skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Comcast is over $120/mo in California.

Starlink does not really compete with Comcast in areas Comcast already serves(at least when it comes to speed/price/reliability), it just doesn't make sense to use Starlink when Comcast is available other than maybe as a secondary backup connection. Starlink is significantly faster and cheaper however than other providers like Viasat which serve areas without economical terrestrial based internet options.

Comcast installation costs would be roughly $250,000 to my property and is the only hardline broadband provider in my area.
I mean, its probably a component (or an approximation of a component) of what we do, at some level. Christ knows I've felt like a stochastic parrot when I'm zoning out 3 hours into a meeting and someone asks me a question out of the blue. I probably have a smaller context window at those points than GPT3 does...
Implications of GPT-2 (18th Feb 2019)
Simple video, yet fascinating
Ask HN: What's the incentive for 'Founding Engineers'?
I'm trying to understand the incentive for engineers to join a startup as a 'founding engineer'. To me it seems like taking on all the risk that a founder takes (pre-pmf, pre-revenue, etc.) but getting a small fraction of the equity that a founder gets. The risk-reward ratio doesn't seem to add up.

Looking for insights from folks who have been in the startup world.
Where? MS sells it for 60x that where I live
From a developer point of view, this would vastly improve QA for web apps that have UI. As a user, I'd really appreciate a text-to-speech UI that does not require a keyboard or mouse. Ideally, I'd like to see the same UI available for anything, as if asking another person to interact with computer for you.
I imagine ChatGPT will go from the "future changing" to "glorified spam generator" quite quickly.
What are you talking about? They have professionals working on this. Look at LinkedIn.
Are you implying it is contradictory to wish for both the wealth redistribution levels of the 50's and the human tolerance of now?
If you buy customized from Lenovo instead of a retailer you can almost always choose to upgrade the screen to something like 2560x1660. You have to wait longer for production and delivery though.
Not GP but I'll try: retirement age is a similar issue, with a "tragedy of the commons" feel to it. Retirement age falling behind increases in life expectancy is unsustainable, and will likely end up with the system crashing, or effectively crashing (like people receiving notional but tiny and insufficient pensions).

Rather than take some pain upfront and have a better final outcome, the French apparently (I'm not 100% following the news there) choose to protest, deny the issue and risk taking a big one on the chin later on.

In that respect climate change is similar, as people prefer to stick to their current lifestyles at the cost of a tougher future.
Car lanes are the least efficient use of road space in terms of number of passengers carried, but a lot of the wider roads in Paris only contain car lanes.
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.
In Berlin, it's mostly youth having fun, tourists being touristy, or people with enough money that they could either rent a bicycle or purchase one, but find it cool, don't want to sweat, or share public transport with others.
Thanks for adding more context, but I think your framing of the motivation makes the situation far worse.

"...That’s all there is to it."

Regardless of motivation, bowing to authoritarian control is still bowing to authoritarian control.

I would claim it's worse to censor ridiculing political figures out of politeness than out of profit seeking.

Self censorship is one of the main methods by which authoritarian ideologies are maintained and spread. It's not secret police knocking on peoples doors. It's people thinking in their head "I want to remain polite...".

I respect the intent to create forums for global collaboration. But this really is one of the areas where this is helping to spread the authoritarian ideology.

Is the genocide in Xinjiang one of the impolite topics?

What if China invades Taiwan, and the Taiwan war becomes one of the "impolite" topics for Chinese?
How I did series of product experiments to figure right setup to build a devtool
yea i'm kind of shocked none of these models implement any kind of fingerprinting, something encoded in zero width spaces or other invisible unicode. It would be trivial to delete it but for the vast majority of cases, it would allow content to be flagged as model output-do not ingest
I think it wouldn't matter what surface the road was though, people don't ride the scooters on the road because cars are scary and a scooter feels like Pedestrian+, very exposed. Same feeling cyclists eventually overcome to ride on roads.
This. It shouldn't matter whether copyright violation was generated by a human brain or via an instrument (AI). ReactOS developers also rely on clean room approach: https://reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_FAQ#Is_ReactOS_based_on_Mic...
Meh, the greater Vancouver area including the adjacent cities have sprawled as far as they can and continue to do so; there's actually quite a lot of development happening in some of those suburbs, and they can be just lovely. The other cities you mention—if they've kept prices low—they're embracing an obviously horrible development pattern that only works because they have oil money and it hasn't collapsed yet. Smaller, less-resource-rich cities like Winnipeg have tried the same thing and literally couldn't afford to maintain their own infrastructure if all they had to pay for was road maintenance. Yes, you can buy a $400k condo there, but as they come to terms with the rate they're reaching insolvency, they'll need to find a way to very quickly turn what are already near the highest property taxes in the country, into 2-3x that number.

The geography is a constraint, the problem is failure to embrace the constraint in any sensible way. Prairie cities would be more economically productive and less horrible in my opinion if they halted outward expansion decades ago and just figured out how to adapt correctly.
The downlink/uplink capacity of the satellite that receives data from another or has to send data to another doesn't magically increase. So adding hops reduces the bandwidth available. To reduce it to extremes: if all but one of the satellites used sat-to-sat links and only one had a downlink you'd see a substantial reduction of the available bandwidth per satellite. To a rough approximation the bandwidth available is the bandwidth available to a single sat divided by the number of sats using that one up/down link.

Yes, sat-to-sat enables new use cases. But it also has other effects.
Not re-license. I upload with the same license I got it with, as per the license.

So then Github is breaking the law a significant portion of the time then at the very least?
That they have always been banned is an accident of the way a very old law on vehicles was written.

Making an exception to that law for rentals in limited areas was seen as more controlled than allowing everything, although looking at other cities allowing only non-rental usage first might be more sensible.
What is the product, did the market change for it the past few years? Is it growing organically? Is it B2B, B2C? The decisions seem so detached to whether people want whatever it is the company is selling. If honest it doesn't seem like the focus on what you want to do is right. It is one thing to put work in but that is not entirely causal to whether it is successful.
Oh poor users of e-scooters and bicycles, they feel so threatened by cars, but have no problem to mown people on sidewalk.
For sufficiently large mazes it must get harder to push the water through. Water can't solve a Tesla valve. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_valve)
It's not collapsed. My father had a TIA a few months ago, the ambulance was there in minutes, and he was treated in hospital and has made a full recovery.

If you have a life-threatening issue, MI, stroke, cancer - you will be seen quickly and the standard of care is similar to the US.

If you need something treating that is non-life-threatening, yes, you may need to wait some time.

Don't get me wrong, the NHS is being handled appallingly by the current ruling party, but it is not collapsing - thanks to the doctors, nurses and support staff going above and beyond to keep it running.
Wow, I clearly have a different view on games than you (nothing wrong with that of course). To be honest, I thought the bucket head on NPC thing was a fantastic example of how you can interact with the systems of that world in creative ways.
My very first electronics project as a child was making a crystal radio with my dad. The wonder of being able to listen to AM stations with no power!
Vale AM!
Yes, but that's a different discussion. In this case the person does have the rights under the GPL to do what they do, but GitHub does not have an automatic right to assume that that gives them the right to enforce their ToS on the original copyright holder, which they effectively do.
How StackOverflowException can bring down an expensive compute cluster
Issue is that many large corporations use FLOSS internally with heavy extensions/modifications and never give back to the community. They don't have to, since all users are in-housr, and those tend to have access to the source code.

But that's ok. If upstream is somewhat active then it's just a pain to keep maintaining your in-house patches, compared to sending them upstream. So that's automatically a motivator. If upstream is not active, then it does not matter anyway.
What I agree with is the typical open source dev, who goes "I MIT license all my things, because I have seen it elsewhere and I don't want to think about licenses a lot." being pretty far down the list of groups of people to complain.

What I disagree with is the idea, that they should therefore not complain, or that there could not be an AI system, that does not code laundering, but keeps licenses in place and does this ethically and in an honest way. Adding "ethically" and "honest way", because I am sure that companies will try to find a way around being honest, if they ever are forced to add back the licenses.

In fact, artists might not be the group, that grasps the impact of training on that corpus as quickly as the dev communities. Perhaps it is exactly the devs, who need to complain loudest and first, to have a signal effect.
Logical reasoning is the one thing LLMs are really bad at.
Mistakes have been made in the past. Just because something can be done safely doesn't mean it always will be. I am also a big fan of nuclear but that doesn't mean it's perfect.
LLMs cannot be considered as general reasoning engines because they do not make any kind of reasoning though.
I don't think this is quite right.

If our universe can be simulated, then the simulation is just computing a (complicated) mathematical function.

If all of our observations are emergent effects of the mathematical function, then our observations are exactly the same regardless of whether there is an "upper layer" actually computing the function.

Imagine writing a simulation of a point mass following a parabolic arc under the influence of gravity: the path of the mass is the same regardless of whether you run the simulation or not.

It would be the same for our universe. If it is possible to describe mathematically, then you don't need to run the simulation in order for the contents of the universe to experience themselves existing. The simplest explanation is that there is no uppermost layer, it's all just mathematics.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Mathematical_Universe
> You can’t topple a regime by laughing at it.

The purpose of the satire is not to affect politics. It is a healthy expression of a free society.

a regime that doesn’t tolerate laughing at it is almost always authoritarian and kept in place undemocratically.
There are a bunch of example replies about how AM is used as a direct life safety device and you and others seem to keep simping for a corp’s ability to profit.

Literally choosing profit over people.

AM is not replaced by FM, Cell, wifi, iphone 14 sat emerg use… it’s a device that also states use in service to the citizens.

It should be mandatory due to the nature of Khz bandwith signal propagation over the Mhz fm band.
If you are using a gas rather than a liquid, it is even simpler. Just set a high pressure at the beginning and a low pressure at the end. The gas will automatically follow the steepest part of the pressure gradient.

The static solution can be calculated by solving the Poisson equation. In [1] you can see a small implementation of the idea.

[1] https://simulationcorner.net/maze/
Tuned-lens: Tools for understanding how transformer predictions are built layer
This. Everyone who bought a clone was never a Prusa customer in the first place. They aren't costing Prusa anything. Nobody stole anything from him because all that money he's so worried about was never his in the first place.

He tries to complain about other people's character but that attitude exposed right there is worse.

Closing up your ip only hurts your own customers and turns some who might have been customers away. It does not create a single new customer or increase any good will.

These companies get their start 100% thanks to open source, then decide they don't like it any more after they get off the ground. I will somehow survive just fine while never buying any of e3d's new Revo stuff. It's cool, but you know, it's not cool enough to compete with open-ended infinity.

Or Slice. Slice trying to claim patent on freaking textbook basics.

These guys have absolutely no argument for all their crying.

What they call parasites are what I call the rest of an entire ecosystem, and no one gets to live without a big ecosystem to live within.

I guess I'm pretty much just repeating the article. She's right on.
And that was just the install process. Soon you'll start using it and you'll quickly come to despise anything Windows-related.
A good tangent is this absolutely marvelous video put out by the Microsoft Teams people, where they compare the performance of the "classic" version to the brand-new version. A sight to behold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT7nnXej2K4
It worked on Stable Diffusion
You can represent this

if condition: a else: b

declaratively as

a: condition
b: not condition

This rephrasing does not work if "do" is in the picture, and turing-incomplete parsing becomes difficult.
> It's 2023, do people still have driver issues on Linux?

Almost nobody. Most manufacturers have come to the conclusion that if they're going to dick about with special proprietary drivers, they can expect to sell a handful of their product compared to one that is just normal.

No-one wants a webcam that uses a special super-sekrit magic driver that has to be downloaded from some sketchy website. They want to plug it in and wave to granny, or join their Teams call. Thus, the special super-sekrit proprietary crap got evolved out of existence.
Also implying software companies do respect open source licenses
They are dialects. Swiss German isn't a language but a group of dialects, but they aren't closer to high German than Czech is to Polish.

I think my point stands that it's a distinct language from the official one. It definitely feels like that in practice where a lot swiss people feel like they have to wear their official hat when speaking regular German and they prefer to have casual beer conversation in English rather than high German.
Same here in San Francisco, I took a Lime scooter to go home about 2 miles and the ride cost me $16, whereas the Lyft bike I took to go out cost me a flat $3.50. Not to mention the scooter ride was terribly bumpy and much slower than the bike.
Isn't that just a nice way of saying mentally ill?

Healthy and well-adjusted adults don't do these things.
> I guess I'll crawl back into my cave and keep using Linux for the foreseeable future.

That's a valid choice, but not due to technical concerns.

You're presumably very technically literate since you're using Linux.

You can just save your license key somewhere and get fresh installation media and reformat the garbage on your device with a clean installation.

You don't need any of the Lenovo stuff, your laptop will work just fine with regular Windows Update drivers.
> If a city were to dedicate a single car lane sized lane for “micromobility”

Most cities do not have a car lane sized lane to spare.
Microsoft/Github makes a reasonable attempt to remove infringing code. If you obtain a copy of proprietary source code owned by Apple on the dark net, and upload to github, they'll definitely remove that. If companies were responsible for user-uploaded content that the company takes reasonable steps to remove, no one would be able to accept user-uploaded content in the first place.

Facebook wouldn't be able to allow users to upload photos.

Hacker news wouldn't allow me to post this comment (someone else could own the copyright, right?)
The media here in Australia love to point our how sensitive and thin skinned the Chinese Government is. Mockery cuts deepest when pointing out actual flaws.
Haha, yeah, I remember 1996 too...
The recent post from Stephen Wolfram[1] is pretty good as an introduction, but I haven't seen any super comprehensive material that tries do dissect all the interesting behaviour we see in the really big llms. For that just reading the relevant papers themselves has been pretty fruitful for me. Some of them are actually very well written, even if you aren't used to reading scientific papers.
I can recommend the Sparks of AGI paper[2] and the toolformer paper[3].

Obviously there's much more out there, those three things are a pretty good read.

[1]: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/what-is-chatgpt-...

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12712

[3]: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761
Buses, metro, cycling and walking still work for 12 year olds.

Assuming they were paying (which often they weren't) these alternatives are all cheaper.
Cars are a part of it, along with greater urbanization (I roamed around a lot as a kid, but I lived in smaller towns and cities at those ages), but a much bigger one is simply that Americans became far more paranoid in the 21st century.
It kinda does? Enabling NSFW would discourage a lot of people from using the server if they have to keep looking over their shoulder or only use it in private
Not that my kids would do it (I get always praise how well behaved they are, I'd be actually happier especially if my son was more wild), but pissing people off is completely legal and not police business. Just because you don't like something doesn't make it illegal.

For instance buying apartment next to basketball playground and then complaining about kids playing there basketball and making noise is not police business but idiots call police on kids having fun, apparently they should be better staring at phones at home, so old people can then complain kids nowadays don't spend enough time outdoors.
I am not going to defend Chinese censorship - I think it is way overdone and a huge waste of resources but all companies operating in China must uphold this regime and pay the cost associated with it.

However all countries have laws and norms governing satire and free speech.

For example the Mohammed cartoons (deliberately drawn to trigger a reaction / discussion of free speech and censorship):

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jyllands-Posten_Muhammad_car...

Or this Australian drawing of American tennis superstar Serena Williams:

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/10844900

Widely seen as racist by the American audience.
They used to, but once cast iron frames could be made that's how it was done, initially in several pieces, and later in one piece. The story of how this came to pass is quite interesting, making such large casts isn't simple.
Also still have a 2015 MBP that is going strong. Never changed the battery, but I probably should (though I usually use it on charge anyway). Best laptop I've ever bought.
I see lots of comments about ads in Windows 11 but I didn't see any so far on my home PC. Might it be country related and most of the commenters here are US based? Where in Windows do you see ads folks? Again for clarity: I'm in Switzerland and I don't remember seeing any ad. Zero. Or could be Norton blocking them?
I'm sure there are others, but Codeberg is exactly this: https://codeberg.org/
> Yeah on the one hand, isn't opening your source all about not really minding what happens to it after that?

No! That's a gross misrepresentation of what open sourcing is. It's the offer of a deal. You publish the source code and in return for looking at it and using it for sth, I have obligations. Like attribution and licensing requirements regarding derived works.
i have a vague memory of a company that wanted to do a universal assistant, accessible by phone, whom you could ask anything, with the hope that one day they could automate part of the process.

It was something like 10 to 15 years ago..

Anyone remembers the name ?
There is a gas-user density threshold below which stations stop being viable. It will be interesting seeing the map of gas-station deserts develop and expand over the coming decades.
There is a free 3-rd party app called "Classic Start Menu" which solves the problem.
Shouldn't be different from a human ripping or regurgitating parts of the code.

If it's not a hard derivation, then it's difficult to prove or even notice.
It's not the grep that's slow, it's the printing of a hundred thousand character minified line of JavaScript. Unintentional, but every dev's done it or similar. I used to have to kill urxvt, which I used for nearly 15 years.
> Congratulations to the Microsoft Teams team on all their hard work! Maybe in a few years we won't have to watch Teams draw itself like a Windows 1.x application on contemporary hardware!

Hilarious :-)))
> if all but one of the satellites used sat-to-sat links and only one had a downlink you'd see a substantial reduction of the available bandwidth per satellite.

All the satellites above me have an uplink from a ground station.

Also, satellites above ocean with few people in their footprint can see my uplink but can't use it effectively, because they don't have many users in their footprint (possibly none, because of elevation angle restrictions).

If we have satellite-to-satellite links, then those satellites above ocean can share their bandwidth with satellites above me. Therefore, real system capacity goes up.

Assuming that ground stations are upgraded as the size of the constellation grows-- they're strongly directional. Their throughput is the uplink bandwidth * the spectral efficiency * the number of satellites within LOS of an uplink ground station. Intersatellite links let you use more of this throughput without it going unused and "spoiling"-- that's the main point.
The lime bikes are wonderful. I’ll fight you and anyone else who tries to take them away again.

You pic shows them towards a corner kerb with space behind.
I'm of two minds regarding e-scooters: on one hand they are undeniably practical and I use them a lot, on the other hand many users obviously have zero experience using them or similar vehicles, so put themselves and others into dangerous situations, and many of them are parked on sidewalks so they are annoyingly in the way.

But, besides all that, I think this is a "First they came for the e-scooters" situation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...). Most people don't care about e-scooters because they don't use them. I wonder how a vote to ban bicycles woult turn out - most people don't ride bicycles either?