skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fake AI law firms are sending fake DMCA threats to generate fake SEO gains
getting access to an independent income stream is vitally, vitally important in this situation, and getting away from bad parents is actually both considerably less all-or-nothing and more feasible than you are imagining, often
This let me know about HTTP 451. Very clever, also very cute website
An employer can fire employees for literally no reason, right? Even if there are protected categories of people that could sue an employer for unjust termination, this can be easily circumvented. If people can be fired for no reason, then dictating how companies should be using email is pointless and will create more problems that it will solve.

The real solution here would be that you can't fire someone just because someone else is more productive... except that would go against at-will employment and would crush small companies that will not be able to take on the risk. Additionally, some people are just more productive by nature, and not trying to do it because they hate their coworkers. Some people are better at things than other people, this is just natural and trying to control it and equalize the playing field would be catastrophic. I think if someone is in a position where their coworkers are outperforming to the point that person feels overwhelmed, then that job is probably not the right match and they need to keep looking until they find that intersection of something they are naturally good at and something a company needs.
I think the bizarrity arises from the following differences in beliefs:

* That "_any_ form of creative expression" is a viable creative substitute for people wanting to create in a _specific_ medium of creative expression -- especially those that had a high barrier of technical skills required to be seen as "good enough" to share.

* That a person who has an idea for art will put in the necessary time to become proficient enough to create that "good enough" art through traditional means (IMO demonstrably incorrect), and that is preferred over that person just not expressing a lower-quality version of that idea at all.

* That those who use AI primarily want or expect to "perform at the level of the practiced and talented" (i.e. top-tier art) rather than using it to produce art they otherwise couldn't have, even at low- and mid-level qualities.

* That there is no skill or talent in using AI tools to produce art (or that the skill or talent using AI tools is meant to be a full replacement for traditional artistic skills or talents).

FWIW, I'm a long-time sketch artist and acrylics painter (~20 years). There are many mediums, subjects, and styles that I'm not good at -- and I enjoy using AI to express myself in those areas (and have also liked using AI to create songs to show to my more musicially-adept wife...). But even in my own wheelhouse (landscapes and still life), I also often use AI to brainstorm composition, perspective, colors, textures, lighting, etc. It's a great tool for experts to lean on, but an even better tool for non-artists who couldn't or wouldn't otherwise share their art.
Yes, definitely a project, especially with the shortages of transformers lately. But even if it delayed their (attempted) EV shift, it’s something Hertz needed to have done before buying a bunch of EVs. Handing out discharged EVs to customers who haven’t driven an EV before was a totally braindead move.

They have the added challenge of people dropping off cars at a different place from where they started, so they can’t necessarily say “we’re going to start with EVs at our new facilities where we can design that capacity from the start.” They needed fast charging everywhere for this to go smoothly.
But then, your firewall or Cosmos is exposed to the internet waiting for a 0day to be released, and chances here they will not be updated as soon as it comes out.

VPN server is already what Tailscale does at this point. I'm not a shill by the way, just a regular user impressed by the ease of installation/use of their product.
Fantastic article, duly bookmarked. However.

“The democratization of computational tables arguably began with VisiCalc in 1979…
I mean, try it out and you’ll see that this is quite limited in more than a few ways.”

Them’s fightin’ words. IMHO VisiCalc’s ability to generate models quickly changed civilization. It freed people to try out ideas at no cost and to view or manipulate data in ways no one could hope to do before.
This is an excellent blog post - I'd never heard of Great Tables before, and I'm a newly minted fan!

> confronted with an all-too-familiar dilemma: copy your data into a tool like Excel to make the table, or, display an otherwise unpolished table.

One add-on (coming from the past 4 years of working on a tabular-data from Pythons startup [1]) is that users aren't just copying data into Excel because if it's good formatting capability: very often, there are organizational constraints that mean that Excel _needs_ to be where this data ends up.

The most common reasons I've seen for data ending up in Excel:
1. Other parts of the report rely on Excel features - you want to build pivot tables or graphs in Excel (often, these are much easier to build in Excel than in Python for anyone who isn't a real Pythonista)
2. The report you're sending out for display is _expected_ in an Excel format. The two main reasons for this are just organizational momentum, or that you want to let the receiver conduct additional ad-hoc analysis (Excel is best for this in almost every org).

The way we've sliced this problem space is by improving the interfaces that users can use to export formatting to Excel. You can see some of our (open-core) code here [2]. TL;DR: Mito gives you an interface in Jupyter that looks like a spreadsheet, where you can apply formatting like Excel (number formatting, conditional formatting, color formatting) - and then Mito automatically generates code that exports this formatting to an Excel. This is one of our more compelling enterprise features, for decision makers that work with non-expert Python programmers - getting formatting into Excel is a big hassle.

Of course, for folks who can ditch Excel entirely, this is entirely unnecessary. Great Tables seems excellent in this case (and anyone writing blog posts this good is probably writing good code too... :) )

[1] https://trymito.io

[2] https://github.com/mito-ds/mito/blob/dev/mitosheet/mitosheet...
That's what rail banking is - the railroads want to keep the property (it's somewhat valuable though weirdly shaped) but more importantly want to keep the ability to run a line (which is potentially insanely valuable, because running a line where one hasn't been before is a hell of eminent domain and negotiations).

Railbanking is a good way to let the land be used while not forcing the railroad to "pretend" it is still an active line.
Docker has come a long way. There was a time when the documentation struggled to coherently describe what images were, and other tools were good-enough to not bother. Today there are imagines for most things, the documentation is clear, and support is widespread. But being able to setup a server on a Linux box is still a basic skill that any web administrator should know how to do. People make the mistake of thinking because they use Docker that they should use proprietary cloud hosting. My controversial belief is that the right solution for at least 90% of web services just slapping docker-compose on a VM, running SQLite in WAL backed up by Litestream, and maybe sync logs with Vector if you want to get real crazy. Run a production web service for $30/mo without cloud lock-in or bs. It's kind of funny I built a CD for AWS and it made me disillusioned with the whole thing. But yeah, Docker is good.
This actually sounds great. We might enter into a golden age.
My mother is the least tech-savvy person I know and she found it incredibly easy to intuitively use an EV (Volt). She also borrowed a friend's Tesla and had zero issues with it. Perhaps you are not as tech-savvy as you might think?
They wouldn't be if every named influence wanted a 5% cut of all future projects.
Same as the number of blacksmiths, then.
Wish they had led with that in their blog post. Thanks for the clarification!
yes, i understand that, and i think that's a really bad feature of the so-called educational system (which is really a form of ritualized child abuse). however, it's completely irrelevant to what i was saying, which is about the relative value of the different skills you were discussing, not about the degree to which the system succeeds at developing them or about the experience of being subjected to it
NSA: Practical quantum computing is coming in 3 to 5 years, will be cloud based
I do think that the problem with Bracha saying the AI will compose things is that as Big Dave Thomas once said: "It's important to be able to debug at the level of the abstraction". I'm not sure that even with automatically tested code and even some proof we will ever get away from the need to debug.

Dave Thomas was talking about model generated code and models were a much more precise starting point than the prose we input to an AI.
> would be financially better off just using a standalone toolkit to make their own app and selling it on Itch or Gumroad.

Arguably not, because Roblox offers distribution. It's like selling on Amazon or Etsy — you give up an onerous-seeming cut to the platform, but people do it because a percentage of something is more than 100% of nothing.
A case in API ergonomics for ordered containers
No, it buys them from the banks and the banks know this going into the loans.
The government almost never does the work on an infrastructure project, but the high price of infrastructure have much less to with the fact that the government is paying the bill than with the regulations that any project public or private has to work within.

If we stopped eminent domain though, property purchase prices probably would become a significant portion of the total expense.
Passive entertainment being 'what makes life worth living' sounds like some Nietzsche Last Man tier stuff.
You're still not understanding me, so let me rephrase:

What is the point of referring to other cases, which may or may not be unreasonable, and using them to throw out the court's authority? Without even reading their ruling, for that matter. Or worse, for no reason other than you don't like their ruling?

The answer is there is no point, at least not any that is productive. All you achieve is the spreading of doubt and uncertainty about the judiciary and thus the laws governing the land. It's an attack on the rule of law, and the only logical conclusion if this is kept up is anarchy. I find this ironic, actually; because these people presumably want to protect the rule of law, but they are achieving the exact opposite.

Read the ruling and make your case. Otherwise there can't be any useful conversations.
In fact you can get WiFi routers that use 6Ghz as the third band after 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz.
> Carpenter and O'Bannon set out to make the "ultimate riff on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey," says Griffiths. While Kubrick's 1968 film, explains Muir, was one "in which viewers sought meaning in the stars about the nature of humanity, there is no meaning to life in Dark Star". Rather, says Muir, it parodies 2001 "with its own sense of man's irrelevance in the scheme of things".

It's said that 'every generation thinks they discovered sex', as if prior generations wouldn't imagine the things the new generation does in the bedroom. Every generation also thinks they discovered existential despair, and seem to have to same attitude about that: What a cool, knowing take-down of those old people and their simple-minded optimism. I see people doing the same these days (though right now existential despair is really having a moment).
That may be true. But do you in your heart of hearts think that companies are going to pass those savings on to consumers?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39933342
Yes, exactly.

And, also, if worried about victims. Could stop making the laws focused on the 'prostitute' being the guilty party, and make the laws more geared towards the 'user' of the service.
Itch offers distribution, for no charge. Gumroad's 10%. (These, your original examples, are more relevant to this market than Amazon and Etsy.)
Performance insights: Engineering for high performance
Wow. I used to drive CNG airport shuttles in Seattle, where there were two pumping stations in the entire county (one just off the airport, fortunately).
It looks like Llama 2 7B took 184,320 A100-80GB GPU-hours to train[1]. This one says it used a 96×H100 GPU cluster for 2 weeks, for 32,256 hours. That's 17.5% of the number of hours, but H100s are faster than A100s [2] and FP16/bfloat16 performance is ~3x better.

If they had tried to replicate Llama 2 identically with their hardware setup, it'd cost a little bit less than twice their MoE model.

[1] https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/blob/main/MODEL_CARD.md#...

[2] https://blog.ori.co/choosing-between-nvidia-h100-vs-a100-per...
While time will tell, if "AI" brings us a beneficial application, you can safely bet against a lot of industries, since the destructive uses are already proven. So far AI excels only in human mimicry, which strongly enables abuse and exploitation, but has little legitimate value.

Spam and fishing will break basically everything without authentication. Youtube and Google search are already half broken because of AI spam. Dating Apps will break, comment sections will break, the web is gonna break for the most part... Not looking good for classic telecommunication either, since you can't trust messages and calls anymore.
Consider that we got to our current age by having a well-educated populace and that developing countries are copying this model to improve their economic prosperity as well. Rolling that back doesn't seem like it will lead to a golden age.
It's a great way to make an important point. How do you teach them to solve that problem? They can't dig into every problem in a real job - resources are always constrained.
Cutting-edge AESA radar like on the F-35 is incredible. It actually looks like a black and white photograph. I think your guess on antennas is roughly correct based on what we know about modern AESA.
> wealthy enough to afford private tutoring

I can't speak for other cultures, but non-wealthy first generation Asian immigrant parents consciously and constantly sacrifice their own well-being to afford tutoring and extra curricular for their kids.
Power usage
Camilla Boemann, a Danish developer who is part of the AmigaOS team
FLAN-T5-XL, a 3B model, to be precise.
And more recently, Redis.
Not an actual 404 error page, but: for a short while, I ran the web site for an Amnesty International writing group in the Netherlands. We were assigned group number 404. The home page had a similar layout to the standard 404 error message but with a text like "Error 404: person not found", and a link to the actual home page. Let's just say people were confused and didn't find us.

At least I had fun.
> ....an elite group perverts the goals and makes the entire system self serving

That sounds about right. Any system that concentrates power seems to go the same way in a generation or two.
Would this be useful for another SAR setup?
possibly a very dumb question: can you sue google in small claims court for the money you spent on a defective phone?
Bit of a weird take no? When I was 13 google ads was a great source of income for me. Learned a lot back in those days, definitely a foundation that enabled me to succeed in the future.
Not sure why you think charging is not the problem.

I am a very heavy user of rentals (300+ rentals last year, 200+ the year before - max status on National / Enterprise, Hertz and Avis) and I've rented an EV (Tesla Model 3) exactly once.

Most users don't have the time to think about places to charge and even more so, to bring it back at 80%

Not to mention, outside of major metropolitan areas (US and Canada), charging infrastructure is spotty at best (esp. if you don't plan for it).

This makes charging an added hurdle that takes away from the experience.

If you're a business user - you don't do it because you don't have the time and if you're a leisure user - you don't do it because your vacation time is valuable and spending time at charging stations that are usually out of the way is not ideal time spent for an expensive vacation)
Rich parents/social circle or maxing out credit cards, typically.

It's kinda misleading to call this a 'micro budget film', in 1973 this was a serious chunk of money, equivalent to $2-300,000 today.
I think if I was getting off a red eye flight and stumbled into a Tesla at 6:30am having never been inside one before I would probably spend 5 minutes fumbling around in the parking space and then go back inside the Hertz office complaining that I couldn't find the ignition switch and please help.
Yup you can write a garbage collected interpreter for a programming language with no unsafe code at all, even for languages that have complex data structures like doubly linked lists in them.

Using something like a slotmap to store the languages objects in is what I would do, and your GC would just involve removing values from the map after marking everything that's reachable.

The popular slotmap crate on crates.io does contain unsafe code but nothing about the data structure inherently requires unsafe.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39933342
Appreciate the response. Really cool work!
Stereotypes probably aren't a good basis for reasonable estimates. The average "I would never skydive" person probably severely overestimates the risks. Somebody who does decide to skydive... I can't say. But unless they looked up the statistics I think it's fair to say they have less information about it than an average driver.

Also, drivers know all about near misses. Their propensity to near miss is based off their knowledge that major accidents are quiet infrequent for most drivers (most will never be in a life-threatening crash, and minor crashes are a "once in several years" occassion for most drivers.)
Most (but not all!) of these rails to trails are not in positions to be even moderately lightly used by passenger rail.

And by being trails now, they preserve the line if it ever is needed in the future.
Click on "CloudTabs Home" from the browser to get taken to the Signup area. Inside there it's a normal basic "SaaS" looking app profile with:

- My Plan (pricing info and subscribe / manage)

- About (including roadmap / impressum)

- Settings (for now just the home page!)

etc

:)
We have no good benchmark to estimate the bugfixing ability, it was mostly zero-short "in this case it works" example.
...seriously, that's your only wish?
I think it might be more memorable when the med students do the writing ... and singing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVxJJ2DBPiQ

Diagnosis, Wenckebach *(what?)*
It's AV nodal block and that's a fact *(yeah)*
Take PR interval and lengthen that *(yeah)*
bradyarrhythmia and heart attack *(oh-no!)*

AI songs do make sense if AI will be making the diagnosis!
> If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear

That only works in a fascist or authoritarian society. People in social democratic nations have differing opinions on what is right or wrong.
What is being reckoned with is that speech may be technically free but in practice absolutely isn't. Society (various scales of human groups, intentional or accidental, institutional or ad hoc, etc.) has always permitted or welcomed some speech and shunned or prevented others. Everyone thinks a lot about stuff they hide from others. Now thrust that all into the open.

There's an angle of truth to what he's saying. But notice that he's not saying anything about corporate speech codes that prevent Apple or Disney from any criticism of China.
look forward to it. this is really cool
JetBrains IDEs add AI-powered code autocompletion
Related:

Roblox Accused of Concocting Illegal Gambling Ring for Minors

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924634
Ok, we've changed to that from https://github.com/w3c/ai-web-impact above. Thanks!
That was an excellent write up! I am really surprised that the built-in navigation system does not enable you to search for charging + activity. That seems like it ought to be essential!
By the same author, about the experience of his American daughters in a Chinese school:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/the-double-edu... (archived: https://archive.ph/2023.07.07-155232/https://www.newyorker.c... )
Thanks, this makes sense!

I mostly thought about the software infrastructure side. With thousands and even mere hundreds of servers over several locations you already want some uniformity. Would you run k8s? Nomad + Consul? MinIO or Ceph? MySQL + Galera? Would OwnCloud scale to many hundreds of users? How would you unify or integrate access control to all that?

Nothing unsurmountable here, just interesting how it's done in real big on-prem installations.
> 50kwH is a huge charger.

50kWh is not the charger, half the battery capacity for the cars (as decided by GP).

And 50kW would not be a huge charger, or even a large one, it's the bottom end of DC charging.

> I suspect having DCFC for just the cleaning area and then 16 or 20 or 24a /240v posts for L2 charging the cars as they sit waiting to be rented would more than suffice.

Aside from not being very efficient, 24@240 is not really a thing that's used. 32@240 is relatively standard but it's 7.2kW and generally considered a residential AC charger, acceptable when 3-phase is not available (or too expensive). It needs 7 hours to half-charge a 100kWh battery.
I saw, but that seems to be a different thing? I was assuming that was the actual underlying software, not this service
My immediate (incorrect) association upon seeing the words "Dark Star" on HN was with the Grateful Dead song, which is about 56 years old. The Live/Dead version was a true epiphany for me, now 18 years ago. After really only liking the late 60s Dead for about a decade I have apparently aged into liking their later stuff. There is a nice live video of Dark Star from 1974 on YouTube: search "Grateful Dead - Dark Star (Winterland 10/18/74)".
Other fun fact.

There are statistics collected on the increase in prostitution around different events.

There is a much larger increase in prostitution around Republican National Conventions over the Democratic National Conventions.

But, I don't think this is really a socialist issue. More feminist isn't it, women should be free to do what they want. Socialist countries just generally have more equal rights, or should.

Prostitution and Abortion are both issues where the religious wanting 'control'. And for Republicans religion now overrides the free market.
Thanks! As a CS student interested in learning more about this space how do you recommend I get started? I'm pretty early in my education so I kind of want to learn how to drive the car for now and learn how the engine works more formally later, if you know what I mean.
I downloaded it and it won't let me do anything. When I try to login it says I need a managed Apple ID.
CGRP sensory neurons promote tissue healing via neutrophils and macrophages
Maybe they are betting that at some point you'll stop taking ozempic and then you are theirs.
Craigs List Austin software jobs 2017 vs. 2024
Agree. I got my A license a decade back, haven't jumped in 5 years. Saw the headline and assumed Lodi.
The app won't even let me get past the login screen
I'm not fond of having to create an account in order to see information about the product, especially pricing. (Yes, I understand that creating an account doesn't take money, but that doesn't make it a zero-cost action)
Same reason things are x.99 - the 0.1 decimal "feels" smaller than seeing 100,000 - "holy fuck!" Etc