skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Life Aboard a Nuclear Submarine as the US Responds to Threats Around the Globe
How is that enforceable? In many cases this is carte blanche for company representatives to lie to you. No one is going to read the ToS and cross reference it with what they're being told in real time. Moreover, if a customer was familiar with the ToS they would not be asking questions like this of a chatbot. The entire idea of having a clause like this while also running a "help" chatbot that can contradict it seems like bad faith dealing.
Humans have an intuitive understanding of physics, not a mathy science one.

I know I can't put my hand through solid objects. I know that if I drop my laptop from chest height it will likely break it, the display will crack or shatter, the case will get a dent. If it hits my foot it will hurt. Depending on the angle it may break a bone. It may even draw blood. All of that is from my intuitive knowledge of physics. No book smarts needed.
Straight out of I, Robot.
Can you report this to kagifeedback.org so we can dig deeper?
What people often forget about modern cut and cover is that it is only disruptive for a short period of the project because they can put a temporary road deck over the cut and do most disruptive work overnight. Its how LA metro built a subway station in the middle of Beverly Hills.
I don't know about the 46k, but the redesign looks much nicer to me.
I think its prudent for anyone to form a solo401k plan, you can have them attached to yourself as a sole proprietor and separately attached to a company you form

I dont have the type of income to contribute to it EVERY year, but even if you use an employer’s 401k you can roll it over into yours as soon as you leave or are eligible

solo 401ks remove all the guess work and limitations of your other employer’s random plans. you can invest in anything, not just random vanguard mutual funds, you can borrow against them instantly instead of however long the bureaucratic machinations take, you dont have to ask anybody - people that dont know the answers that they should know

and most importantly, the annual contributions are just the first step, it grows tax free and should vastly exceed your contributions. once it independently has a big enough net worth it can be an investor in private equity and hedge funds’ feeders and be ready for some large moonshot bets or losses.

but remember, if you equate retirement accounts with the least risk possible, generic advice gets generic results. its more important that it grows tax free.

not advice, just what I do.
> The vast majority of small/medium companies are not sold - instead they provide regular income to their owners.

This is true. Most people don't want to buy and run a restaurant, bodega, hardware store, etc.

SaaS companies, on the other hand, are much more attractive to buy. They can be run remotely, often do not require many employees, and can be managed by a team that manages other companies simultaneously.

The author's company falls into a middle ground. Hardware manufacturing has certain idiosyncrasies that make it less turnkey than SaaS. But nonetheless, many of the functions (shipping out units) can be carried out by staff who are trained but not necessarily highly technical. And it sounds like the advertising has been pretty dialed in and automated (though would need to be tweaked in future years, undoubtedly).

There are some types of businesses that are hard to sell. Law firms, for example, can only be owned by lawyers! But companies like this one (and SaaS companies run by many HNers) are much more attractive for buyers.

But even if it's not ever sold, the notion of valuation is still useful because it quantifies the value of the future cash flows and the anticipated time-cost of running the business.
Here's my History of Computing, which I arrogantly think is better, though more focused on program architectures: https://medium.com/@gridwhale/gridwhale-and-a-brief-history-...

I wrote that before the AI revolution, and I honestly don't know what's going to happen. The future could go one of two ways:

1. AI just becomes a smarter compiler. We programmers still "write" code, though maybe at a higher level. AI helps us deal with complexity, but we're still the ones designing UX, architecture, etc.

2. AI becomes the front-end layer for everything, so that users only interact with an AI and that AI carries out tasks as needed. All other software is just an implementation detail (the way we software people think about hardware).

Most likely we will start with #1 and evolve into #2.
Tried it just now. My wrist is now raised off my macbook, I feel my own pulse now, and the terrible clatter of glass scratching on aluminum can be heard as I type. But I feel so cool.
https://archive.ph/Ppj5j
lots and lots and lots of b-roll and stock footage is about to get cheaper.

Also, using this kind of footage is the bread and butter for a lot of marketers for their content.

Imagine never having to pay stock footage companies
It's those same execs who GenAI could replace and do a better job than.
Since when are contracts enforceable when one party is drunk?
How do those clauses actually work? If a rep does something nice for you (like give you something for free), could the airline say it never agreed to that in writing or whatever and demand it back? How are you supposed to know if a rep has authority to enter into an agreement with you over random matters?

But, to your question, my guess is that would basically be telling people not to avoid their chatbot, which they don't want to do.
Courts often rule that you can’t use ToS to overcome common sense. ToS are not a get out of jail free card if your company just does stupid things.
North Korea was ready...

Good thing Bulgaria is able to supply Ukraine with plenty of 152mm shells for their old soviet artillery.
That's not what happened.

The local supplier had the premium paid market 100% cornered via sat TV at ridiculous prices. Then people discovered netflix and local supplier started bleeding customers. Then they took forever to launch a competing product. Even with heavy cross promotion they barely managed to salvage the situation leading to current 39% / 33.5% split.

If anyone dethroned anyone here its other way round
I think you do not understand just how much stuff it out there. Just in the web world, can you do React and Angular and NodeJS and Spring? Have you really looked at the CSS specification? That's a career in itself.

Moving slightly to mobile apps, what about Jetpack Compose for Android and the equivalent for iPhones? Electron? Or classic programming: How is your SQL, including stored procedures? Note that Oracle is different from Microsoft is different from MySQL. Want to learn ABAP? How about writing a back-end system in Java, with a front-end in JavaFX?

I'm just getting started...

No, you cannot learn all of this sufficiently to be even remotely productive. You may, like me, be aware of a lot of it. I'm sure you could pick any single new platform or technology, and become productive in it in a few weeks or months. But to be a real generalist, able to do it all? That is simply no longer possible.
VSCode is why Sublime Text, Atom, and others are not as relevant as they once were.
I guess the original issue pointed by the judge would still stand: how am I supposed to know which terms are to be assumed true and valid? Why would I assume a ToS hidden somewhere (Is it still valid? does it apply to my case? Is it relevant and binding to my jurisdiction?) is to be considered more trustworthy than an Air Canada agent?
I don't think pilots need to worry about light discipline from their watches as much as people on the ground.
In the past few years, police have mostly stopped enforcement of minor vehicle laws like window tint, blinding headlights, loud stereos, and illegal modifications. While some people are assholes, I suspect most people simply don't know how poorly aligned and blinding their headlights are. Maybe stores like AutoZone will start offering easy tests for customers to detect such issues.
depends on what "in the end" means haha
Cleaning Up a Mess: Linux 6.9 Likely to Land Rework of x86 CPU Topology Code
PINs for Cryptography with Hardware Secure Elements
Beyond the chatbot's error and the legal approach they took, this bad PR could have been avoided by any manager in the chain doing the right thing by overriding things and just giving him the bereavement fare (and then fixing the bot/updating the policy).
> If they do, it takes years to find a buyer and they are getting a low sale price.

Is this true of standard businesses like laundromat or plumbing?

Or is it a matter of such businesses rarely being in a condition that makes a sale easy? If these are in a good condition accounting-wise for example, they should integrate readily and for a basic multiple of sales into one of the neighbors?

What I have seen is unrealistic prices - and that's another matter.
> If a random AC employee gave you a free flight, on the other hand, you'd be entitled to it.

And if it was a billion dollars?
The article doesn't state what kind of chat bot this is. Is it an LLM, or a pre-LLM bot programmed to act on certain keywords?

If it's the latter, I'd assume that Air Canada would be able to go in and check why the bot would give a wrong answer, most likely outdated policy information, or a misreading from whomever entered the answer to that prompt.

However, if the bot is based on an LLM, then what's the point? It's apparently worse than an old school bot, in that it cannot be trusted to give correct answers, it's just better at understand queries.

There was a quote in the article "I'm an Old Far and AI Makes Me Sad":

“If we open up ChatGPT or a system like it and look inside, you just see millions of numbers flipping around a few hundred times a second,” says AI scientist Sam Bowman. “And we just have no idea what any of it means.”

If that's true, then you can not use these systems for anything where you may need hold some one responsible for the output.
Courts have also routinely said that you CAN sign away your rights, i.e., waive them; courts enforce waivers every single day.
>So instead of spending some of their human resources to improve libmagic

A large megacorp can work on multiple things at once.

>an "open source" neural net, which is technically more accurate than the "error-prone" hand-written rules (ignoring that it supports far fewer filetypes)

You say that like it's a contradiction but it's not.

>and which is much less effective in an adversarial context,

Is it? This seems like an assumption.

>and they want it to "help other software improve their file identification accuracy," which of course it can't since neural nets aren't introspectable.

Being introspectable or not has no bearing on the accuracy of a system.
This is very interesting. Has anyone considered using paths/vectors in 2d/3d space as data structures?
I can't be bothered to check if the article mentions this, but apparently the game was born as a challenge for the artist to draw the smallest animated character that was still recognizable!
A Wyze outage is cutting off people's access to their security cameras
That airline policy is the kind of micro-optimization that no individual human would do, but distributed decision-making of large organizations effect all the time. There's profit to be found by targeting people in distress—like someone who just had a person close to them die—and abusing their distraction to confuse them into paying more money then they need to. Allowing a grace period to claim this "bereavement discount" is a human(e) policy. Making the client claim the discount immediately, or else lose it, is monstrous.

Today, the robot showed more humanity than Air Canada's human leadership. That was an accident; the future could be the opposite of that. You could program machines to be "better" employees than humans, more aligned with organizational goals like "maximize profit at absolutely any cost", or "win wars at absolutely any cost", or "win elections at absolutely any cost". We humans aren't completely aligned with our teams; we have moral scruples that limit us—we can't achieve the 100% "absolutely any cost" part. I think that might suddenly change, and we might find ourselves drowning in an unexpectedly in-human world.

(This was inspired by, I forgot who wrote it (?), a writer's observation about the evils of war being easier when morality is distributed. The commander who orders the atrocity, doesn't do it; the solider who commits the atrocity, has no agency in his actions. Both feel reduced culpability, and can go farther in effecting their goals than an individual acting alone).
A random AC employee who is having a bad day and hates his employer says "You are entitled to free flights for the rest of your life." Is Air Canada liable?
That does make sense, but on the flipside, let's say that they start advertising discounts on TV, but when people try to pay the reduced rate they say "according to our ToS that TV ad was not authorized to lower the price".

Obviously that wouldn't fly. So why would it fly with the AI chatbot's advertising discounts?
Consumption of electricity has negligible environmental impact. The relevant discussion here would pertain to considerations around generating power, regardless of what downstream use cases the power is being applied to.

Pretty much all activity in modern society is going to consume electricity, and overall demand is not going to be decreasing in the first place, so it seems a bit silly to look at this from the demand side: we're always going to need more and more power, and the focus is properly on how to generate power in a clean and scalable way regardless of what it's being used for.

Consumer market impact is an interesting topic, though, if there are massive spikes in demand that could drive prices up for other users of electricity. It will be important to ensure to minimize artificial impediments to the expansion of the supply side to mitigate that risk.
Cycling in tunnels would be incredibly depressing if it's long stretches of a route.
You can almost certainly overthink this sort of thing. I've had a Google Blogger blog for eons and I've had a static HTML site on AWS S3. I've been diddling around with a relaunch that keeps getting shoved out for various reasons but I'll probably end up with a new Blogger template with some customizations and call it a day.
I don't think that's true in the US. It would help if we had something authoritative, or an attorney in this field.
Hacker News in 2007
This is one of those things that people overlook. Travel times should be "door to door" or some similar comparison; sure it makes cars look a bit better but it can make things like trains and walking look even better. A two hour flight might be bounded by 1+ hours on either end (including security, etc), whereas a two hour train ride might literally be two hours + five minutes walk on each end.
> And if a random AC employee said[0] they'd give you a billion dollars, you wouldn't be entitled to it because any judge or jury hearing the case would say a reasonable person wouldn't believe that.

I'm sure that if the bot had said that the airline would raise your dead relative from the grave and make you king of the sky or something equally unbelievable the courts wouldn't have insisted Air Canada cast a crown and learn necromancy.
why though? building good cycling infrastructure at grade just isn't that difficult, other than finding the political will to make it happen. it doesn't take up a lot of space, it's cheap, and when it's at grade it provides easy access for cyclists to stop at all the shops or other destinations along their route.

the biggest impediment to cycling infrastructure is a social perception that cycling is elitist, and that spending money on it is a waste. if we can't even fund an 3m wide strip of asphalt or a couple of jersey walls to protect a bike lane, how are you going to find the money for tunnels?
Don't think nVidia is a company run for the quarterly profit report.
The original EMACS ran on ITS on PDP 10s in the MIT AI Lab. It definitely wasn't a commercial product.
Since the comment thread is comparing humans, how do you know the human has fixed their bug?
The level of trust in society is game theoretical and unstable at the extremes. I don’t really consider it technology either, you can easily envision hunter gatherers having high or low trust perspectives towards other bands based on eg prior interactions, shared language/beliefs/culture. Calling this technology is like calling language technology, maybe it is, but I think it’s also something we developed evolutionarily because it was advantageous.

From the game theory perspective, a high trust society makes it easy for bad actors to abuse that trust for personal gain, which at large scale lowers trust at the societal level. A low trust society incentivizes people to build subcommunities of higher trust to get things done (which can grow to encompass lots of society) or can be outcompeted by a higher trust society, as you say. Maybe this is all covered in that book.

Clearly there is enough variance to say that societies do not all gravitate towards a fixed equilibrium though. I think a lot of this is due to institutions (eg religion, government, educational systems, militaries) and cultural factors (some cultures value cunning and ruthlessness, others conformity, etc. which can be influenced even by language or the physical environment). Many edgy internet commenters seem to equate low/high trust with race and ethnicity, but if you have ever been in a well run technology company or the US military, or a low-trust homogenous society, you’ll see this obviously wrong.

What I’ve been thinking about a lot lately while I bootstrap is whether it’s possible for a group to be resilient to “selfish” bad actors by making cooperation strictly more optimal than defection. At small scales I think this can be accomplished through a BDFL but I’m really interested in figuring out if another approach can scale into the ~thousands.
It's more to shield them from cases like a rep gifting you free flights for life.
Spotify has been on a path of self destruction for quite some time...at least 6 months minimum....

so this is not a surprise...this the saga of the swan song they started when they lost the plot and chased after shortcuts instead of value.
That's far less likely to be true if the customer buys something based on the employee's erroneous statement. I suspect in an otherwise-identical case with a human customer service agent, the same judge would have ruled Air Canada must honor the offer.
In real estate there's this idea that if you plan on dying in your home then the value of it is unimportant.

That idea also applies here.
And then we blow wind down the tunnels, one in each direction, so they get a speed boost!
was murdered by putin and his thugs, not "has died"
Indeed. Almost all of the inference memory overhead comes from attention matrices and the KV cache.
Resting Bitch Face Detector
Using Llava model via Ollama , this tool will estimate your perceived emotion with an emoji. To help you when you don’t realize you are looking bored on a long Zoom call with your boss or customers.
Innovations have led us to global warming. It’s not a given that innovation necessary leads to overall positive outcomes.
> I’m not trying to bash the agency here, so I’ll just call them DesignAgency. They’re based in the US, and I found them through a Hacker News monthly freelancer thread.

First mistake is hiring people off hackernews. The amount of psuedoprofound pontification on this site is mindblowing.

> In my first meeting with DesignAgency’s team, I asked how long they expected my project to take. “How long is a piece of string?” their lead designer asked.

Same point as above.

Developers who focus on philosophical stuff tend to be a pain in the ass to work with on concrete, real-life projects.
Presumably they had Sora almost ready to go, and the LLM team didn't have anything that they could publish with a few hours notice.
> no longer supporting US wars in the Middle East and beyond.

A lot of these wars are connected - Russia is working with Iran and North Korea (and China to some extent)

Thinking Europe should only care about what happens in their backyard while criticizing the US for not caring enough about Europe's backyard seems hypocritical.
Ha! When I saw the mtlynch post on being a bootstrapped founder I immediately looked for this post. It's one of my favorites and I share it with all of my potential clients (I run a development firm and compete with agencies that seem attractive on paper)
1150? That's literally impossible. The current maximum is about 1050. See "2024 Höchstbeitrag GKV inkl. Pflegeversicherung (ohne Kinder)".
Um, so the UK has rejoined the EU?

I'm mean it's a nitpick, but you're kinda nitpicking.
Thank you.

The first link did not work. I think the correct one is:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NLRB_v._Jones_%26_Laughlin_Ste....
then do the calculations in 5 or 50 years.
> So the real question is whether the founders intended that business owners would be deprived of those rights merely because of the legal structure of their business.

No, the real question is whether the framers intended to prohibit people from implicitly trading away certain individual rights in exchange for limiting what would otherwise be their unlimited personal liability.
I switched from Spotify to Apple Music last year and as far as I know, there are no podcasts, news, or social features. If those things exist, they aren't in your face like Spotify. The library seems to be similar.

Actually, because you can play radio stations and some radio stations play news, news is on there.
It wasn't.

What he probably meant, that GNU Emacs (1984-...) was based on the code of another Emacs implementation, Gosling Emacs, which also had a commercial version.

The original EMACS was developed at MIT, 1976, by Guy L. Steele Jr. and David Moon.
Oh, I didn't necessarily mean retro. Just not a multiplayer focused IAP fest.

A decent single player shooter with a story, atmosphere etc.

I believe Far Cry may still qualify but I don't get games that require an account with the vendor (UPlay, Rockstar Social Club and other crap like that).
Glicol seems very cool! Looks a bit like Faust (https://faust.grame.fr), an FP sound programming language I came across recently.
Was it yesterday Gemini Pro 1.5 announced the 1M token size? Jesus stuff is moving fast.
I’m not surprised by this: IoT Hub is the core infrastructure piece powering Azure IoT, and it’s not going anywhere per the article. IoT Central, which is being phased out, was a layer on top of IoT Hub and other components that always had a somewhat awkward position. By trying to offer prepackaged IoT solutions, a lot of the power features were harder to use, but the solutions weren’t really end-user ready. Given the IoT hype dying down this makes sense.
So torn by this, I hate both outcomes (AI copyright laundering is legal, companies can just plunder any images not kept behind a paywall OR adobe/getty win).
The 1984 version would be how to use kermet.
i did this for a while (non military) and the entire reason was i found the motion to read the watch much more ergonomic. reading an "outside" watch requires twisting my arm or lifting my elbow in a somewhat uncomfortable movement. on the inside felt like an easier movement to read the dial.
The Amiga version had multiplayer! Of course it was better! So many good memories...
Yes, of course there are different options. I'm not saying there's only one option. I'm saying there are more possibilities, not fewer. I.e. selling isn't some weird, Silicon Valley mindset.