skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Vendor contracts are hard
- So we avoid doing them
- So we never get good at them
- So every contract is a painful lesson in trying

Open source wins because I don't have to involve the entire company to use it. I can literally just raise my voice to see if anyone in the group cares and then use it.

And even when it's free for small companies, not approving a license is holding up something that we think is already done, so the wheels grind a bit faster.
What kind of junkbox car do you own? I have got to believe this s a totally subjective thing. From my point of view, my cars are probably the least stress-inducing things I own. My computer certainly tops the list of things that cause me stress.
No, it only sends the data you allow it to, hence your input, or the selected text from an app. Nothing is sent without your permission. I gladly invite you to run it either in Restricted or Debug Mode to have a fully transparent overview of what actions it does.
You don't provide health insurance to vendors.
I have seen few buildings in London itself which were warehouses and now have these weird shaped apartments with high ceiling height and a separate floor bedroom arrangement. A lot was kept from the old structure, some of them even make the plumbing added look more of an industrial design
Nota bene, a GMT does hack in the second crown position, so you can set it accurately to the second.

And independent jumping hours is super useful while traveling across time zones. It's a complication, in the same way that hacking itself is a complication. Both are harder to implement than a time-only watch without hacking.
It's useful while traveling across time zones. You'd lose a lot more time if you had to hack it while changing the local time setting.
Even then, don't they have the type of userbase that would still keep arguing about equipment that is not in the game?
AI is the tide. The sand forts are the 'guardrails'.

Saying that 'Unions work' in this context seems premature.
I meant headset sales since I've never been able to find actual usage numbers. Afaict, on usage, everyone is guessing.
Contracts are usually of fixed, short, duration — 6 or 12 months. You just stop renewing the contract. Employees are forever.
The Forgotten Generation: Generation X Approaches Retirement
> No, a business usually exists to provide some useful good or service to its customers. FedEx delivers packages. Apple makes phones and computers. Etc.

What? If Apple or FedEx could get customers to (sustainably) pay them without actually providing a product in return, do you think they would have kept making phones and delivering packages just for the hell of it?
Also: 500 ms on wikimedia sites is very much still in the "okay" range, subjectively. They aren't really sites that you make requests to every minute, if loading the next article took 500ms every time then so be it.
If the US military's aircraft information is so incredibly important and secret, how the hell did it end up in the possession of some civilian gaming forum users? Maybe they should just add it to Wikipedia already and call it a day.
Isn't that the point of this article? Its not that open source will neccesarily win, just that if it does, it will do so based on the strengths the author enumerated, not by undercutting the competition on price.
Carrying a concealed handgun to a bar or restaurant is quite normal and there's nothing to fear, in fact, some establishments encourage it. I feel even more safe when people do. It's not a culture of fear and more so a culture of being prepared.
First, this is about astronomers.

Second, both of these sites just make claims and use stock images but have no evidence at all. Some of them are just ridiculous extremist opinions like

"It destroys a precious heritage of natural beauty that for millennia has inspired us and expanded our understanding."

Cities have lights on at night. If that really bothers someone they can move outside a city or a small town. This is not going to change.

These sites are one step removed from flat earther claims. "It destroys the natural darkness that is essential to human health and well being." Good thing I have walls and curtains and can close my eyes.
Maybe I misunderstood the op, but isn’t the mechanical faucet and our body’s temperature receptors this “fine control with feedback loop”?
That's also true in most US states, based on the (general) concept that breaking contracts is roughly limited to the damage caused by the breach.
Yes. The model has no choice, as the syntax is applied as the model is "picking" probable output tokens, not parsing complete output like some other methods.

Though its possible it would output syntactically correct nonsense.
On Japanese Windows, if a configured font misses glyph, it fallback to default font (Maybe "MS Gothic" for Japanese). It's common behavior on most editors. I found that random Hangul can be shown too.

Most programmers use far better aligned font like Source Han Code JP, or merged and aligned font like Myrica. So I don't know much. I don't recommend mixing fonts for coding that prefer monospaced font, but it should have a fallback.
Employees gets legal protections that contractors can only dream of. Also, most contracts have specific terms of completion and duration. If the contractor screws up, you can sue them, withhold payments for lack of specific deliverables, or just let the contract run out.
Somewhat related, I came across a YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@WristwatchRevival) that I never would have guessed I'd enjoy but now I am hooked. The host disassembles a high-end mechanical watch each episode, cleans each tiny piece and then puts it all back together again.

I have never had any interest in mechanical watches whatsoever - I use an Apple Watch - but this is so relaxing and he is so good at sharing his extensive knowledge that I find myself immersed in his world for an hour or so each week.

I know this reads like a schill but I promise I have no connection other being a happy viewer.
Generative AI stickers are coming to Meta’s apps along with AI editing
Pratically all? I regularly need to select a subset of a very large number of files to do something with. Example: I have a directory, or possibly a tree, with thousands of photos. The photos have the date in ISO 9000 format embedded in their name. Your job is to find all the files from February 2021 and copy them to specified location, and there are 50 of them. Good luck using a visual GUI for that, unless it has the exact selection mechanism you need. Sure, mouse clicking is easier if you're selecting one file from a small set of files to open in a particular program. But I usually find myself frustrated when the only tool I have is a GUI.
I'm on Chrome. But-hey!-it just started working. I think OpenAI had a slow rollout.
But it's often easier to replace an engineer than a vendor.
It's sad. People's entire sense of worth is attached to their jobs. They will lie to themselves and others about the ineffectiveness of AI to feel better. Even if it trips up on some minor thing there's no reason that progress will just stop and that the SOTA version 2-3 years from now won't be leagues better. Compare what we have now to 2-3 years ago, and now the investment solely in training, ignoring the algorithmic and architectural advances, is 10x greater.

There really is no going back.
I heard that in the present day that is mostly irrelevant. The hard part is procuring adequate fissile material more than designing the bomb. Maybe an ICBM design would help North Korea?
Even a simple remodel of a normal house can be more expensive than building new, because building new is hella fast.

And commercial buildings are often just knocked down and a new one built because that's cheaper.
I really like the concept of "text this number to perform action". There was a post a few months back about a postcard creation service where you just text a photo.
I don't know. Its weird. Kind of like how people have the "someone's staring at you" sense.

> The biological phenomenon is known as “gaze detection” or “gaze perception.” Neurological studies have found that the brain cells that initiate this response are very precise. If someone turns their gaze off of you by turning just a few degrees to their left or right, that eerie feeling quickly fades.

I 100% beleive we also do this with smartphones. You can 100% detect when a smartphone is looking at you or just being held in your direction. It might not be proven scientifically yet but I know this in my soul.

Similar to our ability to determine what someone else is looking at. We can watch someone's purpils move, and then immediately look at the exact area they looked at.
The drug-dealers leading a public-health revolution
Non security expert here. Walk me through the attack scenario here.

The database has access control right? So only a few people in the org can read the data. And you are imagining a case where they:

a) find an inverse image of a password hash and use that login as another person to do something bad.

b) reverse the password from the hash to use in another context.

If a is an issue, why does this individual have sensitive data access in the first place? b is still unlikely. Any inverse image is unlikely to be the password if there is salting.

It sounds like an improvement could be made, but maybe not the highest priority. Can you inform me?
I do the same. It's really bad. US English version.

I do have long press on space bar to switch between EN/FR dictionary. I wonder if that makes things worse.
You're right, that was sloppy of me. It sounded right, but I think Melbourne Water statistics probably truly are dominated by domestic use, since it's a city.

You can see the numbers don't match up; you're using a figure of 16T liters annually, whereas 25 million people * 50 gallons / day-person * 365 days * 3.785 liters/gallon is 1.727T trillion liters annually.

Anyway, I am suspicious of the 600 AUD/ML figure, or else a lot more Gulf states would be food independent.
Yes, as was the case throughout most of US history. Housing has never been, and likely never will be, a financial guarantee aside for the rich. I certainly hope people didn't get into software thinking it was a magical get-rich-quick scheme, because it's never been that. It certainly is a high-paying profession that allows you to live a comfortable life with amenities.
You do realize military personnel are gamers, too, right?

Video gaming has been mainstream for long enough for me to have had a full active duty and reserve career, retire as a senior officer, and then go utterly ga-ga over Baldur's Gate 3, which came out of early release over a month after I retired. The difference is I know how to keep my NDAs.
Archived copy: https://archive.li/4YnN8
Of course, consensus is a difficult philosophical topic. But not every system is based on public voting.
I’ve seen enough factory to residential conversations to say that 10,000 sq ft studios are amazing.

They’re probably worth less per square foot than a bunch of smaller apartments, but they’re still worth way more than a typical N bedroom apartment.

You can always build rooms out of dividers, etc to break up the space.
Thank you, I wish I could upvote this 10 times to show my gratitude for your answer and the time it took you. I learned more about the Quest and Meta's philosophy/approach in general reading your answer than anything else, and I'm in your debt good sir
> What will the GoPro mount solve?

Hands-free video recording, ala J Kenji Lopez Alt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdFjuglEAds
"they're not doing anything nefarious" and "what they are doing should be prohibited" are not mutually exclusive.

You aren't disagreeing with me.

They're in anti-trust proceedings. That is the proper way to handle any harm they're doing.

And...as I said...that doesn't mean they are doing anything nefarious. They're conducting business as any other business would, they just happen to be really good at it. If the regulators want to step in, they can. It's the system working as intended.
My first inclination is to blame DCF workers.

> These people are working in the shadows, in darkness," Lamanna said. "They can show up at your house in the middle of the night with no paperwork, no court order whatsoever, and say we’re removing under the B, we’ve decided an emergency exists."

> According to DCF’s 2022 quarterly report, about 60% of parents are reunited with their kids within a year after being removed by DCF.

Anyone who feels justified in stealing kids from parents in the middle of the night, without any due process, WITH A 60% MISS RATE, is completely and truly evil.

Seriously, more often than not DCF realizes they made a mistake and the kid goes back home. Insane.
And I doubt Meta spent $181m to get out of a lease of a warehouse.

Skyscrapers are much more difficult to convert (there's an NYT article on it).

Midrise buildings might be the best bet, but even then unless you allow "basically slumlord" conversions, it's probably simpler to knock and rebuild, even if you disguise it by leaving the outer walls up or something.
As an occasional docs janitor and now helping tracking kernel regressions, I also feel "high tension blood" when I see trivial patches from random Chinese contributors, then I reviewed them but these contributors don't reply to
my and others's reviews at all. Last year there were people from @cdjrlc.com domain, then this year from @208suo.com. Even some maintainers agree to block
such domains [1].

The takeaway is once you submit your patches, it's your responsibility to
address reviews that may come to them.

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/5fcffcebca2ef9b8c276e5f4b4464d88...
[2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZIoDKqBt2uNSbblB@casper.infradea...
In many companies I expect at least a security review of the open source before developers can use it.

This can have a lot of red tape.
Bleak is the word you’re looking for. The trajectory of the rental market in AU is beyond terrifying: https://www.rba.gov.au/publications/bulletin/2023/jun/new-in...
And what will these fine gentlemen do when I take out my gun and kindly refuse their offer?

Better yet, what will the state do when the neighboring country, armed with F35s, decides it’s time to take their land?
Senator, we run ads.
> I'm guessing Beat Saber is the only reason the Quest is even sold in Japan and Korea.

Not sure about that[1][2]...

1: JP: https://trends.google.co.jp/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&...

2: KR: https://trends.google.co.jp/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&...
Shareholder independence does not actually liberate you from caring about share price if you want to be a successful monopolist.

Google is not an innovative company and cannot launch anything that people actually want to use. What they do is buy things other people built and scale them up. And in order to do that, you need access to the capital markets so you can borrow money[0] to buy other companies. Those loans are collateralized against the company that took out the loan, and if the company's value goes down, your credit limit goes down.

The only way to actually liberate companies from these forces is not to turn the company from a shareholder oligarchy into a founder dictatorship, but to restrict M&A so that the competitive pressures of "monopolize or die" subside.

[0] You could self-finance M&A but most businesses don't like to do that because it ties up cash flow.
Have they fixed the security problem? What happens when people embed commands to ChatGPT in files that will be encountered by popular searches?
thanks, yeah I haven't dug deep enought to understand what those would be yet.
From the original effort linked above:

> This is Llama 2 13b with some additional attention heads from original-flavor Llama 33b frankensteined on.

And the lingo gets weirder, with an experimental merging method, for instsnce, being called "SLERP"
_20 year_ lease...? It's a little optimistic, isn't it?
Lots of works are actually valid in that if someone doesn't do their job then those big corps will lose more money than their salary. Of course, the whole situation is far from the optimal and they could make it much more efficient with a magic wand but usually we don't have that so it takes years to improve the situation.

Of course, someone (like Elon) might believe that they have such magic wand, but Twitter is losing more money than ever so probably it was not the case...
That's broadly untrue and fairly easy to verify.

1. Breaking leases usually incurs those costs + the remainder of the contact with some edge cases (e.g VIC[1])

2. Again VIC, rents increased on average by 5-15%, depending on th demand of the area[1] . 25-35% has probably happened, but isn't common.

[0] https://www.dffh.vic.gov.au/publications/rental-report

[1] https://www.dffh.vic.gov.au/publications/rental-report
What if google paid it's users directly for their searches.
Self employed Amish are exempt from social security taxes. I did not realize it until searching, but Amish employers are not exempt per a 1982 Supreme Court case: https://www.ssa.gov/OP_Home/rulings/oasi/45/SSR82-44-oasi-45...
I hear logic like this and suddenly I 100% understand how a startup can "disrupt the industry", even if 90+% of the time that is a huge exageration, if not an outright lie someone promises in a pitch. I guess if they can't find that lead, the lead will find, or rather found, a company for such a need.

And I guess paradoxically, this is exactly how contracting firms form to begin with. So I guess startup culture isn't really that new.
I tried PaperKarma and had decent results. You offer up privacy and lack of app as a differentiator— should I be concerned having used PaperKarma? Are they charging me AND selling data?

I also like the idea of the research assistant. It is a mess trying to figure out how to reduce waste that accumulates without my real consent, from mail, food packaging, single use packaging/plastic tossed into orders despite me saying I don’t want it, hard to recycle e-waste, confusing/changing recycling rules for plastic and even glass some places. However, I also think that this can only be meaningfully improved with policy, not an opt-in, private service. Better than nothing, of course.

Aside from that, I actually have to thank you, because I stopped using it, forgot the name of the company, and forgot what was charging me $4 every month under the label “JET*.”
I think the point is that the blame lies with DCF, not the doctors. Doctors should report, and DCF should competently investigate. In this scenario, the doctor did their job and DCF did not.
And the military needs nerds (positive term)! Who do you think maintains all our communications, networks, avionics, cryptography, collates all our intelligence information, and translates what the bad guys get intercepted saying in their native tongue?

All of these communities have, well, a reputation for a certain type of personality. The old joke is that you can tell an extrovert at the NSA because when he/she is talking, he/she looks at YOUR shoelaces.
thats interesting I thought it would be faster than your avg database. I'll have to dig into it.
The usage of symbolism is neat, but it wasn't intuitive that I had to evaluate it from right to left as opposed to left to right.
Do you think disease, war, climate change, and pandemics are 'made up' or do you think there are real consequences to not dealing with them?
I speculate that we will be seeing more hikes. But I have been wrong before :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHEOGrkhDp0
This seems seriously cool. I wonder if its constant recording is going to fill up my HDD.

edit: found the storage option. It defaults to keeping all data, but I've changed that to one month retention -- they say they use around 14GB a month.

It reminds me of having to use screen recording software for a previous remote job. I wished I could use that recording to do something exactly like this. Now, if only one could flip the script, and make the employer request that recording, instead of forcing one to share it.
Yeah - Excel and other 'productivity' apps are probably still the killer apps for PCs, especially for businesses. I assume businesses still drive the majority of PC purchases.

Some other factoids:

There are >1B PC gamers (source: random articles on the web). I'm guessing the number of mobile gamers is 2-3B.

There aren't that many active Excel users. Even Google sheets (free) has only a few hundred million users.

Most web browsing is now done on mobile. The transition happened sometime ~2015 for most of the world and something like 2017 for 'developer markets'.
I can't believe that people think that they need to give META yet even more access to human life.

I just don't believe in the upside being reality.
Yes I forgot, you can't make analogies or even provide examples on the interest, because no two things are ever exactly alike. My apologies.

My point stands, however.
The more interesting security problems come from the fact that if they embed a search result in the data stream that's being processed by ChatGPT there is no robust way to prevent text in that result from being interpreted as commands to ChatGPT. That text could be in white on white or otherwise hidden from users.
> What? If Apple or FedEx could get customers to (sustainably) pay them without actually providing a product in return, do you think they would have kept making phones and delivering packages just for the hell of it?

That's a strange counterfactual. Why would customers keep paying a company that doesn't provide any goods or services to anyone? They're not really "customers" anymore if all that is happening is money transfer to the company.
Its probably better to measure rules by success rate than pass/fail. One popular tool breaking convention sounds like one popular exception, which is probably better than no convention.
"At the same time, you get a job done and you know you did a good things and helped her pay her rent."

You know you helped her raise money. Maybe she used that money to buy drugs. How could anyone know?
> What is a transparency problem? It’s when a solution being closed source creates distrust between the client and vendor.

Eterprises don't care that much about code. And if they do, business continuity clauses may alleviate most of their closed source concerns. After all, how many financial firms switched to OpenOffice Calc from Excel?

> She argues that Amplitude is pretty expensive, particularly prohibitive for some early-stage companies, and larger companies could save a fortune by using an open-source version. While this pitch might resonate with early-stage companies, those same price-conscious early-stage companies will either use an open-source version or a free tier.

AWS' go-to-market (GTM) hinged on attracting startups and individual developers by offering them low cost (metered) services. They got this part very right, because Airbnb, Stripe, Twitch et al went on to become large enterprises and grew alongside AWS. There's not many things that can compete with low cost / free. You can always move upmarket later. Just ask ARM and Intel.

For dev tool upstarts, open source has become the defacto GTM (it isn't, as TFA rightly points out, a business model). So, unless you're Snowflake level good (and you can fend off FOSS shops like Databricks), you're better off with an open core model.
The word “carcinogenic” is.
The Job: A crooked cop, a dead man and an $800k estate fraud
It's complicated. Startups are always dysfunctional, and it gets magnified by people who aren't used to it. What they say on these sites it almost certainly true, but it's relative, not absolute, so it's hard to get a sense of how outside of norms it is.

Like if someone says none of the execs know what they're doing, it's going to fall apart any day, are they a new grad, someone who's only worked at big companies with everything formalized and an established business, or are they startup veterans. You don't really get that context.

So the best you can do is try to judge it based on your experience. If you find those comments concerning, maybe it's not a good place for you. If you think "yeah everyone says that" then maybe it's ok.