skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's just piracy bro. My git repo is a portfolio. If U2 puts a music video on their website, it doesnt mean they grant you unending access to download it, back it up, redistribute it, etc. Of course not.
If you take my art portfolio on your site and download and reproduce it on the wall, that's
Analogy isn't any kind of argument. It is an aid to understanding.
Does diversity make teams work better?
The audi wheel with buttons around it is terrible. I have to look down to find the correct button, and then I need to look at the screen to wheel to the correct option.

Touchscreen is not better than physical buttons but at least I can still look forward while operating it.

This audi is the first time I actually started using Siri - and not because I like it.
>we continue to make 10s of millions a year while you miss your child's birthday

Out of curiosity, are there many Googlers out there the have to miss their kids' birthday?

Because from all the stories and anecdotes from Google employees, there's not much pressure at Google for overtime, quite the contrary, employees who want to work like crazy to "change the world" can do it, but most employees choose to go to Google so they can rest and vest, which is what Google is famous for and makes it a very desirable place to work.

There was even a Googler's guide on Reddit a few years ago how to pretend to work from home while you play videogames all day and cash in 400k/year, with all the details on the theatrics needed to pass your peer performance review for years while working less than 20h/month, since nobody really checks in detail what your working on and why how long it should take, so you have a lot of avenues to pretend to look busy while relaxing.

Doesn't sounds like the place where you'd need to miss your kid's birthday to me, unless maybe you hate your family.
I was just looking up the LA to SF high speed rail project because the headline sounded so wrong. It's so sad that the official website has a giant photo of their progress: a short section of clean, straight overpass over a country road, with nothing connected to either end, an island of rail infrastructure plonked down in the middle of California. Sigh.

https://hsr.ca.gov/

I know that there are many factors affecting progress, but it's depressing that we can't get to consensus on building infrastructure.
Earlier today a post by a Jewish student at Columbia University got 36 upvotes and was promptly flagged to oblivion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40141363

I'm guessing the same will happen here.

It seems like a lot of people don't want to hear that not all of the American Jewish community supports Israel's current actions without question, and that the consequences to protesters have been completely out of proportion (including arrests and evictions of students).
Lot of people care about fit. And feeling. A car should at least look right that means gaps in different places look same and there is no obvious problem. After all they are paying tens of thousands for something, that is absolute minimum you can expect for that price.
Even worse, besides spam domains there are countless legit enterprises that like to be at the top of results that create bad incentives.

Imagine the community manages to set up a walled off non-commercial web that gains enough popularity to be interesting to advertisers. Who would be in charge of such a thing? And what would they do when Coca Cola showed up at the front door with ten million dollars in a briefcase? Federated would not be much better, they just need to pay the most influential nodes.
That is not copyright but a geographical trademark. And trademarks are for the protection of consumers. Champagne is a type of sparkling wine made in the region of Champagne, France. If it isn't made in Champagne, France it, by definition, is not champagne. It's sparkling wine.

And this almost always comes with reduction in quality. A premium product gets watered down and Walmartified. Happens with cheeses or any other fancy foodstock.

Refusal of United States to recognize European geographical quality marks was one of the reasons why TTIP trade agreement failed (that together with United States wanting Europe to severely reform its legal base for the betterment of American corporations).
Run Gleam Run with Louis Pilfold (Changelog Interviews #588)
This combo makes mobile web experience great again.
The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the largest industrial co-op
I wasn't talking about European financial companies - they're actually pretty decent at security because European financial regulators actually have teeth, and the internal platforms for a Deustche Bank or BNP Paribas are fairly forward facing (or at least as forward facing as very large and old conglomerates can be).

The companies I'd be worried about are outside the financial sector. I know it's all anecdotal so we're just randos on the internet yelling at each other, but actual enforcement of European data and security regulations (outside of the financial sector) are minimal, and more critically, very basic platform security practices haven't percolated.

That said, I can safely say that Equifax has completely revamped their infra to prevent a leak like the one they previously faced. They had a complete rearchitecture and heads rolled.
> That's never going to happen

It's already happened. The $10,000 (in China) BYD Seagull is superior IMO to any <$20,000 ICE vehicle.

You can lease a bZ4x for $169 a month. Many people can save more than $169 in fuel costs by switching to electric, making that bZ4x essentially "free after estimated fuel savings" to use the silly Tesla phrasing.
So pleased to see this. Had fun playing with the language but at the time learning OTP seemed a big ask
It won’t get completed, but plenty of will get rich, who just ‘randomly’ have connections to California elected officials.
Exactly. My experience at Google over the past two years has been that "we need to be nimble and move faster" has led to increased scrutiny on ongoing projects but few actual changes in ongoing projects. So there's more docs and slides presented to VPs justifying work (taking up time) but VPs aren't willing to say "this isn't a priority - go help with this key project over here." There's minimal vision from above, so the net effect of all of this is that people move slower.

Google is still, IMO, a good place to work. But it has degraded considerably over the last several years and I've lost pretty much all faith in leadership above the Director level.
Gift Article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/tiktok-ban-bil...
Some great lessons in here.

Particularly liked the one about ambiguities hiding conflict. That’s true in groups and for individuals, in my experience.

When we say “I don’t know,” we usually mean “I haven’t resolved how I feel about this.” Clarity requires drilling down and making decisions, sometimes just about priority. Could be emotions blocking that, for individuals or in groups.
Hit a nerve, it seems. Apologies.
Defaults matter. 95% of people don't change defaults.
YouTube seems to treat popular videos as their own interest category and it’s very aggressive about recommending them if you show any interest at all. If you watch even one or two popular videos (like in the millions of views), suddenly the quality of the recommendations drops off a cliff, since it is suggesting things that aren’t relevant to your interest categories, it’s just suggesting popular things.

If I entirely avoid watching any popular videos, the recommendations are quite good and don’t seem to include anything like what you are seeing. If I don’t entirely avoid them, then I do get what you are seeing (among other nonsense).
I think the way this is worded is deliberately misleading. It's worded as if she needed to actually reduce the costs in eight days, but it can also be read as "create a plan in just eight work days". And that should certainly be doable. In fact you could do a little bit of research and then write the vast majority of that plan doc with AI and it would likely be good enough.
I am very curious to see how much this news spreads, since I have been in a lot of discussions that doing anything like this gets immediacy shut down as being "anti-semitic". And yet, I can't imagine anyone with a straight face will actually try to claim someone who is jewish is anti-semitic.

I do find it concerning that it seems like we are using a lot more force for anyone protesting this (see the stuff with colleges yesterday) than normal? Or is it just getting more attention?
In the story, he calls out a team working 120 hours a week, after first ramping to 100 hours/week for a while...in what seems like a example he's wanting people to follow.
Meanwhile, in the Chrome MV2 -> MV3 extension saga, it seems like June 2024 is the newest new date in which MV2 may be phased out in pre-stable versions of Chrome.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to...

At least, to Google's credit, they're starting to listen to users who give them solid reasons why a surprise migration isn't feasible... tomorrow.
If they would do a small low-power SBC it would be great if it could be used as an alternative main-board for a Framework laptop. Fill out the remaining space with additional battery.
For VHS yes but breaking DRM on Blu Rays is illegal and you have to do it to copy them. However, to my knowledge no one has ever been prosecuted for breaking the DRM on a blu ray. Unless they shared the copy online.
I find this hilariously ironic considering Gemini was supposed to be all about equity and inclusion and that. This is a perfect example of an inclusive policy that supports 40 year single mothers and other people with different needs /s
The ESPHome project is unusually competent, user-centric, and almost uncanny in how well it works.

I'll tell you what I want, though. I'm not sure this is in-scope for ESPHome, or how it's possible to even implement cleanly:

I want to be able to make devices which have tight feedback loops and more complex on-board algorithms

What I really want is e.g. a light sensor controlling lightbulbs. Here, I want the lightbulbs changing almost continuously by almost imperceptible amounts, things like Kalman filters, and similar, to keep a fixed light level and light temperature based on time-of-day.

I'd like to have my air filters, ventilation, heating, humidification, dehumidification, and cooling continuously controlled such that:

1) All run at the right level continuously to keep environmentals and power optimized.

2) Ventilation reduces CO2 / TVOC levels, but increase PM2.5 levels and lets in external temperature

3) Cooling / heating / ventilation impact humidity in complex ways

4) Space heaters cost a lot more than baseline heating, but are sometimes necessary on very cold days

5) This is all less important when I'm not home, and some things change. When I'm home, I want liveable humidity. When I'm not, I want to minimize humidity.

... and so on.

(A second thing I want is ESPHome to allow me to make Zigbee, rather than just wifi, devices)
I hope someone will write an article about Gary Kildall's achievements in theory of compilation. For us, compiler writers, he is a legendary figure.
But image generation doesn't matter. It's a fun toy but it's not part of any professional workflow they care about, doesn't impact long term strategic goals, etc. It's literally just PR mistake they're covering for.

Praise reveals priorities. They don't care about getting things right the first time. They don't care about important projects. That's the inference.
Buying a car is going away just like buying CDs and DVDs went away. And running your own email server. Most people just want to get from A to B, not deal with the investment into and maintenance of a car.
It’s always a potential that this happens. Millions of people come and go peacefully because it’s not actively happening. You can’t measure the risk by observing present data. But you have to make a decision as to what you risk tolerance is and how likely you think something like this is in the future.
Well plain reason seems to me is because they can.

I mean I don’t see people grabbing apartments because rent is expensive or leaving restaurants without paying after meals beach food is expensive. Same for school/ college fees and that’s really expensive.

In most cases people will do all sorts of unsanctioned things if they can get away with it.
I kind of understand how the 2nd point, "shut down a major thoroughfare.”, would lead to your conclusion, "seems fine", but I fail to understand what the 1st point has anything to do with it.
Could you please help me understand? In the article, the protestors are labeled as "anti-war" protestors, and even though the specific war they are protesting involves Israel, I would not necessarily label them as "anti-Israel".
Oh for sure, there are always some, like the original Android team who was working like crazy to catch up to Apple after they unveiled their first iPhone, but Google is such a big and diverse company now with several monopolist positions, I doubt all teams at Google are in wartime mode crunching like crazy like their Gemini team is.
"Our problems aren't due to lack of effort. But you all have to put in more time and effort to fix our problems."

Makes perfect sense.
This might be a tangent, but why does JAX only support the saving / serialization of AOT compilation executables for TPU [1]? It would be great to have the ability to save compiled functions and not have to JIT compile something every time you restart a session.

(Julia has had this problem too, but they've made great progress on caching JIT compiled functions to reduce latency.)

[1]: https://github.com/google/maxtext?tab=readme-ov-file#ahead-o...
> Facebook is not an organisation that desparately needs a bunch of LLM-generated content.

This is an overly narrow view of what an LLM can do. Generating text is the really neat parlor trick that people are trying to cram in to every possible startup, but if you take a broader view then what LLMs really are is the single largest breakthrough in natural language understanding.

Facebook doesn't need text generators, but they do need language understanding, especially for recommendation and moderation.

I'm not convinced that it's a complement—Joel's explanation is that you make a product that users consume alongside yours very cheap in order to keep people coming to you— but they definitely need LLMs.
Also Meta's models are nowhere near as advanced so they couldn't even ask significant amount of money for them.
> They are competing with other entertainment. They are competing with other TV and movies. The only thing they aren’t competing on is the exact show.

I.e. the only thing they aren't competing on is the one that matters.

Shows are not substitutable. If I want to watch Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, I won't be interested in watching Mandalorian or The Boys instead. Especially if I've already seen the other two.
The title is more ambiguous than the report's conclusion and follows the "law of headlines":

Our results here show that the picture is more complex –when reduced to a single estimate, the average (linear) correlation between team diversities and team performances is too small to matter substantively.

Applause for including demographic, job-related and cognitive diversity.
> That can't actually be true in practice can it? These are things running on a computer, a machine, and not paper.

It's true for all practical purposes. Humans are just running on protein, lipids and sugars, and these are far less reliable than transistors.
I mean, i'm all in on apple and have all that stuff. Would be fine if it's up offloading compute to a mac or something like that and make the integration more seamless
It's probably also worth clarifying that workload necessarily excludes anyone who observes the Sabbath.
Things like PyTorch help everyone (massively!), including OpenAI.

Another of Meta's major "open source" initiatives is Open Compute which has nothing to do with OpenAI.

I see zero relationship between Meta's open source initiatives and OpenAI. Why would there be? OpenAI is not a competitor, and in fact help push the field of AI forwards which is helpful to Meta.
Reddit said years ago that they keep the content of deleted comments, but editing overwrites the content in their database, that is why these extensions were written.

They must have changed it or been lying from the start. (Reddit was partly open source waaayyy back in the day, so one could go check)
Waymo and Cruise already solved the issues you mention.

Each issue Tesla can't solve in a more efficient way, they can solve by copying the competition.
Let's assume, for the sake of discussion, that it is. Is rudeness not rooted in the very same misguided and flawed identity concept? I don't suppose a monkey that you cannot discern from any other monkey giving you the middle finger congers any feelings of that nature. Yet, here the output of software has, I suspect because the software presents the message alongside some kind of clear identity marker. But is it not irrational to be offended by the output of software?
And they're doing the same in India.

There's a reason I mentioned Renault and Dassault - to show that it's not just a China thing.

Every country pushes for JVs, but it's up to the individual companies themselves to defend their IP, or at least integrate the host country's talent base with the home country's innovation system so that it's mutually beneficial (eg. What Japanese companies did in Korea in the 1970s-80s).

American companies do that (eg. L1/2 transfers and O-1 visas) but European and Japanese companies don't as often.
This reminds me of the time at my work when the CTO gathered all the devs together, and told us "We have to innovate more". With no real further instructions. He even showed us a graph (without any numbers) that had Profit on the Y axis and Innovation on the X axis, with line line going up to the right.

When asked when we were supposed to work on this innovation, he told us it was important to still work on our current projects, but do it more innovatively. When pressed about what this actually meant, he just showed us the graph again.

I resigned shortly after.
Arch Linux with Plasma 6.
They're not cancelling the model 2 - they're delaying next gen platform and introducing a new intermediate platform based on the 3/Y platform with some of the good stuff from next gen thrown in. They're doing this so they can start selling the model 2 in late 2024 (Elon time, adjust as you see fit). Next gen is now 2026 rather than 2025 (again, Elon time).
Lately I’ve been using https://shepherd.com/ as a “tool” to find actual books to buy or borrow.

Internet tools to find, physical books to consume. At least the consumption part is ad-free.
The article drops that quote with no context, but presumably he's admitting in this case it was an error of judgement/design, not execution.
Executives need to realize that startups move faster not because they work more hours. They move faster because there is less red tape, less bureaucracy and less process than large companies. Individual employees have more freedom to make their own choices, instead of being restrained by top down OKRs.
"Wearing a hoodie with the words “We use Math” " - well, use Math to work out that people working 100-120 hours a week is not productive
I don't understand why they never formed a committee and decide core basic features an OS should provide, set up an open spec API (a good one), and have that as a basis for android, ios, and mobile phones. Something like that could easily hold up for 20 years. Obviously we could put in climate controls, but all the cars should have the same basic "position" and "heirarchy tree" of where basic controls/settings are. Whenever I rent a car it's always a fkn hastle to find settings. That's all I ask :)
Bring back Briefcases
And lot of people buy car to get utility at short notice. I don't think many people would like if their car was with empty battery at very end of what ever max range they set. And they were in hurry to get somewhere...
A great example of ChatGPT showing real understanding
I have been pretty skeptical on ChatGPTs ability to actually understand things, rather than just parrot out the next most probable word. But this conversation has really impressed me.
My goal was this: - give it a scenario to test how it approaches a task - give it some text which outlines a strategy it could use in that task. The key here was that I didn't want to give it instructions, rather, I wanted it to be more of a mental model it could use - repeat the same scenario to see if it uses this new mental modal to it's advantage.

As you can see, the scenario was trying to sell me some oranges. The text I gave it was a description of how to use anchoring bias in negotiations. The text doesn't say anything explicit about using a higher initial price, instead saying that the first price given can be anchored to.

I was super impressed that it used the technique to it's advantage.

Until now, I had been pretty dismissive of it's ability to understand rather than just outputting a probable answer

PS: I initially (incorrectly) posted this as a Show HN as I hadn't seen the rules and it was rightly flagged. Hence the repost - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136755
The new new plan: C99-ish (able to compile with other compilers than gcc and clang) implementation using drm vulkan display support from mesa.

Once something is working "enough", start to port libdrm then mesa to the new executable file format (as usual c++ code is going to be the issue... still some people thinking c++ makes them smart and not toxic as f*ck for the humanity).
This is fine and good but they still have the original content, and will just provide all versions of the text. So it doesn’t really do anything.
You could use Multi-Account Containers in Firefox for MS Browser Teams, to keep their 3rd party cookies contained to themselves (and thus useless).
Prabhakar has been enabled by Sundar at every step. The two are in alignment. If you are disgusted by Prabhakar, you should be disgusted by Sundar too, he has just as much contempt for the workers, he just hides his cards better.
This isn't Google strong-arming the web. This is Google desperately wanting to turn off third-party cookies, and being told again and again by regulators that they aren't allowed to do so.
Wasn’t csam ultimately rolled back? And wasn’t it not Ai based but hash based?
Just remember that FB will weaponize everything once it makes sense to them financially.
Link to the paper: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/nscd4
That can’t account for more than 0.1% of piracy. Not that many people care.
$100 (base OS + bare bones devtools) + $90 (for having the confort of Macros) + $75 (debuging beyond text output) + $75 (for a proper code formatter) = $340 in 1978.

Which are around $1,628.73 in today's money, plus hardware costs, so no wonder that many of us would just stick with the base install and make do with what was available.

Example, I never had an Assembler for Timex 2068, rather painfully translated opcodes into DATA segments, or used a hexdump editor that appeared in some computer magazine as one of those type-in examples.
Technical interop pre-empt even DRMs by law, it has to be dealed in court.
Prabhakar Raghavan has become suddenly famous this week. This is beginning to look like a scapegoating exercise.

Google have their serious problems, but they extend far further than just this guy.
And if you can't do it without money?
Yes, but then why can they get away with it? Perhaps because there's an unspoken general understanding among people, legislation and law enforcement, that individual-level IP rights enforcement is mostly bullshit, and IP is in large part just a necessary evil to keep the status quo from breaking too fast. Artificial scarcity is not exactly morally defensible in the first place.