skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LibreOffice can accomplish most office tasks. How much moat do Office and GSuite have?

Moats are less than 50% tech advantages, and way more than 50% user/product/ecosystem/API integrations. Even if the self-proclaimed 'on par' competition is actually on par, it doesn't matter at all until they release APIs and starts doing products. So far only Google has even begun doing that. The real battle will be over integrations - if OpenAI has that, they'll have their moat alright. Same applies to Google if they actually take off (which is why we should ignore the spin and look at what they're doing).
I imagine that a number of features are built on top of these. I remember that you could easily see what friends where nearby you when you were traveling (I ran into a friend who was visiting Milan at the same time as me a few years back!) but the feature doesn't exist anymore. I'm wondering if it's because of regulations that they had to cut down on these features.
Reminds me of Stephen Leacock's A B and C. C is on his deathbed.

"A," whispered C, "I think I'm going fast." "How fast do you
think you'll go, old man?" murmured A.

Whole thing here https://www.online-literature.com/stephen-leacock/literary-l...
In your scenario, the triggering event is if/when the US attacks a Chinese aligned territory. NATO is a defensive alliance. When the US attacked Iraq, NATO did not follow. The only time NATO reacted was when Bin Laden attacked the US. Your scenario will only happen if China is the belligerent party.
You’d struggle to find one that doesn’t.
2016 Wikimedia Foundation Budget: $69,136,758

2022 Wikimedia Foundation Budget: $145,970,915

I love Wikipedia but I don't see how this cost explosion can evenly be remotely justified. What value have they added in that time? A new editor and CSS on articles?
Your point is well taken, but even in a world of planned obsolescence there's a significant different between owning and not owning. If I own the thing, I can do anything I want with it. If I don't, I can't.
"The whole point of "both sides the same" rhetoric is to discourage people from doing anything political, that's why it never has any actionable suggestions. "

I also believe this is the goal of many of the "both sides" people. Since not voting benefits Republicans[1] I believe those people have an ulterior motive to help them win

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/supreme-court-gop...
People talk about "belt and road" being soft power, but that sounds ineffective soft power.

The problem for China is that countries won't be cooperating willingly. The moment shooting war starts between China and US, the countries will nationalize anything sold to China, default on the loans, and call the US asking them to take over the bases.

One problem China has is that they think the US is forcing other countries to be allies and enforce their hegemony. This leads them to think that they need to act same way and coerce other countries into their sphere. US is more subtle, using "soft power", mutual interest, and limited coercion. The US also doesn't care about most of the world beyond companies having access.
I would like to assume disabling ipv6 turns off all the related daemons, but it's not explicitly stated anywhere.
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Intel could just make every CPU/GPU they manufacture have a 'burn in test' for a week or so where it runs a bunch of self tests and then trains a massive network for them.

If sales slow down, instead of having the excess stock in a box in a warehouse, have it training their neural nets.
Look at the reaction to Adobe's behavior when people terminate their yearly subscription early and are still required to pay for the entire contract. They're not selling Photoshop by month, it's installments on a yearly contract.
If your concurrency strictly can't involve parallelism then sure, no data races, but also then your performance is miserable on modern hardware.

If your concurrency can invoke parallelism, then you need to explicitly protect against data races, or else you need to define what happens (Java does this, nobody else has) or else you shrug and say too bad now the program is nonsense, you lose (C, C++, Go, many modern languages do this, it is easier)
How does anyone make money with EU data outside the EU? Seems like the value of that data is trivial anywhere else.
it would be good to train LLMs to distinguish BS articles from good ones. but it's rather unrealistic expectations
> I mean just look at the pricing of the program, $6 a month for 100 pages.

I mean, I pay $30 for 2 generic laser toner cartridges that last upwards of a year at my home (and my kids are prolific users of the Canon laser printer).

$6/mo is usurious just like $30 cartridges.

HP has gotten greedy and instead of making this transition to a subscription model easy they're getting well deserved backlash.
Any aerial time lapse out there?
Explicit social connections are dying trend on social network, as weird as it sounds.

TikTok, Twitter's "For you", Reels - all of them are considered to be social networks, and they depend on algorithmic feeds recommending content to you.
SRP does a lot of interesting stuff to store it. PHX gets water from 3 rivers - salt, verde, and Colorado. The Salt and Verde contribute 52%, and the Colorado River 38%. Reclaimed water accounts for 8% of the city's water supply, and groundwater the remaining 2%.

(note: the reclaimed water is interesting - Palo Verde nuke plant uses PHX's reclaimed water for cooling the (still?) largest nuclear power plant in the country.)

SRP uses large ponds/takes to 'recharge' the aquifers under PHX, as well as maintaining reservoirs.
Deja vu. :D
The obsession with "bias" in general, and with stereotypes, and discrimination, and "representation" and identity-based grievance by a segment of sometimes very vocal people -- both in academia and online in social media -- is a minor theme in a game I've been building [SB: see below.]

Also the idea of "Official, Correct, Allowed Opinions", in general. And propaganda and peer pressure. The game is meant to entertain, sure, but also to help educate and influence, and stimulate critical thinking and skepticism. It does this in part via parody but also via other in-world mechanisms like demonstrating cases where "The Emperor wheres no clothes" or via opportunities to have a Socratic dialogue between characters, in-game. Indeed the ability to question, second-guess, test and confirm, is the key behind the success of science and really all major advancements in history. Its important we stay faithful to it, and never let it be corrupted by fraudsters or self-dealing populists. (imo, anyway.)

I do believe climate and democracy are the world's top two dangers today. Everything else should be a far lesser priority for us to talk about or try fixing. And that the recent hyped AI breakthroughs, if anything, are more likely to greatly amplify pre-existing dangers to democracy -- to make our world worse, rather than better.

One of democracy's dangers, however, is the growing deployment of adversarial propaganda. Another is the increased feeling of an inability to operate on a single, shared mental map of our world. (Both a real gap and an imagined one.) Certain "actors" out there seek to stir our emotions 24x7, to sow tensions where none need be prior, and to enflame hate and trigger violence (eg. stochastic terrorism.). And they do this in part by amplifying certain "annoying" things which many voters can naturally get upset about. Or build a kind of tribal identity upon: Us vs Them. Us Good, Them Evil. Therefore we should all strive to contribute far less to those forces, to give them far less of our precious focus, time and energy.

And... build-up personal defenses against whichever bits of this toxic brew that still manages to get through into our info input feeds, daily. Thus my own little project -- to help make a little dent.

----

[SB] - https://synystrongames.itch.io/slartboz
can you point to any of that? my understanding is that we haven't reached any dimishing returns with transformer models and scaling yet
Okay but your ideal scenario is not our current reality
Amazing that these people don't even pretend. Refugee advocates and labour organisers have what to do with AI research? Nothing? Like La Sombrita and how the attempt to design a bus stop somehow became connected to female empowerment. The left asks for money to do X and then happily and very publicly spend it their usual ideological goals, even though they have nothing to do with X.

Wonder when this crosses the line and becomes some sort of fraud. Did they tell people they'd spend grants on AI research? A lot of their stuff seems very close to political advocacy and lobbying. They flat out state they hired activists and advocates. A 501c3 is supposed to have tight controls on political operations though.
Please come back again once you add one-time purchase option. Even if you limit upgrades (Jetbrains approach) it's fine.
I mean seriously, you subscription fees are higher than Fastmail subscription.
> Are you suggeting there's no succession of power in Ukraine and, effectively, legitimacy with respect to prior governments and their foreign policy stance?

Specifically between the government in 2008 and the post-Maidan government, during which there was an arguable auto-coup followed by a definite revolution?

Yeah, there is a pretty severe discontinuity, not least of all on policy toward both NATO and Russia. Also, even insofar as the post-Maidan government might be seen as in general continuity of the pre-Yanukovych government that had sought NATO membership, NATO’s decision not to extend a MAP in 2008 in direct response to Putin’s objections, cooled Ukrainian interest, even in the pro-Western faction, because NATO was seen as unwilling to stand up for Ukraine against Russia. Putin had already won on NATO expansion before launching the war.
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> Maybe they develop a version of the US/Israeli Tropy system,* and put it on all their tanks.

Russia already has such a thing (as does China). It'll never be perfect, especially against peer adversaries invested in countering it. (This includes Trophy!)

> But maybe they don't have to do much if anything, since Taiwan will be far, far harder to resupply than Ukraine.

All the more reason to do it in advance.

> If they're competent at all...

Folks thought the Russians were competent up until they had to prove it in combat. You don't think that gives the Chinese pause?
A regional proxy should be the same thing, yes. The important thing is that it's not a replica.
> There's a significant environmental cost to training these large models, and it's harder to understand, use, and control these very large models (even as a researcher).

Exactly. The worse part is there is NO viable efficient way of training, fine tuning etc and inference with these massive deep learning models for more than a decade since deep neural networks used GPUs for training, and it still requires a substantial amount of compute power and energy that is incinerating the planet and the result is untrustworthy large black-box models that cannot be trusted or transparently explain their decisions, especially with safety-critical or high risk tasks.

Crypto at least has an alternative to the wasteful proof-of-work system, and Ethereum which was formerly PoW has shown it is possible to switch to a greener alternative consensus method.

Deep Learning however, still has not shown such a viable switch and still needs to burn the planet with more data-centers of GPUs, ASICs and FPGAs to create hallucinating models that have shown to break on a single pixel or to confidently regurgitate nonsense as the truth with little understanding in reasoning and also answer with demonstrably false information.

LLMs like this one is still essentially snake-oil BS generators hiding behind regurgitation and sophistry to pretend to show signs of 'intelligence'.

EDIT: It is all true. [0] There is no amount of green-washing to hide the problem of deep learning systems wasting essential resources like thousands of running taps of water. Literally.

[0] https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-ai-water-185000-gallons-training...
I find this funny as well. A lot of complaints about all the funding for string theory, but it seems like just funding mathematicians, which is dirt cheap compared to anything else.
There’s some truth in what you wrote, but certainly this brand of “competitiveness” (meaning tragedy of the privacy commons) should not be considered a worthy goal to compete on.
It's fine. Not all complaints deserve a response, some people just like complaining. The other thing is follow through is non-existent. Outside of a signed business contract, when an individual says "I'd pay if only X", assume they won't have the patience to wait for X to be implemented, and then find you again to pay you. It's far more likely they'll just deal with their problem a different way.
How are they distributed? How many neurons levels? And still, how many inputs and outputs has their neural net?

Well, how are they "connected"? Their topology?
I'm sure all seven states in the compact were involved in this deal. They're all signatories on the compact. The way the compact is structured, the upper basin states (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, and Arizona (a smidgen)) are supposed to deliver 7.5 million acre feet per year to the lower basin states (California, Nevada and Arizona (bulk)), but they can use whatever they want other than that amount; this amount was supposed to be about even between upper and lower, but it isn't. It sounds like this deal is reducing the required delivery by 1 million acre feet per year, although I don't know if that's from the original target or the lowered targets from the 2007 interim agreement, so somewhere between 6 and 6.5 million acre feet; and the upper basin states get the rest.
This is a great question. Often times its the new engineers trying to makes things complicated and the older ones pushing back. Most of the time contortions to make a language different than it was designed are terrible idea. In this case, my claim is that this is a real problem worthy of solving. However I've also worked on plenty of projects that used the simple style and it was fine. One differentiator is how big the program is and who all will be using it.
No, what they actually are is a mouthpiece for corporations and capital owners. Just like every other major media company out there. The government is also a mouthpiece for capital owners and corporations which is why you might think that
While deplorable, is price discrimination along non-protected customer segments (“classes”) illegal?
All the plug-in authors are just teaching OpenAI how to generate plug-ins automatically.
<< What's the downside (if any)?

Compliance is still a burden. Even if you write the law, eventually the bureaucracy that was willed into existence will start living its own life, imposing new restrictions and basically making your life miserable. Still, the profits from keeping the field restricted to a small circle of largely non-competitors helps to offset that.
Huh. That famous British antique show expert claimed no originals existed. Serves me right for believe what I heard on TV!

Here's a wonderful discussion by an investigator specializing in the print: https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/great-wave-spot-differenc...
>> I think the word “law” is a little misleading in this case: International law is more like international diplomacy LARPing as law.

>> That said, never found a better word for it, so maybe it’s correct.

> Per the constitution treaties are binding with the force of federal law.

1) I think that's controversial, or at least not so simple. IIRC, there's a question in US law if treaties have domestic force on their own, or must be implemented by "enabling legislation."

2) In any case, the US Constitution can't make "international law" international law, at best it makes a treaty domestic US law.
HACK is better.
Can you separate science from the scientist?
Ask HN: What did you do when a employer rejected a raise?
I asked my boss for a raise today and he rejected it. It's a bit overdue and I'm paid slightly below market.

I could probably find a new better paid job in a few weeks, but I don't really want to quit, the team is nice, I kinda like this work environment, it's a full remote gig with decent hours.

I've been thinking about interviewing for jobs that I don't plan on getting, just to get a better offer and force my boss hand, does that sound like a decent idea?

What do you usually do in this kind of situation?
Lohegaon?

I too had a very similar experience there. The jet of blue from the afterburners is truly a sight to behold!

On a different note, the Sukhois would routinely trigger car alarms in the building where I worked, whenever they flew past :)
Jumping bail was perfectly justified under the circumstances, since he was at risk of extradition (or extraordinary rendition) to the US, where his chances of a fair trial are nil. As for the alleged offenses, they were not committed on US soil, so they are outside the jurisdiction of American courts.
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> But there's no true "original" since it was always a series of wood block prints.

This isn't quite correct. There was an original painting on a special Japanese paper called "gampi". That original artwork is glued to the first wood block, so it gets destroyed in the process of carving.

Early forms of the art stopped there and produced simple monochrome images. Later developments included hand painting certain sections of the image, and eventually the use of multiple blocks for multiple colors, often with gradients and even embossing and texturing.
Sorry that you use Google. Very confusing for them to have two landing pages for the same service on separate domains with basically the same SEO score.
Show HN: Besthotel.ai – LangChain agent for AI hotel booking
Hey - co-founder of BestHotel.ai here! We’re super excited to put this out there. BestHotel.ai is focused on getting the best hotel for you and your preferences.

- Search based on your travel profile + a landmark around where you need to be

- Read AI summaries of hotel reviews

- AI booking directly with the hotel (rather than a third party - e.g. expedia / kayak / etc.)
Yes, they do.

Further, my experience with Comcast specifically is that every three months, they "forget" that I don't rent a modem from them and just start charging me the rental fee anyway. Then I have to call them up to tell them to remove the charges and stop adding new ones.
I mean this kinda is an argument for telemetry. I only write very basic code, but stuff like "UI thing X doesn't work" is super painful to debug - let alone a million different use cases of big chunky code like Windows.
> Same problem with facial recognition which simply didn't work on anyone with dark skin.

That's an urban legend btw. The issue was actually that the person for whom it failed had the camera pointed straight up with a bright light behind him, so the image was totally washed out and lacked saturation. The software failed in the same way if you had a dark background and then shone a bright light into a white person's face. The algorithm needs contrast to work.

Also, people on this forum really should know better than insinuate that a program working imperfectly is caused by racism. As if programmers sit around finding ways to troll black people by deliberately making face recognition not work. Even the idea of it is absurd. When people make such insinuations, it reinforces the widely held belief that accusations of racism are invariably bullshit, which can lead to a boy-crying-wolf problem.
I have 967 entries in my KeePassXC database. That includes tons of now obsolete logins and passwords from previous jobs or/and defunct services. It doesn't bother me, and I dont want to spend days just to validate/clean up it.
Has no one heard of HACK? It’s like this app, but better.
They didn't confiscate already printed pages, they stopped allowing you to print more.
They aren’t though. The amount of money they are spending on the core product you are thinking of is actually declining. All this extra raised cash is going to other purposes.
Yes, but treaties are themselves extraconstitutional in the framework of international diplomacy. They’re agreements between nations, and the US constitution is only binding on us. It gets expressed as law domestically but in truth, it’s closer to a contract but without a court of law to enforce them which is why they get their own word: treaties.
- Corporate-owned proprietary AIs? Check.

- Monitoring of power consumption for illegal computer usage? Check.

- Superintelligent AIs under tight supervision? Check.

- Bootlegged neural nets passed around on torrenting networks? Check.

- Poverty and homelessness running rampant? Check.

Folks, we're officially living in a cyberpunk dystopia.
Even on a fast server running on OpenLiteSpeed completely cached, and loads instantly on a browser, my website on WordPress has failed Google. Must be some very strict requirements and the structure of WordPress isn't updated to handle it.
Not serving on the US Department of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board would be a good start. To be fair, Katherine Maher took that role after her time as Wikimedia CEO. But landing such a role implies one is well connected, and she interned at the CFR [1] before her time at Wikimedia. In other words, she seems far too well connected to the US government to be called "neutral".

In the words of the New York Times, "Journalists have no place on the playing fields of politics. Staff members are entitled to vote, but they must do nothing that might raise questions about their professional neutrality" - https://www.nytimes.com/editorial-standards/ethical-journali...

[1] The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international relations. [..] Its membership has included senior politicians, numerous secretaries of state, CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, professors, corporate directors and CEOs, and senior media figures. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_on_Foreign_Relations
>I've been thinking about interviewing for jobs that I don't plan on getting, just to get a better offer and force my boss hand

This is absolutely what you should be doing.
I don't see any reason why someone should train a 1T model, they probably don't have a big enough dataset to make it worth it, so with the same compute or less you can get a better model by training a smaller one (the chinchilla scale).
This, really; It's a shame I can only upvote it the once.
Meta revenue is from showing an ad. "Is the ad shown in the EU?" seems like a pretty clear line. IFRS rules already require tracking the action that recognizes revenue so seems hard to play games with it.
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Hot take: I think good middle managers are more rare than good technical leads.

"But my manager sucks!" Yes, probably. Part of the reason managers have a bad reputation is that there are so few good ones, and so many bad or mediocre ones, that most people deal with bad ones their entire career. And, since a good manager looks a lot like leadership material if you squint, the great ones often get Peter Principled into being mediocre bosses.

But when you do find a good manager, you realize they have a very specific skill set that is incredibly rare and difficult to master. They multiply the effectiveness of everyone on their team, including those good technical leads, but also the juniors and seniors.