skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've heard 3 different versions of this story now.
1. Gary was out joyriding in his plane and when the reps from IBM showed up, his wife turned them down because she didn't feel like she had the authority to continue negotiating without him

2. IBM reps showed up, but it was Gary's wife's birthday, and so he told them he would need to reschedule

3. This version

I wonder if we will ever really know what took place that day.
Good news, but I won't count my chickens before they're hatched.

> The FTC’s final rule becomes effective in four months. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce plans to sue the FTC as soon as Wednesday over the rule. The suit would argue that the FTC lacks the legal authority to issue the rule and would ask a federal court to invalidate it, Chamber officials said this week.
It also favors workers. By increasing salaries. And forcing companies to compete for them.

Labor is a market. It is too often ignored in favor of private equity concerns.
That this is coming from the executive branch, not the legislative branch.
There was a huge cargo cult adamantly against using tables back in the day, even though the "true way" of hacking divs with float and clearfixes and invisible images was totally broken. Somehow having bunch of wrapper and empty divs was "more semantic" or something.

I was in the cult. It was totally inane, but seems to carry some effects to this day.
type BlogPostThatFitsInSMS = BlogPost<FixedString<150>>

No one would write this type in the real world (and most type systems can’t encode it), but you see lower-level sorts of reasoning all over the place in type systems.
Why does it want to use my camera?

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Ha, well, I've mostly successfully dodged the various Wolfram-science questions so far. I just finished reading a book on cosmology -- VSL theory -- but honestly a lot this kind of thing seems to be way too far above my personal abstraction ceiling. I can't tell whether some of these ideas really even mean anything at all, or if it's just somebody who is better at waving words around than I am.

This is wandering off of the Wolfram physics project a fair distance, but it's hard to see how space could be quantized in a Fredkin "Nature is finite and digital" kind of way, without the underling "grain" of the universe becoming obvious in some kind of experiment, and/or without causing deep contradictions in various experimentally well-supported relativistic effects that require that there isn't any such thing as a unique fixed frame of reference.

But quite possibly that's just a failure of imagination on my part, not anything wrong with the actual theories in question -- I'm probably complaining about some apparent implausibility two levels above or below where the information is actually flowing. And there are certainly all kinds of properties of our physical universe that are quantized in one way or another, for utterly mysterious reasons.

Long story short, there is certainly still room for some big surprises in theoretical physics, and I'm not about to claim that I'm clever enough to rule out any of these wild options.
What prevents me from buying a new Tesla is really Musk himself. I love my M3, but not enough to want to line his pockets further with a new purchase. If I was to buy another, it'd be from a 3rd party, used.

(I get that even if I bought it used, I'd still be paying that $9 / mo for the connectivity, so it's still technically giving Tesla money. Can't always "win" it all.)

Also to pre-empt comments regarding wait till you hear about other CEOs who are bad / worse that you are funding - you're right; can't fight battles with everyone, have to pick and choose, and this is the one I choose.
No, Apple did not launch their own crypto, it's a wallet drainer (thread)
Why would you think that? Lobbying organizations exist to advance the interests of their members. Their members in this case are businesses. This will restrict the control businesses have over their former employees. Therefore, they don’t like it.
My semi-educated guess is that mainframes are a much bigger chunk still.

(AS/400 is midrange. They are called something else now, I heard. Maybe I-series.)

A lot of those indispensable infrastructure systems we all depend on, such as insurance, income tax, etc., run on mainframes, as they have for decades now.

So don't diss big iron / Big Blue.

I, for one, hope they have many years left, though I guess they could do with improving their corporate culture and business practices some.
(2021) do better OP
I’m sure all the politicians in the United States, who champion the “right to work”, will of course support banning legal contracts which have the sole purpose of restricting your right to work.
I don't think this is a fair characterization of Humane. I don't and haven't worked at Humane, but I did interview there and have some friends who work there now. They are notoriously secretive about their product (founders are ex-Apple, and they try to keep an Apple like secrecy culture) but I do know a bit about the evolution of the product.

Humane was founded in 2018, well before ChatGPT was released in November 2022. If you look online you can find some articles about patent applications they made well before ChatGPT was released that give you an idea about their idea for the product at the time, e.g. https://9to5google.com/2022/01/07/humane-android-ar-wearable...

Developing the hand tracking, laser projection system, voice recognition, etc. is very hard, especially considering the power constraints on the device. They spent years working on this and when LLMs hit the scene they realized that the original product idea was going to be severely lacking if they didn't integrate this technology. This caused a big internal pivot to more closely integrate with these LLMs. I'm not sure which they're using, presumably they're paying for GPT-4 access or something like that. It's understandable why they felt like they had to do this, and why it feels like a rushed integration. The bottom line is that they were way too optimistic with the hardware capabilities when they started working on the product, and the last minute rush to integrate with LLMs to at least improve the software capabilities to kind of close the gap is what we're left with. It's not a great situation, but I also think it's unfair to characterize it as a "cash grab".
Lyn's newsletter portfolio uses a US fintech that lets you declare your portfolio slices, and they maintain the balances for you.

She has another portfolio that still uses her investment thesis, but does it with a smaller collection of ETFs for folks who find that more accessible.
I wish I was being sarcastic! IME the sort of people putting non-competes in contracts will claim things like "programming is simply the act of defining company policy in machine form".
No One Can Own the Law–So Why Is Congress Extending Copyright to It?
I changed the title because it was too long. The original title is

> No One Can Own the Law—So Why Is Congress Advancing a Bill to Extend Copyright to It?

The bill in question is H.R.1631 - Pro Codes Act [1]. The corresponding bill in the Senate is S.835 [2]. An excerpt from the official bill summary [1]:

> Under this bill, a technical standard shall retain its copyright protection even if it has been incorporated by reference into a law or regulation, if the applicable standards development organization makes the standard available on a free publicly accessible online source.

> If a party asserts that an incorporated technical standard has lost its copyright protection because it has not been made available for free online, the party making that assertion shall bear the burden of proof.

[1] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1631

[2] https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/835
I would prefer that it is distributed as a zip. It allows me to easily get the entire file, and hash it to make sure it's the same file as other people are getting, and have an archive of it.

I would also like to be able to browse it online, but this is a usability issue for strictly when I'm intending to read it in a browser alone.

As to your final paragraphs referring to communication and me "explainig to you that this stuff is normal", you specifically said that "We don't want to normalize unnecessary behavior" which implies that you do not think it is already normalized. You're also implying that I should have altered my interpretation of your words when you said that I was missing your point, even though you didn't say I was missing your point until the same reply.

In any case, I think I understand your POV regarding archives, and I disagree.
It’s not the FTC you have to worry about. It’s Congress - if business interests can bribe enough Congresscritters, then that rule is effectively dead.
The reason no non-competes has helped CA is increasing startup formation. California has shown over the last 30-50 years that startup formation > attracting legacy businesses for growth. Unless that changes, California becoming less differentiated for startup formation but getting more legacy businesses is a bad trade for California.
> But I don't think I'd recommend Gboard to someone who needs a simplified experience. Gboard is very complicated.

Exactly. I'm not keen to attempt to explain the distinction between an input method and a keyboard language setting to a five-year-old or a reluctant 85-year-old. Nor am I keen to troubleshoot how they managed to get something as basic as a keyboard into a weird state.

Don't get me wrong, I personally appreciate the flexibility, use Android on my personal device, and I help my folks and some of my uncles when they run into an issue on their Android phones that they can't solve after a little searching. But through trial-and-error I've concluded that any family members who reach out to me at the first sign of trouble need to be in the Apple ecosystem.
definitely, you really need to master these to be anything close to native level
There is some nuance there! See my other comment- but I wish is was motte and bailey, that would mean that in general trans rights are respected and I can retreat into the motte of that.

But what's happening in Florida and elsewhere is oppression of any transness, including what you call "genuine". This sort of anti-all-trans ideology has a lot of support unfortunately. And a common tactic by this sort is to pick at only the controversial parts that are right wing talking points.
We've been working hard to address feedback and make improvements over the last several months. Secureblue now has expanded hardening, improved documentation, and clearer scope.

Instructions are of course in the readme! :)
https://github.com/secureblue/secureblue
"Google ad revenue stalled, so they made SERPs worse on purpose"
Congress created the FTC, congress could eliminate or curtail the FTC's power.

Some have argued that it's unconstitutional for congress to give away its power (even conditionally) in this way, but AFAIK that's a rather fringe legal theory. Certainly the FTC has existed for over 100 years at this point, so there's been plenty of time to challenge it.
What about a former employee being precluded from hiring (or trying to hire) colleagues from that employer?

(I reluctantly signed that, at least once, though it doesn't seem to be fairly balanced.)
FRED has a good blog post on measuring innovation.

https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2021/june/how-to-measu....
I rarely look at FB but last time I logged in my entire feed was:

- Insanely weird seemingly pointless AI generated spam like this. I saw Jesus clouds, AI generated waifus, and mechanical diagrams that were obviously 100% fake and wrong. Weird pointless crap. I wonder what the monetization strategy is here?

- Ads for quack medical products, dropship scams, and other dodgy crap.

- Very weird quasi-ads for web sites and Facebook groups about "ancient aliens," crackpot archaeology, and conspiranoid type content. I'm tempted to click one to see where it goes but don't want that linked to me in any way. I suspect these are funnels for either cults, political propaganda, or sites that sell quack medical products of the sorts sold on the Alex Jones show.

It feels like a dead mall with actual zombies.
And professionalization so we can push back.
Midjourney does not have a public API and I'm pretty sure that automating a Midjourney account is against the TOS, so I wouldn't expect that functionality to last long.
Yes, as this eliminates the threat of lawsuit I've had made against me for just changing jobs (multiple times).
Privatized gains, public losses. It is the capitalist way.
Amazon drone delivery is coming to Arizona
"Complicated" is in the eye of the beholder. It looks daunting to someone who didn't grow up using a heavily inflected language, but also consider the reverse direction.

"A reading room" means a room that is for reading. "A reading person" means a person who is reading. And "Reading the room" means, well, the act of reading the room. Or it could be used as an adverbial prose to modify the following phrase: "Reading the room, I stopped right there." Or it could be part of a progressive: "He was merely reading the room." Don't confuse it with "What he did was merely reading the room," which must be parsed differently.

All from a single form of a verb. You just have to figure out which one is intended from context.

...and the point is, it's just so natural to a native English speaker that they don't even stop and think about it!
How does a challenge work? Is the law valid until a ruling decides or is it put on pause?
If every test assumes the same invariant, then no test ever covers cases where the invariant doesn't hold.

I've seen mature teams get this wrong even for basic things. For example, they had a factor option, but all of their tests only used a factor of 1.0 -- applying the factor 0 or 2+ times didn't fail any tests, the factor was effectively completely untested despite "coverage".

My tests caught it because I was a dependent of their code and, frankly, trusted them much less than they trusted themselves. Rightly in this case, and it turned out, many others.

My philosophy was to test with exactly the configuration to be used in production and as much as possible [representative subsets of] the data to be used in production. Their philosophy was only to test contrived isolated cases which proved grossly inadequate with respect to production.
Avoid syndicated content.

Actual article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/business/ozempic-novo-nor...
@drowsspa

I don't use bing search, I use chatgpt and claude.

Here are some examples:
after pasting hundreds of log lines of output from a failed build request, "why did this build fail?"

After pasting my last 3 workouts, "I am wondering if I am not putting enough muscle on my body / torso.
Is this the case? if so, suggest me an exercise that utilizes body weight, dumbbells, or weighted exercise ball"

It suggested dumbbell pull over, so I asked "What weight should I start with for the dumbbell pull over?"

"say I want to go to the club and seem like I know what I am doing, how many dances should I know?"

"say I have a pandas series of numpy.ndarray, and I have an numpy.ndarray. I want to find the cosine distance between the numpy.ndarray and each of the items in the series"

"I made a notebook for non data scientists to follow and use, so I want to add lots of comments and mark down documentation." (paste notebook code) and it adds comments, doc strings, etc.

most of this stuff, using search as it is, is clunky. I would have to find weird ways to word what I am searching for to find results.
Yes. It's totally repulsive, and has no reasonable justification to exist.
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40136010
If possible, buy them an old iPhone 7/8/10/11. These are fairly cheap at this point and hard to brick or infect.

For PC, just install ChromeOS Flex! It is super barebones and locked down, so even if they download stuff, it is hard to install anything and File Explorer does not give direct access to OS files. You can Turn On linux dev env and install some interesting applications using flatpak, which are adequate and still has limited access to everything unless they are savvy enough to go tinkering around with apt tools.
Yes, you're right. For some reason*, I thought they have bigger control over it. That said, they're the top institutional investor into Rivian.
'This person' sounds like cts being cts doing cts things. Don't see why you'd think they're copying Foone.
Wait, what? This person has multiple personal investment accounts that use different strategies? And (this is key) their retirement money is in none of those, but a “relatively passive indexed” portfolio!

They may as well start this newsletter with a banner saying “For Entertainment Purposes Only”.
Sure, but FTC was authorized by congress (FTC Act 1914) to "prevent unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce" which seems pretty cut and dried? I may be missing something, this just feels pretty reasonable.
Updated link here: https://avisoori1x.github.io/2024/04/22/seemore-_Implement_a...

Hugging Face community blogs seems to have gone down.
I don't get why calories in/calories out is so hard to believe. There's a lot of sort of optimizations you can do within it like playing with macronutrient ratios or timing and looking at aspects of food like glycemic load or satiety, but at the end of the day, if you burn more calories than you eat, you will lose weight. You can either eat less or exercise more, but given the relative difficulty of those two things, eating less is probably easier.

Exercise also has benefits beyond weight management, so you should also probably find something that works for you.

It might not be easy to do, but it's not really much more complicated than that.
The figure attributed to Netanyahu in that article is a total of fighters and civilians -- not the "women and children" you claimed above. It's also a very rough estimate.
I have heard the name "US Chamber of Commerce" before, and as someone who isn't a politics/government nerd, I always assumed that was some kind of government organization responsible for something...commerce related.

Clicking through to the website and seeing the kind of articles on there makes it pretty obvious that's not the case though, even ignoring the .com domain.
Where I am, I know people who are under noncompetes that have a geographical clause. You can’t leave to join a competitor within X miles. In my part of the country, that would include at least three states (maybe more), but other locations would include many more.

So, yeah, seems like at least those non-competes impacts interstate commerce.
I have a good experience with Facebook because I've curated carefully. I hide or block stuff I don't like. I try to help the FB AI. I'm very happy with it. For example, my feed right now is (pages and groups latest to first):

AsAbove SoBelow
Lala Ladedalounge
Beat Poems On The Road
Follies Of God
LOST ANGELES
Buttermilk Junction
American Literature
AI Revolution - MidJourney AI, DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion
RONGWRONG - The Marcel Duchamp Club
Self Inquiry and Direct Experience
Tall Ships
Neil deGrasse Tyson
No Ordinary Eyes
The Language Nerds
Robert Crumb Fans
Carl Jung Depth Psychology
AsAbove SoBelow
Did you come across?
https://learn.adacore.com
Depends on the industry, 20 years is a lifetime in software.
From a purely meta point of view:

This was something passed by a Democratic administration. Therefore Republicans hate it, and since 2/3 of the Supreme Court is Republican, it's likely to be struck down.

The actual reasoning comes later. Something-something-Federalist-Papers-something. 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.

I know a great many lawyers, of both parties, who have more respect for the Supreme Court than I do. They are more informed and better educated than I am, so you should take my cynicism with a grain of salt. But in my experience, treating the Supreme Court as a partisanship machine yields extremely accurate predictions.
This is neat, found my blog in there. Don't think I linked to NatGeo at any point, though.

adithyabalaji.com
Banning noncompetes discourages companies from training workers, since they can leave immediately after their training is over. It also impinges on worker freedom. Currently I can apply for jobs with and without noncompetes, and if the job with the noncompete pays substantially more or is more attractive in some other way, I can take it. The FTC rule would deprive me of that choice.

I have been hired to write software to implement investment strategies. My noncompete prevents me from leaving and immediately taking a job at company that invests in the same markets. That is a reasonable way for the company to protect its intellectual property.
One of the bizarre talking points in defense of the existence of rabbit was to get away from our phones. It's just completely inexplicable to me because it's not like it was ever intended to be a replacement, the only difference is congratulations you now have to lug around two separate brick shaped appliances wherever you go...
Just out of curiosity, were any non-competes ever actually enforced by the courts for a reason other than stealing clients or trade secrets?
Nobody has a clue how many operations per second the human brain performs, so the usual comparisons are make up garbage.

An intelligent question is: how does one machine compare to the human brain on one dimension of performance?

A slide rule easily outperforms the human brain on some mathematical computations.
Cracked plenty software back in the day but mostly for personal use.

For the challenge, and because I disliked software being tied to a specific storage medium.

It was a sport to minimize changes. Like pad out a single assembly instruction with NOPs, change a conditional jump into unconditional one, etc.
What are the chances this survives a court challenge?

Story: In a previous life I worked as a consultant in Sweden. My employer had a clause like this in the employment agreement. I quit and joined a company that technically was a client. My previous employer tried to make a legal thing out of it saying I owed them money, but backed down with a sternly worded letter from my lawyer.

My lawyer roughly told me that "they can't block me from earning a living without offering me the same amount they're trying to deny me to earn". Sounds like a very fair law. Wonder if it's still like that? Was some time ago.
Beyond that, someone as emotionally brittle and allergic to criticism as he is will inevitably create a yes-men culture, which will destroy engineering discipline & lead to declining quality. No way around it.

The one thing you absolutely need to preserve engineering quality is the ability to take criticism.
We're focused on the bad example because it's literally the title of the article and the model's inability to solve that problem has nothing to do with context windows and everything to do with "when all you have is a hammer".

It doesn't matter if the context window is large or small, the Harry Potter Problem as formulated is going to be just as hard because it's not a problem with false advertising in context window sizes, it's a problem inherent to the computing paradigm.

A version of the Harry Potter Problem that was formulated around a model's ability to recall specific scenes of a novel would be much more useful as an illustration of the limitations of the supposedly-large context windows.
Enforcement does not matter. It is the chilling threat an employer can use against someone without options.

If you are flipping burgers for minimum wage and your boss says they can sue you if you leave for a competitor, are you willing to chance it?
How do you get and monitor the lists?