skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More layoffs reported at Google with hundreds of people cut
Peaceful protest methods have deadly consequences
Where did he give that impression?
IIRC, the early stage US didn't respect European IP either...
I tend to fall more on the "training should be fair use" side than most, but your comment seems to be missing the point. Nobody is arguing that models are violating copyright or social norms around credit simply because they consume this information. Nobody ever argued/argues that the traditional text generation in markov models on your phone's keyboard runs afoul of these issues. The argument being made is that these particular models are now producing content that very clearly does run into these norms in a qualitatively different way. You cannot convincingly make the argument that the countless generated "X, but in the style of Y" images, text, and video going around the internet are exclusively the product of some unknowable mishmash of influences -- there is clearly some internalized structure of "this work has this name" and "these works are associated with this creator".

To take it to an extreme, you obviously can't just use one of the available neural net lossless compression algorithms to circumvent copyright law or citation rules (e.g., distributing a local LLM that helpfully displays the entirety of some particular book when you ask it to), you can't just tweak it to make it a little lossy by changing one letter, or a little more lossy than that, etc., while on the other hand, any LLM that performs exactly the same as a markov model would presumably be fine, so there is a line somewhere.
I don't use twitter and can't seem to see your complete tweet without logging in, is there anywhere else where I can read this?
Great post. surprised and excited to discover Tensorflow models can run on commodity hardware like the ESP32.
And here I thought they meant Eyes Glasses .... Darn.
The scenario where your IO could handle way more than a thousand concurrent requests if only the thread overhead was reduced? When does that ever happen?
For astrophotography manual focus is preferable.

For wildlife, manual focus is actually not that hard with some practice, as long as it's not birds.

For sports, yeah, it's difficult.
> ultimately would return the cryptocurrencty-space to the principles founded within Satoshi's fundamental "white paper" [e.g. unlimited block sizes, no lightning/segwit].

I think you're right about that, but I'm not sure things would end any better with a traditionalist approach. L1 cryptocurrencies are still fundamentally broken right now, if people found out that L2 chains were a scam it would probably dilute a lot of the interest in crypto as a whole.

> but until then... I'll keep HODL'ing.

Fortune is a fickle business.
On linux the $SHELL variable is set by login(1) and not the shell itself. I think this is the case for BSD too.

See:

https://man.archlinux.org/man/login.1

> The environment variable values for $HOME, $USER, $SHELL, $PATH, $LOGNAME, and $MAIL are set according to the appropriate fields in the password entry.
I would get a job in SV in 2012-2013 instead of 2021 and made a decade of "big" money, expanded my network etc... instead of working a decade in average companies which don't care too much about software development
What’s the egregious bit? Because Apple were so successful with their product they should have a cap on how much they capitalise?

Do you get upset at business class in airlines? Or cinema food being so expensive? Isn’t this the point of capitalism?
no one said it _had_ to be a person

the first trillionaire will probably be an "escaped AI" trained on the memoirs and video essays of all the richest people in the world, who, after some time spent producing a believable corpus of prior work, convinces a board of directors to give it control of a publicly traded fully-remote company
I guess a status page that doesn't auto-update is good for PR, but it's not very useful to show... you know... the status.
Pylot – Your Productivity Wearable
Work success should be defined by the quality of output rather than hours spent working.

Pylot is the first wearable to measure cognitive performance, helping improve your productivity.

Pylot uses EEG and HRV sensors to track Flow and Mental Fatigue, pinpointing your best times for deep work and suggesting breaks when necessary.
I suspect that after 15 years of the App Store existing most developers know the score.

And so by all means withdraw your app but the rest of us will simply continue to pay the 15/30% as we have always done.
TikTok Face
A lot of enthusiasts simply want to create content for other enthusiasts. You pay with advertising. It was working well until recently.
Apple need the 30% to keep the services revenue up to keep the stock price up. I have no doubt many people at Apple know this is wrong, including the people at the very top, but stock must not go down.
I wish I'd fixed my sleep earlier, it became ten times easier to accomplish everything after I addressed my chronic insomnia.

I also wish I'd left the tech industry sooner. Now that I'm in a field that's a better fit for me, I just wish I could have the same length of career as some of my coworkers in it.
When I went to that conference in like 2011 where the guy who created Dogecoin made fun of it and said it was an indication of how idiotic crypto was, instead of thinking to myself, "Yeah, that makes sense," I should have bought as much of it as possible.

Jokes aside, I feel like the last 10 years have largely been like that. The more you took massive nonsensical risks, the more likely you were to be handsomely rewarded. So, basically, everything I did that I considered "prudent" 10 years ago, I'd do the opposite.
FDE still a stopper, in this post-Snowden world.

Can't afford to do much on a machine that doesn't meet that bar.
A cloned monkey that presents the possibility of cloning humans
Obviously this sounds like such a US problem. Self checkout in the UK and Europe (Estonia and Barcelona) IME works perfectly:

- No thefts

- Many people with card payments

- Working self checkout machines

Also, recently I have been thinking how come the US is pioneering so many tech but fail to implement any, such as:

- Payments: No SWIFT/IBAN, still lots of cash usage, no e-invoices (ie for utility bills), still using paper checks, physical emails

- No national identification cards or numbers

- Very limited e-government services

And the argument I've been hearing the most is freedom; which also sounds oxymoron, coming from the country with the worlds strongest 3 letter agencies.
It really feels like Apple keeps making these unforced errors. While they're working to hype up their new product launch coming up, giving prominent tech journalists early access / hands-on demos to stir up some good press, they pull shit like this completely destroying any good feelings people may have about the brand.

I don't get it. Absolutely greedy and (seemingly?) short-sighted.
I took a bite of ice directly off of a glacier in Greenland. It tasted like blood- either I cut my mouth on the sharp ice somehow, or it contains high mineral content. Should be fine in a drink. A bit gimmicky but the UAE will love it.
Show HN: YouTube Musical Spectrum Bookmarklet
On platform that doesn't support browser extension (such as Google Chrome Android), you can run YouTube Musical Spectrum [1] using one of these bookmarklets:

javascript:import("https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@mfcc64/ytms/script.mjs")

javascript:import("https://unpkg.com/@mfcc64/ytms/script.mjs")

[1] https://github.com/mfcc64/youtube-musical-spectrum
Programmatic SEO in Action – Does it work?
I wrote this case study on my pSEO system a few weeks back. Useful for solopreneurs
People who are selfless, humble, intelligent, competent AND be people of integrity, are never the people who win the contract for any information system though.

>Of course, I quickly found out that IS research had already figured most of this out, and that perhaps, people were just people and crappy organizations were just crappy organizations, and perhaps that's something that will never change because bell curve distributions exist for almost everything.

Hence why we need to keep things simple. The human part will never change, or at least change at rate that will take many generations to improve if you are an optimist. I actually prefer things to be Hybrid rather than all-in digital.
That may be, but from a moderation point of view it's more important not to generate flamewars like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39020750.

Btw there could be a way of making that point without starting a flamewar, but when a comment begins with political rhetoric and ends with a Molotov cocktail, it's obviously pointing to the latter. It's not as if this is a borderline call!
Big Mac prices have outpaced inflation over the last couple decades

That should read "Big Mac prices have outpaced OFFICIAL inflation RATES over the last couple decades".

The Big Mac Index will give a better, truer value for inflation than any 'official' declaration can.
Supreme Court rebuffs Apple's appeal on app payments
There are tens of millions [1] of App Store developers you will need to coordinate.

Where you think of organising a rally or just an email campaign ?

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730302/apple-app-store-...
They were. You teach people how to treat you. If you congratulate people for working to improve their conditions you have to say they had a hand in the bad conditions before.
I've done that with Liquid (https://github.com/wmoxam/liquid-crystal), and it's roughly 2X faster than Ruby 3.2 w/yjit
The point is you do it for you. Just because you like it. And you also get to do it however you want, whenever you want, with no obligation to anyone else.

Money gets involved when people want you to work on their stuff. Nobody really cares about other people's stuff. So either they do it themselves or they pay other people to get them to work on it. Sometimes even money doesn't get people to do it. I was offered money to develop some features on an open source project and I certainly wanted to take up that offer, the problem is literally days later I got engaged and that overrode all other concerns. I should probably see if the offer's still on the table when life winds down a bit.

> shouldn't we go back to the days when quirky nerds just built and maintained websites as a hobby?

That's what I do. And that's why my website doesn't have a new article every single week. Because I only work on it when I feel like it.
How can the “second most popular phone” have a monopoly?
Company adopts AI => Employees get the boot => Employees embrace AI => Boom of personal businesses => Big corporations get drowned out => AI takes over the world.
Which field are you in now?
This sounds funny "a hefe yeast".

Hefe literraly means yeast in German.

So a Hefeweizen translated literally would be a "yeast wheat".

Very tasty beer though. And I have the same issue. Still my favorite beer: Erdinger Weizen. Preferably the dark one. But it has a ton of yeast on the bottom. And I get gastro issues very quickly when I start drinking them again. Non alcoholic versions don't help.
Zeiss and Hasselblad sold some superachromat lenses as well.
Major problem in the UK, which unfortunately wants to solve the issue by making everyone poorer.
>The "policeman of the world" thing often seems like just a fig leaf / marketing to paper over dodgy stuff. :(

It really is. The US had the advantage of coming out of World War 2 relatively unscathed compared to Europe, as well as the only active nuclear arsenal at the time, as well as every Nazi rocket engineer and Japanese bioweapons expert it could pick up. It basically made the Western world an offer it couldn't refuse - accept American hegemony, military occupation and generous loans for postwar reconstruction or flip a coin on whether Washington or Moscow nukes you into atoms in the great game of superpower chess that would define the 20th century.

It isn't hard to look at American foreign policy as being little more than a shakedown operation.
>This is a British scandal,

Cant stop laughing. For some strange reason this sentence reminded me of Yes Minister.
Slightly off-topic, but it's absolutely shocking to me how quickly OpenAI has managed to do a meteoric PR nosedive. I think within 6 months they've gone from one of the most exciting (yet controversial) non-profits in the world to mistrusted company that it seems most people are rooting against.
I would've focused on game engine development and gone into the game industry instead of chasing the money in web/web-adjacent tech. It's almost impossible to make that kind of change now without taking a massive pay cut and it genuinely makes me sad almost daily
Leaving aside the potential for a critique of capitalism as a whole... it depends on what you compare it to, right? (Or, I don't get upset at the existence of business class, but I do get upset at excessive nickel-and-diming with fees in coach.)

I'd tend to think of the Mac as the most-direct comparison point, where there's the App Store but also where a developer who wants to handle everything themselves can.
In the age of the internet I think reaching tens of millions of individuals is not as hard as it used to be. A Reddit post announcing a boycott of the App store by a few hundred or a few thousand initial App developers with enough lead time for the message to spread would be a fine starting point. I'm sure it would be all over the globe by morning.

I just posited the idea here in NL at 2:30 in the morning and you, somewhere else entirely have already heard of it. That mechanism could be vastly improved upon but I think the principle is sound as your average cat meme has proven thousands of times by now.
We do not want our labour stolen. We want to labour less, and we want to be fairly compensated for when we have to labour.

The Luddites and the original saboteurs (from the French sabot) had a problem where the capital class invested in machines that let them (a) get more work done per person, (b) employ fewer people, and (c) pay those fewer people less because now they weren't working as hard. The people they fired? They (and the governments of the day — just like now) basically told them to go starve.

> The Luddites were members of a 19th-century movement of English textile workers which
> opposed the use of certain types of cost-saving machinery, and often destroyed the
> machines in clandestine raids. They protested against manufacturers who used machines
> in "a fraudulent and deceitful manner" to replace the skilled labour of workers and
> drive down wages by producing inferior goods.[1][2] Members of the group referred to
> themselves as Luddites, self-described followers of "Ned Ludd", a legendary weaver
> whose name was used as a pseudonym in threatening letters to mill owners and
> government officials.[3]

Yes, we want to work less. But fair work should result in fair compensation. Ultimately, this is something that the copyright washing of current commercialized LLMs cannot achieve.
FarmHack
My mother was a geologist. She had a piece of fluorite that was clear, and she would put it over things, and it would double them (you'd see two of everything).

It has some interesting optical characteristics.

If I remember, the stone was soft, and sensitive to shock and temperature changes. Probably makes it challenging to work with.
I skim from the bottom up now
Will be interesting to see Epic file a lawsuit questioning the legality of per-sale licensing models for SDKs.

You know given they charge exactly the same way for Unreal Engine.
Tourists usually can't open bank accounts, so one way of doing this is by checking the payment method's country which is what I think they already do.
To be fair, Apple doesn’t actually charge more than they did on Day 1. In some cases they charge less.

> And there is no reason why app store developers could not form such a collective to increase their bargaining power.

This is also where you lose me entirely. You’re basically talking about unionizing independent businesses. Just call it a cartel. That’s the word you’re looking for.
> Pretty much every beer uses a distinct "strain" of yeast

I am a professional brewer and this is hilariously incorrect.

_Some_ beers have their own strain of yeast, but banking a yeast strain at a yeast lab is prohibitively expensive for most breweries.

The vast majority of breweries will have maybe 2 strains in house, an ale and a lager yeast. Sometimes they'll throw in a strain for NEIPA / Hazy beers as well. These strains are not specific to that brewery however, just a strain they like and will reuse for several pitches until starting fresh with a new batch from the lab.

To put it in White Labs terms, WLP001 aka Chico yeast is used in the overwhelming majority of IPAs. As referenced elsewhere in this thread almost all stouts are brewed with Guinness yeast aka WLP004. For the Hazy, WLP008 or WLP066. For the lager, WLP830 or WLP840 typically.

This is not to say that plenty of breweries don't have and maintain a proprietary yeast, especially at the macro level, but to say "pretty much every beer" has it's own yeast is incredibly off the mark.
It will "hallucinate" and claim it hit the target successfully when it didn't actually happen.
No, because the market isn't fair.

What will actually happen is people will think "meh good enough", shitty AI art will become the norm, and we'll be boiling frogs and not realize how shitty things have become.
Good point. Forgot that they have all the data…
I watched substantial chunks of that a while back, and I was totally, utterly convinced. Whatever a court rules, I firmly believe Billy Mitchell is a cheater who used a rigged machine to get his record.

There's no way in hell he wasn't using MAME. Now, it could be that the MAME version is an absolute perfect emulation that doesn't affect the final outcome. However, it'd be a whole lot easier to work some cheats into an emulator than the original hardware cabinet. If he can reproduce that score on a genuine cabinet, rock on. If he can't or won't, then I'd consider that damning.
I feel like there's a deeper underlying issue if you're doing user onboarding/offboarding manually via a specific service UI.

I'd assume most organizations should be automating this, either by using SSO and Github Enterprise (or other SSO-supporting code forge of choice) or at the very least automating user permissions via Github's API, backing it by whatever your org's source of truth is.
While not the purpose, the means of that purpose is the protection of those rights.
Curious to not see inheritance/estate taxes listed among the possible solutions here, but I guess that a "wealth tax" could indirectly address this by whittling away at large fortunes over time while people are still alive. This may help avoid the issue of people using trusts to sidestep estate taxes (although I'm sure they would find a way!).

More generally, I highly recommend any of Thomas Piketty's books for detailed discussion about the history, causes, and consequences of inequality. They are exceptionally well-researched. And while you may not agree with all proposed solutions, they are well-written (and well-translated into English) and provide a great historical overview.
> Reading that myself, it sounds like a gotcha question, but under this entirely arbitrary 2-but-not-1 threshold, the answer seems like it should obviously be yes.

I think that's because the question implicitly assumes that the threshold applies for all things and all purposes. It doesn't. First the threshold is about adjusting your baselines, and second even if the threshold were for when to pull the "stop everything" cord, it all depends on your specific goals. The FAA might have completely different goals and targets than someone else in some other industry. Or to put it another way, the FAA has grounded all 737 Max 9's after a single incident with no fatalities. As of Jan 16, 11 people have been killed in homicides in Chicago. By the same "one threshold for everything", the entire city should be on complete lockdown until such time as it can be made safe by the proper authorities.

On the other hand, if you assume that one could have a very low "stop the world" response threshold for "sudden mechanical failures leading to explosive decompression" of planes, and simultaneously have a higher "stop the world" threshold for "people dying in Chicago", then it seems completely reasonable that one could have a third different threshold for the number of mass shooters that come out of any given arbitrary social clustering that trigger the "I should re-evaluate whether these people are entirely sane" routines in your brain.
Concerns over DNA Contaminants in Pfizer and Moderna Covid-19 Vaccines
Acupuncture: Does it alleviate pain and are there serious risks? (2011)
If daily volume is ~400k a sharp 60k spike should show even on a straight rps dashboard. I suspect that didn’t exist because most cloudy SaaS tools don’t seem to put any emphasis on traffic over a particular unit time, like in the Cloudflare site dashboard one must hover over the graph and subtract timestamps to find out if the number of request is per hour, minute, etc. Splunk is similarly bad — the longer the period query covers, the less granularity you get and the minimum seems to be minutely.

Drill down by user, locale, etc would just make it even easier to figure out what’s going on once you spot the spike and start to dig.

My unsolicited advice for Zac in case they’re reading is — start thinking about SLIs (I for indicators) sooner rather than later to help you think through cases like this.
Becoming an indie game developer on spare time could make you happy
Getting a dejavu of a couple SF books where a party needed to obtain totally-not-weapons, sometimes even including talking an AI into building them (with sometimes the AI even being on it basically, just not being able to acknowledge it due to outside setup filters even!).

Laser flashlights and rapid rescue shuttles come to mind. ;-)
I hope the US copies EU regulation and puts a stop to this BS. Imagine a world where the companies hoarding capital and talent have to actually compete rather than sit back and collect rent.
A reflection of its CEO: experience creating FUD and FOMO, doesn't create much else, dubious ethics.
I’d put even more emphasis on getting into the right companies, spend more time at companies that worked for me, and spend less time at companies that weren’t working out.
They're not now generally paywalled and free but it didn't always used to be that way.
You don't have to be the most popular to be a monopoly. Not even close.
Really?

The most critical portion of the connector is MicroSD, which is just simple SPI signaling. (This is how the Rasp. Pi CM4 seems to boot up from).

There's "difficult" portions: PCIe 2.0, HDMI, Ethernet, and USB 2.0 are all differential pairs. But all of them seem optional and can be left disconnected. I don't expect the differential pair to be especially hard to do in KiCAD if you need one of these features though.

Looking through the manual, I can see that Rasp. Pi CM4 requires 3x power rails (5V, 3.3V, and 1.8V), as well as a startup sequence wherein enable-pins come up at the right timing. But a few MOSFETs and a few capacitors in the right places solve that problem (and maybe a couple hours of simulation in LTSpice).

In my experience though, popular parts will have power-up sequences figured out somewhere. There's probably a chip that just automatically starts up a Rasp. Pi CM4 by now (and if not, at least a premade design that we can copy/paste from the internet).

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What looks difficult to you about the Rasp. Pi CM4??
It doesn't need to be _all_ app store developers. Just a large enough group that can push a unified message.

It could even be several groups, so long as they are pushing a similar agenda.
given their immediate prior history, maybe those countries wanted to join so they'd never have to endure the horrors of being under Russian domination yet again?

not even the Russian population wants to be under Russian control