skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are still some who still don't, but they are dying off.

I'm not sure what's more profound with that: the hostility or stupidity. Patience isn't going to win the day here; there is a fundamental truth to what the article is saying. If there is such a thing in the future as a financial advising AI for individuals _and families_ of significant wealth, it won't be anything like what serves the "mass market". The complexity is incomparable, in addition to the expectations.
I don't think anyone believes Apple shouldn't be able to set normal supply and demand optimized product and service fees.

But Apple owns one of only two global mobile app, service and info platforms, and so has tremendous power to limit and veto other businesses opportunities. Few businesses that need to operate in those ecosystems can be viable only operating in one of them.

And Apple is using that tremendous leverage to do two things normal businesses can't do.

Both of which damage the larger economy.

1) It is gatekeeping fundamental technological and business innovation. Apple limits the types of technology and business models that it will allow on its platforms, in favor of its own versions, or in favor of simply not enabling innovation it finds competitively threatening.

It is very difficult for new innovation on the margins to succeed starting out unable to participate in half the marketplace.

2. It has enough veto power over businesses, that it is able to tax other businesses' success, instead of charging for the value of its products and services to them. I.e. Apple charges a percentage of other businesses product and service revenue - instead of flat charges for its security checks, app listings, etc. Apple charges a percentage of follow up revenue, even if the transaction happens elsewhere. Apple charges a percentage on revenue of transactions that don't even require Apple's assistance or participation but were initially enabled by being on Apple's platform. It even charges a percentage of revenue for fourth parties it has no relationship with, such as for transactions by participants on third party markets, like digital art creators!

No normal business could extend taxes on other's productivity like that, to multiple levels of extraction, independent of productive value provided. They would be rapidly replaced by a competitor happy to make profits set by supply and demand, instead of taxes imposed by the ability to deny (or seriously hamper) entry to a strategic global market.
It’s not even that, if I could save $1000 but I don’t care about $1000 I wouldn’t do it. I wouldn’t sit on hold for $10. A billionaire isn’t gonna sit on hold for $1000 unless they have an axe to grind.
Ahh to be from the Midwest where if you're lucky enough to have an Indian restaurant in your town, half the time you're getting something that's more chicken tikki than butter chicken.

Also, I feel if it does have fenugreek in it, it isn't a "real" murgh makhani either.
I don't understand your answer at all. I read it twice and still find it confusing.
The most efficient robot!!! Indexing FTW!
ok, so what about "relative to other countries today" rather than "relative to the past"?
Human Go play quality improves after AlphaGo debuts
The developer documentation is there. I skimmed through it. It doesn't explain what "Ryzen AI" does; unless you happen to already know what it does.

Consider:

> Ryzen AI software lets developers take machine learning models trained in PyTorch or TensorFlow and deploy them on laptops powered by Ryzen AI processors using ONNX Runtime.

Realise that "[not] Ryzen AI software lets developers take machine learning models trained in PyTorch or TensorFlow and deploy them on laptops [not] powered by Ryzen AI processors using [other] Runtimes.", because pretty much everyone can run this stuff without Ryzen AI, including AMD customers.

And then conclude that they haven't explained what Ryzen AI does. I'm sure they've done something (that something being a matrix math accelerator makes a lot of sense, thanks), but they are assuming the reader already has a lot of context. The changelog gets very excited about ONNX which is how I figured that part out.
Navy NEETS, what Technicians had to learn back in the day
Note, that's technicians, not engineers, technicians and that's just one manual.
It’s sort of odd to open with “I felt sexualized in 5th grade”, which is easily understood as too young to understand, but then talk about high schools.

I’m not defending any dress code policy, but I do think you’re fooling yourself if you think 16 year olds are not trying their best to be as attractive as possible. Sort of a wild difference between 5th and 12th grade.

High school seems like the least inappropriate time to teach kids that the real world is full of fuzzy, unfair, and arbitrary rules that change for no good reason between localities.
Does everything need to be boiled down to a consent argument now? When an artist uses his imagination to make a political cartoon about a senator is that a violation of the senators consent? Is this any different than an artist depicting a person in a way they see fit?

Your comment would suggest any use of imagination to make a thing that doesn't get written approval by all parties even thought of is also a consent issue: if you fantasize about a crush you are violating them, and any type of parody whatsoever is too.

>Sit this one out. It's not a discussion for you.

While being incredibly condescending, you neglected to ask for consent to think about this person's ability to participate in the conversation, maybe this isn't a discussion for you either.
This makes sense. A bit disturbing but tracks with the advisors I know (especially point b).
>It seems like most Americans genuinely believe they have not only a right to break the law when it comes to speed limits, but an obligation to speed. Or at least they drive like it. "I'm following the flow of traffic" as if other people breaking the law makes it OK?

That seems to be a true sentiment, though[0][1][2]. Deviating significantly from the speed of actual traffic will likely lead to more accidents. Insisting stubbornly on following the letter of the law when it is actually detrimental to safety is not moral; it is merely pedantic. Fiat justitia ruat caelum is not a particularly healthy view of the relationship between the legal system and society.

[0]: https://trid.trb.org/view/306976 (From the abstract: "A major influence on speed variance is the difference between the design speed and the posted speed limit. It was determined that speed variance will approach minimum values if the posted speed limit is between 5 and 10 mph lower than the design speed. Outside this range, speed variance increases with an increasing difference between the design speed and the posted speed limit. It was also found that drivers tend to drive at increasing speeds as the roadway geometric characteristics improve, regardless of the posted speed limit, and that accident rates do not necessarily increase with an increase in average speed but do increase with an increase in speed variance.")

[1]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1904038 ("A model of the optimal speed limit is developed which explicitly recognizes the role of average speed, speed variance, and the level of enforcement. An unusual result emerges, namely that a higher speed limit may be optimal when reducing the variance in highway speeds reduces accident externalities.")

[2]: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/17098/... ("Separate studies by Solomon (1964) and Cirillo (1968) concluded that, as vehicle speeds deviated from the average speed of the traffic stream, crash involvement rates increased... Studies throughout the 1970s produced findings consistent with the research... For crash severity, higher vehicle operating speeds are associated with more severe crash outcomes. However, the relationship between crash frequency and speed is not as clear. There is some indication that increasing posted speed limits is associated with an increase in expected crash frequency; however, the relationship between operating speed and crash frequency has yet to be well established.")
Not less erosive though.
No. I'm pretty good at financial planning. But what that means is that I'm good at getting standard market returns with acceptable risk. I don't beat the market or try to - that's not what most financial planning is about. It's about identifying a plan that will help you meet savings and income and retirement goals in a way that is realistic and works for you. Financial planning is much more about seemingly-boring things like tax-advantaged retirement contributions into low-overhead index funds than it is about flashy stock trades. What to hold in your tax-deferred accounts vs taxable. Tax loss harvesting. Roth conversations. Asset allocation. Estate planning.

It's really fun, but it's an optimization game, not a gambling game. There are basically a lot of known "right answers" and the trick of financial planning is applying and adapting them to the particulars of someone's situation.
GEGL operation filters are now non-destructive by default
I'll add txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai) to the list.

There is still plenty of room for innovation in this space. Just need to focus on the right projects that are innovating and not the ones (re)working on problems solved in 2020/2021.
Yes, and the team is vigorously studying the 1HZ data leading up to the brownout.
I'll go a step further and say that nobody _wants_ to talk to robots. Robots are simply too inflexible and cant respond or be reasoned with. AI for service jobs is going to go the same way as chatbots: companies saw people liked chatting rather than calling or emailing, so they automated that, but locked it down so much that the chatbots were basically a dumber version of the same menus already available. AI's going to be the same way: companies will see that people like talking to people, they'll use AI to try to automate customer support, they'll lock the AI down to a handful of possibilities and completely miss the point of why people preferred talking to people in the first place, some startup offering this service will be valued at $10 billion
I would, of course, completely agree that intrinsic motivation > all. But I think you're also arguing something quite a bit different here than you were earlier. Rankings, in particular, are extremely important. They provide you a reasonably objective measure of seeing yourself improve, and they also help you determine who is a proper opponent for yourself.

In chess, for instance, a 200 point rating difference usually gives the stronger player an expectation of about 3:1. And ratings range from about 500 to just under 2900. So those ratings are absolutely critical in order to find an opponent at your skill level. In sport the exact same thing is true, with similarly wide scales of ability. I think the humility that rankings force upon one is also a very important part of sport and improvement.

So for instance about the Norway anecdote you gave (related to the prohibition on youth rankings from the 70s onward), Norway was always absolutely god tier at the winter Olympics, long before the 70s. In the 6 Olympic games from 1924-1952 they came in overall #1 5 times, and #2 once. In the 12 games since 1980, they've only came in overall #1 3 times. [1] Their total number of medals has increased, like everybody's, because many more events, and occasionally even new sports, have been added to the Olympics over time. I would not read much into this one way or the other, beyond pointing out that it's not a particularly relevant anecdote.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norway_at_the_Olympics
Artists of all kinds make bitter jokes about "publicity", e.g. "oh good, my landlord will let me pay in either cash, Bitcoin, or publicity".
It sounds more like Rai stones: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
No, it's a job. Sound investment management is just a lot of work, and takes education, training and experience. It isn't about "get rich quick" after some point; it's about staying rich. Right?
For me the trick was a full face mask (Dreamwear, where the hose comes out the top of your head) and a heated hose.

I was initially resistant to the full mask, thinking it would feel more restrictive than the nose-only, but distributing the pressure over a wider area ended up feeling a lot more comfortable.

Similarly with the heated hose, my initial thought was that it would feel like breathing hot air all night. The the actual effect is that it keeps the added humidity from condensing out out of the air and gurgling in the tube.
It's unmarked sarcasm. I don't think it's become easier or simpler in all seriousness. This isn't a bad thing- as things become more important, more concerns rise above the surface, and as more concerns rise above the surface, dealing with them all makes it harder.
I know plenty of people on that upper end and slightly above (as is common for upper middle class older people). None of them have 'personal assistants'.
Las Vegas upholds $180K penalty for unlicensed short-term rental
No. You pay even if your app doesn't have purchases. You pay more if it does.
If she loses the case, does the person with the tattoo have to scar their skin permanently to remove the image?

That'd be fucking wild.
Because when you make really rich people a lot of money, you get returns of types money can’t buy. See Epstein.
there is no way a whole bunch of us regulators are going to pounce on a us company for stopping the spread of competition from a chinese linux-installing laptop vendor, and if a bunch of chinese regulators pounce, it will not have a major impact on microsoft

lnxg33k1's point that eu regulators might is well-taken, though
I think that is the author's point -- it's a very different set of needs and expectations.
This took longer for me to get than it should have. Bravo.
Using LLMs for portfolio recommendations is overengineering imo. The typical person does not have such specific requirements that they need some huge model deciding on a custom portfolio for them.
Welp, there goes another SaaS platform in our corporate ops toolchain. Anyone have a recommendation for a tool to handle the cap table for an early-stage cooperative with several hundred members that won’t cost us an arm and a leg? Excel?
I disagree. I suspect with current technology even they will be able to provide the AI with backend functions it can call and then let it handle the support and calls to the functions.'

It'll be a lot better than current 'select a few options' chatbot support than we have.
That model file that you download to run a large language model does not grow in size as you send it prompts.
Badges are often in English for cool factors, and then often katakana transcribed on documents and brochures for readability, e.g. Camry -> カムリ(kamuri). China does that inventing vaguely close Chinese names thing, e.g. Nokia -> 诺基亚(nuòjīyà, pronounced "no, ghee-yer") but that's confusing and we don't do that.
From Wikipedia’s Butter Chicken[1]

> The curry was developed at the Moti Mahal restaurant in the Daryaganj neighbourhood of Old Delhi in the 1950s, after the Partition of India by Kundan Lal Jaggi and Kundan Lal Gujral, who were both Punjabi refugees from Peshawar.

Whoever did it, but if the dates are correct, I’m surprised that this is a recent dish/recipe, not something like the Mughals introduced to India. The types of dishes that Butter Chicken is categorized into sound like Mughlai cuisine[2].

Disclaimer: Besides my curiosity, I eat to live and have no clue in many, many cases related to food and cuisines.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_chicken

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mughlai_cuisine
I did some basic C/C++ development back in the Windows 2000/XP era. I never needed to pay for a Visual Studio license, I didn't even use Visual Studio. I was hacking things together in notepad and gcc at the time.

I did years of development work against Windows machines before I got my first paid Visual Studio license, and it was still like a couple years until the first time I bothered actually installing the Windows SDK.
I haven’t checked, but I’m certain that even if you host on a third party store you still have to follow the privacy policy of apps on the device. Having a third-party store just means you can sell apps with different terms than the AppStore.
Alabama executes Kenneth Smith using untested method of nitrogen gas
You are in agreement with the author. His definition of 'rich people' is "the traditional bread-and-butter client for registered investment advisors of $1 million to $25 million in household wealth". The $100,000 - $1m asset class he refers to as the 'mass affluent' are who he concedes might be a market for 'roboadvisors'.
I find this to be a rather pleasant website, well done.
If you've ever tried to cancel Amazon Prime through amazon.com, you'll understand the value that Apple provides through its App Store subscriptions.
This looks great!

I don't see it happening any time soon, but I'd love to see PDF be replaced as the end-all-be-all standard for academic publishing, technical manuals, corporate (non-public) documentation etc.

Every time I open a PDF of an academic paper on my phone on the subway and find myself furiously side-scrolling, I keep wondering if having performant mobile PDF renderers and high-DPI displays was maybe a blessing in disguise:

It's a bit better than not being able to read these types of documents on the go at all, but really not by much.
That's the thing about the DMA. These provisions only apply if you hit a certain extreme market presence. These regulations do not apply to those small companies.
we tried that

it killed a quarter of a billion people

do not recommend

https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
Reasonably sure YOU PAYING a photographer for a photo of YOUR engagement would give you the copyright...

Emphasis on the important parts there, feel free to correct if I got one of them wrong.
You're getting close to making your own CHM format, which Sphinx could make for you.

I always thought CHM files were a nice self-contained option for multi-page HTML docs. (Though they'd happily execute whatever JavaScript the author embedded in there... Maybe that's why they fell out favor?)
Cool idea! Something about this makes me think about chaining moves, like function calls. Is there a version of chess where you get to keep moving if you take a piece?
Why wouldn't folks instead hire the market beating super-genius who could do all of the above, and deliver above market returns yoy, with acceptable risk, if given the choice?

I think that's the point the parent was trying to get at, it's an industry where all the best talent never become hireable in the first place.
Experts are overrated - especially at the top end.

You end up with in-network people, which is different from having very good people.

LLMs are useful because they're a diverse range of experts that are composable and immediate. We've never had something quite like it, and many people are still struggling to understand how to use it.

Most of this talk sounds like the kind of denial that a lot of people on HN were doing when LLMs were first seen as a way to write code. Well, they do write code. They make us more effective, so maybe we need less of us in the future. Or maybe the pie grows because the kinds of things LLMs enable mean there are just more tasks developers can do, and so more developers are needed.

Either could be true. The denial is built of fear.

Also this guy's tone is pretty repugnant. Like, who thinks and talks like this? Seems comically retro. The only ones I know are those who derive their identity from money, whether they are rich or not. Mostly not. Ironically, a pretty poor existence.

Edit: grammar checked with an LLM - not an expert.
And Portuguese colonialism. Practically all modern Punjabi food from makki to rajma is from South America.
> So if you're looking to hire someone who will ask "how high" when you say "jump" then you probably don't want to hire an older person.

That's not altogether true. And it's going to get misinterpreted by young startup founders without a lot of experience.
Sure, but it’ll still probably be for the “I need two nights in Boca Raton midtown next week, make it happen, robo travel agent” type trip rather than “best of everything that suits my personal tastes” type trip.
> Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who along with two other liberal justices dissented, wrote: “Having failed to kill Smith on its first attempt, Alabama has selected him as its ‘guinea pig’ to test a method of execution never attempted before. The world is watching.”
Related from last week:

Feds crack down hard on selling of personal data without consent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39062247
This is the point. Neither the EU legislators nor Apple Execs have time to waste on a casual meeting. Assuming that it was not about compliance is kind of ridiculous.
Despite the fact that Chromebooks are generally mediocre-to-bad hardware, there are a lot of school systems where this is exactly what has been done for classroom hardware.

Even outside of school systems, there is a wide variety of virtual desktop systems where office employees essentially get a fresh install of the OS every morning with their files where they should be — because they can't be trusted to manage a dedicated piece of hardware without adding malware.
> And the number one thing you do when you have lots of money is you pay people to deal with stuff.

Deep wisdom here.

Chatbots and LLMs are for peasants. You know you're going to have to deal with a Comcast LLM soon. It'll be more useless than the existing customer service.
Some good anecdotes here: https://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-been-pulled-over-for-goi...
I don't know if "millionaire next door" types count in this guy's definition of "rich," but I expect they're just going to use Vanguard anyway.
I've read the article, and it addresses the point vaguely at best:

"The standard argument in favor of unfettered government purchases of private data is that such data is commercially available, and so anyone should be able to purchase it, including government officers."

Agreed.

"... while government officials can generally purchase items available to the public without constitutional restriction, sensitive private data about cell phone users isn’t actually available to the public."

What? I may be misunderstanding, but this looks like a deliberate attempt to conflate two concerns: publicly available data for sale and sensitive private data. I don't see any argument here against the government buying publicly available data.
The ones with square tops only move horizontally/vertically and the bigger ones move further, the ones with an L-shaped top move in an L shape, the ones with a diagonal top move diagonally. I don't see the King and Queen movements though.
I'd quibble with that, depending on what you mean by "axe to grind". I'm not a billionaire,
but I'm fairly well off. My billing rate is $300/hr. Still, I don't like to feel ripped off. Spending my time not being ripped off does add some ineffable value beyond the monetary. Maybe this puts me in an unusual category of people who love having axes to grind, but I feel like I didn't amass my savings by letting things slide. If it's $10, I might let it go. But I'm currently taking a company to small claims court over $800 for breach of contract. So I guess I'm contradicting myself... but there also is another element which is that you can't become wealthy if you make a habit of allowing people to chisel you.

[edit] I don't think this contradicts the OP at all, because taking this company to court is the alternative to wasting my time talking to their robots.
> Citation needed

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/24/24049848/no-car-company-h...
So you measure importance of work by the amount of money spent on it?

My do you have some peculiar ideas.
Millennials and Gen Z have more wealth than Gen X had at the same age