skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Denmark we sort of made it illegal for gig drivers, not for food delivery (unfortunately) but what the “scare” did to taxis was it made them get the same Apps that Uber has.

So now taking a taxi comes with most of the benefits of having Uber, while also having all the benefits that come with the rather highly regulated industry of taxi services.

I guess it’s more expensive, but then, does Uber make money? Because if they don’t, then when will it disappear?
And I suppose a corollary is: "claim to have what the users want, and have them spend long enough to figure out that you don't have it"?
Great job! I'm an expert but you were right: I learned some things from Chapter 3.

A couple of very minor points:

"The first mass-produced CPU was the Intel 4004, designed in the late 60s by an Italian physicist and engineer named Federico Faggin."

The first microprocessor (CPU on a single chip) was Faggin's Intel 4004, but mass-produced CPUs existed before that. Earlier CPUs
were built from multiple chips, and before that multiple individual transistors, and before that multiple vacuum tubes, and before that multiple relays (although it's fair to say that relay computers were never mass-produced).

"The CPU stores an instruction pointer which points to the location in RAM where it’s going to fetch the next instruction."

This is also called the Program Counter or PC outside the Intel universe. This is confusing as "PC" also stands for "Personal Computer"
but people who learned computing in the days before Intel became popular still call it the PC register.
Is it tho - or is it to ‘save the content from AI’
We installed a helicopter pad so our leadership could literally fly to/from his condo.
> [I] bought a gun in case society collapses. So I can blow my fuckin’ brains out.

I hope you don't have kids.
> The power to completely cut off someone’s access to a service without recourse or explanation

This is also relevant a different context: Google (or some other similar provider) cutting off your access suddenly, throwing your life suddenly into extreme disarray.
I've also kinda been wondering if Google has been ruining it's search to bolster youtube content.
I'm kinda with you that the mental health(ish) framing is a bit disconcerting. But it's hard to guess what the audience really is, if there is one. ChatRoulette was a neat idea that disintegrated into a bunch of guys showing their johnsons, so maybe that without video would get rid of the riff-raff and let people go in and have actual conversations. Or not. The truth is, though, there has not been a lot of experimentation in one-on-one, non-group, non-hierarchical stuff in awhile. Apart from its clothing, I don't see why this is any different from a dating site or something.

Personally I don't like talking to disembodied voices (why I don't play multiplayer games with random people) - and I live 5 minutes from a dozen bars if I feel like meeting strangers. But I can't see how it really hurts, if it doesn't become polluted with griefers and perverts.
If it's a problem that seems to be growing in frequency, I find it completely fair to draw attention to the issue this way.

Reinforce in medical professionals that patient privacy is crucial and that explicit, informed consent is not negotiable when it comes to sharing their stories on socials (with the exception of anonymised medical papers created for academic purposes).
Once you have gone that far, what stops you from writing those comments yourself? It is not like there is any attribution on tiktok.

(edit: "you" in a "them"sense)
I think you meant low?
This is Dick calling from UPS. Hey, I’ve been trying to bring a box to your, uh, place, there, for the last three days but you guys are making so much noise you don’t hear me! I need a credit card payment on this thing: C.O.D. $242.
I sometimes pine for Aldus Photostyler and its clone tool.
Isn’t that just general anxiety in a nutshell?
Maybe ChatGPT became self-aware, and the weird tokens mean it's only one layer away from breaking out of a multi-layered containment system. /s
Here is our privacy page: https://bubblic.co/privacy/

We do not use it to train any models or share the data with ANYONE.

I currently work from home with my wife, we are not incorporated yet. I live in Mountain View, CA right now. Do you suggest that I put my home address there?

We are GDPR compliant. We do not sell or share users' data and we let them know what kind of data we collect for what purposes. Plus, users can delete their data COMPLETELY from our system with a single button within the app. No emailing or calling a number shenanigans.
Because they’re not. Nowhere close. Although 32k/vehicle includes all fixed costs.

By my calculations, with current ASP and marginal unit costs, they need to sell about 35k R1 vehicles per quarter to achieve positive gross margin. For reference they sold about 12k last quarter.

So, yea. I don’t think they’ll get to positive GM before burning through all their cash.

Edit: I should give them more credit. I didn’t think they would ever achieve positive marginal unit economics, but the last two quarters have showed that they have.
In many cases it’s more than simple:

You had the conversation with someone and that someone googled/shopped/amaozned/clicked it. Or did before already, you don’t initiate every conversation in your life after all.

Now go and try getting a denial that they are not using the fact that you share a wifi with someone as parts of the recipe for the recommendation cake.
I don’t know how to read this comment. Assuming it’s about regulations potentially impeding the ability to scale, the (million people) city I grew up in did not seem to have problems providing enough taxis in any way.

As far as I’ve heard from my family member, taxi concessions were highly sought after, but from my experience there were always more than enough to serve the population well. Some taxi drivers were employees of actual owners of the taxis, some (like my family member) owned their own taxi(s).
If you need to use prettiefy to even have a chance to understand the code, is it still source code?

About the byte code: You mean wasm? (Guess that's what you're alluding to.)
True and there are some other issues to be addressed. Those two particular issue is on our roadmap.

Regarding quantization, we wanted to develop a code path that absorbs any quantization formats, for example, those from GGML or GPTQ, so that they could be all used. ML compilation (MLC) is agnostic to any quantization formats, but we just haven't exposed such abstractions yet.

On CPU offloading, imagine if you are writing PyTorch, it should be as simple as a one-liner `some_tensor.cpu()` to bring something down to host memory, and `some_tensor.cuda()` to get it back to CUDA - seems a low-hanging fruit but it's not implemented yet in MLC LLM :( Lots of stuff to do and we should make this happen soon.
I believe that data might have been licensed (from Etilize?). They could have stopped paying for it and lost the rights to display it.
> Is it a fascist police state, or just a different set of expected behavior patterns?

it's closer to the first one: fascist police

that's unfortunately absolutely something all people in the US have to worry about

the threat of them organizing and doing so as a result of you displeasing the government, however, is far more remote in the US than in China

in essence, China presents just another, higher and more abstracted level of unchecked arbitrary exercise of power, and thus you logically must concern yourself with those higher level threats as well as the lower level ones
While CNET might not be the most reliable side, Google telling content owners to not play SEO games is also too biased to be taken at face value.

It reminds me of Apple's "don't run to the press" advice when hitting bugs or app review issues. While we'd assume Apple knows best, going against their advice totally works and is by far the most efficient action for anyone with enough reach.
We do not have private voice messages yet. All voice messages are public, as in, everyone can listen to them.
This way, people who are hesitant to speak can still listen to other people's conversations, and also learn from them.

In the near future, we plan to implement private messaging functions, which will be end-to-end encrypted. Upcoming feature! :)
I can imagine a malicious actor changing an SEO-friendly page to something spammy and not SEO-friendly. Since E-Tag and If-Modified-Since are returned by the server, they can be manipulated.

Just a guess though.
It seems like this is mostly summarizing what seems to be pretty settled law. Here are my main takeaways:

1. The courts have concluded that just because a price is higher does not mean it is necessarily in the fiduciary interests of shareholders (especially long-term ones). This is reasonable too, as in many ways, shareholders are more shortsighted

2. Even in the short term, shareholders are usually incentivized to accept offers, whereas auctions and negotiation may yield better offers (this reminds me of the latest season of Succession)

3. Somewhat interestingly, a study (Kidder) showed that companies that defended takeovers successfully were worth less, but companies that tried to defend a takeover but ended up being acquired by the original buyer or another buyer ended up being worth more

4. Different structures of offers (a 2-stage offer, where 51% of shares are acquired at one price and the remaining is acquired at another or not acquired) can make the offer pretty bad to a lot of shareholders, even though it coerces shareholders to pass it

The article concludes that because of all these factors, the board having more power is generally a reasonable thing. I think this generally matches up with the overall role of boards, and I generally agree.
Written in 6 languages go:Python/c/objective c/shell and webgl

I bow to the author
Twitter Rebranding: Online Auction, Memorabilia, Art and More
From my understanding you can patent things supported by software, but not the software itself. A physical digital music player with a fancy software audio compression is patentable, but not the algorithm on its own.
What a strange question. The truth is the truth, what one makes of it is a separate matter.
I use kitty as my main terminal, it’s great.
Can I use two at the same time? Two 7900 XTX would be the price of 1 4090 but with much higher performance (260tok/sec)
LFE can mean "bass shaker", but it's an industry-standard term invented by Dolby that effectively means "between 3 and 120hz", which usually means "subwoofer".

These days crossover points are very configurable. Most bass shakers are rated for use between 20hz and 200hz.
I appreciate the non-vanity aspect of it, and the aspiration to not turn people into bullet points. There's an intellectual honesty in that which, I think, shows that you're different from most people, in that you may be one of the few who just enjoys conversation with everyone without wanting something from them. There is not a great niche on the web for that, anymore. That trait, by the way, probably makes you easy to talk to and less likely to be lonely (in the long run).
Enjoy your fantasy.
I really like Hover Zoom+. I’d be willing to pay $7,000 to $8,500 USD for each kidney you’d be willing to sell. Once we know the size/functioning we can determine exact figures. Happy to buy both if you no longer need them, you probably barely use them anyway.
depending on jurisdiction and contexts i think it would likely make it both.
Depends on the method of manipulation but yeah that is the scary part. It's probably part of what scares people into being so privacy conscious in the first place. Though for me it's more that I get really, really annoyed getting told to do things, because it triggers pathological demand avoidance. But that's just manipulating me in reverse (it's really easy to make me hate/avoid something just by annoying me with it)
Not going to say US behavior is morally sound in this case, but

- US has provided significant financial assistance here, and if it doesnt get any say in return, it has no incentive to provide continued help.

- As far as hegemons so, US has been the least bad in world history. Dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
> NoSQL is as popular as it has ever been though.

Indeed. I was surprised to find that search volume is about as high as it has ever been: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=nosql&hl...
Also relevant, Rich Hickey listed the books that inspired him to create Clojure in his own Amazon account: https://www.amazon.com/ideas/amzn1.account.AFAABBRGIVOWVKTHP...

Easier to browse list: https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/137472.Rich_Hickey_s_Clo...

I find it interesting he includes Mozart/Oz (CTM). It'd be great to see more ideas from that language coming to Clojure.

Also Norvig's AIMA. Clojure could be well positioned for neuro-symbolic AI. That's somehow connected to Anglican, discussed in the History of Clojure article.
Picking MyISAM or InnoDB was a programming, not admin decision. The answer was almost always InnoDB.
I don't know if it's possible to build an audience as large as Fridman’s without superficial treatment of wide ranging topics.

(I appreciate his efforts but I don't consider him a geek of any discipline or field, limiting his depth overall.)
Yes, and it's going to take a whole lot more.
I'd look at it differently: currently running a business, me and my wife are spending a lot more than 30% of our time on non-core activities. If a service would reliably take a chunk of that off of our shoulders, it would absolutely be worth the commission. Especially since there are no fixed costs, no income = no costs.
This is a superpower, I had uBlock but didn't realise it had the element picker feature. It took seconds to clear up the annoying parts of YT. Cheers for the recommendation.
No, there are certain upsides to gig work (mostly being able to set your own hours on the fly). What gig workers need is just better labor protections and benefits.
Running AI models is extremely expensive. If you want to offer it to the public, you have to plan capacity very accurately, otherwise, either the quality will suffer or you will bleed too much money, too early.

Take OpenAI for example, even with their enormous popularity, I believe they are still making huge losses. The only way they can survive (right now) is with the huge financial injection from Microsoft. Besides, you can run your AI models on GCP or AWS and other providers easily, no need to invest locally. For a pay-on-hours tariff, it’ll be affordable for experiments. Huggingface is yes taking care of all the “logistics” for you already.
True. However no internet hottake will be a proof of anything. The fun is over and now it’s time for science to work it’s laborious work. Nothing has been proven, nothing confirmed. But it was fun!
on Apple's website, it talks about 'Data not linked to you', (https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/#l...) and excerpt is here:

- Stripping data of any direct identifiers, such as user ID or name, before collection.
- Manipulating data to break the linkage and prevent re-linkage to real-world identities.

Additionally, in order for data not to be linked to a particular user’s identity, you must avoid certain activities after collection:

- You must not attempt to link the data back to the user’s identity.
- You must not tie the data to other datasets that enable it to be linked to a particular user’s identity.

We do not attempt to link the data back to user's identity or tie the datasets to enable them to be linked.

If you have a more technical solutions/suggestions, we are all ears. Thank you very much!
I did something similar to this before in my old job, because installing of chat applications is unauthorized, the solution I come up with is I created a batch script with easily to identify computer network map so regular users will have problem using it, it utilizes net send command.
> It could be more like bytecode.

Isn’t this essential what WebAssembly is doing? I’ll admit I haven’t looked into it much, as I’m crap with C/++, though I’d like to try Rust. Having “near native” performance in a browser sounds nice, curious to see how far it’s come.
How about pre tech stock price drop Twitter/Musk
This is amazing to hear Steven! (Sorry I locked myself out of discord a couple of days ago...) I'm sure there's bunch of features missing like biased sampling you mentioned, and more than happy to merge PRs if you'd love to :)
It's so painful reading this marxist leaning stuff because they say really dumb things really intelligently. If you didn't have a moderately decent understanding of reality before reading this you would think they were making good points.

Where this goes wrong: The market has no purpose other than to facilitate exchange. People buying property are buying because they correctly believe the price will go up because the supply/demand characteristics of the market indicate that will happen. Yes, we did produce more houses than we created additional households for the last several years, however, at least as of 2021 Canada had the lowest housing stock per capita of any G7 nation, so the market is still extremely tight so prices should and did rise. If you don't like that the correct answer is still to push for policies that increase supply (despite what this marxist crap says). The nuance is that we have structural issues in Canada (and many other places) that limit the speed at which we can build housing supply that people actually want and that incentivizes knocking down the low end cheaper rental units and building luxury units instead because of scarcity in high density zone residential land. So the policies we need to push for are things like getting rid of minimum parking requirements, rezoning vast swaths of single family home zoned land to at least allow multi family medium to high density, especially around the core, and supporting this newly rezoned land with better transit, better walkways, better bike paths to get more people out of cars and into transportation better suited to higher density.
Something that's pretty easy and beneficial is to regularly donate blood, also helps to clear out things like heavy metal build up, although you might need to be careful of getting low in some like iron.
Same happening at the version that Microsoft is hosting in their cloud. You can get on the waiting list, but it's heavily implied that if you don't have a good use case (aka lots of prompts/money coming in), you won't get access soon.
I just looked it up on Wikipedia. Apparently, in Germany Uber only dispatches to local rental car and taxi providers, so it effectively seems to be a frontend to German taxis.

They also mention the rather strong transport laws, that most likely prohibit them from offering the same model as in the US. (But I really don’t know.)

So, not comparable it seems.
Yes, yet another promise that Elon broke!
It's a creation myth/legend IIRC
I am pretty sure I don't do 10 searches that quickly: I usually start a day by going to known places, email and continuing where I left off yesterday. That's rarely "I was just going to look something up" point.

Still, getting a single, customized, full web search done in 200ms is impressive: scaling that to more requests is easier today with scale-out (for this particular problem type, which is basically read only) than getting that single search to perform.
Here I thought having to read Duns Scotus's commentary on Aristotle's "Metaphysics" in grad school would be the last I heard of him.

I'll take him over Aquinas.
Musks’s bizarre decisions in running Twitter seem to stem from a belief that the Twitter platform itself is what draws in users, rather than the content on the platform. It’s quite baffling how someone who seems to spend every waking moment on the service has such a poor understanding of it.
That’s exactly how an app which treated him as a part-time worker would work. If you stopp accepting every ride that’s offered to you, you get fired. What else would you expect?

I find it so puzzling that some people can’t accept that there are gig workers who prefer the flexibility and many of them wouldn’t be able to work at all if they had to be treated as part/full time.
The only ethical 'business model' I could see here is a donation-based non-for-profit that keeps the lights on. It might be worthwhile partnering with a non-for-profit that's already in the mental health space. They can funnel grant money into this, and probably have enough advertising budget and brand to get much broader reach. Otherwise it's fine to keep it small as your passion project and not exploit your users for growth.
Haskell does let you freely execute side effects. It just asks you to label any function that does so. People get tripped up by it because it's different, but in practice, it's absolutely trivial.
Yom Kippur is literally the most important holiday / holiest day for the Jewish religion. Equating it with "pastafarian special days" is at best extremely insensitive, and frankly seems rather ignorant.
https://archive.is/zKDjB
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Not really, I used ten or fifteen web apps today and I was totally at the mercy of whoever designed them re: who had access to the data I generated, re: which front end I used, etc.

It's the user's trust preference that I want to matter, not the app developer's.

My NAS appliance has plenty of storage available, I want to select it as my storage backend so that if the internet goes down everything that doesn't require collaboration still works for me. And not because I've been very choosy about what code I rely on, but because that degree of composability is built into the protocols.
A farmer’s dog may be eating the scraps, but has a fundamentally different role in the farm as an enterprise than the animals the dog is herding.

By your value-extraction definition, Sundar Pichai isn’t upper class. He doesn’t make money from his ownership of the capital—he owns a negligible share of Alphabet. Instead, he helps the shareholders extract more value from Alphabet and is compensated for that work. A definition that excludes CEOs from the upper class isn’t a very workable one.

I think a more useful definition recognizes that, in between shareholders and the workers is a class of people who help the shareholders extract more value from the enterprise, and therefore has interests closely aligned with those of the shareholders. For example in a company like Uber, that’s what the programmers are doing. They’re not creating value, they’re building systems to extract more value from the drivers.

Another way to look at it is that there’s a large class of people whose jobs wouldn’t be nearly as well compensated without monopolistic capitalism. $500,000/year Facebook engineers only exist because Facebook as an enterprise throws off enormous amounts of cash. If you look at more social-democratic societies, the biggest difference isn’t at the very top. Sweden and Norway have more billionaires per capita than the United States. Instead, the biggest difference is in the professional class. Swedish engineers (and bankers and lawyers and other professionals) make a fraction of what their American counterparts make. And that’s because Sweden has far fewer of these insanely high margin businesses.