skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangential gripe: I recently flew to SFO for a weekend. In both directions I was significantly delayed due to construction on one of the runways limiting the number of planes that could land per hour.

It doesn’t seem like it ought to have been legal to sell me a ticket claiming departure and arrival times that were extremely unrealistic. United knew the construction was happening, I did not.

I was given the option to refund my ticket but it would have canceled the return flight as well, and last minute flights to SJC instead were prohibitively expensive.

The EU’s policy of forcing airlines to compensate travelers for delays seems like it better incentivizes the airlines to improve service.
Windows 11 now comes with its own adware
Llama3 – 65k Context Window with great recall
Israel, who is mad that there exists a major social media app which does not censor pro-Palestinian content.
(seemingly few) People bash it because its just writing regular css but objectively worse and incorrect.

if you can write tw you can write css. if you can write css theres no valid reason to write tw.
*and early investors. Mostly early investors in many cases.
interesting...i did not experience much hallucinations for my use case and also I was building on top of an existing library could be why i had a better time.

im just sitting back here shocked that i can produce a complete iOS app (albeit very basic) without studying Swift
That sounds nice, but in the short term, many of these sites are causing people to risk losing their source of income. So many sites have had to crack down on NSFW content due to the payment processor cartels threatening to cut them off, and while theoretically they have alternative options for taking payments, in practice they don't, because most people are not going to jump through the hoops of mailing in a cheque or buying crypto just for an NSFW art commission.

To some this might not really feel like much of a loss, but since the payment processors are maliciously vague about where they draw the line, companies often overreact and also threaten artists whose most NSFW art might be a character in swimwear.
IDK about that but you are correct that it is explicitly not communist. It's ruled by the "communist" party that wants to "establish communism" but it is very explicitly only on the path to communism even according to its own propaganda.

It's a "communist country" in an aspirational sense, not in a descriptive sense. When we call countries "capitalist" by contrast, we usually mean that in a descriptive sense. This tends to lead to a lot of confusion: nothing that China does is "communism", it's at best something that is done with the justification of being part of the pursuit of communism. Whether or not the CCP is truthful or honest in its claims about its aspirations is a different question.
The relationship between TikTok and the CCP is no different than the relationship between Google/Meta/Microsoft and the US Government.
IBM is slowly becoming the open source villan, with Redhat, and now Hashicorp.

Redis labs acquisition next?
Something I've been thinking about recently is a more scalable approach to video super-resolution.

The core problem is that any single AI will learn how to upscale "things in general", but won't be able to take advantage of inputs from the source video itself. E.g.: a close-up of a face in one scene can't be used elsewhere to upscale a distant shot of the same actor.

Transformers solve this problem, but with quadratic scaling, which won't work any time soon for a feature-length movie. Hence the 10 second clips in most such models.

Transformers provide "short term" memory, and the base model training provides "long term" memory. What's needed is medium-term memory. (This is also desirable for Chat AIs, or any long-context scenario.)

LoRA is more-or-less that: Given input-output training pairs it efficiently specialises the base model for a specific scenario. This would be great for upscaling a specific video, and would definitely work well in scenarios where ground-truth information is available. For example, computer games can be rendered at 8K resolution "offline" for training, and then can upscale 2K to 4K or 8K in real time. NVIDIA uses this for DLSS in their GPUs. Similarly, TV shows that improved in quality over time as the production company got better cameras could use this.

This LoRA fine-tuning technique obviously won't work for any single movie where there isn't high-resolution ground truth available. That's the whole point of upscaling: improving the quality where the high quality version doesn't exist!

My thought was that instead of training the LoRA fine-tuning layers directly, we could train a second order NN that outputs the LoRA weights! This is called a HyperNet, which is the term for neural networks that output neural networks. Simply put: many differentiable functions are twice (or more) differentiable, so we can minimise a minimisation function... training the trainer, in other words.

The core concept is to train a large base model on general 2K->4K videos, and then train a "specialisation" model that takes a 2K movie and outputs a LoRA for the base model. This acts as the "medium term" memory for the base model, tuning it for that specific video. The base model weights are the "long term" memory, and the activations are its "short term" memory.

I suspect (but don't have access to hardware to prove) that approaches like this will be the future for many similar AI tasks. E.g.: specialising a robot base model to a specific factory floor or warehouse. Or specialising a car driving AI to local roads. Etc...
GPT4 isn’t a chat service, friend.
I didn't see the parent say there was no precedent.

But anyways, I like to hope that the US is better than China. If US citizens are abused while in China, I would be appalled to see Chinese citizens abused in the US as retribution.
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They do, but they’ll never tell you that. You have to know.

The only thing I saw in this article that I don’t like is that they can still issue vouchers. And I didn’t see anything that said the vouchers had to be for more than the cash payment.

So I’m guessing if you miss your flight and are entitled to $300 (to pick an amount) they’ll be very happy to instantly give everyone a voucher for $100 off. Thus saving $200/head unless people know their rights.

How about: you must issue cash refunds PERIOD. No voucher nonsense.

Still, this is great.
I think VR will gradually and massively extend the capabilities of humanity but not revolutionize them. Regular screens, phones, etc will still exist, they will always have a place in our society. But VR will more and more become an accepted and common tool, for use cases that are different from regular devices. Until suddenly you realize that indeed they are everywhere and you use them all the time. It's not going to be an immediate "revolution" the way ChatGPT was (I think you could probably say the same about any hardware innovation).

I think the closest comparison is that VR right now is like PDAs in the 90s. Yeah, everyone knew they were the future, but the hardware absolutely blew, And it took another 10-20 years to arrive at the perfect form factor of a smartphone. Lots of hardware innovations need to happen for VR - hell, not a single consumer headset has shipped with a vergence-accommodation conflict solution. But give it another 10-20 years and I am certain we'll be seeing that smartphone type moment.
You are arguing that we should mimic all CCP policies that impact US firms just because of tit-for-tat.
I once had a take home API integration task that was time-boxed to 2 hours using the honor system. I handed it in but then the interviewers never mentioned it so I assumed nobody paid attention to it and was a bit annoyed. Then I got into the technical interviews and I was asked tons of questions about the APIs I was supposed to integrate with. It wasn't until after the interview that I realized the task itself was probably completely ignored, they just wanted to see what things I learned about the assigned API in a couple hours.

I know that has nothing to do with the question in the title, but I found it interesting.
Is Localstack enough?
Two sailant points to me:

- With work from home, time spent with no one else around increases and it's never been easier to listen to ambient music.

We see this in the lofi youtube channels uprising, or the whole "work music" genre, but I think most people will listen to whatever they like that doesn't need to be fighting against the open space noise anymore.

I'd expect music discovery to be strongly impacting by that.

- The impact of technology and rhe new platforms is understated.

What my generation could listen to at 14 is a ridiculous fraction of what we have access to now. The author poses it as "need to sit down for two hours to find new stuff" problem, but if you watch tv shows, listen to podcasts it will happen organically, and even browsing random channels or checking ranking charts (spotify's top 50 for instance) will gradually inject new things without that much active research.

All in all, I think the current state of tastes getting frozen at some point is an artifact of the older generations, and might not affect people growing up now.
When hiring at my last company, I suggested we should offer two possibilities for the technical part. Either to bring a simple but well documented engineering project compatible with the role or take out challenge, which consisted of deploying a couple of services and a static website to a cloud provider using whatever means of IaC and cd pipeline technology.

I made sure to do the challenge too both to have a reference and to validate it.

Not sure I agree about free work. There are things you can't possibly evaluate in an interview. For a senior role, I'd expect good documentation skills and the ability to present tradeoffs of their designs, which is the purpose of these technical steps.
They’re not actually moving. They’re just tagging a new campus as “HQ,” just like they did in 2020 when they “moved” to Austin, and just like they’ll do again in 2028 when they move to whichever state fits their narrative at that time.
Bandcamp is my primary place for learning about new music. I find following small labels that specialize in a genre to be ideal. Unfortunately, bandcamp doesn't do a great job in helping me keep track of everything, so this is what I do:

1. Bandcamp doesn't have RSS, but I take all the incoming emails and convert them to RSS[1]. I separate out new messages vs new releases. I host my own RSS with FreshRSS.

2. I wrote an app (Camp Counselor [2]) to help manage your Bandcamp wishlist. You can organize, rate, and comment (privately) on your wishlist, along with play directly in the app. I find that my wishlist (which has a few thousand albums on it) is more of a "to do" list. If I get a recommendation, I just add it to my wishlist and will check it out later. Even stuff I don't like stays in my wishlist (with a low rating), to help me remember. I then sort by rating or added at dates, and as I purchase things, they move off my wishlist into my purchase list.

This generally works really well for me, and I continue to explore lots of new and great music every day!

[1] https://blog.line72.net/2021/12/23/converting-bandcamp-email...

[2] https://flathub.org/apps/net.line72.campcounselor
I don't use ChatGPT for anything directly, but I do use the Codeium plugin in VS Code.

It's really good at being a better auto complete.

Sometimes it seems almost like you could do similar things with non-ML algorithms, I'm not sure if the AI is really smart, or if code just isn't as high entropy as it seems.

I've never tried coding in a language I don't actually know though. I have very minimal Rust experience, maybe that would be a fun experiment to learn more.
There can only be a finite number of broadcasters because of how radio works, so it makes sense to regulate. (A little bit of sense, not a lot.)

There should be no restrictions on who owns a website. There can be an unlimited number of websites, and every website's "reception range" is the entire planet.

Today's rulemaking pushes us one step closer to a Great Firewall. If ByteDance moves operations entirely to China, what measures will the government enact to prevent people in the US from using it? (It will probably be strong-arming app stores, but that will fail because they can just make it a web app. So the only option will be to have two Internets, one with everything except TikTok, and one with everything.)

It will be interesting if this extends to other apps. Will it be unamerican to play Genshin Impact?
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Requiring cash is there in the article, at least now it is.

> The refunds must be issued within seven days, according to the new DOT rules, and must be in cash unless the passenger chooses another form of compensation. Airlines can no longer issue refunds in forms of vouchers or credits when consumers are entitled to receive cash.
The "whitebox" PC building company I worked for in the late 90s was owned by a gamer. That meant that the office PCs had fast CPUs and good video cards. I put a script on the PCs to rejigger the partition tables so we could reboot onto the LAN party Windows 95 install (or DOS with NDIS drivers-- thanks, CONFIG.SYS menus!) and have after-hours LAN parties on the office network. I appreciated that the PC I used for the day-job was pretty high-spec for the day along with getting to play multiplayer games (Warcraft, StarCraft, Rainbow 6, Quake... I forget what else...)
I think Dropbox is worth less today than when they IPOed. Maybe that original comment was right when they suggested that network-attached storage is not a moat; big tech ate Dropbox's lunch.
Afaik disabling apps is built into Android but not directly accessible. I think there's a way to do it with ADB. SwiftBackup can also freeze & unfreeze
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My personal observation is that listening is different today than it used to be. I grew up in the 70s and 80s when bands focused on making an album that you sit a listen to. Today, kids listen to songs, not albums so to me, the artists aren't as interesting as they used to be.
Also, recording has changed a lot and has impacted the feel of most music. Listen to Led Zeppelin and you hear a very practiced band that is good enough that their performance is what you hear on the album (for the most part). Today, bands play to click tracks individually and the DAW scrubs a and polishes the performances until they are perfect. This give a different feel to the music that doesn't sound quite right to someone used to listening to more lifelike performances.
I do listen to a lot of newer music and have some favorites like Lana Del Rey and St. Vincent, but I have to admit, I don't give some music the attention it deserves because it often sounds like a copies of music I already know.
"Don't bite the hand that feeds you" is what I learned as a child before internet
Both Chat GPT and Gemini are very good, CoPilot and Mistral Lechat are noticeably worse.

That said, I'm still in the free trial of copilot fot github and I'm really liking it.

I stick to one liners and adding functionality to them in small increments to make small scripts. They still make lots of mistakes so I try to keep it to them fixing one mistake at a time.
> I have been eyeballing "SparX-5" based switches

Have you found any for sale other than the Microchip dev board?

I stumbled across this recently:
https://www.servethehome.com/insane-48-port-2-5gbe-2x-25gbe-...
but I haven't been able to find where you can buy one these days.

Sadly my PCB design skills are not quite up to dense BGA escape + 25gig lanes...
> ..., and Lufthansa from Germany

EU has much more strict rules. The airline must not only refund you, but compensate you too if the flight was cancelled less than 14 days before departure and the cancellation wasn't due to extraordinary circumstances. I.e. heavy rain and storm or a volcano eruption the airline could not have done anything to complete the flight in spite of. Stuff like technical problems or a strike [1] is generally 100% on the airline.

See https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right... for the details.

[1] Strikes internal to the airline, i.e. by airline staff. Strikes external to the airline may in some cases count as extraordinary circumstances.
>In the US, we have the First Amendment, and no politician or bureaucrat has the authority to censor speech generally.

But businesses do.

You're about fifty years out of date: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Mountain_Mandate

Christian nationalists long ago figured out they were losing the censorship battle with the postal service and governmnt...they long ago shifted to influencing every aspect of society, and one of those is business - and by that they mean financial systems.

That's why people in the porn industry keep losing their bank accounts.

It's also why the app stores and a number of websites are so strict about adult content; pressure from credit card companies.

> there are seven aspects of society that believers seek to influence: family, religion, education, media, arts & entertainment, business, and government.
That would just need a camera pointed at the license plates.

Speed traps of this sort are specifically illegal in California.
Small correction Ford sold 4.4M vehicles worldwide in 2023. The 2M number is just for the United States. But Toyota absolutely crushes the competition with 11.2M sold last year.
I thought Trump wanted TikTok banned when he was president?
It reveals the extent of suppression of those ideas on other platforms, nothing more.

I don't think there is anything scary/bad about Americans seeing content that humanizes people who have been dehumanized by the US media for as long as I can remember.
The way I approached it: if every Japanese person can manage it, I can manage it too.
Same. I view them like peanut butter and jelly. Terraform is my preference for new stuff and everything that isn't a stateful VM, and Ansible is my preference for managing manually created resources (which I try very hard to avoid, but always end up with some) and for managing VMs (even VMs created by Terraform). For stateful services (like a database cluster) Ansible is so much better it's not even a question, and for cloud resources (s3 buckets, managed databases, etc) terraform is a much better approach. I've never felt the two were really competitors even though there is some gray-area where they overlap.
Yeah I don’t understand this. It’s a fantastic tool for young employees - it tests that you have the coding chops in a meaningful way, and it typically isn’t a huge time commitment for people who generally have limited responsibilities. You should make allowances for those who have limitations but I think people have been throwing out the baby with the bath water.

That being said, they’re a bit challenging to manage on the employer side for the same reason as hacker rank - maintaining a pool of high quality questions that haven’t leaked is hard.

As a proxy I usually instead give design questions about relevant difficult problems I’ve seen and solved at work. Even if I blog about it I’ll either be able to tell if the person is parroting the solution back to me or legitimately solving it on the spot and it’s something I know inside and out well enough that I can give answers to hypotheticals they ask me.

Still, figuring out who’s going to be a good hire is a challenge whatever tools you try to apply so I haven’t gotten so invested on any one technique. Bad review processes are much worse and orgs are stuffed with them despite best efforts (lots of subtle social pressure mechanisms with people oblivious to what’s going on or not caring).
Sounds like “Poor McKinzey, they have been scammed by their customers!”. No, they have not.
Yeah okay, if you had 0.15% stock you're still out with $ 10M.

Smaller and bigger percentages will be different but that's retirement money for hundreds and hundreds unless you pretend to live in very high CoL area. Also, most of them will likely have to keep working thereyears before cashing out some other millions likely.
I’m surprised I don’t hear many speak on the trade embargo aspects of something like TikTok. US social media is blocked from China, so from an economic policy perspective why wouldn’t the trade embargo me mutual, Tit4Tat.
You could wirelessly transmit from your phone, but this is a decade from now. No one knows how far tech will advance.

Rokid connected to a device in your pocket is already pretty close to the same experience.
“JMA: Does the prose voice that you adopt develop in parallel to the thematic concerns that you will tackle in a given work, or does it emerge as a result of other considerations?

PP: It emerges with no consideration for anything but the next correct word.”

PadgetGPT
You're probably wishing for a community playlist with people pitching in songs as they discover them ?

Would be great to have options to add stuff but keep it private while keeping in sync etc. Could be done with a meta layer on top of the Spotify player for instance ?
Outdated racist stereotypes aside, how are we meant to interpret the scene you're setting?
its part of the carraige agreement you "sign" when you buy a ticket
I don't think it's accurate to say Biden is banning it. The vote in the House was very bipartisan. R's were like 92% in favor and D's more like 75%.

Yes: 155 D + 197 R
No: 50 D + 15 R

On Monday the White House clarified its position:

"We do not want to ban apps like TikTok. What we want – and what the
legislation we support would do – is ensure that TikTok becomes owned by an
American company so that our and our children's sensitive personal data stays
here instead of going to China and so that Americans' understandings and
views can't be manipulated by algorithms potentially controlled by the PRC."
Lots of the comments are really far off.

The solution is more sunlight during childhood and early adult years. It seems that sunlight is an important signal when it comes to eye growth and shape development.

This has been confirmed for at least a decade.

No need for any particular supplement or food or anything. Literally just go outside for 30 min to 2 hours (can't remember the recommendation).

Kids need recess back.