skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd played so many games in this way in my younger days, and learned a ton in the process. Off the top of my head, I got my sisters banned from Neopets for doing this, and dominated my friends in that Google Maps Monopoly game. Also, ruined Star Wars Galaxies for myself to the point where I got bored and quit.

Anyways, interesting to have a game where EVERYONE is playing it via API / code. Not sure if it's as fun when it's allowed, but still a cool idea.
> That would make the code not Open Source.

So? Maybe making so much code open source without any restrictions was a mistake in the first place. I know that I don’t want trillion dollars megacorps benefiting from my free open source code in any way. That would include LLM training.
Research: Remote Workers Are More Anxious About Layoffs
It was a single case being addressed. Yes, I also want everyone to earn a living wage. Servers + Tips are just a tightly coupled idea in Americans minds.
As far as I know, GPT does the work one token at a time. It produces a single token at each iteration. So if you give it "abc" and want "def" as the result, you first give it "abc" and it returns "d", then you give it "abcd" and it returns "e", then you give it "abcde" and it returns "f", then you give it "abcdef" and it returns the stop token.

So just by outputting its work, it can provide its own context to memoize what the answer for each bit is.
I describe it as, the internet of books and text became the internet of videos and music.

Except that the internet never was books, and was only text due to technological limitations.

When we started networking all the computers together, we (myself included) had this vision of an information utopia where everyone would be able to access all of the information previously locked up in books, magazines, and newspapers.

But that never really happened. Instead, people started making new content — the faster, cheaper, and lower quality, the better.

The old content remained locked up in libraries. Some of it managed to move behind paywalls, but the vast majority of the information — and lessons — learned in the last 500 years has been forgotten because it's not free and easy to access.

We had this naïve vision that with everyone online, people would rally around the best of what humanity had to offer, and we'd all be exposed to the planet's best art, literature, music, and knowledge. Instead, we got mostly the exact opposite of what we set out to build.
In the US? no.

Not unless you can tie the use of an email provider to a protected characteristic (race, gender, etc.)
if you have to solve mathematical programming/convex optimization problems, JuMP as a frontend for free or commercial solvers is hugely better than any alternative.

likewise if you are solving differential equations, DifferentialEquations.jl is hugely better than any free alternative I know of and arguably better than paid packages. The broader SciML ecosystem that's built up around this has a lot of cool stuff in it too.

other than this it seems like you wouldn't care about the other potential advantages, and might be more put off than average by the disadvantages and occasional rough edges.
This is why I said local governments' requirements rather than laws. Those can be very different. As we have seen in US and elsewhere, intelligence agencies, institutions, and politicians exert influence in many ways. Most of this is opaque, but occasionally we get some leaks like the Twitter Files that reveal what is really going on.
I was just at an airport and bought a pre-packed sandwich from the refrigerator, and the POS was setup to ask for tips! I have sympathy for workers at places like this, as I know they don’t get paid much, but this is probably the last straw for me.

When I see stuff like this, it increases my aggravation level, and I’m sure it has the same effect on others. Retail workers already get treated badly by customers, and this could easily start pushing some people other the edge.

It seems like we’re entering the era of the “aggravation economy”, where the new strategy seems to be to annoy the hell out of people as much as possible so they pay to make it stop. This has been perfected by tech companies for years, and now seems to be spilling over into the real world.
This assumes that the memory there is zeroed entirely, while in reality you only zero some small parts of it to make up the logical structure of whatever filesystem you use. The rest, as in 99.(9)% of the memory, is in undefined state and becomes a zero or a one only when the first write occurs.
Authors and farmers, sure. Most people working on their own aren't trying to protect proprietary information.

But people who work in a corporation, not a chance.
And on other side, if I were to spend hour with sales clerk and in the end get the cheapest possible item, and pay something generous like 30%. How much would that end up being?
Any chance of a source. If true this is great information!
There's a lot more than release notes going into a release - we've had 3 release candidates for a reason, and those regressions/bugs need to be fixed first.
No that's not how it works.
If the tips don't work out to minimum wage, the employer pays the difference. That's how it is in all the states.

Some cities, like Seattle, has a minimum wage at $15 for wait staff. So tipping is on top of that.
"free use of Gmail" but only if you're using Google's email client. If you're using the POP (and, presumably, IMAP) API, you're not going to see any ads, amiright?
You can implement SVM, gradient boosted decisions trees, and almost all classical models using the techniques of differentiable programming and it will have 0 impact on the amount of data required.

Massive Neural Nets do require a lot of data and are often not the best solution, but differentiable programming in general does not have higher data requirements than manually computing your derivatives or using OLS. You can still approach classical ML from the perspective of differentiable programming (and likely end up with a better sense of our how your models work in the end).
While massively out-weighed by the electrons and baryonic matter, a more interesting conjecture is mass-energy-information equivalence. Do your files themselves have mass aside from the electrons and nuclei of the thumb drive? Conservation of information at the quantum level would be an amazing expansion on our current understanding of thermal physics.

https://pubs.aip.org/aip/sci/article/2022/9/091111/2849001/A...
yt-dlp (or good ol youtube-dl) also doesn't download ads and neither do players like mpv that automatically use it to play YouTube URLs.
> The gain is not having to share profits with a private company.

Typically, it means the local warlord and his family get to pocket it.
Its not that employers are cheating them- Thats the job and what it pays. Most waiters/waitresses are payed below minimum wage and make up the difference with tips. Its something like $3/hr on average, its even accounted for in the tax code.

Is this your fault that the industry as a whole legally shifts that responsibility onto the consumer? Definitely not! Does that make a person an asshole for knowingly paying less? Yes.
Yeah, I wonder what conversations of society would have looked like in an alternative universe without any distractors. I would assume a lot different.

I once read is that if an activist movement rises they prop a flawed individual, find as much as info as they can, and at an opportune moment they ‘out’ the leader.

Apparently this happened with the Occupy movement.
not that i know of. this was 10ish years ago, and i was only on the camera department. i only saw it because one of my buddies worked the sound mix so i got to see/hear it at his place.
The usage dates to 1704.
> I would like to hear more than the typical "the code auto-differentiates" or "it's faster" or whatever

> unless it has interesting packages/functionality that my current toolset does not

Multiple dispatch, code-specialization, JIT compiling, automatic loop fusion, broadcasting, many ways of doing compile-time optimizations.... I'm sure there's more.

But I guess you can dismiss these features the same way that you dismiss "the code auto-differentiates" or "it's faster".
You've just described Sandstorm. Sandstorm runs instances (called grains) of applications in a sandbox. The application gets a limited file system and a Cap'n Proto RPC connection to the outside world over a unix socket. Sandstorm runs the HTTPS server, which turns requests into RPC calls. Sandstorm authenticates the users and provides temporary subdomains and frames to sandbox the HTML side of it.

https://sandstorm.io/
In the very next sentence after the one you quote, I say “Even if you decode the weights from floats to strings, you won't find the strings of code stored anywhere.”

If you decode the jpeg file you do get the pixel values.
White House pledges $140M for seven new AI research centers
They also supposedly hash out their passwords now. So the leaked passwords are less of a problem. (I use a completely unique immemorable password.) They also have device key sign in.

But somewhere someplace, I cannot trust them on security anymore. I know of a few vulnerabilities that I cannot explain. And so my emails will remain for insecure purposes.
The section about criticism of a bike wheel as a tensegrity structure is vague. As the other sections say, all spokes are always under tension, and the rim is always under compression. There's only one compressive member (the rim), so I guess you can't really say the compressive components are disconnected.

The only way I could see it failing the definition is with the hub. The hub has different parts under compression and tension, in that the flanges where the spokes attach are under tension, but the axle exerts compression on the bearings underneath it, even though almost all of the hub body should be under net deviatoric tension.
You’re downplaying one and, uh, up-playing the other. Vaccines can technically have permanent side effects. You’d only be” forced to bear a child” if you decide to have sex without adequate birth control. There’s also another body involved.

Just to be clear I’m pro-choice, though I think abortion should be done as early as possible. I just really dislike dishonest rhetoric.
For programming, correct.

But long form essays - it's super difficult.

Braille Institute is an authority research group in this space and they development their own font that achieves maximum readability.

That font is NOT a monospace font, because the found it too difficult to read in long-form. It's a proportional font.

https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
I tend to agree, but this still seems less bad than lugging around all energy in individual batteries or burning carbon fuels.
Are they on by default?
Pace of development, not depending on Intel to kick things off first and etc.
> Why would someone stick around at a party they don't like?

Many sorts of parties involve a social obligation and leaving them early comes with a social cost.
I spent way too long trying to explain to a person for the question, how many songs can a tape cassette or an vinyl record "store"

They were fixated on much storage in bytes it must have to store the music
To touch on your example, you're not allowed to tip that individual starbucks employee who went above and beyond while everyone else is shuffling along. You can tip the whole team, which gets split among everyone working according to how many hours they worked that pay period, or not tip.

To me, a tip goes to an individual, not everybody who happened to be working whether they helped me or not. This is one thing I really object to in places that have a general tip jar. I tip individuals, not companies.
Yes, the order of power is correct. However, I think he is a bit different since he is seen as the #1 candidate to be succeeding the Party Secretary position in the near future.
We live in the era of bold claims.

In 1820 if you said that 99% of farm labor will be replaced by machines in 100 years, you'd have been given the response of 'bullshit'. And yet a century later we had done just that.

With that redistribution of labor came the largest wars the world had ever seen. We don't even have to eliminate 'whole classes of work' to destabilize the working world and economy. Just eliminating 25% of work and not coming up with something new for the now jobless to do will create a wave of populism that can cause problems.
Government in a nutshell:

Last week: "We're so concerned about the treat of AI that we're convening a White House summit with tech CEOs on the subject!"

This week: "Here's $140,000,000 from the taxpayers: now go study AI some more."
Perhaps this is a good thing. Google has gotten too big and to many people rely on it in various ways. If Google cannibalizes itself then noone will need to bother killing it.
I believed that Zuck was a bit of a wannabe frat boy (definitely not an actual one), who was a bit of 'boys will be boys', but in the end, a 'good guy'.

It's taken me years but I think he's a 'bad guy'.

I think he'll err always on the side of money and really strongly look the other way.

I think it might have a lot to do with isolation.

Also, weirdly, I think Zuck, Musk get 'attacked' for their actions, and knowing that most of their actions are not really bad, they get defensive and reactionary. I think they lose their grounding and get deluded.
Which apps do the bars in Ireland use for payment?
Copyright infringement, intellectual property, patents, things like that.
I don't think so.

I'll put the food in a bag, grab my napkins and parmesan packets, and ring myself up. Then I'll tip myself the 20% or whatever ridiculous margin multiplied by my already overly-inflated bill.

That employee doesn't do anything for me. She does many things for the sake of the restaurant, but not a single thing for me that I need or care about.

As a bystander to the employment relationship, it's not my role to provide the economic solution here. But I'm happy to tip for service. Turn the tables and I'm happy to hold the damn door open with a smile for $10. I'd do that all day long since that's a fantastic payoff for the effort required. I'd hold the door open anyway because it's the thing to do.
I think tipping incentivises managers to lowball workers. I'm not buying into that "service not included" bullshit. How about you just... include it, and start paying at least the minimum wage if not more? I get tipping when someone goes out of their way or whatever but, frankly, pushing cups and plates around rarely sparks a conversation. And oftentimes it's just that. I'm from an European country where tipping is expected to the point where they give you a surprised stare and they might mutter something. About a year ago I stopped tipping and stopped caring about such expectations. It's none of my business.
Slightly off topic but has anyone experienced an increase of spam messages yhat are not caught? Actually not just spam but actual phishing emails. I’d swear I only saw these for the fist time in the past year or so after many years using gmail. Maybe the percentage of spam making it through has not increased over the years but many more spam messages are being sent?
Definitely not.

Guy Steele was involved in the specs for C, JS, Fortran, scheme, Common Lisp, and Java (among others). He gave a must-watch talk about Java called “Growing a Language”.

https://youtu.be/_ahvzDzKdB0

He makes a great case that a language must be able to deal with future problems and ideas the original designers didn’t or couldn’t foresee. He seems to have been one of the voices pushing for stuff like generics so users could design libraries that would feel more native.

And of course, I can’t mention him here without quoting his statement about Java:

> We were not out to win over the Lisp programmers; we were after the C++ programmers. We managed to drag a lot of them about halfway to Lisp.

A goal of Common Lisp was giving all the tools future programmers might need to create new tools. As a result, you’d be hard-pressed to come up with a language feature that hasn’t been ported to CL at some time.
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You can seek out and patronize the few places that do operate this way. There are some.
Thanks for the better information!
The new economy is like the scene in The Dark Knight where The Joker breaks a pool cue in half and throws the pieces to two henchmen to fight it out. Uber has just figured out how to get the customer in on the action. Remember when one of the selling points of early Uber was the complete lack of tipping?

The dynamic OP describes seems like a great reason to steer clear of UberEats, not that we need another one.
Well by “basically happy”, I mean to say that there are some occasional little quirks that I don’t love but I’ve personally never had any major frustrations or showstoppers.
Neutron star's X-rays reveal 'photon metamorphosis'
What does this have to do with trolling? Don't they actually mean censoring/silencing?

As far as I know the definition of a troll is "someone who posts inflammatory, irrelevant, offensive or other disruptive content to get a (bad) reaction from others". Are they doing that?
e got it, but doesn't that suggest that just because release notes exist, doesn't mean something has been released? Unless ksec has special inside info for his claim, I think his link doesn't show anything.
I've certainly gone through phases of posting content of various types on various sites over time. I'll probably get back to posting on my own sites a bit more as one of my main channels went away. But it is easy to let dropping some comments on social media take the place of writing even a short blog post--and that's even assuming you have a blog all set up and everything.

>But he does stay active on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cshirky

Sort of. He hasn't posted anything since last year. [ADDED: I'm wrong. Pinned tweet threw me off.]
It sounds like you only want to build the frontend yourselves? You could take a look at Cube[1] which will probably work fine as a backend for your in-app reporting.

[1] https://cube.dev/
NSF Announces 7 New National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes
Why do you imagine that non-budget-related issues must be packaged with the budget into the same bill? Parliament may pass as many bills as it has time to.
We were automatically redirecting you to a google's signin page as soon as you visited demo.spiffworkflow.org - if you log out you would get this page prompting you to log in again:

Here is a screenshot.
https://ibb.co/c8vQjwv
The day a robot brings my food to the table is the day I stop eating at restaurants.
The jobs AI won't take yet
From most of the studies I saw natural immunity was more effective than the vaccines - and both were (slightly) better yet.

I say this as someone that got the original strain and then delta - and both were quite serious. I remember at the time I got delta there was supposed to be about a 1% chance of me getting reinfected, though that study might have been pre-delta as I got it quite early.
I've reached tipping burnout. I actively avoiding going places where I would be expected to tip. Everywhere else, picking up food, I tip zero.
Does that mean using an iphone instead of android, or what other alternative is there?
> Excessive tips are the only way a lot of people working in the service industry survive at all.

When the topic comes up on Reddit the people overwhelmingly against getting rid of tipping are waiters. Heck, bartenders are even more vehemently against the idea.
The email that is important to me is not in Gmail. Gmail is there for all the throwaway/don't-care email, like signing up to websites I "don't know" or for corporate zombie OSIAs[1].

[1] Old Slow AIs, aka "companies". http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2019/12/artifici...
No ads on IMAP, so there's a simple fix.
I don't think you need to invoke the power of evil corporations to explain why this gets so little pushback in the public discourse.

Matthew Yglesias did a tweet thread a while back arguing that copyright terms should be shorter and the responses were instructive. People -- regular people -- have a pretty deep intuition that if you create something, then it belongs to you -- forever. The Jeffersonian notion that copyright exists only to incentivize new works is to most folks an odd one. His mentions filled up with authors arguing that their great-grandkids should enjoy the fruits of their labor, sentiments that garnered broad support from basically everyone except copyright law nerds (like myself).
> Wealth is not income. It’s the value of owned assets: money, property, etc.

Both wealth and income disparity have risen over the last decades - while the lower income group's shares have stayed constant, the middle class has eroded in favor of those already in wealth - and only the top 5% managed to gain wealth after the 2009-ff depression [1], with their gains by necessity coming from the suffering of the 95%.

The reason is simple: if you are already wealthy, you can afford snatching up assets of all kinds for fire-sale prices - particularly those who had to panic-sell their assets or walk away from properties they could no longer afford or were completely underwater after the loss in value despite paying down their mortgage for many years in the early COVID crisis months or in the 2009-ff depression to survive got hit really hard. And on top of that, simply being wealthy puts you in a very favorable economic position... stuff like using higher-risk but also higher-profit financial instruments is only allowed after hitting a certain wealth threshold, you could generate virtually free money and evade taxes by taking loans on your continuously appreciating stocks, or use highly complicated multi-national tax evasion constructs.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2020/01/09/trends-...
Did you click the link?

> The workers’ negotiators also want Apple to adopt a tipping system, letting patrons offer gratuities in increments of 3%, 5% or a custom amount for in-store credit-card transactions.

Not 10%, unless you have money to burn/launder. But also:

> “All monies collected through this manner would be dispersed to members of the bargaining unit biweekly based on any hours worked.”

So as in most places these days, by tipping you're not rewarding the employee who provided good service, your tip gets spread out among all employees whether they are working hard or hardly working. Which as far as I am concerned, entirely defeats the purpose of the tipping system.

I have no reason to buy anything from an Apple store but if I did, and someone provided exceptional service beyond what they were expected to, I would not tip them. I would instead saunter down to the Starbucks pagoda, buy a gift card, and then hand it directly to the person.
>the least constrained by the need to optimize their money hose

Not entirely true. They are squeezed left and right by Apple. Google pay Apple per active user as the default search engine. As Apple continue to increase their user base, the higher the total cost for Google to remain default. All while Apple, in the name of privacy and fundamental human right, started a crusade against online ads, mainly targeting Facebook but tactically taking Google along with it. In order for Google and Facebook to keep the same profit margin with declining CPM, they have to place more ads to compensate for it. Which is the whole starting point of enshittification. This may also have some negative side effect on Google image and Android, and more people switching to Apple.

>There is (or was, anyway) an opportunity for a very long-term play in which Google

There was never any long term plan or strategy from Google. Moonshots were like a fun project to work on with zero business planning. Google never had a product mindset. They could have done what you wrote, they could have battled Microsoft for OS dominance, they could have done shit loads of things. But they didn't.
I have been watching Google before they even IPO. For vast majority of its life they have always been in a more money ( or capital ) than they know what to do with it.