skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where else would you hear a live Rock coverband in Vietnam

Acoustic Bar and Yoko Cafe in D3
One of them is money. Canada was lucky enough to get in on AI early, when the whole thing was pie in the sky and most people didn’t care. But today it’s turning into big business, and Canada just can’t compete with Silicon Valley salary levels. And that’s a problem on top of trying to convince people to move from California to Toronto.

Europe and elsewhere have similar problems. To have an advantage, you need the very best people. But the very best people all want jobs at major US companies, and major US companies want them, too.
To make it clear, it's not about model architecture
You are appealing to a sense of morality that has eroded away from the general populace.

I interpreted your use of the phrase “slave labor” as a euphemism for something like exploitative work as opposed to forced/coercive labor. This distinction matters, as well as the cultural differences between what sort of content is jarring to encounter in the US versus the regions listed in the article.

On the other hand however, these youngsters need to pursue other options. In the case of the gentleman who saved $70 for a date, even, adjust their priorities.
"The wife of an actor" is an unfair minimization of her value and career, but that seems to have been your goal.
And over time, it becomes a huge garbage dump that slowly degrades the performance of the computer.
Population growth is necessary for exponential consumption, i.e. the more people there are the greater the GDP of the country because all economic metrics measured by neoliberal economists are linearly correlated with population size. In fact, neoliberal economics stops working if the global population is not increasing exponentially.

Most people don't know enough about what economists do to call them on a basic contradiction which is obvious to anyone who understands that the biomass of earth is finite. Exponential growth on a finite planet is both logically and physically impossible. They also do not account for pollution from consumption for which the technical term is "negative externality".

In any case, there are plenty of critiques and you can find the relevant articles on the web. I'm not the first to notice the inconsistencies in neoliberal economics and their ignorance of basic physical principles.

Claude.ai for posterity: I have a few thoughts on your perspective:

- Population growth is not always necessary or sufficient for economic growth. Technology, efficiency, productivity, institutions etc. also play key roles.

- GDP growth does correlate with population growth, but the relationship is not always linear. Economics is complex.

- Many economists do account for finite resources, negative externalities, sustainability issues, etc. Not all economists subscribe to simplistic neoliberal views.

- However, you're right that perpetual exponential growth is likely impossible on a finite planet. More nuanced economic models are needed.

- Reasonable people can disagree on how best to balance economic growth, environmental sustainability, and human development. There are no easy answers.

- Critiquing simplifications like "more people always means more GDP" is fair. But be careful not to overgeneralize on complex topics where experts disagree.

- Multi-disciplinary approaches incorporating economics, science, and ethics are important. Problems like climate change require nuance, not polarized narratives.

In summary, you raise valid concerns, but be cautious about blanket critiques. There is more depth and diversity of thought in economics than often portrayed. Engaging charitably across disciplines helps find solutions.
Why would they want to do that? Because of a romantic entanglement with Sam Altman?

Why would they suddenly stop acting in the best interest of their business?
I've lived several months in an area considered to be one of the worst in Sweden, zero problems whatsoever.

The standard for bad in Sweden is just pretty damn high.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRaC2Rx3BVY
I’m sorry but none of that says that Sam or elon are founders. Your big long wired blog for lack of a better term said nothing of the sort.
> Which is fun, but of course both risk factors are addictive as smokers can be both.

All the person around me who are doing sport do not smoke and all smokers around me do not do sport. It's worse than "smokers can be both", it's "smokers are usually both".
I was thinking the other week, I wouldn't mind having a nice physical copy of a lot of my data. There was something "human" about flipping through my CD collection looking for something to put on. Or browsing the bookshelf, looking for a book to read.

I think it needs to be bigger than Micro SD, more surface area for art than a thumb drive, but a CD is too big I think.

A game boy cartridge would be a good size I think, or perhaps a credit card.

I would love a box of credit card size memory sticks. I could could flip through them, share one with a friend, carry them around. More physical that just moving files on and off my phone.

One card for each band perhaps, or each author. All of Tools albums, or the collected works for G.R.R. Martin.

It would be nice if you could just place the card on you phone and the phone just reads the data and plays the music. Or rest it on your laptop and browse it like it was a drive.

It would never take off, but nice to dream about.
Anybody wants to guess which brand of hammers ChatGPT will recommend in the future?
Perspective B: https://twitter.com/jasonkwon/status/1726348678116548979
> animals see themselves as part of a much larger whole

I really don't think animals pay any attention to abstract concepts like this at all.
Microsoft will make the case that those customers should onboard to Microsoft offerings when at parity due to the unreliability of OpenAIs governance. And they won’t be wrong. Enterprise customers don’t want to hear about a critical vendor staging a board coup on Bloomberg, with a bunch of key employees quitting in solidarity, and then reading only a day or two later “on second thought, we were wrong, CEO is coming back.” This will make your vendor/third party risk team very twitchy. This will make executive leadership give the command down the chain to constantly explore alternatives.

OpenAI’s actions do not give people who approve tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in spend the warm fuzzy feeling. Microsoft knows exactly the consistency and stability these customers desire. They are the conduit by which value flows from OpenAI to Microsoft customers until Microsoft can deliver the value themselves.

(also why people get fed Teams vs Slack; because of who is making the purchasing decision, and why it’s being made)
Plastic Recycling Doesn't Work and Will Never Work (2022)
> Compare Italians in the US to these people; one group desperately wanted to belong the other doesn’t give a shit.

To be fair the US spent a good part of the 1980s at war with the American offshoot of the Cosa Nostra, so I'm not sure if this is the best example.
I consider it a feature, not a bug.

Also read in the dark with a flashlight when I was a kid. I'm writing this near midnight with my wife and our dog soundly asleep. I'll be around for an hour or two until I switch off to sleep myself. All I hear is the faint hum of my laptop fan and the car lights that pass by on the road in distance. Just perfect.
"When it launched, the service was powered by a Java back end running on Apache Tomcat servers with a MySQL database."

https://www.infoworld.com/article/2668567/friendster-scales-...
Back up your Bitwarden vault in a future-proof and secure way
I love the sentiment but the time to reverse our course was probably in the 60s. We’ve fiddled with all the knobs and dials and we’re in charge of the problem now.

We wanted to play God and now we’ve been given the chance :)
That might be the converted us$ price in China but definitely not the case everywhere they sell the car. Here in Colombia the BYD Yuan Plus EV is 199.900.000 pesos or over $49,000 usd.
https://archive.ph/ChFHe
STT training data includes all kinds of "noisy" speech so that the model learns to recognise speech in any conditions. TTS training data needs to be as clean as possible so that you don't introduce artefacts in the output and this high-quality data is much harder to get. A simple inversion is not really feasible or at least requires filtering out much of the data.
Ha, I can relate to that. What is the name of your leadership style?
I've never been a big consumer of Twitch, in part because I don't understand how they can decide that now you're going to forcefully miss the next minute of content.

In TV movies or YouTube, the actual content gets paused so that at least makes sense, it's just an interruption. But in Twitch it's like if they put ads in the middle of a football game! Imagine being interrupted for ads and back to players celebrating a goal.

Another thing Twitch does badly is to put ads on my face not even 30 seconds after joining a channel. Psychologically it feels like I haven't had time to get invested in the content, so it's not worth it to put up with the ads, and it makes me move somewhere else or close the tab.
OpenAI's TTS is better than Eleven Labs, but they don't let you train it to have a particular voice out of fear of the consequences.
They're dreaming of being the next version of early googlers, i guess that is inevitable once people start doing math equations that include eleven digit numbers in them
When I lived in Montana, I definitely slept more hours in the winter. Kind of enjoyed it, too. Those long evenings of nothing much but staring in to the fire (house was heated with a Franklin stove) were good for the soul.
AI desktop companion trash-talking World of Warcraft play in real-time (NSFW) [video]
(video has language that is not safe for work)

Cheevly is my AI desktop assistant which is releasing within the next 30 days. It features custom voice, real-time vision, desktop automation, multi-character roleplaying, and many other features. In this clip I'm playing World of Warcraft while it roasts me in Trump's voice. It's a work-in-progress, with some glitches in the voice. Once OpenAI does not have such strict rate-limits, I'll be able to make significant enhancements to the capabilities.
You can buy middle American mass market automobiles that have USB-C and do not have USB-A. That’s your bellwether.

Most of the USB user base doesn’t care about that nerdy stuff.
>My gut feel from what I saw is that outright fraud is rare, but bias seeping into the study is common.

I have a similar experience and opinion (started a PhD, quit when I lost faith in the institution).

In our field in particular, it seemed to be an open secret that our current paradigm was a dead end, and this had been apparent for almost a decade by the time I joined the university.

Yet, in spite of this fact that we were going nowhere, there was extreme pressure to continue to toe the line. You couldn't just try something new based on a hunch, but instead had to perform fruitless experiments that were "guided by the literature" and therefore easier to justify to the people funding your endeavour.

The whole institution of academia is rotten, and going on a witch hunt like the article suggests ignores several massive elephants in the room.
For some reason, the very first thing that came in my mind was Steve Jobs when he got ousted from Apple...I'm not a business owner, but my stomach hurts when I read such things :( to be kicked out of your own creation...what a horrible feeling, goodness gracious!
The issue is that the old board has to agree to the new board.
I was on cruise... I think that is beyond tourist trap.

In February I got trip to Canary Islands, because that was rather cheap. Pure tourism, but it is a vacation.

I have been to cities like Florence and London and more. Both tourist traps in essence.

Now that I think I don't think I have really gone to non-tourist trap place. As you know there is no flights or transport to such location which make it hard to visit...
It seems that some people embraced the concept of "embrace, extend, extinguish", and now they are extending it too far. Eventually the usage of the phrase will be so diluted that it will become extinguished.
I don't think it's exceptional. I've signed probably a dozen engineering employment contracts and don't remember any of them specifying minimum hours or overtime. Isn't that the definition of salaried employee? I agree that "butt in seat" hours can be an expectation but usually it's not in the contract.
Related:

Ninth Dedekind number discovered: long-known problem in mathematics solved - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36491677 - June 2023 (26 comments)

Also https://www.sciencealert.com/mathematicians-have-found-the-n... (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38333952, but no comments there)
>Third, the employers chose laborers located “predominantly … in East Africa, Venezuela, Pakistan, India, and the Philippines” for this work because that’s where they can pay the least in labor costs while still extracting value.

But that's also where some of the poorest people live! You know, the people who would benefit the most from having jobs like this.

>The reason your analysis doesn’t lead you to thinking this is a raw deal for the children involved is because in a sense, it’s not. Given the economics of their lives, this is, relatively speaking, a good deal.

It is! In the 90s senator Tom Harkin proposed the Child Labor Deterrence Act:

>According to Harkin's website, "This bill would prohibit the importation of products that have been produced by child labor, and included civil and criminal penalties for violators."

This was a bill that never got anywhere, but simply talking about it had this impact:

>In 1993 employers in Bangladesh' ready-made garment (RMG) industry dismissed 50,000 children (c. 75 percent of child workers in the textile industry) out of fear of economic reprisals of the imminent passage of the Child Labor Deterrence Act.

>UNICEF sent a team of investigators into Bangladesh to learn what came of the children who were dismissed from their factory jobs. UNICEF's 1997 State of the World's Children report confirmed that most of the children found themselves in much more deplorable situations, such as crushing stones, scavenging through trash dumps, and begging on the streets. Many of the girls eventually ended up in prostitution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_Labor_Deterrence_Act

Things might be different nowadays, but people from poor countries don't have as many opportunities. Taking some away, might be taking all they have.
Storing is one thing, pushing another. 32bpp×4K@60Hz works out to 1.8GB/s, which even on modern CPUs requires you to not do stupid things—e.g. a C loop with a (modest) iteration per byte will likely end up an order of magnitude slower. And that’s if you’re doing 32bpp SDR like it’s 2005; a floating-point pixel format will be four times more data than that.
I asked for basically the opposite of this for MS Office products. I use Excel for specific purposes, and it would really make it more usable if I could easily hide a bunch of features (especially alternate click context menus that I accidentally engage during the middle of a huge select or copy-paste sequence, requiring me to start over). While still having those unused features available via some drop-down menu.
>things no one thought were possible.

Yea, no one... except Googlers
Yes, when my current phone running Sailfish OS dies that will probably one of the choices.

Although buying the hardware from the devil doesn't feel like the most comfortable thing...
Does this occur for you even when you get exposure to bright sunlight after waking, and turning off the lights at 9PM or so?
Czechs think so, too. Rounding up to the closest convenient monetary value is fine (like 50 CZK from 47), but the US rules could as well be from another planet.

Everybody I know who visited the US was bewildered.
"Sorry, I don't have to worry about this sort of thing with AWS"

They get hacked by foreign governments due to their utter incompetence a lot less, too.
> It makes everything else you say come across as insincere.

This person doesn't read as "insincere" to me at all. To me, they read as very deliberately and conscientiously conceding shared language and norms where possible, while also holding--and expressing!--a position on the edges of, if not beyond, this forum's Overton Window.

I find myself doing the same thing, often. It's a necessary component of discussing--with strangers--broad, complex and controversial subjects. The alternative is to simply agree, or to simply disagree--and with no understanding of how one's own beliefs relate to another's!--neither of which help us grow as a society.
After seeing this whole thread a day late, I have to wonder: is the unspoken difference what "cross-platform" and "always" mean to different posters? To someone with my historical perspective, it grates a bit to see X Windows conflated with Linux as a platform.

My memory of the early days is consistent with what the wikipedia page says about GIMP. It was cross-platform on the typical Unix workstations that were around the UC Berkeley campus labs and XCF. This was things like Solaris, SunOS, HP-UX, Ultrix, and Irix.

Students in this milieu were just as likely to have some BSD variant on their home PC as Linux. I think it was later during and after the "Beowulf" scientific computing period when Linux started to dominate as the Unix-like platform for open source development.
It depends on what the contract states.
> Will the app be open source?

> Some of the messaging community believes that software that is open source is more secure. It is our view that it is not. The more visibility there is into the infrastructure and code, the easier it is to penetrate it. By design, open source software is distributed in nature. There is no central authority to ensure quality and maintenance and by putting that responsibility on Sunbird, development would not be feasible. Open source vulnerabilities typically stem from poorly written code that leave gaps, which attackers can use to carryout malicious activities.

> https://www.sunbirdapp.com

Wow. I can understand not making app open source due to business model but that explanation is something else, mother of all red flags.
The Windows kernel is genuinely great. I wouldn't mind if somebody managed to make a better shell that runs on top the commercial Windows kernel.
Let me rephrase actually. They don’t think it. They just know it. They don’t live in constant anxiety like us.
I think we humans overestimate how unique we are. We're at the top of a wide spectrum of intelligence, but it's startling the degree to which even secularly-minded people see our species as different in kind than the rest of the animal kingdom—I normally associate that kind of human exceptionalism with religion.

I'm not familiar enough with birds to speak about them, but other mammalian species absolutely understand loneliness, and understand the difference between having human friends and having friends of their same species.
https://web.archive.org/web/20231119211253/https://www.newyo...

https://archive.ph/ADJAW
In Supreme Commander you could have build templates for building layouts, eg. fortifications (point defence, shields, artillery, properly aligned, rotatable, etc), I relied on it extensively in multiplayer to quickly get foothold. (SC was successor of TA, these games started as clones of TA).

Just tried BAR, and the build templates would be really handy.
The rate in AI IQ gain is not limited by ethics and clinical trials.
Luckily, it doesn't matter what individuals expect. There is written documentation on what the foundation is supposed to do or not to do: https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/blob/mai...

Notably, "Code Core Team members must arrange their own funding for their time", which I understand as such that the Foundation does not pay directly the developers (same as other standards organizations like IETF). That said, if it was decided that developers get paid by Matrix.org Foundation for developing Matrix.org clients and servers, I wonder how this process works, given that I highly doubt that developers of Conduit, Fractal or Quaternion received any of the funds of Matrix.org foundation.

Main tasks of Matrix.org Foundation is maintaining the spec, documentation, owning IP, promotion and the matrix.org home server. The home server is "generously hosted" by UpCloud (i.e. is not using New Vector EMS), at least according to the matrix.org website.

Looking again at MSC1779, I noticed it says that one function of The Matrix.org Foundation is "Owns the copyright of the reference implementations of Matrix (i.e. everything in https://github.com/matrix-org). By assigning copyright to the Foundation, it’s protected against New Vector ever being tempted to relicense it." That protection apparently wasn't very effective, but also notably, New Vector and their leadership clearly have shown to not stand behind the goals of the Foundation. As the leadership of New Vector is also part of the leadership of the Foundation, I see some huge potential for COI here.
In Sweden, the big problem are grenades smuggled in vast quantities from the Balkans.

Explosions tend to be vastly less precise than shootings and unintended victims are more of a rule than an exception.
> I know wood heat is unpopular on HN

Why would that be? That wood is going to turn into carbon dioxide when aging anyway.

Sure open fireplace are now accepted to be bad for the health but it's not complicated to "upgrade" an open fireplace into a closed one (which moreover offer much better efficiency).

Last winter I warmed the (relatively small) house with the closed fireplace only.

Now, granted, it may not be an option for city dwellers living one on top of another: negative externalities of chimneys are a thing.

But for anyone living in suburb or in rural, wood heat is great.
https://x.com/sama/status/1726345564059832609
Yeah optimism and pessimism both agree something is wrong
What word would you use to capture the idea of paying poor people or people in refugee camps a dollar an hour to label explicit content for AI?

“The nature of the work often feels like digital servitude—but it's a necessity for earning a livelihood.”
This happens if you're using Cloudflare DNS: https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/ (Sounds like iCloud private relay may do the same for the same reasons).
Watch there now be a cassette renaissance like there was a record renaissance, despite the cassette having horrible audio quality compared to a CD.
Sounds like a funder rather than a founder. "chairman" is a hands-off role usually.
These were characters I thought a lot about, as I was playing the game through my exit out of the military. Leaving your gang behind while trying to stay positive and be the best you can in a quickly changing world made me feel human after years of never feeling like I could be myself. That game is a 10/10 story and video game experience. Anyone who thinks that a game couldn't be that compelling as a story has a bias against games, and should give games like this a try.
frozen embryos
Does the board not have final control? Why have they agreed (in principle) to step down? I wish more of the reporting around this was specific about who has the power to do what.
You’re blaming cats?