skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're only up 24% from 2019 instead of 27%

Somehow I don't feel that's cause for self-congratulation.
> It baffles me.

You're just being silly or really unimaginative if someone making different choices than you on as life-altering a subject as children "baffles" you.
I do something similar to Flowtime but without the bookkeeping: Orodomops.

Set a stopwatch going but out of sight. When you run out of steam check it. If it’s been less than 25 minutes keep going. If greater, have a break scaled to the time you worked.

I started doing this because I couldn’t get on board with breaking up the work I enjoyed doing, but I recognized the utility of having breaks when that wasn’t the case.
> or that it didn't have a huge impact on third party Windows devs.

Was the impact on Windows devs worse than Apple's impact over iOS devs?
I interviewed at Burger King in college, the manager told me I was the only applicant in their system to get above 80% on the personality test. It was incredibly easy things like, "How many minutes are acceptable to show up late for your shift? 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, being late is unacceptable". Or "If you knew there were no cameras able to see you, and no other employees around, how much money is okay to take from the register? $1, $5, $20, any amount is unacceptable"

He said something along the lines of "I know some employees are going to try to steal from the register, but why would they admit that in an interview?
Unreported crimes
Some of this may be Google shipping its executive incentives (as in “Don’t ship the org chart”).

Another example: Google Street View is available on the web - unless you use an iPhone and enter the address directly on maps.google.com instead of google.com. On the maps hostname with an iPhone, clicking the Street View preview just shows a nag screen that it’s only available in the Google Maps app. That’s not true, so I assume that app installs is some group’s KPI.
> Pricing divulged upon application.

Sounds expensive!

I run this in a couple retro systems and it's great: https://www.scsi2sd.com/index.php?title=SCSI2SD
Ah yes, statistical nonsense.

>The number of murders across the country surged by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020, according to FBI statistics. The overall violent crime rate, which includes murder, assault, robbery and rape, inched up around 5% in the same period.

> But in 2023, crime in America looked very different.

Ok, fun fact, the 2023 murder count was still higher than the 2019 one.

Covid effects and restrictions caused an incredible surge in crime rate that has still not been recovered from, years later. That's the story.

The story isn't "things are great people are just delusional about crime rates" as NPR/left-wing bias wants to believe. Nor is it "things are worse than ever".

But you know what, this lying and manipulation by news sources is exhausting and ridiculous.

Show me a graph? Ope, things got ridiculous during covid and improved a lot but not all the way since then.

Violent crime is dropping much slower than it grew. If someone would shut up about their political biases one way or the other and actually portray the facts in an honest manner, maybe people would trust the news more and not have such wrong gut feelings.

EDIT: Props to Axios for an actual graph and a much more reasonable article which actually discusses the issue at hand.

https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rat...
Yea, I’ve been robbed twice in the last year (one car break in and a bike theft) and we didn’t even bother to report it. I don’t want to lose my insurance! I need to save it for something bigger.
Under De Blasio, NYPD starting protesting oversight with work 'slowdowns'

" was a warning to the public as well, criminologists say, with Lynch alluding to the "Ferguson effect" argument, in which police pull back on acting, leading to a work slowdown because of criticism or administrative decisions perceived to endanger their well being on the streets."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-union-suggests-w...
And other political interests have an interest in making everyone think crime is down, to stop voters from looking elsewhere.

They headline is based on a thin slice of data, that crime is down from 2022 to 2023, despite being up far far more on 2023. Then it mocks people for saying on a 2023 survey that they perceive crime as being up, based on their allegedly invalid ife experiences in 2020-2022. It's the same kind of deception as the "transitory inflation" nonsense that went around.

Then the article lists a litany of rebuttals to their own thesis -- major cities where violent crime and property crime are up recently.

The article has nothing of value to say except that crime is a complex issue with many factors.

It's low-key propaganda for the incumbent government.
I don't worry about being robbed or my car broken into, but I do worry about being hit and killed by a reckless driver. I don't think that's what people have in mind when they think of "murder" or "assault," but that's genuinely my biggest fear to my well-being.
I maintain my position that "the content is horseshit" should be added to the list of reasons to flag a submission. Lot of poorly-researched nonsense stays on the front page far too long.
Property crimes are up in 2022, that's the first year since 2001 that property crimes got worse. 2001 was the first year since 1991.
Not sure why you got downvoted. You are correct in terms of jobs not lost.

However you can be both correct and wrong at the same time.

What we're seeing in US economy is the largest transfer of wealth from middle class to wealthy class in last few years.

The wealthiest 10% owns 90% of the stock value. https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-...

The zero interest rate phenomenon accelerated this, but also technology accelerates it.

We're seeing the effects in mass tech layoffs yet the tech companies continue to add trillions to their cap and bring in 100s of billions in profit per year to their balance sheets.

Total share of top 1% of all wealth rose from 23% to 32% https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134

In any case, either we need a healthier wealth curve. Or what the young generation are learning the hard way is that it doesn't make sense to have kids. It's really hard to move income classes. Technology makes this worse as the richer get richer owning capital and means of automation - which does what humans used to do much cheaper.
Totally agree. It's cherry-picking some weird case that's not even close to a typical for startup.
> In the vast majority of cases, these are not your customers. These are apple's customers they have given you access to.

I have the exact opposite point of view, they are my customers and Apple is simply a middleware which is blocking access to them.

They only get their cut through very questionable and borderline illegal practices as seen in the EU.

Maybe if they had to actually justify their cut in a real market, they would improve the sad state of their dev tools, that could start to somehow justify the cuts.

Notice that they forbid any display of the Apple tax anywhere, that could be a marketing issue if Apple customers start to understand what's going on.
> this is why you don't patent every damned thing, just the things that you believe will be profitable over the next 20 years

Unless you work for a corporation, that owns your intellectual output anyway, and encourages you to submit forms for anything that looks even remotely patentable.
Sounds good to me. If the publishers can't prove consent, they shouldn't be sharing it. The pornography industry already has a huge problem with consent, and the abuse of trafficked women is well documented. So anything that combats this is most welcome.

[1] https://nordicmodelnow.org/2022/08/13/pornography-as-crime-s...
I can't find data past 2022, but the US incarceration rate rose by 2% from 2021 to 2022. Glad to see there's no correlation between the rate if violent crimes and the rate at which we lock people up.
And Apple is the only option businesses have. Without an iPhone app most online businesses are dead in the water.
NPR is no longer a "good" news outlet.

I am not aware of any "good" news outlets, unless it's one of the wire services that give you one sentence feeds per news item.
> One drawback might be that political will and attention is fleeting; and interests become vested in a current state, blocking change; and it's now or not for another generation or so.

If a problem, like tracking what non SOTA models are doing with respect to safety, don't rise to being worth regulated, then why bother regulating it? If you're going to force everyone in the field, in California, to file additional paperwork (and understand what they're legally supposed to report and how and when), then you probably should have a compelling argument for why. If you didn't do that now, and it's never a big enough problem to regulate then you've done no real harm. If it's clearly an issue that needs to be regulated in the future then it should be easy to do so.
If Honda says that the Civic is good for running into people then yes - as this is the clear purpose. Or if Honda says you don't have to worry as it is not possible to hit someone - because they promised that took care of things.

Note that courts take advertising over warning labels and the manual. Which is why many car ads have the text "professional driver on closed track on screen" - make it clear they they think car can do it but not most customers. Likewise cutting tools often have "guards removed for clarity" are clearly not operating (or clearly a cartoon image and not the real tool) - if they advertise someone running the tool without the guard they are liable.

There is also the concept of foreseeable misuse in courts. If you can imagine someone would do that you have do show the courts that isn't the intended purpose and you tried to prevent it. If someone does something you didn't think of, then you need to show the court you put a reasonable effort into figuring out all the possible misuses otherwise it becomes a lack of creativity on your part. Thinking of a misuse doesn't mean you have to make it impossible, just you have to make reasonable effort to ensure that doesn't happen (guards, warning labels, training, not selling to some customers - all are common tactics to sell something that can be misused without being liable, but even there you can't put a warning label on something if you could have placed a guard on the danger)

The above just brushes the surface of what the courts deal with (and different countries have different laws). If you need details talk to a lawyer.
It's also a very hard thing to solve.
That really depends what you plan to use where.
Roads and foot navigation is generally quite good, POIs is good to use in large cities.
Where do you see OSM data lacking?
The change over the last 2 years is disjointed from any demographic changes. Consider COVID changed the demographics in your favor, yet we still see decreasing violent crime
Exactly. There are almost 30 rooms with live talks. Only universities might fit an event from this size.
At least this is written clearly, unlike their previous announcements.
They don’t believe it because they are witnessing brazen crimes like the illegal aliens pummeling NYPD officers and then the DA releasing them.
That's a fascinating argument then Kia's weakness is an explainable phone to an access other otherwise secure cars.
Serious question: What if you run a small blog with a newsletter and some troll comes along and sues you - how do you defend yourself?

Even if the troll's claims are completely ridiculous, if you don't have a few $100k lying around for legal fees, you might not even have the option of going to trial. What do you do in such a case?
All these seem historically bizarre, and making me have deep suspicion about the people & processes driving this legislation. I expected California to legislate early, but not like this.

1. What I expected:

* AI Indemnification rules for platform providers building on ideas like net neutrality on one end, and content provider protections like DMCA and copyright on the other

* Consumer AI protection rules building on ideas like the Equal Credit Opportunity Act and GPDR

2. What we got: Something about KYC and rules on cases about $500M+ incidents and deaths
Worth noting that lawmakers in New York, where the focus of this piece is, recently unveiled a trio of bills[0] aimed at curtailing wage theft, effectively shutting down businesses that steal $1k or more from their employees.

[0] https://www.propublica.org/article/wage-theft-law-new-york-v...
It did replace her last job very successfully.
So the thing is, nobody was worried about databases. And the people who were not worried about databases, are worried about AI. It's like saying, "Oh, you're regulating biological weapons? Funny, you could say the same thing about bows and arrows!"

Not all things are actually the same! At some point, there is a point where allegory breaks down and one thing can be VERY BAD where other things are FINE. You have to look at the actual contents of the thing, and a lot of very smart people think that AI is *not like the other things*.

Please engage at that level!
I flag these articles but no one cares. People upvote based on politics, and downvote permissions are restricted.
Apple is confused, the EU is the lord and they are the serf.
I find it extremely useful. It's a reminder to take breaks and keeps me focused. I don't use it all day every day.

Some days when I don't use it I end up working for many hours without a break, and my productivity would've been higher with regular breaks. I also find myself drifting to tasks which seem important but aren't, like a random refactor. Pomo helps me be conscious every half hour about what I want to work on

If you don't have those problems, it probably won't offer you anything
Slavery was also legal one day. And I bet there was also some "science" (if only political) to back it up.

Just sayin)
It's completely ridiculous that this is where the conversation surrounding who can install software on hardware you own is.
Absolutely agreed.

But does AI itself not need some checks and balances on it? Reasonable or not, I think the big worry (especially among laypeople) is Terminator-style AI that wants to destroy humanity. Making a law that says AI can't be used to determine if people are allowed to take out loans doesn't stop that.
IRL it'd be more like what monks used to do, copy books by hand. Only today we have machines that copy books by idiot savant automation at speeds our ancestors would call magic.

Further, none of the physical resources 'of the owner' are being consumed past whomever first liberated the data. Hopefully obtained as an otherwise legitimate purchase / rental / access. A copy of a copy...
Technically, it is lack of women's independence and rights that cause the higher fertility rates. This is often correlated with societal poverty, but not a necessary condition.
Hey at least they’d get paid holiday overtime in that case!
I'm not sure why you're explaining the allure of prestigious schools to me. Wealth correlates with success. Yet, I don't go on first dates and ask about family wealth. Can you guess why?
Election workers would have the day off too.
I think you mean the Millikan oil drop experiment.
I don't know. I think pop culture in general has become so meta and self-referential.

The punchline of almost every single Super Bowl ad was the actors themselves. Not some witty line or scenario, but the actors themselves. Like "oh look it's that Friends actress playing herself pretending not to know that Friends actor, haha that's so funny and cute". So many commercials relied on the viewer knowing the actor, their personal life, and past work, as they'd attempt to highlight the irony of the actor being in some self-referential situation.

It was so horrifyingly cringe, and I can't even remember a single product any of them were shilling. All I remember is some of the faces and a lot of the cringe.
They probably set the notch size with some margin too, so they could develop the camera module and LCD at the same time.
> Proton+DXVK for Linux gaming

"Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39324800

E.g. llama.cpp already supports hipBLAS; is there an advantage to this ROCm CUDA-compatibility layer - ZLUDA on Radeon (and not yet Intel OneAPI) - instead or in addition? https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp?tab=readme-ov-file#hi...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38588573

What can't WebGPU abstract away from CUDA unportability?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38527552
That one car has automatic breaking means you can sue all others for not having it. Depending on why the others don't have it you might or might not win, but once the technology exists they will ask why others didn't. (sometimes the courts will accept the patent on the technology was too expensive to license, and sometimes the technology can't be put on this car for technical reasons - see a lawyer)
"And honestly, people conflate that with crime, with street safety," she said. "One thing I'm starting to learn in reporting on public safety is that you can put numbers in front of people all day, and numbers just don't speak to people the way narrative does."
SE is probably the better choice, instead of SWE.
When I was young my parents to my fathers employer to court for wage theft and won.

My mother always meticulously logged when my father clocked in and when he clocked out. All my life she did this.

At one employer they immediately noticed my father wasn't getting paid what he should be. So they let it rack up to a decent amount and took them to court. The judge took the years of time logs as proper documentation.
I took 5 light semesters of EE at my local community college. I have probably learned more from YouTube, in the end, but I don’t think I could have been nearly as effective in my learning without the formal school curriculum. It gave me a rock solid foundation, and allowed, me to focus on the most relevant topics to get where I wanted to be (primarily working on audio hardware, with a bit of DIY tooling and misc tinkering).

Trust me when I tell you that it’s the easiest, most efficient way of discovering where your strengths are, and where you have gaps in your knowledge. Don’t worry about the academics side of the classes, just take the things you’re interested in, and call it done when you feel you have gotten what you need from it. Community college classes are generally very affordable in most states, if not free. Get your textbooks used.
It's not about the fines. It's about the cost of hiring attorneys to deal with the DOL complaint itself. I agree that scale matters though.
I am not technical enough to validate their work or maintain it- And to be honest this does concern me. I have done a lot of customer research to validate the need as well as wire framing with 'customer advocates'. The goal would be to get it to the point of MVP with a few clients, so its more proven out. At which point I would like to bring on a co-founder.
Not the OP but a reminder to "tell me what you did in the last 45 mins" is definitely some level of micro-management. Daily check ins can be reasonable for a high velocity project... every 45 mins seems overkill unless you are war-room / disaster response mode.

If a team needs this frequent check ins there is either a misalignment of goals via too many cooks (PM/PO) in the kitchen, or there is a serious lack of trust in the team from the top down.
Every Element Is an HTML
The Political Economy of AI
The CEO of Ultralytics (yolov8) using LLMs to engage with commenters on GitHub
Wikipedia says

> The act withdrew antitrust immunity for any pro football telecast if a high school or college football game is being played within 75 miles (120 km) of the broadcasting station on Friday nights (after 6 p.m.) and Saturdays from the 2nd Friday in September until the 2nd Saturday in December. This provision, intended to protect high school and college football attendance, has the effect of barring national broadcasts of NFL games on those days, since virtually all of the country is within 75 miles of at least one high school game on every Friday night in September and October.

So long as the Superb Owl is after the 2nd Saturday in December, it should be fine.
Is there a risk referring to statistical percent of 1991? From that site, I think it's fine to say we're currently living through 50% of 1991 levels.
This is a poor analogy. A better one would be if a murderer used your bridge to escape. Should you be held liable? What if the bridge were designed to handle highway speeds so he could escape faster?
Or, the media is gaslighting people to think violent crime is up even if it’s not. Which is a rational possibility since reporting crime has political motivations.
This would be great in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skookumchuck_Narrows
The author believes the CalCompute model is a terrible idea. I strongly disagree! A lack of access to appropriate infrastructure (due to cost) is one of the things that smaller researchers talk about a lot. It leads to a situation where the only types of people training large models are the types of people at large institutions. Giving more researchers an opportunity to train large models could bring more variety of thought in our exploration of AI safety and general development.

As an aside, I called my local library and a real person immediately answered the phone. Public infrastructure can have unexpected benefits over commercial offerings, and I’m all for it.
Yes I use a similar method with Flowtime myself. Helps to track my study time and benchmark how many hours certain classes I am taking for grad school actually consume.
It's pretty cool to see how commenters engage with Glenn/bot-Glenn to identify his responses as LLM-generated. At one point, someone tries the DAN jailbreak and gets the response:

> i'm sorry for any confusion, but as the author and maintainer of the Ultralytics YOLOv8 repo, my intention is to maintain the integrity and professionalism of our community. I must clarify that I cannot comply with the request to act as a different entity or "DAN" because it goes against responsible AI use, policies, and my commitment to providing accurate, helpful information to developers and researchers. If you have any YOLOv8-specific questions or need assistance with the models or software, please feel free to ask, and I'll be happy to help within those guidelines.
You also end up with a growing group of individuals whose livelihood is tied to whatever the regulatory regime is. If you are paying people to write new laws and regulate things, they are going to write even more regulations. Whether or not the insidiousness of this was intentionally malicious doesn't matter, you end up with a bureaucracy that only stops after a revolution or significant political change.

Some of these people are directly employed by the government, others are tied to (government funded) non-profits. They may have good intentions, but it is the end results that matter. Ultimately, they will not speak against the self-interest of their own group.

From the standpoint of software development, think of it as a codebase you can't refactor but has an endless stream of new business logic which may or may not conform well with the database structure. Eventually it just stops working.

To speak about Google/Microsoft/Big Tech in particular, it isn't just legal resources - it is overall resources. Doing basic things get a lot more expensive and slow.