skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Partially like being an ass for fun.

My first question is what does a GPT have to do with solving this problem? Honest question, because I don't see how a language model helps solve this, so if your do have a clear explanation it will be appreciated. I get they parse image data but have they demonstrated better accuracy for this use case (grocery items/food) than what was available when Amazon started their campaign?

There's also the fact that, yes more data gives better results... To a point. At this stage, I'm inclined to think we've hit that point when it comes to deep learning models' ability for object recognition and we're in a plateau until a rational new approach (i.e. not deep learning) allows for another leap.

My last is more socialogically rooted. Namely, it's pretty clear that since sama said he'd need $7 Trillion, AI peddlers have jumped the shark and we're seeing a slow motion deflation of the major claims, even concerning LLMs (don't get me wrong, very impressive tech, but no where near the heights and capabilities of the hucksters). For that reason I'm very inclined to lean towards skepticism when people claim they've found a solution by incremental improvements to a problem that's proven to be very, very difficult for a computer to handle.

I think we're nearing a general plateau in deep learning and need the next foundational approach or what we could find ourselves in another deep AI winter.

Any reason you think my skepticism is unfounded and why 5 years?
> The fees range from around 1.5% to ~3%, and the 2.5%-3%+ fees are limited to ~10% of customers. An average fee of 3% doesn't make sense.

That's just the interchange fee, not what merchants are actually paying. Stripe charges a flat 2.9% + $0.30 and this is considered competitive:

https://stripe.com/pricing

For a $20 transaction, that's 4.4%, and that's for everybody, not just the people with rewards cards.
Dow closes 500 points lower, worst day since March 2023
https://bgaeta.com/hola
As I said, I'm sorry about your brother, truly. That doesn't take away from the fact that all our curses and all our blessings are fundamentally ours to bear. I'm not doling out any consequences, just advocating for individualism and voluntary association. These are the principles that underpin our prosperity. I've lived through plenty of misfortune and suffering. All of that is mine though. I would rather die screaming in agony than pry greedily into the pocket of an unwilling stranger. I'm somewhat disappointed we cannot disagree about this in a friendly manner.
My approach to generating a music video was to generate scenes using DALL-E 3, and then animate those using Stable Video Diffusion (SVD).

SVD doesn't have well-controllable motion and is utterly blown out of the water by Sora, but it's what we have right now.

Here's the resulting vid, "a death metal song about a macro photographer":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNVRQ1Zg-a0

If you only want a video file from Suno to share with the default static lyrics screen on it, hit Download Video from the three-dots menu.
Russia entered into an international agreement guaranteeing Ukraine’s territorial integrity (Minsk), and subsequently clearly violated it. Israel and Palestine have no such agreement, though they’ve come relatively close to making one, and both countries have repeatedly violated the other’s territorial sovereignty over the past 80 years. They’re very different cases.
(2015)

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9523078
Isn't it a matter of scale still though? Presumably search engine cost could be much less per account once you have as many users as Netflix has. Assuming a large chunk of the cost of Kagi is the quality and curating, not just sheer server OPEX.

(Maybe a bold assumption, I don't have insight.)
Nobody is complaining about gmod, halo forge, custom minecraft maps, etc.

This entire economy is unnecessary. I love that roblox allows anyone to learn/make/distribute, but the f2p nature of the game makes it slimy in a way that others are not.
HDMI is a farce

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/hdmi-forum-to-amd-no...
It says "Sponsored by Microsoft AI Co-Innovation Lab".

You could try emailing them (aiotlabs@microsoft.com, from their website) and asking whether they're really sponsoring that conference.
> 1. What is the total weight of loaded resources?

Current release clocks in at 326 Kb over the network, with brotli. We have been focussed on getting the functionality and have yet to start working on reducing the total size. There are optimizations we can do with ThorVG and emscripten and eliminating some of the dependencies we currently use. Aiming for < 200 Kb.

> 2. If I would like to add some animations to my website.

We believe so! With the Lottie animations converted to dotlottie (using our website or the opensource tooling), there is significant further file reduction to Lottie animations, especially if you choose to bundle multiple animations into a single dotlottie distribution. Depending on the number of animations you have, the currently somewhat large player size is offset by the further reduction and bundling. It becomes an even better proposition if you are using theming to change colors or values in the animation for different themes the website may have. The vector nature of the format also makes it ideal if dynamic resizing for media size adjustments are a requirement!

> 3. How good is the support among the different browsers on the desktop and mobiles?

With the current release, we are targetting for full compatibility and consistency in the modern evergreen browsers. We haven't yet tested the compatibilty with older browsers though. The support on mobile is great on both Android and iOS, as well as for desktop apps.
And it’ll probably be hard to opt out of it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643421
I have a lot of tech / healthcare couples in my friend group and this is definitely the arrangement. Especially true since healthcare careers have very different timelines than tech.

In once instance, one partner is a clinician and absolutely has to be on site 5 days a week, not counting on-call. The other works 100% remote but the company is global, so depending on the week they may be on Europe time or Australia time.

This is definitely a work arrangement I couldn't have imagined being common 10 years ago. This shift will likely be one of the defining economic changes between the 10's and the 20's.
"Say 'McDonalds' to end commercial":

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/bsx72f/say_...
Ok. Now you’re just reading the script from the hit Disney channel movie Smart House
I've never worked for a tech company. But I have worked for two bulge-bracket investment banks. So it's been interesting to read of how tech companies recruiting works.

During my initial training/orientation period as a new analyst at Goldman Sachs in 1999, the person conducting the meeting asked people to stand up if they had had 5, 10, 20, etc. interviews for their job offer. One person stood up when the group was asked who had had more than 40 interviews.

I was very unusual in only having four interviews before my GS offer. For that job, I'm pretty sure the person looking to fill the role personally contacted my college's recruiting service (because she had received her MBA from there). For the second job, at Citigroup, I saw a Craigslist listing either by the person himself or his assistant, talked to someone I knew at the firm who worked near him, then reached out to the person directly. In both cases the person hiring did my first (and, in the second case, the only) interview, and I never talked to a true HR person, let alone recruiter, before receiving the offer.

I've been told that this sort of hiring does happen in tech, but it sure seems rare compared to all the stories I read here.
Reference, for context: https://c2pa.org/

And: the BBC just started using C2PA across some content. The BBC's R&D team talking about it: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-03-c2pa-verification-news...
How to Size Text in CSS
I'll cut it out of the cable with a pair of scissors.
I hadn't even considered the task of going through old code and using this to make it more compliant, this is a great use case for this feature.
> Every game programmer needs a strong math background.

I disagree even though math was my favourite subject in the school. I think I truly only enjoyed math and physics. They were the only subjects I felt like I could actually problem solve and not have to memorise facts I can't relate to or do not know what to do with. But really the maths taught at school also seemed like not really related to creativity, but more like memorise this formula => rote practice with this formula, on and on from there. While if it was about game dev, or programming, it would've been more about learning to problem solve in a bit more creative ways.

> Every good game designer cribs extensively from history and literature.

This highly depends on the game, the designer and multitude of different factors. I despised history when I was in school, but now that I've got older I've grown natural interest towards it which has allowed me to learn it with magnitudes higher effectiveness compared to when I was a child. Without my own life, and trying my own things, I didn't have interest in history, because I hadn't lived, so I didn't have anything to relate it to. I was clueless about people's motivations in history. It was just a compilation of random facts that I was forced to learn. Understanding people, their motivations, goals is the most important part of history, and without understanding those aspects, I just don't understand how I could be interested in history enough to not think of it as random facts.
As PCIe gets faster so does memory so it continues being a bottleneck.
How many great ideas have been published by horrible writers, and thus overlooked by the whole world?
If it means that nobody else can implement this without costing a huge amount of money in licensing, this is a net positive.
This has been at the top all day.

I wonder: For low-traffic websites, is it possible that running HTTP/1.1 is just safer?
I wonder if the reasoning capability of a moe model is limited by the max size of the individual experts?
Nice astro-turfing, lol
Probably not, given the possibility that they can be const_casted back into mutable values. Locating static const values in read-only pages would result in crashes from valid statements in the language. In other words if you put a static const in a read only page, it would probably be considered a bug in your linker.
Keep going IMO: shorten the title to remote correspondents since the rest is redundant with the column names. The blue highlight is now redundant with the title so ditch all of it. Personal characteristics vs location don’t meaningfully improve the organization so ditch those as well.
As a non-native speaker I appreciate comments like GP, because they let me improve my English and speak better. It's not pedantic if the "shamer" is obviously right (I've consulted internet and it looks like he is). I think correcting other people speech is valuable because it lets us all understand each other better.
> I've built my career on Apple platforms and honestly this is basically what people have said about it since the beginning.

Do you have recommendations for learning Objective-C for a front-end web developer?

I'm starting with "Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide" but would appreciate resources recommended by someone who's built a "career on Apple platforms".

My apologies for so open-ended a question.
Related:

Roku data breach: Over 15k accounts affected

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39674041
Thankfully we are not completely stuck with HDMI

USB-C connectors using the DisplayPort protocol is the best of all worlds

https://www.displayport.org/displayport-over-usb-c/
A Musical Playground for Scales
Most of it goes to Google.

I am based in central Europe and Kagi is less than 1/2 of my hourly rate per month. And it definitely saves at least that much.
You will rent "your" DRM protected PC, and we will inject Ads into your brain
If you're interested in the topic there is the aptly-named "Raytracing in one weekend" series of free books:

https://raytracing.github.io/
Someone recommended that I skip straight to Tehanu, the last Earthsea book, and that was let me get Earthsea. I didn't actually follow that advice, I read all of the books in order, but knowing that I had Tehanu coming made it easier to get through the others.

It's not perfect, but I think where the other books are interesting but simple stories for children, Tehanu feels like it was written for those children as they've grown up - it's basically (without spoiling too much) the retirement and twilight years of characters from the rest of the series. And as a result, it feels like a more applicable or relevant story.
Looks like there was concern about this all the way back in 2016: https://twitter.com/lsstepo/status/804412225926463488
What's the fee for counterfeit cash? Or illegally gained cash?

What's the fee for cash the requires quite a bit of change? What's the fee for cash that is composed of very small values (e.g. quarters and dimes for a tv)?

It's interesting that all of these complications are ignored entirely when pricing payment methods. Handling cash isn't free and carries risk.
> explicitly paged to disk

Example would help. Most paging nowadays is implicit, transparent to the program.

Are you talking about some old-school overlays or something? Multiple objects in mass storage are mapped to the same address in memory, multiplexed in the time domain?
good lord, what a take
to add another anecdote: I've been using it for a year and it is really good. less garbage in the results of the sort of searches I make, no ads, no tracking, no logging, a nice UI to affect my own personal search results in ways I prefer (banning sites I consider crap from results, up and downranking others based on my opinion).

most importantly, it's just a simple, clear business transaction: I give them money, they provide a search engine in return. no trying to make me click on ads, no trying to encourage me to use it or let it track me to make money some other way, no worries about how they manage to provide a service to me, no worries about what future management might do with the huge morass of personal data they have acquired.

every now and then I can't find what I'm looking for and try Google, and the vast majority of the time Google can't find it either. it's pretty sad that a tiny new upstart can actually replace the once formidable Google Search for me, but c'est la vie.
https://tenor.com/view/not-the-bees-gif-26245123
There doesn't appear to be much of a point to the article.
Nothing’s stopping me but…

I’d rather buy a phone from a company where the phone is the product and not one where the OS is from an advertising company (Yes I know Apple are an advertiser too)

I originally used Android but got fed up with the lack of updates. I know Google have fixed this somewhat but they have a history of abandoning things
You probably know better than me, but in those 6 weeks I drove in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, and I charged a lot, in many different stations. Many did not accept a credit card:

In Scotland, many chargers only accepted some specialty charging card that foreigners can't buy.

Many stations claimed they do accept credit cards, but when I got there, card payments were conveniently "disabled at this time".

Apps that did take credit card _all_ refused to work with non-British billing addresses. The only app I got to work was ChargePoint, and I only succeeded in that after many trails and errors, looking for ways to trick it into thinking I was British and getting it to successfully charge my card (which eventually I did). And they do not charge your card per session, they randomly bill your card based on usage predictions. They still haven't returned me the 75 pounds they stole from me on the last day of my rental, because they figured I was surely going to need them soon.

And again, no receipts anywhere.

All in all, it was an awful experience.

EDIT: I only now notice that I wrote _most_ stations only link with your credit card. That's most probably an exaggeration, I suppose that was just the impression I ended with. All in all, I wasted exorbitant amounts of time on that trip purely on charging. Quite a few stations also failed on me, now that I'm ranting. In Northern Ireland, chargers often could not be used because there was no cell reception so I couldn't use the app, and cards were not accepted. One charger abruptly terminated my session mid-charge and made a scary noise and refused to work again. Turns out the charger stopped because _it itself_ lost Internet connection.
Sorry, 16 Kb would be a dream for us but we aren't there! The Javascript for the play API and bindings for WASM is around 18 Kb now - but the WASM bundle that is then loaded is currently 308 Kb. :(
Probably A/B testing but mine answers most questions these days, I swear even those it couldn't answer in the past. It hasn't given me the I don't know answer in a long while. Still mostly used for lights, morning alarms, shop opening hours, asking if my dog can eat my snack and the weather.

I know others here saying they can do it themselves but nothing beats asking google to turn off the lights in the house when I've forgotten and I'm cosy in bed already.
Not playing everywhere is an existential risk. Because IT is so integrative, if anyone gets a huge leg up in any sector, Apple risks getting shut out in a lot of other sectors.

Spatial Computing/iVision is, for example, a claim in vr. It gives them some exposure to the market, some ability to extend & integrate their existing application/computing ecosystem into this medium. Ditto for all the other pieces; they're all integrative. Smart speakers work with airplay. iWatch works with iPhone works with iOS. The close integration lets them rebuff innovation in any other field: no one small can come along and build the next VR headset or the best watch to compete with Apple in any of these sectors, because no one can integrate like Apple. No one else has all the products. You have to have complete over the horizon horizontal control to keep your intense market power, and Apple is invested above all in there never being a chink in that armor, in making sure they can completely dictate the shape of all products by producing & owning all the products themselves. This is Apple.

Hence, Apple has to dabble everywhere. It maintains the most, it prevents real competition from forming, and it earns them a couple % revenue here and there to boot.

Expressing an entirely different brand of cynicism, I'd also ask: where else could Apple look to expand into? None of these sectors has been a runaway success. But it's not like Apple's missing the boat on some massive new tech that a huge new Total Addressable Market. It's been absent from Crypto and AI but generally it's just expanding wherever there's any opportunity, and why not when you have the cash & when any sector could become huge?
I don't understand why plain old volatile wouldn't be enough to prevent constant propagation.
Really? I was ready to ditch Google not pay them through third parties. Oh well..
So many things:

* Device support

* OS security

* Compatibility with existing Apple devices (Mac, etc)

* Quality of apps

* Ease of use

I'll break these down, but before I do... I used to be an Android user from basically day one (Android Dev Phone), I switched away after the Pixel and never looked back.

* Device support

What Android phone do I buy? Will it be filled with crap I can't remove when I buy it? If I buy a phone, and I have an issue with it where can I go and get a replacement quickly? How long will my phone receive updates?

I feel like Android devices are a choice of Samsung Galaxy S-series phones or Google Pixel phones. Samsung ones have the crapware, Google ones don't get updates for very long. Samsung not much longer it seems.

* OS Security

I don't trust that an Android phone isn't phoning home all the time. Also, updates don't last very long on the OS so after a few years my phone is vulnerable.

* Compatibility with other Apple devices

I like the seamless nature of the Apple ecosystem. My photos/apps/messages/files are on all my devices. Android would break that.

* Quality of apps

I feel like the quality of apps on the iPhone is higher and that cross platform apps on the iPhone tend to be worse.

* Ease of use

I think Android finally got rid of the extra buttons for back and menu on every device but whenever (rarely) I use an Android device for something I don't find it easy to use. This has gotten worse, IMO. Earlier Android devices made more sense to me.
I still hate that turning off one of my monitors moves the windows to the other still on monitor...
Thanks for the ref! Checking it out
Yeah. It's the same results. Sans 90% of the spam. And it gets better as you blacklist the frequent offenders yourself.
French couple who kept 159 cats banned from keeping pets
For those unaware, this is a reference to the real, actual patent Sony was granted that requires the user to stand up, T-Pose, and shout “MacDonalds!” in order to skip an ad.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/
> When the media device pauses the media content, the display device can determine that a pause event has occurred and insert an ad shown on the display device.

Hilarious. I love how all the streaming companies are hijacking the pause control now. Why do you think I hit pause? Pick one or more of the following:

1. I need to go to the bathroom.

2. I want to inspect the current frame more carefully.

3. I want to see an ad for psoriasis medication.

Hint: One of the above answers is wrong. Think about it and get back to me. I'll wait. (I did hit pause after all.)
Boy if iCloud defaults annoy you, wait until you see recent versions of Windows.

By default they put your entire desktop folder, documents folder, etc. as children folders of the OneDrive folder now.

It's absolutely infuriating
That's certainly a factor for me.
Lay off the pods and youtube for a bit.
I use Kagi an order or two of magnitude more than what I use the streaming services I pay for.

It's a small operation with no VC money to dump prices and subsidise it for you, it's very in line to what I imagine paying for under these conditions.
I disagree - I don't think $10 / month is insane. Our low price expectations are driven by SaaS companies optimizing for growth, not profitability. Look at some of those "affordable" products out there: Slack, Asana, Shopify, all not profitable. The biggest surprise here, I think, is that VC-driven "growth first" companies have shifted customer expectations to think that everything should either be free or sub-$10 / month. The economic reality, however, looks quite different, if companies would aim for profitability (not many in the HN bubble do).
I still remember when that was all the Web offered, the glory days of HTML 2.0.
I don’t disagree. All I can say is that Cloudflare alumni and employees have some of the worst people I’ve come across in the industry. Toxic, rude, egotistical, and weirdly elitist for no reason.

I don’t know why or what it is, but that’s just been my experience…so I don’t have the best depiction of the company overall
If I'm getting this right, any ads you'd see on a Roku would be hosted by the apps themselves e.g. Youtube and such. So Roku wants a piece of the ad action and this is the only way to do it without the burden of providing any actual content.
> I just can't see even the best search engine either costing that much to run or

why is that hard to imagine? the fixed costs of a search engine are enormous, and Google has 1) coming on three decades of investment in sunk costs and 2) billions of users now.

> providing that much value.

that's obviously a personal judgement you have to make for yourself.

having a quite good search engine that is happy to just take my money in exchange for a useful service is definitely worth three coffees/month to me.