skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I'm accessing IMAP with an app password will I still be able to do this after the Sep 30 deadline? I've re-read this 3 times and I have no idea. It almost sounds like they are disabling anything other that XOAUTH auth method from IMAP (which, I think, they already did for non Workspace accounts).
>game time tracking and end of year reports mean a lot to some gamers.

some indeed. It's another network effect and it is indeed useless to try and grab people away from something even if EGS had every feature of steam. So I get why Epic didn't try to be a social network (it could do game tracking reports if it wanted to. But that's not selling anyone).

traditionally, storefronts live and die by its library, pricing, and especially exclusives, So I understand how and why they focused on what they did.
> but probably not the best thing for modern society

do you mean for leaders and officials in modern society, or anyone? Either way, I'm genuinely curious why you generally think this?
Rice University financials list $33M for lawsuit settlement
And the government can present these experts in court, and have them go against the other side's experts. The experts are not going away whichever way is decided.
Todays babies rapidly grow their brain while learning new languages. Kids who wind up feral for whatever reason have severe cognitive issues from a lack of learning language at a critical age.

It makes you wonder how this brittle system got its start. Considering everyone today needs this language kick start induced by cultural practice, maybe the initial kick was also some cultural practice that also introduced new ideas where there wouldn’t be otherwise. Maybe that practice at one time was a shamanic like experience considering the proliferation of these practices in the most basal religions we have around the world. Its really hard to say what came first, the language or cultural practices such as ritualized drug taking, considering what archaeological evidence we have seems to suggest these things were happening at the same time.
> it's not even possible (legal) to pay Russians at this point if you are a US company.

Unless you are buying oil, diamonds and many other things through NATO allies or proxy companies registered. But I agree, rules for thee but not for me.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/11/14/russian-o...
Yes see https://basecamp.com/handbook/managing-work-devices#mobile-d...

They also don’t allow Windows or iOS.
2012??

Google was founded in 1998. 2012 is 14 years later. I'm fine with the argument that they had already abandoned "Don't be Evil" by that point in time.
That's on the roadmap
Every time credit cards come up, everybody always tells me that this is their big advantage: that it's trivial to revert these two payments.

So this fraud shouldn't work, and yet it does. How is that possible?
Americans Are Suddenly Feeling Way Better About the Economy
- "Consumer sentiment leapt 13% in the first half of January from December...on the heels of a sharp rise in December, causing the index to surge a combined 29% from November, the biggest two-month increase since 1991.

- "The pickup in sentiment was broad-based, spanning consumers of different age, income, education and geography."

- "Other gauges also show that Americans are at last emerging from their funk. The share of consumers in December who expected to be financially better off a year later reached the highest level since June 2021, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of New York survey."

- "A separate consumer confidence measure last month saw its biggest one-month gain since March 2021, according to the Conference Board."
Gnutella-dipped caps, with peanut-butter stalks.
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35182705
Don't overlook books that are critical of engineering as it is often practiced and how it fits into our society:

Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum (1976). Weizenbaum wrote
Eliza, the first AI chatbot, almost sixty years ago and was appalled at the reception. This book is still very pertinent, especially the Introduction,
Chapter 1 On Tools, chapter 9, Incomprehensible Programs, and chapter 10,
Against the Imperialism of Instrumental Reason. Chapter 4, Science and the Compulsive Programmer, is one of the first written accounts of the hacker culture.

Weizenbaum's original paper on Eliza (1966) [0] is still very pertinent to the present generation of chatbots, especially the introduction and discussion.

Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich (1973) [1]. Influenced recent work
by the computer scientists Steven Kell [2],[3] and Kartik Agaram [4].

Computation and Human Experience, Phil Agre (1997) (excerpt at [5]). Agre
got a PhD in AI at MIT in the 80s and 90s and became very critical of the field.
I think his shorter writings [6][7] are a better introduction, especially the personal memoir at [6]:
"about how I became (relatively speaking, and in a small way) a better person through philosophy."

0. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365153.365168

1. http://akkartik.name/illich.pdf

2. https://www.humprog.org/~stephen//research/talks/kell19de-es...

3. https://www.humprog.org/~stephen//research/talks/kell19softw...

4. http://akkartik.name/akkartik-convivial-20200607.pdf

5. https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/che-intro.html

6. https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/notes/00-7-12.html

7. https://pages.gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/agre/critical.html
David L. Mills (NTP, EGP) has died
Exterior exit stairs are still allowed by the International Building Code, but as mentioned in the article they aren't going to be too similar to the classic fire escape stair particularly if there are accessible units because a second egress has to be accessible too.
SandVox Simulator
The Farmers Had What the Billionaires Wanted
Lithium is quite common. Problem is minign it without totally destroying local environment!
Sorry if I misunderstood.

You used the phrase “real value” - what do you mean by that?
Their support is really good to. I've never had customer support help me sort out linux kernel issues before.

We get all developers at our company System 76 linux laptops as their primary dev machine (Lemur Pros with 40 GB of ram)
Maintainer? More like creator.
I think anything compatible with either chat completions or completions API should work.
>Software security is dire

It's 2024, why are we still blaming everything except the Operating Systems?

> simple products importing 1600 dependencies of unknown provenance.

Put yourself back in 1984... you've got an IBM XT with 2 floppy disks. You made write protected copies of all your important disks, and even more copies of your boot disk.

You'd go to a computer show, or your user group, and come home with stacks of software of unknown provenance, and then just try everything out over the next few weeks.

You were safe because your system made it easy to know what you were risking when you ran a program. There was one simple rule that was easy to understand:

Only un-write protected floppy disks in the drives were at risk.

That quite limited computer system was, in effect, a capability based security system. Crude, but extremely effective.

Here it is 40 years later, and the ability to just run code with abandon like we used to seems to be a fantasy to younger people. Because we don't expect our operating systems to be at least as safe as MS-DOS on an IBM-XT.
It almost doesn't matter. These bio processes are only good for generating a small amount of the energy we need, but as you get to volume there is a need to add fertilizer in the mix. Fertilizer uses fossil fuels and energy to make, thereby negating any gains of the bio process over just using the fossil fuels and energy directly.
Fair enough. With that said, support for running a local, self-hosted, and non-OpenAI cloud-hosted models is in the works.
Similarly, I've been enjoying "The Joy of X" as additional context around the fields and how they connect in an entertaining wyay.
How to train your own Large Multimodal Model
Think of it like how an orchestra conductor and musicians work together.
Landing was successful.

It is communicating with Earth, but the solar cell is not providing power so they are burning up the battery.

They are trying to get as much data from the unit as possible before the battery dies.

They took photos and are downloading them as priority now.

They have been forced to switch off the heater.

There is only a few hours of battery available to do what they need.

They have separated LEV1 and LEV2 (rovers).

Stay posted, they say. Need more time to figure out what is going on.
Well, it's certainly better than their last provider who they couldn't reach during a critical time, and still cannot reasonably communicate with.

They can at least reach and reason with OVH, as mentioned when they got flagged as an out bound DDoS.

> Being that this is Drew, I wouldn't be shocked to know that this provider choice has more to do with a anti-establishment manifesto than any practicality

I feel this is a pretty unfair barb considering one of their first moves was reaching out to Cloudflare. Unfortunately, non-http traffic + the need for tls termination on their own servers (pretty sure cloudflare calls this Keyless SSL) squarely lands them as an enterprise customer w/ enterprise pricing.

Drew probably had already entered into agreements with OVH when cloudflare came back around, and we don't have insight on the terms or period for which Cloudflare's second offer was good for.
Nabaztag Resurrection Kit
The pre-orders for the kit to ressurect your Nabaztag are open. Season 2024.
I suspect that as long as one's father remains a lobster fisherman, one will have lobster daily.
From my own experience seeing people switch from ICE vehicles to EVs, I would guess this comes down to people not being used to one-pedal driving / regenerative braking.
Can one enter their own opeanai URL and api-key? (so we can use openai-compatible things like openrouter or lm-studio)?
Even in a world where perfect, indistinguishable-from-reality deepfakes could be created instantly at the push of a button, CCTV cameras would be no less useful in criminal proceedings than they are now.

"Yes your honor, I can testify that I personally pulled this footage from the camera at the corner of 15th street and King Dr."

Or, even better:

"Yes, your honor, I as an expert witness can confirm that this footage was signed by the secure hardware key embedded in the camera at the corner of 15th street and King Dr."

There, problem solved.
The $10K system cost I mentioned is not for the review unit, but for a cheaper configuration with a Radeon RX 7600 GPU ($250). See last page.
Assuming you mean graphite (which can be used in graphene production), it looks like Turkey might have even more reserves. China, Madagascar, and Mozambique also have pretty significant graphite reserves: https://www.statista.com/statistics/267367/reserves-of-graph...
Follow-up question: do you think of it as a good thing or a bad thing? My guess is that either way, that's perfectly fine with them. They want employees who embrace this mentality, and do not want employees who would be upset by it.
GPL stipulates that derivative works must be licensed under GPL.

Just because an entire industry has their entire future riding on courts eventually deciding that "Yeah, but copyright doesn't apply to AI", that doesn't make it so.
What's super weird?
LFP batteries don't use cobalt.
This is a new twist on Betteridge's law for headlines. "The question in the headline contains a false assumption."
I totally agree with that view... Though I still eat meat myself, which I think is blatantly unethical.
"underlying knowledge graph" is a directed acyclic graph (DAG), based on prerequisite relations among topics. So you are right that there cannot be cycles but it's not a tree either because a tree (technically) only allows one parent.
Simulated Systems Design Interviews with Multi-Modal AI (GPT, Vision, TTS)
Seriously, it's unfortunate that their handbook is so thoughtful and yet management has shown the same callous behavior as your average corporate overlords. Something something words and actions.
But how many have a 12.9" iPad pro? That has to be one of the lower volume models.
If charges are withdrawn or dismissed, as long as you don't have any convictions on record and there isn't a public safety concern you can request the destruction of non-conviction information from your record.

It's silly that you need to request it, but there is a process to expunge your record.
Imagine your cognitive abilities today if no one ever spoke a language to you through your childhood. Cultural influence is able to significantly improve this. Thats not a genetic factor but an environmental one that is predominantly responsible for this phenotype of a developed and modern adult.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39051246
Most Fundamental Thing in Software Development
Given that a VR headset places an unbalanced, unusual, not insignificant weight (pulling down the front of the head) on delicate and vital structure that is the neck, I think the onus would be on the manufacturers to show that it is safe, rather than vice versa. Everything else you wear on your head is either balanced (helmets) or very light weight (glasses).
Sphere (Venue)
I would accept that if the prices were only confided to necessary foods and good, but it seems to cover most consumption; new cars, luxury items, luxury services, ect.

E.g. profits aren't just coming form raising the price of subsistence rice and beans, but also fillet minion.
>Libre software it's a thing.

Most consumers do not know how to check source code for backdoors. Most consumers do not know how to compile from source.

>Also, passwords in mail clients are often encrypted.

Which means they have to be decrypted at some point. Malicous software can decrypt it itself, or steal it after it has been decrypted.
> and the battery doesn't even last through a whole movie

For the low low price of only $199, Apple will sell an extra battery so you can finish that movie. :P
I am very ignorant about this topic. Can you please explain what "adversarial interoperability" means? The term sounds very intriguing.
> Not mentioned: Whether accidents also increase when drivers switch between manual and automatic transmissions.

It’s really easy to stamp on the brake with your clutch foot at low speed, like in a car park. I’ve surprised a few people doing that.
I’m not really informed on the influencer-sphere, is MKBHD generally good for reviews? (Note: when I say not really informed, I mean really not informed. So, this is not intended as a shade throwing question, hahaha).
LOL, I never heard that term, I like it: "Status Shield."
Amiga, much like the lobster, is criminally underrated.
Yeah, the phrasing is not neutral. That's the critical aspect.
> Like Google getting caught off guard on AI and now chasing that instead of leading here or elsewhere.

????
"1/4 the speed of a Pi" applies to the original (slow) 2012 Pi which is unable to run LLM as fast as you think. However the 2020 Pi 400 (equivalent to Pi 4), which can run the LLM workload, is about 100 times faster than the Cray 1:

"Raspberry Pi ARM CPUs - The comment above was for the 2012 Pi 1. In 2020, the Pi 400 average Livermore Loops, Linpack and Whetstone MFLOPS reached 78.8, 49.5 and 95.5 times faster than the Cray 1." http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/Cray%201%20Supercomputer%20P...

A Pi 4 can infer ~0.8 tokens/sec with some of the more optimized configs (as per https://www.dfrobot.com/blog-13498.html). So the Cray would have needed ~2 minutes per token, so ~2.5 hours to generate one sentence... if hypothetically it had enough RAM (it didn't).

In 1978 RAM cost about $25k per megabyte (https://jcmit.net/memoryprice.htm). Assuming you needed 4GB for inference, RAM would have cost $100M in 1978 dollars, or $470M in today's dollars.

For comparison, the Cray cost $7M in 1978 which is $32M in today's dollars. So once you buy a Cray you would have had to spend 14 times that amount on building a custom RAM device extension of 4GB, somehow hooked to the Cray, to finally be able to generate one sentence every 2.5 hours...

But in 1978, even if RAM was available to do LLM inference, it would have been impossible to train the model, as vastly more compute power is needed than for inference.
I'm not sure (EDIT: replaced 'it is' with 'it should be') a useful tool when taking non-convictions into account. If person A was arrested and then charges were dropped, does that make them less innocent than person B who was never arrested in the first place?

You could argue that from a probabilistic view, any person who is arrested for a crime is more likely to be a criminal than one who is never arrested ever - and it's up to us as a society whether we want to expose that information so that people can avoid hiring those who have ever been arrested.
Apple Pay Tech Opened Up to Rivals in Bid to Settle EU Probe
Tech Billionaires Release Map of Utopian City They Want to Build in California
Yeah, I wonder about the high utility prices in california too. I don’t have good answers other than we absolutely need to treat utilities with very high standards. My suspicion is that part of the problem is a common allowance of “cost plus” accounting. You should absolutely never do this, because all the pressures both positive and negative disappear, and the end result seems to be prices that rise faster than inflation.

As for the can’t compete problem, is there really is a lot of value in working at scale. Some of the earliest antitrust work in the US allowed the railroads to continue to grow in power because they were considered essential and scale was quoted as being a being the reason to let them grow. I think we need a regressive tax against business size (however we define that). Bigger companies should simply be taxed increasingly disproportionate to their size. I think that would encourage smaller companies to make it easier to compete.
In the context of sustainable lobster populations, total consumption is the only metric that matters -- not distribution of consumption frequency.
I don’t mean to be too dismissive, but this would really only be interesting if it ran local voice transcription and a local LLM.
THIS is good question. If diaper prices are too high, what's stopping a new company from starting up and scooping them? Corporations are not being greedy enough!

I suspect that the answer is boring - the profitability of making a diaper right now is overstated. It's not possible to make a profit competing with Kirkland Signature at 18c a diaper. And any analysis about the sudden profitability of diaper making is hyperbolic accounting.
So much just-world-fallacy-inspired victim blaming in this thread. The problem here is actually better described as a breakdown in communication with the police, on the part of the RCMP. (I wonder if they have their own videos like "Don't listen to your victims" and "Shut your eyes Mondays" ?)

Modulo the third party scammer that created the situation, the bad actor here is the RCMP itself for bringing the weight of the government down on this guy without doing the real work of actually investigating. The true reform would be to destroy this regressive idea whereby government agents/systems can attack people and then just walk away from the matter after realizing they are wrong. If there were statutory reimbursements for hiring legal representation, time spent/detained, emotional distress etc, then the victim here would have the resources to continue the matter in the eventually consistent justice system. Instead the official policy would seem to be something like "Thank you for your involuntary contribution to this rookie agent's training. Better luck next time"
Listening to the press conference, it sounds like the landing was a success but that the solar generators aren't creating any power, so they're currently on low power from the battery as they try to figure that out.
> Credentials, degrees, accomplishments, titles impress no one

Then we must not be living in the same world. If nobody cared about status, BMW would be bankrupt, MBAs wouldn't get any students and pigs would fly.
...because I happened to come across it in my bookmarks just now, there's an article by Don Norman [1] that made the HN frontpage somewhat recently [2] sharing my pessimistic view about usability today. Admittedly, he has a conflict of interest, making money by telling people how bad their UIs are and how to make them better. But he definitely is very respected, and, in my opinion, deservedly so.

> [...] strong "kids today" vibes. [...] entire industry has forgotten how to do our jobs.

The OP seemed to be pessimistic, your initial point was "It was pretty bad in the mid-90s, and it's no worse today" which is really not very optimistic either, and my point was "Well, it was bad in the mid-90s, then got better, then got worse again". So, FWIW, I think that my point was actually somewhat more nuanced than the pessimistic context. I was also expressing optimism towards certain technologies while expressing pessimism towards others.

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90338379/i-wrote-the-book-on-use...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37902412
JuiceBar EV No Longer in Business
so the niche is in training ? :D
Every time this comes up, people claim that this lack of security doesn't matter because it's easy to reverse these payments. But if that's true, then why is the woman so upset and why is Barker handled so aggressively? It should be easy to revert both payments.
SARS-CoV-2: how the recent FOIA shows lab origin
Another great translation is by Witter Bynner - the book is titled The Way of Life rather than Tao Te Ching.
It is a great book, and it includes an amazing essay by him titled You and Your Research [0][1] - which explains why it is important to "always be learning".

0 - https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3msMuwqp-o (lecture version)
My work has had some pretty poor experiences with their laptops. 2 different models both have had thermal issues where the computer locks up during basic web browsing, agnostic of the Linux distro.
oh, some people definitely care about status. My friend's dad was disinvited to a family holiday because his son-in-law is a partner at a consulting firm and didn't want the blue-collar dad spoiling his reputation with his vacation home neighbors.

Be thankful you have been surrounded by people who don't so far.
https://archive.is/Kh4Zy
For the curious like me, here's the script running on consumer gaming Intel hardware (i9 14900K, 2x 48GB DDR5 6600MHz CL32 XMP, Windows 11):

1 27.6
2 50.5
3 62.5
4 68.3
5 75.6
6 82.6
7 87.4
8 90.7
9 93.0
10 94.3
...repeating

I expected a bit more, my guess would have been around 120 GB/s. I've been playing with LLMs and this hardware is about as fast as memory gets on consumer Intel without overclocking.

Screenshot showing usage: https://i.imgur.com/okdqgG9.png
Yes! Christopher Alexander is a must-read for engineers. Notes on the Synthesis of Form is also very excellent.