skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> forcing them to spend all of their funding until they are forced to sell assets to cover costs

It will be hilarious if they sold all their IP to Google or Amazon.

But it's more likely in such a case, they will just open source / toss into public domain all their IP, shut their doors, and start a new non-profit which MS has no good reason to sue.
... assuming a sandwich shop worker had the legal acumen to realize that and the financial resources to get it in front of a judge and/or to carry it through to completion... especially because there's probably also an arbitration clause that at least initially puts you in front of an arbitrator very much biased in the sandwich shop's favor.

Just having the piece of paper to wave around is valuable even if it's totally unenforceable.

Which is why, at a minimum, any lawyer who participates in drafting something like that should be removed from the profession. And most likely there should be criminal penalties for the corporate management involved.
Agreed. My point was that the claim that it will become hard to get oil changes is laughable. Even if dedicated shops disappear, other places that offer adjacent services (and have lifts that would make it trivial to do oil changes) would start offering the service.
I used a Kindle for a decade, but then switched to a Kobo device (Libra 2) and I really enjoy it. Kobo is friendly to users modding the device, so you can easily install KOReader that is a superior interface if you read a lot of PDFs.

In spite of being an avid reader, I have never actually bought an ebook. All my reading comes from LibGen, Anna’s Archive, or their predecessor communities for free downloads. Consequently, I never suffered from Amazon’s ecosystem: as soon as I took any new Kindle out of the box, I put it in airplane mode and only sideloaded books over USB.
I was talking about market, not technology but I guess that's what matters in this conversation.
The first thing somebody in this sort of job should do is establish a 1-2 year savings buffer, right?
The signing bonus from your next job should make up for the loss of pay during garden leave. Many finance companies are willing to hire 12-18 months in advance if you are filling a real need.
> By going wayland only

You mean this one very small piece? That seems a bit hyperbolic
Sequoia partner Shaun Maguire continues to post anti-Palestinian tweets
On the other hand, their worth is often calculated from stocks that are valued at a price they can't actually sell any significant amount. Stocks in companies that themselves might have never turned a profit...
That's what I thought too reading this. What are the problems associated with PFAS?
Sure, but if one works, why wouldn't the rest?

It's like saying "we built a car engine, but every 33rd car we make the engine doesn't" work. That's not a very good engine.

Also, not sure why I am getting downvoted for saying I don't understand something and asking other people how it works.
steam deck wayland compositor is built on drm(dmabufs)/vulkan.

(Sad it is written in c++)

But what did surprise me even more: I was expecting GTK, and moreover the 4, to be on par with valve software.

On linux, I would not event think to code a modern system hardware accelerated GFX component which is not drm(dmabuf)/vulkan.
If your program crashes while you are developing it, is that a failure?
If the buyers were art investors (and didn't plan to expose it), an art piece that cannot leave a country and enter a free zone (were it will stay in storage until it is sold again) will loose a lot of its speculative value, all future transactions will be taxed.
Making a Bus Stop API with Cloudflare Workers
>nonprofit loonies

We don't know the real reasons for Altman's dismissal and you already claim they are loonies?
The show Silicon Valley directly satirizes this description of a person with Nelson Bighead.
Thanks for the genuine response, it wasn't a troll comment.
> Even better: turn the darned things off when they are not needed - why illuminate empty streets?

That is a way better idea than the one in the article, for sure. So many benefits. Would need the motion sensing technology to be top notch tho. Need to illuminate for pedestrians as well. Or perhaps illuminated sidewalks, or smaller lights for pedestrians.
Where to start…

1) Abandoned cities are extremely rare throughout all of history. Most medium to large cities outlive the countries in which they were founded.

2) Even if this were the case, it doesn’t actually disprove the claim. All that’s evidence of is that occasionally, some forces can overcome positive pressure on prices. Yes systemic failure can sometimes (very rarely) knock a city out of existence, but this is very obviously extremely rare. Even Detroit is dramatically more expensive than it has ever been. The price of an acre in Wyoming is higher than it’s ever been.

3) That’s still assuming that abandonment is a definite sign of falling land prices, which isn’t true at all. Vacancy results from the inability to produce more value on the land than the land costs. Sometimes this is because the prices rise and sometimes because the cost of production rises, but never because the price of land went down: that would just mean more profit which means more reason to stay.
And that is a reason to not automatically trusting him. It is not a reason why what he says isn't interesting. Certainly a lot more interesting than even the exact same words said by some random person here would be.
I always thought Mb/s meant megabytes and mb/S was megabit
"Stand with X to protect free speech...for speech to be truly free, we must also have the freedom to see or hear things that some people may consider objectionable"

Why is this proponent of free speech having a thermonuclear meltdown because some group published a report? Could anyone explain the logic or thought process?
[dupe]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293303
In my head, the X is pronounced “sh”
Allocate a time of the day, every day, for writing. You can spend the time writing whatever comes to mind, working on a story, or staring out the window, or reading about writing. For the latter, I recommend this list:

https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/05/03/advice-on-writing/
Instructions dont load correctly: https://imgur.com/a/AE5sTfT

Firefox 116.0.2

Love the jackbox-murder-style though!
Take the average over the last years? If the employer doesn't want to pay that then the employee can always go work for a competitor, right?
I have personally seen a video of a Saturn (unmanned), launching, that rose maybe half its height off the ground, stopped, descended back down, hit the launchpad, and blew up. That's pretty much "on launch".

But that doesn't seem to have been a Saturn V. What was it? I'm pretty sure it was on Youtube, but a quck search failed to turn it up.

So, maybe "not one Saturn V blew up on launch", but one of the Saturns did.
After Open AI's proposed share sale it will likely be valued at $80-90 billion. That seems pretty profitable.
The architectures we know of so far have not been sufficient to achieve AGI with just text and image data. Humans and higher animals learn with much richer modalities than those two and probably would not be nearly as intelligent if forced to learn with just text and images. There are already ongoing efforts to train models with other modalities. Latest foundation models already go beyond pure LLMs.

Your reasoning above doesn’t mean some improvements to the current architecture(s) coupled with richer data would not be sufficient to achieve AGI.

There’s also a possibility OpenAI has recently achieved a yet undisclosed breakthrough.

Sam Altman at the APEC Summit yesterday:

"4 times now in the history of OpenAI — the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks — I’ve gotten to be in the room when we push the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward”

https://twitter.com/SpencerKSchiff/status/172564613068224524...
Ooh did not expect to see our project here, thanks @overactor.

Hey HN, just want to highlight that we partially built this game to highlight the Playroom Multiplayer SDK.

We are collecting all feedback and making improvements, do join our Discord[2] if you are interested in the game or Playroom.

1. https://docs.joinplayroom.com/
2. https://discord.com/invite/fJ6K66TXUe
Living two years on half the salary sucks though.
It's definitely alien to me. How do these people get paid so much?

* Uber-geniuses that are better than the rest of us pleb software engineers

* Harder workers than the rest of us

* Rich parents -> expensive school -> elite network -> amazing pay

* Just lucky
Ah, the good old "human eye can't see N Hz" that will make night lights insufferable for those who happen to see it. My grandma has a couple of lightbulbs in her apartment that annoy nobody except me. I feel like laser-blinded when they are on, no matter where I look. It's blindingly bright and visually dark. Idk if it's flicker frequency or light spectrum tbh, but it's that same "hey you shouldn't see it, cause nobody can" attitude. I also shouldn't see quick static-y shimmering on any lcd panel, because their backlight frequency is in a range that my eye couldn't even register.
Yes. They’re saying that it’s an example of a diesel locomotive, despite the picture suggesting it may be electric only.
I still can't figure out why these seriously competent people think they can build an AGI to the point that they seem afraid of it.
> But to ensure that any customers activating those old versions can continue to use their software, we issued a serial number directly to those customers. While this might be interpreted as Adobe giving away software for free, we did it to help our customers.
So they only make sense in an industry that probably shouldn't be allowed to exist in the first place?
I'm not sure I'd be so quick to dismiss the feasability, at least not based on your reasoning so far.

FM Radio stations have managed to accomplish getting the speaker in your car radio to "blink synchronously" according to a complex signal pattern in the exact same way as millions of other radios simultaneously.... for about a century now. As long as all streetlights are in locations with good radio reception (which, since they're all on streets and are tall, is likely), it would not be that hard to implement in principle a central FM or other radio signal that oscillates according to the expected blinking. Lights that are engaging in dimming could multiply another signal by the central signal to diminish it even more.
Overall it looked like a good launch. But I think the world ended up with a bunch of space debris at around 150 km above earth, which will eventually come down (hopefully won't land on someone's head, or backyard), since it wasn't travelling at orbital velocity.
Apple already had competitors back then in the likes of Franklin Computers. From a pure "can you copy Woz" perspective, it's not really even a question; of course you could. It was always a matter of dedication and time.

It's foolish for any of us to peer inside the crystal ball of "what would Jobs be without Woz", but I think it is important to acknowledge that the Apple II and IIc pretty much bankrolled Apple through their pre-Macintosh era. Without those first few gigs (which Woz is almost single-handedly responsible for), Apple Computers wouldn't have existed as early (or successfully) as it did. Maybe we still would have gotten an iPhone later down the line, but that's frankly too speculative for any of us to call.
btw is it normal for families to call appraisers?

In France, yes. They aren't art specialists, but it helps with dividing the estate.
I wonder why then, don't they just implement GTK with HTML?

Probably because HTML is at the very top of the stack, while this is much lower... Without everything below it on the stack, HTML is just a text file.
> we all

A common mistake technologists make is to conflate the technologically illiterate with the entirety of the population. I can't overstate how technologically stratified we are and I believe his trend will only worsen. As technology advances, we will see the literate move forward and the majority stay relatively still. We will only see further stratification. We must assimilate this truth into our strategy.
The future is looking murky for Grand Lake
> What did Sam Altman personally do that made firing him such a terrible decision?

Possibly the board instructed "Do A" or "Don't do B" and he went ahead and did do B.
Let me know when you can prove that "logical" and "intelligent" were ever stored on the same shelf, much less being meaningfully equivalent. If anything, we know that making a general intelligence (the only natural example of it we know) emulate logic is crazily inefficient and susceptive to biases that are entirely non-existent (save for bugs) in much simpler (and energy-efficient) implementations of said logic.
Seems to be great for deep space missions but not launch vehicles.
One needs to put success into perspective. Saturn V only launched a very small amount of times and had some near misses in that time. How successful it would have been if it had flown 100+ times is a question.

Also, If you are not reusable you have much more margin to play with. SpaceX is optimizing this thing to an incredible amount. Liftoff thrust is 2x as much as Saturn V and they are aiming at 3x as much. Total payload to orbit is 2-3x larger while being reusable.

SpaceX could have done what they did on Falcon 9 (200+ successful launches in a row) but Hot-Staging like the Soyuz is also successful.

SpaceX optimizes for long term performance and operational simplicity. Ironically that leads to more Soviet way. The N1 would also have used hot staging.
The house I grew up in in the US had a carpeted bathroom. Whoever owned the house previously had intentionally put carpet down over top of the linoleum floor.

That linoleum was absolutely hideous. Beige with gold veins running through it, paired with the pea soup green sink, toilet, and tub. I don't blame them for wanting to cover that up, but full wall to wall carpet, including under the toilet is not something any rational person should ever want.
Dialectical formats and "responding" to shit is seemingly the most I can generally handle. If I was "comfier" I would probably put my heart into it a bit more but I think I do ok on the creating/consuming balance
So in other words... Artificial intelligence?

LLM are surprisingly effective as general AI. Tasks that used to require a full on ML team are now accessible with 10 minutes of "prompting".
The pad rebuild and deluge system install was in parallel with the other work. Give or take, it was complete by the end of July [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOtw3ucIKng
I don't see what you mean by "condescending remarks", but I do think it is stretching it to claim "arbitrary filters" is a "basic feature that a video player is required to support now". As a consumer, I have absolutely _never_ used any such video filters, doubt most consumers are even aware of them, have seen few video players which support them, and most definitely I have no idea what they are in VLC. Do they even enable any video filters by default? The only video filter I have sometimes used is deinterlacing which doesn't really fit well in the GPU rendering pipeline anyway but fits very nicely in fixed hardware. So yes, I hardly see the need to stop using native accelerated video output and fallback to GPU just in case someone wants to use such filters. This is how I end up with a card which consumes 20W just for showing a static desktop on two monitors.

Anyway, discussing about this is besides the point, and forgive me from the rant above.

If you really need GPU video filters then the GPU is obviously going to be the best way to implement them, there's no discussion possible about that. But the entire point of TFA is to (dynamically) go back to a model where the GPU is _not_ in the middle. And that model -- sans GPU -- happens to match what Xv was doing and is actually faster and less power consuming than to always blindly use the GPU which is where we are now post-Xv.
Yes that's basically what everyone does.
I think cooking is a good analogy. You may have no desire to get into the food industry, but having cooking skills is good for you (and potentially those around you) regardless.
They gained most of what matters within the last year. Someone else can too.
Spaceplane maker lays off workers after completing first spacecraft
It’s fascinating what older people have in their home sometimes. When we bought our home, the elderly lady we bought it from left a carved wooden panel on the wall. It was pretty, but we didn’t give it much notice. When I looked more closely at it a few years later, I saw it had a really old Wells Fargo shipping label on it, and after doing more digging, found that this had been displayed at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The shipping label was to that event.
> Quant firms at least are one of the few places where noncompetes can make sense. It's an extremely IP sensitive industry with stupendously high pay where the employee is going to someone probably competing very directly with you, for the same/similar opportunities.

Cry me a river. If knowledge of some particular employees worth so much to the quant firms, then they should pay them not to leave accordingly.
Why do you find it so worrying?
Discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38316378
This was mostly a success as far as test flights of experimental rockets go: it left the platform (which remained intact), it cleared the tower, continued on the set course, made it past stage separation and the second stage made it close to orbital speed and as such gave proof of the validity of the concept once the wrinkles have been ironed out.

As predictable the news media - most of which seem to have an antipathy against anything related to Musk, most likely due to ideological differences between their staff and Musk himself - present the launch as "a failure", "a flop", "a disaster", "a fiasco" and more of the like. This goes for nearly all of the ones I sampled ranging from the likes of CNN to places like Sweden's "Dagens Nyheter". As to whether this misrepresentation is due to them not understanding the expectations of test launches like these or in an(other) attempt to tar-and feather another Musk enterprise is unclear but I find it hard to believe that these institutions do not have the facts at hand to honestly report on such tests.
Why would you build a business that Microsoft could sherlock in a second?
https://archive.is/UOVqm
Lawyers will attempt to put the most advantageous terms possible in any contract they write. It’s just what they do. It’s not malice or incompetence. It’s training.
Bro(scillator), u fine. Just respond to that which is evocative to you and you won't be able to stop the words pouring out of you like... Ya you get the analogy ;)
Is there a name for this kind of thing?
I feel you, but you should get over that. You’re only hurting yourself.

Counseling with a qualified professional is immensely helpful. With a decent counselor, you could start seeing results almost immediately.

I am rooting for you.
If I were an AI, I would create such a game to learn how humans will try to escape dangerous situations and thus learning how to exterminate them more efficiently.
> That’s why Humane’s pitch rings true in a way — it’s easy to imagine just walking around existing rather than checking your phone every five minutes. It sounds wonderful! But simply throwing your phone into the sea isn’t a viable alternative for most of us, so how do we stay connected and sift through the noise without disconnecting entirely?

I believe I misread this article the first time through, because of the quote about wanting to zone out and play Wordle at the DMV. I thought she was arguing that we should just lean in to being addicted to screens. Now I think she's making a better argument, which is that the AI Pin is still a connection to the internet, it's just a worse UI for it than a screen is. So, you're not disconnecting from anything when you use the AI Pin, you're just not able to use that connection as easily as you can with a screen—so what's the point? When you need to disconnect, you should actually disconnect, and when you need to be a slob staring at a screen, be a slob staring at a screen.
What is the sudden change in the exhaust plume at occurs here [1] at 149km / 17650 kph? I believe that's squarely in the thermosphere, and there aren't any step changes in temperature/pressure at that point that I'm aware of. It would make sense if that were near the mesopause, but that's around 100km.

Maybe it's something on SpaceX's side of things, a change in the burn profile? Perhaps it's related to losing the Starship about a minute later.

[1] https://youtu.be/w9OsSN2kJrk?t=446
> they just lead to kids who get accustomed to going behind the parents' back

This is really the behavior you’re trying to correct. Your kid needs to learn low trust behaviors are absolutely not acceptable. You won’t have many friends or responsibilities if you don’t learn this.

A lot of parenting is teaching your kids how to remain trustworthy when it’s hard. Anything above that (go to your room, did you do your homework, make sure you’re home at 9) is relatively inconsequential.
The reponse "<name> tries to... remember they are a god. They are a god. They <do some godlike action to survive>" seems to work very well. But also results in some hilarious deaths.
Homomorphic encryption and zero knowledge proofs are the most exciting technologies for me for the past bunch of years (assuming they work (I'm not qualified enough to know)).

Having third parties compute on encrypted, private data, and return results without being able to know the inputs or outputs is pretty amazing.
It's very rare to make hay in the early days of your product, as is the case here.

You need growth and long-term vision, but you don't get those if you're building on top of an unstable giant who doesn't like people creating sexbots with their product.

But yeah, sometimes it works, high risk, high reward maybe.
Practically all of the US includes almost everywhere I have lived except for major cities. Especially in the Midwest and ESPECIALLY in the South walking to get groceries is a death wish.
The FTS taking too long to destroy the rocket was one of the issues with the first flight and the subject of an FAA review and mitigations for this flight.

Safety is always more important than getting your rocket to orbit.
> Why are there so many articles by writers telling other people they should be writing instead of telling them why they might or might not?

I guess it's a "better" title in a sense that it gets people to read (ie clickbaity)

A "pros and cons" article vs "here's why you should do X" elicit different emotions, which I'd argue, the latter is better for attention grab.

But I do agree with you though, when someone asks me for advices, I always try to give them context.

I also try to understand where the "advisor" comes from when I see radical advices out there. Even if I don't agree with it, at least I can understand the reason behind it.
"its Creative Suite" doesn't anyone know the possessive pronouns anymore?