skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought for about the past six months that the only stable end-state for this is the total elimination of tipping in American culture. Once the dam was breached on the old agreements, it becomes nothing but a straight-up tragedy of the commons writ large. There is no reason for anyone not to try for a tip [1]. And in the process, essentially eat all the grass in the commons until there isn't any anymore.

Fortunately for this go-around of the Tragedy of the Commons, the end-state where there is no tipping for anyone isn't exactly a disaster. The world will adapt just fine. Perhaps it'll even be nicer than the relatively random state it was in before to have clear rules about tipping that can more-or-less expressed in the single word, "No".

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/13ygwsl/... - a reddit report of a self-checkout kiosk asking for tips ("for who?" being everyone's question) at an airport, if you don't want to click through.
> Artificial intelligence systems found to Excel at imitation, but not innovation

And they do it using the Microsoft spreadsheet software?
It's neither the wait staff, nor the business. It's market forces. Wait staff are becoming increasingly unskilled labor (partly due to technology in restaurants, partly because wait some staff have become shitty/belligerent and people realized they don't actually care if someone calls them "honey", it's not worth $20 of tips to them...) I'll happily take my meal with a "go f yourself" it it means i get $20 off.
Mitosis
They also banned encrypted files, effectively kicking off everyone using it for backup.

I assume this means they look at your photos and other data.
But they aren't equivalent.

The airline system requires thousands of hours of training total (and many hours on a specific type/model of plane) to operate.

Driving a car requires no such training.
"a lot of money" and "a long time" are subjective.
And a surprisingly high number of people here are defending a false advertising. Wow.
Most companies are lighting money on fire period. Don't need AI to do it.
Highly recommend actually reading the FCC reports. I know that is a high bar.

https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-reaffirms-rejection-nearly-...

I'm pretty convinced that this ruling was a bit horseshit.
> 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.

Modern agriculture is good at producing of astonishing quantities of calorie-rich food, which makes people obese because of lack of nutrients. 4.7M dies per year because of obesity, which, of course, is not a problem for those, who produces bland food.
Note: “tesla recalls” == “tesla pushes OTA software update (just like any regular OTA update)”
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I'd assume it couldn't remain in read only forever. But yeah since it's data loss Google should be very loud about that eventuality. I was getting weekly emails from dropbox about my inactive account before they nuked it.
My kids feel the same way. I feel like I've done something good that they see ads for what they are since they haven't "always been there" for them.
It took 50 years of heavy government subsidies to get wind & solar to the scale necessary to be cheaper than coal.
yup, it's on the todo list.

I started building this with cross-browser in mind, and later stopped using the generic web extension APIs to get everything working. getting this working with manifest v3 was a pain, but doable. now that it works it could be made cross-browser again.
I think you may be confusing naturopathic with homeopathic.

Naturopathic medicine use natureceuticals/supplements all the time. These contain active ingredients in usable dosages that have research about their mechanism of actions and many of them work quite well. (Witch Hazel may be one! Vitamins and minerals are also common. Fish oil too.)

Homeopathy is a specific belief in homeopathic remedies, which as described in the article are pretty thoroughly debunked pseudoscience. They dilute things down, but the effects are no different than placebo.

In my opinion, this is a really unfortunate confusion that a lot of people have. Natural supplements are useful, and when they are proven useful, they often get turned into regulated medicines! However, homeopathic remedies are entirely different and get to 'free-ride' on the confusion created in the alternative health industry.
The reasons and rationale are fairly obvious. He runs a competing business and he’s speaking to a specific customer segment hoping to convince them that his business is efficient and benevolent compared to the megacoros he competes against.

Taking the CEO of a for profits word that their competitors are somehow worse than their own company is the height of credulity. It may very well be true, but the source is so biased as to be entirely unbelievable.
We're all uncomfortable, but including the wait staff. It will never change unless someone does.
A week of notice to move ~250TByte out is definitely unreasonable. 250TiB in 7 full days is an average of over 3.6Gbit/s, assuming no transfer interruptions and that he started immediately (i.e. already had other storage options lined up, and started transferring the second the notification email was sent).

For a company like Google several Gbit/s constantly over a week, or even the tens of Gbit/s needed to finish in one day, is not troublesome, but for most other people/entities it is completely unrealistic. Getting that much storage with that much bandwidth to it is far from impossible, but it won't be cheap, especially given he'd need it right this second.
Are they just doing object detection, or are they also doing 3d scene reconstruction (visual SLAM)? My bet is on the latter, and the SLAM reconstruction should show them that there's something dangerously close to the car. Of course, vSLAM is notoriously finnicky in corner cases, lighting conditions etc., so it might have just not noticed the plane at all.
> 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"

You just expanded it. It's still basically the same.

> It would cost the guy $5000 a month to store his data on S3 and he doesn't want to pay that, so he now needs to find someone to bear the cost of storing his video files before his account terminates.

230TB is a lot of data to store in the cloud. There is a very high chance it's been flagged with this deletion because it's so much data. A quick check on Amazon for external drives it would cost him $4000 just to buy hard disks to be able to store it locally. The guy's data is expensive to store no matter what. He's probably one of the main reasons they don't have unlimited storage anymore.

Really, this is a massive edge case. Very few individuals will have 30TB of data they store anywhere nevermind 230TB.
@dang it seems like the jalopnik article is a blogspam/repost of the original: https://www.motortrend.com/news/general-motors-removing-appl...
I mean, everyone knows that tipping culture in the US has become unhealthy (it probably always was). Many many people would prefer to end it.

The only way tipping is going to end, is if people stop doing it. There's not going to be some higher authority who one day says "OK now it's socially acceptable and no one's going to be upset if you stop, the world will get better, no friction required."

You have to stop, tell the business why you're stopping, and tell other people to stop.
Nuclear fans grossly overstate the cost of dealing with renewable intermittency, especially if the load has dispatchability. Servers don't necessarily have to run 24/7.
Try looking for positions as a developer in industry or look around for companies that have contracts for industry. Such as power plants, heating plants, any other manufacturing plants...
I wish you good luck.
You cannot export 240TB in 7 days. And a journalist can be forgiven for not knowing what the market value of cloud storage is. Besides, Google offers many services for free (or below cost) in order to maintain their dominant market position. I don't think your take is fair to the journalist.
gotta love the NYT for accurate headlines
He says he believed the data would remain read-only. Did the emails make clear that the data was going to be deleted? If Google had already made that decision then they could have sent him the final warning two months ago.
China and India are building nuclear power plants pretty cheaply.
It‘s redundant placement. You can also just use the url box to search the page. Seems like a good pragmatic approach to me.

Could they also introduce some kind of page action menu? Maybe.
I don’t use mailing lists. Could touch tell me what is advantage of mailing list vs something modern like Zulip chat… in which you can turn off notifications and just use as a website… they even have web public streams viewing if which doesn’t require any auth
I don’t know why you are getting downvoted. I was a waiter. It’s absolutely a choice. There are many other jobs in a restaurant and you can choose which one you want to do. I was a cook, waiter, dishwasher, busboy, and host, all at one restaurant.
Ah, I really appreciate this. I did not know that the old TOS was available under the /4.1 link. And I like the full-version links!

In case the older version goes away, here is the archive.org version from October 25, 2023:

https://web.archive.org/web/20231025013949/https://www.23and...
Title is straight up false compared to the actual story.
One can casually observe that LLMs quite excel at composition though: gluing together pieces of knowledge in ways no one did before (examples: a program that does X using language Y, a painting that mashes up two themes).

Most knowledge workers' activities aren't innovative or imitational - similarly, we compose stuff, so LLMs are a fair competitor.
Given my experience in the industry I would say Yes
I especially find veterinary homeopathy troublesome. How would placebo even work here? Maybe the owners of dogs and cats believe that their pets are having less pains.
Tangental, but I have a feeling that media size - 40MP+ raw photos, 4k videos - outpaced the storage costs.

Is there an analysis anywhere that looks into that?
I miss food market dearly.

Super market have sub par product.
That is how it actually does work. We elect leaders on the basis of them expressing some approximation of our desired future, they appoint judges who express some approximation of our desired future, everyone is constrained by each other and by each others' believable interpretations of some documents, and example case after example case is brought forth and tested on the basis of "will ruling this way yield a positive outcome for society?" where "outright rejection of the court and legislative system" is considered an intrinsically bad outcome.

> Also it would be better if the law would be precise and there would be no need to interpret it in someone's favor.

Sure would! Unfortunately we have no reason to believe this is even theoretically possible.
>"a lot of money" and "a long time" are subjective.

You've missed the point. It's the fact that this guy did pay for the services.
93% of teens use YouTube and 63% use TikTok, and 20% "almost constantly" [1]

Imagine if 93% of _all_ people used TikTok "almost constantly", and imagine if the content consisted almost entirely of misinformation causing instability at scale in alarming, obvious ways.

Does it matter whether this outcome is driven by malicious foreign actors or uncaring algorithms optimizing profits? Shouldn't it be restricted on principle?

Free speech should be protected for individuals and also groups at some scale. But why should entities with vast, nearly universal reach among the youth be permitted to delude them at scale to the detriment of our collective future? This can't be the right answer to free speech.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2023/12/11/teens-social...
FOH gets bad tips when the food is bad and BOH gets nothing. FOH gets good tips when food is good but BOH still gets nothing???

Im having flashbacks to FOH asking for things equivalent to an eggless omlette.
To be fair, 'try the platform out' to me includes getting an understanding of dependencies and configuration. Docker is useful for a lot of things, but even if I want to use containerization in prod, I'd prefer to build my own containers rather than being dependent on someone else's runtime environment, so getting hands-on with the setup is important to me.

If the goal is just to test the application functionality, a demo site that's already set up and publicly accessible would be much easier than having to deploy a Docker container.

In terms of Nginx, using it to handle web server functionality, and especially encryption, while acting as a gateway into your containerized apps is a pretty bog-standard approach, and makes for good separation of concerns. I don't see much value in having that stuff implemented separately within each application and creating more config complexity for sysadmin work.
Agreed. I think part of the challenge is that design systems are inherently owned across design and engineering (not just the design team), but the overall understanding of what a design system is means that few folks involved really understand where and how to make decisions about those tradeoffs.
I don't think that is a good comparison, because plants need basically the same input - coal to solar is changing everything but the end result. Different farming isn't. If AgTech were to directly create sugar from air and water then that would be a real switch.
Find these findings questionable unless Whisper is very poorly optimized the way it was run on a 4090.

I have a 3090 and an M1 Max 32GB and and although I haven't tried Whisper the inference difference on Llama and Stable Diffusion between the two is staggering, especially with Stable Diffusion where SDXL is about 0:09 seconds 3090 and 1:10 minute on M1 Max.
> If no one is consuming the business reporting it's probably cheaper to have it produced by AI and of the same value.

Wait. Why produce it at all?
> It was always clear that games like chess or go can be played by computers well

As someone who was deeply involved in the Go scene since the early 2000s let me emphatically assure you it was not at all clear. Indeed it was a major point of pride among Go enthusiasts that computers could not play it well, for various reasons (some, like the branching factor, one could potentially grant that advances in hardware and software could solve for eventually. Others, like the inherent difficulty in constructing an evaluation function, seemed intractable).

Betting markets at the time of the AlphaGo match still had favorable odds for Sedol, even with the knowledge that Google was super-confident baked in.

It is extreme hindsight-bias of exactly the type the grandparent was talking about to suggest that obviously everybody knew all along that Go was very beatable by "non-real AI".
It's not incorrect, it's just confusing:

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/07/24/is-recall-really-the-ri...
Can you expand on the design sins of the Soundcloud app? I use it a lot and have never noticed anything particularly funky. I'm on iOS.
Chapters 1 and 2 focus on what hypermedia is and how a hypermedia system works. My definition of hypermedia is "a media that contains hypermedia controls":

> A hypermedia control is an element in a hypermedia that describes (or controls) some sort of interaction, often with a remote server, by encoding information about that interaction directly and completely within itself.

I think that's a pretty clear definition. Maybe you disagree w/ it, but it's at least defensible, no?

As far as what it has to do w/ htmx, htmx extends HTML as a hypermedia, making the set of hypermedia exchanges it can perform larger and more general. (This is in contrast w/ something like React, which typically uses a fixed-format non-hypermedia data API to communicate w/ the server.)

I understand you don't like the somewhat crazy social media presence of htmx, but the philosophy underneath it is fairly well developed and, as far as I can tell, at least plausibly related to hypermedia.
Right, but not here, which is why it's not that way here.
Except it's not really a disruptive technology. It's (primarily) a sustaining technology. In Clayton Christensen's original work, disruptive innovations are worse than existing alternatives in the dimensions that existing markets care about, but they're either cheaper (think of microcomputers vs. minicomputers) or have same other attribute that makes them appeal to a new market segment (think of portability for laptops & cell phones, or ease of publishing for social media). This makes them create new market segments among new customers doing new things - think of how crypto's use cases have been DeFi protocols and NFTs, while it's utterly failed as a currency. Sustaining innovations, by contrast, are ones that deliver better performance for an existing customer's existing use cases. Think of faster CPU speed, bigger hard drive capacity, more pixels on a camera. If a technology is better at any use case that people are already making money off of, it's not a disruptive technology, because by definition those are worse at existing use cases but let people do things they haven't been doing before.

There are probably some AI-related disruptive startups out there that will apply it to use-cases that are not currently computerized. 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. That gives an advantage to incumbents who have the training data and massive amounts of capital to train the AIs in the first place.
https://github.com/daltontf/clipzoomfx

I wrote it to be able to extract exceptional plays from footage of my daughter's volleyball teams and be able to zoom in on each clip. Pretty much a minimal viable product.
>Title is straight up lies.

Enlighten us
> For example any discussion about copyrighted works, which is a hot topic, will inevitably end up with someone equating an LLM "learning" to a human learning, as if the two are identical.

I don’t think the point is that the two are exactly identical or that humans and LLMs are equivalent, but that the processes are similar enough in the general level that any attempt to regulate LLM training in copyrighted material will inevitably have the same ramifications for human learning.

In pretty much all attempts I’ve seen to differentiate the two, it inevitably boils down to hand-waving about how human beings are “special”.
I have some experience in the space as a developer, and it’s challenging mainly because design systems and component libraries are an abstraction, and frankly, most people aren’t great at generalizing. Designers especially are rarely ever taught how to think reusable patterns and components, but they are frequently the ones “put in charge of“ this type of work.

It's closely related to this quote:

> A lack of ... alignment within teams and leadership around what a design system is, what problems it solves, and how it will provide value.

I like working with UX and designers, but more often than not, "we need a new design system" basically means "we want a cool, new theme"
Wait, for real?

I thought Tesla's claim was that the radar was not necessary for FSD on roads. But it's necessary for driving around a parking lot?
If some lab grown brain tissue were all that’s needed for sentience we wouldn’t have such a hard time understanding it to begin with.
The use of AI and voice recognition seems mostly designed to make the result seem more sensational than it actually is. Does any computation actually happen in the "organoid" part? How would you even train such a cell to perform a task?

From reading the article it seems to me that the answer is no. The actual contribution is feeding the organoid electric signals, and reading its reactions. (Probably the machine learning algorithm used would have had even better accuracy, if the input signal hadn't been fed through a layer of goo. It doesn't say whether this is the case.) The rest is speculation of future applications.

> To test Brainoware’s capabilities, the team used the technique to do voice recognition by training the system on 240 recordings of eight people speaking. The organoid generated a different pattern of neural activity in response to each voice. The AI learned to interpret these responses to identify the speaker, with an accuracy of 78%.

It "generated a different pattern," with no indication that this pattern was optimized to be useful in any way.

I think the key part of a (bio-)"computer" is the possibility of programming/training it, not just reading input from it.
Not on a per kilo or per m^3 rate compared to actual bags of dirt from the hardware store.
The problem is we're trying to second guess what consciousness is, and win the battle by defining the word in a convenient, but binary way.

Technically we have no clue if humanity is conscious. We only know "I am conscious, and those other things are humans like me, so I think they may also be".

Some extend this to animals (which they should) but try to draw some random line like "if it can't recognize itself in a mirror, it's not conscious" but even a fly may recognize itself in a mirror occasionally. It's not a magic rule.

Let's face it, just like intelligence is much simpler and much more pervasive than we thought (just put neurons in a big network), consciousness is likely everywhere around us. It may simply be a conscious universe.

There's nothing special about the substrate and constitution of animate matter, compared to what we consider inanimate matter, except that we're organized to preserve low entropy and transform inputs into outputs in complex ways. So are machines, computers and AI. And so the debate on how to classify this dish of neurons seems superfluous.

We should respect all systems and try to be in harmony with them.
Yep, it's pretty clear that unlimited is going to have limits (250 TB is a lot of data, that'd be $1500 a month in Backblaze). However, Google should have been required to be up front about their definition of unlimited (eg: up to 10 TB), rather than leaving it as a nebulous ToS term they can arbitrarily decide upon in the future.

This is actually a good use case for something like AWS Deep Glacier or Azure Archive Storage: data that needs to be saved and accessed infrequently if at all. It'd be around $250/mo, but as a business expense for a professional journalist that seems reasonable. Amazon or Microsoft could of course turf those services in the future, but considering the number of large companies that use them for long-term archiving I would expect that there would be a lot of notice before taking that step.
It doesn't work, stop trying and stop falling for it.

Food grown in soil and in sun has more nutrients than anything vertically grown with artificial lamps and no soil, just water.
I’m sure BOH have some pleasant moment they would like to share with you, too.
From what I recall reading recently, the most recent models are cheap Chinese-made cars with the bare minimum of attention and QC put into them. Like, frame welded with spot welds that can be pulled apart by hand kind of issues.
Feel free to expound on the important differences
Unless you consider the CO2 emitted while you wait for the nuclear plant to come online and displace fossil fuels.

Lifecycle emissions also assume all the parts are being made with current energy mix. In the zero fossil fuel future, where is the CO2 emission for PV coming from? Concrete production? PV uses much less concrete than nuclear per levelized unit of power.