skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> ...all new startups probably do need to include AI

A more logical conclusion would be that significant market disruption is more likely to occur outside of the world of AI.

I know its heresy to suggest that AI isn't the be-all and end-all of technical innovation but imagine for a moment that the incumbent's bet on AI actually ends up harming the long-term value proposition of their products. What if people get increasingly annoyed with impersonal and inauthentic interactions/content. What if the mass-adoption of generative AI pollutes consumer trust.

It stands to reason that there's a huge potential in startups not focusing on AI. There's an increasing segment of users who would happily opt for "low-tech" options that solve a problem well. If the rules for disruption don't hold with AI tech, then the high-ground startups should be searching for is perhaps on a different hill.

A perfect storm is possible since incumbents have gone all in on the same technology and strategy. When everyone's following the same playbook, strategic disruption could upend multiple incumbents at the same time. I think that's a much more exciting prospect than trying to go toe-to-toe with giants.
AI will never fall in love and make babies so it is not a self perpetuating species
Everyone has some feature that is a deal breaker for them. But an early stage start up doesn't have the resource to cater to all of them. Your market will forgive the absence of polish if it solves a problem for them well.
I think some things are done better now. There's no point in having the math teacher check your arithmetic, a machine can do that. Administrative stuff is also easier these days, things like recording what your homework is and communicating with parents.

But in general, why should we expect much improvement? School is mostly still a bunch of kids sitting around an adult, needing to concentrate. Having a computer means you don't have to lug around as many books, but it doesn't free you from having to read the books and do the exercises.

I'm not sure anyone was expecting a large gain from having the computers in the school to begin with, it's one of these things that happens because it gets cheaper as tech gets cheaper.
Takeover by who? Self-appointed anarchist peace keepers?
And the violation might've been even earlier (since the contract was 2005).

650K euros is not a lot of money for a big company in any year.

Getting away with the violation for 14-19 years before losing an appeal and finally paying up just seems petty.
Use Git and GitHub in this way to better collaborate
Especially in the beginning, it's common to run commands without understanding what they do.

In this issue of Implementing I want to show you how I use these tools on a typical day and share with you my personal alias file

Let me know what you think!
Community gardens exist.
Good analysis, but one point: you say that's not capitalism, but something else.
I'd say that is capitalism working as intended.

There is really no other end-state to capitalism than a winner-takes-all race to the bottom, where everyone but the big owners of capital get completely screwed.
No, its not. The U.S. cannot abrogate responsibility. Taiwan is not recognized by the U.N. If the U.S. declares Taiwan as a free, independent nation when the Chinese have an explicitly declared, stated political claim since independence and the U.S. has left the matter as "strategically ambiguous" for decades, then such a deliberate change in position along with active militarization of Taiwan simply begs for Chinese intervention.

The U.S. has started bombing campaigns for less reasons when organizations whose existence it has objected to have become armed. So the sanctimonious hypocrisy of baiting someone then claiming foul when the other responds won't really work here. The U.S. media will of-course fully blame China with 24x7 "evil china" campaigns. The non-NATO world will just shake their heads.
The comments were delusionally disparate from reality for a long time before that.

Reddit always leant left, but pre... idk, 2014 you could imagine the conversations you read on there occurring with someone you might conceivably meet in real life, even if they would be a bit of an outlier.

After that, no chance - everyone on there had the personality of a delusionally dug-in activist, the type of person you'd instinctively flee from if you met on the street. And the level of bullying you'd encounter if you went against 'the narrative' went up by a huge factor, as in, instant bans in just about every subreddit, 'if you're not on this side of the issue you're supporting genocide, this is a fact not an opinion' type of interactions. Then reddit updated their blocking system so that blocking someone cut _them_ off from contributing further, which basically made every user a mini-moderator, which was (and is) of course massively abused.

The place is long overdue to go under; offlining it would remove about 50% of the overall negativity from the internet, and considering it's such a small space compared with FB/Twitter that's really saying something.
Good. There would have been no war in Ukraine if there were a few "permanent training missions" in Ukraine in 2021
Aren't speed and price the two primary metrics of a server?
According to this site, ever city in Canada is more densely populated than Toronto. It says 10 000 people live within 18 km of Toronto versus 1.5 million for Vancouver.
That the gender of names matters in correspondence reminds me of an anecdote I heard about two people, a man and a woman, doing the same job supporting clients or customers of the company. Their boss was unhappy with the woman's performance, because she took much longer to do the same work as the man.

Then, one day, the woman suddenly worked much faster and everything went much easier. At the same time, the man had a much harder time and customers were weirdly stubborn and obstructive. Turns out they were accidentally mailing under each other's name: the woman used the man's name, making customers much more willing to accept her expertise, while the man used the woman's name, making customers question everything he said.

There's a lot of that kind of subtle sexism in our society that goes way deeper than mere equal rights. How can you possibly control customers taking you seriously or not based on your name? Should all women (and possibly people with non-western names, who can run into similar issues) work under fake names?
This is a great post and a bit inspiring so thanks for writing it up. There is a bug in FF on Mac (maybe others too) that popped up in the last 2 years or so that is super niche but I've been too intimidated to try to file a report. Sometimes I do a quick CMD + L (to focus and highlight the address (Location) bar contents), CMD + V, CMD + A, CMD + C to copy text without formatting (or just remove newlines from a PDF. It usually works great but sometimes it copies the URL of the page you're on that was previously in the address bar. Not even sure what I'd search for in the issue tracker but it feels almost like a spacebar warmer (https://xkcd.com/1172/) type bug.

Yesterday I wrote about fixing M4B audiobook support on Jellyfin iOS/safari without writing any code [0]. When describing the process to my girlfriend I realized it was a kind of skill to know how to navigate a new community and their various communication platforms (GH, Forums, Matrix, socials) and post the right things.

[0] https://blog.rayberger.org/fixing-jellyfin-ios-audiobook-str...
That's why we should remove the restroom doors, too. The external walls of the office building, the fog, the night and the shadows.
Exert more imaginary pressure in the hope that they run scared and fold.

That said I'm inclined to believe that "Person S", the redditor, is not their target.

I'm inclined to think that RCN is the target, with deeper pockets, and they intend to prove that RCN facilitated many subscribers by "allowing" torrenting.

The merits of that case aside, the strategy would be to scare the pants off of RCN and perhaps get them to settle for fear that some subscribers or many will fold and deliver up correspondence that shows repeated warnings about torrenting with no actual action by RCN taken.

This is about US clients and the US ISP company RCN.

Australia has this already solved, there was a High Court case Hollywood et al Vs. IINET that came down solidly on the side of the ISP companu not having to monitor their subscribers torrenting activity, nor having to pass on customer personal data in response to requests based on IP addresses and ISP logs.
As per the article, they're also using the microphones to record private conversations.

> Conversations recorded by ShotSpotter sensors have twice been introduced as evidence in criminal trials. In one case the court allowed it, in another the court did not.

Even in cases where they're not used at trial, they're still used to generate suspicion. I don't know if you've ever had cops on your ass, but it's super stressful, and can impact your job (because they start harassing you at work and you get fired). Depending on how much of a dick the cop is, he may just arrest you for shit and giggles, and now you have an arrest record that fucks up all sorts of things in your life (he's got qualified immunity so what does he care).

This basically amounts to pervasive harassment of a community, and the more surveillance there is, the worse it gets, the less the locals will trust or cooperate with police, the more "us vs them" it gets between citizens and police, the more heavy-handed police response becomes, the less likely people are to solve their differences using the police, the more chaotic a community becomes. This is what oppression looks like.
The constitution says so. However, it was amended in the early 90ties to acknowledge that the scope of the ROC government is presently limited to Taiwan and the outlying islands.
Create an LLM web service with LlamaEdge on MacBook, deploy it on Nvidia devices [video]
The "movement" was of course a continuous effort, hard to say when it started. In England, a major improvement effort was done around 1810-1830 by a rich nobleman, who was irritated by having to use very bad country roads to go to his local nobility political meetings (can't recall his name at the moment), and he was going there by horse. He had a scientific mind and devoted last decades of his life to studying road construction techniques and writing up the results. Since he had money and political clout, his ideas were adopted, and later spread across Great Britain, leading it to having by far the best roads in the world at the time.
Efficient and Portable AI / LLM Inference on the Edge Cloud
It seems to me that most academic courses overfit massively on parsing, while only teaching the rest superficially.
A similar example is scissor icons and emojis that wouldn’t work in practice (finger holes that would clash if you tried to close the scissors). Don’t have a link now but since I read the article concerned I can’t unsee non-functional scissors.
Can we not post links which are behind paywalls? Or instead link to some other source so we can read the article in question?
This is how I always worked over a 15 year developer career. I’d get in at 6 maybe take a 2 hour lunch break and then put a few more hours in until around 4pm as a standard pattern.

The vast majority of useful work I ever did was between the hours of 6-9am.
If McD do need a global data centers to show the menu in the kiosks then they should fire their whole IT dept and start from scratch.

There is absolutely zero reason for a kiosk to touch 'a global data center'. No, not even for a payment, because it's just asks the payment terminal if the payment succeeded or not.
> they're CPU cores,

No, they are really not.

A Neuron on its own is capable of exactly one thing, and that's signal integration from it's dendrites. That's it. Wait until the excitation potential reaches the point where the Potassium channels switch and boum: Signal cascade goes down the axon.

The only moderation a single neuron is capable of, is varying signal resistance to filter out repeating noise.

> https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-computationally-complex-i...

Computational complexity doesn't indicate computational capability.

There are any number of systems that stubbornly refuse to be capable supercomputers, despite being incredibly hard to simulate.

Accurately simulating every aspect of the liquid flow through an acorn leaf, with it's billions of micro and nanometer channels, would easily be one of the most difficult tasks in the history of computing, and yet, acorn leaves are not even capable of the simplest thought, and the entire modus operandi of water flow through an entire tree can be accurately summarized in a simple 1-page diagram.

Every single muscle fiber with its trillions of moving cytoskeleton components, has a much higher complexity than a neuron, that doesn't mean muscles are supercomputers.
Depending on angle we could see different dumb things in the pandemic. I'm not sure which specific dumb thing you're referring to.

Intelligence is, as I see it, distributed both in space and time. What is stupid in a local time/place context may turn out to be part of a process that ends up creating something great. Of course it could also be the other way around.
anyone know if varda is named after the queen of the stars in tolkien's works? i couldn't find anything on their webpage.
Does anyone know who is the author? Apart from "Molly Brodak".

Is it this[1] person, perhaps?

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Brodak
Problem with python based "systems" of any sort is that they break over time without constant maintenance.
make from 2000 will still work with makefile from 2000.
Python script from 2015 will not work today unless you have maintained it over that time.
Every time I try to use any Python script for anything I follow the posted instructions and end up with an error. Something somewhere has changed and the script no longer works...if it ever did, there is no way to know or go back to the working version.
So for me anything more than 10 lines of Python can be considered broken and unmaintainable.
> But I don't think it makes sence that she has a wealth 1000000 times what a teacher makes in their lifetime.

Why? What number do you think “makes sense”? Once you pick that number, do you think it’s correct when you compare it to a teacher’s income in the DRC?
Navigating the Rust Ecosystem: A Guide to Awesome-Rust Repositories
Usually, the developers (and this is over multiple different GPL projects with different leads) have the following thought:

1. If you’re not touching the core code, it’s not under the GPL. I try and get them to LGPL license the extension points but they don’t see the benefit in trying to relicense it with all their contributors.

2. For your second point, the issue is that the GPL is intentionally vague as a deterrent for corporate abuse. The issue becomes that, as a corporate user: I have to take the most pessimistic view to protect myself. If I switch my hat to someone non corporate, then I take the most optimistic view. In those cases, they often say to not take the pessimistic view because that’s not the spirit as they understand it.
It's a spectrum. There can be greater or smaller degrees of privacy. And there can be giving up privacy voluntarily, or being mandated to give it up. These are fundamentally different propositions.
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I tested Google Gemini vs. OpenAI ChatGPT in a 9-round face-off
Reminds me of the Mona Lisa heist. Pretend to steal the famous painting, then sell counterfeits.

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/538216/art-heist-stolen-...
The US has been in war my entire life.

I'm over this crap. Feels so dystopian to me.

War is peace.
The private space industry would still be dead and electric cars would be set back a decade along with all of the environmental damage that comes from that. Elon derangement syndrome has made you delusional.
a lot of knowledge workers indeed use it (and ritalin/MPH) as a productivity enhancer

it feels (a bit too) good and helps for a while

if you have an addictive personality, you'll find out that, eventually you'll start abusing it, and there will be no turning back. you'll HAVE to 100% quit.
I don't know if the authot reads this, but I'm pretty sure they got the index wrong by creating a multicolumn index as opposed to two indexes.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/indexes-multicolumn....

There is a whole paragraph about the gotchas of multicolumn B-trees.
A Swiss guy invented it while exploring, err hunting
The free market working as intended!
It would, only it would start earlier.
Scrolling in the webpage crashed my browser (Firefox, ios).
No it isn't, not in any big multinationals, not unless you have some extremely specific agreement with management. More acceptable is say 7:30 - 16:30, and is still often seen as slacking by folks who stay till 6-7pm. Of course if you do consistently excellent work way above rest of the peers this doesn't matter.

The reason is trivial - if you are not around half of the time rest of the team is, teamwork suffers quite a bit (which is cca constant situation with distant remote places like India, ie if you have any questions in the afternoon you are blocked and they need to wait till next day)
The reservoirs' apostrophes are the ones that always get me.
>I just like the idea of a half dozen government agencies buying any hacks they can find online.

Nice way to commit suicide by a shotgun buckshot in the back.
You don’t have to distribute the plugin as xGPL but you do need to make it compliant.

The L/GPL would widely consider Python imports as dynamic linking.

Many companies will instead do shim/bridges that aren’t GPL themselves but something like MIT. The bridge talks to proprietary code and the GPL but doesn’t bridge the license over as a result.

This too is somewhat of a grey area though that the GPL is vague on.
Gem12 Pro Mini PC: Ryzen 7 8845HS, Mini Screen, and OCuLink eGPU
Yeah, but now imagine that Iraq had been a decently stable country... there's a reason why ISIS was able to take that much of the country.
Lawns exist in part because we made it too dangerous for kids to play in the street (this obviously will have a good deal of variance by location).
Could sufficient water ever end up there for a self sustaining cycle of evaportion and precipitation to develop?
I've worked with this extensively on my site golfcourse.wiki, because I've build a tool that generates printable course books with CSS.

I originally was going to generate PDFs, but my backend is in python, and all the PDF generators have some issues with SVG images, especially with gradients. The site is a wiki, so SVG seemed like the best way to map courses while allowing them to easily be edited down the road. Since CSS and SVG work hand in hand, I decided to start working on that, and it's actually turned out okay.

If you want to see it in action, you can pop over and look at any of the courses marked with a blue or red flag on the homepage, but a very good example is Pasatiempo, here: https://golfcourse.wiki/print_options/course/pasatiempo_golf...
I've noticed that the first three pages at the moment contain a lot of overly political hey-be-anxious-now type submissions.

Guess someone somewhere is trying to jerk a chain.
A demo. Full and true portability achieved with wasm runtime
What do you use to undervolt your GPU?
I found the more mundane explanations in "Why Nations Fail" to be far more convincing than the geographical determinism of "Guns, Germs and Steel"
>It doesn't look like a living animal that way.

Did you think that before you learned about this pinning convention? I didn't, and don't.
It's basically a cleaning cycle for the brain. If we don't sleep we die pretty soon. Meaning it's necessary daily scheduled maintenance downtime, which should count directly to efficiency calculations!
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Doing backups the easy way. Plugin your USB drive and let the Pika do the rest for you.

Pika Backup is powered by the well-tested BorgBackup software.
MSI Afterburner works great, no matter what is your GPU brand.
Organizational Sustainability with Platform Engineering [video]
I am trying to add usb floppy support for the esp32 host and this site is helping me a lot.

The current esp32 mass storage driver supports only bulk only transfer scsi, but usb floppies (those with the uf001f chip) use CBI(control/bulk/interrupt) and also UFI has a bit different command set: https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/usbmass-ufi10.pdf

By using this site, a cheap logic analyzer and usbpcap for windows, I am trying to go around reading all the usb docs :)
No, nothing will change. LLM's cannot code.
I’m trivializing here but for sake of brevity:

LGPL allows dynamic linkage without open sourcing your components.

GPL requires any linkage to open source your parts, but allows for process boundary to not be viral.

AGPL is the nuclear don’t touch because it is vital to all possible usage types.

Again, that’s trivializing because there’s many subtle details that in many cases are intentionally not clarified in the licenses themselves
Will we reach AGI before Stripe goes public?
I think I'm with you on this in general

> 1. If you’re not touching the core code, it’s not under the GPL. I try and get them to LGPL license the extension points but they don’t see the benefit in trying to relicense it with all their contributors.

I sense this comes down to a really poor definition of "linking" (is that the word in the text? Can't remember and don't have it to hand).

It's not at all obvious for each software/language ecosystem which specific act constitutes "linking".

> 2. For your second point, the issue is that the GPL is intentionally vague as a deterrent for corporate abuse. The issue becomes that, as a corporate user: I have to take the most pessimistic view to protect myself. If I switch my hat to someone non corporate, then I take the most optimistic view. In those cases, they often say to not take the pessimistic view because that’s not the spirit as they understand it.

100%, and this is my gripe against things like the BSL too. It's disingenuous because the aim of the license is to create risk and uncertainty through poor definitions and vagueness.
This isn't fully accurate. Look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUZmkw6YY0o#t=33s to see a butterfly in flight that does approximately manage the t-pose (the camera isn't at quite the right angle, but it's clear to see that the forewings are very forward and basically in t-pose). So butterflies in flight _do_ get this pose, from certain angles.
The first sentence on "https://lasso.entrouvert.org/" starts:

> Lasso is a free software C library [...]

I wish people would stop saying "free software".

It was confusing from the beginning, and hasn't stopped being confusing.

Imagine RMS saying, "I'm glad you asked that. By 'free', we don't mean free as in beer (nor what everyone means when they search for some kind of 'free software'); we mean free as in freedom. Which I will proceed to speak about for half an hour, now that you're engaged by this small bit of wordplay that you had no reason to suspect was wordplay."

(Not that the ambiguity of "free software" was the cause of the Orange violation of Lasso. But, really, please stop calling it "free". Say "GPL", or some other license, or "libre", or anything other than "free".)
That's got to be the worst excuse/reason given for forcing crummy openplan offices I've ever heard. Kudos on coming up with something so creative and ridiculous.