skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it's "true" or not obviously depends on the point of view of "when in the transaction that the transfer of money ownership takes place", but I definitely agree with the parent comment.

The problem with your house analogy is that (a) there can be long time spans between when your employer pays you and when you buy stuff in your house, and (b) you presumably have complete control over everything you decide to purchase in your house. That's not really true in the real estate example, where everything is part of a single transaction to which only one party is bringing any actual money.

A better analogy would be social security taxes in the US. In the US, the fiction is that the employer pays for half of an employee's social security taxes, and the employee pays for the other half out of their paycheck deductions. But basically every economist considers this a work of fiction, and since the true cost of an employee is everything the employer needs to pay, they basically consider all the social security taxes as costs to the employer.
I'm not sure what you mean here but let me make my point to the "no big deal" proponents.

Would you be ok if AI was used to impersonate you across the internet? Would you mind if I made a twitter account in your name and phone calls with your voice or upload to Youtube videos of yourself? I wouldn't do anything illegal or to make any money. It would just be entertainment impersonating your likeness and saying whatever I would want you to say.
Me in the Netherlands use an e bike for almost everything. Even bike with 3 kids to school, groceries etc. Love it. But i also have a big SUV. I could not live without it. Holidays, visiting friends, picking up large stuff. So i still fill 60 liters of fuel every week.
First Class flight within USA is significantly different than a international long haul first class flight. But nobody takes an over water long haul train, so these are different markets.
Hey man - not trying to get on the bad side of one of my favourite databases! Making an observation, one that others have made as well.
"one should take for granted that the tooltip library has proper accessibility integrated"

Really? My experience to date has been that the majority of libraries for things like tooltips fail to take accessibility into account at all.
Considering that you can make > $20/hr flipping burgers in Seattle I'd say you are off by an order of magnitude. No reasonable skilled tradesman (or even unskilled handyman) is doing anything for $20. It's borderline insulting.

They have expenses, fuel, insurance. Most charge $100 as a trip fee.
Everybody connects the dots differently. I personally would like to see TSMC (and ASML, and Intel) help China achieve this goal. It's not all black and white. They can help without giving away all their secrets.
There are subsidies in a handful of cities and states in the US (https://ridereview.com/incentives/country/united-states), and there are bills for a federal subsidy with a decent amount of support in the House (https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1685) and Senate (https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/881).

Also, shoutout to Vienna which has the coolest program I've heard of: businesses get subsidies for cargo e-bikes, and in return they loan them out to citizens for free. So if you've got a bunch of stuff to haul, you can borrow a cargo bike for free and use their incredibly good bike network to move your stuff. English summary: https://smartcity.wien.gv.at/en/approach/smart-city-made-sim....
yes, even before this technology
Sure, so multiply it by whatever you want. 10? You still get less than 100k a year and not $1.7M :)

100k a year for 100GBps, leaving it up to you to calculate how many petabytes per year you can pass with that.
> But it does mean they're about "language" rather than knowledge.

To some extent, those are kind of the same thing.
Why use Chrome for Google apps? I use firefox for google and it works fine.
That system seems very convoluted to me. In the UK, only the seller pays a commission on the sale price (typically ~1.5%) and the seller's estate agent is responsible for showing buyers around the property. The buyer doesn't need their own estate agent unless they're also selling a previous property at the same time.
The audience for this is self-selected to a degree that you can probably replace the 'if someone forgets' with a 'when'.
Well we discriminate (as in pick and choose, not in the sense of redlining) as to where we want the cost to lie.

Typically core reticulated infrastructure is socialized: roads down to city level are typically funded at a high level (fed/state/county etc), mail delivery pricing is not destination-dependent et al. This makes sense as there are two parties and both benefit if the infrastructure is there. The local details (actual roads in the towns) are then a local matter.

Conversely some decisions are not socialized: if you live remotely your insurance rate reflects your distance from a fire station or even hydrant, or your proximity to forest fires etc; an urban dweller is likely to pay less as the expected loss is lower.

Anyway, telecom seems like an important universal service, as a human right; for the same reason roads are; and because it's in everybody's interest if people who want to vote have an opportunity to learn, both about "the issues" and be educated in other ways.
Not everyone likes JS. I am not a Lisp genius, but once you get the concept it's not that hard.

If you want to use JS, there are plenty of places to do it. Some of us just want to avoid that dumpster fire.

And if JS is so wonderful, why not make a JS editor from the ground up?
Not surprising, imo—voice assistants got big at a time when there was no way to implement them except by what I would call a massive catalog of hacks. Now that LLMs with really good NLU for major languages exist, Amazon must have made a determination that either voice assistants are no longer worth actively developing, or that LLMs ought to serve as the core of the NLU component of their dialogue systems.
Some of this stuff isn't really insightful.

> It’s only awkward if you make it awkward.

Or THEY make it awkward.

> Don’t make your problems other people’s problems.

Well, yea... Also don't attack other people, and don't steal from other people, ...

> Help others succeed, and they’ll help you succeed in the long term.

Hard no. Many will take advantage of your time and advice, and never return the favor. Choose wisely who you help succeed.

> Don’t let your expenses rise as fast as your income.

Once again, very generic. Don't spend more than you make.

On the other hand, some of this stuff is actually never mentioned but useful

> Keep a brag document

> Under-promise and over-deliver.
SIOP, the Single Integrated Operation Plan.
Rural areas too. I made the mistake of walking down to the store when I lived in rural Colorado. A Truck almost turned me into a paste when it blindly took a turn.
I believe it is a temporary state of things, thought a sad one. ML made making mockups and mashups effectively effortless, but they are boring and should fall out of public curiosity spot soon, I believe. At the time Hollywood lawyers figure out how to put synthetic clones of big stars into AAA-movies, people will be too tired with sequels, prequels, spin-offs and stuff like that.
Where Taiwan is today started with an intentional and long-term plan like this one.
Normally in the U.K. they are fixed for a period of time - 5 years is quite common, but you can get 10 and even full term ones. You can also get ones which track the base rate.

Typically people refix after the term. My 5 year recently ended and my monthly cost increased as I’m now fixed at a higher rate for another 5 years - at 4.5%, although it’s still less %age of my wage than it was 5 years ago.

During the fixed term you can’t repay it without a penalty, but if you move house you can port the mortgage so it’s secured against the new house instead.
> Not everyone likes lisp, not everyone is willing to learn a new strange language for unknown benefits. And JS has a vast ecosystem of its own. Far bigger even that Emacs heritage, but on different areas.

As much as I dislike elpa package manager, the mere thought of having to use npm or similar in Emacs makes me nervous already.
General availability of vector search and semantic ranker in Azure AI Search
What a great and hilarious story. Thanks!
The question is: will your luck hold up for someone else?
s/nice/needed/g
How inefficient is it that your grocery store is 5 miles away? Everyone should have a grocery store within a 5 minute walk of where they live.
You are saying I should add, to my free lemonade stand, a disclaimer:

I will not help you with drinking the free lemonade; if the lemonade is too sour for you I will not be providing extra sugar; and I will not make free lemonade tomorrow.

Can you give me one or two examples of official OSS websites where these are heavily implied or outright stated? Do you mean anything beyond a roadmap?
The changes are great. I want those restrictions applied to 99% of all extensions. It's just that uBlock Origin is so important and trusted it should be an exception.
Per the rules <https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html>:

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

but the two big CTAs on your cited page are "Join Waitlist" which I hate in normal circumstances, but doubly so in a Show HN. You used your attention budget for something no one can evaluate its applicability (not even any documentation links!)
What's soured me on electric scooters and bikes is the complete lack of repair infrastructure. My electric scooter was not cheap and when it broke (out of warranty) my local bike shop wouldn't touch it.
I think it starts at .1 at the bottom, but the scan quality makes it difficult to discern the decimal.
> A 4K UltraHD Bluray (that's 100GB for one movie) has a maximum bitrate of "just" 144Mbps. If you're suggesting online streaming services have some swathe of content that's (checks notes) in excess of 7x the bitrate used for 4K Bluray discs, I'd love to hear about it.

We are still a long way off the parity with what our eyes can process so there's plenty of room for bitrates to grow.

Plus the average internet connection isn't just streaming a video. It's kids watching online videos while adults are video conferencing and music is being streamed in the background. Probably with games being downloaded and software getting updated too.

A few hundred Mbps here, another few there. Quickly you exceed 1 gigabit.

> I'd have thought latency was a far bigger concern here, but even if not: it's still just sending you a 4K video stream.. it just happens to be a stream that's reacting to your input.

Latency and jitter matter too. But they're not mutually exclusive properties.

Plus if you're streaming VR content then that is multiple 4k streams per device. And that's on top of all the other concurrent network operations (as mentioned above).

You're also still thinking purely about current tech. My point was that developers create new tech to take advantage of higher specs. Its easy to scoff at comments like this but I've seen this happen many times in my lifetime -- the history of tech speaks for itself.
Artemis III: SpaceX will use 10+ tankers for Starship HLS
> It’s only awkward if you make it awkward.

Not completely true.. recognition of awkwardness also signals people that you're socially conscious to understand an action was not appropriate/good. The right thing to do in an awkward situation.. has no easy rules to write down really.

> Keep a can-do mindset.

> Don’t get discouraged because of existing work. Instead, try to find ways to put your own spin on it.

> Always do extra.

> Surround yourself with people who are passionate about their work.

Seems like work is important to him. If it were my list, I'd add: "Don't make your work your life unless you're really sure this is what you want."

edit: also regarding

> Always do extra.

Which he explains as:

> One thing I've noticed over the years is that there is at least one thing that seems to be common to every good, veteran programmer I know. They all follow the same deliberate and dare-I-say selfish rule to how they approach their time: Always do Extra.

I think it's mostly the fact that after you've ran around the same barn enough times, you know what whistles and chimes to hang up after you're done building it. So it looks like you "did extra" but it's really just random stuff you've picked up over the years that you can do easily but is somewhat impressive looking. Still a good tip but I'd say it's less about motivation and just.. how it works.

edit2:

> Think of yourself as the person you want to be, not the person you are.

For motivation, sure. It's very important to know your own faults, insecurities, weaknesses etc. since knowing when you're wrong is just as important as knowing when you're right. Sometimes more.
They work ok as a side feature. It is nice to ask Siri to play music and that wasn't possible a few years ago. But it's a value add for the Apple ecosystem - not a capital P Product.
Does one need a motorcycle helmet when exceeding bicycle speeds?
Maybe they didn't outright say it the way you posit.
But when Walmart came to town in early 2000s, people happily supported it with open arms. Bragging about how cheap they were getting stuff while the mom and pop stores and local sourced department stores folded one by one

So their money certainly said it.
For me it's more that the language processing centre in my brain is strongly single-threaded. Some non-verbal sounds do engage it, but there's a complexity threshold. Magpies chattering to each other do. Some classical music does, but not all by any means.
But why do you want that?
I guess it doesn't know what a "ling" is?
This is the thing that very few people understand about magic, including many aspiring magicians: there is a lot more to it than just "technical understanding". Magic is a performance art. It's a kind of acting. And you can be very good at the technical stuff and still be a terrible performer/actor. (Personally, I'm bad at both :-)

Here is my favorite example. This is one of the greatest performances of all time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_KcQt0z-eE

It looks like total chaos, and most people seeing this performance for the first time think that Dani is a master of sleight of hand, and that this performance relies on extremely difficult technical moves. In fact it is exactly the opposite. The secret "moves" are very basic -- anyone can do them, and everything that happens is actually very carefully controlled. (Dani is also a master of slight-of-hand, but that's not what this act relies on.)

This is not to say that what Dani is doing here is easy; it's not. Dani teaches a class on this one routine that lasts three hours, and there is never a dull moment (this is how I know what's going on -- I did not figure it out by myself). But it's not hard in the way that, say, juggling is hard, it's hard in the same way that good acting is hard. When it's done well it looks easy, and making it look easy is very, very hard.
Algeria is just a second Russia with sunny weather. Dictatorship, most of the money is going to the military complex (and buying russian gear even), in conflict with their neighbors, most of the money comes from fossil fuel, politically opposed to the EU...

There's not many places you can get gas even if you don't care about the environment.

And yes, getting gas from Algeria was a problem before the war as well.

Realistically,the only good choice in the EU is Norway.
Interesting! Had never heard of that! I'll bet that the history of that is due to red lining practices originating in mortgages, if I remember my history correctly.
Yeah, makes sense: way easier to get a bike than a car (price, storage, insurance, etc). And in a society built for cars, personal-power isn't enough to make up the distances between locations that have been created all relatively-sized to a car's mobility (much faster than a human).
Neither Russia nor Ukraine are NATO members, so NATO has nothing to do with it. US politicians and media distort this.
Humans have reasoning capabilities that are separate from memory. If you want to show that LLMs have reasoning capability you try to create carefully constructed adversarial experiments that try to distinguish between that hypothesis and others, you do not just show that there are cases that favor your hypothesis.

And although it's a complete waste of time because the answer is obvious when you do do these types of adversarial experiments, like adversarial blockworld, you find that LLMs are not internalizing abstract principles inherent to reasoning and are instead doing something like string-pattern-patching.
It’s always possible to run new Ethernet cable. Just think like a cable TV installation technician. Run it on the surface, drill through walls and fish as needed. Run it along the exterior if needed.

It’s always possible. Not always pretty, but possible.
This week we're diving into data streaming, exploring fundamental concepts, practical applications, and tools to get you started on your data streaming journey.
I worked in the Amazon Alexa division. The level of incompetence coupled with arrogance was astounding. Many of the people running Alexa had been there since 2012. Its was tyranny by those who started in that organization first. Backstabbing, politics, bad engineering, nepotistic promotions. The scientists were so far behind, almost all models were off the shelf implementations pulled from Github. Huge amounts of capital flushed down the drain.

The flip side might be that Alexa was ahead of its time, and that the ML capabilities werent there. But I bet Alexa spent more than OpenAI by a huge margin. Amazon's fundamental flaw is trying to solve innovative business problems with incremental improvement. This only works in operations heavy businesses, like retail and AWS. AWS is really just extremely competent operations on top of server management.

The whole company is a meat grinder, poor technical implementations with an army of SDEs keeping it running. It definitely works, they ship product, but the company is underperforming the S&P for five+ years now. Walmart has higher shareholder returns. They need to flush out the legacy employees and make room for hungry young workers.
Indeed, and hopefully -if there was a structured way of doing it - people might want to do that effort in relation to doing reviews or meta-analysis to make the underlying data available for others, and make it easier to reproduce or update the results over time
I wouldn't call it a recommendation, but I suffer through using my Formlabs SLA printer because the results are of amazing quality. But their resin is expensive, you need 2 additional machines if you want to do the washing and curing halfway conveniently and since the beginning (and still ongoing) there have been firmware issues which cause the machine to sometimes lock you out of a DRM-ed resin cartridge before it is actually empty ... but in exchange you get a pretty reliable 0.1mm precision on stable waterproof parts that look like they were injection molded. With the right settings, nobody will recognize the parts as 3D printed because there are no visible layer lines at all and after a bit of varnish you can get the clear resin to be see-through like acrylic glass.
Thank you very much! Your feedback is very much appreciated. I will need to change up the questions.
It also helps if it's not raining, and when there are no slippery surface conditions.
Perhaps there's a compromise: Substack won't do it, but they'll get aquired and then whoever bought them will do it. :)
"We cannot allow there to be a doomsday device gap. The people of the United State must be protected from Soviet aggression by building the most powerful doomsday device ever conceived!"

"But sir, won't the public notice all of that construction and military activity in such a remote area?"

"Hey CIA, stop wasting time taking pictures of Cuba and start releasing stories about how we've captured some space aliens that we're holding at a remote desert base."

"You're a genius sir."
That isn't what is expensive.

If you get 10 GB, the question is, then what? I have bidirectional 1 GB plugged into a $200 EdgeSwitch, which then feeds Cat 6 throughout the home ($100/500 feet). This then filters down to $20-30 unmanaged 1 GB switches elsewhere. The whole thing is under $500.

If I wanted to go up to 10 GB I don't just need to change to a $2K~ EdgeSwitch, I also need to run fiber/6E to be able to deliver more than 2.5 GB to any endpoint, then invest in expensive switching infrastructure elsewhere in the home to turn the incoming 10 GB signal into something more devices can accept (e.g. 1 GB or 2.5 GB).

Safe estimate, is to go from 1 GB bidirectional to 10 GB bidirectional, it would be $5K in equipment and pulling new cable.

For $100/month I can do 10 GB, but I won't because of the equipment cost/diminishing returns rather than the ISP cost difference. If network equipment comes a LONG way, and I can do it for under $1K, I'd consider it.
Right. It's the difference between this:

<user-avatar
src="https://www.jim-nielsen.com/.well-known/avatar"
alt="Profile photo of Jim Nielsen"
width="32"
height="32"
title="Jim Nielsen"
/>

And this:

<user-avatar>
<img
src="https://www.jim-nielsen.com/.well-known/avatar"
alt="Profile photo of Jim Nielsen"
width="32"
height="32"
title="Jim Nielsen"
/>
</user-avatar>

I will argue that the extra <img> there is worth it for the benefits you get in terms not just of no/slow-loading JavaScript but also better semantics - code that process images in an HTML document will know what to do with the latter, it will be unable to handle the former.
The electricity grid would have been dead without dirty gas import from the US
> they will just integrate LLMs into Siri and across the iOS, macOS

Latest autocorrect is already based on LLMs. https://9to5mac.com/2023/11/14/ios-17-2-disable-inline-text-...

> just integrate the latest AI tech into them

The Ultra 2 watch has a GPU (neural engine) that can run on-device Siri. Works great, I've been able to run basic commands like setting timers and local shortcuts in areas with no cell reception.
About 2 years ago I spent a weekend completely re-doing my wifi environment because the reliability of the Google Minis plummeted. Long response times, multiple rooms answering/clobbering each other so nothing answers, etc. I should have just checked /r/googlehome because the sentiment of "it used to be great, it's total shit now" is posted every week or two. And it continues to get worse. Losing the multi-room streaming over the Sonos patent was bad enough, but the least they could have done is actually remove the functionality outright instead of just silently neutering it - to this day it'll happily say it's playing on "upstairs" or "all speakers" but nothing plays.

> underwhelmed by how much actual revenue these kinds of devices produced, so they were starving the backend services

Absolutely. I got all of my minis for either 30CAD or for free through promotions. These devices were always sold at a loss on the hope they'll make it up on the other end.

ChatGPT's voice chat feature in the iOS app is incredible. It's easily 2-3 orders of magnitude better than Google Home when it was operating at it's peak. I'd happily pay a (potentially steep) monthly fee for voice assistants that aren't neutered and have similar capabilities. They really are fantastic when they work.