skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>If a company feels the need to reveal their trade secrets in court to make their case, but ultimately wants to maintain protection over the trade secret itself, what option would you provide them?

I wouldn't give them any options, as they are on trial for a reason. Corporate America can't have its cake and eat it too. Google is a multi-trillion dollar publicly traded corporation, they have significant cultural, political, technological and economic power. They are in court due to abuse of one (or more?) of those powers. Part of the trade off of making your C-Suite, founders, and major shareholders multi-billionaires via public markets is that you have to be accountable to the public.

If you're being sued for abuse of power, you can't just tell the judge "shhh, it's a trade secret, it can't be mentioned in public court, let's keep it so secret that most people don't even know we're in court, much less why we're in court" and expect to get away with it. Or, maybe you can....which is equally if not more disturbing in a democratic society. We're not China.

If you're a mom-and-pop startup or small firm, sure, revealing trade secrets might spell doom for you. But you're not Google. I understand why it's not good to have to reveal trade secrets. But if that trade secret has landed you in court, you need to be accountable to the people that utilize your products, own your stock, do business with you, etc...

Granted, if there is a legitimate national security concern here, I understand the need for secrecy. But I highly doubt there's technology in this case that would rip a massive hole in our national security readiness or long term technology strategy.
Sounds like you are better off completely destroying the phone to get a replacement through apple care.
I assume you have never heard of podcasts.
Do you know which distributions are using zlib-ng for zip and unzip programs?

If I understand, the improvement would be around 3 times less CPU use for the comparable resulting size, but I see it here shown for "minizip" not zip:

https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng/discussions/871
> The only downside is that it now make me feel bad that I'm not doing anything with it yet.

If that's the only downside that you see... I guess enhanced phishing/impersonation and all the blackhat stuff that come with it don't count.

I for one already miss the time where companies had support teams made of actual people.
So what, you can use a well defined bonus structure. At least that is transparent and related to one's own work skill.
This is what effectively doctors do - educated guessing.

In my view, while statistical models would probably be an improvement ( assuming all confounding factors are measured ), the ultimate solution is not to get better at educated guessing, but to remove the guessing completely, with diagnostic tests that measure the relevant bio-medical markers.
Yes. You can tell aluminium is worth recycling because they will pay you for it.

Plastic and glass are marginal at best.
That's not how it goes. Shaking was proposed as an explanation for the triad, not observed as the cause. Then the syndrome was named after the proposed explanation and used as a justification to assume shaking whenever the triad was observed. The Guardian article makes this timeline clear.

Moreover, the Syndrome was used to justify suspicion of deliberate harm in cases where the triad was not observed at all, as I think in Roberson's case, if you read between the lines - no article about the case mentions the triad, only generic injuries that could, allegedly, only be caused by shaking.
It's not clear that the only option is DNA, but we will not know until we find a few independent live origins.

Anyway, even if there is a unknown biology law that says that DNA and proteins are inevitable and that confuses us when we detect a second planet with life, if they have an independent origin there is absolutely no way that they have a "genetic code" that can be confusing.
OpenAI regularly changes the model and they admit the new models are more restricted, in the sense that they prevent tricky prompts from producing naughty words, etc.

It should be their responsibility to prove that it's just as capable.
It's not like productivity will drop if you support both remote-first workers and in-office workers; we know it worked great during the pandemic. But learning how to support both is a painful leaning curve which executives and middle managers don't want to deal with. I gave executives entire volumes of literature during the pandemic on how to do remote work successfully, and they didn't read any of it. Mandatory office work is just executives being lazy. They don't want to learn how to work a new way.

This is a big flaw in hierarchical organizations. If a few of your low-level workers are lazy or incompetent, it won't have a big impact on the whole company. But if a few of your executives are lazy and incompetent, it has a much larger effect.
>A business is stuck paying for that lease regardless of how many butts are in seats in it. That is a fixed sunk cost they can't do anything about.

There's usually a break lease clause in most contracts, no? I would imagine breaking leases is pretty common in business real estate.
Argument ad paginum (paginum being page) or perhaps argument ad opus (opus being work or labour) ?
> never made enough to put money away

Or, more often, earned enough to put money away yet decided to have fun instead.
Or Japan! Another country near Pacific which can't figure out the trains in rain!
Search for ambient superconductivity in the Lu-N-H system
Sounds like a good thing to me in terms of the climate emergency.
Note: This is sort of true but is highly misleading.
csv export is only possible on a Mac (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251108577). So, iPhone/iPad/PC users are pretty much out of luck Additionally, I don’t believe passkey’s are exportable at all.
Lack of actual functioning backup options is the primary reason I’m not using iCloud Keychain, so I would love to have these issues fixed.
With people I personally know (so I know it's anecdotal), it's mostly going away from the family (or just changing the physical environment) for work, and stuff like lunches with other people. Having your direct teammates with you doesn't matter as much, as not having screaming kids around you, someone to talk to during lunch and the easier mental switch, to move to "work mode" when you come into office, and back to "non-work mode" when you leave.
you can ask podcasts questions? and they answer you?
You can find our open-source on GitHub https://github.com/IridiumIdentity
I'm following on trying to understand how close I am to developing my personal coding assistant I can speak with.

Doesn't really need to do much besides writing down my tasks/todos and updating them, occasionally maybe provide feedback or write a code snippet. This all seems in the current capabilities of OpenAI's offering.

Sadly voice chat is still not available on PC where I do my development.
Maybe, but a large number of the 10x employees I've worked with are 10x *because* they are good at collaborating in ways that increase their contribution. Someone who writes 10x as much code in a silo may not be more productive than someone who writes a lot of code but gets 10x delivered because they are incredibly good at working with everyone else.
I still don't understand how you can talk to something that doesn't provide factual information and just take it at face value?

The other day I asked it about the place I live and it made up nonsense, I was trying to get it to help me with an essay and it was just wrong, it was telling me things about this region that weren't real.

Do we just drive through a town, ask for a made up history about it and just be satisfied with whatever is provided?
This is definitely something many developers can relate to.
KitForStartups – The Open Source SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate
This is a project I’ve been working on for a couple of weeks now, and I feel it’s now in a state I can share it with the community here on Discord.

It all started when I saw Marc Lou launched ShipFast (a paid Next.js startup boilerplate). I wanted to build something similar for SvelteKit. I was planning to make it a paid product, but ended up open sourcing it.

You can see KitForStartups as a toolkit you can use to prototype and ship faster your MVPs, web applications, etc.

It comes with support for many databases (SQLite w/Turso, MySQL and Postgres), authentication (email + password, OAuth with Google and GitHub), email sending with Resend (local emails are configured to be sent with MailHog for faster debugging), toast notifications with Melt UI, etc…

I’m still actively working on the project and on things like support for Supabase, magic link authentication, MailGun, a CLI, etc…

Give a look at the repo here https://github.com/okupter/kitforstartups, and please feel free to open an issue or PR is there’s something you’d like to see included.
>New housing starts in the US[1] have climbed steadily for the past 10 years

This is good, but even at the peak in 2022 housing starts were lower than they were 20 years ago. Given that the population has grown significantly since then, housing starts per capita effectively never recovered from the 2008 recession.
Lego’s Latest Effort to Avoid Oil-Based Plastic Hits Brick Wall
No Paywall: https://archive.ph/FiqAu
> you're now stuck with paying 7 years for an office you're not even using - that's objectively bad for any company's financials (and in some cases, bonuses for decisionmakers tied to stuff like "cost per employee").

If your goal is to force employees to come back, and many of them quit as a result, now you don't have employees to fill your empty office with and you still owe the same money for the lease. It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to see that coming.

> when people demand fast Internet at their homes to work efficiently or utilize other stuff such as water, electricity or trash more (because they'd have to expand their long-outdated, barely adequate service), utility providers have to invest serious amounts of money. Car insurances tied to distance driven per year lose money.

Sorry, what? The water company is hurting because I flush the toilet a couple extra times a day on one side of town instead of the other? What extra garage am I producing sitting in my office? An extra wrapper from some lunch? The power that they use in the office almost certainly comes from exactly the same source as the power used by your home.

And the whole point of pay-by-the-mile insurance is that you get it because you don't drive very much and want to save money. The insurance companies that don't get paid more when you drive more are the ones that hurt, because you're more likely to get in an accident and you're not paying extra.

None of these "side industries" are hurting, and they probably haven't even noticed.
It's more clarification than policy change, but clarity helps both in ambiguous situations and in situations where someone wants to use ambiguity to gatekeep.
Not really, in my case. They closed the town centre office during covid, and opened a new one in an out-of-town business park I cannot easily walk or cycle to. My commute used to be a three-minute walk, but no longer. So I'm stuck at home, which wouldn't be so bad if I had a proper home office, but I don't.
My inner child of Doc Brown and Wernher von Kerman says, it's time to develop non-newtonian fuel sponges, which would release fuel if squeezed gently and steadily, but behave like solid if things start shaking too much, preventing sloshing.
I like how they silently removed the web browsing (Bing browsing) chat feature after first having it disabled for several months.

A proper notice about them removing the feature would've been nice. Maybe I missed it (someone please correct me if wrong), but the last I heard officially it was temporarily disabled while they fix something. Next thing I know, it's completely gone from the platform without another peep.
I had been using only GPT-4 through the API; you get more control over your experience, and only pay for what you actually use.

But this would definitely make me consider popping $20/mo for the subscription.
I don't doubt it. Do you have a link for this?
MiniGPT4?
Are they a separate union to the platform staff?
Haha, I've actually been thinking about this but was too scared to post such a theory on HN

partially because it doesn't mean anything since India is huge...
The only fair measure is per capita and both of those countries are still producing way less CO2 per person. Also China is now doing a sizeable proportion of your manufacturing.. shouldn't those emissions count against Americans?
Well sort of, it's as if you commissioned help of a human for this or that, and now and then you end up getting medicine-related advise from a homeopathy fan, navigation assistance from a flat-earther, or coding advice from a crack-smoking monkey.
A missed opportunity not calling it "flamefest".
All the problems you mention were created by the government taking wealth away from people and giving it to others.

The solution is for the government to stop doing that.
Kibana and Graylog on top of elastic/opensearch. Even the commerical licenses on those are usually a tiny fraction of splunk's costs, and Graylog does enough for free that it's a much easier path to stand that up and then buy the correlation functionality if you really need it.

For some organizations what Splunk does well is important but for most of them they really only need much more basic log aggregation and analysis tools.
I work as a ethical hacker, so I'm well aware of the phishing and impersonation possibilities. But the net positive is so, so much bigger for society that I'm sure we'll figure it out.

And yes, in 20 years you can tell your kids that 'back in my day' support consisted of real people. But truthfully, as someone who worked on a ISP helpdesk it's much better for society if these people move on to more productive areas.
> The new voice capability is powered by a new text-to-speech model, capable of generating human-like audio from just text and a few seconds of sample speech.

I'm more interested in this. I wonder how it performs compared to other competitor models or even open source ones?
Observing the observation.

Something zen about it...

Don't think but it just is.
Google expands its subsea cable infrastructure with Nuvem
fwiw: 46wpm 80% droid, 31wpm 80% iphone S, 120wpm 98% laptop

47wpm 86% droid with glide disabled (but I'm not dissing glide, it just gets in the way in pure-tap situations)
Blog post for context: https://www.netmaker.io/resources/netmaker-goes-open-source-...
True. Although the training is on a snapshot of websites, including q&a like stackoverflow. If these were replaced too, where are we heading? We'll have to wait and see. One concern would be centralization/ lack of options and diversity. Stackoverflow started rolling AI on its own, despite the controversial way it did (dismissing long time contributors); it might be correctly following the trend.
I keep feeling that consciousness is a bit of a red herring when it comes to AI. People have intuitions that things other than humans cannot develop consciousness which they then extrapolate to thinking AI can't get past a certain intelligence level. In fact my view is that consciousness is just a mysterious side effect of the human brain, and is completely irrelevant to the behaviour of a human. You can be intelligent without needing to be sentient.
> > He's talking about humiliation from dragging Microsoft's and Bill Gates personal brands in the dirt, not actual penalty adjudicated.

Yeah, like Trump's Access Hollywood tape...

At that huge scale whatever topic except for maybe CP ends up becoming a 50-50 split with fans loving the character and his brand even more and haters conversely hating it even more too.

That's because when people that you normally hate side against [insert divisive character] then the choice is to automatically jump on his bandwagon and viceversa. So at such scales it rapidly escalates to a 50-50 split or thereabout.

The best you can do is to have some sort of marginal victory against the character in a winner take all settings (such as an election or a supreme court ruling) and hope it demoralizes him.

Like when Trump lost the Presidency he was demoralized and disappeared for a while, but had he kept his morale high he'd have been the Monday Morning armchair shadow President critiquing and undermining everything Biden did from his Twitter account addressing to the 70M people who voted for him
So... ChatGPT just replaced Dads.
Most of the FTX assets are worthless altcoins that are being marked to market at ridiculous prices that you could never liquidate at.

Anthropic is definitely claimants best hope at a reasonable recovery.
>> But might seem like a good excuse for someone looking to cover up abuse.

You have absolutely no way to place any certainty on this "might" at all.
Researchers find contaminated water in fast-food soda fountains
That's what Scott Galloway has always said... if you are a really good employee, they will make an exception for you.
Call me crazy but I think we should build more houses AND address wealth inequality.
> The issue is not supply and demand for houses - there are plenty enough to go around (though often in the wrong place).

So... the issue is supply and demand then, because the supply is not where the demand is.
If you’re making 3x what other people at your level are making, you’re at the wrong level. Unless you’re already at the highest level. If you’re worth that much more, I’m surprised that you don’t push for a higher level.

The point of levels is to provide an external signal of competence. And perhaps this law will push companies towards doing a better job of that.

In nearly 20 years of experience pay doesn’t generally correlate with performance. The people who I’ve seen with massive pay differences were the people who could negotiate well and knew how to play the game to come in with multiple offers. Those people aren't usually the most long term productive employees. Some of them are, but many of them are just better tangentially related skills.

The biggest single difference in starting pay by far is having multiple offers. If you make it through selective company A’s hiring process, you likely could have made it through a few similar processes. Whether you bothered to do that or not, says nothing much to me other than how much you care about compensation. But most hiring managers have a serious case of FOMO and this works in the majority of cases.
For me the most glaring example of this was it's document parsong capability in GPT4. I was using it to revamp my resume. I would upload it to got, ask for suggestions, incorporate them into the word document and then repeat the steps till I was satisfied.

After maybe 3 iterations gpt4 started claiming that it is not capable of reading from a word document even though it's done that the last 3 times. Have to click regenerate button to get it to work
Worth adding to https://github.com/melvin0008/awesome-projects-boilerplates
Unfortunately, they remain a rare sight.
Who changed the title? It was perfect the way it was.
I used it about a year and a half ago and I had the same takeaway. When I got it working, it worked well and was reasonably stable. But I basically could not upgrade without performing a fresh install after a few months. I filed it away as something to revisit as the product matured and more guarantees around upgrades were able to be offered
There are some American nuances here, although that's 100% relevant for Amazon, I have to put here that some of that business models do not exist in Europe.

Stuff mentioned is chiefly state or city owned in Europe and works in different ways. There are no toll booths outside of motorways, the roads are free. People commute by public transport, which is mostly not private. Utilities also; although open market exists, it's always the main company (in most cases owned by country) and alternatives.

In my area 15 y.o business space lease doesn't exist. My family company had a 5 year lease contract in the 90s. Nowadays owners want even lesser contracts because the property market is very volatile and prices tend to surge up and not down. This creates problems for normal living space rental, because most of people do not want long term tenants. They want to raise the price every year.

Although these kind of models suffer losses in quarantine, they don't suffer managerial loss of profit and they don't have same goals. The point of a city owned bus transport company is to exist and provide decent service for lowest amount of money. There is not a "this is not feasible for me anymore, not bringing enough profit" situation.
This is a very narrow view of the situation. There are any number of reasons why some people may prefer working from an office.

Take myself as an example. I live alone, in a small apartment. My home "office" is a corner of my living room. I'm not "rich" and unfortunately cannot currently get a place big enough to have a dedicated room for an office. As a result, over a long period of time of working from home I end up getting the feeling that I'm living at work. In general, I prefer a strict home-vs-work separation, so going to a physical office elsewhere to work over the longer term helps me.

Other reasons include that some other people who prefer working from an office outside their home may just in general like the in-person social aspect that comes along with it.

It's shocking to me to now see a narrative like what you're trying to push that labels people who want to go to the office as terrible people. Jeez, wow!
Think for a moment - if they could have done that, they would have been doing that already. If they aren't doing that, perhaps that isn't how things work in practice.
No, we must beat them by showing the world that there's a better way. Unfortunately, allowing our corporations to take a shit on the rules of law and get their way in court because "trade secrets" is more like China than we'd like to admit.

This is akin to "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others". Special rules for special corporations who cry "trade secrets" when called out for bad behavior. Yuck.
If the range spans an order of magnitude, should I consider the logarithmic or linear midpoint? That is geometric or arithmetic mean between the ends?
When my brain generates the next wurd I'm perfectly capable of taking decisions of misspelling "word" for "wurd", LLMs can't make such reasonings unless instructed to act like that.
What LLMs have made me realize more than anything is that we just don't care that much the information we receive being completely factual.

I have tried to use it many times to learn a topic, and my experience has been that it is either frustratingly vague or incorrect.

It's not a tool that I can completely add to my workflow until it is reliable, but I seem to be the odd one out.
Are there already some rumors on when the multimodal API will be available?
> how you can talk to something that doesn't provide factual information and just take it at face value

Like talking to most people you mean?
This is good news - those ai companies have been freed to work on something else, along with the ai workers they employ. This is of great benefit to society.
Except a lot of the onerous regulations are local. And local landowners are effectively voting to price their political opposition out of the local housing market.

Those people aren't around anymore to vote anymore. They're scrambling to find the next apartment to be priced out of in a few more years.
In my experience, the “real” 10x employees collaborate with others more than anyone else.
I hiked 1000 miles of the AT last year over three months and didn't lose a pound. No real muscle gain, no real fat loss. Bodies can be extremely resistant to weight loss.