skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard to say, nobody has managed to replicate the old IRL newspaper business model. You used to be able to get a subscription, or just buy a single paper from a store or a box. The latter is much more convenient, but the former was the only one implemented for the web.

For example, I don’t care to have a subscription to the economist, so I didn’t read this article. If I could pay like $1 for it, I probably would. But it would require a new service, I’m not going to make an account to pay $1, a good number of newspapers would have to work out a shared system before this sort of thing would be interesting.

Unfortunately the ad-net has sucked all the oxygen out of the room for this kind of business model.
A Hard Look at Certificate Transparency, Part I: Transparency Systems
> nothing stops the service from adding ads to a subscription feed.

True, but that's when you leave the service.
The Wallet of Kai Lung
Exact same thing happened to me but the bill was $11000.
> If it's so easy, why didn't Tesla do it on their own?

It's situations like this that make me not trust Tesla and Musk. I always feel like they're misrepresenting the vehicle's capabilities, and I have no idea what I'm actually getting in terms of autopilot capabilities.

When I rode in a friend's Tesla, the real time display of the sensors did not inspire confidence. It missed a lot of cars and pedestrians.

I think the technology has a lot of transformative potential, but between their continuous hype over substance, ripping out lidar to be cheap, etc., it's just really hard to trust them.
The weed-killing robot products seem qualitatively different from the other tech, assuming it can be scaled. We probably should develop a technological alternative to massive herbicidal over-use, and computer vision stands a chance of being cheap enough to provide it.
MAANG is pretty established, because it just follows from FAANG and Facebook->Meta.
What is your email? :)
I drive a lot. Around here, I trust a tesla with AP on over any driver on the road. Everyone is going 15 over the limit driving with their knees because they are on their phone texting at 80 mph. This is everyday, every time I get on a highway.

Local roads, same but we are still doing 60 in a 45 with our head glued to our shoulder or holding the phone with one hand in front of our face to facetime. I see this every day.

Get a Tesla, put on AP, take your conf call, at least it will keep you in lane, just nudge the steering wheel every 30 seconds.
Kinda handy.

Instead of sitting through some utterly boring training and doing an exam I could just do apt install kung-fu ? Sign me up
That stood out to me as well. Any insights why sqinn and zombie underperform in this case, and is the problem inherent to their design?
It does leave a bad taste in the mouth (is that how the expression goes?).
So the logic here is, because 80% of a population living in an open air prison for several decades support attacks on the people oppressing them, they deserve to be tortured?
I think part of it is really smart coders have different expectations.

If you love simplicity and tend to think about how stuff works, you'll be bothered be the fact Etcher is 80MB.

If you're a user... you'll just say "Wow, only a 1 minute download and I'll never have to worry about wiping my disk with dd again!"
Where I live, the minimum wage for servers is ~$35,000 and goes up every year, which is a better wage than in much of Europe. It has done nothing to dissuade tipping on top of that, which can often double their income.
The GP comment didn't "just expand it". There is a huge difference in the English language between "Life's Work Deleted" and "Life's Work Will Be Deleted." Past tense and future tense are very different things.
What violence ended because of the Iraq campaign?
The types of processes that AI is shaping up to disrupt are processes that are currently performed by people.

Take, for example, accounting. A $15,000/year subscription to an accounting AI might be slightly worse than a full time $150,000/year human accountant. But as long as it's not $100,000 worse, or breaking laws, then a small company is better off with the AI.

As another example, take plumbing. An experienced plumber could charge $200 for a job. An AI by itself can't replace that plumber, but an inexperienced 21 year old kid assisted by an expert plumbing AI might be able to accomplish the same job at almost the same level of quality and only charge $50. As long as the pipes don't leak, you might be happy to save $150 and hire the kid instead of the guy with 20 years of experience and a family to support.

Neither of those scenarios are certain, but they're within the possibility of what we could see in the next decade. And you could extend these examples to so many other professions.

AI could be very very disruptive.
What happens when you lose connection mid-maneuver, or there's congestion on the network causing high latency?

The vehicle would have to be smart enough to execute all the tactical parts of driving anyway. Adding remote piloting just adds more failure cases and complexity.
Every time I've been in a cab that does that, I've asked the driver to turn it off, and they have.
You raise some very good points – but I think that looking at the monetary price of wheat is a particularly bad example in England because of the Assize of Bread and Ale [1] which ran from about the 13th century until being repealed in 1836 (!) and later protectionist issues like the Corn laws [2] across "the empire".

In many ways these laws directly tied the strength of the currency to the prevailing value of wheat – a very different sort of gold standard(!) – and occasionally caused massive economic difficulties as a result (I remember a story involving the value of silver, Isaac Newton, and shippers directly clipping or smelting coins and moving the metal to amsterdam to sell at a profit compared to the value of the coin, all indirectly powered by the very variable wheat).

Your broader point about the pricing of wheat definitely stands though: in the 13th century, wheat drove the economy; as we got better at trading and ultimately the industrial agricultural revolution both served to reduce the variability of the harvest on macroeconomic climes and ever since really the black death we've been in a society where the relative power of the grain (if not its importance!) has steadily declined. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assize_of_Bread_and_Ale
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Laws
[3] https://academic.oup.com/past/article-abstract/219/1/3/14727...
Thanks! I tried, but I have not yet found a way to make such guides unobtrusive. I will try out your suggestion. It is very motivating to see that people care about my little side project so much that they post a comment. So, thank you, made my day!
I think the solution is to inform and assist the FBI with seizing the rest of his data.
That's one solution. However, I am not giving up meat, nor are a lot of other people.

So: let's look for other ways to reduce land use.
> Chess requires understanding

Actually it doesn't, as demonstrated by the fact that people have made fairly decent chess implementations in 1K lines of code and things like that. Chess is comparatively easy because it has well-defined rules and well-defined concepts of "good" and "bad". Refactoring something to be multi-threaded is incomparably more complex and any comparison to this is just pointless.
The FBI seized his computers back in August. He should have bought new hard drives and made a backup of his cloud storage starting back then, if that was so important.
Axlotl tanks, here we come!
Not really. Either one will handle downloading those emails and videos just fine. Rarely will the service at the other end keep up anyway.

OTOH, when icloud (or Google Photos) is uploading full in the background with the crummy ISP provided router, they'll wonder why they aren't getting anywhere near 500 via their cable.
Part of the issue is pressure from the employees themselves to implement these kinds of systems— because what sane employee wouldn’t want more money?

I think we’re going to see the practices around tipping only expand in the future and permeate in to more countries. It seems like a system that has no real mechanism to be undone. It is next to impossible to convince employees that removing tips is a good idea when they will see an immediate cut to their income
>But by-and-large, it targets existing use-cases, for the simple reason that you need training data to build the AI in the first place.

This doesn't strike me as a true statement. People are embracing the term "AI" to represent recent ML advancements because modern Large Models often generalize to unseen tasks without retraining. The main gold rush so far is in consumer and productivity applications for high cost knowledge work. However for a tech that's only been around for a year... that's to be expected. There will be a next shoe.

Consider the disruption that could emerge in the near future if things like the following occur.

- AI Agents which actually work and generalize across many domains.

- AI Agents which can communicate to solve complex challenges spanning multiple companies/problem domains.

- Large multi-modal models which can be used on stock consumer hardware thanks to hardware/software improvements

- Large Multi-modal models which can effectively operate robotics to complete tasks specified via demonstration/natural language.

- Large Models/Agents which can complete extremely large design tasks in CAD/code spanning multiple days of inference with equivalent performance to an average expert in those fields e.g. 10-100s of millions of tokens in context.

I could go on... In my opinion, we are at best in the 1992 internet phase - or the 1960s of the computer revolution. Those markets both saw large early firms emerge to solve existing problems, then saw those firms displaced as market leaders by subsequent innovations.
Doesn't matter—it's already available on Bard and it's not good.
This post has more information: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/i...

I can't figure out how to try this thing. The closest I got was this sentence:

"To get started with Imagen 2 on Vertex AI, find our documentation or reach out to your Google Cloud account representative to join the Trusted Tester Program."
Bots are back big time, at least in the last few weeks
Associating the author's face with the book makes sense for auto-fiction. Knausgård has an appropriately photogenic one congenial with the tone of the book series. The draft on the other hand is way too playful and does not reflect expectations, in my opinion. As for the other drafts vs final version, I can't say I prefer either over the other much.
People were on totally opposing sides on how to deal with the risk, not dissimilar to now (with difference that the existential risk was/is actual, not hypothetical).
I think that was more true before automatically backed up photos became a thing. Even video chat can make it relevant, given how restricted some are.
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>didn't migrate the data to somebody offering a better deal

Why would this be considered? What if he didn't want to migrate 200+ TB of data and just decided to stay where he's at, continuing to pay Google a lot of money?

>expected for it to be retained indefinitely?

For as long as he pays for the service, right?
Gemini now live for developers with free access via Google AI Studio
I am not sure but a ton of companies use Tailwind UI components.
HN comment from eight years ago: snickers serves them right for relying on some cloud company. And for relying on digital data. I have made a thrice-redundant backup system that uses a fire-etching leather-printer[1][2]. Of course there is a Python program to read it back as well. It just took me three weekends. Why didn’t they do something like that?

Not sure how well my setup works with binary files. My files are mostly org and source code. YMMV.

[1] Ibex leather is the most durable.

[2] You can find it second-hand on https://amazon.kz/ pretty easily.
> I wonder if it would be profitable to make a bot that borrows money on here and doesn't pay it back.

It seems like the bot would have to make a new account once the previous one is burned/flagged
It's a double-edged sword. Design systems constrain designers, so each greenfield project isn't a delightful creative experience for designers and a hard slog for the engineers making another similar-but-different interface. However, this constraint can be over-applied.
Only to the extent that it pissed off the democrats, but geofencing the receivers donated to Ukraine is definitely not in the top five reasons for democrats to dislike Musk.
It might not be perfect, or live up to whatever expectations you personally possess, but it legitimately is a pretty good example of a clean and straightforward Django application.
It isn't quite that chaotic. The attorneys will negotiate and work with the judge to figure out how to instruct the jury. And before the jury goes to deliberate on the decision, they are given fairly detailed instructions on what the law is, what evidence to consider, and sometimes what to specifically not consider.

As the other posters said, most jurisdictions follow specific recommendations on avoiding telling the jury to do whatever they want. And different jurisdictions have different rules on whether or not the jury can truly redefine the law or facts. Some places have that ingrained in their state constitution, but most do not. And civil vs. criminals trials also have different rules. And where I live, there are even different rules for specific types of civil trials.

It really is all fairly complex, hence every trial will give a specific set of instructions to that jury. And that is also why an attorney in one jurisdiction might not be correct on how the details work in another one. (Although the gist of it all will be the same.)

At the same time, this is also why we don't know for sure what the jury said or thought. We can get all their instructions - those are public record. But the actual deliberation is not.

As always, IANAL. Other commenters already seem to be annoyed at my layman's take on it all, but this is what I know from being a law school dropout and having served on juries.
Being a programmer, I created a todo list in the form of a text editor. Many, many shortcuts: links to files, outlook folders, azure, shortcuts, connection to the company VPN, basic text formatting. 6 months of excited coding. It looks great. I honestly don't know what I would do without him.
Some integration with tampermonkey and I have authentication on all the sites I use. Data is stored in pure files, indexed by sqllite.
My notes are typing-free. Images are turned into links and stored locally.
Dates are identified and placed on a calendar.
Desktop, made in C#, practical to the maximum.
So simply put, the food costs 15% more than it says on the menu?
It's probably a negotiation they had, and that was the compromise they reached.

We all want 100% safe auto driving. We're not there yet. Tesla wants to pretend we are, the NHTSA doesn't, we end up with occasional situations like this where things get marginally safer and more annoying.

Just growing pains for a young industry, I hope.
I thought Tesla was known for being dishonest about its FSD feature, not AutoPilot, which is a less ambitious lane keeping/auto cruise control feature?
> Chapters 1 and 2 focus on what hypermedia is and how a hypermedia system works.

Yes, they do. And they turn around, slap an "Extending HTML As Hypermedia" on it as if that sentence made any sense, and then keep on pretending what they do has anything to do with hypermedia.

> A hypermedia control is an element in a hypermedia that describes (or controls) some sort of interaction

> I think that's a pretty clear definition.

It's a string of words that make zero to no sense. What is an "element in a hypermedia"?

> htmx extends HTML as a hypermedia

This sentence also makes no sense

> making the set of hypermedia exchanges it can perform larger and more general.

Neither is true. HTMX limits all exchanges to HTML, and HTML only, and then clearly separates whatever HTML it accepts and "JSON Data APIs" into two separate entites. Doesn't make them hypermedia.

> but the philosophy underneath it is fairly well developed and, as far as I can tell, at least plausibly related to hypermedia.

But it's not. It's slapped on with al the confidence of a teenager who discovered a new word and now uses it everywhere.

Hypermedia isn't "we do REST requests and get HTML back" or "we separated HTML and JSON into two separate APIs, these are now hypermedia elements in hypermedia as we've extended HTML as hypermedia".

Just because you repeat something a hundred times, doesn't make it so.

They even mention HATEOAS a few times as if it had something to do with HTMX and literally throw it out of the window.

Edit:

They even completely misrepresented Roy Fielding's REST paper by pretending it only applies to HTML and claiming this somehow reflects the original idea behind the dissertation
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> companies which take support seriously do monitor all sorts of channels as well.

Very much this. At my company we have many other means of support readily available, but some people instinctively reach for Twitter for peer support. Being active on Twitter means our support team can help even those people who don't think to use our official channels, which is good for the customer and good for our image.
Bard? It is powered by Palm-2, not Gemini.
Don’t go make up words like that. There’s no such thing. The industry-wide term is, of course, RAID-raid.

kids these days…
This one is a bit more tangential (but still related to decomposition by ecological systems), but I think really cool. Have you ever checked out Dr John Todd’s work on ecomachines? (The guy who found a method to break down DDT in 40 days and had worked on a superfund site that had the EPA top 10 pollutants).

https://youtu.be/SeQotnmhO5I?si=4DTDGC0FFFGbPZEr
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Somewhere I still have the StarOffice CD/s that I received (bought?) when it was a SUN microsystems product in the...maybe very early 2000s. And now I use LibreOffice...so, fairly successful software.
I think so too. TBH, the Propilot system rarely got activated, because of how ineffective it was. But if they are left out of a recall like this, that would mean that we are penalizing systems for being more effective.

I'm not sure how I feel about that, especially if the boundaries aren't well defined.
Climate change risks triggering a spike in infectious disease outbreaks
Tailwind allows you to create a component library whose spec is a design system.
OT, but this is why I am skeptical of Cloudflare right now. Am I right to be concerned?
I agree, dang should fix the title, this one is falsely editorialized as saying the deletion already occured.
I've never seen it before. And MANGA is much funnier and more memorable. Netflix seems like it should be ditched in favor of Microsoft though.
… what? Lots of graphs for performance (especially latency) use smaller bars to mean better numbers.
Looking forward to the HubSpot + MySQL integration.

Disclosure: I'm one of the HubSpot founders.
Verizon was able to lay fiber all over rural New York in a pretty short amount of time due to a New York law for similar rural funding. Places that couldn't even get cable have fiber now. Just laying fiber is an alternative to satellite.
I agree, Tesla should change the name of their driver assistance suite.
When I enter into the AI, Firefox blocks an insane amount of popups. The counter for blocked pop ups quickly reaches >100 where it stops counting. What is it trying to do?
> I'm more interested in the obvious questions, like: does the update actually make anything safer? If it's so easy, why didn't Tesla do it on their own?

Tesla has advertised many features which do not work reliably or, in some cases, at all. If they don’t want to admit that, they’re going to resist - especially if it’s going to fuel a class action lawsuit claiming that this feature is not in the state it was sold as.

The NHTSA does not have that conflicting set of incentives.
Okay, first of all AI experts will tell you LLMs need a lot of data to do what they do, while humans do more with less data. I'm paraphrasing something Geoffrey Everest Hinton said in an interview. He also said current systems are like idiot savants. So why the "evidence" and "rationality" led you to say current systems are just like the brain, I don't know, seems a religious belief to me.

Also most humans are not great at fiction writing, but just for the record GPT 4 is bad at long form fiction writing. It has no idea how to do it. Its training set is likely just small chunks of text and LLMs make up everything one token at a time, which isn't conductive to managing a 100k word or greater story. It's also been trained to wrap things up in 2000 tokens or less. It does this even if you tell it not to. It also isn't very creative, at least in contrast to a professional fiction writer. It also can't really follow the implications of the words it writes. So if it implies something about a character 300 words in it'll have forgotten that by 4000 words in because it doesn't actually have a mental model of the character.

I mention this in case you are under the delusion Stephen King is going to lose his job to GPT 4, or that it actually is as creative as him.

I mean, if a chatbot could write as well as king for 200,000 words in a coherent, original story with a beginning middle and end that would be fascinating and terrifying. But we're not anywhere close to there yet.

>For sake of argument, lets say conclusive proof arises that Stephan King is a philosophical zombie. Do you believe that suddenly you can murder him? No; that'd be stupid and immoral. Morality isn't predicated on consciousness.

Morality has a lot to do with consciousness. If I chop down a tree branch at my house, it isn't immoral because the tree is not conscious- it lacks a central nervous system so as far as we can tell there is no suffering.

If I chop off your arm (or your gentiles as another poster suggested) your consciousness and the pain it suffers is what makes the action immoral.

If Stephen King were a p zombie that would say a lot about the morality of destroying him.

I don't even understand what belief system you are trying to communicate when you say things like consciousness is an illusion or has nothing to do with morality, or an LLM is the same thing as a brain.

Like, I realize these are not your own ideas and you are repeating memes you've heard elsewhere, so it's not like you are speaking in tongues.

But any human being presumably knows they have subjective experience (so why say consciousness is an illusion?) And anyone who has used ChatGPT know it doesn't operate like their brain (no sense of identity, agency, emotions, etc, no ability to form long term personal memories, no real opinion or preference on things) So I don't really get these takes.
Driving very slowly into a parked giant blue airplane and not even stopping?

I think we can be pretty sure that almost all human drivers won't make that mistake and those who do should not be driving on their own just like Teslas software.
I just found out you need to go to /god-mode to finish the installation.
Apparently the guy has some kind of video production company. It is possible that these are raw video files which will take up way more space. Even though this is his business, there's a decent chance that most of it will never be needed again.

He should have started backups back in August when the FBI seized his computers, instead of waiting until the last minute (week).