skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So the possibility that the space remains ad-free doesn't exist?

It does exist, but then the cost of the bike sharing would have be borne by

a) users of the bike system - this would impact ridership and equity of access.
b) local govt - budget would have to come from somewhere.

considering b) would likely mean that the project wouldn't get past planning, really a) is the only alternative.

Everything is a tradeoff.

From my perspective, I'll take shitty ads if the money earned from those ads is spent on significant quality of life improvements. Same reason I support legalization and taxation of gambling, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, etc where the revenues pay for schools, social services, etc.
The first python module I opened has every single method wrapped in a naked except clause. Yikes.
Yes, I meant aren't too cautious.
We just put one on an assessible kitchen shelf, but fixed to the wall should work.
- each player's jersey

i noticed some pretty no-name companies on jerseys recently

makes me wonder how much it actually costs to get them to wear like a pin with my face on it for a few games

"did you see me at the knicks game last night? i was everywhere!"
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I wonder if behind the scenes this has anything to do with Elon’s Starlink shenanigans in Ukraine. He interfered with their military operations after a meeting with Putin and then pulled that nonsense where he basically extorted the U.S. government for more funding. Their options for dealing with him are somewhat limited because their relationship with him goes both ways. A good way to give him a little slap is in his wallet.
States are not necessary for populations to exist or thrive. Politically homogenous states united under a defined hierarchy is a new phenomenon; and much newer than the discovery of agriculture.
It only bricks if they're there 10 days.
No, it's really not. "Never trust your data to the cloud!" They never did. They used the cloud as a backup. They trusted the data to their computer with a cloud backup, which is usually better than not having any cloud backup at all. The problem is that their computers were then seized and they couldn't make another copy of their data in time.
The nobody-watch-the-watcher situation.
That is certainly plausible.

It's a bit like the transition from LP records to CDs (and somewhat to tapes). With so much less room, covers became simpler and blander, at least in aggregate.
What's your craft? I like artfinder.com, though it's mostly paint on canvas. There's occasional sculpture, collage, and photography.
If it's difficult to tell, does it really matter?
Why do you consider the opinion voiced in the article to be a "stupid opinion"?
This is false, as far as I can tell. I am currently in a Netflix office.
It's worth noting that the Carnot limit really only applies to systems that return to thermal equilibrium much faster than the characteristic interaction and/or rely on thermal interactions to transmit energy.

Electrochemical, magnetohydrodynamic and various other systems are not properly characterized by the Carnot limit and can approach much higher efficiency limits.

I think the systems being discussed are appropriately characterized by the Carnot limit, but it is frequently mischaracterized as an absolute limit on systems that it is not relevant to and for example here it should probably not be considered the absolute limit of refrigeration efficiency.
I support you. I've been living in a city with no billboards for a while - it's rather boring for various reasons, billboards would be an improvement.
I just want to say that I love this and have it bookmarked! I've moved into my 30s and am now thinking about life "maintenance first" and this will be a helpful resource for planning.

I imagine the only help y'all need is for us to update EOL info when we see it?
Reading that dissent felt as painful as reading a partisan reddit comment.

In one paragraph he said Biden is targeting Musk politically, and in the very next he states, as proof of the quality of the internet service, that the Pentagon just signed a contract with Starlink for military applications.
selling kits of ingredients with recipe could be a really viable business.
A set of 8 wooden dolls with build in speaker, CPU, Bluetooth and accelerometer.

Singing from a set of ~20 pre programmed songs they "perform" together. Also when you own an OP-1 field (not sure if the original also works) you can join as the conductor and make them sing your own composition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Pcp0au-IBY).

Last but not least, this time the price point does also not disappoint: 249€ per doll.
This is one of the great things about traveling in Cuba-- no billboards.
My doomed career as a North Korean novelist
For the arts,

On creating something sufficiently novel,

EDA tools solve part of the problem in chip design, for example; furthermore sometimes with logic instead of imitation.

Will any LLM ever output a formally verified design and implementation without significant tree filtering, Even if trained solely on formally verified code?

Synthesis without understanding, and worse without ethics.
Braintrust raises $5M from Greylock to solve evals
Email I almost ignore entirely. I generally only read emails that I send myself and a few specific filters.

Physical mail I just go down and throw it all out every so often. I wrote the date down on my whiteboard once after checking it and I noted that I go roughly three months in between times when I checked my mail.
It’s gonna be a long cold AI Nuclear Winter
I haven't seen any buffet advertize itself as offering "unlimited" food, but rather they say "all-you-can-eat" and then typically clearly clarify on the door and the front desk something like "on our premises, in under 2 hours".

Google should have been smart enough to not say "unlimited" if they don't mean it.
Years ago I was driving home and saw a Corona beer billboard and distinctly remember thinking that I would love a Pacifico. So it kinda worked on me.
Not for the last several months, not for nearly 250TB of data.
Only difference from that and others is they are upfront about it. Which is always better.
They didn't decide now. The program was created as a two step process initially. Starlink succeeded in the first round, but was denied in the second, more in depth, review that lead to the rejection. This was basically an appeal of that rejection.

The second round was designed to eliminate providers who didn't seem able to deliver on their promises even with the subsidies. It was made to prevent a situation where either party (but mostly the US Gov and tax payers by extension) was on the hook for unsuccessful delivery.

I'm not sure what happens with the funds that would have gone to Starlink.
> this building could be put to better use

Such as?
Coding assistance. "JavaScript function to use fetch() to run a HEAD request against a URL and return the headers" - I use little prompts like that dozens of times a day.

Running Python micro-benchmarks to answer questions about which approach is faster, often involving SQLite. I wrote about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/12/code-interpreter/

Lots of dumb little calculations, effectively using ChatGPT Code Interpreter mode as a calculator. I like being able to review the code it wrote - it ends up being a bit faster than me running the calculations myself in a Python notebook.

OCR. I paste screenshots directly into ChatGPT and ask it to extract text from them - great for things like producing alt= text.

Brainstorming. "Twenty ideas for a Datasette plugin to help with investigative data journalism", that kind of thing.

Naming things - another form of brainstorming. See https://til.simonwillison.net/gpt3/picking-python-project-na...

I use ChatGPT Voice mode when I'm walking my dog, which means I can have an hour long brainstorming conversation, effectively a rubber duck that can talk back to me - except my weird audio AI assistant can also look things up on the web for me and even write and execute test code without me even having to take my phone out of my pocket.
So what? How does it address the issue I've described?
Ultimately these decisions come down to value judgements. Which is better, more simplicity and lower cost, or more robustness and longer service life? Because often it's one or the other.
Ubiquiti users report unauthorized access to other users' devices and cameras
Mistral-Medium vs. GPT-4's code generation
Looking forward to the update. I have the quick launch on my Apple Watch face complication… where I usually use it after I had initially fined-tuned the exercises in the app. My only bit of feedback is after a session on the watch it doesn’t always consistently show the before/after HR which then doesn’t consequently update other health metrics like HRV etc.. otherwise love the app and the watch app!
As with all government projects, it’s a highly technical (in the bureaucratic sense) process. You can find the relevant documents on their website[0].

That said, how the dissenters characterize it is nowhere near how it works. They’d like you to believe that you won a bid, and from then on, it’s “OK, talk to you at the deadline, enjoy our money!”

Instead, it seems to me that it’s a continuous process where you must present plans along the way, and progress is measured, as it should be because we’re dealing with billions in public funds.

The idea that this is exclusively targeted at Musk is also just nonsense. This article[1] states that Terrestrial telco LTD Broadband also lost their allotment of subsidies, and a cursory glance at the documents on the FCC website shows that many other companies lost theirs either due to withdrawing or having “defaulted” (i.e., not followed through on the promises/requirements).

But none of that is compatible with the victim narrative of Musk et al., of course
Musk was the biggest in the subsidies; the other companies won smaller projects.

0: https://www.fcc.gov/auction/904

1: https://spacenews.com/fcc-upholds-denial-of-starlinks-900-mi...
Aren't they just killing competition? Maybe it's worth the 1bill in the long term (for them, not for the customers)
Hey thanks! I just made a new release there with updated support for Mac OS with an Intel CPU. It should be able to install now :)
I'm not saying it shouldn't count as a recall, but for the consumer it's just an update.
>(getting laid off any time isn't fun)

I know someone who was days from telling their boss about the Apple offer they had accepted who were then given a layoff package.

Probably was fun for them to get a ~30k+ 'leaving bonus' when they were planning to anyway. :)
Soverin would beg to disagree https://www.soverin.net/
I would be surprised if Netflix was doing "mass" layoffs, they keep a pretty lean ship compared to other companies from what I've heard.
For those who don't know, Axel Springer is best known for Bild-Zeitung, an unethical, sensationalist, infamous, and stupid newspaper.

I'm not sure if that is a bad match for the new leadership of "Open"AI.
Discovery is still a problem.
That makes sense. I wouldn't want ads or anything else ugly in a historic area, but also this is normally something you combat locally. It seems like this site targets an oddly broad audience.
Paying customer here: Mine was disabled, for the record.
Google Generative AI Studio
Apache Struts2 CVE-2023-50164, File Upload Vulnerability Analysis
Matthew Remacle (Remy) digs into the newly disclosed Apache Struts2 CVE-2023-50164 file upload vulnerability. This weakness allows an attacker to drop a web shell that can be called remotely through a public interface over defined routes.

Apache Struts2 is an open-source Java web application development framework used in various enterprise-grade applications and business use cases.

The vulnerability occurs when a multipart form request is used, and the constraints for path normalization are bypassed.

The attacker can inject a web shell (e.g., shell.jsp) into the file system, which can then be remotely called.

The exploitation of this vulnerability depends on the specific implementation of Apache Struts2 in a vendor's product and the defined actions' path.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp...
Their killer feature is the --grammar option which restricts the logits the LLM outputs which makes them great for bash scripts that do all manner of NLP classification work.

Otherwise I use ollama when I need a local LLM, vllm when I'm renting GPU servers, or OpenAI API when I just want the best model.
No doubt it’s a loss leader to some degree but, in practice, very, very few customers will have sustained request rates of 60 requests per minute. Their actual usage averaged across all users will be a tiny fraction of that.

For users that get close to that sustained rate, they’re just as likely to exceed it and actually pay.
You don't need ads for that, it could just be art. You could enjoy vibrant artistic billboards without anyone trying to shove products down your throat.

Ever thought of that?
I am genuinely curious - what is it that you do for a living that lets you have this judgement?

EG, I've been a non-advertising customer of Google for literally decades and from Search to Chrome to Gmail to Maps to Docs to Android it's given me great value.
Would you rather be living as a Palestinian in Gaza or the West Bank today?

I think the answer to that is very clear.
I mean if they haven't really assigned you issues yet, and it seems like they are fine with you slowly getting up to speed. Then I would dissect the project and setup a fully local dev environment in docker-compose that included the database. Document/publish it so that other people in the future won't run into the situation you are currently in.

This kind of assumes some stuff that might not be true.

1. The database is some open source project like Postgres or Mysql and you can easily grab containers for it from dockerhub.

2. Somewhere in the code there is a schema file for the database (assuming it is a db that has schemas) so you could at least init a local copy of the database schema (although it wouldn't have any data in it, you would have all the tables) in your docker-compose setup.

3. Once you have the app and the db in docker-compose then come up with a way to seed the db with some dummy/test data (not a full dump of the real database, as you mentioned it is quite large, just enough data where you can see things working in the app).

You do that and show your manager, and they will quickly start throwing more stuff at you. You will also gain a reputation as some who takes initiative.

Good luck.
> So where is that money going?

To the previous shareholders of Depop and Elo7.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620493.
No, you agree to copyright because it benefits the society you live in.

The law isn't relevant here. The agreement you make is.
Now with Gemini.
> I appreciate that our industry has developed a norm of generous severance

What if you had unions or proper labor laws that actually guaranteed this? As an European it's weird to see you having to rely on the "kindness" of the company to not get fcked over.
Having used whisper a ton, there are versions of it that have one or two magnitudes of better performance at the same quality while using less memory for reasons I don't fully understand.

So I'd be very careful about your intuition on whisper performance unless it's literally the same software and same model (and then the comparison isn't very meaningful still, seeing how we want to optimize it for different platforms).
I don't think that you are reading that like a lawyer would.

For example article 6, part 2 (a) does not allow the information retrieved to be used for any purpose other than establishing interoperability. The hackers stepped over that line when they released some of what they discovered for the purpose of publicly criticizing the manufacturer.
Curiosity for example.

Or having a better image of performance in your head when you buy new hardware.

It's just a blog article. The time and effort to make it and to consume it is not in the range of millions there is no need for 'more'.
To be fair, so many illustrated book covers were designed and chosen without reading the book - or perhaps deliberately misleading the customer as to the contents. No fit to the story or complete misreading of the story. This did become tiresome.

It felt like the artist had some paintings ready to go and the publisher just picked one from THAT artist - the one they usually like.
That sounds credible. The Apple Support person I spoke with denied such audit logs even exist, probably in some officially-coached language that they can bluff as being truthful when pressed.
This is inconsistent with the fact that average height has increased significantly over the last two centuries[1]. Our genes have not had time to change in that span, but our environment, including access to nutrients, has changed radically.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/human-height
Yup. I still occasionally buy stuff there, but I now do a lot more diligence on who the seller is and what they're offering so I know what to expect.
> The current reality is that Google has taken over the Web for all practical purposes

In the anglosphere and averaged out globally, yes, this is true. But country-per-country, the stats vary wildly. Some countries have ~20% Safari usage, others have ~20% Firefox usage. Other countries like Germany for example has Chrome usage below 50%, which is pretty neat.

But yeah, if you're a Usaian, I could understand if "the world" looks differently.
You gave very different prompts to gemini and GPT 4("how much money" vs "how many coins", different coordinates systems etc).
LLMs work on a 4GB Raspberry Pi today, just INCREDIBLY slowly. There's a limit to how much progress even the most ingenious hacker can make there - LLMs are incredibly computationally intensive. Those billion item matrices aren't going to multiply themselves!
Microsoft will overtake Apple as the largest company in '24
If you often browser /r/all, you'll notice that you exclusively see pro-ukraine content, /r/UkraineWarVideoReport and /r/Ukraine for example

They both rank pretty high, but doesn't have much activity, the magic of the "algorithm"

https://subredditstats.com/r/UkraineWarVideoReport

https://subredditstats.com/r/Ukraine
> But there are actually good family companies out there that deeply care about their employees.

Doing what's best for the company long term is generally what's best for employees in the long term. Sometimes layoffs are what's best. Companies that deeply care about their employees will still have layoffs.
Sorry. Here is something you can read.

https://katieroche.net/jack_monroe_investigation_main.html
Amazing. So Bible says abortion is ok, if the husband is jealous. (Numbers 5). Why don't these anti-choice people read their Bible.
I have both. I drive both depending on context of my day and where I want to work. If I were interested in this, and the 4090 were faster, I'd just ssh into that machine from my Mac if I wanted to use my Mac -- and presumably, vice versa.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38617257.
> So inflation going down means the companies balked and have to back down and drop prices?

No, it means that the rate of price increases has slowed.
It seems that so many here think they're above being manipulated by advertising. Don't trust your brain - it's soft and malleable.

> Vulnerable people do and always will exist.

Hear! Hear! Not to mention that children are even more susceptible than adults, and they do not get a choice in their exposure to advertising. There's so much "think of the children" talk to justify intrusions into privacy, but little to be heard (in North America) of exposing them to manipulative marketing tactics _specifically_ designed to wiggle their way into young and adult brains, alike.

I'm strongly in favour of protecting ourselves from advertising in publicly visible areas. Fill it with nature and beautiful things (i.e. art). It's our world, and nobody has a right to our attention.
I wish any of these assumptions were true, otherwise I'd be skyrocketing instead of crawling.
This is one of the things that makes me just generally angry about politics. It's very clear that Jack is right, being in poverty isn't about pick Y ingredient instead of X, it's a complex interaction of a thousand ways in which your life is difficult - not the least of which is living in a society of people who want to blame you for the things you are the victim of.

It's obviously true what Jack says, and the people who espouse the right wing view of poverty being the fault of the poor often fall into this trap - make a stupid suggestion that indicates they know nothing about the issue. What's frustrating though is that the people making these stupid suggestions never actually engage with the clear and obvious shortcomings in their philosophy. They have taken a stupid position, it results in them making dumb comments, and when it's pointed out that what they're saying is dumb... they either just ignore or double down. It makes you wonder what on earth this person is doing in politics given their quite clear lack of interest in the real lived experience of the people she would wish to rule over.
How to protect your computers from LogoFAIL attacks
It's difficult to tell when browsing. It's fairly obvious when the goods arrive.
You've got it backwards.

The article claims that the AI does not have a tendency to innovate, specifically stopping when it doesn't have the most probably result at hand.
It's hard to find the right information, but there is very limited manufacturing of the pure flavor concentrate which is then exported to bottling factories around the world, the bottling factories add water, sweetener, and carbonation and are generally owned separately.
Then frankly, we would probably fall to level of innovation that modern Europe is known for.
Gmail support on the back end has solved issues like this within a day or two. I think it's perfectly possible to run your own server but it does take a lot of active administration
first 3 are web apps, that can be installed (even on phones) and work offline.

backgammon: https://github.com/nenadalm/backgammon
- board game for 2 players, no single player
- I use it when I'm out with someone and there's nothing better to do
- couldn't find free one on play store without adds and in-app purchases

life-counter: https://github.com/nenadalm/life-counter
- life counting app for 2 players, usable with several board games. It has profiles that allow to configure number of hp, count-up/count-down. I use it mainly for StarRealms and Cribbage.
- couldn't find one on play store that would allow quickly adding/subtracting specific amount of hp. All I've tried could either add/subtract by 1 (annoying with bigger numbers, like 24) or set specific amount (I have a phone, which is capable of doing the math, so why would I do it?).

bbb-games-list: https://github.com/nenadalm/bbb-game-list
- I attend various board gaming places with sometimes crappy list of games on their website (just names, nothing else - like player count...), so I wrote my own site, which download's games from these sites and enriches them with info from bgg (updated via cronjob once a week via PR)

postgresql-log-viewer: https://github.com/nenadalm/postgresql-log-viewer
- I needed to see which sql queries were executed by an app, so I wrote an app that can read them real-time from csv logs of postgres and show them formatted with copy-paste option (didn't use it for quite a while, since I don't use postgres lately).
> "Enjoy ad-free music listening".

Songs themselves include ads too (https://www.wired.com/2008/09/products-placed/) so "ad-free music listening" is no certainty, but I guess we can't blame spotify for that.