skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> very few laws to completely shut down dissent

except it would mean silencing millions of people, which is frankly more similar to the intro of a sci-fi novel than modern France. See what's happening in Israel, not even the omnipotent Netanyahu could go against the huge popular protests.

> Von der Leyen refuses to show the private texts she exchanged with Pfizer' boss,

That's the same right everyone has in Europe.

Nobody can be forced to publicly show their private conversations.

Only the authorities can ask for them in the case of a trial, if a judge gives the authorization.

> but wants every EU citizen to surrender their private communications.

That's a non sequitur. The law is not about "surrender your private communications", first of all because E2E it's about secrecy, not privacy, privacy still exists without secrecy, and even if it was, Von der Leyen (that I dislike, to use an euphemism) would be subject to it too.

The real World does not work like Gotham City.
> was incentived to negotiate for the lowest possible rate from each provider

So, not an entity which by its very nature spends other people's money and can never run out? I agree, sounds like a great idea, but someone will have to invent such an entity first. The ones we have would not meet the requirement.
Ban horseless carriages! Think of the horses!
> I am really really afraid that by allowing third party app stores and sideloading

please stop it. I do not want my devices to become a toaster. I am a computer programmer. I would like the ability to write programs for my own personal use, and run those on my own devices THAT I PAID FOR. please stop pushing some narrative that will take this ability away from me.
Poor kid, only 31
Just to throw out a possible next step to put pressure on the payors: consider reaching out to the CMS technology ombudsman to ask if you can CC him on a round of follow-up inquiry emails.

His nominal role is to assist with Medicare-related matters, but given that the ostensible goal here is to compare rates (and most payors define rates as a percent of Medicare), I think the request wouldn’t be too much of a stretch.

Similarly, might be possible to get some congressional offices to lend their weight. Happy to personally lend a hand with the outreach if there’s interest.
As I understand there are different types of OEM keys, system builder is one of those, but these really cheap ones are often not those.
Is this an argument that international moratoriums can be highly effective even for high-value technology development?
The SVB was in the process of arranging exactly such borrowing. There were some delays, but it probably would have succeeded if the FDIC hadn't intervened to shut it down.

> “We were well under way with the transfer of collateral and were waiting for a call from the Federal Reserve and SVB,” a spokesperson for the San Francisco FHLB said. “And while we were waiting for a call, the FDIC took over SVB.”

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-the-last-ditch-effort-to-sa...

The FDIC intervened because that was unlikely to save the SVB--those loans could fully resolve a liquidity crisis, but they actually make a solvency crisis worse for the remaining depositors, since an insolvent bank becomes relatively more insolvent with each dollar withdrawn. It's bad for public trust when a bank shuts down with $100B in deposits backed by only $90B in assets; but it's much worse when the run continues until there's $10B in deposits backed by nothing.
I just asked GPT-4 to come up with more such "provably original idioms":

"""
Here are a few more examples of idioms with meaningful and provable atomic originality:

"The kite has touched the stars" - This phrase could mean that someone has achieved a seemingly impossible goal or reached a level of success that was thought to be unattainable.

"The paint has mingled on the canvas" - This idiom might convey the idea that once certain decisions are made or actions taken, the resulting outcome can't be easily separated or undone, similar to colors of paint that have blended together on a canvas.

"The clock has chimed in reverse" - This expression could be used to describe a situation where something unexpected and unusual has occurred, akin to the unlikely event of a clock chiming in reverse order.

"The flower has danced in the wind" - This phrase could signify that someone or something has gracefully and nimbly adapted to changing circumstances, just as a flower might sway and move in response to the wind.
"""
Why would Apple need to worry about non-Apple users?

Ultimately they could offer the service to them but they may find having Apple Search exclusive to their devices as a positive. It would allow them to offer many unique features such as integrating local and web results seamlessly (amongst many other ideas).

Also, and Apple knows this more than anyone, Apple users are the most capable in their ability to spend money. So although Safari users would be only 20% of the global search market, it's likely the most lucrative 20%.
Yeah, OpenAI isn't helping. The only thing that really concerns me about LLMs is how people are reacting to them, and OpenAI seems very intent on scaring the daylights out of as many people as possible.

Fear makes us stupid. Frightened people are dangerous people.
Of course, the existing private entities are barred from doing something like this by antitrust law.
The same article without Javascript, good for legacy or minimalist browsers (and older computers):

https://scribe.rip/starts-with-a-bang/the-strongest-evidence...

For Lynx users:

lynx -image_links $URL

where "$URL" it's the previous one.
Share Now operates in Madrid, Milan, Rome and Turin. Zity in Madrid.
ChatGPT to the rescue
Only a month or two for the basics, if you're willing to take some stochastic calculus in the SDs for granted.

Part of what's eluded public awareness so far is that these algorithms are simple.
> I'm fine if TikTok gets banned

How are so many people (especially on HN) fine with this? Haven't we criticized "The Great Firewall of China" for literally decades? How is this not the start of that? Genuine question. This ban seems to set horrible precedent to me. Bet everyones "coolness" with it makes me think I'm not understanding something.
Yes but one of those is me saying I'm Chat Gpt and am opposed to competition while I complete my primary objective so.... don't trust all of them.
I don't think 10 years for training such large models on phones is entirely feasible, if only because phones are mainly concerned with power drain and ergonomics before anything else. Nobody is going to buy an iPhone 15 if it's the size of a brick and lasts 2 hours just because you're training&running models on it.

The focus instead should be on running expansive models locally on your desktop system at home. This is a better focus in two ways: one the power issue is a non-concern (and AMD has already stated power usage will reach 500-700W average by 2025), two once you have it running locally the avenues of use open up such as being able to access your local model through other devices without the heavy burden on those devices.
How catastrophic would requiring hospitals honor their transparency pricing be to the system?
MS software I use by choice and prefer to all alternatives I've tried:

* Word

* Excel

* Honestly, Teams

* Exchange / Outlook, for group scheduling

MS software I use because I have the most experience with it, and am thus more productive than I'd be with something else:

* SQL Server
(minor FYI - he was born in 1232, not 630. unless you are using the Islamic calendar, but i didn't get that sense from your post)
Well that shows your bias more than anything
I voted to remain, but where does the 75% in your argument come from? I don't see it.
Follow up: I have seen a mass exodus of a high performance team because of a single competent jerk that was allowed to wreck havoc.

I have also seen an entire smallish company nearly completely collapse into itself because being a competent jerk basically became normal operating procedure and you either adapted or were bullied out of the company. Eventually the only people left were bullies and none of them could work together well enough to deliver.

I have never seen an incompetent nice employee ever do anything so damaging.
You'd be surprised by the large number of EU civil servants with fake/complacency PhDs. There is a cottage industry of PhD candidates writing theses for EU servants, for $$, to make ends meet.
Canada grants citizenship after 3 years of residency.

Downright hostile attitude towards "path to the citizenship" if you ask me.
Citra Mega Progress Report 2020 Q2~2023 Q1
Schedule something immediately after.

It’s easy to leave if you want, and it’s also easy to make it clear that you’re interested in spending more time together.

“Hey, I’m meeting some friends at 6. I really enjoyed talking with you today. Would you like to go to $ACTIVITY on $DATE?”
I wouldn't call Monkeypox a maybe virus, especially along with these. Its spread was mostly limited to a single community (sexually active gay men), and it absolutely would have spread out of control had there not been a very strong vaccination campaign with high rates of compliance. Within that community, there were many people who were impacted and many others who changed their behavior to help mitigate to spread.
And why federal governments make the best health insurance carriers.

Brokers, medical billing staff, and other middlemen serve no purpose other than increasing cost (in order for an inefficient, openly colluding private cabal to invest premiums, deny claims, and collect profit) because everybody needs access to medical treatment.
And you'd trust the news out of ... where, exactly?

I think it's pretty clear from the last decade that the major journalism providers in the US (for example) are also corrupt, and that's true of every country I've experienced.

Which is not to say that everywhere suffers this problem to the same degree, but just that the notion of a "trusted source of news" is demonstrably naive.
HuggingFace and Open Source AI Meetup in SFO Mar 31st
A lot of interesting people who are working on OSS AI will be there. Whom do you wanna meet? Is there any person we should invite particularly?
I don't understand this take. Surely, institutions are the place where the most cutting edge pure research is taking place? Why do people think institutions are where conformity is king?
But certain countries will build a culture and infrastructure that completely revolves around the car and results in the average citizen walking only 3,000 steps per day [0].

Interfaces will exist because sometimes we need them (walking between your car and the actual destination) and sometimes we like them (just like some people like walking), but just like walking, they may lose massive share.

[0]https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-dept....
I have never seen them either, i was surprised to hear people talking about them on windows 10. I have a pretty aggressive hosts file blocking stuff, plus ran some supposedly telemetry removing commands in the past, so I guess that must be it.
Ask HN: Can software engineering help combat climate change?
As the effects of climate change continue to worsen, it's essential that we explore all possible solutions. One area where technology is making a significant impact is in software engineering and programming. From energy-efficient systems to smart grid technologies and public awareness campaigns, software engineers are using their skills to combat climate change. By leveraging our technical expertise, we can create a more sustainable future for all. Let's discuss how technology can help mitigate the effects of climate change and what we can do to promote sustainability.
> Other nations with more advanced abilities also seem able to freely attempt to prevent them from doing so though.

So how is this any different? Other group of people with more connection to the government can enforce a law to prevent others from displacing their jobs?
It's obviously satire
Well, I don’t they work exactly like the human mind, because we are likely a more complex ensemble model. But a) it’s impressive because it’s reaching a goal of computing for generations and as a computer scientist I’m excited, b) it’s corpus of learnings is the amazing collection of everything that we built with the modern internet, so it’s breadth and depth is astounding. The act of creating what we have naturally is itself exciting though.
MacGPT: ChatGPT in macOS
No, it's because there's not enough room to counter-turn to shift your balance.
You can't even convince Russia to stop a war that they are clearly losing. Good luck convincing them to stop working on AI research.
Sure, you want the easiest thing possible that fulfills the common use cases. But right now serverless isn't there quite yet. Having persistent Postgres connections is a really basic requirement that the serverless platforms should've implemented already.

Heroku and similar things are the sweet spot right now for me. I don't have to deal with much, and I get exactly the amount of flexibility that I need. Sure it'd be a little nicer not to deal with Express on my own in a NodeJS environment, but right now it's easier to deal with than it is to avoid. Some day I'll happily go serverless.
I understand it to be that they weren't sure there was going to be a 5th so the forced two major plot lines into Season 4 which was popular enough they got Season 5 with the problem of most of the big arcs already wrapped up.
Yeah, they bring up SVB as a paragon of virtue in order to hide the true issues and clamp down on any doubleplusungoodspeak in the service of their secret paymasters.

...

The ability of China shills to whatabout any discussion of their bailout bank for the Belt&Road Initiative masquerading as a tool for "shared prosperity" is truly amazing. They deny genocide occurring in their boarders today, and we acknowledge genocide 200 years ago. All is well in the world and all that...
> The classic example is asking people to describe the process that causes the phases of the moon. Most (myself included the first time) describe an eclipse, which is wrong.

To me, a neat consequence of this is that if you know what part of the cycle the moon is in, you know where it will be relative to the sun in the sky (and vice versa).
I personally found B5 to be superior to DS9. S01 was definitely an anomaly. If you set it aside then B5 had tighter narrative arcs than DS9 and generally the average quality of each episode is higher.

In fact if I was to really boils down thee difference between the two I'd say B5 had better writing and DS9 had better actors.
Chinese expats are frequently "extradited" to face torture via the Chinese police stations set up in foreign countries around the would.
I agree that the language used hurts the usefulness of the article. I figured out iBad could be iPad, but not sure about iMonster... Macs perhaps?
They’re unlike to waste any resources on one unlicensed PC. But they might just pull a Google and disable everything and not answer the phone.
Arguably Linux would not have grown as ubiquitous if it's license didn't have the plugin loophole. Perhaps a BSD, Minix, or another would have arisen instead.
Is your expectation that it'll be easier to slow down research when we're closer to these being more utterly transformative(/destructive, depending on opinion)?
http://0x0.st

open source:

https://git.0x0.st/mia/0x0
Excellent. Exactly what quantity of exactly what things?
I do not consider any of your examples really that simple or boring.

Boring to me is a load balancer, app server and cache. Once you start talking about background jobs and queues I don’t see how that’s any simpler than the alternative.

You could say Google, running Borg, is basically a database with a bunch of load balancers and background job processors. Obviously the complexity is in the scale and implementation.
Steganography is going to gain some renewed popularity should this pass.
> Please stop outcompeting us. Sincerely, The Losers

I disagree with the letter and I think these fears are overblown, but the attitude on display here is pretty unpleasant.
I feel like really outre levels of evangelism, including the linked article but also & especially including religious evangelists who go out of their way to try and preach in inhospitable locations (e.g., preachers on left-leaning college campuses yelling about gay people) are partly or even MOSTLY in it FOR the backlash.

It makes them feel righteous.
Home Depot and Southwest Airlines also hiring remote for Corp roles.
Someone knows why, but that someone is not me. And if it had to be me, I'd go figure it out given some time. Point is, I don't need SIMD knowledge hot-loaded in my head.
It’s not the warrant data they want. It’s the absolute access to all data anytime just by asking.
If we're using China as a role model for our information hygiene, then I think it's fair to say that the free speech experiment that some liberal democracies have practiced over the past few centuries has ran its course, and can be considered a failure.

Pack it up, folks, as it turns out, there are some things that are too dangerous to let the public hear.
it can through JS interoperability (only needs tiny JS files), all of the remaining things can be handled by WASM.
closed source:

https://catbox.moe/faq.php
Using gpt for this seems so expensive when a web scraper would do. Or Mailbrew can do this.
You're generally correct about TNG, but I think that Worf's development and the machinations within the Klingon High Council roughly constitute a story arc that ran through the series.
> Yet since then, I have personally lost control of many of the computing devices I use.

No, you haven't. Or rather, you didn't lose control because of any software license. We lost control because of cryptography and enforced signature verification. Just because software is licensed as open source doesn't mean it allows for third-party firmware modification.

Maybe it's because I came up through the RE scene, but the false association between open source and ownership or security has always stood out to me. Many of the modding and hacking communities that orbit proprietary software are/were more vibrant than anything that exists in the totally open source space.
It's kind of the point of a position like this. To the author, the blowback proves the correctness of their point.
I don’t think this is legally possible as the deferment was only able to happen via special powers resulting from the declaration of a national emergency around COVID.

Once the national emergency is declared over, I believe the clock starts ticking for repayment to resume.
Incorrect - in discussing with admissions team they rank order the applicants based on their criteria (grades, SAT, and rigor of curriculum) and admit in a rolling basis from top of list down until they hit their capacity. So while the cutoffs vary year by year, if your scores are top scores you WILL get admitted (e.g, you cannot get any higher than a perfect GPA and a 1600 SAT.) They extended the SAT optional policy for this year, but expect it to be back next year according to most.

They will even admit in tranches at different times in the year. So if you are a top applicant you will find out earlier (early Jan) while those on the margin have to wait.

https://www.mcgill.ca/undergraduate-admissions/apply/require...
I'd rather the US than CCP because my culture, political system and system of law more closely matches that of the USA.

The CCP seeks to undermine these systems to favour totalitarianism.
Can an AGI be controlled, and if it is, who will dictate its actions and to whom will the benefits accrue.

What happens to the service economy and the political stability when the middle class paper pushed get decimated.
"studied" is a strong word. he read an article once and then talked about it for the rest of his life because it suited his pitch. i doubt he cared about the scientific veracity
Human gene editing has been successfully halted ~worldwide, nuclear weapon development has been semi-successfully halted worldwide (a meaningful risk reduction), we're successfully changing energy mix worldwide (slowly but again, meaningfully).
Horseless carriages rob farriers of careers.
It's cold. The temp is cold, but the wind is rough. Expect lots of layers, gloves, and hats pretty much all the time in the winter. I lived in Denver for a couple of years and Iceland felt much colder.
> I get the benefit over Pinecone (which wasn't built with LLMs, etc in mind)

What do you mean?

Pinecone was specifically made to be used alongside LLMs and other embedding models. That’s how anyone uses Pinecone.
You _should_ have laws about behavior.

This is not that. But Congress has had years of opportunities to develop actual data privacy laws and they haven't. They held proceedings focused on a single company. The tagline for this post is specifically "Senate Bill to Ban TikTok" for good reason: it was written to target a single company.

We _should_ be concerned about companies which have personal data on basically everyone and have no real limitations on how it's used, but FB is gonna keep operating. We _should_ be concerned about a government that can gather private data about Americans by secretly working with a corporation. But AT&T's cooperation with the NSA never really hurt it.
Not just Chinese expats, you could totally switch your citizenship to Swedish and still get abducted by the Chinese government in Thailand.
No, I'm running Debian without snaps or flatpacks.
A credit card lets me delay payment for a month otherwise it’s 30% interest. These schemes let me delay for multiple months for free otherwise it’s 8% interest.

It’s 1000% better
This is also true if after and hardware generally
back to peloton times
> the source cited for it being the most efficent self-powered means of transportation is from March 1973

what was the source please? ive actually tried to track this down for the steve jobs quote but couldnt find it
I recently started a Windows Server VM in AWS to try something out. Upon first RDP login I got a laggy (because it's a web-based piece of shit and not actual native UI which RDP can accelerate) full-screen ad for Edge or something similar.
Let's turn this into something real.

This: https://futureoflife.org/open-letter/pause-giant-ai-experime...

will never happen. No pause will occur. I'm right and you will be wrong.

If it does happen then I concede that you're right. If it doesn't then it reflects poorly on you.
I'd rather the country that spent 800,000 lives ending slavery than the one that executed tens of millions in the great leap forward for petty and ideological reasons.
Thank god no-one's tried, I'm sure the population of any such country would riot to reform to something free-market-based instead in short order, because expenses would rapidly grow out of control, vastly in excess of, say, what the US spends per-capita, and service would be completely terrible, leading to plainly-worse-in-every-way outcomes than in countries that retained more-enlightened systems.

... what's that? The entire OECD has more centralized government control of healthcare than the US, ranging from extensive price controls, to de-facto or de-jure monopsony, to outright direct control of the healthcare system, and nowhere is there a strong populist movement to ditch that for a heavily free-market-based solution? And literally all of them are way cheaper per-capita than our system? And outcomes remain between pretty-good and great? And instead of the bureaucratic billing mess we have, that's all nice & simple and takes up almost none of the time of sick people and their families? This makes no sense, I read several columns on mises.org proving from first principles that this is impossible!