skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to be honest, if you put half as much effort into learning the very, very basics of how the system worked as you did into campaigning against it by furiously incorrecting everyone in this thread, you'd probably feel a bit embarrassed to be posting stuff like "there's no real cost of defaults" .

The money was "created out of thin air" is the loaning bank's debt to the account the borrowed money is assigned to, not the bank's asset, so there's a very real cost to them if the borrower defaults and stops repaying them. Banks can become bankrupt, just like any other business, and no, they can't "print" their way out of it.

If you're still struggling to believe there's no real cost of defaults to banks, I invite you to look up bank insolvencies. Perhaps someone could make a wtfhappenedin2007 website.

I'm also chuckling away at you complaining that the current system means mortgages take too long to pay off a sentence after complaining that people who get into debt are rewarded! For the record, what you're actually advocating for with higher "free-market" interest rates is that poor people pay rich people more over the course of 25 years than they currently do over 35 or even 50 years to secure a house, which is less likely to appreciate in value. US home ownership rates were down at 40% before governments got involved in the mortgage market. It's impossible to pretend that anyone benefits from such a system other than people who are much, much richer than average home buyers.
How would you otherwise define value, except the value that someone is willing to assign to a share of a company or goods when purchasing?

Value can go up and down though..
You can use binary-sse (https://github.com/luciopaiva/binary-sse) with minimal overhead.
In One Key A.I. Metric, China Pulls Ahead of the U.S.: Talent
> Spain's High Court has ordered the suspension of messaging app Telegram's services in the country after media companies complained it was allowing users to upload their content without permission, according to a court source. ...Judge Santiago Pedraz agreed to block Telegram's services in Spain while the claims are investigated.

Pre-emptively blocking the entire app "while claims are investigated" seems pretty extreme. I thought that sort of thing was only done if 1) the judge thought the petitioners would almost certainly win, and 2) there would be irreparable harm done otherwise. Hard to see how #2 could be the case for copyright violations.
> But it’s also a political issue and once politics is involved, there is vast incentive to fudge and massage the data to fit a narrative.

[citation needed]

The CPI has been verified over and over again. There's open source software where you can do things yourself:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Billion_Prices_project

It is probably the most looked at number that the government releases. There are economics professors/researchers, statistics professors/researchers, economists at hedge fund, economists at pension fund, economists at labour unions, bond traders, equities traders, etc, looking at the numbers every month. No one professionally involved with it thinks it's fudged.

There are certainly different methodologies, and that is often debated (e.g., how best to measure Shelter for homeowners versus renters), but for the current system, I'd like to see which non-tin foil hat wearing people (i.e., not Shadowstats.com) think it is being fudged and how.
The article's actual title is "High Court orders temporary suspension of Telegram's services in Spain", not "Spanish High Court banned Telegram".

This is a temporary suspension while investigating "after media companies complained it was allowing users to upload their content without permission".
Someone mentioned placeholderkv [0] in another HN post [1], which is developed by some previous Redis maintainers.

[0]: https://github.com/placeholderkv/placeholderkv

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793402
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Tabular Data to ML Model
A quick Loom intro: https://www.loom.com/share/9ea9ffd6055345eeaa486fe96d9a0f30
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The madness is the increasing complexity, adding features into the standard without having them being tested on field (like in any other sane language), last meeting had 210 people voting in for their special features, trying to fix safety without cleaning out the features that make it impossible in first place, and so on.

As for non-zero runtime overhead, that is long gone, since stuff like std::map, std::regexp and refusal from compiler vendors to break an ABI that isn't even defined on the ISO level, yet it blocks any proposal that has the side effect of breaking it.
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It mentions "they are protecting themselves from bird flu, possibly contained in the droppings and bird bones we see on the roof"
This isn't a free or safe choose one scenario. As a platform owner Apple could offer a vetting service for known-safe popular applications, make those easy to install, and create a clear scare-screen when enabling installation from other sources, as well as management profile settings for disabling unvetted or 3rd party app installation all together. Then the only education anyone needs is to not install unvetted apps.

As a bonus, they could make the app curation system extendable, so other groups could run vetting programs. By default your device would only have Apple as a trusted vetter, but as part of a management profile or something you could also trust apps vetter by some security research group, or Epic, or Valve, or whoever. That way security isn't all-or-nothing.

And of course, if anything slips through and your layman user OKs all the warnings and installs a malicious app, it's still operating in a sandbox, and can't do much more harm than clicking a shady link and ending up on a scam website can.
Doubts grow about the biosignature approach to alien-hunting
The reason the judge ordered the block is that Telegram ignored his requests for information. That is a dangerous thing to do.

The groups I'm subscribed to are creating parallel groups in Whatsapp in case the block starts working.
The text:

App Stores were a mistake.
Currently, we cannot update VLC on Windows Store, and we cannot update VLC on Android Play Store, without reducing security or dropping a lot of users...
For now, iOS App Store still allows us to ship for iOS9, but until when?
I agree with basically everything you say, and I agree that developers should be able to choose the SSPL, because usually the choice is between SSPL-and-maintained and open-but-languishing.

I think many people's disagreement here is that Redis broke its promise to always remain BSD (https://redis.com/blog/redis-license-bsd-will-remain-bsd/).

I don't think you can say "yes but you can just fork it", because that ignores the reality that, sure, maybe eventually that fork will win, but right now the main fork (Redis) has a huge head start.
It is often used in swedish technical writing to separate and foreign word or an acronym from the plural so "VPS:es" in english is VPS:erna in swedish. I do not know if this is a swedish tradition, it most probably exists in Germany or the US. I've seen this use in Sweden for several decades.
Simple thing, yes as stated in the article, European VCs are very picky and strict about who to fund and also have a lot less cash, so they just invest in fewer, more carefully picked ventures, so their success rate is higher.

It's like a typical business that works well while it's small and only captures the best corner of a market but has it's returns deteriorate once it tries to serve virtually everyone.

Trick is to get same or better returns while having same or better deal volume, EU is far away from that.
Actually, probably lazy :) I know grandparents who actually try to learn IT stuff.
And 3) you ignore the judge's requests.
Not necessarily. It could be that ECDLP (Elliptic Curve Discrete Log Problem) is not as hard as we thought.

It's not inconceivable that it's in P (Polynomial time).

In fact, if we were to see current algorithms being broken right now, I think it's more likely to be due to a classical algorithm breakthrough than by quantum algorithms running on an actual large scale quantum computer with hundreds or thousands of logical (i.e. practically error-free) qubits.
> 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.

I think this applies to any Google product's search these days. As a company that started with a business in search, it is quite ironic.
So it is not a self-contained purpose. The purpose leaks into other aspects of reality.
It is! Taking into account that only the Schor algorithm is proven to be exponentially faster in factorising numbers and looking into current progress on using it, the threat for RSA 2048 will become real in ridiculous 2^2048 years. This can be estimated by taking three events in factorisation:

2002: factorisation of 15 [1]

2012: factorisation of 21 [2]

2022: factorisation of 35 by IBM (although the article is about number 21, but let’s give them credit) [3]

In a plot, the tendency is somewhat linear, with the factorised number increasing by one every year.

A sceptic immediately replies to this thread, saying we already have 100-1000 qubit quantum computers and are on the path to getting a million qubits in the foreseeable future. That may as well be true. The issue is that the Schoor algorithm requires that the error rate of the qubit operations scale exponentially with the number of qubits. This is why IBM only uses five qubits in [3], although they already had a hundred qubit QCs at that time. It just produces meaningless results when used with more qubits.

This is also why the line for factorisation is about to be linear. If the error rate of the qubit operations decreases by 20% every year and we have exponential progress, the usefulness of the Schor algorithm taken on a log scale would be linear.

The error correction is not a panacea either. It does not reduce errors to zero for logical qubits but rather reduces them after the error threshold is reached. It would require repeated application to get the necessary error threshold to run the Schor algorithm for a desired number, which would require an unreasonable number of qubits.

[1]: https://www.nature.com/articles/414883a

[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/nphoton.2012.259

[3]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.13855v1.pdf
Once you start saying "hardest race", my mind goes to people like Preet Chandi.

OTOH, doing "unsupported" solo expeditions across Antarctica may require a rather larger budget than doing a 60-hour foot race in Tennessee.
Scotland apologised for forced adoptions – but this happened throughout the UK
Original title: “Scotland apologised in 2023 for historic forced adoptions – but this happened throughout the UK”
And that is because of Googles influence on Firefox, how?

You are not engaging with anything I said. I asked for evidence of Google's control over Firefox beyond "they have a search engine deal", and you seem unwilling or unable to provide it. Therefore I can only assume it does not exist and are simply making spurious claims for which no evidence exists.
Twentysix year old RedHat 5.2 on QEMU i386
I started running years ago because of these videos too.
I may have dove down to many rabbit holes there, sorry if I did.

To wind it back a bit, are you disagreeing that with the idea that subsidies are meant to reduce consumer prices and tariffs are meant to increase prices on imported goods?

Or are you disagreeing with my argument that economics isn't that simply and pulling one lever can have multiple impacts that together may move prices in an unexpected way?
> adding features into the standard without having them being tested on field

Could not agree more. Modules are a perfect example of this.

> As for non-zero runtime overhead, that is long gone, since stuff like std::map, std::regexp

I have a little sympathy for this - they're libraries that are replaceable (yet you'd think we'd have learned from map, regex, unique_ptr that getting it right first time is impossible, and _maybe_ we should start putting these things in the language), and the overhead there is opt-in. In this case, if I have the following code:

char buf[SOME_VERY_LARGE_CONSTANT];
bool result = fill_buf_from_c_library(buf, sizeof(buf) / sizeof(buf[0]));
assert(result); // we've guaranteed at runtime that this memory is initialized

now comes with a significant performance hit with a compiler upgrade, and requires code changes to fix

> refusal from compiler vendors to break an ABI that isn't even defined on the ISO level, yet it blocks any proposal that has the side effect of breaking it.

And yet this is true at the same time. Madness.
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I love classless CSS frameworks, but I think it's a pity that there are only so few that use serif fonts. I'm grateful for any links if anybody has some hints.
Great questions!

Let me try to answer them:

1. Intuitively, the use case "I don't have time to type in prompt, but I want to query AI real-time" does make sense, but is there a real use case where people actually would find it useful and beneficial so that they would pay for this ability - is unknown. We decided to test it in this specific niche and very narrowed down usecase.

2. Currently we use groq-sdk with Mixtral-8x7b. We tried gpt-3.5, gpt-4turbo, claude 3, but for our specific use case speed and the ease of predictable output made groq-sdk our choice for now.

3. RAG is coming, but first we would try something much simpler and launch a feature where you could upload a CV. We would parse it and add to system prompt.

4. Open source is a great idea, but I personally believe that this whole family of voice-driven, real-time ai assistants (that are definitely coming, no questions about it) need a lot of product refinement. Just to share our code now would give immediate value for developers who wants to do the same, but not for the end users. And to be honest, even our code, although being thoughtful and efficient in solving specific challenges (like async orchestration of many bg processes), I don't think it would bring a lot of value now. So yes, once the product side will have more data from users and the product itself would be bit more shaped - sure
> 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.

Recently, during an interview [1], when questioned about OpenAI's Sora, Shantanu Narayen (Adobe CEO) gave an interesting perspective on where value is created. His view (paraphrased generously)..

GenAI entails 3 'layers': Data, Foundational Models and the Interface Layer.

Why Sora may not be a big threat is because Adobe operates not only at first two layers (Data and Foundational model) but also at the interface layer. Not only Adobe perhaps knows better than anyone else what is need and workflow of a moviemaker, but I guess most importantly they already have moviemakers as their customers.

So product companies like Adobe (& Microsoft, Google etc.) are in better position to monetize GenAI. Pure-play AI companies like OpenAI are perhaps in B2B business. Actually, they maybe really in api business, they would have great data, would be building great foundational models and giving results of those as APIs; which other companies who are closer to their unique set of customers with their unique needs would be able to monetize and some part of those $$ flows back to pure-play AI companies

[1] At 5 mins mark.. https://www.cnbc.com/video/2024/02/20/adobe-ceo-shantanu-nar...
I'm not saying that there aren't other motives, but there are legitimate security concerns.

Credential stuffing is a huge issue for large providers and requiring 2FA is a huge mitigation. Sure, a targeting attack will make the SIM swap, but that is a huge difficulty upgrade from generic credential stuffing.
Sure, classify them as lazy. I’ll prefer to recommend the older people in my family to use iPads and iPhones, and they can spend the time they are not learning IT stuff to do things they are already good at or want to do.
Companies are aware of the current AI generation being a tool and not a full replacement (or they will be after the first experiments they perform).

They will not downsize, they will train their workforce or hire replacements that are willing to pick up these more powerful and efficient tools. In the hands of a skilled professional there will be no uncanny valley.

This will result in surplus funds, that can be invested in more talent, which in turn will keep feeding AI development. The only way is up.

Not allowing copyright on AI generated work is a ridiculous and untenable decision that will be overturned eventually.
Re: that "yet". I noticed that after a recent update on my Quest the OS gave me a pop-up about a new feature, that when enabled would allow the device to remember my play boundaries and restore them automatically rather than requiring they be re-entered every time the system gets confused about where I am. I was a little confused why it didn't just turn that on by default, it seemed like a straight upgrade to the current handling and shouldn't require anything but a bit of local storage. Scrolling down in the pop-up I was informed that enabling the feature would authorize Facebook to scan my surroundings and upload a complete map of them to use for whatever purposes they desired. I guess they legally need consent for that, and tying a feature improvement to data collection is still totally allowed somehow. So I imagine that they are building that real-world dataset presently.
cf the 1990s version. Skip to the end for a song which is enough of an earworm for me to still remember it after 30 odd years...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVF8gCzrXnc
I remember people saying that the concept of full scale Russian invasion of Ukraine was silly.

I think you are underestimating dictators in their 70s with nothing to lose, power of propaganda and the fact that when there is war, there is opportunity to make fortunes.
That notion isn't universal. In Germany, for instance, I can't install a camera pointing to the street.
Learn how to use JavaScript format numbers with commas to display numbers in a readable way. An easy and practical guide.
Curiously, the accumulated vertical climb is twice Everest's height.
Theoretically you gain denormalization benefits at scale so I’m reading it as arguing for normalization.
Sorry I'm not well versed in the story and it's still not clear to me what he did wrong.

Where is the controversy here? Is the CEO expected to contribute to research? there seems to be some context I'm missing
> And they don't have a competitive advantage in that.

Sure they do. As the original authors of the product, they should have the best understanding of its features, and are in the best position to augment it in ways other pure hosting competitors can't or won't. They have first-mover advantage to build novel features, and integrate them into commercial propositions that benefit their customers first. They should also know best how to deploy and scale the product, even if their competitors excel at this.

If Redis Labs wasn't able to compete with AWS and other pure hosting providers, then they failed at taking advantage of their position. This is not an indication that the open core model can't be successful for both OSS users and the business. E.g. see Grafana.

Of course, this also depends on the nature of the product. A general purpose database or another core infrastructure product is much more attractive for hosting competitors than a purpose-built product.
I think it was pretty clear what I mean. Good, great, slightly good, amazing. It’s the same thing.
It's definitely not a bug. Pardon the cliché but it is most definitely a feature, just like the propaganda against any kind of collective action is.
Not sure what all these windows issues are - assuming you have windows pro or above, just disable auto update installation and win11 nagging via GPO.
If Marc writes something it doesn’t become the definition of e/acc. Marc is hyperbolic and he gets a lot of clicks and eyeballs. As a VC though, he does it for his interest.

E/acc has many interpretations. In the most basic sense it means “technology accelerates growth”. One should work on better technology and making it widely distributed. Instead of giving away money, one can have the biggest impact on humanity with e/acc.

we’ve been effectively accelerating for the past 200 years.

Nothing hyper libertarian there.
Or just pack lighter if you can.

Trains are great in general. They also tend to be a poor fit for anything much more than carry-on. I've done it and managed but it's better not to if you can.
And yet I agree with both. SQL is at the same time easy to get started, incredibly powerful and yet also a complete disaster. Just like JavaScript but with standards you have to pay to read and implementers take their sweet time to implement. ORMs (with the possible exception of JOOQ, whose open source version is unfortunately also very limited) are hopelessly limited and have been a drag on the development of the field ever since.
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> This isn't a free or safe choose one scenario.

And yet the choose one scenario is the one that has worked best for me. My dad would fill up his Android phone with malware regardless of scare screens. The solution was simple, and allowed at least him and I to spend more time doing other things.
> But I just can’t give normalization up.

> Don't.
Tiktok.
Look, surely it would do so, if the product become mainstream.

However, recently I suggested a Github Copilot to a dev, that was not really comfortable with filtering an array (easy task for anyone who code). This developer was on the salary in a product company (I have no idea how he achieved that). After 2 weeks I made this suggestion, he was fired. Copilot completely spoiled his undeveloped cognitive skills and he started to work even worse that he was before. Do Github Copilot team have a responsibility for what happened - I doubt it.

So yeah, tech is double-edged sword 100%. Use it wisely.
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Figma to Angular/Angular Material
We are upgrading our Figma UI Kit for Angular Material Components from version 14 to 17 and developing a UI Builder that can read a Figma mockup (UI screen) built using our UI Kit and convert it into an Angular component, allow a developer to perform data binding, preview the component on various devices, and export the Angular code.

The value proposition is to significantly reduce the time a UI developer takes to re-implement a Figma mockup in Angular.

From what we understand, around 50% of Angular teams use Angular Material exclusively, and 50% of Angular teams use UI Designers.

Before we go ahead and spend months upgrading the UI Kit and developing the UI Builder, we want to understand whether or not Figma Designers / Angular devs among you would potentially use them.

We appreciate any feedback.
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I don't mind this stylistic choice, but I think the author's rule proves too much. If one scale is arbitrary, why is there a graph at all? The impact of the axis line is surely much smaller than the chart itself.