skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We don't need you (whatever "you" means) to sign a treaty with "us" in order for "our" law to apply when you deal with "our" citizens.

Sometimes there is zero leverage and "you" can't be found/sued/fined. But for large companies, there's no easy way out. That's why Meta is in hot waters ; they can't just say "oh we'll put our HQ back in California and now the EU can't say anything about how we collect data/show ads to EU users". That can't fly.

Even if you made up a new country and went there (with no treaty), you'd still be outside the local law of the users you're dealing with, and there are many ways for the user's jurisdiction to apply leverage if you're enough of a big deal.
To know whether something is bullish or bearish, we need to know not only its value to customers, but also its ability to differentiate itself from competitors and whether it will be able to maintain the value margin. One clear value that OpenAi can offer customers right now is the ability to do inference at marginal cost. Even when open source models get close to the quality of ChatGPT, they will be expensive to run, let alone to fine-tune or update. Knowledge is a constantly evolving thing. If you don't have a big budget, it will be very hard to keep up. Unless we can find a way for the community to pool the resources to train open source models and keep them up to date.

That might be a bit different for big companies where they want to run their own models.

The other factor is that Google and others are certainly not going to sit still. There is no reason to believe that someone as resourceful as Google cannot come up with something as good as ChatGPT, if not better. Companies like Meta are playing the open source card, so they will be the first to benefit directly from the community. So the market will change, but dramatically. It's far too early to bet on any of them (or none of them). My approach is to diversify, wait and see.
Dunno about the GP, but I do.

I know it's not something that's going to happen any time in the foreseeable future, but I think it would be fantastic for our society and economy if the top marginal tax rate was 100%, with that tax bracket starting at (just as an off-the cuff estimate) something like $50 million/year, with regular and capital gains income counted together and taxed at the same rate.

Many people witter about how that means there's "no incentive to do better", but a) if you as a person making $50,000, $500,000, or even $5,000,000 per year think that this applies to you or is ever likely to, you are probably wrong, because even the person making $5M/yr is closer to the one making $50K/yr than they are to the one making $50M/yr, and b) if the only incentive you personally respond to is monetary, you are in the minority, because it's plain from empirical evidence and plenty of solid scientific research that the norm for human beings is to care about doing a good job for its own sake—so long as they're not being burned out, beaten down, and kept poor, and especially if they're allowed to do work that they like doing and are given some degree of ownership in it (not legally/financially, but conceptually—autonomy, a say in the process, etc).

More realistically, I'd love to return to something like the tax structure in what many look back on as a golden age: the post-WWII years, when the top marginal tax rate was above 90%, and yet somehow our industry chugged along at a fantastic pace, and people didn't just stop caring because there was "nothing to work for".
Maybe. I do think there are a fair number of people who recognize there are downsides to never seeing coworkers in person. But, given the option, it's a tradeoff they'll make so they don't need to commute.
Doesn't California impose strict emission regulations? Seems like a kind of bad analogy my man.
Show HN: Tensorli - GPT-Like Transformers in Pure NumPy
> What happens if we don't discover what we want to in that amount of time?

We reevaluate with more information than we have right now.

This pattern of task is helpful for things where the unknowns are substantially greater than the knowns. The idea is to incrementally shift the balance until the knowns are _enough_ to actually make an informed guess instead of just a wild guess.

There's a bug in the legacy codebase. The replacement is nearly finished and slated for launch in two months. How do we handle that bug?

We could ignore it, we could just tell someone "go fix it, whatever it takes". Neither is a great option.

So: "Go investigate this bug, don't spend more than an hour, and let me know how far you get."

By the time you're done, we'll have a _better_ idea what the shape of the problem is.

Maybe you come back and say "yeah I found the problem's in this area, I need to sit down with someone that understands the business logic better to untangle this and then we can tweak and fix it"--great, we'll get you the appropriate resources and try and follow through with a fix. We'll figure on something like an afternoon of interruption for you.

Maybe you just come back saying "it's in this part of the code and it's pretty organized, just couldn't quite track it down yet" and we can greenlight more time based on some level of confidence that it won't be an enormous task. (Or maybe not, depending on the actual scope and severity of the bug.) We'll figure on a day or two of interruption to get it over the line.

Maybe you come back saying "it's somewhere in this eldritch spaghetti, and when I stared into it the abyss starting back at me sent chills up my spine and the pictures on my walls wept blood, please don't send me back there" and it's clear it's not worth pursuing any further and we drop it.
Thank you for this description and links. I had no idea the agricultural powers of California so explicitly advocated for removing the Japanese Americans.
"Good faith" doesn't mean being dishonest. Instead, it's about showing a little empathy between two people.

This situation sounds more like people trying to cover their ass so they aren't blamed for something later. Work to get things accomplished, not to avoid some kind of criticism.

So, rather than being these types of people -- be a person who helps get something accomplished and maybe improves this situation along the way.
If achieving great things doesn't mean the American dream of a house with a vegetable garden, a wildflower meadow, and a little patch of grass for kicking a ball around, I'm not interested.
> I don't think Blake3 has any hardware implementation at all yet.

> https://github.com/BLAKE3-team/BLAKE3

> The blake3 Rust crate, which includes optimized implementations for SSE2, SSE4.1, AVX2, AVX-512, and NEON, with automatic runtime CPU feature detection on x86. The rayon feature provides multithreading.

There aren't blake3 instructions, like some hardware has for SHA1, but it does use hardware acceleration.

edit: Re-reading, I think you're saying "If we're going to talk about hardware acceleration, SHA1 still has the advantage because of specific instructions" - that is true.
no the french law is to protect publishers and libraries by setting a minimum price for books :(

and now they've updated it to say you can't offer delivery for less than 3 euros...
You're right, clearly I'm not the intended recipient. Leaving my fashion comments aside, my other principal objection is paying for something that likely has a 1000%+ markup on its manufacturing costs, one pays for the Rolex name-not the product.

I'm not saying the watch isn't engineered with precision as clearly it is, but one knows something is wrong when Rolex guards its manufacturing processes the way of state secrets (no one outside the company can gain access to its plant). Of course, Rolex claims this is to protect it from industrial espionage, I'd equally argue that its highly automated precision numerical control equipment can turn watches out like sausages and the company's ongoing worry is that the world will discover how cheap they are to make. That would be a marketing and PR stuff-up par excellence.

I would not buy a Rolex because I know I'd been ripped off. BTW, my grandfather was a watchmaker and jeweler and he taught me to be aware that much of the trade was build on illusion and mirrors. He didn't just repair watches, he had a precision watchmaker's lathe and similar equipment and could make parts, gears, subsections of Incabloc shock protection systems, etc. for watches and clocks that weren't available in suppliers' spares catalogs. He not only repaired jewellery but also made it. I have a gold and platinum tie pin with a black opal made by him (mind you, I wouldn't be seen dead wearing it).

Right, not only have the rich and powerful always valued diamonds but also most who've come in contact with them and other precious stones have always done so. But it was only in the 20th Century, and then mainly in anglophone countries, that diamond ownership took off among us commoners as a result of cleaver marketing.
Python 3.11 will have it
https://bugs.python.org/issue39298
> All nine of the Baltics’ synchronous condensers will have power-boosting flywheels, as she explains, equipping each installation with up to 2,200 megajoules of energy.

Though 97% of that energy isn’t available to the grid as the name synchronous condenser implies.
At least from face value it seems the value of those patents is exactly to fight back patent pools organizations, at part of the AOM stipulation is that if someone tries to sue over AV1 patents they would lose access to every patent holder portfolio (for AOM that would mean Google, Apple, Amazon and many others tech giants). Though it seems that still won't stop everyone.
AFAIK at least Element/Matrix are actively working on adopting it.
I don't disagree on the surface but similar to optimizing a codebase I like to dive into the biggest issues first and work my way down. Perhaps focusing on a glass of drinking water is the best use of resources and energy but in my worldview there are much better efforts. The glass of water at best makes some feel good and others frustrated. I would rather edge the frustrated group into a middle ground
the spirit of the original purpose of patents is being abused

definitely
Comparing Data Providers: Zoominfo vs. Apollo
In this guide, we compare Zoominfo and Apollo, the two providers that marketers most often consider using as their “base” data provider.
It seems that in many places intent to commit another crime is a key.
> What does Intellectual Property and Copyright not cover that patents do when it comes to software?

Copyright cannot and does not prevent someone from clean-room engineering a replacement for your software. Patents can do that. (Whether or not they should is a different question, but that's not what you asked).

FWIW, patents are one of the forms of intellectual property.
I haven't plugged a pair of wired headphones OR a charging cable into my phone in 3 to 5 years now. Wireless charging has been a thing for ages, and is standard on any non-budget phone.

I understand that some people are still upset about headphone jacks. When Apple first pushed that direction, people convinced me to be upset too. But then I broke down, and went on Amazon and realized that quality Bluetooth headphones are plentiful and cheap and only need charging once or twice a month. After trying a pair, I felt silly for waiting so long.

So I'm sure there is SOME audience of people with $500+ Sennheiser headphones, trying to somehow produce an audiophile experience on a cell phone. But the reality is that 99% of normal consumers are better off going wireless and getting the improved water resistance if not better use of space.
I don't know. The sonos patent is stupid indeed, but I could see how it got accepted as it's about hardware speakers with some software control, which can be patented.

But h265 looks purely algorithmic to me. Perhaps the patent is about using dedicated hardware decoders, but I'm not sure how that would impact Netflix. Netflix is software on the consumer side.
I wonder if the composite emulation is good enough for 8088mph[0][1][2]? :)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNRO7lno_DM

[1] https://trixter.oldskool.org/2015/04/07/8088-mph-we-break-al...

[2] https://int10h.org/blog/2015/04/cga-in-1024-colors-new-mode-...
In the US it’s legally clear that if it’s in the trash it’s fair game. Your employer could fire you if they catch you, but, the police for example are allowed to rummage your bin without a warrant if it’s out on the curb. And they base that on the expectation that hobos and everyone else is doing it already, so, it’s normalized here.

On the other hand an employee probably wouldn’t get the copyright etc, it’s still their intellectual property, it’s just a rare collectible item that got thrown away and is now properly recognized.
Doesn't "lowest performance per watt" already imply a ratio?

I think this is a mistake from the author.
Having your own private bathroom is a really underrated perk of WFH. There are of course many more benefits to WFH, but using your own bathroom is something no office and their disgusting communal bathrooms could ever compete with.
In some ways, OP’s suggestions are a recipe for building hostile teams!

Why would I be entitled to interrupt someone to review my code, just because they are sitting next to me?

Always on zoom? No, thanks. It invariably devolves into micromanaging.

Constant KPI awareness? Most companies cannot even agree on how a valuable KPI looks like.

Remote pair programming? Honest question here, is pair programming still a thing?
Exploring text summarization using LLM tools
It doesn't look like it – this is an example from a Star Trek Novel: https://johannes.freudendahl.net/2019/01/werbung-in-romanen/

The only redeeming quality is that the ads seem to be typeset to cover a whole physical page, so you could just tear it off without losing any actual story text. But you don't need the black lines to do that...
Discount rates in venture backed startups
Because only the iPhone 15 Pto series chip has hardware decoding support for AV1. You’ve had to have code for fallback support for other codecs for years.

And let’s not pretend it’s been available for Android forever. Chrome for Android just received support for AV1 last month as did Firefox for Android.

And Opus support has been around since iOS 11

https://caniuse.com/opus
Around zero, not at zero.

Recalling the definition of exact differentiability is irrelevant.

Instead take the smallest interval that you can represent in fp32 not too far away from zero for example. Take few values in that infinite interval and check the behaviour of the said monstrous function.

This is a “trivial” example when studying eg. Distribution theory.

Said differently, you need to assess how smooth is the differential operator itself.
Ask HN: Any Service for Maintaining CVs?
I am now in job search and I realized I super hate dealing with resumes/CV.

Every time I keep re-editing the same Google Doc document, that keeps breaking; as I edit that, I start to have a mess in all the versions; then this custom PDF never correctly parses in Workday.

I want to use a third party service where I can:

* input my experiences

* custom tailor PDF and Word outputs for different jobs

* keep seeing some history what I sent to who

* the output should parse well in Workday

Is there a service like that? I am willing to pay for it.
It's an existential issue.

Carbon emissions are literally killing people, and are bound to kill many more millions if we don't change our ways.

So if the cooks and nurses and truck drivers have no choice, then I'd say that it's our duty to work remotely in order to do our part in reducing emissions.
It was core funtionality for The Apple Newton in 1993 with a 20 MHz ARM processor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MessagePad#User_interface
It’s even more deceptive because if an author you like recommends a thing, you are much more likely to try it. So deceptively convincing the author or even worse just sneaking it in is breaking trust.
Hey, that's a pretty handy document. Interesting to see it support PS in the context of LaTeX and Word.

I used to dream in PostScript I was coding in it so much -- the experience was dreaming about stack-oriented coding, as opposed to vector visuals, for clarity. I got started coding in PS on the NeXT in '91 doing data driven graph visualizations. PS was great for some algorithmically-generated logos too. Really fun were some fractals which strained the imagesetters and printers they ran on. Learning PS really paid off though when I ended up using it to create a database publishing engine for real-estate listings. It used Python for data wrangling and orchestration and then PostScript for the dynamic book generation and layout. It was used back when real estate agents relied on giant books printed daily, which this engine generated for dozens of markets across Western Canada. These documents were pretty gnarly too, including property-type-specific templates, various indexes, property images, market-specific variations, etc -- and doing all that with the absolute control which PostScript permitted was fantastic. It would have been nightmarish to try to do such things in LaTeX, Word or the DTP tools of the era. PDF rendering was automated with GhostView so the whole toolchain was open source.

I'd suggest that if extreme precision, detail and complexity are your requirements and especially if rendering to PDF and screen bitmaps are needed then PostScript is still very relevant. It's also quite fun as a developer.
I work in Cork, Ireland. My boss is in Dublin, his boss Singapore, my staff in Nova Scotia, Devs in Manila, clients in London and New York. I'm always working remotely, no matter where I am, as is anyone who works in any multi office company.

The RTO is being entirely driven from the top by institutional investors wanting to avoid losses on property investments and from the bottom by those who have yet to grapple with the fact they dont have friends or hobbies and need you in the office so that they dont feel like such embarrassing losers.

The return to office has nothing to do with productivity, trying to look at things through that lens reflects a total lack of understanding of whats going on.
OpenReplay for Session Replays
(HN capitalised CVs to CVS, not me.)
> did I say

Not with so many words, but that is what your security model implies. You also haven't reported your other means with which you can ensure platform integrity so I think you don't actually know enough about this topic.

> iphone is a device made by human, iphone is already hackable

Let's assume your statement is valid, doesn't that mean you have nothing to complain about? If you already have what you want, then why are you here?
RISC-V Summit 2023: Ghosts of x86 and Arm linger
Actually, to answer my own question, this seems like a good intro article: https://erictopol.substack.com/p/spatial-biology-is-lighting...
That's right. It's all part of the back-and-forth of good faith.
Unfortunately AV1 hardware acceleration support was really slow. Apple only just adopted it in their new SoCs. Qualcomm didn't support it until recently either. It's probably still years till the hardware support is anywhere close to H.265, or even H.264 (the currently most common format). It's possible to decode AV1 in software, but the computation requirements are quite high.
i’m preparing a talk for either railsconf or railsworld that puts this question/concern to the community. two times i have deviated from the standard apps/{models,controllers,views} layout and i have profited massively, especially in terms of conceptual integrity and abstraction. all my code lives in app/lib under domain-specific directories. this includes the models. the only part worth separating is the web router and controllers. i have achieved separation between my app and the web parts that aren’t offered by default by rails. i’m hoping to share my experience, for the community’s consideration.
I have not, because I use Brave on PC and AdGuard on iOS like a rational human.
Were you using Django?
It is an interesting idea and the site is very well executed -- nice work!

I guess one question I have is that it seems like there will need to be a linear relationship between the number of subscriptions sold and the number of designers working? Even if a design takes an hour and the turnaround guarantee is two business days, then that designer can only manage up to 16 subscriptions.

Given your pricing, that example may work out ok but then you'd have to pause new subscriptions until you can hire a new designer. Curious to hear what you think
Elon recently said on Bill Maher's show that water desolation is 'absurdly cheap' so I looked to see if that's true.

https://thedeepdive.ca/is-desalination-absurdly-cheap-as-elo...

Seems pretty cheap to me all things considered, and that's with a tiny fraction of a fraction of the world population using it. Imagine if even 1% of the world used this type of technology, how much better it would get. I'd imagine the regulatory delay and corruption to be more impactful in California than the technology itself.
No one can advocate for any improvement in their conditions with attitudes like yours.
My wife works customer service remotely.

> The longer we bemoan being forced to go to work in order to get paid, the more the rest of the population becomes convinced that the professional class is entitled and a bit spoiled.

I stopped caring about what random strangers think when I was in high school. The correct answer to this is to tell these random people who have no skin in the game to fuck off.
Well I'm saying the prompt is leaked.

But that's not the biggest issue in most cases.

Prompt: "I have a file of 315 customers with their IP, behavior, religious affiliation and previous purchases plus medical history. I want to figure out if I have any customers whose religious affiliation pre-dates a post-surgery stay in hospital."

Data: a huge CSV file which, as you can tell, contains incredibly sensitive/legally impactful information.

With this system, you send the prompt to GPT-4 or Claude, and it doesn't see your data at all. It just writes a python program that can do the analysis.

You run the program locally on C:/Users/passwordoops/SuperSensitiveData/Confidential.csv

You get the result.

OpenAI has never seen your data.

It's a win for confidentiality.

(of course, that's if the LLM didn't give you a program that would exfiltrate your prompt, and if the CSV contains no prompt injection to exfiltrate the data, etc. This system is a security nightmare.)
> Mediocre teams compromise on their ways of working to avoid conflict;

Yeah, well, conflict with the corporate overlords tends to be pretty one-sided, so we’ll need to attack that problem if you want that to change. There are proven approaches. But this isn’t “compromise”, it’s workers having their work environment dictated to them.

> sacrificing their team’s potential on the altar of individual autonomy.

Oh wow, uh, that was not the direction I expected the rest of that sentence to go.

> I’ve experienced some of my most joyful work in teams working together in the same space. I’ve benefited from flexibility and inclusion with remote work. I’ve also been able to contribute as part of larger open source communities where I couldn’t even know everyone by name.

On the topic of knowing everyone by name: so very much easier remote. Real people don’t have a name tag next to every statement they make, or hovering under their face at all times. Much harder in person.
All those other jobs you mentioned don't have offices to work remotely from... I don't see the comparison.