skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn’t the issue that Google links to websites and then reduces their commercial viability by showing summaries in search pages or by having their AI present the data without letting the website get the traffic? If so, I think a link tax is justified. At that point, Google is creating value for itself by removing value from others so it seems fair to me. And we don’t need the law to be perfect - let’s just make it applicable to companies with market capitalization above 100 billion.

But more than this, the big tech companies are just too powerful and their mere existence is anti competitive. I think that issue needs to be addressed independent of media outlets specifically. For example with AI, big tech companies are in a position to put themselves first in front of customers and prevent any smaller players from competing for users and market share. Now Apple and Microsoft are forcing their AI agents onto phones and computers, and potentially violating privacy of users and using all their data for training or other purposes. We’ve seen such a long history of anti competitive practices from these companies, and rather than dealing with performative court cases that drag out for years, we need to deal with the fact that they’re too big. They need to be split up. Or maybe just get taxed more compared to everyone else.
When I started taking it I felt relaxed and my mind was quiet.

I would actually fall asleep easier on the meds than without it.

I suppose this can be called a high because marijuana can make you fall asleep too.
Why? What moral or legal principle entitles someone to compensation for linking to their website whether or not you're profiting from that?

It's a different question when there's an excerpt or machine-generated summary. In that case, copyright applies, and in most jurisdictions it may or may not be fair use depending on what is copied and how it is presented.
Responsibility has to begin somewhere. We cannot give in to passive determinism.
It's actually still a bad idea, because nobody will link to you
That's an opinion piece by someone who has made a career out of claiming social media is the cause of teenage depression. He also originally made his name as a political commentator by telling Democrats that the reason they weren't electorally successful is that they weren't racist enough.
You're right. Especially because you didn't present your reasons.
Consider it rephrased in a way that doesn’t upset you, like “what do you think the advantages of your new library are that outweigh the years of development behind existing libraries?”
Google doesn’t care what you do to other crawlers that ignore your TOS. This isn’t a theoretical situation it’s already going on. Crawling is easy enough to “block” there’s court cases on this stuff because this is very much the case where the defense wins once they devote fairly trivial resources to the effort.

And again blocking should never be the goal poisoning the well is. Training AI on poisoned data is both harder to detect and vastly more harmful. A price compared tool is only as good as the actual prices it can compare etc.
Funny, I find OSM most useful for all the little walking paths people plot... Way better than Google maps. No car based system will ever be good there.
JS kinda sucks for anything complex though.

That's the reason almost everyone has switched to TS and then you lose the malleability and simplicity of JS. At which point why not just use C#?
Hi Peter, thanks for taking this. How feasible is it for a Canadian Citizen who has a software consulting service to apply for E2 visa? Is it worth pursuing? What things are important to keep in mind for that?
I can get that. There's never a path forward that doesn't leave something on the table. I of course want artistic freedom + technology to advance alongside each other.

But we're also talking about MAKING generative AI models. Not USING generative AI models. Making a model is so far outside of the scope of a single artist it's almost comical. We're talking about a task that, given no bounds, would include the subtask "ingest all human creative output". That's hard to do so therefore it's restricted to the realm of well funded companies.

But even as well off and talented as these companies are, they did very little of the actual work. The total scale of effort that goes into these big lists of coefficients, is beyond human comprehension at this point. We've literally NEVER had to contend with tasks of this magnitude before. Many thousands of centuries of human life hours distilled. Copyright as it's legally inscribed precisely, is ill-prepared to achieve it's end goals in this situation.

But considering:

1) that's kind of cool we can do this

2) it makes interesting things that could better people's lives

3) we still think that humans should be able to make art (ai or not) and not die of starvation ideally

... we need to figure out what to do. Maybe it's not copyright! That was created to solve a specific problem. Now we have new problems. I just think people latch too hard onto the legalese as if it's some magic property of the universe, and NOT a set of systems humans made, for very human goals. I don't want a system where we just say "well look at copyright, it says this is fine, so we will just use everything for free". It's missing the point.

I agree with you that it's asking the hard question of "which artists do we protect". That, I'm not feeling like I have a good answer for right now. I definitely heavily lean towards the talented artists who've honed their craft. That's just more interesting. But I wish more people we're thinking about it, in those terms.
I wonder if this is an exclusive deal for Adobe? If not, it's just an additional $3 per minute. Though I agree that they need to be flexible on the pricing.
Yep, thanks for the link.
Wait, what? The Muppets was a failure during pilots in the US and only became a worldwide success after it was bought by ATV in the UK - the Muppet Show was produced at Elstree studios in the UK...
Damn, gotta prosecute 95% of all YCombinator founders.
Just be glad the President can grant free money so that he can be reelected. You wouldn't want the other guy to be in office would you? It's a small price to pay...
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Or "hear the pronunciations". Would suggest changing "Only Most Common Words" to "Only the Most Common Words" as well.
Hi Peter - I understand that it's possible for recent STEM graduates to be self-employed, or a 1-man C-Corp, for the first year of their post-completion OPT. But in the 2 year STEM extension, it seems that you need a distinct supervisor to fill out I-983.

How do you suggest that a "solo entrepreneur" modify their business structure so that they can continue working on their business projects during the STEM OPT period? I've heard some people say that you need to have US Citizen co-owners of the company who own a majority share; others say that it suffices to have US Citizens on the Board, as this technically gives them the ability to remove you. Is there any such setup that is clearly within the bounds of the STEM OPT program?

Also - are there any other options aside from the STEM OPT extension? In particular, if the individual is from an E2 treaty country, is this the sort of business that could qualify for an E2 visa, or do those businesses have to have the potential to employ US Citizens?
Heat pumps are obviously great in many ways. But fitting one is a big deal - they are quite expensive, they take a lot of work to fit, really require extensive additional insulation, and there are all sorts of caveats to them that mean they aren't a straightforward replacement for a boiler.

So i'm slightly mystified that we basically don't hear anything about fitting drainwater heat recovery [1], in which the lukewarm drain water from your shower is used to pre-warm the incoming cold water. It's extremely simple, pretty cheap, simple to fit, and can recover ~50% of the waste heat, of something which is tens of percent of the energy consumption of a household.

By all means, get a heat pump. But get a heat exchanger on your shower first!

[1] https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/drain-water-heat-recovery
> Why wouldn't you want more money?

Because that style isn't that unique, so the difference is between getting paid nothing and now there is a bot that can do the same thing, or getting paid something and now there is a bot that can do the same thing.

It hasn't even been established that they're required to pay you at all.
Levels of PMF
If they are "optional", why do initrd generators need to know them? This truly has all the hallmarks of a systemd "solution"..
Last time I checked, horses were great at self-driving.
Individually that's one way to look at it that makes sense. On mass scale though, if in 10 years someone can make one that's 50% better, it still behooves the world for the the units of today to last 50 years because even by then you won't have manufactured enough for everyone to have heat pump, let alone the most current one. Another way to think about it is imagine if instead of your unit dying in 10 years when you got a more efficient one you sold it to someone who didn't have one yet.

In general though, it's more the idealogy that gets me. It would be so easy to do a little more work to make things repairable, to use common parts, and ultimately create units that could last decades instead of lasting until an electric board has a short from dust or a pump predictably dies just outside of warranty, taking out an otherwise perfectly functional unit. It's just not viewed as the most profitable way, atleast not with how most people buy things today.

I think it could be profitable though, if you get enough people that can do the math and realize that over a lifetime it's cheaper than I think you could make that work. Additionally, it's not just about the cost over time but what happens when failures inevitably happen. Try having a repair done on any appliance today under warranty. First you have to go through the company and you get whoever they send and then you need their parts, if they are still available, which often they aren't. If the documentation on how to repair/maintain is opensource then you could potentially get anyone to fix it and if the components are COTS were possible then you aren't screwed when your 5 year old heat pump has an electrical failure because you can just but a new board (raspberry pi lets say) flash the software and install it.

I'm simplifying but I think you get the idea.
I really don't want to support RIAA/MPAA. I don't care how people don't give them money, as long as people don't give them money one way or another.
I mean, Microsoft pays him a regular paycheck. I think you're moving the goalpost quite a bit to ask that the community accept anyone's contributions until solid proof of malicious intent is shown.

Are you prepared to accept my contribution? I sign my name "JiaT57notThatJiaTan"
You sound like a very good businessman, and a reasonably astute interrogator of user feedback. I wish there were more businesses with people having those traits at the helm!
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If you have a good spot (ie exterior wall), installing a mini split can be an easy DIY. It probably took me a max of 6 hours to do it all.
Mmm... I patched a fax4 decoder for rust the other day. It's an interesting format. But amazing really. It's still widely used the mortgage industry, specifically the land record systems.
> "Hey, this is my stuff, you don't have permission to use it, you need to pay me"

I see a lot of the first and second parts, but nowhere near as often the third part: The rights holders aren't seeking financial growth, just wants control in perpetuity. I suspect that's the part proving difficult to solve.
This sounds as silly a sibboleth as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English ; I suggest we all start using 'delve' with wild abandon before these fools delve too greedily and too deep.
I'd like to plug PocketBase [0] for a similar use case.

Last week I was looking for a place to store random data with API access, and was looking at making a Google Sheets backend, but PocketBase was easy and didn't have a 60 rpm quota [1].

Deploying to a cheap VPS was very easy with CapRover.

[0] https://pocketbase.io/

[1] https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/limits
Gotcha - the comment read precisely the opposite to me, thank you for clarifying :)
Peter there's ongoing debate raging on whether showing immigrant intent at any point, precludes one from using a single intent visa such as TN anytime in the future. Is that true or is it the case if one can demonstrate close ties to your home country and abandonment of intent that you can resume use of these non-immigrant visas?
Free money for people that already have video lying around. They're not asking for exclusivity.
I think that the inside should match the motif that the outsides set.

what I mean by that : the outside sets a tone of professional heavy-duty post-apocalyptic computing, yet the insides are filled with fragile wire connects, fragile routes, multiple boards and new (read: unproven) non-redundant technologies.

I would expect something that exudes that aesthetic to be wired like a NASA project [0], use radiation hardened components, redundancy, SOMETHING that speaks to the durability.

[0]: https://workmanship.nasa.gov/lib/insp/2%20books/links/sectio...
I love keypad-based stuff. When my 1st daughter was born I wanted to make a "jukebox" equivalent to the tape player I had growing up in the 80s. I originally envisioned a bunch of plastic cards with QR codes or NFCs, where each card was a song or a playlist, but eventually settled on the much simpler solution of speaker-RPi-numkey pad, with no display: https://github.com/dmd/nkplay

The drawback is that at 10 years old, she knows lots of songs and artists as "number 84" or "number 328" and has no idea that their actual name is.
For some definition of free, that includes writing and maintaining a private wrapper library.

This seems a lot like a workaround for our tools not supporting optional dependencies. Let's fix that instead.
Yes there were obnoxious ads that popped up, but we didn’t have the same degree of monopolization in platforms or walled gardens, and we didn’t have so many industries whose existence depends on online advertising. Google and Facebook’s ads may not be as obnoxious but there’s more of them (look at how many ads there are on search results page) and they’ve affected the viability of many other parts of the economy in my opinion.
I was thinking the same but in terms of firmware updates.
When you say, "The conquerors have told their story for 2,000+ years," it’s indeed a delightful insight, but brutally simplified. Conquerors never merely "tell" their story; they impose it, they embed it in the very fabric of our reality, shaping our desires, our institutions, our very notion of what is normal! And now, this idea that "we are telling humanity’s story," who is this 'we' if not a new form of a subtle conqueror, perhaps clad in the robes of ecological concern and moral superiority?

Yes, we speak of being "wise stewards of Earth," but isn’t there a hidden arrogance here? The very term steward implies a mastery, does it not? Earth becomes something to be managed, controlled, and ultimately subdued under the guise of care and sustainability. This narrative seduces us with the promise that if only we manage better, all will be well, neglecting the radical openness, the chaotic unpredictability of nature itself.

So, what is to be done? Should we then resign ourselves to passive observation? Certainly not! But we must proceed with a critical, self-reflective stance that constantly questions our assumptions and our motives. Our struggle must not be to replace one conquering narrative with another but to recognize the ideological battles hidden beneath these grand narratives. We must confront not only the stories we are told by others but also the stories we tell ourselves. This is the only way we can hope to genuinely engage with our shared home—by understanding that our narratives are not innocent, not free of power, and certainly not free of conquest.
Read the fucking manual
If I'm a hardware manufacturer and my soft lock on product feature doesn't work, I'll switch to a hardware lock instead, and the product will just cost more.
Exactly this, it's a product, not a religion. I like that it exists. I pay for it. It feels worth it to me. Certainly more useful to me than the Netflix sub I had hanging around forever but barely used.

I don't get why random punditry is of any relevance here, or why Vlad felt the need to respond. He needs a PR person, I think
Do people do training on systems this small, or just inference? I could see maybe doing a little bit of fine-tuning, but certainly not from-scratch training.
Even if this change occurred would he be able to accept independent income generated outside of the sponsor of his TN?

In this case, wouldn't his new management consultant TN be tied to his (now former) employer, so would such revenues from his side projects need to flow through the TN sponsoring company in order not to step outside of the terms of his TN?

Side question: what are the risks of a TN holder operating what looks like commercial side projects whether they generate revenue or not (eg publishing a mobile game or running a successful website unrelated to the TN they hold - is it still commercial activity, is it still seen as removing a job from the US labor pool, etc?)
Costs more labor to pull it out than you'd get for it as scrap. At least if you're using union-scale electricians as your labor. But maybe even at minimum wage.
I get OP's take, but freediver is essentially saying that Orion and their other ventures are a part of the vision. To OP and others, it may seem like a side-mission or a waste of resources, but I trust the guy bootstrapping the company with his own money.

Hell, Orion is the first Webkit browser where FireFox and Chrome plug-ins work on iOS. If may seem like a misstep, but I see it as calculated. If Kagi search hopes to ever take on Google and Chrome, they need their own champion.
European companies cut jobs as economy sputters
Now the USA has 87 million cattle.

Private cattle ranches could never have competed with 30 million bison owned by nature, free for anyone to take.
tried it, sign in and ssl doesn't work.
This is a perfect example of Regulatory Capture:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
thanks for ur reply, the problem is that also my senior are so stressed, and my company should be one of the best in my country. thats my fear. instead the phd seems more chill, i mean i like the subject of it, i also searching online that google / other fang they take into consideration the pdh in general.
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Thank you, will try that option.
This is not an argument... the blogger said he didn't want to engage and the CEO continued to try and engage anyway.
My PERM was certified yesterday after 12 months and 2 weeks. That used to take 6 months.

I'm now backlogged until October which never used to happen at all to ROW (rest of world excluding India and China) applicants.
> with no "Core" variant specifier existing anymore

That's a good point and sorry for the mistake.

In my defense I copied and pasted the title from the previous question and I don't know much about .NET in general.
I just cancelled my Kagi subscription over the weekend. Some of the ideas in the article resonate (the dev team seems spread way too thin) but I also decided that the main product just wasn't distinct enough. The lens and quick answers features were nice, but otherwise the search results were not that different from Google's -- Having just switched back, I haven't noticed a significant difference.

I also think this product might be a bit too late. GPT4 has been out for over a year now, and it's changed how I look for answers. I tried FastGPT but like the author I found it lacking. As it stands, Perplexity feels more like the future of search than Kagi.
I think this will go over poorly in some parts of the democratic coalition. I don’t know that blue collar workers including blacks and hispanics will care for this much, or that centrist suburbanites will like it either. Continuing to loose support in the first group or slowing/receding support in the second could be a serious problem.
At least in the case of C#, composition tends to be done via interfaces, which has more indirection than if they were to use an abstract class.

This has been somewhat mitigated in newer versions of runtime.

Not sure what it's like in JVM world, I know they had a better dervirt for a while.
Actually the grasslands of the Great Plains had immense amounts of carbon sequestered in their roots which extended several feet down.

Buffalo, by grazing and fertilizing, helped the grass.
My mom found me a web dev contract on our neighborhood list serve. It was an incredible opportunity to get paid quite well for a college kid. I knew hardly anything and had to learn every skill before I used it because I was the only employee.
Indeed,

[n, n-1]
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[n-3, 2, 1, n-1]
[n-3, 2, n]
[n-1, n]

Works for all n greater than... 6?
To describe the subsidy policy fully, there's on-demand immediate guaranteed federal reimbursement of 97+% of the loan's entire projected value. The DOE brags at the top of its annual letter about the $120+ billion in new loans issued under the policy every year. It's no wonder after many decades of this that colleges are bloated with non-educational excess and tuitions have risen exponentially.

Prospective students are not shopping with real prices in mind - if there is a choice between a university with big names, shiny amenities, and attractive dorms the sticker price difference doesn't mean much. Gradually, all schools give up their frugality and delude themselves into mission drift. Arbitrarily cancelling loans now without scaling down new loans is multiplying the subsidy distortion effect, as new borrowers are increasingly convinced they too may not have to pay back the loans they're freely given.

In my opinion, subsidized loans need to stop entirely for a period of back-to-essentials relative austerity for university budgets before we bail out and calcify the current bloat with a new benefit. Then if we really need a new benefit it can look like a leaner amount-capped voucher and not a state inflated debt balance that may or may not go away. The voucher could scale on merit, a guaranteed partial scholarship as long as you meet certain standardized test/grade levels (without the need to apply and be chosen amongst a limited pool).
What's the difference between the C# Dev Kit and the C# extension?
and why are you using TS to begin with ? and yes I agree if you're gonna jump on the typescript wagon, why not use C# etc.

types are good ? yeah ... but to a limit. Tests make for better programs than types.

Using values too instead of mutations etc.

Rich Hickey - makes a good point in his the Value of Values talk.

and another point -- someone is gonna mention about node.js libraries being abandoned etc -- I don't know which exactly -- but if you stay in the express ecosystem and create your own middleware instead of just importing everything willy nilly you will go far.

and the major libraries for databases, redis and api stuff have been stable for a long time. Express is still version 4 and has been for a long time.

Countless frameworks in the other language ecosystems have changed a lot since then .net, rails, django etc. new features -- deprecations etc. and you know what has stayed with the same simple API ? Express
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