skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry I should have been more clear, the title was based on a very popular post from a few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105121

I don't hate the industry, I am a PM and work with engineers daily but looking at what they work on, its not really something I personally desire professionally.

The stuff that you describe though, is really only possible on the job. Like I don't imagine doing kubernetes for my apps. But I get the philosophy behind what you are trying to say and thank you for that.
Co-ops are fascinating to me as an alternate evolutionary branch of capitalism. Like the marsupials to the placentals. Also like the marsupials, in most cases where co-ops compete with regular capitalist businesses they go extinct.
The US postal service is partially funded by advertising and selling of information, for reasons I'm not entirely clear on.
Because it doesn't actually work as advertised, leading to things like over-policing and poorer response times to actual crime [1].

[1] https://council.seattle.gov/2023/11/13/police-chiefs-critica...
It's ineffective.

https://www.macarthurjustice.org/blog2/shotspotter-is-a-fail...

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/four-problems-w...

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/law-justice/shotsp...

https://www.axios.com/2022/04/07/campaign-zero-against-shots...
We beat their status page by 10 minutes and downdetector by 5 minutes.
Isn’t this discussion about that’s ethical and moral, rather that what’s legal?
This is why China is investing so heavily in EVs and green energy. They don’t want to have to go to war over oil in the future, and they would rather be immune to oil price fluctuations. Same with imported coal and natural gas. It is just as much about national security as it is about environment.

The USA could do the same, but it produces a lot of oil and gas so there is more resistance against it. But they make those a part of the world market, so whenever Russia or the Middle East go nuts, the price of oil rises and affects consumers at home as well as allies, and we feel compelled to be implied militarily.
Let's hope this never gets accepted in the courtS, because we know how much AI never make mistakes
I'd love to see more details about the business model and corporate structure and how it works. Also, they mention that the workers are "liable for any losses." - How does that work? If I own a share of Acme stock, I'm not liable for their losses, though the value of my share may go to zero.

Pretty interesting idea. Are there other examples as well?
I'm currently using it on my home laptop, because Win10 broken search box sometimes hangs and no longer finds anything on my computer. I've been reading somewhere that it's because it tries to search the internet first (sic!) and you can turn it off (the internet search part), but didn't have time to try. For me, the most important is to hit Win, find and launch the app as quickly as possible.
In most countries in Europe you don't need any special license as a tourist to shoot guns at a range.
HAProxy Is Resilient to the HTTP/2 Continuation Flood
There's essentially nothing to test. Even in principle no one can find a way to extract some new physics that's even remotely observable.

In any case, string theory already makes predictions, like supersymmetry that have failed every test so far.
We actually do since other browsers have blocked third party cookies for a several years now.
Agreed but you could say the same thing about monopolies though right? Anti-trust legislation exists to prevent that sort of extinction.
Why should all of Society pay so that Saleforce, a profit-making company, doesn't have to maintain its software?

I have 3rd party cookies as well as all ads and trackers blocked and have no major issues. On the odd occasion a site doesn't work, it doesn't get my business/attention. Non-technical people should be afforded the same protections.
Humans make the same mistakes when writing up reports too. I'm curious which is more reliable.

For example, I've done interviews for various media outlets and often enough they report I said the opposite of what I said, similar to the reasons you mentioned above.
Or they're conveniently considering the use of those extensions as an ongoing cyberattack (they probably go against ToS, at the least), and use this opportunity to test their ability to restore from backups.
These devices are typically installed in "high crime" areas. They then detect more crime (Or just loud noises). This calls police to respond to the area, and increased interaction with police commonly leads to increased confrontation with police leading to arrests. Thus re-enforcing the "high crime" reputation of the area.
Hollywood's AI choice: fight and be steamrolled or engage to set limits
That's nice. The western two-thirds of the country gets the Columbia. That, um, might be a bit inadequate for their freight needs...

I mean, sure, you can get to Kansas City and Omaha via the Missouri. You can't get to Denver, though, or Phoenix, or Salt Lake, or...
Popular categories of race are at odds with genetic definitions. Does that sound better?
Browsing /r/all is a cesspool now. It feels like the same 30 topics with random OnlyFans wannabes and seemingly outrageous relationship stories/advice. It used to be such a great way to find and explore new topics.

Niche sub-reddits largely seem to either (1) be growing so large they become bland (2) dying and moving to other platforms.

I basically only enjoy the live sporting game threads now. Even then, it's a pretty shallow level of enjoyment.
Important note: yes they go extinct in a market shaped by regular capitalist rules.
What a wonderful answer! thank you for that.
Not to mention alignment. AIs are anything but neutral. An AI might refuse to report that a PoC was acting aggressively out of fear of being racist. Just an example.
Maybe we should start from somewhere and climb up top?
Hmmm, suspicious that right after this cloudflare dashboard goes down. Sorta feels a bit like when AWS east cost took a hit and random other things stopped working (because they or things they depend on were running on same infrastructure)
I've been using Pkl since it came out and I like it a lot, and the editing experience is fantastic with intellij.

I don't think inheritance is a flaw at all here. It makes a lot of sense to build configuration up from base definitions, especially when you account for its merge syntax.

I've been using it for k8s manifests a la customize. The biggest pain point for me is the lack of flat member syntax when updating deeply nested fields.

Something that's caught my eye is KCL, which seems similar, but maybe a bit more mature?
Mildly off-topic: I love ESPHome, and have used it for a couple of IoT-based temperature sensors around the house, but the thing that always makes me fail the WAF (Wife Acceptance Factor) is getting all the mess of ESP32s, sensors and wires all in a nicely tucked away container. What are y'all using to hide away the electronic components?
Everyone Will Not Just
> Meta keeps things open (for now) because it's perfectly aligned with their business goals.

How?

I would have said a flood of LLM-generated spam is a pretty big threat to Facebook's business. Facebook don't seem to have any shortage of low/medium quality content; it's not like they need open-weights LLMs to increase the supply of listicles and quizzes, which are already plentiful. There isn't much of a metaverse angle either. And they risk regulatory scrutiny, because everyone else is lobotomising their models.

And if they wanted a flood of genai content - wouldn't they also want to release an image generation model, to ensure instagram gets the same 'benefits' ?

Sure there are some benefits to the open weights LLM approach that make them better at LLMs - I'm sure it makes it easier for them to hire people with LLM experience for example - but that's only helpful to the extent that Facebook needs LLMs. And maybe they'll manage to divert some of that talent to ad targeting or moderation - but that hardly seems 'perfectly aligned', more of a possible indirect benefit.
Or, perhaps we could entertain a fantastical explanation: what if no one has free will and thus someone else's problems seem easy to us because our deterministic movements solve them easier than the deterministic movements of the person with the problem?
A couple weeks ago I noticed a post with a link to an article which did not render the text of the article on any device known to man. It had >15 upvotes, and comments.

The vast majority of people never read past the headline, even on HN. This was a sad realization.
Obviously $18m isn't enough to do a credible modern phone that's modular. Google couldn't bring one to market after investing probably at least an order of magnitude more in Project Ara. Plus the OS would be an even bigger challenge. So it must be something simpler and leverages some of their existing investments and know-how. But since this is VC money, the addressable market also needs to be big enough to be interesting. I'm thinking a modular version of the Steam Deck.
I noticed planned maintenance in Duesseldorf, wonder if someone accidentally "flipped the wrong switch"?
I believe in praise for any company that finds a way to profit and do the right thing.

If they don't profit, then they don't have resources to do those things in addition to not being able to provide a livelihood for their workers.
Good enough for me. Chrome's implementation of partitioned cookies does not work for our use-case, though Firefox's implementation works well. Google has still got some work to do before they go ahead and break everyone's web apps, in my opinion: https://github.com/privacycg/CHIPS/issues/82
Non-paywall version: https://archive.ph/bEbhJ
I really cannot express how much I dislike these midlevel management figures that do nothing but talk and engage in LinkedIn style virtue signaling.

They don't touch code, they don't touch any technologies (not even making prototypes so they they have a grounded understanding). They just regurgitate the socio-business zeitgeist. "Oh we must get more lean. Oh these workers must be lazy. AI AI AI".

And yet their multi million dollar pay packages MUST be equitable compensation for their in-the-box unoriginal business thinking. They went to HBS or SBS... they must be thought leaders, right?

Instead of sacking the people who dig ditches, what if half the talking heads left? I'm sure THAT would actually clear the air.
is there a program-manager work-alike for the unix-desktop?

titled, nestable folders of docs and shortcuts/scripts that i can arrange at will, persisting independent of a file manager. that was a serious productivity boon! sorry if this is the wrong place to ask, i just miss that 'classic windows feature.'
Funding Open Source
> unless you think right leaning Americans are even worse than this description

That does seem to be exactly the point. Notice the word "still".
We just built a JS-frontend-framework-agnostic library because we have Vue, React, and Svelte. We found that the trade off was that it worked poorly in all of them and we couldn’t take advantage of their individual strengths.

We’ve since switched to React-based and found that, because support for React is so high, they can be incorporated elsewhere more seamlessly than “agnostic” components.
I pay for Youtube Premium, which uses third-party cookies to not show ads on embedded videos.

https://privacysandbox.com talks about advertising, but not "logged in elsewhere" functionality. Does Youtube or Google have something ready, or will all Youtube Premium subscribers see ads on embedded videos?
Thermonator, the Flame-Throwing Robot Dog, Can Now Be Yours for $9,420
It would be if it became standard practice and the report filling software were an fda approved medical device.
Covalent: Simplifying Cloud HPC for Computational Chemistry
Things I think this discussion constantly misses:

1. One of Google's largest engineering office is in Israel, so it has thousands of employees directly affected by the war. Obviously seeing fellow employees protest against their own country at work is at least a huge distraction. A Google employee entire family was kidnapped to Gaza, by the way.

2. Project Nimbus is a way to get cloud regions in Israel in exchange for government budgets. Although the IDF will get its share, it's naturally going to be extremely limited. There isn't going to be some killer AI running on GCP simply because you don't run classified data/software on public clouds.
The fact Israel does not even have a government cloud region means the defensive nature of the workloads are going to be extremely limited, and even if it had, intelligence would not be there.

3. The fact that you are sure Israel is a reincarnation of nazi germany, apartheid south africa and scare word, scare word, genocide, doesn't make it is so or also does not mean it is a popular opinion outside your twitter echo chamber. This might also not be a common opinion in your work place, even though people around you rather keep quiet.
> Windows are legally required for safety purposes

They are not used for egress in skyscrapers—no ladder goes that high. And commercial buildings have fantastic internal ventilation. (Skyscraper apartment windows often can’t be opened for ventilation anyway, and are not trivially shattered.)
I asked because Faer describes itself as a low-level linear algebra library with a high-level wrapper, whereas good_lp describes itself as a high-level wrapper around many relevant low-level libraries.
A. I too was mildly surprised (but glad) it didn't have a harmful effect.

B. The author does cite the analysis, at the end of the thread. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nscd4

It is 130 pages.
VR/AR is one of those apps that's always "just around the corner" and "gonna be big" in the future. But that future never arrives.

Before VR in the early days of the web, people tried user interfaces that looked globes or (or balls or cubes) that you rotate around in "3D" to choose stuff. They were awful! Perhaps unsurprisingly, organized stuff with text labels on a 2D surface is still the easiest way for people to process information and make selections. Taking today's GUIs (or tomorrows LLM/GUI combos) and wrapping them onto a "3D" surface isn't going to change or improve that.

The market has spoken and it's not something the majority of people want or care about -- and that's over and above the technical problems and disorientation problems. Even 3D films have to be released in 2D to find sufficient audience anymore.
when you set a cookie, by default it sets it at the sub-domain level. You can opt-into setting it at a parent sub-domain (or the root-domain) level if you want.

So for example:

a.foo.com sets cookie X (Set-Cookie: X=value;)

a.foo.com sets a cookie Y on foo.com (Set-Cookie: Y=value; domain=foo.com)

b.foo.com can read Y, but can not read X
"In March 2021, we confronted a serious reality: state sponsored threat actors were targeting on-premises Exchange servers."

That totally joke excuse to just say that they think that they can milk their users more with a saas business instead of selling permanent licenses.

Also I find it very funny that Microsoft use the security of on-premise as an excuse when you see how insecure was their own IT with most of the public exchange was probably vulnerable to leak multiple times and for a long time...
Moving faster... but in which direction exactly?
In the short term dictatorships usually are superior to democracies because they can move fast and have less stakeholders to satisfy. So a capitalist business will usually beat out a co-op. That doesn't mean that society as a whole gains.
The machines won't be broken after October 2025. They will keep on working. The apps running on it will still get updates. The OS will not.
Hm, see I like OTP and Elixir is nice, but I feel like the lack of types is holding me back a bit.

Could you elaborate on how you find Elixir more expressive here?
At least they have an RSS feed! That's quite uncommon these days
The funny thing is that they actually have a specific error message for this asking you to enable 3rd party cookies. I guess it is easier than fixing the issue.
> The salary differential between the highest and lowest paid workers in Mondragón, for example, remains about six to one; for the largest 500 listed companies in the US, the gap is closer to 272 to one. At the year end, members of Mondragón’s co-operatives also decide collectively on whether they should pay themselves bonuses and, if so, how much. This profit-sharing comes in addition to a base pay rate that, on average, is 40% above Spain’s minimum wage.

Workers are better off.
Oh that’s right! We had to use LGL in addition to geolocation to lay out points without data. And yeah, the geolocation came from some internal service.

Thanks for chiming in. Good times!
Has anyone figured out how many devices are still running Windows that can't upgrade to 11?

The oldest Intel CPUs supported were released in 2017.
Straw man argument; the person you're replying to did not mention any boycotting. See also "Mr. Gotcha".
They should just copy what CWWK does and create boards stuffed with insane amounts of tech. ASRock/ASUS/SuperMicro can't cope with what is CWWK able to do these days.
But the claimed phenomenon here is that it's (almost) always easier for you to come up with a solution to someone else's problem than for them to do so, not just that some problems are easier for one person than another. There are problems with this claim, I think, but the absence of free will is not an explanation, or at best just reduces it to the question of why, granting the claim, the determinism (almost) always leads to this bias.

(For that matter, nothing in the linked article depends on whether or not we have free will.)
It might not be obvious from the title, but this model is absolutely massive: 480B parameters. The largest open-source model to date, I believe.

You can try it out here: https://arctic.streamlit.app/

Weights are here: https://huggingface.co/Snowflake/snowflake-arctic-instruct
Data dumping a 57 page pdf about Global brands is the best way to communicate something specifically about Google.

But based on the graph I assume you're talking about page 12 which has a graph of various Google products. The data only goes back to 2018 and ends in Apr 2023. There is a clear downward trend since then Google Maps is the least affected but is still down from the low.

The trend I've seen is people on here have voice a significant lost trust over the past year. A loss of trust that is only growing. I feel its safe to assume we loss trust first since this is our industry.

If we're losing trust and the general public has already losing trust, I expect that general public's trust to catch up soon and show a steeper decline.

Anecdotally, I've already seen dissatisfaction with Google coming up more and more frequently in the areas of the internet I visit where the topics are far less technical. Unlike here those people are less aware of the alternatives.

I expect that when people realize Google is the new Boeing, they will abandon it quickly. There are many alternatives.
Yes! I'm always reminded of "Just is a Dangerous Word", from the original wiki:

https://wiki.c2.com/?JustIsaDangerousWord
Surely ChatGPT didn’t need an introduction by you to anchoring bias, because text describing it has already been a part of the dataset making up the model.

Why then, do you postulate did it not take advantage of anchoring bias (and other negotiating techniques) from the start?
>And if you're a government or enterprise with spectacularly big wallets

Normal people also get to buy extended support if desired[1], and frankly it's not that expensive if you really need it.

[1]: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/04/03/1757230/microsoft-r...
My mechanic doesn't speculatively contact me about work I should do on my car. If I want new software that I can't write myself, I should reach out to developers, not the other way around.
How hard could it be for a company as large as Google to hire a few dozen lawyers and accountants in every country they're able to do business in?
> those can afford expensive stuff, but western stuff anyway

Western, sure. American, not really.

There's a reason American brands like Harley-Davidson and Ford quit India, but Western (NATO+) brands like Toyota and Hyundai thrive in India, and Indian conglomerates like Tata acquired prestige western brands like Jaguar Land Rover.

Same thing with China and the acquisition of MG, Volvo, Lotus, etc.

> Also regarding visa - well there are more indians in the visa queue than probably multiple countries combined. If they make it as fast as other countries - indians will just move in millions and millions simply due to sheer amount of people they have.

True, but there needs to be a middle path between being selective but also attracting the cream of the crop. Take a look at the placement statistics of IIT graduates nowadays (2017 onwards) - barely 5-10% choose to immigrate abroad now, ad it's a similar trend in mid-tier Indian programs as well.

America's innovation ecosystem only worked because we were able to attract the best and the brightest from Russia, India, China, etc. Without that level of openness, we fall to the same pit of stagnation that Mainland Europe, the UK, and Japan fell into.

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Both these points are examples of the insular mindset that is going to doom the US. There is this assumption that we have always been the best and always will be the best.

It was immigrants or the children of immigrants like Oppenheimer, Lawrence, Fermi, von Neumann, etc that ushered the Atomic and Information Age, and it was immigrants like Hinton, le Cunn, Bengio, etc that ushered in the current ML revolution.

Already, a lot of my Chinese and Indian friends who did their PhDs in EE or CS at programs like Stanford or MIT have started returning to China and India because they find the visa process demeaning and very backlogged.
I'm not sure why going after "low hanging fruit" should be considered a bad strategy? If you can't build the resolve that leads to removing low hanging fruit in pursuit of the actual problem, how likely is it that your advocacy will ever fix the actual problem?

In any case, I believe the anti-ShotSpotter advocates not only assert that SS is cost-ineffective, but that its alerts lead to increased escalation:

> There was another study that found that the police, in areas where they know ShotSpotter alerts happen, tend to arrive more amped up and ready to jump out and engage. And in Chicago, this has had repercussions. Most recently, there was a case where a ShotSpotter alert went off, and it was unclear whether it was a gunshot or a firework. But the police arrived. They saw a man in his front yard, and they opened fire on him immediately. Fortunately, they didn’t hit him. And it turned out that it was just a firework. It was not a gunshot. The man did not have a gun.

https://slate.com/business/2024/02/shotspotter-chicago-cance...
The new Paint is still the older Paint with a few new features. Back in the day, MS was trying to replace paint.exe with Paint3D app.
Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_worker_cooperatives?wp...

In the US, I'm most familiar with Equal Exchange (fair trade coffee), Nebula (creator owned YouTube for documentaries), TESA (educational board games), Alvarado St Bakery (the tiger-branded breads available in many stores).
Nvidia to Acquire Run:AI
That's hardly the problem. There are millions of people who legally carry concealed firearms in the USA without an issue daily. The "gun" violence is not committed by those people; in fact they are something like 10x more likely to use their gun defensively than to intentionally commit crimes.
Not familiar with this area but also thought it was another tutorial about making an OTP authenticator.