skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you send any sort of marketable product to China, expect that it can and will be duplicated and sold in competition with you.

China sells tons of products they cloned from something pre-existing. I know because I own some of it and I've seen lots of western companies making use of it too. Here are a couple of examples of products from Amazon that existed long before China started producing clones.

https://www.amazon.com/BIG-RED-TAM82012-Hydraulic-Carrying/d...

https://www.amazon.com/BILT-HARD-Vertical-4-Stroke-Compliant...

All that being said, my best advice is to refine your design locally first, before farming out mass prooduction. Lots of local machine shops can fabricate simple custom metal parts --- they exist just for this purpose.
The NYT needs to increase profits every quarter, just like everyone else. I have no doubt they will license their content to OpenAI. With the issue unsettled legally, right now, I suspect the NYT doesn't think OpenAI is offering them a fair deal.
So true. The value of the email to a business is $x if delivered and $0 if it isn't.

You can make money if you can reliably deliver an email for < $x, which is not a trivial problem.
I don't know much about the subject matter, but the minimalist website is so refreshing. The content is front and center, unvarnished and not occluded by various UI bells and whistles. I miss this version of the web. Navigating between pages actually seem to work as fast (if not faster) than many "modern" single page / progressive web apps.
Most professions do work like that, actually.
I mentioned this in a prior HN thread on this:

Rip C:\Program Files\Windows NT\Accessories and back it up somewhere. WordPad.exe is standalone. If you're running Win7+ you'll need the en-us/muis/etc, if you pull from an XP install wordpad.exe is all you'll ever need to do.

Bonus points if you just grab a Windows XP iso and deflate wordpad.exe from the install image - copy WORDPAD.EX_ from the i386 folder and just run "expand wordpad.ex_ wordpad.exe".
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Procuring health insurance is not tied to a job in the US, since 2011 or so. Anyone can buy health insurance at healthcare.gov.

They just usually cannot afford it, even though there are subsidies available, most people will not earn or save enough to pay the deductibles / out of pocket max.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_tax_credit
To every American posting that NY Times piece about high speed rail in Europe - I can sort of forgive you, as Europe’s trains are better than America’s

To every European posting the piece - it’s superficial PR guff from the rail industry, semi formed into an article. You can do better!

https://gruene.social/@jon/111714851047117612 follow his account for why trains in europe need help
It sounds racist.
> what would the effects be on the competitiveness of the US AI industry against other countries that aren't beholden to the ruling?

If it is found to be breach of copyright then the berne convention comes into play which makes it hard(er) for international offerings to exist.
> Even a simple form submission can be a PITA with modern tools.

SPA excel in complex interactions if you need only very simple forms it will be PITA
I see the role of the arbitrator a little differently here: the workplace definition is geared for an employee who posts inflammatory things and then hides behind the “just kidding, you uppity types have no sense of humor” with a wink. They tried to use it on a comedian and got slapped down-independent of whether he was funny, he was foremost a comedian, not just an asshole hiding behind the defense that a reasonable person understands his trolling post-hoc attempt at comedy.
That would require the model to have the ability to attribute what training data sources it’s using to respond to a specific prompt, which AFAIK isn’t really compatible with how LLMs work.
That’s not what the linked story says. It says that the top case beat the market by 200% and that it was through an Nvidia position purchased 4 years ago. The Congress person in question hasn’t made a single trade in the last 3 years.

The 10th best position was 63% better than the s&p. That’s just a touch better than keeping your money in qqq.

There might be evidence of congressional insider trading but the bare numbers aren’t it. In a population of 540 people you’d probably find similar outliers to what that article outlines.
There is a lot of IoT: autonomous forklifts in a parking lot, TVs that upload which TV shows you watched, oil pumps in the middle of nowhere, smart meters. Some make more sense, others less. But yeah, often consumer privacy and user control of the devices they bought is not the priority of the IoT activated device manufacturers.
women of color was a thrid wave feminist creation. it was made by white women to describe the non-whites that were asking to be seen. anyone calling anyone a person of color is def a latent racist, as it is always talking down. we can just chat with others wothout acting like we are 5 years old and need to show them we have identified a color or shape that is different!
The AoE2 PS2 version actually had half-decent USB keyboard and mouse support. Back then USB keyboard/mice were very uncommon (it was all PS/2) but when we tried it, it actually worked.
Physicists work on interesting problems. Developers work on profitable problems, mostly manufactured, for huge piles of money, from home, and with yoga over lunch.
It's off by a factor of 2.6 in each dimension on my S23. Although the device resolution seems right. Strange.
> Seems like easy solution would be to ban that entirely

It’s not really “easy” to reform/change anything this significant in the US. It is not like a European country with a functioning modern parliament that can make laws. In the US system both major parties have to agree in order to pass anything of substance, which due to hyper-polarization means essentially nothing gets passed.
That would be a double whammy of positive side effects.

Besides decoupling the insurance from employment to facilitate career changes and even quitting, it would also bring down the average price of insurance for people who currently get it on the individual market as the average corporate worker is statistically healthier than the rest of the population.

Eliminating the tax deduction is not enough as even at break even the company offering health insurance is a net win from the lower risk pool. It had to be an additional penalty / tax.
as an answer for you:

Political scientist Angelo Falcón argues that the use of broad terms like "person of color" is offensive because it aggregates diverse communities and projects "a false unity" that "obscure[s] the needs of Latinos and Asians"

more or less creating a group that simply ‘is not white’ is disparinging for all of the folks in that group that feel more unique than simply ‘not white’
That’s a good question. Addition and subtraction does not make sense because you can’t add non-homogeneous dimensions. And if they were, there’d be a simpler expression. As for a function more complex than multiplication, you can consider the general formula such as an exponential decay and transform it using logarithms into a multiplicative form.
> It turns out you can take an arbitrary shape and split it into tiny rectangles

Citation needed?
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80/20 rule surely applies.

Licensing the most prominent IP holders will get the vast majority of data secured.

These billion-dollar-funded efforts can comfortably chase down, say, hundreds of deals.

GPT-4 finished training g 18mo ago…plenty of time to clean up this mess, if there had been a will
The article title is actually "Weird things engineers believe about Web development".
I listen to WHYY, and I never heard about this guy, his work, or his standup. I think WHYY is wrong, and the guy in the story is also kinda wrong. None of that changes whether or not I listen to the programs.
Reminds me of when I stumbled upon these Zork maps: https://www.vaultofculture.com/vault/nst/2023/02/13/zorkmaps
NetBSD is one of those projects I wish got more resources (donations). They have some cool things going on (ex: rump, exotic hw) that no one else has, but lacks the resources to fully exploit them :(
That's exactly it.

> Cloudflare's unique understanding of the Internet comes from it's global network – one of the world's largest, spanning 270+ cities in 100+ countries [...] Cloudflare is used as a reverse proxy by nearly 20% of all websites.
> Topology in the 21st century is funny: I'm 300 ms away from a server 12 time zones away, yet there are parts of my own house I haven't seen in over 3.156e+11 ms.

I resemble that remark. I'm about to embark on some major housecleaning and getting-rid-of-crap.
A stunt to cheaply move the price.
“Riddled” has a tinge of negativity to it. I would say it’s actually a useful thing, “level” is a count of abstraction layers relative to the abstraction you’re familiar with. It’s more just a way to communicate some personal responsibility/knowledge range. I’ve heard people call Python “a low level way of using a computer” or similar.
Your explanation is so much easier to parse than TFA, thank you very much.
That’s not been my experience, but you may be right. Why do they require an uninterrupted internet connection?
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To me, Turing's argument had always been that the attribution of intelligence (or not) doesn't make much sense: rather than being a question of any substance, it merely diffuses into a matter of appearance. However, as things usually are, it had become the holy grail for claiming "intelligence" (which really should be used in this context in quotes only).
It is in the CBA. He was reinstated because they didn’t follow the correct termination policy.
Starliner (I assume that's what you mean by CST) is pure Boeing, not ULA. It's also worth mentioning that ULA's probably about to be sold [1]; the three potential buyers are Blue Origin, the private equity fund Cerberus [2], and the aerospace contractor Textron.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/11/sale-of-united-launch-...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/business/billionaires-compete-to-own-spa...
A decent summary: https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/12/22432909/apple-petition-h...

If it's an autobiography, I can see how he'd be difficult to work with.

The problem with people who think they are writing in Hunter Thompson / Gonzo Journalism mode, is that most of them are bad at it, and none of them are Hunter Thompson.

Hunter Thompson never sought out a straight job.
As said before in this thread, that won't give you free will, and elsewhere on HN, that you won't even get an uncaused cause. Think of your brain as a cryptographic hash function running on a non-reversible computer mixing the quantum noise into its state if you want, so you get your avalanche effect and chaos theory stuff (though I think that's majorly overstating it, people don't behave that erratically). See Good and Real by Gary L. Drescher (2006), but also see my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38789146
If you’re somewhat new to TypeScript, this doc explains what a mapped type is (with a wonderful example referencing Only Fools And Horses):

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/mapped-types....
It was not in the browser, but on an orphaned page of the browser’s website.
There is nothing special about most rich/powerful people (there are those that are genuinely exceptional of course and built a fortune because of that), they want the same things as "normal" people just on a different level.

Why does some generic reality TV celebrity or "influencer" make money from showing up at a party or turning on some Xmas lights? Surely no one really cares, there are 1000s of reality TV stars. But, it turns out some people do care, so cookie-cutter reality TV celebrity gets paid to turn up.

In "high net worth" (for want of a better term) social circles ex-Presidents are the reality TV celebrities, and the people who want them to turn up are rich, so they get paid a lot for the equivalent of turning on the Xmas lights.

I suspect its not really about the speech, it's about having them in the same room and giving your guests the chance at a face-to-face meeting.

Of course Obama may be more discerning with which events he attends, but the demand for people like him to turn up is certainly real.
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What's weird actually is how unified for such a young and populous country are the opinions of people with money and political power. You know, the ones that actually make the rules everybody else is forced to obey.
Preact / React is simple because it solves for a very small slice of what an application needs to do and willfully ignores the rest. For example, (P)React has no real opinion on how it interacts with a server, which is a fundamental requirement of 99% of web applications (the new server components stuff is a counterargment I guess, but even then it doesn't consider the complexities of what a backend needs to do and is essentially a "put backend stuff here" slot)

MPA frameworks tend to present themselves as complete and batteries included. If you're using Rails, you can build a complete application without thinking about a single other library than what Rails ships with.

Neither approach is correct, but comparing them is like saying that HTML is so much simpler than C++ so everyone should use HTML.
I live in the US and I have normal social interactions with my coworkers, not really trying to hide my real personality. That poster is exaggerating the danger, IMO.
Follow-up after an afternoon of reading: I dug into the source of the data you presented here in references [1] and [2], which is mainly from James Fearon "Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country" (2003). In this he actually explicitly cautions against making the kind of analysis and correlation that you posit here:

> First, it cannot be assumed, without argument, that ethnic distinctions are
wholly exogenous to other political, economic, and social variables of interest. For
example, poor economic performance could exacerbate distributional struggles, causing
people to see and act along lines of ethnic division that were formerly considered
unimportant. By contrast, robust economic growth might lead to the downplaying of
ethnic divisions and a greater emphasis on national identity. If Botswana seems more
ethnically homogeneous than Somalia does at this point, it may be that this is in part a
result rather than a cause of economic growth.

The paper also goes into great detail on the problems inherent in trying to categorize ethnic groups; these two factors combined are why I object to your methodology here and I would recommend that you read the paper for yourself. In other words, any conclusions drawn or inferences made based on this data without controlling for innumerable complicating factors is likely to be a case of garbage in, garbage out.

Of course, ethnic diversity is just one of many forms of diversity, which further removes this data from your argument.
If only Mozilla would create an RSS reader, or bring it back to Firefox. That would be a game changer. People are growing sick of social media and RSS is surging again. What we need is an advert free cross platform Foss client of the quality that Mozilla are uniquely situated to deliver.
The alternative is no income, no insurance, and no mechanism to continue your coverage. The point of COBRA is to continue your existing benefits, soaking the total cost yourself, so you do not have to find a new doctor.
This is a common misunderstanding of how science works.

For life changing decitions people should wait until the study has been replicated a few times, and preferabely destiled to a general advice by the FDA or whoever is in charge.

Isolated papers are better than blogpost in allcaps, but they are not "setled" science.

The problem is that the press release of the universities and the report by science "journalism" present these single paper result as a definitive result.
> all mega cities have even larger metro areas

But that not the point. Many of these borders are arbitrary e.g. it's like saying that Paris has a lower population Berlin even though such a claim would make no sense at all.
I think you're confused about Rekordbox's pricing, pretty much every feature you need is free. The paid plan is only for advanced stuff that a working DJ would need.
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Their free tier is 10k, you just pay the AWS cost. So 10k for $1.
Can anyone speak to the details & limitations here?

Can it truly learn via video visualization of humans performing an action and replicate?

During “training”, what feedback does it use, and what is the goal function to signify success?
to make it really clear:

a leader wrote a book esposing ideals that were dated and frankly ‘designed to upset’

to quote:

“” soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit. “”

if you had a boss that calimed all people that looked like you were shit, how would you feel reporting to them?
For enterprise solutions, it’s hard to imagine a viable competitor that wouldn’t be beholden to similar rules. At least here in the EU where we aren’t very likely to be using non-western tech considering our privacy and national security laws. In both the finance and energy sectors we already face the prospect of needing exit plans from Microsoft products, not because of an anti-Microsoft sentiment but because the EU views it as a national security risk if too much of certain sectors rely on a single tech company. We have a lot of similar bureaucracy taking shape, so we’re not likely to turn to something like Asian AI. Hell the fact that AI vendors wouldn’t adhere to whatever legislation that comes out of these lawsuits and so on would like be enough to disqualify them as an option in the first place.

I do think it’ll be interesting to see how our militaries handle the issues. Considering that is probably the one area our governments don’t want to be “behind”.
This is not what using copyrighted works for AI is about. A human is not software, when you read an article it is not "copied" into your brain.
From the OpenAI FAQ:

“What sources of data are used for training OpenAI models?

OpenAI uses data from different places including public sources, licensed third-party data, and information created by human reviewers.”

Is the NY Times data in one of those categories?
IFAIK here CaO is used as a Co2 carrier, not a one time use material.
When relationships are represented implicitly by the magnitude of the dot product between two vectors, there's no particular advantage to not "creating" all relationships (i.e. enforcing orthogonality for "uncreated" relationships).

On the contrary, by allowing vectors for unrelated concepts to be only almost orthogonal, it's possible to represent a much larger number of unrelated concepts. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2013/07/18/a-cheap-version-of...

In machine learning, this phenomenon is known as polysemanticity or superposition https://transformer-circuits.pub/2022/toy_model/index.html
and people wanted the full keyboard, we were just in the minority.

Those phones were also the best MP3 players I ever owned - I had an iPod touch at the same time and the UX of copying over/selecting/playing music on that simply didn't compare.
A ridiculously small but very vocal minority which is active on forums like HN.
Maybe you just haven't looked for better jobs. Because although I've read about what you're describing, I haven't seen it yet in real life.

I'm not planning on experiencing it either in the future. Though I'm sure some people like this kind of environment, and good for them.
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I read the whole article, thought it was great, then went to follow the author, only to realize it was Aaron Schwartz :(
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I mean to be fair, MPAs are by definition unusable without a consistent internet connection. By design every meaningful interaction needs to communicate with a server.
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What’s the point of comments like this? Words mean different things in different languages, and as you seem to be aware, “liberal” in the US has evolved to just mean left-of-center, and not what it means in your country.

Plenty of words in plenty of languages have meanings that are not justifiable by etymology; it’s not unusual at all.

Btw, “socialist” in many European countries is also used in a way quite different from its traditional meaning. The French “socialist” party would have been unrecognizable to traditional socialists like Marx.