skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>if we can redistribute the AI-generated surplus, this will still be a net-win for us all.

which historical technological development that hugely improved productivity do you feel has led to an improved universal social safety net / public investment in whatever country you're from?
That feels like a much better approach compared to Devin. Autonomous agents are great for demos, not for products. Their demo smelled like smoke and mirrors.
Yes of course - it depends on what lens though. If you mean "I'm learning to build better from this" then no, but its very informative on Meta's own goals and mindset as well as real numbers that allow comparison to investment in other areas, etc. Also the point was mostly that Meta does publish a lot in the open - including actual open source tech stacks etc. They're reasonably good actors in this specific domain.
i believe all stock and futures trading, and any investment done on speculation is essentially gambling. even real estate investment can be considered gambling.
Was this also Apple's philosophy, pre-iPhone back when they were mainly known for the macs?
> Get rid of the UN and the statement would likely still be true

Get rid of the UN and the NYPD can be smaller.

And it's not just the UN. New York is a second diplomatic capital. So you're also replicating D.C.'s consular security force. This is before we get to it being a financial and cultural centre, to say nothing of the largest city in America and a precedented target of international terrorism.

> budget is roughly equivalent to 2020 Ukraine's

New York City's economy is double the size of Ukraine's pre-war economy [1][2]. Were it a country, it would sit between Turkey and Indonesia, eclipsing even the economy of Saudi Arabia [3].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_New_York_City#Gross...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Ukraine#Main_econom...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
That argument doesn't really hold a lot of water with me to be honest. If I sell (forced or otherwise) my shares in company because it isn't working on tech I agree with, and then they pivot and start working on tech I agree with and their shares pop, I am not entitled to sue them for damages.
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The closest to a large scale test was Covid stimulus across multiple countries, which at face value didn't yield great results and had some short term (<5 year) negative economic implications. But that was an emergency measure and done without planning ahead of time, so comparison may not be totally one-to-one with a "proper" U/BI system.
Sounds like it's free equity at the very least
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New Linux versions don't "salt the earth" for Windows.
Good point. In much the same way that you're trying to avoid emulators being considered only for piracy, I'm trying to avoid that with ebooks.

What I was commenting upon is that I think this particular thing will actually appear to many people to be for piracy of ebooks, and I don't want "ebook" to become synonymous with "pirated book" in the mind of the public (and especially not in the minds of publishers and authors who I want to encourage and support making non-DRM ebooks).

As a compromise, I'd like people whose efforts are intended for pirating books to distinguish that from legitimate ebooks, not call it simply "ebooks". Maybe then it'll be easier for our respective "freedom and access" goals to coexist.

(FWIW, I'm actually sympathetic to some of the uses of pirated books, such as sharing the wealth of the world's information with people who just can't afford it, or who have it officially denied to them. I'm less sympathetic to people who could pay for something but choose to take it instead, but I'm not trying to combat that here. I just want to mitigate some of the bad effects of piracy, such as legitimate buyers only being able to get DRM'd books, and only for consumer-hostile locked-down devices. Please don't inadvertently sabotage that orthogonal effort by appropriating language.)
I'm not missing the point at all. I think we're just willing talking past each other???

We've been sending robot explorers for decades. If we're sending humans, we should no longer be considering them explorers. They're settlers. Framing it any differently is just a serious limitation of what we're trying to do. Send up the equipment they need in advance. If the colonies fail (with all that entails), study it to see why and prep for the next attempt. It eliminates all of this hand wringing, and simplifies things to the point of becoming achievable
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No, it doesn't take coordinated effort.

If one company stands up and says "no" and then discloses to the subject, it both raises the risk of exposure on other government entities considering the same and increases the likelihood of another company opposing it next time.

Both are wins to build upon.
Probably a really cheap cost for security research recruitment.

That's the recruiter cost for 200 security personnel.
+1 it's also a no go for most of my clients for whom data cannot even leave the country, let alone the European union.
Or you will become a negative to society and not find another job. Perhaps be forced into negative elements like crime or hacking for a payday.

Many never recover and age makes a difference.
> most/all foreign threats to NYC will pass through the Feds jurisdiction (border control, customs, coast guard etc)

After 9/11, it seems fair for New York to want to take anti-terrorism into its own hands, even if that duplicates certain federal functions. (I'm not arguing it's effective. Just that it makes sense for the city to not entirely trust the Feds.)
Oh you're right then, I withdraw my point. It's impossible to learn to work on cars.
This is a gross mischaracterization. I would encourage you to re-read both of my replies so as to best respond to the points about how government involvement does not actually solve problems, but instead perpetuates problems because of institutional corruption.

Ad hominem attacks are not a counterargument to these inescapable facts, they're also against the community guidelines and do very little to persuade anyone to your position: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Are you even thinking about the risks if he loses the case?

He'd be giving up his sources and even opening himself up to the risk of them investigating him and charging him with other crimes.

Any intelligent attorney would advise their client against it.

Once you go to court anything can happen and either way it's prohibitively expensive.

People in my own family have done nothing wrong and lost everything they owned fighting in civil court over smaller stakes than this. Going to civil court is the absolute last resort. Nobody wins but the attorneys.

Going to court is only worth it in criminal cases and insurance/liability cases.

/s used to work at one of the largest lawfirms in the US.
At least where I work, if a random user bypasses the helpdesk with an informal request, my manager will back me up if they complain about no-response because there’s a formal method to follow for a reason.

It’s not an “illegal” subpoena, police can try and ask whatever they want, but I’m assuming there’s no penalties for ignoring.

But I asked a question, maybe there are exceptions and you must respond anyway despite lack of warrant.

While there could be reasons considered valid to respond to an informal request (some urgent life/safety matter), the police can and do lie, but are less likely to do so to a judge.

Lived in a building once where management agreed to police installed warrantless spycams in some hallways and told management it was to investigate a car theft ring, but it was some guy (edit:) storing drugs and keeping to themself.

Sadly, I don’t think there’s any kind of post-review of urgent informal requests to assess validity/accuracy of the request with consequences.
Another case of malicious compliance from a big US corp that is accustomed to literally owning US lawmakers. Good bye! Another company I won't touch anymore.
We've adjusted our pricing based on your comments and advice. It's not 100% free, but it now seems to make more sense to most of you. What do you think?
I saw that and initially I thought it was pretty damning too until I noticed there doesn't appear to be any evidence anyone actually read the message they sent prior to the "illegal" transaction taking place.
Well some of us do. There's this interesting effect where many people perceive the limitations on their current tools to be equivalent to limitations on their abstract abilities. If they don't know how to do it, it's impossible.
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It becomes a problem if broods emerge two years in a row. Then the predator population would not have enough time to die down before the second emergence.
speak for yourself I've had two apple products, ever, an Ipod touch 4 (trash) and an ipod nano 7th gen, the nano was good but for music playback, I'd never get an iphone, I'm not down to lock myself down to their terrible ecosystem
> Or is there [or is there not a] no smooth road after all the bumps of the transition?

That's the trillion dollar question
> but also the only hope for humankind

You make it sound as if humankind is doomed if we don't do it. But we're doomed anyway; no species on Earth has survived more than a coupla hundred thousand years without evolving into something else.

I think there's a desperate desire to live forever, behind some of the speculation about long-distance manned space-travel. Hey, guys, it's like this: you ain't gonna live forever. You won't be able to orbit Alpha Centauri, let alone colonize the galaxy.

100 years ago, we weren't at all sure that the Milky Way wasn't the same as the Universe. As we learn of faraway places, naturally we dream of visiting them; but now we know for sure that there are places we can see, that definitely can't be visited. We'll get over these dreams eventually, and maybe realize that we have to take due care of our home planet, and try to avoid killing one another in wars. Those are the great threats to 'hope', and the idea of survival through space-travel is a distraction for people who aren't prepared to face that fact.
Are we supposed to know who you're quoting and what it's even about?
> Just because geeks understand computers doesn't give them the right to dictate how other people should use their devices. Just like car modders shouldn't have a say on how normal people use their cars.

No one is telling normal people how to use their phones/cars. If you want the option of doing something different, however, you may need the government to help you stop companies from being anti-consumer.
Wanted to give kudos. This is one of those solutions that “just works” and was really nice to see. Well done!
This looks like a free version of https://rive.app/ (also free).

What would you say differentiates it? And why would I pick yours over rive long term?
Looks really interesting! Would love it to support Swift, it's very underserved with other AI code assistant tools currently.
whoa this is seriously impressive!
it really is funny how much abuse by the government people in the US will tolerate if it's by cops and not the tax office or trying to make the health insurance market slightly less insane.

why is that? is it like australia, where everyone is just deep down a narc?
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Too many people using the safety nets will cause them to collapse.
Just to answer to the turbo aspect, I've seen a big downgrade in quality when comparing 4 to 4-turbo, and even the new preview which is explicitly supposed to follow my instructions better. So I'm running a first pass through 4 and then combinging it with 4-turbo to take advantage of the larger context window and then running 4 on it again to get a better quality output.
But regardless of your impression, they give loads of stuff away.
The EU will still want to protect their capabilities to spy on people's phones, now, or maybe in the future. They will not want to mess with that by giving users too much control over their phone.
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Assuming that's true for the sake of argument, it shouldn't be that surprising given that NYC is more-populous than the long tail of "most" countries as well. Having 8.5 million people puts it near Austria, Switzerland, Hong Kong [0], or Serbia.

[0] Yeah yeah, "one country two systems", whatever, it's still a relevant comparison.
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Do you know that or do you just feel it? If you know it, how do you know? Is that knowledge reflected in the reporting?

If you camped avherald watching for incidents, and you had an inciting incident like the door plug (indisputably a major story!) to start from, could you create the same narrative for Bombardier? I think you could.
18 U.S. Code § 1960 isn't about money laundering though, it's about "unlicensed money transmitting businesses".
Where did you gain this insight into how the plane’s software was built?
"Everything You Wanted to Know About GenAI at Meta, Except the One Thing You Honestly Care About" (Llama 3).
Right now Boeing gets much more attention on anything that goes bad.

Can't but say the company brought it on themselves.

That being said that was a noteworthy incident regardless.
Over the last decade or so I extended the useable, updateable life of several ASUS Android phones using LineageOS (née CyanogenMod). I'm now a GrapheneOS Pixel user, but I'd use LineageOS again on suitable devices as needed.

If you're thinking of using LineageOS, make sure to look up MicroG to see if you can or cannot live without that additional set of apps and libraries:

https://microg.org/
Significantly more than that; MFN pricing for NVIDIA DGX H100 (which has been getting priority supply allocation, so many have been suckered into buying them in order to get fast delivery) is ~$309k, while a basically equivalent HGX H100 system is ~$250k, coming to a price per GPU at the full server level being ~$31.5k. With Meta’s custom OCP systems integrating the SXM baseboards from NVIDIA, my guess is that their cost per GPU would be in the ~$23-$25k range.
Happy to explain a bit more!

Here are the steps we go through:

- Checkout the code to a temporary directory (which is deleted when it goes out of scope in python, so at the end of the indexing API call)

- Use Tree Sitter to create an index of just your chosen "Directory to Index" and then store that in a Redis cache

- We clear the index from the Redis cache if you haven't used it in 2 hours.

I don't know why exactly it says the message to "Act on your behalf". I just double-checked in our app, and confirmed that these are the only permissions we get:

- Contents - Read-only

- Metadata - Read-only

- Email addresses - Read-only

We agree that we shouldn't take write access if we are not writing PRs. Hopefully that helps!
Trio of Engineers Developed a GPS-Denied Drone for Under $500
I learned English around 5-6, and what’s weird to me is I have vivid memories from before that where I’m speaking English but clearly wasn’t.
I visited the Airbus facility in Hamburg, about 20 years ago. They showed us lots of "scrap bins" at the various production lines. And "scrap bins" is what they called those indeed.

I particularly recall one with titanium (AFAIR) Hi-Lok bolts[1] that didn't pass the xray for defects. They told us those would be melted.

They looked flawless and were all brand new, nicely anodized. We were allowed to grab a few each, as souveniers. These are not cheap (I think the guys said they cost around 10 EUR each, at the time, but I may misremember) and a plane uses a shitload of them.

Now lets say you're out for whatever reason. That would halt your production line. If your safety culture is shitty, you may decide to just use those Hi-Loks that passed xray with 95% or whatever threshold suits you overcoming your shortage ...

And the above sounds to me like that's what the whisteblower suggested happened at Boeing.

[1] https://www.lisi-aerospace.com/en/product/hi-lok-and-hi-lite...
> And if you think any Jack or Jill can just come in and text prompt a whole movie, you're crazy. It's still hard work and a metric ton of good taste.

Yeah, I cant wait for ChuChuTV to get the best film Oscar /s.
IOS would be cool...

IMessage?

Basically everything?

That would be a strict improvement for humanity over the current state of affairs.
I can see a lifer, someone who've spent their whole life at a single company, reacting this way. Their identity is tied so closely to their employer that having to "blow the whistle" probably feels like a terrible betrayal against the company.
No, the presence of the function is not evidence that something is due to that function or the absence of other functions. Many people blindly believe only the speculations that support them and it is unfortunate that much easy confirmation bias believing this misunderstanding has also been observed here due to my not explaining it right away.
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Per Federal Law (Stored Communications Act), authorities that want to access electronic records need a court-issued warrant. This failed to meet that requirement.
If they follow the Mac model of non-notarized app packages being installable with a warning (which can he disabled system-wide with a hidden setting) then that's basically equivalent to the Android model, which requires jumping through extra hoops to enable third-party app installs as well.

People will be tricked into jumping through all of those hoops to install malware on their phones, but people are already tricked into harming themselves via their phones all the time on iOS and Android alike. People are ticked into using their (legit) bank apps to send money to fraudsters, into downloading (from the App Store) NFT scam apps, into downloading (from the App Store) scammy and predatory apps disguised as free colorful puzzle games. What does this proposed malware do? Surreptitiously record location data? Trick the user into parting from their money? Pop up unexpected ads and redirects? Apple's blessed apps already do all of that. What bad behavior is possible in from within an app sandbox that isn't common practice on the App Store? The only thing that comes to mind is location recording and sending of that information to the attacker, ie a spying GPS app installed by an abuser. The platform-level way to fix that would be to allow users to provide apps spoofed locations without informing the app that the location isn't real, which Apple won't do because... it would harm Netflix and Niantic's business model, I guess?
Also, something else to consider, I kind of consider the automation of writing code not all that different from the automation of architectural and engineering drawings. No doubt some engineers were distraught when computers took the fun out of drawing, and professional draftsmen were devastated, but otherwise engineering is still viable enough as a career for parents to pressure their kids into studying it.

Perhaps a more realistic prediction of the future is that we start to identify a little more as designers, concerned more with the design of software and how it functions, rather than engineering concerns like making code performant and efficient.

I felt that software engineering as a career had a short shelf-life around 2020, but I wasn't too worried about it, as I figured I'd probably just transition to design as a career, I kind of think graphic design is cooler anyway. I began to have doubts about this plan once DALL-E caused an existential panic among illustrators, but otherwise I think it still has legs.

Those who adapt will probably do so by essentially becoming UI/UX designers who happen to also know how to code well, and probably know some other more general design skills just to round things out a little more.
I work across the street from a well-known security research group who has been on HN front page before.

Every one of them uses iPhones because they cannot be rooted and are encrypted by default.

Venn of old people and at least one group of security professionals.
Good answer. Thank you. I use both almost every day, and it is difficult to distinguish between them for me. What seems more relevant between the two free versions is that Perplexity can answer questions related to recent events.

In any case all this seems related to technical differences. I am not sure about marketing differences. Do they target different target audiences? Different kind of people?
> in those cases, people expected to live there, settle and have children, etc

exactly. These people are choosing to go to Mars without expecting to come back. If they die of old age or catastrophic failure doesn't matter. They willingly had no intent of coming back. So the cheeky comments about only send "old" to Mars is not totally out of line. Just remove the age constraint, and make it people willing to take a one way trip. There are people right now willing to do it.

It totally changes the agenda. If we can just plan on making long term remote isolated bases, then we just focus on that. But it takes the same amount of effort to survive on the surface for short stays that then require the extra effort of returning. So I'm saying we're wasting effort on the first stages including the return. Let the people willing to relocate do it, establish a foot hold so that the "weekenders" can come visit if that's something that is still felt as a need.
Yes, but if presented with a warrant for your property (ex. subscriber information) you must comply or be charged with obstructing justice or impeding an investigation.

When presented with an administrative subpoena not backed by a warrant you may be able to deny the subpoena without being guilty of such crimes.
If memory serves, that's less of a Lineage problem and more of a Samsung problem; they tend to be hostile to user modification (locked bootloaders, etc.). Or at least, that was the case last time I looked at them.
Buying handcrafted artisan stuff is a luxury few can afford. I come from a poor family and I was always grateful for mass produced mediocre stuff that we could actually afford.
You really need to try Opus. Try a provider that works across models (one in my bio).
> and included links to a clearnet website for BITCOIN FOG (www.bitcoinfog.com), the Tor onion site (http://foggeddriztrcar2.onion), and a Twitter feed for updates on the site (www.twitter.com/#!/@Bitcoinfog)

This is how many illegal services get decloaked. They have a clearnet domain, but ironically a darknet .onion too which is what they should just have, not a clearnet domain (if what you're doing is illegal or operates in a legal grey area). I am aware it's possible to get a clearnet domain anonymously with services like NJALLA[0], but you have to take extra special care, pay with crypto, do everything over Tor, use XMPP w/OTR etc

[0] https://njal.la/
It's really a lot more simple than you're making it out to be. The word 'purpose' refers to intent, not capability. Xbox is a gaming console because that's what it was meant to be. The iPhone is intended to run many different categories of applications, because that's what it was designed to do.
> algorithmic megaphone

Stealing that one, thanks!
I think it's still pretty clear that the bug hunters are getting the short end of the stick.
In the Air France flight 11 [0] situation the pilots thought they were having instrument and control issues, they had to go around, and there was much panic in the cockpit. It turned out the entire thing was pilot induced and the aircraft was fine. Because of Boeing's massive failures on the minds of everyone it'll be interesting to see if this was truly an instrumentation failure or something else.

[0] https://simpleflying.com/air-france-boeing-777-serious-incid...
Graphics programmers are wizards.
The Day Soft Deletes Caused Chaos
The impression I got from this thread yesterday is that Google's having difficulty keeping up with the heavy internal demand for TPUs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39670121
Nothing I'm saying has anything to do with sympathy for Boeing.