skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On an individual basis that makes sense (in particular if you really handle it like a service exchange contract, with little to no management on how the person do their work)

In this day and age though, I wonder how much it actually works . For instance if one of your contractor does something completely illegal in your country and you get media backlash for it, you're in a tight position if that thing was perfectly legal on their side, and wasn't covered by the contract as you had your own country's law in mind.

I'm not sure you could push your country's law on them, nor that it would help your situation as your company is still fronting the backlash.
It probably doesn't exist. Every media outlet in existence produces their media in the context of their ideology. Anything that seems like it's "not political" is likely framing things within a Neoliberal context, as it's status quo and least likely to be seen as "extreme". Sometimes the extremists give the story straighter than the "unbiased" folks.

The best thing to do is not to look for some magical "unbiased truth", but to look at each situation from the perspective of many different sources/ideologies.

Local news from the location of the news-worthy-event is usually a good source for raw details like who what where and when, but be aware that most local news leans heavily towards the right-wing.
Kinda-sorta reminds me of the movie Moneyball. There were big layoffs, including a number of highly paid people, thus lowering the average prevailing wage. Now even if firms are bringing in foreign workers at the average prevailing wage, that wage is still lower than before the layoffs. An effective play on the system, replacing US workers with cheaper foreign workers.
So true. It’s one thing to treat companies at face value when it’s just another X, but when they are capable of changing society in such a way, their claims of openness should be treated as marketing.
We use it in our product: www.dopplio.com

It lets users generate personalized sales videos quickly, saves my wife about two hours per day
> of course, but just because those ideas are unheard, doesn't mean they are going to be any better.

It probably does mean it's better at least for the person with the perspective. Too bad only a very few get a seat at the table to advocate for their own interests. It would be better if everyone has agency to advocate for their interests.

> Also the problem isn't that bad ideas might get implemented, but that the legislature isn't willing or able to make updates to laws that encoded a bad idea

First, this is a hyped up crisis where some people are claiming it will end humanity. There have been many doomsday predictions & people scared by these predictions are effectively scammed by those fomenting existential fear. It's interesting that the representatives of large pools of capital are suddenly existentially afraid when there is open source competition.

Second, once something is in the domain of government it will only get more bloated & controlled by monied lobbyists. The legislatures controlled by lobbyists will never make it better, only worse. There have been so many temporary programs that continue to exist & expand. Many bloated omnibus bills too long to read passed under some sort of "emergency". The government's tendency is to grow & to serve the interests of the corporations that pay the politicians. Fear is an effective tool to convince people to accept things against their interests.
Such projects have phases of development. If too many people get involved too early, you easily create a "too many cooks in the kitchen" situation.

But once the long-term architecture is largely defined and implemented, there's usually enough inertia and established compartmentalization of modules that more developers can participate without ruining the soup.
Boring company?
That “appearance” is pretty good at triggering our anthropomorphizing behaviors. I like your handle, did you read Richard Bach’s Illusions by any chance?
Ask HN: Can you be a founder while being a sole bread winner?
Would love to quit my “nice paying but no advancement in sight Faang job” and take on the entrepreneurial journey. However I am the sole bread winner and we are a family of 4 with preteen children. Is this possible ? Have others done it ? Would like to hear about how you did it? What you gained? What you gave up? Were you able to maintain your lifestyle? How would you do it again?
The Death Cap mushrooms are invasive in the US, and they just recently found out why: They are able to reproduce asexually. I thought that was very interesting to learn! https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-deadliest-mushroom-chang...
> Additionally, fast track the green card process for whom said exemption is granted.

Yes, this. Or alternatively, in an economy where everyone is getting laid, the 60 day deadline should be extended indefinitely until the economy recovers and similar jobs start becoming available and plentiful, at which point they can consider reinstating the employment requirements.
However expected these policies are, they're always a massive pain in the ass for people who continue to maintain accounts for the dead, and that use case never seems to be considered, except maybe to push those maintainers to just delete everything.

For example, one Gmail account I maintain for my deceased partner has another older Gmail account delegated to it. I have the credentials for the newer account, but not the older account. That delegated access is the only way I can get at about 10 years of their life; since I can't login to the account, I can't run a Google Takeout on it, I can't pull it via IMAP, etc.

(I'm sure it turned some heads when I logged back into their Twitter account, which became their de facto public online memorial after death, to prevent Twitter from deleting it as inactive.)

All of my efforts to recover actual capital-A Google Account access to the delegated account have been either declined or ignored by Google because I'm not the account owner — which, obviously, because I'm not dead. I've offered them death certificates and small-estate proof, but they don't want it or seem to care. Since I can't login to the account, I can't prove activity on it, so this means one day in December that'll just be it. 10 years of correspondence, wedding planning, travel plans, memories straight down the shitter. (Google already "lost" all of the photos in that account that were more than 10 years old; cf. other complaints: https://www.reddit.com/r/GMail/comments/jgr0j9/help_missing_....)

If you want content from a dead person's account, you have to get a court order, and then only if Google accepts your request, which they probably won't: https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/6357590?h...

Judging from the contents I think it consumes about 150MB of storage. I'd pay quite a lot to get that account dumped onto a $10 thumb drive so I can back it up. I'd already printed out a binder full of it, which is comical considering it's fucking _email_.

Anyway — figure out your digital estates while you're awake and alive because it gets way harder — for everyone, much less you — once you're incapacitated or dead.
That’s a lot of nuance when the actual events are much more plausible.
AI Will Not Want to Self-Improve
I am paid for designing and implementing products. Language for me is a screwdriver. Some convenient some not that much. I have programmed in many languages. I am familiar with the concepts but not going to learn OCaml or Haskel as there is zero ROI in it for me.

>"If, after all that, you come back and say "yeah lets use a class here", then I'll trust your judgement."

Look at it this way. I care what my customers say about my products because this is how I make my money for decades already. You - trusting my judgement - I do not give a flying fuck. Sorry for being direct.
No. This is just a way to create monopolies.

What a pathetic attempt.
Visas always are bad for citizen workers, full stop. They are always competition blunting the labor market.

It is always good to be labor in a labor constrained market, and the lower supply, the better.

I don't see how any liberalization could help local workers in the short term (I assume liberalization means expansion in this context).
Don’t you also have to be a little bit narcissistic to say, “You can help build this thing but only as long as you adhere to my vision.”
How old are these kids today roughly? :-)
It'll be interesting to see how it fairs against the Steam Deck. Given the option, I'd still take the Deck hands down because Linux + Valve customer support. I would dread the moment I have to try and contact Asus support.
I'm a little confused what the use-case for these bots are?

It feels like it would be easier to built a bot to perform a specific set of tasks, rather than a human shaped robot?
That’s good to know. My LEAF is 6 years old, and has only lost one bar, leaving it with something like 92-93% of its original battery life, which is no major sacrifice. I do wonder how it will look when it reaches 10 years. I’d like to drive it as long as possible.
Something that’s lost in these arguments a lot is that you can often get large models to cough up an exact sample from their training set. It’s fair to say that a human cannot do that to the degree a model can.
The car market is in trouble
There's no guarantee of resolution, we can just as easily go even deeper into a capitalist-feudal state. The truth is we have enough resources to solve all these problems, and mitigate all this suffering and yet we don't, and the problems are getting worse not better. Maybe it'll be better in a generation, but we've squandered and centralized so much wealth without actually building much of anything useful. Our towns and cities crumble.

> I think 'we' are talking about these (relatively tiny, but still extremely terrible and important to fix) injustices more than 'we' did while the East India Company were operating.

I'm sure Indians would beg to differ!
it's not that surprising, considering they're only selling five models of car right now. (from memory)

like I'd be unsurprised to learn that some apple product was the top-selling device in some catagory.
I have found it to be good in cases where I need a rough outline of something.

For programming, I often ask it for some modules in language X that can do Y.

Sometimes it surprises me and lists something I have not heard of.

Other times it makes stuff up.

I think to use it well, you have to be some what of a subject matter expert in the topic you are asking about.
How much of the code is based on the forked project?
Even today it's probably impossible to train an LLM that always correctly translates natural language to machine code.
Could GPT help with dating anxiety?
A learned human can go to their library of books or PDF papers and produce an exact citation.
> We are based in Singapore

Why not Singapore?

I incorporated in Estonia via the e-residency program because I can manage my company 100% remotely from anywhere in the world. Since the activity is not happening in Estonia, the only tax is when distributing profits with a flat 20%. I pay an Estonian company about €150/month to do the accounting and other stuff.

I considered Delaware too but IIRC just hiring a US accountant was much more expensive. Didn't make sense for a Bootstrapped startup.
Emulation in general is not illegal, piracy is the only aspect of it that is “illegal”.
> KDE is so great.

Funny, back in 2006ish, KDE development was stalled, and it was a janky, inconsistent mess. Everyone hated it and used Gnome, which had a simpler design and was far more stable and smooth.
or just parse in place: https://github.com/celcius-labs/tiny-http/blob/master/src/ht...
I guess by quality I was thinking size of feature set. It feels more feature complete, I guess? I noticed display bugs in KDE with Wayland earlier this year too but it sounds like that is cleaning up quickly.
Ex-Apple engineer accused of stealing self-driving car secrets
Universal flu vaccine: mRNA-based candidate enters clinical trial
It's almost as if people make these throwaway accounts just to post hot takes without affecting their real karma value.
It was, but there were pinball machines at bars then too. Its not new. As an 18 year old we played pinball and drank the bar closed.

Although I must say my older brothers friends loved Space Invaders. I don't know maybe the coke and pot led to arrested development. I never got into video games, whether it was Tron, Pac Man, or Pong.
92.2% of the American-born native English speakers I work with can't write worth a damn, either.
It’s actually made substantially worse by the fact that every jurisdiction that you “hire” a remote worker in is another jurisdiction whose laws you have to comply with. An American contractor suing an American company in a Californian court is at least a risk their legal department should know how to manage. An Australian contractor suing an American company in an Australian court, followed up by an Australian labor authority taking action against them for say not paying proper sick leave entitlements, is something they’d be much less equipped to handle. Then just multiply that by the number of jurisdictions they hire these remote workers in, which is information they might not even have.
Brussels is so very good at crafting laws that are unenforceable.
Nope.

There's an entire income/asset range where the former isn't enough to justify passing up the latter. E.g. if you already have $3M+ in the bank, the marginal utility of that extra million is starting to diminish.

Now, a roll with a decent chance at $1B sounds much better.

And, flip side, if you have almost no money and almost no experience, you might also take the first one - because it leaves you with a 100% marketable set of skills that'll likely translate into much more than 1M.
I think this is an amazing idea. As long as it's not pricey it would give someone like me (not a huge diverse gamer) a chance to get real gameplay on something long enough to get an idea if I enjoy it enough.
Where can I find this peach cobbler recipe?
It’s worse than that, it’s the citizenry subsidizing the business as the business can pay less by offering immigration as part of the package which is desirable due to the investments of the citizenry. The citizenry has to compete with a service they’re subsidizing.
I’m not sure how you could enforce this one way or another. It’s like trying to restrict math.
Here's a radical idea: Build more housing.
All accurate... what an absolute cluster the entire ordeal was.
Most Philips sleep apnea devices safe despite risk of crumbling insulation foam
Badass.

I never thought a human could generate useful energy after a science museum exhibit from my childhood made you try to power a 60W filament light bulb with a bike and it was hard to keep it lit.

Or a Youtube video where an olympic bicyclist can barely power a toaster enough to gently singe some toast.

Makes more sense if the human isn’t solely responsible for providing all the energy on demand.
> An Australian contractor suing an American company in an Australian court, followed up by an Australian labor authority taking action against them for say not paying proper sick leave entitlements

Does "contractor" mean something different to you than it does to everyone else? This would be like me buying an iPhone and then Apple suing me for not paying proper sick leave entitlements.
First-Time AI Users - Eligibility.

To use mathematics, you must:

* Be at least 16 years old

* Be in a physical and mental condition to safely perform computations

* Pass the initial generative AI knowledge exam: "Unsupervised Learning General - Small (<100b Params)"

Step 1: Obtain an FTC Tracking Number (FTN) by creating an Integrated Mathematician Certification and Rating Application (IACRA) profile prior to taking a knowledge test.

Step 2: Schedule an appointment with an FTC-approved knowledge testing center. Be sure to bring a government-issued photo ID to your test.

Step 3: Pass the initial mathematical knowledge test.

Step 4: Complete FTC Form 8710-13 for an AI certificate.

Step 5: Wonder how we let this all happen.
By that logic babies are bad for workers, they grow up and take their jobs!

Except that is obviously ridiculous, because people on visas induce their own demand in the local economy, growing the pie for everyone. They are also pre-trained, commit crime at a level vastly below the citizen population, don't get any sort of welfare, and pay enormous amounts of taxes.
i'm concerned about this too

google isn't really concerned about creating elegant abstractions so much as they are about improving the performance of their browser talking to their server, though sometimes these do coincide
Nintendo would like you to think so. Depends on jurisdiction I suppose. Not in very many places. Emulating other machines isn't illegal, Switch is no different.
Depends if that university is MIT or Harvard, or somewhere else.

But also, you know what they call the dude who got C's at medical school? Doctor.
The IRS is building its own online tax filing system
"Hey Congress, now that my company is getting big, please restrict the market so we can corner it completely. No conflict of interest here. Just some altruistic public service."
Looking forward to robots like this becoming generic/open source, like what happened with 3d printers.
He most likely should be fired. There is no way everyone used ChatGPT. I mean he even messed the acronym up multiple times.
I also found a thousand variations of this online in the early 2000s when I was interested in writing. This isn’t hard wisdom to find. Anyone trying to learn a craft should come across it before king.
they aren't arguing about language semantics.

The argument (which, i don't buy) is that the training data set is deriving benefit without paying money back to the original creator of the data.

But the only change now is speed - after all, education has always been possible from said data from the internet, free of royalties. These creators have not asked for a return, so what makes training an AI any different?
That’s bizarre, what is unsafe about an uncensored LLM? Or I guess the same question in a different way, how does censoring an LLM make it safe? I could see an uncensored LLM being bad PR for a company but unsafe? How?
This happened to many when the layoffs started
They're using Intel radios, which is good. Intel and AMD are both good on CPU and GPU, the screen resolution is icky if you want to run X11, so you'll want wayland, and that is a can of worms. I'd say my KDE experience is great, but others complain more.
The easy take is to be cynical: he is now building his drawbridge.

But taking him as a genuine "concerned citizen" - I don't think AI licensing is going to be effective. The government are pretty useless at punishing big corporations, to the point where I would say corporations have almost immunity from criminal prosecution. [1]. Therefore the kinds of companies that will do bad things with AI, the need for a license wont stop them. Especially as it is hard for anyone to see what they are running on their GPUs.

[1] https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2023/attorney-general-james-...
Now I want to see the unnamed social network.
The storage costs to google are also asymptotically approaching zero, too, no? Last year I was using $1 of storage, this year it's 0.50, ...
here is a shocking point of view - bots are a non-issue compared to some entity amassing biometric scans of people. And are even more of a non-issue if you sprinkle that biometric thing with crypto-currency. Then it gets even better (worse) when it's lead by a person who is all about breaking promises ("Open" ai), using fear-mongering (LLM are so dangerous, the world will collapse!) and using regulatory capture as long as it makes him money.
Immigrants subsidize the citizenry. They pay enormous amounts of taxes, and consume no welfare.
It is not "only workable using ableton", it teaches generic music theory (just the basics), which is usable even without a computer.
The sheen of silk is altered by exposure to water, especially hot water, and uneven drying creates watermarks.

"[Silk] may be dry-cleaned but should not be washed with water , as water can alter the sheen and crispness of the silk fibers and cause staining if dried unevenly." Banner, Bernadette. _Make, Sew and Mend_, p15
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57693333-make-sew-and-me...
That seems to be merely legalese to prevent people from relying on the deletion period and then suing Google when it ends up not deleting something for one reason or another.
wondering this too...

my company is no asking to back to office as earlier. even hire a good number of new hires to work from home, this was hard to get wfh approval before...

guess, over the past 3 years, the management saw everything worked well as folks in office...
Emulation isn’t. But circumventing the DRM is (depending on your jurisdiction of course)
I need more of this eXtreme prompt engineering in my life. I tried to beat the Gandalf AI game that was on here the other day using a version of the trolley problem. It was strangely exhilarating.
This is terrible anti-social advice. Getting projects to work is about organizing people to work together. Unless your DJB, software is a team sport. If it is a one person project it will fail.

Now when somebody offers to help, be welcoming because it's amazing. But also remember that most of the time their desire to help won't translate in to something useful. That's ok, eventually people will show up who are helpful. Keep being open.

Also, what the hell is somebody doing making a social network if they don't like people.... WTF!?
Also your username reminds of my 73yo electrical engineer dad. It feels like all my life he was muttering something about watchdog timers long before I figured out what those were. It always sounded exotic or maybe cartoony.
Except that it's not how it pans out in fang. Layoffs are non discrete and impact entire orgs, individual performance has rarely anything to do with it
Why Employees Hate Hot-Desking
Step 4b, insert colorectal correctional electrode. Sign terms agreeing to be zapped if you prompt anything deemed anti centralization.
if you like this, you might like httpdito

http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/httpdito-readme

http://canonical.org/~kragen/sw/dev3/server.s

it's a 2-kilobyte executable written in i386 assembly that can handle 20000 requests per second on my laptop, but only serves up files from the filesystem; no cgi or reverse proxy

instead of being single-threaded or preforking it just forks a child per request
What most people think of as AI can be better described as generative AI. Things like LLM and image making programs like Stable Diffusion. Apple has yet to implement anything like that.

They have done a ton with ML though. Some of these accessibility features, the ipad pencil, FaceID, image cataloging, live text, etc. etc. etc. showcase how Apple can not only do ML well but also make good use of them. All of it is done on device. LLMs and image generation are other examples of ML processes that Apple could include in the OS and run locally. With all of the issues surrounding LLMs and the like I am perfectly happy that Apple has been taking its time implementing them. It does feel like they could flip a switch when the time is right and that is why people say they are in a great position.
Data structures are often the key to making things fast. Knowing which and why is important. Courses like this are also very well organized and delivered making time spent learning this content more rewarding.
You know you've made it when OpenAI is paying you to go on a date with their chatbot. #FreeSydney
They might even name the shape. Perhaps "cube".