skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Should we throw out the browser history too then? And whatever logging your router might be doing.

And probably ban the software you can already install to monitor someone's computer activity.

Isn't this argument just the classic "think of the children" dressed up in new clothes?
What are the distortions of the market they hope to correct by performing a 'Ma Bell of Live Entertainment' to coalesce into a new 'At&t' a few decades down the line?
Maybe. Kinda a single idea that exploded there though (cheap SBCs). Psion had innovations across the board; they wrote their own OS (which later became Symbian on hundreds of millions of cellphones), wrote their own amazing little language for applications (OPL), the exceptional physical engineering of the battery hinges and sliding keyboards, incredible battery life on 2 AAs, full range of expansion cards/modems etc. The build quality on Psion 3/5 was incredible too, they remain some of the most nicely assembled consumer electronics I've seen.

These devices even had pre-emptive multi-tasking support in their EPOC OS before the Mac did - the Mac didn't get this till OS X shipped.

I like Raspberry Pi products, but for me, it's not close. Psion did all of the above by 1998... I don't think the UK has had an engineering leader in this space like it since.
John Deere considers VMs to be legacy tech, Ethernet and Wi-Fi on the brink
Thanks for mentioning Braintrust!

We are very committed to the proxy :)

Although, to your point, we have seen less market pull for routing, and more for (a) supporting the latest LLMs, (b) basic translation (e.g. tool call API b/w Anthropic & OpenAI), and (c) solid infra features like caching/load balancing api keys/secret management. So that's our focus.
It's not sustainable.

Copilot+ runs locally, but has the quality of 2 years ago, it's basically useless for anything but shitposts and spam.

The cloud AI tools all burn hideous amounts of money, all ran at a loss.

AGI is a red herring, and will not happen. The architecture of generative-AI systems simply doesn't permit the required logic and reasoning capability.

Even the "Actually, Indians" concept of outsourcing the tertiary sector to the developing world by way of having low-skill workers clean up AI generated trash is unviable. (It both doesn't work, and is politically doomed.)

What's going on here is that tech companies are tearing up everything to pump their stock prices after the covid-tech-boom and ZIRP ended. Burn down their core products to keep the bubble going just a bit longer.
>However, we cannot do that without their consent

>they will not give their consent in the majority of cases for the same reasons that they refuse help from government programs and non-profits.

...because of the underlying mental illness.

Do you really believe that you can get consent from this group of people who you say should be in medical facilities, when they have self-sorted into that group mostly by being too unwilling or unable to conform to any rules or structures?
Demand could have plummeted for any reason and Nvidia would be sitting on hundred million dollar pallets.

The reality is that your gamble was just as much gambling as their gamble. You just happened to win.
Throw it at an LLM with the simple command "fix", highlight every character that has a delta and send it back to them.

Add a grade in red at the top if you're feeling extra cheeky
To be fair, they have a brand new 800V architecture now, pioneered a 48V low-voltage system, and are among the first to have steer by wire.

The problem is that these improvements landed in a car that is a symbol of a very public mid-life crisis.
If the idea is just we tell people they need to be responsible or slap them with harsher penalties after the fact I doubt it is going to help that much. A lot of the answer involves technology (even if the “technology” is speed bumps or different kinds of intersections) to make it less likely that an inattentive driver has the opportunity to hurt pedestrians.
I don’t think it’s only AI influencers that do this. I’ve noticed people use lowercase as some sort of power move. Like they’re so busy and important they don’t care about conventions.
Are there really that many versions out there these days? I've been away from the windows world for 10+ years at this point. I do use the system occassinally but certainly not daily.
Going to be hard to keep claiming you didn’t know something, if your signature is on it. I don’t really think a CEO gets to say he didn’t read what he was signing.
Why did Anthropic break API compatibility with OpenAI?
One of the signature policies Biden is running on is his fight against junk fees. That's why this is will overlap the election. And why no one would be surprised if nothing happened if Biden lost.
Yet it is not supported.

Instead, some current methods of animal husbandry exhibit some of the concerns you raise.

For example, animals that free range live lives far, far better than any wild counterparts. They get health care (vaccines), protection from predators, and more.

The disney-eqsue view that wild animals live in a paradise is false, few deer die of old age.

Water and environmental impacts are falsehoods as a solid rule, there are loads of sustainable cattle ranches in, for example, Quebec. Free ranged in summer, slaughter down for winter, hay grown by crop rotation and without fertilizer for over wintering.

You're confusing one type of farming with all methods, big agriculture with litte, and more.

For example, everyone used to have a few pigs and chickens. The pigs ate left over refuse as part of their diet, all those potato peelings, carrot ends and leaves, and food about to go bad. Give it to the pig, and you can eat it later upon slaughter.

So environmentally friendly.

Chickens eating worms, bugs, the pests of man. Chickens mean our small gardens are not eaten bare by pests.

If you truly wanted change, advocate change to better methods.

You will never get us to give up meat, a hard requirement for a healthy life for European genes.
Even Warren buffet and munger have made large mistakes though. Don’t bet more than you can afford to lose is probably the biggest rule.
OpenAI threatening former employees with loss of equity
So far that prediction hasn’t borne out.
Turkeys don't vote for an early Christmas.
I like it too. Bigger video, more visual information without scrolling
Oh, but they do https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66465231
OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show
ah yes, virtue signaling. I'm sorry you live in a world of liars and pretenders and no one is ever genuine. sounds kinda terrible there.
A few decades of things being slightly less shitty?
I read the article and this absolutely stinks of the next step of vendor lock-in, where the person running Deere hardware is forced to maintain an on-going service for 5g and remote cloud services to keep things moving even if the firm is forced to allow farmers to do their own repairs ala 'right to repair'. Opinions?
RAG is not just traditional search. It's any augmented data that can be fed to the LLM.

The most useful and verifiable RAG setup I've seen is hooking up a RDBMS and LLM, and asking querying questions in English to retrieve the table data. You can do it in several steps.

1. Extract the metadata of the tables, e.g. table names, columns of each table, related columns of the tables, indexed columns, etc. This is your RAG data.

2. Build the RAG context with the metadata, i.e. listing each table, its columns, relationships, etc.

3. Feed the RAG context and the user's querying questions to the LLM. Tell LLM to generate a SQL for the question given the RAG context.

4. Run the SQL query on the database.

It's uncannily good. And it can be easily verified given the SQL.
Is OpenAI a finance company? I guess that would explain a lot.
This is incorrect. Fiscal years have nothing to do with when you pay tax. They're pretty much totally arbitrary, with different companies using different values.

To demonstrate: The earnings Microsoft reported for this same quarter (calendar Q1 2024) a month ago were reported as their Q3 2024 fiscal year results. Apple's were fiscal Q2 2024. Google's were fiscal Q1 2024.
That's not what I said.

The text in the letter must be approved.
The chief designer did come from Mazda...

Also they did just update the Model 3 (looks great!) this year so they are moving in the right direction. Did you see this refreshed look on the Model 3?
Trust me, bro.

Windows keeps adding these anti-consumer features, ads, and other things. And people keep using it??? I used to work there and I can't believe they keep doing this stuff.
Fonts included in the repo. [0]

Tooling is a combo of Shadow CLJS and Clojure CLI.

[0] See `resources/public/fonts` here:
https://github.com/eliascotto/tryclojure/tree/main/resources...

[1] https://github.com/thheller/shadow-cljs

[2] https://clojure.org/reference/clojure_cli
Quote from the Post article:

But while many hear an eerie resemblance between “Sky” and Johansson’s “Her” character, an actress was hired to create the Sky voice months before Altman contacted Johansson, according to documents, recordings, casting directors and the actress’s agent.
Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?
We would, as a culture, have to make and act on the value judgment that dying in the streets, paired with all the other social ills that accompany having long-term homelessness, is sufficiently bad to justify involuntarily committing the mentally ill to secure facilities. Do you see that happening?
Not convinced Intel can turn this around. Both on server and consumer side they've been losing share to AMD for like 7 years straight...cross generations, cross platform...just everywhere with amazing consistency. And if half of the AMD roadmaps/rumours are true then the next couple years will be worse.

...so yeah some casual R&D isn't gonna cut it...they need to pull a rabbit out of a hat urgently.
I think the strategy is to sell the OS and hardware required to run this.
The problem isn't cattle, it's big agriculture.

As soon as everyone eats bugs, then industrial big farms will start up, and all the worrisome problems discussed will appear with bugs too.
https://archive.ph/NyYdH
Perhaps! But I think by the time you're asking these kinds of questions you're then also dealing with one of the many reasons definitions can become nuanced as technology moves on.
It's already happening but it's 3rd party apps (which are relatively cheap, a couple bucks a seat), so it won't be a huge change.
Long somatic DNA-repeat expansion drives neurodegeneration in Huntington disease
> This reads like more than standard restrictions.

It reads like omertà.

I wonder if I'll still get downvoted for saying this. A lot can change in 24 hours.

Edit: haha :-P
There is no clear path to a general android. Every physical task that has been automated with robots requires robots engineered specifically for that task. Engineering, building, and maintaining those robots is a massive expense and only happens for tasks that are lucrative and occur at scale. Much of the economy is in a long tail of tasks that would not be profitable to automate, barring a major revolution in robotics.
Insanely high PE? On earnings day? Isn’t today the day that it adjusts for this new amount? I still don’t find the forward PE to be that bad for the best tech company in the world right now.
In Django I would just do Posts.objects.filter(title=x)

I don't need to define driver boilerplate for every query (or ever have to write it... at all).
Employees are replaceable. Outside of a very specific few, they have very little leverage. If an employee loses trust and leaves or “quiet quits”, they will simply be replaced with one of the hundreds of people clamoring to work for them. This is why unionization is so great.

Just as Reddit users stay on Reddit because there is nowhere else to go, the reality is that everyone worships leadership because they keep their paychecks flowing.
Google AI recommends adding Elmer's glue to pizza cheese after scanning Reddit
Is there something similar for KDE Plasma on Wayand?
I really like the concept, but both Colab and locally running jupyter notebook seem to have issues. I'm getting an error related to "env.height" (can send you the full stacktrace if interested) in the very first puzzle.
In Live Nation's latest 10-Q filing they listed the operating margin of their ticketing segment at 32%, with a non-GAAP AOI margin of 39%.

[1] https://investors.livenationentertainment.com/sec-filings/al...
Pure change aversion from users.

This is a more sensible design. You can now read comments while you watch a video, which is clearly a more important use-case than browsing a bunch of recommended videos while you watch a video. The comments should scroll independently from the main column though.
This is fantastic, and with the vowel has another dimension. Love it, thank you!
I think i overdid the hypothetical , I’ll agree with you on that. Certainly the need to move is extreme for many people. It’s never been much of an issue for
Me so I think I failed to adjust that to most peoples attitudes about travel.

It still reflects a bit though, and in my limited experience it holds true that the successes I have been either involved with or adjacent to have been accomplished by either money in the bank, credit cards, or shedding “normal” expenses by moving to somewhere that the cost of living was maybe twenty percent of normal.

Obviously you’re not going to do any of those things unless you are really sold on the value proposition of your product, and you think it can scale to bring 100x plus rewards on your time.

But if it’s a 10 percent chance of success on a 100x gain, that’s a bet I’ll take all day, every day.

But I don’t criticize anyone for not being willing to drop everything only to probably fail, and repeat that 10 times to get one solid win. That’s not for everyone, to be sure.

But I think that’s really what I mean anyway, if you’re going to try for anything but the low hanging fruit, you’ll have to be willing to do what most people will not.

That doesn’t make it the “right” thing for everyone though, and it sure doesn’t lead to a Healthy work-life balance, at least in the beginning.

Edit: Now that you've got me introspecting a bit, I think I realized my own ideas about these things are probably fundamentally unworkable for most people's dominant paradigm.

I haven't held a job in 40 years, I'm comfortable now but wasn't always. Even when I was young I refused to do anything for money I wouldn't do for free. That is a very expensive attitude to have, and unless you are willing to live in a very primitive way as I was, it is a very hard line to tow.

But I am happy with that decision, it has served me well, and made me very very comfortable and happy in life.

It honestly never occurred to me that anyone would think of starting a business that they weren't just dying to do anyway lol, but now I can see that that's an edge case, and your sincere if unenthusiastic words about your business made that click.

That said, I really don't think anyone should launch a startup or any business that they wouldn't do without compensation if they had the free time. Not that there aren't plenty of opportunities to make money for money's sake, but I just cant see that as being a wise way to spend the very finite hours we have in this life.

Thanks for being sincere, It has helped me to understand others a little better. Ive often seen a lack of total commitment as an insincere interest, but I now think maybe its more nuanced than that for many people. Still, I don't think I would fund or be involved in any project where i felt that the key people could be dissuaded from trying to complete their goal.
Agreements forcing artists to only use LN locations and TM ticketing in markets where possible.

Ticketing is relatively easy since the early days so competition should help.
We also need better laws defining what can and cannot be a fee. Fees should only be for things which are truly optional and declinable.
Biff: Batteries-Included Web Framework for Clojure
Opioid addition is a major cause, yet Fentanyl is popular because the margins are INSANE while access to prescription opioids became much more restricted.

In 2019, Indian companies were a major source of precursors as well [0], yet Indian authorities cracked down on this path [1]. Meanwhile, Chinese authorities turned a blind eye [0].

That said, China is semi-federal as well, and depending on which Province the companies are from, it might be difficult to crack down, especially given that Chinese organized crime has transnationalized in Myanmar and Cambodia [2]

None of this can actually work at scale without financing and ease of operation, and the fact that authorities in multiple countries are turning a blind eye and sometimes actively using Organized Crime as a hybrid tool of power projection (eg. Triads in the Chinese diaspora, Punjabi Organized Crime in the Indo-Canadian Diaspora, the Russian and Caucuasian Vorys, etc)

That's how you have a DoJ lead brothel crackdown in DC and Boston that was because they were being used as an attempted honeypot [3]

[0] - https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-...

[1] - https://www.deccanherald.com/india/ncb-arrests-tamil-nadu-ba...

[2] - Highly recommend Peng Wang's research at HKU (https://sociology.hku.hk/people/wang-peng)

[3] - https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/08/high-end-brothels-serviced-e...
How did you know f-droid's certificate was about to expire? Do you keep track?
Well it's not just how much delta-V but all the gravity assists. The planets were in a "grand tour" alignment which happens every 175 years, so voyager would have an even longer lead. But doing something like that with an ion drive, on some of our more powerful rockets, and another hundred years of space tech, that thing would be amazing!
Previous post, with 47 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40436195
Again, wrong.

It's just not how the world works. It's legally not required, and in practice not done. If the board and CEO had to sit around approving every contract change in every country, my goodness they'd have no time left for anything else.
You can bet this will be turned on by default and hard to find the off button, which will likely reset back to on every major update.
My favorite part of working in clojure is how easy it is to do common data structure operations.

map, filter and reduce are extraordinarily powerful, especially when combined with the other core library functions.
Voyager 1 is on borrowed time.

It’s expected that over the next decade it won’t have enough power for a single scientific instrument, and by 2036 it will be out of range of the deep space network.

https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/frequently-asked-questions/
Or it just points towards NIH syndrome, combined with hype and anti-hype driven mentality of programmers, and general forgetting of previous technologies. Or even when the differences are close to 0, doing a new not exactly same implementation for ... whatever reason.
THIS. As much as I wish I put all my money into NVDA when I bought it, I’m happy to have a lot of diversity in high tech IT. The daily swings are not nearly as bad and aim not biting my fingers all day long.
> It's still fundamental logic that the masses need to be able to afford your goods if you produce mass market goods.

It's fundamental logic that unless your company provides something close to 100% of the employment market (as in, you are a complete monopolist on all economic activity), you are better off paying your workers as little as possible.

Your workers are a tiny portion of your customer base. Let some other sap pay theirs well.

Now, if you have other reasons to pay your workers well (competitive demand for their labor, high turnover, need for growth, motivation tied directly to output, etc), then it is also logical to come up with a nice-sounding fairy tale justifying your largess.

(Or you might actually be motivated by some kind of chivalristic noblesse oblige largess, and are tricking yourself - or socially signaling to your peers - by coming up with a 'logical' motivation for it. I wouldn't immediately assume this of HF, but I am not exactly a Fordian scholar. All I know about him is that he owned a factory that built cars, was a bit of an anti-semite, and also had a lot of opinions about how his employees should live their lives.)
If it's non-enforceable, but you signed it, wouldn't that make the contract void?

I suppose there's probably a bunch of legalese to prevent that though...
“I have not been released from any exit agreement” is not disparagement.
Those all look great, including HugSQL, thanks!
No, which is exactly why I pointed it out as a problem.
>Whoever said anything about communism?

Whoever said anything about Libertarianism?

Only "rich people" and "dupes for libertarianism" "seem to" prefer low taxes? This is seriously how you think you are going to participate in a discussion, and this is your premise that you think needs to be debated?

In citing communism, I was only matching your hyper-defensive snark and substance avoidance by throwing around a roughly opposite term that is meant to have a negative connotation. Just as you have repeatedly done by introducing a negative connotation for "libertarian", which again I absolutely am not. Libertarian ideology is not the opposite of pro-tax policy advocacy. What else?
Fujitsu sells 'Made in Japan' laptops. One place to buy them is Amazon Japan. For example, this one: https://www.amazon.co.jp/Official-LIFEBOOK-WU-X-H1-AZ_WUXH1_...
Owning a computer these days is just ... a lot of work. Hey, software updates - who and what and is trying to exfiltrate my data today? Microsoft of course, but also maybe an open source freaking terminal emulator? I mean, they're probably trustworthy, right? So don't worry about the telemetry. Or the AI integration. Or the screen recording. Now, check the other 20 programs that wanted to update today. Don't worry, it's all described in their 30 page privacy policies! Is it opt-in? Opt-out? Are they telling the truth? Will they face any consequences when we find out they were lying about it? Of course not!
I honestly believe this is how the world's information will continue to be filtered more and more, and the information that is 'disliked' will be slowly wound out from society. All that ever comes to mind is re-writing news articles in 1984 and see this fully ending at that point.
I would say though that people would probably be less interested in autocracy, if democracy didn’t have housing shortages and homeless people everywhere, countless people in debt, painful job losses and economic turmoil, etc.

Incompetent democratic governance invites and begs for competent autocratic governance. This will always happen - and it’s already happened in El Salvador, Singapore, and other countries.
Some of the photographers I follow now have accounts at Bluesky.
Indeed, it already won't capture Edge's equivalent to Incognito Mode because the OS already knows what that signal is shaped like. But there isn't an equivalent, general "This window should be private" OS-level signal because none was ever needed before.
10-15 years ago was windows 7
It is impossible to get someone to understand something when their fast food, bacon, and grilled steaks depend upon their not understanding it. Meat ag is unwise for many reasons below but there is widespread resistance as per above. It requires leadership and alternative products to overcome.

- Pandemic evolution, a few examples: BSE, COVID (indirectly), MERS, Q fever, Nipah, H1N1, H1N2, H2N2, H3N1, H3N2, H5N1, H7N7

- Climate change

- Antibiotic resistance (given to cows because they can't digest corn properly)

- Lower overall caloric production and net higher food prices

- Freshwater and oceanic dead zones

- Air pollution

- Soil pollution

- Somewhere down the list is animal cruelty, but it's historically been an unpersuasive argument

Edit: Erroneously listed "H1N1" twice

Edit2: Maybe not force, but taxation to make an FDA prime steak cost $1000 instead of $100.