skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I saw this p5.js usage of Hobby’s algorithm yesterday:

https://openprocessing.org/sketch/2257597/
Have you ever worked in a union in the US? Some absolutely do take away employee empowerment. I worked a number of blue collar jobs earlier in life, and have many stories.

I worked as an auto parts delivery driver, and one day I delivered some parts to a machine shop. As I started opening the front door, I could hear a blaring high-pitch wining noise coming from the shop area. I got to the office and there were 4 guys just sitting with earplugs in. I asked the what was going on, and they told me that one of the machines had broken but they weren't allowed to turn off the power switch because of union rules. They had to wait until the proper union guy showed up to turn off the switch. And no, this wasn't some super special switch, it was just a 50 amp breaker. I think it's pretty clear they lost some empowerment.

I worked as an aircraft refueler in a climate that during fall would get fairly cold in the morning (20 deg F) and warm in the day (70+ deg F). One of our trucks had sensitive brakes that would often need a quarter-turn on a small screw that controlled airflow once the temperature went up (or down at night). It was trivial to do, but I wasn't allowed to even touch it because of union rules taht specified that only the mechanics union could "perform maintenance on the vehicles." So I routinely had to sit on the ramp for hours in the middle of the day waiting for maintenance to drive their truck out and turn the screw. I once suggested to our manager that we should schedule daily maintenance around noon each day since that is around when it usually stopped working, and union rules had an enumerated list of valid "scheduled maintenance" work that could be done, and that wasn't on the list, so he was powerless to do anything about it. I'm sure it didn't hurt that "unscheduled maintenance" cost us more than scheduled.

I've heard plenty more stories from friends as well. Our local plumbers union was apprently quite something. They had rules around seniority that basically fucked over everyone with less than 10 years experience and made for a sweet life for everyone over. People worked their asses off for the worst jobs with inferior pay on the hope and dream for their turn at the top end of the pyramid some day when they got their turn to sit on top and exploit the people on the bottom.

I'm not anti-union (some situations absolutely need unions to prevent extreme exploitation), but I am anti-blanket-pro-union. Some unions are really trash and should not exist.

So yeah, if you're going to say that he "lied" then I think you need to explain what evidence you have that he knew what he said was not true. If he has any experience with unions, there's a good chance he has specific situations in mind.
The New Math of Driving Your Car Till the Wheels Fall Off
Thank you GodGPT
Do you also have to agree to the Google TOS if a non-Google website you visit uses a Google Font?
WildChat Dataset is a corpus of 1M real-world user-ChatGPT interactions
As we have talked about in the other part of this thread, envy has absolutely nothing to do with it. Stop thinking it does. You are starting to sound like a broken record.

> It would be technically negative in every measurement possible.

Since you believe this so strongly, can you provide academic sources for this perspective?
The term "CFO" appears 29 times in that article. You were a CFO not a vegan, you don't have to say it over and over.
There is nutrition in grass which is available to mammals like dogs (and humans). They are mostly cellulose, but plants use carbohydrates and proteins for their own structure and metabolism, and these are present in all plants in at least small amounts. Roots, shoots and fleshy stalks, are better than the leaves. Like an unpleasant, less nutritious lettuce or celery with too much fibre. Those are also hard to get meaningful calories from at like 50 - 100 calories per pound, but there's some calories, and there's other nutrients in them too.
Artificial sweetener has potential to damage gut, finds study
Analysis of Emile Cairess' Training Before the London Marathon
the future of OSS maintenance: https://dosu.dev/
Ironically the macOS kernel is named XNU - X is Not Unix
Your son probably needs therapy if he's this terrified of a non-life-threatening incident that is quite rare more than the incidence of death from covid-19.

it was never about being afraid, it was about taking part in society and helping so that your son, young people, the elderly and immune compromised don't die.

as for "experimental gene therapy injection", mRNA vaccines are vaccines and the mRNA in the vaccine does not alter genes, that's actual misinformation about how mRNA vaccines work.
No, I really don't know. Do you just mean drugs which the state prohibits?

If so, isn't that begging the question? If a person wants to go to a place where drugs are prohibited, and "drug" is defined as a substance which is prohibited, then doesn't every jurisdiction qualify?

If a person "simply isn't into drugs", with "drugs" defined by the local state, isn't that person just in favor of the state-prescribed diet? And it really has nothing to do with drugs?

If such a person goes from a place where drug X is prohibited to one where it is not, does their preference suddenly change?

One better: if a person goes from a place where drug X is prohibited to one where it is compulsory, do they suddenly fall in love with the drug?

Of course not. Because nobody's preferences work that way. Ergo, there is no actual real human who meets the critera, "simply isn't into drugs" upon close examination.

Sure, there may be people who are pro-prohibition, but I imagine nearly all of them are in a position to financially gain from it. In terms of outcomes, it's horrible policy, especially if a target is reduction of death and disease from drug use.
I haven't had any reason yet to change my opinion of the F-35 being the 21st Century version of the Brewster Buffalo.

It'll probably end up killing as many of our pilots as the Buffalo did. That was such a useless piece of machinery.
I really doubt Amazon works the way the ceo thinks it does here, in terms of change. Can anyone vouch ?

Well, I guess they can ask. However Amazon does not seem like a ask and you shall receive sort of place.
> it has the ability to judge correctness precisely,

That's not possible from a paper.

> it expresses a degree of surprise (low log likelihood?)

I think you're interpreting statistical terms too literally.

The truth of the matter is that we rely on a lot of trust from both reviewers and authors. This isn't a mechanical process. You can't just take metrics at face value[0]. The difficulty of peer review is the thing that AI systems are __the worst__ at and we have absolutely no idea how to resolve. It is about nuance. Anything short of nuance and we get metric hacking. And boy, you wanna see the degrade of academic works, the make the referee an automated system. No matter how complex that system is, I guarantee you human ingenuity will win and you'll just have metric hacking. We already see this in human led systems (like "peer review" and anyone that's ever had a job has experienced this).

I for one don't want to see science led by metric hacking.

Processes will always be noisy, and I'm not suggesting we can get a perfect system. But if we're unwilling to recognize the limitations of our systems and the governing dynamics of the tools that we build, then you're doomed to metric hack. It's a tale as old as time (literally). Now, if we create a sentient intelligence, well that's a completely different ball game but not what you were arguing either.

You need to stop focusing on "making things work" and making sure they actually work. No measurement is perfectly aligned with ones goals. Anyone in ML that isn't intimately familiar with Goodhart's Law is simply an architect of Goodhart's Hell.

Especially if we are to discuss AGI, because there is no perfect way to measure and there never will be. It is a limitation in physics and mathematics. The story of the Jinni is about precisely this, but we've formalized it.

[0] This is the whole problem with SOTA. Some metrics no longer actually mean anything useful. I'll give an example, look at FID, the main metric for goodness of image generation. It's assumptions are poor (the norms aren't very normal and it's based on a ImageNet1k training which is extremely biased. And no, these aren't solved by just switching to CLIP-FID). There's been many papers written on this and similar for any given metric.
My dog strongly disagrees with you that grass is more unpleasant than lettuce.
I have to ask: why do people think removing §230 will make (in their views) overly censorious social media platforms less censorious? The entire point of §230 is to make them immune to the liabilities of failing to moderate; in a world where, say, failing to take down a defamatory video makes the entire platform liable for defamation, the only logical course of action is to essentially take down everything somebody might find offensive. And if you're already incensed by how ready platforms are to do that today, that alternative reality would surely be far worse.
I agree. We are in the makings of a bubble but it's going to be a while before it bursts. When we start seeing AI companies going public by the truckloads then we better start to worry. The burst will be near and we'll be in for a lot of financial pain. It's coming but we are not there yet.
>but I have very little hard evidence to back that up.

Bullshit. You have zero hard evidence to back that up.
It seems like if you make a contract and a stock warrant is part of your side, and the other side doesn't keep their side of the deal (for example because they went bankrupt), then that warrant should be void, because the contract was breached.
You just don't use that port, and keep using the remaining 127 or 255 ports.
The only real, unfabricated surprise is that the reduction in demand didn't hit sooner.
The issue is they dropped a bet-the-company litigation on 1,000 startups that are not positioned to do anything but close operations.
> From what i've seen Apple gets every Mac Os release UNIX-certified, which is somewhat cool.

I reckon it is because of the lawsuit they got because they used unix in marketing without actually paying for the certificate. see - https://www.quora.com/What-goes-into-making-an-OS-to-be-Unix...
The article has a warped timeline of WebP, with incorrect speculation, and missing key points.

WebP has been created in the rush of wild optimism after Google has freed the VP8 video format (WebM). VP8 has been strategically important for them (and YouTube), because before then Web video has been at mercy of Flash, Silverlight, and threatened by H.264 patent royalties.

The WebP format has been rushed. It didn't go through a usual standards process. The VP8 codec turned out to be not so great, especially poor for still images. VP8 has lost to H.264, and meanwhile Cisco has found a loophole to sponsor H.264 royalties for all browsers.

Other vendors have rejected WebP, partly because it was a non-standard Google's own thing (uncool move at a time when WHATWG was at its peak), but mainly because it just wasn't good enough, compared to optimized JPEG (Mozilla created MozJPEG to prove the point). Their bar for adoption is very high, since they're worried about maintaining things forever, bug-compatibility issues from a single implementation, increased code size, and attack surface.

Mozilla and Safari have been resisting adoption of WebP for about 10 years. They've relented not because WebP got a "stable release" (total nonsense in the article), but because their bug trackers kept getting reports of Chrome-only websites and buggy HTTP content-negotiation that kept serving them "broken" images, to the point it started hurting their compatibility and costing them users.

----

With AVIF we've had the repeat of the video rush. Web has been once again been threatened by commercial H.265, with even messier and more expensive licensing, and no Cisco loophole this time. Browser vendors have banded around and adopted AV1 format ASAP to prevent dominance of H.265 on the Web.

And just like WebP has been riding adoption of VP8, AVIF was riding on adoption of AV1. And once again, a video codec turned ot to be suboptimal for still images. Browsers didn't really care about adopting any image format. They cared about adoption of AV1 video, and AVIF got a pass only because it was almost for "free" (it's basically a 1-frame video file).

(BTW, AV1 is based on VP10 + contributions from other vendors. This kinda makes it a descendant of WebP.)

So from the perspective of browser vendors not really wanting any new image format, and getting one anyway, and AVIF being good enough to not need an urgent replacement, there's simply no appetite left for adopting yet another format. Browser vendors still don't like adding more code, and are still afraid of compatibility issues and attack surface.

The conspiracies about money and power are hilarious.
guy is a fear monger for his followers. but im sure hes popular here
Really cool and the video was great too. Indie devs should probably consider doing this sort of thing more often, building these simple tools in service of a game rather than just using the industry standard tool. It can be a great way to add artistic character as well as rigorously enforce some limitations if that's what you're after.
Thank you greedy execs - my cheapness finally overtook my laziness and I’ve never been healthier (for real - I learned to enjoy healthy eating and my diet has never been better).
*6 different index types.

And that's just core, not even including built-in extensions like bloom.
Advanced is their business offering - https://help.dropbox.com/plans/advanced-plan
Tom Gilbey's training[0] was also popular, 21/24 wines correctly identified.

[0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68885746
When a company reaches saturation in their core market and can no longer find new ways of investing free cash flow from the business into new markets that are likely to grow the value of the business greater than their cost of capital it has two options:

1. Pay dividends
2. Buyback shares

Microsoft and now Google started paying dividends. Apple is choosing buybacks.

Both options also mean that these companies have run out of ideas for further growth and are now transitioning into cash cows with reduced future growth prospects.
> Amazon of all companies is known to treat their employees like disposable cogs.

Amazon in my area has literally ran media ads (not paraphrasing, direct quotes): "Need a job? Can pass a background check? No interview, start as soon as tomorrow."
Then the focus must be on the consumer protection itself. I’ve seen all ten hours of regulation discussions with Apple executives, and they were all about dismantling the iPhone and using all Apple products and services for free.

In 90s when Ericsson and Nokia held almost 100% of the cell phone market, none of these topics were brought forward. That is quite the irony.

It is incredibly hard to create a platform like iPhone and also create customer trust into spending money on it. And now that this is a place a significant percent of the commerce is taking place on this platform, it must be regulated. This must be done by laws and regulations. Not with anti-Apple or anti-Europe sentiments. We are even at least 5 years late in doing this.

However, we simply cannot force anybody to work for free or take their possessions. As the Apple executives said in the commission hearing, it is their platform and they have to be compensated for any work they put into it. We want open access to this platform, not kill it.

If an app is being side-loaded, then Apple is under no obligation to provide them any additional services that is not part of the OS. Which things like push notifications, and iCloud are not. Every app would either pay Appple to use those services or setup a connection to their own servers to distribute such notifications and use other object storage services.

We’ve had Windows computers forever and they still don’t support push notifications unless you have the app or the browser open.

Manufacturing the iPhone is one thing but there is billions of dollars of cost in developing and running the iOS. Apple will either recoup this cost somehow, with CTF or some other charge, or simply stop doing it, or worse stop selling it in Europe.

FAANG companies are really powerful and I’m as worried about their downward effects on the society and consumers as you are.
London Marathon runner tastes 25 glasses of wine during race
Tomorrow's China launch to attempt first-ever sample return from Moon's far side
It bifurcates platforms in two: those with no moderation, and those that have detailed human review for every video. A site like youtube is largely unworkable under the latter model, but is more workable under the former model. Either youtube would adopt such a model, or they would pivot to being essentially netflix with all licensed content. In the latter case another site would spring up or an existing site would become popular for people without an existing following to post videos, which would necessarily use a moderationless model.
Anyone does know if that affects US capabilities do drop a bomb on relevant targets or it's just a comercial capability, like doordash not being able to route streets without a local partner?
Your japanese phrases are quite easy for machine translation, as they have clear subjects stated and not much ambiguity.

The main problem is the implicit subject due to omission of pronoms in regular japanese, among other ambiguous things that can only be correctly translated in context. Also ommision of gender, plural, etc. The huge decoder-only models so far do a much better job grasping/guessing that and staying consistent compared to small encoder-decoder MTL models.

This simple phrase any beginner in japanese would understand: "山田さん、猫いますか？はい、います。" "Yamada-san, neko imasuka? Hai, imasu."

Google Translate now: Yamada-san, do you have a cat? Yes, I'm here.

When tested a few years ago: “Mr Yamada, does he have a cat? Yes, it has a cat”

LLama-3-8b-instruct: "Yamada-san, is there a cat? Ah, yes, there is."

GPT 3.5: "Does Yamada-san have a cat? Yes, he/she does."

gemini-1.5-pro-api-0409-preview: Does Mr./Ms. Yamada have a cat? Yes, they do.

LLama-3-70B-instruct: "Yamada-san, do you have a cat? Yes, I do."

GPT 4, Command-R+: "Mr. Yamada, do you have a cat? Yes, I do."

The two google translate ones are simply terrible. Technically, they are possible translations, but I would rate them as wrong.

All LLMs gave possible translations, but the larger the LLM, more likely to be correct the translation became. Well, the top two ones chose a gender, while the -san thing is a clever way to avoid chosing a gender, but not a very pure translation. If I had to give only one translation, I would pick either of those.

Also of note, while some even explained each element of their translation, none said that other possible translations were possible.
I'm on Youtube's side here.

Any UI is an API with extra steps.
The size of the warrant is still the structure. In terms of investment, as the warrant is demonstratedly transferable, the investor ownership is always an unknown.

This still sounds like structure(size and control of a single warrant) rather than who. The real issue seems to be any large warrant, that is, the uncertainty in the structure.
the post appears to say that the only distribution channel will be from MSFT-Github starting in June 2024 or so
Chang'e-6 launch: What to expect
QNAP does not seem secure at all, IMO its not worth it. I have not used the others you mentioned.
Do you need to agree to youtube's TOS to use it? I can open youtube in an incognito window or on a machine I never used without a TOS consent required.

Also, youtube itself is just a website. Websites can be accessed through multiple venues, aka browsers. Browsers don't always guarantee the way it will render or present html will be as the author would expect.
Youtube doesn't edit content. When Spez changes what a commenter says, that's editing content. Banning content isn't editing it.
Here's the funniest part!!!!

The app is on a .app TLD, and that's ran by google. So theoretically google just pull the domain registration. I wouldn't put it past them. Hooray for vanity domains!

https://get.app/

He needs to get better about posting the link to whatever he's talking about so I can read ahead and be more informed.
I wish the mistakes I've seen over the years were fictional, as even the people I found disagreeable still deserved better treatment.

Any CEO worth anything owns their mistakes, adapts, and mitigates future issues.

Good luck out there =3
Search is barely usable, extremely basic things like play next song button plays next song don't work.
> I think the big successes that you
describe are the exception rather than the
rule. I think you'll find the majority of
economic success comes from simple rent
seeking -- whether literally as landlord,
or as financial service, or otherwise
being in middle.

So, $1 trillion companies versus some guy
with $400K a year from 15 well run
convenience stores, .... We have a lot of
both.

> With all the significant increases in
economic productivity that has not
benefited the average American.

Maybe not in comparative terms, i.e.,
maybe the distribution curve for wealth
has not changed much.

But in absolute terms, some of what I
listed are huge benefits for "the average
American":

Nearly no one in the US would want a 1950
Ford, forced to use a typewriter instead
of a word processor on a computer, news
papers on paper instead of the Internet,
no mobile phone or Zoom, 1950s health
care, lath and plaster instead of drywall,
oak flooring instead of vinyl (cheaper and
more durable), microwave ovens, synthetic
yarn in cloth and clothing, in general, as
in the famous movie, no "plastics",
railroads and busses instead of airplanes,
no summer air conditioning, no gasoline
powered lawn mowers, no calculator aps or
pocket calculators instead of adding
machines, no computers instead of punched
cards, car tires that wear out in 20,000
miles instead of 100,000 miles, elevator
operators instead of electrically
controlled elevators, etc. ....
No doubt! I look forward to learning it in due course, but it's not exactly penetrable for a newcomer, particularly amidst a sea of parentheses.
Google Removes Pirate IPTV Services from UK Search Results
I had somebody sit near to me who wanted to leave at lunchtime but was convinced to stay on and left after the second day.

This was on the ads team. The job involved managing ads on our site (via google ads and some other providers). They had never done this sort of thing before[1] and were not up to being thrown in the deep end.

[1] I think they had done other sorts of advertising, just not for websites
The NC is one of those things that feels like it was simply to far ahead of where the technology and the mind set of users was. Nowadays it would have much more traction thanks to SaaS.

In tech, one step ahead is an innovator. Two step ahead is a martyr.
Cardio fitness is a strong, consistent predictor of morbidity and mortality