skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the part of the argument that baffles me. The argument goes: liberal democracies are partially captured by capitalism (corruption, actual, but frankly part of the argument is "corruption" in the sense of "we have the right to medicine, why don't doctors/nurses/... work for the government for free? No I won't feed them from my money. How dare you ask that!")

Fine. This is actually true. Money captures government. Of course, the fact that we discuss it so freely does mean something is done about it.

And yet, everyone I've ever spoken who came from an autocracy, from the USSR, from Palestine, from Saudi, from China, from DRC, from South Africa, from India (tbh India is worse than Europe, but far less bad than Russia was) ... They all confirm that every one of these non-liberal states are deeply, deeply corrupt and WILL prop up corrupt companies at the expense of everyone in the country, in some cases (or "if necessary") with violence. Some have islands of fair play (essentially a few sectors of the economy the rulers really don't care about but are still needed, and thus are an actual economic opportunity), but 95-100% of the economy is corrupt. And most of these people agree that this corruption in turn causes mass poverty, which in some cases is endemic.

One big theme is that all autocracies really have one purpose for all this corruption: to sabotage social mobility. Yes there is competition, usually between entire families, and one gains a bit one loses a bit, but NOBODY is allowed to switch places. That's what illiberal states are fundamentally about. Rulers remain rulers (especially in Saudi Arabia, that can go pretty damn FAR. Families whose children MUST take a job as a house servant for another family because their parents did that job. But also in China, it's about having the right families running the government. You can become the richest person among your cousins, with roughly the same amount of wealth as your richest uncle ... that's the limit. No going above it)

And yes, I obviously know of deeply unfair instances of corruption, in the US, and in Europe (oil companies are pretty much guaranteed to be corrupt, including in "the west", with telecom companies usually close behind). But it just doesn't compare to these illiberal states. And social mobility, definitely in the US, and even in Europe, is far higher.

So I'm baffled. Liberal capitalism is, as far as I can tell, by far the best solution to minimize corruption and maximize social mobility, both of which seem extremely desirable. It's also what these protests seem to be calling for. And yet ... every time there's demonstrations (which I understand, are part of liberal democracy and obviously part of the reason corruption remains under control) lots and lots of people call for entire countries to become illiberal. When asked they are under some sort of weird impression that socialism will make sure medicine is free, without training doctors. That housing for all will be the norm, while, of course, not building anything. That islam will mean wars end, without, of course, explaining why the conflict in, say, Sudan, isn't yet resolved.
Chech and compare layouts on a phone (y vs yours), and fix it so linebreaking matches
A lot of my colleagues either:

- read arXiv (the algorithm there is pretty simple, but it's a feed of sorts), or

- follow twitter accounts to learn about new results

So, like it or not, a lot of people are getting their feed from algorithms.
Super duper safe then.

My mum lives about 130 miles from me.

how can I visit her if I am likely to have 17.03800786369594 crashes.

Is this crashing into other cars or mowing down innocent pedestrians?

The tesla test crash dummy car
Maybe they don't, but this is a good test for "qualified to be a decision maker". If other people want someone to help make decisions for them it's because they want the benefit of their prowess.

You could either embrace this as the start of the hierarchy everyone is apparently so desperate to create. Or you could ignore this signal in favor of handshakes, smiles, buzzwords, or however else you intend to pick a manager from your outside funnel.

Part of this reluctance is an aversion to the busy work that often comes with a manager title. Work that managers create for themselves and other managers to legitimize their roles, but which actually impedes progress, and annoys or alienates talent.
> it's really not that hard to do it yourself
> could emailed prof after prof

Ahh the usual "it worked for me, so it can't not work for you". coming from a researcher, I'd expect more skepticism.
British targets doesn’t necessarily mean Britain.
Matcha.css – Drop-in semantic styling library in pure CSS
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40451009.
I have stated this case before for Doctors Pepper
+1 It's amazing how we've all encountered these guys at least once in our careers (and often more, at many companies). A lot of times they are "founding engineers" from a decade ago who were employee number 2 and 3 or something, and once knew quite a bit about the codebase. They are too high-paid to code anymore, but they still fly in, dispense their "wisdom" all over the junior folks, then flap their wings and disappear for a few months. Seagull management[1] without the role/responsibility of people management.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagull_management
Show HN: I open-sourced our internal tool for ML comparability/reproducibility
Interesting that the law suit was just against Frito Lay rather than PepsiCo.

> When I was a kid, if I saw an artist I admired doing a commercial, I'd think, "Too bad, he must really need the money." But now it's so pervasive. It's a virus. Artists are lining up to do ads. The money and exposure are too tantalizing for most artists to decline. Corporations are hoping to hijack a culture's memories for their product. They want an artist's audience, credibility, good will and all the energy the songs have gathered as well as given over the years. They suck the life and meaning from the songs and impregnate them with promises of a better life with their product.

Tom Waits did have a point that I think today's content creators need to take onboard. With music it was not always about money for everyone, the love of music was motivating enough, bringing people together for a good time.

I do not see many content creators in it 'for the content' and bringing a community together. There are definitely some but the algorithm isn't helping them.

> Eventually, artists will be going onstage like race-car drivers covered in hundreds of logos. John, stay pure. Your credibility, your integrity and your honor are things no company should be able to buy.

I wish politicians were obliged to wear suits decorated in all the logos of their sponsors.
Didn't expect to see this on the front page.

Hi, it's my project. Feel free to ask me anything.
I tested this a bit now, because I was curios, so it also requires `sudo` for the installation, installing it as `root` or as user with write permissions to `/opt` will not work and causes the misleading error:

Please make sure that your user can access /opt/amber directory.

Creating this directory, either manually or by the script before it fails to download amber, will cause the installer script think that amber is already installed. So not a very high quality shell installer script for a tool that generates shell scripts.
In areas where there's a decent amount of separation between the developers that made some application and the people responsible for running it, I can see a lot of use for AI. Especially for initial triage.

For larger-scale apps with lots of moving parts (ie microservices) simply speeding up attribution of issues before getting to actual diagnosis could be a major optimizer.
From the point of view of a customer, a complementary service would be a product that fits the same niche and is reasonably substitutable.
Kind of makes the sama ouster seem more reasonable if this is the quality of his calls
How would I be projecting? Some of the tones she made were borderline moaning. I noticed it most on a poor connection, too, which made little sense.
Kinda. Career success isn't strictly based on merit or "smarts."

But I was responding to the claim that a bachelor's in math can get you "any kind of job." That just isn't true. You will always have to compete with the people who have specialized and have experience in that particular domain. Why would any organization hire a math student for a software development job (for example) when they have hundreds of applicants lined up with CS degrees/internships/whathaveyou? Pick any other domain and apply the same thought process. Again, you'd really have to be pulling on your connections or be a standout in some other sense to get that level of consideration. I'm confident that for a lot of hiring managers, success in the long term and "hiring the best" are secondary to "can this person be productive in a reasonable amount of time?".

I remember when I was in school philosophy students used to say the same thing and I thought it was totally absurd. That somehow a philosophy student is on equal footing with someone who just spent four years coding? Just insanity.
Looks interesting.

FYI. I tried signing up. Got: "Email rate limit exceeded"
Holy Crappyness Batman! The OpenAI clip is so bad. Homeboy keeps stepping on "her" lines. So from this I come away with he's just a rude asshat that doesn't know how to socially interact with people, she's just too damn chatty and doesn't know when to shut up, or maybe it was just really bad editing? Either way, it's not an intriguing promo to me in the least.
In the UK's defense, 2 days after Germany's invasion of Poland, the UK declared war on Germany and started a blockade against Germany (which persisted till 1945). The next day, the UK bombed German warships in German harbors.
Maybe AWS should actually take a look into this. I know comparing AWS to other (smaller) cloud providers is not totally fair given the size of AWS, but for example creating / booting an instance in Hetzner takes a few seconds.
"We’re going to make Windows cloud native. We’re making a big push for Windows 365 ."

"Windows and cloud is going to be a game changer for us in the arc of time," says Davuluri.

It sounds like they are planning on making Windows a subscription-based operating system. Not too surprising given their need for continual revenue, but they haven't announced it as such yet.
This was also posted on depthsofwikipedia on IG, which, if you haven't checked out, is quite the rabbit hole. Highly recommended.
It sounds more like a perspective issue than anything. Dev work is becoming more unstable - we’re now being sacrificed quarterly to appease the Shareholder Omnissiah - even the best of us.

The old deal was that “if you were good or smart you’d always have work” isn’t true anymore. Instead we have to just accept chronic instability - but we do have a choice!

…just stop doing extra. Stop it. Control yourself and re-evaluate what’s important. It’s a hard cycle to break, but I believe you can do it. Then if you get laid off or a project crashes, just shrug and onto the next one.

How can they really apply pressure to anyone if you’re subject to random layoffs? Eventually it will be your turn, so just chill to heal burnout, then instead of extra cycles for your job, do something you enjoy, maybe build a shelter in the woods somewhere, learn to live off the land, find a local source of body paint for your war band, learn to weld so you can build a mad max roadster in the coming wasteland apocalypse you know this isn’t coming out like how I expected; on closer inspection I also have a lot of anxiety about this “new normal” apparently?
Why does this matter? I'd say whether they contacted ScarJo before, after or not at all is irrelevant. Then again, yes, I guess best to present events and the timeline as they were.
Don't think I would trust amazon with my drugs after all the mixed inventory business...
I feel like I've written this comment a million times but here it is again.

Shell scripts are mainly written in order to automate subprocess-heavy tasks or to take advantage of the general availability of bash or bourne-compatible shells on most modern Unix based systems.

If you want things like reasonable variable scoping, real functions, loops, libraries for path and string manipulation, or a sane separation between what is and isn't a string, then Python is the obvious choice.

Yes, Python's subprocess module is less convenient than doing a subprocess call in Unix shell, but you can replace grep, sed, awk, find, and similar common subprocess calls in shell scripts with library and built-in functions in Python. The end result tends to be more a readable, maintainable, and testable script.

Python 3 also gets installed by default on nearly all non-minimal Linux distros these days. SBCL gets installed by default nowhere.
the spider is forever alive in her heart
The long scale is common in French, German and Spanish for example. English usually uses the short scale. The scientific community uses SI prefixes, which aren't part of either scale (you don't say a billion joules which is ambiguous, you either say a terajoule for a long-scale billion or a gigajoule for a short-scale one).
The article clearly disputes this. They hired and worked with the voice actor for Sky months before the first time SJ was contacted, and the voice actor used for Sky never had the movie Her or SJ's name mentioned to her a single time
I believe they addressed this in their post because one cannot (currently?) `aws ec2 run-instances --volume-id vol-cafebabe`, rather one can only tell AWS what volume parameters to use when they create the root device. Your theory may still be sound about using some kind of super bare bones AMI but there will be no such outcome of "hey, friend, use this existing EBS as your root volume, don't create a new one"
Would be nice to have the journal the paper is published in on the post.
Related: Clojure for shell scripting:

https://github.com/babashka/babashka
You are talking about point of diminishing return .
Personally I think beyond an income of 1 million dollars a year , one's quality of life does not change significantly.
Twelve Countries Sign the Zero Debris Charter
You would know, right? How's Nobu doing?
Any idea or criticism about what i'm doing?
Not that trust Big AI one bit...but it occurs to me that such training could be handled correctly (meaning ethically and mostly-legally) if the AI could gatekeep its own use of the derived results:

Answering "what artist does the following sample of music most remind you of?" questions - ALLOWED

Answering "please write me a song similar to the work of $Artist" questions - DISALLOWED
Earth-like planet discovered by researchers
The pricing section mentions “$5.99”. Is that monthly, annually, or for a lifetime? Explicit is better that implicit.

And seriously, why not $6? What can you get for a cent today? Aren't all those .99 prices just attemtps to make something look cheaper than it really is. In my eyes the only thing those prices achieve, is to make the offer look dishonest.

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edit: typo
Not another new plan to create more privacy
The drought that forced a Himalayan village in Nepal to relocate
> until the language becomes too complex for anyone to fully understand

Like C, with its many hidden behaviors?
How about Bio and Chem as well?
Not looking forward to a future in which some media company owns a couple hundred voices whose "sounds similar to" halo cover 99.99% of human voices.
IIRC WinDirStat is inspired by it.
The Cost of Inference: Running the Models Calculating the Impact of ChatGPT
WOW, this is beautiful. Have you written publicly about this?

One of the things I am upset about is grocery prices and the fact that people buy unhealthy food to offset rising prices... I ask myself what an "open source grocery store" would look like.

Have you thought of "open sourcing" your business model so others can do something similar? Or learn from it? Either way, I'd love to hear more if you have anything public.
The m3u link is broken but the recording of the "corn chip sermon" Waits was referring to is on the same site: http://www.tomwaitslibrary.info/audio/fritolay.mp3. I can see why he was upset, I'd fall for it.
Joy with creating something other people enjoy or find useful. For example creating a videogame. But formerly I enjoyed creating the underlying technology (engine programming, which is a nerd sniping too), nowadays I am more interested in the game as a whole (more game-design focus and less game-tech focus.)
Best way is to go work at a cafe and ask a lot of questions about how things work
'My songs spread like herpes': why did Tom Lehrer swap fame for obscurity?
Really appreciate the detailed feedback. Community is the hard part for sure, will do my best to make it as good as HN
That's a bit of a strawman: you're twisting the scope and arguing for it.

A more similar context would be: they ask Tom Hanks to create a voice similar to Woody, the cowboy from Toy Story . Tom Hanks says no, Disney says no. Then they ask you to voice their cowboy voice. It's obviously related: they tried the OG, failed, they're going for a copycat after.

But if never approached Tom Hanks or Disney, then there would be room for deniability - without mentions to real names, it would require someone to judge if it's an unauthorized copycat or just a random actor voicing a random cowboy voice.

It was a bad play from their part.
What’s the problem with nerd sniping? It’s fun, and something useful may come out of it. I’d like to say that I’m at a stage in my life where I don’t need to “forcefully progress” anymore, but truthfully that was never actually the case. I came to be where I am because I was following a passion, so it was all nerd sniping with useful side effects, I guess.
Oh cool we're currently in the gaslighting phase after someone gets caught doing something they shouldn't.
Not yet, noted
What about `kubectl rollout restart deployment your-deployment` ?
As I get older, the idea of "coding for fun" is very much akin to "being an author" or "artist". I appreciate those who appreciate the craftsmanship of it all.

Kind of the difference between writing blogspam versus short stories, maybe?

Either way, great site + thank you for sharing.
That's really where ActivityPub starts to rub me the wrong way. Server admins really need moderation power since everything is hosted on their hardware, but it also is a poison pill for decentralization.

I can host my own server and make my own rules, but every other admin can just ban my instance.
"Reasonable" does a lot of work throughout the entire legal system.

If there's one constant that can be relied upon, it's that "things that are reasonable to a lawyer" and "things that are reasonable to a normal human being" are essentially disjoint sets.
Tracking Releases and CI Across Software Teams and Forges
My doctor accidentally wrote a prescription for a three month supply of a medication for an acute illness that is generally not prescribed and certainly not filled for more than a month of quantity at a time, and generally not for more than 10 days.

When I placed my order, I thought the price was high, but figured it was because I hadn't hit my deductible and it was an expensive medicine. There was no obvious indication on the UI about the quantity of the prescription, just the price.

Amazon pharmacy accordingly sent me almost a small pharmacy-worth of this medicine. I called them and asked why the pharmacist didn't notice that this was a _highly_ unusual quantity of this medication (The quantity was *EIGHT* retail packages of the medicine) and raise a flag and check with the provider or me. The pharmacist I spoke to told me that they personally would have done so in this circumstance and told me they would refund the order and provide feedback to prevent this sort of thing from happening in the future. I later got an automated email that the refund request by the pharmacist was rejected by their finance department and could not be appealed.

I won't be using Amazon pharmacy again.
> For instance a Carl Jung thought a humans fear of spiders in innate, and not learnt.

I don't have fear of spiders (was surprised by how many people do fear spiders). When I was young, I "hosted" a bunch of them under my table. Thinking of it, I think most people have their fears transmitted through their mothers. My mom certainly didn't fear spiders but she hated their "dirty" webs.

For example I do have a strong reaction to cockroaches till this day; a harmless insect that my mother fear. I can't even look at the beast. My cousin do not and conversely do fear spiders.
Relatively easy to add, glad to know people are interested in these fields as well.
they hired the VA before they even contacted Scarlett.

Here’s what probably happened. OpenAI people realize they can do TTS for ChatGPT so they hire some voice actors. Some people point out that it would be cool if it could be as good as it is in Her, especially with 4o on the way, so they decide to contact Scarlett Johansson either to do a voice or just some promotional thing. She declines, but after 4o is released OpenAI realizes they can fairly make the comparison to the movie based on the quality and speed of the voice. Simply subtly referencing the film via an obvious parallel doesn’t constitute deceptive impersonation.
FWIW, it's a public Discord server, you can find the invite link at the top-right of https://bbchallenge.org.

Also, I'd consider these more as attributions than citations. All the major arguments supporting the results have been replicated in the blog post (in a more rigorous form), so it can stand on its own: the Discord links just provide historical context for those interested.
This makes sense, I was sceptical with the fast pace DDG had in the search market.
I feel that long, unexplainable, hard-to-comprehend proofs may become commonplace when we get to AIs that are capable of discovering new proofs on their own.
Pitchbook is another one, but I believe it starts in the 5 figure a month range.
Sorry, didn't expect to get as much traction as this has been getting. Need to do some scaling haha
Is this not https://www.emergentmind.com/

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Maybe your container isn't set up right - Docker contains run directly on the host, just partitioned off from accessing stuff outside of themselves with the equivalent of chroot. Or it could be a Mac-specific thing. Docker only works that way on Linux, and has to emulate Linux on other platforms.
As has been said, a company's products end up mirroring its internal org/cooperation structure.

By that metric, measured against Google's recent product releases, Google's org/cooperation structure is broken.

It's tired to reiterate the 'launch and abandon product for promotion' incentives, but it also seems to go higher up.

Individual teams at Google are amazing, and build amazing features, but the company as a whole whole seems incapable of knitting those features together into a coherent product.
Hard disagree - communism and under-regulated financialised free-market capitalism are not the only alternatives available. Numerous potential political and economic systems, and combinations of those systems have and will likely exist in the future. There's literally nothing inevitable about the particular mixture of state backed shareholder corporate structures that currently hold sway.

The international order as it stands today radically differ in substance and practice to the corporate, legal, tax and intellectual property laws of even a half century ago. Although of course the idea of a corporation dates back at least to the sixteenth century - when they were explicitly created as vehicles of colonization - East India Company, Virginia Company etc.

I'd go so far as to suggest we literally cannot continue as a functioning civilisation under the current international order. We likely agree on one point though, we're more likely to fail as a society than change it without violence.
Very cool. Do you run a farm or has the purchase turned more into a rural home?