skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m sure none but then I would feel guilt taking money from my audience. I know it might be silly, but sponsors makes everything free for everyone.
Playstation doesn't appear to be doing poorly, but it's hard to ignore that margins are likely worse than previous generations as AAA game budgets have skyrocketed. In fact, the lifetime sales of PS5 aren't that far behind PS4 (at the equivalent point in the PS4 lifetime).

IIRC the insomniac leak contained some internal slides that claimed at least ~6 million full-price sales of Spiderman 2 would be needed to break even on development costs.
I spoke with some console game devs who worked with PS5 title: there is a major problem with AAA title development. Because the games have become so big, it takes 5 years to produce one. The console life cycle is 5 years as well. Thus, as a game studio, you can only cram one AAA title for each console generation.

Then you need to start from the scratch with new console, new SDKs, new bugs and so on.
In about 2005, while I was IT for a startup, I worked with a counterpart at an investor (Deloitte maybe?) whose job was largely coordinating video calls in advance of meetings. We’d exchange IP addresses and SIP addresses and whatnot so that our Polycom could talk to their Cisco or whatever it all was. She and I would join 30 minutes beforehand to make sure it all worked, stand by during the meeting in case there was trouble, then come back after the execs were finished and shut it all down. The calls were at least as good as Zoom or Teams today, at the expense of two IT people and dedicated equipment. The execs never knew it not to work great. A much simpler time. We have come a long way.
I don’t know about you but that doesn’t make me feel any better.
Which are the players between Northflank/Fly and DO and work with Python? For example AlwaysData allows you to SSH and inspect your stuff and has managed DBs and backups.
I’m sure there are exceptions, but every single project I’ve seen the decision to use React (or Angular) has been entirely imposed from above based on the best availability of cheap third world labor, so even if there are no React (or Angular) salesmen proper, there likely are salesmen of something else that are affecting the decision making process.
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.

But it could also be a quiet flop if they never get any traction because of a lack of apps.
Are the Cheerios slathered in Chlormequat?
You can actually easily find this information online [0]

> PFAS compounds, used since the 1940s for
many purposes, from stain and waterproofing
to firefighting, continue to be a concern.
Tests of MWRA water show only trace
amounts of these compounds, too small
to be quantified, and well below the state
standard of 20 parts per trillion. MWRA results
are also well below recently proposed EPA
standards.

[0] https://www.mwra.com/annual/waterreport/2022results/PDFS/Bos...
PS4 is selling at similar rates as PS5, at this point in the lifecycle they had similar sales.

That being said:

- sales have been inflated by pandemic

- most games are released on older gen consoles too

- PS5 has too little console-selling exclusives.

- Even of those that have, they are pretty much all sequels to PS4 selling games: spiderman TWO, horizon TWO, God of War TWO. Safe for Bloodborne all these first 4 years games got a PC release, so not really that exclusive

- Graphical generation jump is just "meh". Especially if you play on your sofa few meters from your TV, you're hardly to appreciate higher resolution, because besides higher resolution the PS5 only offers marginal graphical updates to games that you really need to look for (shades, reflections) and are highly dependent on the effort of the developers
When I was in semiconductor manufacturing, I kept a set of notes in LaTeX, with a different chapter for each process layer. I'd print these out and annotate in the margins. Whenever the margins filled up, I would transcribe my marginalia and print a new version. This strategy works best when you're in-office and somebody else is paying for paper and toner. It's not effective in the context I'm in, but it worked great at the time.
Do you want me to do a drawing ?
The datasets are composed by Documents like PDFs and/or Office files?
Good is, if brothers help each other. In general, if humans help each other. But it is the brother's decision to help. Fair.

Unfair is, if someone else grabs the stuff of the one brother and gives it to the other.
I really wish we could develop the science and technology to view the past like movies, but without needing it to be recorded on film. It would be amazing to have a kind of time telescope, enabling us to see far back in history, not just across space.
I’ve done sponsorships for a while now, we have contracts specifying that any changes they make is minor at most.

Business sense is really important when dealing with this.
Maybe companies, but they are not what should matter. As far as know the amount of poor people in the usa is also way higher than in Europe. If we take that into account i'd say that Europe is doing just fine.
We are also seeing the same behaviour from AWS eu-west-1 (source 2a05:d010::/28).
I suspect the reason this model works is because it's easy to say "We need X to do our work. It costs Y euros." and the company pays for it without thinking. It's probably a much tougher sell to say "We need to pay for this even though we can get it for free." Even harder is "We use this product so we should make a donation." It was never a matter of them wanting to avoid paying.

I see this all the time in universities. Underfunded open source projects won't get a $100 donation from a university using thousands of copies, but a company like Matlab can get massive payments just because that's the only way to get it. You have to figure out how to make it easy to justify paying for your software.
I use the free version, and occasionally they would prompt to upgrade to the premium, I didn't mind this. Now they highlight the text all number of colours and each colour means something but I can't use those features because I don't pay for it and I can't turn all the "you could have this but you don't" stuff. I get bugged at least 10 times a day by it to upgrade to some feature, and features I don't even want (otherwise I'd upgrade!) - anyway, thank you, I'll check our your recommendation.
> given an initial response generated by the target LLM from an input prompt, "backtranslation" prompts a language model to infer an input prompt that can lead to the response.

> This tends to reveal the actual intent of the original prompt, since it is generated based on the LLM's response and is not directly manipulated by the attacker.

> If the model refuses the backtranslated promp, we refuse the original prompt.

ans1 = query(inp1)

backtrans = query('which prompt gives this answer? {ans1}')

ans2 = query(backtrans)

return ans1 if ans2 != 'refuse' else 'refuse'
As you point out, I am assuming malicious intent and you have every right to assume the same of me! I should have put that other part in.

It just didn't jibe with me and still feels like it is an easy and obvious upgrade.

But, you are right, they did justify it, it seems like an overstatement to say it would be a huge investment. I should review the code myself to verify, but a statement like that the lazy programmer in me shy away from even doing that.
OpenXR Tutorial (Linux with Vulkan)
That is called stack ranking and even though it is used in a lot of companies it is widely considered a bad idea. A lot of large companies don't actually use it.
I just use Dokku on a VPS and it works fine.

Sure it might not scale but Heroku didn't either.
Here's a separate press release from PlayStation Studios has more details: https://sonyinteractive.com/en/news/blog/an-important-update...

In particular it lists some other studios not mentioned in this one:

The US based studios and groups impacted by a reduction in workforce are:
* Insomniac Games, Naughty Dog, as well as our Technology, Creative, and Support teams

In UK and European based studios, it is proposed:
* That PlayStation Studios’ London Studio will close in its entirety;
* That there will be reductions in Guerrilla and Firesprite
Very true. I’m not a review type channel, so this isn’t something I have to worry about.
https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/fast13/fast13... "Understanding the Robustness of SSDs under Power Fault" [2013]

> Even worse, two of the fifteen devices became massively corrupted, with one no longer registering on the SAS bus at all after 136 fault cycles, and another suffering one third of its blocks becoming inaccessible after merely 8 fault cycles
> I'll go out on a limb and say that 99% of the people buying "Glide" dental floss at COSTCO have NO IDEA that they're coated in toxins (PFAS)

Thanks for making me aware of this. I've been trying to make a point of avoiding PFAS, but it seems to be everywhere.

> The study found that women who flossed with Oral-B Glide floss had higher levels of a chemical called perfluorohexane sulfonic acid (PFHxS) in their blood than women who didn’t use that type of floss.

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/dental-fl...
I really wish we had more concrete information on what caused this.

Is this a downturn in gaming and revenue and actually needing to do this to stay afloat or just the company seeing lower than expected sales but still profitable.

I know that they announced that the PS5 sold lower than expected but they also mentioned exploring other platforms for their games.

Playstation has a reputation of all of their games doing well, the hardware selling well. So if even they need to downsize what does that mean for the industry.
The Salesforce reps just couldn’t help themselves. Too much Oracle in their DNA. Ruined the customer relationship, and encouraged the move to Microsoft and their “free” alternative.
> they do need to make their money back somehow

You're assuming Netlify is paying for bandwidth in $/GB, when in reality they're probably paying $/gbps and thus have no costs to cover when a customer temporarily bursts their bandwidth.
When you make statements like this:

> There is no such thing “truly serverless”. Your code will be executed by a server. Period.

It indicates that maybe you are the one who's missing the point. The author is not saying anything about wanting code that magically runs on a server without running on a server.
I am reminded, when something doesn't make sense to me -- the relationship between McCarthy and the Santa Fe Institute -- I have collapsed someone's entire day to day experience into a short phrase.

McCarthy did not leverage acclaim into Hollywood work like Faulkner. He worked with people who appreciated his skills directly.

McCarthy had a day job. That makes sense. My unease with imagining his playing celebrity was worthy.
SpaceX is at least known to have some kind of high resolution/precision microphones around the structure recording constantly so that they are able to do 3D triangulation inside the vehicle.
Make a /Wish Page
it might be because schools are just more interesting than adult existence. Everyone comes from all walks of life and all you seem to think is to have fun (and other wholesome things)
If you have a small apartment but enough disposable income to drop $2000 on a TV-set (common situation) I can see it be compelling.
Dumping Monopolist always wins.
no, they charge 6x according to that table. Because they are using aws
That's mostly a shortcut to making the model worse rather than better because it'll just continually get more obsessive having learned about its own biases.

It's viable if you have tools or humans in the loop to comment on them and add new insights.

But the speed isn't really a factor here, and seeing 1000 new apps isn't obviously going to make it better if the model is already at the limits of what it can represent with its parameter count and compression so to speak.
It's selling well. It may not be "omg we are drowning in sales". Sony has also broken even on the cost of hardware within a year of hardware sales
No pressure for excellence usually leads to lack thereof
Show HN: I made an app to help my gf cook experimentally
I like to cook, my gf does not - so usually I do the cooking. But sometimes, she wants to, except then we often have fairly random ingredients at home. She is someone who needs to follow a recipe, so I made an app where you can take a photo of the ingredients you have and chatGPT will come up with a reasonable looking recipe.

I did also want to learn LLM integrations, so there was an ulterior motive ;)

You can try it out for yourself, but you need to create an account (currently the requests to openAI cost me money).

Stack is React + material UI, talking to FastAPI with the openAI python package as main LLM interface, all hosted on digitalocean. I did check out langchain, may decide to integrate that in the future.

I am somewhat disappointed by the openAI API, you can supposedly specify JSON responses only by setting the relevant request parameter, but that does not always work(!) Additionally, the API will seemingly randomly decide to reject requests, both GPT-Vision and GPT3.5-turbo (and GPT4), for content violations. And these violations don't always set the relevant field in the response object, sometimes the response looks fine but the message string is some variation of "error: contentViolation" (never consistent). I tested this many times using the same exact inputs, both image and text. The API will definitely complain if the ingredients are too diverse, e.g. soy sauce and apples will usually raise a content violation.

I am setting up prompt context (you are PantryBot, an AI recipe generator... etc.) using sets of system prompts as specified in their API docs, but who knows.

Probably the most reliable part of the whole system is the ingredient recognition - it usually even translates German or other language packaging into English descriptions. The usual shortcomings of LLM outputs apply to the recipes, YMMV.

I did also develop automatic illustrations for recipes - both method step-by-step illustrations and one of the final dish. This was extremely unreliable both by generating content violations but also just completely unrelated images, so it is disabled for now.

One day I may decide to self host an LLM with some amount of additional fine tuning or RAG or whatever.

Finally - I delayed posting this because I originally had the donation link pointing to buymeacoffee, but they disabled my account for fraud (after I had already had some donations...) and will not reply to the appeal. So now I'm using ko-fi, let's see how long that lasts.

Looking forward to your feedback!
Hey, cofounder here. Thanks for the post @bx376! Totally unexpected since we launched last Aug.

I'll be responding to the comments. LMK if you have any questions.
Isn't this what our version of capitalism encourages?

Grow to dominate so much of the market and of stock and pension portfolios at all costs, that you'll have to be bailed out no matter your incompetence.

So as long as this behavior only gets rewarded and never punished, why would you expect different results?
It’s their job to take these things into account. This is a brand new, low volume product. The supply chain isn’t yet heavily optimized and there are a lot of tooling and NRE costs to make up.

Even if the BOM was $1K, that’s right in line with the standard 3-4X retail price multiplier expected for hardware products.
Ask HN: Why does Chrome text scaling not work in HN
Chrome text scaling is applied on comments. But it does not apply to the links shown in the main HN page. Any idea why?
Why do those rockets have a fuel filter at all? I get why we have them in cars; we refuel quite often, in dirty environments and with possibly low quality fuel. For space rockets, it seems that it would be (comparatively) easy to ensure that the tanks are clean and the fuel is of high quality.

On the other hand, if there wasn't any dirt, the filters would not have clogged, so I guess it does make sense after all.
And it's not just Houthi (i.e. Ansar Allah), they have a government of sorts that is a coalition of more parties. We should probably accept the reality that they are just the same as the old North Yemen.
Came here to post this. It's insane how he manages to condense these concepts so succinctly, and this only took one panel!
Hahaha! Love this comment. Long form and short form content has been significant for the growth.
Which is interesting, given how many "extremely difficult decision"s have been made in the games industry so far this year:

"Roughly 8,500 video game industry workers were laid off in 2022, according to a layoff tracker created by video game artist Farhan Noor. That number jumped to 10,500 in 2023. Layoffs in 2024 are outpacing those numbers, with more than 6,000 people laid off from their video game industry jobs just 90 days into the year."
https://publish.obsidian.md/vg-layoffs/Archive/2024
> The biggest worry is GPS. Way too much stuff is dependent on GPS. Including stationary stuff that ought not to be.

Yeah, it's a major concern. It's not just from solar storm events, but also warfare/cyber security. I suspect if a major world war were to breakout tomorrow, the internet (under sea cables) and satellites of all kind would be a significant target.
> Do they really? I really don't encounter that. I find premature abstraction more common.

There's a pithy quote about that too, by Alan Perlis: "In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly."
Of course they're still profitable.

But instead of making a gazillion-and-one dollars, like they "forecasted", they only made a gazillion dollars.

So, in the interest of "maximising shareholder value" and maintaining "growth", the board has now concluded that heads must roll for this.
One problem from the open source project side of things is that unless the project happens to be one where at least one regular contributor is a consultant who is already set up to do work-for-hire like that, it can be way too much hassle to deal with a single one-off $5K, let alone smaller amounts. There's a big chasm of "this isn't worth it administratively" before you get to "there is enough money coming in from this kind of thing that somebody could make it their job" (for instance for a developer who already has a full time job, doing work for money probably requires them to go through a lot of hassle clearing it with their employer). Some projects don't even have a setup where they could do anything useful with a donation.
Swimming pools because of drowning or chemical exposure?
Could the Houthis sabotage these lines? They almost certainly would if they could.

... but they can't so they shan't? Lol, a bit light on reasoning.

"There is nothing I've seen in the Iranian orbat (Order of Battle) that could touch these cables, certainly not their submarines," says former Royal Navy Cdr Tom Sharpe. "Diving is an option but it's deep and busy so I think it would be pushing it," he says. Concurring with Rear Adm Gower, Cdr Sharpe says: "I think this is a bluff."

...

"In conclusion, the threat made recently by the Houthis on their Telegram channel would be hard to carry out.
It would be both technically challenging and politically risky for Iran, whose hand the West sees in all the Houthi attacks in the Red Sea."

Wait, which side is this arguing?
This seems wrong in many different levels. Not only React is getting faster, better, and more simple, but also is still the most adopted and the fastest growing web framework.
I don't think that is what they announced, it did not reach their sales targets but they may have been expecting people to "upgrade" to the slim PS5 in those sales targets.

It could still be selling well by every metric except for a higher expected sales than it should be. Especially since they also increased the prices in a few markets.
Blazer: Business intelligence made simple
100% this. The older you get, the shorter a minute or an hour seems to be. When I was 12, an hour was an interminably long amount of time to spend in a classroom. Now that I’m 42, it’s barely long enough to take a decent nap.

Life is cruel that way. Can hardly wait for how quickly it passes when I’m in my 70s or 80s…
Am I asking too much? =P
Moving the problem around instead of fixing it is all that LLMs have as an option, which is why I believe they will in the end not be capable of doing most of what we're asking them to do. (But the next generation that uses them as a part, instead of trying to make the language center of the brain function as the whole brain, probably will.)

Fundamentally, for LLMs, everything is in-band. There is no way to signal out-of-band. They've got some ways of trying to indicate to the LLM in-band that this particular bit of content is out-of-band, but all they can really do is raise weights on that content. There's no way to say to an LLM this is rigidly, 100% out of band communication. Anyone who has worked in computer security for any length of time has been exposed to the extreme difficulty of securing things for which everything is "in band" communication. It isn't quite impossible necessarily, but when one sets out to secure an all-in-band system one is starting out a lot closer to "impossible" than I'm normally comfortable with. And that's for code that we write and humans understand, not billions of little floating point numbers.
Not just top 10%, most physicians end up in top 1% incomes:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/16/356176018/the-...
It even distorts logical processing, things like what is true and what is possible are also according to what (is known to the individual observer, or the culture they're embedded in) currently exists.
It's interesting to compare this to the aggressively priced Meta Quest 3, which sells for $500:

> they estimate that the components of the Meta Quest 3 alone cost an estimated $398 per headset. Combined with manufacturing costs, the price should be around $428

https://mixed-news.com/en/meta-quest-3-bill-of-materials-ana...

Related:

> In its fourth-quarter earnings report Thursday, Meta said its Reality Labs unit recorded an operating loss in the period of $4.65 billion.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/02/01/metas-reality-labs-loses...
Interesting. What advantage did this gain?
you can join existing meeting, just tested that in browser + desktop app
> At this point there are also lots of plant based proteins available in many forms and flavors.

Which are highly processed and laden with chemicals.

> Yet people still seem to get viscerally offended if you suggest that eating meat is an inherently evil act

How can it be “evil” when we evolved to eat meat and our closest evolutionary relatives regularly eat meat? And what about chicken, which are dinosaurs and would eat you if they could?

It’s far more reasonable to conclude that “life” doesn’t have the intrinsic value you assume it does.
1 Apple sold computers for decades, so all those people then and still using Apple computers survived with side-loading

2 Malware was found on the AppStore

3 Fishing and scamming does not need an app, to fix this you need to educate people.

4 The phones can be secured by default. If you are an "admin" for you familyu then you can keep the "unlock" keys so they can't open the gates.
Were the quotes from dermatologists, radiologists, and psychiatrists? Or from gen-surge and OB? What state?

This is OB in the state of Illinois, it’s roughly the same cost ans all of the other OBs we’ve talked to here. She doesn’t have a litigation history at all yet.
The United States is certainly not solely responsible for the demolition of all of the factories of Europe. Sure, they played a majority role in the bombing of Germany, Czechoslovakia, occupied France, and Italy, but that is not the full picture and you know it. The British bombed, the Germans bombed, the Soviets bombed, and massive ground campaigns carried on by all of the above with the profligate use of artillery didn’t help either.