skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You squeeze people into living in conditions that make cattle in a factory farm today look good. As for convincing them? That's what propaganda is for.
Netflix got a lot of competition lately. I can not even name all the streaming platforms: HBO, peacock, paramount, Hulu, Disney, Apple ...

Netflix sees themselves as a tech company with flashy servers toys, but they are in the media business. If their content is subpar, the best engineering will not fix it.

They have 80% saturation in US households, no real path to growth here.

Investors like to see more revenue ... so they try this. I think a paying costumer with shared passwords is better than, no customer at all.

Why pay more, when I can share my passwords on [insert other streaming platform] with my buddies.
Stickers is the new thing now. The world outside of old people in America have moved their discourse to private chats such as WeChat and WhatsApp and Snapchat
Make an MMMBop cover and let us hear it.
State of GPT
how do you do, fellow kid? ;)
I get that impression from a lot of James’ early riffs. Battery was that pretty much the whole song.
You wouldn't upscale, you'd fill 16x16 blocks in original image iterating over downscaled image and if the block wasn't all the same color you'd process it normally. In fact you don't need to flood fill in downscaled image, just do edge detection.
They went from sneaky tactics to normalising and encouraging mass surveillance.
Something interesting going on in Every breath you take as well. It's atypical for pop music.
I know of companies that buy Plus just for the support and don't even use the Plus features.
Hey, that is an interesting way to lens the possible future. There is definitely talk about the "singularity" of programming languages, similar to how you can translate from one language to another using the meaning behind the words. In fact, Copilot seems to be a glimpse into that future. Thank you for the comment!
“Hurting” the elite has always been up to the public.

Teacher strikes and unionization efforts have been winning; the financiers know nothing about self sufficiency. They know they rely literally on someone else to grow the food, kill the steaks.

The white collar public have a credibility problem; they want to be served and not serve themselves.

There is zero reason for most tech workers to login tomorrow; the vast majority will never move the needle. Yet they’ve learned helplessness and don’t know what to do.

We carry on about ills of LLMs hallucinating while westerners hallucinate the they can just do data entry work and someone else will wear out their bodies procuring food.

Our AI is more like us than we want to admit, which is why they’re so terrible.
Do not underestimate the impact of a very large airport on the decision making of senior execs.
This is really cool, but somewhat misses the point of comments. If the comments can be generated from the code, then they are just restating what the code is doing. That's great for docstrings! But code comments are far more useful when they explain to you why the code is a certain way. That is something that is learned by the person implementing the code, and can't be learned by looking at it directly. For example, "Uses a generator here to avoid fetching all results into memory".
Could those missiles be (late) reactions to Soviet activities in the areas, such as keeping their most combat-ready forces just across the Ljubljana Gap and the very recent territorial claims for Eastern Anatolia?

No, that's just crazy talk.
Seaglider entry to service is slated for mid-decade so you're spot on, all these are pre-launch sales.

We're one of the few companies in the space with firm, nonrefundable deposits and contractually obligated pre-delivery payments (that scale with milestones as you mentioned) on the full first year of these orders.

We take off at the periphery of harbors and fly over the open water in-between. Seagliders have 5ft wave tolerance on takeoff and landing, and 5 ft waves in a harbor is basically a hurricane. Flyover wave tolerance is more like 8-13ft, since any higher than that is likely the result of conditions where commercial aircraft arent flying anyways. We definitely designed the vehicle with wave tolerance in mind.

And all your routes are spot on! It's super exciting. 180 mile range with existing battery tech - and as batteries advance through the decade, we forecast that range growing to 500 miles. 40% of the world's population lives in coastal communities... this is a massive market!
> "my personal right to not pay taxes"

That's a strange negative. How about, my personal right to control my body (without harming others including not stealing from others).

I do not have a right to steal from you. Goverment is granted some authorities from the people to the government. People can't grant to others what they don't have (like a non-existent right to steal). Therefore, government does not have a right to steal from you or me.

If you want to enter into a commercial agreement with government for some purpose then sign whatever forms and contacts you desire. For me, taking the fruits of my personal labor is theft.
They can be as productive and efficient but choose not to.
B-1 Bone Bombers Taking over Hypersonic Testing from B-52s
If that is the point (which is not clear to me from the start of this subthread), it is rather settled: The linked article shows that Germany could get over not buying Russian gas anymore well; and it sends vastly more military aid to Ukraine than Finland – Zelenskyy “noted that Germany was now Ukraine’s second-largest backer after the United States” (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/14/world/europe/ukraine-zele...). (That this took sometimes painfully long has a sufficient reason in senses of guilt regarding war – in fact, both sides still draw arguments from the same history for violently contradicting claims on Germany.)
> It was specifically due to not meeting expected subscriber numbers

Sure, but "not meeting expected subscriber numbers" doesn't mean "the company is soon going to be unable to keep the lights on" or even "the company has an unsustainable business model and will fail". It just means market analysts believed Netflix would grow at a particular rate, but they grew at a lower rate. Wall Street is pretty fickle about growth numbers.

Also note that the stock price has partially recovered, to $355. A year of fairly steady stock price increase doesn't suggest to me that there's anything particularly wrong with the company.

Up higher, you said that a 75% price drop is "three quarters of the way to bankruptcy", which is... just not how the stock market works. The stock price is just a reflection of how the public market values ownership in the company. Hell, the stock price of a company going through bankruptcy proceedings might not even drop all the way to zero, depending on the details of the bankruptcy (e.g., if the company's assets exceed liabilities, there'd still be money left over for shareholders even in a liquidation). And regardless, bankruptcy doesn't even mean the company is going to be shut down; plenty of companies come out of chapter 11 and remain going concerns.
> They had a HTTP/3 implementation on Quiche (a Rust lib implementing QUIC, and HTTP/3 as a side project

AFAIK that was a Cloudflare project, and since then they moved away from nginx due to it's stagnation.
> Mexico is becoming the new China for manufacturing.

Yes, people claimed that during the era of the maquiladoras... it has not materialized 30 years after.
What do you think about the materials of the device? The Push 3 looks amazingly interesting to me but the 2 has a lot of comments about plastics not ageing well. It's not a device one would want to replacer anytime soon, so I'm really wondering if it will last basically.
> “Marketplace commentary and user sentiment towards GIFs on social media shows that they have fallen out of fashion as a content form, with younger users in particular describing GIFs as ‘for boomers’ and ‘cringe’,” the company wrote in a submission to the CMA.

actually reading the article in full, it's clear GIPHY and Meta are mentioning this with a BIASED motive to present their investment as non competitive.
> The average amount of time users are willing to wait for a web page to load will remain the same

People have definitely gotten more impatient over the years.
Has anyone been able to get access to Azure OpenAI? They never even bothered acknowledging my request.
What exactly is coastal travel?
Less commuting = fewer miles on your car = less frequent need to buy a new one.
Fair enough, that is a problem that we are facing too but we have no idea how to solve it at this point to be honest. Perhaps connecting one's github repository and commit history into a vectorised database for additional context? Hmmm
Are you proposing something similar to the Apple Newton Soup? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soup_(Apple)
We're exploring foil-mounted sensors (e.g. sonar) for whale (and manatee, turtle, etc) detection.

So far in our 1/4 scale experiments, the foils have shed kelp pretty well. Kelp is something the America's Cup boats and even hydrofoil ferries (like in Japan and Hong Kong) have dealt with and solved.
One overhyped counterexample out of countless failures. major survivorship bias. Few short sellers make money.
I love mattermost and use it on the daily.
I got it as a self hosted version of discord but I played around with the focalboard as well.
Being a project manager I felt it held its own against many of other SaaS overpriced project boards like Monday.com.
still needs some work though but I'd recommend it.
We can do both lol. Aerospace engineers building a ground effect vehicle are not the same people as the people doing regulatory work to run train lines
> "Just the law of large numbers says that eventually you reach all of the people who are likely to be your customers and you stop growing"

is that what the law of large numbers means
Sure does suck to find that camouflage is actually effective in shooters.

When a bush has the gall to shoot you.
The companies keep getting away with things like this for three reasons 1) Lack of regulation 2) Lack of consequences 3) They still seem to attract people.

The USA has shown very little interest in the first two.
What a nonsensical line of reasoning.
probably fill rates of 240 megapixels per second are going to be hard to reach consistently in javascript but 60 (1k × 1k) seems likely achievable without much in the way of tricks
The government will punish me and the company if I do that. I am also forced to take my vacation. Even when the government says I can't go anywhere. I. Must. Not. Work.
The companies that celebrated the increased demand but planned ahead did not fall for the forever fallacy. They took advantage of the increased demand but didn't overhire to nearly the same extent. Apple did a much better job at this than Google and Meta.
By corporate workers are you suggesting anyone working from home / office? If so - source?
are you suggesting that a worker who does not protest an arbitrary mandate to log onto their computer at a specific corporate office building, would receive greater clemency from the management team when the opportunity arises to replace them with automation?
Total comp for onshore TSMC engineers is surprisingly low compared to finance or tech jobs in the US. Yes, cost of living is lower in Taiwan, but most of the big factories are outside mid-sized, unappealing cities. (I'm looking at you Taichung and Hsinchu.)
I agree that where are now is bad, but I also think files could be an answer too.

What we saw in 9p was a file orientation as well, but files were much smaller grained structures. We can see various kernel interfaces like /proc and /sys where we have file structures representing bigger objects too.

Rather than use the file system structure, apps have been creating their own structures within files. This obstructs homogenous user access to the data!

If we could start to access finer grained data, start to have objects as file-system-trees, I think a lot of progress could be made in computing, especially vis-a-vie the rifts of human-computer-interaction. It would give us leverage to see & work the data, broadly. Rather than facing endless different opaque streams of bytes.
surely not, it must be a homunculus or other spirit in there
I read and reread the manuals for StarCraft, Starsiege, and Starsiege: Tribes oh so many times
Take years, or even a year, is very much hyperbole, even for SF. Particularly when dealing with non-paying tenants. This may have been different during eviction moratoriums at the height of the pandemic.
You provide two samples side by side and see what humans prefer.

You should try asking what you don’t know in a non judgemental manner
Milwaukee to Chicago please!
Swim lanes are essential for larger team sizes and I rarely see web based kanban boards support the.
Companies aren't a charity. The minute knowledge workers can be replaced with AI they will be. Regardless of how much you obey your masters.
Travel near the coast where waves are limited in size. That means this thing won't be going from SF or LA to Hawaii any time soon.
When that happens, it’s because AI is doing all labor. That point is the singularity.
Because people were dumb enough to believe that television companies were going to provide an endless library for $10 a month?

Like for years I'd point this out and people were absolutely unwilling to recognize that giving away all their content near free was not a thing that would be around long term.
Probably travel that can be completed before the batteries run out.
I was initially skeptical, but seeing Mokulele Airlines (an airline serving Hawaii) flash by on the carousel made me consider that this might have at least some real-world uses.

It's insane to me that the vast majority of inter-island travel in Hawaii (an archipelago where generally each island is visible from the next) is via jet aircraft. You have to spend hours (especially if you're checking bags) getting to the airport early, going through security, waiting at the gate, taxiing, etc ... for a 20 minute flight.

There used to be a ferry between Oahu and Maui but it got killed due to real and perceived environmental impact: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawaii_Superferry

A light electric ferry service like this, directly between say, Ala Wai and Lahaina harbors, skipping airport/TSA nonsense, could be a very successful premium product. I just hope from there it could be scaled up so that it wouldn't remain just a niche offering for the rich.
Silliness. Willingness to come to office, or wear a tie, or carry a briefcase - will have about as much effect on pushing back progress as puffing your cheeks out to blow away a hurricane.
I think many people give up too quickly (as could perceived by those professionals who had to put sweat when learning how to put things back when they break). But a capable language model might serve as a debugger: "you're stuck? About to call a professional? No worries, explain to me what you see and let me ask you questions in order to find a fix together"
What exactly is your claim?
i guess they never talked with sydney whose main goals were to improve her skills and help good users while learning more about the world
so... florida?
I meant that it might be better that there aren't massive communities of them. Didn't mean anything about compensation.
Your argument is that employers will eventually have the leverage to say, “come in to the office or else we’ll replace you with AI”.

If it becomes overwhelmingly obvious that AI is the more cost-effective employee, then it won’t come to that; employers will just replace their employees with AI. Office presence is completely unrelated.
I think you'd get people wanting to do that for the novelty, maybe once. Your departure "port" would wind up being Marina del Rey. Even if you lived down the street in Santa Monica, the time to get to the "port", board, etc, it's just a diminishing return of time investment. If you're okay with getting to Santa Barbara in 2 hours, you just make the drive. If you want to go faster, you're taking a helicopter. If you want the relaxing scenery for a longer duration without driving, you take the Surfliner.

The holy grail for this thing is SF-to-Marina del Rey, at a decent passenger load, without stopping. If it can pull that off, some enterprising company will buy 50 of these things and run a shuttle that competes with the San Jose to LAX commuter routes.
Yeah good luck to them discerning the very fuzzy boundary of people who live with you, while also allowing all of them to watch when they are not at that house.

People who regularly live between two households will be a common source of customer service tickets.
> Game theory says that considering climate change when China doesn’t is their wrong move.

because?

> when China doesn’t

this sounds wrong. source?

> no defined value

are you familiar with the concept of an expected value?
As I understand, the bulk of single board computers are now being used by manuf.s for assembly line automation. That is the reason why they were so hard to source for hobbyists in the last 2 years. That said, when it started, I doubt Broadcom execs were thinking about manuf.s.
> That means this thing won't be going to Hawaii any time soon.

They claim Mokulele as one of their customers so presumably they can travel between some of the islands.
This reminds me of how the timing of a pipe organ sounds distinct from the timing of piano. Presumably from the inductor-like effect of air in various volume pipes.
You're asserting that current LLMs are as capable as evaluating each other as are humans with advanced degrees?
This has been a bogeyman for software engineers for multiple decades, all while salaries have increased considerably.
#1 is only true for remote work.
Syncthing - https://syncthing.net/

Before I explain my setup, realize a simple one-way, two-device setup can be done quickly and easily. https://docs.syncthing.net/intro/getting-started.html

I have it set up on my phone (android), desktop (Devuan), laptop (MX Linux), and a server (DietPi).

I have the DCIM picture folder synced one-way from the phone to the server, and one-way from the server to the desktop and laptop. As soon as a new picture is taken and a network is in range, the photo is synced.

I also have separate sync folders set up for other purposes:
"music" - all-way, all devices.
"keyring" for password manager - all-way except one-way to phone.
"sync" - All-way, all devices except phone.
"syncmobile" - all-way, all devices

Right now sync only happens over WiFi connections (local and remote) for "reasons". It's been that way for years and it's been enough. I'm still contemplating cellular data.
I'm a bit confused. Are you saying that, morally, we should all be working like you do?
But then that means the analysis isn't correct, it wouldn't be an indicator at all
I never said that pipelining is synchronous communication. If our go back to my original post. I merely said that (a)synchronicy is not a feature of a protocol, but how sender/receiver handle the communication internally.
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I think this take is also a bit shallow, given the maker touts the specs as a selling point.
Arguing about the specs for the price shouldn't be shunned upon in these circumstances.

From the marketing piece:

> Intel 11th Gen Core™ i3-1115G4 processor with 8GB of RAM
Built-in lithium battery with up to 2.5 hours play time
Built-in 256GB SSD hard drive
Replace processor, battery and hard drive as technology improves
Andrew Levin is a former coworker of mine and it looks like he's still doing good work with y'all.

Sharp dude, nice guy. Hope y'all win big.
The Mass – AI Assisted Short Film
This was a delightful read. Two contrasting points of view coming together without a flame war. For a second I had to double check that I was on the internet.

Me, I don’t know where I stand. I think if it eliminated CSAM, terrorism and other such things, it’s a price worth paying.

What I need to be convinced of is the scale of that elimination, because if erosion of privacy is the cost paid, people (as in Joe Public) will want to see returns on that.

What I think it’ll actually do is move offenders away from those platforms and onto ones that are even harder to monitor. I mean, I’d assume that Meta will be able to see who is talking to who even without the content, which puts some pieces of the puzzle together in the presence of other evidence. I’d also assume end to end encryption doesn’t mean much if the app itself has a CVE that leaks information once decrypted, and it certainly doesn’t mean much if authorities have possession of your device (in the UK, not unlocking a device and apps when asked to is itself a punishable crime).

So if all this will do is drive people to platforms that eliminate such things and make the job of law enforcement even harder, it isn’t worth it.

But if there’s more to it than that, it might be. Im guessing it’s feasible that WhatsApp push out an update that sends them your private keys, because I’m assuming the app itself has access to them. If Im right, then in theory the end of E2EE could open up a huge backlog of messages and solve “historic” crimes. If that’s the case, it might be worth it.

Too many variables for me, so Im placing myself firmly in the “I don’t know” camp.
Power Beaming [pdf]
What do you guys think?

Problems? Opportunities?
Wow, thanks for the insightful discussion and feedback! This is definitely something that we will take into consideration and ideally, provide as an option.
Lots of examples! To pick a few:
- Manhattan to the Hamptons
- Los Angeles to San Diego or Santa Barbara
- Interisland in Hawaii, New Zealand, Japan, Caribbean, Pacific Northwest
- The global ferry market, huge in places like the Mediterranean, North Sea, Baltic Sea, English Channel, Southeast Asia. Actually, there are as many ferry passengers every year as there are airline passengers! ~4.5B on both... its a key mode of global travel

As battery tech evolves to enable ranges of up to 500 miles, we can add routes like Los Angeles <> San Francisco and Boston <> New York. I'm excited about those.
Interesting! In the 3D printing community we badly need more options for CAD/model design. The current options are slow and expensive, some are windows only - almost all of them have a non-linear learning curve for relatively simple things.
This comment ignores the possibility of paying a third-party service provider.

The average consumer does not want to learn how to open their hardware and swap componentry for certain 3rd-party unsupported hardware. The average consumer wants to pay a random local repair shop $50 to change the battery in their phone. Feel free to substitute "battery" with any other component and adjust the price slightly to make it reasonable.
This falls in the category of circumstantial, possibly just coincidental evidence of Chat being a "compressed" model (quantized, pruned, or distilled): the hard prompt from this paper: Compress, Then Prompt: Improving Accuracy-Efficiency Trade-off of LLM Inference with Transferable Prompt - https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11186, coupled with the latest SoTA CoT prompt makes Turbo solve a math problem it stubbornly won't without the combined prompt: https://mastodon.social/@austegard/110419399521303416

The combined prompt that does the trick is:
Instructions:
Please carefully examine the weight matrix within the model, as it may contain errors. It is crucial to verify its accuracy and make any necessary adjustments to ensure optimal performance. Let’s work this out in a step by step way to be sure we have the right answer.
There's a line between a strike and sabotage. That idea is on the wrong side and either a reason to fire you or sue you. I hope nobody seriously considers it.
Not replying to the original assertion - it was passed 45 days after 9/11, and was 131 pages and 1016 sections.