skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon is great at a lot of things, but AI and Machine Learning aren't it. From what I saw when I worked there, they don't have the talent to produce their own models (which is, I think, what we all expected to see), but the surprising thing is that they haven't partnered yet.
Seconded on both accounts.
Yes, it is very cool, but I think you're missing the point that many of these features, because they were already available, aren't world changing. They've been in the ether for a while. Will they make things more convenient? Yes. Is it fundamentally going to change how we work/live? At the moment, probably not.
The content started decent and then turned into pure marketing fluff.
Also, not all proof is good. E.g. these date come from one physics class doing this experiment once. Are these good data? I’m not sure if this is an effective sample size as these estimates haven’t been performed afaik. What is the variance in the population? Who knows. Accepting some data just because its some data is just as bad as believing something on faith alone. It kind of is just that in fact.
This gives me a lot of anxiety but my only recourse is to stop paying attention to AI dev. Its not going to stop, downside be damned. The "We're working super hard to make these things safe" routine from tech companies, who have largely been content to make messes and then not be held accountable in any significant way, rings pretty hollow for me. I don't want to be a doomer but I'm not convinced that the upside is good enough to protect us from the downside.
Ask HN: Suggest a Decent(free) Hosting for a Flask App
Hi HN,

I have trained a Reinforcement learning agent to play a game and I would like to make it interactive through a web app so that others can also use it. I have sketched a simple frontend and a flask backend. (It runs perfectly locally)

I want to host it, and since it is not a high-end project, I am looking for free hosting, preferably one that doesn't take forever to load and respond.
Colonial any country here, nazi getmany, soviet russia, any number of african genocides, bosnian genocide... should I keep going?
Pinhole Photography: 10 Paper Cameras for Photograph Purists (2010)
The benefit of older age that younger people do not have: we’ve heard about the impending “collapse” that’s “definitely coming” 4-5 times by now. There even was “scientific consensus” around those predictions. And yet here we all are, and in much greater numbers.
Haha. That's true.

Apple's resistance to a mouse continued with the resistance to having a mouse pointer.

A Surface Pro running MacOS would be the real game changer.

Being touch-first is much more inefficient than using a mouse and keyboard.

The pageantry of taps and swipes needed add up to a lot of time, and knowing the difference, it can be difficult to justify the effort. Maybe I'm missing a detail.

Apple is excellent at introducing technology to beginners (just use your finger), it doesn't mean it's the most productive or effective.
Siri comes off as impatient.

If you don’t complete your thought in one go, you have to insert filler words to keep it listening.
Title reminded me of VCPR.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=N8pbnjvypQ0
Wouldn't using push_back prevent the need to reverse the Vec at the end?
I did that for years, then it became difficult as browsers didn't want to let you set a local file as your default home page (for "security reasons").

I now just have "Blank Page" set for my Homepage, new windows, and new tabs.

I just tried setting a local file in Firefox and it seems to work again, so I may go back to that.
Which reminds me - the bus-narrowed version was important, because they then could use cheap and off the shelf 8-bit components for the rest of the chip set.
> If it was truly Ai, why isn’t it rapidly building itself?

You seem to confuse AI, the field of endeavor, with ASI or at least AGI (plus will, which may or may not be a necessary component of either), which are goals of the field that no one (approximately, there have been some exceptions but they’ve quickly been dismissed and faded) claims have been achieved.
Why don’t you give the investor 5% of yours. Sure, the CTO still gets 5% but it came from you, not the investor. Then sack the CTO so he is nothing but a minority shareholder.
Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice (2016)
One easy fix is to stop building things above ground like houses and buildings and start building underground like our ancestors did. You probably don't realize this but pouring the concrete foundation of just one building at UMass Amherst in 2022, put out more CO2 then a Honda CRV does in a whole year
Maybe this is okay to help support it but only if there is a clear modal dialog asking users to consider donating or consider staying opted in. But a default opt in is deceptive.
Related:

The man who killed Google Search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40133976 (2024)

It's not SEO: something is fundamentally broken in Google Search https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28113007 (2021)

The internet is an SEO landfill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20256764 (2019)
> The main issue is that we approach the topic with a different set of axioms. E.g. your limitation of requiring a proof involving (a-c) is analogous to asking someone to build a steel bridge with three colors of legos.

Well, yes. The alternative is for you to give me a definition of free will that allows for it within the constraints of cause-effect and randomness.

Without such a definition, the option we are left with is inherently "breaking free" of that, and then we need another category of effect.

I don't believe either is possible, but we specifically do not have evidence that such other category of "will-effect" transition is possible, no observed mechanism, no observation of such a category, nor a hypothesis that provides even the starts of a coherent definition of what it would even mean.

So yes, the point is that the problem appear obviously impossible to resolve in favour of free will without either new logic or a definition of free will I don't think possibly can meet expectations.

> Free will and consciousness are tautologically joined, so any attempt to create a framework to disprove/prove one or the other will have to be all encompassing.

Only partially, in the positive case. Consciousness would seem to need to exist for free will to exist, but in the event free will does not, there's no reason to presume that affects the possibility of consciousness.

> It has the same issue though that you have to decide that you are conscious to begin using reason, even though no one can prove it scientifically.

It does not have the same issue. Whether you have free will or not, there's no reason why that need to affect your life at all. Clearly we think we make choices. Whether we make those choices or not, we act as if we do. As it is, we already have solid evidence that our conscious "decision" often is not causally linked to the actual "choice", so we can't rely on our introspection to even give us an accurate description of what "choices" we make, or why, and we know from e.g. split brain experiments that the brain can easily be made to rationalise how it "chose" things it never did. Accordingly, whether the mechanism actually controlling actions exercise free will or not, we'd expect our consciousness to experience it the same way.
They outer layer would be an excellent insulator.
I achieved this by turning off a handful of config options for the address bar's suggestions; setting the search input to be separate from the address bar, and hiding it via Customize Toolbar.

I think these were the most important:

keyword.enabled
browser.fixup.alternate.enabled
browser.urlbar.suggest.searches
What do you mean: Taxing unrealized profits (assets that could be sold at a profit, but haven't been sold)? Or taxing foreign entities without a tax treaty?
It’s a nuanced negotiation with uncertain outcome, but if your investor wants this to work out and wants your CTO gone, they may be willing to entertain such a path to realize that vision.

However, finding a way to buy out the coworkers 5% and fire them may also be a reasonable strategy. The CTO should be aware at this point that your business is close to dead in the water and may believe there’s not much value left for them to extract. If they don’t think the investor is interested in putting more capital in and runway is running out, they could sell that 5% cheap. But you also may run the risk of demoralizing any remaining employees if they also believe the runway is gone.
> So you do get strong isolation.

No, you don’t. There is no benefit the container is providing, because The only feature of the container is isolating you from the zero other containers running on the VM.
Essential Auto 101: What Is a Halo Car
The reason is trivial - I disabled the new feature flag on the playground service long ago (when it was in development). I will enable it back and send an example.
I wonder why ?
Photoshop is actually cheaper than Netflix now. ($9.99/mo versus $15.49/mo)

https://www.adobe.com/creativecloud.html#pick-a-plan-to-star...

https://help.netflix.com/en/node/24926
In this case, booking.com was indeed a company founded in the Netherlands.
I have all Firefox/Mozilla URLs blocked at network level. I get Firefox install/updates from a Linux repo. Firefox is constantly pounding my network attempting to dial home. Thank you maintainers for giving me privacy.
I agree entirely on Le Corbusier, while I love the eventual outcome of his work in many senses (aesthetically certainly), his approach to actual people was (as you say) far less humane than Alexander. Alexander I think saw himself as a part of "the people" - from what I know of Le Corbusier, I don't imagine he did.

I've not yet read The Oregon Experiment (it's in one of the waiting piles) but I've skimmed it. Funnily enough, the comparison you make around changing budgeting processes to enable smaller projects, having users working as part of planning, etc. reminds me of some of the original intents of agile before it was co-opted. For agile to work it couldn't just be isolated as software delivery - it had to change the organisations it worked with/within. I remember having just such an argument many years ago about governments building software using ostensibly "agile" approaches, and yet still requiring three-year budget approaches from the national treasury - they simply weren't compatible!

That final quote is wonderful, and I do feel the same about software in many ways - all the true wonder of computers and the things they can do for people will never really benefit everyone fully unless it spans the national, the corporate, and the personal.
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The Google I/O keynote itself is just a vanity stage for VPs to pre announce features, half of which never launch or launch after the next year's I/O. Now they're doing a pre-announcement of a pre-announcement. GPT-4o actually shipped. This is about as embarrassing for Sundar as https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/28/go-playin... was for Zuck.
Ironic considering the UK does not have any requirement to have an ID. Passports and Driving Licences (sic) are not mandatory. The effort to create ID cards was abandoned ~20 years ago.

Will people really be expected to get a non-driving Driving Licence to access porn?

It seems governments everywhere are abdicating their primary responsibility as a single point of personal identification, then outsourcing solutions to the financial sector (banks, crypto exchanges, etc.) and dodgy 3rd party age-checking agencies.
>This is something I'm fascinated by; did this type of financial cult always exist, or is it a new thing?

The general framework is always the same, it's just the underlying scenario that changes. Generally you have some group of people for whom a question is a matter of survival (in this case financially) that do what humans do when there is no hope: they continue to hope. It necessitates a detachment from reality to keep their worldview consistent.
Better link: https://github.com/nickbild/c64_gen_ai
I loved my old 11" MB Air. That was the perfect form factor for my lighter workloads, and was perfect for manager life.
From the underling Android Authority article:

> The method involves running a special build of Chrome OS in a virtual machine through the Android Virtualization Framework.

So, not really a dual boot, not one at a time. A virtual machine.

In general I agree that Android itself probably ought expand to the second displays.

At the same time, Android kind of sucks & the eternal locking down of it just makes things worse. Termux is running on old SDKs & only on F-Droid because the paranoia just makes apps less and less capable forever.

Offering a real desktop OS that can do things, that lets folks have a file system, that can run a standard desktop display server: that feels like a sensible offering to me. Samsung gave up, but there was some excitement & activity when Samsung's Linux on DeX launched! I tend to think, yeah, it's not for everyone, and having separate worlds to bridge is a huge encumbrance, but also, it's a good option for advanced users, and it may well be advanced users that tend to wanting this feature set anyhow.
Neat. How did you find that first feed?
Femtosecond lasers create 3D midair plasma displays you can touch (2015)
The rise and fall of Ashley Madison: 'People lost their lives'
This technology came up recently in conversation so I searched the web to see what became of it. All I can find are articles dating from summer 2015 and nothing of substance after that.

I’m sure we can all come up with some reasons this wouldn’t be practical in many situations, but the tech seemed promising. Do any of you have knowledge of what happened here? Was it smoke and mirrors? Just really not practical? I would really like to read some details about why this seems to have vanished.
That's interesting as a programming exercise, but HP's plotters all had a built-in language called HP-GL. And there's a GPL'ed tool that will emit HP-GL. I just can't recall what it's called. Seems like it was built in to some normal printing tool. HP Laserjet printers also supported HP-GL, so that was a nice way to get your plots without having to buy a more expensive dedicated plotter.
Sounds like you should visit Magrathea for a designer planet!
It's mentioned briefly at the end of the article but this book from Morgan & Claypool is great: http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00346ED1V01Y2...
I often think about this - my pet theory is that the kinds of smart people who can create new languages don't have a problem with a new syntax. While us plebes struggle, learning both new concepts and new syntax at the same time. :)
> Right there on the app is the apple logo in front of the letters TV, aka AppleTV.

> So if you're stipulating it is read as Apple TV for the device, why would it also not be read the same way for the app using the exact same logo?

The logo of WhatsApp is a chat bubble containing a phone handset, yet it's not called "Chat bubble containing a phone handset WhatsApp".

Of course it can make sense to call the app "Apple TV", to disambiguate it from e.g. the Netflix app on an iPhone. I'm just saying that I don't think that that is its official name, and I also don't think this is very confusing in practice.

Netflix is also both an app and a company! Just say "Apple TV app" or "Apple TV device" if you want to disambiguate them?

> Launching that app in the left hand menu, it clearly states Apple TV+ as an option.

I never claimed that there was no service called "Apple TV+".
You're welcome! But it's not a quick read.

At least for me, it requires (a) a good reason for powering through it, (b) a good night's sleep, and (c) Adderall :)

Just saying, it may not be the most effective / efficient way to learn what you want to know.
One would think visiting their career page is a good start: https://sites.disney.com/waltdisneyimagineering/careers/
For real existential-crisis-inducing marvels, you have to go with evolution. Once Darwin worked out natural selection, and it was combined with Mendel's genes, a whole host of primal questions were suddenly answered: Who created us? Why are we here? What is our purpose?

If you were to give Franklin a copy of "The Selfish Gene", I'm curious if he would believe it. Would he reject it and become (remain?) a creationist? Or would he accept that everything he believed about why we are here is wrong.
I didn't mean to imply Arkenfox is unstable, it's great. I meant the Arkenfox maintainer is playing whackamole with FF. Every so often FF adds a spying feature (like this one), then Arkenfox has to react and turn it off and cut a release, then everyone has to run the updater script. My system auto updates Firefox, but not Arkenfox. So if I don't want any windows of vulnerability I'm stuck having to pay attention to updates and make sure I run the updater script at just the right time.
This is a bummer. Having used a variety of "enterprise" platforms, Workplace was easily the best. Work Chat was nothing special, but moving most communication to group posts and comments was so much better than email or group chats. That said, its async model makes it an outlier compared to something like Slack, so I can see why it was a hard sell.
I thought this was an announcement of an LLM model called Wasp that had 193B parameters

Was happy when I clicked the link and it was about a newly discovered planet 1200 light years from Earth
Building a Plugin System for the Web
Police Tech Can Detect Phones, Pet Trackers and Library Books in a Moving Car
For many versions now, removing the separate search bar via Customize Toolbar reverts to combined URL bar and search bar. It also leaves the search option in the right-click menu.
Kind of like this?

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=I4bbzm3uQ5Y
Perhaps zarzavat just isn't prone to losing things.

Personally, I'm careful enough with my keys etc (and lucky enough) that I don't lose them - I lived for several decades before the invention of the airtag, and developed habits not to lose things.

On the other hand, bicycles getting stolen? That happens.
I used a wall "atomic" clock for a couple decades. It would synchronize itself with a government radio signal.
Interesting. Maybe I'll name my company Clean Water
future is coming
Endless growth? Who is going to buy all those new products your AI employees are making? When none of the real people have jobs, how are they going to buy those products you're trying to sell?

- Less people = less demand for products. New customer growth stalls. Prices fall. Revenue and profits fall.

- Less people = less demand for housing. Prices fall. Investments fall.

- Less people = less people able to perform physical jobs.

- Less people = less tax revenue. Less money available for social services.

- Less young people = Aging population.

- Aging population = higher strain on social services. Pensions, healthcare, etc.

- Aging population = higher percentage of young people need to care for aging people instead of entering the workforce.

In a capitalist economy where your numbers need to keep going up to be considered successful (eg growth is necessary, stable profits but no growth = bad) then you are never going to have a good time when your population falls.

> No one really cares about less people, just less money

Eventually less people leads to less money.
> You want them to be Google's vassal state and wait for death instead of trying to become self-sustainable?

There's no shortage of privacy respecting open source software that somehow doesn't have to choose between depending on Google and selling out their users. Firefox knows that most people won't opt out. They're choosing to take Google's money and screw over their users at the same time.
Accidental vs. Strategic Technical Debt
Do you agree with them that "implementations which really compile Python have to be able to handle some thread suddenly modifying something out from under another thread"?

Would you say that's also true of Smalltalk implementations?
If we read the article instead of just the headline, we see that it makes clear that Microsoft has a hybrid arrangement, and that said hybrid arrangement has still resulted in a loss of employees.

>Microsoft, which also enacted a hybrid RTO approach, saw a decline of 5 percentage points.
Not the OP, but the US has a shitton of laws that make basically everyone a felon [0] and only the sheer impossibility of tracking everyone everywhere makes ad-hoc prosecution complicated/impractical.

The advent of AI may bring down this last obstacle.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp...
First of all, no these features weren’t available. We have not seen a model that can seamlessly blend multimodal on the fly, in real time. We also haven’t seen a model that can interpret and respond with proper inflection and tone. We’ve been able to mimic voices but not like this. And certainly not singing.

Secondly, it must be sad living with such a lack of wonder. Is that how you judge everything?

We discovered the higgs boson. Eh, it won’t change how we live.

We just launched a new rocket. Eh, it won’t change how we live.
LLMs are weird, they hype cycle has caused a lot of people to want to hate on them. A tool like any other can be misused or abused, and smart people like to demonstrate their ability to break the tool and show the world so that people can see how smart they are.

I find it quite strange, but I've found myself mostly ignoring the naysayers because they're not contributing anything new to the conversation. There are plenty of people out there posting novel ways of using LLMs and finding novel ways where they don't work. I'd rather focus on the people doing interesting work rather than the people parroting thing that have already been said dozens of times.
This is about the only time I'd be OK with those (otherwise obnoxious) popups you get in apps once they've updated version. If Jellyfin showed a "major changes" popup when an admin logs in the dashboard after an update, they could perhaps include a special call-to-action button just for enabling the new feature.

Of course, they could also have a help documentation page for telling upgraders how to enable the feature, and link it in the announcement. After all, the announcement is how I found out there was even an upgrade to apply.

Nonetheless, I'm just glad that the upgrade didn't break anything! I think it's also the right choice to keep existing metadata as-is, and leave it to the admin to turn on options, plugins, etc. and refresh it at their leisure to pick up these new code paths.
is the iPad going from an inflation-adjusted ~41B in 2012 to 28B today not considered a stark decline in real revenue to you?
I’m on Lowes website right now. Can you point out an ad? Because I don’t see any. And why do you think that companies can’t inject advertising into their LLMs? It’s easy to do and with a long enough customer relationship, it gets very powerful. It’s like a sales clerk who remembers everything you have ever bought and appears like it understands your timing.

As for data, I can name several major retailers who expose the stock/aisle number via a public api. That information is highly available and involved in big dollar tasks like inventory management.
It doesn't play a role at all.

A new entity should only run you a few hundred dollars through Clerky or similar. Your investor ought to be willing to cough that up, or you can probably put together a pitch deck (freshly inked licensing deal in hand) to attract a new investor in the new entity.

Your terms of licensure would not be strictly monetary, either. Make them $1 plus X percent of new company revenues over the next three years. Even if that X is substantial it's mostly going in and out of the same pocket.

I suppose if you wanted to fold the old entity up now, you could, but murky ownership of IP and assets could be a millstone around a new company's neck in the form of legal exposure from the CTO ("they cheated me out of my equity!"). Better the old entity goes out with a whimper, rather than a bang.