skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Clearly very precise targeting

exploding pagers kill at least nine and hurt almost 3,000

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/17/hundreds-of-he...
I’ve gotten the SSSS dozens of times over the years and I am not Palestinian. I even got them after I became a US citizen.
is not-Windows your dev environment? .net tooling are Windows first.

do you plan to use another db than SQL Server? .net 'prefers' SQL Server.

do you plan to deploy with containers? .net is not container first

do you plan to deploy outside of Azure? .net examples are Azure first (and same with EntraID and so on)

as for Blazor, silverlight then the 10 others attempts at UI after that still makes us hesitate to commit fully to it.
You know, in the before times, they actually had a single word for "pay once, use forever". They called it "ownership".
Isn’t it even just a setting they changed? From my understanding they didn’t even change the code, they just changed the setting from the default.
Yes, for single user multiturn kvcache reuse could help a lot. vLLM has support for this via Automatic Prefix Caching (APC) so you’d be able to take advantage of this w/ Strix Halo now. llama.cpp has had a “prompt-cache” option but when I last looked it was a bit weird (only works for non-interactive use, saves and loads cache to disk) so it might not help on the Mac side.
Ok yeah, that's among the most mind blowing things I read on HN.
Aren't FPGAs also helpful for high bandwidth/throughput applications like continuous input from a camera? (I'm not an FPGA expert, just curious)
This Ain't Very Famous Guy: An AI Parody
It'll be bad for a few years, but surely at some point it'll become inadmissible in court because it's too easy to fake, right? But then what do we do, if video and audio footage is inadmissible?
He could simply say so.
the only thing you can rely on in terms of ownership is FOSS.
Hilarious. Are you of conscription age?

The personal commitment made by troops sent to Iraq and Afghanistan was beyond WW2 levels https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/...

> The Army retains very little unutilized capacity to deploy
additional active component soldiers without lengthening
deployments or shortening the time between deployments, both of which increase the burden on those who
have already deployed.
Since we’ve brought up the question as to whether Molyneux is overly enthusiastic or just dishonest, I invite you to rewatch this 2009 demo and make up your own mind: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CPIbGnBQcJY&pp=ygUMUHJvamVjdCB...
> Theft is undefined for objects with .copy() interface.

> Computers replaced computers, now voice acting replaces voice actors.

It's incredible what web development does to someone's ability to communicate ideas.
And the flip side. What if somebody who sounds like the person you trained on accuses you of stealing their voice? Assuming malice from similarity is going to sometimes lead to wrong results.
> what would an Office suite from 2005 yield me now

An office suite.

I occasionally write documents in Office 97. Yes, in emulation. And despite the emulation, it loads quicker and has no lag.

Some software does "rot" in time. But a lot doesn't. And we shouldn't be afraid of keeping things running.
> a leech non-consensually sucks value from their body of work

I would argue that releasing your code as open source already is the consent, and you can’t really revoke the consent later (make the license more strict when you already released it). They might not like it now but I wouldn’t call it non-consensually.
Yeah it does.

Motive: Altman had some weird boyish thing for her and they asked her first, she said no.

Means: Lots of available data to use from her movies. They probably trained a model first without releasing it just because it’s ridiculously easy. Especially for OpenAI.

Opportunity: AI is astonishingly good at laundering and remixing without exposing the training set, for previously-unseen levels of plausible deniability.
I remember once consulting one of my client who used GCP and to get SSH to one of the instances where pain in ass, I spent couple of hours on that.

If I recall correctly they do have concept of users and then user gets SSH key and you can't just put SSH key on instance out of the box as on any other VPS...
You're not wrong but on the other hand, if you already have super expensive catapult that's been throwing things at the tallest heights for years, why not publish a short paper analyzing the data to show it matches freefall at those heights?
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Eh, it depends on the situation in question. Social acceptance (if this is even possible) will cost some people far more than it can benefit them. Any behavior, principle, or value will inherently make some portion of the population not want to be around you. This is why I recommend always starting with values and building up social acceptance from there.
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Ok, how would you use Playwright and Nut.js to discover the OP’s “splinter”? Note I’m specifically asking about discovery, not testing for it once you already know what to look for.
I am the opposite. I'd absolutely love to see AI-companions advanced enough to successfully replace friendships. I'm slowly accepting the fact that "having a vibrant social life" just isn't something that's going to happen to me, no matter how much effort I put, similarly to how I'm not going to be a billionaire or visit Mars. Having something to make it stop hurt would be absolutely fantastic and a total game-changer.
You know what is my favourite software license model? The one Bitwig uses:

I pay once and get $years of updates and the last version I am stuck with I can use as long as it runs on my system.

Updates then prolong/refresh the update period for another $years and cost something like a quarter to a third of the full price.

This way the manufacturer has incentives to deliver new things and I pay them when my live circumstances allow it without them locking in the work I made using their software.
> Am I ever going to play the copy of Dungeon Siege again that I bought in ca. 2002? No. It looks unbearable today.

On the other hand, I fairly regularly fire up an emulator to play Space Invaders or Galaga. And there's no end of projects porting Doom to pretty much anything with a display and a microcontroller in it.

The graphics aren't always the point, sometimes it's the gameplay, or the nostalgia.
There are wars of choice (Iraq) and wars of necessity (WWII). The chances of entering a war of necessity and ine that is a total war are difficult to calculate. There are people who are worried but don’t think the current regional wars in Ukraine & Middle East would spill over unless if there is a major miscalculation. Not an expert, just offering my unqualified opinion.
>Am I ever going to play the copy of Dungeon Siege again that I bought in ca. 2002? No. It looks unbearable today.

Haven't played Dungeon siege specifically, but there's plenty of games from that era that still hold up, some even graphically. Be careful, or you're going invoke the wrath of the site's retro gaming community :)
I think it's perfect. Art should be completely useless and yet spark joy - this one does both!
You joke but couldn't I just pay a Chinese company to train model for me that sounds like a certain person and use it with impunity?

Sounding like someone certainly isn't illegal and a foreign company isn't going to respond to a lawsuit that aims to determine the source of their training data.

You'd just not have to pretend to be that person in a deceptive way (parody is legal).
It also helps with accessibility, screen readers etc
Of course, chip manufacturing was moved almost entirely to Taiwan and South Korea out of complete happenstance, not because it was cheaper to make there for the American mega corps making huge profits out of the chips. And that's just one example.
Anything you can do in Dotnet for backend of webapp, much easier to do in python or go.
But I think if you photoshopped someone into an advertising image in a way that made them appear to endorse your product you would probably very quickly be hit (and lose?) a lawsuit right?

So I’m increasingly of the opinion that it’s not the tool that needs to be regulated, but the use of the output.

Clone voices? Fine. Clone voices for deceptive or commercial purposes without the person’s consent? Not fine.

But then how do you prove it, what is deceptive, what is non-consenting voice cloning, yadda yadda.

I imagine we will shortly see a raft of YouTubers adding “do not clone my voice” notices to their channels like the Facebook “by posting this notice you remove all rights for Facebook to steal the copyright in your photos” spam posts that were doing the rounds at one point.
That’s the voice control software’s problem.
do you think makers of abstract art should do something more useful? how about people in marketing? landlords?
https://archive.is/dMwmg
You can still write it. It'll sound like you're just jumping on the AI bandwagon, but considering it's all the rage, it might still help your sales.
The main one I'm thinking of was a silicon verification system written in Python. Not the only reason the project failed but the fact that it was so janky and slow definitely helped slow progress to a crawl. It didn't have a database.

Speaking of Python, I also recently wrote a tool in Python that was getting a little slow and bloated - I rewrote it in Rust and managed to reduce the runtime by 40x and memory use by 3x. This one wasn't mission critical but you can see the scale of the issue. And no there wasn't any realistic way I could have found a hot spot and just written that part in another language. That rarely helps in my experience.
Note that NDIR sensors use a surprising amount of power, since they're based around an incandescent bulb shining light through the sample volume. A CO2 wearable will need to be recharged once a day, like a smart watch.
Why would software lose value? It's not a mechanical item that physically wears and rusts. What you're talking about is planned obsolescence. Those companies benefit from the software seemingly becoming less valuable. TeX is no less valuable today than it was decades ago. Why would it be?
I'm surprised to find all comments so strongly against Google. I do not like their customer support nor their surprise product closure acts... but I do find their cloud interface easy to use, pricing is solid, and (K8s/Cloud Run) I have barely been affected by any significant outage in some 8 years of use.

Contrast to Azure who despite their SLA had significant outages every few months that were very noticeable, sometimes even requiring us setting up an entire new K8s project from scratch. AWS is better in terms of reliability. Their UX is not great though, I often feel like I'm a wizard waving my wand with permissions and connecting things like audit trails. Many actions are a bit delayed in their effect. I've also had to contact support at times to raise arbitrary limits in the platform.

In balance I would recommend GCP. Their product closures have not affected me enough to scare me away. I guess experiences vary depending on which product we are using.
I meant .net runtime dependency which most people are not familiar with and there is not enough trust in MS as there is trust in say, apache foundation.
I tend to just listen to Asianometry as a podcast while resting or doing menial tasks at home.
Because touch screens of Intuitive UI is mostly boring. Used a bit. Passengers (2016) has this aesthetic.

Touchy feely gritty is more interesting visually? Deckards "enhance" is an odd one
At the end of the day it’s your users’ problem. Ideally their assistive tech would work, but if it doesn’t and you’ve got an easy fix then you should implement that fix.
Here's the report https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/nds_comm...
I would say that Googlers are painfully aware of this. But the real problem is leadership. It starts with the CEO and various execs. Their employees are still living in the "growth hacking" and highly academic world (at least their engineers) and their execs are drunken with arrogance, convinced their Titanic will never sink. And they may be partially right, it may not sink but it will never regain its former glory. It will rot on the shelf, besides IBM,AT&T, HP and many more.

At its core, alphabet is a services company, it does not sell goods (to the most part). Their board needs to decide if the company should focus on business services or consumer services and replace the executives with people who have experience in that area.

The actual quality of GCP is superb in my opinion. They have a flair for architecting excellent solutions. I prefer GCP over any cloud from a purely technical perspective. Their leaders just don't get that it isn't enough. They're not operating a toy or a museum of technical marvels. Actual people need to use it.
>you would probably very quickly be hit (and lose?) a lawsuit right?

A lawsuit from a private individual or business entity is very different from the federal, state, or municipal government attempting to silence you, the latter is prohibited by the First Amendment.

I find it appalling that this needs to be spelled out.
>which already had problems adapting to the printing press

as i recall the printing press was developed in the East first. Each page was essentially a wood cut and pressed on to the page, the major innovation that Gutenberg in the west had was movable type more than the press.
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> "arming Ukraine's invasion of Russia's Kursk Oblast"

just because you don't like US imperialism, you don't have to suck up to Russian one.
Don't you think "Ukraine's invasion of Russia's Kursk Oblast" is a bit of a weird take?
> If the video is 20 minutes long, I wager I can read an equivalent article in less than 5 minutes and come out enlightened all the same.

Not to mention that skimming through this page of HN comments does NOT take 20 minutes. More like 45 seconds.

> And if you wanna say I have a short attention span

Short life. Not attention span. If you get your info in writing you waste 4x as little of your life getting it.
The term end-user does not refer to advertisers by definition. Typically most people use the term "user" to refer to humans.

You're not wrong, but advertisers are a cancer on society that not only do not contribute any value but actively destroy the world around us. it's difficult to assign anything but deeply negative value to their needs and concerns.
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The idea behind agile is to sell you training and later consulting once your organisation fails to adopt it in any meaningful way because it’s principles are so vague your culture, will, get it wrong.

It’s saying that the people behind the agile alliance and so on aren’t actually working in software engineering. Many haven’t since 20 years before the birth of Python. They’re also famous for handling any form of criticism with “you didn’t understand our principles”. Which to be fair is often completely correct, but maybe it’s because those principles are horrendous?

What it has lead to is an industry full of pseudo-jobbers. As others point out… your software engineers, can, do the work if you let them. Even if you don’t, you have no guarantee that your added personal actually catches errors like the ones in this article. Because human testers usually aren’t part of the team in any meaningful way.
The post and your comment are missing the argument for why it’s immoral though. Is taking an open source server project and offering paid hosting based on it immoral? Is it only immoral because they changed a setting from the default?

Would it immoral if I offered a paid hosted MySQL server? Would it be immoral if I changed the columns-per-table limit to 100?
As something I’m using on a daily basis, Linear has one of the best product UI I experienced. It is extremely polished and snappy
Majority of the icons uploaded on simple-icons are registered trademarks and IP as well. If you read carefully what you have highlighted, this is what exactly simple-icons is trying to say.
no one demands a moratorium on pens and pencils because someone might write illegal squiggles with them. we simply accept the fact that 0.0001% of squiggles will be illegal, harmful, hateful, unethical, unsafe, etc, so we can use the pen and pencil tech to write the other 99.9999% of squiggles.

the current lobbying and legislating efforts seek to outlaw pens and pencils produced by anyone but a handful of US corporation, who only let you use their pens and pencils if you let them look over your shoulder while you write your squiggles.
> and changing the URLs of the images

The URLs might be mentioned in many different places. Why break URLs just to make a "better product"? Why couldn't the new product keep old URLs working?
> 20 min is short for such a vague question, and you can watch at 2+x the speed if info density is so paramount.

Interesting how a lot of defenders just assume delivering the same info in writing is not feasible.

Has the skill to read/write become a competitive advantage again, like in the medieval ages when 0.1% of the population knew how to do it?
That's kind of a different thing. Making the best AI possible for recognizing mushrooms and trying to produce the most factually correct answers is different than letting AIs run rampant, generating fiction.

Also, I'd want some kind of verification before using the mushroom app. Who made the app? Do they have people on their team familiar with mushrooms? Botanists or whatever you call them. Some random dude with free time and access to maybe 10 species of mushrooms in his backyard.. even if his intent is good, is still dangerous.
Ah, I was more referring to why this tool was released and wanted to say it’s a component of their Kamal deployment tool and not so important on its own.

There’s some more explanation on why they decided to switch away from Traefik:

https://github.com/basecamp/kamal/pull/940
It's because it was not possible to write tons of brain-dead, repetitive code in 2014.

In 2024, with AI you can do these kind of projects very fast.
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This "stuff" allows for easy exchange of API definitions and Arazzo goes to the next level to define the semantics of the process of combining API calls.

gRPC requires brittle compilation of the protobuf definitions that has impacted every marshalling/serialization protocol for remote procedure calls since XDR.

Whether you like it or not, HTTP/JSON are the lingua franca of the internet (at least the API side of things). Protobuf is good if you are in control of both sides of the API, less so if you are just the server. It also is much less self-documenting than JSON Schema/OpenAPI.
Interesting. Did you buy and setup your own servers, use a different company to host services in the cloud, or something in between?
The fundamental problem is that in our fully networked era software cannot _not_ be maintained. Security issues are inevitable, cloud/sync/store systems require servers, upstream APIs, libraries & operating systems are constantly shifting and breaking things.

So OSS aside (which has its own complicated economics) someone needs an ongoing revenue stream for that work to happen. Whether it's through regular release of paid upgrades (and EOL of old ones) or a subscription model is these days less of a fundamental separation and more of a question of cadence.

Take a look at the much-vaunted Campfire from once.com - there's been zero new features since initial release and I'll bet the cost of a copy come Feb next year when it's a year old there'll be a 2.0 for another $300. How long after that will 1.0 be EOL'd? So are you really 'buying once' for $300 or paying $300 a year just with the auto-renew turned off?
I highly recommend this movie if only because it's a hilarious combination of excellent production value, terrible acting, and some of the most boring and openly delusional film you'll ever witness.
I recall being told that office uses undocumented Windows APIs making it harder for groups like WINE and Proton to support them. whether or not thats the intent or a happy accident well...
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Can I propose a compromise? How about a yearly subscription with opt-in renewal. If you stop paying, you don’t get updates (or locked out in case it’s a service - not standalone software).

We all hate subscriptions but at the same time lifetime ownership puts you in a shitty place from a business development perspective. If the product has room to improve within its scope, I want the updates, the maintenance, select new features. If you one-time price that, the business incentives call for acquiring more users, not to make their existing ones happy.
Google registry owns like 40 odd gTLDs.

A company that maintains that many TLDs is expected to have long term commitment to the domain related businesses but it turns out to be just a fleeting interest.
Offshoring parts of your supply chain (and to high income countries no less) is your idea of colonial imperialism?
Try singing a song on youtube. See what youtube copyright checker does.
So basically a tree doesn't fall in the forest if there's no one around to see it? There's no forest and there are not trees. It's all spawned as needed when we go for a hike? Kinda arrogant don't you think?
Google Domains was a service where no new features could be added, so nobody would get promoted for working on it, so nobody wanted to maintain it. Classic Google.
I bought 14 games last year from the early 2000's, racing simulator games. They absolutely suck compared to today's racing simulators, except that they don't because they did stuff differently that they don't do today and I miss some of those features and games for what they were.

I also routinely run tons of software that I paid once for, it works for me, and I never have need to upgrade. It rarely stops working with a new OS version, as far as Windows and Linux goes at least. Office 2005 will still export all types of formats, or I could print to a PDF, or I could even just send out an old school .doc file and most people can still open it in whatever program they use today, even if it isn't optimal.

Additionally, even if something only works for a limited time, I still got my use and money's worth out of most of that software. I don't expect physical things to last forever, so I also don't expect software to last forever. I'd rather pay once, twice, or more for "pay once" software that I use over 20 years than pay every single month, probably adding up to a lot more than the several copies of different programs over the years would.
I find my tolerance for subscription software is proportional to how often I use it. A tool I use daily as my core work, no problem - I want to support them to ensure they stick around. But occasional tools I’d prefer to buy upgrades only if there are new feature I care about.

I’m not a creative, so I’m not paying Adobe subscription (they’re icky in so many ways). But if I were I’d have no issue.

But there is a 3rd category - something like an editor I couldn’t bear if it was tied to a company to ensure it’s survival so that’s got to be open source - even though ironically I’m willing to pay more in that scenario.