skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it remarkable that they used laptops for this. Surely, a Dell server for $100k with good specs could have crushed a lot of these models. Could have just given them all Remote Desktop sessions too.
Wow! That sounds maddening.
Well, yeah, that was exactly it. It's not that Microsoft was unfair, it was that Microsoft was unfair in ways that were illegal under the current law.
My favorite type of weed is cocaine
Here you go: https://asm.org/Articles/2019/May/Measles-and-Immune-Amnesia

Very short version: it infects the tissue that create the cells that contain or immune memory, replacing them with versions that only know about the measles virus. Sounds like it's not permanent, though the article doesn't make it clear whether it's recovery or re-learning.
If you believe the US has done what China is currently doing, then I have a bridge to sell you...

There's no point in furthering this discussion if you are unwilling or incapable of acknowledging basic, publicly accessible facts about China's espionage campaign and worse. Hint, it's not simple industrial espionage...

Whataboutism is not going to make anyone side with your position while China grows increasingly belligerent towards it's neighbors and hostile towards European and North American nations.
Would you get tried in the US for interning at a company and then go to a competitor with all your inside knowledge ? [edit: barring a paid non compete agreement]

Then a step further from that, sure there are laws to prevent you from wholesale lifting corporate data and bringing them out as you leave, but as many laws it will be extremely difficult to detect and prove that happened in many low profile cases. That's why instead of just relying on the law you'll lock usb ports monitor network activity and get laptops returned when someone leaves.

It's kinda like preventing shop lifting, you know it will happen at some scale.

> US company / Chinese gov

How much leverage do you thing a Chinese company has to if a three letter US agency spies on them and pass the info to US companies ? And would you argue that scenario wouldn't happen if a specific Chinese company had a decisive advantage that could severly hurt US interests ?
See also: the US “no fly” list, which is a read-only Excel file in the cloud.
I was wondering when this was going to happen. Airtable is a cool technology, but seemingly overhyped at their price point.
It is delightful that people make things like this and I hope that we never reach a point where this type of things ceases to be possible.
I saw that, but I honestly think it’s a non-story. That’s ~$80k of stock. I sold more of my company’s stock the last quarter (just as part of my vesting schedule) and I’m no exec. I’m sure that’s just a small part of his vest for the quarter - possibly even less than 10%.
how active is paperless-ngx? it seems very much oriented in the direction I'd like to go. I once imagined setting up a camera rig over my desk so that any paper that I looked at got auto-captured and automatically archived without any explicit effort on my part :)
Even if a car were totaled, why doesn't the owner get to decide whether to accept the risk of Supercharging it anyway?
“When governments permit counterfeiting or copying of American products, it is stealing our future, and it is no longer free trade.” - US President Donald Trump, commenting on China.

Actually, the above quote is not Trump and not on China. It's Ronald Raegan on Japan in 1985.

When a new economic threat rises, the US will use the same playbook- demonizing in media, accusations, turn the public against said country, ban products, increase tariffs from said country, turn to allies, etc.
I didn't claim that it wasn't culturally-dependent. Both people turning to drugs to self-medicate, and people not supporting and funding effective interventions - people on both sides rejecting or not seeing the opportunity to engage in community-building - is absolutely a culture issue.
The integration costs were part of the 40 hours. The trouble is you haven't avoided them by paying the money.

Open tools also tend to have a longer life, because a community survives even as members come and go, but one boss decides that a product isn't sufficiently profitable or the company gets bought out by a competitor and now it's discontinued and you have to start over.
Not to mention the original microsoft access database.
It's certainly not 'way worse'. CPVC/PVC has its advantages and disadvantages, just like every other piping method. CPVC can become less pliable over time, particularly for hot water, but properly (by code) supported/strapped and glued, it can last for decades. It, like PEX, should be run to a well-secured, copper stub out where it sticks out of the wall in an area where it could be damaged.

Copper is not without its disadvantages: it's outrageous expensive as of late, soldering can be dangerous (banned in some cases due to fire risk), it takes longer to install than most other options, and some water supplies have a composition that leads to premature failures.

PEX is a universe of options: PEX-A, PEX-B, crimp rings, clamps, plastic/brass fittings, etc. It also needs to be properly installed - PEX B has very specific locations for the crimp/clamp rings on the fitting, and the difference between a proper crimp/clamp and a failure waiting to happen is very subtle.
Besides everyone else pointing out that they werent forced to break up - i think the more saliant point is they aren't the behemoth they once were.

Maybe its chance or maybe it really did work, but MS is not the evil monopoly it once was. Still very succesful but not a monopoly.
if you're willing to share further: what's your top OSS clone atm?
I think local LLMs are great for tinkerers, and with quantization can run on most modern PCs. I am not comfortable sending over my personal data over to OpenAI/Anthropic, so I've been playing around with https://github.com/PromtEngineer/localGPT/, GPT4All, etc. which keep the data all local.

Sliding window chunking, RAG, etc. seem more sophisticated than the other document LLM tools, so I would love to try this out if you ever add the ability to run LLMs locally!
Seeing at how non-tech people use Google I doubt that.

Also cancerous SEO sites (with affiliate links) pop up all the time if you search for product info or comparison.
I think a good program, is like a good piece of art. You never really finish. You just satisfy the nagging feeling of incompleteness until you have exactly what you wanted (or hoped). And even if you don't finish, you've still technically finished your research into it.
I think paying Apple and Mozilla to be the default search engine, as well as within Chrome, counts as intentionally crippling other search engines.

If Apple made them default because they’re the best, then that’s fine. But spending a ton of money to keep themselves as the default, when they already have the vast majority of market power, seems like an artificial barrier to competition.

Unless another search engine is so much better that Apple is willing to forfeit billions of dollars of pure profit, then nobody else has a chance to be the default.
https://github.com/epitron/mitm-adblock

or

https://github.com/barre/privaxy
Thanks for this list! I hope more get involved. https://melonking.net/melon?z=/thoughts/lets-make
I've personally been asked by authorities to produce documents that are 30+ years old. It's a bit surreal and I wonder if they could even authenticate them...
>One example: accounting scandals in the US are rare. I don't think anyone trusts accounting figures for public companies from India or china.

I work in accounting. You’re right, I trust the US more than India or China, but you’d be surprised at the liberties US companies make and how many individuals from India are auditing their work. Auditors (excluding partners and some senior managers) are just not equipped to deal with the technical accounting concepts and to challenge management. Remember, the company employs the auditors. You certainly don’t want to ruin a $1MM contract for your firm but pressing too hard.
If you don't mind a fictional space-related API, check out https://spacetraders.io/
Today’s Starbucks is well removed from its origins. Starbucks was never great coffee, but I’ve heard it started out pretty decent.

Much like how McDonalds, KFC, etc started by making decent food so did Starbucks. Add 40+ years of optimizing for the bottom line and the average person’s pallet and you get a very different product.
Next up on HN:

Physical theft is simply movement of atoms from one position to another position.
Publishers work so hard to impose the limitations of paper on digital libraries.

I realize they're doing it to preserve their business model, but it shouldn't be at the expense of destroying a modern library of alexandria. The benefit to humanity of a global digital library is too great.
I'd be interested in comparison with:

https://relicabackup.com/features

https://github.com/netinvent/npbackup

Which is my current short-list for cross platform backup...
> neither I nor the law says core business

That’s just factually false. You specifically wrote:

> Even in California the "I wrote it on my own time" doesn't apply to software that relates to an employer's ***core*** business.

You can’t complain about people being “wishful” or in “denial” when they are quoting you.

Maybe California law is silent in the topic, but Aeolus wasn’t the person who introduced that specific phrase.
Those aren't raw, they're cooked.

/s
> The Tesla likely has even more features, but the idea that you can just jump in to a brand new car and understand everything about how to use it seems far fetched.

Tesla's just have terrible UX. Quit making excuses.

I bought a 2021 Range Rover with all the safety features of a Tesla. It has sophisticated software with a big touchscreen but it also has knobs for the normal stuff. I was comfortable using the car immediately and found cool new features for a couple weeks. It was pleasant getting used to it.
The problem with all of this is that it's a performance.

Google does something actually anti-competitive, but it's subtle and requires a thorough understanding of industry dynamics to fully understand. But one of their employees said something that sounds bad, so guess what the headline is.

Whether the quote was taken out of context or not isn't even the interesting question, because it's independent of whether they're actually doing something wrong.

The quote could be completely in context and the employee was a fool who didn't know what they were talking about, or it could be completely out of context even though they actually did the bad thing.
Does this support macOS for apps? The website is a little unclear and “Windows and iOS” is a really odd combination of platform support.

Aside, I have used this in the past for GUI on windows and it was amazing. Like .NET but native and better.
besides the security aspect (which I agree is major and often unavoidable), local storage has numerous other advantages, among which: (1) search can be dramatically and noticeably faster, (2) access cannot be removed/degraded when traveling to countries in which various online services are not permitted.
Possibly these two - though I've yet to try them:

https://relicabackup.com/features

https://github.com/netinvent/npbackup
Any sympathy for authors?
Nah, it’s well and truly in production now. There are new features needed to support some languages better, and closer integration with the DOM may arguably be desirable, but my understanding is that it’s at the point where heavy lifting can be done in wasm, with automatically generated JS stubs.

I might be wrong (not a front end specialist) but ISTM that a native TS implementation built today would more likely be a compiler to WASM than try to become a first class browser language.

And anyway, direct browser support for TS would take as long as WASM has taken to gain broad support.
I agree.

> You certainly don’t want to ruin a $1MM contract for your firm but pressing too hard.

Only in the west would you get any push back at all. The auditor would feel some duty to bring up an issue even if it reflected poorly on the company and even their own managers.

I agree they likely wouldn't push an issue beyond its welcome, but this particular value is unheard of in many parts of the world.
I’m sorry seeing those Woke Words in a Science just make me so hopping mad. It’s like if they use those words and people read them, then the words will make science more or less… what I’m trying to say is they’re so bad, and nothing made of Science could make me feel this way. The only way to do anything with all this discomfort I feel from the Words when I see them online is post in the comments, it’s literally the way we’ll save society writ large
Stop worrying about tools and just write.
By definition, a CFO focuses on the money. Creators and customers are secondary, if not a nuisance.
Thanks; go for it :)

I can't speak to libgen's current fiction policy. Just be cognizant of the human element.

Your last point is good; I meant to add something about dead authors too. Fuck estates for that very reason. Lazy-ass kids should write their own damn novel.
I want tree-based conversations where I can drag and drop nodes from an old tree to form a new chat.
thanks for sharing - for Mint, are you willing to type in your password to provide access to your other services/accounts? that has been a security bridge too far for me to date :) also, are there runners-up to Mint?
Isn't this already how we address allergies?
Mozilla is in a rock and a hard place since their #1 revenue source is getting scrutinised with a significant anti-trust suit in decades.

We need to admit that not even a new so-called AI tool called ChatGPT could compete and make a dent on Google's 90% market share [0] as a 'search engine' [1]. The new Bing made no significant change to challenge Google [2][3] and Neeva (by former Google employees) believed they could challenge them and failed. [4]

No contest on competition since there is little to no competition against Google in search.

[0] https://www.similarweb.com/engines/

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/chatgpt-traffic-slips-aga...

[2] https://searchengineland.com/new-bing-google-market-share-si...

[3] https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsoft-bing-search-artificial...

[4] https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/20/23731397/neeva-search-eng...
Can't help but wonder what the verbatim "threat" was
Apache Spark 3.5.0
US has a intelligence budget of nearly $100 billion/year. What do you think they're doing?

In addition, the US shares intelligence with the Five Eyes on China. What do you think they share?

When was the last time you read a news story that isn't purely anti-China?
This is cute but very different from what an economist would consider interesting.
for the same reason why outright banning 'under the table' parts of an economy would actually destroy that economy, there's a lot of good that having these free books accessible directly accounts for

the publishers who want to destroy this are essentially forcing a slowdown of information transfer and, ironically, would devalue these books in general

i wouldn't buy anything that i can't preview because i've seen too much garbage that i know isn't worth paying for, especially coming from elselvier
Incredible site which I'll celebrate by posting this highly addictive cover:

https://youtu.be/Uk2aHGjOdlQ?si=mIodxFSxrn7-t8Qj
This is an incredible piece of software. I haven’t immediately felt joy like this with an app in a long time, I’ll be coming back to this quite a bit, seems like a great brainstorming tool, and a fun toy.
Shocking but true: you could program things in Go before generics.
Sure those are other numbers, but the number I’m looking at is inflation ex-shelter for the most recent month? [0].

To be clear, housing is categorized as a service and transportation inflation is 1.6% [1]

Not sure why you think I’m completely off but I would be curious to see links.

[0]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=18UVC

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=18UVL
> This is one of the main reasons why companies pay a premium for workers in the west when they could hire from other places.

By this token "other places" companies would also want to pay a premium to hire US workers outside of sheer competency. Yet we're not seeing Samsung massively moving institutional operations to US centers for instance.

> accounting scandals

Whait, what ? You're telling me that while the crypto bubble is bursting and they're going to prison for egregious fraud ?

Also, scandals being few in number would probably be a sign of overcorruption and systematic rot or the controlling structure. I'm not sure that's what we want.
There are already DC ties to the other grids in Texas. They do buy and sell power from other regions. They just aren't particularly large ties, maybe capable of 2GW total?
> I believe that curl does not have client side caching

See:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37528558

by llimllib

Specifically:

curl -o /tmp/euro.zip -z /tmp/euro.zip

Option o is output, option z says

"Request a file that has been modified later than the given time and date, or one that has been modified before that time."

And:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37529690

by sltkr:

"the server doesn't support that header, but since the response does include a Last-Modified header, curl helpfully aborts the transfer if the Last-Modified date is the same as the mtime of the previously downloaded file."
thanks for sharing - what do you use for colorization?
Those numbers are most certainly made up. I didn't even know about radios on Spotify for the longest time.
But you’ve got vendors like Sony who put key functionality of the phone behind an erasable firmware block, so if you ever unlock the boot loader your $1600 android cameraphone takes pictures like a 2010 budget POS. And they’re not the only ones who do stuff like that.

Yes, you can simply not buy Sony because of this behavior, and you can simply not buy samsung because of their spyware, and can not buy huawei or other chinese vendors. And by the time you count up all the android vendors you shouldn’t buy from the conclusion is obvious: it’s simply a better support model to just buy an Apple if you care about device longevity.

But since we all live on this same planet together, we need to do something about e-waste, and android is just fountaining devices into landfills with planned-obsolecence 1-2 year device cycles. This is something that - if you really do care about e-waste - needs to simply be outlawed. You sell the device, you support it for 5 years from the last year it's sold.
tl;dw: crazy person wants to intentionally give the entire human population alpha-gal syndrome.
The badges we see today on Github repos do look a lot like these, don't they?
The point of these studies is that MDMA can improve the efficacy of talk therapy. I don’t think anyone in this space is thinking MDMA will replace traditional anti depressants as a thing you take regularly for an indefinite period of time.

Further, I’d speculate MDMA is not obviously harder on the body than adderall or other stimulants currently legal for ADHD.
I would think running regression should be more demanding on the potato then decompressing ZIP file.
My hair stood on end both times he did this. Holy crap that's some massive legal liability.
It’d be better to require this by law so it was uniform throughout the ecosystem.
> “The city teams only know how to use Excel, just make it like Excel.”

> “Why can you see the formulas?”

> “You said to make it just like Excel.”

I can't keep up with the espionage story that followed but I had this conversation more than once in my professional career.

The first time I sat as a junior dev on a multi-month project replacing a excel spreadsheet for financial controlling of data centers that only one person who was going to retire understood with a web-based solution.

They were quite proud that they were going to get a "modern" solution.

Then they wanted me to make it like excel. What followed was evaluating every fricking excel JavaScript library out there at this time, going for one and started duct taping all the missing pieces.

They were pleased but the look was off. It wasn't excel. I slapped some styles on it coming quite close.

I was not prepared for what happened during the next presentation: They hated it because they wanted a modern web based solution (their words, not mine) and what they got was a poor excel knockoff running in their Internet Explorers. Tables are so 90s.

I remember the pain so vividly that I regard "just make it like excel" as some kind of forming meme for my career till today.
laws are only for banning apple products.

sadly nobody cares about the ways in which android generates its copious e-waste streams with its own planned obsolescence, the “but the e-waste!” deflections stop the moment you suggest that maybe android vendors should be legally required to provide first-party parts supply and software updates. All the communism and “it’s what’s right for the planet” vanishes in a poof of fanboy.

nobody really cares about cables generating e-waste or whatever horseshit, it was always about finding a way to use the legal system to resolve the arguments the android fans couldn’t win in the marketplace of ideas, and sticking a thumb in the eye of their fellow man.
Show HN: Hello Inbox – Free email deliverability checklist for marketers
After struggling with low open rates in my small lifestyle software business, I decided to go down the rabbit hole that is email deliverability, learned a bunch of things I didn't know even after being in tech for a decade. A/B tested a bunch of things and finally got good results. I then decided to put together a comprehensive checklist of everything I learned and got me results to share with others. Now I help companies fix poor email deliverability and boost their email ROI. I want this checklist to be a repository of email best practices so I'm always looking to improve and update it. Your feedback is welcome.
So basically creating a strawman toy model of actual complex economy and solving it. That's what theoretical physicists do initally but once developed they get to prediction stage. Just like rational agent axiom is false, I wonder what other badly formulated axioms does economics harbour.
People naturally share useful information and this collaboration is the basis of all human achievement and the mechanism by which human society evolves.

Putting artificial obstacles in the way of sharing useful information is an act against progress and society itself.

For my part im not an absolutist in this (not all information) but i enthusiastically support zlib and libgen because keeping books and papers from those who cant afford it (half the people on the planet!) is, in my view, extremely antisocial.
I would really like to understand the second paragraph, but I don’t understand a single sentence. What exactly are you proposing? What’s a state compressed reporter?
According to wikipedia, the usage dates back centuries.
Ask HN: Is there a way to learn Neural Networks/LLMs through problem solving?
Thank you and sorry for not reading carfully enough.

It's still a pretty heavy dosage. Most sane ravers would take less with more time in between. But I guess if you stop after 3 sessions it is ok.

They gave everyone the same dosage without considering the body mass.

Then 120mg as initial dosis for someone who has no tolerance is a crazy kick (considering body mass of ~80kg).
Chrome's market share alone is a lot more than 5%.
Because most of the time the reason for an issue like this is maintenance, or pilot and/or crew error. Both of which are mostly guided by airline policy and training.
One way to make this realistic is to add game theory to the simulation. Otherwise, the most important assumption in economics will be left out: rationality in decision making.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrie_Tolstedt

https://www.justice.gov/usao-cdca/pr/former-wells-fargo-exec...