skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair enough though I'm guessing those are still fairly high numbers compared to industry in general. People with over ten years are probably something of an outlier at most companies these days so 23% still seems like quite a few.

>One reason (not the only one) for the military emphasis on training is they can't fully utilise their skills in peacetime, unlike most other professions.

That makes sense. I attend conferences and the like which is training to some degree. But training in the sense of actual courses of some sort wouldn't be a lot of use to me at this point in general.
It appears their modus operandi isn't working too well:

https://archive.ph/olj14
Sooo, what's the problem? They already know what the customer has to pay, so why are they spending extra effort to show a different fake price instead?
I know exactly what a social contract is, and it's always superseded by a legal contract (which the ToS sort-of is, though it would have to go through the courts if challenged). Given that the ToS explicitly says that Reddit et al. can do whatever they want with your data, the idea that there's a social contract there is wishful thinking.
Yup. Like the saying I heard from a friend about how to treat engineering tests:

"The first test result is an error. The second is a coincidence. If the third lines up, then you might be getting a hint of a result."

As in: if you can't reproduce it reliably, you have nothing.
Yeah. iPod I might agree with, though the interface on the device itself was pretty top tier. iPhone? Nah.
There's no way to win this battle, though. Are they going to ... stop the Internet? People will find a way to siphon data from sites where people contribute large volumes of data.
Yeah. Management metrics (at least in my experience) often don't catch the "dumb", but they do catch the "get things done", so it creates a disincentive to do things smart. Under those conditions Dumb-Energetic will put your project in a hole that no amount of Smart-Energetic can dig you out from; the sad but correct diagnosis is often to just shoot the problem and cover over the hole so you can build on it. But first, fix the incentives and change the metrics that govern decisions, or else it's going to happen all over again - THIS is the chokepoint, because so many leadership staff are (emotionally) invested in the current metric.
The thing about whistleblowers is that nobody actually likes them. "Whistleblower" is to white-collar crime as "snitching" is to anything street-level.

We "appreciate" them when they call foul on others, but you appreciate them a hell of a lot less when you have such moral crusaders in your own ranks. They aren't loyal to anybody but their own sense of self-righteousness and can't be trusted to keep their mouth shut if you piss them off after they discover dirt on you. They're only ever a liability.

On the flip side, barring being vindictive it's not worth it to blow the whistle on anything unless you can prove it beyond all doubt and intend to pivot to motivational speaking for the rest of your career. Outside of the defense industry (the DoD does pay generously to anyone tattling on Snowden/Teixera types), there is literally no incentive to speak out, and a lot of potential retribution you invite.
Since music "piracy" has been demonstrated to increase music purchases, this fixed dollar amount should therefore be negative. Any music I am found sharing shall result in the music industry paying me. Sounds about right.
If you're eliminating thinking, you might as well use a robot.

I don't know about the ideal use cases, but it certainly appears that the SDK and dev environment are going to be the best and most accessible. So if a great use case does appear, it will probably be on the AVP.
Nothing can destroy Nokia phones
You forget that OpenAI wasn‘t supposed to have products in the first place
"NodeJS developer refuses to believe that gigahertz means billion hertz" https://www.theolognion.com/nodejs-developer-refuses-to-beli...
It's possible the sketchiness is caused by a restaurant's competitors (writing negative reviews, falsely flagging positive reviews, spamming) rather than Yelp proper.
> It is at many HFT firms, including mine. You will be paid your base salary for some number of months to not work at a competitor, even if you don't have a signed offer for a competitor and just want to sit around

That's called "garden leave" and it's completely different from non-compete agreements as discussed by this bill.
In that case, the script could be modified to archive all the comments into a local file -- you could restore all your books back to the library (Reddit) if you chose, once they stopped threatening customers with higher fees.

If people were really committed, they could "unionize" and have a centralized party which held access to their comments, but that would probably violate their ToS and would not set a good precedent for an open and free internet. Not to mention, Reddit could easily just block users from modifying/deleting old comments.
Do any publicly available services like this offer a uncensored bot? I have models I can run on my laptop without censorship but they aren't very high quality.

I know they can exist but from what I can get my hands on it seems saying something offensive is a way to prove you are human for the time being.
>drug mule

More like a moose mule!

>https://files.catbox.moe/vtyjud.jpeg

I actually wish one day to fly the above drone, but for other smaller heavy-lift drones, you can easily have a pair of these giant batteries (2 for redundancy) that can go more than that, for example this 12S that I used yesterday in one of the heavy-lift drone, the pair is around 9kg, obviously, when you do a BVLOS operation, you would need at least 6 pairs, and the logistics of these are quite something, including the protection against external damage.

>https://genstattu.com/ta-plus1-0-15c-16000-12s1p-c-xt90.html

Edit: the 6kg mentioned above is this if you’re interested: https://genstattu.com/tattu-pro-22000mah-44-4v-25c-12s-1p-li...
Sure, that's fine. At the same time I can still call it a shame that they would have to do such artificial limiting. I'll more likely pick up the Android or Windows version of such a device without restrictions on what kinds of software I can run on my own hardware.
Runtime can be anything from browser to quickjs to Node in a docker. In many such cases the only time code runs on your dev machine completely unsandboxed is install scripts.

Yes it is good to never install malicious NPM packages anyway but if you develop for any of those runtimes and you do not bother to check dep tree the anti install script crowd saved your ass.
Do your part to secure the open source supply chain
The trouble with a free API is that someone can write a $1 client that hides all the ads (the number one requested feature), and now your website has no income.

An ad-supported website has to get paid. On the web there is at least some stuff they can do to detect ad blockers, or show ads in sneaky ways that change over time and are hard to block.
Somewhat related, but I'm looking at hosting solutions for a hobby SaaS I'm building, and I would like to use google cloud run, but the cloud sql pricing seems extremely expensive if you want HA and are just starting up. They also don't seem to offer any cloud sql as part of their free like like AWS does with RDS, it just seems very odd.

I looked at Planetscale thinking I might be willing to just use MySQL, but even if I were to take a risk with their confusing pricing it turns out there are no foreign keys.

And there is no equivalent of Cloud run on AWS.

It just seems like there is a gap here in when it comes to managed databases, not just GCP laking any kind of "free tier" option, but just a lack of players in the space between free and established business pricing for HA.
This is the key. Reddit owns nothing except a very poorly performant app that no one wants and a very forced and shitty web experience unless you are on old.reddit.com.

Its mind boggling how wrong they've been getting it for as long as they've been getting it wrong. Like how can any company/ CEO be that dense?
Related note in the sidebar: NY State is considering a bill to require social media companies have open API access[0]. I have to wonder if this is something either PIRG or FUTO Tech/Louis Rossman are pushing for - in which case, good on them.

[0] https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/s6686
While the general conclusion of this paper seems perfectly plausible, I'm not sure how much weight I can put into the exact numbers they come up with.

They only gather 46 summaries from MTurks, and they train a predictor on some known-good and known-synthetic data, and use that to decide when the crowd workers have submitted LLM-generated text. I'm not totally sold on the idea that the good performance on the validation set is going to translate to this new dataset. In general, I'm just really skeptical of results that say "we can detect generated text with 99% accuracy!".

It would be very interesting to see a study that asks crowd workers afterwards if they used an LLM to complete the task. Obviously you'd be pretty worried about lying, but maybe there's a way to structure the situation so that the workers know their response is anonymous and won't affect whether they get paid.
It is the best book I have ever read and I didn't think I would feel that way so firmly about a book so late in life. I read it last year and it is unequivocally a masterpiece for me.
It was supporting ESM syntax with commonjs resolution. Proper support for native ESM was added in 4.7

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/announcing-typescr...

Before that it was not possible to write ESM that would work in node.js or browser.
Making the "weaponized autism" trope real
> Apps will not have direct access to the cameras

Is there any headset that does allow this currently? Doesnt seem like any kind of differentiating factor
Is there a ray diagram the Lynx optics somewhere? I never fully understood how they work (reflection is off the sides of them?). With Apple showing the lens element shapes, is there room for reflecting off from the side?
What are we supposed to know about Working Families members? Seems like they're a political party extremely local to me.
>Of course it isn't, they want you to buy a MacBook alongside, that's my entire point.

Hardware company entices consumers to buy more hardware. Film at 11.

>If it were a Surface-like product instead, with full macOS, I'd have bought an iPad in a heartbeat.

Ah yes. The Surface, the device that showcases the appeal of running an OS designed for mouse/keyboard input with a thin veneer of touch support spackled on top. It's amazing Apple isn't sprinting to release a product along those lines.
I think one of the better potential use cases for AR is for manufacturing work instructions. Typically, these are in binders or displayed on screens, but highlighting assembly steps, part orientations/locations, etc virtually would be especially nice for training or infrequent operations which don’t happen at a seated workstation. I believe Glass and some other products were exploring this space, but it could be that it’s a lot of work to set up.
No, But do you want to fight that out in court?
If people didn't quit Reddit during Covid times, when things were more bleak, angry, and divided than ever, they probably never will.
So we just keep passing the buck? Where do they get dumped when Manteca does not want them?

(Not that there’s any point in discussing this in the first place, since it will never actually happen.)
> I don't want to get paid to hang out with my friends. As soon as that happens, they're not friends.

Indeed, and so I say: I would never have written anything at all if they had had to pay for it.
As a sibling comment noted, you're essentially talking about the products, not the companies. They're distinct entities that are temporally correlated, but you should reason about them separately.

It's possible to have a perfectly good and marketable product, and a terribly owned or operated company.

In this case, while the company has given up the ghost, the products are still valuable. Them most likely outcome is that some other company will acquire those products/brands and continue to extract value from them on the other side of a bankruptcy.

To do anything else would be to leave money on the table, which is not what PE owners do.
Seems like it could be enforced like GPDR?

I actually don’t have a good idea on how this would be practically enforced. But I think we could start somewhere.
Reddit should have leveraged their content to compete with Google.

1. Improve old.reddit.com instead of creating this terrible Reddit v2 that encourages replacing real content with memes.

2. Build a dedicated Reddit search engine on a short trendy domain.

3. Remove all Reddit content from Google.

4. Carefully curate other quality sites into the search engine.

5. Leave Google to rot with SEO and Amazon referral spam.
The fact that MTurkers are paid makes them unreliable for reflecting genuine human responses.

That they can’t replicate indicates that the sampling population isn’t consistent representation of population demographics and so there’s no real signal there that can be applied to a general population like most failure to replicate studies
I love what you say, but how does one realistically implement this today? I can’t exactly call up a hospital and say “cut the bullshit. I need a single price for procedure x”. They’ll just laugh and hang up the phone. (I’ve tried- most recently for a vasectomy). As you say, the industry is fat and happy and has no reason to bend to my will no matter how much sense it makes in the long run.

My point is that we have a whole bunch of policy nerds hand waving this complexity away and saying “enjoy your hsa- go forth and price compare as the invisible hand of the free market will provide!” Unless there is force from above, there certainly is no way the masses can navigate the system and force change themselves.

And the truth is that stuff does happen that’s not anticipated. My wife’s surgery was supposed to be routine. I would have had no idea ahead of time that there would be a lingering internal infection afterward. Multiple subsequent visits where we shared complications with the surgeon were handwaved away as “you’re just not used to recovery from surgery”.

If a tradesman screwed up a plumbing job, he would be called back to fix it at no cost. Instead I’m (or in this case my insurance) is stuck with >$100k of bills from the ICU to bring her back from the brink. I consulted with several malpractice attorneys who basically said unless the surgeon was drunk and slurring his words while operating, there is no case. The standard of care is so low.
And you are 100% sure that wouldn't have been a strike?
Possibly, but in this case, what may be looked at as a "bootstrap" sounds like ongoing maintenance cost.

With "free data" from reddit gone, now the cost of symbiotic gen+human data will be even more expensive.
> I can't blame Comcast in the least for pushing back on having standardized labeling for this kind of thing, which varies from township to township.

To be fair, for a billion dollar company with literal billions in profit from a subsidized mono/duopoly and considering there are only so many towns in so many states where they operate, this is super weak. It can totally be done even if tedious, expensive, and time consuming. Thing is, most of the work has already been done accounting wise because they need to comply with the laws in those areas. Now they just need to report it accurately at point of sale.
Sorry can't cover $250/mo for 150k years. Can we stretch this out a bit and do $75/mo for 500k years?
1. That's not part of the language, it's part of an implementation. I.e. it means that the same language can be both statically-typed and not (according to your "definition"). Which is literally nonsense (in the sense true = false).
2. If something is commonly accepted doesn't make it anymore true. In the context of programming, a lot of commonly accepted beliefs are nonsense, this one isn't an exception.

It's not about spectrum. It's about inability of a lot of people to critically assess information coming from otherwise reputable sources.
I mean, just to push one onto the stack...

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

> Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
Embrace, extend, extinguish… once again.
I dunno. Guess it depends on how pissed off I was.
It’s not the search quality is that the contents is not there as all of it is on Reddit
> The per-mile risk of a self-driving Tesla is roughly the same (within the range of estimates this source gives) as the per-mile risk of riding a bicycle.

That may be true, but the reader is reminded that a typical car trip is probably five to ten times as far as a typical bike trip (is that a reasonable guess?), so the risk per trip is five to ten times as high. The safety figures often quoted for plane travel share similar characteristics.
Not to be pedantic but there is nuance: A frictionless tunnel is better for getting shit done. Know the difference.
$17.75 and $23.99 are both insane, I pay $9.15/yr
It is bad for changing the behavior of the programs intent (for lack of a better word), but it is good for observing it. Non-intrusive selective logging is the obvious use case.

Generally though I agree, architecting your software around AOP features is a terrible idea. Strike the O in any programming paradigm and you will be better off.
Thankfully here in Finland non-competes are void if you are not paid.

Basically the right to earn a living wins over any contract you could sign against it.
Ah yes, the good old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Non-competes are also problematic for highly-compensated tech workers. The phenomenon of NCA'ing low-compenation workers is also horrible, of course, but not the whole problem.
Yes, yes, we know some Apple users are unable to see past the "you can't be trusted" that Apple keeps violently stabbing in your brain, you'll live in a company town with company stores and company credits and you'll be happy about it. Now can the adults use their devices?

The Vision Pro does not provide foveated rendering if you do not go through the Apple renderer. There's some extremely vague wording regarding Metal supporting it, without any API documentation out.
I’m not sure if it’s worse for us or you, but as a pedestrian I couldn’t agree more. Ten years ago I thought the macho, aggressive sport riders were bad but they are nothing compared to all these illegal mopeds. The NYPD should just seize every single one without a license plate (and while they are at it all the cars with paper plates and those with license plate obstructors.)
The Vision Pro? I'm not a game player generally, I bought my Quest 2 for exercise apps and as a platform for investigating developing for VR and working inside the new medium.

I agree with your implication this is not an appropriate price format for gaming, but I would have thought the Vision Pro is aimed at more of that latter market; though presumably future less premium models will aim at the gaming and more natural consumer markets, or gaming will emerge as a secondary use for the more expensive models like this.
But then they don’t get the sweet sweet tracking metrics from their app. Once you pay for Reddit , you don’t see ads in the OEM app either, they can squeeze more value out of people by forcing their app and sucking as much data and analytics about you as possible. They’ve already begun A/B trials of disallowing mobile browsers to access their website, and forcing the app download.

This is less about ad revenue than it is jealousy over closed communities like Instagram and tiktok where you are locked into their app.
Ooh, thanks for the link! WTD talks are always great.
You can use a robot for screws, but things like wiring can be difficult or impossible for a robot. Not to mention for low volume, setting up robotics isn’t worth it.
Many thanks! There is a lot of opportunity for LLMs lurking in regulated industries right now - glad to have given you a boost!
Sneak Peek into the Future: A Tech Demo of SpaceXpanse Multiverse Features
Wouldn't Comcast want customers to know, then? Why would Comcast not be jumping in joy at the chance to explicitly state "Hickville Municipal Broadband Tax/Fee" on their bills and get people to complain to the municipality about it?
Introducing libspex, the platform's core C++ library for dApps interaction
>It's not like nobody would ever build another forum if there were laws like the ones proposed by GP.

Won't they just build the forums in other jurisdictions then? How many European forums do you frequent? I barely visit any.
Just put them in a module as variables. Import the module named and you have them as “dotted attributes”. Python doesn’t need all this OOP stuff like structs when we have dataclasses and attrs, modules and dicts, that can represent draconian C structs.
NDAs and threats to sue? If this is how Yelp does business they'd be very aggressive about enforcing that.
So if I went to a business and was solicited by an employee, I could mention that in a review without it being taken down?
Anaesthesia is more dangerous and impactful than commonly realized. These chemicals and medicine need to be more strictly controlled.
Bitmap Scan relies on shared buffers. Distributed SQL cannot share the buffers between nodes. BitmapAnd is nice but expensive.
I prefer a compound index on foo(bar, baz) but PostgreSQL needs an additional index if there are query with condition on baz only. YugabyteDB, thanks to hybrid scan, can use this single index also for SELECT * FROM foo WHERE baz = 4;
That is still not worth $17.75/yr
That's functionally identical to how generative LLM AIs have no problem successfully outputting objectively false bullshit or blatant hallucinations that people will readily accept as true. No one needs actual facts or data cause anyone capable of speaking with a manipulative psychopath's boundless confidence interspersed with a couple technical terms knows what they're talking about, right?
I talked to Munjal and team when they were ideating on Hippocratic, even he acknowledges that healthiq was a shit show. AFAIK it was 30 people running a 1k person call center and failing. This motivated Hippocratic as they think they can do AI-based call center replacement because they were so burned out of running human-staffed call centers.

I think Hippocratic is interesting because their leadership is business focused and not very technical, while a lot of other new foundational model cos are led by technical people. I’m curious how this shakes out.
Edit, fake news, clarification here: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7066108...

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Didn't the EU just pass an AI law that prohibits generative AI?

> In a bold stroke, the EU’s amended AI Act would ban American companies such as OpenAI, Amazon, Google, and IBM from providing API access to generative AI models. The amended act, voted out of committee on Thursday, would sanction American open-source developers and software distributors, such as GitHub, if unlicensed generative models became available in Europe. While the act includes open source exceptions for traditional machine learning models, it expressly forbids safe-harbor provisions for open source generative systems.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36324481