you can think of easy ways to merge a bunch of RSS feeds!
Have you seen any of the movies that have come out after them?
Logitech were like this for me. I had a problem overseas with a (more premium) mouse. I called, spoke to person, sent them a video of the issue, got a replacement.
Do elaborate!
Okay so what was that meltdown yesterday then?
I did some work for a design agency that got bought by Twitter.... we basically converted all their different sites to full static and put them on ice. It would have been expensive to keep hosting how they had been, but with everything flattened to static it's super cheap to keep up (although no publishing new stuff without some by hand work or restoring the old servers).

All the good articles and design samples stay online, and maybe the original authors can get a little credit or name recognition from any search traffic that finds it.

The one "liability" to doing this would be for visitors to not realize the site isn't being updated anymore. If vice is still publishing content outside their website they'd have to make it clear that the site is archived and new content is elsewhere, or people might get the wrong idea and assume nothing new is coming.
Your manager probably just doesn’t like you, find a new one if you can, there’s no point swimming against the current - you’ll just get tired and get nowhere
I'm in the "this decision is stupid" camp, but just playing devil's advocate here, they might not want to risk damaging their brand by letting some third party agency mishandle their website
i have the same, but they put porn links everywhere and it mildly damages reputation of ex-employees.
Even after that, they don’t tell customers they qualify for a repair. The first ever Retina MacBook Pro had a kernel panic issue. It doesn’t manifest right away but Apple was sued and had to repair them.

Mine gave out a year after this and I only found out about the repair after reading online. Apple knew this MacBook is under my Apple ID and could’ve let me know about the issue, but chose not to.

I go to the Apple Store and they recognize the issue. Except they tell me the laptop is “vintage” after 2-3 years and even though it has an inherent flaw, they would not service it.

Do you think they refunded the people that had to get their butterfly keyboard replaced or repaired?
I would caution comparing today against one's childhood memories.

Children have few responsibilities and are shielded by their caretakers. They simply do not notice much of the things that happen.
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Bart -> Gemmini -> ??
I guess "troll" as a verb is pretty common usage now.

As a "noun" -- no. The polite term is "Non-Practicing Entity" (not that I want to be polite) but it shows that we still need to distinguish between companies that, at least once, practiced the patent; and shell companies which have never done anything but sue.
Because I do not want to see them on the site, and as a user that is my way of signaling this
It was probably worth it, it's not very likely it would have been continuously crewed for as long as it was without them. Also, put less wear on the US space suits, since they were made in the 1970s.
With cash back and points incentives, withholding the non trivial value of the insurance of which you speak, the only rational reason to not use a credit card is bad credit. Now, for the merchant….
“Vice website is shutting down” is 100% accurate. Note that they will also lay off most of their staff.
That's a tremendous amount of assumption being piled onto that one line comment.
True, and I've run into similar issues as well, especially with legal. At the very least they could release a cleanly mergable set of diffs, commented for the benefit of whatever poor soul had to merge that 20k patch.
If anything, modern politics is better.
When you say on the website that Amazon uses this product, is Amazon a paying customer or is it simply an engineer (or a few I suppose) are using it?

I’m curious how to interpret the “trusted by” statement here
wow! this is really fast. this is actually at the speed I want image generation to be at. it makes me want to explore and use the tool. everything else has felt like begrudgingly throwing a prompt and eventually giving up because the iteration cycle is too slow.

of course the quality of what is being generated is not competitive with SOTA, but this is going in a really good direction!
On a much smaller scale, six years ago I inherited a service which previously had two people working on it full time. I've spent about a day a month on doing the bare minimum to keep it working ever since. Clearly we were massively overinvesting in it previously, right?

Recently it broke, and I have no clue how to get it working again. Fortunately it's just an internal thing so it's just disrupting work and not causing problems with customers, but now we're having to abruptly scramble to migrate off it and it's going to push back a lot of timelines. We got away with coasting on our upfront investment for six years, but it didn't last forever.
Tesla still seems to be over-valued. I don't see why they would be worth 10x other car manufacturers, especially ones that have quality manufacturing already down.
Not true, that was made up by race baiting academics who were lying liars. It's absurd that anyone fell for it, frankly.

The lie originates with a Communist race hustler named Noel Ignatiev, also known for publishing Race Traitor magazine. A thoroughly unpleasant person.
They profit off the people that never bother to fight the bank / etc...

Sure, you might get a fraudulent $2000 (USD) charge and fight it out with the bank, but people like Dan Bilzerian or Travis Scott will just say fuck it and let it slide or get preferential treatment from that bank (the bank is making more than $2k in fees from them alone).

When enough people catch up they will stop using cards (debit or credit or whatever really...) or move to banks that actually care and bring the whole system down but as of right now it is what is is, sadly.
For example, does it not seem intuitive to you that it should be possible to take a brush tool and paint on the canvas? In GIMP, you can usually do that, but sometimes you can't, for reasons that are initially baffling. Once you figure out it's to do with layer boundaries it becomes merely annoying and frustrating. Once you get used to doing "Layer to image size" things get a bit easier, but needing to a) know that and b) constantly do that is not a useful feature.
Bart -> Gemmini -> Gemma -> Jemima -> Pearl Milling Co.

It all goes full circle!

Seriously though, they need to roll improvements into what they're already shipping and stop invented the wheel 20 times over.
It takes a while to take down job posts. Everyone likely learned the decision recently. I don’t think the employees who are going to be laid off care about updating the job posts at the moment…
I’d literally love that idea; it’s a really compelling concept but my first concern would be the potential risk licensing/copyright issues that could arise from the original site owners transferring the site to IA. But seriously that would be so cool to see one day.

I came across this thread on DataHoarders before seeing it here and was glad to see so many jump at the opportunity to help archive it on our own ends. In case anyone may be interested to jump in, here’s the link to that thread.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/s/fnY46CuYOq
Well first not everyone on the fediverse is opposed to the bridge. I agree that public is public. But there are concerns about moderation being incompatible, it’s normal to voice them.

As for the fediverse destroying the open web for everyone else, I think you’re hyperboling quite a bit, the fediverse has done mountains to make social media more open, probably more than everyone else.
Is that why it is going down hill? I'm less inclined to visit now that they insist on showing me content that they think I want. I miss the days of only seeing stuff from my topics I've joined.
What I got is pretty accurate:

https://imgur.com/a/vH0zq5b

(seed: 3919562)
revised report on scheme which introduced LET to scheme at the time still didn't guarantee left-to-right order of evaluation, "the argument forms can in principle be evaluated in any order. this is unlike the usual LISP left-to-right order". so when introducing LET, which is defined in terms of LAMBDA, the report reiterates that order of evaluation is not guaranteed.
I don't think it was Tim Cook who claimed that you were holding it wrong...
Yeah it just requires massive investment in computer components, ridiculous amounts of carbon burning, servers in the Arctic to lower cooling costs, and a few towns full of people subject to more sound than jet engines at all hours of the day. Innovation!
The source of the funding is not important when it comes to the 'private' distinction.

The point of 'private' is that the company owns the technology and can sell it to whoever else is willing to pay. We've seen this with Dragon for instance, started as NASA funded, has since done completely privately funded free-floating spaceflight, several privately funded spaceflights to the ISS carrying astronauts from other countries (eg skipping the bureaucracy and other bs the country would have to go through to fly through an official seat via ESA), and has led to SpaceX privately working on EVA capability and proposing a Hubble orbit raising mission.

Additionally, being a private product, NASA paid them a fixed sum of money and that's mostly it. They don't care how the company allocates the money, they don't babysit the design. They've 'bought' a lunar landing attempt. So, for example, if IM ran over-budget, they spent their own money on it.

This is different from projects which are closer to public-private partnerships, like SLS. Where the company builds the rocket and is promised as much money as it costs, and in exchange NASA controls everything about the design, as well as owning the rocket once ready to launch and doing all the flight ops etc themselves.
Yes, AIs 'Understand' Things
Yeah, you pretty much need to treat a millisecond timestamp as an opaque value, only using the Int you get when you subtract two of them. Doing that completely avoids the issues from timestamps being negative or wrapping around.

I've seen games that crash if your timestamps were negative. So if your computer has been on for a while, and a game isn't running properly, reboot.
> Place your bets on what will die next.

The next one is Huffington Post (owned by Buzzfeed) then Buzzfeed itself.

Either they need to be bought out or they will need to do more layoffs to increase their runway and make sure that they meet the stock price requirement of >$1.00 to avoid being delisted by May 2024.
https://airforms.com/ and https://visualdb.com/ appear to be the same thing?
This is a fun idea, and I hope it takes off, but I already noticed some spammy sites, and reporting them isn't easy (it requires a PR).

I understand that adding a site requires a PR to have some barrier to entry, but reporting should probably be more accessible.
> everyone crowds to one side to get closer, and the whole boat capsizes.

Sounds like it might be something that they should tell people about, I guess they don't because when there's enough people in an airplane people either tend to (1) behave according to rules or (2) just not be a significant amount of people to cause the plane to {{do funny things}}.

...but in any case, I can imagine being a pilot and hoping/trying to/prayin for people to stay in their seat regardless of whatever is happening outside...

...must be a scary experience...
Yup. The parent comment disambiguates between vice the website and vice generally. Only the website is shutting down; vice the org will still be around.
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That liability seems really easily solved with a banner.
They don't want to have two different code paths (inside the home vs. outside) and some home networks are broken (e.g. wired clients can't contact wireless) so they just implement cloud-based management.
Incident report for February 21st, 2024
What does you mean by "less productive having to operate in a smaller area"?
Full text:

Dear Vice Team,
As we navigate the ever-evolving business landscape, we need to adapt and best align our strategies to be more competitive in the long term. After careful consideration and discussion with the board, we have decided to make some fundamental changes to our strategic vision at Vice.
We create and produce outstanding original content true to the Vice brand. However, it is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously.
Moving forward, we will look to partner with established media companies to distribute our digital content, including news, on their global platforms, as we fully transition to a studio model. As part of this shift, we will no longer publish content on vice.com, instead putting more emphasis on our social channels as we accelerate our discussions with partners to take our content to where it will be viewed most broadly.
Separately, Refinery 29 will continue to operate as a standalone diversified digital publishing business, creating engaging, social first content. As you know, we are in advanced discussions to sell this business, and we are continuing with that process. We expect to announce more on that in the coming weeks.
With this strategic shift comes the need to realign our resources and streamline our overall operations at Vice. Regrettably, this means that we will be reducing our workforce, eliminating several hundred positions. This decision was not made lightly, and I understand the significant impact it will have on those affected. Employees who will be affected will notified about next steps early next week, consistent with local laws and practices.
I know that saying goodbye to our valued colleagues is difficult and feels overwhelming, but this is the best path forward for Vice as we position the company for long-term creative and financial success. Our financial partners are supportive and have agreed to invest in this operating model going forward. We will emerge stronger and more resilient as we embark on this new phase of our journey.
Thank you for your continued dedication to Vice and support during this time of transition.
Together, I am confident that we will overcome any challenges and achieve our shared goals.
Bruce
It really depends on the rocket’s cultural fit.