skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While this may very well be covered, I think the general problem in meatspace is that there was no advance notice given to exercise the option to place the proper robots.txt directives to opt out of having one’s artwork collected for model training before it happened, while still preserving the ability to have one’s artwork findable by search engines and the like. I’m sure there are more than a handful of people who have no idea that a robots.txt file can be used to prevent AI data collection—and some may even be surprised to learn the file that’s been used for search engine crawlers is also going to double for AI crawlers.

To push a bit further, there’s something that just feels particularly off about assuming everyone’s content is up for grabs unless the producers do the work to opt out. I think there’s an especially palpable bit of irony looking at it from the EU’s perspective—where cookies must be opt-in, but grabbing all your copyrighted material so companies can do whatever they like with it places the burden on the owner to opt-out. It just feels backward. Perhaps one should have to expressly opt-in to allowing their work to be accessible as training data. At least then there will be a clear signal that the producer of the work can’t later complain, as they willingly granted permission.
Brought on by climate change according to thousands of scientists who studied the climate of that era.. I really believe them too
Note that the article does not refute him working for Frito Lay as a janitor. Somehow he got to the C-Suite.
I'm a fan of open book ai on iOS. Feels a lot like the polished web interface with edits and what not
Prediction: the NYPD is never going to actually use this thing. Maybe some vastly improved future iteration, but not this one.

> the NYPD has invested $19,500 on the Guardian-HX venture.

That's pocket change to the NYPD. It's not clear from the article what "invested" means, but they probably bought and handed out a small number of launchers to a few officers to see if they prove useful. I'm skeptical that they will.

> That projectile travels at a claimed 37 miles per hour, and has a straight-forward range of 35 feet — though the company claims that, with an arc, it can theoretically reach 60 feet.

Good luck hitting a moving vehicle with that.
Additional critical benefit: somewhere to run the transmission lines. Tautologically where the water goes so too can the transmission, certainly to connect to the nearest convenient substation.
What you are saying doesn't actually disagree with anything I've said though somehow you want to say that while we both agree the war started because the South wished to secede and the North didn't decide to set a goal of emancipation until later, somehow I'm wrong and you are right.

Slavery being listed as a fundamental reason for secession and their fear that the North would at some point interfere with their self determination in that regard doesn't actually contradict anything I've said.

I'm not pro slavery, but if you believe this is an internal matter and other forces are trying to interfere, it's not unreasonable to conclude that they are being aggressive towards you and you have no choice but to defend yourself.

Them being morally in the wrong on the detail of slavery doesn't mean they were just making stuff up about the North being "aggressive" and trying to interfere.

Deciding to secede due to such interference as a matter of self determination means self determination was per se the issue, not slavery.
Yes, kids cross-dress in kindergarten. Just like all harmless childhood play behaviours, they should mostly be ignored by educators.

> That implies that when a boy picks up the feather boa in kindergarten the appropriate response from public education is to do nothing, right?

Yes, exactly that - nothing. Just like when a kid colours their face with marker, or puts their clothes on backwards, or any other strange thing that kids do when they are developing. The thing not to do is call special attention to this particular play behaviour because it's related to "gender". And if other kids tease or socially reject said boy for picking up the feather boa, then the appropriate thing to do is also nothing. This is how social norms are formed. Interfering with this process is not for educators to do.

> we had a whole fight about that topic

> "all men created equal" (for temporally-expanding definitions of 'men')

> they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

But importantly, continually diminishing definitions of "liberty". All we've done for the last century+ is expand the obligations of the private person/business owner to the public and the state. Segregation is certainly abhorrent for the government to practice, but a private person should be able to choose whom they serve by whatever criteria they see fit. This is the definition of liberty that the nation (as a cultural construct) was founded on.
I work at AWS now (ProServe). But I got my start with AWS at a 60 person company that had business support. The live support was amazing and I often used them as the “easy button”
> steep banks

Not just steep, they're often vertical and not even remotely skateable even when dry.
Nope, as proven by OS/2 better Windows support.
> The suggestion that an individual or a community could actually build, let alone maintain, any of these OS distributions for older hardware is disingenuous.

Well that's just objectively false, unless I'm misunderstanding you. I'm writing this message on a phone running an open source Android build, which I reasonably and with precedent expect to keep getting updates long after the manufacturer has abandoned it. The thing you say is impossible is done every day.
Nvidia has quite a moat. Even during a shortage with huge demand, its like other players dont exist.

Intel Gaudi, Cerebras, AMD/Intel GPUs, Tenstorrent, Cloud ASICs from AWS, GCP, Tencent Alibaba, ... and probably many more I am not aware of, not counting the "dead" startup designs like the Centaur hybrid AI CPUs, or ones I have a bad impression of (Graphcore).
Catching the light before it hits the water does reduce evaporation. It does not eliminate it. The water is not used for active cooling. Water has high specific heat and liquid to gas is endothermic. Which is why the water temperature is lower than the ambient air temperature.

Putting the panels over the canals reduces evaporation while cooling the panels. This is proven.
> Now I can setup a core switch running 100 GBs with failovers by just plugging in some cables

no ops person I have worked with in the last ten years knows what a switch is, and this is over many companies both startup and bigtech

no different for storage, compute...the experience and aptitude gap at most companies, even tech companies, is profound

ops has become devops, netops is no longer in their skillset
The main issue for me is performance. Dota 2, which is "CPU-heavy" and has historically been very forgiving of low-spec hardware, ran poorly under Linux but runs flawlessly at max settings under Windows on the same machine.
garage : startup :: mom's kitchen : novel junkfood
I'd retire but I don't want to deprive the tech world of my works of art (microsauvice-spaghetti au cloud) /s
The built-in ads that are intentionally made difficult to disable is the major problem. That alone disqualifies it from being good, in my view.
In the crevices of search space, I get more duplicates with Bing than with Google. But, I do get duplicates, with both, which is insanely infuriating.
Thermodyamics says that a solar panel is cooler than an equivalent black panel. Some solar energy gets converted to electricity. All of that converted energy does not end up as waste heat. A 100% efficient solar panel would not get hot. Only the inefficiency ends up as waste heat.
I've done this before too. Another approach is to front the site with Cloudflare, which passes the original IP in an HTTP header.
I think it's unlikely that the first model to be widely considered AGI will be a transformer. Recent improvements to computational efficiency for attention mechanisms [0] seem to improve results a lot, as does RLHF, but neither is a paradigm shift like the introduction of transformers was. That's not to downplay their significance - that class of incremental improvements has driven a massive acceleration in AI capabilities in the last year - but I don't think it's ultimately how we'll get to AGI.

[0] https://hazyresearch.stanford.edu/blog/2023-03-27-long-learn...
Hah! Could this truly be the Year of the Linux Desktop™?
You mark it up with the LLM so you can do something with it. A LLM like GPT-4 is still just emitting text tokens, it's not also generating pixels to push to your monitor. If you want to do something involving semantics like part-of-speech tagging, you'd obviously use the LLM to parse & annotate it, and then do stuff like use CSS to style nouns differently from verbs, or whatever. Maybe you don't distribute that, but run it locally, but you still have to do that at some point!
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Hidden lock-ins, difficulty with creating local accounts, features requiring internet 24/7. Dark UI patterns, forced applications just to name a few.
This is exactly what I've been looking for, thanks!
The first half of the 20th century was a pretty dire time for democracy, I'd say. This is when communism and fascism took off. To be fair, some of that was a response to monarchy/oligarchy and imperialism, but as an example the Weimar Republic in Germany was democratic and it got steamrolled by the Nazis.
The portion of incoming light that becomes electricity is dissipated as heat primarily where it is used (e.g. in an appliance attached to the grid fed by the solar panels), not in the cells themselves. So it's true that a cell connected to an external load will be cooler at equilibrium than one that is disconnected.
As mentioned in the post, the smaller models are trained well past "compute-optimal" amounts of data and I would expect are well into diminishing returns. On the other hand, large models are good one-shot and few-shot learners, and might be able to pick up enough context from your prompt alone to be useable, even if it wasn't specifically trained on your use case.
For what it's worth, I learned that he was a propagandist from a comment on this site so it's rather likely it was yours; it was even this specific story about his translation work. This is a very strong point. I'm well convinced this is exactly where Newspeak came from. (I should probably have mentioned Newspeak specifically over the Ministry of Truth in my comment; oh well, I can remember for the future.)
Better spent? Proton is what enables tons of Linux users play tons of otherwise Windows-only games. Plus it's not exclusive in the first place. In combination with Steam Deck it's console killer.
Of course, implementing such a program will have details that need to be worked out. I've posted this before, and get all kinds of "but ..." replies, all of which can be easily addressed with a moment's thought.

It could be hardly worse than the current system.

> you as a teacher are heavily rewarded for being handed students that are either already at grade level or have parents who can pay for additional tutoring.

Students are already assigned at random to teachers. So it will balance out.

> you've just disincentivized teachers from working with struggling students

The teachers currently have no incentive whatsoever to help struggling students. This proposal gives them $1000 reasons to help them.
The cost of solar panels is less than the cost of installing them on a roof in California. I guess the real question is whether it is more expensive to install the panels over a canal or over a roof.

Also, what happens when the canal floods?
Do yo see many 55-65 year olds doing technical work at your company? Or any company you’ve been at in the past?
Yeah, but those descriptors are baked into the hardware so you don't have to hard code it into the operating system
If there’s a company that can increase market share and adoption for Vulkan it’s Valve
Graphics drivers are still somewhat of a mess in Linux, especially with Nvidia. Also, compatibility of games is all over the place. Some games have platinum rating, and they run fine, but every one in a while you get a stuttering that you don't get on windows.

Until all games start releasing native ports (which could happen given Steam Decks success), Win is going to stick around.

Also Win 11 isn't that bad. I have the pro and you can turn off a lot of intrusive settings. All of my dev stuff lives in WSL2, including anything graphical since WSL2 now includes an X server that can render linux graphical apps), and it works perfectly even with ML.
The reality is that if USA can't produce a majority of EV batteries itself then there will never be any serious reduction of investment in gasoline engines since it will pretty much be required for national security reasons.

Same reasons it's presently in the process of basically relocating TSMC to Arizona.
I'm amused by the subtitles of some of the Atelier games showing up as strikethroughs because of the Japanese practice of writing subtitles ~like this~.
"...for the current cycle, in our specific public-facing market."

As most here well know "over" is one of those words like "never" which particularly in this space should pretty much always be understood as implicitly accompanied by a footnote backtracking to include near-term scope.
They own T Bills, so the yield you get is the same as on the T Bill. Any difference is from the management fee (0.05%) or due to T Bills that haven’t matured yet which don’t reflect current rate.

There are different ways of measuring a fund’s yield, but at the end of the day this is mechanically how this fund works.
What overfitting? If anything, LLMs suffer from underfitting, not overfitting. Normally, overfitting is characterized by increasing validation loss while training loss is decreasing, and solved by early stopping (stopping before that happens). Effectively, all LLMs are stopped early, so they don't suffer from overfitting at all.
A crafts-merc is the ideal, a pure merc won't contribute beautiful code and a pure crafter won't grasp the business value of their elegant monads.
emacs. LSP (under editor such as emacs[0]) provides the context/way for being able to define a specific way to parse specifics of a language in order to add/define emacs hooks/jump points for a given language definition of nodes/files/modules/functions)

[0] : https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/tree-sitter-complicat...

https://consensys.net/diligence/blog/2019/10/solidity-visual...

https://www.typefox.io/blog/using-sprotty-in-vs-code-extensi...
The Bolt has wireless CarPlay and Qi charging
Ops talent didn't disappear, it just got centralized in Amazon/Google/Microsoft. Now that those companies are laying off thousands, it is likely that competent ops people with data-center experience will end up on the job market.
That's a cute over-simplification by Plato, but we have thousands of years of human history since then that shows that's not true.
The only UX things they changed from Windows 10 to Windows 11 were downgrades, so far as I can tell

- You can't move the taskbar to the sides of the screen any more

- The start menu is laggy now

- There are more ads and forced tracking integrated into the OS

I'm sure there's a lot of great stuff under the hood that got co-opted by whatever shortsighted idiot is in charge, but whatever it is, I'm not about to drop MacOS and linux to experience it
In other words, don't question the ideology...
> all the more reason - whatever the observed timeframe - for us humans to not behave like assholes towards insects and other life or nature in general.

But what about kudzo?

> Kudzu, a perennial vine native to Japan and China, was first introduced into the USA in 1876 and was actively promoted by the government as a “wonderplant", It expanded to cover over 1 million ha by 1946 and well over 2 million ha today. When Kudzu invades a forest, it prevents the growth of young hardwoods and kills off other plants. Kudzu causes damage to powerlines, and even overwhelms homes, Kudzu has invaded important protected areas, requiring significant investment of management resources, The management response to date outside the protected areas has been insufficient to deal with this very significant threat.

Sounds like an asshole to me.
Did a 1997 pc have 100s of mb?

I seem to recall running Windows 95 on a 200mhz - 300mhz processor with 64mb ram.

It wasnt top of the line but I don't think windows 95 was top of the line either. My ex corporate windows 2000 pc upgrade had 128mb ram. Neither had fancy graphics cards.

Mechwarrior as I recall ran on my 486 with 8mb ram. I'd guess that's in the same ball park of 256k for ram with xip flash. With a lot of hand waving of course. It could certainly run doom.
Type Safety in 10 Easy, 4 Medium, and 1 Hard Lemma using Step-indexed LRs
>As a Witness going from door to door, having your world-view rejected does not make you re-consider it; instead, the experience provides a welcome test of faith.

Yes, this is what they want. They send you to get rejected by people so later you go back to your community and they welcome you and they understand you and you learn they are your only allies and nobody else is.
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Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but by conservation of energy if all of the energy of the sun was converted to heat then no electricity would be produced? Conversely, that fact that panels do produce electricity means that not all of the sun's energy is heating the panel?
Show HN: Create your activity heatmap from GPS files
I added a new feature to CubeTrek: upload your activity files (GPX and FIT files accepted) and TrekMapper will show all of your activities on an interactive map.

Zoom from a global heatmap to single activities.
Plato probably had a different conception of what a democracy is than we do now.

My suspicion is that the more open and egalitarian and a democracy is, the more resistant it is to corruption, and the more faith the people have in it. The US was denying like half of our population (women) voting rights until like 1920, so it is hard spot trends in such a short time scale. I mean it is probably just a coincidence of history and geography that we’ve been absurdly successful since then.

Nowadays I’d be more worried about the trajectory:

Democracy->Oligarchy->Populist backlash/Mob rule->Tyranny.

Although I guess that’s really tied to concerns about the long term trajectory for the US (hey at least it isn’t tied to ancient concerns about the trajectory of Athens or whatever).
The most painful is having to run multiple data centers for HA. Double or triple the price right there.
U.S. China committee: Broad support to block Americans investing in Chinese A.I
Don't hijack the back button.
I'm not a programmer, but I could use a piece of software (Python?) that could generate the "Einstein" tiles and give me the location/orientation of each to cover a large square (probably 65K tiles). I can take it from there to generate the graphics I need, but I'm stuck at this step.
Coworking from Home
The one that blow my mind the most was the simultaneous invention of calculus.

Modern Calculus can be reasonably thought of as the most important mathematical leap forward of the last 1000 years. If there was ever an invention that can be considered a piece of unquestionable genius, then that's calculus. And somehow, it was simultaneously invented by 2 different people within a few years of each other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculu...
Why wouldn’t you, other than ageism? How about other professionals like lawyers and doctors?
> What does the Japanese internment program (which has been roundly criticized as a massive mistake)

You do realize that the CPC also considers the GPCR a mistake in many ways?
This was Daniel Bernstein's argument, back when he was doing djbdns, and I believe it got him kicked off the IETF DNS list (he was, in this one instance, correct; I'm still confused about why zone files are a part of the DNS standard).
You say it's 'straightforward' and boasted of how unbroken it was, and yet your LLM, despite being extremely limited sandbox and filtered into practical uselessness, was still beaten in less than a day by some idle HNers! What's the saying in security, "Anyone can invent a crypto they personally cannot break"...? It might be worth remembering another security catchphrase: "attacks only get better".

It'll be entertaining reliving the buffer-overflow era of computer security, however.
what if the tracker scratches/dents/damages your car? How does the GPS unit adhere? does that leave a residue? Are they going to pay for that??
> Why would the group funding the first set of research (and producing more molecules than industry) automatically be bad at the second?

People have different motivations and talents. Woz is a great computer engineer and Jobs was a great salesman. One without the other wouldn't have given us ubiquitous personal computers.

Same thing applies to organizations.
Hmm, I should use that more often
Enough people probably do feed the dolphins that they are enticed to any boat, just in case. Irregular rewards are the most powerful motivators.
I'm not sure about others, but as a very young programmer I was lucky enough to be mentored by a succession of 60ish year old seasoned developers still writing code every day. It was very formative and helpful to have a guide who had seen the growth of the modern software industry from infancy forward.

I now try to pay back that mentoring investment, and I encourage other people in the last half of their career to do the same - much of the challenge of software as an occupation and avocation is self-doubt and mentoring really helps provide objective feedback and perspective on what is truly important.
> but it was very hard because there's no way to say "maybe we can't hire more people without becoming less elite" in a way that sounds non-asshole-ish.'

Hmm this sounds like the concern was badly communicated because this phrasing is both unnecessary and not quite correct either. (since it is possible to keep recruiting to a very high standard even during exponential growth via spending exponentially more resources)

The straightforward logic of:

linear increase in organization size = exponential increase in organization complexity = exponential frictional losses

would have been much clearer.
Thanks for answering. What are some tools do you use for communicating? The problem I see is; we're stuck with meetings and can't just talk to eachother in a natural way.

And I'm wondering this; is it a problem worth to focus on? What if we build a new video communication product that works without meetings, it has rooms where individuals can be present, and we can just talk to eachother.
So much avoidable tragedy :(
Highs and lows, but doing a lot better recently. Turned 30 and quit my PM job last year to start a mental health SaaS, haven't had an income since which made me feel like a loser vs my friends. I think it's best to just not compare yourself to other people as much as I had been doing.

On the bright side, we just got our first enterprise customer. Plus the app has helped me deal with self-doubt, since I don't have health insurance. Check out www.beta.joinjoyfully.com/onboarding (Hey HN Hive Mind, this still in-line with the OP's question.)
I would rather pay less for Ubers than have Apple’s protections. I would rather pay less for Uber and have Apple’s protections.

Apple will still offer Uber, but they will take a smaller cut. Uber will still be available on the App Store because it is the most common App Store.