skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The majority of that revenue comes from violating data protection law and regulators and litigants are slowly racking up a series of wins which will gut ads margins.

There is no Plan B, they are just going to break the law until they can’t and there’s zero clue what happens after that.

They sat back and let OpenAI kick their ass precisely because ghouls like Prabakar call the shots and LLM are not a good display ads fit.

The best parallel for Google is Kodak.
> It's been sold as a miracle that can replace people, but the truth is, well, not that, which really hampers the sales process

How soon until the hype fades and we enjoy our next AI winter?
Free access does not exclude copyright and vice versa, isn't it?
Tiny but mighty: The Phi-3 small language models with big potential
Related:

Lawsuit accuses GM of sharing drivers' data with insurers without consent

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134739
Apple did not invent the smart phone. The invented several features that make them useful (even their version one lacked apps), but others made smart phones before them. What Apple really did was make them useful by eliminating several of the things that made them annoying not not useful before.
Do you have any such evidence? You linked a paywalled article saying that TikTok works with its parent company, which is hardly news. We're looking for evidence that TikTok/ByteDance shared private data from Americans with the Chinese government. US politicians would love to get such evidence.
Yeah I used cytoscape before but it didn't have the full customization that I wanted. Besides the performance issues, there were some problems I couldn't have solved without a custom renderer
- if many lines overlap, how should their colors blend?
- how to render circles so that they look nice both zoomed in / out
- how to avoid it looking like a hairball graph [1]

The nice thing about a personal project is that I can do whatever I like with no constraints, so I built one that's suited for this project and fits my tastes.

[1] https://cambridge-intelligence.com/how-to-fix-hairballs/
Phi-3: Redefining what's possible with SLMs
Because it's too vacuous and based on subjective morals to be realistically followed. I also think we need engineers who do jobs that are ugly to preserve our freedom.
The bar is quite high at these kinds of companies. If you let off the gas and try to coast like that, you'll just get fired and thus lose the deferred comp that way.
Released 22 February 2018

Dart 2.0 implemented a new sound type system

Dart's type system, like the type systems in Java and C#, is sound.

https://dart.dev/language/type-system
In the car world, the abbreviation 'M3' usually refers to a BMW M3. not a Tesla Model 3.
Using investment strategies developed at Company A to make money for Company B would likely be a violation of your NDA. Even if you didn't use anything you learned at Company B, you might still expect a trade secrets lawsuit if they really suspect you did (printing out docs, storing docs off network, etc.) There already is plenty that companies can do to protect trade secrets from leaving with employees that don't require you to find a new career field. Like maybe Company A can better separate the work so that every software engineer doesn't need to have access to the secret sauce or simply making the job more attractive so that the ones with the secret sauce don't feel the need to leave at all. Why would a company bother to work hard to retain you if they know that leaving would involve taking a pay cut, relocating, or having to restart your career elsewhere? Employers may offer more initially when hiring non-compete workers but there's little incentive to grow their wages. As for training costs, many companies already require extra years of service for educational assistance. Simply make the employee pay back any training costs if they voluntarily leave for a new job within 6 months after initial training is concluded.
I see the point, but wouldn't this new rule also force employers to pay more to prevent workers from leaving in the first place? Employees won't leave if they are well compensated.
> Now, as for that data, it exists

No one ever wants to provide it, though.

> cant read at all when they enter.

That's a pretty important confounding factor, don't you think? Might that change the way one should interpret the data - knowing that kids weren't starting at a level playing field, but in fact playing catch-up from the beginning?

> To CPS's credit they do pretty decently taking all these kids who are far behind and brining them almost to grade level, but its just hard for me to say thats a huge accomplishment when tons of kids are still so far behind.

What precisely do you expect a school district to do? If kids are behind, it's going to take more time and effort to get them up to speed and there are only so many hours in a day; only so many days in a year; only so many years before the kids leave at 18. Sounds like you expect a miracle, and I don't think any other district could do what you're expecting either.

CPS does a pretty damn good job, even by your own account.
I don't follow, it seems like you're still be hosed in this scenario. What's the difference of stopping accepting connections and rejecting queries vs crashing out? Meaningful work cannot make progress when a busy dynamic system is OOM -- which a database is a prime example of.

Best to avoid the condition, or design the client side to handle the possibility the resource could be unavailable.
Oh he did worse than that, far worse.
shhh... you might cause their reality distortion field to fail!
Ask HN: Can LLM's generate a sudoku that has not been created before?
or can a LLM generate a sudoku which it has not been trained with?

LLM's are neural networks that are trained with a massive amount of data. Their training data can contain all the publicly available sudokus that in the internet.

So, can it really be creative enough to come up with any sudoku that it doesn't even see before?

I would expect that they could not because they are not trained with. Because they are just next word predicter.
So Yahoo sent a guy to Google search and he killed it, and a Google sent a gal to Yahoo to kill it.

> a computer scientist class traitor

Loved this. In addition to this class traitors, we also had (much earlier) counter-revolutionaries that sold us a Tech Utopia in 90s and then promptly setup camp in FANGS to give us the Surveillance Tech Dystopia.

[my tongue is somewhat lodged in my cheek here but only a bit]
I suspect Tesla simply has the latest number of vehicles on the market with this level of driving assist, therefore accidents almost always involve Teslas.

To my mind the very name is a core problem. "Autopilot" clearly implies you're able to disengage from driving, no number of asterisks or warning dialogs is going to alter that core perception. But to change the name at this point would be to admit that they're at fault, something Musk would be loathe to do and probably something Tesla's lawyers would really rather not do, too.
I'm not -- I'm just more of a Conway's Game of Life expert than 99.9999% of the world's population. But that's just due to experience and invested time, not cleverness.

Could probably add at least one more nine to the end of that number, and maybe two ... the CGOL community is very widely dispersed geographically but it's really very small. There just aren't very many Conway's Life Expert candidates out there! For me to hit 99.999999%, there would have to be fewer than eighty people out there who have more knowledge about Conway's Life than I do

At least for certain topics -- like the reverse caber tosser, for example --

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Reverse_caber-tosser

-- I'm fairly confident that I can list pretty much every person in the world who has a deep knowledge of the workings of 15-glider RCT universal construction ... and there are a lot less than eighty of them.
The multi-sound characters are common in usage. For example 长 can be cháng meaning "long" or zhǎng meaning "to grow". 行 is xíng "to walk" or háng with no real single coherent meaning, appearing in compounds like 银行 yínháng "bank" and 行业 hángyè "profession". All of these are very common usages. In context they are essentially never ambiguous, but if you are going through character-by-character it's not going to make sense.
Yellowstone's Wolves: A Debate over Their Role in the Park's Ecosystem
Wait, are building codes currently not copyrighted? Then why is it currently so hard to get a copy of them? My city (Chicago) basically has codes that say "NFPA NEC 2020 code, but you can't do any of this stuff, and need to do this extra stuff". Getting the referenced NEC code is a total PITA, same for the IBC (International Building Codes).

If they aren't copyrighted at the moment, could I freely distribute PDFs of them if I were to get them (maybe remove trademarks or whatever)?

Edit: I guess the crux of the issue is that when the laws do say "NEC 2020 but X", implicitly that referenced code is kinda public domain because the law itself needs to be?

I get that the standards organizations need to get money to do the testing to know that (e.g.) every permutation of wires with different insulation stuffed into a conduit of such a length is safe even if someone insulates around it yadda yadda, which can then get flattened to an actual useful code because electricians or inspectors don't want gigantic tables with every type of wire and their permutations and individual loads for them...they just want an easy way to figure out fill factor.

How should they get paid? I dunno. Royalties from municipalities that use them? $X per hour per inspector that's checking against whatever code (NEC, IBC...)? $Y per square foot per inspection?
Where I live the biggest noise is from the loading mechanism and the built in press.
I mean, it's definitely more expensive than Saunfi or Jugni Santra, but it's still available in my ancestral village's liquor theka, and people would rather show off a Foreign liquor like Whisky instead.

The switch to heritage is definitely the right move from a branding standpoint.

Edit: it might be a brand thing too - "Kesar Kasturi" and "Somras" are generic names and based on some limited internet sleuthing, it looks like generics of these are made as well from Molasses+artifical flavoring
It sounds like you want someone to agree with you that your memory plus your subjective view of yourself is a "good measure" of progress, despite the existence of scales and measuring tapes, which dwarf your subjective memories in terms of reliability and accuracy. We'll just have to agree to disagree.
Google fires more employees over protest of cloud contract with Israel
One interesting thing about gikun is the widely different forms it can take according to the stylistic purposes of the text.

- Most of the time it's simply a pragmatic way to introduce a clarification without breaking the flow of the text, essentially a more concise form of parenthetical or footnote.

- In classical poetry it is used for a variety of effects, for example novel synecdoches. One side of the gikun might refer to a season, and the other side might refer to a key detail the poet idiosyncratically associates with that season.

- But the contemporary Japanese learner usually notices them the most in fantasy/sci-fi manga and novels. In this genre it's used to introduce in-universe jargon while showing its meaning in parallel. At the extreme, it can allow writers to go over-the-top with how much special jargon the universe includes, without slowing down the pace of storytelling. (This can pose quite a challenge for translators!)
To get their topics? I used a basic louvain community detection algorithm, then put all the URLs into GPT with some few-shot prompting tricks to get it to output a particular topic. There's some heuristics to break up giant communities / combine small communities in there too.
Apple reportedly cuts Vision Pro production due to low demand
Yes, I noticed my error above, and corrected it, thanks to you, in a reply to myself.
Yeah, I was really confused. This guy loves his BMW M3 but wants to ditch it for a Tesla?
Mention of that limitation is notably absent in the breathless hype about LLMs.
I think this is heading in the right direction. I had a similar idea about a year ago and spent three months thinking about it because creating a new programming language seemed crazy.

In September, I began the development, and about a month ago, I released a new programming language called Plang (short for pseudo language). It embodies what is describe as intent programming. You can find the repository here: https://github.com/plangHQ

It’s remarkable how much less code is required, and there are significant security benefits as well.
Furigana are frequent in many technical and scientific texts, not only in children books, because such texts may include many words that would not be used in normal conversations.

This was already true for the books published before WWII, i.e. before the writing reform, even if those books contained much less hiragana than the modern texts (after the writing reform a lot of hiragana word terminations began to be written in order to disambiguate the readings of kanji for which native Japanese readings are chosen, even when the complete furigana are not provided; this post-WWII writing style may reduce the need for furigana).
>The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has vigorously opposed the ban, saying that noncompetes can benefit ... employees, by giving employers greater incentive to invest in workforce training and development.

How do people feel about this? Is it BS?
https://teenage.engineering/store/field-desk/
Focusing on FSD is car company suicide. It's a focus on selling cars to people who don't like cars and would rather do without one entirely. You can sell some cars like this but ultimately it's a dead end, you soon sell one to everybody who wants one, nobody else does, and the market for your cars crashes.
I did, right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40105491
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Views_of_Elon_Musk
You seem knowledgeable, and I’m possibly going back into a GPGPU project after many years out of the game, so: overall do you see a good future for filling these compute-related gaps in the WebGPU API? Really I’m wondering whether wgpu is an okay choice versus raw Vulkan for native GPGPU outside the browser.
Agreed ... You need WFW or a third party TCP/IP stack.
Wow.

One of the GoF guys, too.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Gamma
> The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has vigorously opposed the ban, saying that noncompetes can benefit both companies, by allowing them to better guard trade secrets, and employees, by giving employers greater incentive to invest in workforce training and development.

Sounds remarkably similar to two-centuries-prior statements about the benefits of [American negro] slavery and perils of abolition, doesn't it?
This has been a problem for decades. Congress' focus is more on self-preservation than good policy. For example, granting abortion rights through case law was always incredibly tenuous and now that's been proven.

I predict this will be kicked around the executive branch and bounced in courts. Even if it stands, like you point out, future administrations can just revoke it. All the while, Congress should be taking action and codifying this.
I'm thinking out loud here, but what if it's akin to a copy mechanism, or compression expander algorithm like unzipping a file?

The Sperm carries the requisite DNA to activate the egg, which then just executes the body's Replicate() method. The sperm being required is so people don't spontaneously get pregnant.

The DNA coding for proteins is just to build the replicate() method, which then starts copying attributes from the host's (read: mother's) body. Much like how there are differences in compression/expansion algorithms (zip, tar, gz, etc..), the sperm that initiates the replication/unpacking adds non-neutral variance, hence the genetic traits of both parents present in the child.

Put a different way, why reinvent the wheel if I could just grab the memoized visual processing from the parent? Then, if a trait isn't present on the host, say, mid-digital hair, I (as the replication algorithm), "wouldn't know what I wouldn't know" which could perhaps be seeing as synonymous with "evolution."
That was the thing that really drove home how the Internet was unexpected for Microsoft; they simply had no conception of a network connection that wasn't a LAN. Of course everything else would go through something else ...
It may be better to post the project https://sandboxels.r74n.com/ instead of the whole site. Do you want to post it?
While I agree this has been true of TE for most of their existence, their most recent $300 sampler bucks this trend considerably.

https://teenage.engineering/store/ep-133/

Neither that, nor this little AI cloud device are eye watering in price.
The point was in your scenario the student doesn't save any money at the end, in both cases they spend $40 to briefly own the book.

If they bought it used for $120 and sold it back for $80 after use vs buy for $120, photocopy, then sell for $80 it's the same overall outcome.

The reason I drew a distinction between school books and others is with some books the infringer might want to keep the photocopied material - I didn't realize we were talking about what is effectively a book exchange anyway (whose profits are the same either way).

Where if I bought Twilight, photocopied it and then returned it, that's a lot different than photocopying a math book that I return anyway - that people return so often there's a system designed around it at the campus bookstore.

This was never solved by lawyers or trials anyway, it was essentially put on ice by e-books and largely overtaken by the music/film piracy conversation and advent of the internet. Could have been a more interesting article is all!
It is a good question. I am glad that the FTC is testing it.
Ask HN: How to improve PCB prototyping iteration time?
I'm building wearable tech, and the JLCPCB lead times are my biggest bottleneck for iteration. 3-4 weeks is way too long. Has anyone figured out a way to make this quicker? Strongly considering moving to Shenzen to build the prototype. Has anyone done this, and was it quicker/worth it?
These days I go chatgpt4 -> ddg -> Google. I did the Kagi trial but it wasn’t compelling.

I am generally sceptical of GPT results, but also of other results, and GPT search is easier to fine tune and drill down into. For example if it gives me an obviously wrong answer, you can call BS. And it even apologises! Much more difficult to do for search engines.
[dupe]

More discussion on the official release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010
Is this just clarifying existing case law? When working on contracts with my attorney he mentioned on multiple occasions that noncompetes were unenforceable. I'm in Michigan for whatever that is worth.
I think it would be cool if the search results were also visualized as a network.
Ebbs and flows with time. Silicon Valley has a long and illustrious history with the military industrial complex. Miltech has been unpopular for some time, but with the war in Ukraine the pendulum is swinging the other way.
Who do you think should take it upon themselves to try to steer an organization like Google away from evil actions? Is there anyone that isn't "egotistical" and "selfish" for doing so? Employees are arguably some of the most visible people to that company and possibly most well positioned to actually make something happen. It follows that if they truly believe Google is being evil, they have a moral obligation to act. Quite the opposite of "selfish" if they do this at personal risk.
Chuck, curious if you have ever posted here on what happened to Sun Micro. Love to read your take on it.
The UIUX isn’t good, AI models are useless without good user experiences
The answer to that for any given feature is "can untrusted code be trusted with that?". Wave intrinsics are probably doable. Bindless maybe, but expect a bunch of bounds checking overhead. Pointers/BDA, absolutely not.

Native libraries like wgpu can do whatever they want in extensions, safety be damned, but you're stepping outside of the WebGPU spec in that case.
https://archive.ph/uIPUx
> have you used Oauth with google/facebook or the like to login and register with online services?

No, I don't use federated login anywhere. I can show you my Google account. The only place I've compromised is Tailscale, and I plan to replace that imminently. And frankly I consider it lazy of them to not support email, especially since google.com accounts are single-tenant anyway. And tailscale never sees my password, never has raw access to my entire damn account, etc, etc.

Also, besides, federated login or delegated access, sure, OAuth is great, I wouldn't have commented in this thread if they were using it. Typing my raw creds into a [redacted] VNC session is not comparable.

>Did you give Uber or Lift your credit card number? What if they were a scam?

I call my credit card company. They reverse the charge, and ding the merchant. My life goes on. Takes a shockingly small amount of time.
If that were truly the reason there are protests there wouldn't be any support in Europe, when in reality the movements there are far bigger than in the US.

I mean, sorry, but the black flags and open hostility towards Jews shows what at least a large percentage of the movement is really about. Especially in Europe.

The rest of the movement is the same as leftist movements, imho. It's also not about supporting Palestinians it's about fighting the power, ie. attempting to have political impact by "campaigning" for something SO immoral, unacceptable and unrealistic that there is bound to be a fight. It's about the fight, NOT about a solution. And by campaigning I don't mean campaigning in the sense of political campaigning, or even the vitriol spouting semi-threatening Trump is doing, but being so in the way, sabotaging people's lives, that normal people pretty much have to react with violence (because that's the point of blocking, for example, the Golden Gate bridge: to threaten people's livelihoods, and get a strong reaction that way).

It's not about saving tax dollars ... Yes, there's 1% fringe rightists in there. But seriously? It's not about that.
"hates future developers" "those kind of people" "an asshole who hates other developers" "being an asshole" "intense hatred"
It literally went from being a solved problem in 2015 - "I view it as a solved problem. We know exactly what we need to do and we will be there in a few years” - to somehow getting un-solved along the way. In 2022, "Our focus now is just on working on solving this problem".
I'd rather have an honest discussion than a "contrarian and spicy" one. Care to present your more nuanced actual opinion?
That's a bunch of bullshit. The tips advantage the EMPLOYER because there is zero transparency to the consumer.

I have no idea how much every server I go to is making. How do I know if it's good or bad? How do I know if they have any benefits? Especially now that everyone wants a fucking tip. I buy some ice cream with my kids and I'm supposed to tip 20% to someone for scooping my ice cream? I have no idea if the server is making $15/hour or $4/hour to determine if the tip is part of their pay or pure bonus etc.

It's baffling you blame the consumer. Employers are the ones that don't want to pay what their employee is worth.

Honestly the entire country is broken because of simple issues of non-guaranteed healthcare and non-guaranteed time off etc. If basic human rights were guaranteed we wouldn't have to play this constant game of figuring out what to pay people at a minimum.
Male hippo in Japan zoo found to be female after 7 years
Stock is up almost 7% after hours. Someone is believing the robotaxi/autonomous driving narrative.