skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, you nailed it.

Often the problem is exactly this magic "decoupling framework", which ends up being exactly the problematic part that that one eventually wants to swap out.
Tracker Beeper: what if your computer beeped every time it sent data to Google?
Digitized Continuous Magnetic Recordings for the 1859 Carrington Event
Relying on a Chevron argument is not particularly wise given the pending Supreme Court cases Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo where the Court is expected to overturn Chevron:

https://www.scotusblog.com/2024/01/supreme-court-likely-to-d...
> I know non-compete rules personally held me back at a previous tech job.

Yeah. Remember this when you go to vote in November. Elections matter.
Seriously, though. Why now?
https://github.com/awslabs/gluonts is a great candidate for a sample wiki. It is an OSS lib, not great documentation, very hard to RTFM (unlike, say, sklearn which already has a great wiki), doubtful that awslabs would pay to produce.
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/23/google-search-boss-raghavan-...
Good! If you don't want your SMEs taking your secret sauce to a better employer, then be the better employer.
Analysis reveals the brutal history of meteorite's journey through space
(2020)

I love the language, this book is very hacker-minded.
I'm really happy for you, honestly. It must be amazing to have followed a band for so long and see them "make it", so to speak, like this. I remember feeling the same way having followed Phoenix for years and years before they hit the big time.

I don't have much affinity for 1940-60s pop, outside of The Beatles, Motown, and the Phillu Soul we refer to as Northern Soul here in the UK. Which I guess is probably why Diamond Jubilee doesn't do it for me. It's purposefully derivative, which is fine... it's just not to my tastes.

So I'm keen to hear specifically what you think the Japanese tracks are derivative of, that'd probably be more my style.
I've seen a ton of pages in my feed with synthesized photos of things like log cabins, and unlike what the article mentions (comments "ranging from bot-like praise to snarky remarks aimed at users who seem to believe the images are real"), they are entirely met with praise, and never [as far as I can tell] called out by anyone as being AI generated. I assume the negative reactions are being hidden by the comment-ranking algorithm because of their sentiment. But I also wonder about the legitimacy of most of the accounts leaving comments. The whole thing seems like bots.
Related other lawsuit news from last month:

Florida Man Sues G.M. and LexisNexis Over Sale of His Cadillac Data

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/technology/gm-lexis-nexis...

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39709991
> suspect this won’t survive a challenge in front of the current Supreme Court

It may be aimed at prodding the Congress into action.
But the LLM never calculates anything! Why in the world would I ever expect a calculated result?

An LLM doesn't even answer a question, either: it continues a prompt. That continuation looks like an answer to you and me; but to the LLM, it contains nothing more than the most likely tokens.

I keep hearing this story that an LLM is capable of objectivity, and that it's just relatively bad at it. The LLM literally never does objectivity. It can't be bad at a thing it never does.

Every time someone calls this sort of interaction a "limitation", they are only obfuscating the narrative with a useless anthropomorphization. The LLM is not a person. It is not a mind. It does not perform objective thought. It is a statistical model that provides the most likely text. No more, no less.
Hard to place the blame on a single person, though I do think a "management consultant wearing an engineer costume" captures Google's engineering leadership these days
That's just absurd. Non-competes should never apply to commodity-skill jobs. I wonder how often they were ever enforced?
That doesn't matter. They happen and they have an effect.
Yes I use this to play fallout 1 on Linux, one of the main advantages I like is that it runs nicely in windowed mode, so I can use it as a distraction when I need a moment to leave the IDE and think
I'd say the number of patents filed and granted by practicing entities of small to mid-size would be a pretty good measure of innovation. I think patent fees and complexity should be progressive, esp if you have working hardware and don't just flip the patent to a troll.
No Vic Gundotra was Grima to Larry's Theoden.

There was a TGIF where prominent Search leaders (highest level of engineer, not management) openly asked Larry why we were being asked to compromise the quality of Google search to grow Google+ when GOogle+ was such a crappy and unpopular product. Larry just sort of lamely asked "can't you all get along" and then shortly afterwards, abdicated to Pichai (whose main skill was mainly to get all the SVPs to stop shivving each other in the quest to grow revenue). It was pretty clear that Vic had somehow convinced Larry through grima-style wormtonguing that social feed was the future for google, and Larry had fallen for it.

The difference being, there was no gandalf to come along and reinvigorate Larry.
I don’t get that appearance. Their website does not end in .gov and their about page does not indicate they are an official agency:

https://www.uschamber.com/about
"AI Jesus and the Flight Attendants" would be one heck of a band name
THX-1138 : "My time is yours." https://youtu.be/U0YkPnwoYyE?feature=shared
FWIW, most of the code and docs contributions have come from non-IBMers [0]. That said, IBM has done a lot of great work building the foundation and initial community and without them, OpenBao wouldn't be here. :-)

Speaking for myself, but I do not get any monetary compensation from IBM and I suspect this is true for all of the other non-IBM contributors.

[0]: https://github.com/openbao/openbao/releases/tag/v2.0.0-alpha...
IBM Nears Deal for HashiCorp
> Remember, chain restaurants have started using non-competes to ban servers and cooks from moving to another employer.

It's so dystopian that this was ever a thing.

Non-competes were supposed to exist to prevent employees from bringing trade secrets to competitors. Instead, they were used to trap people in poorly paying jobs.
Unlocked article link - https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/ftc-bans-noncompete-clau...
The executable on Linux is called code
That's the CFTC
Followed by:

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior with Data Brokers

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39793903
> I'm pretty sure the drivers already gave consent to have their data disseminated and sold freely to third parties in the T&Cs they clicked through when setting up the navigation system.

While it seems you and I are mostly on the same page, I'd go further and say that this isn't consent. Yes, the law says it's consent, but that's the problem: the law is wrong.
Yes, and that's a completely different kind of problem than extending a model's ability to use its context window effectively.

If you solve the problem that way you don't even really need the Harry Potter chapter in the context at all, you could put it as an external document that the agent executes code against. This makes it qualitatively a different problem than the insurance policy questions that the article moves on to.
You're missing the point. As I've been explaining in other comments which have expressed the same thing as you have (please read to reduce noise and repetition), the point is about not normalizing environments which scammers can easily take advantage of. And clearly, the request has higher utility, so in either way, it is an advantage.
I didn't know the FTC was this savage lol
Sr execs can’t start new noncompetes
Headline: Idiots on Facebook will respond to literally anything.

Wow.
I’m curious if it’s actually legal for them to ban noncompetes.
Which is good, right? Politicians serving the interest of their constituents in the hopes of being re-elected is, like, the intended operation of democracy.

If only we could have an election year, every year, without all the annoying ads and stress.
> You know how a chess player will say something like "mate in 6" because their experience of all the options left to their opponent are both easily countered and will not prevent them from losing?

As a chess person, saying "Mate in _" means it's a calculated inevitability. There is no mathematical way out of it.

It is not nearly equivalent to the outside judgement of a company with so many factors — it's just incomparable.
Awesome, I've always wanted to build something like that on top of YaCy just so that I could properly select new potentially interesting sites to index. (I can't rely on the auto-index unfortunately because it has no option to pre-confirm before indexing.)
Eh.... any impact will play out over a long period of time. Everything interesting happens on the margin, so I do agree with you that CA's laws around non-competes has had a beneficial impact on new business formation, and contributed to CA's economic growth. If this gets fully implemented, it will level the playing field with other states, but it will take some time (a decade would be my bet) for the impact to be fully felt.
> Their use is similar to radicals in Mandarin, which is to provide additional semantic clarification.

Radicals are used in the same way for Hanzi (Chinese/"Mandarin") and Kanji (Japanese). Most of the Japanese characters are the same as the unsimplified Chinese characters. Furigana is used in a fairly different way, though. You occasionally see phonetic writing similar to furigana underneath characters in books that are used to teach children how to read. But it’s not nearly as common as in Japan, and it’s only (from what I’ve seen) used as a study aid for kids, not in the more creative ways the author discusses here.

The big difference as well is that the phonetic writing in Chinese isn’t part of the language itself. It’s like IPA (the dictionary pronunciation symbols) - they’re used to tell you how to write something, not to actually communicate. Kana (which furigana is written in), is actually part of the Japanese language.
> The executive branch can unilaterally revoke these regulations

The US Constitution + amendments delineates the powers of the branches. Is the situation you describe possibly a window in time when executive branch constitutional overreach has not been yet challenged?

[ edit : great explanations below -> sincere thanks ]
Trade secrets and NDAs can still be enforced.
> pay people after retirement by printing money on demand?

Yepp, it is. It's called "Umlageverfahren" here in Austria, which makes it sound it's based on direct transfers from working to retired, but it's basically the same system. The crucial point is, that is saves on the middlemen.
I personally believe that lack of non-competes was one ingredient for Silicon Valley becoming what it is.
Loving the nerd sniping here haha.

Join us at Stytch (https://stytch.com/careers) if you have a strong opinion so you can decide whether this should be a POST or PUT :)
CFTC regulates commodities-based options, the SEC securities-based ones. The FTC and IRS are not proximately relevant.
I'm guessing this has some popularity due to the TV series. I liked the first episode, so will see how it develops. I'll only be watching one a week so might take a while to get through...
While your points are good, on the other hand, Congress at this point is totally broken, it’s hard to imagine it becoming unbroken (since it would require an amendment which is usually passed by Congress and they have no desire to make things harder for themselves), and it’s beholden to special interests in a way that the executive branch often isn’t.

So at least this way, things can get done.
That's not really equivalent. In a fractional banking system, even if a loan is entirely "newly created money," it's not without strings: it's a loan, that needs to be paid back.

Someone wants to buy a house, the bank creates $500k "out of nothing" and the two parties enter into a loan. For the buyer, their $500k asset (bank money) is balanced by a $500k liability (mortgage). It's symmetrical for the bank: a $500k liability (bank deposit) is balanced by a $500k asset (loan). Once the loan is paid off, the balances go to zero and that "new money" has effectively been completely destroyed. What the loan issuer gets in compensation, of course, is the interest.

Even with QE, when central banks "print money" to buy distressed assets, they are buying assets, not handing out new money no-strings-attached. And that new money is listed as a liability on their balance sheet, with the purchased assets balancing it on the other side.

Monetizing social security would break this balance. A central bank would create new money, adding it to their liabilities, and then give it away, receiving... nothing? The money supply would continuously increase without a corresponding sink to "suck it back up." That would (1) lead to inflation, thus (2) requiring more money creation for retirees to keep up with increased prices; goto (1).

In order for something like this to work, you would need some kind of sink. That could be done with taxes. But then we're sort of back where we started. The central bank wouldn't be monetizing social security no-strings-attached, but creating money with a promise from the government that it will tax the economy sufficiently to pay it back. It would just be another loan.
> Those wall street middlemen are way better a designing mutual funds and ETFs than I am.

Unless those mutual funds or ETFs are passive index funds, no they are not (unless the design is meant to extract fees):

* https://www.ifa.com/articles/active-fund-managers-benchmark-...
Not only that, but after learning Fusion 360 (or similar software) a very interesting world was opened when I started learning G code so that I could write, optimize and modify Post Processors

Learning G code allows you to start using CNC machines - even a simple 2 axis plasma cutter can do interesting things. 3 axis machine centers can make things that are quite remarkable. I am now stepping into 5 axis.
I wonder if this is an exercise to quickly identify certain polarized and vulnerable groups, for targeting in disinfo/misinfo campaigns etc.

The "opt-out" Meta AI intrusion where the chatbot auto-replies after 1 hr is quite concerning. I guess it's one way of generating training data, but jeez.
It wasn't that long ago that it wasn't socially acceptable to have phone conversations in public wearing Bluetooth ear pieces, whereas now we don't think twice about it. A few decades before that, the same thing with portable music players and headphones.

Society adapts quickly to technology, but, as you say, the tech needs to be good first.

I think we've reached that point with voice recognition and AI assistants. It's now a matter of time until someone connects the pieces into a functional and accessible product.

The reason smartphones are not the devices to get us there is because they're not a good fit for this use case. Pulling out a rectangular slab with a huge screen out of your pocket every time you want to interact with a voice assistant is enough of a UX hurdle that most people won't do it, even if it would be socially acceptable. Even if this was in a watch form factor, which we'll surely see as well, just bringing your arm close to your face would get slightly annoying over time.

So a light pebble device you can pin on your shirt or wear as a necklace seems like a good form factor for this. The Limitless Pendant is another recent contender, and seems like a better thought out product compared to the Humane Pin. These devices aim to be unobtrusive, and disappear into the background, yet still remain deeply integrated into our lives. This is what technology is trending towards. I reckon the smartphones of today will seem primitive in a few decades, replaced by seamless VR/AR in glasses and primarily voice-driven wearable tech. We're currently in this transitional period where companies are investing in high-risk products to see what sticks, but eventually someone will launch something that resonates. Just like Apple did for smartphones in 2007.
I'd guess it will have the opposite effect as companies have one less big reason to avoid CA.
My prediction – this will be litigated in courts for the next few years until eventually being struck down by the supreme court in a 6-3 decision. And if Trump becomes president we won't even need to wait that long.
just the payment part is it’s own universe of issues, friction, fraud, security etc etc etc
Who cares how its made if you can make a bag from it before anyone is the wiser? The point in all this stuff is to make bags of money, whatever way you can do that don't matter as long as you gettin the bread.
It’s not overreach, it’s delegation by Congress to the executive parent is discussing. Congress often gives the executive the right to regulate things instead of regulating it themselves, and it’s a controversial topic.
They are pro-business (and maintaining the rights of businesses to control their labor force), not pro-competition.
Yep, this would impact basically any dev at Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, etc. From my own point of view (at MS), policy making decision do basically happen at my/our level too, unless policy is on the tier of "buyout Infection.AI talent". Any kind of planning research/work could be considered policy. Decisions like what kind of framework or listing to use? Policy!
Amazing!

For those who are into story-driven games (e.g., Disco Elysium), Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 have some of the best stories, characters, and random encounters you will ever find.

See you all at the Cafe of Broken Dreams!
tar ball with zero compression, surely? Regardless, all of these are user-hostile ways to distribute an album.
The presence of an oath doesn't prevent traditional certified engineers from causing harm. It's just a goofy ritual.
They have other tricks. My comp was about 80% bonus, most of which went into deferred comp for a few years. If I was to go to a competitor without permission (independent of the non compete) I would forfeit the deferred comp.
Scientists design ultra-efficient energy storage system using pebbles
I am not entirely sure.

Without anti compete stealing your competitors staff becomes a valid business strategy. Buy up the competitions best people and cripple them.

This favors those with the most capital not the least.
I'm up to episode four and really enjoying it, but I got a sinking feeling when I noticed that it's a Jonathan Nolan/Lisa Joy thing. Westworld Season 1 was great, but it rapidly started going to shit, and I'm a bit afraid the same will happen here.
> I've always thought of that as representing a stifling of innovation.

The short lifetime of patents and the requirement that you publish detailed information about the invention significantly mitigates this. If they were measuring innovation by the number of copyrights filed, then I might agree with you.
And this is just the start of why Apple cancelled Jon Stewart over a purported Lina Khan interview.
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The Commission also finds that instead of using noncompetes to lock in workers, employers that wish to retain employees can compete on the merits for the worker’s labor services by improving wages and working conditions.
> And elite athletes eat a ton of food, an obscene amount of food, but they also have the best bodies.

The thing to bear in mind is, most discussions of diet are in the context of weight loss - and the kind of exercise regime that allows eating loads of food is generally only accessible to people who are already extremely fit.

If you're running a 4 hour marathon every weekend, you can pretty much eat whatever you like and not gain weight.

But if my 240 lbs buddy wants to lose weight? Dude would be doing well to jog 5km. He's not going to be running any marathons.

So the fact he could maintain his current diet if he burned an extra 2500 calories every weekend doesn't help him, because he can't.
The bigger the behemoth, the slower the fall.
If growing food for your own use is interstate commerce, contract law is interstate commerce.
One of my methods for slowing the deluge of ads is a DNS blackhole, and it's quite revealing when I use Google search. Most of the links, especially early in the results, are links that fail for me because they go to ad trackers.

Which is why I often do not rely on Google search any more.
I do too and it feels to some extent that its about sending a message. I worked at Citadel, and they had these posters about Integrity, Winning and being a meritocracy and all that but their ever more constraining non-competes completely flew in the face of it and it was upon them putting one of those agreements on me that I started to become disillusioned with the firm (around the same time that I found that Ken Griffin was donating to Trump's campaign).

I tried to negotiate to get them to at least agree making the non-compete periods pay out my full comp and not just base, but they absolutely refused to budge an inch. Some people I knew there had non-competes locked in at their base salary when they started, which in some cases was 10+ years ago, meaning that it was a relatively paltry amount. They also had a clause in them that stipulated that it was 100% at the discretion of the firm as to whether they would enforce it or not- meaning that it wasn't even a guaranteed paycheck if you left... they would decide- and only after you left or were fired- if they were going to enforce it, leaving you in limbo until they made their decision.

F non-competes. Mine worked out okay, my wife got burned hard on them and it took her career at least 2 years to recover from hers.
A lot of people assume that physical books cost a lot more and it just isn't true--maybe a few dollars.
Apple to reveal new iPads, OLED iPad Pro
Secureblue: Hardened Fedora Atomic Images, F40 Release
Can they also ban tipping culture?
We like calling Common Crawl a crawl, not a scraper. Our 17 year old dataset predates the current AI explosion.
From the article:

> I have been recommending what I have called the “three pillar portfolio” during this period of fiscal dominance. It has been a cornerstone concept of how I have been investing in the macro sense. For me, the three main pillars consist of 1) profitable equities 2) commodities/producers and hard monies and 3) cash-equivalents.
I'm talking about the fact that they boast about their models having large context windows. And Anthropic says: "Opus - Our most intelligent model, which can handle complex analysis, longer tasks with multiple steps, and higher-order math and coding tasks." So if I were a non-AI expert, would I not infer that because it can do "higher order math tasks" it can also count?
Thanks so much. Keep on truckin'
I was charitably hoping they were referring to employee stock options where their existence is primarily due to tax regulations of granting RSUs of illiquid company shares, hence IRS

but yes, not at all relevant

its hard for me to understand why people get the agency acronyms mixed up and interchanged. I can sort of see it, but I’ve just never seen people be so confidently wrong outside of perhaps the eastern medicine crowd.
My wife has survived more than half a dozen strokes.

She accidentally moves around the icons on her Pixel phone until we can not even bring back the list of all apps you get by swiping up.

I need a way to lock down the icons so it would take a very coordinated person to unlock them, but Google refuses to allow that.
Some further discussion on the official post:

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010