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> This law now makes it illegal for anyone that can only provide $19/hour of economic revenue from working at a fast food restaurant.

No, it doesn’t.

It makes it less likely that they would be employed to, but there is no law against employing people at an economic loss, and employers often do this (though they don’t tend to continue doing it when they realize that they are; but that’s their choice, not a legal mandate.)

The argument assumes (as naive economic arguments often do) perfect information on the part of all participants (particularly, that employers know both the maximum economic utility an employee will provide and the effect of wage on their productivity without error), which while a standard component of rational choice theory is also a component that is known not to match the real world at all, being wildly wrong for many purposes.
> It’s simple: a business hires a worker when that worker generates more revenue than they cost.

Simple, but not actually true.
> The creative humans that trained these models deserve attribution, compensation, and royalties.

I would much rather give them nothing. They can participate in the system where we work for a living. Do useful things. People think everything is valuable. The Romans, in the end thought only the circus was important. Turns out you cant wear circus, you cant eat it, the circus makes non of the things we need.

If you could chose what to spend the worlds attention on. Would you pick the circus?

People will continue making things regardless, for fun and contract work.

I know it is the norm but I don't want all 5000 possible variations of the letter E owned by someone.

Trademarks we can keep, those are actually useful.
The name Zelda existed long before the game, or Nintendo.
Dish dealt space-debris fine for misparking satellite
I suspect we are 'looking for the keys under lamp posts' - ie looking where we have the most / easiest to get data.
I can confirm a large retail company in the US ran all of their inventory purchasing through an Excel file that was managed by a small (<10 people) group.

They were bought out by an even bigger company a few years back, but they were managing to chug along until the mid 2010's at least.
Building a Home Router with OpenBSD
It doesn't matter if you use UK or US spelling you are wrong. I wish we would adopt the international phonetic alphabet I might have a chance of spelling things correctly.
>Most of the high profile failures with foreign investment stem from corruption and incompetence. Switching from debt to equity won't cure that.

It could change who gets left holding the bag, though.

Presumably if Chinese firms held equity in the hydroelectric plants, they would care about whether they were built correctly and won't collapse. As it stands they get paid either way (according to the article).
That's on Apple not on emojis.

In the Windows 11 emoji picker it works like this:

1. Search "kissing". See two generic yellow people kissing. Notice a blue dot in the bottom right corner.

2. Clicking the emoji brings up previously used versions of the kissing emoji, with a + button.

3. Clicking + brings up a dialog like I described previously. Two generic figures at the top, then a row of skin tones.

4. You can click on each generic person and choose a gender, then select a skin tone. You can do this for each person in the group.

5. Click done. This emoji is now in your default emoji list and you won't need to recreate it again.
I started and ran a small early (UK) ISP in the 90s! I can't remember how we did the billing but it was better than that. I suspect that it involved awk with : separated fields, because I remember my dyslexic colleague saying that all he could see was swimming : characters... And I (still) like awk.

I had more incoming phone lines than the rest of the street sometimes (this business was run from home), at several addresses around London as we moved. And we broke each telco's billing system in a new and interesting way...
This is an interesting element. Presumably, the pricing problem is about to disappear.
Thanks! Cut-and-paste error.
I think your opinion as built is reasonable, but wouldn’t a better mechanism be an internal segregation concept?
I grew my salary by 31x in the last 17 years
Came across this blog talking about FIRE (financial independence, retire early).
I am always quite struck by how openly people write about money.
Not really, no € and no metric units
Its interesting but I am also confused, so ASUS used to have Mac Mini sized computers. What I dont seen to understand is what benefit ASUS gains from this? Unless theres some patents shifting from Intel to ASUS or other key technology that would allow ASUS to compete in the really small PC space differently im not sure what this all means.

The last paragraph seems to imply that they are getting not just all the designs but some sort of exclusive from Intel, so maybe in an effort to stay competitive Intel is letting ASUS build Mac Mini and co competitors and providing the processors for their efforts.

> It should be noted that Asus's Intel NUC license is not exclusive, so Intel may eventually enable other PC makers to build its NUCs and, therefore, compete against Apple.
And how may of those people slacked a lot in the office, and you just never knew because they were good at looking busy whenever anyone was nearby?

And how many people were much more productive because other people didn't keep popping over their cubicle walls and interrupting them? "Easy communication" can be a double-edged sword, and Slack/Discord/email can be silenced for specified periods of time.
Also Patti Smith's Birdland!
Wow, so many screwups...

1: Did the billing system (and its problems) show up in due diligence?

2: Did they ever figure out who leaked all the passwords and sue them? (Honestly, given that this generally soured the acquisition, the perpetrator could have been on the hook for a lot of money.)

(Now, before you jump to the leaker's defense, remember that in tech, things can change fast, and we all will end up working for an obsolete or acquired company at some time. Part of the game isn't pissing on the seat on the way out.)
> affirmative quota, social welfare benefits

None of those are included in the bill: https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB403/id/2840105

But they were not prevented from happening without the bill either.
a desk rejection is when the editor in chief (or managing editor, or whoever is the one first receiving the submitted paper) decides to reject the submission without sending it out for peer review

basically a judgment call by the person in charge of a journal that the paper is not interesting or impactful enough to warrant going through with the rest of the review/publishing process
Hopefully they'll get cheaper. I'd love to see some AMD NUCs since their cpus seem to have better integrated graphics and run cooler.
Really simple concept. They are discriminated against in their country of origin as a matter of fact and to think that discrimination ends because they are now in America is weird.
If I need a thin client computer, i.e. a good 4k screen, ~1kg weight and ability to run Remote Desktop, performance and storage don't matter, what would be the best option?
No Place for Transphobia in Anthropology: Session Pulled from Annual Meeting
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/leader-illegal-copyrigh...

> His channel still exists, though a video hasn’t been posted in over two years. After an extensive investigation, the feds found Carrasquillo had amassed a massive $30 million fortune with a large-scale piracy scheme in which he was buying and reselling copyrighted material from cable tv. He was sentenced to five years in prison for “piracy of cable TV, access device fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and hundreds of thousands of dollars of copyright infringement,” along with having to forfeit his millions and pay $15 million in restitution. Those millions helped pay for the car collection now going up for auction.
Thanks for the feedback, forwarding this to the marketing people!
Yes, and it's been this way for at least 10 years at this point.

My first wave of ripping CDs in the early 2000s this stuff wasn't around yet.

But I redid everything around 2013 and ripped them all as FLAC, and by that point EAC and the databases were very good.
They’re also incredibly cheap to create & don’t need knowledge of each other. I mostly see batching of IDs like this when a lock is involved to prevent collisions & maintain performance.

With UUIDv7, you are reasonably sure that there won’t be collisions (check your use-case first), and can just generate them wherever on-demand (no locks required).

I’d argue batching IDs is actually more complicated than UUIDv7 for most use-cases.
It's sad if the only way voice actors are going to be able to make a living is by doing stuff like Critical Role on Youtube. I love Critical Role but it likely wouldn't be the same if those guys hadn't spent years honing their craft. Watching people play RPGs online has replaced a lot of my streaming viewing now, but the market is much smaller and I imagine it can only sustain a much smaller pool of creatives than the current voice over market can.
I see what you did there, I just can't quite figure out why
In my audible library, the shortest is the first Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy a 5h51m. The longest is The Power Broker at 66h9m. Most of the books I have are in the 15-25 hour range, but I also have a lot of fantasy stuff that gets near 50 hours (Game of Thrones, Brandon Sanderson...).
I wonder if it wasn't the value (people-hours aren't hard to calculate) but a risk assessment. If their system has been working just fine, but the new system entailed major risks (startup going out of business, hosted off-site, backups not in their control, PII / security issues) the calculation gets a lot worse.
You wouldn't feel shame for if your kid murdered someone?
Reminds me of Mixamo, which is entirely procedural.
Is there an x86 Chromebook you can buy today that won’t run it?
No, outlawing personal travel for middle class people is not an open progressive policy goal and whoever has told you that it is is lying to you.
A Call for Developers – Jellyfin
They had some pretty wild ideas in the last two generations around motherboard design and compute elements.
I checked. The largest PV power station in full operation is the Bhadla Solar Park in India. Its maximum output is 2.2 GW.

There are at least 70 nuclear facilities that turn out 2.2 GW or more. Some turn out above 7 GW, and they run almost all the time, rather than being offline half the day on average (which makes the solar plant really only equivalent to a a 1.1 GW plant at most).
When you don’t like someone’s arguments, attack the source!

I like to use rhetoric to debate topics, ideally with facts and statistics. Attacking someone else personally, or making up a lot of stuff about them, is a very weak line of attack (for me at least) when trying to push your point forwards.

This is an anonymous Internet forum so I don’t have a degree, I was raised by a single mother and an abusive uncle who beat me with a belt when I asked for more eggs at breakfast. What difference does it make?
(Postgres.ai founder here – we develop https://dblab.dev)

There is one more very important difference here, not only FOSS vs proprietary.

N thin clones on Aurora give you O(1) in terms of storage costs (you pay 1 time plus only for difference, which is 0 initially), but O(N) in terms of compute (N clones = N instances).

That's super expensive and prevents most people from having great DB-related test coverage in CI/CD.

(This is true for Neon's approach to pricing of branches too, if I'm not mistaken.)

But for the tech discussed here, you can run many – dozens, hundreds – clones on a single machine, having predictable budget. It's O(1) costs for both storage and compute. This unblocks dev&test activities with full-size databases for engineers in your team.
Functions as Methods in Dafny?
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Thanks. Unfortunately both .isEmojiPresentation && .isEmoji leaves many emojis out, like red heart and many other.
Show HN: Causal Analysis for Startup Planning
The internet was subsidized....
Let’s be really honest about this, most people don’t move for education.
The branding is probably worth something.
Its small footprint goes well with those kinds of platform constraints and it’s a pretty expressive language.
Notably missing from the article is a comparison of CLEAR’s failure rates and severity against the TSA’s. Admittedly, CLEAR doesn’t handle as many travelers as TSA so the data would need to be extrapolated but based on what I’ve read over the past decade, I suspect the TSA’s performance would be much worse.

For example:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/13/us/tsa-failures-box-cutte...

The truth is our entire system for airline security is theater and doesn’t actually make us safer. A number of other countries have solved this problem successfully, the US chooses not to. I wish more time was spent on fixing that mess instead of pursuing CLEAR.
ouch. but also, surely that has to happen to the majority of papers, meaning the snap judgment call of effectively one person greatly colors the quality of the whole process. as a conference organizer this is something i worry about. is there a better process proposed out there - that respects the constraint that high value people have limited time to review things?
Was that written by AI? Because I have no idea what the author was trying to say, and I'm not sure they were saying anything at all. The confused haircut metaphor did not help.

Quantitative social science exists. What is the big revelation here? What makes it computational? I don't understand. Can somebody enlighten me?

If you want to hybridize computer science and social science, I've got some good news for you. The ranks of data scientists across the corporate world are filled with ABD grad students from a range of quantitative fields, who applied their own problem solving skills to the question of "how do I turn my skillset into money." And in that regard, maybe computational social science in a broader sense is the art of converting quantitative social science into profits for major corporations. The utopia that CSS aficionados longed for is already here.
Algebra is incredibly important, because it teaches students to manipulate truths using symbols. It is a tool which improves thought.
My experience with ravers back in the 90's was that events that were mostly social and less than 200 people would self moderate. The less social and the larger they were the more explicit moderation you needed.

Problem with social media is they try hard to create false/non communities at scale to sell to advertisers. The social part is just pure manipulation to get people to look at ads. True social is problematic for them so they suppress it.
I don't see why ML tools need to understand this from the law's perspective. The publisher & content producer already has responsibility to verify. There are already tools that allow an author or artist to sue if the work is too similar, or to request a publisher to do a takedown. If generative ML cannot sufficiently distinguish itself from a blatant copying machine, then we already have a system in place to deal with that problem.

But there seems to be the real possibility that ML tools can create art that's sufficiently different, and the degree to which they can generate sufficiently new art is the degree to which they warrant a new policy framework.

IMO the question of an artist's copyright ownership is the wrong framing here with regards to fear of ML. If self driving technology gets better, taxi and truck drivers do not have any informal or formal ownership over the art of driving, but they have the same fear.
Ask HN: Good book recommendations on focus, concentration, and deep work?
That’s fine - let’s codify it then. The law says you have to have that situation, or you can’t come to the US. I’d support it.
> This was my reaction too. How do you “prove” my gradient is valid?

you can randomly ask sometimes 4 different nodes to calculate the same gradient, and see who is cheeting.
> They’re comparing LLM output to professional creative writers?

I mean that seems a fair experiment to judge based on the rhetoric employed by AI enthusiasts, who talk of things like "democratizing art" (as though art as it exists is somehow anti-democratic?) and letting any layman slam some text into a prompt and get a work of shakespeare, a painting by Da Vinci, or a Mozart symphony back.

I think it's nonsense but they don't, so test it?
NIN and Cash have equal billing on that video. Many people might only know Cash's rendition...
but UUIDv7 isn’t sequential (unless I’m getting it mixed up). There’s just a time-based component which can make sorting really nice & some random bits at the end.

If you don’t let an attacker iterate your data, all they can tell is when the ID was created.
Interesting read, but as far as I can tell, this has not been peer-reviewed. At a casual glance, it didn't seem to be a survey or a summary of peer-reviewed research, either.

In other words, if I'm right, this is an opinion piece.
"~1kg weight" - LG Gram comes to mind
> The reasons follow below and I also cover what a computational social scientist should know [and] do

It doesn't seem to do any of that. There's nothing actionable here AFAICS.
Companies Only Want Hardcore Workers
Maybe not, but they might still need their health insurance.
They’re not even strongly sequential (is there a term for this?). The gaps between them can be arbitrarily large.
Open Source Attention
From Users to (Sense)Makers: On the Pivotal Role of Stigmergic Social Annotation in the Quest for Collective Sensemaking
absolutely, unions are not the way
I cant be the only one who thinks it sad that in the US that it takes six school years (K-5) to teach basic atrithmetic, fractions, decimals, and simple 2D geometry. Parents run, dont walk, to Kumon or AOPS or something similar. Our children got 5 on AP Calc in 9th grade. Note dont share with the school you are supplementing, most, not all, teachers resent it and your child will become the teachers assistant.
Yes, it's a testament to how powerful these models have become in a such a short time that we've gone from being impressed that they can write a coherent paragraph to being critical that they can't win a professional writing competition, all in the span of 5 years.
> Or typing 'o' + '¨' to produce 'ö' but realizing you wanted to type 'ô', there just one backspace press would revert it to 'o' again and you could press '^' to get the 'ô'.

This is a good example because in German I would expect 'o' + '¨' + <delete> to leave no character at all while in French I would expect 'e' + '`' + <delete> to leave the e behind because in my mind it was a typo.

The rendering of brahmic- and arabic-derived scripts makes these choices even more interesting.
I’m sick of people saying we can afford everything! We really, truly can’t. We have the largest peace time deficit of all time - we are running deficits the size of WW2 when no emergency exists!

The good part is that all of this will sort itself out. Economic gravity will hit and democracy will sort out who pays the bill.
It'd be entertaining if prompt-hacking ends up being the cat-and-mouse game that drives us to AGI.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(negative)#Non-dualistic_me...

I am not trying to be rude, but the way you asked the question "Hypothetically, would you still feel this way of it turned out that everyone being in the office (remember this is a magical hypothetical) has a significant and demonstrable improvement in productivity?" is leading to a yes or no answer to a hypothetical question with a lot of missing quantifiers (the lived experience). Neither answer is wrong, and neither answer is right.

A better question would have been: "_Have you_ experienced a demonstrable improvement in productivity from being in the office in yourself or others?" Personally, I have not. Going to the office wastes a lot of my day getting ready to leave the house (unhooking laptop and charger), commuting back and forth, etc. The only time being in the office is a net positive is when I need to get like 6+ people into a conference room for a few hours and get them all to agree to something. These type of meetings only happen every few months.
I'm a friend of Nick's and have been following Storyworth for like 10 years.

This is a great opportunity for a product engineer that has kids, a life, a band, or something like that.

It's not "you have a 0.01% chance of becoming a billionaire" but "you have a 100% chance of making a great living doing work that's meaningful with good people".
It's also quite common in python and I guess in any other language. It's great for unittests, but not suitable for integration or end-to-end tests.
I don't have reference from the top of my head, but I seem to remember that the UK also started with the same counting methodology, then fixed it a few months into COVID. If my memory serves, the difference between the curves was pretty negligible.
I don't see why someone's desire to be surrounded by colleagues should trump someone else's desire to not be surrounded by colleagues and just work in peace.
Doing bad things is their idea of fun.
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Great unless you happen to be using a Home edition of Windows, which doesn't have the Group Policy Editor.
XWin is good for AlpacaEval, but was optimized specifically for that. Evaluated more broadly, there are other better choices.
Well, they have TrackPoints. I did learn to live without a seven row keyboard the last two years -- previously I even bought the collector edition ThinkPad 25 to put that day off as far as I could -- but living without a TrackPoint? I am not keen on pawing at the wrist rest in a futile attempt to precisely move my mouse pointer. Mind you, I can barely use a mobile phone either, I hate the touchscreen keyboard with a fiery passion. I am efficient with my ThinkPads and https://xkcd.com/1806/ applies very heavily.

Also, there are some claims by ThinkPad fans about it being sturdier and easier to repair still. I do not know how much truth is in this. Lenovo still does publish Hardware Maintenance Manuals, do HP/Dell?
I'm surprised to see this level of confusion on what "investment" means, on a venture capital related forum of all places.

If financing by providing loans is not investment, well, then we are saying that it's something like the article seems to imply, which is that you have to end up with an ownership stake in order for something to be an investment?

If you were buying government bonds, would you not consider that to be an investment?

Non-equity lending is definitely still investment, and is probably less predatory...
I think you are talking about the "stable Python ABI"?
Anyone out there have any more issues of these?

Can't ask Bunnell himself, sadly :(
To be fair britain does have a crime problem and a money problem. Since it cant finance the police it could leverage the existing government owned database of people’s pictures to catch criminals faster. Should look into driving license photos as well.
I suspect on GitHubs front this has to do with how they populate their status site. They may update it manually once they identify customer impact. If they're using internal metrics to qualify the status site then they're likely not using all of the needed metrics to reflect customer impact. There's also a third possibility which is that between you and GitHub there's something that causes a partition or failure that is outside of GitHub and your domain of control.

I agree with you that the ultimate value is in customer impact. I was saying "that's hard" but synthetic monitoring is not the solution because it doesn't achieve what it sounds like it achieves.