skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Allstate/SquareTrade has been awesome. I bought a nightmare of a dishwasher that's needed repairs three times now. Each time I call, I'm on hold for under a minute, they do some brief trouble shooting, and then they overnight parts and a technician is there in 2-3 days.
> A quarter of humans on this planet live the way humans did before we invented capitalism.

Yes. It seems to be necessary.
Euphemism treadmill, etc.
That's not how accountability works.
I don't understand, you still need to hold your phone, don't you?
I mean Google has never been known for great customer support. As far as cloud vendors - Microsoft and Amazon are far ahead.

Anything dealing with customers, Google is behind Amazon, Apple and Microsoft
20 000 years ago we didn’t have closed borders, nation states, global markets, etc. Heck, the crops we grow today and depend on were mostly still in their way less nutritious and harder to grow wild variants.

20 000 years ago we also had a massive number of big game animals which grazed in gigantic herds on vast prairies. These prairies don’t exist anymore, and neither do the herds.

On top of that, our historic sources don’t reach this far back, and our archeological records gets really blurry this far back, so what do you know. Perhaps there were multiple time periods where societies did indeed collapse, where a governing structure spanning an entire region was suddenly and violently disrupted and never returned, with cultures and languages lost with no descendants. Surely this happened multiple times between 30 and 20 thousand years ago.

Around 3000 years ago society in the Middle East, North Africa and Balkans certainly did collapse because of some volcanic eruptions and the subsequent migration crisis and the market failure of a single industry.
If you ever wondered why your CISO seems to be over promoted as an executive, this is the reason. A lower level manager can't take the fall for the CEO/company.
https://twitter.com/livpost_br/with_replies

Look at all of the non sequitur shirt tweets.

https://twitter.com/cosasdevida_13/with_replies

Same here- same domains even (viralstyle.com and vrlstyl.com)

https://twitter.com/humseila/with_replies

Same domains, links to a domain that has been taken down due to TOS violations (gystoore.shop)

https://twitter.com/Steven_Mr9/with_replies

Same spamming of links with vrlstyl.com domain, non-link tweets with fragmentary "bot speak."

Just skim these feeds and you can get a general feel.
https://archive.ph/BoVv7
Grug express simple and clear.

Grug no make small problem big.

Grug humble.
I've often remarked (informally) that autistic people seem to operate under the assumption that the explicitly-stated rules are the actual rules. "Help others in need" would be the go-to example of how this confusion(?) can lead to a positive outcome.
I know it's not Bangladesh, but in nearby India, the state of Kerala is the one most influenced by communists, and is also the one with the highest standard of living in the country. Meanwhile there are countless countries that have followed neoliberal models and have terrible quality of life.

https://search.brave.com/search?q=kerala+quality+of+life
Reminds me of classic FILM CRIT HULK columns. The content’s good but the style can take some getting used to.
And if there was no slavery we wouldn’t have any pyramids. I don’t care. You don’t have the right to an idea, a sound or a particular arrangement of pixels. That’s not communism because nothing is being taken from you. I don’t owe you any terms and conditions to something you don’t own.
> Those people don't live in our society, they live in some other society that doesn't generate the kind of surplus required to enable children not to have to work.

The "other" less equal children from another society, clearly not connected to our own.
Show HN: EnfinBref- {GPT3-5|Mistral-7B} YouTube summaries, segment by segment
A neat (in my opinion) little side-project I've been working on, both to get somewhat basic React skills going, and to work with LLMs on even more cool projects to build.

It should work for most major languages and output English summaries (or French summaries, if using the main https://enfinbref.io page instead of the /en/ subpage), no matter the input language.

Currently planning on expanding in various directions, including some nice new features like choosing a summary type, better video type identification and LLM routing, and bullet points exec summaries. Pretty basic on functionalities at the moment, and relying on a few tricks. The key stack:

- FastAPI + Python backend, with some extra libs for type validation (Pydantic), translation and YouTube transcript fetching.
- Chained LLM calls with logic. id video type w/ a light model, break down into segments and sections, parallelise as much as can be, general high level summaries.
- Models are a mix of Mistral fine-tune and GPT-3.5, with prompts tailored to the identified type of content and the current context.
- Front-end is my first foray into React + Tailwind, with my last front-end experience before that being jQuery.

Inspired by a post a while back about Summary Cat, but with a more in-depth approach: all summaries are segment-by-segment to get a more in-depth view at potentially complex videos. Segments are defined as being 3mn long for short videos, 5mn for longer ones. Anything above 45mn is broken down into 45 minute sections, both for ease of context length handling (solidly into gpt-3.5-16k territory, which is already more annoying to run than Mistral-7B, and any further would require GPT-4) and because things get a bit murkier to handle in terms of clarity when going above that limit.

(the name is from a common French idiom for "anyway")
Curious if this applies to political ad senders.
I'm based in the US, where it's spelled without the "u". Quite a few examples of this spelling difference - humo(u)r, behavio(u)r etc. Oh and "spelt" is "spelled". Isn't English fun! :)
It’s definitely the first place I turn to for real time updates about stuff like this.

When there was murderer on the loose recently where I live we definitely watched Twitter more than anything else for updates. The traditional media was incredibly delayed and their reporting was awful and inconsistent.

When our home was in trouble due to major wildfire, local journalists and citizen journalists on YouTube and Twitter was the most reliable place for updates.

Where else would you recommend besides Twitter/X and official channels?

I don’t see why government officials who are performing paid work as public government officials should be allowed to hide or delete access to their work in any capacity.

If they don’t want to expose themselves to the public then don’t use the channel to communicate in the first place.

You don’t have to use social media for official communications.
> The developer's incentive to maximize their own lock-in factor and billable hours are powerful forces.

In my experience these are rarely, if ever, the reasons for over engineering.
Not really sure why this is nefarious. I'd rather be treated than die. And if I don't think the side effects are worth it, then I'm still free to die. What does this have to do with malice?
>>The term “artificial intelligence” or “AI” has the meaning set forth in 15 U.S.C. 9401(3): a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments. Artificial intelligence systems use machine- and human-based inputs to perceive real and virtual environments; abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an automated manner; and use model inference to formulate options for information or action.

I find the definition of AI to be eerily broad enough to encompass most programs operating on most data inputs. Would this mean that calls to FFmpeg or ImageMagick rolled into a script with some rand() calls would count as an AI system and be under federal purview and enforcement (whatever that means in this context)?
The Whole Earth Catalog is hard to describe except that it was an attempt to make the world wide web, long before the web, in print, back in the 1970s. From the masthead:

>FUNCTION

>The WHOLE EARTH CATALOG functions as an evaluation and access device. With it, the user should know better what is worth getting and where and how to do the getting…

>PURPOSE

>We are as gods and might as well get good at it. So far remotely done power and glory--as via government, big business, formal education, church--has succeeded to the point where gross defects obscure actual gains. In response to this dilemma and to these gains a realm of intimate, personal power is developing--power of the individual to conduct his own education, find his own inspiration, shape his own environment, and share his adventure with whoever is interested.

>Tools that aid this process are sought and promoted by the WHOLE EARTH CATALOG.

Whole Earth and its offshoots were leaders of the techno-optimism movement in the 1970s and 80s — that technology, devolved to the individual, was a powerful force for good. It was highly influential in the rise of the PC, including with both Apple founders, and their entire circle of Bay Area hippie-nerds.
I'm somewhat confident that the cultural problems predate those folks taking over SolarWinds.

Putting the national spin on this issue is inappropriate and contrary to the guidelines of this site.
Controllable Neural Text Generation (2021)
Why did Twitter (X)'s valuation tank 56% in one year?
Every time I read about open source alternatives to big ticket commercial software I get excited right up until the point where I click on the link and see that it has a 'pricing' link
NY Times can't block you from buying their newspaper, and public broadcast television can't block you from getting their reception. One wrongthink on twitter can get you banned from there, and if your local government uses twitter to 'do whatever', you're effectively banned from that.
lol. Let’s not throw Latin / Asian culture under the bus when the implicit alternative being posed is American culture. Pot meet kettle.

Remember what old mate says to Ryan Gosling in the Barbie movie? “We’re just better at hiding it.”
You're completely ignoring the context of my comment:

> It is not that different from using television or radio or private phone lines to conduct business in the past

Terrestrial broadcasts in the US in the past are the subject of this comparison. Whether my description of said historical broadcasts is applicable to modern cable and satellite radio is immaterial, because we're not talking about modern cable and radio usage. Yes those are different, but they're also not used as official channels for government communication any more the way that broadcast TV and radio used to be. They've been transferred
Good show for mentioning that. If it becomes commonplace for popular runtimes and languages to be able to load modules and their dependencies at that level, then a lot of arguments for service encapsulation go away.

I think in these discussions, a lot of times people are taking past one another. If I start putting a JRE-targeted application together, I know I can eventually reach for isolated modules if I follow good internal practices, whereas if I'm in Python land it's pretty unattainable.
After I saw the hiring ad, I searched for this post. But now I'm not sure this was wrong of them. When the layoffs happened, the CEO said they would be cancelling all their 200 job openings "except for a handful of roles" that aligned with the company's short term goals. That seems to be true, there are only 20 job postings on their website and the majority of them are in sales. Lastly the ad said if I remember correctly "Flexport is hiring sales people," it wasn't advertising some general lift of their hiring freeze.

It is interesting that they are hiring a Sales Manager when at least one Sales Manager was part of the layoffs[1], but there are reasonable explanations for this too.

^1: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jPHAa9OpCvSnWEDXRia7...
> Of course it is. You could very easily pass laws that de facto prohibit AI research in the US, or limit it to large bureaucracies that in turn become stagnant for lack of domestic competitive pressure.

…

> A strong heuristic here is that if you're proposing a regulation that would restrict what kind of code an individual could publish under a free software license, you're the baddies.

Sure.

…but those things will change the way development / progress happens regardless of what China does.

“We have to do this because China will do it!” is a harmful trope.

You don’t have to do anything.

If you want to do something, then do it, if it makes sense.

…but I flat out reject the original contention that China is a blanket excuse for any fucking thing.

Take some darn responsibility for your own actions.
Agreed. Over engineering happens when you overthink every line of code, not when you fail to think about every line.
Yet another example of individual customers not being companies' real clients.

As long as there are organizations willing to pay millions/billions for a company's customers' data, that data will eventually be sold/licensed/shared/etc to them. Companies would be leaving money on the table otherwise, and shareholders won't have that.
The 100% efficiency is faradaic efficiency, not energy efficiency, I believe.
RefCell runtime panics are UB. All of Rust consists of behavior for which the international standard imposes no requirements. The set of requirements imposed on Rust by international standard is a null set.

I'm sorry for being pedantic, but it's important to distinguish between UB generally (which would normally be termed "implementation-defined" in common parlance if that weren't already a term of art) and memory safety specifically.

We don't get CVEs because a C source file didn't end in a newline. I suspect we rarely get CVEs because someone failed to add -ftrapv when they should have. We get CVEs primarily due to OOB memory access.
I can think of a few scenarios that have different conditions/threats:

1. Something that would normally be your own secret to control which is used against you, like discovering you're suddenly un-insurable for condition X that you might not even have known you could get. Other variations in the space include embarrassment/blackmail or aggressive marketing.

2. Exploitation without "fair" compensation, such as if your family has a history of a certain expensive health problem and it turns out those genes are also the key to making an unrelated Miracle Cure, but none of that makes its way back to compensate people for the suffering/cost that enabled the benefit to everyone else.

3. Re-sharing with governments or law-enforcement, bypassing other rights/protections you would normally have.
You never miss any occasion to whine about crypto on this forum, huh?

Sounds like you have an axe to grind. Lost serious money?
It seems obvious now that hyperbolic space is recursive like this.

Much appreciated.
Here's a reference showing that MagSafe chargers can contain an NFC tag: https://www.nfcw.com/2020/10/14/368646/apple-includes-nfc-in...
They have a B2B product called Tequila: https://tequila.kiwi.com/portal/login
My point is you're putting the cart before the horse - you don't research individual genetic diets before you research generic diets
> Why don't people like you just spend exactly 2 minutes to create a bogus gmail (or etc) account for yourself

Have you tried doing this recently? Creating an email address has become a fairly draconian process.
No they didn't. The most popular form factor for phones before the iPhone was the thick flipphone, because it was easier to hold and use in one hand. Second most popular right before the iPhone's introduction was likely the slide QWERTY layout, such as the Motorola Sidekick or Karma. It kept the smaller form factor of the candybar phone with the capabilities and keyboard of an early smartphone like the Blackberry Curve. Those were both "big brick" phone form factors that survived until around 2013. The iPhone popularized the broad slate form factor, which was quickly adopted by pretty much everyone wanting to field an Android phone from then on.
Fossil found on the side of the road is a new species of mosasaur
No, society works because we broadly trust that others will follow laws and that institutions will enforce the laws. It has been decided, by the public, that public spaces should not have off leash dogs in them because every dog is a “good dog” until it isn’t and someone or someone else’s animal pays the price.

This is like saying it is okay for good drivers to drive through stop signs, because they’re there for the bad drivers. Just moronic.

If you want to be somewhere where you can behave however you want, move away from other people. Pretty straightforward.
Might appeal to some but for my money, the 8BitDo SN30 Pro is already the perfect travel companion. Great size for kids’ hands but entirely usable by adults without cramping. Has analogue sticks, too.
If your family sends in their DNA, they'll de-anonymize you, unfortunately.
However when I met two people fighting each other in public, violently (blood and teeth), I was under a severe bystander effect I thought I wouldn't have

This is pretty rational actually, since you have no way of knowing who the instigator and who the victim (if any) is. A person who's been attacked for no reason will generally make it obvious, trying to escape or hang on property that's being taken from them or evincing other signs of distress. If you find two people actively going at each other and there isn't an obvious underdog, it's probably best not to intervene physically.
I think the op is saying, and I might not disagree with them, that a world where dogs run free is a better world, even if it’s more dangerous.
Maybe there are other factors besides just money. Like the fact that wealthy parents can afford invest more time into their kids, they have less financial stress so can focus more on parenting.

Also having a successful person literally raise you from birth would probably contain a lot of lessons about sucess

I think assertions like this miss alot because they automatically assume the wealthy parents helped them financially. It seems to feel of sort of idolizing of money, thinking money can solve most problems and achieve a great many things. I think that's a popular but flawed belief.

As someone who started a moderately successful business in the past, I don't think just having money to pour into a startup is as important or as deciding a factor as people think
As someone outside of the tech industry - Big Tech tends to be the term I use the most and is mostly understood by everyone.
Scientists find universal lower bound on topological entanglement entropy
Given how insurance works, this possibility should concern people more.

Insurance is a bet. Like all gambling establishments in Las Vegas, they need to take in enough money to cover overhead, pay staff, pay off the (financial) "winners" and still turn a profit.

If your genes guarantee you X problem, it's a "sucker's bet." There's no money to be made covering you. It's effectively charity to let you buy coverage for a pittance knowing you will get a big payout.

Even if you work for an insurance company, having a genetic disorder automatically disqualifies you from purchasing a lot of their policies.
Why did the value of that there building decline after someone set it on fire?
These demands do not constitute "political and social injustices".
Public firms can be partially owned by PE, hence the phrase "big chunk"
I paid them so that they can do useful things with my sample, like correlate it with research or do more research on their own. I then volunteered to share more of my data in their surveys, and collected more samples for them for further research. I think it's fantastic that they are sharing this with drug companies. In fact, my main question is: What took them so long?!

My DNA isn't some terrible secret I have to hide in the dark. I'm just one of like 8 billion variants of imperfectly copied ape. Maybe paying 23andme to do something useful with it will be my only lasting legacy in this world, lol.

It's not that I "didn't see it coming", it's that I hoped this would happen from the get-go.
Not even spammers want to waste time & money emailing people who have already marked their emails as spam (that's as clear a signal as any to move onto the next victim).

The real problem is, for legitimate senders, the people who send less emails actually get higher levels of spam complaints! This is because humans are human and they forget who you are. I would argue this actually incentivizes sending more emails. This is why marketers all recommend sending garbage emails daily/weekly/monthly.

The truth is, the companies with full-time spam (marketing) departments will do just fine with these changes. It's the little guy who is going to have to navigate these complexities (likely unsuccessfully), and get shut out from yet another technology that used to be open.

On top of that, Google has started to offer perks for senders within Gmail for a $1,500 per year fee (VMC). They're basically one step away from collecting rents on all of email by way of their monopoly.
I mean, electricity is also very important, but that doesn't imply that everybody in tech should be configuring their own wiring. It's fine to do that if you want to, but it is completely reasonable to expect that most people should be able to rely on someone else to do the work of ensuring that the key infrastructure runs well, and not think about it so that they can focus on the specialization they want to handle.
Is there not precedent for this in the offline world? Government officials hold Q&A meetings and informational sessions in private establishments frequently, and these establishments may have their own rules as to who can and can't attend.
Apple was much more open about future plans in the early 90s. Apple talked about the PPC transition long before hardware was available and said they were switching to PCI for the second generation PPC Mac’s before the first generation ones ever shipped or slightly thereafter.

But it seems clear that Apple is going to have the same problem with ARM that it had with PPC. It’s already falling behind on the high end. The ARM MacPro is laughably incapable compared to high end x86 processors and they still have no GPU story to compete with Nvidia on the high end.

I’m sure Apple could design something capable of competing with high end Intel CPUs. They just don’t have the stomach for it because the market for really high end Mac’s are so small.

Whether it matters is the question.
Again, it really doesn't matter to my point whether or not you buy into the idea of William Gibson's intent being to warn people against AI. The point is that decades of media have given people ample reason to fear AI, such that present fear of AI cannot be solely attributed to present day fear mongering campaigns.

People have been spooked by the possibility for a long time. That's the point. If you really want to persist in arguing I can provide a long list of media in which AI is dangerous if not outright villainous. Will you make me do this, or will you accept that I can do this?
Who would use this in a pro use-case.. i.e. for anything work related. Why this over k8s
Quick, you can dub it flyaway123’s law.
NBER research suggests unions correlate with lower relative employment for certain more vulnerable populations such as young and old.

There's also the risk the union basically exploits the young and old by driving their wage from shitty to zero (by setting them too high to bear for anything but the most able bodied middle age). This pretty much mimics my experience younger working construction; union gigs set my wage at '0' by making me the outgroup. Being exploited by middle age union workers is bad for longevity imo.