skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Allowing social media to grow unchecked without first understanding the risks has had disastrous consequences…

Not gonna argue with that, but I’m having trouble imagining the alternative. Somehow we would have understood the risks without allowing the growth and observing the consequences? That seems unlikely, considering how surprised we all seemed when the consequences occurred.

With AI we seem to have a lot more noise around imagining consequences, but in my mind there’s no reason that would correlate with completeness or accuracy of the predictions. There will be lots of very bad, and lots of very good, consequences that nobody can currently imagine.
Work 2hr, break 1hr. Repeat as needed. That's what works for me personally.

I suspect everyone has a different rhythm, or lack thereof.
Carjacking is rampant in large part because of what Kia did, which really ought to land that company in a lake of civil liability. Carjacking, at least as it's practiced in Chicagoland, starts with a burner car that rolls up on the victim to disgorge the armed robbers. Kias, which can be hotwired with a broken USB cable, offered carjackers a literal citywide fleet of burner vehicles.
Two years ago, I had a similar experience with Chainlink. I underwent hours of interviews and completed an extensive work assignment, only to be offered the job _after a personality test_.
Simultaneously, I interviewed at a startup. There, I spent about an hour discussing my experience and providing feedback on their current system with the person who would become my manager.

I chose the startup, and it has been the best job decision I've ever made.

Personality tests can disclose a lot of personal information. It's unclear where this data might end up or who might have access to it. I detest this practice and consider it a major red flag.

(edit: typos)
Actually they legally can’t because of the Sports Broadcasting Act passed in 1961. This was done to protect high school and college football.
This! And, the RSS feed isn't referenced in the header, so my reader wouldn't automatically recognize it. At least the icon is clearly visible.
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Same reason why Tesla moved and why tons of people are moving out of CA. There's a huge benefit.

Also don't think that this workforce is exclusive to CA. AI is easy to learn, it's not quantum physics.
I got a lower back injury from changing diapers. I just wasn't used to bending over while standing I guess.
This reminded me of another unconventional institution called St. John’s College, though it does offer a four-year degree.

Instead of offering a traditional undergraduate program that teaches largely from modern textbooks, students work through what the institution calls a “Great Books” curriculum of the “foundational texts of Western civilization” across a variety of subjects: https://www.sjc.edu/academic-programs/undergraduate/great-bo...

I have, however, read some accounts online that the program has flaws with the way it teaches mathematics, where some students claim that an approach through historical texts is less effective than one with more current books. In any case, I think it’s interesting that non-traditional institutions with largely respected reputations exist, like St. John’s and the colleges in the article and the discussion so far.
Frontline A.I. – A Guide for Manufacturers
I might suggest a link to the Wikipedia entry instead?

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

I've never heard of this, and it's interesting, but the Wikipedia page has way more info than the PDF there.
Incorporation location is irrelevant to this discussion. While governance of a Delaware corporation is litigated in Delaware business courts, a Delaware corporation that is headquartered in California, or even does business in California, needs to obey California law. And there are quite a few of them, to put it mildly.
Changing requirements is like fast food, people don't eat it because they need the calories they eat it because it is hard not to.

And agile doesn't make you respond to change quicker, it makes it slower since it is done in 2 weeks sprints. Normally a team could adapt the moment new information comes up, strict adherence to scrum agile would push that for the next sprint.

Agile does make scheduling new changes effortless though, encouraging new changes to be made all the time, but it doesn't make the team react quickly to those changes and nor does it remove the total cost of a change. I don't think that is a good thing to encourage, in such a system no wonder people get used to changing things all the time so nobody really knows what things are supposed to be.
Even in the face of all the data look at the early comments in this thread. For some reason these individuals want you to believe there's this high level of crime. Blatantly ignoring the good trends and focusing on the outliers, in worse cases calling anecdotes better than facts. So strange and quite frankly weird as hell.
I'm pretty sure the pregnant question is illegal in the US. It's an obvious discriminatory question. If we had a regulatory body worth a shit, they would get punished for it.
They said they want adaptive cruise control but not lane keeping. Most automaker allow you to disable the lane keeping if you want while keeping cruise (my Ford does this)
OP I have this up and running but it seems like most of the video samples it fetches in response to my prompt have nothing to do with the prompt I've typed. Maybe 1 out of 5 videos is actually relative to my prompt. Any Ideas?

I've also noticed that any generated Subtitle language will fail if the AI responds with a semi-colon anywhere in it's response.

"Sure, here's the thing you asked for: A long text description about <subject>"

Actually short subs "Sure, here's the thing you asked for - end video.

pretty neat though
Is it because superbowl is on sunday or superbowl is on sunday because the viewership is there? I do not know what is the cause and what is the effect.
I don't think he undertands people are more and more hating CA, both inside and outside of the state.
Invoking Bezos doesn't make this sound less unhinged. Sorry.
Timeboxing creates a lot of peace for me.

Lately been so busy that's it hard to get focus, I've been breaking up the day into 1 & 2 hour blocks.

Gives me a pass to forget the rest and just focus on that item and the rest has it's own designated time.

Of course doesn't always go right or work, but going back to it makes me understand where I have room & when I can relax.

Also different from todo, since focus is not on finishing tasks.
> "The national picture shows that murder is falling. We have data from over 200 cities showing a 12.2% decline ... in 2023 relative to 2022," Asher said, citing his own analysis of public data. He found instances of rape, robbery and aggravated assault were all down too.

> A Gallup poll released in November found 77% of Americans believed there was more crime in the country than the year before. And 63% felt there was either a "very" or "extremely" serious crime problem — the highest in the poll's history going back to 2000.

Violent crime is going down. The survey was about overall crime. So the premise of this article is misleading.

The dichotomies presented make more sense if you accept that overall crime is up even if violent crime is down: Police numbers can't prevent murders but they can prevent break-ins - homeless camps don't put people into danger but they do help fence stolen goods. A lot of low-level crimes are not even being reported anymore.

I won't speak for everyone, but I don't really spend most of my days worried about getting murdered or assaulted. But I do spend a lot of time worried about getting robbed or having my car broken into (again!).
did you meet my friend Kel a few weeks ago?
Logging in makes it easy to sync your feed between devices. Making account is quick and easy.
You lose a trademark if you don't defend it. I don't believe the same is true of patents.
> If 3P app developers want to access Apple's customers on a platform developed by Apple, then they should expect to play by Apple's rules...

That whole argument is based on the implicit assumption that Apple's products would still be as attractive to consumers as they are right now, even if they didn't allow 3rd party developers access to their platform. Which is a completely insane take, like literally pathologically insane, you-should-get-professional-help take for me to swallow.
https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE828187/

"A New York Police Department whistleblower's report that his precinct was systematically underreporting crime - an act that resulted in a suspension and time in a psychiatric ward - has been validated by an internal department investigation."
I see a lot of people do this voluntarily through online services with strangers. Even my neighborhood Facebook group was coordinating one of these at a cafe with a lot of interest.
When picking how you dress yourself, you use the local temperature, not the global (or national) average temperature.

The same is true of crime rates, distribution information is lost when averaging.
I offer as an alternative:

IP is property, and it's taxed at the value you declare that it's worth.

However, if you swear to the IRS that it's worth $500/yr, then you can't claim in court that a violation of it is costing you $10,000,000/yr in losses. That would be perjury.

Your patent is worth $10,000,000? Awesome! I bet your local school district will love to hear how much you'll be paying in taxes on it.
Yes. Even small retrofits like putting thermal isolation under the tiles or in the attic's floor make a sizable difference. I did this in a home I lived in Rio de Janeiro.

If you are thinking about building in brasil, instead of traditional masonry, consider using insulated structural panels, called EPS in brazil.
I friend of mine did a home using this system in Rio de Janeiro where you easily get over 42C (107 F) outside in the summer. It works fantastically.

Energy in Brasil used to be way less expensive, and traditional masonry and concrete construction is not very friendly to insulation unless you do like the germans that have double walls with the insulation in the middle. So, culturally, insulation is kind of an alien concept for a lot of people and even engineers.
I can't recommend Eleventy enough!

https://www.11ty.dev

I converted my WordPress blog to Eleventy 4 years ago and never looked back, it's been delightful!

https://www.joshcanhelp.com/taking-wordpress-to-eleventy/
Or move it to Saturday.

Give us the weekend to get it largely out of our systems.
>Who said anything about the state?

By implication, you:

>here is my proposal to replace intellectual property

Property rights, intellectual or otherwise, are granted and enforced by the state. So too, it would seem, might be their replacements. But it sounds like you're actually proposing simply eliminating all current IP law rather than replacing it with anything.
I feel like the author is writing from a perspective of women being an alien species with incomprehensible motives, and their view of women is limited to how they are useful to men (most of the commentary here also seems to share this myopia).

> I don't say slutshaming was good - I say that when it comes to intra-male relationships, the current situation might be even worse. During the times of slutshaming, there were two kinds of women: Good ones and bad ones. Post-slutshaming there is only one kind of woman, graded on a scale from one to ten in physical and social attractiveness. Competition for the tens is bitter.

Read this from the perspective of a woman, but especially a slut. You have invented a whole philosophy based on the idea that women have some sort of numerical rating, and that sex is some kind of competition. Presumably you're "losing" unless you're having sex with a "10".

Women often have impossible beauty standards marketed towards them, with the intent of making us feel bad so we spend money on self-improvement. This is the masculine equivalent. Nothing is tearing the "social fabric", you're tearing at yourself.
Can someone knowledgeable about these things explain how they were able to remove the actuator? Are users supposed to move these manually now or is coverage good enough that no movement is necessary?
always someone that has to man-bash.
Can you elaborate? I don't think I understand what it would mean to be "safe" statistically, but it's too dangerous to go outside.

- Are you implying that the statistic data on crime is incorrect and/or falsified?

- Are you including dangers besides criminality (like motor vehicle collisions or stormy weather)?

- Are you implying the police make the area unsafe (the police being, practically if not literally, the opposite of "crime statistics")?
US rail safety legislation stalled one year after East Palestine Ohio disaster
It sounds good to me. I'm sure some would hate it.
In Ontario, the "dairy cartel" invaded the big name convenience stores and groceries and forcibly replaced product on the shelf with their own without repercussion
llama_index puts out lots of great content on how to do RAG, definitely my recommended starting point
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/plan-do-learn-my-somewhat-...

https://www.ultraworking.com/twg went out of business, but see if you can dig up their template.

Cal Newport on time blocking: https://calnewport.com/deep-habits-the-importance-of-plannin...
People like that have the easiest life ever and then act like they're fighting in the Vietnamese jungle.
I absolutely agree, but I'm not sure something like CalCompute is going to do a good job counteracting that. Is the major limitation to others creating new models the availability and cost of compute, or is it the fact that big tech companies can afford to compensate AI researchers well enough that they won't work on open projects?

To me it feels like the latter, but admittedly I don't know for sure.
> This analogy is strained

Yes, that's why I offered the kitchen knife example instead. Cars are also a problematic analogy, because even though some people still consider their operation to be fully controlled by the driver and not the manufacturer via their software, that's apparently becoming less the case.

> If that isn't acceptable (and I don't think it would be), how do we prevent people from producing deep fakes?

You don't. The problem isn't producing deepfakes. The problem is committing fraud, regardless of the tools used. Someone using deepfakes to e.g. hide facial disfigurement from their employer isn't someone I mind using deepfakes.
LinuxONE 4 Express: How IBM's budget mainframe could be right for you
Please give all your money away to those who value it. You clearly don't, so why are you selfishly hoarding it?
Just thought I reference this:

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Is SB1047 the first instance of AI regulation?
I wonder if that's because of all the anti abortion polices in red states. Given DC is in Virginia.

Going to be pretty interesting in 30 years when all the red states suddenly have a massive up spike in crimes and super predators
That's from 12 years ago, and moreover is not specific to violent crime, nor to national statistics. This article is about violent crime during and since the pandemic only.

And even if your NYC anecdote could somehow be applied to all national crime statistics, it still wouldn't change the truth of the article, which is that crime has decreased relative to before. If crime were underreported previously, and continues to be underreported now, then the fact of the relative decrease in rates remains true.
This was an excellent write up thanks. It'll help me understand the Mamba work a lot more.

I still find it really confusing how a linear model can perform so well.
That is a super bad advice: most of the matter stuff simply unstable, very few devices. Apple's support is also subpar and unstable.
I think January 2nd should be a holiday
Doesnt sounds constructed to me.

The "you" in that case could very easily be a startup
At Level 1, this is obviously not true. For murders in particular, I would expect it to be especially not true. Murders are easy to count, so I would expect the data to be very accurate. While anecdotes about murders tend to be very newsworthy and so we read about them and might feel like they're more frequent when they are not.

But at Level 2, I do think there's a kernel of truth to this (Jeff's statement), because sometimes it is hard to measure the same thing that people actually mean when they are talking about something like crime.

For example, in this article: There are "two really visible crises" in the downtown area: homelessness and open-air drug use. "And honestly, people conflate that with crime, with street safety," she said."

So basically the author is saying people feel unsafe about homelessness and drug use, but those aren't really crimes (people "conflate" them with crimes), and so those don't count as higher crime. So people are mistaken about the crime rate. Fair enough, but that's a technicality of what we are actually measuring, VS what people are feeling about it when you ask them about "crime" or safety or something.
The article notes a major uptick from 2019 to 2020, and then refers to declines from 2021 to 2023.

What about from 2019 to 2023? It could be simultaneously true that violent crime is dropping and that it remains above a baseline from 4-5 years ago (which would likely also affect perception). So is it?
High school and college football are generally completely done by February
That might be true, but if that's where we've found ourselves it seems like the best course of action is to start over with a fresh web spec focused on staying as simple as possible.

Browsers have never had a sustainable revenue model. If we're at a point where building one is so complex that it requires a massive resource investment we're setup to eventually be left with only one or two highly centralized and controlled browsers. That defeats the whole purpose of the web.
If a bridge collapses and people are hurt the engineer is at fault and should be held accountable. If software fails and people are hurt the software engineer is at fault and should be held accountable.
I would be very interested to read any papers where this is mentioned
FCC: Telcos must now tell you when your personal info is stolen
The other thing is that averages remove distribution information. As even the article admits, the crime is not evenly distributed across the USA.

Getting your car broken into almost never happens for most of the USA, though it's very, very, very common in a few cities.
Dan's name does indeed come up a lot in our circles :) Thanks for the links, even being in the biz there's always more to learn.
> My understanding is a patent holder must defend their rights, if they are aware of the infringement, at the peril of losing them.

Pretty sure that's just for trademarks.
I've never heard of this before, but it is amazing... i've built out something like this for myself after reading a lot of self help books, i love the idea of an analog clock!
> computer people are slow to pick up this sort of stuff from other fields

Because computer people aren't optimizing for functionality, intuitiveness, or really any sort of UX.

They're optimizing for some idea of "beauty" and whatever is trendy.
This is a different argument, and a bit weird one. Why do you want to shout at other people for having preferences that are different from yours (or rather your wife's)? For me personally supervising small kids 12/7/365 sounds like hell on earth, I'd prefer almost any other occupation.
If I invented my own currency and no one wanted it, the true price of my currency would be 0, but that doesn't then mean that the true price of all other currencies is 0 does it? The demand for USD and the agreement of the population to use it to trade gives it its value, I dont really understand why the same cant be said for people agreeing to trade with BTC, other than that the supply is governed by an algorithm that everyone has agreed upon, whereas the supply of the USD is governed by the government, international politics, lobbying, etc.
I believe they can because it falls after the new year, multiple NFL playoff games are held on Saturday.
In the near term, it won't be so much about AI completely 100% replacing certain jobs as much as 1 human employee + AI replacing 10 previously employed humans doing that same job.
People, who use MSFT SQL server in 2024 should suffer.
For everybody else there's always Neon.
1. Microsoft does sell users a computer. Sometimes. Surface devices represent about 10% of all desktop computers.

2. Apple also sells Macs, where developers can access "Apple's customers" unencumbered, without needing to play by Apple's rules (developers may also opt-in to a lower-form of "playing by Apple's rules" by submitting their apps to Apple for notarization, or naturally, they may also opt-in to the Full Rules by distributing through the App Store. This is a fantastic, multi-tiered system that works, obviously, well enough for everyone.)
Thank you very much for sharing your insights. You’ve highlighted some significant challenges in integrating social interactions within digital platforms, particularly around content sharing and the issues of authenticity and identity. I agree that these are complex areas, and the difficulties you've outlined are very real, affecting even the largest players in the industry. At this stage, tackling these broader issues directly would indeed be ambitious, and they require careful consideration and resources that go beyond the initial scope of my project.

Given this context, my immediate focus is on developing core social functionalities that are integral to enhancing user engagement and community within games and apps. This includes features like real-time chat, friend requests, and the ability to share scores or achievements with friends. These elements, while simpler, are foundational to creating a connected user experience and represent a significant area of need for developers.

I'm particularly interested in understanding the specific challenges and unmet needs developers face when integrating these features. Do existing solutions fully meet their needs in terms of functionality, ease of integration, and scalability? Or are there gaps that a new solution could fill?

By concentrating on these aspects, I aim to offer a streamlined, easily integrated solution that addresses the immediate needs of developers, without the immediate complexity of content moderation and identity verification challenges. I believe there's valuable work to be done in this space, and your feedback on these specific features would be incredibly helpful as I refine my approach.
The FPGA is used to implement an approximation of the original hardware’s functionality - not a perfect clone of the original hardware itself, which means they have their own unique bugs and inaccuracies compared to the original designs.

I think “emulation” fits as a reasonable description of this, personally - at least as something an average person will understand.
That doesn't seem to be state funding of open source programming efforts though. It addresses one aspect: the cost of compute when training models. But it doesn't provide incentives for people to use it and strike out on their own, abandoning the huge paycheck that the big AI research tech company gives them.
hahahaha what a waste.
This should be the top comment here, people are getting their hopes up for nothing
If we weight crime counts by severity, than the total area under the curve is smaller, which seems like a good thing
Love to visit Hong Kong some day just to wander the pedestrian network, a fraction of which (apparently) is shown here:

https://placesjournal.org/article/hong-kong-grounded/
Yup, the manager mentioned something about the NFL using it?