skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Present state: Dave tries to practice medicine. Doctors guild shuts him down. He earns nothing.

Alternate state: Dave practices medicine. He gets good at it. He earns a very high salary.

The union argument isn't about whether workers can cooperate - they can already do that. Free speech and all that. It is about whether employees can prevent others (often called "scabs" in Australia, not sure about the US term) from working. Guilds are similar.
The killer app for Android is scrcpy.

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

This project can enable so many interesting things. It allows you to fully control, stream and automate anything running android including phones, Chromecasts, and even the android subsystem on Chromebooks.

The new version supports streaming audio in addition to the device screen from wherever you run the scrcpy CLI. You can even send keystrokes and "dpad" events to control apps, or connect your mouse and keyboard to the device like it was hardwired.

And it all works over your LAN via Ethernet or WiFi without root.

You could easily use this with any audio app to kick off casting to other devices in this context.

Oh and btw it even can run from inside a docker container. Cheers to the author(s) it's a hackers dream tool.
Interestingly in my native Russian, it can sound like a philosophical adage: курица курятника курочкой курит курирование куринных курсов... to be completely honest, not all of that means "chicken", but most of it does. This a great illustration of why some languages are hard to learn.
>so if I can successfully filter spammers out, I think Google can as well.

This is absurd. The problems Google face are orders of magnitude more complex than your individual mail server. Your server benefits from the fact that no one cares about it. No one will develop a custom spam technique to send you spam. They will for Google. There will be whole offices in India dedicated to working out exactly what slips through Gmail.

You benefit from a kind of herd immunity where no one even sends the kind of spam that would reach you because it's blocked by Gmail so not worth sending.
It's very different in the US. It's impossible to unlock the bootloaders, get root, etc. Occasionally someone finds a vuln, but as a general rule, no rooting etc samsung phones in the US :/
What’s the power situation on old devices like these? Is it not really a big deal because you’re not running heavy workloads or would say a NUC pay for itself in comparison?
I agree! What sort of opportunities?
Did they raid the wealth?

Or did they show up and teach stone age countries how to use their resources??

Like they're still doing to this day.
I got my first subscriber as an indie hacker
Problem with this is that it absolutely melts your phone to send a picture while a spammer with a GPU farm can blast out spam in bulk.
Exactly. Of course you can rig up a set of game rules that lead to a specified outcome under specified conditions. This paradox just boils down to a game rule that says "Alternately play these two subgames." I don't get it.
I question if you're making a good faith argument there. Your "starving artist" stereotype applies much more to non-union Hollywood than it does to union Hollywood. You can be a starving artist without needing any union. Get rid of Hollywood unions and there is 0% chance you stop having starving artists. There's only so many people and so many hours in the day, compared to how many people desperately want to create stuff to try to make it big (or just to create at all), so that attribute will never go away.

Again, software has a unique attribute of how good software creates demand for even more good software that Hollywood can never match.

There's two ways to get people to take chances:

* desperation

* a good safety net

VCs help with the latter already for founders. I think a good union could help a lot with it for would-be startup employees.
I, for one, welcome our new Steam Deck-killing, Windows-running overlords
That would be torture to this adhd claustrophobe!
it would suck ass for a few weeks but would actually be pretty simple:

ppl withdraw deposits

80% of them go to JPMC

JPMC buys BofA
The Cephalopoda
Isn't this exactly the same problem as detecting if text was AI generated which has largely agreed to be impossible?
If the payment itself is not a crime (as admitted) just the alleged mis-accounting. Then how can the mis-accounting possibly be a campaign contribution, when the entry happened in 2017 and Trump won the election in 2016? Are they going to discern future intent of his accountants? And does "future crime" require Time travelling Trump?

Perhaps this legal theory that the prosecutor is basing this on is just political hackery as it appears to be? Is that possible?

I also think you're answering your own question. You can either have non disclosure agreements or you have to make them public, which would defeat the whole purpose of non disclosure agreements.

On a side note, normally...your past lovers can't threaten to expose your affair unless you pay them. Extortion is a crime.
Despite all appearances this isn’t (yet) LLM News. There are a lot of math, physics, numerical, quant, etc folks here that are not exclusively interested in LLM articles.
I wasn't asking if Dave's salary went down. I was asking if the existing doctors' did.

Expecting unions to be good for the whole world is stupid. Nobody expects a company to act in the whole world's interest rather than its own. The union is just a tool to level the playing field, to get some control back over "Dave will practice medicine for half what we're paying you, without complaining, so fuck off"
This is cool. How do you calculate the speed of the train?

I'm assuming you are measuring how far a certain feature of the train takes to get from one point of the frame to the other. Similar to how police catch people speeding by measuring how long road markings take to pass in a given frame.
No. It's not "very different". You're just trying to be contrarian. 3 series and M3 has 90% the same infotainment. But 5 series and M5 competition is being developed by a completely different company. Even if they are 95% the same. Nobody is iterating on anything. The same climate control is implemented 20 times by different companies. It's just that the 4 variants of the 3 series usually are made by the same company.
NUC is hundreds of dollars. assuming this device runs like 5W on average, that'd be like $1 / year at $0.025/kWh in energy costs.
Also, on "poison objects". We execute Javascript all the time in our browsers. Sandboxing and other measures keep the executable objects from exploiting our computers. It's imperfect, of course, and there are still exploits, but that's the general approach. Things like out-of-order execution and so forth require careful parallel design, but that's pretty much the bread-and-butter of things like SETI@Home
Yeah, I think I'm happy with outsized rewards for outsized contributions.

You guys feel free to spend time worrying about how to split the pie equitably, I'll be over here making more pie (and demanding a share).
4chan's fastest board is currently covered in swastikas, the n-word, cartoon pictures of trans people hanging themselves and "Chinese gore" threads, I'm going to have to disagree with the WaPo/NYT comment sections containing "more hate"
What, you don't like the subscription model they added in 2024?
> potentially leaving no new jobs for humans.

Name one scenario where this happens.

This whole premise seems ridiculous. You're afraid of a chatbot that says cool stuff, and now you think agriculture, gig economy, music, education, entertainment and public relations will never be the same. Can you delineate how these things happen besides saying "alignment problem"? Nobody wants to hear your vague fiction-inspired philosophy unless you have factual proof of impending doom. Otherwise you're playing the role of the boy who cried wolf or Chicken Little, ringing a bell too early for too little. You don't get cookie points for 'being there first' if your prediction amounts to vaguely negative consequences.

Here's my counterpoint: AI will change the industry however it does (like every other major advancement) and people will learn to work with and against it. It does not pose any more of an impending threat than the internet already does. The AI fear has been driven by it's prominence in pop culture and the desire for sideliners to wax philosophical about a finely-tuned Markov chain. The most telling part of this entire article is that a Substack author is afraid of a robot that writes text. Gag me with a spoon.
John Deere has a number of (large) competitors,
Caterpillar being the largest. But hey, guess what, Caterpillar's not so big on right to repair either. There are a number of smaller brands in that market as well, some of them do support repairability in order to compete with John Deere, but the worry is if they're even going to be around in 15 years.

Thing is, farmers already have their John Deere tractors, and, just like Apple sucks you into their ecosystem and soon every tech thing you own is an Apple product, so does John Deere. The switching cost is just too high, especially for a whole farm's equipment that you buy and keep/use for 15 years. The first iphone is just older than that. So you buy a tractor in 2008, it's only just now time to replace that tractor, but in the interim you've bought all of the special dongles, at $50k-$300k a pop, are you really going to switch tractor manufacturers? You could, we're talking about farm equipment, not mini DVI dongles, but you really want your hardware to work together, and it's going to take you another 15 years to fully divest yourself of the Apple, err John Deere ecosystem. But you're already 40, having inherited the family farm when you were 25. Another 15 years and you'll be 55, and it'll be time for retirement soon enough. So you just keep buying John Deere products and hope the corporate farms don't get you before then.

I know government regulations are anathema to some, but they're anathema because they really do force somebody's hand, and change things. Sometimes, even for good.
Sensitive data is being leaked from servers running Salesforce software
Huh, that sounds terrible. I got two Subarus (nether if them outback) and never had any of these problems. Maybe a bad model year or some controller issues?
Push out proof-of-work challenges.
They might have been looking at tubs of margarine or other spreadable products that mix butter with oils. I think tubs of real butter aren't all that popular (so wouldn't occupy a lot of shelf space).
I've been on Telegram since 2016 and I probably receive one spam message per 4 months. And I'm super active in a lot of groups. Possibly could be related to the types of groups you join though. I've noticed that 100% of the spam I receive on Telegram is about blockchain scams so perhaps being in tech or finance related groups (which I am not) could increase the risk.
Odd that there's no mention of Moissanite, which is a replacement good and has many of the same upsides, with fewer downsides than lab grown diamonds.

Not to mention the ridiculous dance where they make methane from the air - I guarantee that is much less green than just buying nat gas or compost gas.

Lab grown diamonds don't fix the core problem - diamonds are mined by slaves, in conditions remarkably similar to Hell. Lab grown diamonds help launder blood diamonds into the general supply. Moissanite has none of those problems, looks nicer than diamonds, and doesn't involve any of the human suffering. It's made by and benefits people like the HN crowd. That seems like a clear winner to me.
Boldly going where no podcast has gone before: William Shatner
I challenge you to read /b/ for half an hour and maintain this devil's advocate position. It is absolutely a sewer.
> Do you have any evidence to back up this claim?

Anyone whose looked into OSRS botting from the perspective of the botters knows that the "Jagex isn't doing anything" meme is not actually true. It's very easy to get banned and bots have to go to all sorts of absurd means to not get banned quickly and emulate human behavior. Botting tutorial island can even get you banned, which is saying something since bot scripts have had over a decade to evolve.

Now, could it be better? Definitely. But ultimately without locking down the game client more, which would alienate the majority of the playerbase who uses third party clients, it is very difficult to effectively ban bots at a scale that would be appreciated by the playerbase. In just a couple days you can implement some botting capabilities through client plugins, popular bot software has years of manipulating the client, so without a major change to the client it's very hard to ban bots.
1) I work in software because it offers the most money for the least work.

2) What type of wages do you expect people to be making in Hollywood? It seems like a pretty hard industry to make money in. The people making money will be executives and superstars who need no union.

I'd bet the median union member in Hollywood is poorer than the median un-unionised Red Hat engineer.

3)

> There's two ways to get people to take chances

That seems to discount the reality that Silicon Valley startup culture is the highest risk-taking environment in the world right now. No safety nets. Not much desperation. A relatively high number of workers becoming millionaires.

Making it harder to run a business by empowering employees to just shut things down when times get tough is unlikely to help get businesspeople to take more risk.
It's important to know the difference if you hope to fix the system.

Blaming fractional reserve banking for something totally unrelated will help nobody.
Maybe lame by HN standards but I wrote a Chrome extension to tell me if Redfin, Zillow, and Loopnet listings are in a designated HUBZone.
Why it’s worth making computational methods easy to use
Wow, for a company who's mission is to enable transportation from point A to B across the globe this is pretty nuts. So the employees are supposed to work from a physical location in SF to SSH into us-east-1 machine & debug something that went wrong on trip in Boseman, MT?

This whole boomer management level cannot handle that FOSS projects, outsourcing, freelancing & initial stages of entrepreneurship happens from anywhere apart from a physical office location.....
I do agree with that. I don't think the iPhone being a flop was ever a realistic scenario. The momentum they had with the iPod alone would make it at least a modest success. I was, however, one of the people who believed Apple's strengths would not fit well in cell phone space.
Not surprising. Cloudflare is cancer.
Absolutely true.

Let's say there's a reason my search engine pages show a lion and not a duck.
I mark every news letter as spam, since I don't ever knowingly agree to receiving them, they are all spam to me.
It is brilliant. Create a nuisance, then charge to remove the artificial nuisance.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35012981 (459 points | 56 days ago | 159 comments)

I'll copy the first comment by https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Aransentin I usually copy just a part but it's very clear to explain what is the problem

> I immediately found the results suspect, and think I have found what is actually going on. The dataset it was trained on was 2770 images, minus 982 of those used for validation. I posit that the system did not actually read any pictures from the brains, but simply overfitted all the training images into the network itself. For example, if one looks at a picture of a teddy bear, you'd get an overfitted picture of another teddy bear from the training dataset instead.

> The best evidence for this is a picture(1) from page 6 of the paper. Look at the second row. The building generated by 'mind reading' subject 2 and 4 look strikingly similar, but not very similar to the ground truth! From manually combing through the training dataset, I found a picture of a building that does look like that, and by scaling it down and cropping it exactly in the middle, it overlays rather closely(2) on the output that was ostensibly generated for an unrelated image.

> If so, at most they found that looking at similar subjects light up similar regions of the brain, putting Stable Diffusion on top of it serves no purpose. At worst it's entirely cherry-picked coincidences.

> 1. https://i.imgur.com/ILCD2Mu.png .

> 2. https://i.imgur.com/ftMlGq8.png .
Likely it was a DC motor, driven by an H bridge. Some of the induction kickback diodes are gone, if so the driving transistors may give the ghost as well.
I work at an S&P 500 US tech company and we did not, and do not (fingers crossed), plan to lay people off.
Why would a bill be a bulk email?
yes there is but I am not sure if its actually used to do anything past some symbolic math. IMO true AI could only happen from understanding (& internalizing) physical laws especially notion of energy optimization. I feel that the until LLMs are somehow married with this knowledge they would always be parroting back from existing 'data' in seemingly creative ways but never create something truly new of their own.
Loops are way too useful, which is why I prefer actual programming languages over declarative solutions.
As to be expected, many people on reddit's wallstreetbets made or lost futures as this saga unfolded. I dunno why anyone would invest in bank stocks. Too risky. Index funds offer comparable return but without the tail risk of bank run.
How many are we going to see taken over?
Probability - and how you need to reason about independent vs dependent events - is poorly understood generally.

Let's try to make it HN-relevant by asking:

can two things that both AB tested positively in independent one-at-a-time testing possibly backfire if you launch both of them?
Live Starlink Satellite and Coverage Map
I don't know about the most interesting thing I built ever, but I am pleasantly surprised with the utility and usefulness I am getting out of https://jarvis.tel.

I built it to scratch my own itch: I wanted a way to use AI on the go the way I talk to people (via text messages) and wanted a way to quickly show off AI to the uninitiated (friends and family who have never seen or used or understand AI).
If you haven’t made your own butter at home, you’re missing out. It literally takes 10 minutes and the blender does most of that work.

Pour a cup or two of heavy cream in the blender. Add a tspn or so of salt, and blend it on med. it’ll turn to whipped cream and then chunk into butter. Let it run for a minute or two more as the liquid co to yes to separate from the butter.

Scoop the butter into a non fuzzy towel or a few layers of cheesecloth and squeeze the remaining liquid out. Spread on hot bread or grab a spoon.
I still like the Odroid stuff - Even the most expensive version(1) is still a lot cheaper then most other stuff ($165)
That gets you:

1. Quad-Core Processor Jasper Lake N6005 2Ghz/3.3Ghz boost

2. Up to 64GB Dual-channel DDR4 PC4-23400 with 2 SO-Dimm Slots

3. 2 x 2.5Ghz Ethernet

4. SATA-3/HDMI 2.0/DP 1.2

5. Intel onboard GPU

I have multiple of the predecessors (H2) and LOVE them. Kitting out a node with 16G and a cheap Sata SSD puts you around $250. They're fast enough to run multiple USB cameras for OctoPrint.
I believe if you check the forums, they can run windows as well, but I've never tried. And they are totally silent!!

1) https://www.hardkernel.com/shop/odroid-h3-plus/

edit: formatting
core pce just printed at 4.6 and ur worried about deflation?

services inflation printed at 7.3% and ur worried about deflation?

that's not a valid opinion atp. we're so far from overcorrecting its scary. spending is still up over pre corona levels. ppl still drawing down excess savings. bank crisis is a real concern and prob reads through to equivalent of a few rate hikes (slok @ apollo says 150bps, most say lower)
I know. It was active when I was at UIUC
I've heard from a Udemy instructor that the reference prices are not even the real prices the instructors have set. It's all made up (by Udemy).
4chan circa 2004-2013 is very much not 4chan in 2023.

The site does not influence as much as it is influenced at this stage, you see memes cooked up on telegram and twitter which then filter back to 4chan, this backflow would've been unthinkable before — 4chan was faster, it was first. It is no longer that.
Agreed, but I think AMD can pivot to an ARM architecture. Actually, Intel and AMD would be idiots to not have an Apple M1 chip competitors in active development.

Intel has a lot more denialism and inertia in their management to fully embrace / not undermine a legit ARM product.
It was lovely that Steam tried to get so many folks to make Steam Boxes. Hopefully the Steam Deck doesn't have to remain singular. I, for one, think Windows is inferior for users, broadly, and hope the Deck becomes a replicateable success in turning the tables on the desktop/decktop stranglehold.
Are they going to be taken over again?

FDIC set to take First Republic Bank into receivership (reuters.com)
96 points by VagueMag 4 hours ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 77 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35746847
What are your talking about? You done like it converting “your” to “your” on every damn time you type the word?

Note: the above paragraph was typed with swipe typing. I actually typed “Y O U” for both of the above instances of “your.”

Apple swipe typing is the opposite of AI: it’s like an idiot is going behind you taking even correct words you swipe and turning them into gibberish. Don’t even get me started about its obsession with “it’s” and “we’re” to the exclusion of the words without apostrophes. Ughhhhhh
A great example of the "CIA Triangle," and how it's not always easy to balance the legs of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
Cephalopod Atlas
I think it's a little annoying how avoidable it was though.

Aside: by chance I happened to be in the area so headed down and saw the launch. That was a trip.

A guy I chatted with told me we were 5 miles from the launch. He said that 10 miles is the typical viewing distance for the Florida launches. NASA apparently, he said, has an observing facility that is 3.5 miles from the Florida tower but you pay dearly for a seat.

With that as context, I confess that I was expecting something a little more chest-pounding from the launch. Perhaps 3.5 miles packs that extra punch.

The slowness with which it climbed also surprised me. Watching it rise, kind of hanging in the air it seemed to struggle. It seemed suddenly to me that large rockets were "not meant to be", were an affront to gravity or something.

We saw several of these flashes in the thrust that apparently were engines going out (blowing up?). At the time I thought maybe the fuel was being pumped unevenly — some kind of pogo-ing. When nothing blew up though I assumed that perhaps at various angles the flame from the motors might just look brighter — perhaps momentarily unobstructed by exhaust.

As it disappeared into the sky above the final thing that struck me was how long you could continue to hear the thing — like a Harley or something still thundering long after you've lost sight of it.

If it blew up while we were there, I didn't know it. Odd flashes and booms had suddenly become something I just came to expect from a large rocket launch. We were frankly more interested in getting off South Padre before the whole crowd slowed traffic to a crawl.
Prefix the url with https://12ft.io/
Do you have a citation for this?

That number seems within the same order of magnitude as I was expecting, but the fact that this has been quantified is fascinating.

Are there similar numbers for mutations per cell division or averages per year of life?
Crazy day in dropping huge lawsuits, what with RED & counter-suer Nikon dropping their lawsuits as well.

None of these have any resolution. The legal system just gets to keep ignoring the need to say anything about gobsmackingly massive situations.