skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mastodon has fixed their onboarding process (a bit late) to be much more user friendly.

> if your interests include trans rights, furry porn, or romance authors, Bluesky's definitely the place for you.

Same could be said for Mastodon, plus retrocomputing and a lot of tech people who don’t want to be on Musk’s Nazi bar anymore. Compiler folks and John Mashey hang out on Mastodon.

If you follow US politics, you do want to be on BS, though. Mastodon is better for international politics and stuff like Eurovision.
Maybe working from home will stick this time.
Epic proposes to get around this by acting as a front-end to Google's catalog but not actually distributing the apps themselves.

> [...] Google shall allow Third-Party App
Stores to access the Google Play Store’s catalog of apps not then available on those Third-Party App Stores. If a Third-Party App Store’s User wishes to download and install an app not then available on that Third-Party App Store, Google shall have the Google Play Store download and install that app on the Third-Party App Store User’s device through a background process [...] Such apps installed by the Google Play Store shall be governed by the Google Play Store’s distribution agreements with Developers [...]
And exactly as predicted, these are all arguments that could have been made, verbatim, three years ago. And yet...
I don't think that's an excuse these days, especially for algebra. My first semester at university, we had an elderly professor for Linear Algebra and ODEs who mumbled largely incomprehensibly and seemed to be losing his memory. I had no idea what was going on, and never went back to class after the first or second. But there are so many amazing, free resources online. Khan Academy didn't exist yet (or at least we hadn't heard of it) but we had Paul's Notes, which has all the standard high school and college math courses.

IMO, the online math resources are better than even an excellent teacher in a class of 50 students.
>For her 40th birthday, research assistant Leanda Mason wanted to give the spider a mealworm, but Main denied the request since it would interfere with the study.

I have to admire the level of professionalism it takes to not give a single mealworm to a spider you have been watching for forty years.
I also welcome our new AI overlords.

It's not really the tech that is negative it is the humans manipulating it for profit and power, and behaving obnoxiously. The tech is very useful.
> Something similar I've noticed--there's a certain level people reach within a company where they're now too busy to type out "thank you" or even "thanks." Now "thx" is all they have time for.

"thx" is way to verbose for anyone but a plebs, the real power brokers use "ty." Or they don't thank anyone at all, because they know just bothering to read the message they got is thanks enough.
> Who defines this "reasonable jury" thing?

In theory, its an “objective standard"; in practice, that mrans the highest court hearing the case ultimately decides.

> And why do judges get to opine on it?

Because its a matter of whether a s a matter of law the vedict is justified. (It's also a due process issue and equal protection issue, preventing a party from beinf deprived of property without basis in law or under standards not applied to other similarly situated parties.)

> If the jury shits on your case, it's called nullification

Nullification exists solely in criminal trials, and only in the direction of acquittals. It doesn't apply for criminal convictions or any civil cases result.

> If the jury rakes you over a bed of coals, you have one safety valve in that the judge can tamp down on things to mitigate cruel and otherwise unusual awards as far as I understand it,

Your understanding is incorrect. The protection against cruel and unusual punishments is a protection against the law providing punishments which would meet that standard, whether in general or as specifically applied to you. It is separate and in addition to protection that any detriment the government imposes on you must be both justified by the law and a consistent with its equal application.
The "downgrade" part is important in this.

The OP walked purchases and content out of paid GSuite, renamed Workplace, back into freemium with a low spend to upgrade storage. They had to work hard in the real people help queue to get this done and it has some if-but-maybe-no to it.

I'm in a grandfathered GSuite free. I like it but I am mindful they can probably find a way to live with the opprobrium of ending the deal. I take nothing for granted and I do have takeout of much of the content. Mainly I am concerned the hosted domain could become non-functional for email but since my DNS is not in google I can re-direct it onto e.g. fastmail and be happy (for $)

"lifetime" is not forever.
I mean mostly people make fun of her for losing every important case she picks up.
I’ve been writing a lot of Java 11 recently, and I find it to just be a very pleasant environment to work in: the IDEs still are best in class, afaict; the newer APIs avoid a lot of the boilerplate I used to have to write out and there are generally mature libraries to interact with just about any system you might need. Where Clojure really shines is that it’s a really well thought-out layer that can leverage this ecosystem and adds its own well-designed tools on top for my preferred more-interactive development style.
Generally I agree. People can live the lives they want if it's not harming others. I tend to think people should be free to buy hard drugs as well despite potential harms (but that we should very harshly punish e.g. needle littering and not give any lenience for harm people cause on those drugs). But I do think those drugs should only be available to adults, and it's sensible to require age verification there. If porn turns out to be harmful, it seems like it's appropriate to restrict it from children in the same way we would for drugs.

That said, that has nothing to do with my point, which was that it's hard to look at trends in things like mental health, physical health, and relationships, and declare that there must not be any problems or we would've noticed by now. I see that argument made about all sorts of speculative problems, and it seems crazy to me.
It looks especially odd when the text contains other "formalities" like semicolons, or writing the phrase "full stop".

Aside: "full stop" is the Commonwealth English way of saying "period" so it seems like an affectation to see an American using it.
At most it would just make that part of the contract void. Almost all contracts with stuff like this would have a “severability” clause which states like if one part of the contract is invalid, the rest is still valid.

But even without that, judges have huge amounts of leeway to “create” an ex post facto contract and say “heres the version if that contract you would have agreed to, this is now the contract you signed”. A sort of “fixed” version of the contract.
Oxidizing OCaml with Modal Memory Management [pdf]
Still wonder why we have emulator for lunar module but not voyager. It is important step to understand and if we send more again about remote operation like that until we can’t.
I just bought a car. Avoided electric. Too expensive for what it is just now.

Car would have cost twice as much and that allows me to easily buy 10 years of fuel and running costs let alone accounting for depreciation. Charging standards and user experience needs to be better still.

Hoping in 5 years or so when my other car is ready to be replaced that the decision goes the other way, but we'll see. For now it's a no go.

I expect that Toyota will have products ready when the time is right.
yeah this is very nice, open source Martian. i never really understood the value of routing all the time. you want stability and predictability in models. and models have huge brand value. you're never going to, through routing, construct a "super" model that people want more than one or a few really good brand name models.
> It seems like this article just lists a bunch of facts about sloths.

It's because there's no singular reason for it. Evolution is blind (pun not intended), doesn't have motivation or reasoning. I think the article makes a good job explaining the set of evolutionary forces which likely pushed sloths into this direction.

> But doesn’t say why being nearly blind

The article mentions that this mutation already happened to the sloth ancestors, which lived on the ground. It's possible that it provided some advantage to those, or perhaps it didn't actually matter much (perhaps they were nocturnal?)
If you disconnect the GPS antenna the car won’t be able to get a GPS position to report via OnStar.
I think it is because people are often typing onto a sheet of glass on a packed train..
In other news, Lachlan Murdoch and Rebekah Brookes are heading to Oz, it is expected they have landed to terminate a significant number of expensive News Ltd hires in the Australian media landscape: Whenever a Murdoch turns up in Australia thats the mission.

Despite their positive spin, News Ltd has lost significant eyeball, and income both by natural attrition and because of the ending of gold-plated fee-for-content deals with Facebook and Google.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/article/2024/may/22/news-c...
I don't doubt that a portion of potential buyers are turned off by Musk's politics and refuse to buy his cars. But a much, much larger group (in my opinion) are people who like gas-powered cars and have zero interest in EVs, no matter how large the subsidies are, how advanced the tech is, or how many chargers are out there. Ignoring this group, and focusing on those caught up with Musk's politics, is missing the big picture, I believe.
It seems like it's reinventing (an partial, incomplete, non-standard) Xorg protocol on top of Wayland, while we can simply use X11
> At most it would just make that part of the contract void. Almost all contracts with stuff like this would have a “severability” clause which states like if one part of the contract is invalid, the rest is still valid.

Severability clauses themselves are not necessarily valid; whether provisions can be severed and how without voiding the contract is itself a legal question that depends on the specific terms and circumstances.
Epic wants Google to distribute those apps even when installed through Epic's storefront. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40450522
and can be refilled in 5 minutes.
Study is from data “between 2013 and 2017” when the audio warning was not mandated until 2019.
There is a huge SUV (Ineos branded) with a second quieter horn with a bicycle logo. This feature should be common and autonomous, ramping up sound to avoid startling people.
Not true for a couple reasons:

* If the malicious operator has a superhuman advisor, that will increase their ability

* If the emulation gets connected to the internet, it can work way faster. Many jobs can be done remotely

The broader point is: abandon wishful thinking and actually consider the possibility of a worst-case scenario
90 yr old house here. Steam heat, crappy vinal windows from the past 20 years, vermiculate insulation (asbestos risk??).

I like the idea of recessed units within the central wall with condensers in the attack. I need to vent the heat somewhere. Maybe if I get rid of all the gas (water, furnace), I can vent out the chimney.
People on this site have been working in this industry longer than you. Some longer than you have been alive, it sounds like.
They weren't but .. if you were doing it now QEMU and OpenVMS would probably be the natural approach.
Microsoft all but owns OpenAI at this point; using DALL-E isn't free, but they're almost certainly running it on their own infrastructure, and were kind of already giving access to it away for free, with Bing Chat and now Copilot.

Also, if DALL-E is anything like Stable Diffusion, it's effectively free to run. For comparison, my 5+ years old machine that I recently put a 4070 Ti in, can generate images with SD all day long without breaking sweat, and does it faster than even paid on-line services I've interacted with so far. That same machine chokes on any LLM above 8-10 billion parameters; it can handle that much with full GPU offload, but try anything larger and it becomes just an elaborate space heater.

(I tried running 8x7b Mixtral on it once, and managed to OOM and crash the system :/).
This is so silly. Technology is a variable in road safety, if that variable can be manipulated to reduce accidents then of course we should look at that. We’ve been doing this for decades already. Technological regulation of cars has had a massively positive impact on road safety outcomes. Your argument is all of that was pointless and we should have purely focused on improving drivers? No, obviously we do both. Obviously!
> Looks like they're doing the right thing here:

Well, no:

> We're removing nondisparagement clauses from our standard departure paperwork, and we're releasing former employees from existing nondisparagement obligations unless the nondisparagement provision was mutual. We'll communicate this message to former employees.

So the former successfully blackmailed employees, stay blackmailed.
They also didn't give her a name - she remained “#16”, without any pet name.
I expect it would just blank out the movie window in the screenshots, leaving the rest visible. The way to get privacy is to turn it off or use another OS.
If the bugs affect your shock preparedness, and liquidity status and mandated holdings/reserves, you might be in a world of hurt: Failing compliance can permit the feds to step in and seize the enterprise, if it's in the regulated space.
nah i dontt hnk so

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> which for most people would be a worse deal

It's a worse deal in retrospect for a successfull company. But there and then it's not very attractive to pay an up-front tax on something that you can sell at an unknown price in the relatively far future.
Woah, this looks awesome! I can totally see myself integrating this into my org-roam workflow. Thank you for sharing!
(1) Confessions of a Utopophobe – By Michael Huemer
That is what I call “or” thinking. Sometime ther is a tendency to rank because like the other post we all naturally want to rank and compare. And even worst may have to say one is the best, in exclusion of others. Market, government, community, public goods, knowledge …. Down to these 3 you have mentioned.

Can all good? Have they have their different impact and their contribution? And can we have all, as we have them all already.

As said it is interesting to have you with us. All of you.
The 3 main communities seem to be English speaking, Japanese, and Portuguese. The community is way smaller than Xitter for sure but are the percentages that off?
Anyone with a pulse being enrolled and put in remedial classes because they need to fill the classrooms and dorms
It's not much better in Haskell; while you can coerce GHC into printing a stack trace, you'll need some knowledge of how the language is evaluated in order to understand it.

I think the mapping of imperative "stack frames" to functional code is leaky when there's a runtime sitting in between. Traces should be done in the runtime, however it makes sense to display them.
I've always been kind of interested in that idea. I'm not sure what to call it - a sort of civil resistance by selective non-palatability. Preventing commercial AI from being trained on your art by making sure there's some throbbing hard cocks in there somewhere, for example, or releasing source code that is explicitly NOT open source licensed, for the benefit of people who don't care about the license, and to the detriment of entities that do.
Can Scarlett Johansson Stop AI Sounding Like Her?
The grant writing and (supervising the work of the people performing and writing up) the research funded by the grants that will also be the basis on which they will secure future grants get more attention, obviously.
Article is behind paywall, this alternative worked for me:
https://archive.md/nIAOO
OpenAI, WSJ Owner News Corp Strike Content Deal Valued at over $250M
The closest thing I've heard of is having to sign anti-disparagement clauses as part of severance when laid off; still pretty shitty, but taking back already vested equity would be on another level.
It is in germany
"Less useful" could also mean "more focused," which might just be a good thing.
I thought freedom of speech was a foundational thing in the US.

But I guess anyone could be silenced with enough economic incentive?
If you haven't seen what they've been doing over at tldraw[1] with AI, you definitely should. A different direction from MS Paint, but very cool.

[1] https://x.com/tldraw
Did anybody consider projecting an image on the ground using lasers? I prefer night time for crazy narrow roads in India since I can see headlights at a bend.
Nice catch. Is it an issue though when the script injection only runs within your own browser session?
I think we imagine the models have emergent properties, because we have never in human history been able to have a meaningful two way conversation with non human entities before. So we believe in them. Remember how in the 1970s people believed that computers must be correct. There was no understanding of how they actually worked.
uh oh I can see where this is going given the current technology trends… I wonder if his family can patent the voice or get royalties from a reproduction
It's quite annoying that every stage of the lesson requires you to recalibrate your controller.

When I learned to fly racing drones, I used Velocidrone; I have no experience of FPVSim.

Even if you don't plan to eventually fly an acrobatic or racing drone, the sim experience can be a bit relaxing & focused. I used to practice on a 2nd monitor while I was in large mandatory group meetings for work.

If you do plan to build and fly drones, then a simulator is absolutely worth every penny. You pay for real drone crashes with time and money, and you probably need 100 hours of practice before you can handle the real thing (and not that well).

If I were going to get back into the hobby, I'd probably try to do long range fixed wing aircraft with FPV and flight automation. The view will be much more enjoyable and the batteries will last much longer. I think there's also less community pressure around RC planes vs. drones, especially the loud racing ones.
I second this, I cannot recommend this enough. The sequels are also interesting, but not so much.
The technical ingenuity is impressive.

I personally find this visual quite cold and soulless, compared to previous Windows wallpapers, mostly XP's of course.
For me this also coincided with Windows becoming completely useless and my moving to a Mac.
>People will continue to defend and worship Altman until their last drop of blood on HN and elsewhere

The percentage of HN users defending Altman has dropped massively since the board scandal ~6 months ago.

>consumers will continue using GPT, businesses will keep hyping it up

Customers will use the best model. If OpenAI loses investors and talent, their models may not be in the lead.

IMO the best approach is to build your app so it's agnostic to the choice of model, and take corporate ethics into consideration when choosing a model, in addition to performance.
Got any links? I wonder what fails.
Yes, any such feature should be bypassable by the owner. I hate that on phone they've decided that the owner doesn't have complete rights to their own system.
> Haha, wow, I hadn't realized they'd finally moved ahead with blocking screenshots on my own computer

Windows has been doing this since Vista, 17 years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_Media_Path
Unfortunately, I think it will be true. Unfortunate, because we lack trust already in society and people can now revert to believing what they want to believe. But, they will be skeptical of everything else they read.
My understanding is that its an explicit condition of the equity grant, not something technically first revealed at exit (which would probably be illegal), but probably under the expectation that no one is carefully studying the terms of the agreement that would be required at exit when they are accepting compensation terms that i nclude equity.
Here's an explanation:

https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html
Or, they've lived on enough to see the impact of regulation go wrong.
> I think you missed the point.

Maybe I am thinking more broadly when imagine what it means to implement something like Spanner on top of S3.

We know that Spanner on top of S3 is not going to give you the same price/performance as building Spanner on top of Colossus while giving you the same semantics. You either relax the semantics a little bit, you pay out the nose for a lot of little files, or you find a durable place outside S3 to store the newest data.

> At a high level, yes, you can implement systems like Megastore or Bigtable over S3. However, there are many details you must take into account. You cannot simply wave away the complexity and potential failure scenarios.

Most of the complexity is the same whether you implement Megastore on top of S3 or on top of GFS. You can’t handwave it in either scenario.

> If you essentially reimplement the system, why use S3 at all?

It’s highly durable, highly available, and cheap (under certain usage scenarios).

GFS is not available for anyone to use, inside or outside Google. Its successor, Colossus, is not available outside Google. They’re just not available.
The data flowing through LLM routers is a hot commodity right now. OpenRouter, for example, even provides a flat-rate 1% discount across the board if you agree to let them use your API calls for model training, and rumor has it that they're already profitable. To be fair, they do seem to be collaborating with model providers on some level, so they are likely getting discounted access on top of selling data.
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