skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Companies all over the world have discovered that the cheap labor authoritarian nation where they did they manufacturing turned out in the end to be a real political problem and business risk, so they're moving their operations to countries that don't have such risks.

So they moved from one cheap labor authoritarian nation to the other cheap labor authoritarian nation next door.
Excluding OpenAI/ChatGPT generated content without excluding discourse that mentions OpenAI / ChatGPT such as news articles and industry papers seems like a nontrivial problem to solve at scale.
> Russia has no legal or moral right

This is not about rights or whataboutism. This is about a government and society that believes there is an existential threat to its existence. I am just understanding things rationally, using critical thinking. I am not American or Russian or European. I live far away from these places.
Full story here: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5188060>
I do agree with your take. Large corporation have a mechanism of their own that will tend to persist even as people in charge get rotated out.

That said:

“Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.” Ambrose Bierce 1906
> Not when it comes to something interesting, like making money

Your claim is doctors and civil engineers don't make money?
The theft problem doesn’t vary at all in Chicago. I’m in a North (west) Side neighborhood and receive about 83% of Amazon packages, with the rest being stolen or just not delivered. Compare this with a 100% success rate for items delivered by UPS, USPS, or FedEx.

I figure at some point I’ll fall below whatever metrics Amazon has internally, they’ll stop resending/refunding packages, and I’ll have to fight the same battle as in the article. If anything, OP unfortunately/correctly teaches that empathy, common sense, and treating level 1 workers as human have no place with Bezos…you have to assume the worst and treat everything as a cost/blame situation.
My issue with Godot is that I am bad at art. With Unity, I could affordably get pretty much ready to go assets and build a game, but with Godot, I don't know of any equivalent marketplaces.
I mention it in another comment, but I think it depends on your definition of RPG. I think of RPGs as games that are RPGs first: JRPGs and Western RPGs (Elder Scrolls, Baldur’s Gate, etc.) with rich stories.

I don’t really think of roguelikes as RPGs. But again, the definition will always be argued, and not trying to push my definition on others.

My main point is that, to me, RPG often implies a rich story, and I think a generated world (including those in roguelikes) has a tough time matching the richness of the stories in hand-crafted RPGs.
If it’s a fact then it should be no trouble to share the relevant provision.

I was sharing that theory as a conjecture, since I have no reason to believe such a provision exists.
Often, i will go to science fiction (Rudy Rucker) to "drink from the well" and generate some inspiration for new ideas, projects, etc. This is one of the real-life sources that gives me that same feeling.

It's just amazing and awe inspiring to see something that felt truly "out of the future". You can probably draw lines to existing inventions and research but to me, this felt like he lived in the world where this technology already existed and was giving us a glimpse.
"knowledge" is also disputable.
Which in turn relies on litography equipment made in the EU and Japan.
Depending on format full sequencing can be larger than 100 GB. It's possible to keep that locally on most devices but it's a sizeable chunk of storage for relatively rarely used data.

They do use statistics in their reports. One of the numbers they give with each report is where you are in the population for that particular report. E.g. 85th percentile for this thing in the population.
This is analogous to physical security doors. They are considered passive security, since they are a deterrent, and are rated by the numbers of hours they are expected to hold up against hand tools.
Not ≈5 years. Three years and 9 months. Amazon's retail division was broken by Covid and will probably never fix itself.

I have no inside knowledge, but I suspect what happened is a bunch of crooks were hired during the massive hiring spree to keep up with Covid demand, and there wasn't capacity to investigate every fraud, theft, and scam. Internal fraud went from zero to prolific almost overnight. Prime also stopped being able to deliver in two days, and never recovered.

It's been three years, and it seems a permanent culture change at this point. The only CEOs I've seen recover a business from this sort of shitshow were Steve Jobs and Satya Nadella. Most businesses can't recover from this. I hope Amazon can, but realistically, I'm very sceptical.

On the upside, there's a huge opening for a competitor, if anyone wants to do a startup :)
The researchers added a footnote explicitly refuting the claim that 32 bit keys were secure 25 years ago, too.

> The Midnight Blue researchers have since demonstrated real-life exploitations of some of the vulnerabilities, for example at the 2023 Blackhat Conference in Las Vegas (USA). They have shown that TETRA communications secured with the TEA1 encryption algorithm can be broken in one minute on a regular commercial laptop and in 12 hours on a classic laptop from 1998 [III].
One of my favourite bits is how embarrassed he sounds about calling it the "mouse".
Correct, this is why people prefer burr mill grinders made of ceramic instead of metal since ceramic is more thermally insulating.
Isn’t this tantamount to an admission of willfully flaunting copyright law?

Edit: I'm not 100% sure, but I think my comment is being interpreted uncharitably. I would like to grab your finger, which is pressed squarely atop "output of other LLMs", and move it over a bit to the label of "website with unknown and almost certainly copyright content". And then, I would like to point out that there is a difference between training on such data with the benefit of plausible deniability (e.g. some third party), versus going specifically after data you know to be copyrighted, and then claiming that this is precisely the reason why your model will spit such content out verbatim. At that point, you might as well indict yourself, no?
Aside from journalism, which takes a few factoids and generates a plausible narrative, another main application would be psychotherapy/counseling. You don't have to be accurate or even all that grounded in reality when dealing with people's emotions, moods, and self-perceptions.

Apps like Woebot and Wysa claim to have had "millions" of sessions with people, but there are not many reviews of them on reputable therapy sites or in therapy publications. It's hard to assess whether they are useful at all. My own brief and limited experiments have produced more frustration than anything else. Maybe that's just my inexperience with chatbots, but adoption is going to be slow if it requires a lot of learning.
speaking more broadly than defi, there is an intrinsic tradeoff between decentralization and efficiency that is probably something like natural law or tautology. the promise of decentralized tech built on cryptography, to me at least, is that it offers a working alternative where there previously was none at all; almost everyone will probably end up using centralized and custodial systems due to their benefits, but the breakthrough is that you don't have to. you can always choose to trust in the presence of trustless system, but you can't choose trustlessness in its absence.
I always thought the weirdest cases were in genetic fields. Where the ip in question is violated by every single living person.
It’s funny because 1) any person you interact with face to face can tell your race and 2) what is the AI supposed to do if you tell it your race?
Terrible discoverability? A shell with tab completion is (in my opinion) a lot easier to navigate than for example Photoshops menus.
Joey Hess (https://joeyh.name/) did, at least partially. I remember him raising money to develop git annex.
I prefer bottom up decentralized curation of comments. Let readers curate as they read via moderation, and let other readers filter or rank comments by selecting zero or more other reader-curators that they find agreeable.

That would be quite useful here too. It could be a variaton on https://news.ycombinator.com/classic with user-definable and shareable sets of voters.
>What is the modern power ranking on image formats?

I will assume this can be outside the web and consider only image format / codec that is state of the art.

>For lossless, what is typically the most efficient size wise? Decompression speed?

In terms of lossless, JPEG-XL is the one to look at. Both in terms of size and decompression speed. You will already see communities from professional photographers using this format.

>For lossy?

That depends on what sort of quality you are looking for. In some edge cases you could have JPEG XL being better at ultra low bit per pixel, like 0.1 bpp. Otherwise in 95% of cases, at 0.1 bpp to 0.5 bpp, it is HEIF / AVIF. HEIF based on VVC / H.266 Encoder likely to be the state of the art. With current reference FVC / H.267 implementation bringing another 10 - 30% improvement.

However the higher the quality you go, i.e 0.8 to 1.5 bpp, the more favourable to JPEG XL.
Haven’t heard of this, just checked, looks interesting. May have to check it out.
Thanks for sharing. Appreciate your fighting the good fight, and sorry for the results so far. Maybe apply for a Futo scholarship for one? But definitely close source for Plume.
Also see quickjs-ng [0], which is a fork in active development. A lot of missing ES features have already been added. [1]

[0] https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs

[1] https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs/issues/54
Car ownership is correlated with income in London.
https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-do...
Does anyone know any library that can swap a page in the pdf with another without destroying the metadata?
This will actually make living here more attractive. Most people who actually live in the city do not drive, we take public transportation. I don't want to sound condescending but we'd prefer our city to be catered to people who actually live here instead of people who are just visiting. Hopefully this will free up more space for pedestrian zones and bike lanes.
Technology is almost as much a communication problem as it is a technical problem.
>Or when I talk to people who run online businesses and the plethora of problems they have with credit card payments. Because a credit car payment is not a payment. It's a something where the receiver of the money is held responsible when the one who pays plays dirty tricks on them. In the future, an electronic payment will be simply a payment.

That last sentence indicates you have failed to understand the problems. A payment that is "simply a payment" is a huge step backwards from those credit card systems. If fraud prevention and legal recourse to undo fraudulent payments is not baked directly into your system, that system is worthless.
It's all about user privacy until the jackboots might want that data, then suddenly it's Very Important and Law Enforcement Critical!
> I need fully functional Microsoft 365 desktop apps; mainly Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Why? There are alternatives to those three that work well on Linux, namely OpenOffice and LibreOffice.
Thanks for this, I was looking at the "Kensington Orbit Wireless Trackball with Scroll Ring", is that one you've heard of / is it a good one?
No, you are right you can do everything right and still end up unlucky. That's the hard (awful?) part of life.

But that's an individual path. In aggregate there are statistics that can help us choose and recommend which path to follow. And the statistics show that people with an education are dramatically and earn way more successful than people without.

Are the smartest, the most hard working children the most successful in adult life? In average yes.
> This isn't really that newsworthy. Grok was probably trained on ChatGPT logs

If Musk's "anti-woke" AI was just trained on logs from what he calls "woke AI", that would, actually, be particularly newsworthy.

(The explanation they have put forward is that this is not the case, but they just failed to realize that blindly ingesting web content would bring in a lot of ChatGPT-derived content.)
Trying to shortcut the process by filing a chargeback isn't going to help anything. You only do that if Amazon ultimately denies the return.

Maybe - but as he correctly mentions, in the UK, he's effectively buying the console from American Express because they gave him credit for it.
Personally I think KDE is light years ahead of macOS and Windows.

In fact I find macOS to have been be of the worst window managers of all the popular platforms (sure it’s pretty and easy to use, but trying to do anything beyond the basics requires magical incantations that are impossible to discover organically).

Each to their own though.
> so they're moving their operations to countries that don't have such risks

Did you mean: different cheap labor authoritarian nation?
Restaurants Take the Din Out of Dining
That the author describes himself as a self-taught handyman may not sound like much to USA readers like myself, but it's my understanding that Canada has a much more widespread formal trade apprentice program than what's available in the states (through unions). I've always wished something like that was developed here, since it doesn't seem like union labor will ever make inroads on the USA residential market.
$5M Is Nothing
We’ve been considering this library at work for a performance sensitive application (real time game). Can anyone here speak to the performance and memory usage of QuickJS?
Loved your post, thanks for sharing!
And that is supported by the known past actions of "some government authorities". This is definitely not the first time the US government has deliberately sabotaged crypto.
Consider how happy this made me:

I wrote a PR to fix something in Vault, then nothing happened for a while, then I saw that hashicorp is changing their licensing, and soon after that, my fix was merged. My fix sat waiting until they changed their license, and then it was merged before I had time to consider if I wanted to contribute under that license.

(Incidentally, sentry also changed their license soon after I interacted with the project. Maybe it's me ruining the OSS world)
Do you have the sources for this application available somewhere? I was considering writing something similar just this week. So an already available application where I just point it to the right instance would be amazing
It actually works pretty well for me in iOS Safari — the main problem is that the visualization is sandwiched between the two sidebars, so it's about half an inch wide. If the three divs stacked vertically on small screens, that would be a huge improvement!
No there is no limitation in Switzerland for EU citizen, only specific domains (like waiter, hairdresser) where unemployment is above 5% must be first announced at local job agency, but you are still free to hire whoever you want. Btw free movements is not linked to Schengen but to bilateral agreements between CH and EU that entered in force before Schengen.

https://www.eda.admin.ch/missions/mission-eu-brussels/en/hom...
Depends on who the stakeholders were.
"In my opinion, i don't believe that narrative is complete or correct" is enough to instigate a nasty backlash.

"kittens are cute" is droll corp-speak.
Google's NotebookLM Could Be the Ultimate AI-Based Notes App If It Stops Lying
Yes, that part is indeed very normal.

But the fact that the country is a formal ally makes it, in my view at least, slightly different.

Of course, seeing as the US is in a defence pact with Turkey, I can understand that being ally can't mean absolute non-interference, but I feel that it gets problematic when we're talking about actual infiltration of a country's security services.

I think at least the Germans expected some restraint. I suppose if one thinks back, the Germans had a different view, being opposed to giving Turkey bad crypto; and I suppose that can be seen as them restraining their activities in an unreasonable way, at the same time, I can't accept that bribing/blackmail people on the other side is compatible with an alliance. Rather, with enough bribes/blackmail the result is a secret coup of the state whose personnel is being bribed or blackmailed, and I think if you view these things as 'normal' then you might even be blind to such a coup against yourself.
New running shoes
> Results A total of 104 participants (mean [SD] age, 41.1 [11.3] years; 52 [50%] women) were randomized (51 to the psilocybin group and 53 to the niacin group). Psilocybin treatment was associated with significantly reduced MADRS scores compared with niacin from baseline to day 43 (mean difference,−12.3 [95% CI, −17.5 to −7.2]; P <.001) and from baseline to day 8 (mean difference, −12.0 [95% CI, −16.6 to −7.4]; P < .001). Psilocybin treatment was also associated with significantly reduced Sheehan Disability Scale scores compared with niacin (mean difference, −2.31 [95% CI, 3.50-1.11]; P < .001) from baseline to day 43. More participants receiving psilocybin had sustained response (but not remission) than those receiving niacin. There were no serious treatment-emergent AEs; however, psilocybin treatment was associated with a higher rate of overall AEs and a higher rate of severe AEs.
Yes, Summers is going to act in his own interest, which means not going against the interests of powerful people.

There is no evidence he has ever stood up to do the right thing on principle.
Out of curiosity, why not Lua?
Monopoly building is not a function of first-mover advantage. In fact, being the first mover is usually a disadvantage, because you have to figure out how your business model is going to work. Late movers can just copy it but better.

Going down the list of US tech companies:

Google did not have first-mover advantage. They were actually very late in search. They won search by having a superior algorithm and, more importantly, enough business discipline to not deliberately ruin it. More importantly, with the exception of Gmail, every other successful arm of Google has been a startup that they bought and scaled up. In some cases, notably YouTube, they were even competing with the company they'd later buy because they couldn't build the business themselves.

Apple did technically have first-mover advantage, given that they've been around in personal computing since the late 70s, but they blew it so hard they nearly went bankrupt. The Apple we know about today was destroyed and rebuilt by NeXT and Steve Jobs buying Apple with Apple's money. Even then, a good chunk of their success has been due to their purchase of several chip and core design firms that give the iPhone an edge that competing phone manufacturers can't buy. Even the first iPod was designed by someone else and bought by Apple.

Microsoft... also wasn't a first-mover. OK, they were there at the start of PCs selling BASIC interpreters, but the IBM PC DOS you probably are thinking of as their "first OS" was SCP[0] QDOS, which they bought and customized for late-moving IBM. The same story goes for the Internet - they saw Netscape Navigator, got scared, bought NCSA Mosaic, rebranded it to Internet Explorer, added a bunch of nonstandard extensions, and integrated it deeply into Windows to kill Netscape dead.

Is there a pattern here? Yes - that monopolies form because companies can buy instead of build. Why this happened in the US and not the EU is simple: the US stopped enforcing its antitrust laws and gave tech companies a regulatory pass in the name of the "future". This is not the EU missing the Internet, this is the EU being the victim of cheating.

[0] Seattle Computer Products, which I'm assured is not a front of the SCP Foundation
Why should we cater our city to people who don't live here?
> and have even contested credit card charge-backs.

Personally, I'd never do a CC chargeback against certain companies. Too much risk of being cut off from a crucial vendor by a "customers who do chargebacks aren't worth the trouble" automation/SOP.

(For household consumer issues... if customer service was exhausted, I'd escalate to the CEO's office "?" email address, and if even that didn't work, but I really needed it solved, I'd consult a lawyer about whether they could negotiate a solution with a letter or phone call.)
Perhaps we need a /a for AI content, as well?
As a developer for a Python GUI application [1], I think the biggest problem with using Python for desktop applications is the packaging. All existing tooling for creating a distributable binary either stops working or starts to require nontrivial hacks once you have more than a few dependencies. Even popular packages have issues. You get cryptic missing hidden import problems and missing data files that you didn't know were ever needed. Some dynamic module loading also stops working once they are brought outside of the normal python environment, which is the case if you use PyInstaller or cx_freeze. I'm not sure what can really be done here. Maybe Python needs to propose a standardized way to package standalone programs like Java's jars that only depends on the interpreter.

1. https://github.com/FreeLanguageTools/vocabsieve
What you see as a positive I see as potential for implementation details to diverge and cause user issues. We already have issues with WebP and AVIF rendering in some versions of Safari, and those are well established standards, not a lone wolf extension.

In theory an extended hacked PNG would have perfect backward compatibility, but the complexities of codecs more likely means it's going to appear as bugs in several implementations. Best case it falls back to SDR, but it's also possible some broken implementation leads to HDR content being displayed in a SDR setup and everything getting all washed out.

Having the same file format/extension actually host several different versions never works well. Graphic artists and support teams have to deal with rendering quirks like this all the time because some developer thought their hack was a genius overload :/
It's not the authoritarianism that's the issue with China. It's the geopolitical rivalry with the US and Taiwan.
A simple explanation is that Grok probably used GPT3.5 or GPT4 API to generate synthetic data, most likely for RLHF.
There are sidewalks everywhere, but sometimes cars may park on some, which means accessibility is not great for people with mobility issues. The roads are in moderately good condition, a few potholes here and there but not much worse than, say, London.

It also depends on what you're used to, though.
Personally I think Joplin looks better and this looks like a poor macOS clone that lacks many of the features like markdown support or synchronizing across devices including mobile. IMO if Joplin’s problem is the UI, or even just something OP is passionate about, why not contribute and open a PR? Why is the pattern “I care about this one thing so I reimplemented it in a new app from scratch”?
A lot of the models I've downloaded from a Hugging Face have exhibited this kind of mistake.
Unlike religion which is indisputable.
I’d love to see some coffee snobs do ABX tests of their voodoo coffee vs. something from Walmart
so everything before 6.1 is ok, and after 6.5 is also ok?
Noise canceling wireless earbuds. I’ve had both a Jabra and a Beats… very happy with both. Nice for blocking out noise. No messy cables, can use with any device…

I was skeptical, I liked my corded headphones fine. Just turns out these sound better and are way more useful for me.
on your ‘com’ site mentioned in github page download button does not offer (near by) payed options. Why? Why it is only in the separated Pricing link? Why not to present the same choice in download ?
Manual coffee grinder + French press