skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was referring to the making it read-only.

And there’s no practical way to download that amount of data within seven days, just based on the bandwidth this would require. The situation would be totally different if they gave him six months notice for the deletion.
Oh wow, yeah.

I love this one: "Selflessness. You seek what is best for Netflix, not yourself or your team". Sounds like something a cult leader would have you commit to.

Plus, that page is insanely long.
What do you mean? They look exactly the same to me.
This is a poorly written article and for what it’s worth, I expected better data discipline from a man as aggressively online as Tim Burke.
It's a negative sum game. I'd happily ban all advertising and replaced it with government managed services and products dictionary where suppliers would put their offers with prices.

It would also be a hub of technical information about the products and their reviews. Also information about companies operating on the market. Conduct, ownership structure, financial information, everything. Basically all the market information on a silver platter for every customer and business to take.
Speedrunning a startup in 3 days for YC's challenge
"BM:Rod Orgill and I had completed the designs of a few microprocessors before the 6501/6502. In other words, Rod and I already knew what was successful in an instruction set. And lower cost was key. So we looked at what instructions we really needed."

If only this minimalism mindset were more commonplace!

Many products today seem like the result of an endless race to include everything & the kitchen sink, to one-up a competitor with yet another feature. Especially on the software side of things.

Yes there's a (relentless) drive to minimize manufacturing costs, logistics, or money spent on support. But rarely on minimizing / simplifying products themselves. If carmaker puts a cup holder in their car & customers like it, competitors' next cars 'must' include a cup holder too. Rinse & repeat ad nauseum.

In contrast, taking something out and still have the product be useful, seems like a Zen mastery black art that few designers practice. Let alone companies they work for.

One example: occasionally I take broken electronics apart. Sometimes to see if there's parts worth scavenging. Often out of curiosity, to have a look at design details. And have grown some appreciation of Chinese' manufacturers tendency to snip parts from products (aka Muntzing).

Use a thinned pcb trace as fuse. Or: use a single diode instead of a bridge rectifier. Yes, it only uses half of the AC cycle. Electricity producers might frown at that. All else being equal, requires 2x capacitance.

But.. for small capacitor values, diode + bigger capacitor is likely cheaper. And saves 1 diode voltage drop (+ associated losses).

Crude, but brilliant in a way. Simplified design that still does the job.
In defense of the FCC, barely anyone survives the lobbying power of entrenched ISPs.
> If it's excessive, then Google shouldn't have offered an unlimited data plan.

Right, which is why they discontinued it.

They offered unlimited, not unlimited forever.
And a lot of people would be very wrong. There’s a floor to survivability, below which you can’t keep yourself alive, but there is no ceiling. If everyone is above the floor, there’s no reason for concern about those looking for the ceiling.

In the future we’ll pull people up to the floor, but that doesn’t require attaching a ceiling. The will never be a successful society that substantially punishes achievement above a certain point.
Internet bandwidth in America and Ukraine are completely separate. Starlink is mostly bent-pipe, sending signals to station in view of the satellite. Over remote areas, the satellites need to talk to each other to relay signals. But my understanding is that goes to the closest ground station.
> Alas, it takes longer to read blurbs :/

Tangential thought, but this sounds like it might make for an actually good application of large language models: reading blurbs (or entire books) and making recommendations accordingly.
Nope! It means it got as close to disappearing as possible without fully disappearing.
I'll be the contrarian here and say that I actually like certain advertisements and billboards.

If you are stuck in traffic or on a bus in an ugly urban hellscape, is a billboard really that bad? I'm sorry, they are not going to plant trees in Times Square to replace the billboards. Even in their own press photos, they are showing several billboards that are covering up even uglier buildings!

Maybe you are an enlightened individual and want to put an end to consumerism and society. In the meantime I personally still buy things and shop. And billboards are a pretty unobtrusive and low-tech way of getting my intention. I still regularly learn about new restaurants or attractions or museum exhibits because of well placed billboards.

I certainly thing some billboard types and content and locations are bad (digital billboards - yuck). But that seems like an argument for good policy making from your local government rather than a blanket opposition to all forms.
People have excellent reason to complain about it. But we should still be prepared.

If you don't own the hardware and software stack, you don't own the service.
Experian Consumer Product Privacy Policy
The Experian Privacy Policy for the United Kingdom has been updated:

> We may use Artificial Intelligence, including Machine Learning to provide ... our analysis

Which appears to mean that AI driven analysis, i.e. credit scoring, is now on the cards.

I am reasonably sure, that this is still not legal under UK law:

> UK GDPR gives people the right not to be subject to solely automated decisions, including profiling, which have a legal or similarly significant effect on them

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...
I can repeat as long as one needs. I work in Germany. Every big company is unionized. And guess what!? Bosses told, that 20% of the company will be laid off and it was ok for all union members. Packages were offered in few rounds. Home office forbidden. I didn’t got package, I left for a company with liberal home office ruling. Unions are beautiful cosmetics. When layoff happens it happens just like that.
> Most of all, people just don't want more things to be built.

Home and property owners are effective at organizing against building permits. They have both a desire and a means to stop new building.

The desire to restrict new building permits comes from the understanding that restricting supply shifts the supply curve to the left. They have enough collective bargaining power that they can effectively operate as a block.

Their means comes from Cal. Gov. Code § 65100

> There is in each city and county a planning agency with the powers necessary to carry out the purposes of this title. The legislative body of each city and county shall by ordinance assign the functions of the planning agency to a planning department, one or more planning commissions, administrative bodies or hearing officers, the legislative body itself, or any combination thereof, as it deems appropriate and necessary.

and like you pointed out, the byzantine system of each planning agency. Property owners operate within the system of zoning, at the local level, to stymie new building to restrict supply. Zoning laws allow property owners to effective operate as a cartel.

Still it's important to ask, "How much self-determination are citizens and neighborhoods afforded when it comes to city planning?" or "How can self-determination be balanced against cartelization?"
Oh right. The upthread comment was about how the book changed shields to nerf them a bit.

And I don’t think hunter seekers in the book go through shields, just that people wouldn’t have shields activated so hunter seekers would be effective.
My company is in the US. I just checked and found that we have the setting in our admin console and it was on by default. We do have a paid business account.
I do feel for someone in this scenario (whatever the specifics of it are) but this should serve as a strong reminder to anyone:

"Cloud sync" services ARE NOT A BACKUP.

You want to use cloud sync for convenience? Great. It works well (mileage may vary by provider). Just don't expect it to be any safer than just having a single copy of those files on your PC or thumb drive or iPad or whatever.
Thanks. I almost believed the headline. That looks more accurate.
unfortunately, the established players that got huge by offering free services and then raised the price would love for us to do something about this problem. it would help them widen their moat.
@toomuchtodo I would say that salaries don’t depend on shareholders at all but on the demand/offer balance of workers for a given job.
This document doesn't really support the censorship claim, perhaps you meant to link the other FCC commissioner's document: https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A2.pdf

I don't know much about commissioner Carr other than that he was appointed by Trump, so perhaps it is unsurprising he would disagree. I don't know enough about the facts underlying the competing narratives to say confidently whether or not there is foul play here, and suspect it will ultimately be for a court to decide.
I like that they have a "blog post creator"[1] in their examples. There's no hope for the future of the web when the self-proclaimed stewards of its quality encourage AI spam.

[1] https://makersuite.google.com/app/prompts/blog-post-creator
5 years to deorbit passively is correct, but the expected service life is in somewhat similar. Best quote i've got on hand right now is wikipedia:

> "...implement an operations plan for the orderly de-orbit of satellites nearing the end of their useful lives (roughly five to seven years) at a rate far faster than is required under international standards.

Obviously there are many unknowns in factors like hardware reliability or fuel consumption.
I believe most companies don't offer unlimited plans anymore these days. And Google probably removed theirs because of use cases like this.

Fault isn't what's being assigned. Just that sometimes people offer deals that have no explicit limits except that the deal terms say that either party can exit at any time.

Then once the deal moves out of the band where it is mutually beneficial, one party invokes the terms and exits the deal.
Reeks of self-pity.

At what point does Monroe own her choices and their consequences? She did have a child while she was economically precarious, and chose to. No one forced her.
No, swiping right from the left edge is pretty much universally "go back". Trying it now, it's true in pretty much every app with a navigation model where "back" makes sense; Mail, Settings, Notes, Bitwarden, Messages, Ivory, Nextcloud, a bunch of banking apps, Files, Signal, Slack, etc etc. If an app has a navigation model where "back" makes sense but swiping rightward from the left edge doesn't go back, I get very surprised; it pretty much never happens. I think Google Maps is the only example I can think of at the moment (and Google is generally impressively bad at following iOS platform conventions in my experience).

I guess Discord is an example of an app where swiping from the left opens a hidden menu, but that "opening the hidden menu" thing can be thought of navigating "back" from the channel view to the server/channel list view. In any case, it's not an example of a situation where there is a "navigate back" option on the screen but swiping from the left edge doesn't trigger it.
You're wrong.

Fundamentally it requires redistribution and a complete change of mindset.
better than demolition but many are concerned about preservation:

https://www.axios.com/local/chicago/2023/12/08/thompson-cent...

https://www.reddit.com/r/architecture/comments/17ahso9/demol...
I was curious so I went to see what is there in terms of data and found:

1. "Firms and Layoffs: The Impact of Unionization on Involuntary Job Loss" - (2003 with data from 1997) https://ideas.repec.org/p/cen/wpaper/03-09.html

> Results show that the impact of unionization is not significant except for (1) establishments that operate in the non-manufacturing sector; and (2) establishments operating in industries that have major collective bargaining agreements which contain moderate employment security provisions. Under those conditions, unionization decreases layoff rates; otherwise, unionization has no effect on layoff rates.

Does anyone have anything more recent about this?
And that's why it's flooded with product.
Standard in Sweden (Europe?) is 10.6% sugar. This is printed on the can, in the standard nutrition info table that is on all packaged foods.

I'm surprised this is not common knowledge, but I guess people in general don't read labels.
> And that's even in tech (video game studio).

Given everything I've ever heard about working conditions, pay, and benefits in video game studios, it seems more appropriate to think of them as opposite to the mainstream software industry rather than a part of it.
I just tried this and ran into a few hiccups before I got it working (on a Windows desktop with a NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti)

WSL outputs this error (hidden by the one-liner's map to dev/null)

> error: APE is running on WIN32 inside WSL. You need to run: sudo sh -c 'echo -1 > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/WSLInterop'

Then zsh hits: `zsh: exec format error: ./llava-v1.5-7b-q4-main.llamafile` so I had to run it in bash. (The title says bash, I know, but it seems weird that it wouldn't work in zsh)

It also reports a warning that GPU offloading is not supported, but it's probably a WSL thing (I don't do any GPU programming on my windows machine).
Kaitai Struct – a declarative language used to describe binary data structures
The realtor cartels that control the listing databases should be made illegal. I don't have to go through a middleman to take some pictures, write a blurb and input some data to sell my truck. I shouldn't have to go through the same to sell my house.
A Lawsuit Brought by Artists Against A.I. Companies Adds New Plaintiffs
I grew up in a U.S. city without any billboards, and it was such a shock to move somewhere with a "normal" number of billboards. Besides being ugly, I wonder how they could possibly be effective? Does anyone choose their motorcycle insurance based on which billboard they see first?
Depends where you are. Crossing the Bay Bridge, the difference is stark.
Primer: Core Concepts in Electronic Circuits
Lots of top athletes come from either poor countries or from poverty within non-poor countries.

NFL teams are full of players who grew up in poverty and ate fast food and processed junk during the formative years of their lives.
Publicly launching Delphi, a digital cloning platform
Clone Yourself. Scale yourself infinitely.
So, instead of paying my money for a bike as a choice, a monopolist takes money from everyone. Very funny, but no thanks, i take Ads anytime over that.
> They were nice before, he didn't comply…

He didn’t comply with what? Show me where in Google’s communications where it said they were going to delete his data.
Twitter XSS + CSRF Vulnerability Exposes Account Takeover Risk
Gifted programs are American things. Talking to my California born partner it seems to be a kind of streaming thing. They don’t seem to have as much ability setting here as I was used to in UK (where for certain subjects classes are split by ability.)
I suspect it would still be unconstitutional, but you wouldn't be banning the speech but rather the financial transaction.

I.e. it's legal to walk into starbucks and tell people about your product but you can't pay someone else to do it.
This is really neat. I love the example of using an LLM to descriptively rename image files.
The part that makes me question the legitimacy of this decision is the fact that there are still other companies receiving the subsidy.

Quote from the article:

>Starlink is the only company actually solving rural broadband at scale! They should arguably dissolve the program and return funds to taxpayers, but definitely not send it (to) those who aren’t getting the job done

Are these other companies meeting the targets? If not then it seems pretty arbitrary to reject just SpaceX for not doing so yet.
Who said anything about giving up? I’m talking about the current state of play, not some theoretical ideal that is realistically impossible for even the most gifted, never mind the average person.

If anything, you’re massively underestimating the amount of diverse specialist knowledge required in modern society for even simple interactions.

People dedicate their entire lives to some of these fields that underpin the tech we use. It’s not something the average person can pick up in open university while working a full time job and bringing up kids. To suggest it’s just a motivational problem is absurd. And that’s without addressing that the level of physics or mathematics required for some specialties is beyond what some people can naturally accomplish (it would be stupid to assume everyone has the same natural aptitude to all disciplines).

Honestly, I don’t know how you can post “This is the most intellectually lazy take I've ever seen” in any seriousness then go on to say it’s just a problem of will power.
Dairy is cheaper if you want more nutrient, bit mixing with a bit of patotoes would not be a bad idea indeed.
At least Netflix is upfront.

At my “WLB friendly” company, they’re addicted to cost-cutting by off-shoring. Less pay but stability was the draw.

As soon as the tech-hiring boom was over they started finding ways to gas-light:

- If you’re not delivering/under-delivering, it’s certainly a red-flag.

- If you’re “overworking” that’s a red-flag.

- If you’re phenomenal and young, they’ll keep you and look the other way.

- If you’re off-shore, they’ll also look the other way.

- And raise concerns, and I get red flagged (honestly, I don’t have the right skillset here).

Source: Watching my US team slowly get dismantled, while my manager says otherwise.
That argument that GP is making isn't that low prices are bad for consumers.

The argument is that amortized over the lifetime of the business, the prices are actually significantly higher because they are able to momentarily drive their prices down, eat the losses long enough to run their competition out of business, and then immediately break the low-priced agreements with their customers.

Sure, they may be a commodity product now. That shouldn't exempt them from holding up their agreements from when they were still competing for market space.
And the time of the year you're born, too! Holy shiiit this fucked me up as a kid.

I always thought I was just "bad at sports," but I was born in August, so I was playing against a lot of kids who had up to like 11 months of development on me. That's _huge_ when you're a little kid.

A lot of those kids were "indeed much better." Because they were nearly a full year older!
At some point I'm going to need a surgery that costs maybe $50K (and maybe a lot more if there are complications). How many people have that saved up plus living expenses?

I'd like to have "fuck you" (or even "screw you") money, but the healthcare system makes it pretty tough.
Ah, Nutrient Film Technique.

I was trying to figure out how the blockchain helped with hydroponics.
oh right, one of the things llamafile can do is run on windows directly, and generally without the extra need for docker and such
It was unlimited and they retained the right to exit the contract. If someone wants to pay for unlimited duration unlimited storage they should find a provider who does that.
I don't believe there is a special part of your brain that allows you to be good at say chess, but leaves you with no potential in football (soccer). Of course some people are naturally faster than others or have a higher endurance peak but anything that involves working with your mind comes down to working memory (incredibly important), long term memory and spatial reasoning. That's why you will often see people talented at one thing change careers and still be successful. A good example is a Norwegian grandmaster who was also a national team football player: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simen_Agdestein
Maybe not for live interaction with a player, but for seeding otherwise procedurally generated content absolutely. I look at what a game like Dwarf Fortress does with their procedurally generated world history and narrative and see so many ways it could be enhanced with an LLM. And this would only be during world generation or potentially for major world events, but not in a real-time user triggered response.
Simplify Your Workflows with Bacalhau Job Templates
An old read, but I'd argue to give it another try with something like OrbStack. You lose a lot of the overhead of running a desktop OS. But still impressive none the less.
That's the PowerPoint of AI though... replacing all of the computer manual labor.
many schools in the US will take the most gifted students and put them in advanced classes. They typically move faster.
The problem is that sometimes humility and compassion are not what's needed. Sometimes a person needs a kick in the pants. A close friend willing to tell you to stop impulse buying furniture, or get a fucking job, or get off your ass and work out.

The tricky part is knowing when which tactic is called for.
Assuming positive intent here, I'm not sure how you reason that a fusion system might be less performant than a single model?

My whole point is that a single system is not sufficiently safe to do what we're trying to do. The point of FSD isn't just to navigate without hitting stuff. The point is to do it with ~99.999% accuracy, ~99.999% of the time while flying down the road at 80 MPH.

Humans are _terrible_ at this, just check the deaths due to automobile accidents each year. We have some pretty amazing stereoscopic vision. But I don't like trusting my safety to another human, and I sure won't trust it to a machine whose vision isn't as good as mine.

For me to trust a machine, it needs to be an order of magnitude better than myself.
You can have ai do that for you now.

Check out journalist.ai, etc.
That's exactly what I wanted to say. Both Cola and Pepsi are too damn sweet. On the rare occasion at the right temperature and amount of thirst on my side I can drink a 330ml bottle and actually enjoy the taste. But most of the times it feels like too sugary so either I drink just a small glass and lots of water afterwards or just mix it with carbonated water directly. Bottom line: usually feels too sweet for me.

Like coffee: I like a hint of sweet in my espresso, but Cola is like dumping 4-5 spoons in a small cup of coffee. Becomes sugar syrup and that's all one can taste anymore.
Copyright Board Issues New Registration Refusal for AI Work
Yeah, I'd oppose the installation of a billboard in my neighborhood, that's about it. You wanna put one on the highway or commercial zone, I don't really care. I've lived in billboard-heavy cities (like LA) and billboard-free ones.
Here are some cool locations to check out in the app:

[crazy Xs](https://hastingsgreer.github.io/mandeljs/?;re=-1.76918301616...)

[We have tree revisited at home](https://hastingsgreer.github.io/mandeljs/?;re=-1.76886532353...)

[Fuzzy](https://hastingsgreer.github.io/mandeljs/?;re=-1.74729767192...)
You not being aware of the use of the term doesn’t mean it’s clickbait. All a recall means is that the NHTSA is using its legal authority to have Tesla ensure that all vehicles with a safety concern are fixed. If Tesla can ship an update that easily, they can send the NHTSA a report showing each VIN having been verified as having the right firmware version.
The video/audio of this talk is also quite good: https://youtu.be/eRfXcWT_oFs?si=clFM0bNLTO7ll7bK
This must be a significant investment to pick up the hype; 1 qps cannot be sustainable with a free pricing tier unless their resource efficiency is 10x better than competitors.