skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He does not have in dept understanding of his product. He is massively charismatic, good at impressing people and very good at playing people. And most CEOs does not seem that bad compared to Musk.
On the flip side, if you know your stuff for real, interviewing is going to get about 10x less competitive!
Thats actually a pretty reasonable response. Its not endorsing the censorship, and it emphasises that not restricting certain generated content would hurt users.

Unlike social media which stores and distributes, Midjourney is helping generate content, so people can still make satire through other mechanisms pretty easily - and since Midjourney isn't a distribution platform its not hurting users ability to distribute satire.
If the granularity of your analysis is the century, you may have a point. Otherwise, Europe has experienced a significant decrease of far-right activity and popularity between WW2 and the 2000's, approximately.
I don't think that it's obvious that that will ever be the case. Service providers have poor incentives to make your content movable, much less your following.
I would probably agree that GitHub is better for discovery than GitLab, but the OP's comment is funny to me, because having worked extensively with both, I'm a much bigger fan of GitLab's UI and UX for builders. Groups and nesting are massive when it comes to being able to work with teams, and the fact that you can set options across groups at any level eliminates whole classes of things that are frustrating problems on github, or anything else that uses flat hierarchies.
No need to hate on you for a valid response.

I think we're in a new enough situation that we can look beyond what's legal in a license. When many of us started working on open source projects, AI was a far-off concept. Speaking for myself, I thought we'd see steady improvement in code-completion tools, but I didn't think I'd see anything like GPT-4 in my lifetime.

Licenses were written for humans working with code. We can talk about corporations as well, but when I've thought about corporations in the past, I thought about people working on code at corporations. The idea of an AI using my open source project to generate working code for someone or some corporation feels...different.

Yes, I'm talking explicitly about feelings. I know my feelings don't impact the legalities of a license. But feelings are worth talking about, especially as we're all finding the boundaries of new tools and new ways of working.

I don't agree with everything in the post, but I think this is a great conversation to be having.
For most non-performance critical cases, Postgres is a good choice. However, when dealing with more complex queries such as pattern matching (e.g., triangle counting) that require immediate results, a graph database outperform postgres.
Entirely predictable & thankfully another nail in the coffin of US-led "Western" dominance.
Status is a completely artificial construct that completely melts away the minute you run out of money. It's an unfair advantage, but it offers no security whatsoever.
Why do people bother with greatness if that ain't a source of happiness for themselves?
> Windows; Desktop PC mostly for games.

That's totally fair, but I would definitely recommend that you try installing games on your Linux desktop as well. Proton is absolutely stunning in what they've managed to accomplish. I'm always a little surprised when a game _doesn't_ run well in Proton now.

If you've got particular games that you must play that don't run well on Linux, you'll probably want to keep the Windows partition available. But I've found the amount of time I "switch over" to Windows for a game has drastically decreased. I can scratch the itch 95% of the time without leaving Linux now.
Thinkpads are solid devices but they’re really falling behind in screen and trackpads.

Most higher end Thinkpad models have 1080p screens with 300-400 nits of brightness at most.

The base M2 Macbook Air is 2560x1664 with 500 nits brightness. And it’s cheaper than a Gen2 Thinkpad T14.

And of course, all Thinkpads can’t hold a candle to Macbook trackpads
How about a flawed democracy?
One of the many sources of generated noise that interferes with AM reception.

Broadband over Power Lines (BPL) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_over_power_lines

>On August 3, 2006, FCC adopted a memorandum opinion and an order on broadband over power lines,

giving the go-ahead to promote broadband service to all Americans.

The order rejected calls from aviation, business, commercial, amateur radio and other sectors of spectrum users,

to limit or prohibit deployment until further study was completed.

FCC chief Kevin Martin said that BPL.

"holds great promise as a ubiquitous broadband solution that would offer a viable alternative,

to cable, digital subscriber line, fiber, and wireless broadband solutions".
Meanwhile, here in Japan, this is perfectly normal to see. Kids ride their bikes (even at night), take the subway to other parts of the city, etc., all by themselves. I can't imagine raising a kid in America these days.
I had to do some troubleshooting on macOS for relatives over the holidays, and I couldn't believe how bad and unintuitive Macs have got since I last used them ~ 15 years ago. Hidden functionality, non-actionable error messages, unintuitive workflows, terrible online information. Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave. (Still much better than Windows though).

For balance I daily drive Fedora too, and I cannot connect my new Sony bluetooth headphones to it. Oh well ...
An example of it:

https://www.politico.eu/article/roe-vs-wade-us-the-european-...
Based on the 1953 short story by Arthur C. Clarke

https://urbigenous.net/library/nine_billion_names_of_god.htm...
testable how?
Forgejo [1] is working on integrating activitypub [2] which will let instances federate with each other.

[1] https://forgejo.org/ [2] https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/issues/59
I don't roll on Shomer Shabbos
The author is a college freshman, and that seems pretty par for the course for someone in their late teens. It's not really an "article" targeted for HN critical review, just a blog post on a personal site.
Does LLM really a statistics ?
As the article states, "free range parenting" is called "parenting" everywhere else...

I hope this trend does not catch on too much where I live. My kids took the bus at 9 and it was and still is not uncommon.
Minor nitpick: lingua franca was not the language of the most dominant group like English is today. It was rather the name of a pidgin loosely named after the name of one of the people's on Europe but having almost no connection to it other than "franks" being the exonym for "western Europeans" as perceived by east Mediterranean people. Sabir was not the language used by the Franks.
> This is good news and not bad.

In the same way that finding out about having a terminal illness is good news!

> It's a strong sign that the model fundamentally works and they will be able to fund continuous improvements to meet strong demand.

The main question is: "can it scale to offer decent speeds to more than 10 people, without having to create a dyson sphere in the sky?"

Because it looks like it was yet another elon's scams to raise money with no substance.
That sounds very location dependant and not necessarily feasible at all given higher and higher share of wind power being used. That hydro will be needed during periods of low wind to stabilise everything else.
ChatGPT might have suggested Fate because there is Dresden Files RPG that uses Fate:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dresden_Files_Roleplayin...
I think you misread him. It's the soundboard that's warped. I don't think Yamaha ever made a wooden-framed grand, if such a thing even exists.
Yes it was a real privilege to see my parents struggle financially, without enjoying things that are commonplace in other families, like ‘free weekends’ and ‘holidays’. All so they could make the investments that were necessary to keep the farm afloat. There was no glamour. They weren’t “millionaires” with the accompanying lifestyle.

And it’s not like you magically inherit a million dollar farm either. You saw the suffering that went into it from the day you were born. That has a cost and takes a toll. It just comes with a lot of responsibility and I don’t think you should envy that.

They spent their whole life working that job, not just 5 days a week from 9 to 5 and the kids started helping as soon as they were able to. Like 5 years old. They did enjoy it, because it’s honest work. But they didn’t get to reap the rewards like they would have gotten in other companies.

Saying that any result of hard work is a privilege with a negative connotation makes me puke. You know literally nothing about this life. And you should stop commenting on it.
The ability for us to make money in china is more important than your ability to generate satire
I’ve seen Lime have the inverse (ie non parking zones) in various US cities where you will be warned then billed (I think $50! in Venice beach) if you finish the ride.
When I was in Paris in 2019 I tried to use their e-scooters and it was nearly impossible because angry locals had sharpie-d over every barcode so you couldn’t scan them. I’m surprised the companies haven’t left already.
It is interesting that so many states are tagged blue when I would have tagged them red or purple at most. According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_state_le...) there are 19 democratic states and 28 republican states. Your source almost splits the country into two halves which is misleading.
> Thats actually a pretty reasonable response. Its not endorsing the censorship, and it emphasises that not restricting certain generated content would hurt users.

it's reasonable but it's just a purely capital-aligned choice -- the morals and ethics of it are beside the point.

They want China because it's a big market -- but Midjourney produces content -- especially political satire -- that is illegal in dozens of countries... apparently China deserves special attention.

I'll say it plain: They kowtow to China because China represents $$ for them. The "pretty-not-okay"ness is just a happy coincidence for the users who may become legal targets.
Data is especially dangerous when it comes to economics because financial ideas have a self-fulfilling tendency. For example, if a lot of investors are using the same data and same system/approach to figure out which investments they should make this year, they may end up being led towards making the same investments and this would create a lot of demand which would increase the price of the investment throughout the year... It doesn't matter if the investment was actually horrible, it's the shared belief that it was good which made it grow in value in the short or medium term.

When certain people make important decisions on a global scale, it doesn't matter what the data says. The decisions may be so impactful that they will make all historical data worthless as that data was only ever relevant within a specific environment. When you fundamentally change the environment, you invalidate the data which was gathered in that environment. Decisions on a global scale tend to change the environment in fundamental ways. Common sense is the most important factor, not data.
I remember reading this in the Reader's Digest anthology Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror. Other classics in the book were The Rats in the Walls, The Hands of Mr Ottermole, An Invitation to the Hunt, The Damned Thing, and The Wendigo, among many others.
This is why I only put code on GitHub if I want it to be seen by everyone (including Big Data).
> Are governments going to keep such policies going once mass protests break out when unemployment hits record highs?

See, that's the difference between an organized society planning this change and just letting it happen.
Sorry I will oppose Chinese censorship until I die and no amount of (good-willed) reverse psychology will make me give them a pass.
There's an xscreensaver as well fwiw

You'll have to cut and paste the below link because JWZ has been slowly morphing into someone as easy to get on with as RMS in many respects.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2018/12/xscreensaver-5-41/

edit: maybe not? Maybe the link is clickable without silliness nowadays?
So far in Nuremberg, the main problem is that even if their users don’t park them directly in the sidewalk, they’ll still occasionally fall over into the sidewalk, which is anywhere from annoying to dangerous for able-bodied pedestrians and stroller pushers, and a serious barrier to people using mobility aids - think wheelchairs and walkers.

Also, many of them are hard to roll a few meters to get them out of the way - no, I’m not trying to steal your scooter, I’m trying to prevent an accident.

They were an absolute plague in Lisbon a few years ago.

Good for Paris. I hope that gives Nuremberg and my adjacent suburb courage to act.
Yeah the latest M1/M2 Macbooks have made them a nobrainer.

I can’t find any laptops in my country with the same screen resolution, brightness, weight, and trackpad combo as a base Macbook for a cheaper price.

My wife’s M1 Macbook Air feels faster than any laptop I’ve ever used, and outside of 3D rendering, even faster than my Ryzen 5900x desktop.
Grace and empathy only go so long. You cannot be tolerant of the intolerant over and over again. There needs to be some amount of reciprocity.
> when there are already plenty of cheap and reliable alternatives, including alternatives at higher bandwidths

That’s not true even in California. Plenty of small town where the only alternative is line of sight wireless internet.
> (anything NSFW yields no result)

That isn't true at all from my experience. I just tested it and I was able to search for adult videos, etc.

I decided to try Kagi two weeks ago after hearing about it and trying their Orion browser on iOS. So far it has exceeded my expectations. Results have been on par with G/B/D. The new summerizer has been pretty good and I enjoy getting summary of the results at times to save me time (although I've had a few it couldn't summerize or wrong results in past two weeks). I also love the ability to prioritize sites for your future results and the summary ability of individual pages.

I will stick with the $10/mo for near future. It is small price to pay to support their current goals and intentions.
Interesting, and what should people do if they are unable to understand that others experiences can and do differ from their own?

As of an hour ago, plugging a trrs headset into the jack on my laptop breaks audio until I go kick the daemon. Linux is a pain in the neck.
I do understand the difference between a simulator and what's being simulated. I still think they got it all wrong, that the simulator is better called a "writer," the simulated world is better called a "story," and the agent is a better called a "fictional character."

We know there's no deeper level to the simulation/game because we have the entire "game history" (the chat history) and we understand it in approximately same way that the LLM does. (That's what the LLM was trained to do, understand and respond to text the same way we do.) We know that the bot has no hidden state when it's not the bot's turn because of how the bot's API works.

So there's nowhere for a deeper simulation to live. It's as shallow as it looks.

More:

https://skybrian.substack.com/p/ai-chats-are-turn-based-game...
Animals die for humans to live better lives all the time. There are protocols to minimize, but not eliminate, suffering. Animal testing is a greater good that helps us understand the diseases that plague us and look for cures.

The goals of Neuralink are some of the most important being undertaken. It might seem abstract or wishful to some, but should they succeed we will have a plausible way to escape our mortality. It's a long shot, but we should absolutely take it.
Companies are not people. The CEO might have principles, but he cannot apply his own principles to the company. The only principle for a company is to maximise profit within the legal restrictions.
What makes you think this doesn't happen to children that have trouble leaving the house because of their overprotective parents?
While I do agree that cultural Americanisation is a problem, I must point put that OnlyFans is a UK-based company.
Fail Fast, Move On: The Rule of Three
> ~$90 monthly fee is bad

~$120 in California
To strive for?

Not in our society. We optimized it by having people who are better in taking care than I can.

With medical knowledge and more experience.

I personally also don't want to live anymore if I become so unself sufficient.
At least you can criticize it with a far lower risk of disappearing.
After using WSL. I liked it so much that it made me reinstall Linux lol
Is that such a bad thing? I write code to get it out there, not for it to be exclusive or something. Any code that I write that helps somebody else in some way is a huge win for me and what keeps me going. If I could, _all_ of the code that I write would be open source or public but as-is the best way to make a living for me is to write closed-source code.

I see my code getting scraped by these AI tools as me having contributed to something greater than the sum of its parts. And I use it! My code helps you, your code helps me.
> I'm rude

No, you're pedantic. Not that that's much better, but the first step in addressing a problem is achieving clarity about what it actually is.

Go back to the original question I was responding to:

"why in the world is that kind of contract legal?"

The intent of that question is pretty clearly "why does the law not sanction people who draw up that kind of contract in the same way that it sanctions people who (say) rob banks or sell heroin or falsify business records?" And the answer is: because that kind of contract is not illegal in the same sense that robbing banks is illegal or selling heroin is illegal or falsifying business records is illegal. Yes, it is true that as a term of legal art there is such a thing as an "illegal contract" but the word "illegal" in that context has a very different meaning. There are no legal sanctions for drawing up or even signing an "illegal contract". They are simply unenforceable [1].

You are absolutely right that people should not take anything said on HN as legal advice. But by the same token nothing said on HN should be critiqued by the standards of legal advice, especially when the person you are critiquing has explicitly disclaimed being a lawyer. There is a reason that IANAL is a thing.

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[1] https://www.upcounsel.com/types-of-illegal-contracts and note that 1) this page appears on a site offering legal services, and 2) the link for the word "illegal" takes you to a page describing "unenforceable contracts".
This is a completely and utterly unfounded comment in the light of the massive gains in progress for not only SpaceX, but also Starlink.
While these things are quite influential and continue to the appeal of American culture, they are unable to affect many core attitudes like capitalism, Manifest destiny, and other hallmarks of American navel-gazing.
I had a similar experience. My ears work fine but I'm not great at picking up speech when people don't articulate.
Not "who", but "what".

Principled arguments which can openly compete and evolve in the marketplace of ideas. Probably not state actors of any flavor, but this isn't necessarily exclusive of them.
I might have a bit of insight here. I work in a bank that has a lot of history. In practice, the IT infra is never truly merged (it takes 10+ years to migrate some components), not the functional components at least. There are bridges to connect some things so that reporting is deemed acceptable for the central bank/regulators.

If you come to one of the big banks and just look at the technical components, you can delineate the history of each merger/acquisition from that, going back 30-50 years.

A thing that shocked me: a lot of systems have a weird nationalistic twist to them (at least the old ones), so if you work in non-US, you will see systems that do not speak english in their API, but french, dutch, german, etc. all in the same bank. This is...problematic, especially since they usually use weird text encoding and not something like UTF-8.
Those Lime bikes are terrific. Great for access to places that don't have Santander bikes.
A city planned for humans is automatically difficult to access with private cars (gotta have narrower pedestrian-only streets, public transport), which are required to get away unseen smoothly in case of legitimate kidnappings. A city planned for humans is dense, walking anywhere alone your kid is seen by a neighboring grandma, the likely existence of whom in any of the hundreds of flats within earshot also acts as a deterrent. In a city optimized for cars, easy access by a car means easy way of transporting a number of large firearms without being seen.
Not sure I understand your last point at all - aside from the fact I was purely referring to women's rights to make medical decisions involving their own bodies (even life saving ones), I would have thought toplessness was typically considered far less acceptable in the US than in most of Europe...
>The answer lies between

Where? You are just expressing a political preference and hand-waving to unnamed experts. By all accounts, Europe is overproducing agricultural products and the large part of EU's policies are aimed at limiting this surplus while limiting ecological impact.

There is much more dung than we should have, yet people continue to peddle this idiotic 19th century starvation worldview, where a nation's agricultural output is a measure of its success. An extreme form of this ideology, cognate to Lebensraum, has survived to this day in Russia's internal political discourse, so perhaps you are a bit confused about what's really going on now at Europe's borders.
I know you're being sarcastic, but yes, Paris is absolutely treating that menace with the priority it deserves. They've removed parking and turned a lot of streets into pedestrian/bicycle only (with gates or bollards for emergency vehicle access). Most streets are limited to 30kph (18mph). Converted entire lanes of some streets to bike lanes.

https://www.childinthecity.org/2021/09/01/streets-to-schools...
+1 for autograd in array langs
While that sounds like a good thing is Esc+<key> really that useful of a bind when you already have Ctrl/Alt + <key> and you can get twice the keys if you add shift in the mix.

Of course your workflow is yours.
Nobody is saying that but the quality of your argument is certainly diminished if you present these articles as evidence when they are written by a non neutral party with an agenda and at best confusing if not purposefully misleading.
Even Tuscan dialects can be quite divergent from Standard Italian, as the latter branched off like 500 years ago.
His book Lost Boys (which is supposedly semi-autobiographical) is told from the perspective a mormon game developer.

I'm convinced he's dabbled in programming, even though it's not his vocation.
Dells and Macs seem to have insane upgrade prices vs. market for parts.
Erm showing a a bit bad faith here. Taleb got his big break in the 80s. I think it was Black Monday, when he held long and deeply out of the money puts and watched them bring him considerable return while other market actors went out of business. Maybe the commenter above you is kind of retrofitting Taleb's ideas, but fundamentally Taleb is a real thinker, and Elon is a real people manager/entrepreneur.

I don't understand why we think successful business people somehow have the same acumen, or equivalent inclinations as a philosopher or an artist. For sure there is some overlap, but at the end of the day I think it's more probable Elon's intelligence and aptitude are overrated by just about everyone while his people managing skills and luck are underrated by just about everyone.
Yeah and not too many ctos would choose clojure or groovy either, and the ones that are, aren't oking it "because it's on the jvm".