skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your population size argument is something like:

- SFBA has ~2% of the population of the US

- London has ~10% of the population of the U.K.

- the populations of the areas are similar (ca 7e6)

So for SFBA to feel full of startups, you can get away with e.g. 0.2% of the population of the US doing tech startups in the Bay Area at any one time, but for London to feel similarly full of startups, you would need 1% of the population of the UK doing tech startups in London at any one time.

Is that the point you are making about size, or is it something else? Network effects in VC?
The article answers its own question as to why most people don't take more risk. Most of it boils down to 2 things; not having a safety net and not being fortunate enough to know the right people.

I've been thinking about starting a business, but only because I'm now at a point where I have a safety net and I've grown my network enough to consider myself having an ok shot at making it.
I had always wanted to port Mellanox drivers to macOS to get away from paying through the nose for ATTO cards.

Great news that Apple have already done it!

Mellanox ConnectX 6 Lx is pretty cheap in comparison to ATTO.
Precisely specifying desired functionality of software in ‘plain English’ is hard. Especially if you can’t provide diagrams, sketches, mocked-up screen layouts, etc.

Also, the low-code/no-code tools allow precise editing. With current prompt-based AI party tricks, a tiny change to the prompt can produce completely different output.
I mean, aren't you likely to already have some cognitive dissonance from working at FB? What's a few hundred dollars more worth of it in the grand scheme of things.
Big US banks dominated fossil fuel financing in 2023, campaign report says
One factor might be family size. Purely anecdotal, but I have a friend who grew up in an extremely abusive household and said directly to me that the only reason he thinks he survived his situation was because he had 4 other siblings and they all supported each other during the difficult times.
I pay around $180/m for Clicky for 800k events per day. Looking forward trying your service and eventually try to self host it. Thanks!
Yes, an Open AI
Ah, yes. Let the perfect be the enemy of the good, or the better. Let imperfection stand in the way of improving things in any way, because someone (in a blatantly virtue signal-y way) brought up a hot button issue: police brutality.

I’m really not sure what your comment stands to add, beyond useless whataboutism.
It's so humbling to understand the history and the ingenuity required to create these foundations. Amazing stuff.
Only the tablet has oled option. And that is an 500$ extra.
> Do C# arrays have a Sum method? I don't think so.

It's not literally a method (it's not, for instance, in the vtable of some array class), but as far as their API is concerned, yeah, they do: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/blob/main/src/libraries/Sy...
| "that anything that can possibly talk to a third party AI service is forbidden"

So then your company just needs to block AI at the network level then?

Within a few keystrokes you could already very easily communicate with third party AI services via terminal prior to 3.5 (curl... etc)

This is a very weird over-reaction considering what iTerm2 and shells in general are already capable of.
This gives off a TimeCube vibe.
What do you mean? Have you or someone else already followed this exact approach?
Hypothetically if the machines were not rendered inoperable - either physically or by a remote 'kill switch' how self-sufficient could an operator be without support of ASML or TSMC personnel?
Actors get a lot of rights to their likeness.

So, yes maybe?
It’s just you. The ineffectiveness is the point. This service is a joke, it’s surely illegal. Everyone knows it’s a “failing” system, you can’t scale free customer service forever.

The legitimacy of the need for this service proves the value of these accounts. I predict that tech companies will get in on it, and within a few years will offer paid customer service the way enterprises get today. You can already pay for “verified” accounts, so this is the next step. If companies don’t monetize it, government will regulate it.
> that's also a signal that space launch is boring and was boring even back in 2005

It wasn’t boring so much as gated. If anything, nobody recognised it had become a commodity outside a couple crazy dudes in Hawthorne and West Texas. The majors still talked about it like they were doing dark magic.
Ilya: "I’m confident that OpenAI will build AGI that is both safe and beneficial under the leadership of @sama, @gdb, @miramurati and now, under the excellent research leadership of @merettm"

https://x.com/ilyasut/status/1790517455628198322
I agree. It's a difference of O(n^2) or worse for drill-downs, and O(log n) for a pinch and zoom.
Low salaries increase competitiveness, while high salaries decrease it. That's one of the things you already learn as a kid when you live in an export-driven economy.

Even if your country is not particularly export-driven but you participate in competitive markets, the same effect may apply. For example, the US lost many manufacturing jobs to China, because American salaries were not competitive (low) enough.

Finland is sometimes said to be a country of engineers, for historical and cultural reasons. That doesn't mean engineers are paid well. On the contrary, engineer salaries are low and Finnish engineers like to complain how much more they would earn in Germany. What it does mean is that engineers have a higher social status than in most Western countries, and a lot of people want to be engineers. Finnish companies can hire good engineers with little money.

Finnish companies have traditionally been good at developing technology and bad at commercializing it. Explanations vary, from the low quality of business leadership to the lack of domestic capital; from the small size of the domestic market to foreign companies buying successful startups; from the cultural dominance of heavy industry to the culture of respecting laws and regulations.
Ok, however there are several new-gen terms headlining this kind of feature. We're far into frog-boiling territory, who knows where it will lead.
I've found this to be pretty amazing from the demos: https://stableprojectorz.com/
Sam Altman doing something that can negatively impact a woman without her consent? No! Say it ain’t so! What would his sister think?
No escrow?
Discussion on HN [0] (343 points, 5 days ago, 163 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40383029
I've been going through a similar metamorphosis, but it didn't start until 36.

I wonder sometimes whether I'll have missed out on some things permanently because of it. For instance, every year my odds of carrying a healthy child to term drop farther, and I'm already considered "geriatric" for pregnancy purposes.

I really don't see how it could have happened any earlier than it did, and I'm grateful it happened at all because I can easily see how it could have been worse, but there's still a grief journey involved even though I try not to dwell on the things lost.
> This service is still naked corruption

This service feels capitalistically egalitarian!
I wonder if this ability is used anywhere professionally, specifically DPX (professional non-video compressed "codec") video color grading with Davinci Resolve. It doesn't make sense for Apple to include drivers otherwise, other than not bothering to shrink down the base install. That or some custom apps via TestFlight for other high bandwidth use cases.
Gordon was one of the founders of Encore Computer and my first encounter was in Mass at the point Hydra, Resolution, Foundation and the other component company acquisitions were melding together. I remember being gob smacked by Gordon having a little Vax as his PC and only later came the "well of course he does" realization. He was keen for us to get on to Arpanet and that happened before the end of 1984.
Legal focuses on the software license terms, terms of usage, privacy policy, and what not. Every time that's updated, use of the software is frozen until reviewed again.

Technical means, we monitor for every outbound connection attempt and DNS request and can trace it back fairly easily to a particular application. We've certainly caught software that was reporting back when it's stated otherwise in the privacy policy or website.

Legal does feel better when there's an entity they can seek damages from in the event that a piece of software turned out to be malicious. They're less inclined to give free software the same benefit of the doubt.
More than "some". I truly think it's time we lose all the whitespace.
Ahh memories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaF-nRS_CWM

Winamp was great because it was lightweight, performant, and did not stand between you and your music.
For OpenSCAD, try the nightly build and enable MANIFOLD --- that's an order of magnitude (or two) of increase in the performance.
It's not the reason the rule was implemented, it's not something the FAA cares about, but this doesn't change the fact that it's still a good idea in some cases, rule or no rule.
Do you own a smart phone? Those are why. Part of the total surveillance state. They send everything you do to the government to make sure it is permissible. Just today microsoft was announcing that same feature for PCs in the guise of the current AI hype.

Also games are already saddled with always online requirements.
It's hilariously apropos that employees are maximizing their revenue by solving a problem... that their employer created by maximizing its revenue (and underfunding support)

Isn't modern big tech always saying that employees should shut up and focus on the numbers / delighting users?
Discussion yesterday [0] (29 points, 28 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40421100
We do block on the network level. You can argue that it's an over-reaction, but legal does see a difference between something embedded into a binary purpose built to transmit data to a third party and a general purpose tool that could be mis-used.
To understand, we need to take a step back, and completely deconstruct the familiar narrative.

The moment we say "an AI", we anthropomorphize the model. The narrative gets even more derailed when we say "Large Language Model". No LLM actually contains a grammar or defined words. An LLM can't think logically or objectively about subjects the way a person can, either.

I propose that we instead call them "Large Text Models". An LTM is a model made from training a neutral net with text. Sure, the text itself was written with language, but no part of the training process or its result does anything about it.

The really cool trick that an LTM does is to construct continuations whose content just happens to be indistinguishable from language. This is accomplished because the intentions of the original human writer (that were encoded into the original text dataset) did consistently follow language rules. The problem is that the original writer did not encode the truthiness or falsiness of future LTM continuations. Truth and lie are written the same, and that ambiguity lives in the LTM forever.
Unfortunately, the iPad Pro can't run Blender at all. So it's not really an option when it comes down to it. It's just not up to the task in its current locked down state. :(
C++98 should be forgotten as a bad dream. C++17 is almost a sane and convenient language (as long as you remember about the boiling depths into which you can fall if you're careless).

C++ will live for very long, like Fortran. And also like Fortran, there now must be a serious and uncommon reason to start a new project in it.
Also, my understanding is that a common cause for an account to become frozen is that the account has been (perceived to be) taken over by someone else. Having an accelerated side channel to restore access to those accounts needs to be implemented with great care.
Raise what as a serious problem?

People taking bribes to get people unbanned?
People getting banned?
Hmm. Being able to say "thou shalt not make a character similar to Her" is a lot like saying "thou shalt not make a video game character similar to any other." It’s not an explicit copy, and their name for Sky was different. That’s the bar for the videogame industry; why should it be different for actors? Especially one that didn’t show her face.

This whole thing is reminiscent of Valve threatening to sue S2 for allegedly making a similar character. Unsurprisingly, the threats went nowhere.
Waiting for the self-hosted version... would be great to be able to deploy this with Kubernetes too
It is already the case. I've seen several French Wikipedia articles with a banner warning the content was merely lifted from the English article.
Chatgpt quality is going to degrade over time. Google search results were amazing before monetization and SEO kicked them in the teeth.

Same is going to happen to chatgpt once they will start trying to extract more value out of it.
The Wikimedia Foundation are paid employees.
no it doesn't, at least not according to the specs https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-lapt...

The Surface Pro has an OLED config now, which costs more, but the laptop and standard pro are still LCD.
Discussion [0] (143 points, 13 hours ago, 252 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40426801
I have no idea if I am talented or not. I do know that I've spend a lot of time programming, and it's inevitable one would get better at it over time. I also learned from being around people who were really good, and were kind enough to help me.
I also prefer this perspective. I had an epiphany about this sort of code when I was trying to describe what my code did for a research paper, and in trying to express why I was proud of it, I called it complex, only for my research advisor to point out that complexity was not the point of the work, so calling it complex did not convey what about it made the research interesting.

Although it wasn't his intention, it changed my perspective on the "clever" tricks I liked using, since it made me realize that being clever was not the kind of complexity that mattered. So, nowadays I try to write simple, easy to understand code, leaving the cleverness and complexity to the way the problem is tackled.
> Setting a precedent that if your natural voice sounds similar to a more famous actor precludes you from work would be a terrible precedent to set.

Yes, but literally no one anywhere is suggesting that the voice actress used would be banned from work because of any similarity between her voice and Johansson's; that’s an irrelevant strawman.

Some people are arguing that there is considerable reason to believe that the totality of the circumstances of OpenAI’s particular use of her voice would make OpenAI liable under existing right of personality precedent, which, again, does not create liability for mere similarity of voice.
No, epsilon-delta in the modern form was invented by Karl Weierstrass in 1861.

Cauchy's approach was to define an infinitesmal as a sequence approaching 0, and then to use the old infinitesmal definition of a derivative. This almost works. One of the places where it falls apart is defining the chain rule when the inner derivative is 0, because the sequence may wind up with 0/0 infinitely often.

But it is from this definition that we get Cauchy sequences today.
If you're so paranoid about this possibility then just block it at the network level - heck, even whitelist IP ranges that you want iTerm2 to be able to connect out to and default deny the rest.

Let's not blame iTerm2, which is a highly useful, amazing piece of software that many of us have relied on on every day for years and have never paid anything to use.

If you really are so worried about the AI feature being part of iTerm2 then go fork it and strip the AI functionality yourself: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2
I also hypothesized that working in an actual statically and strongly typed language leads to less "save, reload, pray" loops than a typical front-end developer may have gotten used to
ScarJo's voice is very distinct but it's clear from this thread that people can't recognize that. As soon as you play both clips right after each other it's obvious that Sky isn't an imitation of ScarJo's voice because it doesn't have those distinctive features of her voice.

I think though that Sky's performance is similar to ScarJo's performance in Her. They're both playing AI voices.
If they were torturing puppies then sure, but the context of this discussion is bad customer service. Having subpar customer service seems to be typical for corporations (and governments) in general, so no, it doesn't trigger my instinct to leave. Especially when the issue is providing customer support at scale to millions, if not billions of users (many of whom don't actually directly pay anything).

I wouldn't leave a company just because execs there seems vaguely anti-union either, even though I think unions are good, because again, that's most companies.

> By supporting the "strategic decision by management" you implicitly approve of it.

You could say that about a lot of things. Your government does something bad and you don't immediately hightail it to the next city/state/country? I guess that means you implicitly approve.
You could, but .Sum is a little more specific than that - it is non-overflowing sum.

Historically, constraining generic arguments on addition was problematic - the full feature set of numeric types was "lifted" to be fully representable through generics only recently[0].

With that said, there is an open proposal[1] to introduce additional generic math overloads to IEnumerable<T> methods, but it hasn't seen much activity as the existing overloads cover most commonly used numeric types already.

[0]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/generics/m...

[1]: https://github.com/dotnet/runtime/issues/64031
AI is a concept, but OpenAI is a business. And their bread and butter is acquiring more data to train their models.
I love that "and I'm fine" line. I see it a lot in contexts where someone is defending something that seems barbaric to me, which I would consider a very clear sign that they are not fine.

It leads to a lot of, "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means," at least in my internal dialogue.
You can always fork it if you disagree with the direction of development.

Everyone of course knows perfectly well that it’s not anywhere near that level of concern in reality, one might say just concern trolling in fact.

But if you and enough other people really do feel strongly enough, you can maintain a security-focused fork with… removing an optional LLM thing that requires manually entering a key. Sure.
Sure. How do you think he made money at it?
Here’s a side by side. I’m not hearing the similarity that everyone else is: https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1cx9t8b/vocal_comp...

Oops, that sounds like a match with Rashida Jones. Here’s one one of Scarlett J.:

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1cx24sy/vocal_...

I have a suspicion that most people with strong opinions on this haven’t actually compared Sky and Scarlett Johansson directly.
The race for the first MILE-high building
I'd like to think that but, hiring for a couple open roles posted only internally at a FAANG, I definitely received emails from external individuals inquiring about the role - and found out there's a whole cottage industry around referrals for a fee.
I overtrusted the original commenter. My bad...
Thanks for the correction.
Legally they don’t need to have literally used her voice to have broken the law, never mind violating many people’s basic sense of what’s right and wrong.
> I think a lot of our current problems, especially wealth inequality, racism, and wars

How are "dreamers" who see their own vision driving racism? We're talking about jobs and entrepreneurship here. In that context how has someone's vision been the driver of racism?
Had the film Her used someone else as the AI voice that sounded like Johansson would there be complaints about the film using a voice that sounded like Johansson? Does it matter if producers try to hire her first? Because only Johansson has that voice? Johansson does not visually show up the film Her and if not for the film credits could the voice in that film be used to use identity her from hundreds millions of other possible women? ( I had no idea who did the voice acting and would never had known if not for this news.) Now if the owners of the film Her were to request OpenAI licence a character from their film (like licencing say C3P0 character from Disney) maybe there would be a case but an actor claiming they own a natural human "voice" I think is a stretch when there are thousands of people with similar voices. And she is visually never in the film that made that AI voice famous so it could be anyone in that film with a similar voice.
My understanding is scraping public sites is legal. It's no different from a search engine crawling your site.
What good programming practice feels like
HN will sink articles with a lot of rapid fire comments because they basically flame wars. It's not unusual at all.
> I'm fond of pointing out that you'd have a stronger argument that Texas be returned to the Coahuiltecans.

That’s not what I’m saying. I’m saying that the minimal requirements of Anti-Zionists is that the Palestinians which were displaced in the Nakba be granted the right of return. I personally don’t care if there are two states, one called Israel and the other Palestine. But for the state which ends up being called Israel should grant those it displaced the right of return. Texas does not exclude Coahuiltecans from visiting Texas. Texas does not control its demographics with racialized exclusions (I know some Texas politicians would like that, but they are not allowed; and if they were allowed, there would be riots).

I know Japan has a lot of problems with racism. Japan also has a history of being settler colonialist. They’ve even committed a couple of genocides in the past. What sets Israel apart though is they continue and maintain their policies of racialized demography. Japan used to do that (particularly in Korea, but also in Ryukyu), but they don’t any more. Today Japan recognizes the Ainu as a distinct indigenous minority group. They recognize the Ryukyu people as a subgroup (though honestly they need to recognize them as a minority group). They don’t exclude the Ainu nor the Ryukyu from any parts of Japan. They don’t have a policy prevents them from gaining political influence. etc. Stating that Japan has ethnocratic policies similar to those of Israel is lying at best.

For Israel to exist as an independent democratic country besides Palestine in a two state world which meets the minimal requirements of anti-Zionism, they need to relinquish these ethnocratic policies. A good start would be to sign and ratify the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (like Japan has). They don’t have to grant citizenship to every Palestinians, but they must at the very least allow free travel between the two states, and they must allow those which were displaced in the Nakba to have the option of dual citizenship. Recognizing that Israel did settler colonialism and apologize for it would be appreciated as well (Japan has yet to do that).