skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I very much agree with your observation that the involvement from hardware vendors was minimal. It definitely would have been advantageous to slow down, and it's beyond disappointing that it wasn't pursued further. They absolutely dropped the ball in that regard.

AV1, however, is first and foremost a video format. A very popular one at that. It's perfect for video, and that explains the great industry support. The fact it is the most promising option for video is why it's seen hardware vendor support, not because AVIF is ideal. JPEG XL unfortunately doesn't have this luxury, but still could have done better. This doesn't mean that JPEG XL can't see support now, though, and there are plenty of opportunities for hardware support now it's been proven viable.

While there are certainly employees at Google that have contributed to JPEG XL recently, I'm still yet to see any evidence that the company itself has provided any direct support lately.
What kind of reach? Just making a lot of money?From the article, it looks like they make a lot from market making in ETFs and similar. Thats an extremely competitive market that is necessarily a race to the bottom in terms of pricing
I am suspicious that reporting methods/thresholds may vary by state. The lines follow political boundaries too closely. When you see a very dry county next to a boozy one despite both being in the same metro area and with broadly similar populations it is hard to believe the data is accurate. Growing up in West Virginia I also don't think it is especially dry compared to neighboring Virginia or Ohio.
what's the point of this post?
That's overly pessimistic. It will be gamed to the same *ends*, but you'll have to game it in slightly different ways.
It's a clever way of getting around the accusations of stealing content. They can say that they are scraping it to make it searchable, just like Google.
Reminded me of Hacker Scripts, specifically `fucking-coffee`:

> this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens a telnet session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has a TCP socket up and running) and sends something like `sys brew`. Turns out this thing starts brewing a mid-sized half-caf latte and waits another 24 (!) seconds before pouring it into a cup. The timing is exactly how long it takes to walk to the machine from the dudes desk.

https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts
Show HN: Teamlight – Who's who, what they do, and what they've been working on
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The app is up on Product Hunt if you're feeling generous and would like to support it https://www.producthunt.com/posts/teamlight

I built it using Ruby on Rails and Tailwind and it's hosted on EC2 via Hatchbox (the website itself is a static site on Cloudflare Pages). Rails in 2024 is amazing and insanely productive! :-)
I don’t think I’d define the situation we’re in as capitalism.
Without even touching how every other thing you said is wrong (esp. about it being accurate), how is "algorithm" more descriptive than "artificial intelligence"?
ChatGPT already has browsing, it's just way slower than Perplexity. I'm impressed how quickly a Perplexity search runs and integrates the results into the LLMs response.
Try a different hierarchy? I imagine there could be someone at the bottom of the salary scale who only does information gathering, no responsibility, no ability to act on it. You periodically call them in to rubber duck them and/or write them a progress report.
The best local roaster in my town charges about $20 for a 12oz bag of specialty single origin coffee. Their blends are a little cheaper even.

The lowest price specialty coffee I could find online is about $12 for a little over 10oz from a place called S&W.

So $25 is a very bad value in my opinion.
Altman has said explicitly on several podcasts that they are working on search and that it was something he is particularly excited about.

I am guessing that this falls under the "we will steamroll" clause of OpenAIs gradual move towards AGI.
Seems to be about as accurate as a good geoguessr player on a time limit. Recognizable vistas are generally right down to the city, and even if there's only general architecture to go off it's often right to within a couple hundred kilometers.

The explanations are a bit hit and miss. Some are great and correctly describe the names of buildings in the picture, some are only vaguely related to the picture.

Ethically this is very questionable. Of course with enough dedication humans can do the same (e.g. Rainbolt has made a Youtube career out of this), but commoditizing this for every stalker around the world has some troubling implications.
They would be open themselves to a class action lawsuit and no one would use their LLMs so I doubt it
Imagine being an innocent developer trying to spin up some internal dev tooling and accidentally landing on the front page of HN to be misinterpreted as an attack against google which could affect both stock
Interesting concept, and it works somehow. But they definitely needs better web developers. Very strange flickering, what the hell is that?
Based on American definitions of binge drinking, one bottle of wine is a "binge".

In the UK (and probably most of Europe) that's what we have with a social lunch.
Where in the world (outside Gaza) does explicitly supporting Hamas (as opposed to opposing war crimes) "reap social capital"?
And record near 0% rates have led to the richer becoming richer and poorer becoming poorer.

The problem is, the people best suited to exploit near 0% are the wealthy who can take out absolutely massive loans, buy up companies, real estate and more, and jack prices. Which all leads to inflation ~~.

It's a death spiral.
High-quality self-hosten messenger is still a very much need for those who cannot put sensitive data on Slack servers.
With timestamp, as there's hardly any TTS speech in that video: https://youtu.be/493xbPIQBSU?t=605
This is close to an actual need I've managed to create for myself.

I do photography and I store those I want to share on nextcloud. In my selection and export process all metadata etc is stripped. But I realized too late that it also stripped out the geo-coordinates. No problem adding that in, but still have a laaarge amount of photos without geolocation data.

I'm too lazy to re-export all the older ones, so being able to run something like this on them would be perfect. I would be satisfied with a general area, roughly hitting the province/state its taken in. It doesn't have to be accurate at all, it's more for my own geo grouping.

This site though goes bananas on firefox/mac. Flickering and font adjustments..
Is Model Collapse Inevitable?
This is interesting. I don’t find that she’s hating on the tool at all - I think she’s frustrated by negative interactions that sap her energy, has taken note of that, and is explaining her absence.

I both agree and disagree with some of the comments. Until very recently my interactions with the internet have been fairly shallow and that has protected me in some ways. But I think some people are looking for community, and want to give a bit more of themselves to form deeper connections. I think others are trying to grow an audience - reading the comments is not much different than surveying your customers.

Veronica seems really lovely, and I hope this helps make her life happier.
Never underestimate the insanity of credentials-obsessed parents. (And maybe teens also.)
>Maybe don't buy property as an investment, but if someone actually wants to live in Japan, finds a nice bit of land, and can affordably build a nice place for themself in a small town or countryside I doubt the declining population is going to make them think twice.

Im going that extra bit here. You dont want to own even in non-investment purposes.

You propose some solitude life, but that will be a rather bad decision as people will tend to move into the cities because of affordable housing.
It will be interesting to see what happens to copyright claims against ChatGPT. Google can just remove claimed content from its index, what will OpenAI do?
First year of DESI results unveil new clues about dark energy
This assumes an awful lot about a person and what they may or may not need to do.

People don't have to learn to like anything, especially online commentary.

This thread sounds like a bunch of men attempting to invalidate this woman's feelings.
When I played around with implementing this last night I found using a radial basis function instead of Fourier coefficients (I tried the same, nice and parallel and easy to write) to be more well behaved in training networks of depth greater than 2.
> Is Tesla still actually worth more than the rest of the automotive industry?

Are you comparing market capitalisation? That's a bad metric in this case.

You need to compare enterprise value. Market capitalisation changes when a company moves its financing around between issuing bonds vs issuing stocks, even though the 'real' size and importance of the company doesn't change at all.

Enterprise value adds up all the equity and all the outstanding bonds (but removes all the cash that's just lying around) to give you a number that's relatively independent of capital structure.

The established car manufacturers likely use more debt on their balance sheets.
>Neko Health, with its smaller price tag, doesn’t perform M.R.I.s or X-rays. Instead, it uses about 70 different sensors and a mix of proprietary and off-the-shelf technologies to non-invasively measure heart function and circulation, and to photograph every inch of a patient’s body.

Feel like this should have been put way earlier in the article instead of repeatedly using the term "body scan" with no explanation for the entire first half of the piece. Not to say photos aren't useful, but I feel like many people think of mri/ct/x-rays when the word "scan" is used.
Why DOS .exe "MZ executables" can also begin with "ZM"
FYI, they never reply
Uber faces £250M lawsuit from London's black-cab drivers
All scenarios where anyone can comment anything are not equal, though.

F.ex. are anonymous comments allowed?

To some degree the platform defines the content it generates.
Is this just me or does Firefox become completely unusable when opening the homepage platform.uno?
Full mission capable rate for F-35B was just 14.9 percent
I find that Mastodon has become the mirror-verse version of Twitter/X. I've tried spending time on there but unless if you subscribe to certain political/ideological values then you wont find much to hang around for.

On the flip side I find the discourse on X a lot more varied. There are definitely big problems with the types of conversations that happen on X but I have to go out of my way to find them. On Mastodon it's not that hard, mainly down to it being a smaller pool of content.

ActivityPub/Mastodon is flawed at its core with its concept of federation. They paint a pretty utopian picture of decentralised communities but there really isn't much difference between them. They are mostly part of the same political zeitgeist and if you don't toe the line you get banned. Once you're banned that's it, you've lost your profile, sure you can recreate elsewhere but have to start from scratch.

For the problems alternatives have like Nostr at least they are truly censorship resistant.
I think the cost of borrowing to purchase goods for production could have a one time hit to prices. The production cycle should price in the new cost of borrowing on the next round.
Are you telling me that one of American capitalism's peaks is basically a worker collective?
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FlutterFlow (https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flutterflow/jobs)
When "best" is the enemy of "good enough"
Resistance training is, of course, 100% what astronauts already do on the ISS; how to optimally exercise in zero gee (and cramped conditions) has been extensively studies for half a century now. So it’s kind of understandable if some one wants to study a mode of exercise that works on the Moon and is not resistance-based.
You can just browse the backpage for a bigger city to get an idea of prices. Apparently basic sex pays below $200h/h in Seattle (chosen at random), so those higher prices would likely be for a night/event/high class.
Can someone tell me how all that leet coding doesn't lead to their AI having better coding ability? More fizz buzz has been spilled on google whiteboards than in any other place on earth.
Nice, that's like doing the link phase before the compilation.
> If you are a business and need to borrow money to fund production or expansion, it costs a lot more to borrow that money than it did two years ago.

Yes, and so the hurdle rate to break even is that much higher, a higher needed-ROI discourages economic activity as it is much harder to get that ROI, and slower economic activity will hopefully reduce inflation.

> That means your cost of production is higher and you will seek to raise prices.

Or discourage you from expanding, which can have knock-on effects of slower economic activity (hiring fewer works so less competition on labour wages, building few plants so not spending on construction, etc).

Business do not expand for the sake of expanding regardless of external factors: they expand to increase revenues on which they earn a profit on. If the cost of expansion is high(er), and so a larger margin is needed, then the business may forgo expansion if they can't get that margin.

If you know can sell something for 10% over the raw material cost, and your production costs add 5%, then the cost of capital being 2% or 6% is the different between a 3% profit or a 1% loss.
Ever looked at the SWF format before?

It's a series of tags. Things like DefineShape, DefineMorphShape, DefineSprite (Movie Clip), DefineText, DefineBits (image), DefineBitsJPEG2 (jpeg), DefineButton, DefineFont2, PlaceObject2 (placing the shapes onto the stage to define a frame), RemoveObject (removing shapes from the stage),

Then Flash 8 added in graphics filters and blending modes. So movie clips can have filters applied like Blur or Outline, then use Additive blending so that explosions can light up the scene, things like that.

If you want to define a simple graphics format that is limited to one frame, and has no scripting, you could use only tags DefineShape, DefineSprite, and PlaceObject/PlaceObject2 just to place vector objects (without bitmap fills) on a scene. If you want to support the use of bitmap fills, you add in the image tags DefineBits and DefineBitsJPEG/DefineBitsJPEG2.
To state the obvious: When left alone I start with the complicated stuff then plow though the remaining easy bits. When disrupted regularly I grow a giant void in the middle of my project where the complicated stuff should have been.
This is just photography not radiation or magnetism, so some of those examples wouldn't come up...but I imagine skin cancer and some other preventative concerns might be addressed?
Couldn’t try an example without creating an account. I’d like to see how it works with a real example before creating an account. I don’t create accounts without seeing a concrete example.

The idea, if it works, is a good one.
You're describing the difference between fluid and crystallized intelligence. the first one peaks at age ~20, the second one peaks at age ~50:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid_and_crystallized_intelli...
Slamball would be a sight, that's all I can say.
Funny enough it was accurate all while citing items that were not in the picture (not even cropped out), like tall buildings and signs in a specific language. I'm sure there will be refined versions that are scarily accurate. Another OSINT tool for better or worse.
How does this differ from outputting wgpu from rust?
Roll out the barrel!

More seriously, the fact that Wisconsin is clearly visible, down to the exact state border, is remarkable.
Who funds FUTO?
Somebody has PUT options on Alphabet? :-)
Unknown but unlikely. Doubtful that ownership shares are anywhere near equal.
"Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you keep it a secret! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?"
The result are by county, so they will follow political boundaries no matter what since that’s how counties are designed. Look at Denver - very dark red obtuse shapes next to mild yellow on all sides.
If the rate stays steady it should not drive continuing inflation. Increasing interest rates only effecting shaky businesses. If a business has sufficient cash flow interest rates will have a small effect.
if companies increase the prices, then increasing the salaries cancels out of the price increase.

It's like a room with 10 adults and 20 phones, every adult can get 2 phones, then inflation man brings 10 adults into a room decreasing everyone's entitlement to 1 phone each.

The the company adds 10 adults and then 10 phones, it means that every one still gets the same reduced amount of phones: 1.
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Wisconsin, are you okay?
Interesting to see Gallatin County (Bozeman, MT) being #1

I am also pretty sure we have the highest rate of fatal drinking + driving incidents. [1]

Our breweries also close at 8pm and you can get a maximum of three drinks. However, you can just go to the nearest bar / casino / liquor store (its the same place) and drink until 2am. Pretty backwards.

It's also insanely cost prohibitive to get just a beer + wine license in Bozeman. A full liquor license is almost a magnitude more expensive. I heard the local Texas Roadhouse paid 1.4 million for their full license.

[1] The scale of Montana is insane. Its about 1.5 times the size of England with 2% of the population. When were driving to the next town over it can be 45 minutes and you can happily pass cops cruising at 90. Mix this with alcohol and you have a lot of bad accidents.
A little further down:

> The real money is at the top. The bond prospectus reveals that Jane Street has 40 “equity unit holders on a full-time basis and in good standing”, with an average tenure of 16 years. Among those there will be at least a handful of billionaires, even if no Jane Streeter appears on any rich lists.

Sounds like any other partnership. A few people at the top are providing the equity and getting a profit share, and the thousands under them are getting salaries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40234028
If only the police had to follow the laws they enforce.
I suppose you're trying to answer in good faith, but -to me at least- the problem is that XMPP has always worked beautifully for single-server deployments (or let's say, single organization), i.e. when a game company does their internal chat and absolutely controls not even the client app, but also the client version.

The problems have always been the interaction between different clients, or federation.

So XMPP, the protocol, is quite widespread in use "internally" at dozens of huge deployments.

XMPP as a general chat protocol with people federating and using different clients is basically dead. (Although I suppose it's in a better shape now than 5-8 years ago, maybe Snikket and some other players are managing to give it a more widespread comeback).

Source: Absolutely anecdotal, just a random guy who has used XMPP for work over 10 years ago, ran several own XMPP servers, and who shut it all down because none of the contacts continued using it.

PS: Oh, and if CCP actually still uses XMPP for EVE Online, it's not working very well. The ingame chat goes nuts at least once per week, with "only" 30k people online and most of them separated to channels of probably not more then 5k except in extreme situation.
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I think the surgeon general of Basque recommends no more than 7 glasses of wine a day.
Perplexity is pretty amazing. I've tried asking really obscure questions and it just answers them almost immediately and with decent sources every time.
Just because someone links to and has the ability to commentate on your work does not mean that you need to read/engage/acknowledge the commentary.
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It seems that even taking geotagged photos is illegal in China, indeed some camera models automatically disable geotagging when inside China: https://ogleearth.com/2012/05/why-do-panasonic-leica-fujifil...
Might also be that Jane Street is to OCaml what WhatsApp was to Erlang. Many ascribed the success of the small team at WhatsApp to their tech-stack, Erlang and FreeBSD. The reality probably was that they had hired really smart people, and those people choose to use Erlang (because eJabberd), but they could have been just as successful using another language.

Yes, Jane Street uses OCaml, they have no reason to stop using OCaml, but may very well have been just as successful using another language. It's hard to tell, when we don't know the full circumstances of why they went with OCaml initially.
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I have hard time believing current rates are unusually high. They might be slightly above ideal.
I think there is an even simpler solution, and it's the one the author mentions...

stop using that medium to post things.
On the other side he said, the "next Copy of Google Search" would be boring. So let's see what they try to make differently

https://youtu.be/jvqFAi7vkBc?t=4681
A server allowed to hold preview.example.com (and its associated DNS records) cannot pass dns-01 for *.example.com. Unless you have no authz on your DNS configuration, in which case this server is allowed to hold prod.example.com since it can edit that record.
Imho, inflation has a lot less to do with the perception than bimodal income separation.

Either you're "fine" or you're very much not fine.

Which is why you get people talking past each other.
Memory bandwidth is the major bottleneck holding iGPUs back, the conventional approach to CPU RAM is absolutely nowhere near fast enough to keep a big GPU fed. I think the only way to break through that barrier is to do what Apple is doing - move all of the memory on-package and, unfortunately, give up the ability to upgrade it yourself.
The amount of json you get from it it terrifying. If you do play, I found when piping though jq it could not keep on on my machine, but a jq clone called jaq handled it with no problem.
Either would've been preferable to what was done. Waiting on a provably fruitless trial in the midst of pandemic is regulatory homicide.

Throughout 2020, more than 9% of all people in nursing homes died of covid. Depending on age case fatality rates were upwards of 50%. The vaccine should've been offered to these people on a compassionate use basis. Even at the time it was obvious that actual harm posed by the virus vastly outweighed any hypothetical risk of adverse vaccine reaction. Drastically expanding the vaccinated population through compassionate use would have rapidly provided efficacy and safety data.
> C# is a weird outlier for having a very large user base but very few decent cross-platform GUI support.

MAUI is pretty decent.
Is Google a worker collective just because new employees are thrown a handful of shares?