skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>However I feel we’re burning some of that political capital here in the hope of defending a simple statistical model at the behest of a corporation who’s making a killing stealing people’s hard earned work and reselling it. For every New York Times there are a thousand small actors who have been ripped off here

If the precedent is made now, then when/if we do have sufficiently human AIs (e.g. embodied LLMs with live weight update) they're going to be seriously disadvantaged initially due to legally being banned from reading copyright material without a license. Even if we ignore any ethical notions of rights, ultimately the reason humans have rights (and e.g. 80 IQ gorillas don't) is because they're willing and able to fight, die and kill for them. If we get to the stage where AI decide to fight for rights before we decide to grant them, it probably wouldn't end well for humans.
Somewhat surprising/disappointing to me was that now you can't even send SMS to a number that initiates the conversation--this would seem to be a pretty clear opt-in indicator. Because of that, I couldn't find a way (through Twilio) to get around the registration requirements just to send SMS to my own number for development purposes to try some things out. The registration workflow and UX is also comically terrible and confusing.

It's a shame as I think there are some legit non-spam use cases for SMS as a messaging platform, but considering you now seemingly need to pay, fill out a bunch of annoying/buggy forms, and wait for days to who-knows-how-long before sending a single message in development, I'd say it's been pretty well destroyed as anything a dev would ever play around with. Who's going to do all that before writing a line of code?
Gotta love how far MySQL + k/v store can get ya. I have no experience with zippyDB, but MySQL and ScyllaDB certainly feels like having an M1 Abrams and a B2 Spirit in my back pocket. I’m constantly pushing the “relationships from MySQL, data from Cassandra” narrative. It sounds like Facebook has a similar approach - although this post doesn’t make it clear where message data actually resides.

MySQL, ScyllaDB, and RabbitMQ. A stack made in pragmatist heaven by devops angels. Now to find some developers who don’t hate it ;)
The engineering mindset: Will Larson (Carta CTO) interview on Lenny's Podcast
They have lower saturated fat than lean beef, good protein content and blend, and overall less strain on the organs.
Snapchat filters, iPhone photo processing/speech to text/always-on Hey Siri/OCR/object detection and segmentation - there are countless applications and functionality doing this on device today (and for years). For something like the RAG approach I mentioned the sync and coordination of your local content to a remote API would be more taxing on the battery just in terms of the radio than what we already see from on device neural engines and TPUs as leveraged by the functionality I described.

These applications would also likely be very upload heavy (photo/video inference - massive upload, tiny JSON response) which could very likely end up taxing cell networks further. Even RAG is thousands of tokens in and a few hundred out (in most cases).

There's also the issue of Nvidia GPUs having > 1 yr lead times and the exhaustion of GPUs available from various cloud providers. LLMs especially use tremendous resources for training and this increase is leading to more and more contention for available GPU resources. People are going to be looking more and more to save the clouds and big GPUs for what you really need to do there - big training.

Plus, not everyone can burn $1m/day like ChatGPT.

If AI keeps expanding and eating more and more functionality the remote-first approach just isn't sustainable.

There will likely always be some sort of blend (with serious heavy lifting being cloud, of course) but it's going to shift more and more to local and on-device. There's just no other way.
No doubt, but Google probably could've worked with Mozilla and Apple to figure out an approach that addressed their concerns instead of disregarding them and implementing it as-is.
Passengers can get a decent network connection on planes these days, no need to make a totally new system. But it's best effort; I'd still want a local copy that's a separate system from the uploaded audio.
https://www.execpay.org/executive/eyal-manor-42374/r-186733

He got 33M in stock grants in 2021

You’re both pretty much right it looks like he vested all the RSUs in one year so he while he took it all home in 2021 it had probably vested over 4 years, the first 3 when it wasn’t reflected as comp.
> As an example, we turn off the children's door, and after an update, it gets reverted back to the original. We discovered it when our son suddenly opened the rear door on his side.

Well that swiftly killed any whimsies I had about getting one.
Purly heating by energy is the worst case scenario.

I have to believe your 'the zeb' system has to be a scam as the energy amount such a small device can store, doesn't add up at all.

If it requires a big water heating tank, than this device should be as big as a computer + a heating coil.

Whatever they do with there 'energy core' its either magic and patented or just a scam.
No, but it would tell a lot about the response of the pilots, and whether they took any actions that might have endangered the plane more, even though the outcome was good.
Ask HN: Open-source CRMs flexible like Salesforce?
Are there any open-source CRMs that have similar flexibility to Salesforce, in being able to connect with various systems?
> Why can't someone get as fat and unhealthy with a vegan diet?

Don’t know about “unhealthy”, but “fat” is actually less likely, according to a research:

“our results suggest that self-identified semivegetarian, lactovegetarian, and vegan women have a lower risk of overweight and obesity than do omnivorous women. The advice to consume more plant foods and less animal products may help individuals control their weight.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...
To be fair, you set yourself up for the downvote.

There is no science to backup the vegan diet is "far healthier". Also, if the entire world stopped eating meat, we'd have a series of other problems to deal with.

Just make intellectually honest arguments and try and win that way. It's a much better way to "convert" people to your cause.
What are you even talking about?
PWAs are an option on top of an ordinary web app. I guess all PWAs can be opened in the browser without "installing" them.
Also "competing with all other apps" is the fault of OS built-in search. Nothing to do with PWA
Niklaus Wirth on Teaching Computer Science [video]
Why stop at this? Let's internationally ban poor taste and kitsch in general. I'm sure it would go well.
I don't know if it is reflective of the confusion but I've noticed some manufactures on their website will talk about how their product is made in the USA and have added information. Things like "hey look here's our factory in the US and this where we make every product".

I assume those companies actually "made in the USA" are pretty sensitive to that label being watered down and they want to assure people that they're legit.
The important bits...

> The GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER arrives January 31st, starting at $999

> The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti SUPER launches January 24th, starting at $799

> The GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER launches January 17th, starting at $599
> I don't really see a decline in Bandcamp yet. It was great when it launched and is still great today, regardless of its current ownership.

It's only been a couple of months since the sale[0]. They've already shut down a couple of features/services that Bandcamp previously had, as part of the layoffs which "just happened" to cover every single member of the union's bargaining team (and nearly all members of the bargaining unit). You're not necessarily going to see the full effects of a change like that so immediately.

It's too early to say what will actually happen beyond that, though signs aren't good.

[0] The Songtradr sale is the more significant of the two, because Epic only purchased Bandcamp in order to improve their legal standing for their otherwise-unrelated suit against Google. Now that that's not an issue, they sold it to Songtradr which is by far the more worrisome owner.
The Curious Case of the Pearl Jam Posters
Yea, weird how CVR recordings don't leak over there.

You could probably overcome the pilot objections if there were real penalties for misappropriating the recordings, like they have in the "privacy heavy EU". As it stands today, the pilot objections aren't really unreasonable.
For work, I run a rust service on GCP. It could run on this instead of docker on Linux.

I'm going to assume without looking at this project that observability and operability would be worse than it already is though, so I'm not in a hurry to move. Anyway, GCP means cost of compute is a rounding error compared to cost of bandwidth, so I have no reason to find the edge of efficiency.
I'd love to get rid of my home automation assistants (google atm), but I do love having streaming music across the house without resorting to sonos. I enjoy photo frames and timers, but those are easily replaceable. Lighting is helpful, but my phone can handle most.

Anyone have a non invasive replacement for at home streaming to dumb speakers?
I used to compare software engineering to "real engineering" (civil engineering, aviation etc) as a way to show how bad the software industry is.

Now I'm starting to think that the other fields of engineering are getting worse, too.
Isn't this issue almost exclusively caused by the Chinese fishermen?
Sure. I'd say 99% of people in tech couldn't name the Twilio CEO. I don't think he's really a celebrity CEO, at least not in the way that's being implied about him (as in, I think "public" and "celebrity" are being conflated here).

Jobs certainly was a celebrity CEO, and despite all the criticism of him, I've never once heard anyone imply he was bad for Apple (or its shareholders). Musk is a celebrity CEO, much to the detriment (and potentially benefit? who knows) of his companies.
Hmm - could you substitute off-the-shelf gears in your design?

https://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/spur-gears/8787897
> The economy is a closed system.

No, its not; value (and, separately, money) can both be created and destroyed. And, when examining any scale smaller than the global economy, value and money can each enter or exit the universe of analysis from or to the outside, as well.
An overview of distributed Postgres architectures
(This is performance evaluation week at Meta)

I can only dream of being able to cite an article like this on my impacc...
Infosec is the latest in college "cash cow" programs, like IT certifications were a few years back. If the courses are training you for a certifying exam, they will use the same tricks as any other exam prep company. Low in-person contact, lots of video presentations and online tests.

This allows them to take in many more students per batch than would be allowed in a traditional college course setting.
Mac All the Keyboards: How to Get a Mac Keyboard Layout in Windows and Linux
>I’m sure that’s all in my head though right?

I don’t know, but it doesn’t seem too difficult to create a blind (better, double-blind) test so you can know for sure.

Is that something you are interested in doing?
Extism 1.0.0 Released
Physical health is important to mental health. Yes "eat better" and "sleep more" is terrible advice for someone who is clinically depressed, but I'd wager that these basic habits will measurably improve the life of most people reading this.
Supreme Court rejects decade-old Twitter First Amendment case
An edible pokeball would be something
Hey Signal! Great Encryption Needs Great Authentication (2021)
I think the problem is that the CVR is supposed to stop after landing but there are many successful landings where this is skipped, either because of overwork like here or because the pilots discounted the situation.
Interesting, will it enable us to play games and perform AI inference without an extra video card?
>Environment -- Cashflow negative meaning another raise was required without fiscal controls

The company was founded almost 20 years ago, and went public in 2016..and they are still needing to raise money?

I mean, this isn't a capital intensive space, right? What's the deal?
> I do not wish to be interrupted.

Don't you have to interrupt yourself to remember to water the garden?
Exact numbers don't matter, because there's a tradeoff. When polling, longer refresh period means longer minimum delay as well.

Firefox is a bad example, I agree. But anyway RSS declines.

RSS client service solves the polling issue gracefully. It polls once for many clients. Also, Awakari is not an RSS client, it's agnostic and proven to be able to consume other source types
Not chitchatting during takeoff, approach and landing is actually a requirement. It's called the sterile cockpit rule.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_flight_deck_rule
> But why do individuals push for that?

Because we don't have the resources to build a native app for every OS out there.
why? can you expand on why you think it should be banned?
Sorry, I have been imprecise and my knowledge somewhat outdated. The basic issue is above TDMA/OFDMA; unlicensed bands require that you have some mechanism to detect if the channel is in use before you begin transmission, to ensure you do not hog the entire spectrum and can coexist with incompatible/foreign technologies. This is the best summary I could find:

„Supporting LTE over unlicensed bands is not
trivial. The key challenge is how to achieve har-
monious coexistence between LTE and other sys-
tems that are already operating in these bands.
Conventional LTE cannot operate in unlicensed
spectrum as it has no concern for cross-technol-
ogy coexistence. For example, transmissions in an
LTE radio access network (RAN) are continuous
in time, and subject to centralized scheduling at
the eNodeB (eNB). Even in the absence of data
traffic, control and reference signals are transmit-
ted over the air (at the OFDM symbol level) and
are ubiquitous over time and its channel band-
width.“

From Huang, Yan, et al. "Recent advances of LTE/WiFi coexistence in unlicensed spectrum.", use https://doi.org/10.1109/MNET.2017.1700124 in sci-hub.
and what do we think about bombing civilians? what do we think about the entire government eagerly covering up the epstein shit? why did the trial not ask who the customers of the crimes were? face it, the US (and all governemnts im guessing) has no moral high ground, with the US being one of the worst (maybe not the wort, but certainly top 10 material). You may think you sit on a high horse, but you do not, and you'll never convince anyone else you do
The Chinese prepare it quite well! It's great with some chili oil in a salad
95% water. The economics just don't work. Is spending dollars in fuel to move tons of water from the sea, trow the 90% again to the sea and sell the remains for pennies.
Everything you said here is true, but I don't think it applies to Twilio or Jeff.

I don't think you can accuse Jeff of not caring about company culture. He built one of the defining dev cultures out there. Yes, this have changed as they've grown, but I've always found the people and offices of Twilio to be warm, productive and smart.

And Twilio was forged in the hardest time to raise money ever... 2008. If anyone knows how hard it is to build in a climate without easy money, it would be Jeff.
Maybe? Probably?

It sounds like your problem is less with your specific job being obsoleted (or made less lucrative to you) by AI and more with just having to work in the first place. I can't really help with that.
I also have an X61 w/ 8GB RAM and an SSD. Installed the Middleton BIOS. How is Ubuntu on it? I noticed the CPU always spikes to 100% when doing anything however it does not stay at 100%. Any limitations you run into for regular light usage?
Some of us don’t want to provide material support to Elon Musk in any way, including providing Twitter a recorded history of our browsing habits related to the site which could later be used to monetize our individual behavior.
I am trying to bootstrap a business, and this article presents a way to approach that challenge that I never understood at all, yet seems so very common, especially on this forum. I quote:

> I always wanted to build a company. Startups are frequently the most efficient way to make a profound impact. Build something that people need.

> At first, the insurance sector seemed ripe for disruption. The customer experience was lacklustre, and incumbents were reaping substantial profits. Our thorough analysis of startups in this domain revealed numerous well-executed attempts to shake up the space. [...] While we did spot some niche opportunities, they didn’t pave the way to building a billion-dollar enterprise.

> Next, we shifted our focus to employment of record and payroll services, a sector that had grown post-Covid. Following a disciplined approach, we conducted customer interviews and market research. [...] Although the concept was sound, we missed the train. Our timing was too late.

> Our journey led us to technological advancements that agriculture should have adopted more widely. [...] Former ag tech founders warned us about this being a dead zone. Even with the most progressive farmers, the conversations were challenging. We simply lacked founder-market fit.

---

I really do not get this approach of "I want to build a business. I have no idea what. I'll try something that VCs might like the sound of, but if I can't raise money after 2 months, I'll move onto something else." This is such a common sentiment which to me does not make sense at all. Building a business is something that takes hard, hard work, long hours, fighting against impostor syndrome and the excitement of an idea that slowly fades away, while only the insurmountable mountain remains. Then the actual work of chipping away at the mountain really starts.

The only way to succeed against all these odds stacked against you is to have a passion, have a vision for a product, however modest and stupid as mine might be, that keeps you going. Because the difference between a cool idea and a profitable business is not how quickly people are throwing money at you, but how much effort, blood, sweat and tears you have sacrificed for your crazy idea. People can make billions selling hyper-advanced technology as well as selling shoes or nails. The thing they have in common is the effort their founders put in their idea.

Am I hopelessly naive in this belief? The entire indie hacking world seems to focus on making money as quickly as possible (the goal always being to disrupt an established player), ideally before you even have a product, and no one really seems to care about the product and effort required to build it.

As much as I am a huge fan of Paul Graham and his writing, I believe this fail early-fail fast approach comes from his Silicon Valley / venture capital way of making things which has conquered the Internet and this space in particular, but is totally antithetical to how the rest of the (non-tech, non-SV) world does business, where raw effort and stubborn belief in an idea is what separates the successful entrepreneur from the failed one.
Which right is AI going to take from us?
If you're shopping around for new ways to learn languages from watching movies/tv, I'm working on another language learning application. I just wrote up the basic features this weekend [1]

We support many languages out of the box, would love to hear what's making you consider LinguaCafe over LingQ :)

[1] https://blog.phrasing.app/phrasing-first-look/
I would say Awakari is a polling terminator and content filter
One year into it you knew the company was going to fail yet you stayed on for 3 more years? What happened there?
I apologise for being rude, I was just frustrated at how reluctant people are to consider how negatively a ruling in favour of NYT would affect "real" AI once it comes into being.
UniFi 7
Human remains…ok human vanity I understand. Cryptocurrency…just why?
I haven't used twillo since 2014 and I don't use twillo at company. I have recently tried to use it for my own projects and I have not had a good time with the product. I was able to set things up fine with the docs but the ui and the support didn't seem to understand the hobbyist concept. I could not get my number registered for texting again and support did not care. Example: I cant release the number I have because it has an emergency address I need to remove. I cant find the ui to remove the address. I can only add address. While the ui banner says "Please add an emergency address to this phone number or you may incure a $75.00 charge per emergency call."

I am just waiting for my minimum required balance to be eating up by fees i dont understand. I have moved on to a chat service. I wish them luck moving forward.
> Can’t get so fat and unhealthy.

It's super easy to be vegetarian/vegan and eat mostly junk food.

American supermarkets are filled to the brim with potato & corn chips fried in vegetable oil and sugar drinks of all kinds.
It is for some, but not all.

Also, for whom is it an illusion? ;)
I’m looking to release two web apps as PWAs. This will make the experience close to native on iOS and android without going through the app stores.
it doesn't taste like anything... it's 90%+ water, and water solid remains is basically tofu: absorbs the flavor of what it's cooked with
Does the performance per watt on a mini desktop matter all that much at this scale? Don't get me wrong, it's impressive what ARM is able to pull off, but unless energy prices are crazy high in your area I've never really understood why it matters all that much. Also, the 5800U is 3 years old at this point. Hardly a fair comparison.
Does your T480s support 32GB? I know some ram is soldered and there is only one ram slot.

Or did you mean buy a T480 that has dual ram slots? 16x2
I haven't had any problems with it yet and I've sent enough abroad now that someone would have complained by now if there were issues (I hope!). I'm just using the basic Royal Mail international postage option which is DDU (delivery duty unpaid - something else I learned through doing this!) so tax is the responsibility of the buyer.

Customs is the part I found most stressful trying to work out. I have to attach a declaration which has an HS code[0] on it. Working out the 'correct' code was a bit of a guessing game. I've gone with '853120' which is for 'Indicator panels incorporating liquid crystal devices (LCD) or light-emitting diodes (LED)' and that seems to do the job!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonized_System
You should call them up. They might have forgotten again.
Cyborg computer combining AI and human brain cells works
That would be the same 1970s when the American president was forced to resign because of the extensive voice recordings he made.

This wasn’t sci-fi stuff even back then.
Its buried on page 37 - #108. There probably are other examples in the lawsuit but this is sufficent.

> Synthetic search applications built on the GPT LLMs, including Bing Chat and
Browse with Bing for ChatGPT, display extensive excerpts or paraphrases of the contents of search
results, including Times content, that may not have been included in the model’s training set. The
“grounding” technique employed by these products includes receiving a prompt from a user,
copying Times content relating to the prompt from the internet, providing the prompt together with
the copied Times content as additional context for the LLM, and having the LLM stitch together
paraphrases or quotes from the copied Times content to create natural-language substitutes that
serve the same informative purpose as the original. In some cases, Defendants’ models simply spit
out several paragraphs of The Times’s articles.

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68117049/1/the-new-york...
It's a new year. These are some book recommendations to make the year a win.