skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Canoo American Bulldog Is a Tough Military-Themed Electric Pickup
At least as a consumer, I can actually price compare my options if the out-the-door price is made public.

Nobody made companies hide the prices in the first place. It was a deliberate tactic to trick buyers.
That’s how I’ve learned about authentication, and most other things too. I do worry, sometimes, that I’ve missed a big detail that opens my server to a vulnerability of some kind. That’s where education can help.
Your colleagues are not your friends. You’re more like passenger in the same bus where somebody will depart in the next stop. It’s dangerous to build relationships with people who are about to leave.
On the flip side, if your business model is “we’re going to set hundreds of millions of dollars on fire to entice customers with artificially low prices to try and corner the market” you can’t really be surprised that when you eventually raise prices you’ll lose your price sensitive customers to the competition.
UseMemos: A privacy-first, lightweight note-taking service
StyleTTS2 – open-source Eleven-Labs-quality Text To Speech
No, this is really a case of why not both.

AI is and will continue to be developed for the purposes of war. Moreso the growth of the capability of AI could lead to destabilization and the occurrence of nuclear war.

For example the capability of MADD working keeps things somewhat stable "I kill you, you kill me" isn't great. But if I develop AI that could track all the sub, and knock out the nukes before they launch, this could push nation states to attack first before their capability is taken out.

There is a continuum of issues here spanning from "People problems -> people + AI problems -> AI problems"

By adding more AI we're just expanding the size of the problem space.
Just tried the collab notebooks. Seems to be very good quality. It also supports voice cloning.
You mean https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/code-secu... ?
Not everyone has a spare room for that purpose.
I read this and thought we collectively should remember to respect non-technical people at startups. Sometimes we forget. There's people behind the scenes that help drives things forward.

One of the first startups I joined, I remember the engineers would routinely stay late and get shit down. The COO would made sure food was ordered (dietary needs were meet), cleaned up and made sure the gears stayed oiled. This significantly helped moral.
EDIT: actually, you couldn't be more blatently lying about this.

https://open.sentry.io/

> We're Open Source

The title of the page. You really thought you could sneak that past me. You cannot seriously make a reply like this when you have an entire domain name dedicated to the tile "We're Open Source". That is the most obvious of obvious lies. Even the page title "yes, we're open source" is a kind of passive-aggressive jab at people who think you aren't.

Stop pretending to be open source and stop calling the open source community toxic.

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https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2023/11/19/cathedral-and-bazaaar-li...

> I assert that the FSL's approach is more closely aligned with Open Source ideals than mere source availability.

https://blog.sentry.io/introducing-the-functional-source-lic...

> We think it is a compelling option for Open Source-minded SaaS companies such as ourselves who wish to grant freedom

> for Open Source-minded SaaS companies such as ours, we think it’s a strong option.

This entire article is full of vague legal-speak designed to associate yourselves with FOSS as much as possible without actually saying you are. I can't see why you would do this unless your intention is to mislead or you have been mislead yourselves. You spend so much time talking about user-freedom, which has nothing to do with this license as it promotes developer sustainability over user freedom (even more-so than a simple non-compete license).

Like it or not, this is misleading. You should clarify your language on the matter. You aren't open source, and you've admitted as much yourself. You aren't "open-source minded" either (whatever that means). You said in the article that you should find a name for what you are doing, well, one already exists. It's called "source available". Open source software exists for anyone to use and profit from as they wish. You make the source of your code available because you think it will make a better product. You say that your software will become FOSS if you stop working on it to create more confidence in your product. These are all focused around selling your product, rather than around being genuinely free and open. Until you admit that this is what you're doing, you will be misleading people.
Whats the orange one? I've seen pics of streetlamps like that unless its a MandelaEffect or somethint
A lot of HN chatter (and I'm inclined to agree) believe a number of those people involved are pro-safety to defend their moat and promote regulatory capture.

There's a very large contingent of ML researchers who think any idea of AI extinction risk is foolish because we don't have any evidence that intelligence equals compute. I've yet to see a single person give evidence that these two things are equal. What's more, the missing ingredient in any of these AGI extinction scenarios is desire (desire to act, desire to be, desire to love, to kill, etc.) and if you thought there was a paucity of evidence for intelligence = compute just wait till you see the evidence for transformers showing evidence of desire.

There's none. Not a shred of evidence. As ever, it's other human beings that are our greatest extinction risk.
Same here. I value the time I save by not having to commute at all.
During covid there were crazy conspiracies were he supposedly wanted to put chips in people's brains, which signiciantly affected his public image
There is a huge difference between this article and its source here: https://www.anses.fr/fr/content/vitamine-d-chez-l%E2%80%99en...

Basically, in the french ANSES article, they say we should be careful with what we're giving to our children, stop food complements, and use medicines instead.

That's basically it.
Interesting analogy: https://youtu.be/GI4Tpi48DlA?t=1041
I'm in a hotel in Clearwater Florida right now.

The coffee shop added an automatic and mandatory 19% gratuity. I always thought I was only forced to pay 18%!

The buffet this morning did the same thing. The receipt says "18% is gratuity, 1% is for operating costs."

I thought paying for a meal included the operating costs. I'm shocked to find out those were provided for free up to this point, I feel so grateful that the restaurants didn't need to pass these on to me.

And, I'm a little surprised that neither of these two experiences required anything from the servers other than handing me or my kids a drink.

I assume this is because this hotel probably has a lot of tourists from countries where they don't tip. And, I always tip my barista at least 20% but that's because I go to the same place and know them beyond just as a server, and a hotel in Clearwater will never foster that relationship between anyone.
No, it's not – but it can be abused. It basically just comes down to your relationships and performance at work, especially with your direct reports and/or manager.

Here's it working: As a manager, my reports know they don't even need to give me a reason why they need PTO – indeed, I ask them not to tell me. We have sufficient trust that I know they're going to do their jobs and won't take PTO at, say, a critical juncture. Likewise, they know this about me, and so don't abuse the unlimited PTO.

Here's it not working: when reports take advantage of it, which manifests in regular weekly "I'm taking the day" over and over, often in excess, and at times when it impacts their co-workers. Likewise, when managers say "I know we have unlimited PTO buuuuuut I need you come in..." and the reason given is a bullshit one.

Trust is reciprocal.
Happens to the best of us. I also had a bit of a scare like that recently. The only thing worse than a non-reversible connector is one that breaks (or fries your device) when you insert it the wrong way...
when someone has a mane coon, they usually tell you that bit of info. it's like crossfit, when you have a mane coon, you must talk about mane coon.
That's what we've been seeing. My team were all in one corner of one room. Then "one day", we were all sent home.

Someone left, and was replaced by someone in another European country. He's nominally "in the office", but since it's not the same office as the rest of us (and we're not in ours anyway), he's free to come and go as he pleases. It's not like it makes any difference to us.

Then our manager moved on, and was replaced by someone in yet another European country. He was WFH / fully remote before "this" even started.

By time they tried to sell us on RTO, exactly 50% of the team are still here. And going to the office now, just makes it less convenient to call the other 50% of my team. (Yes, call. Call me old fashioned, but I love a good bitchfest, and a good bitchfest shouldn't be in writing.) My manager genuinely advised we ignore the RTO missive and see what happens. (Spoiler: not much.)

Then my boss's boss moved on, and was replaced by another remote position - and now the murmurs of RTO have died down.

Now we're hiring and the net has widened yet again. They need to be in a country where we have a legal presence, and need to be willing to work European hours.

It's amazing how much has changed in relatively little time. It doesn't feel like that long ago I was trying to make the case for WFH on weekends.
Chicken Run studio Aardman is apparently running out of clay
Ex-IBM sales veteran sues for access to health benefits
In particular think major regional non-technical companies, like grocery store chains or logistics companies or hospital networks. Beyond basic help desk support none of their IT is in-house and they don't want it to be in-house any more than an IT company wants to run an MRI machine for its employees, so they have dedicated a block of money to making that problem go away and don't really care how much it all costs as long as it comes in under that line.
I’ve been through this and out the other side. I suspect your real problem is just loneliness. Coding used to be harder for me when I was alone.

I have found that doing sessions of coding with colleagues and students— even if they don’t know how to code— seems to make my intelligence come out to play.

My mind seems to need an audience to please.

I wrote about this in my book on self-education: Secrets of a Buccaneer-Scholar
Mononoki
What about the ability to long press the power button for a hard power off or press the reset button remotely?
Am I correct that the datetime.datetime.now(datetime.timezone.utc) syntax is backwards-compatible all the way to Python 3.2?[1] If so, this seems like a good move. The edge cases like compatibility with data sources that don't indicate the time zone seem like less of an issue than data corruption due to developers not realizing that they were working with "UTC" timestamps that weren't actually UTC.

I'd be more concerned if this was one of those changes where there isn't a good way to write reasonably straightforward code that will run in relatively old versions of Python as well as newer ones.

[1] https://peps.python.org/pep-0615/
PC motherboards are often like a study in the history of PC motherboards with vestigial functionality that hasn’t been in widespread use in decades. That’s a fairly poor indicator, and I think it largely happens to buffer the feature sheet, take advantage of cheap pricing on components over time, and copy and paste functionality in their design software. It’s over. The only place for a USB-A is on an aftermarket USB hub. That’s ok. It was nice while it lasted, but it’s time to move on.
As a mechanical engineer, I want to offer some perspective on how specific this is for people working exclusively in software. I would never ever even consider working fully remotely, mainly because my job involves designing physical things. The prototypes and models for them are not and cannot be in my home. A big part of my job involves making sure the technician can actually assemble the things I design, which requires going to the place where they assemble it. My company employs many software engineers, and they work from home more frequently than the mechanical or electrical engineers, but they are much more hesitant to allowing full remote just because the work is so centered on the physical product. Every time I see an article posted here arguing one way or the other this rarely comes up. Regardless of the pros, cons, or preferences this just is not an option for a lot of technical people.
No, that's not correct, read the top rated post above yours. It's not about responsibility, it's about accounting rules.
oh you should definitely carry two phones for a while. Don't turn off your android until 6 months into using ios.
You can use steganography, at the cost of (much?) lower bandwidth. You can apply it to one of those “10 hours of x” videos. And of course, use a dedicated Google account.
You went to the doctor more times for a fight with a cat than I've gone in the past 10 years. And you still think a fight with a cat isn't serious?
Children's tablet has malware and exposes kids' data, researcher finds
Modem manufacturers were between a rock and a hard place back then. It was already expensive to have hardware chips that supported every available connection protocol, and the extra horsepower you needed to support, say, BTLZ error correction had to come from somewhere. So either add more hardware to the modem, or offload that work to the slow computer CPUs of the late 90s (when Winmodems first came out) which weren't up for the task.

I was in tech support when winmodems first hit the scene. The best I could do for my users then was to configure their init strings to use "buffered async" mode (&Q6 on an RPI modem, I forget what it was for the Sportster winmodems) instead of error correction.

Unrelated, poor Shawn. I wish I could have jumped on a 10 minute phone call with him back then to troubleshoot his external modem before he started spamming the forum and got himself banned.
We get more engagement on fediverse (mastodon) than Twitter on all metrics, it will depend on your target audience of course.
> I'd guess that with unlimited vacation time, $0 is paid out.

Yes and I believe this policy started at Netflix where they have (had?) higher relative salaries to compensate for this, but most companies that implement unlimited PTO skip that part.
Who is upvoting this blog spam from an account created 4hrs ago?
There are a few fast-growing and very profitable companies building products that do nothing but “abstract” TFC.

Inertia is stronger than we think. Large corps would rather pay more than move to another (cheaper) solution. The downside is asymmetrical (and catastrophically so), so no CTO or CEO would take such risks.
The phrase “modern countries” feels unnecessarily antagonistic. This is HN, we’re not here for flame wars.
Apologies, I'm afraid I wasn't very awake reading your comment. You're right, my issue is more about the dismissive attitude that I often see: for some reason I mistook you as someone having that attitude as well.
Dismissing PayPal as anything but an overwhelming business success takes a lot of confidence. Unless you Gates or Zuckerburg, etc., I don't know how you have anything but praise for PayPal from that perspective.

Comparing PayPal's success in digital finance to cryptocurrency's is an admission against interest, as they say in the law.
It's only important that humans (or "humans") were about 90% correct. Whereas GPT-4 was only 33% correct. If those turks were using AI, that would mean there is AI out there much more capable than GPT-4.
5000 is not 'megadosing' according to the latest research. It may well be on the low side of what is required.
"Our experimental results support the conclusion that neither version of GPT-4 has developed robust abstraction abilities at humanlike levels."

Some combination of LLMs and logical reasoning systems will get us much closer, but that becomes a lot more complicated.
Please take a break from posting this dumb crap and actually think about the issue for half a minute. This repeated crap is just a rehash of "Machines can never do X better than people so why worry", well, because shit gets shaken up when machines do X better, faster, and cheaper.
LLMs that are currently public can't. Safety teams are a way to determine if an unrealeased system can or cannot.

> this information is already publicly available.

In a form most people have neither time, nor money, nor the foundational skill necessary to learn.

> let me ask what is your opinion of EU Chat Control?

I could go on for pages about the pros and cons. The TL;DR summary is approximately "both the presence and the absence of perfect secrecy (including but not limited to cryptography) are existential threats to the social, political, and economic systems we currently have; the attacker always has the advantage over the defender[0], so we need to build a world where secrecy doesn't matter, where nobody can be blackmailed, where money can't be stolen. This is going to extremely difficult to get right, especially as we have no useful reference cases to build up on".

[0] extreme example: use an array of high precision atomic clocks to measure the varying gravitational time dilation caused by the mass of your body moving around to infer what you just typed on the keyboard)
Also make sure he makes his phone/screen orange-tinted at night and let him pick out an album or book he loves and teach him to listen to it every night. Slow down the speed as far as he'll tolerate and set a sleep-timer for like 1.5h to fade it out. Also, turn down the volume just so he can barely hear it and has to strain a bit to hear it.
I didn't have direct experience with the AI on ZeroK, but if it uses some variation of BarbarianAI that is available on BAR (cousin project mentioned in other posts here) it's as impressive as being a decent benchmark for beating a human that has a borderline decent grasp on the game (which makes it an actually good challenge).
Whether unlimited PTO is a carrot or a stick depends entirely on the company.

My previous employer had unlimited PTO, and it was great. My team's manager lead by example, and would take arbitrary days off just to go do something fun, and would tell us about it. We could take time off, and I can't remember a single time when a request was denied. (Obviously, the whole team can't take off for weeks on end, and there must be someone on-call, but we mostly managed it well.)

But I've definitely heard of companies where in practice, unlimited PTO is just a way to avoid paying out that money yearly/when you leave, and where the company culture looks down on anyone taking any time off.

You mentioned it yourself - you don't feel safe to take time off. So either your company is one of the latter, or you're psyching yourself out.

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Generic advice for anyone interviewing with a company that offers unlimited PTO: ask everyone you interview how much time they've taken off in the past year - that'll be your barometer for how the company treats unlimited PTO and its employees.
I don’t feel it’s deflection because Armin is the creator of Flask, a founding engineer, and our Principal Architect. He additionally is a member Sentry’s senior engineering/product leadership, and a key contributor to our licensing efforts. It’s his blog and his personal comments, and we are not a monolith, but I feel his statements are a good reflection of our values. Mine at least. (Disclosure: I’m also a part of this group.)

The Head of Open Source has followed up on the Codecov conversation and expanded on those comments [1]. I earnestly hope you’ll weigh these official comms higher than an HN comment.

[1] https://blog.sentry.io/sentrys-open-source-values/
I wish we could get a new HN guideline to not make comments for or against ligatures in monospaced fonts. You're not going to convince anyone.
I feel like you're missing an important detail: in an unregulated market, it is often times far more efficient from an individual corporation's perspective to buy up or merge with competitors than to actually compete, whereas the societal-level efficiencies you're lauding come from competition itself. Without some form of regulation, capitalism trends towards monopoly, which is the antithesis of efficiency.
That's great to hear and thanks for the kind words!
WFH is much nicer, the toxic person will need to call you and this is extra effort. But in the office you’re few steps away, so the whole day can be poisoned easily. My stupid manager (and former brilliant technical contributor) once sat for tho hours between my and colleague’s tables and watched what we do. Because he had nothing to do between meetings. I understand, that this is not everyday’s normal situation, but still not pleasant.
In all fairness, the Terraform provider registry has always been clearly proprietary, prohibiting commercial use by default:

> You may download or copy the Content (and other items displayed on the Services for download) for personal non-commercial use only

https://web.archive.org/web/20201106225027/https://registry....
Why are simulation games so hard? Because they try to do too much. Ideally a game should be from the point of view of one person - a mayor, a general, a President, ... Instead many such games go down into multiple levels, so you're not playing just the President, but all her cabinet members and technical experts.
(Replying to the dead comment here)

It's a natural continuation of the Rust plugin that is available with PyCharm and CLion etc. Anecdotally, I've found it fixes the performance problems and crashes I experienced with the Rust plugin. A major downside is being unable to use code introspection with C and C++ while using it: I think a combined RustRover/Clion IDE would be a better move than rust only.
Some people really dislike open offices (or just spending the day around a lot of people generally) but I'm betting commutes are the #1 reason most people have against going into an office. Unless you can walk or, for some, bike any meaningful commute is basically a not very pleasant hour+ out of your day.
Do you apply this reasoning with other kinds of weapons too? Because that is how pessimists are treating it: as a weapon in development.
I stopped using it when the CEO bullied an intern and threatened him with a lawsuit over a hobbyist project.
This was my way of making time for my stuff without disturbing my sleep schedule as a parent.

The philosophy basically is: do I want to do it bad enough to wake up early?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no. I learned a thing or about myself in the process.
You aren't going to achieve your goal of ultra-cheap panels everywhere if you're sticking expensive microinverters on each one. It's weird that you say "I'm wrong" then laboriously explain to me how I was right. The panels are wired in series. The voltages are up in the 100s, which will easily overcome the resistance of your skin.

If they were actually 12v they would be safer. You could handle them with dry skin. It's the same reason people aren't electrocuted while working on cars. The danger would be starting fires as you noted.

Anyway, in the real world when you have panels wired in series you typically need to shield the connection wires in conduit because both the voltage and amperage reach dangerous levels and you can start fires or kill people if they try to handle the wire, and you can't easily turn them off. This is part of the expense of installing solar panels that you can't really avoid. You will always need someone who knows what they are doing to handle the electrical part or you will kill people.
> “If a consumer is led to believe something costs $10, and it costs $20, they’ve been misled.”

This is nice. But the US will also need sales taxes included in the advertised price.

The EU have generally driven a lot of transparency around fees. Usually under the banner of fostering competition.