skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon Musk isn't helping, sure, but this is really just a long-overdue market correction. Tesla was valued like a tech company, but now investors are realizing that it is, in fact, a car company. It never made sense to value it higher than every other auto manufacturer combined while it had a small fraction of the sales of a single one.
ya there are many different giyongo to describe various states of exhaustion...probably due to the workaholic culture that is prevalent in Japan
Next up: robo-sharks with frickin’ laser beams.
I enjoy this as well, but live in an area where finding bottles isn't too common. That hobby has been replaced with shark teeth hunting. I have a decent collection of them (maybe ~300).

I've also learned how to make pendants out of them.

Although, if I were you, I'd be looking for old necklaces, watches, etc. in that river. It excites me to imagine finding some old gold coins or something.
FTC bans noncompete agreements, making it easier for workers to quit
...which is why society needs safeguards to guard against people like you.

Applied systemically, your behavior is one of the most harmful forces in our society.

And by the way, at a personal level, I get it. You like your friends and family--everyone does. But if we're going to have any pretense that capitalism works, we need to have a system where good work is rewarded. What you're arguing for isn't a free market, it's an oligarchy.

I'll note that there's a significant shifting of the goalposts between your previous post and this one, too. Before, you were saying that networking is a valuable skill, and that's somewhat true, but now you're admitting that competence never had anything to do with it. If someone happens to be your child, you're happy to give them positions they don't deserve even if they're completely incompetent.
literally

alr init --bin new_project

cd new_project

alr edit
I've followed this guy for a while. He's got to be one of the world's best nature photographers.
Ask your attorney friends if a farmer growing food on their own land to feed to their own animals is "interstate commerce", and ask them to explain that to you.

What I'm referring to here is Wickard v Filburn in which the Supreme Court ruled that a farmer growing food on his own land to feed to his own animals was participating in "interstate commerce" and could thus be regulated by the federal government.

This is a big part of why the federal government can control things like which plants you are allowed to grow in your home.

But when the FTC tries to regulate something like non-competes and protect average workers the corporate attorneys come out of the woodwork, "oh no, the federal government can't do that!"
>fruit

>beetle

TIL that genetic scientists have successfully crossed plants and animals! ;)

But, great comment. Upvoted.
I disagree that complicated is subjective.

Japanese is more difficult to learn than an English objectively.

One way to ask this objectively is to ask, for every non-native speaker, which languages are easiest and which are hardest to learn?

You can set this as a questionnaire and ask people to rank.

You will find that Japanese is among the hardest to learn amongst nearly all cultures.
And the current Supreme Court is not a huge fan of Chevron Deference, which this certain falls under...
Totally agree there. And that's one of my points: you have to design around this flaw by doing things like what you proposed (or build an ontology like we did, which is also helpful). And the first step in this process is figuring out whether your task falls into a category like the ones I described.

The structured output element is really important too - subject for another post though!
Yeah, the same for me. Unfortunately, it doesn't work for every query and it's often too US specific.
quite simple
Oh whoops, my mistake, thank you! (Unless it was edited, which is possible, especially given the sibling comment, but I don't remember well enough)
Psi+ 1.5.1716 (2024-03-22) has been released – OMEMO E2EE (Latest Qt5 builds)
You're missing the fact that the current Supreme Court has been doing everything they can to kill Chevron Deference.
The same for me. I tried it for a month and it just didn't work well enough to make a switch :/
I have friends and relatives on Facebook who repost not these Jesus things, but other categories of similar AI-generated garbage. The ones I've seen the most of are fake houses - elaborate log cabins in the woods with massive swimming pools that melt into the wall if you look too closely, and recently a lot of fake eclipse photos from my more scientifically-minded but not-too-critical-thinking friends.

Like the ones described in this article, they come from pages that churn them out, and they get tens or hundreds of thousands of comments, likes, and reposts. For a while I'd scroll through them looking to see if anybody was saying anything other than "WOW!!", and you'd get the occasional "ur so stupd, this is AI" followed by a bunch of people saying "who cares if it's real or not", etc. I guess there's money somewhere in engagement hacking? I followed one to a web site that claimed to be a design company, but it was just post after post of machine-generated impossible objects, so I don't quite see where any of this is meant to go. (google "volkswagen bus hot tub" to find easy examples)
In theory? Yes. In practice? No.

For a lot of industries 20 years is an awfully long time to the point of complete irrelevance - and that "detailed information" is often vague enough to be unusable. Combine that with an overly-broad range of patent-able things and an overworked USPTO granting clearly invalid patents, and in practice (at least in the tech/software world) it's doing more harm than good.

Patents are no longer about protecting R&D investments. They have become more about patenting the vaguest concepts possible, in the hope of making a profit when someone else does an actual invention which somehow stumbles into your patents' wording.
I've literally made the jump last week and switched all my defaults over to bing, after Google couldn't find the simplest query I had about a video game that Bing found in first result. I'm just so done with google.
Yes, Jimmy John’s did this and got in trouble:

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN13W2J9/
VisualAge for Smalltalk came first.

Smalltalk (70s) came long before both Java (90s) and Visual Age (80s).
"Type safety is the property that no primitive operation ever applies to values of the wrong type."

Smalltalk is type safe & not statically checked.

page 263 "Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation"

[pdf] https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/2007-0...
that doesn't make sense. you keep the excess mortality and then pay a con company for mortality offsets which then gives you lower tax on your mortality bound business.
This feels... a bit obvious to the point of being silly?

It is fairly well-established that context windows are a general issue among LLMs due to SOTA context windows still being somewhere greater than linear. It's also fairly well-established that LLMs aren't necessarily good at things they aren't trained at.

If you are unwilling or unable to throw enough hardware to overcome the context window problem you'll need to reduce the context. If you're unwilling or unable to train the LLM to task you'll have to restructure information such that the task is more tractable.

I'm glad to see that given their constraints they chose a sensible solution for the business, but overall this really seems like a series of known limitations being called out and doesn't feel like it's a good look coming from a company that touts leveraging AI for pulling information from documents and integrating with existing systems...
I wonder if the point might be better made as "things you'd prefer not to share" - e.g. I don't think of myself as "hiding" when I'm in the bathroom.
Trolling IBM's Quantum Processor Advantage with a Commodore 64
Earlier post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010
Yes, dassic!

Showing cl and d can be hard to discern clifference.

https://www.reddit.com/r/keming/comments/1b2zat4
Brains are twisted: JetBrains closed its last legal entity in St. Petersburg - https://www-dp-ru.translate.goog/a/2023/03/01/Mozgi_svernuli...
Reject the handcuffs. Once enough people do, they will stop making it deferred. They know that if you're willing to reject the money, you're willing to leave (the handcuffs aren't keeping you there), and that scares them.
You underestimate it!

https://github.com/TheMozg/awk-raycaster
One of the biggest issues I have with economists theory of comparative advantage is it ignores the self sustaining ecosystem aspects of economics.

Some places if you need someone to do specialized thing X you can just walk down the street. Most places you'll need to find someone willing to move and and take a big hit on his career options. So that deep bench of skilled labor and business resources is a big deal.
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-they-now/ says the furthest is 24.4 million km from earth. Pulling out the trusty qalculator:

$ qalc '24.4e6 km / 1 week / c to %'
(((24.4 * (10^6)) kilometers) / (1 week)) / SpeedOfLight = approx. 0.0134572816%

So this is using the "millions of kilometers per week" as a speed unit (like km/h but bigger), then dividing by the speed of light (c) to get the fraction of c this is, and finally asks it to format it as a percentage

Edit: found a potentially easier (more intuitive to understand) query, giving the same result, as well as how to ask it nearly for the how manyth part of c this is. I'm still learning all the tricks of this tool :)

$ qalc '24.4e6 km / 1 week to c%'
[...] approx. 0.0134572816(%c)
$ qalc '24.4e6 km / 1 week to 1/c'
[...] approx. 7430.92125 c^-1
Hey, I would be interested in doing the same. How hard is it?
Good point. But really it was Phil Condit who’s often regarded as kicking off the long slide to mediocrity with the McDonnell merger and move of Boeing HQ to Chicago. And he’s an engineer.
I don't think I am, I think they are comparable, they are both regulated tests of new technology in real world situations where there is no practical alternative in order to determine if they are fit for purpose.
Agreed - I can appreciate the sentiment and the history, but the ad hominem is not really necessary to prove the point and undermines the credibility of the post.

I still use Google, but man has it become difficult to get to what I want.
I also wonder about how much tech the Chinese gov got out of the China Tesla factory to help build the Chinese EV competitors, which are also eating into their market share.
"short lifetime" is relative. Had Apple been granted a patent on the idea of a smartphone the same year they released the iPhone, that patent would only expire in three years.

There are some industries where due to slow-moving markets the 20 year patent period is still sensible, but for most sectors we would be better off with a 5 or 10 year patent period to account for the increased speed of innovation.
Cybersec twitter is just awful. Everything has to be a call out or a dunk on someone/some company. It's all so negative.
Been using it as long as I remember, I don't recall seeing the issue you described
It was! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
I believe it will die more because of the originalist/textualism of the supreme court rather than considerations to which big businesses benefit (or are harmed by) this the most.

The question will ultimately arise "by what authority can the FTC make such a sweeping judgement" and it would not surprise me to hear the SC rule that this is an overstep of the authority they were given by the laws creating and maintaining the FTC.

Previously, the FTC could have argued that the chevron doctrine gives them this right. However, that is almost certainly about to be completely abolished this term.

The right of contract is almost certainly going to be more important to most members of the supreme court than any other considerations. That's my 2 cents.
It's appropriate to bring nationalism into this because it is one of the primary forces we're contending with in the fight for free and accessible AI.

A huge issue in AI policy is deciding what AI will be allowed by Nations - for instance if corporations managed to push a ban on Open source AI models, they will do it on the pretext of national security, with the express support of nationalists. And most investment is controlled by people with nationalist ideals. Corporations may be breaking away from nationalist power, but stakeholders of corporations are still by and large wealthy people with commitments to specific nations.

Yes Nations and corporations are in tension. Yes corporations threatened to eat Nations. But that does not make nations into the friend of open and free AI. Both nations and corporations have power over AI development. And both nations and corporations will use AI against the needs and better interests of humanity at large.

Thus both nations and corporations are enemies of open source and democratized AI.
> There are ways to call out people for being bad at their job

That is not at all what the article is doing. The article is saying the person is doing a very good job doing bad things.
A stay on the ruling could happen, but that would be up to the courts. Not a lawyer, but considering that there could be damages from the removal of non competes and someone leaving to get another job, there could be a stay on the order rather than letting it go into effect. While it works its way up the court system.
I'm not sure that I understand. What does it mean for a noncompete to apply only to base compensation? Is the idea that if you join a competing company within X months of leaving your old company, you need to repay your base salary to the old company?
EV are a joke because ill informed people like you think they are the solution. if you bought an ev when you already had a car you did more damage than just correctly maintaining your car.

EVs save the car in industry, not the environment. driving less and consuming less of whatever saves the environment.

one private jet does more harm than all cars around vs you. but nobody will mention that.
Novo Nordisk, the Company Behind Ozempic and Wegovy
I read a lot of manga and they often have a lot of hyper specific sound effects. I don't speak Japanese but always found this interesting. I guess this explains it. Thank you.
https://archive.ph/Jyimv
EURISKO is basically a series of genetic algorithms over lisp code - the homoiconic nature of lisp making it effectively a meta-optimizer. Amongst many problems was that the solution space, even for things like "be interesting and true", was way too large.
What a turn from all the “Google search is good, actually” stuff that was popping up around here a ~year ago. I don’t think anyone can still say that with a straight face - it’s nearly an unusable product unless you are searching for a product you want to buy, and even then, not that great.
Simulated evolution is trivial to implement, but my guess is also a bit pointless from the point of view of most people writing viruses — the viruses might mutate to not give them money.
I don't think you need to have a personal grudge to call someone out like in this article. Ensh*tifiers need to be punished (in the game theory sense) or everything will go to sh*.
Oh this is the Blog that Master Torvalds used before switching to Google+ !
I think the tone is warranted given the scale of the problem. I don't think we should mollify complaints about products that literal billions of people depend on just because they're not nice.
This is really awesome work! How did you classify so many links?
AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google with 'Parasite SEO'
I get hung up when people say there are terms that are "untranslatable". What does that mean? Is it just a series of sounds that people use in a certain context to convey a certain meaning, but the greater phrase can't be broken down into individual words, tokens, or concepts? Do we have anything like that in English?
Ask HN: Tips for B2B pilots (pricing, duration, etc.)?
When you run B2B pilots, how do you price them, how long do they last, and what other requirements are appropriate?
They have improved go modules since but if you didn't use github gos tooling wasn't so great. I actually dropped Go for Ada and prefer Adas packaging.
I used to get obvious political ragebait, and then it was lots of photos of women whose nipples were obviously visible through their clothes which, while certainly an improvement, was not the reason I had signed into Facebook. I haven't logged in in ages now.

Also, Youtube shows me ads saying my penis is too small to please my partner, but they'll sell me something to make it bigger.

If FAANG is supposed to be the best and brightest, I'm not seeing it.
> your only problem with events is you dont know how to write code that remains simple

Yes, it's the "only" problem. All the higher level languages, frameworks, programming paradigms are trying to tackle this problem.
Strange, I rarely don't find what I need on Kagi, and when I do and fall back to Google, the results there are no more helpful.
Interstate commerce would allow congress to make such a law. However, the real question will be if congress gave or intended to give the FTC the authority to perform this action.

This supreme court has been very down on federal powers, so it really would not be surprising if they pulled "the major questions doctrine" to ultimately kill this off.
Musk's Tweet about FSD is pretty much spot on. Just being electric isn't enough of a market differentiator anymore. Too many copycats. Sacrificing a new model to focus on FSD is a great move. Many stockholders probably won't be able to stomach it, though.

> Not quite betting the company, but going balls to the wall for autonomy is a blindingly obvious move.

> Everything else is like variations on a horse carriage.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1780376546148327690
>I know people who were forced to take a year off between jobs (although they were compensated the whole time). Always thought that would be a pretty sweet deal.

If a company wants to pay someone not to work for a year, they're free to do that whenever they want. Maybe without noncompetes, they'll have to pay more to make it worth it for the guy being paid to sit around!
Ask HN: Simple Auth for Website
I'm making a fairly simple website and browser extension where users will have accounts*. All I need to do is auto-create an account the first time someone uses it, then have that account auto reused every time the user visits later on the same device. A second factor like a password isn't needed. Ideally users should be able to transfer their accounts to other devices, but I'm even willing to forego that in version 1. It's supposed to be an open-source project, and to encourage adoption, I don't want it to depend on any external auth services, just a database.

Does anyone have a favorite drop-in way of doing something like this? Webauthn looks appealing, but I've never used it. Can also imagine just randomly generating some code server-side, storing it in cookies, and asking users to save it for recovery, but that feels like poorly reinventing a wheel.

Thanks

* For anyone curious, it's supposed to be a federated lightweight social network based partially on RSS.
Yes, it was started by Taft as a business 'union' that the government could deal with. Now they're funded primarily by multinationals and so they place the concerns of those large corporations first and well before upstart startups.
I recently saved this book as it’s been recommended by a few people lately. Interesting
Surprisingly little discussion in the past! But I found these two:

Spritely Goblins v0.11.0, time travel distributed debugger and more - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35864365 - May 2023 (1 comment)

Growing a Networked Garden with Spritely Goblins - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34031136 - Dec 2022 (2 comments)

Maybe we should convert this thread to a discussion of the project as a whole, rather than of a point release?
How could it be cheaper per mile and more expensive per package if the packages per mile is equivalent?
I do use projecting the mac, but it's not a great experience overall. Like it doesn't utilize any of the AVP interaction paradigms and if I want to use a keyboard I have to decide to hook it up to my mac or my AVP
Data Gateway – A Platform for Growing and Protecting the Data Tier
Your friend may recall that the FTC occasionally acts against "deceptive" conduct in the marketplace. If you read the relevant law, it also can act against "unfair" conduct.[1] Sometimes people forget there are two words there separated by "or".

This would be an example of an "unfair" practice, which mostly are about predation in the context of unequal bargaining position when litigated under "Little FTC Acts"[2]. I don't know offhand whether these similar laws have been used to achieve the same thing state-by-state, but the FTC rule meets the straight face test for sure. So, regardless of what happens next at the Federal level, this is about to become a white-hot area of litigation under state "Little FTC Acts".

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/57a

[2] https://litigationcommentary.org/2021/06/15/a-fresh-look-at-...
U.S. bans noncompete agreements for nearly all jobs
I thought it was written very well, and was engaging. I could easily imagine it being dry and boring, otherwise, something that wouldn't hold my attention long enough to read through it to the end.
I'd love for my company's competitor to buy me up. Shit let them all go to war for the privilege of employing my ass.
Does Chinese really not have that much grammar though? I think it may have fewer _formalized_ grammar, but there are a lot of rules that are difficult to pin down. And if you don't follow them, your Chinese will sound wrong to native speakers, even though _technically_ the grammar is fine.

For example, I only very recently learned (in Mandarin) characters' tones change when they form words. The number one (一) has 3 different tones in different contexts, what!?
> This favors those with the most capital not the least.

So does the US Supreme Court lol

More seriously I think the issue is going to be whether it's executive overreach, not whether it's good or bad for a competitive marketplace.
A buddy of mine worked in a niche industry and their noncompete didn’t allow them to go to competitors, even to do something different and in an arm of the competitor that was not directly competitive with the company. The company spent a lot of time and resources suing people and threatening litigation. Enough so that employees desire to leave and still work in the industry was chilled and the competitors in the industry started becoming very reluctant to hire from my buddy’s company.

It was pretty messed up and this rule fixes that awful situation.
I'm sure they'll have no trouble digging up some Founding Father who said something that sounds like banning this, if you squint right.

When this country was founded, a lot of its residents were slaves, so I'm sure Thomas and Alito will find plenty of fodder in that for their "originalist" stance denying workers rights.
Tesla Q1 2024 Update [pdf]
I enjoyed the feeling when I made this connection talking with a startup doing this a while back. It's just a different "language" and although it's not a given that LLMs can operate in it, it's a reasonable thing to try, and it turns out they can.
I know they aren’t the same scale as Google, but what you wrote really describes Atlassian for me.
Yup, this is very much the key to why I think this will be killed.

This supreme court is very much on track to eliminate any authority federal agencies have that aren't explicitly written into law. Effectively destroying federal agencies ability to make rules.