skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> not just doing exactly as much as you need not to get fired

This is a normal level of effort. Also, any level of effort above this is not legally overtime, but it is in spirit. And has very uncertain rewards. Might pay off in the long run (many years) but even that is unlikely.
"Freemium AI crap" is 2023/2024s "Freemium cloud collaboration/storage" crap shoveled into products in the past (of the "Subscribe to the Adobe Creative Suite for $50 + your firstborn/month, and get 5GB free Adobe Cloud storage").
I am not sure it's manageable for a society, when random people start messing with code controlling breaks and stuff. You'd think that's neatly separated into a single purpose IC, but I fear it isn't. Gonna be a nightmare for insurances and courts.
Some ISPs in Mumbai used to do that too. ISP customers would use DC++ to get movies/songs. Good times :)
So? It's still on point.

We should have had more caution with computers encroaching everything back then too.
I use Joplin, using the open source Joplin Server hosted on my nas in docker. I only sync my phone and laptop to it. It works perfectly.

I haven’t enabled encryption on the notes although I think you can do that.
Just a security reminder from the last time this got posted[1]

This tool downloads random files from the internet, and check their checksum against other random files from the internet. [2]

This is not the best security practice. (The right security practice would be to have the gpg keys of the distro developers committed in the repository, and checking all files against these keys)

This is not downplaying the effort which was put in this project to find the correct flags to pass to QEMU to boot all of these.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28797129

[2] https://github.com/quickemu-project/quickemu/blob/0c8e1a5205...
libvirt ships with virt-install which also allows for quickly creating and auto-installing Windows and many Linux distributions. I haven't tried it with mac.

Here's a recent example with Alma Linux:

$ virt-install --name alma9 --memory 1536 --vcpus 1 --disk path=$PWD/alma9.img,size=20 --cdrom alma9.iso --unattended

Then you go for a coffee, come back and have a fully installed and working Alma Linux VM. To get the list of supported operating systems (which varies with your version of libvirt), use:

$ osinfo-query os
A simple answer may be that capitalism used to be more regulated than before. Not in all areas/industries, but overall - and if not in theory, at least in practice. Maybe the art of lobbyism, legal work, and public relations has gotten more advanced, for example, or company profits have become large enough that they can blatantly break laws and just pay the fine.
I clicked on "Talk", but the textbox just says "Preparing to speak..." without doing anything else
How about a little datascience rap? https://app.suno.ai/song/fbfe344c-467f-47d2-b1a3-2b70cce651d...
Sometimes it really looks like big tech companies are trying to impersonate scammers.
> People are still setting up plex in 2024?

Some techies do it, the host needs to have a paid Plex plan, the consumers can just use the free Plex App and connect to the host and stream.
Also, my project is open-source. However, not everybody wishes to check how the app's backend works. Plus, there are things like CI/CD, which is a hidden part, so I can potentially modify code and steal tokens on that side, meaning that open-sourcing is not the solution.
In A.C. Clake's 3001, everyone is wired with implants and instead of prison the implant will simply take you over and make you perform some laborious task until your sentence is served.
If you read the full sentence Boeing says they don’t believe existing regulations require an engineered solution but Boeing is pursuing one anyway. Since Boeing doesn’t believe this is required by regulations it suggests to me Boeing believes it is necessary for safe operation. If anything this reads to me like Boeing saying the regulations are too permissive. In other words Boeing isn’t trying to cheat this time.
It’d probably get you straight into the position where your 2B was immediately stolen from you.
IMO, the main difference between AI and humans right now, is that humans can do human things with far fewer examples. AI has the speed advantage that lets them read all the words in the world, listen to all the music ever recorder, watch all the videos ever filmed… but are so stupid[1] that they need to, too.

I mean, if humans need to listen to far fewer examples to create music than an LLM needs to parse sound files, they're obviously not doing the same thing, are they?

Similarly, it's unambiguously false that a human blues is the weighted average of the sound files of other blues. There are structures which are essentially identical to those used by other artists for reasons of easy improvisation, there are selections of notes played over the top which are a function of fundamental musical properties of consonance and dissonance, scale runs the instrument is suited to as well as licks that may have been directly borrowed, but the final output is dependent heavily on the actual capabilities of the artist to play and singer, which obviously aren't simply lifted from their favourite artists' recordings. Even if it's highly derivative which it almost certainly is, it's not remotely the same progress as a matrix generating a sound file from a combination of other tagged sound files and the input "12 bar blues with Stevie Ray Vaughan guitar work and BB King vocals"
Thank you Meng for building Tabby and providing us with a self hosted alternative to copilot!
I absolutely love it! Keep up the amazing work.

You're definitely right about the feature richness, but the truth is I just want completions :D

Performance is a funny thing, mostly scales with the slowest part of the system.
Since both servers use the same inference lib (llama.cpp) which does all the heavy lifting, there's essentially no completion performance difference in the single user mode according to my tests.
Because I use a smaller model by default (Q5_K_M instead of Tabby's Q8, ~30% difference in size), and LLM inference is essentially memory bandwidth bound: my new deployment is around 30% faster with no noticeable quality difference on identical hardware.

p.s. I'd highly recommend providing additional quantization methods in your model repository to make it easier for novice users.

Thank you
Listening to the recent CES interviews by Jeff Geerling where car manufacturers explain how they see the process, with SOAFEE (the ROS knock off for cars) and other systems where they want software defined vehicles and complete freedom to change anything (and charge for those changes ofc) after they already sell them them it's honestly completely horrifying from the end user perspective.

As much as it would be nice for hobbyists, this is one can 2.0A of worms that needs to be kept as shut as possible by lawmakers.
That's a different issue than the "regulatory environment around energy and production".

And

"If short term incentives were having long term negative impacts the corporate feedback mechanisms would have picked up on it by now"

Tells me you either don't live in the real world or are being purposefully disengenious. Most real decision makers plan to remain in their role for at most 5 years before moving up. That definitely encourages short term success. And much more importantly, if the compensation structure of the CxO is such that 99% of monetary compensation comes from vesting on a quarterly basis only if the stocks price or earnings hit specific targets over that short term, how does this translate to long-term success?

Real-world, concrete, linkable examples only, please
220nm light is under investigation since it's germicidal but so far appears far less harmful to humans than other UV ranges. If those findings are validated we might see some permanent narrow-band, low-power UV lights in hospitals.
To ameliorate your fear, a practical and potentially effective solution may be wearing a retroreflector, or some sort of light-based signalling device that would make it much more clear that you should not be run over.
Ask HN: Electron haters, help me understand (your hate)
I understand your arguments in the case of e.g. a simple todo app, but I want to talk about moderately complex projects (think e.g. Obsidian)

So I'm going to play devil's advocate:

- Native is better, yes, but native is also another form of vendor lock-in, and basically gives more power to Apple (since multiple native apps is not feasible in many cases and iOS/MacOS tends to be the choice when developing for just 1 platform)

- Among multi-platform options, Electron is among the most (or the most) mature, supported and documented, and allows developers to leverage knowledge of open web standards and a vast ecosystem of libraries, thus speeding up development by a good margin (which is good for users). This ofc. doesn't rule out other alternatives, but surely this is a valid argument?

- In theory, apps solve problems. I never found myself our saw anyone claiming that they can't solve a problem with an app because the binary weights 300Mb more than what it should and it takes up 700 Mb of RSS RAM in 2024. This could be an argument thou for people with poor internet connections and old banged up computers, but is my perceptions that most of the haters don't fall into that group. Am I wrong?

- Empirical evidence says it is possible to do accessible, fast, secure apps with Electron. The fact that many aren't can't be Electron's fault?

- No matter what is the domain, the market is saturated, chances of failure are enormous, and in many cases Electron is just either the only option, or the least risky shot on an already super risky endeavor. Can that be blamed on developers?

I am looking for counter arguments. Thanks.
Nice, it would be useful to have this in other languages.
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First this is just a hold. They can't do much with it at the moment till court proceedings are over.

If there are fines which go to the state the state is not supposed to speculate, but spend it on investments, repay debt or whatever the state else needs.
Is this really the core issue? Or is it just that we reward the reckless egoists, so they float to the top?
I'd love to say, yes, but the market is really tough right now.

In your scenario, doing a BootCamp right now would be a gamble given that you might finish it and not find a job straight after, leaving you with either jumping back into sales (therefore, making it hard to find another dev job).

You could look into bootcamps that are cheaper/free, visit meetups, and try to network while looking for a new tech sales job.

Also, talk to your wife. If becoming a developer is a major goal for you in life, I'd take the gamble but consider doing something that might take a bit longer (+2/3 years) in a university, so you'd get back in tech as soon as the market hopefully would recover.

You could also try to aim for AI-related topics.
Coders will have too as well. Coding is an art.
Half-seriously though, being able to provide tooling that could fund a given library could be endangered if global llms can just suggest things because they have parsed a wide array of code.

Maybe it is a lost fight and the value has to be found somewhere else though.
Anything physical like deployment, hosting, that AI cannot do, at least for the foreseeable future.
While you can't compare TDPs directly. Basically all tests of Ryzen processors with 3d cache use about half as much power or less than their Intel counterparts.
So this wouldn't surprise me.
I'm 30 and literally none of my friends that age have kids.
Fairberry project brings a hardware keyboard to the Fairphone
Isn't that basically what happened with mtgox? Karpeles ended up on the hook for a dollar amount far less than the (then current) value of the crypto lost.
Using a model 30% of the day is only maybe 100 instances of use, with each lasting for about 6 seconds.

So really you're looking at using the GPU for around 10 minutes a day.

Monthly cost is pennies.
How big is the difference on a regular setup? And is it a same kind of cpu, with integrated graphics? One of the example you linked says 7 watt, which is impressive, but I think you could achieve similar optimizations on an amd system.
Let's say I install windows or some linux desktop and don't do any optimizations, how big is the difference?
IBM to managers: Move near an office or leave company
Idk what you're looking at but the download link for the community edition is right below the ultimate edition...
And then more recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39163184
No, I just implement a custom router class as the docs suggest, and move on with my life. It’s a much better use of my time than fighting mental-masturbation DSLs.
Depends on where you implant it. In this case it's attached to the motor cortex and will allow for controlling a computer, and in this case there's no feedback into the brain itself (no write, only read). Sending signals to the motor cortex is probably not useful even in the device can do it.
You must be new here, hard work beating talent is an extremely popular topic.

People mostly reads these and see themselves as the superior side, if it is an article about hard work beating talent people see themselves as the hard worker, if it is an article about smart people doing X then of course the reader is on the smart side etc.

So an article on how most hard work is wasted since it wasn't well thought out would also be popular since there the reader would view his hard work as fruitful and only dumber people than them are wasting their time.

It is only when you start to poke hole in that self image people have built up that the downvotes starts to come. Most people aren't significantly smarter than their peer, most peoples hard work isn't well directed, but they don't want to hear those things.
> I think you are willingly playing this down as "talking to people online" to make some point.

They won't engage on this topic in a fair and balanced manner. I've tried. They want unlimited ability to push agendas and incite strife and they just throw out keywords and thought-terminating cliches when criticised; diversity, marginalisation, fascism, they just gaslight and gaslight and gaslight.

I mean, don't stop trying, but you'll be very frustrated
There is no software locks to prevent modification to existing mechanical cars that can and are modified to be dangerous and there is inspection processes etc and laws to deal with it. It’s even easier to scan for modified software than look inside an engine.

There are places for safe experimentation like tracks, so I don’t see why this fear isn’t irrational or a ploy for control.
> if they simply put all the money they got from the website into crypto, and years later it's worth 2B, it does not belong to Hollywood or even the german government

Really? After money laundering the state can't take away the laundered money?

I highly doubt that this is how it works.
No one. But they don’t need a buyer to create Tether coins.
> So, many researchers don't use terms with due care. And many article are rejected by Nature.

The reason is much simpler: many (most) researchers are not native English speakers. For example, my doctoral advisor (who knows English well, but is not a native speaker) could hardly help me with questions concerning more subtle aspects of English terms used in the research area. He told me that hardly anybody cares. Even more: when you look for examples, you always have to consider the situation that a word is used wrongly because the author who comes from an arbitrary country does not know better.

Even more: sometimes I do ask native English speakers about subtle aspects of the English language. My impression from this is: while it is not uncommon among native German speakers to deeply analyze German words, various native English speakers independently told me that doing such an analysis "is not how the English language works" (or how native English speakers think about their language).
The irony is companies do this when they have leverage. IBM stock did great this week. They punish the people and practices that helped boost the stock. This is why you should never have loyalty to a company.
Yeah, the Ryzen part is almost certainly significantly lower power
> Guess a good number of people think they're stupid.

My guess is it's mostly feigned humility and midwit cope.
This in is a tradition of earlier simulated ("cardboard") computers such as the 1965 "Little Man Computer" or the 1968 CARDIAC. Like Ordinapoche, they were basically aids to help a person step through a machine language program, with the person performing the low-level actions themselves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_man_computer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CARDboard_Illustrative_Aid_to_...
Completely disagree with essentially everything here.

If you look at distance, then planes win. Because if a plane makes it then it gets a big boost from lived distances.

If you look at the quantity of journeys or per hour on a mode of transport then planes look a lot worse.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/rail-journeys/trains-are-...

And as for why things become worse, it's because of enshittification. Not because of magical "energy limits", not because of "manufacturing competition". Getting the next quarterly bonus by firing everyone works better than having a cut bonus this quarter to fix manufacturing and ensuring a bonus next quarter.
Thanks for these resources and comments.

Would say that the following is a good summary? -> This is an important theoretical result, but most real-world problems are far from worst case scenarios, therefore improving the worst case currently has little practical use.
Lawyers will.

Then having journalists in the conversation helps, as they can produce bad press if the lawyers play games.
Is that a surprise to you?

https://blog.dshr.org/2024/01/good-news-for-tether.html?m=1
My doctor was target of bitcoin extortionists. Now her system is so locked down and doesn’t interface with any other system. To transfer information to another system she prints it out and scans it into the new system
Problem is that speed is unknown variable that change with our knowledge. Yet, we make conclusions, over 50 years, that was and still are false.

From history we know, how terrified population is easier to manipulate by those who offer easy solutions.
I think I read long ago that it takes almost 7% liquid market cap to trigger a major movement. Current market cap $800b, so if true then no, 2b wouldn't be enough.

I might be pulling 7% out of thin air though, it's been a long time since I was reading about crypto market manipulation.
It seems that their plan was never to develop any actual games, but to sell their corp to saudis. I have zero hope for any of their franchises. Maybe after they will go bankrupt and then sell IPs again. And even then it could be some EA with GAAS plan.
This remedy was already valid for normal human drivers. I am more concerned about automatic drivers not honoring the "Vertrauensgrundsatz" (principle of trust) which is a traffic law from my area whic, to my knowledge, doesnt even have a counterpart in the US. Basically, drivers learn that there are two classes of pedestrians: "normal" pedestrians, and those which basically cant be trusted. IOW, drunk or blind people. If you run over one of those, the likelihood of it being your fault rises.
If you're preaching "holocaust bad" in this day and age, you're not winning over any hearts and minds. The vast majority of people already know, and you're not gonna reach the rest.

> Israel’s reaction in Gaza left her with a “desperate” feeling

That's all? Nothing else to add?
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I use AI a lot as a helper for quite a few different tasks. I believe this push for AI and cloud is always bullshit to the detriment of the user.

There still is a problem with providing context to AI and especially the data volume of ERP systems is difficult for AI to deal with if not already reduced and preprocessed to some sensible values where answers can be directly extracted. The resulting chat bots aren't that much more proficient than what we already know, even if they have been trained.

There is a lot of hype around it and the tech is very helpful for certain applications, development support certainly is one area. But firing their own developers will almost certainly hurt the company in the long run. Granted, I only know people that work there for the money, so this "transformation/enshitification" was perhaps inevitable.
> Neither China nor Russia are communist countries for very long time.

The Soviet Union is since 1922 [1] and basically still exists today under the leadership of Putin. The CCP is since 1921 [2] and is still in power today. Both have 100+ years under their belts.

> Folks here with more experience can describe better than me what actual regime there is, to me it seems like some mixture of brutal capitalism and regulated markets, dictatorship of the elite, all drowning in corruption.

It's what communism always looks like. At some point all systems are setup to incentivize the individual in order to ensure production happens. Over use of socialism almost always results in some percentage of the population choosing to do nothing to support the society they benefit from. It's why ideas like UBI will never work. The only other way to ensure production happens is to use the stick rather than the carrot.

> What labels they put themselves on doesn't really matter, does it.

Almost a "real communism has never been tried!" type argument.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party
I still have that cpu, I remember the freezes, it affected Windows too, it was because of the fTPM, you needed to update your firmware or disable fTPM.
* 10:05am: Wood and VP of Global Government Affairs Prashanthi Raman have virtual meeting with Mayor of SF's transpo advisor. Wood shows full video, "reportedly with internet connectivity issues from his home computer"; neither Wood nor Raman brings up or discusses pullover or dragging

* 10:30am: Virtual meeting with NHTSA. Wood shows full video, "again having internet connectivity issues causing video to freeze and/or black-out in key places including after initial impact" and again not bringing up or discussing pullover or dragging

* 11:05am: Cruise regulatory, legal, and systems integrity employees have pre-meeting for DMV and California Highway Patrol (CHP) briefing; Cruise team doesn't discuss pullover and dragging

* 11:30am: hybrid in-person and virtual meeting with DMV and CHP. Wood shows full video, again with internet connectivity issues and again not bringing up or discussing pullover or dragging

Internet connection issues, can happen to anyone
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