skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great, and I will repeat something here I have mentioned in the past about AI image generator datasets.

Instead of building image generators off of images scraped from people's art without their consent, we could use openly licensed images, and intentionally push the public towards licensing more of their images for open datasets by encouraging twitter and instagram/meta to add image license options to image uploads, and running some public service campaigns on these platforms to encourage use of open licenses to help build better datasets.

At the same time the smaller image sets that would be available would encourage additional research in to sample efficiency, which I regularly hear would be a generally useful area for further research.

This approach would ensure several things: Public datasets would be available to all, not just the major institutions (assuming enough people cared about open licensed models to push the major players to use them), sample efficiency would be improved, more people would get used to licensing their images for public use, and artists who did not want their style copied by these technologies would have their rights respected.

That last point would have a HUGE effect on public opinion about AI, building trust between the public and the AI research community.

Ultimately I am in favor of a world where intellectual property restrictions are sharply curtailed, but to do that ethically we would need to put in place other systems to provide for those whose livelihood depends upon their intellectual works. And if someone created a work before AI existed, and they reserved their legal rights for their work at the time of publication, I think that should be respected such that the work would be left out of machine learning datasets.

This approach would take more work, but setting this expectation would encourage the tech industry to clarify image licenses on their platforms, ultimately promoting open culture and open image licenses.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391090
There are TONS of operational issues running cockroach. At the last company I was at cockroach was probably over used as a magical way to run multiple DCs and keep things consistent without high developer overhead, but it was #1 source of large outages. So much so that we’d run a cockroach segmented out for a single microservice to limit the blast radius when it eventually failed.

That and its comically more expensive than Postgres, if you think IOPs are expensive wait till you see the service contract.
> people should look at this through the lens of it being a massive real estate deal rather than as a civil rights issue

People can look at it however they please, and each take can have nuance, but the classic "Well you're all dumb if you think someone isn't corrupt here" is not new, not interesting, and not evident, it's just plausible.

No matter what the issue is, there's some pissed off person that thinks they've got the often suspiciously nebulous take that nobodies thought about and serves no purpose but to try cast aspersions at an otherwise novel and probably positive thing. "Don't forget about this hypothetical non-specific negative possibility! Someone could be corrupt guys!"

It's ok to hold two ideas in your head at the same time. On one hand, no process with huge money involved can be vaccinated from corruption. On the other, there's a brutal amount of displacement and wealth inequality in Vancouver that's particularly intense among indigenous people. We want to see the city evolve in a way that brings people who aren't property boomers or literal billionaires into a viable future, and reasons to be optimistic are scarce.

So ya, boring and hollow takes get downvoted.
We got a couple of secondhand ex-living room sofas very cheap. IKEA. Full leather, looked nice and an absolute dream to sit and lie on, just exactly the right combination of firm and soft.

These were for the kid areas. They had reduced the previous (IKEA Ektorp) sofas to rubble over a couple of years. These new ones didn't last long at all. The suspension underneath the cushions is criss-crossed webbing in a softwood frame. Well you can imagine, a 90lb child jumping on that, the forces that develop. And then the frame breaks at the front. And there's nothing structural at the front of the sofa, just some 1/4" thick fiberboard, to anchor replacement frame material to so you can't really fix it.

Oh well. One of them now has solid plywood - very well fastened to what structural elements are available - so it's now very firm but the kids don't care. The other, I had the inspiration of mounting the plywood lower and putting another layer of cushioning in there (leftover seat cushions from the demolished Ektorp sofas). That's actually pretty good.

But without rambunctious kids, these sofas, which were already 10-15 years old, would have lasted quite a while longer. It's wizardly, the seating comfort they got out of such simple and cheap materials.
Aren’t they running some GPT2 version in iPhone 15.
The also stopped this car thing and decided to move all the AI researches from the Apple car into implementing something for AI on AI for Apple devices

Not saying that’s cutting edge but there is more to the AI division than meets the eye.
Auto got pivoted to this project. The new keyboard uses a transformers architecture and I feel that the keyboard is much more accurate than before.
> Meanwhile, the vast majority of people have $30 wifi routers that are incorrectly configured and positioned behind a concrete wall in the garage. So 100mbps comes into their house, but their laptops, TVs and phones see 20mbps.

Why would they have the routers in their garage instead of in their house? Most houses that have cable have cable outlets inside the house, since the reason cable was originally put in was to support cable TV and generally people have their TVs in the house.
Actually it was profit-seeking humans. I believe Zombo.com is still harmless.
AltStore is a bad joke, you can only install 2 apps (three, minus the altstore app), and you have to connect your phone to a MacOS computer and run the app every week.

Just let me click on an IPA to install it, it's really not that deep!
You misunderstood me because you didn't read what I wrote carefully but I don't care to convince you of your biases. I don't have time for this BS anymore.

Listen my neighbour just died. He was a struggling renter. I'm deeply saddened by this and everybody struggling. I know its even harder to leave behind what's familiar but it's not going to get better but the longer you stay in a financially strapped situation and waiting for a bailout from the government the more you suffer. This is why I'm telling people to forget about this miserable city and look elsewhere as I am.

The Canadian government is taking 60% of my income. Why isn't it being used to alleviate this situation?! My sadness is turning into anger and disappointment.
sounds like PR
If you're in the market for a smaller, cheap(ish) EV with decent range, the Chevy Bolt (used) is basically the only option, and honestly can be had for less than any equivalent ICE vehicle of similar quality/mileage
Whenever the GDPR is mentioned here, people more or less treat it as a sign of fascism. With that attitude from us, how can our rights on privacy be respected?

I'm extremely glad that the GDPR and NOYB.eu mean that car manufacturers can't pull that shit here. If I opt out, I'm opted out, or there will be big fines for them.
Imagine that exact use-case -- pulling up relevant tax information and filling it

Now imagine it from the accountant POV, where they have the same use-case for hundreds of clients

This is where we've seen something like Skyvern really shine. It's targeting industries and companies that are doing rote work at a significant scale
> Pedantic Catholics wouldn't recognize the religious validity of a marriage involving a divorced person blessed by a different church, but they don't challenge the legal validity.

A pedantic Catholic would note that the Church actually presumes the religious validity of non-Catholic marriages between people who are non-Catholics, even though such marriages would be invalid for a Catholic, and while the issue of prior divorce makes this a more difficult question, it only does so because it then requires a definitive resolution of the presumed validity of the former marriage.

This is not-infrequent source of complications if one of the partners, after divorce in the second marriage, seeks to marry a Catholic in the Catholic Church, so its a fairly well-documented issue, if perhaps obscure to people who aren't pedantic Catholics.
Something like the GDPR?
Has Subaru been doing this as well with their STARLINK?
It is really frustrating. I live in a US city (close to the city center) where my options are Spectrum or AT&T. AT&T still only provides ADSL (recently updated to 30/10). 5 years ago, AT&T tore up our street and laid fiber. 3 streets over, fiber is available, but still not on my street.
“ Some utilities say they need additional fossil fuel capacity because cleaner alternatives like wind or solar power aren’t growing fast enough and can be bogged down by delayed permits and snarled supply chains. ”
There it is, thank you! That’s exactly the conversation I was thinking of. And I see now that the person I was talking to was in fact the very person I replied to here in this thread.
What do you mean? All of our code can be found here https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/Skyvern
I'm a fan of our state lottery.

It's transparent, has outside consultants from the various university math departments vetting it, accountants ensuring the running costs are low, and sans overheads all money put in goes back out as either prize money or grants.

It's essentiantly optional taxation with a small chance of winning a lump sum, a very good chance of getting 10% back, and a certainty of supporting community projects such as housing near hospitals for patients|their families in need, public housing, arts, etc.

https://www.lotterywest.wa.gov.au/lotterywest/where-the-mone...

In the last year it paid out $350 million in commnity grants, $700 million in prizes, and self funded with a sliver of money paid in for tickets.
you are assuming (incorrectly) that housing demand is elastic.
UK spy agency releases puzzle for potential new recruits
great list! as someone who's also trying to map the ai engineering landscape... i wonder what u think of adding other parts of the AI stack (https://www.latent.space/p/dec-2023). right now you have 4 categories and those are all in the text/code-heavy RAG/Agent world, but i think the space has broadened out a bit as i see it. for example, you could add:

- finetuning/other post-pretrain model tools (axolotl, mergekit <- all made and used by people without traditional ML engineer/researcher background)

- multimodal models/frameworks like vocode and comfyui

- AI UX tools like vercel ai sdk

- synthetic data generation tooling? whatever the nous pple have made

open question whether inference frameworks like llama.cpp/ollama or vllm and tgi count as AI Eng tools? again given the background of ggeranov and the students behind the other projects, arguably yes but ofc it starts to bleed into classical mlops here. (update: i see u have them in the "model development" category, ok fair)
Was Alvord hot springs not open? I know they've been hit or miss over the years. It's pretty primitive, basically a hole dynamited into the ground but the water is amazing and it's usually never busy. They also have a great access road to the playa.
I don’t believe so, do you have a link to the thread? Would be easy to verify. In any case my comment isn’t what I personally do just what I believe the gp comment meant rather than what the comment I was replying to thought it meant.
Yet Texas, in aggregate, continues to vote him and the christofascists into office.
Why do you call it fake?
I’d sure like to know this, as we’re on Optimum 100, which isn’t sold to new customers anymore.

Also of note, some uploads might actually go up substantially - a bunch of people on 100 down plans have seen uploads cut to almost nothing, e.g, 35 -> 5.

Time will tell.
Are you thinking of this story? https://www.wired.com/2017/05/russian-hackers-using-tainted-...

Those phishing emails and links are distinct from the DNC leak
This is wonderful. I hope you are able to make this a full product.

Suggestion:
- import SVGs?
- create custom shapes and groups and add them to a "library" so you can reuse them across projects?
> I oppose this. 100mbps just isn't what most people need.

It's a quality of life improvement. :/
Yeah, I let the oppressor device suffer.
I have consistently found Siri works better than Alexa for what I use a voice assistant for. Google assistant beats them both though.

At this point I feel like I rarely have any Siri issues and use it all the time so I am confused when people mention how bad it is.
Agreed. I work from home, but my upload speed still kills me at time. It is not uncommon to need to share a 500M+ file with a colleague, and 30-60 minutes is just too slow. I still have to go into the office on some days when I know I'll be doing stuff like this.

Not to mentions that for my personal computers, I want offsite backups. I have to take a hard-drive and personal laptop to the office every few months to seed a full backup, since it is just too slow from home, other than the incremental backups.
All my Ikea stuff has been perfectly fine as well.

A photo fell off the wall and put a rather large hole in a Lack coffee table one time. We were pretty amazed that the photo frame won. It was a $25 table. I could buy many for the price of something nice.

Having small kids around, and seeing how they play, learn to use a fork, etc, I feel like we made the right choice buying cheaper. Plus what kid doesn't want to play at the table mom and dad let them sticker bomb?
You're welcome! For next time, searching for "nozzlegear onstar" only returned two comments, today's and this one from a year ago.
Yes, but maybe not to the same extent.

You can opt out here:

https://subarucustomersupport.powerappsportals.com/Consumer-...
Now I have to check that.
You're fine if a search machine returns zero results about you. Never put your personal information out in the wild. This includes a linkedin profile. I haven't found a solution if you're a business owner but even then try to limit exposure as much as possible.
"by their own legal system". The Australian government can come to whatever conclusion it wants about how it deals with its land.

That is, it was the Australian legal system which made that decision and further that decision was not countermanded by the Government of Australia. It wasn't the legal system of, say, Jamaica forcing the Australian Government to do that. Or even the legal system of the peoples who were occupying the territory when the British arrived.
When you use these ‘delete me’ services to remove your information from a platform like Dropbox, there’s a hidden catch. These services are often linked to companies that trade in email addresses. By submitting your email for deletion, you might unwittingly end up having it sold to marketers or data brokers, potentially leading to even more spam and unwanted contacts. Or maybe nice target ads … depending who bought your email address
Go has a race detector that you can leave on for a while in like a dev environment and it’ll flag race conditions. There was documented overhead and at some point even a memory leak but they spent months looking into it and eventually plugged the leak and the saga is now part of their official docs. It’s really interesting to see that kind of stuff laid bare so I would trust that this feature will at least run reasonably well and if it doesn’t, they’ll likely fix it:
https://go.dev/doc/articles/race_detector
https://go.dev/issue/26813
It's not just upload speeds though, don't forget also needing a static IP address (or two...) and unblocked ports, and a decent router and other networking gear. And when residential Internet goes IPv6-only (...eventually) you'll likely still need dual-stack IPv4 to avoid problems with connections from IPv4-only endpoints.

Oh, and an SLA too...

UPnP was meant to help alleviate some of those requirements but I don't think there's been any progress on that front since the spec came out in 2001...
What about the (happy) isles of Oceania? The night skies there are nigh unreal. I've never seen the milky way like that before.
> What happens if the manufacturer decides to be unreasonable, by saying that no industry standard of certification is acceptable, or just the one organization they founded themselves, or that sort of thing, is that they get a sharply-worded letter from the Oregon DA

That assumes that the Oregon DA isn't collecting a bunch of campaign funds, gifts, etc from Apple in which case the DA will do nothing and taking apple to court yourself will likely end in a loss since our legal system is often pay to win and apple can out-spend you.

>If a CEO ordered a company to do the sort of thing you're proposing, it would be against the advice of council.

CEOs often break the law because they (and their council) know the risks of getting caught are small and/or that if they are caught the worst punishment they'll face is a fine which won't come anywhere close to the amount of money they'll make by breaking the law.

Generally, it's a good thing that laws are subject to interpretation by humans and not treated like code written for machines because we want flexibility, but without enough oversight and accountability that doesn't work out so well for us either.
> They pull their kids out of school after grade 8

This is inaccurate. Their schooling is complete after grade 8.
> coerced into taking drugs with harsh side-effects.

You're not guaranteed side effects. If you do experience them, you'd normally get different medication options.

Also, you can have discussion about it and the effects. If you end up anywhere close to coercing regardless of side effects, it's not the drugs that are the problem.
DNA libraries are read out using sequencing techniques. But I doubt anyone would say they are just measuring DNA. It’s kind of like saying a luciferase based assay is just measuring the intensity of light.
NASA missions are being delayed by oversubscribedand out-of-date supercomputers
My wife and I are both doctors; she does not carry her phone into her clinic rooms unless she's on call. I'm an anesthesiologist, so I have to be immediately available while I'm at work or on call. I always apologize to patients if I have to do more than glance at a text/call to determine if it's right-now important or can wait.
I hate how many companies don't give a flying shit about privacy and completely ignore user selections under the guise of incompetence.

I would like to see a judge with sympathy for this sentiment fine them out of existence.
Kinda interesting that the open source core of macOS is called Darwin https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...

And now…they snagged DarwinAI.
None of the payment mechanisms I suggested do anything of the sort. In fact none of them involve a bank at all.

And since the receiver can choose to not cash in the postage, the postage need not be validated at all.
From "The Sopranos", Patsy and Burt failed extortion attempt at "Starbucks", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Gsz7Gu6agA
Really useful advice. More people should see and heed this
Am I reading it correctly that because App Isolation is based on MSIX and MSIX requires code signing, that an app cannot be sandboxed unless it is signed? That seems silly.
Hey Chip, thanks for your contributions along the years and the amazing book.

2 questions: From what you researched, how many of those solutions are ready for production? and Regarding this mortality, what are the let's say top 5 things someone needs to think even before to do a PoC over those tools?
People want new sofas every few years bur can’t afford good ones
Deleting Software I Wrote Upon Leaving Employment of a Company
I don't know too much about this woman so I scoped her Twitter feed

https://x.com/XVanFleet/status/1768375317695996395?s=20

> Chinese conservative author Yu Jie
@yujie89
offers a profile of anti-Trump Chinese “influencers”, both outside and inside China:

> They are mostly left-wingers and supporters of BLM.

> They are mostly atheists.

> They are mostly favored guests/commentators of Chinese language MSM.

> Among them is the famous dissident Ai Weiwei.

Conflating leftist ideology with BLM when BLM is explicitly a movement against excessive police violence against black people is funny - kinda says the quiet part out loud about what conservatives represent.

Not to mention the religious rage baiting.

Scrolling through her feed, she seems like your typical American right wing talk show political grifter. You can't "win in the marketplace of ideals" against these people with rigorous logic and spirited debate, if you could, they wouldn't exist, because their entire belief system depends on cognitive fallacy.

As someone else put it, modern university students are less naive than that. They understand that people like this woman aren't here to say "can I tell you why I think communism is bad from my time under a communist regime," but instead are asking "can I come rage bait your campus by fear mongering about all leftist ideology, tying it into religious fear mongering and doing a bit of race baiting? I will likely also be fomenting whatever this week's culture war talking points are." And the students, rightly, are engaging this speaker in the way she deserves: protest. Preventing her from speaking isn't really the point, loudly demonstrating her viewpoints aren't welcome is.
That warms my heart! Awesome to hear!
Bought our sectional from a Bassett showroom almost 10 years ago. Extremely comfortable and the thing still looks brand new. Checked a few items on their website and found that they're still made in North Carolina.
Isn't this just a white-hat/black-hat hacker dynamic, except in this case the latter is legal?
Phone meta data is tracked. Car meta data is tracked. Supplement with credit card data, browsing history, the Rings in your neighborhood, etc., etc., etc.

Per, "Stand Out of Our Light", we don't stand a chance.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/20/stand-out-of...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MaIO2UIvJ4g
Remember that some autobiographical themes are used in the Shvejk book itself.

In particular, the volunteer Marek had been an editor for an Animal World journal, where he published articles about made up animals. And even entered a public debate with some ornithologist who questioned his articles. That's in the chapter Skvejk's Adventures in Kyralyhida.

If I remember correctly, Hashek was also selling dogs in real life (Shvejk's profession in the book).
Room and Board makes very good furniture. When my wife and I moved into our new home a few years ago, we decided to invest in high quality furniture that would last decades. Originally we ordered a sofa from Interior Define that never arrived. Something wonky was going on with that company, many people never received their orders and they wouldn’t issue a refund. Thankfully we were still within the window to do a chargeback.

We have a sofa, coffee table, bed, nightstands, and some wall sconces from Room and Board. I am very impressed with the materials and build quality; I can tell everything will wear well and age nicely. Worth the investment, highly recommended.
The problem is that it sounds like the device manufacturer gets to decide what certifications are sufficient. Presumably they could decide that no certifications are sufficient, and thus no one can run a certified repair shop.

Or they could offer their own certification, but make attaining it prohibitively expensive or difficult.
This is at least a Florida lawsuit. I'm pretty sure the practice violates California law as well.
Yes, I was disappointed to find only one or two images from each famous artist.