skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The go to excuse of every apologist ever, which will be applied to anyone that takes a stand in an effective manner.

Nothing about screaming in the middle of a meeting is effective. It's just a selfish tantrum. It doesn't change anyone's mind.

> The being fired is an implicit sign that the people trying to control the collective narrative of the organization feel their grip slipping.

Fantasy thinking, pure and simple. Being fired is a sure sign that the employee did something dramatic and pointless, and suffered the consequences.
A friend of mine told me he 100% guarantees you would find LSD interesting if you tried it
It says he was protesting Project Nimbus which is Google cloud/AI for the Israeli government and military.

You can also see the conference he was attending itself hardly shies away from the political/military connections, e.g.

“The Israeli tech ecosystem is built on very strong foundations. We have the academia, we have the manpower, and we have the special military units,” said Dina Pasca-Raz, Partner and Head of Technology at KPMG Israel. “There are many, many areas of strength [0]

Israel's ambassador to the UN also gave an extremely emphatic "no ceasefire" speech at this totally apolitical Google-sponsored tech conference with no connection to the war.[1]

[0] https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/sjlvv676t

[1] https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/ryymzd7a6
In a way, public companies are democracies made up of their shareholders. Do you think it's astonishing that many people think workers should be able to participate as well?

Not that world politics should have much to do with company matters
That's probably to generalised since the EU is still a political entity with lots of lobbying from different sides.

But in this case benefiting the general public is easy because it does not hit a European company ( production in China, development in America) that is working hard to extract money which it sends abroad while avoiding paying taxes here (probably legally).

A good opportunity to reign Apple and friends in and score some "greater good" points in particular since the US government is also sceptical and mostly concerned with internal affairs at the moment.
It probably ends with happy consumers :) At least, I'm very happy that the EU is trying to avert the worst anticompetitive behaviour and restoring my control over the hardware that I purchased.
Especially given the importance of politics to corporations - they are allowed to politic, but employees aren't?
Replacing manual labor with automation is good, actually. Sewing machines put the weavers out of business yes, but more people get to wear shirts. I'm pro-shirts, anti-weavers.

Preventing such replacement is definitionally anti-progress
Was F1 too boring? Watch these races instead
And what of the Israeli children who die from rockets during your little talks?
It's always been legal not to have insurance (though there was a brief period where externalizing costs that way was taxed). You can pay cash for health care as you like now with any provider who cares to negotiate with you on a cash basis. There's even a variety of non-MD providers whose licensure ranges from more accessible through informal to non-existent should you object to credentials as distorting.

If you try doing health care this way for long enough, you might even discover which incentives are poorly aligned without collective policy of some kind, but who knows, maybe not.
Spain produces generally very little high quality food, and vast quantities of hydroponic bland tasting god-knows-whats-inside stuff that looks like vegetables grown by masses cheap labor with highly questionable residence status.

Its harder and harder, but if one really cares in Europe, you have to focus on well-known brands (or whole supermarket chains if you have those) that have long term reputation to uphold.

Here in Switzerland its a bit easier (and EU food products are generally viewed as subpar), but you pay, and you pay a lot.

At the end, you get what you pay for, and there is not that much room for too-good deals which are not scams in some way. And prepare to just don't buy stuff if you don't find suitable things, and replace with something else. And focus on seasonal local stuff as much as possible (I guess residents of say Trondheim are casting a dark look on this)
At best he is simply wrong, everything is political, at worse he means only your politics. Picture it like this: Surely the owner of the company may be almost as political as they want? Your obedient acceptance would then be a political choice.

Its just a job they lost, its not like they are 5 years old, watched their parents slowly bleed out after bombardments while starving to death - mkay?

Its arguably a good way to get fired. Even said they want no part in it.
Andrew Kelley talks about this and the effects he’s trying to achieve with Zig tooling.

Undoubtedly, language tooling being fast improves your ability to iterate. 1 second vs 60 seconds doesn’t “seem” like much, but when you have that speed, it becomes very difficult to give it up, and when you know it can be faster, it is incredibly frustrating when it’s slow.
From https://www.uk.coop/understanding-co-ops/what-co-op/quick-fa...

> There are 3 million co-ops around the world – with 1.2 billion members.

> That means 12% of the people on Earth are part of a co-op.

With co-ops being just one particularly prominent form of democratic business structure, workplace democracy is not quite as marginal a notion as you might think.
As a New Zealander I think you're mistaken. We are a heavily export-focused country. Quick Google shows nothing.

Citation please!
Maybe; hopefully he can sell whatever stake he has in OpenAI to avoid conflict-of-interest concerns. Personally I can hardly think of any better person for the role.
That's only the problem if you're almost wealthy enough to be able to buy a home and you see investors as competition that prevents you from doing that.

If you're a working class renter that never really expects to be able to have the wealth to buy a home, the "investor" boogieman that is "buying up housing" is creating more places for you to live.
I can't speak for the US, but in the EU this is not true
https://archive.ph/JHTKW
Lol true.
The frivolous bullshit where they back down when the EU so much as inquires about the case?
It is a mixed bag.

For certain things, like common illnesses, it is pretty good.

But that being said, use caution. I had something minor turn into an ER visit because I used telemedicine instead of going to my GP. Telemedicine prescribed antibiotics, which was correct, but GP would have done a drain too. Lack of drainage caused uhh unpleasant problems down the road.
I don't think he's expecting anything, just protesting and drawing awareness. It worked too because we're now talking about it.
No, it again wasn't.

It was to __prevent genocide__, not to determine guilt of committing genocide. This is going to take years, and it's going to be ongoing into the future. It is not going to happen while an incident is happening.

The ICJ explicitly said that there's enough evidence to merit this case.
I am not a lawyer, but I agree, this seems to be on questionable legal footing...

Fourth Amendment:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
> No one values this work

No one pays for this work. Give people an appropriate salary and benefits like TSA workers get, and there will be no problem.

Also, TSA worker is negative status.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8oCilY4szc

Profit over all else, capitalism!
I was on an early mastodon instance where the fifth glyph was prohibited. It was really tough for me to do posts, but there was a person who was getting their PhD in linguistics, and if you didn't know that they had to avoid that letter, you'd never guess. Just amazing writing.
The trouble is that "reasonable expectations" are set by those in power. Slave overs set "reasonable expectations" for slaves, feudal lords set "reasonable expectations" for peasants.

In such a world "reasonable expectations" by their nature foster a continuation of the existing power structures. Behavior that challenges "reasonable expectations" does so precisely because of the belief that the continuation of the status quo as perpetuated by those in power has become untenable.

Many people "reasonably expect" nations and companies to not be complicit in genocide, where is their recourse?
All of Canada's housing issues were issues before 2015, before this current government and before the increase in immigration
Winston Churchill said: “A man is about as big as the things that make him angry”.

> But Steve Jobs could also be a tyrant. He was obsessively controlling, and given to fits of rage, throwing tantrums and yelling at employees and board members.

(quoted).

>Read the internal Tesla employee survey from 2018, where employees called Elon Musk an 'unapproachable tyrant' who fires people 'because of his ego'

(Quoted)

... The list is long ...
Yeah being appointed to such a body should come with a mandatory “you must completely divest from the industry you will be regulating, include and aggregate fund or similar”, alongside “any compensation, hiring, or rehiring contracts and agreements offered prior to or during tenure are explicitly invalid”, and a “you cannot work on the board or executive of any business you I. The relevant industries for five years post departure, or at or with any previous employers for 10 years”
That's my setup. I decided to use old laptops instead of proper servers because power cuts are common in the region I live, especially when it rains. So laptops have built in UPS (their batteries) which can hold power for some minutes in the worst cases. It sounds like a poor man's home lab, but it works.
This was just a few hours ago too:

Tire falls off United plane after takeoff from SFO

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/san-francisco/united-p...
> Hochul said she chose to use state resources rather than pay for NYPD overtime to beef up transit patrols.

> “I’m going to be responding to many, many needs of the mayor and the city of New York in our budget,” Hochul said. “And so I said, ‘I can do something more immediate than a budget request, I can give you bodies right now.’ And I think that actually puts us ahead of the game.”
to man, who is its object!

Further consideration of this question should confirm our conviction of the priority of human labour over what in the course of time we have grown accustomed to calling capital. Since the concept of capital includes not only the natural resources placed at man's disposal but also the whole collection of means by which man appropriates natural resources and transforms them in accordance with his needs (and thus in a sense humanizes them), it must immediately be noted that all these means are the result of the historical heritage of human labour. All the means of production, from the most primitive to the ultramodern ones-it is man that has gradually developed them: man's experience and intellect. In this way there have appeared not only the simplest instruments for cultivating the earth but also, through adequate progress in science and technology, the more modern and complex ones: machines, factories, laboratories, and computers. Thus everything that is at the service of work, everything that in the present state of technology constitutes its ever more highly perfected "instrument", is the result of work.
i'm confused, in the end, did your documents get processed?
> If you don't like the job, leave it.

Meanwhile in your bio:

"I may disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

So which is it? Defend those who speak up or demand they leave and berate them as "conceited/pretentious"?
Running Out of Excuses
Those are the two that seem like pure poison.
Most doctors are pretty dumb and can be replaced with a LLM soon. Waiting for that to happen.
Yes, and that's why monopolies must die, in practice desolved by governments.

Once you buy a smartphone today you and everybody who wants to do further business with you are at the mercy of a monopolist. For Apple 100%, for Google only 98% because you could side-load. But not a secure and practical solution today.
Darth Vader is just so much cooler and more menacing than Kylo Ren, and a lot of it is to do with that the latter loses his shit when he encounters an obstacle.
> When you look at any new condo development in a Canadian city (without government affordable-housing involvement), there end up being no bachelor, 1bd, or even 2bd units in the development; it's all 3bd+. Picture a condo tower where every floor is the penthouse. Many Canadian property developers only build this type of condo building.

This is just blatantly wrong.

https://www.cmhc-schl.gc.ca/professionals/housing-markets-da...

https://archive.is/c3Dtd#selection-47483.30-47483.95
Do you know how many motorcycle riders I see without anything on more than a t-shirt and jeans?

They all wear a helmet, and I get riding leathers are hot, but a t-shirt?
Bad guess, ho ho. Others catted binaries, I knew not to. I cut my teeth (pun intended) on Unix (pre-Linux) very early in my career.
> That the capitalist machine is first, humans second.

a loom of an idea, as it were, that is worthy of being smashed.
I only remember Dune 1 for its music but Dune 2 was something else. Thank you, Westwood!
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39643981, which has more background.
It is a double-edged sword. A right to refuse service is great when you have an unruly patron in a pub or restaurant that is ruining the evening for everybody else. But on the other side it is really easy for a company like Google to just kill your smaller company because they decided they do not want to allow you access to an account anymore.
What happens is they deny you access to the subway.

From an NYT article about court decision in 2006, at https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/12/nyregion/12search.html

> Passengers can refuse to open their bags and walk away, but they cannot go through the turnstile to the trains with bags they did not allow the police to search.
Clearly long past time to fire Tim, Phil, and Craig.
the default is very political.
This is humans-first. Work is done to meet human needs, so that the other humans will do work to meet your needs. The machine exists to serve us.
That is accurate. But those virtual visits are 50% cheaper than full telemedicine visits and 70% cheaper than in-person renews.

It should be noted their virtual visits are mostly performative. You're filling in a survey beforehand and the doctor is just there to read the survey and push a big green button.
some of plant-produced toxins are more toxic than the stuff we use - I don't know where I read it, but the indigenous ppl somewhere said to only eat stuff that has insect on it, because Insects know when the plant is less toxic - made sense to me
Uhm... in Poland there are usually "refill forms" at your chosen / doctors office, you fill it out, drop at the reception and then you get prescription code via sms with which you can claim it at any pharmacy (that has the drug)
Is anyone aware of a GitHub Copilot equivalent JetBrains plugin that can switch between models? Everything else I've looked at seems to just embed a chat UI or force you to do some kind of:

/chat Here is my message

In your code to invoke the LLM. Copilot is seamless and I've grown accustomed to how it works. Ideally I could also put in my own local LLM to test with as well. I've seen Continue.dev but it seems to require some kind of manual invoking (I'd love to be wrong).

I'd like to try swapping out GPT-4 for Claude 3 Opus but I'm not super interested in changing my workflow. I manually use ChatGPT or Copilot Chat (less so) for some cases but I really like the in-line suggestions in my editor.
I just like nice computers and don’t really care about the inter-corporate mudslinging.

Now not paying an equal share of tax, on the other hand, is criticism I can join in on.
I had this idea to create some sort of gamified RPG battle log format for government procedure. Members of government would be characters in the battle, actions like amendments/comments/votes would be attacks/spells/defensive moves (not respectively). Monsters would be the bills/resolutions/etc.

Then you could playback a session of congress/etc as a battle.

The purpose would be to mystify the procedure and analogize it to something people are more familiar with.
I was persuaded by this argument for most tech, but AI researchers really, really want to make humans obsolete.

I'm reminded of the God of the Gaps argument - if you prove a supreme being exists by the existence of phenomena we can't explain, then that supreme being's space to exist is ever-shrinking as we explain more and more natural phenomena.

I think your argument is a kind of employment-of-the-gaps, but AI doesn't have to stop short of human capability, so there's no reason to think the gap won't completely close.
can't eat potato raw anyways
A related lively dicussion from a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37636841

Long live Postgres queues.
You summed it up nicely.
That would be great, but I don't think federal appointees are ever forced or even asked to divest anything. At most he'd just have to disclose the conflict of interest.
>But please don't comment "ackshually extensions are insecure and using them is a bad idea"

I haven't? My first comment on this entire topic is the one you are replying to... And it can be summed up as "risk tolerance and security decisions is personal".

Yikes.
You should probably do a few cuts with Hanlon's Razor in this case.

The simplest explanation for what happened with Apple this past few weeks is that there's no master plan. The EU told them the rules, they didn't take them seriously, now they're realizing a bit late that they can't afford not to respect the rules and they're scrambling to figure out what that means.
No interest in Florida :-) Not that I go down to NYC much these days but have taken the NE Corridor/Acela many times which is a nice enough train ride (and not super-long). Love going in and out of NYC. Taking the train up at tail-end of a May trip from overseas.

Thanks for the info. I'd probably do at least some section of the Empire Builder or Zephyr if I did a long distance run.
My questions weren't just rhetorical, there is nothing in the posted article about the political connection of the meeting / conference that was disrupted.
The problem with his ritual is that he lost the warm showers. Warm to hot showers have their own benefits like opening up the skin pores for better cleaning while cold water closes shrinks them. As he already realised once he gets a warm shower again he might not go back.
I adopted cold showers for many years successfully with only very rare skips when I’m physically weak and ill. I just do a normal shower maybe with increasing heat and finish off cold.

As he describes correctly the effects are just awesome and I can’t skip it. The 3 minutes are not a necessity do as much as u feel comfortable your cold resistance increases each time. Fast deep breaths help but be very careful when switching from hot to cold in addition with deep breaths your body will collapse from hyperventilation quickly.
Why do zionists have unlimited justifications for executing a holocaust against the prisoners of the Gaza death camps just so zionists can expand their illegitimate lebensraum?
> Also, TSA worker is negative status.

Someone mentioned upthread this is a job for veterans because we won’t pay UBI or similar. It’s status enough, in some cases (“make work for veterans”.
Dune 2 was my first computer game. I played it as a child with my dad when we lived in China. Later, we'd play Dune 2000, Red Alert 2, and eventually Starcraft (all pirated of course). I wasted a huge amount of time but at least it helped instill in me a passion for computers.

Starcraft turned into Warcraft into Dota, and now I have 5000 hours in Dota 2. I often wonder what I could've accomplished if I hadn't been swallowed up by video games!
> you said you didn't notice a difference when it went away?

No, I said no difference "other than everything being suddenly faster". I'd say about 1-5% of animations are actually useful but I still wouldn't miss most of them.

> There's a lot of data out there that says otherwise

I would love to see that data. Not sure what your opinion on Gimp's UI design or its popularity has to do with the value of animations, or lack thereof.
I feel like I still need CUDA if there isn't something like an M3. Because I want to be able to experiment with LLMs and Stable Diffusion and whatever other models come out.

Does llama.cpp work with Radeon? Wait.. maybe ollama and Stable Diffusion will actually work with ROCm now?

I still suspect I am going to be swimming upstream if I experiment with newer or less common models on Python ML scripts on non-Nvidia hardware.
That is replicating the study when the study is about the superconducting properties of a material.

I think the LK-99 thing made it pretty clear that it is pretty difficult to do, there are lots of variables and lots of things that need to be ruled out to prove that something is superconducting.
If this really is your first web dev project then very well done! This is a great looking site.

If I could ask: what was your process for learning how to build this? E.g. did you follow tutorials, read books, use ChatGPT, etc.?

EDIT: I've noticed something I'd like to chat to you privately about please, could you please email me? My email is in my bio.
Where did that list come from? I don't see anything like that in the article.
While the outcome as it stands might be okay, they should still proceed with the request for more information so that they can better guard against removal of access in cases that they do not agree with.

What's to prevent them from changing their mind and blocking Epic again? What if Tim Sweeney says something else to hurt Apple's feelings in the future? Apple has too much free rein over removing access to this market, and while it may be a market that Apple has made, the EU is clearly requiring Apple to open up the market for others with the only restrictions being those where the app store or the apps themselves are damaging to consumers in the marketplace.
Possible China link to Change Healthcare ransomware attack
26k for an mri /w contrast last week because insurance decided it's not necessary despite the doctor asking for it.

Now the doctor has to put an appeal to explain medical necessity, I'm at his mercy.
I’m a mac user at home, and I don’t get their AI story/path now that they’re not supporting AMD/Nvidia GPUs since the Apple Silicon transition.

Maybe they’ll manage to get LLMs running well locally with the new low-bit developments? Not my area. But for training/learning it seems like Apple is DOA. They have the same problem as AMD, no one is doing research with their hardware or software.

Intentionally shipping low RAM/unified memory quantities seems short sighted too. Maybe with a 16GB baseline they could do something special with local LLMs.
Which x64 machines have you been using? I'm looking for a successor to PC Engines APUs
More ways to pointlessly waste energy to benefit a few when there is a climate crisis that demands more energy efficiency, such as via terrestrial mass transportation.
> ...you gotta have the self-control first. Then when you get the self-control, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women. — not AM
They still do noise shaping.
The baseline international volunteers need to demonstrate is that they provided benefit higher than just giving away the cost of their flights to get there.

IE: American volunteer groups going to poor countries to build them schools.