skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think Stability is in an interesting situation. A few suggestions on its direction and current state:
1. Stability AI's loss of talent at the foundational research layer is worrying. They've lost an incredibly expensive moat and there's enough unsolved problems in the foundation layer (faster models, more energy efficient models, etc.) to ensure Stability provides differentiated offerings. Step 1 should be rectifying the core issues of employment and refocusing this more into the AI lab space. I have no doubt this will require a re-steering of the ship and re-focusing of the "mission".
2. Stability AI's "mission" of building models for every modality everywhere has caused the company to lose focus. Resources are spread thin. With $100M in funding, there should be a pointed focus in certain areas - such as imaging or video. Midjourney has shown there is sufficient value capture already in just 1 modality. E.g. StableLM seems like early revenue rush and a bad bet with poor differentiation.
3. There is sufficient competition on the API layer. Stability's commitment to being open-source will continue to entice researchers and developers but there should be a re-focus on improvements in the applied layer. Deep UX wrappers for image editing and video editing while owning the end to end stack for image generation or video generation would be a great focal point for Stability that separates itself from the competition. People don't pay for images, they pay for images that solves their problems.
Whether or not using a cloud for a given workload today makes sense, the original mantra was absolutely around cost. The basic narrative was that computing was a utility and--especially before local solar was really a thing--how could an individual company compute/generate electricity competitively when they could just consume it off a grid?
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No code. Only for internal research.
this is awesome. and affordable too!
It’s my understanding that Tiktok does not work in China. There’s an equivalent called Douyin. Having used neither, I don’t know what’s the difference, if any.
Good. I haven’t owned a car in more than 10 years but I’m in the market for one, and European / US electric vehicles seem like scams to me. Very poor range and luxury pricing for middle class cars. VW Buzz is a good example, almost 60T€ base price, 400 km range (much less on the highway) and things that should be standard in 2024 need to be purchased as expensive extras for several thousands of euros.

Even most new gasoline cars seem to be rip offs, the new Skoda Superb is almost 6T € more expensive than the previous model in the base configuration. It’s just rent seeking at this point, and these companies already bring the lobbyists into position to delay the transition to electric vehicles and keep foreign competitors out of the market.
If I really wanted to look up the discussion of recursion or infinite loops in a book index, I would be rather annoyed if a cute joke would cause the actual reference to be absent.
What do you consider the AGPL and other copy left licenses? Even the OSI director acknowledges this one needs another look in the fulness of time here
I'd love a minimal ios/linux variant to run software on old Apple devices. I have a bunch of devices that I could repurpose for PDF reading, light video or radio streaming etc.

The hardware is well built but the apple lockdown says I can't get alternate OSs on this thing. You can even go back to the original ios version - because of jailbreaking.
They needed to take an emergency $50M loan after that, so it clearly didn't last long
> baseline in safety requirements (and luxury)

10 inch touch screens are not a luxury, but a death trap...

navigation is useless compared to say, waze

glass roofs only reduce your range by increasing a/c consumption

etc etc

most of those luxuries can -ck off for all i care
Show HN: Write-only command-line Discord webhook integration written in Bash
Yes, my grandparents and parents, who barely had schooling and are not fluid in English are lazy because they have not spent their time learning the ins and outs of spotting malware.

They should have spent their time browsing the internet, reinstalling Windows over and over, and reading HN, hopefully learning the signals that can ensure they won’t have some program steal their login credentials to their bank accounts.

So lazy of them to do other things in life such as cooking, cleaning, raising a family, and building a business as immigrants in a foreign country.
Turkey is culturally aligned with lots of places thanks to its history and geography. Aegean Turkey and Greece shares cuisine, tradition and even folk songs. Tends to happen after living together for hundreds of years.
For those who don't want to follow even more Twitter links: It looks like for Windows Store, they are unable to contact a human at Microsoft for technical help, and for Android Play, the store itself is insisting on obtaining their private signing keys and that they drop support for older API versions.
Not only x-mixed-replace. You can do out-of-order HTTP streaming by appending chunks of HTML without any JS at all, thanks to Declarative Shadow DOM: https://lamplightdev.com/blog/2024/01/10/streaming-html-out-...
Commercial banks make up most central banks, and if you believe commercial banks aren't grifters or con artists, you've obviously never heard of LIBOR for starters.

As for bad solutions, I'll give you incorrect economic forecasts on inflation and using interest rates as a lever.
I'm looking to get a car these days in EU. The government gives out subsidy for electric cars and even without it, there is simply nothing almost as good in Teslas range. EU makers are either too expensive or try to sell you shit for gold
> the solution for Ukraine is to keep their promise to Putin to stay a neutral state

What promise? Is that written down anywhere?

> Putin only attacked because they were going to try to become and NATO member, something they explicitly said they would NOT do

Were they? Putin invaded after Euromaidan, which was, as the name implies, about getting close to the EU.

Oh btw, Sweden and Finland just joined NATO. Why didn't he invade those?
Thinking aloud about companies in the Fediverse
Don't go replicate built your own flow in comfyui and deploy it serverless on runpod. I pay like 10 cent per image for a similiar workflow.
Hint: Generate command suggestion from the terminal using AI
I've created this tool for myself, maybe it could be useful for you too.
That the crossing of the longest stretch took place is a known fact.

The likelihood is that it was carried out by people that lived in an island archipelago chain and had, by the time of crossing, spent several generations building boats and very probably living a maritime life; huts and walkways on poles, more time on | over the water than land, diving for food, spending hours at night over shoals attracting octopus and other sealife with light.

In that context the crossing becomes a venture of following birds over the horizon for two days, some on a scale similar to what was already done to known points, once the first crossing occurs then the far shore becomes a place to stay when fishing for a generation or so and then becomes a location with a new village.

What does seem hard to imagine is humans arriving at the Wallace Line crossing never having had built a boat or a shallow water village before. I would assert that it's near certain that the required skills and technology were well in hand by the time they became essential to progress further to reach the Sahul.
Quite a hilarious joke, hope no one takes this seriously
Space Shuttle Discovery
I'm gunna be honest: I'm in this court ("why?" "what problem does this solve?") with, well, the whole SSG thing.

I get why people want to write their content in Markdown (well, specifically, I get why tech people want to write their content in Markdown, but not normal humans who almost always want a WYSIWYG) - but what I just can't get my head around is the vast complexity that almost all these tools seem to bring to the table.

I've looked at it for so long now I think I've basically got a terrible mental block - for most scenarios, I just don't get it. I don't see what the problem is that is being solved. Booting up a bunch of HTML files, or a simple WordPress site, or a manually built PHP thing that pulls Markdown files and uses a couple of includes to solve the "how do we replicate menus?" question - this makes sense to me.

I'm not talking about this tool (like you I have no idea what it actually does) but the whole Hugo/Gatsby/Jekyll/etc thing. Having (what looks like!) a steep learning curve, then a whole bunch of build steps, lots of dependencies, frameworks, templates etc etc - in order to get what is being sold here as the end game (a fast, dependency free, "just html", no risk website) just feels like ...madness.

I badly need someone to explain to me why all these tools are doing something better. That's a serious request, btw, would love for someone to enlighten me!
You can still use long polling with HTTP/2 nowadays, it isn't going nowhere.
Yes, that scenario is bad and it happens when the Fed is still trying to control inflation.

The people who presented as arguing for 0% inflation are actually more often arguing for a lack of inflation targeting at all, and an end to the practice of creating money. In other words they argue for 100% reserve banking and abolition of the legal right of the central bank to issue new money.

In such a system prices might go up or down, depending on whether the underlying economy is doing better or worse, and governments would simply ignore it. In the case of demographic decline that would mean prices do indeed go up and that would correctly reflect the fact that resources have become scarcer.
In the 90s, video cassette (VHS) rentals were very popular, and a friend's uncle had a parlor for renting. My friends and I spent our days growing up on Rambo, Bloodsports, Shaolin Temples, and the whole range of Westerns. Spaghetti Westerns and Cowboys stayed with me, and when in doubt about what movie to re-watch, I chose Westerns.

I remember in the early 2000s, when Macromedia asked me what are my hobbies or favorite leisure time, when they tried to highlight my profile was, “I like Western/Cowboy Movies.”
In-house made in Elixir.

20% of a crawler is fetching and parsing pages, the remaining 80% is dealing with misconfigured, broken and non-standard web servers and HTML. Dealing with Cloudflare, Akamai and random bot-busting tools that cause more false positives than a chaos monkey. It's better to write one yourself that you can control, monitor and operate as you need, instead of relying on third-party logic. Makes sense for my business, at least.
Samsung users ask, "Why does the S-Pen smell so bad?"
Well now that they have a promising result, maybe.
> OpenAI rebellion

This phrasing makes me feel like we're living in some techno-future where corporations are de-facto governance apparatuses, squashing rebellion and dissidents :^)
They are saying it was not clear "buying branding rights to an image model" would lead to any investments, any kind of high valuation, or any other financial success. It is only clear in hindsight.
> The Barkley is limited to 35 runners and usually fills up quickly the day registration opens

source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons
It’s not quite the same, because the problems solved by PQC depend on technological developments (practical quantum computers) that may or may not materialize, whereas the problems solved by IPv6 are independent from such developments. And we already are at the point were IPv6 is necessary, due to having run out of IPv4 addresses.
> you can either be free or be lazy. You can't be both.

Absolutes and dichotomies make appealing phrasings, but rarely in life is anything that cut and dry.
Amazing to see how far Tantiviy has come. Remember using and making some smaller contributions to this 3 years ago - slop to phrase queries for example. Curious how the design has changed to enable large scale production usage.
Poltics won't allow it unfortunately. If BYD was to sell vehicles in the US the backlash from established auto companies and the China hawks would drown out any reasonable conversation.
what's up with the swedes and their insistence of using : in lieu of apostrophe?
As the article explains, it’s about latency, not bandwidth.

Maybe they were alluding to floppy disk access times. ;)
Anything anti mass-surveillance/government-control is now coded as "right wing". Even opposition to COVID lockdowns was cast as right wing and thus not appropriate to express. Unbelievable violations of human rights are now being normalized with barely resistance.
Emad jumped on the train after the major inventions were invented and PoCs were made. He could not have contributed to them unless he had a time machine. (Yes he contributed to the training costs of SD1.4 but the time point when he made the decision was not early research.)
I know a professor who was still using iPhone 3GS just a few years ago. So there you go.
Wow. I thought your quoted sentence would be a rephrasing, but it's what he's literally endorsing. Disgusting.
Strongly disagree, complete newbies can get up and running with SQL very quickly and it's expressive enough that experienced people can do things that no ORM would ever hope of being able to do. One criticism I have though is that whoever thought "SELECT" should come before "FROM" should be fired.
> in the event of Chinese-Russian invasion

The concern is a bit silly. You realize that while most of us are dying from starvation and radiation piosoning, the car working or not is like not even a concern.

Meanwhile, I rather drive whatever car I like, including Chinese ones. Especially cars witch the government think should not spy on me since they don't feel they control it.
> I've looked over my daughter's shoulder at what she's watching on TikTok. It's mostly silly kids doing silly dances to silly music. Not my cup of tea, but not exactly election-manipulation. What are they "doing to us" specifically?

Your last question is perfectly reasonable, and I'm interested in hearing more specifics to this point as well.

However, your primary stated basis for skepticism seems flawed. One child's usage pattern under parental surveillance is almost certainly not reflective of the platform as a whole.
A GPT to tell if you're application will be accepted to YC
I developed a GPT based on a knowledge base of dozens of both successful and unsuccessful applications spanning several years. I subsequently tested it on applications from outside its initial knowledge base, and the results were quite promising.

All you need to do is copy and paste your entire application, including the founder's profile, onto the main page. The GPT will then:

Determine the likelihood of success for your application.
Provide suggestions for improvement.
Highlight the strengths of your application.
*If you happen to be an undergraduate from Stanford working on an AI startup, it will automatically accept your application

Let me know what you think!
And yet, thanks to all the scaremongering stigma about ADHD meds back in the nineties and noughties, it can be really difficult to actually get those meds. Here in the UK we're going through a supply shortage. I hear a lot of neurodivergent people in the US reporting having to jump through hoops to keep their prescriptions when they change jobs or doctors and the new one decides on a whim that they don't need their meds because "too many people on them, diet meth™ bad".

Thousand percent agree that school age kids shouldn't be mass prescribed meds as a form of behavioural control and generally the entire school system and job market are built to be a total nightmare for neurodivergent folk (well, everyone really), and environmental change is better than making it the responsibility of every individual to medicate away the trauma.

But can we please make the distinction between that and adults who have the agency to choose to be on the "ever so addictive SPEED" (which we are always forgetting to take and need to set alarms on our phones to take) and find them effective for navigating our neocapitalist societies where stimulant meds are required to kick our executive function into drive enough that we don't get fired from every job and die, thanks.

/slightly unhinged grumbling
It had everything to do with Snowden. Source: I was at Google at the time he started leaking.

Before Snowden encryption was something that was mostly seen as a way to protect login forms. People knew it'd be nice to use it for everything but there were difficult technical and capacity/budget problems in the way because SSL was slow.

After Snowden two things happened:

1. Encryption of everything became the companies top priority. Budget became unlimited, other projects were shelved, whole teams were staffed to solve the latency problems. Not only for Google's own public facing web servers but all internal traffic, and they began working explicitly on working out what it'd take to get the entire internet to be encrypted.

2. End-to-end encryption of messengers (a misnomer IMHO but that's what they call it) went from an obscure feature for privacy and crypto nerds to a top priority project for every consumer facing app that took itself seriously.

The result was a massive increase in the amount of traffic that was encrypted. Maybe that would have eventually happened anyway, but it would have been far, far slower without Edward.
Another thing why I hate app stores is that they have ratings and reviews. While a good idea in theory, in practice they're meaningless. But because the rating is an "important" metric, app developers do so much to inflate it. All those annoying, incessant popups to "rate your experience", that, if you give 5 starts, would plead you to also rate the app in the store. As an Android app developer, I also have complaints about this — people would sometimes leave negative reviews because of something your app is not related to. Like "I used this app and my account got hacked", on the official app for the service that hosts the account in question.

And another tangential issue is how search in Google Play is a ridiculous mess lately. It would show you WhatsApp and some other popular apps for literally any search query, while not finding the app you're actually looking for, even if you enter its exact name.
The last car I bought for 10k€ (not less than, in fact it was probably closer to 11) was a Chevrolet Spark in 2011. I remember that for 9k€ you could buy a Hyundai that didn't even have electric windows, but everything else was above 10k€.

Last year, with subsidies I replaced it with an electric Dacia Spring for 16k€. It is much better than the old one (slightly larger, obviously more silent, less TCO since I charge it at home) and yes, it was subsidized by the state, but a similar ICE car could be bought new for the same price and it would also be better than the 2011 car. It sums up to +25% in 12 years for a better product, which is not a lot.
The combination of store and update service isn't a necessary approach and splitting the two is a lot more open and windows installer like anyway. Chocolatey does just the updating but I don't love how it works but it separates the concerns and allows hosting where ever you want.
> The new mantra with the cloud champions in my company is that cloud was never meant to save money. It’s a premium experience that’s about saving time.

But that's true, AWS really took off when people were developping Facebook apps and seeing exponential growth over a few days.

They wanted servers right now, but their supplier had 1 week of lead time to get a new machine, + setup time. On the other hand you could spin up a new EC2 machine in a few seconds.
I don't think MoE allows for that either. You'd have to come up with a whole new architecture that allows parts to be trained independently and still somehow be merged together in the end.
Sounds sort of like the Citroen Ami? Slightly below your ideal range and quite expensive too but the same concept.
This has been submitted 6 times in 22 days, and gotten a maximum of 2 points.

Please allow me to suggest that HN isn't interested.
Marketplaces are either open or closed. For open marketplaces to thrive, they must be under the control ultimately of decentralized, federated authority. This means light governance based on interoperability standards, followed by independent, autonomous organizational units and individuals participating in open standard process frameworks.

That doesn’t mean closed marketplaces don’t work - they do, and well (to a point and certain scale) and are necessary, and there is an interplay between the two.

That said, open marketplaces and standards are for certain the superset of closed ones, this is where we get the interplay of public and private.

App stores as a model aren’t necessarily the problem, they are just a distribution model. The control and operation of app stores as they are currently controlled mainly as closed/private could be perceived as an obstacle. But, why not then pursue what an open App Store/marketplace might look like?

I believe the above is like physics, and some may label me a heretic for the strength of my belief in the above.

I truly believe that the sooner humanity advances to this understanding more broadly and we can more easily converse and cooperate in decentralized, federated, open marketplaces as an everyday pursuit, the better off all will be.

The Internet, and me being able to post this right now on the open forum of HN is proof of the value in fully understanding and being comfortable with the concepts.
The race is full of peculiarities.

> In addition to running, competitors must find between 9 and 14 books along the course (the exact number varies each year) and remove the page corresponding to the runner's race number from each book as proof of completion. Because of this, competitors are only issued odd numbers. Competitors get a new race number, and thus a new page requirement, at the start of each lap.

source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barkley_Marathons
Mhh for me it is always a combination of the two. I like making a good high level plan, but for certain problems it is better to make the plan as you go, because you can't fully understand the shape of the problem and the potential solutions as you start. Sure maybe that means your first code sucks and is a prototype that should be replaced, but if you are aware of that and don't pretend otherwise I don't see why this wouldn't be okay.
> With Play App Signing, Google manages and protects your app's signing key for you and uses it to sign optimized, distribution APKs that are generated from your app bundles

There is no meaning of having a private signing key if is not private. Why does Google need me to upload a private key if they are then free to use it on their own?

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
I think it would be fair to say: there's (often) a trade off between freedom and laziness. From there it follows that, in such situations, you cannot be both maximally free and maximally lazy.
> it's not their job to curate what you see

In this case why does the browser have a pop-up blocker? Or why does it warn about potentially malicious websites (via SafeBrowsing)?

If it's not their job to curate what you see then it should show you the raw unfiltered badness of the web and let you deal with it yourself.
It depends on the scale, but running containers over a k8s clusters means your load will be distributed among the nodes according to capacity.

Managing VMs with dedicated resources directly means you have to distribute the load manually, leading to unused and wasted resources.
Why the hazmat suit? It's not like they're going to contaminate the samples with space dust accidentally brought from home (or rather if they did they wouldn't care anyway - they want those particles not specifically what's on the cathedral roof)?