skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's got much to do with freedom (although it's commonly used as one reason to veto change).

To me, it seems like given the size, market maturity, but especially the legal and political environment of the US, any change requiring large-scale coordination between multiple actors, especially public and private, has become very hard.

Single-actor innovation requiring no cooperation of existing stakeholders has become the way to go: That (plus large existing car-based transport stakeholders) is why there is Uber instead of a working public transit system in most cities.

That's true for most systems you list: Anything payments related – the US has over 6000 banks; even given the population size, that's enormous! Identification cards – it's about immigration status at least as much as it's about people being skeptical of the federal government. E-government: Ok, that one is probably due to a lack of trust in the federal government's tech capabilities, which at this point has become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
So why aren’t the users picking the software that’s faster instead of the ones with more features. Why does everyone use the “bloated” Gmail webui instead of some barebones desktop client that’s a few ms faster?
Well, you kind of prove my point, because you made me jump from a 5 minute lecture about PIDs to a study about control systems.

Yes, probably there are all kinds of systems to control and autotune a PID. But that's the problem. In gamedev, PID's get constantly recommended for so many things, but when you play around with them you soon realize, that they are quite hard to get right. So then there's two ways: you dive into control systems or you just lerp the value and call it a day.
Ask HN: How do I open an EU Bank Account?
I am a dual citizen of the US/EU (via Germany) but have never lived in Germany. I would like to hold an EU credit card and bank account for personal reasons, but don’t know how to go about this. Would anyone have any guidance?

I might prefer a CH bank account credit card in case it is similarly easy.

I am concerned that not having an EU residence at the moment may make it difficult to open any bank account there.
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> There’s no world in which Nintendo and apple are colluding to set rates.

What makes you say that? And short of direct collusion, is it fair game if Apple sets the precedent and Nintendo follows suit without direct coordination? If the agreement is only alluded to without being directly stated, are we okay with the ethical precedent regardless of legal standing?
Companies sign open letter saying Big Tech isn't respecting new EU rules
Oh right, that's a very good point. I've only use LTS for years. Forgot about rolling releases haha
Humans can also come up with their own styles and can draw things they’ve never seen, which ML models as they currently exist are not capable of (and likely will never be). A human artist who has lived their entire life in the wilderness and has never trained themselves with the work of another artist will still be able to produce art with styles produced entirely by personal experimentation.

ML models have a long way to go before comparisons to humans make any kind of sense.
Because people still watch Youtube and Youtube can legally add these people to the viewcount and then sell that viewcount to the buyers of ads.
Players say Ubisoft needs to get comfortable with not owning as much money.
Any recommendations on getting started here? I'm also early in my career, but dumping almost the entirety of my salary into a plain old savings account.
Being inspired isn't against the law. copying is. it'd be one thing if this conversation could be had with useful terminology that's actually on point. instead we have you, insisting that there is no creative process, there is only experiencing other art and inevitably copying (because apparently you think that's the only thing humans can do!). It's all so telling. Yet its tragic because so many here don't even realize it. I'm sad for your inability to engage with creativity and creative acts.
> letting grief permanently ruin one's life

And this is why we will disagree. What, by your definition, does "ruin one's life" actually mean? I bet it differs from mine. An easy bet, because we've led different lives with different experiences. What you think of as "ruined" may be my version of "it took 15 years to finally get over something tramautic"

What I see in my own grief, and the many, and I mean many parents who I interact with as part of my own support, is that each of us takes it day by day. Some people have a lot more days of waking up wishing they were dead than other people. Some people channel the grief into starting foundations. None of their behavior is strong, or weak, or entitled, good, bad, right, wrong, or whatever subjective sort of adjective you want to categorize it with. Nor are their lives "ruined", even if they're 14 years into waking up every day wanting to die. Day by day. It's people who have lost someone, someone so innocent, someone they're supposed to protect - there are no words to describe the pain. So while you're trying to decide if someone's grief is "weakness" or "entitlement", they're experiencing it.

Grief is evidence of your love for someone, and in my mind, that sort of love takes a certain sort of strength. To love, knowing it cannot last forever, takes strength. That is as old as humankind itself, and not new, nor a weakness.
e/sigma is arguably a delusional mental state because it posits that AI will capture 100% of world GDP in the near future. As sama said himself, AI will “capture the light cone of value.” So company “ethics” aside it’s reasonable to argue sama is in fact currently dellusional.
OpenAI has basically admitted it. Is OpenAI even disputing that it ingested all the works its being sued over? Not as far as I can tell.
Speaking with my linguist hat on, and also with my more-or-less speaker of a couple other languages hat on (picture the Mad Hatter), I'd say that there is sometimes a one-to-one correspondence. The meaning of 'man' in English, 'hombre' in Spanish, 'winik' in Tzeltal (a Mayan language), etc. is pretty close (leaving aside the recent discussion of gender...).

But there are certainly other words or phrases in one language which require more circumlocution in another language. Most obvious are animal or plant names where the animal or plant does not exist in the home lands of both languages--there is no single word for 'narwhal' in Tzeltal, and there is no word in English (outside of the scientific name) for many plants familiar to the Tzeltales.

Less obviously, there are words in one language for concepts that you can certainly wrap your mind around in another language, but for which there's no one-word or even standard phrasal translation in another. I heard a commercial in Spanish for some company on the radio, which ended with the single word sentence "Cumplimos!" It was obvious to me as a second language learner of Spanish what this meant (something like "we finish what we promise you we'll do"), but I could not come up with a simple translation (the literal translation "We complete" does not hack it).
Many of them have some confusing states, you've probably just not run into them
this is cool! What would be a good usecase?
ollama is actually not a great way to run these models as it makes it difficult to change server parameters and doesn't use `mlock` to keep the models in memory.
That's exactly what I'm arguing for. Two competing (commercial) smartphone OSes are probably just fine! Much more than that would probably make it uneconomical for developers to provide native apps for all of them, unless they're API compatible.
It'd be a good point if it wasn't for the fact that search engines didn't exist until google, because of technology, and that courts didn't need to consider the issue until then. So where does your point get us? We are here now.
Congratulations! The idea and execution made me smile.

This must be an epitome of a hobby project!
I've actually never seen one where you can delete stuff yourself
They will use it to supplement their troll factions with robots and cyborgs. For their war on truth
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This looks fantastic, thank you!
Article is from 2011 (references contemporary legislation just passed)
I'm about to board my first spirit flight after Southwest ruined my return flight
Norwegian written and pronounced language was actually changed because one digit was added to phone numbers. Here is the long story:

Starting after World War Two, the government made an attempt at _merging_ the two written languages. The imagined outcome was named “Samnorsk” (unified Norwegian), led by Språknemnda (The Language committee).

The work mainly consisted of changing the grammar of certain words in the bokmål. School textbooks would be rewritten with only the new grammar. Sometimes with comical results, as rhyming words in children’s would no lenger rhyme («Mons er pen./ Han er ren -> rein.»)

The attempt ultimately failed, and in 1972 Språknemda became Språkrådet (The language council), who maintain the official rules for written Norwegian and who published this article. Merging the two written languages was part of the council’s long term goals until 2002, when it was removed from its mandate.

What the government did succeed at was changing the pronunciation of numbers from 20 to 99. It was changed from how the Germans do it (“two and forty”) to how the English do (“forty two”). This was architected by the head of the telephone bureau in 1949, as an error reduction mechanism: When the phone number length increased from 5 to 6 digits, the number of wrongly dialed numbers increased along with it. Internal research at the bureau showed that people would make fewer errors when digits were consistently read from right to left.

Further reading (in Norwegian):
- https://snl.no/samnorsk
- https://snl.no/den_nye_tellemåten
Use a password manager
You're generalizing a bit too much saying "Europe"
I grew up in a Norwegian ex-pat community in Houston, Texas, attending the local Norwegian language church there. The priest would get rotated out every few years, and I remember as a kid being fascinated by the roulette wheel of "which dialect is the next priest they send going to speak?"
I think you’re referencing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_585

“The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the United Airlines flight 585 accident was a loss of control of the airplane resulting from the movement of the rudder surface to its blowdown limit. The rudder surface most likely deflected in a direction opposite to that commanded by the pilots as a result of a jam of the main rudder power control unit servo valve secondary slide to the servo valve housing offset from its neutral position and overtravel of the primary slide”
What I can gather is that if Apple, from day one, had an 85% split, grew to 98% marketshare, then that would be ok. If apple started with 30%, then grew to 98% marketshare, then jacked up the price to 85% then they would have a problem.

I think the missing piece that most people miss is that it is not illegal to have a monopoly. It's illegal to use your monopoly to bully others. Apple did no such thing.
Medical schools are limited by residency spots. Theyd love to expand, but without more federal subsidies for residencies it cant happen.
There are some with good and very reliable scales and some where they never work, though
AI doing things that human laboriously learned and inspired from is just different. After all, sheer quantity can be its own quality, especially with AI learning.

Now, i am worried about companies like OpenAI monopolizing technology through making their technology proprietary. I think their output should be public domain and copyright should only apply to human authors if they should be at all.
This comes across as pretty myopic. There are plenty of websites that are barely able to be managed because the site owner is not some IT genius. Asking some site to host its own video content, pay for the bandwidth, etc. Somethings that the modern web user has come to expect is beyond the the scope of just hosting some html/js/css.
You can compare Taiwan to Iraq and Syria all you want - it's comedy.
Some also technically support it, but it doesn't gain you a whole lot as the TLB will split it down to a 2MB TLB entry. Could save a bit of L2 for the page table entries under the right conditions, but you've already lost if invoking your page walk hardware is in your fast path to begin with.
Simple example: You want to control torque with a PID to reach a target angular velocity. What if the player suddenly negates the target angular velocity (by going from left arrow key press to right arrow key press for example).

How do you handle the I and D term then?

What if the player can also use a gamepad and go from left to right gradually?

The fundamental problem is that the error accumulates while you try to reach the target. But then the target suddenly changes. Do you just drop the previous error? Do you create an upper bound on the error? Or something else? This is the question no PID post ever answers.

I don't say, that this is impossible, but just that PID's in this context are harder to use than they first appear.
Congratulations on building your own company! Out of curiosity, may I know what it is?
the compilers work (produce valid code), but things like chip specific instruction cost models, full support for vector operations, and stuff like that are nowhere near where they are for x86 or M1 (because there are way less users and developers to make sure the codegen is optimal)
I feel I took steps that ended up unexpectedly slowing down my progress towards a fulfilling life. You grow up and if you're lucky you get the degree, the job, the promotion, the house, etc. The day to day of achieving these goals can make one forget that these goals are only a means to an end - a fulfilling life. If you lose sight of that, one day you'll achieve all of these goals and think "is this it? What now?". If I could start over, I'd place less importance on my career and more on everything else.
This is in teleoperated, not autonomous mode. Training data is collected while teleoperating. That robot can do some things autonomously, but not anything like the whole meal task.

The Github repository is more useful.[1] That separates autonomous from teleoperated mode. Also, there's video at 1x speed. This thing is actually very slow in autonomous mode.

It's real progress, but the hype exceeds the results.

[1] https://tonyzhaozh.github.io/aloha/
Every day, make it new.

Every person is another world. Treat them accordingly, and meet some of them.

You can solve a surprising number of your problems by not carrying them around.

Dig one hole, if you want to find water. (Dig many, if you want to endlessly weed.)

Don't polish a turd. Work on things of true value.

Progress is the glacial fruit of long constancy. Failure is abrupt, and you rarely see it coming.
It appears this person's high intelligence helped them cope with an otherwise very hard to treat condition.
Why do the buyers of ads care? I don't get it. They only care about impressions of ads.
What article doesn't mention Sapir-Whorf? They're in the second paragraph of the article I read.
I did error budgeting for environmental effects on optical systems at Itek. Glad to see so many optics folks here. I wonder who they are, but won't ask. ;-)
They need a speedy introduction to the world of exponential fines for non-compliance.
You say vision-only is stupid, but Tesla FSD is the only full self-driving system deployed to millions of drivers and usable anywhere in the world, right now, at scale.

> Don't we want these things to be better at driving than humans?

Sure we do. Your options are, a as-good-as-a-human-driver for 1 unit of cost, or a better-than-human-driver at 1000 units of cost. Realistically, which do you pick?

Other tech like Waymo is good. They drive well. But it's not scalable--expensive mapping and hundreds of thousands of lines of code written to address the nuances of whatever city they specialize the solution to. Not to mention that they only operate in cities with sunny weather all year round!
> you need SO MANY solar panels and they will take up a lot of land

If we used the area that is currently producing ethanol and "biodiesel" for solar panels we would be 80% done with the energy transition.
From what I remember it was just a tease at the very end of the book (1491).

It seemed to be on the frontier of the research at the time the book was published. They knew about the existence of black earth (terra preta) but were really only speculating about how much human effort and over how much time was involved to create it.
i.e., Convert your 401(k)'s to IRA, then convert the IRA to Roth via the "backdoor" that is not subject to the annual limits.
Problems reducible even partially to matrix math are for many practical purposes embarrassing parallel even within a single core. A couple hundred million FLOPS with 1990s SIMD support will let you run nearly all near-SOTA models within, idk, 3s, with most running in 0.1 or 0.01s. That’s pretty fast considering it’s an EP32 and some of these capabilities/models didn’t even exist a year ago.

Your expectation was not really wrong, because for most purposes, when discussing a “model” one is really talking about “capabilities”. And capabilities often require many calls to the model. And that capability may be reliant on being refreshed very rapidly… and now your 0.1s is not even slow, it’s almost existentially slow.

Re: training. even on the EP32, training is entirely doable, so long as you pretend you are in 2011 solving 2011 problems hahaha
Curious - is this really expensive to make? Why is chromatic aberration even a thing now if we've had this technology since 1969?
This is one of the most prominent ideological faultlines that exists. There can't be many HN readers who are unaware of where their interests lie on this question—most likely there are zero. So I don't buy the public interest argument here; I think this thread is just the usual ideological/political foofarah, and on that the HN standard is clear: it's not what this site is for. If people really wanted to factually inform one another in a helpful way, they would post entirely different comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020465. As I already said, it's not a borderline call.

Here's another way of looking at it, in case helpful: we don't want anything predictable on HN. The rhetoric that people resort to when an issue like this comes up is fierce, repetitive, and predictable. That makes sense—if you're fighting for a cause you feel passionately about, repeating the same points as intensely as possible is what you do. But all of that is off topic on this site. There are plenty of other places to post that way.

Edit: I know how strong the temptation is to read something like this and think that the mods are taking the wrong position* on (in this case) abortion rights, and then get super mad about it. But I'm not saying anything about abortion rights (or California vs. Texas) in the slightest. I'm just trying to do the pedestrian moderation job I always do.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
It seems like the real problem with the Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is that nobody is quite sure what it means. More specifically, if you think it's wrong, you probably have one idea of what SW is, and if you think it's right, you have quite a different idea of what it means.
The tribal war thing over android vs iOS makes me laugh. It really is ridiculous.

I have an iPhone XS and a Galaxy Fold 4, and have bounced around between android phone and iPhones over the years. I won't deny that there are some things Apple does better, but it's far from a night-and-day difference.

The most shocking thing to me was playing around with a budget phone once, it was a like $150 motorola I bought for a family member. After setting things up on it, I seriously felt like I was missing almost nothing compared to my iPhone XS.... that i paid $1000 for...

At this point the only reason I keep an iPhone is I really like my Apple Watch.
> There is no question that the US has acted like a bully in Southern America, but you ignore that other countries have acted the same way in other parts of the world[1], and with far more disastrous results[2].

No. The argument is not that having some other country as hegemon would be better than the US. The argument is that any single country being overly powerful is a negative, and a more multipolar would would be healthier.

"The US should maintain enough military capacity to prevent/repel an invasion of the continental US" is not particularly controversial. But the US "defending" countries halfway around the world is not healthy for either.

> Pax Americana is currently the only thing preventing me and hundreds of millions of other Europeans from sharing the same fate. Russians do not dare to invade as long as they don't know if Americans would press the nuclear button or not. My freedom to live in peace and unharmed, speak my language and practice my culture, directly depends on the missile silos tucked away somewhere between the cornfields of Iowa. How about that for a perspective?

Russia has spent the past year failing to conquer a country of 40 million, without any involvement from those missile silos. If they tried to invade Poland or Finland they would crumble even quicker. The only countries with a legitimate fear of a Russian invasion are the same countries who have shown zero willingness to protect other people's "freedom to speak their language and practice their culture" when it comes to Russian people living within their (present) borders.
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> I think newer GPUs have dedicated DMA engines for copying to GPU memory that isn't mapped into the host address space but I'm not really familiar with these drivers.

Not even newer, but instead it's a pretty common feature for GPUs for the past couple decades or so.
The military thinks they can predict the outcome of battles using tech. They already do extensive sim-gaming stuff for such, and an LLM would fit into these things nicely enough. Whether it actually adds meaningful value matters much less than whether the people paying for it think it can be made to add meaningful value. The other obvious purpose is propaganda, foreign and domestic.
> you guessed it, $100 and 30% of gross revenue

There is one interesting difference, which is that Steam charges a one-time $100 per game, rather than annually. It's very slightly cheaper in the long run, which is nice if you just want to distribute a completely free game on Steam, or if you're a part-time game dev with low sales.
elon couldn't get the .com huh?
Your sentiment is probably correct in that there are many aspects of copyright law that are not strictly aligned with the public’s intuition. But your example is a bit of a reach. Star Athletica was a relatively novel holding that allows for a specific piece of clothing, when properly argued, could qualify as copyrightable as a semi-sculptural work of art, however this quality of a given piece is separate to its character as clothing. In fact, the USSC in Star Athletica explicitly held a designer/manufacturer has “no right to prohibit any person from manufacturing [clothing] of identical shape, cut, and dimensions” to clothing which they design/manufacture. That quote is directly from a discussion of the ability to apply copyright protections to clothing design. I think the end result is that trying to argue technical legal issues around a poorly implemented statutory regime is always fraught with errors. That really leave moral and commercial arguments outstanding and advocacy should try and focus on that, when not fighting to affect change in the law these copyright determinations are based on.

And just to be clear, this post does not constitute legal advice.