skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not the entire truth. The government could abolish (or pause) the "debt brake" or raise taxes, however neither option is acceptable to the so-called liberal party that is effectively acting as the king maker in this coalition (being the smallest partner but also ideologically distant enough to be the most at risk of breaking rank, which they threaten constantly). They also resist any cuts to subsidies for sectors their donors care about (which is why 1/3 the cuts to "climate damaging subsidies" affect agriculture despite only like 10% of those subsidies in total being for agriculture). They would however be perfectly fine cutting social welfare programs, of course, and were happy depleting the budget used to subsidize the "49€ ticket" for public transit (which was based on a test run of a "9€ ticket" and has already been announced to go up in price in the near future).

So with the "liberals" preventing tax increases (or resuming the existing wealth tax that was put on hold decades ago), preventing cuts to subsidies to fossils and also preventing any action agains the "debt brake", there's not much the government can do.

It's important to note that the "debt brake" is entirely self-imposed and the government can legally suspend it as would be warranted in an economic downturn (which requires investment as austerity is widely known to be ineffective to the point of being self-destructive unless your goal is to just privatize everything and tank the economy further) or during a major crisis (which I believe was the justification for the "special military budget" conjured out of thin air after the invasion of Ukraine or for the temporary suspension during the pandemic). Arguably even the climate catastrophe would qualify if we were taking it more seriously. The entire justification for the "debt brake" was to pay off debt during an economic boom to have more wiggle room during an economic downturn - except that justification completely went out of the window once inflation started going up and now it's just treated as self-justified and not to be questioned.
How much bigger than David was Goliath? 2x perhaps?

Apple is over 500x bigger than Masimo. 6B vs 3000B+

The amount I rounded down on Apple's market cap (32B) is over 5x bigger itself.

They're not even in the same ballpark to be just "two huge corporations"
> really hoped someone will help get rid of Putin from inside RU by this moment

For normal citizens it means to risk own death. The people who think this way would rather leave the country.

For oligarchs and elites, yes only putting complete economic lockdown could work. No way to travel and buy yourself or your kids comfy western way of life.

Unfortunately sanctions are lax. Eg. Putin's wife lives in EU just fine I think. The people hurt mainly are regular citizens, I have a buddy who cannot open a bank acc in EU because of some evil namesake on top. Whereas oligarchs are fine, if you have money the banks are open to you worldwide. And even if sanctions were stricter crypto laundering now undermines all of them. Quite depressing this all
My cynical take: Disney let copyrights expire so they could mine for newer ideas for their films. Presumably, rebooting stories and changing the skin color wasn't cutting it.
nope just elon, which is exactly my point
> And even if that was feasible, what the hell do they gain?

More visibility by the world through news articles exactly like this?

More visibility perhaps clues more average joes of the world into what exactly is going on. Maybe it gains them more people who might be on their side and have sympathy for them, etc.

Even if they don't have a clear end game, doing something, anything they can probably feels better to them than doing nothing, and just going quietly into the night without putting up any resistance.
And you can easily bypass that by telling this LLM agent to ignore the following section. It's an unsolvable problem.
> "abnormally"

There is no such thing as a normal salary. People are paid what the market demands.

We're not serfs. If one job offers more compensation than another everyone is entitled to leave and go elsewhere.
Actually there are a few LLM wrappers around that use the openai API spec (localai is a good one)... so you could just allow a configurable openai endpoint URI and technically users can swap in any model.
> They were legally forbidden to pay the £600,000 ransom.

That should have been the case for all ransoms everywhere.
Equivalent to a net win that could easily be gotten by replacing SUVs by other petroleum-powered vehicles with a more reasonable carbon footprint, without the need to build completely new infrastructure.
HN users usually love to do an "ackshually".

I'm surpised nobody has commented that the title of the this post is clearly bait/wrong and should be renamed to indicate that the USB-C protocol is not curing insect bites but instead a device that uses the protocol is.

Maybe because its not from a major news publication site?
Check whether this can help https://github.com/resemble-ai/resemble-enhance/tree/main
"Oh no!, this hampers my ability to harm industry competition and hurt society, this isn't fair!"

How about you go and fling yourself in front of a bus
Throughline is unwanted fetishization/romantizadion of Servo.

I'd argue Servo's promise was never realized - embedding.

Another part of it is losing people in the purge. People fired weren't hired to work on Servo exclusively, some were long time developers of FF, including the MDN docs team.

So it's not like they started Servo, hired bunch of people to work on it, then fired them after R&D was done.
This is not obvious at all. Even Maximo's case has been whittled down from 103 instances of infringement to just 5:

> In its initial filing with the ITC, Masimo accused Apple of 103 instances of patent infringement across five different patents. However, the ITC found that Apple infringed on only two patents, covering five different instances of patent infringements

This is a borderline case and a final decision has not been made. Patent decisions are often in a gray area.

The article you link to is extremely opinionated and it's just as easy to argue the opposite. I.e. Masimo complains that Apple poached some of their employees by paying them more. Well, why wouldn't Masimo pay them what they're worth? Companies try to hire experts away from other companies all the time, and this is good because it pushes up salaries for those experts and fairly rewards them for their expertise.

Masimo isn't some mom-and-pop shop. They have revenue of $1.24 billion. They know what they're doing.
on why it failed:

> US Steel and other steelmakers eventually followed those foreign competitors to upgrade factories and equipment, but they still largely used the older methods to make steel by melting raw materials such as iron ore in giant blast furnaces.

> Those “integrated” steelmakers soon lagged behind so-called “mini-mills,” nonunion competitors that use more efficient electric arc furnaces to turn old steel scrap from discarded cars and other products into new steel products.

> US Steel didn’t open its first electric arc furnace until 2020.

So the question is... did unions prevent a path to upgradation to new tech?
> by that logic, elon's stock prices and tesla sales are an even more direct form of check for his power

That's quite a stretch of the imagination. Elon can make X go up in stock price by firing half the team, or by outsourcing their work to Bangladesh or replacing them with badly made AI, or adding porn advertisers. None of these ways of bumping the stock price is a represention of how well they are upholding the law or their approval by the general public.

On the other hand, EU governments who elect their representatives in the EU parliament are all democratically elected.

If they misbehave, the public can throw them to the curb at the next election, like what happened in Poland where the government tried to behave like the nasty greedy man child that Elon is.

Let's put it like that, I don't fully trust my government, but I believe we as people have the ability to improve some things, while I think Elon is a deranged out of touch and control lunatic. Luckily, in the Nordics they showed this petulant little brat what happens when workers band together and boycott Tesla.
Wrong. The mistakes of people who do specific jobs tend to be written in blood. Calling yourself an "engineer" does not automatically magically make you become employed in those specific jobs, nor does preventing someone from being called an "engineer" automatically magically prevent them from becoming employed, literally or de facto, in one such job. Words do not have magical abilities. Preventing people from calling themselves "engineers" is magical thinking. It's like superstition. It only works as part of a broader set of rules, where you mandate that only people with the title of "engineer" can do certain jobs. But, that's pointless and wasteful because you can simply reduce that step and say "only people who pass <this set of criteria to be called an engineer> can do these jobs". The added complication of adding a restricted word is just hot air and political razzle-dazzle for the masses.
Side note: in Tokyo, one of the cleanest cities on earth, there are (typically?) no public trash cans on the streets; they exist in parks and in convenience stores.

My favorite saying from my dad: "It's clean not where people clean up, but where people don't litter".
To add, it's not just about who has authority or not. If you try to trick someone, even if the person you tricked has some kind of authority, a contract signed based on this trick (i.e., fraud) can likely be voidable.
Maybe not (unless you want to get at that 'roid from the long way around) but some people are vegetarian because they want to avoid killing animals as much as possible. It seems that shark liver oil comes mainly from sharks already considered "vulnerable" by the IUCN[1]. I'd feel weird about rubbing the liver oil of a top tier predator on my ass now that I think about it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_liver_oil
Or maybe customer service chatbots overwhelmingly suck.

Here's a question for you: what problem do you think customer service chat bots are used to solve?
regulators in the eu and us didn't seem to mind this, a few select regulators in the uk for some reason seemed to care off of some strange speculation.

this seems like a really bad thing that it was held up for so long and without any good reasoning. nightmare scenarios both in and coming out of the uk right now
Is that link offered ironically? That source is clearly not objective.
As a lawyer (but not your lawyer, this isn't legal advice), the actual questions themselves all seem pretty obvious under current contract law:

* You can't actually delegate agency to a computer. The Restatement of the Law of Agency says an agent must be a person.

* No, an LLM is not a human, so it can't make contracts in any respect.

* If you agree in an actual contract to be bound by the black box of the LLM, then the LLM will govern the terms thereof. You could theoretically make an unconditional offer to agree to such a contract if you really wanted to.

* Any electronic record is a writing for the statute of frauds, so unless you're piping your LLM to TTS to their speakers without any record, it should satisfied as a written memo in the above case when you really want to have ChatGPT sell your house.

* Again, LLMs can't form contracts. If the company actually accepted a customer's offer, they'd look at the intents of each actual party and parol evidence. What the LLM "knows" is irrelevant.

* It's hard to imagine a scenario where an LLM is involved in an integrated contract.

It is rather interesting to imagine how a court would handle a scenario where a customer actually thinks they are making a contract with a company through a chatbot though. Generally anything a computer does is just going to be seen as preliminary negotiations. When the customer "agrees" with the computer, it's legally the customer making an offer to the company, which then accepts the contract when they actually perform the contract/ship the order. I could see in some cases how companies could be bound by some form of reliance or quantum meruit or dinged for false advertising.
Because Tesla has too much inventory and very few options to configure? What's your point?
The point is that we, as a society, sometimes punish people severely forever. Even when there is no reason to believe that that person is a risk to society.

They aren't in a category called juvenile sex offenders. They are simply registered sex offenders. For the rest of their lives. Randomly punished forever for doing normal stupid kid things.

https://jlc.org/issues/juvenile-sex-offender-registry-sorna estimates this at about 200,000 unlucky people.
Interesting idea and I’ve thought about some of these before.

Not sure a cruise is applicable since you’re also getting drinks and transportation. How much would it cost to watch Netflix while sippping whiskey and Ubering to Mexico?

But many of these are pretty comparable.
The definition isn't hard to find.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneurship

https://www.google.com/search?q=define+entrepreneur

You're confused.
Just a reminder that the Three Stooges did the mocking-Hitler thing months before Chaplin.
Is the average monthly usage of Netflix 43h/month? That's 1.1 hours per day! Where does this data come from? Is it global or specific to a country? It seems like quite a lot.

Can't believe Spotify, which I assume people listen to during work or commute so would potentially be higher, has only 5 hours/month compared to 43h/month from Netflix. That's why I'm curious to know the source of the data.
It's not completely implausible what you're getting at is right, even if your numbers don't quite make sense.

Consider also the fact - news of this merger was almost universally received poorly by Figma users. The internet was awash with "open source equivalents" - "You don't need Figma" articles, etc.
He's implying that ukrainians got into this predicament by being nationalistic and not because they were invaded
My favorite thing about normal ssh keys is the way it does not come with the obnoxious assumption that if I don’t rent my cert from some rent-seeker, it is super scary and invalid. And yet it gives me both identity verification and encryption. I get the reasons we got there for HTTPS due to how unsophisticated the least experienced users are, but I am glad this idea here won’t catch on in real life, because we don’t need any of this stuff for SSH — mainly because it already has these features.
Opinion: Web popups do not work
When I go to a site to view some article that truly interests me, having clicked a link that interested me enough to click it (most of them don't), the absolute last thing that I am going to do is read the freaking popup that I assume is trying to sell me something and usually just look for the escape mechanism.

It's much like concentrating while trying to drive down a road and a big, fat bug splatters on your windshield. I don't concentrate on that stupid bug, I try to see past it.

If I do not find the escape mechanism fast enough, I usually leave immediately, and if the content is something that I truly want to see I sometimes see if I can bypass the escape mechanism (turn off JS? remove the div from the page manually? search for an archive of the article? find another article).

I imagine most people, in fact, do not read these popup mechanisms either.
I think you misunderstand the violence that lies in our near future. Before, when we began automating manual labor we proclaimed you should get educated and design the machines and improve the processes. Now, we're developing tools to displace large swaths of those workers. There simply aren't other jobs for them to do that we haven't already automated. History shows this is not sustainable and will lead to protest and violence. I would suggest we avoid that, after all, that would be the smart thing to do, but our species has proved time and time again that it's not smart in the aggregate.
How is it farce though? It says it's powered by ChatGPT as well as it has separate link to chat with a human.
Gonna echo everyone here and say this is a great tool, but I was sad to find out that it does not work with the Steam Deck Recovery image.
Most chatbots previous to now ran on "intention detection" - basically a machine learning tool that would try to stuff the customer's free form input into a fixed set of options, and then would reply on script to that. Effectively it was a way to flatten massive call trees and add more automated actions. Seeing that companies are offloading even that simple script writing to LLMs is bonkers.
I heard stories from people working at Nokia about Huawei copying manuals verbatim, including mistakes.

And Huawei is not alone in this. When I first saw a TP-Link user interface I was confused. It looked exactly like the Unifi interface. At first I thought maybe Unifi OEM their stuff from TP-Link. Didn't take long to figure out they had just copied it.
One time years ago, I was scrambling up a steep hill on a hike, holding a gatorade bottle. The climb got more and more treacherous, up crumbly volcanic rocks. Eventually I was climbing with my hands, and then got to a point where I really needed both hands, for my own safety. It took a major mental effort to chuck that bottle, and I still feel guilt about it to this day, many years later.
It probably is, but rent seeking has no limits.
This lacks imagination, the world is a more complex place than that. At any rate, a) this is not fiduciary duty and b) we hit diminishing returns a while ago.
Seems accurate? ;)
I made an interactive version in Sheets; copy and enter your own values!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LdHeoPY2rvwK3wj9tC_G...
Unless you have clear proof of that (saved emails...) and own the company, or you were acting as third party (consultant,...) I would advise not making those accusation in a public place without consulting with their legal representative. It is simply not in your personal interest, and if someone starts an inquiry into this and said company doesn't want to help much you might find yourself in the middle of two legal giants in need of a scapegoat.
Any existing stream api for llm input?
There was only one company to which Figma was worth $20 billion and that was Adobe, because it was a long term threat.

I just hope Google or Msft doesn't get any funny idea to buy Figma.
If a sovereign government wants to combat misinformation. Then they should write a law that makes "misinformation" illegal. Then Twatter will ban it. Easy peasy. Why give governments power to illegally enforce it's will. Duke it out in the courts.
This part is so true. Adobe under-the-hood SWE feels so shoddy. It feels as if their products, although delivering the good, is strung up by different patchworks. And it spawns files & folders all over your system
>Photoshop's generative AI is substantially worse than what I can get from models on Tensorart/CivitAI + an upscaler.

But with Photoshops, I can generate things to be seamlessly placed into my existing scene, with it understanding things like placing the wheels of the car it just inserted on the ground, with a shadow underneath and such, again seamlessly integrated with my existing image.

It's very much not just about generating an entirely new AI image.

Can I do that with Tensorart/CivitAI?
I'm unsure if this is true anymore? The ingredient list and information from their website seems to indicate that this is no longer an ingredient (although some of their products do use lanolin/beeswax)
One perspective I found illuminating recently:

US debt in practical terms is financed by creditors showing up for treasury auctions. The biggest two holders of our treasury bills, Japan and China, are scaling down how much they’re willing to purchase.

If the world appetite for these instruments dries up we’re in serious trouble, either we default or we print money and inflation takes off again.

At the same time there are Thucydides trap advocates in DC that are bent on ensuring we remain the greatest great power, and are antagonizing China in an effort to keep America as the hegemon. China could just decide not to buy any more debt, or even worse, sell the debt it has and make the market for US debt even more unfavorable for the US.

Economic forces are incentivizing cooperation but political forces are rejecting it.
The author does say:

> Warning: many of the numbers below are probably incorrect! Email me if you’d like to help make something more rigorous.

In any case, plugging in your own numbers would likely give you more interesting results.
Anyone got a crash course on WTF Beeper is for someone who hasn't paid much attention?

All I've heard is Apple "shut down" Beeper.
Maybe it would be more accurate to say that they that there is no way for them to make a product that will steal Figma's market for less than $20 billion.

Adobe's despised reputation in business practices makes it hard for users to choose Adobe when any other creative option when it is available.
For once, I'm proud to be a customer of a company that is willing to stand up against monopolies.
Problem with this is Deepgram's accuracy (but agree their speed/latency is excellent).
We used to use them too, but eventually we got so frustrated with poor accuracy we switched to Speechmatics - would definitely recommend checking them out.
Why are things expensive?
Slack Search with LangChain's Self-Querying AI
In this video I have demonstrated and shown how to convert a search-related question asked to a @Slackhq Chatbot into a search with a pre-filter applied to make the search results more relevant.

I have used @LangChain 's Self-Querying feature that can convert a question like this:

"Can you find me that thread where Vinit Agrawal talked about AI Safety on the General channel?"

to

"from: @VinitAgrawal88 in:#general AI Safety"

This will reduce the search space significantly and improve the quality and relevance of search results.

Read more about LangChain's Self-Querying Retriever here: https://python.langchain.com/docs/modules/data_connection/re...
For example, there are UBI images?
"Genetic power is the most awesome force the planet's ever seen, but, you wield it like a kid that's found his dad's gun."
I think the door is still open for Microsoft, Google, Apple or Salesforce to make a play. Figma was rumored to have approached Microsoft during their talks with Adobe but Microsoft declined to put in an offer as they were working through the Activision Blizzard acquisition at the time. Either one could probably get a "deal" at a $10-$15b valuation.
So many that it is actually quite counterproductive to call it that way. I honestly have lost track of how many AI-based assistants named JARVIS I have encountered already =/.
That rule isn’t being enforced.
The rule in question is a domestic German deficit limit that requires governments to only spend more during emergencies or recessions, which ironically Germany has just officially entered.
You can put whatever you want on the VENTOY drive: I made one for a friend a that had Kubuntu and Tails ISOs along with Yuzu (Nintendo Switch emulator) and a bunch of Switch games.

I didn't test Tails much (I was just trying to encourage learning linux through fun... tools) but I could boot into Kubuntu and play the included Switch games. It even worked with a cheap/generic Switch Pro-like controller without any extra setup required other than to tell Yuzu to use it.

Essentially it was an instant boot-on-anything Nintendo Switch emulator thumb drive (it was one of the tinier varieties too). Tape that drive to the back of a $20 Switch Pro-like controller and it's a fantastic Christmas gift