skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds of of the replacement of "threeks" at the UW-Madison campus in the 1980s. At the time, it was common for satirical parties to win student elections and do odd things like cover the campus with plastic flamingos. One of the satirical parties was upset that the UW-Madison cafeteria didn't have true forks (with four tines) but only "threeks" (forks with three tines). So they decided to work with friends at Northwestern university outside Chicago to trade their cafeteria's forks for UW's threeks. They were successful, but obviously both UW's and Northwestern's administration weren't pleased and the trade was reversed.
I would imagine that more people are familiar with the size of DVDs than shotputs.

As a telling piece of evidence, the header image in the article you linked doesn't even include one.
First off, congratulations on the sale - sounds like the right time and the right reasons for you, and you're 100% right on the seemingly 'backwards' nature of incentives and rewards when working for a large org. I was somewhat saddened when the logo changed (I suggested an alternate), but completely understand your rationale.

As a side project, I'm currently working with a hardware founder (I'm primarily software) who exited twice before having his "clock cleaned" by overseas competition steal and undercut his patented products on his third venture, which caused him to all but close shop and retire early. He's back I think due to boredom, but I'm seeing just how difficult hardware is. Why do you think hardware doesn't generally have the same level of 'respect' as software? From what I can see, it should be held in much higher regard with a correspondingly higher level of compensation. Is it literally just the current ability for hardware to be reverse-engineered and undercut?
Jfc. You’re raging about the “ownership” class as if OpenAI isn’t a vassal of the largest corporation on the planet.
Societies like the Islamic society are based on both morals and rights, and have done very well in the past before post WWI colonization and divide & concquer, which continues to this day. For example, Islam is generally pro free markets, with red lines that protect the society (e.g. no usury, no lying, respect individual property, etc.).
without an office and custom in-house manufacturing, a prospective owner could run TinyPilot from anywhere in the world.

Questions business brokers ask is how many hours the owner spends each week, and if it needs to be on site.

Lifetime profit from business

Thanks for including this. Startup hype always demands a focus on the size of the exit, ignoring the other funds extracted from the venture in the form of salary and covering other costs.
They've used quarters as a reference point for forever, and coins are also flat, so I guess it's not a problem.
I’m not sure what your point was. Is this in defense or against IaP?

Most people don’t balk at paying fair prices for an app, but the definition has drifted so far that €7/month (€84/year) is described as “fair” for a simple timer, and that is plain absurd.

Halide goes for €69 one-time purchase, or €12,50/year. For professional software that is really well designed and is actually kept up to date. This should be the benchmark.
Ibdns: The intentionally broken DNS server
Considering the number of times I've heard cell phones referred to as being "attached at the hip", I think that ship has sailed.

Also, almost every smart watch allows you to block notifications on top of what you phone already blocks, so if you have apps that you want notifications from for when your attention is on your phone, but not all the time, you can only allow those through. It's not "anything it wants", it's anything you choose.
Suppose you have an Artifactory server that mirrors/caches a lot of public stuff so one is (hopefully) a good citizen and don’t spam public mirrors with constant requests for the same thing.

But every tool has its own config to set to use the Artifactory. One setting for the OS package manager (which is different for different Linux distributions), another for PyPI, another for NPM (or Yarn or whatever), another for Maven/Gradle, something else for Go, then I need to download this Postgres extension and build it from source - the list goes on. So almost inevitably something gets missed and one ends up not being as good a citizen as one ought, and then one day some random Jenkins job is failing because some external dependency could not be downloaded.

I wish there was an easier way. Like some standard mechanism for saying “for this URL use this proxy”.

I guess one could just use a proxy server (http_proxy environment variable) but with most things on HTTPS it needs to MITM the TLS which then means you need that certificate installed in the build process - which is another one of those “everything can do it but everything does it differently” problems. And in any event, MITM is a bad smell.
Cheers to OpenAI who I'm sure is popping champagne that they actually got this garbage passed. I'm genuinely shocked that legislators don't see these models as sources of information -- there's no way they would pass a law requiring libraries certify that readers can't use any of the books for evil, but here we are. And weirder still criminally liable if someone checks out a chemistry textbook and cooks meth.

These models are really cool and novel don't get me wrong but they're self-reading books on their training data and ought to be regulated as such. But hey, if it means that some other state is gonna be the hub for AI I'm all for it.
I have to say it's really weird to see someone advocating for every-growing larger centralized governments and advocating for statelessness as a means to freedom.

Do you see how these ideas are diametrically opposed? How does farther-removed, more powerful federal governments lead to freedom compared to close, small governments staffed by people who live right next to you?
Eh, what? No, not at all. That was, if anything, the other way around.
Having kids solely use a smart watch with some amount of connectedness (GPS, phone calls, a game or two) seems healthier and considerably "less tech" than a full on smartphone.
The 5% of the world that makes most of the decisions has an active interest in creating a labor force that will passively and diligently maintain order.

The subconscious drive to give young children technology is no different in its psychohistorical origins than the Hitler Youth. One could ask for what purpose does somebody want to "monitor" themselves.

Is it for any great works or for the prolongation of bare life through the min-maxing of REM cycles.
Halide is $3 for a month, $12 for a year, or $60 for perpetual. $25-30 for perpetual would be reasonable.

Kino costs $10 for perpetual, for reference.
Thanks for reading!

>How did you get people to trust your product? If I see something like this from a small outfit for a cheap price, I will assume that the price is being made up some where else. How did you assure you customers you cant access their machines when you want. Or that your service will offer the reliability they will need?

Good question!

Customers didn't express concern to me about me accessing their machines. I don't know if I did something special to engender trust or the average customer isn't so worried about that threat. I could imagine that there was some trust in the fact that my face was on the website, and I was clear about who I was and that I was located in the US. For a lot of customers, I'd imagine that I'm less likely to have backdoored the product than a faceless corporation who operates from overseas.

I also found that many of our customers found us through word of mouth. So there was trust that the product worked well because they heard recommendations from friends, co-workers, or bloggers that they liked.
I worked on Android Wear many, many, years ago. 2016ish. This segment and use case was quietly huge, massive, in at least China, and I bet it still is. (Left google late 23)

I'd love to hear more about this team for cost cutting, it really messed things up*: external, or internal?

* You may imagine I am finding some humor in "my SO is on the google cost cutting team and I don't get why this team exists, why would anyone want a watch for their kid." I am, but I understand where you're coming from, and I'm sure your SO likely would have learned more about the watch market before making similar decisions
The NYT has a great podcast on this[1] -- insurers are refusing to insure geographic areas that are seeing a spike in weather like this. Not sure if this applies to car insurance, but home insurance is definitely changing.

1: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/podcasts/the-daily/climat...
People won't use free software. Proprietary software is enforce by (self)regulation. I.e. you can't use banking apps of rooted android. Some banks won't allow Linux Firefox and so on.
Obviously they want to be paid.
If I can’t use the output of this in practical code completion use cases, it’s meaningless, because GH Copilot exists. Idk what they’re thinking or what business model they’re envisioning - Copilot is far and away the best model of this kind anyway
Oh, awesome! Glad to hear it was helpful.
The source files appear to include pages from all namespaces, which is good, because a lot of the value of Wikipedia articles is held in the talk page discussions, and these sometimes get stripped from projects that use Wikipedia dumps.
It’s an Android watch rebranded as kids version, add some restriction features. Apple has all of that already
Actually, insurance companies are already _very_ aggressively steering their customers into "lower-cost" shops, leading them to believe they should accept subpar repairs in order to keep costs down and profits up. In many cases they use non-OEM parts to keep repair costs down.

I think the real reason they total a car at 60-70% is because the cost is just an estimate. They don't want to keep sending an estimator out to approve more $$ in repairs, costing everyone time and money, and ultimately spending more than it would cost to just buy out the customer -- who, in many cases, might just like a big check to buy what they want, rather than weeks fixing their 'old' car.

Insurance companies also like to drag their heels to punish you for standing up for yourself and selecting a high-quality bodyshop. In the case of a minor front-end accident for a car in my household, they trickled the money out in bits and pieces. Every time the shop countered the insurance company's estimate, the insurance company would take 2 days to send an adjustor out, trickle out a few more dollars, wash, rinse, repeat. It's why I keep rental car coverage for our vehicles even when we don't need it -- to hold the insurance company's feet to the fire, so they feel the financial pain, too, when they hold your car hostage for a month.
>Concur Travel cancer

Tell us more about this.
But that's not taking more risks, that's taking the same amount of risks, just doing more with it.
3$ Discount Code: RAY30
New York City is not going to see robo taxis for a very, very long time. We are just now catching up to the rest of the cities in terms of how garbage is collected, after about a hundred years.
Might I ask why this is all you thought a grading session involved? Clearly, this is a touchy subject for me as I spent a few years as an assistant to a very talented colorist. The plethora of YouTube videos saying color correct using my amazing LUTs available when you join my Patreon blah blah nonsense is really sad.

There are some truly amazing colorists, and then there are people that claim they are colorists when they just applied a LUT. I would be embarassed to call myself a colorist that way. With my experience, I still do not call myself a colorist. I also don't go around calling myself a DP because I own a camera and make pretty pictures, yet people go around with no real training calling themselves that because it's cool.
How about just support community distributions? ...and no, Fedora is non of them.

Just stop support brand's and corporation's if you don't get paid?
> Ahhh my eyes!!!

I access lots of these types of sites and started using the following FF extensions - which work great!

1. No Color: Remove colors and background images from the page by one click:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/no-color/

2. Color Changer: Change a page's text, background, and link colors to your liking:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/site-color-ch...

3. Also: FF's built in reader mode.
No he is right, he is saying taken to the extreme. The point is the more and more specific you have to prompt, the more you are actually contributing to the result yourself and the less the model is
> If you want to train a model that could conceivably fall into any of those three categories, you have to sign a document under pain of perjury (a felony) promising the Frontier Model Division that it is safe;

That just sounds so strange. People will have to sign promises that their model is safe from possible end-user harm. It seems like they are setting up something for selective enforcement.

> The California government is gearing up for the “increased incarceration costs” and other costs associated with criminalizing AI development if this bill passes

That is just so odd. Weren't they the state focusing intently on quicker rehabilitation and alternatives to incarceration but now they are preparing to incarcerate more people over AI models? What is even going on that state.

What's the obvious loophole for the companies here. Leave the state? Or can they just say "This model was designed and built in Nevada/Kansas/Kentucky/etc. Us (OpenAI) are just licensing this as an end-user from our partners in Kentucky, sorry, CA attorney general, /shrug/?".
I also don’t quite understand the value of embedding all languages into the same database. If I search for “dog” do I really need to see the same article 300 times?

As a first step they are using PQ anyways. It seems natural to just assume all English docs have the same centroid and search that subspace with hnswlib.
> wild things

That formulation is poor taste imo
Right, but one can imagine a popular film about AI casting a voice actor not because the voice actor has an appealing or soothing voice, but because the actor is themselves very popular and will draw a large audience. Perhaps say Arnold Schwarzenegger is cast and OpenAI decides to create a voice very similar to the one Arnold uses in that movie because OpenAI wants to leverage the fame associated with that movie, that character, or Arnold himself. In that case the argument would be very strong that OpenAI is taking advantage of personality rights as opposed to mimicking a nice sounding voice that suits their product.

According to your argument, Scarlett Johansson was not cast in Her because something about her personhood would draw audiences to the movie, or something about her personality and character was being leveraged, but rather that her voice has some nice technical properties that made it a suitable choice for the movie.

In that case, the argument is less strong that OpenAI is infringing on Scarlett's personality rights, and more the case that they liked the properties and qualities that her voice has, and when she specifically turned down the offer to lend her voice to OpenAI, OpenAI found someone else who had similar properties and qualities as a replacement.
If you read the the "4" footnote included in your copied section...

> Requires compatible payment card and internet access. Payment cards for supervised users may require a separate paid membership (not included with Fitbit Ace Pass). Payment card memberships or parents may restrict purchases of certain products or from certain retailers. Supports Tap to Pay only.
Schemas != namespaces.

I'm sure some braindead software out there attempts to retrieve namespace URIs, but it would surely be a drop in the bucket compared to traffic for schemas/DTDs (which are intended to be retrieved).
LTE is good, but what is the subscription for? A sturdy LTE watch that can call and text would have been great. This product is dead on arrival.
you can get a used/unbranded smartphone for under $100

I got one at the bodega on the corner for $20. The owner wanted $35, but when I told him I'd pay cash, he took the twenty.

It was in packaging from some carrier in Mexico, but wasn't SIM locked. No problems for the last year.
> In all seriousness, what prevents this from just being ignored and people using open source software? Is it that the EU will prohibit open source chat from being sold on the various app stores?

The European Commission proposal said providers of software application stores should be made subject to obligations to take certain reasonable measures.[1] It seems likely removing non compliant apps would be considered reasonable.

Commercial open source apps would be more likely to comply with the requirements than non commercial closed source apps I think.

[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CEL...
I've said this on HN before as well, but I've turned into a full-on Waymo evangelist (Los Angeles user here). Couple of things to add to Jake's comment...

The driving experience itself is on par with the "best" drivers I've ever ridden with (things like stopping at actual stop signs, for instance, and not racing from one traffic light to the next, and being courteous to bikes and pedestrians), not to mention just the peace and tranquility of being in a car solo when you're not having to drive (I know, I know, mass transit is better for countless reasons and this is actually doubling down on human isolation which is probably not great long term). Anyway, I have zero interest in getting into an Uber at this point. I'd wait longer and pay more for a Waymo if given the choice. And I'm fully aware people will, if this works more broadly, lose jobs bc of it. I'm not insensitive to that, but I don't think the genie is going back in the bottle barring catastrophic incidents by Waymo et al that cause regulators to kill self-driving cars altogether. Note that I did witness an incident where on a road with no lane markings the Waymo straddled a left turn "lane" and a straight-travel lane. It's an intersection I transit often and normal drivers have great trouble with and frankly makes me uneasy every time I turn left there as well. The Waymo was definitely perplexed by it.

For those who talk about how Phoenix's roads are straight and wide... This is not true in Los Angeles (nor in SF though SF is more of a compact grid than LA). For those of you unfamiliar, a lot of the streets in LA where Waymo operates today are very narrow, with cars parked on both sides and so there's inadequate room for two cars to go down them without waiting for another car to pass. These same streets have zero lane markings on them. I've experienced this several times in Waymo to date where the car just "gets it," though it's almost too cautious when it needs to get over to let another car pass when there's not enough space for both. And if you read all of that and say "what about the weather?" It's obviously an issue and I fully agree it will delay the rollout "everywhere."

All that said, I cannot wait until I can jump in one of these things, from Waymo or any other company, and safely go up to the mountains or some other road-trip destination. The economics of longer trips, particularly to rural areas, are likely tricky bc of the inability to count on a return fare, but, man, I do think self-driving cars are a radically important technology that will vastly change how we transit and, really, how we live. That is, if they don't fuck up too much en route to getting there.
Just based on the UI, I can see the user age range being limited to 7-11/12 year olds.

Teens won't want this on their wrist in high school.
You have data updates that happen at irregular intervals and don't want to be bothered with turning on and turning off a db instance.
I live in the rust belt, where the average life expectancy of a car is about 10 years. 12-15 if you _really_ baby it. Except for one car that was totaled (got rear-ended by a texter), all of the cars I no longer own succumbed to a rotted out frame. Engines were fine, bodies were fine, interiors were fine.

But a frame. Can't really replace a frame. You can _sometimes_ repair it. You can buy some time by paying for an oil-based undercoating every year, but finding someone who will do it affordably _and_ do a good job is hard. (It's a messy, annoying job.)

I sort of want congress to mandate stainless steel or aluminum frames in all cars sold in the US, and I don't even care if it makes the cars cost more. It won't happen via state laws because the auto manufacturers are big campaign donors around here.
Wild California actually passed this, people joke about that state but I thought this was crazy even for them.

The biggest points imo being

>The Frontier Model Division has a wide scope to define the “perjury” charges the bill attaches to developers for end-user misconduct, including “the rigor and detail” of the developer’s safety protocols

>So is any model trained with less compute but matching a 10^26 flops-model in “relevant benchmarks” (the bill doesn’t say which)

>So is any model trained with less compute AND lower benchmarks, so long as it is of “similar general capability” (we do not know what this means)

Actually legislating that the developer of the AI is liable for what end users do is absolutely wild. And the other clauses they added make this essentially apply to any developer AI that can form a sentence. They made the categories so broad that an argument could be made that the law applies to any AI at all.
> Did Germany lose world war 1 or did they just decide to stop bothering with it?

Germany and Japan unconditionally surrendered.
I didn't say anything about the scientific method though, I'm simply making a distinction about two groups of people who both seem to claim to generate understanding of our reality.

One group can and does test hypotheses, the other does not
>And cars used to be safe even without seatbelts!

Me and a lot of people wear them purely out of fear of being robbed by the state
Most of my restaurant trips are to enjoy a meal with friends or family, and talk. I wonder the logic.
I am with you on this one. I looked through my photo library and realized that the last video I took was from the New Year's Eve :)
Okay, so they're regulating AI. What's most noteworthy to me is how applicability appears completely arbitrary and sounds like it could even be set after the fact by virtue of the jury instructions allowed.

Some domains do require regulations updates do to changes in the field, in which case it may make sense to have a commission (sorta like they're doing here), but based on this post, they basically just gave a carte blanche to disallow everything (while not directly stating that nothing is allowed).
Making it illegal to bring money across borders is the crime.
For the occupants, at least. They might be safer for pedestrians, cyclists, other drivers, etc.
> iMessage and Whatsapp are both this. Since you only need one participant in a conversation to not enable backup encryption, I would guess that law enforcement has cleartext access to over 99% of messages sent by americans.

I'd guess less only because Apple is so stingy on iCloud storage. A majority of iOS users I know don't have iMessage backup enabled because they're not willing to pay for additional iCloud storage.
While well-intentioned, I wonder if this will lead to something like the "sesame" debacle[1], in which is becomes far cheaper and easier for companies to deliberately design digital devices so as to be absolutely unrepairable -- even by the manufacturers themselves -- rather than provide parts and instructions for 3rd parties to effect repairs.

[1] https://reason.com/2022/12/23/why-is-sesame-suddenly-in-ever...
It's split by language. TFA builds an index on the English language subset.