skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I do not see why Adobe would not be able to make a good CLIP like model with 0.6 billion images.

Unity and Epic have tried and failed to do so. There are lots of talented people out there at companies with lots of money. Adobe, Unity and Epic aren't the only ones with licensing bureau images either. And anyway, did you consider that the vast majority of content in licensing bureaus is garbage? Or that the captions are garbage? Or that maybe they have wildly overstated the number of images they have?

Adobe hasn't published anything about their architecture or approach for the simple reason that it is not clean in the way they advertise their models to be.
Will they be removing laptops made in China, and TV cameras made in china, and ball-point pens made in China, too? And underwear made in China? And phones made in China??

This is starting to remind me of WW1 when they banned music because it was written by German composers.

Absolutely laughable.

Ban everything made in China or with Chinese parts and civilisation collapses. Actually, ..... that wouldn't be a bad thing at all.
How is that extortionate? Using the inflation calculator of the Bank of England that is 86 pounds now or $110. Admittedly that more expensive than the current price of $24 for the paper back, but at worst that seems to be twice as expensive as a common price for a 850 page book?
> Most news is negative, useless and have no material impact on your life.

About 15 years ago I heard the concept of the information-action ratio[1] and it totally changed the way I consumed news. As you note, most things in the news are irrelevant to me in the sense that I can’t take any meaningful action based on them.

I still read some news—and pay for $1/week subscriptions to multiple newspapers, which they have so far let me renew indefinitely if I threaten to cancel every six months—but I spend much less time following national and global news than I used to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%E2%80%93action_rat...
> Some programming languages have long had powerful reflection capabilities, but they are mostly a runtime feature: they do not allow the equivalent of generating code. Other programming languages allow compile-time logic generation but they do not always allow optimal performance.

Lisp casually waves from the bleachers, then goes back to high speed coding with metasyntactic macros and reflection (and so much more).
I don't know what era a 6th gen Honda Civic comes from, but I just bought a 2011 Honda CR-Z hybrid sports car this year, and I love it. I bought it to supplement my 2012 Toyota Prius-C, which is a pretty awesome hybrid. The Toyota gets way better gas mileage and can cruise in all-electric mode in the city, but the Honda has way more zooms. And the Honda Integrated Motor Assist (IMA) system allows the transmission to be a 6-speed manual (more fun).

On the CR-Z forums and CR-Z subreddit, every prospective buyer worries about the hybrid batteries, but virtually no owner has ever had to replace them. The older NiMH batteries are more reliable than the newer LiON, and the former are that much cheaper to refurbish.

A plugin hybrid seems to be the best way to go for someone who lives in northern Canada and is not a city person. But I don't want to pay the new-car premium price, nor do I want an Internet-connected vehicle sending all that personal data back to the mothership, which they all seem to do.
If you go and look at the list of authors on those papers you will see that most of the authors have PhD doing something protein folding related. It's not that some computer scientists figured it out. It's that someone built the infrastructure then gave it to the subject matter experts to use.
The most obvious reason seems to be missing?

Because it's split up. You no longer pay "for the news", you pay a specific company for their take.

Do you want leftist? Rightist? Something central? You want multiple opinions, will you pay multiple subscriptions?

Happily pay $10/mo for a selection of specifics news items.
> The market price for a browser from a consumer perspective is $0.

The market price for search is $0. And yet we have Kagi because Google is now so ad infested. Ads are now bad enough that there is money in killing them.

The market price for email is $0. And yet we have Fastmail.

The problem with Google is dumping. The cross-subsidization means that YouTube, Gmail, Chrome, etc. can run at a loss indefinitely and soak up huge chunks of the consumer base. Forcing those services to stand on their own doesn't solve all the problems, but it sure makes competing with them a hell of a lot easier.

(YouTube, on the other hand, should be sued into oblivion for not implementing identity checks for upload. The fact that any published video will wind up monetized on YouTube 20 seconds later is genuine theft.)
If a for-profit company does not provide its annual profits, it’s safe to say it’s not doing well. Especially as Alphabet does so elsewhere. Additionally, would they have become so ad-aggressive in the last few years if they have been making a profit?
> So if the artists prevail, image generators are donezo

Good. If it's impossible to make this particular type of image/whatever (it's not art) generator without exploiting all artists then that it shouldn't be allowed to be made.
I often think about the idea that a good design takes information from the world (or the users head) and puts it into the system, reducing cognitive load. So if a door needs to be pushed, put a push plate on it, rather than requiring the user to remember to push the handle. Think about it when labelling buttons quite a bit, for example. Or workflows.
If any new fork of chromium support manifest 2 forever, while maintaining the other upstream updates, that will be my go to browser. May be Opera can resurrect.
This appears to be the correct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjUFuRPZrLI
The notion that a large scale generative AI system should be viewed and treated the same as a human child legitimately makes no sense to me.
Flight Unlimited!
Probably couldn't afford their new VMWare bill
what? Cisco literally released both data together. If you consider that bad journalism I think you will need to explain what's good journalism then.
Art therapy in education with informatics support
Art therapy can cope with wellbeing. Activity is explored for holistic cognition of peace where the oneself has responsibility on what to involve in to undergo an multi optional education learning adaptability. Being communicationally immersive creates a form of expression. Informatics is an integration that embraces opportunities for the self, which lets art divagate in algorithms outside of own pre-concepts. Sharing experiences and operating with others is a crucial stage in valuing the flow of communication, by identifying feedback talking about improvement in life. Collaborating for love using the balance between the spirit and tangible for future therapy in the uniqueness of the present.
Imagine you wrote a book, released it using a publisher who put it on dead trees, and sold it in e-book format. And imagine that a whole industry does this, and doesn't release the books for free to copy use in any format. Which is not hard to do, because that's basically the current situation for the publishing industry.

Now imagine that all of that was used to train an LLM without compensation to the authors and publishers who paid the authors. This is apparently current situation with some of the training dataset.

While at the same time, libraries have to pay per e-loan. Archive.org can't do a 1:1 dead tree format shift loan to ebook.

I get that the tech industry wants everyone else's information to be free to use and their products to generate money enough for big exits and big salaries, but at some point the optics look pretty bad.
The 3D effects on the 3DS were surprisingly good, imo. On all but the "New" models, the sweet spot for positioning yourself was pretty narrow, but if you were in the sweet spot things looked great.
> it's that I don't care

Ok. So hoefully you can see why people who like their homes and their town will rationally do everything possible to oppose a person who is an outsider and comes in saying they don't care about anything the residents enjoy and just wants to change it all (destroy it)?
Could you precache some of the videos so you can click through faster?

This should probably be a toggle and then you can set how many channels each way depending on your bandwidth.
Also, there's quite a lot of value in figuring out what doesn't work. A colleague of mine says that his entire PhD could have been completed in about 4 months of work if only he knew what to do to begin with. Perhaps some ai system can try a bunch of different pathways and explain why they went wrong. Perhaps that's educational for human scientists. I dunno.
Stopping and reversing Alzheimer's at an early stage
Enterprise SSDs usually don't use SLC caching—especially not to the extent that consumer drives do—so their sequential write speed doesn't drop much for really large/sustained writes, and doesn't have a short unsustainable burst of accepting writes quickly into a cache.
> Use to be very common for people to pay for news (newspapers), but since online, people seem to expect free.

I've heard this one many times. I pay for news as part of my streaming TV subscription. Should I also pay the NY Times $325 a year for whatever it is that they're selling? Even setting aside concerns about the quality of the product, news subscriptions are priced way too high given the amount of competition for those dollars. Then they'll monitor everything you do and sell your information to the highest bidder. Then when you realize it's not worth it, they'll put you through hell and back to cancel.
It was only a week ago that Google disclosed an exploit to get a root shell via eBPF.

https://bughunters.google.com/blog/6303226026131456/a-deep-d...

I wouldn't want random applications (or web pages) to be able to load eBPF modules in the same way they can send shaders to a GPU through a graphics driver.
> CLIP is just for an embedding for images and text, right?

Yes, which is what makes text-to-image generation possible. You can go ahead and try using Stable Diffusion models, or even the incredibly high quality Flux, with no text "embedding" (or whatever you want to call it), and judge for yourself if those outputs are useful.
> because people choose to use it.

Incorrect.

Google spent ungodly amounts of money to make sure that their search engine was the default in as many places as possible. People didn't "choose" to use it, they use the defaults.

And in some cases, like my Android phone, google is the only option for integrated searches. I cannot use another search engine without opening a browser then opening up the search engine of choice.

Monopoly may not be the right term, but anticompetitive is. They outspent every other search provider to make sure their product was used. They paid off apple to not develop a search engine and instead use theirs as a default. These are things in the court documents which caused the ruling to go against them.
No he didn't. He made money through ads. The fact that copyright stuff was on the platform doesn't mean he should be arrested.
The problem with remote workers is that they will only move to a town after there’s a healthy crop of local businesses competing for patronage on quality.

So they can’t become the motive for such businesses to start in a town. It’s a crop of local workers flocking to location-specific, non-remote job opportunities that creates that attractive opportunity for service businesses to follow.
This is the wrong position to take. The government is wrong, and a bully, the answer is not to give them what they want.
it doesn't seem downloadable to run locally, a shame.
It drives me BONKERS that I can read the new yorker within the apple news app (because I pay money) but I cannot in any way through any means read the same words via a web browser to the actual new yorker site.

I know, welcome to the new internet. Apple sells me discounted access via their app because in doing so Apple can monetize my eyeballs. I hate it.
I didn't realize you could train yourself on a lifetime's worth of YT videos every single day. (If salty sally had a problem with this statement, it's in the other articles on the HN front page right now, gf) The storage, recall, and scale required have always made this interpretation laughable - or rather, the kind of argument that seeks to privilege tools (and corporations) over people.
Yes; alas, "fluent" is mu (nothingness). Barriers, barriers are. One may permit it in art, but communication thwarted brings pain. (This has absolutely nothing to do with a squirrel.)
Google is offering a free browser, while making a good browser costs money. They are subsidising that by their huge ad-business.

And by no surprise, their browser is the only major one that has no privacy protection features and last month decided to abandon the plan to deprecate cookies and tracking.

That browser is competing with someone like Opera (used to be a paid for product) and Mozilla in an unfair way, because Google is killing others by making it free and taking the loss.
As always, it’s not what the thing is but what you do with it. If you click a spotify link and dance around your kitchen that’s okay. If you click a spotify link and put it into a commercial it’s not okay. Same thing for your scenarios. The legality question is about what your kid does with the music they heard.
Not just that, but also "...and you'll never be able to handle it, and the sleek scoundrel on the other side knows it".
Make sure to search only for government-approved topics.
Amusingly, I thought Code Complete was disliked now? I thought it was fun, but definitely over sold on things.

I liked the other ones, even if I don't remember take aways from them at the moment.

I do reject the Knuth observation here. Annoyingly, most criticism you will ever see of a Knuth book are from people that never read them. Not that I don't get the point, as following closely behind that group are those that bought but never read them. Especially with the newer volumes, there are a lot of very fun topics covered.

And, sure, you are best not putting together many of the low level things that are covered in those books. But... you are also best not blindly following whatever is in the other books, too? Again, many folks dislike Code Complete for fairly solid reasons.
I am astounded that the conclusion the writer comes to is.. socialize the news.

Clearly people won’t pay for news because it’s flawed, the product stinks, and the information is biased. So here’s a great idea, let’s steal from everyone via taxes and force them to pay for it! Then it will be good somehow.
This is precisely how Org mode works in Emacs, IIRC. Now I'm curious who was the first person to invent this syntax—like you say, it seems like a very natural choice, so I'd be surprised if it doesn't have a long history of some sort.
No, remedies are meant to be tailored to the specific wrongs found in a specific case. There are precedents for things like, “that amount of money is too much,” or “this equitable remedy requires these kinds of findings,” but there’s no 1:1 way to cite the remedies here for anything Apple-related, at least not as binding precedent (which is what it means that our law is based on precedent). That said, another judge might look at it as persuasive material that they accept the reasoning of and apply it elsewhere. It’ll be easier to get another judge to order a similar remedy if it has already been ordered in another case and has survived the gauntlet of appeals.
Not just bundled, but force-installed Teams on every Windows computer.
This is a joke not related to the submission or its topic.
Interesting... This ε-δ stuff is needed when you talk about functions, but when you start instead with the limits of numeric sequences, which are easy to grasp, the function limits come easy as well, because of the analogy between the ways these are defined.
The Simple Macroeconomics of AI [pdf]
> Microsoft kills unfixable KB5034440/KB5034441 updates, replaces with KB5042321/0

Programming is hard. Testing is even harder.
Will the plaintiffs get similar relief to the one IP holders got from Megaupload, I wonder?
If you want to go hardcore into the frequency domain, may I suggest "A Fresh Look at Generalized Sampling" by Nehab and Hoppe[1]. That said, while a frequency-centric approach works super well for audio, for images you need to keep good track of what happens in the spatial domain, and in particular the support of sampling filters needs to be small.

[1]: https://hhoppe.com/filtering.pdf
There is also uBlock Origin Lite.

I haven't tried this, but you should also be able to apply enterprise policies with Chrome Enterprise Core[1]. As if you are centrally managing a bunch of Clients, but it's only your one Chromebook of course.

[1] https://chromeenterprise.google/intl/de_de/products/cloud-ma...
I feel like the secret sauce to this is the fact that it drops you into the middle of a video. If it was just a queue of videos that play from start to end it wouldn't be as interesting. I cant believe Netflix hasnt added something like this for TV shows. Just drop you into something random and have a few basic categories to choose from. Its so much better for discovery than having to judge 100s of shows based on their thumbnail.
The plaintiffs barely understand how any of this stuff works. The judge barely understands how this stuff works.
By the time Chrome came out Google already was in the position where everyone knew to set their default homepage to Google in IE in the same way they automatically go to install Chrome now.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the pseudo-control Chrome gives them over web standards. They can implement experimental APIs in Chrome and immediately use them in their webapps.
I’ve been using Markdown since 2006 and for me it’s always been:

*emphasis* (i.e. italic)

**strong emphasis** (i.e. bold)

You can use underscores in exactly the same way, but the reason I’ve stuck purely to asterisks is that it’s just slightly easier to type and I think it’s slightly more readable when I’m reading an un-rendered Markdown document, so I appreciate the syntax that John Gruber chose here.
Here, we caught 35 minutes of downtime: https://github.onlineornot.com/incidents/6Yyj8YWD94zE
Is that "ridiculous" as in excessively stringent or weak? Because that phrase can be read either way. From the examples you give I'm presuming the latter.

Note that payments or deposits to a given account require little authentication over the destination though more for the payee. I've long been amused by US banks which require me to authenticate to an ATM to make a payment but will accept cheques dumped into a deposit slot.

I agree that the system mostly works, but fraud costs are in the billions, and that's U.S. credit cards alone:

"As Nationwide Fraud Losses Top $10 Billion in 2023, FTC Steps Up Efforts to Protect the Public " (2024) <https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/02/...>

The denominator is roughly $4 trillion, so it's an 0.25% fraud rate:

"The Average Number of Credit Card Transactions Per Day & Year"
<https://www.cardrates.com/advice/number-of-credit-card-trans...>
Ah, you watched my "good parallel computer" talk[﹡] :)

If I were going to take it on, I'd start with BVH construction - the H-PLOC paper at the latest HPG [1] looks promising - then traverse down the hierarchy until you get very small number of path segments so you can pairwise compare them. Obviously any time there is an intersection you need at least the two segments.

This seems hard to me, humbling even. I mean, overlap removal is hard enough on the CPU, especially because it's so sensitive to numerical robustness, and doubly so for curves. But I think you'll learn something for trying!

[﹡] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41105102 but it didn't make the front page; I'm holding back promoting it further pending writing a companion blog post.

[1]: https://gpuopen.com/download/publications/HPLOC.pdf
>and that someone feeding petabytes of copyrighted material into an AI model to fully automate generation of art is obviously copyright infringement.

It becomes a little less obvious when you learn that the models which had petabytes of images "go into it" are <10GB in size.

You have 5 million artists on one hand saying "My art is in there being used" and you have a 10GB file full of matrix vectors saying "There are no image files in here" on the other. Both are kind of right. ish. sort of.
> and costs $0.

But then you're not the customer, you're the product, as they say. What is the cost to the actual customer to transition to an alternative?
> State of Hawai'i, which is most authoritarian state, required vaccines or testing before flying in

So your bar for "authoritarian state" is not wanting people with a highly infectious, airborne disease to vacation on a remote island where every single hospital was overcapacity?

You understand that there were no ICU beds available, emergency services were overwhelmed, nurses and doctors were working perpetual overtime with insufficient resources, etc, right?

"Take a test to show you don't have covid before flying to an island with zero capacity to handle more sick people" seems like an incredibly basic, common-sense measure.
See "The closest I’ve come to a solution" in TFA.

Thoughts?
We've designed our system for this very use case. Whether it's on commodity hardware or in the cloud, whether or not it's using a CDN and edge servers, there are ways to "nip things in the bud", as it were, by rejecting requests without a proper signed payload.

For example, the value of session ID cookies should actually be signed with an HMAC, and checked at the edge by the CDN. Session cookies that represent a authenticated session should also look different than unauthenticated ones. The checks should all happen at the edge, at your reverse proxy, without doing any I/O or calling your "fastcgi" process manager.

But let's get to the juicy part... hosting files. Ideally, you shouldn't have "secret URLs" for files, because then they can be shared and even (gasp) hotlinked from websites. Instead, you should use features like X-Accel-Redirect in NGINX to let your app server determine access to these gated resources. Apache has similar things.

Anyway, here is a write-up which goes into much more detail:
https://community.qbix.com/t/files-and-storage/286
Do any cloud providers have a sensible default or easy-to-enable mode for “you literally cannot spend one penny until you set specific quotas/limits for each resource you’re allocating”?
> The index itself is a textbook natural monopoly.

I would argue that because of this, the index itself should be something operated by the public rather than privately. This is especially true because it's within the best interests of the public to have an archive of the internet. The wayback machine currently supports that and it's on its last legs.

Index the internet with a public search API, then let future search engines hit that an optimize based on internal algorithms to get better results.
I don’t believe I ever denied how dangerous large vehicles are? Although I see a lot of denial in the replies of the danger of smaller vehicles.
Private Equity Hospital Tracker
The dreaded C10k problem, remaining unsolved to this day.
To be fair, while it is lenticular, it's a huge upgrade over the 3DS, which only rendered two views (one for each eye) so it only worked from straight on; the Looking Glass display handles a significantly higher number of views (~45?[1]) so you get continual stereo separation and different viewpoints as you rotate the device. Rendering costs are much higher though!

[1] https://docs.lookingglassfactory.com/keyconcepts/how-it-work...