skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same in the EU - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Passengers_Rights_Regula...

Although air carriers can offer passengers alternative compensation if the passenger chooses to accept it. For example, vouchers or a lower sum of money and no accommodation. Sometimes they present it as the only option to mislead the passenger.

If challenged in court on refusing to pay out, air carriers sometimes claim extraordinary circumstances which could not have been avoided. This is an exception in the law. But it is for really force majeure events, like real disasters. Meanwhile, airlines often claim that something like the airplane breaking down or an employee calling in sick is extraordinary circumstances. This falls squarely within ordinary day-to-day operations of an airline. So it doesn’t fly in court, but it’s used more as an intimidating tactic to show to the plaintiff that their lawsuit would supposedly fail and to force awful settlement terms.

Lots to be said about airlines trying to weasel out but it generally doesn’t work. Unless the passenger signs that they accept alternative compensation. I know the law doesn’t seem to allow that, but the phrasing is specific enough that it falls within the law.
I don't use it signed into YouTube at all, but it's pretty good to me. A short cruise through the short just now got me: Animal Crossing island building tips; sketch comedy; linguistics trivia; Ukraine war intelligence analysis; European history; rocket league trick shots; etc. I saw one or two irrelevant brainrot clips that I scrolled passed quickly, got an ad for Temu and Battle Royale which I also scroll by quickly, but by and large it was a fun/interesting way to spend 4 or 5 minutes.
The increase from 2019-2021 (+2 years) was higher than the increase from 2012-2019 (+7 years). I wouldn't want to make any specific claims about the cause, but clearly the pandemic or the response to the pandemic was involved somehow.
In US, at least, libraries operate on the level of municipalities and counties. Of which the "no tax party" still controls plenty.
WEF, NWO. They aren't even trying to hide it anymore. Those who point out the obvious truth will of course be labeled "conspiracy theorists".
Can you imagine the size of the spreadsheet used for this RFC? Dear Lord
Sometimes it is a necessary experience for them.
I wouldn’t bet against the United States growing its way out of the current debt-to-GDP ratio (which, while mildly alarming, is far from unprecedented either here or elsewhere at various stages in history). The current revenue/spending mismatch could be solved with modest tax increases.
between the microschool and ESA movements going on right now, there will likely be many publicly-funded & worker-owned schools popping up over the next few years (amongst other much stranger hybrids).

In many jurisdictions, a teacher co-op can already obtain a charter to have an "open to the public, funded by the public, and accountable to the public" charter school. If we're going to be pedantic I think that would fit your funded+governed definition. owned+operatred might be closer to what you are gesturing at though, or perhaps local democratic oversight? Regardless, the old public/parochial types of school categorization is not nearly nuanced enough to be particularly useful for where things are already, let alone soon headed.
What are you talking about? The December 2021 IPO price was $80.
I mean... you pretty much just repeated what the article said, though. You agree with him.
If every village has 1 cow and it takes 3 years to produce the first calf, how do you show growth in the meantime?

You steal cows from the neighbouring villages.

Therefore some villages have fantastic GDP growth.

So much so they start an IMF to lend stolen cows back to these unenlightened villages as long as they pay interest or cut wages or sell off more of their assets.

Google "Super Imperialism"
Perhaps it’s just been my personal experience or maybe a Gen X thing? I tried getting back into playing video games a few years ago. I gave up after a weekend. It was dead boring. I’d much rather read the paper.
That's actually exactly the incident I was thinking of, my interpretation of the reaction to it was everyone being frustrated at American companies forcing their beliefs on everyone again, rather than being happy that American consumers were having it harder. It could also just be that my little circle is a niche within a niche though.
China isn't a rule of law country, they admit that they don't even aspire to be a rule of law country, calling it an imperialistic western ideal not compatible with eastern culture. There is no way your expectation can be satisfied.
You misunderstood me. I was not talking about doing on TikTok, but on China's own social media and when conversing with other Chinese offline.
Regarding the stability issue on a dev machine - you may be interested in playing with one of the immutable-os distros, such as SilverBlue (fedora based).

The high-level take-away is you can't break your actual OS since it's root filesystem is read-only, and you use "pet" containers (on docker, podman, whatever) to do your work in. Applications are either sandboxed via Flatpak, or installed/run inside your pet containers. If your pet container dies, you cry about it for a moment, and when you're ready you get a new one - your actual os and other containers remain unaffected.

I use distrobox[1] to create/run the pet containers.

[1] https://github.com/89luca89/distrobox
If you're using anything resembling modern Windows, you can use forward slashes for path separators and it works fine pretty much everywhere.
Goldman Sachs does not look for coders who have studied philosophy. For the simple reason that Goldman Sachs is not a person, but a firm. It has 16000 engineers, which means many, many different groups. The "strats" are about 25% of that, and they are split into numerous groups too. Groups are made of people, and individual people have their own interviewing style. There might be a few people who are looking for coders who have studied philosophy, but it's not a general trend. Goldman actually does have some interviewing guidelines, you need to pass some internal training to even be allowed to interview candidates. And none of these guidelines mentions anything about philosophy. They are the typical HR interviewing guidelines that you can find anywhere: technical competence, problem solving, business acumen, ethical conduct, communication, initiative, collaboration, goes the extra mile, etc, etc.
The stock market is a measure of what investors think the company will be worth over the next 10 years or so, essentially. Because if someone came along and wanted to buy the company, they’d typically pay around that amount. So take that amount (what the company is valued at) and divide by number of shares, there’s your share price. Like anything, it’s worth what someone will pay for it.

This is continuously adjusted as investor sentiment changes about where the company (and the economy at large) is going and what that “10 year valuation” is. A single quarterly result certainly could change that number if there’s a big surprise in there, but for the most part companies are good at predicting their revenue and expenses and that is priced into the stock already.

For Tesla, there was a wide expectation that they weren’t going to have a great quarter, it was pretty much known. So the stock was already significantly down before the earnings call. What was not expected was that Musk dedicated the company to building a cheaper car in the coming years. Investors thought this was a good move, stock goes up.

Now look at Meta, it was widely expected they’d have good results this quarter, so stock price is already up recently. What changed in this report is their expenses are much higher than what they previously estimated. So the stock goes down.

The actual quarterly results are a factor in the price but generally those are priced in already, unless you get some big surprise. What’s more important is the investor sentiment about whether the company is going in the right direction, which can change on a whim and for no reason at all.
* ~3GB with 8bit quantization. Without quantization it is ~6GB [0].

8 bits = 1 byte

3 billion * 1 byte = 3 gigabyte

+ Some memory for the context of the LLM

[0]

3b-instruct has a total file size of 4.94GB + 1.13GB which is 6.07GB which can be seen here:

https://huggingface.co/apple/OpenELM-3B-Instruct/tree/main

A bit of overhead will always be there, as you probably want to store some metadata next to the raw weights.
>Say what you will, but I won't be able to espouse the virtues of freedom of speech in China anymore.

The real reason you can't "espouse the virtues of freedom of speech in China" is because they will arrest you. Let's not mince words here. The Chinese government would shoot their citizens before they would let them protest or speak their mind freely.
If all you do is open your website to china and don't perform any transactions in the country you're gonna have a hell of a time with your business model. All of these websites rely on advertisers to make money.
I am baffled that any thoughtful person would take a CEO statement at face value without considering incentives.

1) prior to bill passage, convincing the public that they will pull out is optimal as it helps argue against bill, regardless of whether it is at all true

2) but, after bill passage, the incentives are totally different. Pulling out means giving up a billion dollar market that could instead have been sold. The shareholders would be livid.

So I am very skeptical. I have heard CEOs say many things they later were found to clearly never have meant seriously, simply because it was what they needed to say at the time. Like, "we would never do outsourcing or layoffs, your division is totally safe"....

I would think thoughtful HN readers would be just a little less credulous
Next level sock puppetry!
> It's bad enough we have the things in our pockets.

I'm sticking with this line of reasoning. This is already bad enough. I do not think more of it will make things better.
That’s not accurate. For example, Argentina’s infant mortality rate in 1915 was 134 per 1,000, similar to France and lower than the US.
Not sure, but it does have a kernel level 'anti-cheat' that enjoys eating cpu cycles and hates when you remove eth0.
Ads are literally psychological manipulation.
It’s not the ratio which is alarming, although it isn’t great. It’s the rate of growth.

It’s not sustainable at all.
Employee ownership can't exist if its a publicly traded company. The co-op model is literal ownership of direction of the company, not just financial ownership. Most publicly traded companies aren't anywhere close to employee owned even though they may grant stock to employees. Those employees have no say on the company direction (see latest news about Google firing employees for protesting).
IPO price was $80. Briefly touched slightly above $100, and then crashed with the rest of the market and has spent most of its time since below $30.
The explanation for the the chosen style is given near the end of the piece: the author says that they’ve found ‘imagining a better solution already exists and is just out of reach’ (my paraphrase) is an effective way to break the mental habit of assuming we’ve discovered everything there is to know about a problem.
Yes, China officially banned Threads and WhatsApp just a few days ago. They had Apple remove them from the App Store.
No Rust code ChatGPT has ever generated for me has worked and it was a complete waste of time.

It once did manage to write a very simple Bash script that worked first time.

Calculators resulted in a generation that could not do arithmetic in their heads. Word processors with autocorrect resulted in a generation that could not spell. ChatGPT et. al. will result in a generation of developers who cannot code. And then we'll be hoping that the Enterprise will come along and help us maintain our infrastructure.
Hashicorp didn’t make much money because they gave their products away and their professional services (tf cloud, vault enterprise etc.) are inferior or not enough of a value add over rolling your own.

Setting up a remote state in S3/Dynamo takes 5 minutes with a publicly available module and solves most of the problems TF cloud does.
Aiming for, maybe, but I don't think it's achieved, and certainly not in chips someone can buy.

The 2nd gen Nanhu, taped out in November so maybe sampling about now, is supposed to be in 2.0 GHz A76 / P550 range.

Maybe 3rd gen might be around P670, but that's some years away from being in the market.
What law? They can block domain but that's about it.
The Importance of Maybe
Study:

https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.232714
Given the present state of international relations, monetary policy, or the country in general, I'm no longer sure such people even exist. There are certainly many people who would like the proles to think so, and to vote them into power on that basis. But it doesn't appear to be translating to policies that are actually good for most of us, somehow.
Why is the comparison to "sitting behind a computer stating at a screen" and not "going outside"?

If these only replace desk work, I might agree with you. My fear is that wearing them full-time becomes normalized.
While it's clear that AI coding assistants still have a long way to go in general, I wonder how yet another startup, presumably based on the same technology at the back, is going to differentiate itself in a material way?

There are only so many axes along which improvements can be made in this domain, aren't there? What are the bottlenecks that, if solved, will produce a true breakthrough, exactly?

Doesn't the current approach have an upper limit that's inherent in the whole architecture, nay, even the whole foundational theoretical aspect of it?

Would love to hear from anyone who has come across one AI coding assistant that's obviously head and shoulders above everything else. I've tried Copilot, CodeWhisperer, and Ghostwriter.
yes, facebook can/does propagandize the populations of other countries, though perhaps slightly less nefariously than if an authoritarian/totalitarian government was at the helm. fb is banned in china so there is that. interesting times. all hail king zuck in his fbverse.
Collective intelligence: Integrating biology across scales and substrates
Does anyone know why companies like VISA and Mastercard try to distance themselves from NSFW websites? Is it because there is a large group of people that try to punish these companies when they engage with these companies? If not, why would they try to give up money they would otherwise make easily?
IBM is trying to increase its "AI revenue" through acquisitions, a standard MBA playbook move (although analysts see through this and often ask specifically for "organic" revenue instead to tease that apart from revenue via acquisitions).

In the past, IBM was a technology leader, and probably still has substantial talent excellent inhouse, but from what I'm hearing it has become less appreciative of its researchers and engineers: for instance, my IBM friends lost any patenting activity related bonuses already several years ago.

Also, the Watson debacle (trying to monetize the Watson brand and the (impressive) Watson Jeopardy challenge results by quickly acquiring a bunch of stuff, only to then sell it as "our Watson AI technology") didn't help bolster its reputation, but rather harmed it further.

Companies like IBM and HP should go back to the roots, value science and engineering, take on bold blue-sky projects (don't leave those only to Musk!), and lead by example. Perhaps this could happen, but only with an engineer-scientist at the top instead of professional managers or bean counters (I'm not attacking the perormance of any individual here as I have not been following recent leadership activities of either company recently).

It is unlikely, IMHO, that an acquired company can change the culture of the acquirer. The only time I've seen this happening was Nokia benefitting Microsoft's culture, but that's because they made Nokia's CEO Microsoft's CEO, which is not going to happen with any likelihood in IBM's case.
What you have right now is a situation where airlines compete stiffly on sticker prices and then find ways to screw you on the backend. You save money if you're lucky, but it's because you're getting a hidden subsidy from people whose flights were cancelled.
I thought you were going with "China doesn't ban American companies, American companies simply refuse to obey Chinese law".

The laws in question are becoming a subsidiary of the state, of course.
This they can actually sell, plenty of fulfillment companies that would be interested in buying. They aren't selling their tech though and I don't blame them, Facebook wouldn't sell to be in China so whatever. However, I am disappointed because we aren't China and shouldn't govern the same. I personally will be voting for any non incumbent going forward (for my remaining time in this country, I'm getting out of here), the current legislature on both sides is insane, dangerous and (obviously) slowly creeping up the road of fascism.
Just because I can't stop a ship from sinking, it doesn't mean there's no point to trying to get off of it and encourage others I might reach to do the same.
Just to save everyone some time, the vast majority of this will absolutely make no sense. Read the table of contents, however. You can generally clean enough from that to get an idea of what's going on.
Yeah. Google won this war already by getting Chromebooks into schools, which are mandatorily tied to a Gsuite account and thus have YouTube Shorts, drive, Gmail, etc access.

As a parent, I hate google a lot more than TikTok. I can already block TikTok, but I can't block youtube because the school district mandates it.
In case you'd like to learn more about my development process, I wrote a brief blog post here: https://www.garelick.net/2024/04/22/some-thoughts-on-going-f...

A significant portion of the code was written with Claude Opus. I was very impressed with its abilities.
I don’t think the problem is individual choose, but rather public exposure. Not everyone watches Al-Jazeera or Democracy Now! but the people that do want to share what they learned, and do so on social media where the content gets extra public exposure. With the banning of TikTok, avenues for expanding pro-palestinian content will diminish, even though individual choose remains (mostly) the same.
Yes! Dunno how I forgot to mention it as we have a tournament every session and the winner gets the title and a trophy.
The bill doesn’t block access to TikTok, it blocks US companies from doing business with TikTok. So it isn’t exactly a ban, or censorship.

If TikTok wants to give up the revenue, they can continue to send propaganda to the US, and kids can continue to watch and make videos.

China blocks access to Google. Whatever you want to call what the TikTok bill does, it is not the same as what China does.
Didn’t that accidentally get turned on for some insiders?

I seem to remember articles about that.
Disagree, Jurassic Park was an amazing movie on multiple levels, the book was just differently good, and adapting it to film in the exact format would have been less interesting (though the ending was better in the book.)
Google Glass still stands out as the only thing I can ever remember encountering that made me think, "Wow, that's even too dorky for me."

I dislike Apple's version for other reasons, but for something to out-dork me really takes a lot.
It's not the same in many terminals... I also think lack of Vertical tabs on keyboards is sometimes a shortcoming.
I knew a guy who was laid off from IBM specifically for being older, which came out years later as part of the class action lawsuit...
https://archive.is/xkXFg
From a principles perspective, I'd rather the airline be forced to burn the money than get to keep it. Getting to keep a place chunk of it myself seems great.
If the only way someone can use your product is flying to another country to acquire it, it's a ban. Giving it other language is supportive of Chinese government efforts to soften the reality around their unfair practices.
Also, the subculture exists in the US because of hundreds of years of intentional effort by the majority to destroy any preexisting cultures among black people and prevent any integration with the mainstream.
Nah at this point, if you are willing to sign on with a company like McKinsey it suggests you have absolutely no moral compass. What they do is very well understood.
It guarantees that the referenced memory will be available for subsequent operations. Knowing precisely how much memory is available at any particular instant in time is pretty critical for performance engineering.
In the US, two thirds of adults are overweight or obese by BMI, and this is roughly the case across most of the developed world. That proportion is likely even higher by body fat percentage, since BMI tends to incorrectly label unhealthy body compositions as healthy. 11% of the population are diabetic and 38% are prediabetic.

I like dessert, have a normal BMI, and don't have diabetes. That being said, desserts like stewed fruit and yoghurt are not representative of what the average person is eating, and any unnecessary food is going to make problems with excess weight worse.
I've wondered for a long time what things my grandchildren's generation will take for granted and not be able to live without.

I'll consider it a tragedy if it ends up being the case that they can't imagine having grown up actually seeing the real world.
Albums are literally one tap away - you tap on the song title and the album opens.

> See my comment above.

Please either reply to my comment with new words, or not at all.
As the US Air Force fleet keeps shrinking, can it still win wars?
Please clarify something for me, about major US airlines having 15 or 16 age limits.

Per https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/travel/accessibility-and-as..., it seems like they’ll accept unaccompanied minors potentially as young as 5.
I support this move. It seems pretty naive to me for people to whine about this ban curbing free speech or fairness when TikTok can directly be used by a belligerent superpower (China) to undermine those values.
Mostly: unwanted consumer behavior. Refunds and chargebacks are horrific in certain industries, and it's just not worth it to participate.

Long ago, there was also a principled moralist influence among some board members but the financial world has become so large and purely capital-centric that principles have a hard time fighting the wind, no matter whose they are and what position they stand for.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40142667
I've heard it referred to as "rule by law" instead
They don't need chromebooks in schools, my kid uses YouTube kids at home (that doesn't include shorts), teens will have their own phone usually, and youtube is already a popular place for them to go, discovering YouTube shorts (if they haven't already), is easy.

But ya, if a teen is otherwise cut off from devices besides the ones they get from school, then you could see that as a weak point, although I don't think that applies to a significant portion of families. For the ones that it does apply to, they probably have bigger problems to worry about than TikTok being banned.
What does it matter what China does? If they don’t want our stuff then that’s their choice. I mean, we voluntarily use an economic blockade as a weapon against North Korea, Iran, and Russia, and it is not to their benefits.

My whole second point about joining them is saying that it shouldn’t matter what China does or says. They are hypocrites so we can be too???
I was called a US sock puppet on Chinese social media and then a Chinese sock puppet here. I guess people everywhere are the same, doing ad hominem attacks whenever they see people having an opposite opinion.