skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Scandinavia and the rest of the Nordics natives get kept at arms length too. Not going to play down the presence of xenophobia as well, but really the Nordic countries can seem very cold on the surface because nobody let you get close until there is a socially sanctioned reason to.

To the point there are books about how to befriend us [1]. There's also this meme[2] of Finns always spacing out at bus stops to avoid invading each other's personal space, for example, but while Finland is perhaps on one extreme of that, Scandinavia as well is close. Denmark maybe a little bit less and in Norway and Sweden.

The way around that tends to be shared activities. E.g. joining a class, going out with colleagues, or joining various groups, or getting drunk, where you then have a socially sanctioned reason for talking to people, and people build from that. People who are used to being able to start friendships with just random encounters will often find that frustrating and hard to navigate and wonder why they're blanked or ignored or actively rebuffed when trying to be friendly - it's not you, or where you're from (most of the time), it's that talking to a stranger makes a lot of people instantly wonder what fresh hell this is. It's not that random encounters etc. never lead anywhere in Scandinavia, but it's rarer. If you move to any of the Nordic countries and don't know or pick on that you will have a bad time. Unless you're a massive introvert - then it's awesome.

For someone who is used to expecting American levels of just randomly talking to people (having been on the receiving ends of that many times when visiting the US: I could never get used to that...), getting used to that might be hard, and basically the further South you go in Europe the less you deal with that.

[1] https://www.thesocialguidebook.no/blogs/norwegian-culture
I bought the first one of this guys books as a joke for my non-Norwegian girlfriend, and it gets things mostly right, I think.

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/Finland/comments/1494mm/how_to_wait...
Ask HN: Why isn't Apple competing with Nvidia?
Today Nvidia added $277B in market value, Wall Street's largest one-day gain in history.

Apple has, in my opinion, made one of the most significant advances in SoC with Apple silicon.

I know dedicated GPUs are a different beast, but wouldn't make sense for them to invest in a new dedicated GPU line to compete more directly with Nvidia? It is clear there is money to be made there.

Google has their own TPU line, but as far as I know, they are only allowed to be used via GCP.

If not Apple, what company has the cash and know-how to dethorne Nvidia?
In general, look for dependencies. Any popular enough bundlers should have a feature or plugin to show the bundle statistics (e.g. webpack-bundle-analyzer or rollup-plugin-analyzer). Audit your dependency to see if that's not requested nor needed, and try to remove them with a finer-grained dependency or leaner library or rewriting, in the order of preference. That alone is enough for usual JS apps, because not much people do so...
Yeap, I want a code-review bot that just says "this is very improbable; are you sure you didn't mean x instead?"

The old Coverity used to achieve similar results in a different way, spotting probable mistakes based on patterns its heuristics found in the rest of the same codebase.
Put everything as a static site on S3 with cloudflare in front. Cant really hack that (unless you fuck up with S3 configs or if AWS itself is hacked)
> Not to mention it's a crime.

Doesn't that heavily depend on where the employee is based?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action_in_the_Un...

Quotas are legal in many states. Granted the author is likely based in CA. Still, let's keep away from absolutes.

FWIW I also don't support discrimination in whichever direction. However, so far the story is "there was some kind of
quota delaying my promotion". Is that really news or surprising?

I guess it is surprising someone just stated it to them directly but this whole thing isn't particularly juicy yet.
Based on the 5 years ago interview :-)
Wow, really puts things into perspective.
Why ask questions you already know the answer to
Once YouTube started monetizing videos that weren't in the partner program it was always going to be downhill from there. The supply of ad-eligible videos probably doubled overnight
Ask HN: Should I Accept Apple's New App Store Terms for EU Users?
Apple recently announced changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store specifically for the European Union, as outlined here: https://www.apple.com/de/newsroom/2024/01/apple-announces-changes-to-ios-safari-and-the-app-store-in-the-european-union/.

I'm at a crossroads with my B2C app, which has around 10-15k total users (a mix of free and paid). According to my calculations, adopting the new App Store terms would net me an additional 400€ per month. While the financial upside seems clear, I'm considering other factors such as potential future growth and any unforeseen implications these changes might bring. I'm mostly interested in the reduced comission I have to pay to Apple and not yet about using alternative app stores or linking out.

The crux of my question is: Should I opt for these new terms? Here are some points I'm pondering:

The immediate financial benefit is apparent, but I'm curious about long-term implications. What will happen if I publish another app, that has a much lower income:cost ratio and I go above a million users (I know what will happen, but how should I weigh the chance and future regulatory pressure on Apple to change terms?)

How might this change affect my app's user experience, especially considering all the EU-specific alterations (including linking out)? Could there be any negative repercussions (taken by Apple against me)? Could Apple reduce my reach in the App Store - charts, similar apps etc.?

Are there any potential pitfalls or opportunities I might be overlooking?

What are you going to do?
> If you hadn’t previously noted the difference between a living and a dead butterfly, I’m afraid you will now begin to see dead butterflies EVERYWHERE, as I do.

I didn't know this (as most of us I'd guess). It was an interesting read though, thanks.
Perhaps it's overly technical or even pedantic, but in light of arguments like "AI is just doing the same thing humans do", I think we should admit it:

Yes, we are making a copy in our minds when we read something.

I suspect such copies are allowed (as an exception to copyright law) mostly because lawyers and judges don't think about it. Nonetheless, once we do think about it, the law isn't required to treat humans and LLMs in the same way, or allow LLMs to do something simply because humans are allowed to do something similar.
Pretty sure the situation wouldn't change if it wasn't minified.

Recently I had to add a couple of mechanics into sd-web-ui, but found out that the "lobe theme" I used was an insufferable pile of intermingled React nonsense. Returned to sd-web-ui default look that is written in absolutely straightforward js and patched it to my needs easily in half an hour.

This is a perfect example based on a medium-size medium-complexity app. Most sites in TFA are less complex. The delusions that frontend guys are preaching are on a different level than everything else in development.
> There was no “one click” form-on-top-of-my-database tool available

When did you start building it? Budibase does exactly this since 2020.
Dupe.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39422778
Like any system that is "monitored", it also presents the opportunity
to feed disinformation to an adversary; what's labelled as submarine
technology heading for one place is really anti-drone weaponry
heading to a different front thousands of miles away.
Remember The Website Obesity Crisis [1] article from 2015, since then [2] things only got worse, and it is been almost 10 years already, well will be next year.

Is it foolish to say that in 10 more years you wont be able to navigate the web on a circa 2015 PC ? If nothing changes seems like it.

My old macbook from 2013 with latest Firefox is already can not handle loading https://civitai.com web page with 23.98 MB of JavaScript, it is just hangs for half a minute while trying to render this disaster of web frontend.

It is not just web, mobile all in one apps got so large that 2013 phone the same way unable to load them, and guess what, half of them are written on top of web tech stack, why three comma ,,, budget companies can not afford to write native application ?

[1] https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

[2] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
I did fell into that pitfall when I built keenly. Just wanted to build something new.

But then, only when I received good feedback I thought to proceed with it.

I won't deny, the new thing is definitely appealing because it's new. But you make a good point about finding myself in the same place again.

I've had some good options presented here and I'm leaning towards focusing on rosterbird and try to get a growth engine going and then, maybe, once it's sustainable, I can try new things if I still wanted to.
> I said our society is driven by greed.

I agree you said that. I disagree that it's true. If I go to my kid's football kickabout, run mostly by volunteer parents, or I attend a local street party, or go for a pub quiz night, or any of many societal endeavours, I don't see greed.
Weird spike in March 2021 in the `Other Bytes` graph. Wonder what went on then; or if there was a glitch in their data.
> It has an "action" attribute that points to a server you need to own and run a code you need to code in order to validate the input and store it in the database

Pure-HTML forms work exactly like React forms; React does the lifting but it doesn’t change anything to the fact that the data eventually needs to be sent to a server to be stored in the database.
Google suspends Gemini from making AI images of people
Usually there are models adapted to a specific theme since generic models at some point hit barriers. To get an idea, you could look up examples on sites like civitai.com.

Of course such sites are heavily biased towards content that is popular, but you will also find quite specific models if you search for certain styles.
My question also. I looked through a lot of the posts here and can’t seem to find it.
4Chan was/is an amazing resource for finding ways to bypass Dalle restrictions.

Sadly the elite ai hackers have shuffled off into private discords.
What a normal person looks like: https://fastsdxl.ai/share/1mb3d5lo5ic9

what a hero looks like: https://fastsdxl.ai/share/x9jxax4pnljd

what a terrorist looks like: https://fastsdxl.ai/share/ejtyvv9ahpfs

what the person I wish to be looks like: https://fastsdxl.ai/share/8ekkecm5rqsr

This is very interesting as the fast pace can help to quickly evaluate the biases incorporated just changing the seed.
"Loaded" part is no longer true in major JS implementations (for example, [1]).

[1] https://v8.dev/blog/preparser
The title of the blog post seems to have changed since submission.

It's worth noting (and the article tries to argue this if you read below the examples) that while a number of right-leaning (or outright right-wing) talking heads took this opportunity to talk about White Genocide and "erasing Europeans from their own history" and other white supremacist talking points, as expected, this is most likely just a very stupid overcorrection to compensate for the general racism of the training data.

If you go back a few years, there are numerous articles about how AI perpetuates racist and sexist stereotypes[0] because the training data contains real world biases[1] (e.g. men and women or white people and Black people being overrepresented in different professions - "show me a doctor" always turning up a white guy, "show me a cleaner" always turning up a Latina woman, "show me a criminal" always turning up a Black man, etc[2]). There was also an article on here last year about how historical "selfies" always looked American, effectively overriding the cultural norms of what they were supposed to represent.

It's clear this was some hamfisted attempt to avoid bad press that hilariously backfired. Depicting German soldiers from WW2 as brown people in Nazi uniforms is not woke revisionism, it borders on satire. I don't know how you can seriously believe that depicting Nazis as ethnically diverse is part of some leftist agenda but here we are.

Also, the reason it refuses to generate images of "white British royalty" seems honest enough: as that narrows it down to a very specific group of real world individuals (i.e. it would likely result in pictures of King Charles or Queen Elisabeth and other members of the royal family) whereas "Black British royalty" likely doesn't match any known real world individuals and thus makes it past the filter. The nonsense pictures of the founding fathers are likely a mix of the two problems: it refusing to generate images of known individuals but also the founding fathers being a group of people and thus subject to the diversity overcompensation.

[0]: And let's not forget the gem of a faux pas when someone found out that Google's image classifier routinely labeled photographs of Black people as "gorillas" rather than recognizing them as humans.

[1]: And specifically biases from data typically gathered in the US. A model trained on data from Nigeria would still be biased even if it routinely generated images of Black people in suits for any given profession. "Bias" here is an objective claim, not a moral one.

[2]: Again, this is true regardless of your personal politics. A model fed with present day data only for example would end up generating pictures of men when asked to show you a programmer in the 1960s despite the gender bias in that profession being largely the inverse at that time to what it is today.
The beginning of the last paragraph made sense to me:

> It’s not clear to me what you can do to level the playing field in a way that’s actually fair.

But the ending confused me:

> It’s a terrible idea to make that sort of capital more important by reducing the emphasis on objective factors.

In a world with disparities of "cultural capital", not to mention $30K prep schools, which factors do you consider to be objective?
Bold-ish prediction: by 2040 it will only be individual influencers producing news. Most newsroom outlets are zombies at this point, being kept alive by something outside of their ad revenue
HikVision [0] comes to mind.

[0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-63749696
1994 all over again!
I've thought about it in the past, but the risk/reward ratio is better if I just run it myself.

Also, the whole selling process was a huge turnoff for me as the offers were at most 3x arr and lots of tirekickers when I posted on acquire.
Shoes makes building little graphical programs for Mac, Windows, Linux simple
>"Clever" memory use is frowned upon in Rust. In C, anything goes. For example, in C I'd be tempted to reuse a buffer allocated for one purpose for another purpose later (a technique known as HEARTBLEED).

That was a funny one!

Edit: after reading the whole article, I found it very useful; it contains lots of information about parallelism both on C and Rust. I would say it is excellent for a beginner in that stuff.
Does anyone why firesky went from showing the username, to now showing the "did" user code instead? Is this an effort at some privacy in AT?
I will show you how to use API and create your own GPT Assistant. Firstly, you will not be limited to Plus GPT subscribers. Secondly, you will most likely have better out-of-the-box data control via API than the ChatGPT interface.
Same experience, it refuses to provide any implementation details in some cases, like GPT-4.
Is that town near by or is it completely out of left field?
Ask HN: Paddle integration in Next.js – Can we make it easier?
TLDR: I found the hard way that theres no easy way to build a Next.js website with Paddle

So I'm interested in hearing from you, which will be beneficial to you?
1. Paddle starter project and standard features (auth, db..)
2. A quick Paddle integration solution focused solely on getting fast Paddle integration

Here's my story that got me to this point-

So, my partner and I decided to embark on the noble quest of launching a Chrome extension. We thought we had it all figured out—build a neat website for landing, auth, and the almighty subscription model. Naturally, we went with a starter project that integrates Stripe because, who doesn't? Plot twist: we live in one of those places Stripe hasn't heard of.

Here were our glorious options:
1. Brave the wilds of US entity setup (hello, Stripe Atlas?).
2. Find a new PSP buddy.

We chose option 2 and went with Paddle, not realizing this was the equivalent of choosing "hard mode" without any extra lives. Rewriting a big part of our website and schema was our unexpected mini-game since the world apparently lacks a "Paddle starter kit" for Next.js.

Now that our project is out in the wild, I've been doing some soul-searching (and Google searching) for anything that could've made integrating Paddle into a TS/JS web app less of a "choose your own adventure" book. Turns out, the resources are all partying with PHP, Python, and Ruby, leaving us JavaScript folks out in the cold.

So here's where I need your collective brainpower:
What's the dream tool/resource for dealing with Paddle?
Are we talking about a quick setup tool, a starter project, or something else?
Should it be a love letter to Next.js, or is there another framework that's capturing your hearts?
Also suggest US switches from crazy Month/Day/Year date formatting.

> it's just that it so happens that the English-speaking countries chose the more useful representation when it became time to program computers

English-speaking countries basically invented CSV so chose the symbols used in CSV files such that they work well with their way of writing numbers saved in these CSV
It's not a camera, it's an optical sensor, lol.
Make Jquery great again
While you are right that there is a cost, the real question is to know whether this cost is significant. 10 Mb is still very small in many contexts. If that is the price to pay for a better dev ex and more products then I don't see the issue.
See also: online dating (and the pitfalls thereof) as showcased in a 1967 episode of Green Acres

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0592766/
5th Gen KDE Slimbook 16: AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS, Radeon 780M
Rosebush is a resizing, scalable, cache-aware, RCU optimised hash table
it will!

soon or later, GPUs will be a vintage hardware.

see what happens with Bitcoin ;)
But surely even pieces of scummy tracking code can't take up megabytes of memory, right?! Just collect user session data and send it to some host.
Please clarify what the data is used for.
I've noticed BBC Sounds has the opposite problem. If you were offline and then get a connection it still thinks you're offline. Refreshing does nothing. You need to restart the app to get online.
Your response demonstrates you didn't engage with my response. ADHD is not a character flaw, it is a disability.

1. More deadlines for smaller chunks does not imply that the deadlines are stricter; it's about preventing overwhelm and helping with time-blindness.

2. Focusing on the wrong thing is not (always) about "enjoyment", so much as it's about being overwhelmed, bored, under/overstimulated, or being unsure of what one "should" be working on.

3. Your wording, particularly "kicking and screaming" reveals your disdain for people with ADHD. You are not "very open suggestions" on accommodations as you claim to be.

Here's a list of books about ADHD: https://www.additudemag.com/slideshows/adhd-book-recommendat...

Here's an article, if you can't be bothered to read a book about it: https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/adhd-wish-you-knew
Now you have my curiosity piqued. Is the report from the inquiry available to read online?
You interpreted the interview in the most charitable way, and the commenter in the least charitable way. Why do you think they are possibly abrasive? Why do you think asking about Friday night parties, drinking alcohol or swearing (happened to me) is a high-value signal?

Lets assume we are talking about a reasonable candidate with good social skills, and a higher-than-average tech skills (that would be a charitable interpretation of the original comment).
It's not. Shorting bubbles or frauds is not a good idea, unless you find an instrument through which you can do it for a long time, without paying too much premium. This is very rare.
Academia is getting into stage of "Computer says no" without actually understanding why. How ironic.
Because replacing the cranes means China won't be able to tell where all USA flags are made, lol.
Before (and during) this we had catalogs you browsed at home, and after choosing your purchases you called a number and made your order by wiring money or paying at reception.

And even before (and during) that you did the same thing via postal service.

Incremental "improvements" at best.
You don't have to spend much time with Gemini to see how far Google has driven it's head up it's ass.

They drove their heads up their ass on purpose. None of the results are a surprise to Google.
Show HN: Instantly create video clips from LLM prompts
How The Prodigy's The Fat of the Land fell out of favour (2022)
Call it a win?
Of course it should. And anyone with IQ with more than two digits
knows this. But here we are, in a situation where corporate interests
and national security are vastly at odds. Wait until proprietary AI
really hits home.
Even if you swap RFID identities during transit, the location of each container on the ship doesn't change much during any voyage, so this wouldn't materially change things: the tracker just has to update the ID references with the locations of the containers in the unloading port.
With images https://archive.ph/20240222110810/https://forum.igkt.net/ind...
Not to mention the genius of putting a heat generator right in front of the fridge.
Which Microsoft scandal are you referring to? (not being sarcastic)
> invest

Strange way to spell "spend".
You mean like this ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2tncMtbmqw
For sure this. I've recently found out that you can only pay using credit card, US bank account or Cash App.
Your GitHub pull request workflow is slowing everyone down
Surely they are not the first person to put a LLM on a laptop?? Is there some other way i should be reading their claim?
And the people it comes easy to tend to be labeled as narcissistic, resulting in animosity. It's a double-edge sword.
It's not 2005 anymore and LLMs have far surpassed Markov Chains from the 80's thanks to advancements in computing technology, so it doesn't seem unreasonable to think there's a chance they'll get past ASIMO level of performance.
Why do people here commonly imply downloading 150kb of data is an issue in the current year?
Or because the prevention ends up killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Oh, and it turns out the reason you supposedly went to war in the first place is completely fake.
You spelt America wrong.
I almost missed the colon in the title and was intrigued to learn more about these bright, fast-growing astronomers!
Excel combined with APIs and either minimal VBA or COM AddIns is also perfect method to do random data entry or query interfaces for your end users if you have MS Office on Windows as your common office platform.
I wonder if we will eventually get a chat agent that just has a slider for "wokeness". Possibly using something like this "Representation Engineering":

https://vgel.me/posts/representation-engineering/

Just as a thought experiment, project that to the hypothetical existential risk scenario. Maybe there is a slider for aggression (hopefully not) or literalness of interpretation of instructions.
So many words to say:

"Vice will stop publishing on vice.com, sell Refinery 29, reduce our workforce, and publish on other platforms instead."