skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hint: At the point at which they agreed to sell 6000 units, they must've agreed to a price for those units. Then later they figured out that the trader meant cases and upped the number. I'm thinking they expected to get paid about 6 times more (6 packs per case) ...
Agreed, with the only caveat being, there is a chance that the current favorable market conditions for programmers disappears.

There might come a day where companies believe that the value of slapping a few potentially buggy libraries together is not worth $xxx,xxx per year. I for one kind of hope that companies return to buying/contracting well-defined finish products with small external studios rather than throwing money at W2 developers like us. I think the software quality will be higher, and the risk of our jobs being outsourced lower, wherher rightfully so or not.
all while he lived in luxuery and his daughter and mother had to live in poverty scraping by with donations from the food shelter
Why is a pizza box a bigger story than, say, a likely sex trafficker given a major platform on social media (Tiktok and Twitter)?
> Ownership of a blockchain address can be proven with a signature.

How? If my friend gives me their passcode / phone / Token, I can impersonate them.
I'm not exactly an IP hawk, from from it.

I agree with you that digital "asset" ownership is new, unexplored territory for humans.

We've never been able to separate the content from the distribution medium before now, and we're struggling to recreate a model we're familiar with (physical media) by imposing absurdities like DRM.

NFTs are also an absurd way of trying to solve the same problem.

The issue we wrestle with is mistaking "ownership" with a access.

I can own a physical book, but I do not own the content of the book, I've paid for access to that content and the book is the medium.

Digital assets are the same, I don't own them, they are a form of access to content that someone else owns, and has granted me an either implicit or explicit license to use.

I think this is the concept of ownership that needs to be revised.

Rather than a mp3 being treated, and thought of, like a book - it should be thought of more as a movie ticket. Something that grants me access to content within the limits defined by the content owner.
Unless studied software engineering, you can switch to become an "engineer"? Wouldn't be software developer term more fitting?
This is not chatgpt. It’s the paid version.
I know people who limit heavily usage of the devices (1-2h per day at most), but those kids have Instagram, FB etc., even though kids are way too young to use this kind of tech (<10 years old, so accounts would be locked out if reported).

On the other side of the spectrum I know 11-year olds who spend 6-7h per day on FT calls with their group.

In the end, both behaviours are screen time.
Does DDD mean domain-driven design[1]?

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-driven_design
I beta tested Kagi (free) and was really impressed with the results it would give me. Having to login to a search engine was a bit of a pain, especially with different browser profiles and private mode. I understand that will inherently be a limitation with Kagi.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried allegedly cashes out US$684,000 on-chain data show
The Postal service is a utility competing on efficiency and price. That's not what "tech unicorns" get billion dollar valuations to compete on. Tech is about building a "platform" to siphon off money for all eternity while doing little of the ongoing labor of delivering or producing the value. To build that platform you need a moat, because otherwise somebody will come in a compete on price, so you build brand loyalty by gate-keeping the quality of stuff on your platform. That way any competing platform will initially be primarily populated by all the stores too "bad" to be marketed with the incumbent.

It's quite simply not financially lucrative enough to run a utility for venture capitalists. In a more sane, less inflated economic climate, this might change.
They want to deploy this tech to, like, high schools.
That's the issue of societies with low cohesion: everybody expects everybody else to riot at any moment.
> They are routinely overstepping the bounds of civil behavior...

What does that even mean? Your argument starts with a statement everyone agrees with, you assert something that's a stretch to believe at best. Then you just start making things up.

Finally you assert that absurd action needs to be taken. Why is it possible to burn the FBI to the ground but not reform civil forfeiture?

You need to ask yourself who would benefit from dismantling the FBI, because the FBI does a lot more than civil forfeiture.

The same goes for the Post Office and IRS. Someone else has a lot more to gain from dismantling those institutions than you do. They're just riling you up to carry out their agenda.
SpaceX is also contributing to the increasing amounts of space junk. How long is the second stage just floating around after delivering payloads? Once the shuttle delivered payloads, it just left nothing but space.
Only when you pose next to a supercar you probably borrowed as a prop. He is being shamed for being a colossal anus over a long enough period of time to leave no doubt.
The job of a cost accountant is to quantify these things. If the business gets it wrong, then the business does poorly or even goes out of business.

Supply+Demand certainly does determine employee compensation. But consider that there is no demand for workers who would cost more than the value they add. If the worker was producing far more value than he was paid, then the worker will be enticed away by some other business offering him more money.

So, you can see how S+D nudges employee compensation towards being paid according to what value they produce.
I'm not sure you can call it a new alternative. From my own usage I'd estimate that Treesheets is at least 9 years old. I used to use it for software project internal documentation, but have switched to Org-mode now. It's quite a impressive application.
So there a few ways this can actually be done with different levels of accuracy/precision. But it is going to be complicated no matter what.

The easy thing to do is to compare outputs to inputs. This isn't technically hard (i.e. cosine similarity) but it is computationally difficult (i.e. cosine similarity of output to entire input). This would give us some weightings that show similarity. But this doesn't really tell us attribution, rather more a correlation. These are statistical models so there's reason to believe that this is okay.

Then there's inversion. This is processing data backwards through the model. This has different complexities compared to what type of model you're working with. GANs aren't great, diffusions are okay, normalizing flows are trivial (but good luck generating good images from NFs). If we can invert the model it is much easier to investigate and probe for contribution by looking at the distance of the latent generative variable to the location of the latent trained data. Basically you're looking at how different information is contributing to the overall output. This can also be done at every level in the network. Obviously this gets both technically challenging as well as computationally.

Another method would be using dataset reconstruction (this is outside my wheelhouse fwiw). This is where you try to recover the dataset from the final trained network. This too is complicated but there's plenty of papers showing progress in this space (lots of interest from privacy groups).

(TLDR-ish) There's other methods too. But basically what is being said is that there are ways to denote what and how much the training data contributed to the output of the model wherein we can then measure how similar the output is to the inputs (i.e. copying).
But then they choose someone else to supply.

If you have enough brand recognition where they must have your product specifically, this usually means you are big enough that the payment terms aren't that big of a deal
It seems to me there are some really fundamental questions about copyright and use posed here that have been submerged in the background of the internet rush to digitize all forms of content and expression. Even though these generative tools may simplify the path to verbatim code (or image, or text) copying without attribution, and complicate determining what, if any, attributions are required, they didn't invent it. A browser coupled with a search engine facilitates such copying all the time. Like the generative models, the search engine is a tool that has read, for its own purposes, vast swaths of content, remembered key details about it, and serves a means to render the content up to a user. It's not the copying per se that causes trouble - creators make their material on the internet with the expectation and hope that it will be copied, by all those tools, into search engines and ultimately onto screens, so I can see it. It's that the chain of attribution is lost (or with OS code, the license imprint, which is really just another form of attribution), and with the attribution, any hope that the creator will benefit from the copying.

But actually carrying attribution forward is going to be hard. Things that come out of a generative model that are substantially identical to a particular input do so for one of two reasons: one particular training input to the model is overwhelmingly the "best" source of response to the prompt, or a training input has been repeated over and over again in the training set so as to become the consensus response to one or more prompts. The first might reasonably feasible to track down, although it's bound to be computationally expensive. The second ... really tough, since it forces the model to "know" which of those many training sources is the one that should attributed. The widely circulated example of an image generation model reproducing Steve McMurray's famous photo of Sharbat Gula, a green-eyed Afghani girl that appeared on National Geographics cover in 1985 shows the problem. Do a Google search for "green-eyed Afghan girl" and you'll find hundreds of copies of varying resolution and definition, and hundreds more derivative versions, of McMurray's photo. A model spitting out yet another derived, but nearly identical version is likely drawing from hundreds of those images itself, not some original root, copyrighted golden copy. Which should it attribute?
I flag everything that is pure drama, nothing substance. Like this post. Twitter stuff (for example everything Elon related which took over HN for months), everything that I saw on the reddit front page earlier which means it's already at the lowest of low quality and it has no place in mind on HN.

In the end flag whatever you want and move on.
> You don't mind if I borrow your car do you?

ZipCar, et. al.

> And your house?

AirBnB

> Let's not quibble about the particulars of me ever giving them back.

Symmetry.
When it hinders the consumption of the topic then it is directly relevant.

It was not about the font used or the colour.
Exactly. And if you deal with (shitty) small businesses you’ll hear this or variants time and time again.

Part of the reason Walmart has crushed all their small business competitors.
Can You Afford to Retire?
>It feels like Apache is willing to accept code donations from anyone and is willing to attach the foundation's name to code that isn't widely used, actively maintained, or may just be abandonware

That's why I'm allergic to Apache software. A lot of it is overengineered, insecure, legacy abandonware.
Oh Limbaugh! He was popular before my time, and the more I learn about him the more I am puzzled by who would enjoy listening to something like what you describe.
Did you explore what could be the reason behind this?
If it’s about data ownership, try going with self-hosted solutions.
The books are free, if you download the wrong version of a book you can simply try another and it costs you no more than a minute of your time.

Do you know how it worked before we had the internet for books? You had to go to a library yourself, which may have taken an hour of your day just in the journey, then hope the library had the book you wanted. If not, you may have to wait weeks for another library in the system to mail the book to your library.
Aristotle figured this out first: the "potentially infinite" exists, but the "actually infinite" does not.
Let's not forget that these airline cartels continue to overbook flights, leaving people stranded regularly, even during good weather.
JS-free archive version:

https://archive.ph/EwgKE
Given past experience this could just be a repeat false claim. So let's put our pwnies away until we see something stick.

Backstory: Supposedly He's previously been arrested (in aug 2022?) when a woman needed a cover story for why she was cheating on her boyfriend with him. The facts corroborated his side of the story and its claimed he was even apologized to by authorities. The investigation showed her to be a liar and there on her own volition and free to leave etc...d

I cannot find a good source for this besides dubious Reddit and YouTubes, so I guess we'll see what the actual truth is this time.
Yeah, correct, I would expect the same thing to happen if you list all attributions. That’s why I mentioned a criteria for filtering by number of tokens in a row for a given attribution, and one possible method for doing the filtering via largest common subsets.

While the very long list would be impractical (but not infeasible), sorting and filtering the list by how much each source contributes would make it easier to manage. Pruning all the entries that are below a contribution threshold would almost certainly shrink it to a very small fraction of the total number of attributions. We don’t need to list all the attributions that contribute to only one token, all we need to know is which attributions ended up with 5 or 50 or 500 tokens in a row, right? Likely not many.
Looks interesting. It looks to be under MIT license (great) but the landing page doesn’t mention that. You might as well maximize the benefit of open-sourcing the code by claiming that on the landing page. (It’s true that most anyone actually interested will go look [as I did], so not that big a deal perhaps.)
The phrase "it uses LaTeX" means that it runs the program LaTeX or that it need the "LaTeX format". Neither is true. Similarly you would say that "PanDoc uses Word?" or that a program that export to Word use Word. To me if you want to say that a program exports to a particular format just say so. If you want to say that a program needs a working installation of another program Y to work then you can say "it uses Y". So I think it is not correct to say that TeXmacs uses LaTeX. It can import/export it, like it can export/import PDF, HTML and other formats. TeXmacs does not need a working LateX installation to work. It comes with all its batteries included and on the Mac the app weight < 150 MB. That's all you need (including the LaTeX importer/exporter which is written in Scheme).
Those options were explicitly laid out in the contract they signed, they even say that in the blog post. It's not a grift if they tell you up front exactly what will happen.
Maybe some people find this interesting. Unlike lot of discussion here?
Interesting. This feels very like something I've been considering for managing my thoughts and notes, while presented a little differently the core idea has a lot of overlap.

The version in my head (and occasionally in scribbled notes & diagrams) keeps getting massively overcomplicated though, then paired down to the point where it would be too basic, rinse+repeat. Perhaps this has found a useful compromise point, I'll have to give it a try (if it isn't close enough to ideal for what I want, it might help me constrain or at least prioritise my requirements).
Presumably they got paid a consulting fee
It seems to me there's a couple of other assumptions in there, too: 1) the string_view is null terminated (not required by string_view, not a safe assumption in general) and 2) that any padding is zero-initialized (don't think this is required, either).
They didn't even understand the terms they agreed to. The distributor didn't "grift" them. They weren't swindled, it was just bad business decision making and lack of understanding their terms.
I wish it could be flagged as "off-topic" as I don't see how this post is hackernews-worthy.
My friends company (software consulting) got a contract with Amex, super excited

Took months for them to even respond to emails about their invoices, they never ever paid on time or even a month a late

Dealing with giant firms is the worst and there’s nothing you can do as a small vendor besides having your game tight upfront

and if you do have your game tight upfront they won’t hire you in most cases
And dementia
Analog subtractive synthesis mostly
Independent in the sense that they have to buy their taxi from one manufacturer, get approval from one board, take an exam provided by one examiner, charge the same price, and - seemingly - all have the same funny anecdote about driving a drunk celebrity.

Don't get me wrong - being able to hail a cab in central London is vastly quicker than working out which dodgy minicab app is working today. But they're hardly decentralised. They are fairly autonomous though.
The answer is to do less controversial stuff so people won't bother leaking it to the outside world.

In this case mussk could've just said nothing, as the current state of affairs is pretty self-explanatory. Instead they chose to blow smoke up their employees asses.
If your argument is about the absurdity of current copyright terms, you'll find no disagreement here.

We should have stuck with the original 14 + 14 as laid out in the constitution.
Why just invert, when you can offer multiple view simultaneously ? :

1- We keep the r/whatever (subject matter) stream like view

2- We can always have that enhanced "saved bookmarks" view you talked about. They are not mutually exclusive.

3- To expand on your "reference page" (Wikipedia-like) idea, the bookmarks should be more malleable: We ought to be able to collaborate on reorganizing them under different tag-systems/hierarchies (while they keep their original comments and score)

So it is 3 complementary views: stream view (current Reddit/HN link-posts), personal view (current bookmark managers), and reference view (a more structured “awesome lists”)

Most sites do have at least two (mostly 1+2), but one at least is always rudimentary (like the HN favourites). I myself tried to combine 2+3 (for a private team) using the coda raindrop pack https://coda.io/packs/raindrop-io-11475
> They do not care if you’re a small company with poor liquidity.

This is a feature, not a bug.

If you are in an inventory-rich industry, you do not want to deal with a supplier that has no working capital.

Goods first - money later sucks if you are a small startup. But it's much easier to work with inventory and figure out the money later than vice-versa. Toyota does not want to stop the production line because their order of ball-bearings showed up late and now they have to start a new purchase cycle.
Ask HN: PRK worth it and recovery time?
I've been looking into Lasik and PRK at 30 now that my eyes have stabilized. I do Jiu Jitsu so the doctor recommended I get PRK instead of Lasik as Lasik leaves a permanent flap that can be damaged by contact sports.

My main worry is a bad outcome and the recovery time. I was told I could start working at a computer again 5 days after the surgery when the remove the protective contact. I have a nice job at FAANG and don't want to risk my career or take too much time off after the holidays break.

Anyone been in the same situation? What is vision like at 5 days, and can it take longer?

Also how is your light sensitivity? Is it harder to look at a screen after the surgery?
Was that response unconvincing somehow?
"No they're not" and "no it's not" (simplified from the actual response) are conversation enders, so I'll follow the lead and let this conversation end.

Have a great new years!
I think biorach is quite correct, and that is not even as strange as our commitment to Ethanol, which is largely due to the Iowa caucuses. It's very popular in that state-- they grow a lot of corn. It also used to be the first state of the presidential primaries (I believe this is changing). So if you wanted to run for president at some time (and a lot of powerful politicians do) you had to be in favor of Ethanol subsidies.
Sorry; what is tsmc? Is there a single manufacturer with all the patents that everyone relies on?
“I can’t do that” - after Chris Voss, Never split the difference
That's why reddit or Twitter exist
A senior engineer can be worth a lot more than $35M. Even just shaving 1% off the time that the server software consumes are worth many millions of dollars to the server company. The server companies compete for those people, so they get paid lots of money.

There is no power imbalance. If a worker produces a lot more value than he costs, he simply goes to another company that bids higher for him.
Speaking of AI, it just happened with Unstable Diffusion. It was kicked off of Kickstarter and Paterson after an uproar, and while as far as I know the project is still taking donations through their website I wouldn’t doubt the credit card processors will cut them off soon too.
Then flag it and move on
Who parks on the street? The car is for driving to Tahoe. They ride Uber within the city.
Given that large language models don't have any actual knowledge (in a human sense) of the data they've been trained on other than raw statistics, can they be said to "reason" about anything?
In Windows I just pin the notepad in the 2nd position of my task bar and to achieve the process you did in Mac, it can be done with Ctrl+C, Windows+2, Ctrl+V.
What kind of platform can detect what variables or instructions I added? It can be very difficult to reverse engineer the prompt from the output.
Acceptable, no, understandable, yes, a petty remark to insult a man who has prioritized his identity around a shallow and abusive perception of masculinity

It’s like the hitler has only one ball thing
USSR in early decades wanted people back to work ASAP (and social security in 1920-30-s was almost non-existent in the country), so the attitude towards bearing a child and towards children was the same: force everyone to follow strict schedule, no matter what.

The narrative behind this was different, more like militarized: teach them to sooth themselves, don't devote too much time, or they'll grow up handheld children, and then be spoiled slackers, etc.
Most people who are into blockchain stuff would not use the word "decentralised" to describe a system where a municipal government has unilateral control.

The thing that they solve well is incentivizing people to operate a network, and doing so with security properties that are different from centralized networks. In the case of "decentralised Uber", that would look like an Uber network that continued working even if some subset of participants became evil or disappeared. With sometime like Bitcoin for example, you could shift the security property from
"network behaves correctly as long as the local government is honest and online"
to
"network behaves correctly as long as >50% of hash power is honest and >X% of hashpower is online"

It's not really about censorship and only a tiny bit about government resistance. It's more about not trusting anyone. My personal take is that some trust is good for an uber-like product, so current-gen blockchain solution would be worse than actual Uber.
Everybody wants to be a spokesperson or a politician because essentially it’s a job where you get paid to say stuff or today you don’t even have to say anything, just tweet.

In this case a rivalry was shaping up between 2 such characters:

Thumberg and Tate

The former representing the perma-concern and the latter representing the perma-carefree persona