skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Downward price pressure from competition only works when there's competition - not monopoly or monopsony.
Worse than that, a real Platform Muppet. The stooge name signals "researching how to control post-sapien organ-machines". The article signals conclusive evidence for applications of the research.
A good research team is a handful of people working on a focused set of questions.

A good product team is probably around a dozen people minimum? Especially if you need to hit the quality bar expected of a release from a BigCorp. You've got frontend, UX, and server components to design, in addition to the research part of the project. The last real app I worked on also included an app backend (ie, local db and web API access, separate from the display+UX logic) and product team. Oh yeah, also testing+qa, logging, and data analysis.

And after all that investment, God help you if you ever decide the headcount costs more than keeping the lights on, and you discontinue the project...

Public app releases are incredibly expensive, in other words, and throwing a model on GitHub is cheap.
The textbook industry is on a similar ethical level as the Chinese fentalogue export industry. Not quite as evil as the American health insurance industry, but close. There are definitely situations where the ethics of piracy/file sharing are murky, but the only complaint I have about Z-Library and LibGen sharing textbooks is that it's probably not enough to put them completely out of business. Pirate harder.
Is it time to give NixOS another try? I really like the general idea.

Last time, two years ago, I tried I was pretty disappointed as it was hard to set up basic stuff without looking it up in the NixOS wiki, i.e. https://nixos.wiki/wiki/GNOME. And everything I set up seemed to work slightly differently.
I suspect getting experts to write any significant fraction of articles is a multi-million dollar experiment. I don't think it's worth it, and I doubt anyone running WMF would think so either.

We have completely expert written media in Encyclopedia Brittanica, so that's probably the best place for people who don't want to use WP because it's insufficiently expert-written. It doesn't make sense to go join that market.
What have they discovered? As far as I know, Russia is still invading Ukraine, they haven't surrendered or retreated. They've discovered that having nukes means you can get away with whatever you like, and suffer little more than a slap on the wrist from the international community. Which is what the US also knows. And North Korea. And China, whenever it decides to roll over Taiwan. Nuclear weapons mean the rules don't apply to you.
> Small teams. And ones that work collaboratively, not ones that than carve the code up into bailiwicks so that they can mostly work in mini-silos.

Well, that may explain some of the difference between our points of view. Most of my experience is with medium (<20 developers) to pretty large (> 500 developers) applications. At some point, no matter how cooperative the team is, the amount of complexity that you can hold in your head is not sufficient to make sure that you're not breaking stuff during a simple-looking refactoring.
The OP obviously meant with "sci-fi" that the 10 years projected by Altman & Co are completely unrealistic, implying superintelligence being definitely far further away.
Your link is completely different argument to the one being made here about "non-voters"

Non-voters are people disgruntled with the current 2 party system, the largest voting block in that group are libertarian leaning people who do not break democrat.

Your link it talking about various voting laws, which largely impact densely populated cities, things like ballot harvesting, out-of-precinct ballot disqualification, and other such rules that have an outside impact on voters in urban cities which are largely democrat.

Very very different things / topics
If there is safety in the failure, should it be called a risk?
I've taken it upon myself to aggresively curtail all the notifications that my phone is allowed to show me.

Texts, calls, or anything that I might need to see immediately is all that I allow. Emails, ads, and other crap gets canned the first time I see it. If it's not urgent, then I don't need to know about it.

I've even started removing notification noises from my groupchats with my friends, so the notification will let me know there's a conversation happening but I won't be pestered into participating.
Was just thinking about this. Like Meta just got the EU data privacy one. It should be something like "You have to shutdown XYZ until you are audited in full meeting compliance and regulations."
Regulation is really what we need.
Controlling supply chains is a lot easier when you're dealing with physical things and not abstract concepts.
Parking meters also serve the function of limiting how long a vehicle uses a spot. It's possible to enforce time limits without charging but it's probably mostly harder--and now you pay for enforcement with no offsetting revenue.
It's not a conspiracy theory. It's a collection of links that describe actual conspiracies.
I installed a HN app from F-droid that was quite pleasant on a recent trip, when I had long stretches of time that I wanted to read something.

Unfortunately, I could tell that I would spend a lot of time on it so I uninstalled it post-haste when the trip was over.
> That reminds me of RDC Congo, lot of gold, yet a very poor country, at the mercy of foreign interests.

No, at the mercy of inept and foolish local politicians that foreign interests take advantage of.
I see many people mentioning the number of passwords in their KeepassXC. I can't find the option for that. Where is it?
Even with prolonged evaluation, there have been events where doctors are killing people who in the current state of mind changed their mind and resisted the entire time in front of their families.

I'm of the opinion humans will never be able to not abuse such a system. We easily see now the data on assisted deaths before tax holidays.
> Personally, what I don't get is folks wearing smart watches, getting instant notifications when somebody pings them.

My watch is my primary defense against interruptions. With the watch, I can leave the ringer and vibrator off on my phone entirely. When an alert happens, my watch vibrates once and that's it. It's an intrusion that's easy to ignore when I don't want to be interrupted.
Yep nix is awesome at this kind of thing. Check out this project which packages a couple of AI projects with nix, both work out of the box for me.

https://nixified.ai/
But you're not donating to Wikipedia or the contributors whom make it a great source. WikiMedia spend your money on all sorts of things which have don't promote sharing knowledge via the internet. The expenses have ballooned 5x in 10 years.
In spite of Microsoft's best efforts, Windows 3.1 ran fine on top of DR-DOS or Novell DOS.
From the lawsuit quoting Door Dash terms and conditions...

> DoorDash is not in the delivery business, does not provide delivery services, and is not a common carrier. DoorDash provides the Services to facilitate the transmission of orders by Users to Merchants, including orders for pickup or delivery by Contractors and/or Merchants.

Amazingly ridiculous.
Do you belive a warning label would have helped those people?
I want to be very clear here that I don't actually think there's much moral to this story. They had an idea of how bad criticality could be, but there was no real deterrent other than Fermi telling Slotin and others that if they kept up the procedure, they'd be "dead within a year". That tells me that everybody, from Oppenheimer on down, did not understand just how dangerous this sort of demonstration could be. Given the era, that's pretty understandable.
The Earth ecosystem is made of living beings. Why would they be compared to cancer cells? It sounds more reasonable to me to compare them to worker bees.
>>Abortion, gay rights, spending, taxation, gun laws. How are they the same???

None of those things are constitutionally in the power of the federal government, nor should they be. Those are state level issues.
> Non-voters are people disgruntled with the current 2 party system, the largest voting block in that group

There are no “voting blocks” in the group of non-voters.
On CorporateNews the version of the article going around talks about how 98% of rogue bees don't find a better flower patch and die starving and alone. ;)

Your point is a great one. Most information in our world is of extremely low quality. That's what happens when attention is incentivized, not teaching.
fwiw, i know the topic of the thread has deviated, but i share the frustration about reading PDFs on my device. In my case, it's an accessibility issue - I can't see well, so zooming with reflow would make my life materially better since I'd be able to read research papers on my morning commute.

Sometimes users have needs that may seem superfluous and beg for a snarky reply, but there are often important reasons behind them, even though they may not be actionable.

I'd pay $x000 for an app that does some sort of intelligent pdf-to-epub conversion that doesn't require human-in-the-loop management/checking.
It occurred to me that you cannot even get ChatGPT without human feedback, and so there is no simple f
The reason to use the Pro hosted plan is for support and the convenience of not needing to self-host? Or is there actual functionality you don't get by self-hosting?
The magic word is "subsidiarity": the principle that political decisions should always be made on the most local level that still enables their resolution. Under that principle, a (democratically legitimized) world government would only be tasked with creating laws pertaining to truly global issues (i.e. setting limits for the emissions of CO2). I agree with other comments here that this is unrealistic in the near future. But that doesn't mean that it is not a good idea.
The entire history of the YouTube algorithm, I guess
I always felt explanations for this were even more confusing. Best to replace the adjective, noun, and verb with completely different words:

Toronto cats Toronto cats harass harass Toronto cats.
That's why I really hated the Sebastian Bubeck presentation. It was a guy showing us all this amazing stuff in this really overenthusiastic way, which we all just had to trust was amazing because we're not allowed to see what's in the pie or have access to the same model.
ZIRP in the 2010s didn't lead to price inflation (CPI), but I think there's a very strong argument to be made that it lead to asset price inflation [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_price_inflation
The bridge is "simply" doing the math of quantum mechanics in the curved spacetime of general relativity instead of the flat one.
Certain insect colonies typically make good "individual" analogues due to certain roles being infertile and so the genetic lineage actually working in units that are larger than a single bee.

If you think about it, the way we define an individual is a bit blurry anyway - think of those plants and creatures which produce more "individuals" by letting pieces break off and float down the river to take root elsewhere, or reproduce asexually to produce clones. Aphids, for example, on the same plant are commonly clones.

So you can cling tight to the individual as being the thing that is delineated by a mixing of genes in sexual reproduction and have things still make some sense. But if you let that slide and zoom out then indeed life as we know it is just one branching, breaking, mutating organism.
The absolute worst bias is where news sites have an active interest in only reporting one-sidedly. As only "reliable" sources can be used, only their reporting gets picked up and states as fact. Gamergate is one of the most blatant examples of that. So much so, that the very wiki page on it fuels a cycle of "there is no way that so much of it is made up"
So you believe in spending with no limits, no controls, and no accountability

Because that is what is happening today..
"The You YOU Are: A spiritual biography of YOU"

- Dr Ricken Lazlo Hale, PhD
Reminder that France actually did this in the 90s, because why wouldn't such an exceptional country with glorious leaders do that? Clearly they knew was was best.

https://www.theregister.com/1999/01/15/france_to_end_severe_...

> Until 1996 anyone wishing to encrypt any document had to first receive an official sanction or risk fines from F6000 to F500,000 ($1000 to $89,300) and a 2-6 month jail term.

This news item from 1999 is about France finally making it legal to use toy ciphers to encrypt documents in France. Let that sink in. Trivial toy ciphers were actually illegal to use in france for 3+ years.

This (I think '97) was when I realized that France is not your typical western democracy style country. Nothing about France is typical.

(And, yes, the it was that Dominique Strauss-Kahn.)
How far are we going to need to go to fully abstract these systems? Am I going to need a separate computer running a VM with a server image for hosting a docker image of python venv to manage a package that prints some text?
This is why I've completely disabled all notifications in Windows. Those "toasts" are a distraction I can't ignore since they forcibly impose themselves over whatever I'm focusing on.

Better that they never happen. Nothing in the operating system is so important that it needs a toast.
> it had not a chance in hell of performing well (executing out of ROM or whatever)

If CP/M-86 performed well, why wouldn't DOS? They're very similar.

Wouldn't the "shadow RAM" technique of copying the ROM BIOS into RAM solve any ROM slowdown issues?
Or proof of a simulation... :)
Curb your schadenfreude. The way things are going, there may not be a union in two generations.

Most EU countries have an ultra-right wing, nationalist and euroskeptic party in their parliament (I just don't want to say "fascist"). At least three (Italy, Hungary and Poland) have one in government. In France, Mme Le Pen has consistently got to the second round of presidential elections for the last ... three? Four? elections?

Things aren't going well.
And not just work. Not that it isn't important, but in addition to work (my own business) I'm a caregiver for my father.

I have very little free or down time. If I don't minimize or cut out alerts I cannot make good use of that time.

Alerts add to my cognitive overload and stress. The tighter I lock down my alerts (and inputs) the less stressed I am.
"Dutch PM Mark Rutte questioned after deleting text messages for years" - https://www.euronews.com/2022/05/19/dutch-pm-mark-rutte-ques...
I'm surprised this isn't the top comment.
I mean he is writing articles titled like "The False Promise of ChatGPT" he might care a little bit https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chat...
> Then we come back to Johnny Depp, the accused wife-beater with a long and documented history of violence to his name.

The only accusations of violence ever came from Amber Heard, whom he sued for defamation and won. Anyone watching the trial, including the jurors, could see what a narcissistic liar she is. She's rightfully being ostracized from Hollywood now.
I don't even read the comments, just stream of conscious writing.
Sexually Inexperienced Dating Couples Go on to Have Stronger Marriages
Setting is up is easy but the user experience is really bad :-( I'm on Google fiber and Google Meet works great and even MS Teams works fine. But whenever I use Jitsi either A) the call participants keep getting disabled/enabled or B) when video does come through my computer crumbles to its knees. Oh, and by the way, good luck using anything other than Google Chrome!
Indeed. Older societies ossified the success to a scale unimaginable under liberal capitalism. While it's not pronounced in the US due to its genesis, it's still well visible in the Old World. "Q: How to become wealthy in the UK? A: Try to be born to a family whose progenitor gained royal favor during the Norman conquest."
"I drink your milkshake."
We're all research professionals now.
New business formation numbers are utterly meaningless. I can "start a business" by filing an application with the State and paying $100/$200 fee. And don't do anything with it.

There is plenty of evidence of consolidation. For most recent one look up analysis on spike of price of eggs. The egg production turned out to be controlled by just a few conglomerates. Which were able to take advantage of (small to almost non-existent) loss of chickens and voila. Price of eggs is non-elastic; that is, you can't easily replace it with other products and it is an important part of Western diet, so people didn't have a choice but to pay up.
That's a large overlap rather than sequential.
Okay, fair enough. I was so focused on my own perception of privacy that it hadn't occurred to me that the person I'm talking to has every right to record the conversation just as much as they do to remember it.

Speaking as someone who often has to tell people "Email that to me or I won't remember it", I can see the utility without it being intrusive.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/21/why-economists-are-no-longer...

> The experts were worried about a so-called wage-price spiral. This occurs when workers expect inflation to keep rising, so demand — and achieve — higher salaries to keep up with price rises. Businesses then raise the prices of goods and services to cover higher labor costs, at the same time as workers have more disposable income to increase demand. This creates an inflationary loop, or in the language of economists, “second-round effects.”

> But while concerns this time around aren’t totally gone, what’s being discussed more frequently now is the fact that a wage-price spiral has not occurred in the 18 months or so that inflation has been running red-hot in much of the world.

> “What we’ve seen in the last year is prices rising very rapidly, but wages have not increased nearly as much, and that’s why we have a cost of living crisis,” Gourinchas said, after noting that core inflation remained high in many countries and in some cases was increasing.

> “We should expect wages to catch up eventually and people’s real income to recover,” he said. Real income refers to wages adjusted for inflation, reflecting changes in purchasing power.

> But the increase doesn’t present a risk because “the corporate sector has been sitting on pretty comfortable margins,” Gourinchas continued. Businesses’ revenues “have risen faster than costs, and so margins have room to absorb rising labor costs.”

Tangentially, Powell cannot destroy aggregate demand via the benchmark rate in a way that materially impacts the unemployment rate due to structural demographics. ~2 million people over the age of 55 die every year in the US. ~3 million Baby Boomers retire every year. 55+ workers clinging to the participation rate is holding a lot of this together.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/the-labor-market-bends-towa...

https://seekingalpha.com/article/4531829-older-workers-propp...
Owch, I’m guessing that wasn’t -5 hours of debugging.
Biden picks new FCC nominee to fill seat that’s been empty for over two years
So... Enterprise code as usual then?
>Parking rates simply needed to be higher

I assume at some level that becomes effectively a tax on businesses though as some shoppers stay away on average (albeit making parking easier for others) while the government collects more revenue. (That said, in a lot of places, there probably isn't enough on-street metered parking to meet demand at any reasonable price.)
6.2. Write a summary, use Anki droid to learn key ideas.
HP breaks its own printers (again) with firmware update
Apple does help its suppliers to make a profit -- but the amount of profit that sustains a healthy set of vendors for Apple, at quality levels and corporate practice levels that Apple evaluates as "fair".

Now, you may criticize that this holds vendors over a barrel and squeezes them to narrow margins, etc. But at least give Apple credit for having a view to the long run and trying to create a pool of vendors that it can rely on in a sustainable way, and not just some surge capacity for the next quarter only to drop them. Apple thinks longer than that. Their procurement function is quite skilled.

And it's not like the vendors would magically have some source of business at better terms than Apple that would be good for them in the long run either. You want suppliers to somehow be raking in great margins in excess of what was "fair"? You want an employer who's more clueless and lets you make lots of extra on the top?

A successful supplier to Apple knows what it's capable of and what its costs are, signs on to grow with Apple and become successful, and share in the practices that make a company efficient, skilled, productive. They can choose to join this train. Or not. It's voluntary.
Strange. I'm on jitsi a couple times a week (not self-hosted) and don't have these problems and am using Firefox.
Yes, because obviously the government should play king maker with companies. What could possibly go wrong? Governments are definitely infallible and make the best decisions based on non biased information. I suggest they take an annual popular vote on which company to fine out of existence each year, that will surely get good results.
Having failed to turn Nikolaev (and apparently no intent to take it by force), Kherson held little strategic value for Russia at that point.* Promising to never leave Kherson was political folly, something Ukrainians tried to make as costly as possible. However, they largely failed at that.

Those who paid attention saw column after Ukrainian column get mauled by VDV artillery. There was indeed a moment where Ukraine took some land but in the end nothing came of it but pain.

But certainly they did keep on the pressure (plus some other things), and so in the end Russians made the militarily prudent but politically very difficult decision (causing a period of widespread doom and gloom among supporters of Russia) to leave in good order. Ukrainians were apparently as surprised as almost anyone else.

* I know people don’t want hear it but the taking of Odessa and the rest of the coast will very likely still happen, eventually. Probably not via Kherson, preferably without force.
I think I'm a rogue bee
Politicians usually go with the "think of the children" persuasion tactic when they want to do some nefarious stuff (and when they don't "fight terrorism" or recently "misinformation").
Cloudflare Launches New Open-Source Software Sponsorship Program
Suppose savings and credit exist. Suppose inflation is quantified as a weighted average of selected goods and services.
If you define it like that, it's just the internet.
> The best example of “slowing down water” would be what beavers do

Totally agree. Vegetation also plays a big role (esp. forests).
You force Google and Apple drop apps in the app store that support encrypted messages.

You sue and jail any website operator offering access to encrypted peer-to-peer chats.
I generally have the notion that the repetition is precisely because people skim. You have to repeat your main point multiple times or else skimmers will simply miss it and then blame the author for being hard to understand!
Thank you for testing. Usually the story is a bit longer, but it's really random.
I'm trying to use this on a 3M mp3 file to test ASR with language code deu, CPU only, and I keep getting this error -- are there limits to the MMS inference?

File "fairseq/data/data_utils_fast.pyx", line 30, in fairseq.data.data_utils_fast.batch_by_size_vec
assert max_tokens <= 0 or np.max(num_tokens_vec) <= max_tokens, (
AssertionError: Sentences lengths should not exceed max_tokens=4000000
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/xxx/fairseq/examples/mms/asr/infer/mms_infer.py", line 52, in <module>
process(args)
File "/home/xxx/fairseq/examples/mms/asr/infer/mms_infer.py", line 44, in process