skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a very common MacBook M1. I agree that most developers use an interpreter or a compiler with the default settings. At least on the mac everything seems to target a very recent instructions set. But it’s quite common to see hot paths being optimised using not so old instructions on amd64 too.

I also agree that you should keep most of your users happy. How many users are using such old hardware and software? At work, we disabled old TLS versions and many cipher suites for security reasons because we knew no one would care. We kept TLSv1.2 enabled because we still had users using software incompatible with TLSv1.3 unfortunately.
This law wasn't written to help highly paid SWEs get an extra $10k/year. It's written for lower-wage workers who can't get multiple offers and need to avoid entering long hiring pipelines for jobs that don't pay enough to cover rent.
> The key overall is always to not abuse and that should be adressed by education

Who is to say what's "abuse" really.

Why would taking MDMA in a therapist chair be "medicine" and taking it and dancing all night long be "abuse"? Because that's how they're going to try and control it. I'm not even sure which would be healthier for you or more effective. Like, obviously there's a point where it's too much, but if you let the "medical establishment" define it, it'll definitely be defined as any point in which people might actually be having fun.
Actual philosophers are not as bad at the false answers thing as some people who rise to public attention, instead they serve the useful purpose of making people realize their preconceived notions about their own thoughts and their relationship to reality are not as sound as they may have thought, by virtue of the many different ways others have self-consistently answered the same questions.

I think you'll need some sense of metaphysics and epistemology and maybe even ethics to function, most people have one (they know what they think the word "reality," means, they can distinguish between thoughts and observations, they wouldn't kill unless they were seriously threatened) but when that is extended into a "let me tell you how the world works" thing it becomes philosophy done bad, which can only be resisted by knowing philosophy done right (the impassive if frustrating collection of a lot of possible solutions). It is a universal human trait to want to answer these questions, even the so-called "rationalists" have a web page with a list of doctrines. The only way to do it wrong is to come up with one answer and think that it is the answer because it's the only answer you know and that is what learning philosophy is for.
> Rent control is the ultimate "I got mine" - it rewards people who got in early while making it impossible for anyone else to have housing.

Where the fuck is the priced out person supposed to go? They need to uproot their life because a wealthier person came along?
A bunch of folks in the thread seem confused as to why they would do this after their Google investments. It's important to note that Amazon has been working closely with Anthropic for a long time, and already vends their models in AWS:

https://aws.amazon.com/bedrock/

So if anything this is just a more public way of acknowledging the existing relationship.
A bit off topic but what’s an easy to use FOSS WYSIWYG text processor for Linux?

I’ve tried OpenOffice and I became frustrated.
I would ask, what are they using instead and what would they get by switching to Google Cloud that they don't already have?
> Of course it’s more profitable to cook steaks for the rich.

It's equally as profitable to cook steaks for the poor. The margin on the steak is the same, regardless of the wealth of the buyer.

This is not true for apartments. The renter holds the apartment hostage for the length of the lease, so the behavior of the renter determines the margin. Someone who leaves the apartment as it was is high margin, someone who trashes the apartment can leave you with negative margin. Even for the entire apartment building.

Reality is that people who are rich are often required to be functional, you don't get to keep the $400k/year job if your suit smells like cat urine from the 19 cats in the apartment whose litter box you never change. If you slam back 5 or 6 cases of beer every weekend starting Thursday at 3pm, and toss the empty cans and boxes in the living room until they pile to the ceiling such that you can't get to the bathroom and so you just start shitting in the corner or the kitchen sink... likewise, you tend not to remain wealthy.

Renting to a poor person allows for alot more dysfunction, and it can cost you. You can't discriminate blatantly though, but raising the price filters them out pretty well.

Poor people who don't trash apartments must not only be the majority, but a gigantic majority, of course. But there's no way to tell one of those from the assholes who do trash apartments. And landlords aren't in the fairness business anyway, so they don't care.
To some extent yes, for generic multi-modal chat-bots this could be a problem, but there are many apps that provide tight integration / smooth tooling for whatever problem they are helping to solve, and that might be valuable to some people -- especially if it's a real value generating use case, where the difference between 80% solution from ChatGPT and 95% solution from a bespoke tool matters.
In what industry were you operating? What was your role? What hats did you wear as a consultant?

You sound a little negative and self-defeatist about everything, whereas a lot of people would be able to spin even a startup failure as an amazing learning and growing experience.
It’s the closest thing I’ve seen to a mecha in Japanese animation
Not sure, but isn’t unity in this case covering your need for some tools, like rendering, assets management and so on, but maybe not all - i.e deferring to them the physic. Or so would I say assume ?
> Demonstrations of human capacity for ugliness are a lot easier than revealing something beautiful.

This almost seems like an obvious truth but most people seem oblivious to it.

In the general case, I like to say that "destroying is much easier than creating". Sadly, for decades now, most of art (and society) has been more about the former than the latter.

If anyone reading this has sources, essays, articles, books to suggest to me that touch on this issue, I am all ears
Agreed. You’re now dependent on a third party plugin.
There’s no such article. Downloading internet files for non commercial use, watching streaming videos is not illegal under any circumstances and implying otherwise is creating a misleading situation
> In theory those making more money would be the most threatening, having enough extra money to translate into political power.

In theory. In reality, higher salary workers are easier to propagandize, because they have a tendency to LARP "being a capitalist" with their 401k. They also tend to be modestly smart technicians, which generally gives them a greater capacity for self-deception and delusion. The end result is that most of them politically self-neutralize.
They care, they have to to make money. Take any supposed new metric pushed by Elon with a big grain of salt especially something completely unmeasurable like "unregretted user minutes" that's supposed to be their new guiding light.
> the 100mpg carburetor is still apparenrtly under lock and key

I always hoped these or similar fables like the 1-litre car would suddenly surface when Tesla and electric cars in general started to be a thing. Especially from car companies more "set in their ways" like GM or german car makers. But all this talk about efuels now makes me think they maybe dont have anything up their sleeves after all.
Honestly when the brains come together on hackernews to reverse engineer and unfuck a high profile videogame I get unreasonably excited. The guy that fixed the GTAV loading times via identifying a broken JSON loop downloading cosmetics was astonishing to me
That doesn't really mean anything, speaking as someone who also interviewed for YC recently. It could just be a confluence of ideas, or that your product isn't really that unique. It doesn't mean they're "stealing" ideas, and even if they are, so what? It's gonna happen as soon as you go to market, so you're gonna have to deal with it sometime. More likely, though, is that no one will actually give a shit about your product and you have to beg them to care, which is what YC themselves say.
> How much is the "billionaire class"'s contribution to global warming?

https://journals.plos.org/climate/article?id=10.1371/journal...

For the US, the top 1% income bracket generates 15-17% of all emissions, the top 10% generates 40%.

Also:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rich-americans-ha...

This article states that the top 10% in the US generates more than double of the top 10% in Europe and still nearly double than the top 10% in Asia per person.

The article also correctly points out that the poorest half of the US also generates as many emissions as the middle 40% of Europe while being "almost twice as poor", so this is not at all about "downgrading their lifestyles". Even poor people in the US have a larger footprint than wealthier people than them in Europe.

If you consider anything moving away from all produce available year-round, nearly identical products released every year with an artificially shortened lifespan, AC/heating running constantly because of a complete lack of insulation, car-centric infrastructure because of a complete lack of walkable cities or public transport and disposable everything a "lifestyle downgrade", then yes, it will require lifestyle downgrades. But without a billionaire class (i.e. raising marginal tax rates to 90% so wealth is reinvested into the economy rather than hoarded) many of these things can be resolved without serious downgrades for most people and actually upgrading the lifestyles of the poorest (e.g. because you no longer have to maintain an expensive gas-guzzling vehicle to get anywhere).
It's legal but not particularly friendly to hold someone to a prior agreement like "you can mostly do what you want with X" when what it's possible to do with X significantly changes.
Or maybe giant syringes? There can't be sloshing if there is no free space because top of cylinder just moves to adjust volume.
Vacancy rates aren't generally increasing though. Vacancy rates are lower now than in 2003 by a good bit.

https://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/current/index.html
The Getty website claims that this system will somehow compensate the original authors of the work that went into the training model. Have they discussed the specifics anywhere? i.e. is it a blanket fee of some fraction of a cent per image to every Getty contributor whose images went into the training set? Statistical analysis of prompts users submitted in the last month and assign more of the money to contributors whose images had matching keywords?

I'm pretty firmly on the side of "large-scale analysis of content that's accessible to the public should be entirely outside the scope of copyright, regardless of what one does with the output", even though I also sympathize with artists that see generative AI as a potentially existential threat to their careers. But I'm curious if Getty is actually going to make meaningful payments to the creators of the images that went into the training set, or if this is more of a "we could continue to pay our existing royalties to content creators, or we could keep most of the money for ourselves by selling access to a model trained on that content" type of situation.

[1] "We’ve created a model that compensates our world‑class content creators for the use of their work in our AI model, allowing them to continue to create more of the high‑quality pre‑shot imagery you depend on." (https://www.gettyimages.com/ai/generation/about)
Everything has a starting point. This is a big leap forward. Know any other organization that is releasing such advanced capabilities directly to the public?
If you want to plug your tool you don't have to bad mouth the demo. Just share your thing. It doesn't have to be win-lose.
Nice project.

I did something similar, but with photos. I managed to process everything on the device in 100% golang with imagemagick C-bindings.

As Imagemagick is also able to render text, it might be a solution for you to get rid of the need for an external server. The ARM build process happens on GitHub actions, so you can check it out.

https://github.com/landgenoot/kindle-synology-photos-photofr...
At the end of the day there is no clear boundary between simulation for fun and for practice, the real question is what are you simulating. If some people were playing paintball in an accurate mockup of a government building, with one team taking up the positions of government guards and persons of interest, I don't think it's absurd to view that with some suspicion, particularly if there are other reasons to suspect it is more than just a game.
I read this book written by one of the psychologists who was doing early research into psychedelic therapy when I was a kid called "Thanatos To Eros, 35 Years of Psychedelic Exploration" and it was really interesting. It's still available on maps.org (Although they kind of muntzed the formatting) [1] but the takeaway is that besides MDMA there's a whole range of other substances with a variety of therapeutic merits to explore. MDMA may hit a sort of sweet-spot quality for more people to tolerate it without adverse reaction kind of sweet spot, however I think the substance Stolaroff was most interested in for enhancement of insight was actually very small doses of 2c-e (you can ctrl+f for it in the link), which I think is something we might end up seeing in more scientific investigations as interest grows.

[1] https://maps.org/2014/11/19/thanatos-to-eros-35-years-of-psy...
Facebook scaled Memcached to handle billions of requests per second (2013)
The UK is not an economic ally of the EU. There's a reason why it takes years to hammer out trade agreements.
Being a "techie" is irrelevant. It is straightforward to get a disc player if someone wants it. You clearly don't want it. But if someone does, the lack of tech knowledge is barely a barrier. I would guess people that are less tech savvy are more likely to still use discs to be honest.
Only if you’re the kinda person who uses “blockchain”, “AI”, and “5G” in the same sentence in which case he is Jesus Christ, Issac Newton and William Shakespeare too.
Bad Pricing Reveals Leadership Deficiencies
Yeah, I can easily recommend Sanderon books to people, and there is enough variety that people might like some and not others. Tress and the Emerald Sea and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter were both interesting, and Tress was especially a refreshing tale outside his norm.

You know he's an amazing author because whenever he is mentioned, people will come out of the woodworks to proclaim how they don't like his work, and the problems they have with it, as if that means anything.

This isn't to say that you have to like his work. Rather, he's so good, that instead of people promoting the epics they do like, they instead can't help but still talk about Sanderson. And that's incredibly powerful.
The people that I know that own the means of production work extraordinarily hard.

Long-term disability insurance has nothing to do with whether you are an owner or a worker, but whether you make enough money to afford the insurance premium - - and you can earn that money either by salary or dividends (and their proxies).
This is the first time I'm hearing it uses the old code base - do you have a source? I thought in the initial marketing they were big on saying it's a full rewrite.
I can understand your position, but there's more than a few of us that have watched some of our favorite products pursue new verticals for the sake of making more money, losing focus on what made them great in the first place, and ultimately dying, forcing us to pivot to some replacement that is better not because its made some revolutionary improvement to the problem space, but because it's less distracted.

All that to say, every time you hear someone talking about this, it's not because they want to talk crap about Bitwarden, it's because they are afraid of getting too sucked into yet another product that works well, only to have to leave when the company's leadership loses focus. Largely because they received pressure from investors trying to 10x their investment in the short term when they could have received sustainable dividends over time.
Why AGI is closer than you think
Sidekiq will drop in-progress jobs when a worker crashes. Sidekiq Pro can recover those jobs but with a large delay. Sidekiq is excellent overall but it’s not suitable for processing critical jobs with a low latency guarantee.

https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/wiki/Reliability
Link to another discussion pointing out that M$ layoffs were the result of wall st. investment firms and hedge fund managers wanting to reduce tech salaries.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37643608
The Wikipedia article doesn't really discuss it, the reference is in the episode's introduction.

The episode in question features not-Marina-Abramović exhibiting not-Rhythm-0. An audience member approaches the table and picks up a weapon. Audience murmurs. Artist stands stoically. Audience member motions like they are going to use the weapon on the artist. Audience gasps. Artist's assistant protests. Artist objects to protests, then promptly collapses with mystery illness (House MD's writers had a thing for misdirecting the audience re: who's sick in the episode intros).
I could be mistaken and maybe it always just corporate speak but wasn't the original intent of being "laid off" was that it was temporary?
It can but that doesn't mean it's a great idea.

Unless your chip has a hardware floating point unit, you're stuck using software float operations. They're slower, though not extraordinarily so. But the main drawback is the floating point library can massively inflate your code size to the point that it no longer fits in available memory.

If you can get away with it, it's fine, but when you can't it's a huge problem.
This is the kind of news that's been suppressed by the administration(s). Until we have a government that's willing to admit there's a problem, we're never going to have a fix. All we hear from both R and D is that the economy is doing great, never better, maximum employment.

I blame the suffering on the internet - which has hyper focused the "mob" to blame something immediately when something sounds horrible. For some reason our "fix" is to group people into camps that forever have 50% of the population that can blame the other 50%. This way, no one ever feels at fault - they simply "switch sides" as soon as they perceive a bit more blame on them.
The EU applies equal car tariffs to all sources, just as the US does.

The origin of this tariff appears to be a desire to keep electric car production in the EU and stop it being outsourced to China.
It was founded by Jimmy Wales but was sold to a PE group. Wales is president of the company though.
When you realize Apache is a hospice organization
I've always wondered why a wiki needs to monetize so hard. Most of their content easily cacheable and produced by volunteers, plus the technology hasn't really changed in 20 years. The whole site could probably be maintained by a single dev and a few admins. It seems natural that these sites are going to eventually be replaced because of this. Maybe I have an incorrect view of the costs/revenue.
It hasn't been lost. Some of us are just old enough to remember what the projects were like, and we're glad they're gone.
Update on the Candle ML Framework
We've first announced Candle, a minimalist ML framework in Rust 6 weeks ago. Since then, we've focused on adding various recent models and improved the framework so as to support the necessary features in an efficient way. You can checkout a gallery of the examples, supported models include:

- Large language models: LLaMA, LLaMA v2, Falcon, Phi-v1.5, StarCoder.
- Quantized models with the llama.cpp approach: LLaMA, T5, Phi-v1.5
- Image generation: Stable Diffusion (v1.5, v2.1, and XL), Wuerstchen.
- Computer Vision: DINOv2, yolo-v3, yolo-v8, Segment-Anything Model.
- Text-to-speech: Whisper.

Thanks to using pure Rust, it's easy to directly rpedict in the browser using WASM. See these examples using Yolo, Whisper, SAM, T5 and Llama 2 https://huggingface.co/collections/radames/candle-wasm-examp...
So overhiring AND overfiring.

What a great testament to the management acumen at these companies.
Surely if you don't like a project rather than writing open letters and whatnot, you fork it? That's the whole point of open source.

That's how gcc project governance got fixed - egcs forked and made the improvements they wanted, won the argument and basically became the main branch. Some of the history is here https://softpanorama.org/People/Stallman/history_of_gcc_deve...
I think it's about citation. Traditionally, a pdf is a complete and finished work, analogous to a published journal article or book. It is static content and will not change, unlike HTML which might be "under construction".

This isn't necessarily still true: HTML content can stay up on the web forever and a pdf can change, but people still prefer to cite something that looks like a paper document.

Since a whitepaper is often meant to be cited, it's published as a pdf to take advantage of this preference.

The best approach is to publish a PDF for citation along with a public HTML demo, like https://jonbarron.info/mipnerf360/
Bankruptcy court can do clawbacks, I'm curious how that could apply for an investment scenario though.. it's not exactly paying a creditor or buying a Porsche just before a bankruptcy...
ASF is where software goes to "retire"; but retirement in this context is an euphemism for dying.

truth is that the Apache Software Foundation is a software graveyard; this is known but not really "seriously" acknowledged.

going straight away from the topic: why our culture does this? so many things are like this: there's a reality (ASF is a graveyard) but it's like rough or impolite to be upfront about it (but nooo, it's just 'stable' software... which may be in some cases but also it also may be dead and unused, people lie)

clearly in the ASF somebody is getting paid for 'maintaining' Apache's version of star office, but clearly somebody is doing a bit of a fraud....
> It’s a demand issue, so the solution has become price increases

That’s more of a capitalist solution than a real solution. Instead of building additional housing we just move the access from millions via price increases.

We can resolve it by creating more supply, we already do by way of copious amounts of cheap plastic home goods that flood the purchasing landscape.
Possibly a poem copied from somewhere else? Hiding secret messages in poems has been a common pastime among humans for a long time.
I've felt for a long time (maybe even a decade) that Apache is the place OSS goes to retire/die. It is heartbreaking in some ways, they became the stewards for a lot of interesting projects [1]. And the venerable web server was so important to the early web. I am still running Apache vhosts on a few personal websites.

It is also a totally unfair characterization. I mean, they still house relevant projects including Kafka, Lucene, Zookeeper, Spark, Arrow and many others.

But it does feel Apache lives in a kind of stasis, a relic of the "old" web, like geocities sites or MySpace. If a project ends up in Apache it feels to me like it has gone out to pasture.

1. https://projects.apache.org/projects.html
KSP2 can't be developed forever.

KSP1 had (AFAIK) a cheaper dev team with no demanding publisher and a good reputation that brought a steady stream of money during alpha. If they progress at the speed of KSP1 from this point, they are going to get cut.