skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If anything, startups are more transparent about it.

In the enterprise sector this is rampant. Companies sell "platforms" and those missing features are supposed to be implemented by consultants after the sale. This means the buyer is the one footing the bill for the time spent, and suffering with the delays.
isn't it obvious to everyone that the X/Twitter exodus is just a forum split?

haven't all of us of a certain age participated in a forum that eventually devolved into drama, and then everyone picks sides, and someone makes a new forum, and half the group leaves?

That's all that's happening on X. Now we have a bunch of twitters: X, Bluesky, Truth, Fediverse.

They're all twitters and the X exodus is just a twitter split. X will go on, but smaller, and people will share posts between the twitters the way they always have shared posted between social media sites: with screenshots.

Nature is healing.
> In the case of GIMP, the very name itself means it cannot be used in commercial enterprises.

I have no idea where you got this info from but it is 100% wrong. Of course GIMP can be used for commercial purposes. Or any purposes you want, really. The GNU GPL does not prevent commercial use.

see also https://www.gimp.org/docs/userfaq.html#can-i-use-gimp-commer...
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Thoughtworks makes these radars every year. They make sure overhyped & expensive to build trends are portrayed as the new hotness, only to mark them as “avoid” a few years later. I wonder why!
> kitsch novelty

you mean limited release collectable?
I think the real problem on Twitter is the massive amount of spam that now exists. It's much worse than it was a couple of years ago. If all it consists of is bots and hucksters that pay to appear at the top of viral posts, it will cease to be a useful "pulse". That being said, this might just be the end of there being a single, central Twitter-like platform. There are already right-wing clones like Gab and Truth Social, it could be that more and more niche platforms pop up.
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50 comments and no one mentioned Treeship or Hyperion!!
LLMs are pretty damn useful for generating tests, getting rid of a lot of tedium, but yeah, it's the same as human-written tests: if you don't check that your test doesn't work when it shouldn't (not the same thing as just writing a second test for that case - both those tests need to fail if you intentionally screw with their separate fixtures), then you shouldn't have too much confidence in your test.
> When was the last time you found a bug that could be attributed to the interpreter rather than the programmer?

On the other hand, when was the last time you used a custom one-off interpreter?
Anthropic has a lot of issues. I tried paying them and my card is rejected without explanation.

I tried different cards, addresses, even a VPN. Nothing works. After googling a bit I found on Reddit that this is very common. I don't thinks their investors are happy with them not accepting customers.
Funny that all Microsoft projects appear on top. They seem to struggle very hard.
No, as long as it works they don't care. I.e. even if Amazon stops development but continues to support existing infrastructure most customers will stay. It's expensive and may take many months to move back on premises or another cloud.
I used Affinity tools as a better alternative. Are they not a player anymore?
I feel like Facebook was often considered a MySpace clone in its early days, despite certain differences, and I certainly think it took its place.
The Independent reports 35m viewers of that cricket match [0].

Rolling Stone reported 120m for Tyson and Paul on Netflix [1].

These are very different numbers. 120m is Super Bowl territory. Could Hotstar handle 3-4 of those cricket matches at the same time without issue?

[0] https://www.the-independent.com/sport/cricket/india-pakistan...

[1] https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/jake-paul-...
What's after this? Because I really do feel the economy is standing on a cliff right now. I don't see anything after this that can prop stocks up.
I still want to know what to use for datetime and time zones.
What does a non "one size fits all" approach for organ matching look like? What does a non-singular matching system work? Do you arbitrarily (randomly?) split up organs into different pools and let each pool match by a different algorithm?
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Freedom of speech is not about things you want to hear it's about the uncomfortable things. You cannot possibly put prior restraint on free speech. Doing so means you would no longer have freedom of speech
The article says their cells don’t freeze during hibernation. -100C would probably freeze the cells and kill them
> Edit: I believe that LLM's are eminently useful to replace experts (of all people) 90% of the time.

What do you mean by "expert"?

Do you mean the pundit who goes on TV and says "this policy will be bad for the economy"?

Or do you mean the seasoned developer who you hire to fix your memory leaks? To make your service fast? Or cut your cloud bill from 10M a year to 1M a year?
Have you seen Serif's Affinity products?

https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/
The proposals and features around std::embed and #embed (part of C23) are on their way to enabling this.
Only if it fails in the same way. LLMs and the multi-agent approach operate under the assumption that they are programmable agents and each agent is more of a trade off against failure modes. If you can string them together, and if the output is easily verified, it can be a great fit for the problem.
No they all have escalating difficulty algorithms.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
>it was related to their adventures in VR

Which also shows yet another one of Valve's problems with making games, they treat their games like they're "tech demos", so unfortunately they're not as interested in actually moving the stories in their games forward or bringing them to a conclusion. They do a "tech demo", they move on from that tech, leaving the game
and it's world and community behind. Plot? What plot? Perhaps they're also stalling on making continuations or even new releases in search of some "gimmick technology" to pair a game with, instead of just telling a story through their games. For those people that do like the narratives and the worlds in their games, it sure is tough luck. There's more to a game than just 'tech', but alas.
Because YCombinator is all about r-selecting startup ideas, and making it back on a few of them generating totally outsized upside.

I think that LLMs are plateauing, but I'm less confident that this necessarily means the capabilities we're using LLMs for right now will also plateau. That is to say it's distinctly possible that all the talent and money sloshing around right now will line up a new breakthrough architecture in time to keep capabilities marching forward at a good pace.

But if I had $100 million, and could bet $200 thousand that someone can make me billions on machine learning chip design or whatever, I'd probably entertain that bet. It's a numbers game.
Same result. Information locks are verboten.
Most? I can list tens of them easily. For example what advancements were required for Slack to be successful? Or Spotify (they got more successful due to smartphones and cheaper bandwidth but the business was solid before that)? Or Shopify?
You don’t have deny the responsibility of the relevant authorities to properly maintain hiking trails, in order to place responsibility on a hiking guide to safely get you along poorly maintained trails.
Rice theorem doesn't say anything about humans.
Occasionally I have to explain in detail what the hell I've been doing all month because of some business drama with the customer or whatever. I can barely remember what I've done the last week. So when someone asks I just open the git commit history to figure it out.
So they were looking in the neighborhood, basically found light sources that looked like they might be duplicates and they were, therefore lensing.

Can we then find more lensing with even more compounding on purpose instead of accidentally if we sift existing data for such dupes?
I watched the event last night and didn't get any buffering issues, but I did notice frequent drop in video quality when watching the live feed. If I backed the video up a bit, the video quality suddenly went back up to 4k.

I had some technical experience with live video streaming over 15 years ago. It was a nightmare back then. I guess live video is still difficult in 2024. But congrats to Jake Paul and boxing fans. It was a great event. And breaking the internet just adds more hype for the next one.
And if it happens I'll bet it right now, it'll somehow be blamed on "the left" and the response will be to get more of these conspiracy nutjobs in positions of power
Final Cut Pro X was an example of how a complete rewrite almost always being a mistake. Now if Apple was really committed to rearchitecting the app (which is fair), they should've done it in parallel. That is, release both versions at the same time. Yes, it's more expensive but it's simply not worth killing your audience by cutting back features because they aren't imported yet. Brand the two versions differently but have the same licnese activate both.

So I will defend the idea of software subscriptions, not Adobe's implementation thereof.

You may like software you purchase but you don't really purchase software anymore. It may rely on online services that can go offline. There is a constant need for bugfixes. Old versions may not get those fixes. Vendors will gate new features behind major versions that you have to buy and the threshold for what constitutes a major version gets lower and lower over time.

Adobe was guilty of all of this. Photoshop has a Camera Raw plugin. Back in the day, new RAW formats (which came out all the time) were added to later Camera Raw versiona and those versions required later PS versions for literally no reason, other than to force you to buy the upgrade.

Purchasing software just isn't the panacea many think it is.

Subscriptions have a better incentive model to continuously fix and develop the software without artificially creating major versions to push sales.

Jetbrains is really the gold standard for subscriptions. Adobe... isn't. Adobe uses dark patterns for renewals and subscription periods. They keep jacking up the prices. They hide these price hikes in bundles.
> It is easy to map all natural numbers between 0 and 1 on the real line. Just not 1 to 1.

For the usual meaning of the term, you certainly can construct a 1-to-1 (that is, injective) map N \to [0, 1] (for example, n \mapsto 10^(-n)); the natural numbers just can't be mapped onto [0, 1] (that is, the map can't be surjective). That's the opposite of the problem we have: it's saying you can losslessly encode a countable amount of information in an uncountable amount of space; but I'm saying conversely that you can't perform an uncountable number of steps in a countably infinite amount of time.
Yes this is EXACTLY it, and I was discussing this a bit at work (financial services).

In software, we've all self taught, improved, posted Q&A all over the web. Plus all the open source code out there. Just mountains and mountains of free training data.

However software is unique in being both well paying and something with freely available, complete information online.

A lot of the rest of the world remains far more closed and almost an apprenticeship system. In my domain thinks like company fundamental analysis, algo/quant trading, etc. Lots of books you can buy from the likes of Dalio, but no real (good) step by step research and investment process information online.

Likewise I'd imagine heavily patented/regulated/IP industries like chip design, drug design, etc are substantially as closed. Maybe companies using an LLM on their own data internally could make something of their data, but its also quite likely there is no 'data' so much as tacit knowledge handed down over time.
ofc you'll get downvoted bec "AI"!!

But yes, just dump the code into gemini and ask for a github flavored readme and you're 90% there
Old phones no, but old apps yes. If a developer has abandoned an app and hasn't been investing in the update treadmill, but end users still care about it, that can make people feel negatively about Apple.
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Bigmood.blue: Bluesky firehose in real-time
That would require the Year of Linux on the Desktop first :)
Which is kind of ironic, given how performance minded the game industry is, and then we have those circles with such attitude.
Excerpt from the abstract:

"We propose a novel channel through which rising income inequality affects job creation and macroeconomic outcomes. High-income households save relatively more in stocks and bonds but less in bank deposits. A rising top income share thereby increases the relative financing cost for bank-dependent firms, which in turn create fewer jobs."

I think another mechanism by which economic inequality affects job growth is just that high income and wealthy people are more likely to invest in big companies, which do not create jobs as much as small companies. Low income people are more likely to invest their lives in creating a small family company. It also makes sense to me that public policy should favor small companies and networks between them.

To be clear, I don't know of any research on this.
I think you need a PR personnel too.
Mostly because they were not making claims that sentient microwaves that would cook your food for you were just around the corner which then the most respected media outlets parroted uncritically.
Update: I made it so anyone signing up from now on doesn't have to click the "generate api key" button and instead can hit the API playground right away.

Cheers!
90% of the suggested posts are clickbaity threads people post for engagement. Its become very hard to navigate to real content.
It's complicated. There is Unreal 5 tech that is extremely slow in and of itself (Lumen and Nanite come to mind), but most of the stutter comes from UE5's notorious shader compilation pipeline. Instead of pre-compiling shaders on first launch, UE5 will automatically compile and cache shaders while the user is playing which obviously hits the CPU and causes slowdown in unfamiliar areas.

However, it should be noted that this isn't an issue for consoles (where precompiled shaders come with the game) or Steam Deck (where shaders are compiled via Fossilize before the game is even launched). It's most notable on DirectX programs during the first run, which hits benchmarks quite badly but also becomes less stuttery as more shaders are cached.
those are numitrons, they use tungsten filament, whereas nixie tubes work by neon glow discharge
Is there any quantification of this available?
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For Apple Hanlon's razor rarely holds, they're both too competent and anticonsumer for this sort of thing to not be intentional malice in an attempt to sell more stuff. Maybe not, but very unlikely and even if it's a bug they'll probably call it a feature and keep it.
ReactOS comes to mind, although it's not Linux.
Bulky and slow
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I'm not familiar with the other similar sites, but Bluesky seems much more interesting as a product than Twitter/X ever did. I think the way they encourage users to build/share custom feeds, and especially how they can be independent of your follow graph, is really interesting. The problem with these sites has always been having a single algorithmic feed controlled by someone else IMO.

Some interesting feeds I've seen are only posts by mutuals, lots of curated feeds that just show a subset of posts by a small number of accounts (whether or not you follow them), a following feed that filters out reposts/replies, a custom open source Discover algorithm based on your likes.

This feels way more interesting to me than anything Twitter/X has ever tried to do, even if you really like their single algorithm and the way their following feed works.
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It isn't just the build tools, Unix as the platform for Worse Is Better, has decided to never solve this problem. Docker solves the problem of a having an under powered broken dynamic linker.

Docker should have never been necessary.
Your main headline claims you tried every email marketing tool. (“Top” is only in the HN title, and even then I don’t know if Adobe Marketo doesn’t qualify as “top”.)
> and then pirate the software to top it all off.

Why would you think that though? I'm pretty sure software piracy is less common on Linux than on Windows.
I never said all civil law was bad.
Yes, in the US it might look like state level / hospital system level vs 1 singular national level matching system.

US has its problems, but sometimes the "laboratory of ideas" that is federated system of 50 states prevents bad outcomes like this.
Yes I do! Is that some sort of gotcha? If I can choose between having a script that queries the db and generates a report and “Dave in marketing” who “has done it for years”, I’m going to pick the script. Who wouldn’t? Until machines can reliably understand, operate and self-correct independently, I’d rather not give up debuggability and understandability.
Same goes for Lightroom, many competitors, none of them has the full feature package that Lightroom Classic has.
Well, that makes a lot of sense. Why make games when one could just have yachts? Wonder when will the gaming community stop coddling and adoring that company.
You definitely have to be capable of performing the computation to get the result, you can’t just get something from nothing. You just don’t have to actually exist in the timeline where you process the work.
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This is awesome. I've only ever played Portal and Portal 2, so playing the games they came from finally would be neat!
try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bypass_Paywalls_Clean ?
The list is ranked in a completely transparent way. It's anything with the help wanted tag, ordered by number of stars.

So this isn't some sneaky Microsoft thumb on the scale, the way you appear to be implying. Simpler than that: I doubt many projects know about this list (I for one just saw it for the first time), and since GitHub put it together, Microsoft codebases got the memo to add the tag.

If you want to see other popular projects at the top of this list, open up a PR to have them add the tag.
Am I the only one who thought this could alsop work lik "just" a find tool, only to discover it silently erased that word from all files in the directory without asking for confirmation?
This felt riskier than rm -rf.
pretty sure OP meant the naming itself of GIMP is poor and hard to sell in an enterprise environment
Saying live-streaming is a solved problem is like saying search is a solved problem.
Manual afaict.
meanwhile the 5M prize for the first real application of quantum remains open..

quantum computing like string theory remains a scratch waiting for an itch - ie, a boondoggle.

to be fair though, it is worth looking at something that has the potential to break all of the encryption on the internet.
I can't speak for pros but as a hobbiest IMO Lightroom has improved more in the last 5 years than in the 5 before that. Some of that is the industry as a whole (HDR displays, for instance, allowing Lightroom letting me process old raw files in HDR). Some of it is their new AI based stuff (the new noise reduction is a particularly dramatic jump over the old one). Apple's tools certainly aren't close (currently).
> That ("Anthropic's" deliverability issue) is a Microsoft issue.

Emphasizing this. Validation emails sent to Microsoft hosted email are at high risk of never arriving.

For at least 2 years I've seen this on MS's free, paid and enterprise/hosted services. The issue is per validator; mails all arrive or none ever will. Generally I'll try again months later and find that service is still blocked.
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I never said that a transformer architecture "reasons". I said that there exists an interpretation of «generalize» that is sought and it is relevant to building a world model and that it requires reasoning.

When you write about «tak[ing] a dataset that has no "world model"», that is what we normally do: we gather experience and make sense of it, and that happens through functions that can be called "reasoning" (through "intelligence" etc). We already "«create[] information from thin air»" - it's what we do.

If the «Perfect transformer architecture» cannot reach the proper «world model» through its own devices, it must then be augmented with the proper modules - "Reasoning", "Intelligence" etc.

The point was, "Reasoning", "Intelligence" etc. do not seem to need «self-aware sentien[ce]».
If your first instinct is to down vote this, I urge you to articulate your counterargument, because I think this comment is spot on. I would love to see someone actually try to defend all the Adobe bashing that goes on here in a way that's valuable. E.g., by illustrating comprehensive experience using both the open source applications and the commercial competitors and demonstrating through example the relative merits of each.
Look. I'm a small startup employee. I have a teeny tiny perspective here. But frankly speaking the idea that Netflix could just take some off the shelf widget and stuff it in their network to solve a problem... It's an absurd statement for even me. And if there's anyone it should apply to it would be a little startup company that needs to focus on their core area.

Every off the shelf component on the market needs institutional knowledge to implement, operate, and maintain it. Even Apple's "it just works" mantra is pretty laughable in the cold light of day. Very rarely in my experience do you ever get to just benefit from someone else's hard work in production without having an idea how properly implement, operate, and maintain it.

And that's at my little tiny ant scale. To call the problem of streaming "solved" for Netflix... Given the guess of the context from the GP post?

I just don't think this perspective is realistic at all.
i also have a personal discord server, but discord is stuck being a text-first platform built for gamers around small/medium-sized communities.

I want to see a video-first/text-second platform emerge that serves as a global public square to supplant twitter. tiktok/reels/shorts is close, but it's too algorithm driven, too creator/audience for monetization dynamic driven, too vod-oriented vs live-oriented, and too walled-garden.
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