skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would any sane person allow accepting connections like this from any device? I don't even want to allow anyone from my contacts blindly just because I have saved their phone number. That isn't an automatic "I trust this person implicitly" flag.

How is this any different than your phone accepting random MMS, imessages, or phone calls from any random phone number?
I think it will actually increase fertility rate. Not leaving so soon and investing into your career and saving up money will eventually enable more people to choose parenthood. Multi-generational households are a nice thing and much more common outside the USA. Staying at home longer and leveraging American incomes and opportunities to grow more intentionally and sustainably will in the long run increase American fertility rate quite a bit as long as we can otherwise keep employment solid.
Yes apparently! One might have assumed this left/right polarity might mean different things in different countries at least.
Marimo are wonderful little pets, I used to have some and really liked it. I should get some more. Never failed to start a conversation when guests came over.

https://soltech.com/blogs/blog/how-to-care-for-your-marimo-m...
Thank you so much for flagging this! Updating it now!
How will the employees respond? People embrace powerlessness these days, but all they need to do is act. Do they want to work on, potentially, some of the most destructive technology in history?
I love that whenever one of these threads shows up, someone always appears to suggest that banality and evil are entirely separate from one another, despite the entire history of the 20th century.
How is that related to what I'm saying?
There is a "docset" format in use by dash. https://kapeli.com/docsets
There are several problems with this approach, notably you don't get information about specific platform stuff. You don't get information on how these package are installed (conda, mamba..etc).

And it does not account for dependincies version conflicts which life very hard.
Why waste billions of kilo joules of energy running AI systems for that, when you'll get legions of dirt cheap technical labor in the developing world, who'll do it for you for far less and at massive scale, with better acerbic language?
> They're only interested in costs+ contracts, which nobody seems to be willing to give them.

"What do you mean we have to deliver planes that don't fall out of the sky? That's an outrageous requirement!"
> while still keeping the API dead simple for frontend devs to use

Selling point seems to be the API, I'd prefer an alternative to document.cookie.split(";"), a sane way to store objects, etc, frontend friendly.

Typically use cookies to store data for the server (session id etc).
Imagine you are Microsoft. Two decades ago the state regulated you. Now you get the opportunity to have them eat from your hand. Who cares about ethics and safety?
I've been laid off once, in Italy, and despite my insistence I've never been told why.
Our (Postmark's) take is that while these changes are explicitly for marketing/bulk email senders, they are coming for transactional emails as well sooner or later: https://postmarkapp.com/blog/2024-gmail-yahoo-email-requirem...
I remember being pleasantly surprised at how much gaming mileage I could get out of my 2014 MacBook Pro with Intel graphics. A huge proportion of Unity-engine games, for one thing, ran just fine, some even at high graphics (which, they still looked kinda crappy, but still). No contemporary AAA gaming possible, but plenty of big games worked great (Minecraft!)

And the M-series chips are on a whole other level than those were. I wish... any amount of my gaming library could run on them.
Always worth remembering that before Earth existed it was a meaningless dust cloud created by the unimaginable power of exploding stars, and after that, it spent nearly 3 billion years as a lifeless rock. So if we accidentally nuked it to a cinder, no biggie, amirite?

Sorry for the snark, but your comment is just plain tonedeaf and vapid that it needs to be called out.

Pushing thousands or millions of species to the brink or even into extinction because we cannot control our consumption and waste products is not excusable because "meh, it was dead before." Rather it's thoughtless and destructive and self-defeating in the end. Like trampling delicate flowers for fun or smashing stained glass windows that someone labored their entire life making.
> The only way to have a sustainable government is to have strong checks and balances

I don't think this viewpoint can be supported empirically. The US government has much stronger checks and balances than most parliamentary systems where the prime minister is elected by the parliament. This means that there's no split possible between the executive and legislative branch. I think the result of this in the US is that the government tends to deadlock, and has a lot of difficulty compromising, which leads to dissatisfaction and instability. Conflicts heighten without compromise or resolution for decades until they reach a breaking point. In a parliamentary system, the need to build a governing coalition can result in greater incentives to compromise.

Similarly, judicial review seems to be much much weaker in most countries. In the US, the supreme court can strike down a law with immediate effect of nullifying that law. It's been hard for me to find comparisons, but it seems like in other countries, there's some combination of judicial review being only advisory, or not having immediate effect. So in some countries, the judicial branch says a law is un-constitutional, and the legislative branch can ignore it, or has some period of time to defend or revise the law, rather than the law being immediately struck. This is fundamentally undemocratic. That's a good thing some times, but not good other times.

In practice, parties tend to govern by attempting to control the supreme court, because there's no possible way to pass their agendas due to our vaunted checks and balances. This does not seem like the hallmark of an effective democracy to me.
I’m within 15 miles of two Amazon warehouses and still share the poor-delivery experience.

I see more of the new Rivian Amazon vans than any other vehicle on the road in the morning, and yet somehow, every other item I order gets unexpectedly delayed for days and days.
When did humans first learn to speak? (2022)
Seriously. Even worse there are things I want, I know the name and the brand but I can't order from Amazon because of the high risk of counterfeits. I hope they either get their house in order or someone eats their lunch.
Solar and wind are pretty expensive a lot of the time, e.g. on windless nights.
I should have added, this was a case back in the 1980s.
> The investigations identified the root causes, which were different for each event. Mitigating actions were developed and deployed accordingly.

This is a nice document. Analogies in software operations world!
> based on various legal precedents around discrimination. Which would make it untenable to single out projects like this

What precedents are those? Can you link or name the cases? I've never heard of such legal theory.
Cyaonobacteria fits the bill I think.
TFA's author has a book about that exact topic: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1778038328

> The book includes a detailed account of brown bear and polar bear fossil evidence, recent hybridization events between brown bears and polar bears, and summaries of more than a dozen genetic studies that have been done on these bears.

(It's on my bookshelf but I haven't had a chance to read it yet)
Brute force search is both exact (100% accurate) and pleasantly linear – a predictable algorithm. CPUs and caches like that, so performance is much better than you might otherwise expect.

From my https://rare-technologies.com/performance-shootout-of-neares... benchmark of kNN libs:

"Brute force doesn’t care about the number of neighbours, so its performance is 679ms/query regardless of “k”. When run in batch mode (issuing all 100 queries at once), average query time drops to 354ms/query."

This was 500 dimensions over a 3.7M dataset (the English Wikipedia), in 2014. So, ~700ms/search, or half that if you can batch several searches together at once. YMMV.
These examples are arguably qualitatively different from what's happening with Boeing's self-inspection.

I used to work at an organization that was governed by multiple of the SROs you list there. Here's how it worked: They set rules, we followed them, they monitored and audited us. There were also governmental organizations monitoring both them and us.

I think that the key distinction here is not actually public vs. private. It's more of a "sunlight is the best disinfectant" situation. The simple knowledge that you have some external agency that doesn't have moral hazard concerns to compromise its interests that is keeping an eye on you, and that you know is keeping an eye on you, does a lot to incentivize better behavior. Is it perfect? No, far from it. But, at least in the specific case of the financial industry, it's not clear to me that a 100% governmental regulatory system would actually fare any better. I think that the unstated major premise of such an idea is that the people in charge of the governmental regulators - elected officials - are uncompromisable ethical paragons. And if you believe that, I've got some hot penny stocks that I'd like to tell you about.
>CCBot/GPTBot crawlers identify themselves by their user-agent (so the server can just choose not to serve the content) and also respect robots.txt.

Sure. I guess we'll see how that holds up in the lawsuit over the coming years.

> for the most part it's not plausible for it to have stored the "raw assets"

I wasn't talking as literal pngs on a server. I'm sure a company backed by Microsoft has much more clever ways to store such data. My main point was that it seems possible to reproduce the asset so enough of it is kept to perform such operations.

>Would also keep in mind that for papers like this, where they're generating hundreds of millions of images and digging into CLIP embeddings to construct prompts that intentionally recreate images, that there's some degree of similarity you'd expect just by the conditioning given, the large number of comparisons being automatically made, and coincidence - even had the model not seen the image in question.

coincidence, perhaps. I can't say and tracing isn't technically illegal either (although extremely faux pas for artists doing anything more than learning how to draw). But that is definitely where the metaphor of human motor skills and machine reproduction breaks down. Humans can more easily be cast off as coincidence based on context (which can be easy or hard to deduce. E. G. Did artist B follow artist A on Twitter? How long were they active? Are they known to have a similar style?)

bots' context is closed up as company IP. That alone will give it a lot more scrutiny. Scrutiny that can potentiallybe subpeona's, so again: TBD.

>Youtube makes the video available to the public. The Google Books analogy properly preserves the aspect that full works are stored but only small portions made available.

I don't really know why you're so fixated on the Google books metaphor. Google books is also an actual bookstore as well as some place for users to upload their library. I can upload pirated content for private use becsuse Google isn't scanning all its customers 24/7. It's technically not legal but also hard to enforce on my private library of 1 that I share with no one.

I'd run into more issues if I tried to sell it and someone caught me. You can DMCA a book from Google just as easily as a YouTube video. There's simply less money in the game to DMCA troll literature (and for many books of interest to HN, the primary customer isn't individuals but institutions and education).
100%. But I really hope that they can learn this concept and understand that it is generalizable and need but require a system that is critical nor dangerous. That the same ideas are essential for simply designing good user experiences. It's really frustrating that this isn't understood well in ML where people end up talking past one another and therefore the extreme ends of the spectrum end up dominating the conversation with equally idiotic ideas. I can't remember the last time I saw someone discuss a confusion matrix, especially when discussing products. But how's that not like one of the most important aspects of your product (I mean internally in teams developing products, not communication to the public. Or discussions in papers)
That is not valid logic. The USA ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997, and there are various Acts of Congress which make most work on nerve gas a federal felony. There are no such legal prohibitions on AI development.
>Gratuitous verbal abuse or "name-calling" is not on its own an example of the abusive argumentum ad hominem logical fallacy

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

Don't bother responding with another "no."
Yep. I made that rookie mistake early in my career.
> In my opinion, integrating LLMs and add function calling would be a significant improvement

i'm sure this is where they're headed. but what announcement reads as to me is some clever PM at google realized they don't want to announce a new LLM update to the assistant and have to include all the functionality it loses in that same announcment. so they're taking the functionality away now, and in six months they can announce a new assistant that has feature parity with the "old one"
Sounds like a gaming and privacy focused modification of windows based on my read of the FAQ

https://docs.atlasos.net/faq-and-troubleshooting/removed-fea...
> 1. you can call the military and they will bomb and kill the terrorists but 20 civilians will die.

They are bombing refugee camps. Bulldozers are tearing up streets, just to make Gaza unlivable. Soldiers singing genocidal chants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G15NyemgYDM&t=4548s

Making extremely cruel and deranged TikToks in destroyed homes. Politicians are talking about how there are no innocent civilians in Gaza. 80% of the people suffering catastrophic hunger in the world right now are in Gaza.

I'd rather say you and anyone has two options here: a.) denounce the genocide and call for it to end and the people responsible to be prosecuted b.) support genocide in some form or other, beating around the bush in so many words, with all sorts of neat hypothetical faces to put on the despicable genocidal underbelly that is being rubbed in our faces.

> All the anti Israel

To criticize that is as much "Anti-Israel" as the White Rose was "Anti-German". Yeshayahu Leibowitz didn't love Israel less than the people who saw no problem.

As Gideon Levy said, the friend of an alcoholic is not he who goes to the corner store to buy them alcohol, it's the one who tells them they have to stop.
If we accept that we are responsible for minimizing the suffering of both domestic and wild animals, isn't the logical conclusion that we need to drive those species to extinction as quickly as possible, thus completely ending their suffering?

I mean, you are explicitly talking about ending our symbiotic relationship with the domestic chicken. We certainly would not have 20 billion chickens in the world if we all stopped eating eggs.
Me experience is that the average windows install has a year long lifespan and then it needs a reinstall. It just feels slower at that point.

Beyond that it’s a matter of principle. Why would I use an OS where the company wants to farm me for ad revenue. I am not livestock. If I pay for it, that’s an even bigger slap in the face.
And even "smaller" changes that extinction events can be quite noticeable to those who are alive.

Like, when the north pole melts and the jet streams find a new equilibrium, is somewhere else going to have a lot of really cold winters? Somewhere like Kentucky or Texas? I haven't the faintest idea what's going to happen but obviously something is, the pole actually is melting and there actually is unusual weather elsewhere.
Development slows to a crawl and nothing gets done. We have audit teams up our ass at my job and you can't do anything due to the 100 layers created by previous audits. There has to be someone that says "work needs to get done" we don't really have that.
You see?

Damn if you do, damn if you don't.

It's then better to just fire and give no motivation whatsoever.
Random aside, but when Chris Paul first joined the Suns, he was actually a good fit in my opinion and as evidenced by their success. It was his age and injuries that eventually made him a bad fit (roster age, timelines, etc). I found that random comparison pretty bad.
I love using linux as my daily driver but it's simply not usable for the games I care most about. GSync does not work if you have more than one monitor on X11 (or at all on wayland). I wish someone or some organization would put more pressure on NVidia to fix Gsync for wayland.
> You have a hyper-idealized version of what is and is not art.

No, I made an assertion that the most talented artists make art.

> And execution definitely forms part of the talent.

Seeing that many, many top, full time, talented artists have technicians that execute, I don't think it's the defining quality of a top artist. Execution can be offloaded, ideas cannot.

> And that's because most ideas are just half-formed thoughts.

Talented artists have fully formed thoughts. That's their talent.

> And that's because most ideas are just half-formed thoughts.

Well, I'd suggest your job is at risk. Execution can be automated, ideas not so much. Who is gonna tell the GPT what to do?

> And you can find joy in the doing itself. You can make good commercial art.

Yeah, those people failed to be the top talent in art and did something else. They are still highly talented but not in the realms of top talented artists.
This is amazing! Mad props to whoever helped get this running.

I would love to see C# in this list!
Forgot about the updates, good point
To civilians it’s dangerous to develop weapons for most cases, it the opposite for military. It’s dangerous not to develop better weapons faster than an adversary.
It is telling if the current team recently displayed extreme levels of worker-solidarity and organizing in public around leadership changes they desired, and their response to this is crickets
It absolutely is. I know of independent researchers doing some side project work on various social media platforms utilizing chatGPT for responses and measuring engagement.
Absolutely! I remember playing Quake 3 and whatnot back in the day. As I became immersed in the game, keyboard/mouse/1024 would eventually disappear (figuratively).

Strangely enough, I feel like there is more friction for me to play video games of this era (and i don't) despite the advancements in and availability of technology to interact with said games. Perhaps the friction I feel has more to do with the bombardment of content (ads, microtransaction, social-media, etc) that gets in the way of and distracts from actual game play.

Then again, maybe I'm just getting old.

Perhaps this is what the author is trying to get at? If we could immerse ourselves in a similar way when we were using "primitive" games and hardware and therefore were subjected to all the temptation and risk, then what is different or relevant?

The quantity of those immersed and additional layer of (arguable harmful) content?
Our system would make sense if it was the case that the literal only way to turn and asset into money was to sell it. But, because assets can instead be used as collateral for loans, asset owners (overwhelmingly the wealthy in the U.S.) get to have their cake and eat it too.
Every industry self inspects. The city inspects its utilities. The construction companies inspect their own work. The only time an outside inspector is used is when the company is doing the work for a client, so the client uses an inspector..

If you screw up inspection repeatedly, then you get replaced. This article is about a weird govt flex.
I use Facebook ads. Before everyone goes “I tried that and it didn’t work” let me assure you that (done correctly) it’s highly effective. Current CAC of $80 which is paid back month 2. Went from 0-150 customers this way.
You worry and complain about everything but actually doing something. Let's gooooooooo!
Even Buddhist countries can have an aggressive military - see Myanmar.
> In my books she did well

Hire her as your saleswoman then.

And mind everything you do/say or you'll end up bashed in front of all the internet.
It’s an app killer to ask for registration before seeing any feature of the app. I deleted before giving it a try.
otel logging is completely missing from golang for example
>Matthew Prince (CEO of Cloudflare) addressed it:

Did he?

He says they regularly fire ~40 people each quarter. Really? Is their hiring really that messed up?

As some commenters have pointed out , firing for "performance" reasons looks like an excuse not to pay severance (but it might depend on local laws).
Rocket launches have to be close to the ideal candidate for COE-driven improvement. Any actual problems are going to be problems that need solving in the short term, and if they aren't solved, there will probably be short term pain. The costs of each launch are high enough that they have to take low-probability/high-severity risks seriously.

Other industries have incentives to defer problems into future years, to externalize the costs, or to just plain hide or ignore them based on things like "accepted industry practice" or "within prescribed safety limits". Somebody needs to balance out the short-term incentives by decision makers to get promoted on the back of a press release about a splashy success, because that success may have a metric ton of failure disguised inside.
I hate what advertising has done to the modern web just as much as anyone, but this strikes me as hyperbole. Does making this sort of claim not make you… tired? What’s the point of arguing like this?

Nazi Germany and the Tuskegee Experiment are examples of “unethical, non-consensual human experimentation”. A/B testing features of software usually doesn’t make the same list.
ELI5: What is the benefit of using Bluetooth for Mesh instead of WiFi? Generally speaking? I assume one is about energy consumption. WiFi has more coverage, right?
Deployment failures on Fridays should be added to Murphys laws. I hope the best for kagi and a quick recovery for the search.
Embarrassment? Why would anyone be embarrassed? They’re scammers
Don't buy a Mac with the intent of gaming on it. It's just not there. Apple is not really effective as improving gaming, despite what their marketing department wants you to believe.

I bought an M3 Max with the intent of blowing cash, having good LLM performance, and maybe gaming.

I certainly blew cash and it has good LLM performance, but the gaming is very meh. I even tried the Steam Link thing from my gaming PC and that was of dubious quality (graphics artifacting and latency). IIRC, Steam Link was running over Rosetta, because an Apple Silicon build wasn't available.

There's a couple games, like Baldur's Gate 3 or whatever, but the Mac support forums for those games are full of bug complaints.

I ended up building a ~$672 gaming PC (i3-13100 + RX 6600 on sales) last month and it's been great and I don't think about gaming on my Mac anymore. I supposed I should try Steam Link play as the i3 is surprisingly performant -- hopefully it's not the Mac's fault entirely.
I guess a veeeeeeery slow progress bar in some screen.
In 2022, Amazon had 38 billion dollars in ad revenue. That's ads in that search page. Between the ad revenue, and variations in what sale is more profitable for Amazon, you get a lot of incentive misalignment. The page that makes Amazon the most money is not the one where the item you were thinking about is the first thing on the page. Giving you a worse page is just far more profitable.
Wow, I couldn't even find the price, I guess I'm probably better off for it :)