skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost anyone coming from overseas to the US thinks it's pretty weird that the US has permitted the creation of a class of workers who can be paid dirt and must live off the gratuities of an informal societal expectation.

Why on earth you've not got strictly enforced mandated minimum wages in many places, where the wages are above the poverty line and there should be a low to nil expectation that as a customer I'm having to reach in to my wallet to pay for their services when I'm also paying the business seems abhorrent.

Tipping should be something that is an exception for exceptional service, and an unexpected act of good will, rather than an expectation.
I think next stage in AI training is as the authors said, synthetic data. I am not worried about the G.I.G.O. curse, you can do synthetic data generation successfully today with GPT-4. For example in the TinyStories dataset, or the Phi-1 & 1.5 models, or the Orca dataset we have seen big jumps in competency on the small models. Phi punches 5x above its weight class.

So how can you generate data at level N+1 when you have a model at level N?

You amplify the model - give it more tokens (CoT), more rounds of LLM interaction, tools like code executor and search engine, you use retrieval to bring in more useful context, or in some cases you can validate by code execution.

But there is a more general framework - by embedding LLMs in larger systems, they act as sources of feedback to the model. From the easiest - a chat interface, where the "external system" is a human, to robotics and AI agents that interact with anything, or simulations. We need to connect AI to feedback sources so it can learn directly, not filtered through human authored language.

From this perspective it is apparent that AI can assimilate much more feedback signal than humans. The road ahead for AI is looking amazing now. What we are seeing is language evolving a secondary system of self replication besides humans - LLMs. Language evolves faster than biology, like the rising tide, lifting both humans and AI.
You are saying we are getting there, but don't give evidence that the pace of change is fast enough. Instead you call everyone who says the pace isn't fast enough (which includes most of the scientists working on climate change btw) "sensationalists" and "zealots".

Do you have any evidence that the current pace of change is sufficient to avert the most damaging aspects of climate change?
I strongly disagree that we are doing something about it. We are doing the bare minimum, if that. Until we start heavily regulating corporations on their carbon impact and taxing further carbon from being extracted from the ground, we aren't truly doing something about climate change.
It was only a matter of time. I feel sorry for all the people that were tricked into trusting a private company with their genetic information.
Title limit, I could not fit independently in. Propose a better title and I'll edit.

EDIT: "Chicago independently abolishes subminimum wage for tipped workers." May dang have mercy on my choices.
Apparently seasonal adjusting is fishy...

https://twitter.com/VPatelFX/status/1710274447251243477?ref_...
I doubt he ever sells. He made the purchase because of his ego. As long as he still owns it, he can pretend that there is some future in which the company has value. Selling it for $1b locks in the valuation and confirms the deal was a huge mistake. I don't think he needs that $1b enough for him to be willing to take that hit to his ego.
That's a pretty big technicality. The potential implications if right or wrong are entirely different. I also don't understand how simply pointing this out is "trying to discredit the piece". I was about as passive as i could and made no comment about the author or his/her intentions.
Similar proposal by Walter Bright as well:
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html

This got proposed in 2009 so i do not see things changing any time soon.
I guess it depends on who you ask but personally I am able to write pandas much faster than loading data into a DB and then processing it. The reason is pandas defaults on from_ and to_ are very sane and you don’t need to think about things like escaping strings and stuff. It’s also easy to deal with nulls quickly in pandas and rapidly get some EDA graphs like in R.

The other benefit of pandas is it’s in python so you can use your other data analysis libraries whereas with SQL you need to marshal back and forth between python and SQL.

My usual workflow is:
Explore data in pandas/datasette, if it’s big data I explore just a sample and use bash tools to pull out the sample -> write my notebook in pandas -> scale it up in spark/dask/polars depending on use case.

This is pretty good cause ChatGPT understands pandas, pyspark, and SQL really well so you can easily ask it to translate scripts or give you code for different things.

On scalability if you need scale there’s many options today to process large datasets with a dataframe api e.g koalas, polars, dask, modin etc.
Wow, I looked at the WV and EnergyWeb. It's such a canonical 100% buzzword-driven nonsense, that my BS meter just went off the scale.

Prediction: they will run out of investors' money within the next couple of years, and then they'll quietly die, like all other "blockchain" startups.
"Legacy media", give me a fucking break.
"most Russians want to get money out of Russia"?

Wouldn't most Russians need money in Russia? What am I missing?
You just brought me back to my childhood!

If you had included MultiConfig options that added Soundblaster8/Soundblaster16, with CDROM or without it... AND their complementary AUTOEXEC.BAT options that would trigger based on the CONFIG.SYS, then that would have been my system config! Without being able to squeeze every single kb of memory possible, there was no way to play Sam and Max or Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, while still having a system that can boot Windows 3.1 :-)
First encountered this game about a decade ago at the TATE gallery in London on an exhibition showcasing their newly created video game collection. Was immediately taken by the soundtrack and chased it down. Fantastic game, fantastic music
Tesla, SpaceX, and the Boring company are all extremely interconnected with government policy and goals.

This is quite a claim to make.
The writing/poetry community is basically done there. Authors will still post announcements etc but there's maybe 10% of the community there once was.
> If the workers get paid more through this strike, it will translates directly to higher prices.

Has Kaiser not raised prices for health insurance premiums or other fees since 2020? Because that would be notable and they absolutely should lead with that.

My suspicion is they didn't mention that because they have been raising the fees they charge their customers faster than they have been raising wages, like many employers.

Either way, it doesn't matter all that much if their wages aren't keeping pace with inflation. That would almost definitionally lead to the kind of labor shortages described in the article.
AMD prices will go up because of the newfound ability to gouge for AI/ML/GPGPU workloads. Nvidia's will likely go down, but I don't expect it will be by much. The market demand is high, so the equilibrium price will also be high. Supply isn't at pandemic / crypto-rush lows, but the supply of cards useful for CUDA/ROCm still is.
there's a parable of a Nazi bar, that was made famous ironically with a tweet.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar

> From an anecdote shared by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) on Twitter in July 2020. In the multi-tweet thread, Tager recounted visiting a "shitty crustpunk bar", where he saw a patron abruptly expelled. The bartender explained that the man was wearing "iron crosses and stuff", and that he feared such patrons would become regulars and start bringing friends if not promptly kicked out, which would lead him to realize "oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now" only after the unwanted patrons became too "entrenched" to kick out without trouble
I presume OP forgot the /s
My phone can easily mirror the screen to my TV but my PC can't, not with the built-in software, not with 3rd party apps. It's all so tiresome.
Is it weird to expect employers to pay employees? It’s the waiter’s job to wait tables? Or am I missing something as I’m from not-US?
What sort of topics are currently being censored? I haven't seen examples of things being suppressed, but that's also why I'm asking; because I wouldn't have seen things that got suppressed.
I edited my comment. Who was censored is not relevant, instead, the fact that Elon wanted no censorship is.

He didn't buy twitter for profit. He doesn't mind that it's losing money.
If not for one of the ads featured in this article, I would never have thought to pour a bottle of baby oil in my ear to cure my tinnitus. I'm still not gonna do it but the thought would have never even crossed my mind, otherwise.
Sounds like dystopia is nudging closer. But who gives their DNA to a company?
Congrats on the first customer!

So overall I recommend taking the approach of being there to support and understand your customers 100% to see why the love you and your product. DO NOT try and charge additional money for high touch support - you will benefit more from it at this early stage than your customers will. Later when you have a lot of volume, you can come up with a separate plan. Get your first customers from your personal network - you don't know enough to pour money into paid marketing. You don't even know the right target market yet (I assume).

Learn as much as you can, and build as many 1-1 connections with your actual or potential customers to understand your market and pivot accordingly.

Beyond that - I have some basic stuff for your website that you might want to consider. I don't know your target market but at the very least it will help more quickly show the value of your product. You can then refine later to make it more focused on specific problems that law firms, libraries, students, or whatever it turns out to be have.

Some notes on your website:

1. Change your title from "Tired of reading terribly scanned PDFs?" to "Fix and Transcribe PDFs in Seconds". This will match with your "proof" by showing a demo video that's less than 5s long.

2. Your product is doing a lot of helpful things automatically - but I honestly don't know what they are because they flash as the subheading. Remove this and add as a table on the right 1/2 of the page below the heading.

3. Make your demo video shorter to only show the valuable pieces: show ugly PDF, upload PDF, convert, download PDF, show pretty PDF. Show the user the video before they click on it - or better yet remove the audio and play automatically in the background. Make this the left 1/2 of the page below the heading.

4. Consider shortening time to value when using the product e.g. automatically downloading the fixed PDF after converting so you could make your demo video just "drag PDF into browser, automatically download and open fixed PDF and show I can now copy text".

5. Consider changing the interaction on the before and after comparison to be a mouse over so it is obvious - as otherwise the black arrows on the black text are hard to discern. Or automatically move the slider left and right to make the comparison obvious.

6. Combine your "Features" and Pricing" pages with the home page. Don't make me click to discover the value. Instead of calling this "Awesome Features", try selling the value here. "Transcribes and Fixes 15 Common PDF Problems in Seconds".

7. Put a signup box below at the very bottom of the home page. Rename "My Files" for logged out users to "Sign In" and float to the right on the navigation bar.

8. Reinforce the value you're creating by showing the following on the pricing table: Process 500 PDFs / Month, Instantly transcribe, Fix 15+ common PDF problems, 24/7 Support (you have one customer - you can give world class support here, don't try to segment based on this yet). Reconsider document retention - I don't think anyone will care about this as most people and companies won't use you as a document repo. Just as a utility.
In MS-DOS 5.0 and later at least you could make a menu at start-up to pick what to activate. I looked at my old config.sys and autoexec.bat recently and it was amazingly simple. 100% of system configuration in maybe 1-200 lines of text, in two files. Not so bad compared to hunting for were to configure something in any modern OS?

DOS did what it had to do. For coding you could start up emacs (and ctrl-z somehow magically could drop you in a command.com shell that you could exit from to go back to emacs; I think there was a DOS interrupt to allow applications to start sub-shells like that?). And otherwise (i.e. most of the time for most of us) you just booted and started a game and then when you were done playing turned off the computer.

Anyway I must admit, many years later, that many games (and some applications) around 1990 were definitely better on an Amiga. DOS games for some time were rarely the best ports. But I never used an Amiga enough to learn if I liked the operating system much. I did buy Amiga Forever some year ago and that comes with a few pre-configured disk images with AmigaOS and various applications, but I am barely able to use that at all since I have no idea how to use it. It would be fun to play with some day.
They still are guaranteed to make minimum wage: if the tips + salary don’t pass the minimum wage threshold, the employer still has to pay the difference.
That tracks with my experience. There's just not much in the full ergo market (though there's plenty in the faux-ergo market ...), so once you find one you like, there's very little compelling you to switch.

It's an incredibly fad-driven market, and full ergo is "weird enough" that it doesn't have nearly as much widespread appeal (despite being inarguably superior for preventing RSI).
Not only past Congresses but when it's going on they live stream the vast majority of the talks. There are also "signal angels" that will relay questions asked on IRC to the speaker if you're looking for more direct participation. It's an awe-inspiring system to behold, and frustrating that not all "technology" conferences have adopted this level of wide-spread engagement. It's quite literally the most accessible conference for remote attendees and has been for years. They even live translate talks into multiple, other languages! I'm a big fan of the CCC and have never tried to travel to attend. Attending remotely is such a convenient experience. The only disappointing part is missing out on incidental conversation and of course the sticker operations.

https://events.ccc.de/
Why do you carry water for Musk? It's TwitterX not some generic unsearchable X.
What was more complicated? I read the wiki article and it basically matches the description one to one?
> ... and if a site directly tells me it doesn't like my ad blocker, I leave. I haven't gone to the ad-blocker-blocker level.

You may not be aware that many such messages are themselves blocked by the default lists in ublock origin. Examples:

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...
This is a brown M&M type thing for me nowadays. If I can't use MacOS, I don't trust the company's finances or IT.

A in the 2000's I used to do the same thing by asking for two displays. If they said no that was pretty much it. Arguments ranged from "we want everyone to use the same setup" to "too expensive".

My pay every month would've been multiple times the price of a monitor and at least 2-3 times the price of a MacBook nowadays. If your budget can't handle that, it's a huge red flag for me.

And there's always the time when I, a decently expensive external contractor, had to use some bargain-bin laptop with 2GB of memory. And I had to run at least two instances of NetBeans, a local Oracle installation and Adobe Flex at the same time. I lost so much time just waiting for that thing to work it cost them more than a proper computer would've =)
> LZ77 compression was fine, and hashing was fine, apparently the combination of the two became a patentable innovation

lolwat
"the censorship he disliked"
Idk if iphones have this problem, but on Android, insta reels are so messed up bc of hdr. I'm watching em at night with low brightness and suddenly a hdr video pops out and it brightens my eyes to oblivion... And this issue is present for years
Godwin's on record saying it's fine to make the comparison sometimes.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a56987/godwin-law...

> Godwin wrote on Facebook that someone had asked him to post a statement about Charlottesville, because people bring up his law to shut down arguments all the time. Turns outhe was happy to oblige. "By all means, compare these shitheads to the Nazis," he wrote. "Again and again. I'm with you."

> In general, Godwin has always said you can bring up the Nazis in an online conversation, as long as you're doing some research first. "If you're thoughtful about it and show some real awareness of history, go ahead and refer to Hitler or Nazis when you talk about Trump. Or any other politician," he wrote in The Washington Post backin 2015. But in the case of the white supremacists in Virginia, there's no research necessary to make that comparison. The facts speak for themselves.
Find has a particularly bad man page to find things that way.
based on what, their willingness and ability to donate?

"the university could use a new international airport..."
> suggesting that ethnic Han is in fact second-class citizen in China

One hundred percent. Something similar is happening in India and has been the case in Russia for some time. There is a sense of possession of everyone of the ethnicity running through the authoritarian streak in these cultures that justifies almost any action by the state against is "own" people.
Despite having a reputation as an innovator, Musk's ideas for improving Twitter revenue seem to amount to squeezing users for more money or otherwise degrading the free experience. This is a playbook that any private equity shark out there could have executed equally well. Not sure how this will ever lead to a viable "everything" app.
The Only $4M ARR SaaS Startup to Bare It All [video]
I think that is working OK as long as token probability and correctness are related. If, in the extreme, there is something where all training data is wrong, not sure there is a good way to do this. Maybe I am misunderstanding, though.

It might also need to be able to distinguish between Knightian uncertainties and probabilities when there is nothing to base things on.
We went through the same transition here in 2022. With actual restaurant data in hand, comparing August 2019 (in an effort to try and avoid any skew COVID might have created) and August 2023 recorded tips, I see no effective change. 2023 saw a nominally higher tip payout per hour, but in line with the rate of inflation.

Tipping certainly hasn't come to an end. That much is for sure.
Regarding the DoubleSpace context, Wikipedia helps (1):

Sept 1991: Digital Research releases DR DOS 6.0 with AddStor's SuperStor disk compression.

March 1993: Microsoft introduces MS-DOS 6.0, the first with DoubleSpace disk compression

June 1993: IBM announces PC DOS 6.1

November 1993: Microsoft MS-DOS 6.2, leapfrogging IBM's PC DOS 6.1 and with improved the stability of DoubleSpace.

February 1994: Microsoft found guilty of patent infringement, and Stac Electronics guilty of trade secret theft. Microsoft MS-DOS 6.21, removing DoubleSpace.

June 1994: After a judge ordered Microsoft to recall all unsold infringing products worldwide, Microsoft settled its dispute with Stac, and released MS-DOS 6.22, bringing back disk compression with internally developed DriveSpace, which is about 5% slower than DoubleSpace.

An interesting detail:

In the MS-Stac trial, "Stac’s lawyers showed a videotape of Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates" "at the unveiling of MS-DOS 6.0 in which he wore a T-shirt saying, “We came, we saw, we doubled,” to underscore the importance of the compression feature." (2)

A second detail, the "trade secret theft" was:

Stac was found "to have committed a trade secret violation by reverse engineering features of a beta version of MS DOS that they had gotten in confidence and then using the information they gained in making their own product." (3)

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_DOS_operating_syst...

2) https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-24-fi-26671-...

3) https://lwn.net/Articles/134642/
Include service on the receipt for a start.
On prominent accounts I follow, the top replies are universally all paid accounts posting clickbait, totally unrelated (or possibly AI generated?) to the poster. Here's a great example. I follow Jake Sherman, founder of Punchbowl News, to stay up to date on happenings in Congress. This is a reply:

https://twitter.com/3MTS_/status/1710360772612706416

All of that account's replies are spam like that. They're not even the worst offender, there are a handful of other accounts that just post emojis, complete nonsense, to every single popular account.

Musk had already destroyed the value of looking at a tweet's replies, which I consider the "accuracy" of the platform. But that was never the main draw anyway.

So far, my feed remains pretty good - the "recall". I've opted in to follow certain people or topics and truly, there's no better place to get the latest news. But if they destroy the value of the feed, there really will be no reason for anyone to stay.
> business-relevant change has more to do with features than code

I cannot comprehend this. It's like saying "Health has more to do with organs than cells." Organs comprise features. Features comprise code. To change the feature, one must change the code.

If the code is not business-relevant, delete it. It's a liability. We are not artists.

If the code is well-written, the compiler errors will echo the business' failings.
If waitstaff make the federal minimum wage, they would only be making around 10 dollars (probably less) an hour less than back of the house in my area. Back of house is by far the worse job, so I'd probably start flat tipping 5 - 10 dollars per visit rather than a percentage to bring them to parity with boh.
There was an anti-tipping movement in the interwar period in the US, on the basis that such a relationship of explicit subservience and having one's compensation for work subject to the whims of a master is un-American. I tend to agree.
US does whatever the President, Senate, Congress votes to do at the time.

It seems US is learning it's lesson but only takes one president to declare a war. Iran and Afghanistan were massive failures and trillions of tax payer dollars wasted.

Even US supporting Ukraine has resulted in failure. Failure in the sense of millions of lives lost and displaced, no victory for Ukraine and Russia is still destroying their infrastructure.

I support US helping other countries when a victory is swift and definitive.
I've used duet display on a first gen ipad pro 9.7". can't speak to using in older iPads, but TBH I don't recall having a problem with it
That is a meaningless rule when you can get fired for not making enough tips.
It means nothing. Tipping is a show of status, and culturally, that is not going away. Eating out will just cost more.

See CA/OR/WA. Nation’s highest minimum wages, including no special tipped min wage, but most people still tip for waited food service.

It actually has gone the opposite way. In my lifetime, the “standard” tip went from 15% to 20% somehow.
That didn't start with 4chan, it ... wait a minute. ;) Well played, sir.
I'm at this point 15 years removed, but Prof Kernighan was one of the most accessible professors and taught the most popular CS survey course (333).

I have at least a half a dozen times where I was pointed his direction from another professor and Kernighan spent an hour with me looking into how to scrape a dynamic website for my auction theory project. When he was stumped he introduced me to a professor at another school who he knew had looked into the topic.
I hope so too, good luck!