skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people always assume there's only two ways to deal with a monopoly? All you ever hear about in terms of dealing with monopolies are:

1) Break them up
2) Fine them

From history we know that #1 is really friggin hard to get right (see: AT&T). We also know that #2 is usually ineffective and can harm consumers that are still locked into the monopoly.

There's other options!

* End the company (corporate death penalty). Auction off all their assets and force all their intellectual property into the public domain.
* Force FRAND-style licensing of all their products and services. Make it so that if they want to make money they *require* 3rd parties to sell customized versions of their stuff.
* A combination of forced public domain on their intellectual property and FRAND-style licensing. Possibly with forced selling of assets. Basically, just force the company out of whatever market they were abusing.

Monopolists are always difficult to break up and there's always going to be negative consequences. Whole towns could go bankrupt as a result of ending a company! Thousands of workers could suddenly be jobless. The list of possible negative outcomes goes on and on.

It behooves society to look past these short-term consequences though and look towards the future. The longer a monopoly goes on the more it stifles the future. It may feel like you're cutting off an arm when you end a really big, powerful company but it's more like cutting off a tree branch. More and better branches will grow in its place and younger, nearby trees will now have access to more sunlight.

Unpopular opinion (here on VC-funded HN): The way capitalism is supposed to work is that large, old companies are meant to be overtaken by newer, more nimble ones. It shouldn't be so easy for large companies to acquire smaller ones. That's a big reason why tech monopolies persist! SO many of Microsoft's "staple" products wouldn't be part of their portfolio today if it weren't for acquisitions.
Interesting. I've only heard of this now. This seems like the fediverse equivalent of my project and it's miles ahead of what I've accomplished so far. I'll be using this for inspiration. Thanks for sharing.
Intelligence is tough but tractable. Consciousness / sentience, on the other hand, is a mess to define.
Oh well, it seems to have updated after my comment. Now it seems they support the whole EU and many more additional countries.

But it still errors out when trying to sign up from Germany:

https://i.imgur.com/rX0XA8d.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/Xlyqm8D.jpeg
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Fascinating but mislabeled. This is about the Paris Pneumatic Post, or underground tube message system.
Reasoning is not necessary, but semantic coherence is.
I have a quick rule and is only rule #1 in your list: if a site or blog has posted interesting updates within the last two months, I'll follow, subscribe, or add it to my feed. Otherwise, it simply goes into my bookmarks. I've long stoped paying attention to, UI, ADs, fast responses or JavaScript, as you mention I also use Ad blockers, for me they always work, for the exceptions most probably the content is not worthy of searching for a workaround.

For me, if it's interesting content and volume are key. If it captivates me and there's plenty of it, I'll follow. If it's interesting but scarce, it earns a spot in my bookmarks, for the rest, I will try to remember how to search it on Google
there have been articles/posts with showing just how much the ground has compacted or sunk.

"overpumping caused land in the state's San Joaquin Valley to sink almost 3 feet (85 centimeters) during a recent drought from 2007 to 2010." [0]

"USGS Scientists Explain How Aquifer Compaction is Measured" [1]

[0] https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/overpumping-reduces-california...

[1] https://www.usgs.gov/centers/california-water-science-center...
Yes. They increase the total parameters used in the model and adjust the existing parameters.
All software and copyright licenses are ideological documents. You don't see the ideology in BSD and MIT because it is your preferred ideology.
"Appears" is doing some heavy lifting in my comment, and was there for a reason.

If you know of a more representational route I'd appreciate your sharing it. My previous link was based on a search for London-Singapore air routes.

Hrm ... I suppose FlightAware or FlightRadar24 might show this, and yes, it does.

BA21 seems to fly over Russia per FlightAware:

<https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/BAW21>

SIA308 flies a more southerly route, crossing the Black Sea and Turkey rather than overlying Ukraine, and conspicuously avoiding Afghan airspace:

<https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/SIA308>
Agree. ML is the implementation, AI is the customer benefit.
Yeah, this is exactly the problem.
Entr’Ouvert sued Orange in 2010

Your license choice matters based on your wherewithal to litigate upon bad actors.

And your license choice segments good actors into those who will and won't use your software.

The rest is theory.
Heat death must be viewed through the lens of entropy. Assuming no big crunch and no big rip, the "heat death" represents the end of any information-containing computation. It doesn't mean that physics ends or the universe literally freezes into place with no motion anywhere; things can still encounter other things and interact, even if the rate of such interaction occurs across time frames currently inconceivable. But it has no information in it, which means that there is also no "meaning" by any human definition of the term.
That is not what the quote says, so no.
It always comes down to “of course a corporate dev would suggest that so you can steal our work ”

We (corporate contributors) are simultaneously big contributors to OSS and seen as an enemy.

I can’t blame them, especially with cases like this French one. But it does mire a lot of discussion.
I have a suspicion that greenfield science will be the last thing automated, at least the non-brute-force kind. AI assistants to do the drugery (smart search agents), but not pick the directions to proceed in.

Too little relevant training data in niche, state of the art topics.

But to the broader point, isn't this progress in a nutshell?

(1) Figure out a thing can be done, (2) figure out how to manufacture with humans, (3) maximize productivity of human effort, (4) automate select portions of the optimized and standardized process, (5) find the last 5% isn't worth automating, because it's too branchy.

From that perspective, software development isn't proceeding differently than any other field historically, with the added benefit that all its inputs and outputs are inherently digital.
What this really says to me is the indefensibility of any current advances. There’s really cool stuff going on right now, but anyone can do it. Not to say anyone can push the limits of research, but once the cat’s out of the bag, anyone with a few $B and dozen engineers can replicate a model that’s indistinguishably good from best in class to most users.
https://archive.ph/DknRy

Actual decision (PDF): https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/23-719_19m2.pdf
Appertures, well, those f2.8 Nikkor telephotos from that period still demand high prices for a reason. And f4.5 isn't that slow, even compared to modern zooms. Or those old 50/1.4 (agreed, the 1.8 versions seem to be tad better) and other 1.8 primes. Still great glass. Or those unaffordable NOCT lenses... Not sure what I would need one for so.

What those old lenses have so, is build quality. They are machnical master pieces, as oppossed to modern day plastics. I like that. Also, close to no electronics that can fail.

Those wide zoom ranges, and large appertures, do have other downsides so. Everything is a trade off, and some things are sacrificed to achieve a 18-35/1.8 lense. Still impressive. Or the latest Canon (?) patent on a tilt-shift-macro-zoom...
[dupe] / link fix

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39590246
That has nothing to do with the idea of ensembling multiple specialized/single-purpose models. Mixture of Experts is an method of splitting the feed-forwards in a model such that only a (hopefully) relevant subset of parameters is run for each token.

The model learns how to split them on its own, and usually splits based not on topic or domain, but on grammatical function or category of symbol (e.g., punctuation, counting words, conjunctions, proper nouns, etc.).
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> I think it was still a win for the companies and countries involved

Agree, although I'd love to know how many of Concorde's backers were considering this long-game effect. I suspect that the Airbus of today would be seen as even more fantastic than a supersonic aircraft.
Most compilers are not based on C++. C++ compilers (namely, GCC, LLVM, and Visual Studio) are based in C++.

Anyway, no point in cargo culting the use any further.
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Git rebase always seemed psychotic to me, like you're intentionally removing important historical information about what branch changes came from so that you can make the diagram of your git database a little prettier.
All the sibling comments trying to compare exactly how alike or different MS vs Apple behavior is, like a compare and contrast high school essay, are missing the mark. Some are very insightful and bring up information I wasn't aware of. They aren't low value comments but I just don't understand why you would think it's even possible to compare two of the largest, most profitable companies (depending on the time we're talking about) 30 years apart. I mean, it's informative to discuss for sure but the markets, tech, laws and public opinion have all changed since then. Apple doesn't have to be as bad, in the same way, with the same motives as Microsoft, for it to be bad, anti-competitive behavior. The markets are both bigger, and more segmented as well.

I don't think we're going come up with a universal measuring stick to apply here though I'm sure some tech reporting outlets will try.
height="350px"

You can’t use “px” in height attr.
>Your site should be completely usable without JavaScript... If your site is not usable without JavaScript, I am not coming back in any way

The search page on the site doesn't work with js disabled.
This perhaps works if a project is new.

But many projects are years and years old, with many many contributors. Getting them to relicense is a burden that they don’t see the worth in if they cannot first agree on the pessimistic interpretation of the license
> resale value

Even with the insane idiotic second hand Apple device prices, the refurbish shops are still going broke every time they show up, so I doubt it as good as people say.
EU has chosen to be late to tech in favor of regulations that seek to make a more fair market. Releasing in the EU is hard.
Refueling is very wasteful - that's why so many flights are direct today - because it's much cheaper.
This is a weird argument. Apple released a functionally comparable product to Spotify with about $2b of investment in Beats. Only one company on the planet has been able to create a functionally comparable product to iPhone, and that’s stretching the definition and required huge expense.

It’s pretty clear that Spotify’s value add to Apple is tiny while the reverse is much larger.

Spotify wouldn’t have a business in the counter-factual world where they were never allowed in App Store, while Apple Music would clearly exist. Their business model innovation was fairly limited; streaming music services began in the late 90s.
It is a limitation of the plain M chips. Pro and Max versions add an extra monitor or two.

AFAIK the M1/M2/M3 MacBook Pros (not with the M* Pro chips) also suffer the same limitations
It’s not OK to just fly in. Coming to the US you have to go through the special US pre-clearance zone that has extra security. You may not have to take off your shoes, but you often don’t have to in the US either. Really depends on local screening requirements which are wildly inconsistent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39589483
Did you miss my first comment where I said I'm an Android and F-Droid user? It's not like I don't know how Android works. The only Apple device I use is my work-issued MacBook.

The difference between Android and iOS is that Apple actually has rules that are strict enough to motivate the likes of Facebook to actively encourage people to side load if given the chance. I'm not comfortable looking at Android as a precedent, because Google is extremely lax with what kinds of things they allow on the Play Store, so the path of least resistance is acceptable to basically everyone. I do not believe the same would be true of Apple's store.
Could this somehow be used to generate a Zillow-style tour of a physical space?
It's worth considering that you might not have understood his argument. I had a friend who often had this issue, where if we started discussing something, they'd just endlessly pester me with "but why?" and then declare an "ego protection" when I inevitably said something that could be construed as rejecting reality even if that wasn't what the point was, and they weren't doing this maliciously, they just genuinely thought this way.

Eg if the discussion were about Spotify opposing Apple's exploitative fees, and my position were that it doesn't matter that Spotify is just supporting that position for the money, as long as it's aligned with consumer interests. They might've managed to pester me into saying "the truth doesn't matter" and declared that to be a fault in my position, even though that's a perfectly valid argument in this context.
Last time I tested cwebp it did not handle (PNG) color spaces correctly so the result of a supposedly lossless conversion actually looked different from the original. What good is better lossless compression if it is not actually lossless visually?
True - but the actual development of complex and expensive technologies tends to happen far faster, cheaper, and more reliably when a government feels a burning need for Actual Working Technology ASAP. Vs. when the whole thing is some combination of political showboating and spreading pork to everyone who wants "their share" of government money.
These are images you can post along with text on Threads/Facebook to signify what kind of responses you do/don't want.
what is actually the difference in this case?

I thought the function of fines WAS the deterrent effect? or is some aspect of this restitution? I thought this was payable to the EU itself, not spotify.
Glad to see it's written in C#.

Can we get a port in F# please?

https://github.com/rottytooth/Velato
I think that picking a direction is not that hard, and I don't know that AI couldn't do it better. I'm not sure mid-tier CEO's won't be on their way out, just like middle management.
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Same boat here. I clicked "Comment with a blog post!" Which took me to a marketing type page where the CTA seems to be to "take my money, JK lol". I skimmed that page looking for a way to comment, then clicked the CTA which brought me to another page containing the show hn page as a post.

Very confusing. I gave up trying to figure out how to comment, or sign up
> Apple is selling mobile phones that are not general purpose computing devices

I would argue this is 100% false. They are general-purpose computing devices! The only reason why people think they're not is because they're locked down.

Apple got away with it so Google did the same. Yet there's really no reason why these devices should be locked down the way they are. It should be much easier to take control of our phones than it currently is and I'd argue that with the recent EU decisions regarding app stores we're about to get just a tiny little taste of what these general-purpose computers in our pockets could be.
IDK I really don't mind use. Your "worst possible middle ground" is my "useful compromise between complexity and expressiveness."
The Whitehouse report on adopting memory safety
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I see comments like yours, and I seriously can't tell if you're trolling or whether you genuinely believe this. However, I'll try to answer (once) in good faith.

There are so many things in life, due to either scarcity, lack of options, laws, or prior investments that we have made, that we can't leave them easily, even when we dislike a subset of our choice.

If you hate Comcast's service, but they are the only available broadband option in your city, would you leave your city just for better internet?

If you don't like 10% of the policies of your current government, but dislike 50% of the policies of the opposition, would you start your own political party?

I like a lot of things about iOS as a user, including the quality of their hardware, but I dislike the dictatorial control that Apple exerts over both developers and consumers. Not just their anti-steering provisions (which is pure rent seeking), and lack of sideloading (which I want), there's no way for me to write my own app and install it on my own device, and have it run permanently without paying Apple even more money.

I bought the phone at full price, I hate Apple's attitude that I have just bought the privilege of using it as per however they see fit. And so, similar to above, my alternative is to switch to something like f-droid, and lose my hardware, lose my purchases, and in many cases, lose my ability to even use my phone for standard communication (eg: iMessage). Or maybe you would suggest that I build my own phone company

In all these cases, the alternative option is possible, yes, but it's very impractical and infeasible for the vast majority of people to pursue, and they come with serious negative costs. So we pursue them only when things become unbearably bad, as a last resort.

And so the feasible option is to complain, protest, and try to leverage the government/courts to change the rules so that large companies can't take advantage of us and keep exploiting us in a "boil the frog" manner. And if that doesn't work, then one day, my cup of frustration will overflow, and I will switch over to f-droid or something
Can’t Pulumi be used to bring up infra and workloads as well?
And of course this was gang-flagged by the blue-haired fairies.
Right, and it's seems very doable. We've been getting little bells and whistles like "custom instructions" have felt like marginal addons. Meanwhile huge context windows seem like they are a perfect overlap of (1) achievable in present day and (2) substantial value add.
Comparing a legal monopoly (utilities) to a privately developed computing product is a bit absurd. What easement rights and wireless spectrum did the EU grant iPhone?
I'm what you might call "multi-cultural". I've lived in a few different cultures for significant lengths of time, and co-incidentally, am middle-eastern.

At the risk of sounding arrogant, I think that qualifies me to make this statement more than some: I think there are objective rights and wrongs in cultures, and knowing that culture itself is subjective doesn't get you a free pass on objectively bad behaviour ("bad" here meaning something closer to "incorrect", and not a moral judgement).

My theory is that many white people feel they can't be critical of "ethnic" cultures, because that's racist. You absolutely can, and it's not!

Dawkins probably thought he couldn't say it as a white person when he said that religion shouldn't get special treatment from criticism, but I'm not white so here it is: Cultures also shouldn't get special treatment. It might be your culture, but that doesn't mean it's not wrong.
>>So far gpt is the only one able to answer to variations of these prompts

You're saying that when Mistral Large launched last week you tested it on (among other things) explaining jokes?
The (perhaps overly kind) reading is that OP thinks they should complain about California politicians who refuse to build more water infrastructure instead of complaining about drought.
In the interest of best possible interpretation of the group argument;

Group A : "Information wants to be free and we shouldn't patent algorithms"

Group B : "If you want to use our corporate stuff, you must pay"

Group A : "If that is the route you choose, we will still not charge for our stuff but if you want to use it, you must share your changes"

Group B : "If we use this tool that generates code, trained on the code that Group A created, it doesn't count as Group A's code and we can ignore their rules"

Group A : "It does count as our code, please abide by the rules."

More interesting to me would be; If I trained a LLM on leaked MS sources and built an OS or Office suite. Would MS be ok with that?
You only have it on a moving element so that's okay.

What gamers really dont like is when you move the camera slightly and the entire scene turns into a deep fried oil painting.
Do you really think that all these parents are victims of "lies and defamation"? What a curious comment. Especially since it's all online and on the internet nobody knows you're a dog.

I read all the comments on the link you posted. Of course I can't judge the specifics of all of them; no doubt there are certainly some parents who did little wrong and became estranged with their children: due to drug abuse or mental illness, or were perhaps manipulation by the other parent in the rare case. These are very tragic and sad stories. But quite a few of the stories there have red flags – sometimes big honking red flags with bells hanging off them.

Many people "humiliate themselves" by sharing heart-felt stories about personal relationships – in the hope to learn, perhaps to see where they did something wrong. It's not that uncommon.
They keep it affordable for the family dynasties that rent them. There are like 3rd generation rented apartments in NYC. People death grip those places. Even more than death grip because they are legally entitled to pass it on to their family.

So yeah, if you were lucky enough to have a grandparent get one of those apartments, yes, it will be affordable.
I'm guessing the difference is screenshot reading, I'm finding that it's about the same as GPT-4 with text. For example, given this equation:

(64−30)−(46−38)+(11+96)+(30+21)+(93+55)−(22×71)/(55/16)+(69/37)+(74+70)−(40/29)

Calculator: 22.08555452004

GPT-4 (without Python): 22.3038

Claude 3 Opus: 22.0492
Linux dual licenses glibc so that it can be linked without falling under the GPL

And I’m not saying that AGPL can’t be used, in the same way I’m not saying other GPL can’t be used. You’re misunderstanding the context of the comment.

The comment was in regards to: what are you allowed to do without having to fall under the purview of the license.

In that sense, the AGPL specifically exists to close off many areas that the GPL didn’t touch.
has anyone tried it for coding? How does it compare to a custom GPT like grimoire?
Sci-hub is dead, hasn't been updates since 2021. Sad state of affairs, hope Anna's Archive can take up the mantle.