skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our go-forward architecture runs everything on top of Azure Functions. We are using HttpTrigger with basic SSR web forms to deliver the solution. There is no "back-end". The functions directly serve the customer traffic (text/html get & post) and talk to whatever SQL database / external systems are required.

We are finding that this is a much easier operational model in a B2B/SaaS consulting setting wherein our customers (banks & credit unions) must retain legal ownership over their data. Setting up a VM/container circus per customer and expecting them to keep it healthy is not something we are prepared to continue beyond client #5 or so. There is zero reality wherein we could maintain some kind of multi-tenant system.

After targeting this stack seriously for about a year, I am having a hard time coming up with a reason I wouldn't use it for everything. Not having to think about VMs and weird crusty infra management code has freed up an incredible amount of bandwidth for our development team.
Here’s a story from my days at Motorola Labs around 2009 that you might find relevant: we were looking at ways for streaming content to homes (Moto owned a set-top box business at that time) and there were big debates about the future of streaming. The position that prevailed was that consumers would not be able to stream content to their heart’s content en masse because content providers would never let it. I distinctly remember a presentation poster that said you couldn’t stream because it’s against the law, hence use our solution, etc.

Moral of the story for me is that if there’s adequate money to be made laws, protocols, etc. can totally be changed.
"...in 1988, the company added the first accessibility support program for Windows by incorporating work developed at the TRACE Center, a research and development center on accessible technology at the University of Wisconsin.

Known then as Access Utility for Windows 2.0, the program improved the accessibility of Windows for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or who have limited dexterity"

https://www.afb.org/aw/1/4/16165
There's more to the Linus-style jerk phenomenon than just telling entitled people to piss off (I would be reluctant to call that being a jerk if that's all it was). See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33058906 for an example thread and associated comments. If you're just ranting or passing off subjective POVs as truth and obvious and those disagreeing with you as doing so out of incompetence or malfeasance, that isn't being direct, honest, or straight to the point. It's being a dick.

I've seen brilliant colleagues for whom I have the utmost technical admiration completely fail to improve bad designs implemented by others, because the brilliant person was so dickish about how they communicated to others.
Please don't move the goalposts, we were talking about Venezuela.

Where did this happen recently for Venezuela?
it took 567 milliseconds to compile six lines of code?

i used to use visual c++ last millennium when people paid me to, but i recall it compiling more than eleven lines of code per second, even on the hardware of the time
I don't get how people on both political sides are often split on supporting teachers unions vs police unions. Be consistent! Whatever problems you think the union you don't like has, the other union has similar issues. I say get rid of both of them, bosses don't like unions for a reason and we're supposed to be their bosses.
Software people here, we dont want ai people to steal our open source code, hide it behind closed models, and sell it without attribution or other terms respected.

Many in the software world are in awe how much theft ai people do.
first time i have seen 100% spam for a query on google.
pretty nuts.
And that's fine, because presumably it's by consent.
For inference and fine tuning yes, not training.
Notion Calendar is a Google a calendar client. If you use Google Calendar the “cost” to “switchl to this app is one click + OAuth to log in, and (optional) however much time it takes to pick the keyboard shortcuts.

(I work at Notion but not on Calendar)
Most likely they don't have an opt out option. Considering their reputation
I wish there was an option to run at greater than realtime!
I'd suggest "The Mechanical Universe", which was an excellent series of video lectures developed at Caltech in the that covers undergraduate physics.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8_xPU5epJddRABXqJ5h5...

It was created in the '80s and broadcast on PBS and it still holds up well today.
The only real recourse seems to be shaming Apple customers in to no longer wanting to be associated with the brand. My personal flavor of this memetic warfare is to equate such customers to high time preference, shallow beauty-seeking rubes with too much money. Probably doesn't work too well, but it's what I got until I think up something better!
Synthetic data is a big deal, essentially as a form of “knowledge distillation” from large models or for transforming high-quality text into training data (e.g. Q&A pairs). Almost everyone is using GPT-4 for this. Dunno about other domains, as it’s based on the mutability of text, relative to whatever ground truths are embedded therein. This seems less feasible for other kinds of inputs, but who knows.
My guess would be that this would depend on income bracket.

My worry if divorced would be splitting up my retirement savings. Alimony would probably be comparatively cheap.

Still, most people who get divorced probably have nothing to divide and no income to divert to the poorer spouse.

If you look at mid-to-high-income homes, I bet alimony goes up.
Curious to know what frameworks you are using?
When it costs zero to produce a copy of a novel is the moral choice to create artificial scarcity to preserve it's value in our current system of value assignment, or is the moral choice to fight to change and improve the system to more align with the reality that novels exist in a post-scarcity world?

Do we really want to deny people something that costs nothing in order to preserve the status quo? Perhaps it's the system of value assignment that's broken.
Neri (and one of her grad students) photographed and published some of my colleagues work and passed it off as their own when I was at MIT

My colleague (another grad student) innocently showed them their work and was very open with them.
> The pharmaceutical industry continues as a giant, blood sucking, vampire squid because of IP.

Let's be honest here. In order to get that way, they needed to stomp out and eradicate every trace of "evidence" that natural medicine was efficacious, because herbs, botanicals, and other natural substances can't be patented, can't be synthesized in factories, and can't be exploited for profit at megascale.

If word ever leaked out that, for example, selenium, valerian root or St. John's wort were equivalent/better than synthetic, patented medications, we'd all be in trouble.
So essentially ai is profitable only if it resells stolen property. Almost as if it’s not intelligent and it only procedurally generates output. The more the better.
Marketing can make most people believe anything
^ exactly the type of person i was talking about. how is this considered anything other than troll behaviour?

also, there are no spelling mistakes in my comment. perhaps consider learning about how words are spelled in british english vs american english? :)
wgpu is a nice implementation of webgpu for native rust applications on desktop.
Do you mean "High Index" lenses? ... I have strong prescriptions of -9.x and -11.x and I have had 1.66 index lenses. I've always noted to doctors light sources move around or float around alot with the lenses. I haven't necessarily noticed a difference with contacts (but I did see sharper with hard contacts) but my eyes cannot tolerate hard or soft lenses.

I have tried even higher index lenses, but anything above 1.66 and the distortions and optical aberrations get too annoying ...
Somewhat unrelated, but here is a thought experiment...

If a human knows a song "by heart" (imperfectly), it is not considered copyright infringement.

If a LLM knows a song as part of its training data, then it is copyright infringement.

But what if you developed a model with no prepared training data and forced it to learn from it's own sensory inputs. Instead of shoveling it bits, you played it this particular song and it (imperfectly) recorded the song with it's sensory input device. The same way humans listen to and experience music.

Is the latter learning model infringing on the copyright of the song?
Their conclusions are nearly identical to secular research on this topic.
I totally disagree. Density and transit are the defining traits of NYC. What's something else NYC offers that you can't find in a similarly sized, but spread out, population? Keeping in mind that the population of NYC is about that of the entire Dallas-Ft. Worth metro area, or the entire state of Washington.
I think the answer is in the name. The "source" has always been what you need to build the thing. In this context I think we can agree that the thing is the model. Based on that the model is no more open source than a binary program.
> I wish there was a firewall similar to Little Snitch for phones.

This reminds me how people on Windows always fight with their own computer (e.g., to disable the telemetry) instead of switching to an OS that respects you.

Same here. My phone won't prevent me from installing anything I want (including Little Snitch) and will not attempt to send any data somewhere.
It is NOT okay for machine owner to profit from learning, unless the machine owner compensates the owners of the training data. That is where the line should be drawn.
> Pushed to the extreme this is like saying Chromium is not open-source because my 4GB laptop can't compile it.

Not really, an analog would be if Chromium shipped LLVM IR as its source but no one could get any version of LLVM to output the exact same IR no matter what configurations they tried, and thus any "home grown" Chromium was a little off.
The gradient of faked overtly sexual images to images created by other means, being less overtly sexual, or not appearing photorealistic will be a nightmare. Is it forbidden if it's anime style? What posing or props make it ok or not ok? How is AI-generated different from hand-drawn? And is it defamation if the fake is more attractive than the original?
Not to mention the times someone has said that an issue couldn't possibly have been caused by a recent change they made, only to find out that it was.
Few years back:

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

https://sourceforge.net/projects/loic/
So the proposal of sociopathic thieves is that we turn into china and steal people’s property? What an odd take.
> Seems like a solution looking for a problem. We don't need food delivery robots, people are happy to do the same thing (just look at Uber eats, DoorDash, postmates, etc).

Once I ordered from one of those companies on a brutally rainy day, and the rider who delivered my order was a mother taking her infant daughter along with her. Before she arrived I was kind of frustrated as the order was taking twice as long as expected to be delivered, but once both of them showed up at my front door all soaking wet with the mother apologizing, it broke my heart.

I'm not so sure people are happy to deliver stuff to others. They work jobs because they really need the pay. You might argue delivery companies didn't created poverty, but they aren't exactly paying a living wage either.

Robots makes food delivery less exploitative.
I think it would be helpful to have programs like this in earlier contexts as well - How to date effectively? How to communicate healthily with friends/family/work/romantic partners. Etc. I spent a lot of years fumbling around with underdeveloped social skills, low awareness of my emotions and needs, etc. I was fortunate that some of the people I dated had better skills in some of those areas and helped me start to level up but it was still a long and painful slog. And while some of the growth I have had took a lot of work, there were some skills that were much more straightforward to learn and develop.
The left didn't make victimization a core tenet of identity politics. The left made power differences et abuse of power the core tenet of its politics - and the right caricaturize it as only "playing" the victim - the extreme version being the constant accusations of "crisis actors" lobbed by Alex Jones and co.

This is a gross deformation/strawman argumentation.
I'm in a similar position, but 10 years older. My oldest kid is 13. I think its possible to put too much emphasis on family. Yes, parents have an obligation and most love their kids and will want to spend time with them but it can absolutely go to far. Balance is necessary. Going too far is a suffocating, robotic way to live in my experience. I honestly feel like a machine, going here, doing this, day after day with no free will of my own.

The counter to this is having a life of your own outside the family. For me these are outdoor sports and adventures. Something that makes me feel truly alive. Every time I go I come back feeling like a better person and ready to face another round of the interminable monotony of family life. If you want to meet people and have something to talk about then I would suggest a hobby that involves skill or equipment. Road or mountain bike riding would be a good one.

I also have found that once my kids are about 10 they suddenly don't need or want me as much and are more interested in friends. I've been extremely dedicated to my family and did so many things with my kids, its a bit hard to see them growing up and separating but necessary and nice in it's own way of course.

Family can be great, and is a rewarding experience at times and of course and loving obligation. Sounds like you are happy but just need a little adventure in your life. Something that a relatively simple hobby would perfectly satisfy while detracting very little from your family life overall. Think about the big picture, kids will grow up, a few hours or even a whole day on the weekend for your hobby is no big deal.
> they just want to think it’s not possible

As far as I'm aware, what you propose really isn't a solved issue. Most naive approaches you'd think might work are either infeasible or give chaotic nonsense results.

Partial matching between the output text and the training data is possible as a step after generation (though doesn't determine whether it's coincidence).
> This is someone who, at a fundamental level, has no grasp of the landscape they are operating in or the challenges they are up against. This is someone who wants you to go away because the jargon you're talking doesn't make any sense to them or their team.

Sounds like exactly the kind of someone you wouldn't want to have to trust with your personal information let alone trust to manage your life/property/business/liability insurance.
I nice coincidence is that Stewart Brand, who later went on to found the Whole Earth Review and other counterculture icons, was the camera man running the camera at Douglas Engelbart's famous Mother of All Demo demo in 1968 in San Francisco.
Cancer Alley
Boeing Chasing Errors in Production Process (1989)
Sounds right.

Additional examples at

https://github.com/louyx/aplus/blob/master/src/a/k.h

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

How would you characterize that?

Heavy use of the C preprocessor and C defaults to embed a functional programming language. Language with a small number of core functions and ability to apply functions to lists of atoms. Aesthetically favoring short identifiers and minimal whitespace to create high semantic density. Eschew comments.
RmlUi – The HTML/CSS User Interface Library Evolved
The Peter Principle…people get promoted into incompetence.
I don't know why Google doesn't grasp the nettle and just not index pages like those super low quality ones (ones that no human is ever ever going to want to view). They could surely infer them via a series of experiments: temporarily backing off on ads to a particular user and see which sites they click through to.

They needn't hit their ad revenue much at all, because each user would just be in an experiment briefly, and they would aggregate results to get a general view.
People are happier doing what they want, instead of delivering food (that a robot could deliver) just to make rent.

In 10 years this situation will play out across all jobs in all industries. Nobody from janitors to theoretical physicists will be spared. All work, everywhere, will gradually acquire an ever-deepening sense of futility. Until all anyone can see is that the only people doing this pointless work are the "working" poor. And then we'll ask "why are some rich and some poor?" and discover that economics is just a scam, having no bearing on reality. The rich are con artists, the poor are marks. And why are the poor marks? Because they've been worked so hard for so long that all they can manage is their own survival. If the poor learn how the scam works, there won't be any rich people anymore. That's why the rich do everything in their power to prevent all forward progress in all areas of life that may lift this veil of deception.

Get mad at me, equivocate, deny and deflect. It doesn't matter. It's too late, and this is all going to happen faster than anyone ever saw coming.

An analogy: I used to get mad when I spilled my coffee each morning. Now I observe the nature and character of the spill, how my hurriedness or caution has little bearing on the odds of it happening, and appreciate that the universe has spilled for me, to give me a little sign that it's still there. That's what it feels like watching increasingly absurd talking heads on TV distract from anything and everything that's even remotely related to UBI.

Just because I know the spill is coming, doesn't mean that I can stop it.
Unfortunately the people in charge of hiring IT Directors often aren't qualified to hire IT Directors.
Find a way to bring back this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y&t=0s
Doesn't exactly answer your question, but 20% of the US population is living in settlements with no more than 5000 inhabitants.
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022/urban-ru...
That turned out to not be true, FYI:

https://www.reddit.com/r/n64/comments/t2owki/psa_dk64s_expan...
> Is the current length of copyright really "limited Times"?

This was argued before, and the Supreme Court decided "Yes, it is, somehow."
Cool but no way I'm wearing anything EL. The voltages involved can give you a really nasty shock (as I discovered when I touched the edge of an EL panel).
AWS reveals new Redis client
There was some children's (as in teen-targeted) book I read back in the late 90's or early 00's where the main informant was a dude who got a backdoor, via a supply chain attack, into the generic mouse drivers installed on almost every machine.

Good times.
Dupe from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39013497
Some people are capable of thinking with a level of nuance deeper than "unions bad."
Ah

"No one's gonna notice if you're never right or wrong

And if you and your next neighbour, yeah, ya don't quite get along

No one's gonna notice if you're singing anyway

Those not coming in for free will learn they gotta pay"

Ian Brown, 2004.
Some people want more than that, e.g. they want to fix their printer but the driver is closed source, so they start the GNU project and the broader free software movement, responsible for almost all software innovation for decades.
I assume you mean AWS Athena - but no this is quite different from FoundationDB. Athena separates compute from storage (it’s Presto https://prestodb.io/ under the hood). Think of it as an on-demand SQL compute cluster. FoundationDB is a traditional combined storage/compute cluster. The Record Layer does provide some ability to scale-out the higher-level aspects of querying but it’s just a client library, not a separate compute service.
Some countries have roundabouts. Some countries let you make a right turn on a red light. Traffic law isn't any more universal than copyright law. All law is made up but that doesn't make it less real.
Shouldn't the correct measure be relative to how criminal they are?
>Because they want to? I really don't get this attitude of rationalizing everything in terms of pros vs cons. It just teaches people to disregard how they feel

Considering why you want the things you want is also worth doing in itself. You might realize that you want them for reasons that are no longer valid, or because someone else wants you to want them, or any number of bad reasons. You might realize that you don't really care about something you thought you wanted.

>If you were to take them for society at large, marriage would be a net positive

Marrying "for society" is probably the dumbest possible reason, even dumber than "because my parents want me to".
https://www.govtech.com/education/higher-ed/as-higher-ed-goe...

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/30-years-after-american...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9565787/

https://www.levelaccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/how-h...

But I'm glad your anecodote about an unnamed school "tearing down a building because they couldn't make the elevator ADA compliant" refutes all that.

Try talking to students who are in wheelchairs about their challenges getting to class, housing, food services, etc.
I think even on the LLMS + KGs space the depth is not very deep. In fact there is more technical depth in the text-to-SQL than anything else I have seen on LLMs. Maybe the COLBERT-like matrix-models is another topic where there is good technical depth.
Maybe some fraction of folks giving tough love are doing it primarily for the 'schadenfreude' value, but it doesn't seem likely to be all that many.

In fact I don't think I've ever seen that happen in real life.

It happens on the internet because it's easier for losers to pretend to be virtuous, better, and so on. Which might lead to that perception.
They allow you up to two personal items/small bags.
Very interesting. Thank you for letting the community know!
This is a fun date point that has been known by secular sociologists for decades.

It also brings up really good coffee table talk, because in the area of ethics, if it's true, an atheist could use this data to rationally conclude that cohabitation before marriage is unethical, and they would be correct in a framework that assumes maximizing human flourishing is a good thing.
But that's the point - it's not like, say, switching to a different car make. It is, indeed, non-trivial to switch phone platforms. So why shouldn't we recognize this fact and hold the companies in the market to a different standard?
> it should be super easy to make a site that is secure.

A "site" that's a static webpage? Sure.

A full application that just happens to use HTTP as one of its interfaces? More difficult than you'd think.
So are the rules of the road.
I know very well, and I think that's the sticky point that needs untangling to take antitrust legislation into the XXI digital century. Ecosystem competition is not enough.

Imagine buying a house, and having to ask to the original builder for permission to buy wardrobes, or a fridge, a table and chairs. The builder can tell you what he does or does not allow, and takes a cut of every purchase you make. It's a ludicrous proposition, but that's very much how our digital life currently is.
It's not uninstalled. It updated itself to Notion Calendar. Probably kept the old app bundle ID
Pet Hydrolases in Human Gut Microbiota and Implications for Health
They pretty much have an opt out for everything I would love some citation of your claim.