skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boston MA is twice a month (depending on the neighborhood, usually something like the 2nd and 4th Wednesday, but only usually one side of the street, the other side would be 1st and 3rd) from April 1 to Nov 30. Signs are posted, but usually 6am-8am and it's a tow zone for that period! so don't leave your car parked on that side or they WILL tow it.
Doing it server side seems like proof that it doesn't matter whether the user's device is rooted.
Tests are only a second implementation if you use test doubles incorrectly. Test doubles should only be used for I/O outside of the program under test that you can’t really run locally / is a network dependency (eg mocking a SaaS service or something) or for performance (mocking database responses vs spinning up a test database instance). If you do it write, most of your tests are just testing each layer and everything below it.

I have yet to see a case where omitting tests actually helps you move meaningfully faster - you’re probably generating more heat than light and that makes you feel like you’re moving faster.
If I don't have root on my device, is it really my device?
Don’t forget the most important thing: the data

The second Elon makes the data for all his companies open (not patents which are already “open”) I’ll start believing him
Yeh, the only time I assume a driver has really seen me is when we make eye contact.

(But - twice in 20 years I’ve had the chilling experience of a driver making eye contact and pulling out in front of me anyway.)
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Wouldn't that require notification to all interested parties of the nonprofit since its effectively killing off the nonprofit and starting a new entity?
The kind of site that gets all of their data stolen. It can be a cool pattern.
The "when applicable" is like the preamble to the Constitution. It may be useful for interpreting the rest of the Articles of Incorporation but does not itself have any legal value.

After all, the AOI doesn't specify who determines "when applicable," or how "when applicable" is determined, or even when "when applicable" is determined. Without any of those, "when applicable" is a functionally meaningless phrase, intended to mollify unsavvy investors like Musk without constraining or binding the entity in any way.

If so, OpenAI would have to argue that open sourcing their models wouldn't benefit the public, which... seems difficult.

No, they don't have to do anything at all, since they get to decide when "when applicable" applies. And how. And to what...

Or does "when applicable" mean something else? And if so, what? There aren't any other sentences around that indicate what else. And it's hard to argue that their models technically can't be open sourced, given other open source models.

Exactly. That's the problem. There needs to be more to make "when applicable" mean something, and the lawyers drafting the agreement deliberately left that out because it's not intended to mean anything.
And how does that explain Apple not having an issue with you using iMessage on a desktop Mac? Again: we know the anti-spam mechanisms Apple might have in place do not rely on people being unable to root their devices as iMessage runs on desktop Macs (as well as on jailbroken iOS devices, btw, without any need for subterfuge).

Apple simply does not have this restriction that Google is imposing on RCS. Apple's anti-spam comes from a combination of server-side analysis, having a centralized way to enforce bans, and tying accounts to phone numbers, none of which seem to involve banning jailbroken devices as, again: Apple doesn't.

(FWIW, I don't know off the top of my head how Apple ties your iMesaage account to your phone number. I vaguely remember that it involves functionality implemented by the carrier, not just trusting the client, and as RCS definitely has to be supported by the carrier there is no issue deploying such here. Regardless, not only would trusting the client be ridiculously stupid in case it ever got hacked, we can continue to lean into the analysis that Apple does not nor have they ever banned jailbroken iPhones from using iMessage, and so we don't even have to dig deeply: we know their security model doesn't rely on something they don't do.)
> the kind of world-ending AI we're worried about could be created and/or released by accident by a single group or individual, could self-replicate on the Internet, and would be unstoppable once released.

I also worry every time I drop a hammer from my waist that it could bounce and kill everyone I love. Really anyone on the planet could drop a hammer which bounces and kills everyone I love. That is why hammers are an 'x-risk'
For-Loop Semantic Changes in Go 1.22: Be Aware of the Impact
I wonder by numbers how many of these people had ~no income, but had securities trades that with the cost basis ignored look like $400k of income? or other similar phantoms.

Decades ago I was in that boat myself one year: I became very ill a few weeks ahead of tax day and was hospitalized through it until a couple weeks after. This resulted in totally spacing on filing my taxes. The next year I couldn't find my prior year paperwork but thought I just misplaced it and just filed that year normally.

The next year after that I got a letter from the IRS "we computed your taxes for you, you owe a million dollars"-- quite a heart stopper!

In reality I owed something like $1k, and much of that was just the penalty for failing to file.
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> it shouldn't surprise anyone that intuitively understanding and anticipating the inner workings of large amorphous social-structures isn't exactly his strongest skill

I’m not sure if you’re trying to help or hurt the case for musk, but the description you put here tells me this is somebody that if that’s true, I never want them in any power in any organizations.

You just described probably the most important skill of a leader being completely absent
There’s a graph in this very article that answers that question. Heroin deaths have declined significantly as fentanyl has displaced heroin on the market, but fentanyl deaths are far higher than heroin deaths ever were, because it’s far easier to OD on.
Reagan was a categorically awful president and governor.
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Yeah, that's a good point. But I think more often it's closer to 1 because (I guess this depends on our definition of 0 and 1 haha! :)) a) you get the benefit of their conceptual models for thinking about the codebase, which is hard won and highly useful, and b) you grok any practical pitfalls or things to remember when running, building, testing, that may be simple enough, but in the space of all possibilities are hard to come by without knowing them.

So basically you get to go from: 0 - can do nothing at all; to 1 - being able to feel confident diving in and looking around, framed with the downloaded conceptual models, knowing how to hit the ground trotting, if not running.

To me, 0.1 is more like you slugged it out for a couple hours poking around by yourself, and now you know a handful of confusing things with low confidence.

Chatting to one who has been there, done that lets you have more confidence, and know more actionable stuff, which is highly useful. I suppose it depends on your conversation, listening and comprehension skills tho! Hahaha! :)

But seriously not everybody learns well in that situation. I just happen to. I'd much rather talk it over with someone and absorb, than watch a video or read a tutorial.

Finally -- haha! :) -- I guess there are some geeks to whose schedule the way is through their husband or whatevs haha! :)
Yes. That line of logic is like thinking you don't own a hard disk if the firmware on it prevents you from scratching / destroying the platter.
I don't know what you're talking about. I'm old enough to remember the exact "free for all" on desktop computers that you claim never existed.

Take your "walled gardens" and stuff it. Not everyone wishes to be boxed in that way.
How does manipulating MemeCoin prices or buying Twitter to bring back the n-word benefit humanity?

While the broad strokes of Tesla and SpaceX might benefit humanity, he seems to have no compunction about doing screwed up things with those companies, either. Remember when he proposed putting indentured servants on Mars?
How does salt help seal holes better than other material in the earth's crust?
You need to spend some time actually using a current-generation GPT. You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
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This is quite significant if you're trying build LLM-powered apps that are meant to be used in a multilingual context.

However, this is not really OpenAI's fault: the English writing system is much more simple compared to those of Chinese or Hindi, and even languages like French, Spanish and German, that are written in the same Latin script as English, make much more use of diacritics compared to English. So it is natural for the tokenizer to be much more efficient for English compared to languages with more complex writing systems.
Reminder that in the United States; open standards and patent licensing are not incompatible.

HEVC, for example, has public documents how to implement it. You can get all the specs right now. You don’t even need to pay for the standard itself. You do, however, need to pay the people who own patents on algorithms used within the open standard.

Do I like it? No. But when there’s 50-100 patent claimants, that’s where MPEG LA shows up to simplify things. You don’t strictly need MPEG LA if you don’t mind negotiating with every patent holder individually.
Good info. You can improve your debugging by using exit codes like this:

# die: print error message to stderr, then exit with error code.
# example: die 69 "Service unavailable."
die() {
n="$1" ; shift ; >&2 printf %s\\n "$*" ; exit "$n"
}

Many more shell script exit codes and helper functions:

https://github.com/SixArm/unix-shell-script-kit/blob/main/un...
We know it isn't part of the deterrent as Apple simply doesn't do this: Apple does not now nor have they ever restricted the use of iMessage on either desktop Macs -- whether their SIP is enabled or not -- nor on jailbroken iPhones. It is thereby nonsensical to look at Google implementing such a restriction and then say it makes sense because Apple manages to keep spam off their platform somehow... we know that is unrelated to how Apple pulls that off as Apple literally doesn't do this thing.
Not just for profit. It's also about power.
Companies can change from the outset. if they didnt become closed source they couldn't have gotten funding to get the GPU hours needed for GPT-4 or the best talent. If Elon cared about humanity he would open source Grok and Optimus. in fact he only left OpenAI because he wanted to take over to integrate it into Tesla but failed.
Do the AI creators make any money?
I see there is a big community of creators that generate art with AI. Many of them have video cards and run the image generation using mostly WebUI on their computer. Some of them train custom models and create LoRas too.

Kazimir.ai says there are 110k active creators that have already created more than 3M images. 70% of what is NSFW content btw.

Probably even bigger community is on services like Midjorney or Leonardo.ai.

All the top creators have their sponsorship pages on Patreon. Some creators gate their content and unlock it for paid subscribers.

It's hard to say if there's a demand for such AI image generation services but there's is definitely an interest from the community.

So, my question is, do they creators make any money?
You don't think fleets without drivers will be cheaper than fleets with drivers?
You're right. This is the cello:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0TlRSIPhQE
I recommend you file taxes via paper if you want to avoid being audited. Everything is manual for paper returns. With electronic filing it goes into the ML anti-fraud pipeline.
Eh. That's boilerplate and is probably in every charter of every organization incorporated in Delaware.
By comparison, the mass of the black hole in the centre of our galaxy is around 4 million solar masses, and the mass of the black hole around M87 (the largest galaxy in our cosmological neighbourhood) is around 6 billion solar masses.
By materials you mean the filing? the wording of the filing fits the plaintiffs narrative. its the most biased possible source.
Open source tool to build AI product assistants that can take actions
"Installing software I want" and "physically destroying my device" are not the same thing, and shame on you for trying to equate them.
> Take your "walled gardens" and stuff it. Not everyone wishes to be boxed in that way.

Yes, everyone on Hacker News doesn’t want to be boxed in this way.

In the real world, literally nobody gives a darn about Apple having an iOS monopoly. They love their iPhones, they hate their laptops. Why is that?
It's much more simple: Normal people (read: not us) buy computers to accomplish a given task, computers are merely tools; a computer and a can opener are exactly the same thing. If the computer serves its user's purpose, that's all that matters.

That is to say: Normal people couldn't care less about fleedumb and rible. Normal people care about getting shit done; presently, locked down smartphones get shit done better than any other computational device for normal people.
Who said anything about illuminatis? Does FISA effectively allow intelligence agencies to hide stuff or not? And can you show me a concrete example of IA actually getting punished from other powerful institutions in any meaningful way?
Hasn't Azure been root level compromised twice in the last 12 months?

Once involving signing keys so critical that (from rough memory) they had to restore them silently after initially deleting them?
I remember heated discussions here on hn of people noticing rising grocery bills. There were people who always bought the same thing and noticing their costs jumping 20%. And throngs of people came in gaslighting them and using all sorts of wrinkly brain arguments.

Like these poor people somehow shouldn't be believing their own eyes.

For a site that is all about the cutting edge and discussing trends that period right before the inflation surge made me realize just because people throw around fancy jargon and charts doesn't mean anything
There's also a fairly powerful gdb style actual debugger: https://bashdb.sourceforge.net/
At my previous workplace, there's a guy who retired and went to live alone in the north pole, isolated from any other human. That's someone who doesn't like people.

People don't decide to live in a city because they hate people.
This is not the first time digital ocean did something like this. And unlike some other commenter here saying they only did it because CSS tutorials don't give them ROI, extra information here is that they also did it with javascript tutorials, like scotch.io, so I am leaning towards to that DO just do poorly with their investment regardless. I wrote more about their track record in buying indie dev blog and then kill them in my newsletter last year when CSS-Tricks's editor got laid off: https://build.typogram.co/p/dont-sell-your-indie-business-to

I think Chris pointed out a very key fact: running site like css tricks or scotch.io takes a special mix of skill, organically the site grows big with one or two person with that right mix of skills, but once big corporate bought it and for whatever reason didn't retain that talent, they have to replace it with a team, which kills the ROI.
It even captures changes made by iOS when auto correct changes the capitalization and spelling of words! :D
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Another stack trace implementation [1] that allows you to write:

some-command || fail "message"

to produce a stack trace and exit the shell in case of non-zero exit status from some-command, or write

some-command || softfail "message" || return $?

in case you want to produce a stack trace and return from the function.

[1]: https://github.com/runag/runag/blob/main/lib/fail.sh
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> In a post last October, Instagram head Adam Mosseri said that the team was developing an API while worrying that an API would result in more publisher content on Threads instead of user-created posts.

I feel like that's already happened without an API. Most of my feed is very corporate. Maybe it would be worse with an API?
It really is just legacy and momentum. Recent additions build on sh/bash really well but in the end shell scripting is a means to an end that need to evolve much slower than standard programming languages.

I think bash/sh’s key feature is that they are anti-entropy, there’s no development or evolution so there’s no chance you need to mess with dependencies or new features, the stuff that worked 20 years ago will continue to be the “bread and butter”. By design, this results in a system that’s averse to change and incentivizes people to reach outside of its limits when they are met.
In Nome, where the muskoxen roam controversially
The majority of the world doesn't speak English, so why care about using correct English at all right? Btw American English is still the most common variant on the internet. More so than British English.
[dupe]

Discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39567226
Where does lightning strike? New maps pinpoint 36.8M yearly ground strikes
Paper returns are audited at a much higher rate, as errors on the return will trigger an audit. Audit rate also rises with higher income, as does circumstances deviating from the mean (digital assets, foreign accounts, certain partnerships, etc).

https://pro.bloombergtax.com/brief/common-irs-audit-triggers...

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-utl/statement-for-updated-audit-...

IRS has an ML/AI team funded with the Inflation Reduction Act and is fully digitizing, which will assist in finding tax evasion and fraud. They even have a contract with Chainalysis for tracking public crypto (Chainalysis Reactor).

https://www.chainalysis.com/chainalysis-reactor/

https://fedscoop.com/irs-to-use-ai-to-crack-down-on-milliona...

https://fedscoop.com/irs-launches-digitization-effort/

> Using IRA resources, taxpayers are now able to respond to more notices online, and the IRS says it has made significant progress adopting new technology that automates the scanning of millions of paper returns.

> In the coming two years, taxpayers will be able to digitally submit all correspondence, non-tax forms, and responses to notices which will allow more than 94% of individual taxpayers to no longer ever need to send mail to the IRS, according to the agency.

> It added that taxpayers who still want to submit physical paper returns and correspondence will be able to do so.
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Show HN: JavaScript tiny tool; to acquire CSS selector
The text says he donated more millions after he left.

Is it normal in startup world to dranatically(?) change the formula for investment and donation rounds?

It sounds like, i donate to a soup kitchen for the homeless and a high end restaurant chain comes out the other end. Complete with investors.

Curious what the court might find. It is certainly interesting drama (again)
> Investing in PWAs for four years is only going to get you so far when you’re eight years behind the competition.

Which non-Chromium competitors are you speaking to here? What are some examples of standards-track features that they implement that Apple doesn't?
Thanks so much!

And yes, that's quite true. When parameter gradients don't quite vanish, then the equation

<g_x, d x / d eps> = <g_y, d y / d eps>

becomes

<g_x, d x / d eps> = <g_y, d y / d eps> - <g_theta, d theta / d eps>

where g_theta is the gradient with respect to theta.

In defense of my hypothesis that interesting approximate conservation laws exist in practice, I'd argue that maybe parameter gradients at early stopping are small enough that the last term is pretty small compared to the first two.

On the other hand, stepping back, the condition that our network parameters are approximately stationary for a loss function feels pretty... shallow. My impression of deep learning is that an optimized model _cannot_ be understood as just "some solution to an optimization problem," but is more like a sample from a Boltzmann distribution which happens to concentrate a lot of its probability mass around _certain_ minimizers of an energy. So, if we can prove something that is true for neural networks simply because they're "near stationary points", we probably aren't saying anything very fundamental about deep learning.
A hard disk firmware module isn't connected to the internet and reporting on you (yet).
I designed the WebP lossless format, wrote the spec, and implemented the first encoder.

The constraint was in WebP lossy to facilitate exact compatibility with VP8 specification and hoping that it would allow hardware decoding and encoding of WebP images using VP8 hardware.

Hardware encoding and decoding were never used, but the limitation stuck.

There was no serious plan to do hardware lossless, but the constraint was copied for "reducing confusion".

I didn't and don't like it that much as more PNG images couldn't be represented as WebP lossless as a result of that.
Peekpoke: Tiny retro fantasy console with two commands peek and poke
Disgusting behavior by Google, and even more since it's essentially a shadow ban.

First DRM-ed content, now messaging.

Android should just say they don't allow bootloader unlocking outright anymore, then maybe we can move onto an actually free and open source operating system not ran by an advertising company.
This would be a bigger problem in community use cases. We're going to introduce a trust level system to tackle this, inspired by Discourse:

https://blog.discourse.org/2018/06/understanding-discourse-t...
No idea, don’t know what they stand for. This is logic. What do you do if you’re Sam Altman and ChatGPT has blown up like it has, and demands resources just to run the GPU’s. What is his next move? It’s not business as usual.

The risk is that he’s too confident and screws it up. Or continues on the growth path and becomes the person everyone seems to accuse him of being. But I think he’s not interested in petty shit, scratching around for a few bucks. Why, when you can (try) save the world.
Can you show me those hundreds of factories? I've seen calls from Russian soldiers for more and complains of not having enough.
Have you tried?
Because it doesn't.
The extra fat supply might last you what, a couple months tops? Nuclear winter and famine would probably last years.