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Hi this is a small side project I've built using the latest LLMS. It gathers 10,000+ articles every morning and creates a digest of the most talked about stories.

So far it's done a good job at keeping me on top of the news without having to visit different sites or doom scroll Apple News.

It's an ever improving project to keep up with the AI advances. Even in the past 6 months there has been a 3x reduction in cost and a huge improvement in reasoning. In the future this could be an even more powerful newsroom of sorts.
I've got plenty of them. Happy to hold them to maturity (3-6 months) for a guaranteed 5.5%
Hi! Congratulations on GA! Been waiting for this.

I just heard about AWS CRT at the AWS ReInvent Innovation talk on Storage.

1. Does the Rust SDK use CRT under the hood? I use the Rust SDK to access S3 and wonder if there are any automatic performance gains?

2. I couldn't find good material on how AWS CRT works and how it is integrated with the Java or Python S3 connectors. I would appreciate a more technical explanation. Do you have any links that explains this in more depth?
Base on numbers in that article, average Italian eats 51lb of pasta annually or spends around 50-60 euro/y, or 5 euro/month, it is still not believable that it makes significant impact.
no you miss my point. I hate that feature. I may move to JF just so i dont get it :-P
>I will not contest that the best coffee is the coffee that's been ground and brewed right in front of me. I will posit that if you do the grind before bed and then brew in the AM, the quality isn't going to be that different and pre-caffinated / still-groggy you is going to value the "it's there, ready to be drank" aspect far more than you'll value the marginal increase in quality that'd come from doing all the prep _right then_.

I think I've become addicted to the tactility of making the coffee as much I have to the caffeine. Uh, I was going to go on a long description of the tactile experience of making the coffee in a pour-over brewer, but I'll save that for my journal ;)
I can't say anything that's not public information yet, but note that we were all still doing work WetaFX wanted (as we were before we joined Unity), it was just that via the services agreement we were then Unity employees and Unity were paying our salary.
I’m curious why Apple is moving to terminate as opposed to getting GS to buy them out of their contract?
Seemingly both sides have wanted out of this deal, earlier in the year there was another WSJ report with Goldman wanting to end it as well:

> https://www.wsj.com/articles/goldman-is-looking-for-a-way-ou...

The earlier story from June suggested Amex might take it over.
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It’s a reference to a series of articles by The Onion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%2....
Given how long it took for him to write the others, are you surprised?

I recalled correctly, he provided the showrunners with context, but they went largely ignored.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2019/05/11/george-rr-...
> Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve is selling down its own holdings, dumping yet more bonds into a market that doesn’t really want them.

That's not my understanding. The Fed is allowing bonds to mature and roll off the balance sheet - without replacing them - but I don't believe they're selling them on the market.

> In response to inflation running well above its long-run target, the Fed began unwinding its accommodative monetary policy this year. This entailed ending QE in March and then beginning QT in June. When QE ended, the Fed reinvested any maturing securities to maintain the size of its balance sheet. With QT, the Fed stopped reinvesting up to $30 billion in maturing Treasuries and $17.5 billion in maturing MBS every month, passively shrinking its assets as those securities "roll off" without being replaced. [1]

[1] https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus... (Q3 2022)
> You must seriously loathe yourself or live an incredibly sheltered life if you actually follow this (e.g. not just bottling up your emotions and pretending that you're okay).

Nonsense. It’s actually quite the opposite. I’m a black man who’s been told my entire life that I’m a victim. And to an extent, I was a victim; I grew up in some of the worst environments in America, I’ve been through more trauma—including serious physical violence—than most folks, and my skin color was always my victimhood pass. I’ve been blessed to have had both of my parents married and in my life, and they did their best to teach me to be a responsible person, but everyone else always told me that I had excuses for my issues in life. You know what’s actually destructive? Allowing folks to live in a perpetual state of victimhood. It’s debilitating and renders you powerless. Not allowing myself to be a victim is quite literally the most powerful and life-changing thing to ever happen to me.

Also, it’s not about “pretending” that I’m okay … I am. I’m a realist. I accept that life comes the way it does and figure out ways to move forward despite whatever comes at me. In the grand scheme of things, most of the things we tend to stress ourselves about aren’t actually that deep. And when they are, well, you’re still human, so it’s perfectly reasonable to react accordingly. If someone extremely close to me dies, you’re right, it might take slightly longer than a weekend to get through it, but I’m optimizing for the most likely situations; in my experience, most situations that have folks curling up in a ball aren’t “my dad died” situations.
Just get 1Password, it will store your PW and your MFA.
I assume at least the top quintile of tipped personnel are also making out better than under a non tipped system.
"You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war."

--William Randolph Hearst before the Spanish American war
what's the benefit to this over a CD, which have similar yields (and can be locked in for longer terms)? Or a savings account event which several now offer 5% rates
I am personally excited for the possibilities. Nobody should be using a LLM without verifying. Will some people do it? Of course, I remember that court case where the lawyer used ChatGPT and it made up cases.

If someone is going to make that mistake, there were other mistakes happening, not just using a LLM.

On the positive note. LLMs offer the chance to potentially do much better diagnosing on hard to figure out cases.
Never used the physical card anywhere. Use it with Apple Pay in B&M as well as web.
That's why it makes such a good story (née clusterfuck). No matter where you sit, you can pretend to be the hero of the story or the persecuted victim.
Millions of Kids in U.S. Have Inadequate Health Care Coverage
If you live in a state with income taxes, there's no State-level income tax on Treasury Bonds.

There's also far more liquidity. You can easily transfer the Treasury Bonds around and sell them (of course, if the %yield changes, you could sell them for more... or less... than you originally paid).
I actually agreed with his reasoning on this and don't think it was motivated by greed at all.

Firstly it would have been cheaper for the students. But secondly and more importantly, the buildings did have windows, it was only the dorms themselves which didn't, but the reasoning for this was that were primarily built for sleeping so he argued they didn't need windows. And not requiring windows meant that each student would get their own room and would not need to share. The building was designed so that when not sleeping the students would make use of the communal areas which did have windows.

You don't have to like it, but it wasn't a completely stupid idea. The main problem really was just that the idea of a billionaire who wanted to build dorms without windows to save on development costs was too tasty of a story for the media to not run with.
+1 on a "cold brewer" that's just a jar and a filter. Cold brew is the easiest damn thing in the world and it's incredibly delicious. I actually sometimes brew cold brew and then heat it up, just because I like the smooth taste. You also don't have to give any kind of a shit about grind size or consistency since it's getting a 12-hour soak anyway. A lot of my cold brew is just espresso leftovers when I accidentally set the grinder wrong.

However I find that not all coffees taste good as cold brew. Some trial-and-error is needed.

I also find that paper filtering is much easier on my stomach than metal filtering, so I'd encourage it for anyone who has a sensitive stomach and doesn't already use a paper filter. Whatever oils are supposedly bad for my cholesterol, also make me feel like I'm simultaneously digesting myself and being rocketed to space, so IMO those are better off sent to the compost. I even use paper filters for Moka pot and espresso, in the form of circles cut from Chemex filters (courtesy of https://goodbrotherscoffee.com/).
No they are not.. worker owned companies don't have the same legal structures as capital owned companies, at least in the US. Which is why you see almost no co-ops or other worker/employee owned business here.
heh, because dogs don’t sweat (except through their paws, iirc)
I’ve also seen this with the two sentence blurb about TV series episodes on streaming and broadcasting services.

Eg, I was really pissed off seeing Sky TV spoil Game of Thrones like this. I browsing TV schedule one night to see was on, and accidentally saw a GoT episode summary scroll by : “After the death of XXXXX, the characters try to…”
I'm going to set up sccache [0] to use it tomorrow. We use MSVC, so EFS is off the cards.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/sccache/blob/main/docs/S3.md
What's up with Generative AI? – Hype, reality, and where it's headed
Correct that is my understanding as well. Same with MBS. They are just letting bonds mature and roll off the balance sheet.
It's not really the same thing, as far as I'm concerned. I use both Matrix and IRC, very extensively.

Matrix is, for me, a replacement (or a slightly less annoying way) to handle "person to person and local group" communications. And the bridges beat having to run a bunch of other clients for Google Chat, Signal, etc. However, my goal there is to move people onto Matrix, and I've done a decent job of it so far in my circles.

IRC is "professional technical chatter during work hours," and I use it as such - as I've used it for the bulk of three decades at this point. There's some social stuff there, but it's mostly "deeply technical conversations in the sort of chat rooms filled with people there for the same reasons." It's very much been a bit of a superpower - build relationships in the right IRC servers and you have a massive "external brain" of relationships you can query for weird questions. I worked at a small IT shop for a while, and people eventually figured out the correlation between "An absolutely off the walls question" and "the clattery keyboard," when I started discussing the problem in IRC.

I don't want IRC to be Matrix, any more than I want to bridge "professional chat rooms" into my evening hours (which more and more are simply hard analog, offline, etc).
I’ve done this with movies sometimes, it can be a fun experience.
Also positional encodings. A few months ago I did a bunch of experiments with length generalization in addition and multiplication (https://github.com/thomasahle/arithmetic-transformer).

It turned out that not using positional encodings at all (relying entirely on the causality mapping in the attention) did better than all other methods like Learned PoE, Sinusoidal, RoPE and using an LSTM below the transformer.
TIPS and I-bonds are still Treasury Bonds.

So... on the contrary. People have been selling TIPS and I-Bonds because inflation has come down from 9% to only 3%ish these days, so if you're buying inflation-based bonds, you're losing out significantly.
Any news on VFX workers unionizing? I knew they were all underpaid but I'm not sure how it works with Weta as they're in NZ, right?
Show HN: Resumable file Transfer web service without file Size limit
You are responsible for your own actions (or the predictable consequences thereof) — that’s the basic rule at play here. Any normal court would deem providing murder weapons to the murderer and shielding the murderer from the law an offense.
US taxpayers are privy to knowing what they are sponsoring with their tax dollars. The newspapers are supposed to be part of that process.
Show HN: Dobb·E – towards home robots with an open-source platform
Hi HN! Proud to share our open-source robot platform, Dobb·E, a home robot system that needs just 5 minutes of human teaching to learn new tasks. We've already taken Dobb·E to 10 different homes in New York, taught it 100+ tasks, and we are just getting started! I would love to hear your thoughts about this.

Here are some more details, below (or see a Twitter thread with attached media: https://twitter.com/i/status/1729515379892826211 or https://nitter.net/i/status/1729515379892826211):

We engineered Dobb·E to maximize efficiency, safety, and user comfort. As a system, it is composed of four parts: a data collection tool, a home dataset, a pretrained vision model, and a policy fine-tuning recipe.

We teach our robots with imitation learning, and for data collection, we created the “Stick”, a tool made out of $25 of hardware and an iPhone.

Then, using the Stick, we collected a 13 hour dataset in 22 New York homes, called Homes of New York (HoNY). HoNY has 1.5M frames collected over 216 different "environments" which is an order of magnitude larger compared to similar open source datasets.

Then we trained a foundational vision model that we can fine-tune fast (15 minutes!) on a new task with only 5 minutes (human time)/ 90 seconds (demo time) of data. So from start to finish, it takes about 20 minutes to teach the robot a new task.

Over a month, we visited 10 homes, tried 109 tasks, and got 81% success rate in simple household tasks. We also found a line of challenges, from mirrors to heavy objects, that we must overcome if we are to get a general purpose home robot.

We open-sourced our entire system because our primary goal is to get more robotics and AI researchers, engineers, and enthusiasts to go beyond constrained lab environments and start getting into homes!

So here is how you can get started:

1. Code and STL files: https://github.com/notmahi/dobb-e/

2. Technical documentation: https://docs.dobb-e.com/

3. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.16098

4. More videos and the dataset: https://dobb-e.com

5. Robot we used: https://hello-robot.com
The question as "why does the guy at Starbucks deserve to be making less than minimum wage" assumes the counter-party agrees that the guy at Starbucks deserves this.

In reality, (I assume that) the people who disagree with you don't have malice for poor people, but are seeing different levels of the economic stack. I would bet (I'll put money down) that they'd argue a mix of labor supply/demand and regulatory arguments, and that they're NOT just hoping to put down those who are economically less well-off.

It's important to actually understand your counterparties if you actually want to improve things.

EDIT give this a go https://depolarizinggpt.org/
On the other hand, sometimes you just have to do what feels right. I quit tech to work in a cafe, and you could definitely paint my story as failing to make it in tech. But from my perspective I was just tired of burning out pouring my heart into something that doesn’t care at all about me. Some of his comments in the article re: getting stressed about policy he has no control over makes me think he was having a bad time as well.

At the very least, knowing how politicians are and how this man writes, there surely must have been a disconnect between him and many of his peers.
Since tipping is expected even in the states with no separate tipped minimum wages, the only way this would happen is if the government prohibited people from giving money to other people.

There is no government involvement in tipping, it is a social custom. And I don’t think the government can or should do anything about it.
Sounds serious, from an IRC perspective.
So this is actually a reply to @huytersd post which I think had sort of an interesting potential angle on this I hadn't considered before and I want to steelman a bit more then the replies so far:

>Meh I hate tipping culture as much as the next person but you really can’t run, for instance a dive bar, and pay the bartender $15 an hour. The foot traffic doesn’t bring in nearly enough most of the time.

So I'm reading this as essentially observing that certain work roles are vastly more dynamic then others. If someone is, as the article describes, working flat out on their feet for weeks straight 8+ hours, maybe that should be $40/hour or more, many multiples of minimum wage. Conversely if it's an absolute dead period where mostly people are just sitting around (and free, and perhaps even should be encouraged, to do other enjoyable/productive stuff on their phones/tablets/computers), and the business is effectively paying for warm bodies to be there just in case, minimum wage would be fine. Tipping kind of, in a hacky way, could sort of capture this, where ideally if business is booming people get paid more (potentially lots more) and if not the wage automatically decreases. However, for all the excellent reasons everyone has pointed out in this thread and others, tipping is a pretty poor way to do it prone to abuse and failures. But a completely flat wage might not reflect the work well enough either in practice.

However I think we have a better model for this: sales commissions (be it direct, real estate or the like). There pay is also tied directly to the flow of money, but while not perfect it's much more empowering. The workers are agents. What if instead of tips the law mandated that businesses could opt into a model where yes they can pay a somewhat lower basic wage, but then 25% of all sales themselves went to the workers. Nothing for customers to think about, it's built into the price, but pay also then gets tied very closely to output and revenue. Business employment costs would naturally rise and fall with the revenue flow.

There'd still be lots of work for this, America's very broken health model ties in, other complaints as well. But I think that "certain industries would benefit from formalized protected dynamic pay while others are best with static pay" might have something to it, if more fair and empowering methods can be found. Though I'm no expert so there may be holes here!
Developer Conference Canceled, After Backlash Over Fake Female Speakers
In philosophy of sciences, it is known that every fact is a fact of some or another theory. That's what "theory-laden" facts are. When some or another claim is not under dispute, such a theoretical claim is accepted as a fact. We accept many theories, whose theoretical claims have attained the status of facts. Same thing happens when it comes to newspapers, journalists: whatever they present as facts are facts of a certain of way of describing an event/process/slice of the world. As long as such descriptions are accepted, facts of those descriptions(theories) reach the status of facts: when someone disputes these descriptions, he is branded as extremist/conspiracy theorist/right wing/labels that many find abhorrent.
In Ontario, Canada we did away with the lower tier minimum wage. Everyone, including servers, bartenders, etc, make at least $16.55/hr. Tips, if any, add on to that. It makes it so much easier to look at the price tag and know what something costs, and not to tip when it doesn’t feel like anything exceptional happened.

But my favourite thing: it gives weight back to tips. They mean something again.
I think the story was they said they didn't do this but it was shown they actually did. Like shadow banning, suspending accounts on request etc
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> Using tips as a substitute for paying a living wage needs to be eliminated everywhere, but I especially don't blame people for not realizing that a movie theater of all places is playing that game.

Many bartenders and servers, especially in high end restaurants would actively be against this policy. Mostly because these folks can earn $300-500 a night, and moving to some low wage salary would never compete with this.
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No, I agree with your last point. I think the system sucks, but it's not fair to hurt the victims even more.

That said, I still think this movie theater is particularly shady on the tipping spectrum. The article calls out a family's food purchase and a kids' movie night as examples of bad tipping and implicitly criticizes the non-tippers, but it seems likely to me that the people involved had no clue that there was someone in the building relying on their tips that day.

The theater is guilty for blurring the line between tipping- and non-tipping locations, the patrons are just reacting as expected to the lack of clarity.
Meanwhile, IRC remains there, working, independent of big companies, and low enough resourced that you can host it without too much trouble on very modest hardware and bandwidth requirements.

It's the turtle: https://xkcd.com/889/
> you could easily end up with bugs that only show up when the transaction isolation level changes from how you tested it.

In fact it's very likely you would. You have to understand the transaction semantics and test with all the isolation levels and database platforms you intend to support. If you don't know this, you need to learn more about relational databases before building a product on top of them.
This isn’t true in the US: if the minimum wage is $15 and the worker only makes $8 in tips, the employer is required by law to cover the difference.

Note: this doesn’t change the fact that minimum wage is a pittance.
Alas, not all Novas have front panels either. Cray supported a couple of different front ends; I dunno what the options were for the Cray-1, but in the mid-80s the PSC X/MP-48 was front-ended by a VAX cluster.
Don't you see? Poettering's being incredibly divisive with his work that's still reverberating even today.

Sorry.
> Then what about the pilgrims, who were historically in America because they were too extreme for UK? They’re all about being a victim.

Going out into the world (literally to another continent in the pre-plane era) to solve your problems your own way is imo the opposite of victim mentality.

Victim mentality would be just complaining and seeing yourself as a victim or trying to use the victim status as a power move to make things go your way. Walking out of the situation and getting things done the way you want to elsewhere, despite it being dangerous and potentially deadly, ain’t a victim move at all tbh.
This - I've been seeing recent Fargate workloads mysteriously scaling due to high CPU even though there's no traffic.
I started logging the CPU as part of task start-up and I've seen five year old Xeons running my workloads.
This article is paywalled, with no way to bypass. Non-paywalled summary here: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/28/23980261/apple-is-report...

Can I assume everyone commenting here has a WSJ subscription?
I wouldn't recommend anybody to get a brainscan.

Even when it revealed information suggesting I had to deal with medical malpractice I was met with additional backlash.

And the results of the brainscan continue to be used against me. Like dealing with assholes who prioritize protecting themselves at all costs. Which is expected but seems sick when coming from people who are in the medical field.