skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think you've really thought this through. How would someone make millions off of that? If someone tried, the original author is still offering it for free. Why would someone pay for it?

A lot of people are very myopic about generative AI, thinking that large Hollywood studios are going to steal people's work and put everyone out of a job. Hollywood studios won't exist soon enough because anyone will be able to put together a movie that rivals existing expensive productions. In fact, generative AI is democratizing, as long as it's not gatekept by a few large corporations, which is exactly what trying to misapply copyright here would do.
Hard to look at this objectively when employees don’t get reimbursed for their commute time and expenses.
>For some people home life sucks and work is a relief

Those people need to fix their home life then - not to take refuge to work in denial of their domestic issues. Work is almost optional. Home life is mandatory.

Easier said than done? Sure. But anything else is a sugarpill when you have a serious disease.
Sorry for my cynicism but it seems that any cryptocurrency that is able to solve the traceability problem has now one more business opportunity.
Border police was its own kind of jerks which okay I guess, not like my expectations were very high.

But here I was talking about the TK staff. The airline “service” reps. They were the rude and unprofessional ones I’m talking about. I have yet to hear “sorry” for the 36h delay and I had the pleasure of interacting with 20–30 TK staff at the airport during this ordeal.
Wait till people find out about .af domains

Wait till the Taliban finds out how we all use .af domains
Exactly. Except now you're an employee who is often expected to furnish your own workspace out of pocket, up to and including computers, sometimes.

Companies want it both ways.
“You don’t have diabetes” is better than a coin flip
This is a completely misled interpretation of events, since automating my work to the scale of generative AI, there won't be any work left for humans.

This "but progress" argument is tiring. The Industrial Revolution was a complete failure if you measure quality of life in its first decades. It got turned around by people who you know, fought back, created unions, and demanded fair pay.
The moment you can't fit the model in VRAM and have to use PCIE the performance impact is MASSIVE.

Depending on the type of model/usecase/how much you can fit in VRAM it very well may still be usable, however compared to fitting everything in vram it'll be abysmal for most any model type.

From my understanding the entire model must be read per iteration (or very close to all of it. This is why offloading any part of it impacts the performance so much.

Diffusion models depending on the sampler and some other stuff can potentially get away with only a few steps (usually 2-20 best case) and are relatively small (3B or less).

However LLM's are generally much bigger (they mostly start at 7B, there's a few exceptions depending on the use case), and they need an entire iteration per token which is only a few characters (think 2 to 3). So llm's especially are far more useful if you can keep them in vram.
> Sames goes I expect for "businesses hiring remote workers," only a Californian would have the arrogance to believe that all those businesses are somehow addicted to hiring in California.

It's not arrogance when history bears it out time and time again.

> So what this kind of stuff does is crush small businesses in California, and leave only the large ones standing.

You are claiming that small businesses will stop existing in California if employers have to pay necessary costs? The same ones they'd have to pay in an office setting, less rent? Doubt.
I've worked remotely for about 10 years now. I actually don't want my employer covering these expenses. If the employer is covering these expenses it requires me to document the expenses and comply with employer policies related to these expenses. For instance, an employer may mandate what speed of Internet service I am required to have, where I always want the fastest option (gigabit generally) and redundant links. Filing more expense reports in the horrid system made by SAP also is not on my list of things I want to do.

For the ~$1k/yr or so in expenses that I'd get back, I'd rather eat it. This is less than you spend on gas to commute and that's not covered, so frankly I don't care. Just pay me a fair salary with reasonable benefits and stay the fuck out of my personal life/home as an employer.
I worked at a remote-first place that made you use your own damn computer! No reimbursement.
I find this comment quite insightful actually. Everyone is focusing on "can reddit get users without Google" and forgetting the other side which is "can reddit be searched without Google?".
Should I be able to dedicate my life to some obscure thing that nobody cares to buy as a commodity?

That argument is absurd, you don't HAVE to be an artist. You can be a talented person and dedicate your life to something else.

Or you can be like everyone else and do it as a hobby in your time off because people don't find what you do creatively to be valuable. I demand I get paid for my playing video games, I think it's valuable and I dedicate my time to it, I deserve to be paid.

Fucking ridiculous.
Back in my day, we used to put together neural nets by hand!
Ah yes the Noble Savage trope. It never dies does it?
Given the terse reply, I'm guessing you disagree that it's even a concept. So, to round out the inevitable circular discussion I've gone ahead and asked ChatGPT for you:

Genuine creativity, often attributed to humans, is the ability to generate, imagine, or invent something new and original that has value or meaning. It involves thinking beyond existing boundaries, making connections between different pieces of information, and coming up with innovative solutions to problems.

Creativity can manifest in many forms, including:

Artistic creativity: This is often the first thing people think of when they hear the word "creativity". It includes creating visual art, music, literature, and more.

Inventive creativity: This involves coming up with new products, technologies, or methods that solve problems in novel ways.

Conceptual creativity: This involves developing new theories, models, or ways of understanding the world.

Problem-solving creativity: This involves finding unique solutions to challenges or problems.

Genuine creativity is often characterized by originality, expressiveness, and the ability to transform or redefine existing ideas or norms. It's a complex process that involves both conscious and unconscious thinking, and it's influenced by a person's knowledge, experiences, personality, and environment.

I went a step further and asked if it's capable of genuine creativity and received:

As an AI, I don't possess creativity in the human sense. I don't have feelings, thoughts, or experiences, and I don't generate ideas or concepts spontaneously. However, I can generate unique combinations of information based on the vast amount of data I've been trained on. This can sometimes appear as "creativity", but it's important to note that it's a result of complex algorithms and computations, not genuine creative thought.
I wonder if they are applying any sandboxing to libarchive? While it is fairly battle-tested it is still a huge chunk of C code opening often untrusted files. Plus many of the formats are likely rarely used and don't have the same scrutiny that the implementations of zip and tar do.
It is actually quite funny and sad to see so many Americans fall for the most braindead fake news propaganda in regards to China.
https://bcachefs.org/

It's literally the second item listed on the main web site

Full data and metadata checksumming
That makes more sense, I guess. I've never used an XBOne so I don't have an opinion as to how responsive it feels.
Have you ever paid for food? For clothing? For cars?

You might be shocked, but automation replaced humans in all those industries.

I'll still pay for books, music, or whatever. I won't really care at which capacity they were AI generated.
Who's going to background check every candidate's house on order to save up on like, $4000 a year for a very inefficient energy setup?

The worst reality is they will estimate and then cut that expense from your offer. Still, $5000 less for the kind of work offered remote isn't a deal breaker.
The linked article is talking about lobbying by big tech, including a letter signed by 1100 industry leaders and also statements by big tech employees insighting fear in people. Whether your grandma is scared of AI for unrelated reasons because she watched Terminator isn't really relevant, it seems to me.
I care a lot, and I like having the option to make the choice on a cookie banner and use it.
Here is a realistic scenario. Remote firm needs to hire a new employee in a Pacific time zone for a easy to find role. Employer could choose to target the job posting ad in Oregon, Washington, Nevada, etc. but not California.
Goodbye, Touch Bar, you held promise
Americans are not bound by EU laws. We appreciate forcing iPhone to USB-C, but you can keep the rest of your authoritarian laws.
I'm actually curious about the UI change in mapping software as well. The current cartography is focused on human-scale things, rather than geological-scale things. It's hard to find a map that gives topography as much space as it gives to roads, even when visiting some mountain ranges. In the lowlands, tourist maps still focus on roads and town names disproportionately more than on the type of environment and natural landmarks.

On a global scale, when the country borders are removed, we find ourselves lost, despite the huge ecological and geological diversity of the place, which makes our - or at least mine - experience as a inhabitant of this amazing place so much poorer. Compare the difficulty of finding the Atacama desert versus Luxembourg. How often do you see a whole-Earth map with the desert marked but not the state?
> That being said, I live in a pretty population dense area and my largest cost by far is dedicated home office space. It would be nice for my company to pay for that but it would have also been nice for them to pay for gas for my commute when I had one.

This is probably the best equivalent comparison I've seen in the thread. Paying commute costs vs paying home office costs.
They still say they’re “Europe’s #1 airline”, but look up reviews from ordinary travelers and you find hundreds of them describing a special kind of hell at IST.
That's only true if artists cling to the old ways and reject new tools. Their income can increase if they embrace the new empowering tools becoming available.
Dropbox and Evernote could've been perfect finished software in 2012.

"Finished software" doesn't mean that developers will spend 0 time on it.

"Finished software" is in the sense of no major user-facing changes (i.e., new product features, experimental features...). To ensure "finished software" continues to run in the coming years or even decades, developers may need to keep up with operating environment changes (e.g., OS, hardware...) & continue to upgrade infra software / libraries for bug/security fixes & performance improvements.

Imagine that a tech company lays off all software engineers except for a few devops.
> TA: The compiler has no way of knowing that. And if it did, it might say something about 'internalized racism'

Maybe stick to Harry Potter fan fiction?
No corp-it spyware at least! And the sky is the limit for how nice of machine you can build/buy.
Everybody finds an edge case they can justify their entire worldview on. It's fascinating.
They got out of the registrar business, yes. This is their registry.
We're not talking about desperate drug addicts here. The threat of criminal prosecution and being sent to federal prison is a pretty effective deterrent for most people. Especially the corporate officers who would ultimately have to authorize any ransomware payment. They won't take that risk to help their employer.
Of course it's the CxOs who tout their companies' onsite "culture"--they're not the ones crammed into open-plan, surveilled work stations, discouraged from leaving for non-work appointments, and subjected to mandatory social events.

Given even the relatively modest perks of the last onsite C-suite I worked with, hell, I'd be in the office too.
Ah yes, my Monero nails. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero

Observers cannot decipher addresses trading Monero, transaction amounts, address balances, or transaction histories, but im sure my old 14th century hammer will address this issue somehow even though subaddresses can be created that arent even remotely linked to my main address.

https://monerodocs.org/public-address/standard-address/
I've reconsidered and there is a some truth to this. I have a 14" M1 Pro and it's the best screen I've seen on a laptop! I honestly don't need the "Pro" chip for what I use it for.
The back story makes my blood boil.
Jack Ma never disappeared though, same case with the Chinese Tenis player. Thats the exact same thing the other poster was criticizing. Its the western media making up stories to fit the anti-china narrative.
I’d go out on a limb here and conjecture that you can still by stuff from your own money without submitting a claim.
This is my take, but it's just IMHO:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/29/mozilla_asleep_at_whe...
Godaddy is also, IMO, way worse.

After a forum I was on got flooded with CSAM shit, I did some hunting and found out it was all hosted on Godaddy hosting. I collected all the info and sent it to them, and got silence. I checked around, and it sounds like tons of people had done the same thing, and the ones who got responses were along the lines of "not our problem, call the FBI", and people who reported through FBI/NCMEC still saw zero action. I was looking at years old threads of people reporting the same exact sites I was trying to report, with no one getting anywhere.

These are straight up child porn sites, hosted by GoDaddy hosting (not just the domains), which were up for years on the plain internet, not on Tor, or even something where passwords were required or something. This wasn't a long time ago either, this was like, a few years ago, and no one at GoDaddy gave a shit. Absolutely infuriating.
The article talks explicitly about "a reasonable percentage of" bills. So I think it can totally cover the case where you want a top-notch Internet connection for big bucks and they reimburse you up to N dollars per month.
It seems I've inadvertedly taken the same path as the hackers: migrating from namecheap to namesilo ages ago.

Will likely be slowly transferring my domains to porkbun.
User latchkey, the one you're agreeing with, is the one who very literally claimed that a developer using an Intel laptop is quite equivalent to an F1 mechanic using "shitty tools" or racing the Tour de France in a 30lb Huffy.
We’ve seen the sort of output that LLMs produce, it can be good but also it just makes things up. So, this might produce good designs but ones that still need to be checked by a human in the end. This sort of thing just makes humans better, we’re still at the wheel.

Or maybe it could be used as a heuristic to speed up something tedious like routing and layout (which, I don’t work in the space, but I’m under the impression that it is already pretty automated). Blah, who cares, human minds shouldn’t be subjected to that kind of thing.
Yes, but they have established processes, cost structures and real estate commitments to support that.
Of course there is. It may not outweigh the cons but there is absolutely a benefit to having an in person relationship with your coworkers.
Unless it was already a short-term lease agreement, which is not super common in CRE, chances are your company was still footing the bill for their lease on that office space. Most office space is leased on 5-10 year terms.
My favorite teacher in high school was my calculus teacher.

He would regularly ask a student to solve a problem or answer a question. Students would often ask for confirmation as they worked through, and his response invariably was "what do you think?" - whether they were right or wrong.

His explanation for that was "if I tell you you're right, then you'll stop thinking about the problem". And that's stuck with me for many years.

I see that as a major issue we will face as software becomes more capable/intelligent: we'll stop thinking because it can be assumed that the machine always has the right answer. And it's a quick regression from there.
They can't swap out GDDR for DDR.

But what they can do is double up the GDDR chips (which is what the 48GB pro cards do), kinda like running 2 DIMMS per channel on desktops. This requires a somewhat more expensive PCB and support from the memory controller, but AMD already supports this for sure, and I would be shocked if the Intel A770 die can't do it.
About as useful as calling someone vain because they wear clothes.
This story would probably be a lot more impactful if it were much shorter. It's basically beating the same drum over and over.

"LLMs will be too powerful and we humans better be careful!"

LLMs are a huge change in how we compute, but they aren't AGI (yet). They just look like it. They are really good at summarizing massive amounts of information, and open up huge new interfaces between computers and humans.

But they aren't Skynet yet.
Its not all about power. This might come as a shock, but not all bosses are evil and not all companies try to extract every single drop from employees.

I for example have put in a lot of hard work in building an office space in a location where it is easy for folks to commute, invested in experts who came in and designed a space which is great for creativity, inspiration and focus. There are lots of snacks and coffee to keep people boosted. And I did all this to make the office a genuinely nice place for people to do good work and trust me, there are people who like doing good work. It makes them feel useful and a productive member of society. This same environment is really hard to replicate at home where there might be less space, kids, dogs etc.

So this sort of antagonistic attitude towards any return to office is really bad because it makes the world feel threatening and desolate. Not everything is so bad and evil.
Did you read what I said? Anything posted on the internet is public. Just because you think it's private does not make it so.

To that end, you should consider any file on your computer to be public as well if it's connected to the internet, as there are countless ways that data could be exfiltrated.
Only a availability heuristic, but I closed 2 consulting contracts that were a _hard_ "no we don't hire contractors" by letting them know I don't live in California.

Conversation changed as soon as they realized I was under AZ law for contracting/consulting services.

I was charging $10k per week, and one contract was a total of 6 months. The total value of that contract was $240k (before my expenses and taxes). That pool of contracting work appears to be closed to CA contractors.
Yup. And often those same people will say to others "you need to live within your means".

But when it comes to their business, all of a sudden they're entitled to a lot of things.

I'm all for small business, and vehemently support many.

But there's no constitutionally guaranteed right to a successful business.
Paid today
$1,689.99/yr

Thanks but no thanks.
Sadly. It does't detract from my point, though: caring about something can result in bad consequences.
I think what Google is guilty of is following a trend. Mobile phones have long advertised that they "take better pictures", initially by adjusting contrast and saturation, and then in increasingly sophisticated ways. This is just the latest version. Even film cameras implied that they were like a cooker which can cook better meals. It appeals to a sense that the picture in our head should be what we get, and it's the phone's job to make that happen.
Is it typical that gas for commute is not covered? In The Netherlands that's a government regulation as well, never realised that might be uncommon.
This has "Pumpkin Spice is Violence" [0] vibes.

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/10/06/history-pu...
Not because of leap seconds, but because of timezones. Us eastern is UTC-4:00 and 1 Jan 1970 - 4 hours (or more) would be 31 Dec 1969
$0.42/kWh!??! Jesus Christ. I think I'm paying around $0.0629/kWh. Where is this?
try https://www.zillum.com/
Their hardware org is amazing. The software org, decidedly less so.
No doubt audit tables are a popular alternative to event sourcing. But if the current state and changes history of the entity are stored in different tables, someone may say: "Prove me that your audit log is correct". Because you are not using audit table for the business logic, you may not immediately notice the problem with it that corrupts the audit log.
Event Sourcing provides other advantages, not only audit log.
For example, a service command typically needs to create/update/delete aggregates in the DB (JDBC/R2DBC) and send messages to a Kafka. Without using the two-phase commit (2PC), sending a message in the middle of a transaction is not reliable. There is no guarantee that the transaction will commit. With Event Sourcing you have to subscribe to the event and send the message to Kafka from listener. The delivery guarantee is "at least once".
Anyway, there is a demand for Event Sourcing on the market
The belief that success is mostly luck, while sometimes true, is useless when it comes to making decisions. There is little that I can do to increase my luck, while there is plenty that can be done to work toward a goal. One who has benefited from luck or can afford to buy their own luck, can state this and mean it. Anyone else who holds that position assures their own failure.
I love manual transmission cars and miss them, and like Toyota cars, but couldn't really get behind something artificial like this. I mean, if Toyota made them and someone wanted one, more power to them, but I think for me I'd worry about it being an unnecessary additional subsystem to break down. If it had any functional utility I might feel differently (maybe I just didn't read it carefully enough?)
My favorite penn and teller trick of all time is this one, which is kind of an anti-trick:

https://youtu.be/3m8DsQisjXQ?si=4x0Dhrf_2Byg_Bzh&t=958 (16 minutes in).

It breaks a fundamental rule about magic tricks that you probably never even realized was a rule until they fade to black.
She's the founder of the blog, an epic racist, and she's surrounded herself with far-right grifters while pretending to be an enlightened centrist.
Oh, yeah, in the Guardian's shoes I'd definitely be looking at pulling the license. But if everyone does that it's not a great outcome for anyone, unfortunately.
The DNT header already has a setting for that: "DNT: 0" (as well as '1', and 'unset')

For one reason or another, the header has been deprecated for years now.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DN...
ING bank wont like if someone registers bank.ing :^)
I think it's reasonable to call them "less ethical" rather than "more advanced"

Technology wise, cloudflare is probably the leader.
Just because there are X outputs on GPU, doesn't mean it will work with all of them at the same time
It reminds me of the "Hello Computer" scene from IT Crowd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyV0IVItlM4
Not quite the same but the Netrunner card game is an assymetric hacker vs corp game. It's... being revived via community support and has an active online scene I believe.

Edit: Netrunner not Nethack... oops
They might claim it is too hard to fix and it requires PHDs to solve it, like they claimed with the whole windows terminal fiasco.
Apple is a particularly bad example of this kind of churn. They have an iron grip on the entire ecosystem and can get away with it, but you have to wonder at what cost.