skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We built a Taylor Swift chatbot using AstraDB, Cohere, LangChain and Vercel AI
There's been a lot of effort to demonize unions. Many employees won't even try because they think "unions are bad" without ever been in one.
In the end she describes herself as being a rotten husk of a human being, clawing at the floor and sobbing at the drop of a pin. Sure she’s not economically impoverished anymore, but she’s certainly mentally and spiritually impoverished. I don’t feel so good.

This felt too real and too close to home. I loved reading it in a sense—it’s well written and interesting—yet it also made me feel kind of sick. I have no idea how someone gets feel good story out of this.
That's one member of the family not being supportive. Doesn't equate to zero support from the whole family. The paragraph quoted above seems to imply that going back to her parents was an option.
Wouldn’t we be seeing some kind of press release if a mass layoff was underway? If it is and no statements have been made, they’d be opening themselves up to all kinds of trouble with their investors and the SEC.
It's generally more fragmented now, but specifically for handmade goods there's https://goimagine.com/ (5% transaction fee non-inclusive of payment processing + monthly subscription of $2.50-$10 for sellers, application required)
Deflation is poison to an economy. It causes everyone to sit on unproductive cash and make no investments or purchases. With the inflation rate just about 3%, that is close to the Fed’s target rate for a healthy economy where people are pushed to spend and make investments, but savings and quality of life are not eroding.

Honestly trying to get you to reevaluate your world view to be less catastrophic. Money isn’t real anyway, it’s just a convenient fiction to enable complex trade of goods and services, which are of actual value.

Unless you are in Russia, Turkey or Argentina, then please carry on with the gloom.
US compromising with Nvidia over chip sales in China
I agree. I have a WISP and it is shite. $99/mo for up to (but almost never) 100 Mpbs down.
Charter's trucks are now running lines to my property and we will be switching to Spectrum as soon as we can.
Fuck Adaptive.
Regulators forced them to update their product to mitigate a safety issue that was found? Or maybe you are misunderstanding the correct usage of ‘recall’ in the article and are applying it incorrectly to other situations.
>the uncertain nature of Starship's future launches could impact Starlink's ability to meet" its obligations

Lol, what is the FCC on? No one else comes even close to their launch record [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Falcon_9_and_Falcon_He....
Then why decide now that SpaceX won't get the money? Does another company get the contract? Otherwise would have assumed to simply check at/after the delivery date...
bad UI and company design...one should NEVER EVER cause any user of any service to take extra actions to respect their rights and data. It should be the reverse...if you want to use AI or have AI use your data then you need to take extra steps...

This is dark patterns all over again
It's interesting that historically, in France, the more prestigious a publisher is, the more bland the cover. Book covers with colors all over the place feel cheap over here.
Nice question! Let's see...

CLI
- TOTP/2FA tool with fuzzy search
- A script on top of timetrap, to type a number and change your current activity (emulating a Timeflip)
- A simple view of % of time spent for each activity
- A few scripts on Python, PHP or Go to automate stuff at work

CLI/Web
- http://gemugami.com/week/ Get the current ISO week

Web
- A site to ask people of their preferred time for a meeting, trying to find one working for all (quite difficult :)
- https://eapl.mx/price/ Compare price and sizes/weights of 2 products to know which one is 'more' convenient
- https://eapl.mx/twtxt/ A public view of my twtxt microblogging, and a single-user admin view
- http://gemugami.com/time/ Get your browser's timezone

Not tools, but quite interesting
- http://gemugami.com/hexclock/ An hexadecimal clock
- http://gemugami.com/clock/ A decimal clock ('hours' from 0 to 1000)
- http://gemugami.com/kcolc/ Time goes in reverse from 24h to 0
- http://gemugami.com/solar/ Shifts the time to be 7am at sunrise, based on your location
- http://gemugami.com/holmes/ A scoring app for a board game

And a bunch of game prototypes, mostly to learn new stuff and game design
Are there any examples of PyApp using libraries that wrap other languages (Numpy, SpaCy, etc.)? In my experience, it has been extremely difficult to ship data/ml heavy applications built with Python as a binary.
Some interview podcasts start with a 3-4 second clip from the interview. Does this cause false positives for you?
This really shouldn't be a shock for Netflix employees. According to Netflix's culture page (https://jobs.netflix.com/culture) They are a team, not a family.

When you're on a team you know you can be cut at any moment. It's ruthless over there and the recruiters will make sure you're aware of that early in the interview process. Netflix was never known as a good place to work which is why they pay outrageous salaries and the average employment length is a little over a year.
Oh, I didn't know it was an EU-wide directive. Estonian copyright law has contained that paragraph since 1992.
Did you miss the other dissent which would mean 40% of the commission disagreed with the decision?

DISSENTING STATEMENT OF COMMISSIONER NATHAN SIMINGTON

>I wholeheartedly agree with the entirety of Commissioner Carr’s dissent. I write separately to further highlight some of the meretricious logic that underlies the Bureau’s, and now Commission’s, rescinding of SpaceX’s RDOF award.
...
>I was disappointed by this wrongheaded decision when it was first announced, but the majority today lays bare just how thoroughly and lawlessly arbitrary it was. If this is what passes for due process and the rule of law at the FCC, then this agency ought not to be trusted with the adjudicatory powers Congress has granted it and the deference that the courts have given it

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf
Just link your other comment rather than repaste. One reason is it makes merging related threads harder.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
AMD's chiplet-based design means they have plenty of other ways to make good use of parts that cannot hit the highest clock speeds. They have very little reason to do a 16-core low-clock part for their consumer desktop platform.

And your concerns about "a software limit that may or may not work" are completely at odds with how their power management works.
Is there a good time? If anything I'd rather get fired before the holidays and spend time with family rather than work through it all and miss time and then get fired afterwards.
US here, I can't see it either. I noticed the tweet mentions European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), is this EU only?
By no means does the program make the claim "to make the equivalent of fiber runs". You're just making claims up to rationalize what in all likelihood, was politically driven. Even the votes from the FCC members were along party lines.

There were speed targets of 100Mbps available to 20M households. They're currently at a median of 65Mbps [1] and they already have more than 99% of the U.S. covered [2]. It's an egregious, questionable, partisan claim by the FCC that they can't reasonably be expected to hit the speed target by 2025.

[1] https://www.ookla.com/articles/us-satellite-performance-q3-2...
[2] https://www.starlink.com/map?view=availability
> I don’t agree. A job today is no guarantee or even context for a reasonable assumption for a job tomorrow.

That's called lack of labor laws.
> [...]if you subscribe at least partially to the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis[...]

Why would anyone subscribe to the Sapir-Wharf hypothesis, in whole or in part?
It's not really a circular definition because "impairment" and "goodwill" are two words with their own meanings in accounting/finance, so "goodwill impairment" including those two words separately in the definition isn't circular.

Goodwill is basically the extra value paid one company pays when buying another company. So if Etsy buys Depop for 1.6B, and of that 1.6B, let's say 600M were actual 'assets' (cash, inventory, whatever (not that Depop had those things when purchased)), then Etsy paid $1B (1.6B - 600M) in "goodwill" for Depop. That "goodwill" is basically the Depop brand, the desire for existing and potential customers to use Depop, etc.

Suppose Etsy wakes up one day and realizes that the $1B worth of Depop brand must be worth less. I don't know how they determine this, as the most realistic way would be if they were somehow shopping around to sell Depop off to another buyer, and all the offers are markedly lower than the $1.6B they paid for the same assets + intangibles. That difference is the impairment, to the goodwill.

Not sure if that made it sound less circular. I'm also not an accountant, but I've tried learning quite a bit about the subject.
Bungie will lose independence within Sony if Destiny 2 fails financial goals
Ineptly retracting a subsidy that isn't needed or even impactful?
More like 12 months. In 6 months perhaps we’ll be trying to get out of a recession.
Lmao no. If this was the case then cocktail watches wouldn't be a thing.
I love this effort! I try my best to avoid any type of advertising. I’ll buy an AR/VR headset/glasses when they can block IRL billboard ads. That’s the killer app for me.
> One could argue that tacit knowledge also applies when it comes to the feel of pulling laptops apart without breaking the tiny little clips.

I agree that that is tacit knowledge.

> This gets muddy real fast.

I don't see how your example demonstrates the muddyness?
I got caught up in this. I even had several meetings with Caleb Harper. In the end a co-founder and I had a provisional patent on a wifi controlled relay ac power strip before they were ubiquitous. He chose to not pursue the patent and ended up patenting a bunch of software nonsense that's not dependable or understandable or usable. Meanwhile the folks making the power strip are doing well. There are some ag focused ones, check out Amazon.

In the end it was like a lot of VC cycles I've been through, all hat no cowboy.
I've had content insurance as a renter before, and it was useful (my flat was burgled; my flatmate did not have insurance).

That was a while ago, when things like CDs were still targetted by theives, and I got everything replaced, which would have cost me thousands.

I still keep contents insurance; haven't claimed on it more than once in a couple decades though - it's there for the case where my appartment is destroyed (I live in a block of flats), and it's nice to have the lost property/damaged devices cover for travel and general use.
You posted this 2 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38628373
Part of this issue is that most podcasts were designed to be free from the beginning, whereas music was always paid.

As a user, it makes sense to pay Spotify for music access, because Spotify, in turn, pays out a few fractions of a cent to the artist. But it doesn't really make sense to use Spotify premium for podcasts, when you can just download them directly or use various free RSS-based clients.

So why do so many people still consume podcasts on Spotify? 1. Because they're already on Spotify, so it's convenient, but more importantly... 2. Because Spotify realized they make more money if most of their users are paying, yet still consuming free (podcast) content. They don't pay out on podcasts per-stream like they do for a typical song. So ultimately, a premium user who consumes 100% podcast material is more profitable than a user who consumes 100% label-published music.

It's not a coincidence that Spotify has gradually taken over its homepage with podcast promotions, and promoted your "podcast library" as a first-class citizen, even placing it above your music library. It's all about profit margins, baby!
Netflix's fiscal year aligns with the calendar year.
For readers' reference, a "Seagate IronWolf Pro NAS 22 TB 3.5" 7200 RPM Internal Hard Drive" costs $399.99.

You would need at least 11 or 12 of these, running you $4,799.88 for the latter, plus tax and shipping, or one month of S3 storage in storage hardware alone.
Tidal Cuts over 10% of Staff Amid Austerity Moves by Jack Dorsey's Block
Like the other commenter said, these models aren't trained against images with an alpha channel. Given the same sized model that'd make typical results worse to benefit a niche case. You should be able to have them generate this style image on a background you can color key out though.
There are a few viruses with this behavior. The ones you mentioned are not.

It's likely just a matter of being unlucky this time that a well spreading virus stumbled upon this way of avoiding immune system which breaks it.

A bad case of Ebstein-Barr virus (a herpesvirus, causing mononucleosis) can set you down for life, for example. Certain bacteria like ones causing Lyme disease can do it too. You don't hear it talked about because they do not spread as readily.
The ad space exists and the city owns all the ad space. They either get in the business of pricing it and selling it themselves, or they contract that business out. In this case, a condition of the contract was you have to pay for the bike scheme.
What is the index of an empty string in an empty string?
Excel FIND(), Javascript string indexOf()/lastIndexOf() and Qt QString indexOf()/lastIndexOf() all give different answers and some of them aren't even internally consistent.
I doubt this is true, but would be interested in seeing evidence of the contrary.

Based on my anecdotal observations 99% of advertisements I see in my city are by gigantic international conglomerates: Coca Cola, Disney, H&M, HBO and so on. I don't recall seeing a local or small business advertising (ignoring signs on or near their own store front of course).

If anything it seems advertising works to entrench the existing players.
Google, Meta, Qualcomm team up to push for open digital ecosystems
Do you watch any sports on TV?

The amount of ads packed into an NBA basketball game on TV is startling and exhausting:

- each player's jersey
- arena walls
- courtside walls (tv screens)
- projected onto the court floor (updated each minute)
- on the side and top of the backboard
- most TV graphics ("Taco Bell play of the game")
- split-screen ads during free-throws
- traditional commercials during time-outs
All the numbers I have seen were 5 to 7 years of operational lifespan but I can not find a primary source from SpaceX at the moment. I think I also read that there are plans to increase the lifespan eventually with larger satellites, deployed using Starship.
All the problems you address are absolutely there.

But I have to say I have become pretty allergic whenever I hear anybody talk about "disrupting" an existing industry, for two reasons: (1) Existing industries are usually that way for a reason; often outsiders don't understand this until they have tried (and failed) to change things. (2) In those cases where industries were "successfully disrupted", I have the impression the result often just ended up exploiting people in different ways (looking at you, Uber and AirBnB.)
To bring Newag down if they don't pay the ransom, of course. Cue brainpower meme.
She's obliquely referencing Jacob Reese Mogg's sister who grew up in a Grade II listed home in Somerset, overlooking the medip hills. Her life experience is only slightly more relevant to the poverty crisis than the Salman of Saudi Arabia. There is no fucking perceived.
Yeah my company had a small RIF recently but it feels so much better for everyone when the severance is generous and the treatment is humane. Laying off people sucks, but knowing they'll have several months of continued income and health insurance makes it suck less.

A small startup I worked at shut down and they told us on ~Nov 15th that our pay and benefits would all be ending Dec 1st -- what an absolute nightmare for anyone with bills or a family.
Good list. Off the top of my head I would add Kicking & Screaming. Maybe The Souvenir too?
Some states (Iowa, at least, maybe Nebraska?) seem to have a rule that billboards have to be a certain distance away from the road - a fairly large distance. You have to work to read them. It makes them much easier to ignore.

I don't know if that's the rule for all roads, or just for interstates. I don't know if it's for driver safety if they veer off the road, or for avoiding distraction, or just to limit advertising. But I like it.
It takes great amount of skill to be mostly right and still come out as extremely entitled and unsympathetic. She passes with flying colors.

But reading her wikipedia controversy section - exactly what I expect from professional activist turned grifter

>In a January 2023 interview with Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian, Monroe acknowledged that she had recklessly spent money given by backers; she claimed "I'd go online absolutely shitfaced and buy nice furniture."[56] Hattenstone wrote "The guru of thriftiness was chucking away tens of thousands of pounds, given to her by the public to support her work, on items she didn't even want, let alone need", noting that she didn't deny she'd "abused the goodwill of well-meaning backers".[13]

>Writing for Pink News in September 2022, Lily Wakefield noted that Monroe has "faced accusations of inventing experiences of living in poverty",[57] while in October 2022 Killian Fox noted in The Guardian that "critics claim that she makes herself out to be poorer than she actually is".[58][57] In January 2023, Kathleen Stock (writing for UnHerd) stated that Monroe was "wedded to a narrative of personal struggle and sudden dramatic changes of fortune, for better or worse" with an "inability to keep a story straight about whether she's really a downtrodden victim of a cruel system or rather #winningatlife", which had given rise to "an army of determined internet sleuths" and "a multi-headed hydra of critics on Twitter"
From a solution perspective, if you want to move 240TB of data out of google drive, spin up a bunch of VMs in us-central1 and copy it into GCS buckets (keep bandwidth to each bucket under 500Gbps). From there, one could copy it out to Backblaze or Cloudflare R2.

240TB is going to be some coin, even on R2.
We have GPT 5 ready?
> There is no way this person wasn't aware of what was going to happen,

Sure. That's what it is. He's a grifter, grifting Google to try to shame them into giving him a quarter of a petabyte of storage for free. He knew all along that his data would be deleted, and waited to the last second because he figures this is a sure thing and he'll get to keep it forever. You caught him. I can't believe we all fell for it.

It's not as if non-technical people (and technical ones too!) can't be confused or overwhelmed, and he should have been able to telepathically read Google's collective hivemind that "goes into read-only mode" means "we'll delete all the shit you don't have room or time to put anywhere else".
Weird that the object detection prompt refused to answer. What other variations of that have we tried? Do you think that's an intentional task that was RLHF'd out or a quirk of some kind?

Thinking out loud some things I'd try:

Find the x/y position of the dog.

What is the center point of the dog?

Give the pixel coordinates (xywh) of the dog in this photo.

Simulate an object detection model trained to find dogs run on this photo; give your output in JSON format.
Sweeping generalizations, without any empathy or ability to understand circumstances different from your own is a recipe to become a person that is incapable of understanding others.

I don't see why this has to be some kind of common stance in the tech community. Yes many of us make decent money, but you have no idea what peoples life circumstances are. Learn some empathy before you comment.
Strong "dropbox is just rsync" HN vibes right here. Even if it were just "glorified" (whatever that means to you) S3, it would take labor resources to maintain. But it's also much more than that, it's a social service on top of the technical details that tries to maintain a strong security layer.
Backblaze does this
The Synapse Matrix server is now AGPLv3
Don't know. I'm not talking about legalities, I'm talking about ethics. I'm talking about getting actual consent, not the fake "consent" that tends to get snuck into contracts.
I get the impression you don’t grasp what the word “inflation” means, I think you are confusing it with the word “prices.”
IMHO The perceived lack of creativity comes from their low fidelity access to the world. They are trained on text and images which loosely captures the world and then their output is also limited to text and images.

Once the machines have high fidelity connection to the world, for example a machine with microphone, camera and ways to manipulate objects resides among humans they will be actually trained and generate output on much higher spectrum.

Human's creativity comes from continuous observation as they mess with the world. Once the machine is in that position, I fully expect tho have human like and even beyond creativity.
> Borders have two sides. Gaza controls one side of her border, Egypt and Israel control the other. No state has control over both sides of its borders, not even in the Schengen states or the US.

Yes, but the kind of blockade that Israel employs around Gaza would be considered an act of war by essentially every state on earth.

I think this idea you have that Palestinians are oppressed by basically everybody except Israel is totally insane, and comes across as strategic blindness rather than honest conviction. If you just go to Hebron, you have to be pretty deluded not to see oppression, even if you're unwilling to think through the fact that Israel having defacto power in the West Bank entails that the rights of Palestinians are being denied by Israel, and it's immaterial whether that's by commission or omission, even if you're going to ignore any of the many ways in which the Palestinians rights are regularly infringed by Israeli security forces.
I don't like the billboards in my city (it's light pollution and it distracts me from driving at night), but I also have to agree with you. I came at a point where I had to do some marketing/advertisement for my website system and instead of throwing money in the black hole of Google and Facebook, I opted for addressed postal mail on one hand and placing some small billboards around my city. The results were mixed, but it felt good to not being dependent on online marketing.
Appreciate it!!!
A personal budgeting app for my household that shows instant effects of every financial decision into the future (up to 40 years)
When people say "inflation is easing," they do not mean negative inflation. We have a word for that: deflation. "Inflation is easing" means the rate of inflation is declining. If they meant deflation, they would say deflation, not easing inflation.

One a new price level is hit, if it is then stabilized, the price level is not inherently good or bad. The goodness or badness of prices is based on the purchasing power that people have to buy those goods. Real wages are still up, so it's not obvious that "things are getting worse."
A small business likely would - at least at the customers expense. A medium size business might if you could talk to a reasonable person in the right department and they had the time to do it. Its beyond the ability of a large company.

This is what people are actually angry about. As a company gets more and more successful (size/revenue) it becomes less capable at going above and beyond for the majority of their customers. And we live in a world of increasingly large hyper consolidated companies. It feels like its only going to get worse from here. IMO thats where the legitimate angst is. Its going to get worse.