skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think it is obvious how much is talent, and how much is sort of… path dependent or something. We enjoy doing things we’re good at in general, so we do them more, and get more practice as a result.

Huge differences among small children could be something as arbitrary as “this kid is just under a year older, and as a result 10% more mature,” or “this kid has played a similar sport.”
Sure, they can. But there are actually good family companies out there that deeply care about their employees.

Not saying they are common, but they do exist.

Just an example. My dad who works for a small construction company as a steel detailer, when all the construction work was put on hold during covid, the company told the employees to go out and find places looking for volunteer workers, and the company would pay them their normal salary to do the volunteer work.

They have shown time and time again through the years (and he's been with them basically his whole professional life) that they do everything they can to help their employees.
I already shared it in another HN comment. Find it here
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35135960
It is not a direct copy and paste, the other words around it are contextualized to the posts, which I do not expect to be merged, as they are different stories (language model vs image model). Having to make fewer click is also typically appreciated
It's always unreasonable to expect 230tb of data to just be save at a company who is for profit.

And I would definitely like to know what he stored.

But using a Google cloud VM might work to get the data out in time.
You can look at Japan as an example of deflationary spiral.

People buy far, far more than they need to survive. A small decrease in consumer spending can set off a major recession.

Inflation benefits anyone carrying any kind of debt. It’s great for people with mortgages and bad for anyone with bonds.
I think #1 is what really strikes me here.

It's like standing in front of a train and not moving because you asked the conductor to stop.

What happens when they reach 2025 and billions of dollars have gone down the drain? Why wait?
People should be encrypting their files before uploading them to the cloud. Then it won't matter who your data is shared with.
Does that happen even with Bard Activity turned off? It's kind of silly of Google because the types of queries I would send to Bard are the type that I wouldn't care to see as adverts anyway!
Last I was in France, it was so refreshing to simply pay for the meal & service all together, and neither bother with a tip nor feel pressured to give one.
It's all fair criticism. The lessons learned will only take you so far, so the caveat is that if you think it's a bad project then you're already above a certain level. Go you :)
You might take it in the context that they are shipping a real product at a fair speed so where it deviates from ideal what you're seeing is the educated choices of the tradeoffs to make in a real business (which is a statement of the plane team's opinion, yours may vary).
Tech that works over time is supposed to reduce the Price of a good or service.

Tech workers and their lifestyles are not sustainable if the Tech actually does that.
It's the right thing to do, but it shows how broken "hyperlinking" is on iOS: after clicking the button, you get the health app on some specific screen. That screen has a "< Settings" button on the top left, which will obviously take you somewhere unrelated now. Assuming that we somehow recovered from clicking that, in the OS status bar there is a minuscule and ephemeral "< Clock" label, which _does_ take you back to the clock app, but disappears as soon as the user switches applications or to the home screen. However, the screen that took me there in the first place was some kind of "modal" which closed itself when the clock app went into background, so that's also broken.
This is funded by advertising dollars and hijacking the attention of humans. I'm sorry but I can't admire or celebrate this. It's all dirty money.
Anyone have overall benchmarks or qualified speculation on how an optimized implementation for a 4070 compares against the M series -- especially the M3 Max?

I'm trying to decide between the two. I figure the M3 Max would crush the 4070?
The vast majority of layoffs in tech (not 'big tech' or name brand companies) is likely closer to 1 week than 16 weeks.

Sorry to be contrarian, but the only companies that do these bigger packages are doing it because it will be in the news.
The Commission decision does address this. Unfortunately the section is redacted of specific details, but it appears Starlink argued that it's second gen satellites would be launched via Starship and address these issues.

However, they didn't successfully launch Starship yet as they described in that plan, and only announced Falcon 9 would launch second gen satellites after they were already denied based off of the initial plan.

The dissenting letter unfortunately just says "no they didn't", but doesn't point to any documentary evidence. It's hard to accept it at face value when compared to the long form explanation. Especially when much of the "corrective action" taken by Starlink has come after the initial denial.
This is true, but at least you get what you pay for. I moved out of the US for a lower salary, but a waaaay higher total package. I have actual high speed trains that get me to my destination measurably faster than driving, my employer and I each have to give at least a 6 week notice for either of us to be dismissed, I have actual paid vacation that I can trade for cash (instead of magical “unlimited” vacation), affordable housing right on the water, an actual pension instead of playing a risky, slow moving, stock market game, nobody calls me on the weekends, ever. And so many other things.

So yeah, my bank account might be lower, but I don’t need nearly as much as I did in the US so it feels like I actually have more.
> The one being benchmarked here is heavily optimised for Apple Silicon.

I don't think so, in the sense of a hand-optimized CUDA implementation. This just using the MLX API in the same way that you'd use CUDA via PyTorch or something.
Which is baffling to me, because when I'm in the mood for vice I will make an active effort to find it. I'm not going to go "Oh boy, I'll find that one store advertised on that billboard I was subjected to", I'm going to Google the nearest dispensary (or go to the next closest if I've already determined that one to be crap), or plan a Vegas trip. And the magic of vices is that you don't need to even put people in the mood, vice is it's own attraction. Coke dealers don't need to advertise, their customers come to them.
100% the way I see it! On 32-bit the performance benefits is very major on just about everything, but not so on 64-bit.
https://nypost.com/2023/04/01/nj-factory-imports-cocaine-pla...
This sounds like Dokku?
contrary to what you read on CNBC, not every decision is based on inflation

lots of tech companies just have too many employees

it takes fewer people to maintain something than to build it...and arguably Netflix has saturated its markets
[dupe] / Related:

Dropbox is sharing your files with AI partners without opt-in

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38627751
> But that's true of almost every country. All of them have complicated histories.

A) that's kind of saying colonisation is OK because other countries did it

B) the colonisation in Israel is ongoing and extreme. The West Bank is the site of continuing expropriation and settlement with the explicit aim of shunting the Palestinians into tiny enclaves and rendering any possibility of a Palestinian state impossible, and creating something strongly resembling apartheid South Africa.

See e.g. public statements by Naftali Bennett or Benjamin Netanyahu
Ahhh, gotcha. The focus on UK in the article and many comments put me in a UK-centric mindset. My bad there.

Aye we had splits in some subjects like that. Weirdly all the rich kids (for my town, mostly middle class really) were in the top classes and the poor kids in the bottom haha
Too many to count! I've made games for my children, development tools of all sorts, home automation software, specialized mathematical analysis programs, mesh communications software, and much more.

That's not even counting all the firmware I've written for hobby projects: mostly robots, complex art displays, and musical instruments.
He's really at the point where owning (much less renting) a tape drive would make sense. LTO-9 is eighteen terabytes uncompressed, which I would leave it at because hey, this is video. Rent a tape drive and get a few boxes of tapes. One copy at home for the FBI to take and one copy over at a friend's place in a shoebox ...
I feel that you wrote about a lot of things that are nothing to do with anything I wrote. I don't live in a alternate reality where Kotaku has great content. I'm not sure why you do. I read other websites that are equally "woke", but with good content. Polygon is one, just to give an example.

As a leftist Black progressive from Brazil, I don't need to pretend I like a shitty website just to appease to crazy American prejudices.
IMHO, what I see from the latest CPI report is inflation becoming persistent and it looks like shelter prices are the reason. So I don't think rates will be cut in the near short-term and will likely remain unchanged. The good news is that apartment construction [1] and vacancies [2] are trending up, so this could give way to lower rents and CPI coming down to what the FED is expecting but I don't think this is happening in March but rather much later next year. So, I think we'll have more pain and layoffs in the tech market for the majority of next year...

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNDCON5MUSA
[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RRVRUSQ156N
Can you provide evidence that most medicine doesn’t work?
Well that's what they claim. And to be fair, since managing that subscription is entirely in the user's hands in the App Store UI/UX, it sort of makes sense- the user shouldn't have to receive spam to buy a random subscription.

But I do fall more on the side of your opinion after spending 5 years managing these sorts of systems and working with the support team.
What people are saying is that your experience is a wildly rare one and that for >99% of the population, the things that are troubling you so much are simply non-issues.

No offense, but if you haven’t, you might consider anti-anxiety or similar drugs. Not saying it isn’t real, or that it’s your fault, but there is a big difference between it being real and it being entirely caused by the car.

Is there some reason you can’t simply sell your car and get a different one? For the amount of pain you say you are in, this seems like an easy and direct solution?
Also, I haven't looked at the Fairphone5, but they are 99% likely going to be using a qualcomm, mediatek or broadcomm modem, which is a black box and are some of the most vulnerable components of modern smartphones.
Inequality is a continuous, as in "how inequal is it," while unequal is binary as in "is it equal or unequal." Germany has been trending toward more inequality over the years, and has finally arrived at unequal.

I am being at least 83.4% inserious, but not unserious.
Translation is that the government engaged in a shakedown of Google, on behalf of Bell and Rogers: Bill c-18. It was disgusting and corrupt and I’m glad that Google and Facebook pushed back.

This has recently been resolved though, with a compromised deal, so hopefully these services will soon be available here
Perhaps they ought to invest in tape drives and (encrypted) offsite backups at friends' homes. If they want convenience of always-available data, they have to pay for that
Does anyone know of any good alternatives which actually focuses on personally-crafted goods and actually bans imported manufactured junk?
Git Prompt Kit: configurable components for high perf Git-aware zsh prompts
Pardon my superficial understanding, but how'd it innovate if it tries to get the most probable result or energy-spending efficient result, which feels like the opposite of thinking out of the box?
I'm fine if DRM cuts both ways. Manufacturer is free to try locking things down as long as that's disclosed, I'm free to tamper with something I own. They own the trains.
Kentik Expands Hybrid Cloud Observability with OCI Support
You're not wrong, but isn't it exciting that it's gaining more traction? Ubuntu is also very widely deployed, so I'll celebrate every distro that makes this the default, be it Ubuntu in this case, or Debian, or Arch, or Suse, or or or...
Pro-Putin Disinformation Warriors Take War of Aggression to Reddit
I used this just-released API (of Gemini Pro) with multimodal input to test some of the things from the infamous Gemini Demo. You can see here [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__nL7Vc0OCg ] my GPT-4 recreation of that ad which went viral.

Gemini Pro is... not great. In one test, I asked what gesture I was making (while showing a thumbs up) -- it said thumbs down and "The image is a commentary on the changing nature of truth".

I just just made a heads-to-heads comparison -- you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RrkRA7wuoE

Code is here: https://github.com/gregsadetsky/sagittarius
Its intended to be a statement against the self serving politics present at many companies; it doesnt mean be a slave to netflix and forgo self care or anything. Just a reasonable north star: You are employed by the company to act in its best interest.
This is the description on Dropbox's website

> Use artificial intelligence (AI) from third-party partners so you can work faster in Dropbox. We only use technology partners we have vetted. Your data is never used to train their internal models, and is deleted from third-party servers within 30 days.
I do PreCheck as well. Perhaps I could have phrased my comment better. Currently the only non-automated/non-self service part of it is the person checking your id and boarding pass.
After a point, say 130 IQ, the differences between people's capacity become intangible. But there is certainly a big difference between someone under 80 IQ and someone with 130 IQ, which is why the US military doesn't even accept individuals under 80 IQ.
Sorry I don’t like the current concept of unions that use coercion either through the state law or demonstrations. I’d rather they used private agreements instead of state law.
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, the "firing of the customer" (i.e. the cancellation of the subscription by Google) occurred >6 months before any actual deletion of the data. The alert that data would be deleted occurred 7 days before. It's difficult to argue that he couldn't have seen this coming.
For people who can't or won't access Twitter, the setting for individual accounts is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/account/ai

and the setting for team accounts in the admin console is here:

https://www.dropbox.com/team/admin/settings/ai

Ours (for a US business account) was on by default. The text for the setting is:

> Let team members use artificial intelligence (AI) so they can work faster in Dropbox. We only use technology partners we have vetted. Your organization’s data is never used to train their internal models, and is deleted from third-party servers within 30 days.

There's a "learn more" link that goes here:

https://help.dropbox.com/view-edit/privacy-settings-dropbox-...

Dropbox claims that they "won’t let our third-party partners train their models on our user data without consent". The page further claims that the participation option is on by default for teams "participating in the Dropbox AI alpha", but I don't think we signed up for any such thing and the option was still on for us. I checked the settings and we are not currently enrolled. I have zero confidence that "consent" to use our data for model training won't also default to opt-in.

The page further states that Dropbox currently has one AI partner -- OpenAI.
It's possible that every component of an organism is recursively its own sentient system. In symbiosis, each component's first-person experience directs coordinating behavior for mutual benefit, though each component may be unable to observe the first-person experience of the other.
The video game industry seems to uniquely suffer from under-trained, nepotistic, and inept project managers and game directors.

Which inevitably leads to lying, poor communication, and surprise boom/bust layoffs.

In contrast, most other software development industries have figured out how to square the budget-time-people circle, most of the time.

It's a shame Rockstar doesn't do more interviews, as they appear to have a working incremental project development model, that reliably (if slowly) delivers results. My suspicion is they just hire/train professional PMs.
OpenAI to pay Politico parent for using its content
I do think it’s bad that almost everyone will die before any work that influenced them enters the public domain
> contrary to other things, like fusion, this is possible.

Of course it's possible, I'm just saying it's not (and can never be) free. "Free for consumers" simply means somebody else paid for the costs - or more likely, the consumer paid the costs through taxes rather than at the store. You will always have input costs to produce an output, and these will not be negligible.

Just a few points on what you said, and these are not "accounting details": (1) Solar energy is not free - you need to build, install, and maintain panels and a power grid. (2) Of course you can reduce fertiliser, organic farming does so and takes ~20% yield decrease (depending on the crop). But then you have higher labour and machine costs to control weeds, and an overall higher per-hectare price. (3) Food processing matters because you probably don't want to spend most of your day milling your grain ration to make flour that you can then bake into bread. Ditto for other types of staple foods (you want to make your own sausages?). (On a historical side-note, here's a write-up of how ancient food systems worked: https://acoup.blog/2020/08/06/collections-bread-how-did-they...).

Bottom line: Food systems are incredibly complex!
If the babies don't see objects, they don't "develop" object permanence. Yeah, here we can summon the "use it or use it" copeout, but then the nativist account becomes unfalsifiable.

Being able to crawl within minutes (and even somewhat run within hours as horses do) is mostly due to anatomy and "reflex pathways". E.g. a cat can walk without brains [1], as can famosly headless chicken.

Human babies too have these kinds of reflexes but they are "abandoned" well before the baby learns to walk.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wPiLLplofYw
To be honest, i have experienced socialist and communist countries, and i never want to go back to this cold, adfree world with its purely functional esthetics. I can understand the aversion for the Ad-Overload, but no Ads, nah, i want it colorful, shiny and blinking. :)
The Startup CTO's Handbook to Running on Postgres
I can also tell you I was homeless as a child and went to college on an athletic scholarship.

there's some truth here but it's being overblown.
2012. Ten years later the insanity of the claims in this propaganda piece is even more visible.
Hasn't this always been an issue without a solution?

Has there ever been a (real) attempt at fixing it?
Blog post for those who'd rather read an article than docs https://www.olets.dev/posts/git-prompt-kit-configurable-fast...
I understand and appreciate that perspective. I usually want the government to leave me alone, but if they won't, I want the most principled people duking it out. It sounds like we both value principles in office, maybe not to the exclusion of ideology, but it's a major factor.

I did as well, good to have some old-style HN conversation.
This is a bug in ZSH... which was fixed months ago. So you must have an old version of ZSH.
I have used that. 10/10 would recommend.
Take a read through https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2023/jan/07/jack-monroe-...

When she got pregnant she tried to hide it from her family (parents in particular) because she felt shame and feared the kid would be taken away.

Her parents fostered lots of kids and so she saw lots of kids going into the system and didn’t want that for hers. I disagree that would have happened, but understand how from her life experiences she may have thought that.

Similarly, once her parents did find out, they bought her lots of food to help her during the pregnancy as during that time she was very underweight.

She also shares parenting her sons father.

Again, all this is based on info from the Guardian article.

I lived in the UK during the period of her rise to fame and honestly I don’t remember her in the news. But that bit about it costing £3300/month to run her home (rent + services + food etc) seems rather high. You could easily get a 2 bed in London for under £2000/month plus expenses, so seems rather odd to be living in such an expensive area outside of London yet still cry poverty and woe-is-me.

It feels like a lot of it is due to her mental health - not just the ADHD, but general insecurities, and also alcoholism (drinks as both a symptom and cause).
The root problem is people do "fall" for advertisements. They are everywhere because ... well, they work. There's rarely any critical thinking involved and often ads are not even identified as such and people consider them "information".
The author of the article is, I believe, also the author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies
> I personally like the aesthetic of visual overload that you find in ad-laden cities (let’s say in Tokyo)

Tokyo is visually interesting so could get an exemption. But ads look much uglier in other places, here's a sample:

https://imgur.com/a/6AOWmdC
According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, the Trump administration built 458 miles of border wall system, which consists of steel bollards, sensors, lights, cameras and parallel roads. However, only 52 miles of new primary border barriers were built where there were none before.
I think Google is in the wrong in some ways here, but someone with over 200TB of data should know what they are doing and should have a more professional solution for such an unusually large amount of data.

This isn't at the level of "I backed up my 8TB consumer-grade hard drive to Google Drive," this is "I used a low cost small business service to store data center scale amounts of information."

Storing this amount of data on raw drives alone before even buying the server and paying the electric bill costs over $2,000, and that's before you add any redundancy. This person thought that it was realistic for them to pay $30/month and expect Google to be fine losing money forever? They can't even theoretically break even before factoring in other costs besides raw hard drives given the limited lifespan of disks in a data center.

Like the person who got an unlimited food/drink annual pass to Six Flags and went there for lunch every day, it should be common sense that any time you are getting a deal that's way better than it should be that it won't last. You should be ready with a backup plan.

As soon as this person's storage was placed in read-only mode they should have been downloading a copy, but they just sort of trusted Google to never want to clean house, and as a result ended up with an impossible 7 day deadline.

That deadline isn't impossible if you were using it as a small business service like Google intended. It's unfortunate that "Unlimited" was used to market the service but I think someone with 200TB of stuff should know what Google Drive is designed to be.
From what I can see it is parallel batch processing - default for that repo is 24. You can reduce batches and if you use 1 it's as fast or slow as Whisper. Quality is the exact same (same large model used).