skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every part of our economy and government is dedicated to wiping out any form of socialism.

A developing nation even thinks about nationalizing their resource extraction? Suddenly there’s a coup with the CIA’s fingerprints all over it.

NATO is a foreign policy arm of the United States dedicated to crushing any leftist momentum. Hell, we recruited Nazis to run it.

We constantly back totalitarian regimes to crush leftists.

At a more local level we do things like make municipal broadband illegal.

Our government uses eminent domain to seize property for corporate interests.

The only non-terrorist domestic law enforcement the FBI does seems to be union busting.

We’ve started wars over communism.

We had private organizations like the Pinkertons crush collective action. Look up Homestead.

It was rumored that when the UK wanted a post-Brexit trade deal, one of our conditions was privatizing the NHS.

Every level of our society is devoted to crushing collective action.
It's going to sound snarky, but I don't mean it that way:

The answer to "What is best way to get better at $something?" is almost always "Do $something. Over and over."

If you ask yourself the question and "Do something over and over" does not suffice, then explain why you think it does not suffice and how you'd like to pivot.

In your case, it sounds like you lack direction. Figure out a small project with well-defined goals, and then do it and don't quit.
I mean, it depends on how long the clothes line is. ;)
> I’m suspecting high levels of education

It's this plus being a small country. The entire population of Israel is roughly the same as the Bay Area, so everyone is 2-3 degrees away from each other. This makes it easier to raise capital and build a startup.

The success of Checkpoint and PANW kickstarted the scene.
Not to be owned by Chinese today, not to be owned American/EU/UK etc. in the years to come around the globe.
>A solid TV without any built-in advertising junk, maybe running Android.

You can only have one of them, I guess, or is there an Android TV without ad junk?
Probably a lot of money sloshing around the US-subsidized military-industrial complex?
> Is China really a foreign adversary?

I can't imagine what else we would call them. Also, turnabout is fair play. You can't run a company in China without giving up ownership and abiding by a number of, often draconian, rules. This isn't a "ban", it's a "You can't be owned by China" law. Given what China requires I find that completely reasonable.
Yes, but if you mention that here, you’ll get accused of wokeism.

More seriously, though, yes, the thing you’re describing is exactly what the AI safety field is attempting to address.
AFAIK, the worst you could do is serve the victim stale (valid) packages, and prevent them from seeing that there are new updates available.

I maintain a (somewhat) popular mirror server at a university, and we actually ran into this issue with one of our mirrors. The Tier 1 we were using as an upstream for a distro closed up shop suddenly, leaving our mirror with stale packages for some time before users told us they never got any updates.
> Doing it this way helps politicians avoid accountability because it gives them plausible deniability to say they didn't support specific provisions of the overall bill

Whose position on this bill, in the House or Senate, do you think is unclear?
>Humans have not beaten the top chess engine of the time in a “serious” game since around 2005.

https://ppqty.com/anyone-beaten-stockfish/

The qualifier "serious" is needed because GM Andrew Tang won games at hyperbullet time controls (15 seconds) against a weaker version of Stockfish.

Article is dated Oct 2023.
You might like artist mode (while personally I use it only to "fill" pdf non-fillable form with TiKz) :-)
But it’s not the start? My phone has had this for six years.
Probably exactly zero given that's the basic clock for divestiture to even happen

> The company has an initial nine months to sort out a deal, though the president could extend that another three months if he sees progress.

But I do hope to see improvements in the next 5 years. I'd like to see less trends around destructive behavior: eating tide pods, destroying/defacing property, harassing others.

The algorithm should not be unbiased. We must take manual intervention to hinder the destructive tendencies in human behavior
At least we know who both sides will blame for any real or imagined election interference.
Let me guess, it had two 1s in its name...
Yep, seems like every company is taking a longshot on a AI project. Even companies like Databricks (MosaicML) and Vercel (v0 and ai.sdk) are seeing if they can take a piece of this every growing pie.

Snowflake and the like are training and releasing new models because they intend to integrate the AI into their existing product down the line. Why not use and fine-tune an existing model? Their in-grown model maybe better suited for their product. This can also fail like Bloomberg's financial model being inferior to GPT-4, but these companies have to try.
Well BBC has a division called "BBC America" which distributes their content in the US, which itself is jointly owned by AMC and anther US company called BBC Studios. I do not know anything about the details of this, but I imagine there were regulatory considerations when setting this up.

But anyway, my point was that the concern over foreign influence is not a new idea and has been something people were worried about even over a century ago.
If I were still invested in Reddit, I'd do that.

I've started getting in the habit of deleting my account every few months.
I have installed that unit but I wouldn't characterize it as for the "least bit handy". It involves removing all the panels from the screen, center console, and shifter, and fishing some wiring behind the climate controls. Definitely do-able, but not for the faint of heart. The wiring is easy to connect, to be sure, Japanese are outstanding at that. Totally worth the money. I just wish I could put in one of the factory backup cameras, neither the dealer nor my trusted local stereo shop will do that for me.
What type of company does China keep?
Last I checked, they were pretty buddy-buddy with Russia, and North korea on an estranged leash. If we know other countries fund terrorist organizations for intent of undermining western influence, is it that big of a stretch to say China is probably doing the same thing?

You can't use 'direct conflict' as a measure in this type of game. Russia has done damning harm to american politics, but its not clear how to measure that effect.
What? You know the people writing open source licenses have spent more than 5 minutes thinking about this, right?

The GPL says it straight up:

> The “source code” for a work means the preferred form of the work for making modifications to it

Clearly just weights don't qualify, just like C run through an obfuscator would not count.
The bigger anything gets, the more haters it gains. This is a guarantee because it will definitionally use more resources, involve more people, and take away attention from other things.
You don't need records conduct research if a specific message is being spread on TikTok against chance, to at least back up an unsubstantiated theory — even if not practical in the court of law.

For anyone who uses TikTok regularly, it's evident there frequently political content that outright contradict's China's positions, spreading unfettered through the platform.
But you do need to hold all 128 experts in memory? Or not?

Or they simply consider inference efficiency as latency
That's an interesting feature. What is its advantage, i.e. how and when is it useful?
Silicon Valley is so named because of Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Intel.

Shockley moved from NJ to Palo Alto in 1956 to care for his ailing mother.
You don’t think it matters whether you are viewing the authentic crowdsourced views of your countrymen, or the boosted political propaganda of an adversary?

Really?
Interested in doing this, can you please share the details of the product you purchased?
> If TikTok tells users "our app is being banned, so just use the website instead", I predict America will move towards a national firewall

Sure, yes, it can always get worse. The point is it isn't, and we're nowhere close to false comparisons with the CCP.
I don't know, it's a mirror, right? It's up to us to change really. Besides, failures like the one you point out make subtle stereotypes and biases more conspicuous, which could be a good thing.
Money is for accounting. AI is a new accountant. Therefore money no longer is what it was.
> In the UK you do not get any extra benefits after the second child, meaning that if you are poor you only get support for your first 2 children.

With a total fertility rate of 1.74 (2017 figure) that seems to be a strange regulation.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40145963
Are you sure the combination is Welbutrin and metformin? What you are describing sounds like the combination of bupropion (Welbutrin) and Naltrexone. The two generic medicines are packaged together as Contrave, a branded drug for obesity with no generic. They are much cheaper and readily available as two generic prescriptions.

I'm in the same boat as you but with ZebBound. EliLilly makes the starter dose (2.5 mg) accessible but all other doses are unavailable. I suspect their strategy is to get people to have a good first month then go screaming to their employers when they can't continue.

I'm transitioning to the Bupropion / Naltrexone combo and while I'd like to stay with ZebBound I would still be happy if it works half as well as ZebBound (at 1/10th the cost!).
See the Silver Line on the DC Metro, and several other lines that run in highway medians. It is not a new thing.
Makes one wonder how poorly designed the software is. Like most antivirus software, it's probably not very good.
What does this mean for their US employees, their job security, and even office morale?
I think people are conflating way too many issues here with politics vs actual threats. China and Russia are not our allies. The CCP and Kremlin do not have our best interests in mind or even our most basic needs. They want to be global super powers and spread dictatorships. Democracy is a threat to absolute power. For years, the CCP and Kremlin authorities have been spreading disinformation to polarize politics in our country. TikTok, Twitter (X), Facebook, and Truth social have been abused and leveraged to manipulate many into thinking conspiracies are all real. This also includes media outlets and corporations that allow foreign Chinese (CCP) and oligarch investors. The difference with TikTok is that its owned by the CCP and they are very intent on getting everybody to dislike our government and splinter our democracy. While TikTok is mostly garbage, I think there are many that leverage the platform for income and have been quite successful off it. I still think it should be moderated in a way that doesn't turn citizens against each other and their own government. The only way to do this is to ban or sell the corporation. I'd also add disallowing foreign investors that are not Allies to the US.

What Does Free Speech Mean?
https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re...
If we look at IQ as an explanation, it's not only about the mean, but also about the variance, which is driven up by the Ashkenazi sub-population.

I would not be surprised if Israel has a significantly larger percentage of people with IQ>140 than any other nation.
> Isn't that what the bill actually does

The bill actually does multiple things, and it's okay to talk about the components in isolation.
They actually have a lot of difficulty in hiring good directors for this exact reason, they have widened the gap several times and are planning to keep widening it.
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Microsoft is missing from your list. And if Nvidia is predominantly hardware, so is Apple.
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OK, I admit I don’t know much about video compression. So what does my TV receives from Netflix if it’s not pixels? And when my TV does “upsampling” (according to the marketing) what does it do exactly?
I don't think that would work with most distros, since you're fetching an (also signed) update list and you'd get notified that the update failed due to a stale list, or that the expected updated package was missing on the mirror.
Get your codebase ready for React 19
Rabbit R1 sounds much more useable and better than the significantly over-priced + subscription Humane AI Pin scam that the VCs and paid promoters were screaming about it as one of the "Best Inventions of 2023". [0]

Even if Rabbit R1 is a scam, it looks like a very good and cheap scam device for a first version that "actually works" and is more polished than Humane's AI pin.

This tells me that Humane's AI Pin performed worse than the Rabbit R1 and Humane is no where near worth >$1BN and after 5 years this is what the result of all of that is.

But so far overall, there is nothing that these devices can do better than a mobile device and an app at this time.

[0] https://time.com/collection/best-inventions-2023/6327143/hum...
My country learned from BSE, no no concerns.
The only thing that kind of bothers me about libraries is that, as a tech focused individual, basically every book I read or whatever is either an ebook or a audiobook, and I don't want to have to go to the library to pick it out. I understand if I were getting physical books the need to go to a physical location to grab them, but if I'm getting something digital I don't want to have to go to the library. My library doesn't really offer an online catalog that you can just download from, only look at to see what you want to get in the library, and the free library services that they offer like the big ebook repositories don't have any books that I feel like I want to read, so it is just far easier to torrent things or have an audible subscription. Most libraries don't have really cool extra stuff like maker spaces or aquariums or anything remotely interesting other than books and maybe some computers for homeless people to use or whatever, so unless you're physically going there for a book, they're kind of pointless.

I'm not saying I don't appreciate and respect libraries, but they really just didn't change with the times around where I am, and it makes them far more inconvenient to use for someone in my particular position than it does to make them convenient. I will still support them as a public access, and I think it would be tragic if they went away, but I wish they would spend a little bit more of whatever budget they get investing on making it. Not a terrible experience to get shit online.
The designs don't look great.

Here's an idea: produce designs that use the commercial Tailwind components. Your designs will look great. Have a link for the user to buy the components if they don't already own them. Work out an affiliate deal with Tailwind Labs. You can get rid of the time limits and the pricing.

If you start generating money for them they may buy your app.
So you're saying the USA is better and thus it never needs to be compared in any aspect related to 'freedom'? That's a nice way of never having to challenge your assumptions.
Mid-level managers at a lot of companies still have no clue what LLMs are or how they work. These companies (like databricks) want to have their salespeople upsell such companies on "business AI." They have the base model in their back pocket just in case one of the customers in the room has heard the name Andrej Karpathy before and starts asking questions about how good their AI solution is... they can point to their model and its benchmarks to say "we know what we are doing with this AI stuff." It's just standard marketing stuff which works right now because of how difficult it is to actually objectively benchmark LLMs.
Agreed.
I setup zoho voice, ported from Google business voice, and had an issue where SMS wasn't going through even though it said it was. Zoho's issue or some porting issue. But I quickly chatted with a human, they resolved it and let me know when it was fixed.
I have no idea how to even start a conversation with a Google rep from any of their interface. Zoho had it easy to find.
If TikTok users start connecting directly to servers in China via tiktok.com (or whatever), I predict the US will move towards a national firewall as well.
Curious how this compares to Topaz which is the current industry leader in the field.
Welp, this prompted me to start Googling. Turns out there are at least two other companies out there which are aiming for the same market segment (a repairable, upgradeable laptop that's Linux friendly). They're sell laptops called the StarBook and the PrimeBook Circular. StarLabs will sell me a StarBook in my local currency online today.

The process of saying goodbye to Framework has begun, before they ever even allowed me to say hello...

The funny thing is that virtually all of these small laptop makers I've seen will sell a laptop to someone pretty much anywhere in the world, simply with caveats that you need to make sure you get the right power adapter (not that this is really an issue anymore now that USB C charging exists), you won't have local warranty service etc. Framework is the only one that seems to hate 75% of the human race and actively prevent them from buying its product.
I tried it out, asking it to create a button and a tabbar, modern styled. After 4 minutes, it came back with just the tabbar, that was unstyled.

Not the best demo, to be honest.
You are totally correct I think.

This isn't about what is possible.

It is about Google not wanting to say goodbye to the sweet dollars from spammy sites.

Otherwise making the probably number one requested feature, a personal block list, wouldn't have been impossible for a company with so many bright minds.

I mean: little bootstrapped Kagi had it either from the beginning or at least since shortly after they launched.

People always think they lost against SEO spam. But my main reason for quitting as soon as an alternative showed up was because they started to overrule my searches and search for what they thought I wanted to search for.

For a while I kept it at bay by using doublequotes and verbatim but none of those have worked reliably for a decade now.

That isn't SEO spam. That is poor engineering or "we know better than you" attitude.
"alter the mindset of the population" is such a vague boogeyman. Literally anyone with an internet connection has the capability to "alter the mindset of the population".
Related: AWS has an unwritten policy of giving customers one get out of jail free card when they inevitably fuck up. I’ve called upon this once, completely my fault, at work. AWS refunded me over $2,000 USD (at a company small enough for that to be a big number).
I don't think the Israeli defense budget really goes into Israeli startups. The only related fields are drone startups and cyber startups that hardly sell domestically
500 tons is like a few flights between SF and NYC dude.

And those 600k models are mostly fine-tunes. If running your 4090 at home is too much then we're going to have to get rid of the gamers.

This CO2 objection is such an innumerate objection. Just making 100 cars already is more than making one of these LLMs from scratch. A finetune is so cheap in comparison.

In fact, I bet if you asked most LLM companies they'd gladly support a universal carbon tax with even dividend based on emissions and then you'd see who's actually emitting.
They don't have a weird definition of open source. I recently outlined a LLM chat that I think clearly outlines this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40035688
No doubt this will be almost as successful as the Apple Vision Pro.
Right Click > View > Uncheck "Align Items to Grid" and you can drag and drop piles of icons to heart's content.

edit to add: Right click an empty space on your Windows desktop.
I wonder if Ellison and Elon could swing a deal for it.
That's the magic thing about a carbon tax & tariff -- you don't need to.

The tariff for cooperating countries is 0%. The tariff for non cooperating countries is set appropriately for the estimated carbon content of the import or higher.
Not on the payroll of the Chinese government here, and I still think it's terrible for congress to tell us what software we're allowed to run on our own devices or to prevent us from accessing media from other countries.

If TikTok were breaking US laws and refused to comply that'd be one thing, but that's not the case. They say their just worried about "influence" which is beyond hypocritical and not really grounds for censorship. Should they ban websites hosted in other countries next?
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40145963
All the toys start out looking like toys too.
There is if you’re Las Vegas.
Can't find a reliable source right now but the report was from U.N's Gay McDougall
Check the health rating of your water
Companies definitely do and they may have had a hand in the article but I can vouch that most comments here are probably genuine (or maybe I'm just another astroturfer!).

It helps that Zoho's main competitor is GSuite. That's what a lot of us are comparing them against and it's just not very difficult to beat Google's "non-existent unless you spend $millions on ads" support, they could literally have a cat answer support and it'd be an improvement. Anyone who has had to deal with trying and failing to get anything answered by Google and then tried the same with Zoho will have something good to say about them regardless of their product overall.

Zoho's products are also a bit more "traditional" in the way that people on HN tend to enjoy. Their UIs, configuration, features and all aren't very 2024 glittery but they're good for getting shit done and setting stuff up yourself.

And then they're also cheap which HN tends to be sensitive to, here you see many contemplate self-hosting things every time a SaaS increases their pricing. Or write about moving back from Big Cloud to bare metal or Hetzner and co. to save $.
I think people are conflating way too many issues here with politics vs actual threats. China and Russia are not our allies. The CCP and Kremlin do not have our best interests in mind or even our most basic needs. They want to be global super powers and spread dictatorships. Democracy is a threat to absolute power. For years, the CCP and Kremlin authorities have been spreading disinformation to polarize politics in our country. TikTok, Twitter (X), Facebook, and Truth social have been abused and leveraged to manipulate many into thinking conspiracies are all real. This also includes media outlets and corporations that allow foreign Chinese (CCP) and oligarch investors. The difference with TikTok is that its owned by the CCP and they are very intent on getting everybody to dislike our government and splinter our democracy. While TikTok is mostly garbage, I think there are many that leverage the platform for income and have been quite successful off it. I still think it should be moderated in a way that doesn't turn citizens against each other and their own government. The only way to do this is to ban or sell the corporation. I'd also add disallowing foreign investors that are not Allies to the US.
What Does Free Speech Mean? https://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-re...
What does it mean to have a "bad trip to the dentist"? A dentist can also cause decades of discomfort, but most trips (both drugs and dentists) turn out great!