skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, the whole premise of end-user license agreements is insane - "By using our product, you, a technically and legally unsophisticated user, assert that you have read, understood, and agree to the 45 pages of legalese that we put in front of you in a 300x200px window, and we assert that we believe that you, a technically and legally unsophisticated user, fully understood that contract, despite our metrics collected on the length of time between it showing up on your screen and you hitting the 'Accept' button suggesting that you're some kind of hyper-optimized button-clicking robot."

It's very clear that that construct's been allowed to facilitate rapid business transactions over any particular legal clarity or protection, so I wouldn't expect this behavior to face any additional challenges.
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Hacked it together quickly because I wanted a tiny tool. Resonated with others so I thought I'd post it here. Just plain & basic HTML / CSS / JS. Enjoy!
There are significant Russian minorities left in the baltic states from the SU.

Russia will support and radicalize those.

If the Baltics dont react it will lead to unrest and Russia is forced to intervene and "protect" their fellow Russians.

If the states react this will be seen as suppressing the Russian minorities and Russia will be forced to intervene and "protect" their fellow Russians.
How do you make an experience indistinguishable from offline work?

I am teaching a class not once a week, and there is so much feedback I get being in person that I do not get teaching online. The feedback helps me adapt.
Europeans crossing the oceN, committing genocide against the native population and having a slave and Jim Crow society in the resource rich third biggest land mass country in the world is what made America rich.

(China has the fourth largest land mass and on some measures is wealthier than the US)
What your language then? It works pretty well in French and when it fails, I can simply append "!fr" to force French-focused results.

As far as I know, Google doesn't even have that feature and I like to be able to switch between international and local results.
I don't really see how this disagrees with me at all. Yeah, you can make a layout what "works" on all sizes, I said that. For something trivial it can even be great on all sizes.

But a more complex website like let's say amazon.com is much better with thought-out styling for different widths.
I suppose TextMate was a bit more niche, being OS X only, but at one point it seemed to be everywhere.
Sure you do. Smoke and walk around in public. Smoke and stand in the middle of the sidewalk. etc
Shit I am in my 40s and it is already pretty meaningless
Yeah, it’s simply lying.

“Hussle” ethics of “if it works it’s OK” are so damn gross.
Their apology is more of a "Sorry, we'll find a way to screw you in an unmodified way but we'll make sure that you idiots will cry less about it this time."

Or they'll introduce softer changes, let everyone kinda chill out a bit, then clamp down on the same changes again when it's harder to move off-platform and users have little choice but to agree.
Diversity of interest does not equate to intensity of interest.
> Insist on asynchronous communication.

Not disagreeing, but you've also got to be mindful of scenarios where there is something which needs to be hashed out and neither party fully owns the thing.

If you don't nip it in the bud by getting those people together on a call or in the room together, you can end up with a lot of unnecessary back and forth.

Getting people in the room together is particularly effective for such cases.
This is a really informative and inspiring article.

It has been 6 months (not 6 years) since I quit my full-time job as a Rust developer to start my own business.

As time goes by, I can feel the pressure of mortgage and car loans, and I can also feel the care and pressure of my family.

My original plan was to make a new IDE for Glicol (https://glicol.org), and to develop relevant hardware with firmware written in rust for school education.

I sent some cold emails to VCs, but most of them got no reply.

I also sent an email to the Norwegian Museum of Science and Technology, offering to perform for children for free, but they didn’t reply for two months. I shamelessly sent it again, and someone finally replied with a rejection.

Only one VC talked to me and thought that I should convince and validate a partner first, and he suggested that I go to an incubator.

Very good advice.

Later I learned that even Norwegian education startups skipped Norway and focused directly on the US market.

People from the incubator also told me that it is impossible for Norwegian schools to accept new things independently.

This is very enlightening to me because most of Glicol's visitors are indeed from the US. And it took me so long to discover this fact.

But if I don’t start, I’ll never get past those six months.
Yeha it's obvious that a certain group loves it there as a way of virtue signaling allegiance with his performative political incorrectness. But it's incomprehensible why all his haters, who now have his balls in their hand, don't leave and cripple him.
With kagi, can't you block and/or de-rank specific domains? This obviously isn't a fully general solution, but if there are a small number of domains that A) come up frequently and B)you never want the english version (like ebay and amazon), then just block the english versions of those websites and promote the german versions.

To be clear, I'm not saying that "this is already good enough so what are you complaining about", I'm merely suggesting something that might go most of the way to fixing it until Kagi eventually implements a better search. They are a small company and I'd imagine that non-english language (and especially multi-lingual) behavior is not going to be the top-most priority, as understandably frustrating as that is for the people who need it.
In the 90s I worked across the aisle from our AS/400 dev - after an office power outage we’d spend hours running fsck on our unixen and he’d take a long lunch. Every time.
The the vision training models are available here: https://github.com/google-research/big_vision/tree/main which I am assuming, based on the research paper is what was used for the project.
Congrats! Not sure how many employees you have, but as you get into the $200-$500k owner discretionary earnings level, definitely take a look at small business retirement plans. If it is just you, or just you and a family member, you can use something like a Solo401k to defer up to $69k in earnings to retirement accounts. The “personal” side of that (like $22k) can be Roth.
> Germans are typically complaining from a high level.

Do Germans share the British tendency to think everything is better in the rest of the world?

As an immigrant (as a child, admittedly) and someone who has lived and worked elsewhere and, more importantly, does not completely share this aspect of the culture, I find British pessimism and self-flagellation really, really annoying.
You definitively should do that, but I doubt that it will prevent your data from being trained on. It sucks, but that's the reality now. I stopped using Spotify a while ago. Never using it again for sure.
Not sure.

It's a lot of things at this point:

- If you are skilled, the money is much better in the US, even after paying for health care yourself.

- French entities and investors are risk adverse. This means your original projects will get canned more often, funding is going to be super hard, and will bring less money if you succeed.

- The French speaking market is smaller, so whatever you try, if you try in France, you either you target a market outside of France, which is harder than be where you clients are, or your target France and French speaking countries, with a much lower pay off.

- Customer and worker protection is higher, and laws are everywhere. This is usually good for citizens, but of course, it also means Uber or airbnb could never have __started__ in France.

- The network effect means if you go to the US, you will meet more opportunities, more skilled people and more interesting projects. There is also an energy there you won't find elsewhere.

- Administration is heavy, for companies, it's of course a burden, but for universities, it's a nightmare. And they are really under paid. Not to mention academics in France have a hard time promoting an idea, an innovations or anything they came up with. While in the US things have a catchy name before they are even proven to work.

All those things mean the US is professionally highly attractive, and actively trying to get talents with the resource to pay for it and the insistence of their market pressure.
Spotify lost my sub over this. I knew they were kinda shitty but holy shit.
If there's no deliverable and no visibility, that's a failure of management, either to define the deliverable to a more granular extent where an update could cover the progress, even if async, which would also fix not having visibility. A developer piping up async and saying 'no updates, still working' is still an update and gives visibility.

If they (managers) want to lord over the process and do work for work's sake, then they should write out requirements that say "thou shalt commit one line of code by X date". It just comes down to the individuals doing the 'management' being lazy if they're in this position expecting their 'reports' to drop everything and context switch to a meeting when they can't be arsed to do the managing.
As a clarification this is specifically about the unreal engine asset marketplace. Not in general.
Have you never copied and pasted an error code into Google and have it return zero or only 1 or 2 results?

It’s terrible but far better than getting 100’s of irrelevant results because Google decided two words out of 10 in your query were the only ones that matter.
It's so crazy to think the original emacs was a commercial product.
The opposite of the jack of all trades is the one trick pony and the one trick pony always falls onto hard times when their single trick is no longer in fashion.
yeah the kerning is bad when using that thing. It's bad on my laptop too.
Unless you're Israel
We do have, at the very least, an idea about how human creativity works and it is an input output pattern.
If you don't have GPU/TPU farm this isn't as exciting as it seems to need around 2TiB with 8bit quantization.
Done well but not on an as-needed basis, it bears a lost-productivity and energy-draining similarity to meetings.

Done poorly and not as-needed, it’s a living hell (but then, many business-things are when done poorly)
Not the same, but some similar modern games:

- Pikmin

- Zombie Night Terror

- Humanity
Australia has Binge, which I don't think is available elsewhere (maybe NZ?). It seems like Australia is a small enough market that HBO, Paramount, NBC, Universal, etc – all the not-quite-Netflix sized streaming services – have chosen to just licence instead of try to launch (examples, some may have launched). This means that Binge has a really quite wide range of high quality content and in many ways feels like Netflix from the glory days.
“Training” in these things comes across differently than it did two years ago (i.e., employee training)! And what is “modeling” supposed to mean?

This actually reads much like the typical internet ToS of 20 years ago, before it became standard to say “only as needed to provide the specific services” because people started rightfully freaking out.

Especially in the media world with its history of repeatedly bilking artists out of royalties whenever a new format comes around, this is quite an insensitive move.
That sounds like it could be cost effective if one only includes the individual businesses and cover their losses, but it can still cause second order effect harm, like customers changing habits and not returning to the original place. Something to think about. Suboptimal infrastructure is also costly, of course...
Hmm, while we're counting, what about BRIEF? At one point, widely enough used that Visual Studio even had BRIEF emulation!

(When I was starting out in software development, almost all of my colleagues used this. Now just a footnote.)
> Didn't you read the post I'm replying to. It's referring to a guillotine. A method of public executions. Unless you believe executions to be a non-violent affair?

I'm not sure if you are being disingenuous, but you should pay attention to what I said and understand that my comment was on your adoption and use of the weasel word "justification of getting more resources to consume".

As if actually paying workers a living wage is somehow destroying resources.

Either the company's profits go for the billionaire's pockets, or it is transfered to the worker's salary as part of the fair compensation for making everything happen. It's curious how you only see "destruction of resources" when profits don't line up a billionaire's pockets.

Do you understand what I said?
This is great hard data to back up common perception. But I wonder how YouTube views for the Daily Show clips have changed over that same time period? Looking...

They are rarely over 1 or 2 million views on YouTube, so yeah, that's a big decline.
You are right. The floppy disk was to load the drivers for CD. Cutting edge tech.
Greenwald is a huge piece of shit and is best ignored completely.
I am absolutely not comparing AGI to sewing machines and cars. I am comparing ChatGPT and Sora to sewing machines and cars. My claim is that these are incredibly disruptive technologies to a limited scope. ChatGPT and SORA are closer to sewing machines than they are to AGI. We're nowhere near AGI yet. Remember that the original claim was that all 6-year-olds today will be unemployable. That's a pretty crazy claim IMO.
It is sad, I work in it as well, I ask myself "wtf am I doing" every single day. But the security of having and providing a warm/safe home for my family, being able to have fun experiences, etc...is too much to give up. I can definitely say I am selfish.
Bible verse similarity by AI (2019)
Well, depends. It’s bayes law fucking us over with the vast majority of people not having breast cancer but really, really needing to know if they do.

This is why it’s better to have tiers of confidence for actual policy decisions and not just confusion matrix results frankly.

Like if you run this test and you’re in a cohort that is 99.999% likely to be cancer, that’s useful info. It’s not a problem, per se, if the test instead comes back with an answer of mixed certainty. We just need to be comfortable with getting neither a positive nor a negative prediction; nor expecting it to cover all cases.

The policy driving thresholds on tests need to consider the weights of each possible outcome to determine what to do.
And that's enough HN for today.
It is also resilient to grid failures. Even better if you add on-site generation.
Maybe in few years with 4bit quantisation. (around 1TiB is needed for that)
Indeed, and actions assigned to accountable individuals etc. How to run an effective meeting is another topic entirely :-)
The Rise of POMG, Part 3: Competition and Conflict
" I'm proud of contributing through my taxes so that anybody in need can have the same treatment irrespective of their economic situation."

It is a big world my friend. And if millions come to use these services but don't pay in, the services get thinner and thinner. 1 Million Ukrainians came to German. Less than 25% have a job. The rest is financed by the taxpayer. Money, Rent, Health insurance...

Edit:

It reminds me of a Third Reich joke. An old woman goes into a map shop and looks at a globe.

She asks the sales person: What is this big blue land on the globe?

The sales person says: This is the USA.

Old lady: And this huge Red area, what is this?

The sales person says: This is the Soviet Union.

Old lady: And this tiny brown spot, what is this?

The sales person says: This is our Third Reich.

Old lady: Does the Fuehrer know this?

-----------

I hope you get what I am trying to say.
"Diesel is a cancer machine"

How come that nations that have more diesel engines don't suffer from cancer more?

In Ireland or Italy, something like 40 per cent of new cars are diesels. In Finland it is less than 20 per cent and in the Netherlands less than 10 per cent.

If diesel was a cancer machine, I would expect Italians to have a lot more cancer than the Dutch. Dose-response is a thing in toxicology.
I get where you are coming from, but journalists today aren't real journalists. Public trust in media is at an all-time low for a reason.

I understand that real journalism must be paid for, but allowing megacorps to buy up all maintream media was a huge mistake and now they are all corporate mouthpieces.

I don't know what the answer is, but trusting 'journalists' of today is not it.

The head of journalism at my college warned us of this over a decade ago, and he didn't have the answer either. They lost their ethics in search of clicks and clout and cry foul when they aren't believed. They use divisive language, outright lie, holy crap this election cycle will be a shitshow. There's no unbiased truth finders anymore.

The ones I feel sorry for are the real journalists drowned out by the fake.
I think we should find ways to get ahead of the disruption that construction creates.

I know people and cities do not at all work in the way that I am about to describe, but imagine being able to shift the population of a city and all its necessary infrastructure to a second backup city so as to minimize disruptions.

All the necessary modifications could be made to the first city without affecting people living there because they would be living and working elsewhere until the work was complete.

Once the work is complete, everyone would go back to whatever address they previously had in the first city, and then work could start on improving the now vacant second city.

Obviously, there are lots of issues that I have not described like how this works when many places already have a housing shortage, and having to build that second city in an “empty” area that can be provisioned with the same quantity and quality of resources enjoyed by people of the first city.

In addition, I think a large complicating factor in construction today is something that I have not seen people talk about: when is it a good time to tear down existing structures. The lack of a “best before”/“expiration date” means structures stay up until failure or until the current owner wants to build something new in its place. The building stays up with possible inefficiencies (heating, cooling, energy use) that might be too expensive to remedy because of the age of structure.
So what approach do these large context models take with caching the context, or do they re-compute each time?
> 1. selects a sub-collection B of A whose elements match the path pattern β,

> 2. computes a new collection C as a function f of B and its neighbors,

> 3. and specifies the insertion of C in place of B into A.

This sounds a lot like the presentation of comonads as directed containers (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.5809).
Indeed, I was thinking of the whole new AI mess going on when I wrote that. I guess it is indeed commonplace, but so is the

by continuing to use this product you agree to whatever we wrote here

I believe legislature is the only way this has a hope of ever going away.
In many countries, including the USA, if a business writes a contract containing something unreasonable, and the consumer signs it without reading or understanding it, then that clause (or maybe the whole contract) is invalid.
>so each search is tied to a unique user

Is it? They say searches aren't tied to account: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/privacy/privacy-protection.html#e...
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Public-relation spin like that is almost as despicable as the original terms themselves.

The quoted clause, as you stated, was absolutely perfectly clear! There was no vagueness or room for confusion. They covered every possible way that they now have full control over the authors works.

The next draft will probably just have more legalese, and be spread out over multiple clauses of their already long (~7500 word) terms of service so that it's harder to point at it and say "gross".
When using a PC, isn't one supposed to use a hardware RFID reader[^1]
with a physical numpad to enter the key? Then, the PC never gets a hold of the PIN.
Ideally, the hardware reader has a display to show
1. which data is sent to
2. which site/authority that is asking for it.

So on a phone, with every layer of the communication in just software, not hardware, that is inheritly unsafe?
(On e.g. Apple phones a security chip could work to increase security, but if a prompt is faked, the PIN can still be exfiltrated.)

[1]: Free RFID USB readers were given out at every local agency in germany, but those were the cheap models, without a numeric input.
> I find it quite disturbing that high taxation is seen as a negative aspect of Europe.

High tax rates and, in fact, ANY taxes area a negative. However, that negative is (hopefully) offset by the positives that the things those taxes go to pay for provide.
OMG Cannon fodder ... You just nostalgia memories me
I'd heard a long time ago that Apple was capturing something like 70% of profits, but damn, now they're up around 85%[1]. Yep, that's what winning looks like.

[1] https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/02/03/apple-collects-ne...
The dominant shift in the internet of the last ten years was monopoly consolidation and a dramatic reduction in access to information since almost all of it is behind their walls.

Mobile has extended these walls with mafia racketeering app stores and absolutely atrociously designed gambling-addict games, information stealing, and outright fraud.

The dream of the internet died completely about five years ago.

This overpaid google shill isn't worth listening to. Google had about a decade of plausable deniability on "do no evil". They stopped the charade, and we know what they are. Like sociopaths always do, they tell you and you should listen.

AI is an even more intrusive, dangerous penetration and control of our lives, and a massive power grab by these tools of the very very very elite few.

The guy is right: the internet WAS about access to the evolving body of human knowledge, WAS about sci-fi level capabilities and conveniences, and WAS a miracle.

WAS.

AI is the rocket fuel that accelerates the vector from the momentary point of near-idealism to the dystopian corporate control we are currently mostly in, that as a DOUBLE BONUS serves as fine grained total information awareness for all the state actors of the world, and likely a worldwide destruction of the last semblances of democracy.
Software definitely doesn't have to be popular to be useful. Not being extremely popular comes with advantages as well. Nevertheless, Emacs is probably more popular than a lot software shared on Hacker News.
It's tempting to think so, but IME users download apps to get things done more than they want to "ooh" and "aah" over an app's UI changes and I've been an app developer since 2009. It's all too easy to push out someone's pet feature (or something to buff up someone's resume for their next job) and if it's a speed-focused company it's a coin flip whether there is someone acting as the gatekeeper to keep that kind of nonsense out.
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It is, especially in the US, but the title "engineer" is protected by law in some jurisdictions.
Curious about your Zig book!
which is dealt with the explanation about momentum.

If your friend saw them and never attempted to stop then your friend needs to lose their license.
Google has local business hours because businesses provide them with this information. Kagi needs to purchase this data from Google if they need it, because businesses will only play ball with Google and in rare cases with Apple.

As for sports schedules and scores, I've seen this request a lot, but don't you have any dedicated website that you can bookmark for that?