skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The subject as presented like this leaves little room for talk about alternatives or ways to reduce jet emissions. It poisons the conversation by starting down the wrong direction.

Well, it is the wrong direction for reducing jet emissions, because the privacy of the registration of private jets isn't what causes or reduces jet emissions. It is a separate issue.

Unfortunately they can be confused with each other. They should have a way to reduce jet emissions, but it is a separate issue from anonymous registration of airplanes, so should be considered too, but this is something else, anyways.
I wonder, have you also done any work on actually improving performance by enhancing the prompt or something similar?

I always thought a product like this that could empirically decrease costs for the same performance or increase performance for a small increase in cost would have a fairly simple road of justifying its existence.
Were Egypt's pyramids built on part of the Nile River that dried up?
Taylor’s not tracking you
Are you a product manager by any chance? Because I can totally imagine you telling someone to just use some cloud DB because it's infinitely scalable.
Worrying about this is a bit like your middle school math teacher saying “you won’t always have a calculator in your pocket”. But then we did! Basic arithmetic is no longer a needed skill.
This has been going on since the 1700s, too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speenhamland_system

And was criticized as indirect corporate welfare then too
> everyone's art has gotten brighter, more colourful, more dramatic, more aesthetically pleasing, better composed, and more desireable.

She seems to be ignoring at least the last 500 years of European art. Bright colors, drama, structured composition...it's all there to different degrees in different periods.

I've looked into William Morris' art and design philosophy quite a lot and he definitely didn't use muted colors because shiny bright stuff wasn't available.

Those recreations of the Impressionists also misrepresent their approach. The lack of detail was essential to the "impressions" they were trying to elicit.
> Can you name what thing they mention in that blog post is anti-consumer?

Candidly, Epic: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/03/...

Epic isnt fighting for the consumer. Epic is fighting so they can fuck you in place of google.
> Epic is accusing Google (and Apple) of being monopolies since it wants to play in the app store space.

I think that’s a secondary effect. The primary reason is so Epic gets to keep all the money it makes on digital purchases, which is pretty much all margin for them.

And any pretense that Epic is doing this for anyone other than, or in addition to, Epic went out the window during the Apple trial when Sweeney admitted on the stand that had Apple offered Epic, and only Epic, a sweetheart deal, he would’ve gladly taken it in a heartbeat.
of all the people to rip off, huh?

othing should be made by man's labour which is not worth making, or which must be made by labour degrading to the makers.
The multi-region thing should be pretty apparent. It’s part of the core S3 design to provide distributed storage. Multi-region is distributing it over a larger area. If you want to implement multi-region storage yourself, you can do it on S3 and pay a high cost for duplicated data, or you can try to implement your own S3 alternative.

For CAS, one example is backup jobs. You can run backup jobs to S3, but there are some safety issues if you want deduplication and you want to expire old data.

> if S3 is too simple

CAS isn’t some kind of super complicated, technical thing.

It would be nice if S3 had this small, incremental additional feature. That’s all. It would mean that some people don’t need to fire up DynamoDB just to do something you can already do in, say, GCS.
> “The team did catch this ~month ago. The fact that it went this long before the catch is on me.”

I love this bullshit sentence formulation that claims to both have known this already--as in, don't worry we're ALREADY on the case--and they're simultaneously embarrassed that they "just" caught it--a.k.a. "wow, we JUST heard about this, how outRAGEOUS".
There are entire companies in Boston/Cambridge area whose business model is to get perpetual SBIR grants back-to-back and never produce anything of commercial value. And they pad themselves on the back for being innovative companies. It is almost like there is collusion between these companies and grant-giving agencies.
> I like the idea that I can go back and see what was on my screen at some point in the past.

Never once I thought "Wouldn't it be nice to rewatch what I've done on a particular date and time?"

But I certainly have wanted a particular command I entered in a shell (solved by shell history), a version of a file (git, backups,...) a site I've browsed (bookmarks, history,...).

This is a non-solution for a problem that doesn't even exist. It's like asking for a camera to be pointed at you 24/7 in case you forgot where you put your keys.
The people in [2] got an email too. (It just turned out to be an automated one that hadn't been intended.)
I would say that recovery started when I got out of the house for university. I picked a university that was at least 6 hours of driving away.

It was absolutely terrible and laborious; yet necessary. Being not socialized and not able to leave home alone for a very long time made me basically afraid of going outside the campus; I had to learn most life lessons people go through from childhood to early adulthood from scratch. People don't forgive you when you're an adult. Abusers love dependent children, even if they lament all the time that "you cost too much".

One of the things that's hard is separating the actual good parenting lessons from the abuse. From basic hygiene to on how to behave socially. Everything was laced in some kind of humiliation. "I told you this would happen, you think you're smarter than me haha!" kind of routine all the time.

I've never had therapy nor did I seek professional help. The bad experiences I've had with psychologists and other "professionals" that sided believed my parents by default were enough for me. This is not what I recommend, but I just can't let myself be vulnerable by the same kind of people again. It's like asking a severe burns victim to go through a firefighting course with live exercises. I have the chance of being smart and deeply introspective, but this is not perfect and very slow and fraught with painful mistakes. Just like most people should not represent themselves in a court of law, even if they're lawyers, I would not recommend doing that.

I mainly relied on the podcasts, shows and books from mental health professionals and also public forums, although I didn't really participate. Writing this stuff used to hurt a lot with a lot of flashbacks. Basically I did my own research, haha. Putting words to emotions and situations helps a lot, because abusers love twisting words, concepts and using logical fallacies to justify themselves. Also learning that I am not alone and that was happened to me was not right nor justified really helped a lot and was very validating.

I'm not done healing and probably never will be healed, but there is resilience and confidence that comes with successfully surmounting adversity.
My favorite part of the blog post was when they explained in detail what Epic is proposing so the reader can evaluate each point carefully. /sarcasm

Skimming through the Epic proposal the points seem far more reasonable than this blog post would make them seem.

The most questionable point for me seems to be the following:

> For a period of six (6) years, Google shall provide Third-Party App Stores access to the Google Play Store app catalog.

As a developer, if I published my app on one platform it seems weird that it would show up on other platforms without me having opted in or agreed to anything.

From the Google blog post:

> We’ve implemented important protections to ensure users are still protected while enjoying choice in apps. However, Epic’s proposal would force Google to remove them — severely curtailing our ability to protect users from potentially malicious apps.

I don't understand why Google would no longer be able to provide this as a service. Heck, if they open it up maybe other companies would try to compete and offer alternatives?

> But Epic wants to entirely restrict Google’s ability to offer any financial incentives to developers to distribute their apps in the Play store, even on a non-exclusive and app-by-app basis.

This point really rubs me the wrong way because I hate platform / paid exclusives. Maybe it's better for the developer's pocket, but as a user platform exclusivity is usually a bad thing. It's also a bit funny to see Epic requesting this when they've made paid so much for platform exclusives on PC.
…or capitalization is not really that important for conveying meaning.
> What is the alternative; interviewing anybody who happens to apply? That is not feasible. Companies need a way to sort out the wheat from the chaff; they'll take any signal they can get.

Connection. Every field will be as connection-based as politics.
“The original idea for the shipbreaking started a long time ago. About four years after the Exxon Valdez oil spill I heard a radio program where they were talking about the danger of single-hulled ships. The insurance companies were refusing to cover them after 2004, which would force all these ships to be decommissioned. Only double-hulled ships would be allowed on the open sea to prevent that kind of catastrophe from happening again.

What went off in my mind was, wouldn’t it be interesting to see where these massive vessels will be taken apart. It would be a study of humanity and the skill it takes to dismantle these things. I looked upon the shipbreaking as the ultimate in recycling, in this case of the largest vessels ever made. It turned out that most of the dismantling was happening in India and Bangladesh so that's where I went.” — Edward Burtynsky

When you look at it, it’s just him. It could be totally different for someone else but it. Yes, these facts are true, but this is only his point of view.
Disagreed - Mastodon has a major problem. The whole concept of server/instance is unnecessary and introduces extra complexity and hard problems.

Nostr has it right where servers/instances are completely interchangeable and all the hard work is done by the client.

I get why Mastodon had servers at the beginning - because browsers can't speak any other protocol than HTTP towards a single origin domain name. But this limitation fundamentally constrained the entire product into a corner that's very hard/impossible to back out of.

Mastodon should've been Nostr in the first place, with "instances" just being read-only views into the network (to satisfy browser's "demand" for an HTTP endpoint), but otherwise would be disposable and interchangeable - all write actions would be made by a client that doesn't have the constraints of a browser and can interact with the decentralized network over an appropriate protocol (and do the necessary cryptographic magic to ensure those peers are trustless and interchangeable).

The concept of "instances" not only introduces many user experience problems that makes it a non-starter for non-technical people (or even technical people who just don't have the time/willingness to deal with BS) but also open the door for politically-motivated feuds between instance admins to which the users are held hostage (instead of moderation being done on the client where the user is the only one in control of which "moderation feeds" they subscribe to, similar to an ad blocker list).
I like this post. Also Seth Godin's suggestions on impostor syndrome is to congratulate yourself. If you don't get impostor syndrome it means you haven't pushed yourself or done anything. So embrace the feeling as the achievement it is.
But then you have plants like alfalfa which require no fertilizer, no pesticides, create extra fertilizer in the soil, and can easily be grown in excess on the massive amounts of farmland that require zero irrigation.
I own an early full-size PHEV that has no noisemaker. It is a surprisingly large sedan that, even today, people are surprised to discover gliding silently on the road behind them.

I cannot tell you how many times, while being fully alert and creeping at low and safe speeds that people walking in the middle of the road or in a garage have suddenly become shocked - SHOCKED - that there had been a full-size sedan rolling silently behind them.

My other option is honking, which will startle them - perhaps, to their death.
If a computer can emulate another computer that is known to be Turing complete then it must itself be considered Turing complete. One thing we must decide is if we allow the addition of memory that the first machine didn't have originally. For example, an Apple ][ can emulate a modern PC (at a tiny fraction of the speed) if we can add a card with a few GB of RAM to it.

A very simple Von Neumann style computer is the ByteByteJump. It has a single instruction (so no op code) with 3 address fields and it copies a single byte from the first address to the second address and then always jumps to the third address. If the addresses are 3 bytes long then every instruction takes up 9 bytes in memory. You can do math and logic operations by setting up 16KB tables in memory and then patching an instruction so the two operands are the bottom two bytes of the first address. To subtract the byte in address 0x001234 from the byte in address 0x00C0F0 and store the result in address 0x003333 on a little endian BBJ with a subtraction table at 0xD00000 you could use this sequence:

0x100: 0x001234 0x000112 0x000109
0x109: 0x00C0F0 0x000113 0x000112
0x112: 0xD00000 0x003333 0x00011B
0x11B:

There are several ways of implementing conditional jumps by patching the value of the third address.

Could the Z3 emulate this machine if given a 16MB memory it could interface to? Its instruction tape could be made into an infinite loop, which is good enough for this application. There are no other jumps or conditional execution in the emulator.

If you do need conditional execution to emulate a Turing complete machine (the Game Of Life, for example) then you might get by with conditional assignment instead. If the value of B is either 0 or 1, then Z:=A*B+C(1-B) will assign either A or C to Z. I am not familiar enough with the Z3 but would be surprised if it can't even do that.
Rescheduling is not descheduling.

It's better but it's still a half measure and far away from the blanket pardons that the President (any president) needs to be signing asap.

I get the whole "progress is slow thing" but this is a case of politicians being the only slow ones. A supermajority of the public supports alcohol/marijuana parity.
Sloths almost seem like creatures that evolved on another (slow) world. I wonder if they perceive time differently to us and if their brains are underclocked.
A lot of artists are not happy about this. Selling seats to the highest bidder to maximize revenue of a given show is not necessarily in the long-term interests of an artist.
For those who like testing smaller local models, there is a tool in LangChain called Routing and in LlamaIndex called a "router query engine" which achieve a similar thing:

https://python.langchain.com/v0.1/docs/use_cases/query_analy...

https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/examples/query_engine/R...
>Epic’s proposal hurts the privacy of Android users: Under Epic’s proposal, Google would be forced to tell any and all third party app stores which apps a user has installed on their phone through Google Play. It would wrongly expose a person’s personal apps usage – even for topics like religion, politics, or health — for Epic’s gain. This is a clear violation of user privacy.

If an app has permissions to work as an app stores, it should already be able to query installed packages, no? So Epic's proposal wouldn't expose information about whether or not app is installed, but only about the source of installation.

You can ofcourse still think it's unreasonable to give this information to 3rd parties, but that's different then exposing just the fact of having an app installed, which is what Google implies here (imo)
Why did you stop using it? Once I tried it I never looked back.
Etsy as a platform for buying and selling is fine, its discoverability and search that hinders the customer experience.

I've bought lots of art commissions and actual hand-made knickknacks and toys from actual non-print-mill individuals.

The experience has always been fine for me -- but I was aware of the artist and what I wanted going into it rather than searching for 'something cool' only to be inundated with mass-production "I LOVE MY DAD" mugs.
> Under Epic’s proposal, Google would be forced to tell any and all third party app stores which apps a user has installed on their phone through Google Play.

Just to be clear... doesn't Google tell Google everything that is installed on the entire phone through Google Play? Here's my proposal: nobody needs to be able to do that.
Yeah and this is why I think this will amount to zero changes in ticket prices. People have demonstrated that they will pay. Venues sell out at the current prices. Why would they take less?
The thing is that a closed system like DMs on a platform can be more effectively monitored for spam than something like email (or phone calls or texts) because everything is under single control.
You're asking how it should be or how it actually is? If the latter, have you like, actually been in the workforce?

Yeah, it's a combination of luckiest, most connected, and/or hardest working, depending on the company, depending on the situation. You should know this if you've interviewed for jobs a few times. I'm really confused by your train of thought. Are you a college student?
As big as it gets. Quite an achievement in modern times. The music industry has changed so much.
Covid was fully airborne and spread very rapidly between people.

This is not airborne, nor have we seen it spreading between people. All the cases we've seen so far in the States have been from people who were known to be in contact with infected animals.

It certainly warrants further investigation and precautions for those working with livestock, but panic seems like an overreach.
Do you using Stable Diffusion Video to create an animations?
Since Google's blog post didn't actually specifiy anything Epic requested, I looked up the requests myself[1]. Almost every point in the summarized list would directly benefit me personally, since I use alternative app stores and would like some of the friction removed, so I was immediately suspicious of Google's title claim. After reading the blog post and comparing to the list of Epic's proposals, Google is clear twisting facts almost to the point of outright lying.

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/12/24128531/epic-google-prop...
This is an alternative to retool. The difference is that all features are free without any limitations, it is open source, cross-platform and it is provided in a single binary or docker container.
On your opposite side, they think if Biden wins babies will die horrible deaths.

American politics are full of superlatives, and very devoid of any real actions. Once the hero or the devil gets elected, nothing happens much.