skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They didn't want to create a new property right, they wanted money to move out of Google's pockets and into news agencies' pockets. Link rights were just a means to do so. The state chose to use this tool because commercial benefit is very legible[0] to states and copyright is a familiar hammer[1]. It was thought that big tech was gaining $X from having news on their site and that they could make $X * 0.3 of that move into the pockets of news companies. When you see that kind of situation, you invent a new kind of property right to make the people benefiting from the resource have to pay into something.

Problem with this model is that it's too simplistic. Big tech doesn't sell news. They sell ads. In fact, the main reason why news companies are ailing today is because big tech siphons off much of the ad revenue that they would have sold directly before the Internet. Google or Facebook can take the 5% that news companies might ask for and just... deduct it from their ad revenue somehow. They control the analytics behind this and news companies are in no position to credibly question them. The only way to stop this madness is to ban economic centralization - i.e. enforce antitrust law by breaking up all these companies and forcing them to be sold to different competing owners.

Governments, of course, don't want to do that. This is not because they've suddenly become right-libertarians or ancaps. This is because large monopolies are both legible and corrigible[2]. Google, Facebook, or Reddit is far more likely to pay a 5% link tax than, say, hundreds of individual Fediverse instance operators. This is, of course, a regulatory curse - the bigger you make the organization, the more likely that organization can exert power back upon your government. This is not solely the function of generalized abstract "corruption." Economic power is itself a form of political power and letting companies grow too big is like Congress delegating legislative power to the President.

[0] Legible meaning that the organization can understand it at an institutional level.

[1] As in, if all you have is copyright, everything looks like a nail.

[2] Corrigible meaning that the organization is capable of maintaining regulatory controls over the target organization.
It's nice that it works for the two of you. But without actual crash statistics this isn't particularly useful. (To be fair: neither is the top-level post.)
The main division of Tutsi/Hutu was primarily done by Europeans, and the criteria was based on "those who owned cattle became known as the Tutsi and those who did not own cattle became known as the Hutu", and taller persons were also assigned as Tutsi.

Taller men tend to earn more money on average so in those terms both the average Tutsi, Hutu and outsiders should be able to make a better than random guess about who is Tutsi or Hutu.
And they would be almost offensively wrong about that.
The real goal of this post is clear about half way down the page, de-funding disinformation from right-wing sources. My guess is that the group of website that they call out as problematic are actually great for getting ad viewers (older, non-tech savvy, gullible) that don't click skip. I would be less suspicious that this was a submarine article if the sites called out were roughly balanced left-right (by US standards, which are a bit different ;-).
don’t be obtuse, are you also going to order them for every kid in public school?
YouTube has to comply with things like DMCA takedowns.
>but pointers inside struct is more 'flexible', for example you can put a 'void *' and cast it to various data types.

But then the array and other members won't be next to each other in memory.
I've personally seen my video ads running muted on partner sites.

It kind of makes the analytics useless because there's most more inconsistency in the medium where the ads are displayed (eg, not YouTube) so you never know if fluctuations actually mean anything.
Try disabling Javacript for this website and it's gonna be perfect
>Like, is this the best we can expect from this supposedly ground-breaking technology?

There's a insidious reason for this. It's because LLMs are one of the few technologies we don't fully understand and we can't fully control.

It's a stark contrast with traditional engineering.
Calling race a handicap is itself pretty clear racism. Maybe reconsider how you consider these things.
I would think if one needed to measure the altitude of their ship, things have already gone very, very sideways at this point.
> WARNING: verilog is not supported as a language. Using usenglish.
Have you tried Proton Pass? I only learned of it recently, but it appears to have something similar to one of the 1Password features I use heavily: masked email.

I'm in no way affiliated with these folks btw, but I am curious to hear if anyone has used it.

https://proton.me/pass
Meh. I read the original report when it was released, and it was a whole lot of nothing.

Their claim was basically – "we found some Google video ad fraud!". Well guess what, Google knows and agrees that there is fraud. So do all the advertisers who pay them. The question is really about how much fraud there is. Google says that it actively keeps it under a certain %, and advertisers are generally okay with that number.

Now the report makes the usual claims – ads run on shady sites, ads viewed by bots, ads muted or obscured, ads unskippable and against policy etc. When you read through and try to find actual numbers for the severity of these issues, they just skip over it with weasel words. Just read their opening statement:

> However, this research report finds that for years, significant quantities of TrueView skippable in-stream ads, purchased by many different brands and media agencies, appear to have been served on hundreds of thousands of websites and apps in which the consumer experience did not meet Google’s stated quality standards. For example, many TrueView in-stream ads were served muted and auto-playing as out-stream video or as obscured video players on independent sites. Often, there was little to no organic video media content between ads, the video units simply played ads only.

"significant quantities", "many different brands", "appear to have been served", "many ads were served", "Often"...you can keep reading as long as you like, and will not find a single objective number or percentage. Unless someone can conclusively find that, no one is going to take them seriously.
I think the relevant grouping to take to task for these issues is federal, state, and local governments (and probably quite a few corporations). Not "white people".
When I looked recently, Boston was still at just over 50% of pre-COVID transit utilization though some commuter rail and subway lines were a bit better--and bus lines were a bit better yet. Anecdotally traffic at rush hour is at least as bad as ever so it at least appears that some people switched back to (or started) driving who hadn't before.

Boston has had some well-publicized transit issues due to long-delayed transit maintenance but, at least short- to mid-term, it's lost a bunch pre-COVID commuting which has switched to driving.
I agree. I wrote a book on LangChain and LlamaIndex [1] and was initially very enthusiastic about possible applications. However, most of what I now do is just writing simple scripts to interact with my data. I feel like my “lines of code per month” metrics are at an all time low. I wanted a local chat interface that worked with all the books I have written, and various local PDFs that I have collected on the semantic web and other technologies. I ended up with two Python scripts that use a new library embedchain (which uses LangChain) that total 30 lines of code. So easy to do this stuff, that I am not so sure about the idea of using products from the new flood of LLM startups. All of this does require either using the OpenAI APIs, or the Hugging Face APIs, or renting something like a Lambda Labs GPU server and running a 33B model (if you use FastChat, you get an OpenAI compatible API).

I would urge companies and people to build their own stuff because there is so much value in learning the tech. For off the shelf LLM tools, it is hard to beat OpenAI’s web app, Microsoft Bing+ChatGPT and Office 365, and Google’s beta Bard integrations with Google Docs, etc.

[1] https://leanpub.com/langchain
I do my current work (embedded) on an architecture with the following properties:

- 8-bit bytes

- 16-bit aligned accesses to 32-bit types

- 32-bit aligned accesses to 64-bit types.

- Struct alignment depends on the size of the struct (32-bit aligned for >= 64-bit structs)

It's a pretty common architecture in the automotive industry, though probably would be considered esoteric for other applications.

This is not the first platform I've encountered with "unnatural" alignment rules in the embedded space, and I'm sure it won't be the last. (The extra packing this allows is actually quite handy.)
US Sugar and Domino, if memory serves.
Show HN: LLM streaming directly from React Server Components
Or this isn't about "rockstars" at all but a straightforward application of the "too many cooks" principle (and its refinements via The Mythical Man Month et alia).

That is, the first project wasn't 15x as productive so much because the developers were so (intrinsically) -- or even when they were objectively all above average. But because beyond a certain optimal team size, per-developer productivity drops substantially -- even plummets precipitously (due to the factors articulated in TMM: communication, politics, etc).

Plus there's a huge survivorship / selective bias example involved here (we're not look at pairings of other projects where the smaller team failed, even with better developers, because it was just too small, etc). I also suspect that if one were on the "inside" of both projects (which of course no one was) one would see a host of other factors involved (from knowledge of the requirements to market conditions, etc) not visible to an outsider.

We can definitely see how anecdotes like these help promulgate the 10x myth at least. People hear about the fates of the respective teams and think "Of course, it's because those developers were individually that much more productive. I better start making my interview process 10x more difficult now ..."

(BTW, no need to drill down on what I just said about the "10x myth", please. It's not that awesome developers don't exist or aren't important. It's just that for a whole lot of reasons, it is both incredibly overhyped, and objectively wrong in its fundamentals -- especially when we look at the original studies whence it supposedly derived).
TCP sends a contiguous stream of data.

Lots and lots of programs work by building some sort of message system on top, with some sort of message type/length/payload system. Thousands of slightly different versions of reinventing that particular wheel.
> It’s a bit like asking if cosmic rays from the Pinwheel Galaxy are affecting cancer rates.

Thank you for that context!
In my area the subway system has still not recovered from pre-pandemic ridership levels. It has made me wonder if the kind of people who rode the subway were more likely to work from home. But at the same the the roads are also less busy than they were, at least judging from the amount of congestion delays we experience on a day to day basis. This is good and bad. The good is that I can almost always get a seat on a train that used to be packed shoulder to shoulder standing room only. The bad is that the fare went from $3.10 to $5.50 each way.
ha, Im working on something similar https://recurai.com/discord

Only you can also embed the discord bot on any web app via a javascript widget.
It’s not complicated unless you’re trying to avoid honoring the terms of the deal. YouTube is a completely optional service – you can use it with ads or pay not to have ads, that’s it. If you don’t like it, don’t use the service – and that goes a thousand times over for privacy concerns since there’s no way to avoid giving Google your activity data unless you don’t use their service.
I believe the context for that quote is that it was referencing TV ads, which makes sense. How can a TV advertiser know who is watching?

Online ads were supposed to fix this problem.
ChatGPT requires half a liter of water to have a conversation
"Uncovering and Addressing the Secret Water Footprint of AI Models" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03271
Lay 'em down, and smack-em yack-em. COLD got to be!
I feel like I’m missing part of the picture. Everybody drags on Spotlight, I figured I must be missing something important so I installed Alfred. I press command+space, I type my application name, and boom. There it is. But I mean, I had that before, out of the box. Is this a power user thing? What great things could I be doing, that I’m apparently not, and that for this cat even Alfred isn’t scratching the itch?
Previous job had a locally hosted Github Enterprise and I was always resentful when everybody else on Twitter was like "github down! going home early!". :(

Of course it still sucked when some tool decided I needed to update dependencies which all lived on regular Github, but at least our deployment stuff etc still worked.
What’s the deal with making caps lock escape? Why not use the esc key?
Telling software to pay you sounds like you’re comparing it to / treating it as humans
No, gravitational waves do not affect the equivalence principle and do not change the gravitational constant. They are waves of change in the geometry of spacetime; freely falling objects show these spacetime geometry changes by changes in their relative motion.
Did prev company then compare with performance claimed by google, facebook, etc?
> There is an algorithm for everything in aviation.

In fact there's an exception that proves that rule: there was not an algorithm to handle pitot tube ice causing an MCAS failure on the 737 MAX, because the type certificate was shared with earlier aircraft that didn't have an MCAS to fail.

And two planes crashed because pilots didn't have an algorithm to follow to tell them what was happening when their trim went crazy.
How would you position this vs the Modular/Mojo approach which aims to relieve similar pain points.
It’s capped at 150,000 so not much in terms of income. Article doesn’t specify if this cap is per account or individual
How is Google and Meta removing links to news businesses that really on eyeballs to generate revenue a good thing for those Canadian businesses?
Is it possible that the amount of assault is relatively unrelated to total ridership? Like the number of criminal assholes in the community is about the same regardless of how many people use mass transit?
I’m a little confused by the reasoning here.

You state that peak (commute) traffic is recovering but off-peak is still low, due to WFH?

Wouldn’t WFH be impacting peak hours, with off-peak at all-time-low due to other things like leisure travel?
The name of the party in power right now in Canada is called the Liberal Party. That's why Liberal is capitalized.
I wouldn’t be able to trust running generative code that I don’t personally have context for, or hasn’t been reviewed by an experienced peer; even if it seems to work as intended. It’s the kind of irresponsible OceanGate mentality. As for blog posts, “better than nothing” doesn’t automatically make content “compelling”.
> Racial groupings are not even natural categories (there are tons of ways to divide people up by ethnicity).

No but class action lawsuits do give us two categories.
You're also paying for it, indirectly.
Yeah they really want to sell this as a bombshell but don't provide enough specifics or quantified data to do anything but say "well yeah ... and?"

I'm trying to find them motivations behind this thing.
It's a made up number assuming _all_ black harvard students are in on the basis of affirmative action.

30, 10, it doesn't matter, my point is your chance of getting into Harvard is already vanishingly small (4%) and even if it's a 30% reduction in slots, your chance goes from 4% -> 2.8% which is a similar order of magnitude.

It's also a biased process in a thousand other ways even without affirmative action, so why are we sweating this small thing. You're likely to be squeezed out by some ultra-privileged person whose parents could pay for essays to be written, SAT coaching, and exclusive extra-curriculars to pad the resume. Not some poor hispanic kid who grew up with nothing and would have scored 200 points better on the SATs with the right coaching.
"... but we're not using Strategic nukes, we only using Tactical nukes".

So where is the dividing line? When does a large Tactical Nuke become a small Strategic Nuke? It's all one spectrum. The use of a nuke is the use of a nuke. That's why there is a 'Use it or lose it' doctrine. Minutes after the first nuke is used, people will fire off everything they have.

Some people think a small tactical nuke can be 'got away with'. I'm extremely pessimistic about the world today. Nobody wins in a Nuclear War. I don't reckon we'll reach 2030.
Yeah, but they just jacked up the prices to encourage ridership. So it should be all good now.
This would include HN
“Walden Mutual, which opened last year“

Mmmhmm, I’ll pass.
Pornhub blocks access to entire state of Virginia
My point is simply that Google is providing something which costs money to produce. They offer two ways to pay for it but someone who rejects both of them has no reason to expect Google to subsidize their activity – it’s like whining that the concert hall closed the window you used to camp out at for free music.
The Liberal Party of Canada is currently the party that has the most seats, and whose leader is the Prime Minister, and whose members are various cabinet ministers.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada

So the (capital-l) Liberals are currently running the government. So Liberal government.

There is also the capital-c Conservatives:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_Canada
As has been pointed out many times, this is similar to the steps that have led to interpreted languages like python, R, Julia, etc that make calls to C, or use JVM/LLVM, etc on up to assembly or machine code.
The leap made is certainly less defined than previous jumps, but there is some similarity in that the more specific a person writes the rules to define the program, the more potential there can be in making something powerful and efficient (if you know what you're doing).

The next big gain in capability (other than the onvious short term goal of making an LLM output a full working code base) may be in LLMs being able to choose better design, without it being specified (for example having 'search for the best algorithm', and 'make it idempotent', etc added automatically to each prompt), and to potentially write the program automatically in something like assembly (or Rust or C for better readability) directly instead of preferring python as these models tend to right now.
...sometimes? One of the lessons I learned from him about that level of impact is that it means the structure of your day is dictated mostly by the problem you're currently focused on. So one quarter he might spend all his time interviewing. Next quarter he might spend most of his time profiling and reading code. The quarter after he might be coding.

Next to that is a constant overhead of talks with leadership and supporting other engineering efforts throughout the company through things like doc review, chats, pairing, etc.

What he doesn't generally do is "productionize" features - code is generally exploratory in nature or fixes a serious bug (or class of bugs).
I mean those consequences are why patent law exists. New technology may require new regulatory frameworks, like we've been doing since railroads. The idea that we could not amend law and that we need to pedantically say "well this isn't illegal now" as an excuse for doing something unethical and harmful to the economy is in my opinion very flawed.
Yeah, I meant overseas. :)
When it rains, it pours.

We have the SuperHOT LORA and the associated paper, the Salesforce model, MPT, and this. Any other long context news I am missing?
An important slave-holding state for the North was Maryland. They did not secede or get kicked out or even made to become slave-free until they changed their state constitution after the Emancipation.
This is the trouble. If one believes that material leveling is tantamount to justice, then it doesn't really matter whether one group is lifted up or the other is reduced.

Your argument (A) implies that by raising one group another is lowered. Another poster here (B) states that if we can't raise one group, we must lower the other.

These are both Manichaean positions that obfuscate the mutual gains added to economic society when one group is raised and the mutual losses sustained when one group is reduced. [The counterpoint to both positions is "A rising tide lifts all boats".] I'd argue they both arise from a sense of group identity that is anathema to both universal identity and individual liberty; at root they are the pathologies behind (A) fascism wherein the group identity is based on a threatened victim race and (B) communism where group identity is based on a threatened victim class. That's why switching from one to the other is so easy; they're both simply material grievances, elevated through propaganda into mythic group struggles.
> but it's possible now for a sole developer (or very small team) with no great artistic and musical talent.

Better than nothing and compelling are different things.
I've wanted to use this for a while, but I've always wanted something not requiring a web browser and not a pain to set up on SBCL (McCLIM has one dependency that always causes compilation errors, but I forgot it's name since it's been a while since I've tried using McCLIM on SBCL -- in the end I use CCL for anything CLIM-related). This also rules out using Qt at all. No idea about GTK but CFFI bugs in Lisp are always difficult to debug -- not really Common Lisp's fault, FFI in general leads to difficult-to-debug problems in the future.

That leaves me with... Ltk (Lisp bindings for Tcl/Tk), shelling out thousands of dollars for LispWorks, or using something like ABCL and Java Swing.

... I guess I'll just use Clog anyway :)
It's grossly misleading for the authors to talk about "banned books" without saying what they mean by "banned". In common parlance, "banned" would mean something like "forbidden to be sold". I think in most discussions of "banned" books, they mean something like "books which have faced objections from parents when teachers assigned them to children."
I asked in a older post why all these tools are named after Massachusetts towns:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33162597
It's sad to see a post like this get so much hate in the comments section. We all benefit greatly from an organization maintaining a stable Linux ecosystem and the idea that somehow redhat isn't entitled to give back to Linux as much as they have benefited from OSS goes to show just how much coolaid HN has been drinking as of late.

These corporate concerns are not some law of nature and it's up to us to support people when they are willing to fight for end consumers, something that modern redhat has all together abandoned
Nuclear Winter is a doomer idea. It can't happen.
Machine learning neural networks have almost nothing to do with how brains work besides a tenuous mathematical relation that was conceived in the 1950s.
Except it’ll be ambiguous and unpredictable.
> BART along the same alignment still moves 2x more people than the Bay Bridge does though, which is something to remember as non-users of BART clamor for its defunding.

How much does BART cost per year (or per decade) vs the Bay Bridge?

A huge advantage of roads vs public transit is you don't need staff. (Maintenence is needed on both, but even then I suspect roads are cheaper to maintain.)
Lol I see what u did there! Nice try, but the metro does not span 3 states. It spans 2 states and a federal territory. Nice try though.