skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This always annoys me when people put "disclaimers" on their posts. IANAL, so tired of hearing that one. It's pointless because even if you were a lawyer, you cannot meaningfully comment on a case without the details, jurisdiction, circumstance, etc. Next, it's meaningless because is anyone going to blindly bow down and obey if you state the opposite? "Yes, I AM a lawyer, you do not need to pay taxes, they are unconstitutional." Thirdly, when they "disclaimer" themselves as working at google, that's not a dis-claimer, thats a "claimer", asserting the affirmative. I know their companies require them to not speak for the company without permission, but I hardly ever hear that one, usually its just some useless self-disclosure that they might be biased because they work there. Ok, who isn't biased?

What bugs me overall is that it's usually vapid mimicry of a phrase they don't even understand.
Is anyone else unable to get through this capture page? Every time it comes up I end up doing countless captures, clicking not a robot, round and round, never get through.
That is surprising! I read somewhere that advertisers are paying $.1 to $.5 per impression, which seems like it would add up pretty quickly over a month.

I still think if you are a high value target for advertisers, it’s a probably a worse deal for YouTube if you’re on premium.
Unlimited PTO is indeed a scam. However, minimum PTO is not.

My company (only 1 employee, myself) has a minimum vacation policy of 6 weeks per year. This year, I’ll be using something like 8 weeks in total. Last year, I used 12 weeks. The year before, 7 weeks.

It literally doesn’t matter if someone takes a day off here or there because they don’t feel well (and it doesn’t matter whether it’s mental, physical, whatever). They wouldn’t be producing any meaningful value anyway. Likewise, if we’re talking about a longer period, like a burn out, forcing someone to stay and work is not going to generate happy clients.

I’ve seen companies force someone to work while they were grieving because they weren’t _technically_ related to the person who passed. End result? Depression, poor performance, and the employee was let go a few months later.

In Denmark, you can easily go to your GP and get a few months off for “stress” anyway (that’s Danish lingo for burn out). The company can still let you go I guess, and that’s fine.

In many places, Denmark included, whether you have an unlimited vacation policy or not, you need to keep track of the holidays and whatever. The accounting needs to be done in either case. “Minimum vacation” just improves on this because the accounting is done for a reason: to make sure people get enough rest and time off. People not taking enough time off should be a red flag. And this belief must be espoused across the entire organisation.
Almost no mention of streaming and also contains this gem:

> Lucas and Spielberg also spoke of vast differences between filmmaking and video games because the latter hasn’t been able to tell stories and make consumers care about the characters

This definitely wasn’t true at the time and it isn’t true now. Just goes to show how hard it is to predict the future.
Maybe it's time, beside the Global Seed Vault, to have a Global Species Vault?
>... decentralized blockchain networks are the future of payments.

That won't help if physical access is through a common or shared infrastructure that gets shut down from a hardware failure or line cut. Having a local system that queues transactions for processing after things comes back online would make more sense.
I sincerely don't give a shit and am just kibitzing but: why would this be a conflict of interest at all? One of OpenAI's biggest strategic concerns is getting out from under Nvidia. OpenAI is never going to do hardware; they don't even want to rack servers. The ultimate customer for a new AI chip would be Microsoft, not OpenAI. OpenAI is research and software. Hardware is a complement, not a competitor.
The reason I constructed my initial response to you in the way I did was to try to make it clear I was acknowledging how complicated this topic is. It’s not as easy as “pay them a Western wage” or “unionize the global south” or whatever. It’s too complicated for easy answers. It’s not all bad. It’s not all good, either, though.

I spent the time to make my comment because your original comment that it’s too easy for well-fed westerners to poo-poo the situation was well-made, and correct in certain context.
Counterpoint: when has that advice ever led to anything but a slow-motion train wreck?
I don't have a large sample size but across multiple companies in both New Orleans and New England, closed doors sort of meant: "I have a specific reason not to be disturbed." Which didn't include I just prefer to be in "flow" or whatever. The situation is probably different if you're on a busy public corridor as can be the case in universities, etc.
Sam Altman has issues, but you're misreading the entire situation because you got some details wrong. Investors can't be "in it for the money" when it's a not-for-profit. There's no mechanism for those investors to get money out.

Not a direct one. Sam Altman has been trying to get some other projects going, which OpenAI could make payments to, and this should be looked at.

However, OpenAI's revenue itself is not up for grabs. It'll go to OpenAI where it can be reinvested for developing AI projects. Which kind of is the point, and not something to fight.

People don't seem to understand "not-for-profit" doesn't mean "must-not-have-revenue". It makes no sense. How are you gonna pay your employees? Or the hardware they use? Or the data they need and especially processing it so it's suitable for a given model? Is any of this free? No.
Here's Angkor with I think the sunrise and photographers https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501255614/angkor-wat-voted-worl...

but that place was voted "has been voted as the world’s best place to see a sunrise" hence the popularity. Angkor is actually a huge place (400+ acres) and it's quite possible to avoid the crowds especially if you have your own transport.
workbench.editor.limit.value to change the limit, and workbench.editor.limit.perEditorGroup to change whether the limit applies to each editor group, or the total amount
The Government Is Now the Hottest Tech Employer in Town
"Underage" doesn't really mean just that, it's ambiguous and arguably misused in this context.

A 15 year old doing computer work is neither.

That's just your own unrelated gloss on the article.

Is this the greatest of title or word choice? Probably not. It's not particularly hard to figure out what it intends to say.
If you run a social media site and you want mainstream businesses to advertise alongside posts on your site, you have to engage in content moderation. It’s hard, but advertisers demand it. Minimally, you must identify content of the type that advertisers don’t want to be associated with.

As to where you draw the line, it’s defined by advertiser preferences. I think YouTube’s ‘advertiser friendly content’ guidelines are a solid model. They have been evolving over time, and they provide substantial detail about the kind of content that is (and that isn’t) considered advertiser friendly.
Effective Altruism (EA)
When I have work I'm focusing on, I close the door. When I'm OK with being interrupted (work or casual), I leave the door open.
There’s a Hard Rock cafe in Wrocław charging 2x the price of every other restaurant. From memory 70PLN for a burger. And yet it’s always full. I genuinely don’t understand.
Could you share your calculation? Did you include suicides that are 2/3 of gun deaths in the US?
Full legal ownership of what? How many will jump ship by the end of next week if Sam isn't rehired? What are the prospects of them receiving next funding round? Have you considered how much more difficult attracting target would be? Yes, they have leading tech now, but will they be that much ahead in a foreseeable future, when B100, MI400 and TPUv6 come online by millions, and they wouldn't have enough money to afford that?
Actually I do the "two sleeps" routine, particularly since I read about it and found out it's not something broken with me but it's (was) rather the normal way to sleep.

After the evening meal and a little screen time I'm starting to feel very sleepy and a bit annoyed because I would like to do more activity but it becomes uncomfortable and unpleasant to fight biology. So I turn off the light and put myself in bed with the full intention of sleeping all night if so happens to be, but not opposed to wake up again if also, it happens.

More often than not after 1-2 hours of nap, I wake up feeling refreshed so I turn on the light and screens (TV, phone, computer) and do more leisure stuff. Not gaming, which pumps the wrong hormones and will make it hard to go to sleep again. Browsing the net, listening to music, watching another episode from the many comedy series I started... 1-2 hours later I feel sleepy again and this time it's for good, lasts till morning. Even if I wakeup (and I do wake up 1-2 times during the night to hit the bathroom), I'm very drowsy. Half asleep make it to the bathroom cursing the weak bladder then crawl back in my bed and 5 minutes later I'm already dreaming.
Some people write or blog just because they want to. I have a blog I post on sometimes. Do I care if people read it? Not really. Certainly not trying to build a brand.
Not sure what you mean:
If you mean could inpainting and out painting with image models be faster, its a "not even wrong" question, similar to asking if the United Airlines app could get faster because American Airlines did. (Yes, getting faster is an option available to ~all code)

If you mean could you inpaint and outpaint text...yes, by inserting and deleting characters.

If you mean could you use an existing voice clip to generate speech by the same speaker in the clip, yes, part of the article is demonstrating generating speech by speakers not seen at training time
Text to Voice Getting Better
I have gone down the AI voice rabbit hole and curious to hear others experience.
Oh. You're why we can't have nice things.

Seriously though, any platform is going to have its share of liars, cheaters, grifters,
con artists, and outright scams. What the world relies on is that enough people aren't. The trick is attracting enough honest people while driving away enough of the dishonest people. it's a constant game of cat and mouse.
If you pick from the long tail at random, you're unlikely to encounter many other tourists. The "go-to" destination problem really only happens if you outsource the long-tail mining to some centralized source (e.g. popular social media posts) that ends up sending many people to the same place.
> The United Kingdom, which unlike the United States is quite literally comprised of different countries

"State" is the usual legal term for sovereign juridical entities with territory, while "country" is a less formal term that often corresponds to a state.

(And the "countries" that make up the UK aren't sovereign even in theory, though
some of them have some degree of home rule granted by the central sovereign.)

> the USA is not in some crazy unique position

Unique? No.

But common? Also no.

And it structurally does make solving some problems quite hard, and it makes changing the structure to resolve those problems also hard.
There are already many startups aiming to compete with Nvidia here (Tenstorrent, Groq, etc.). And of course AMD as well. What does Altman have to offer?
> This makes sense. The board thinks they're calling the shots, but the reality is the people with the money are the ones calling the shots, always. (...) what can the board really do? They have no leverage

Which I later restated as "Start making decisions that go against the people who actually run the place, and you'll find yourself in trouble soon enough." (emphasis added) -- which hopefully you agree is a clear restatement of my original comment.

Meanwhile you said

> This is wildly incorrect. (...) you are just simply factually incorrect. (...) But until he is re-hired Sam Altman is to all intents and purposes fired.

But I never claimed he wasn't for all intents and purposes fired

Yet you did claim I was "wildly" and "factually incorrect" and now you're saying "we are very much arguing that thing in the same way" but "you do have to get the minutiae right". To me, minutiae was sufficiently provided in the original comment for any minimally charitable interpretation of it. Said differently, the loss of minutiae was on the reader's part, not the writer's.

Regardless, lack of minutiae is not comparable to "wildly" or "factually" incorrect. Hence I was not either of these things. QED.
And don’t destroy forests, and hedges, and swamps, and mangroves. And be considerate when you build roads.
I'm currently using Scaleway and while I want to love the company it is littered with countless problems

- Payments not properly supported outside of EU

- Identity verification process subpar. Wtf they ask more info than AWS does at $100k/m spend.

- Phone verification doesn't even properly work outside of Europe and support suggested just calling manually to verify.

- Support terrible to get started with

- K8s Kosmos documentation is lacking. Debugging issues is zero.
Especially when you're that disconnected from the reality of the present.
Peter's at a new firm: https://ogletree.com/people/peter-d-roberts/
Media announcement: https://ogletree.com/media-center/press-releases/2023-07-17/...
I'm sure everyone in the propaganda business already has the strong and weak links between various fringe subcultures graphed out, but (like the ocean floor magnetic data that would have proved continental drift much earlier than it was historically accepted?) that data is likely very confidential.
> Why does your interest in their material condition outweigh their interest in having a good income right now?

“Outweigh”? I don’t understand what you’re trying to say.
Like an Ark?
Maybe the AI service could be ad-powered.
I really want to try this but making the venv to install all the torch dependencies is starting to get old lol.

How are other people dealing with this? Is there an easy way to get multiple venvs to share like a common torch venv? I can do this manually but I'm wondering if there's a tool out there that does this.
I've never seen a USB-A port or cable connector break physically or become loose fit. At most wires inside cheap cables snapped, but that's unrelated to the port. On the other hand USB-C port (host part, not the cable) quality is dogshit. All my type-c devices slowly degrade their ports over time. At 3-4 years mark they are trashed.
I want to do the opposite of supporting google, so yes it its.
Maybe a bit more hand for the woman. She’s got a bit of a stump going on there.

But otherwise I like the image!
The same here. Endless CAPTCHA loop.

Edit: Turning off Cloudflare DNS in Firefox helped.
Cryptography is just as useless for creating nuclear weapons as it is for creating bioweapons. AIs that help make WMDs are on a very different level.
I suspect anyone who wants to address the elephant in the room here will have to choose between accepting support from semi-fascist types or getting cancelled
At the same time I see “day in the life” TikTok’s about working onsite at a FAANG and they are the biggest jokes of software devs I’ve ever seen.
It's just like any other art form. It cannot be done my committee. It has to be the vision of one, or a small handful, of genius(s).
But the servers are basically there to support the product that they’re selling.

What if they feel like they shouldn’t be focused on selling a product?

In the 20 threads about this topic on HN over the last few days I’m really kind of blown away by the inability for people to see a different worldview than their own.

Wanting a stake in hot in demand super valuable tech company that’s growing rapidly is a value judgment. Not everyone wants that. Some people actively think companies like this are harming society.
Well the movie industry did change, but not in the way he predicted?

It switched from summer blockbusters to carbon copy series on streaming platforms.
Link doesn’t work on my iPhone.
The question was: 'What is "utc as numbers"?'

You are reading to much into a simple question.

> UTC has no relation with the UNIX timestamps (and the epoch),

I said nothing about Unix

The epoch in Swift IIRC is in 2000.

The idea of counting time in seconds since an epoch is ubiquitous. I am unsure if it is universal
It is if you don't demonstrate the connection/causality.
That might partially because it takes a very very long time before a species is declared extinct. The actual document[¹] is interesting because it includes some responses to peer reviewers and goes more into methodology. The species that were just declared extinct haven't been seen for decades. In some cases, the animal has probably actually been extinct for 50+ years, they're just (understandably) very cautious about declaring it. It would be awkward to have another coelacanth situation.

1: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/17/2023-22...
Well, then I guess you can just not use the italic style, or just substitute it for the oblique alternative, or choose not to use slanted style at all, maybe…?
I don't know about harvesting. But when advertising on YouTube the vast majority of what I got across industries were clicks made by kids on kid videos. Maybe it's fixed somehow by now, but I've seen thousands of dollars wasted on kid clicks.
https://www.nullstone.io/ (YC 23) is also a great option
> Code Poems, which opens with Romeo and Juliet told entirely through signal-flag phrases

Reminds me of The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights: https://youtu.be/kqiUGjghlzU?si=eBunlyjJa2S4XgoI
Totally agree, even have a similar anecdote. I managed to visit Angkor Wat in March 2020, when people were just starting to take COVID seriously and Chinese tourists couldn't travel anywhere. Quite a few times it was just me and my friends walking around with nobody else around.

My contrasting experience was when I visited the pyramids last summer. Still thousands of people despite it being +40 degrees. It was hot and crowded, but it was still amazing.

> but I don't want to deal with the tens of thousands of tourists all taking the exact same picture

Yeah, I probably took the same picture as everyone else. The way I see it, every picture is unique, even if some are very similar [0]. My picture is to remind me of the time I was there, I want the shit weather and my shitty camera captured as part of the moment.

[0] https://www.livescience.com/61970-photo-wave-coincidence.htm...
To that I would also add, fun does not necessarily mean easy.
> Applying the second definition to the labor market would mean every worker is being exploited

No, it means the labor side of the labor market is being exploited by capital. It means the capital side of the labor market is being exploited by labor. And yeah, that’s an accurate and correct use of “exploit.”
Have you seen heart storm that happened yesterday? There is no point in controlling legal entity if the talent, resources and leadership isn't there.
I do dishes when I need a break from the computer too. I kinda like it. Or midday shower? Glorious. Pupper enjoys the extra walks too.
How about instead we just make it illegal to use SMS for identity verification? I'm tired of "Your phone is your identity". It's exclusive of certain society members anyway, horribly not-encrypted, not-authenticated, can be intercepted, replayed, spoofed, phished, and a million other reasons.

Your phone number should not be your gateway to essential services like banking, investments, or even personal life. The madness has to _fucking_ stop.
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/three-new-districts-added-t...

I would stay there, I travel on budget, I am used to it from Cairo, and I am not female...
The movie industry is going to dwindle in size and power over the next decade.

Look at the crappy AI apps that can generate 'movies' available now, look at what unreal engine 5 can do, look at what ChatGPT can do...in 5 - 10 years, we will be able to give a prompt and have photorealistic movies/tv episodes generated, which will satisfy the vast majority of people.
For some reason this reminds me of the olden days of Railroad Tycoons. Like those old timey movies where a bunch of land from the common folks is bought out for super cheap prices because the guys building the railways know where the stations are going to be placed.

This also helps make sense to me why so many SV types were jumping to the defense of Altman on X/Twitter. They are probably salivating at the potential investments that were in back-room discussions involving Altman and feel the need to prop those up. For example, there may have been literal billions agreed upon in principle but not yet signed amongst several ventures. The tarnishment of his reputation could scuttle much more than OpenAI if this report is correct.

If I was a pure AI researcher and my entire goal in life was to build AGI - I would loathe to be in a company that was engaging in such shenanigans. I'm not for or against either side in this dispute but I can totally appreciate why each side would want to retain control of what has been built so far. It is just there is a fork in the road here and only one vehicle.
> You're focusing on representation where you should be thinking about semantics.

True. Fair

> A "naive" datetime is the one for which it is not known what the timezone is.

Then it is UTC

That is what UTC is for.
I'd highly recommend this approach as well. What started as a fascination for me turned into owning a suite of authentication capabilities as a technical PM for one of the SaaS vendors.

The problem with auth is that in practice, it's a lot of messy implementations of insufficient specifications requiring customizations/extensions. Reading a good explainer for say, OAuth, is a great thing to do. But won't be sufficient due to the myriad of weird quirks across various apps/vendors implementation of Auth <Approach>. Dealing with those quirks helped me more deeply understand the underlying concepts and the intent of the spec.

The messiness of the space really means that to be successful, developing some deeper intuitions about how everything fits together can be extremely helpful. And to do this, I think that just playing with auth - a lot - is one of the best ways to develop these intuitions.

I personally liked to spin up dirt simple Express.js apps, and then I'd wire up a sparse UI to the auth endpoints for some vendor, doing a barebones implementation of each thing needed to satisfy the auth protocol used. This really cemented the concepts for me and gave me a library of code that I could easily copy and tweak to experiment with something else.

I also read a lot of blog posts, watched a lot of YouTube videos, and went to an Auth conference or two.
I've travelled extensively in Europe, it being where I live, using all different strategies. I've never been ripped off. I've been to a hostel from someone we met at the train station in Prague. It was fine and good value. Also similar story at lake Balaton. It turns out protectively selling something is not synonymous with being a scam artist.
Thank you. I hope to see this quickly amended to reflect that your software is source-available. I would also advise that you are very careful around this in the future. As you can see, I and many other developers are very passionate about this topic and any perceived miscommunication could be disastrous for Sentry's reputation.
Shazam-style audio fingerprinting can help.
Thanks for sharing, I will look into it.
I use nix to setup the python env (python version + poetry + sometimes python packages that are difficult to install with poetry) and use poetry for the rest.

The workflow is:

> nix flake init -t github:dialohq/flake-templates#python
> nix develop -c $SHELL
> # I'm in the shell with poetry env, I have a shell hook in the nix devenv that does poetry install and poetry activate.