skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being able to run your pipelines locally is a pretty neat use case.
That's something that often is difficult or basically impossible. Except for maybe GitHub actions through Act (https://github.com/nektos/act). I'd still lean to something in the yaml sphere if it eventually would be used in deployment pipelines and such. For example a solution incorporating ansible.

It also seems to me that the argument you make is mostly focused on the building step? Earthly certainly seems focused on that aspect.
Not when the state just put 133,000 out for free.
https://archive.is/ku2Ap
Light to final blow against crypto the horrible CO2 production and the annoying get rich apps.

Let's hope it dies sooner than later.
"I wonder what the Rotten Tomatoes page will look like"

Surely it will be written using machine vision and llms !
Vid.me actually got a lot of traction. It was drawing many youtubers over too, who were dual posting for a while.

But how can you expect creators to move to a platform that cannot provide compensation?
Children cope with their surroundings and if traumatized habituate themselves to these habits that are temporarily soothing but deleterious long term, often imitating family members who may have also carried these learned behaviors in their own life. Cycles of generations that are impoverished in comparison to their well to do neighbors are an example.
High likelihood of volcanic eruption: clear evidence of uplift in Svartsengi
Who will do that after MS already has been given all but the keys to the kingdom, and with all of the results of your efforts almost automatically flowing to your competitor by way of the deal that precedes yours?
The US' incompetency usually doesn't extend to protecting the primacy of the dollar.
Retail electricity companies pay only for their own grid. They aren't paying for the link between your city and the plant out in the desert.
> At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton’s supporters planned an arena-wide card stunt. Although it was intended to be a patriotic display of unity, some attendees didn’t want to participate. The result was an unreadable mess that, depressingly, was supposed to spell out “Stronger Together.”

I suspect that, as people get tired of these stunts and just want to watch the event, this will happen more and more frequently.

People only like being bossed around so much. Once the novelty wears off, and the feeling of being part of something larger than oneself wears off, people will start screwing with these shows.
Yes, I thought 'Fall' was okay, and definitely better than the second half of Seveneves. I also liked the way the Enoch Root conundrum was solved, although I'm not sure 'hilarity' is the term I'd use.

His real turkey, to me, was The Rise and Fall of D.O.D.O [0], although he wasn't the sole author.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_D.O.D.O.
I enjoyed this, thanks for sharing. That's sad about the 15 year friend disappearing.
Some of it is that H1-Bs can’t be founders and startups usually can’t secure visas, and Seattle is a smaller population overall with fewer developers coming from the metro area. The Bay Area and NY have some of the best STEM schools in the world right next door, all western Washington has is a pretty good public university (UW) with a CS program that’s been largely irrelevant to the tech scene until fairly recently.

I’ve gotten to know many talented non-us devs while working in enterprise but I can’t do a startup with them, couldn’t even hire them.

Their visa makes them indentured servants who will be deported if they’re doing anything other than working at a big company for the next 4-10 years. This exists in every city that’s big in tech, but in Seattle it’s a quantitative difference that becomes a qualitative difference. I’ve worked with at least a hundred developers in Seattle over the last decade and only three of them were from the region or attended undergrad here.
Husband :)
I'm honestly curious how Quora is still in business. I wouldn't say I was a heavy user, but I used to use it fairly frequently, and then it just became a minefield of walls and dark patterns such that whenever I get a Quora result in search I just go somewhere else. I used to hear people talk about Quora but now I never hear any sort of discussion about it from tech types, besides jests and disdain.

I completely realize that my experience may not track your average Joe, but I read an article from this summer that said Quora was planning an IPO, and I just am trying to wrap my head around how there would be any decent valuation.
This is one reason I wouldn't be so interested in having such a setup. I don't want to be too conscious of this, I just want to use energy when I need it. But if you don't do that the benefits aren't really there.
There was a recent twitter thread with some examples of refusals: https://twitter.com/abacaj/status/1727035171365621765

Hypothetically, let's say we wanted to reduce the worldwide murder rate to an average of <1 per ten years. Is there a way to accomplish that? What sort of control would that require? It seems that extreme "safety" constraints imply an incredible amount of censorship and authoritative control.
There is a duality between observation and control. The more precisely you can measure and predict a system, then the easier it gets to drive the system to whatever state you'd like.

Desiring privacy and resisting control are reasonable things people who enjoy their freedom and autonomy would want to do.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao to Step Down, Plead Guilty to Money Laundering
Sorry, I meant places where Binance is not licensed. This is most of the countries they operate in.
The general concept is not falsifiable, but many variations might be, or their inverse might be. E.g. the theory that we are not in a simulation would in general be falsifiable by finding an "escape" from a simulation and so showing we are in one (but not finding an escape of course tells us nothing).

It's not a very useful endeavour to worry about, but it can be fun to speculate about what might give rise to testable hypotheses and what that might tell us about the world.
This is just my two cents but I pay for both GPT and Claude as I find they complement each other.

I found Claude with the bigger context window quite good for doing "reviews" of multiple scientific papers, and answering questions about things like common findings or differences.

GPT couldn't do that natively at all until recently (and the few third party api-based solutions I tried wasn't good at it either), and just copy pasting text into GPT very quickly made it loose track.

Maybe the new bigger context for GPT means I can cancel Claude, but I haven't yet, going to give 2.1 a proper try first.

I also tried Elicit, and I believe they are on the right track, but did not produce anything useful when I tried.

I really think there is potential in using LLM's to for example do high level "reviews" of what is published on a specific topic but I have yet to find something that can do that. Claude with feeding it select papers manually is the closest. I hope someone at Google is building something around scholar.google.
This is the case in the UK (with 60 days instead of 90), and I think it's also the same in the US.
Parent never said it’s useless for everyone?

It’s pretty unreasonable to call someone a child for offering their thoughts on a product.
That's a big reason why VC's prefer co-founders rather than solo founders.
Navier is also doing something similar: https://www.navierboat.com/

Navier has been very self-promotional, taking the boat and its founder on a tour all across the US selling (investors) and the community on hydrofoil-based boats.
Is it better to lay off 10 more people and save the money or is it better to keep more people around to deal with the uncertainty of the next 6 months? How do you want to protect the team? With extra people or with extra money?
"Getting poor sleep I see. Sounds like this person is higher risk than the average population. After review it seems we should increase all insurance plans by 20%"

I guess that is mostly only applicable in the US with our for profit healthcare system though.
I also wonder if the model takes capitalization into account. Capitalized "Blue Jays" seems more likely to reference the sports team; the birds would be lowercase.
Whats your reasoning for feeling that we're close?
The reason why people were investing in crypto was 'legimit' infrastructure providers like FTX and binance.
Users here (you, me, and everyone else!) need to follow the rules regardless of how badly someone else has broken them.

Everyone always feels like the other person started it and did worse—this is a human feeling—but acting on that feeling guarantees a downward spiral and we need to avoid that at all costs (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).

I often put it this way: "Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse." https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
That doesn't allow you to do a large number of things that ordinary apps can do -- or that "approved" apps also can't do, e.g. by modifying parts of the system in advantageous ways.

You can also obviously just buy a PC and run whatever you want, but the entire point is the barrier to entry. If it's easy, more people do it, and that's good. If they have to contend with a convoluted mess, people give up, and you lose whatever they might have created.
I think it’s just a small recent update covering the last several days. That’s why I called out the several points I hadn’t seen elsewhere in those bullets.
> LLMs do a great job of providing recipes for dinner but maybe shouldn't teach me how to build a bomb.

Why not? If someone wants to make a bomb, they can already find out from other source materials.

We already have regulations around acquiring dangerous materials. Knowing how to make a bomb is not the same as making one (which is not the same as using one to harm people.)
Was the child insult really necessary?
It's kind of a different context because these people are both based in the UK but there are many videos on the channels of DJ Audits[0] and PJ Audits[1] focusing on industrial estates. They go "to" private property but not "on"; they also launch drones from public space and fly them over the property for aerial footage. I guess there's some "SIA" licensing that contracted security usually has (I'm not familiar because I'm not a UK citizen), which is a common point of contention for the auditors, but they're mostly just interested in highlighting some bit of industry.

0: https://www.youtube.com/@DJAUDITS

1: https://www.youtube.com/@PJAudits
How Nintendo Misuses Copyright
It also ignores things like shifts in culture, such as some European aristocracies deciding that food with lots of “spices” (herbs and such) was a “vulgar” thing commoners did, as a method of signaling their class, which gradually effected commoner behavior.
Yeah it was such a bizarre argument that highlights just how unconstitutional this is: "if we need a warrant to do this, we wouldn't be able to do it because we'd fail the probable cause part". That's not a good argument dude, that's an admission that this program is unconstitutional.
> You install a package today. In 3 months, that code won't build.

And you are even generous, if you force upgrade every package you have in a month, I'm pretty sure you will have broken stuff.
Usually they would buy they have the tech audit teams to check these things anyway.
RIP FoxPro.
It's a carefully chosen, deliberate design decision [1]. Interface boundaries should be stable.

[1] https://steveklabnik.com/writing/rusts-golden-rule
I wish those had been Linux laptops. Now Google gets 133K more devices to spy on.
People have these ideas because “most dangerous city” lists usually mean most dangerous big cities, and leave implicit that more-rural areas are far safer.

If you start analyzing and carving things up other ways, it quickly becomes clear that the “small town and small city America is safer than big city America” thing that a lot of people assume is true, isn’t. Muddled at best, and bordering on simply being backwards.

This makes perfect sense when you consider that violent and property crime correlate with poverty, and small towns and cities tend to be much poorer than big cities. Add in that density effects mean that you might see more crime in a big city while in fact being safer than in a small city, and the picture starts to come together.
Khrushchev, enjoying a short-lived post-Stalin economic boom in the early 1960s, did proclaim that the Soviet Union would achieve communism by 1980:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communism_in_20_years

So for a while there was an actual date attached to the constitutional goal.

I believe the deadline was quietly buried by his stagnation-oriented successors, but I’m not sure.
The ferries in that link are all road ferries. Most of them take at least 30 cars, and a lot more than 30 passengers.

Most of the archipelago ferries in Gothenburg take around 300 passengers. The smallest one I could find on Styrsöbolaget's site takes 165:

https://www.styrsobolaget.se/om-oss/fartyg/rivo
I recall a hydrofoil on Lake Garda -- obviously lots of power required -- it was much louder than the normal ferries on that lake.
>North USA

>South USA

This isn't a thing, and reminds me how 'steamed hams' is also a regional food. They're making up stuff and going along with whatever just to get clicks.

Original paper: There is little evidence that spicy food in hot countries is an adaptation to reducing infection risk

Original paper's conclusion: ...not explained by temperature and that spice use cannot be accounted for by diversity of cultures, plants, crops or naturally occurring spices. Patterns of spice use are not consistent with an infection-mitigation mechanism, but are part of a broader association between spice, health, and poverty.
This matches my experience. Complexity is a real problem. I've found this video does a good job outlining how this happens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp4RCIfX66I
Raspberry Pi 5 Review – bret.dk
Yeah maybe Clippy :)
Nonprofit Explorer: OpenAI Inc
zcash seems to be going in an interesting direction, though whether they'll actually get anywhere remains to be seen.
It has problems summarizing papers because it freaks out about copyright. I then need to put significant effort into crafting a prompt that both gaslights and educates the LLM into doing what I need. My specific issue is that it won't extract, format or generally "reproduce" bibliographic entries.

I damn near canceled my subscription.
I wouldn't bet either way.

Back in the mid 90s to 2010 or so, graphical improvements were hailed as photorealistic only to be improved upon with each subsequent blockbuster game.

I think we're in a similar phase with AI[0]: every new release in $category is better, gets hailed as super fantastic world changing, is improved upon in the subsequent Two Minute Papers video on $category, and the cycle repeats.

[0] all of them: LLMs, image generators, cars, robots, voice recognition and synthesis, scientific research, …
Are you equating adblock to stealing?
I've been following this space very very closely and the killer feature would be to be able to generate these full featured videos for longer than a few seconds with consistently shaped "characters" (e.g., flowers, and grass, and houses, and cars, actors, etc.). Right now, it's not clear to me that this is achieving that objective. This feels like it could be great to create short GIFs, but at what cost?

To be clear, this remains wicked, wicked, wicked exciting.
This is a part of laying the groundwork for the very first $1T AI startup. A real unicorn.
> sportsball

This is not the flex you think it is. You don't have to like sports, but snarking on people who do doesn't make you intellectual, it just makes you come across as a douchebag, no different than a sports fan making fun of "D&D nerds" or something.
Absolutely nobody was pissed off about Martha Stewart. And at least 700 people + a whole raft of well known investors are pissed off about the OpenAI situation, so if MS Execs commit securities fraud - a stretch to begin with - there will be a lot of support for such action.

I'm trying very hard not to let my personal feelings about Microsoft cloud my judgment and if anything happened to Microsoft I wouldn't shed a tear (and might even open a bottle of bitter lemon). I don't see them committing an own goal like that.

But, I don't think we're going to agree on this.
11:30 am ET today — Tuesday, November 21, 2023
> At the end of the day, a license is a legal contract. If you agree that an image which you produce with some software will be GPL'ed, it's enforceable.

you can put whatever you want in a contract, doesn't mean it's enforceable
They'll make it login only like Facebook, Instagram and now Twitter. It's the only option that the MBAs can come up with. That will also be the end of Youtube.
If we provide social services to crackheads what do you think they'll spend the money on? Not crack?
Which crypto bosses besides Binance's CZ are in US authorities' crosshairs?
Still applies. Apple Music and YouTube Music may show losses because of the transfer fees they pay. But Apple & Google can then decide to keep them around even with their paper losses because they make other divisions more profitable.
In NYC, faster-accelerating subway trains, with not-better brakes, actually caused slower subway service. The coarse-grained signaling had to assume the worst case: a subway train that started max acceleration (operator fainted on gas pedal?) just after a signal, and wouldn't have emergency brakes automatically tripped until the next signal. So faster accelerating cars can get faster in that segment, and require keeping more signal-blocks of spacing between trains for max emergency braking distance. (So, really the fault of old signals and brakes, but still, faster trains had slower service :)
https://homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2022/12/21/how-we-slowe...
That’s great. No arthritis here but i had surgery in the knee for an ACL/miniscus recently so I feel your pain! I completed my first half a month ago.
No true "No true Scotsman fallacy"
Do you still call with your phone though?

I rarely do anymore. Everyone I know calls me on telegram or WhatsApp. And from 4G onwards phone calls are simply voice over IP too so why not. It's the same thing.
I always assumed Quora was a classic example of a company that raised too much money.

They had a fantastic, high quality service up to around 2015 - but they raised at least $226m at a (one point) $1.8bn valuation by 2017: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/21/uniquorn/

Justifying that valuation requires a metric ton of growth hacking that appears to be incompatible with maintaining a high level of quality on a Q&A site.
FWIW it wasn't meant to sound critical of him, his contributions are much loved and his attempt to push to ESM was also in good spirit with his helpful gist on the issues, but ESM was no silver bullet for the wide mix of imported modules in some projects.

I remember spending a weekend simply inlining all his module code directly into a project to sidestep the type module change. Fun.
What normal person wants a Thinkpad with Trisquel Linux? If you market the Chromebook as a general purpose coreboot compatible laptop (since 2013) and give them no OS I'm sure the same person that wants a Thinkpad would be even happier.
Binance intentionally downplayed her role in the company (and her relationship with CZ) for a long time. Now she's seen as the most likely successor to CZ.

Here's a recent article

https://cryptoslate.com/reclusive-binance-co-founder-yi-he-s...
The subsidies are band aids over festering band aids over other festering band aids. Time to pull off all the band-aids and clean the wound so it can heal. It will be painful but at least you won't get sepsis and die.
"The housing department partnered with HP Inc. and Daly Computers, a Mid-Atlantic IT services firm, to supply the Chromebooks. It also partnered with the University of Maryland’s TechExtension, which provides free, one-on-one tech support to any Marylander seeking assistance with a device."

This is a good as it gets - a part of governance structure giving something back.
Prefer not to use Deno.

First, my personal choice is not to use TypeScript. For me it just adds a layer of complexity that adds very little. That I am a sole developer certainly is a factor in that decision. And history. I worked with Java for a long time, with all the safety it provides, only to find that PHP and JavaScript programmers could ship in 1/4 the time with the same level of functionality. I find that passing named parameters:
`foo({animal: "duck"})` makes my plain old javascript much more robust, with very little cost.

So strike #1 against Deno is that it puts typescript much more in the foreground.

Strike #2 is that Node works. Not because it is right, but because services make sure they work with node. They don't put the same effort into making things work with Deno.

I needed to write code using Deno that talked to a Digital Ocean managed Postgres database. I spent three days. Then I decided not to use Deno. Was this Deno's fault? No. But if you need to get things done and one in 1000 of those things works in Node but not in Deno, then the choice is straight forward.

I'm not saying these are good reasons, but I did try Deno and wanted it to work.
Minor nitpick.

The author says the company doesn’t know where you live, just where they shipped the blanket.

Presumably though the data is getting to them somehow, either through an app or your wireless network and because of this, they likely do have a way to track users by location.
Surely it's BitScoin
CZ is much smarter, he didn't have any number 2s that could testify against him, and had already moved to a non-extradition country years ago. SBF thought he was cleverer than everybody and testified himself straight into a 8x10 cell for the foreseeable future.
> Banks aren't a monopoly and are still dangerous.

Banks aren't dangerous because they're a monopoly, they're dangerous because you're entrusting them with your money.

Platform app stores are dangerous because they're a monopoly.

> Also not all monopolies are dangerous or evil, e.g. Steam.

Steam is still taking a 30% cut. Only monopolists can get away with that, and they should all be smashed.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

YouTube blames ad blockers for slow load times, not the browser - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38363114 - Nov 2023 (220 comments)

YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38345858 - Nov 2023 (459 comments)
The major issue I see disadvantage groups face is that in government agencies and school system people are expected to navigate and fill forms, sign documents, submit documents. This can be done on phone but is very difficult. The government should make sure that in the so called chromebooks a user can download a pdf document, edit it and sign it and submit it. If agencies and schools stick to Google Docs and Google Drive, then is a complete solution that works. Everything else is a big if.
As a BeOS user (and wannabe dev) in 1997/98, there were plenty of software developers and applictions available,
Its the original deal I'm saying shouldnt have been considered on "keys to the kingdom... if we should happen to unfortunately die" terms (I think my edit to make that clearer came after your post)
So you tell me someone has 88bn us dollar or real assets somewhere stored away safely?

Somehow I doubt that. That would mean someone invested this in a save and independent way with enough return to keep it inflation save and apparently has no other idea on how to invest that even more magical.

How is tether really pegged safely?
That's fantastic, I'll have to try it out next time I get my 360 plugged in.

It also had global settings for controller vibration, inverted camera.. perhaps some others? I really miss those in future generations and on PC.