skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have to keep PPP in mind when you look at numbers like this. In San Francisco, for example, the park and recs dept gets the budget in the tune of hundreds of millions. Does it mean they are wasting the money? Absolutely not. Land acquisition, construction, hourly wages (with minimum wage at $36000/year excluding benefits) etc. are all very expensive in absolute dollars in some parts of the world, while in others, it is very cheap. You simply cannot compare the two.
> it's your own money you gotta pay with, not the company's

I agree with this, and it could be constructed out of shareholder rights. Perhaps it could only be applied past a certain threshold of compensation, say, 100x the median wage. ($4.6mm [1].)

I’d argue the threshold should be final, unappealable regulatory penalty or criminal conviction of the corporation.

[1] https://usafacts.org/data/topics/economy/jobs-and-income/job...
I'm surprised there aren't entire businesses based around selling compatibility layers or something.
Hahaha, have you seen the firing frenzy the US execs were expected to execute for a SLIGHT DIP in revenue and a few % in cost of a loan? :D

And you expect those same share holders to just support leaving of a massive market? Cook would be taken through NYSE by his nether regions by just thinking that. This whole idea is nonsense.

And even if, by any bizarre chance (it's 2020s after all) it happens, we'll suffer with... *checks list*... Samsung Galaxy Phones? Lenovo, Samsung and ASUS laptops? Sony headphones? Huh. What horrible existence. I'm sure that would be an end of the Union. Imagine using a great Samsung foldable instead of an iPhone.
As a current high school student who will be taking the digital SAT this March, I can assure you that paper is alive and well both in the classroom and in testing. I don’t love the new digital testing system, and I see it as a failure of their system that students can no longer self pace through the test.
nmap's --traceroute uses this technique (but I don't know if it has a way to cause this long gap; this is just a demonstration that this is an oft-used technique).
Yes! Thank you! Dunno what it is about Rust that makes everyone forget what premature optimization is the root of all of.
Eating less meat (especially beef) is a good start. This is a mayor cause of deforestation in the Amazon. In Papua, Indonesia it’s palm oil.
I just searched for one and found

>Important information
Legal Disclaimer :
Statements regarding dietary supplements have not been evaluated by the FDA and are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition.

At the very bottom of the description. That seems like complete BS that shouldn't hold up, but I don't know.
"On January 3, the acquisition and product shutdown was publicly announced. As expected, customers were shocked and upset. Many had been using Airplane for critical workflows within their organizations, and they now had to replace huge chunks of internal tooling before the final shutoff on March 1."

Building things on an early-stage no-code platform like this without at least an open source escape hatch feels like a huge risk to me.
This approach may be too high-level "magic" to the point of being difficult to work with and iterate upon.

Looking at the prompt templates (https://github.com/bananaml/fructose/tree/main/src/fructose/... ), they use LangChain-esque "just try to make the output to be valid JSON" when APIs such as GPT-4 Turbo which this model uses by default now support function calling/structured data natively and do a very good job of it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38782678), and libraries such as outlines (https://github.com/outlines-dev/outlines) which is more complex but can better ensure a dictionary output for local LLMs.
Isn't Apple providing side loading for customers in Europe now? Sure, Apple is being petty, but I thought this is was what Epic asked for. Can anyone ELI5 this one?
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Right, the major difference being that Epic is not an employee of Apple and thus cannot benefit from employment law. The terms of their relationship is governed by contract law, and now the DMA.
> How frequent are these Oracle audits?

Frequently kicked off by aggrieved ex-employees.
Korea is a strategic US partner.
You mean fourth?
That's a good question, and I agree it was a clever design. I don't know that there is a way to modify the org structure to prevent what happened. As much as I dislike them, a clear non-compete clause after the structure was in place might have helped, but I'm not sure that's even an option in CA. And having employees re-sign for noncompete would be fraught itself (better from the start). But this does seem like the most relevant application of non-compete. I'm not a lawyer and I'm sure they had top notch lawyers review the structure. If OpenAI played the non-compete card it wouldn't make retention easier if employees were willing to walk (they wouldn't exactly have trouble finding jobs anywhere). Do you know of anything that might have prevented it?
NYT does have a trademark on Wordle, but that shouldn't be covered by the DMCA.
Technically you can buy them on Facebook marketplace, craigslist etc
I don't know if it is still the case but MS SQL was very deficient tech wise against Oracle DB, and never really a contender for a large OLTP DB. To the point that for some applications, it simply would not work due to excessive locking.
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Can you give specific examples of what was lacking? Ive only had positive experiences with GCP.
Doing these online will create Lots of opportunities to cheat. You guys underestimate how much money there is in cheating these tests. It’s easily worth 100k per head maybe more.
The obvious answer is that they are not lying.

You're making three assertions, none backed by any evidence. That this is a tracking vector, that it's primarily intended to be a tracking vector, and that they're lying about their motivations.

But your reasoning fails already at the first step, since you just assumed malice rather than do any research. This is not a useful tracking vector. The storage is partitioned by the top window, and it is cleared when cookies are cleared. It's also not really a new tracking vector, it's pretty much the same as ETags.
> I don't think you'd be happy eating out of a bag of feed corn

I am however, more than happy to eat any number of products that contain corn in various other forms. Because, you know, "feed corn" is just, well, corn, and instead of feeding it to animals, we can give it to humans instead.

> Still, that soybean has a long way to go before its a brick of tofu wrapped in plastic sitting on your grocery store shelf.

That cow has a long way to go before its a bag of meat on a grocery shelf as well. And that way wasted ALOT more energy and resources than the way my Tofu block does.
The EU is Apples least profitable market.
How will this devalue the test? The only way in which the test is easier is that it's shorter, so students who lose steam toward the end will perform somewhat better. But this shorter test is dynamic, so it will still be able to assess students fairly, at all levels. In truth, it could even open the door to allowing for a higher ceiling, by offering even harder questions to students who score super well on earlier portions. That could make the test (and a coveted 1600+ score) even more trusted as a marker of academic ability/readiness.
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At my job, we have been merrily replacing Oracle products by open-source ones. You know, the common thing any employee feels morally obligated to do as soon as they realize there is an Oracle product in the stack. But the interesting bit is how those products got there: in some companies, you call it "modern stack" if the tech is less than fifteen years old. Sometimes they will replace a part of it and instead of jumping all the way to the present, they go like "Well, it's 2024 now. So, we need to migrate our stack from 2009 to 2010 this year. What version of Jboss came out in 2010? We need to update to that one. PostgreSQL? No, PostgreSQL 8 doesn't support deferrable unique constraints, which we need. We need to keep paying for OracleDB until June."
I believe it's access to the scanners used for registration. The whitepaper doesn't seem to talk about how they prevent illegitimate use of "The Orb" outside of revoking IDs which sounds like it's ripe for abuse.
Which lunatic? I heard it form a tech youtuber and on HN.
Garry Kasparov added to Russia's list of 'terrorists and extremists'
Tidal lowers lossless tier price
The first time I saw tailwind I almost threw up in my mouth because it broke so much I hold dear about CSS. A few weeks later I went to their site being all wtf is going on here, and I saw this quote on the front page from its creator:

> If you can suppress the urge to retch long enough to give it a chance, I really think you’ll wonder how you ever worked with CSS any other way.

Now I'm going to try it.
Many kids have an IEP - an individualized education plan. https://www2.ed.gov/parents/needs/speced/iepguide/index.html

They get extra time allocation to take tests - 50% more in most cases. The numbers I hear tossed around is that a substantial fraction (20% to 40%) of school kids in some of the elite public and private schools have IEPs. Clearly there are kids who need the extra time. But that many?

ADHD is the reason that I hear the most. The extra test taking time is not reported to colleges.

Combine 50% extra time with adderall. 1500+ SAT scores are not uncommon.
Out of interest, what happens with this sort of thing if you direct them to the reply given in arkell v pressdram?
I've done a lot of work over the last year wrangling LLM outputs - both from the OpenAI API as well as local LLMs.

What are the benefits of using Fructose over LMQL, Guidance or OpenAI's function calling?
What is weird is that there are many good technical reasons to use Oracle. It's a very advanced and impressive database. The risks from doing business with Oracle are nearly all legal and business cost related. The sort of thing that are squarely under the supposed expertise of the non developer folks.

My objections against Oracle are not technical in nature. It is almost entirely cost and legal risk related.
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> It's just weird that monetisation is still based on this 'stickiness'.

I think that's mostly due to limits in payment-systems, laws, and inefficiencies of small transactions. Indirect payment from another group via ads is the workaround.

In the late-90's there was a lot of interest around a vision of "micropayments", where a user can easily spend a cent to unlock any news article of their choice, but for various reasons that didn't work. (Also, I don't think cryptocurrencies will rescue it, they have their own problems.)

> I can't subscribe to them all obviously. Yet they all want to.

I'm confident some people must have already tried to create things like a "One Subscription Alliance" and failed, probably because of a whole bunch of cooperation problems between the different would-be member outlets.
Apple escalates Epic Games feud by blocking Fortnite app in EU
When I took my SAT someone crashed into a utility pole and the power went out. We ended up having to retake, which was super annoying since that test was so damn long. I wonder what they'll do this year if the same thing were to happen?
> I wouldn’t want to do business in a place …

And that's rather the point. Apple earns a lot of money in the EU and much of that seems to be through abusing their position.

So yes, if you're the executive who signs off on something that is so clearly anticompetative, you should own the penalty. Ignorance of the law is not a defense.

That, or leave.
I didn't know and wouldn't even have considered that to be the case. To be honest, that's actually mindblowing and infuriating.
"Stop Eating [Added] Sugar" is good advice, but insufficient. The ease of overconsumption in the American food environment is to great to be overcome by a single pithy phrase. Couple it with a few other phrases: "don't drink your calories", "eat more fiber" and you're starting to get somewhere.
Quick search of about half the grid...

Verstappen, Sainz, Leclerc - fathers raced cars

Alonso - father was amateur kart racer

Norris, Stroll, Perez - wealthy families

Hamilton, Russell - middle-class parents

Like most sports, being born into it helps a lot, as done wealth. But, it's not a guarantee and there are F1 drivers from relatively normal backgrounds.
Then is this newsworthy? Is this just a harmless side effect of the actual chemicals used towards the drugs efficacy? Or is this especially dangerous? I cannot get access to the article
To be fair, OLPC was accidentally instrumental in making people buy cheap small laptops. The Eee PC netbook emerged very soon after the OLPC, and it was definitely responding to peoples' interest in the OLPC - particularly from the "Give one get one" program. The Eee PC became netbooks, which were eventually strangled to death by Chromebooks.

The OLPC project said "we can help kids by designing $100 laptops just for them", and rich westerners heard "$100 laptops."

The mistakes happened way in the beginning, along with a certain economic downturn. In retrospect, the interest of (on-average) wealthy people in cheap disposable laptops was obscene, and it's a shame the market allowed that interest to be entertained the way it was. Netbooks happened because we are incapable of accounting for the long term costs of crap electronics outside of futile attempts to educate consumers. Thus, netbooks and then equally disposable Chromebooks were dumped into the market without scrutiny, and computers are Google now.
Many many years ago I was working on making a phone OS (no not that one, this was for VoIP handsets, no not Cisco's) where we built an app suite on a Java VM. We wanted to use a Sun VM, I forget the acronym, that was bigger than J2ME but smaller than SE for which Sun, as far as we could tell, had no actual customers. You'd think they would be happy to have customer interest, but we got a total horseshit runaround on pricing. We could not base a product on something for which we had no idea of pricing. We used an open source Java which turned out to be adequate, but only just - no JIT, for example.
For the second half of your question, here's the editor of Road and Track trying to explain why he pulled the article:

The story was taken down because I felt it was the wrong story for our publication. No one from the brands or organizations mentioned in the story put any sort of pressure on me or anyone else. In fact, I heard nothing at all from anyone on the story. No contact whatsoever.

It was unfortunate and I can understand how people might jump to the conclusion that pressure of some sort was brought to bear. It wasn’t. Truth is, when the story was assigned, written and edited I was Executive Editor of Road & Track, not EIC. I was dealing almost exclusively with the print magazine. The story had been assigned and edited by the digital team. Had I been aware of the story I would have put a stop to it long before it ever posted.

I’m afraid this is a much more mundane situation than you might have imagined.

https://defector.com/road-track-eic-tries-to-explain-why-he-...
> I'm shocked at how laissez-faire we've gotten for college entrance exams,

to the point that they stopped requiring SAT altogether, but are starting to bring it back. there's a lot of things they've done is head scratching. i loved when they changed the scores so that your result from 10 years prior suddenly become a lower result so people had to know when you took the test to properly weight the result.

The laissez-faire attitude to drivers licensing when they stopped requiring road tests for new drivers was bonkers as well to me.
The first rule of working with Apple: thou shalt say nothing negative about Apple!

I thought the tweet was direct but fair. If Apple is this thin-skinned then perhaps they need to lose a few hundred billion dollars. Best reply to Epic's tweet: "Steve Jobs favored closed over open because he wanted to control his creative vision. Apple today favors closed over open because they want to maximize for extracting rents." I agree completely.

Apple is just coasting on the incredible design and vision of Steve Jobs and trying to milk it for all its worth and that cannot last forever. The biggest help to Apple is that their competition is either weak (Microsoft) or not trusted (Google) so they benefit as being default "least bad option" for consumers.
> nothing about some random contracts I can see in DMA

There are laws other than the DMA?

(Anticipatory breach is incorporated into EU law through the UN CISG [1].)

[1] https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/16247_2020_13
> These colleagues had all been at the company for a while and all had legitimate reasons for resigning unrelated to the revenue slowdown

Obviously not familiar with the particulars, but people don't always say why they are moving on. There is not much of an upside to revealing any negative issues, so it's usually presented as "really wanted to stay, but just found a new exciting opportunity". If all of the sudden 4 people in a few month period "really liked the position, but just found new and exciting opportunities", something else is going on.
>Continuous Glucose Monitoring

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overvi...
The parent explained why that's not true.
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I love posts like this. I wish more employees would share tales like this.
It's a danger of all SaaS. If you can't run it yourself, you can't fully prevent this from happening.

Of course, the benefits of taking on this risk may often be worth it. Smart bets don't always pay out.
Their agenda is “A safe, secure and prosperous Canada, through trusted intelligence and advice”.

If they were caught lying, it would erode trust and disrupt their agenda. So yes, I believe their incentives and agenda align to inform Canadians accurately.
Chicago has done something similar with rooftop gardens to reduce temperatures.
https://www.epa.gov/arc-x/chicago-il-uses-green-infrastructu...
Spreetail, one of Nebraska’s biggest tech startups, specializes in this area. Not only for Amazon, but other marketplaces like Walmart, eBay, TikTok, etc.

https://news.crunchbase.com/retail/spreetail-nebraska-e-comm...
I don't think this is particularly special. In other countries it's possible to obtain Dexcom's current line up by purchasing it online (G6, ONE, G7) and other brands too like Abbott's Freestyle Libre.

It seems like this is a stripped down version of the G7 (albeit with a longer wear time) as the ONE is a stripped down version of the G6.
> Not having to come up with names for CSS classes

As soon as you want theming you'll need to start naming stuff. And if you want that theming to support third-party CSS overrides, or need good CSS selector support, you're going to be back to needing to name classes again.

Not everyone needs that, and that's fine. But there are plenty of people working on products and in environments where the Tailwind way is not going to be the path of least friction.

I would actually say StoryBook, or the StoryBook pattern at least, has been a much greater boon on FE development over the last decade.
> then why in the world is he trying so hard to make sure his dystopian worldview actually happens?

If he's also working under the assumption that AGI is inevitable, it would make sense to want to be first at it so it aligns with his values more, while also preparing for a post-AGI world.
1) Kerouac’s “On The Road” read by Sean Penn.

2) Comedian’s autobiography self-preformed (Martin Short, Guy Brannan, Trevor Noah and Jerry Seinfeld)

3) A Life in Parts,
Bryan Cranston

Sometimes I listen to an audiobook for a few chapters to hear the author’s “voice” and then start the print version from the beginning. A writer for whom this isn’t necessary? Garrison Keillor whose distinctive voice I can hear at-will and who writes exactly as he speaks.
For oracle DB, it’s mostly Postgres I guess?
The Rust ownership system was built to be compositional - an architecture or algorithm must not just be "safe" in isolation, it must also preserve that safety when interacting with the rest of the system, even as either part gets modified or evolves further. Practically speaking, this is where many proposed architectures that may indeed appear "safe" run into issues. (If you can't provide these guarantees, the idiomatic approach in Rust is to isolate that part within an unsafe module, and document the expectations that said module imposes wrt. the rest of the system.)
Do you have a link to the tweet from Sweeney saying he would breach the contract?
The outrageous part of Epic’s model is the global application.
Can you cite a single example of CSIS creating misinformation?
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Can't wait to hear the CEO of Oxen.AI decipher what's driving Sora.

He knows his sh*t. He's great at plain speak. He's enabled me to spot patterns between ML models.

Just for this Sora call, he has created a killer pre-call briefing page and Sora reference.
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Before the iPhone and maybe blackberry the majority of phones used random proprietary charger. The iPhone was the first mass market consumer phone to come with a cable that connected to a standard usb charger.
It's not 100% yet. Route to that:
1. Clientside, retry strategy on failed parse. Not yet implemented, we throw an exception on parse fail right now, but soon to be implemented. Not ideal because of token burn and latency, but the best quick solution.
2. For the custom model we're building, we use strict grammar definitions to bias outputs toward the needed structure (or if there is only one structurally correct token, outright skip the generation of that token and insert it directly).

I've been impressed at how well gpt-4 does with the default prompt template we use. Even better if you enable the chain_of_thought flavor.
In purely technical terms Oracle is fine, really good even. The company comes with massive legal and cost risks though.
They have a ‘secure environment’ but the testing app ‘Bluebook’ is also available for download for practice tests and even to the general public. They have a chromeOS PWA, a Mac Universal app, and a Windows version.

I can also personally attest that the app will run perfectly happy inside a Windows virtual machine, even inside the ‘secure testing mode’, as this is how I personally took the 11th grade PSAT a few months ago.