skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be just to kill OpenAI if it is deemed to have violated copyright. Ownership is the cornerstone of free enterprise, and if OpenAI has stolen some valuable intellectual property, well, it's guilty of theft
Increasing size of government and not balancing the budget.

The government is a bucket with holes(corruption). The bigger the bucket, the more holes and the less effective government becomes.

Why does government always grow?

You campaign, you become mayor/premier/emperor. You want to execute your vision, you move forward with that spending. The next guy will figure out how to pay for it. You never go back to fix the last guy's mistakes. If politicians did this, then your ideas would be removed by the next guy.

Eventually government grows too big and no amount of water flowing into the bucket will ever fill it.

Eventually a politician will come along to fix the bad ideas of all the last guy and you receive lots of screaming. Worstest politician ever who is terribad and all his followers are nazis.

If they are able to prevent that politician from fixing that big government, which is what usually happens. Then you inevitably end up in a failure position. Think Detroit or Greece for example. NYC and California are contemporary ongoing. Greece peaked at 30% unemployment and that's down to 9%. Poverty is similarly down.

In some situations though, bankruptcy and austerity isn't an option. That's when people in Boston do things with tea. You end up with an insurrection aka american revolution. These are more often then not quite violent and deadly. No taxation without representation!

Within about 2-3 years we are going to have a new stage, the whole cycle is about 80(average age of a person) years for these. These always end in something equivalent to a world war.

2024-80 = 1944 - World war 2

1944-80 = 1864 - American Civil War

1864-80 = 1784 - American Insurrection/Revolution

1784-80 - 1704 - Various european revolutions. Perhaps the "Glorious" in relation to England.

What comes after all these though?

American High, Reconstruction and the gilded age, the era of good feelings. But this is just when those politicians get to spending again.

The fix to this entire cycle is balancing the budget.
How realistic is it to build and maintain these in a desert? When discussing doing this in the Sahara, there were lots of people claiming that the sand would make maintaining them costly and that at large scales them blocking the sun can actually effect the local climate as it cools the ground and allows rainwater to pool.
The scariest part to me is the realization that not only will we probably crack AGI in my lifetime, if we keep throwing resources at it, it will almost certainly have a richer more sophisticated conscious experience than myself. What the hell are we supposed to do when we've created an intelligence that is better at being "human" than humans?
Related, started realizing that "being a principled person" doesn't really mean "having (stated) principles", it means belief that you can (and should) have principles that you're trying to apply consistently and continuously.

Lots of people have principles. Not so many people are principled.
Or a low burn rate.
Largely, yes. Arduino code runs on bare metal, and delays simply block execution so they should be accurate with some constant overhead.
Finnish is not remotely similar to Swedish, and it's Swedish that I'm skeptical about.
Not cancelling subscriptions has a high correlation with irresponsible spending habits. The same person will likely amass a large amount of stuff that stays unused. Instead of repairing, they will buy new. When they buy new, they don’t consider the longevity and durability of the item.
It's a vicious part of the cycle and it takes good leadership to pull out of the spiral. Killing off perks and curbing pay to account for the loss of budget growth also has the effect of making the top performers look elsewhere, which in turn curbs the rockstars and moonshots that Google was known for. They need to shed the dead weight and make accountability possible and a point of pride. Unfortunately it's usually the dead weight that hangs on the hardest.
> The question is how much overhead would adding a check to determine to shrink if > % of freedom to all code that doesn’t need this optimization entail?

Once per collect? Damn near nothing.
Show HN: Agents – Open source framework for realtime multimodal AI
I don't think he'd be shocked. More like disappointed. Most innovators and future thinkers understand the entropy of large organizations left to business-types.
You don't need to be #1 and beat GPT4 if we're going with "a frontrunner".

Gemini Pro as available today already puts Google at #4 by company in the chatbot arena.
It's called nickel and diming and the term originated when they stopped being something you could buy a sandwich with.

I'm not surprised at all, a few billions is paltry. I think i have a few subs that i've forgotten about for months or years. I have several bank accounts and several credit cards, things become complicated.

At the time i liked what those people were making, or i wanted to watch a certain series, etc.
Also who would you even send it to? How do you guarantee they receive it? If you do certified mail that is a cost and another thing to take up your time.
Some users say those things, but they may be different users than the ones saying CEOs (etc.) should go to jail when they commit crimes. And/or it could be that, despite the idea that prisons don't work, if you're going to punish one set of "criminals" then we ought to apply the penalties evenly... especially since the crimes committed by CEOs/HLOs are often more harmful overall.

Ironically, the threat of prison might be much more effective if white collar types expected to be punished more regularly than they are. Economically, people who wind up incarcerated are often[1] on the low end of the income scale. That is, people who may feel they have little to lose by committing crimes because their standard of living isn't great to begin with. [2]

If these CEOs/HLOs felt there was a good chance they'd end up not only ruining their career but actually going to jail ... they might feel they have too much to lose to commit the crimes in the first place.

[1] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/income.html
[2] I'm not suggesting that the standard of living in prison is comparable to being free, even if you are actually dirt poor. But if you've been broke or poor, and you have no expectation of that changing, you might understand why someone might take risks.
It's sad but Usury/Interest is often exploiting two bifurcated groups of people -- those who are trusting and those who are desperate.
And if they didn’t invest in r&d the same people would say they’re stodgy dinosaurs cashing in on what they’ve got ABC heading for extinction. Like HN said about Microsoft 15 years ago.
Apparently the term 'blog' was coined in 1999, and Blogger was launched later that same year, so it actually is possible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog#History
>Returns Within 30 Days of Shipping Date. If you are not completely satisfied withthe Product, you can request to return the Products for a refund within thirty (30)days of the original shipping date to you. Please note that you may request a returnonly if your Product is in “like new” condition and in the original packaging.

https://www.rabbit.tech/return-policy

Better return policy than Apple Store's 14 day window.
I'm assuming you invested in roundtable right?
What router/switch one would use for such speed?
The Arduino is a single-threaded microcontroller running a single code loop, plus interrupts.

delayMicroseconds is a busy-wait loop, so is relatively precise (to within a few instruction's execution time.

However, interrupts can happen during that sleep, and the time spent handling interrupts won't be accounted for properly.

It isn't a real real-time system, but for a project like this, it'll be good enough.
> HP has long banged the drum about the potential for malware to be introduced via print cartridges, and in 2022, its bug bounty program confirmed that third-party cartridges with reprogrammable chips could deliver malware into printers.

How to convince the larger masses that this is actually a reflection of HP's plain gross incompetence (and likely intentional), rather than "the inevitable natural order of things" as the HP lackeys want to imply?
Good. Thanks for letting me know. I want to be a bad investment to these scummy corporations. In fact I don't want my value to be merely low, I want it to be negative, they should lose money. It gives me peace of mind that I helped hasten their bankruptcy.
What is the significance of 1712?
The one with the burning engines? N859GT

The last 747-8 off the assembly line? N863GT
It's actually about 150-200 grams lighter than the Index, though the distribution of weight seems to be better balanced on the Index than the AVP. Hard to say how it will feel for long term usage, but I'm not particularly concerned, personally.
Similar to people I talked to who lived in (former) Pakistan FATA and PATA
Zelle needs advertisement? They seem to have taken a role as a privately owned public service a la Equifax or DnB.
I'd love to buy more heirloom tomatoes. The flavor is great. The problem is that often they're like 3 USD for a single large tomato in my supermarket :(
If this next-gen LLM-based Siri is built to take advantage of local documents/data with all processing happening on-device, I think it could be more useful than incumbent LLMs in some ways even if it’s technically not as smart simply because it has far more relevant context by default. It being local-first could also help assuage privacy concerns and make users less reluctant to use it.
It's also been quite some time since I've heard anyone talking about the "information superhighway".
I did, the charge back process wasn't the issue. Each time I would call, they would give me a new card and number, I'd go update everywhere. Then a few days later there would be a new fraud charge on the new card.
Not possible. The average tech consumer doesn't know an app vs a webpage.
Are personal printers really still a thing? I can count on 1 finger how many times I needed to print something in the past few years and FedEx Kinkos is perfect for that. I'd rather pay like $5 rather than have some bulky ugly thing taking up space on my desk.
Dark Mode is behind a paywall also they have storage restrictions while Raindrop is free.

I can see why space limitations for a new company (saving expenses) but as a power user I save a lot of links so thus bottlenecks me unless I pay.
I love this site. It is using YouTube embeds, but it doesn't show any ads, which would ruin the retro experience. I wonder if that's just my adblocker though.
Is 2024 the year of Midjourney's SI Swimsuit edition?
Seems to be missing Local LLM / offline support and tied to openAI.
I've always been a fan of Rich Hickey's talks. After I wrote this blog post I cold-emailed Rich and said roughly: "Thanks for sharing your talks, I wrote this about your last talk, hope you have a good week." and he replied back same day with a nice note. 10/10 would recommend cold emailing your heroes.
Oh yeah... founded in Seattle and still headquartered in Washington [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costco
A Discrete and Bounded Envy-Free Cake Cutting Protocol for Any Number of Agents (2016)
Mostly curious about the k8s plans. From some past posts it seems that the team was strongly against employing containerization [0]. However, it seems something changed. If anyone has more info about this if love to hear more.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23030489
The swimsuit issue people, too?
> What really bothers me is that the CEO of the Organisation at the time was also a Christian priest/deacon

At the risk of making a No True Scotsman argument, it's anyone's guess as to whether or not she truly is a Christian.

The only conclusion I can really draw from this is that she apparently acted in a way that's not consistent with Christian ideals.
The soul, likewise, is immaterial.

Who now trades in superstition?

Everything is corporeal.
Furthermore, if this were a sane analogy, HP would be paying us for the printer hardware and we would be returning the “investment” via paper and ink cartridges/toner.
LNER's new off-peak fares
List of CS summer 2024 internship roles (updated daily)
Hey guys, I'm compiling list of CS summer 2024 internship roles here - https://github.com/dashk11/summer-intern-jobs-24, it's updated daily and jobs are picked on the following keywords - python, c++, javascript, github, pytorch, deep learning, machine learning, tensorflow, kafka, pandas
The CEO Priest is a head scratcher all by itself

> I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
I found that interesting as well. It shifts the blame away from software and a cover up by Fujitsu to more of a perception/reputation/political cover up by the Post Office.

Fujitsu still has some blame, but if their statements were being modified by the post office, who's responsibility is it to review that? If I gave a written statement to a police officer, is it my responsibility to follow up and make sure they didn't edit my statement? Of course... if I found out, it is my responsibility to raise a flag, but I should be able to trust agents of the courts to not alter evidence.
Research has shown that omega 3 oil (sardines have lots) MAY be beneficial for Alzheimer patients, this link may prove useful. https://www.sciencedaily.com/search/?keyword=Alzheimer+%2B+o...
Consider music as a possible aid for the patient. https://www.healthline.com/health/alzheimers/music-for-alzhe...
I have an extremely low opinion of Sundar and current batch of tech management but this tragedy shouldn't be pinned on Google layoffs.
I can't think of many other ways for a CEO to make it really, really easy for potential customers to just completely disregard their company as an option. Bravo!
'market-based' is the key here.
Without competition there is no market.

In the 70's when the US was NOT producing enough.

Then OPEC had a 'monopoly' or at least an outsized influence. A large enough % of the market that they could dominate the price.

Right now we are NOT at the 'whim' because we can produce more if we need it.
IF we stopped, then we would return to being at their 'whim'.

Solar, Wind, anything, is all very important for National Security. See Germany.
Why doesn’t Notion use .com (since you now own notion.com)?
It’s more that the shareholders needed to be appeased, and CEOs realized they could save money by firing people and could make money by making things cheaply. You can hire less-skilled workers if you don’t intend (or care) that your product breaks, which saves money especially if you laid off your highly-skilled workers.

There’s also no incentive to make a long-lasting product in a capitalist system, especially if your product does the thing it’s supposed to _really well_ and does it for a long time. Look at InstaPot - they sold like hot cakes…for a time. It worked great, did what it was supposed to, and lasted long enough that they couldn’t sustain their own successful business model.

A car can last a decade and still run well, it just won’t have the bells and whistles of a newer model. Cookware by and large, and couches, don’t really get this kind of “refresh” outside of surface level details or features people largely shy away from like “Alexa-enabled” ovens.

Out-sourcing comes into play because a company can pay even less for low-quality. I’m sure that if they could keep the jobs domestic and cheap, they would, but those pesky (/s) unions and minimum wages really stifled their innovation.
Large-scale electricity storage (2023)
> Crime prevention and law enforcement are multifaceted and cannot be reduced to single-factor explanations.

Huh.
MTG GPT
A GPT built with Scryfall API actions and a meta deck list scraper.
I got a notification today that my HP Instant Ink subscription, which rose from $3/mo to $4/mo last year, is rising to $5/mo. this year. My subscription covers 50 pages a month, so that's 10 cents per page.

This is making me more inclined to switch to a (non-HP) color laser printer, but I'm finding it challenging to find reputable information about total cost of ownership. Would love some suggestions!
I didn't say it was okay.

I just said that they are blowing it out of proportion. Sure there might be scraps on the table that are going to the wrong people, but it's not the big differentiator.

Taylor Swift is now the first billionaire from just music. She rerecorded her music to ensure that she gets all the royalties. She is a massive outlier, and didn't make the majority through album sales or streams.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/monicamercuri/2023/10/30/taylor...

Yeah she didn't make it from clothing and whiskey, but less than half her worth is from music sales. It's touring and merch sales.

Bruce Springsteen made his billion from touring rather than album sales.
You mean the company listed in TFA, that was formerly called TrueBill before Rocket bought them for $1B a few years back? ;P
> "We have seen that you can embed viruses into cartridges, through the cartridge go to the printer, from the printer go to the network, so it can create many more problems for customers."

If this is true, HP's CEO just publically admitted that their printers have some serious security issue.
A masters + internship isn't enough for employers in this market.

There are thousands of candidates who have the very same thing nowadays, employers and recruiters will just sift you out, they are tuned this way.

To the OP:

The trick is you need to bulk up your network and do something extraordinary, that way (at best) you get referrals and employers will take notice and come to you.
How recently have you tried it? The current best-performance option for bind mounts in Docker Desktop on macOS (VirtioFS, using Hypervisor.framework) didn't become the default until June (for new installs) or September (for existing installs), and wasn't available at all prior to December 2022.
What do the IARC's carcinogen classifications actually mean?
NvChad: Full featured IDE based on Neovim
I'm very eager for a consumer version of Ramp where I can issue myself a card per-subscription service. Then I can review all the cards I've issued, and turn them off if I no longer want the service.

I would immediately sign up if this existed.
Well, they aren't paying us, but the printers are most likely sold at a loss. So that part holds.
Ask HN: Programming Language for Building Slide Decks
Is there such a thing? I'd love if there is a mermaid-like language for building a simple text-centric slide deck
How is settling different from colonization? Seems to be synonyms to me
Did you have VirtioFS enabled when you tried it?
> See the box office streamgraph [0] that once upset many

Does anyone know what "upset" this is referring to? Wondering if it had to do with what the data showed or, rather, how it was presented.

0: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008...
The article goes on to say that it is, in fact, true.

>HP has long banged the drum [PDF] about the potential for malware to be introduced via print cartridges, and in 2022, its bug bounty program confirmed that third-party cartridges with reprogrammable chips could deliver malware into printers.
Interestingly, HP supplies are also bad investments.
I would love to know what prompted that.
Lots of references to the term "progress" but no mention that "AI" seems to freeze it at a moment in time. It is only backward-looking. (People make jokes about asking ChatGPTx questions about events that happened after 20xx.) Predicting the next token is based on patterns that have come before, found in the material upon which a model has been trained. There is an ability to create new (re)combinations of past material, and this is quite useful, but there is no ability to create truly new material, something that has never been seen before. Creating new material is the essence of "progress", IMO. It is an amazing thing that people do, not computers. Originality. Of course, people might use computers to help them do it.

From a recent NewYorker article that reached HN front page:

"This has been mocked as simply an advanced form of autofill. But, when I write a sentence, I, too, am trying to guess the best next word. It just doesn't feel especially "auto." One big difference is that, since I fancy myself a writer, I am trying to avoid, wherever possible, the statistically most common solution."

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/01/22/who-owns-this-...
A pair of DeepMind scientists talking with investors about forming an AI startup
> I can edit video in Final Cut Pro on my 8GB M1 Mac Mini while doing other things.

I can't use IntelliJ or vscode with autocompletion on a 2023 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM with a bunch of my projects.

The same projects run like a breeze on a cheap and very crappy Beelink minipc with 16GB of RAM whose total cost is lower than a RAM upgrade on a MacBook Air.
That was a Microsoft term, Bill Gates wrote a book about it in 1994, and then wrote a second edition a year later replacing the phrase with "internet".
The Beginner's Guide to Fine Tuning Stable Diffusion
Oh for sure, I have no idea how similar comparisons would shake out. I can say, though, that such comparisons pretty easily lead to tragedy of the commons problems.

If we want to decrease our impact on the environment we need to stop using so much energy and so many resources, period. Chasing the next miracle cure, in this case lithium batteries for energy storage, we can easily run down that path picking up all the ecological damage of lithium mining and new manufacturing only to find that there are new problems and we're not much better off, we simply have different problems and a similar level if environmental damage as if had we stayed on the original path.

Now that doesn't mean I don't have hope for alternative energies or think we should decrease dependence on nonrenewable sources. I do like the promise of wind, solar, nuclear. etc and also think we should be killing off non-renewables as quickly as possible. I just hope we don't attempt to treat environmental impact as a zero sum game, signing off on more damage based on not exceeding the damage caused by current systems. I also hope we don't stick to a consistent growth of 2-3% in annual energy consumption, its no coincidence that number matches GDP targets and its unsustainable.
Been using Ikea Kivik sofa for >12 years across 2 moves. We bought it with white cover. Recently we needed to get a bigger one, and realized we can just add 2 chaises on the sides. Bought them, and all new upholstery - now it's like a brand new bigger couch of different color. Happy side effect is that those chaises came with metal brackets that reinforced the whole thing. Here's to another 12 years. Ikea is underrated.
What if the person is graduating from Masters and had a decent internship but couldn't convert that?
admin/admin worked for me
I assume that this means that ipv6 will be supported by 100% of Czech ISPs, but still, Czech citizens are supposed to be able to access Czech government sites even if they are abroad. Many countries don't have much ipv6 adoption yet. Is this even legal?
This feels like a madeleine de Proust: simpler times, so much left to discover. We ruined it