skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Buying a book does much more for an author who isn't already famous than just giving them money does. It raises their visibility, making it more likely that publishers will bite on a second book by them. It also pays the editors, typesetters, etc. - the author isn't the only creative person involved, and every heavy reader can think of examples of authors who have good ideas but desperately need an editor.
You have no realistic shot at destroying Hamas without addressing the conditions that created it. At "best" you'll create a vacuum filled by another extreme organization using another name.

The only way of destroying what Hamas is, is to start treating Palestinians humanely, and address their grievances so they actually see an alternative might work.

Neither Germany or Japan was subjected to an occupation this lengthy and brutal and expected not to lash out.
I imagine there are more than a few photographers who would appreciate your first app to make it easier to browse their collections. To the extent you ever think of marketing it.
It's an apples and oranges comparison due to different training sets (as well as model sizes), but it seems generally their tests are indicating Phi-2 performing (in their specialized domains) at level of a more general model 5-10x it's size, not 100x.

As far as training data, it seems it's more the quality/focus of the data than the quantity. They refer to "textbook quality data", unlike the LLMs like GPT-3 that are trained on web scrapes etc.
I agree with having offsite backup. But for 250 TB that is not that easy or cheap.

One disk of family pictures you can give to a family member.
> AI systems are not like people.

But in my fantasies, they are!
Logitech Media Server is very common in the Home Assistant world. I'm in the process of setting a server up now actually, and I've never used it before.
Incorrect headline. More accurate would be: "Microsoft trying to hire someone to investigate nuclear power". This is the first in a series of about 100 steps before they actually build a reactor. And the overwhelming likelihood is that they study it, decide it's too risky/expensive, and shelve the project.
> The worst part is that, FOH wants tips for doing almost nothing, but when BOH wants to share in the tips, you might as well have told them that you killed their parents.

That's funny
but if I am a server/ front of house
and I have to share tips with back of house
you better all be standing with me
soaking in the spit and all
when a customer yells at me
I'm less likely to commit to using something if I'm going to have to decide to pay for it sooner. I would try offering a month or two free and see how many people commit to using it and over what timeframe. You probably want people to be invested in the app, such that it becomes worth it for them to pay because it would be cogitatively expensive to switch. A week is definitely not enough time to build that kind of habit.
If I recall correctly, if you choose to close your adsense account send you your remaining balance even if it is below $100.
Pretty clear blackmail. "We are gonna delete your data before you have a chance to download it, unless you pay us thousands of dollars"
What I can say about AWS pricing is that my monthly personal bill is just over $10 for all I want to do personally, and my employer's bill is... higher, but cheap compared to the cost of my time.

If I had to lose one bit of data or port one platform due to Google's !@#$%^&, it would more than pay my lifetime personal Google expenses many times over, as well as of the lifetime expenses of my current employer.

Former employer bubbled up to millions of dollars, and it was still worth it. Former employer got screwed over by Google to a greater tune, despite having a dedicated engineering support team at Google.

The math starts to work out differently for some of the PaaS providers, where costs are several times higher than AWS, and my time is cheaper despite the (rather impressive) time savings. However, having a reliable cloud provider pays for itself many times over.

I've lost had serious unexpected expenses literally every time I've been in any business setting which did business with Google. That's quite a few times. Literally the only time I'll do business with Google is:

- Free tier, quick one-off hack

- Legacy

- Literally no other options

Even the legacy, I'm working to port away since it's cheaper to do on my timeline than Google's.
It seems like a really dumb idea to use the most expensive form of electricity generation by some margin for a very predictable work load.
Oh nice! I may put this one under the Christmas tree for myself :D
Fully agree with the point that branding should not be copied. I should have been more clear but my comment pertains mainly to UI and UX of a product. If you're copying branding (something that offers no functionality, just style), that is just a dick move.
If you're confused as to why some of the text seems to be blurred out, you need to click on the black pill containing underlined white text for each section to un-blur the accompanying text.
That would be a fun Go project!

I don’t need it for most personal things like shopping lists etc. but when I do it’s invaluable. I also don’t understand how people work like that!

Dependencies is an interesting idea that i’ve thought about a little bit. From my own experience i’ve found that a tree naturally models this quite well as every task depends on its subtasks, but i can see for more complex workflows that wouldn't work perfectly.
Humans have millions of years of evolution tuning our visual system and we still have tons of crashes due to poor performance during low light situations, high contrast, etc. Twilight is recognized as a time of increased accidents, we’ve had decades of mandating better types and positions of lights, roads are expensively designed with various paints and reflectors, etc.
I made https://trackmysupplement.com (and currently working to productize it)
A book / library / reading progress app:

https://j11g.com/2019/11/16/foster-how-to-build-your-own-boo...
I hope these efforts work out. Interesting approach.
As long as you don't turn on auto-ads, you can control Adsense to take up a limited amount of space as small as you'd like. Most of the users that would be offended by ads are already blocking.
>If he were paying for the consumed storage as a standard Drive customer, this wouldn’t be happening.

>Burke said he paid Google “a lot of money for a long time”
Thanks for giving the source!

In my defense, by being so vague, I can't accidentally reveal company secrets. (I used to work as an SRE for Google Photos for a while.)
I expect wider convergence on better build tools like CMake has made it relatively easier to perform custom build time logic like code generation without disrupting consumers of projects by changing or otherwise adding complexity to the build process.
I have Walmart+ which includes free delivery. In the app, there is an option to tip the delivery driver.

I initially would tip the driver in the app, but then I realized, that this is the exact service I am paying a subscription to Walmart for. It is Walmart's responsibility to use that subscription to pay their workers, not mine. So I stopped tipping.
Save you a click. According to the article all artificial intelligence are LLMs and the biased benchmark they used got a low score.
The Economist is center-right. Those theories have nothing to do with the rational center. Only the uneducated, far-right, and far-left are espousing that kind of nonsense today.
Probably contains unedited and maybe raw video files.

I hope he has at least the final versions of whatever he did somewhere.
I've been following the design system space for a while, and it's mildly entertaining to watch from the perspective of an engineer. Because you see designers fall into the exact same traps and encounter the exact same issues that engineers have long faced.

Optimize for flexibility and you'll end up with something that's way too complex. Optimize for speed and you'll regret it down the road. Everything's a tradeoff, but the only guarantee is that at some point, you'll feel a distinct urge to throw it all away and start over.
Terabyte sized disks are dirt cheap today.
Why was this flagged? It intersects with tech with the suggestion that social media may be the culprit.
My children are fascinated with the ads they occasionally see at their friends' homes. Due to their self-hosted media collection and prolific ad-blocking tech at home, they are rarely influenced by manipulative advertisers or inappropriate content suggestions. I consider it my duty as a good parent to keep up the fight.
Most expensive if you discount reliability, longevity and persistence in energy generation.

A predictable energy generation source for a predictable work load makes sense.
Not only that but they actually provide real support.

I once complained on Twitter that I was having trouble with an EKS issue, and the product manager for EKS reached out to me directly, put me in contact with one of their engineers, and then they discovered an issue and rolled out a fix for it that day.

In a separate incident, I couldn't get GCP to read the verification data for a domain from their webmaster tools so I was unable to use the domain with GCP Cloud Run. I mentioned this on Twitter, and the product manager reached out to lecture me about how I shouldn't be using Cloud Run with domain mapping because that's in "preview". He then pointed me to another method to point a domain at cloud run, which it turned out was also in preview. All of this was because Google Webmaster Tools validated the domain but GCP wasn't able to get that information. I ended up cancelling the GCP project and just using AWS (as I should have from the start).

It's embedded deeply in Google's culture that they not only don't provide support, but they'll insult and gaslight the people asking for it.
The commenter above is accounting for the holiday periods where it’s a weekday but school is not in session so the limits don’t apply.
> They all seem to be based on this assumption that traditional farming/food production is antiquated and inefficient, and that what the industry needs is clever outsiders to come in and re-invent it with the latest technologies. And they all just seem to go nowhere.

* The car wasn't invented by insiders from the horse-drawn carriage industry.

* Electric lighting wasn't invented by insiders from the candle industry.

* Airplanes weren't invented by insiders from the balloon industry.

* The development of the modern smartphone wasn't driven by insiders from the mobile phone industry.

* The development of reusable orbital rockets wasn't driven by insiders from the rocket industry.

> And in my view it's all based on a flawed premise: that farming needs any kind of technological revolution. It just doesn't. It's mostly fine.

That's exactly the kind of bias that makes industry insiders (usually) unable to revolutionize their own field. Sure, many outsiders will fail, but they'll at least try, and one of them might actually succeed.

However, I believe it can be very beneficial - maybe even essential - to have experienced advisors from the established industry, provided that they haven't lost the ability to see and recognize the problems and inefficiencies of "doing it the old way".
Yes. This approach kneecaps any startups/small businesses that try to run profitably from day 1 (i.e. without taking tons of VC money). The net effect is that VC firms get to pick winners before the market ever gets involved.

Hopefully there will be more pushback on this practice now that Bork's ideas[1] about antitrust are falling out of favour.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bork#Academic_career
Maybe I misread but GP seems to be saying the opposite.
No, the opposite. When they're inactive, traffic reaches all time highs. When they're active, traffic is still decent, but nowhere near as high when they're off. Google ranks your site based on speed (as well as a few other factors), and their product (adsense) slows everything down, so that's potentially a reason.

So, it's like... wow, I should have kept adsense on (although I probably wouldn't have the same traffic if it was).
Tesla Recalls 2M Vehicles over Autopilot Software Issue
Unicorn tech founder here.
Google — if you are reading, it’s stories like this and examples where you c.10x the price of products overnight like Google Maps that I would never let our team use GCP. Your reputation is losing you business here.
I don't see anything on Netflix that is trying to compete with TBBT, which is a CBS show firmly targeted at Middle America.

If anything, Netflix comedies are the opposite of TBBT, there's no audience laughter, it's all single-camera like Arrested Development, The Office and other 2000s-era neo-sitcoms.
Good question. Our ultimate goal is to be the go-to for any two-way data syncs.

We think the Salesforce syncing market by itself is 500 million to 1B. If you start including all of the tools we have our eyes on (Hubspot, Monday, ERPs), the market size comfortably gets into the billions.

Going after Heroku Connect makes sense as a starting point, but we've got our sights beyond that.
You'd think that would be enough to get Apple to take action. Like "Made for Apple" or "THX" it should require a minimum level of capability. Or else, Apple risks users thinking it's their hardware that is sucking.
Yeah, Javascript/ECMAscript history is actually very interesting, this contains barely any information.
Amazon Cloud Drive used to be “unlimited”. They rescinded that offer and deleted people’s data way before Google. Before Microsoft’s OneDrive too IIRC.

Out of the big three, Google Drive had an insanely good run as unlimited. (Even non-enterprise business plans with caps in theory were unlimited in practice until this year.)

- Former ACD customer who got burned.
I read their actual claims.
They claim as part of their defenses to California’s various misleading speech regulations are facially invalid under the first amendment.

it might surprise you to learn that this particular thing has actually been litigated before many many years ago, and upheld ever since . they are not facially invalid. They are not invalid at all.

I could also point out that facial invalidity charges are remarkably disfavored.

you can only really win on facial invalidity if every application of the law to everyone would be invalid (rather than an as-applied challenge, which basically says the law is invalid as applied to you).

The defense here is beyond a waste of time. It borders on sanctionable frivolity, and if a court finds that they’re not doing it in good faith, it would be sanctionable.

as for what they’re doing it to generate news or not, you honestly believe that Tesla is above PR?

of course, they are doing it to generate news - if you generate enough PR in your favor, people will push the government to change its mind or drop the case.

This happens in any meaningful lawsuit involving government - there is always a PR campaign with it. You may or may not like it, but it's reality.

Not to mention the defense reads like an Elon tweet, so ...
Is the friend not a friend anymore?
The word "meaningfully" was there for a reason.

Yes, obviously, there's someone buying it when they release it. But even in Marvel's current anemic state I doubt sales of Snow White reaches even .1% of the revenue from The Marvels, a single movie. Their revenue on direct sales of stuff about to go public domain is a rounding error, and nowhere near enough to justify locking up the entire rest of the nation's culture just for that.

Further evidence that it must not be that big a deal is that the Mouse seems to have finally relented and doesn't seem to be lobbying for more extensions anymore.
Only somewhat joking...tech people are known to move en masse somewhere, spike house and rental prices, displace the people who live there or near there due to the high prices, ruin whatever community and culture existed there before. Latest well known victim is Austin.
You know what would be "funny"? If Google would charge him egress fees while he is moving his data, just to add insult to injury
Formally modeled Dreidel for no good reason
https://littlerbooks.com is where I summarize popular nonfiction books into bullet points so I can remember what I learned better.

https://rate.house is a user generated media database. It's like IMDb but also has music, literature, video games, and podcasts.

https://newsasfacts.com provides the most important news around the world concisely.

https://wordhoot.com is a word guessing game inspired by Wordle featuring multiplayer, unlimited plays, and detailed playing history/stats.
Not everything is ripped and waiting to be downloaded…
Maybe someone who like losing work, like losing money, like his account being terminated for whatever puerile reason, likes being tracked and likes to see lots of ads.

Wait, I don't think such a person exists. Wrong market fit, Google!
The word you want is "disclosure" not "disclaimer". You are in good company though, this is a common mistake.

disclaimer /dĭs-klā′mər/
noun A repudiation or denial of responsibility or connection.

disclosure /dĭ-sklō′zhər/
noun The act or process of revealing or uncovering.
I keep it 100% in airplane mode and use calibre to manage my library. So far it’s been a pleasure, reliable and predictable.
I'm extremely suspect of how the polls were taken. Where these another one of those get paid to be surveyed things that YouGov is known for? What was their sample size? Was it voluntary identification or did they use other means for verifying information? How were the questions asked?
This article convinced me to get a real backup HDD setup. Google has pretty much my entire life history in photos, documents, excel sheets, etc, and storage is dirt cheap now.

In regards to the amount of storage he was using though, 250TB of information seems insane.
On the contrary, nuclear power is the greenest energy generation source (in terms of CO2/kWh over the full lifecycle), by far.

https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/80580.pdf
> You hinted at it but seem to brush off the external cost as a small thing to be improved.

I understand you reading that way but it's not what I meant or at all what I think. The work I do (environmental monitoring and data display/analysis) is used heavily to reduce environmental externalities (I spent much of the past four years working on a project seeking to eradicate pesticide spray drift events) and to minimise resource utilisation (particularly irrigation water); the experience has taught me that these are major, difficult-to-solve problems, but they can be solved by people who are willing to do the work over many years to bring about the requisite changes both in technology and practices. Of course I know outsiders can sometimes bring about important changes that insiders didn't consider (indeed I've tried to be that kind of person in this and other industries, with some success at times); but it still needs thorough work over a long time to get major breakthroughs (as it did for SpaceX rockets), whereas these startups never seem to stick around for long.

> Being able to reduce land area used by farming would be a major win for humanity

I'm not convinced this is true, now we can see that the global population is flattening and likely to start declining in the foreseeable future. It's not a particularly strongly held opinion or one I need to argue about, but it just seems to me that the amount of land used for agriculture now is no great problem.
Zero capital deployed
This is all reasonable but you missed the bit where they gave him only seven days' notice.
There are a lot of reasons you might have to open and the close the door while driving, for example if your jacket or something got caught in the door and you don't realize it until you're on the road. Done that many times, it's not unsafe except if the car decides to auto-brake.
That’s absolutely false.

I can be disgusted at both. I can be more disgusted at how much more terrible Israel’s destruction is AND be disgusted that Hamas attacked in the first place. And still not be pro-either-side.

The amount of death and the kind of death happening is disgusting. Period.

I think the “stupid” ones, to borrow your word, are the ones refusing to see that.
I cross compile mattn/go-sqlite3 a lot. It's about the easiest cgo project to cross compile since it has no external dependencies.

Just use zig as your c compiler and it all just works.
Disable JavaScript and refresh the page.
I'm not referring to this specific recall here, but, it does get weird in Tesla's case.

Years ago, Tesla issued an update that added some features to show warnings in certain cases. It previously showed no warnings because the feature didn't exist. It was net new.

NHTSA warned them that this net new feature improved safety and was therefore a recall by definition. Ever since then, "recall" has been heavily overused, IMO. Virtually every update is a "recall" by the technical definition. :facepalm

Using "recall" for what they are defining as a safety defect is, of course, reasonable, even if it is just a software update.
You might not like an article in the Economist, and you will not know who wrote it.

You might not like a tweet and you can block the user or stop using twitter entirely. Yes, that might be hard, twitter might feel important, you might feel excluded if you don't keep up with it, but that's also true for mass media.

If you don't like anonymous speech, you will have to avoid certain mass media, like the Economist, and you have to choose certain social networks, like Facebook. You have choice with both social media and mass media.
(I’m coming at this as someone who’d way rather an 11% chance at a billion than a 50/50 at a million, which I’m sure colors my thought process.)

The amount of personal investment it takes to get to the point of pitching investors is pretty low (and well lower than “already succeeded at your business” IMO; raising money is not in itself business success).

It was ridiculously low a few years ago; it’s still low and achievable as an investment for most anyone earning a western SWE salary and not living extravagantly.
Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/06/magazine/the-out-of-fashi...

> overall the slower pace and time with little moments is what made it so good for me - to stop and have time for a slow (but so so good) film like this is what was perfect.

Other intimate movies I can think of top of mind are: Lost in Translation, Past Lives, Columbus, Before Sunrise, Things to Come. I'll stop there since I'm making these recommendations blind not having yet seen The Holdovers. Actually, since the article opens with a Hal Ashby film (The Last Detail), I'll add another: Being There.
Human chimera exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_chimera
> The actual headline is slightly less inflammatory: "Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data"

Correct. 7 days is not enough time to stream >200TB of data, let alone find a place to stream it to. This puts a human being in a crisis position.

He doesn't need to just find someone willing to store his data. He need to get his data out. Trying to get my data out of Google, I've gotten ~1TB out in ~1 week. This is about a year's worth of time to not lose it.

The facts are not "even less inflammatory."

A decent company would drop $2000 on HDD, or a bit less on optical / tape media, and ship (rather than delete) the data to the customer they fired, at their own cost, or at the very least, at customer cost. A company which provides literally no way to get data out and offloads expenses is a POS company.
Oh I see. Thanks for the information.
In most states no training at all is required to operate a boat, and I don’t think there are any specific requirements around autopilot.

The earliest autopilot for boats was built in the 1800s.
The second one has a link labeled "free up or get more storage."

I suspect it links here: https://support.google.com/a/answer/12005619?sjid=1774262812...