skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly the same experience here in the same demographic. In this friend group, we all have kids and wives and pets and jobs and everything else, but we want to still try to do stuff together. Video games, DnD (though we play PF2E and OSR stuff), we do some book club stuff, we talk about sports and our hobbies, we talk about our kids, our personal and professional lives... We can do text, voice, and video. It's been a great experience for us. We do meet in-person every couple of months for a DnD session but that's typically as often as we can manage with 5 busy schedules to juggle.
Where do I go to get these free drugs?
But why. Unless you need to use low-level map/reduce, just ditch Spark and use https://github.com/apache/datafusion-ballista directly. It supports Python too.
They take money even more seriously and money is incentive for gradually trading away user privacy.
Oh sure yeah. That's actually a very old strategy I learned from my (now 94) year old grandfather. My impression is that was one of the intermediate steps on the continuum between trying to sit down with a neighbor and work things out and exchanging sporadic small arms fire. Country life was wild back in the day.
Surely you can find examples of Schumer saying that his party is fully committed to obstructing the Trump administration, right? Or Harry Reid saying it during the Bush administration?

No, it's not normal. That's exactly my point. If it's normal, cite it.

Believing it's normal for one party to have as an explicit goal to simply obstruct everything the administration is doing is a symptom of drinking too much Koolaid.
That's an excellent point. That court decided that an AI agent was an agent in the legal sense. "Agent" is a legal concept - someone acting for someone else.[1]
It's what allows employees to act for a company. Otherwise nobody could do anything without signoff from the top. There are limits to agency, but it's a rule of reason thing - you can assume a store clerk has the authority to sell you stuff, and someone whose job is to answer questions has the authority to answer questions. The company has responsibility for the agent's actions within the scope of their authority.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_agency

[2] https://www.upcounsel.com/lectl-what-the-california-civil-co...
Crazy. If they won't let me speak to a person I'd still much prefer just having a generic click-your-timeslot web app than waste time talking to a bot. And for millions of dollars they could just hire a human for a decade or more...
Even if that's true, the number of dollars being evaded is substantially lower. Not reporting $2000 a year in tips isn't exactly going to have the same effect of a billionaire not reporting $100,000,000 of their income.

There are plenty of legal ways to evade (or at least not pay) taxes as well, though. An easy way, for example, is to store wealth in the form of stock; generally you don't pay taxes until you sell, so increased value is ignored until then, but once you have that many assets you can borrow money using the stock as collateral, and in some cases I believe you can even write off the interest. All of this is perfectly legal, and I'm not sure if it can or should be "fixed", but a lot of cash that might otherwise be taxed simply isn't.

For that matter, they could also buy a piece of art for a million dollars, a year later get it appraised as worth $40 million, donate it, and then write off $39 million. Again, as far as I know this isn't strictly illegal, but it can be used to evade taxes.
Not in the least bit.

Far too many of these supposed greats works of literature get an easy pass from uncritical also-rans of the world, who just want to move on in the name of different-strokes-for-different-folks without ever calling out the bs for what it really is. I'm not saying there aren't valid detractors of these works - there are - but far too often they're drowned out.

Far too many of these works hide behind the crutch of 'fiction' to spew utter hogwash without making an ounce of sense to the regular, impartial and non-dyed-in reader.

Far too many of these books - when coupled with a lackadaisical populace in general who are more concerned about seeming non-fussy - get that stellar mythical hallowed status and lore.

I'm not saying that there are not enough people who genuinely get entranced with these works (although if you run that through a fine comb your results may vary) - its that the gatekeepers of education seem to be entirely made up of these uncritical clowns who will nod away in affirmation, decade after decade in cementing the undeserved status of these works.
FCC ends affordable internet program due to lack of funds
Isn't this the opposite of what you're saying? Democrats didn't undue policy just because it was passed by the GOP
"but I can never get an answer as to how exactly they see it playing out."

The standard answer is, that it creates a strong power imbalance. When every politician can be brought down by scandals and one entity is in posession of all the scandals - then they could controll every politician. (it is not like this today, but this is what we privacy advocates want to prevent)
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I mean, I don't even drink. But drinking a beer before going out for a run is better than staying home and having six, right? You're talking about a spherical runner in a vacuum, I'm talking about the actual decisions made by friends of mine.
Prove to the end consumer - and hopefully not to industrial complexes that may somehow lobby politicians for regulatory capture to give the power to a handful vs. the consumer's "voting" power via their distributed-individual buying power.

I highly disagree that the free market has no mechanisms, exhibit A being Elon Musk who had the credibility to rally $44 billion to buy Twitter to take that social media platform out of the hands that the establishment clearly had as a core pillar for their censorship-suppression-narrative control apparatus, of which the Twitter Files exposed the government's illegal suppression of Americans et al for anyone who wasn't toeing the acceptable narrative talking points of the last 3+ years.
This looks fantastic - well done for putting so much effort in to creating it. Literally a few days ago I was looking for something exactly like it, so that I could work out the likely amount of solar panels I'd require when factoring in seasonal shadows cost.

I imagine the solar industry to be a target market of yours and wish you lots of luck with growing it.
Millions of people manage to properly report the sale of their home every year. Don't blame the IRS for this mistake; this was entirely on you.
That sounds like a great bumper sticker. Not much of an argument though. I work in the education field, and this doesn’t resonate with what I’ve seen at all.
The stereotype is still as strong as ever. I do not feel represented at all by overly gay flamboyant men whose only personality trait seems to be that they happen to have sex with other men. The typical "gay voice" is also largely an American phenomenon.

Most gay people are perfectly normal people and their sexuality isn't the thing that defines them. Hollywood hasn't received that message yet I think.
It's exactly the same - they aren't buying directly from target, they are buying thorough Liquidity Services, Inc.

"Sources tell Modern Retail that all the listings are salvage merchandise from Target that’s been purchased by the reverse supply chain services company Liquidity Services, Inc."
The case FOR gmail:

1. it solved spam

2. it solved finding specific emails in the haystack of your years/decades of emails

It's hard to overstate how important 1 is, for anyone who doesn't know how mail was 20 years ago. Google was able to leverage its dominance (in concert with the other huge hosts like Hotmail) to impose significant changes to email infrastructure, by requiring stuff like SPF and DKIM.

Frankly, other email providers are riding on the wave of Google's efforts and impact to sanitize the email space.
Yoko Li makes towns, tamagoes, and tools for local AI
Could you explain the setup? Who would access the SMB and who’d access Dropbox’ web interface?

If it’s running on a server with a network-shared folder, I don’t see how that’s an issue for Dropbox. If you were passing around Dropbox credentials for a single user, that’s definitely a breach of ToS.
I wish my experience was like that. But my MacBook Pro keyboard became inoperable within 1 year, and too many times did an OSX update break something in my setup.

Linux at least never breaks userspace. x86 sadly can not match arm on efficiency, so the MacBooks are king for thermals/battery life. Although I don't travel enough to need more than 1 work days battery life, which I easily get on a Linux Ryzen laptop. If I could run Linux on the MBP I might consider it - I find macOS is not ideal for an engineer.
How much safer is "owning" your domain?

An anecdote: A few years ago I used to have my own domain. Then one day my credit card expired, the new one did not work and my account got frozen. I fixed it, then I forgot to actually extend the domain and it stopped working. Of course, no incoming email, no access to my old mail, etc.

Fortunately I could buy the domain again after a couple of weeks of time, so it did not end in a catastrophe, but it was truly a very stressful time. I know, it was my fault, but shit like this happens all the time to people.
Mistake = malware?

The bug (YES BUG) only affected a couple of crypto exchange URLs, So why make it such a huge deal? Brave has stopped the affiliate links business since then.

It also happened when Brave was like 6 months old. Their whole business is based around privacy. Are they really that desparate for the small affiliate commission? I'm sure there are better and more 'malware' like ways to earn money.
Also: more than 5MB storage
Do you mean losing access to the archive of past messages stored in your gmail account?

If not, can you explain why it would be crippling to switch to another email service?
The statute of limitations on traffic offenses is brief, so I'll fess up that I've biked across the whole length a couple times.

Got some Darwin Award honorable mentions doing it.
The only people who are incredulous aren’t running interviews, or maybe charitably they work someplace where people want to work.
Hmm yeah these particular shadows don't look that well aligned to me, but the hypothesis certainly warrants more searching
>> His team assumed the Trojan War happened

Stop there and try to prove that, first.
> All popular songs have been highly formulaic for a long time.

Incredibly reductive and facially absurd considering there is no way to formulaically make a hit song.
Useful recommendations from the canadian government

https://www.cyber.gc.ca/en/guidance/routers-cyber-security-b...
A large fraction of US Walmarts sell both groceries and guns, to name one example. I suspect this correlates with the states that don’t impose a mandatory waiting period, though I haven’t checked.
I use my own domain for all email, but as I age, something that has started to concern me is the longevity of email going to my domain. No-one in my family is very tech-savvy so it's entirely possible they don't know to renew my domain and will end up losing all my incoming email as a result. In this sort of scenario, a big provider like Gmail which will clearly outlast me seems more reliable to pass on this account. Has anyone formulated a plan for someone inheriting your email account?
Start migrating to another provider while you have time. And learn to host your own email server with your own domain on vacations.

"There is no free mail" *meal
An example of how this could play out is how easily Google and other big tech cooperate with government requests nowadays (compared to, say, a decade or so ago, when Apple was openly fighting the FBI in court to not be forced to make a tool to unlock locked iPhones).

It allows the government to censor things without having to explicitly deal with legal challenges, and in exchange the company gets good will and favors holding back regulation. That easily leads into things like election manipulation.

There's also the massive target it paints on their back in terms of data breaches.

There are also other things to consider. IIRC with one of the NSA related leaks, there was the story of employees abusing the data collection for personal purposes. Private companies have even less oversight towards the public on how the data is being used.
The US is a federated system, the states' tax laws are independent of the federal tax laws (mostly, there are some interactions in there) and the responsibility for collecting state taxes falls on the state. The federal government cannot step in without authority which would have to be delegated by the states because it is their authority, not the fed's.
Both the page title & H1 are: Live types in a TypeScript monorepo which is a better description than the current one (which is embedded in the banner image).
migadu's basic plan includes 50gb of storage.
I see the risk to be pretty minimal as most of my emails are sales, selling stuff to me. My assumption is that, it would be the case for many people. I'm curious if there are any stats around that.

I still wanted to have an email on my own personal domain. I use Fastmail and been pretty happy with it.
Fair point, my apologies. I guess what I'm saying is that I agree that AI is an imperfect tool, but saying it's all hype feels like throwing out the baby with the bathwater.
If you don't care about personal privacy, I would probably just go on Fiverr and upload it to somebody to do it at like $5 a page. Even reading all the journal notes is going to be very tiring.
This was a really effective anti-ad for Hudson Rock.
> "I googled 'the closest ice cream shop to my house' but it 'hallucinated' the one that was the second-closest'"

a google search doesn't do that though. It will actually select ice cream shops from it's database, determine their location, your location, and calculate the distance. And then select the closest.

It may mis-calculate, but it will not "hallucinate".

This is incredibly different than what LLMs do, which is why hallucinate is appropriate for an LLM but not appropriate for a conventional search or map engine
Getting a 6th grader to create a small math voice bot using ChatGPT
We were doing a fun internship for kids at my wife's startup. As part of that my 6th grade kid had to do a presentation on a hackthon problem. I suggested to him to try to get some working code by taking help of ChatGPT. He did a simple voice chat bot. Ask a math question and get an answer :)

The flow is below:

1. Him asking Chat GPT for HTML and Javascript(He knows what is HTML and what is Javascript. But obviously he cant code :))

https://chatgpt.com/share/b7695f9c-8584-43ee-9974-4466e764376f

2. Then he went on a conversation to get code to convert sentences to eval math code.

https://chatgpt.com/share/2b3b9c11-3184-482c-92ef-d42b7434b202

3. I helped him put the code generated in the right place.

4. I helped him to host it on Glitch by copy pasting the whole thing.

https://sphenoid-wealthy-track.glitch.me/
https://glitch.com/edit/#!/sphenoid-wealthy-track?path=index.html%3A73%3A19

The future will be full of programmers like my kid who have no clue of programming and have no clue why things work!
Hard to care. It's been good for me.
The site is built around having a lower limit on compensation. All I'm asking is for that limit to be adjustable. That's not something different, it's the same thing, but more flexible/usable/better.
The whole blog post reeks of extreme self-congratulation and youre right, a total scum move to expose the victim. Altogether very weak performance from Hudson Rock.
Why do you think you'd be paying for an advertising service in this scenario?

- Gmail doesn't show ads to Workspace users.

- Your emails aren't used for ad targeting, whether it's a Workspace account or a normal Gmail one.
The PDFs didn't have headers/footers/line numbers chopped off, which makes chunking tough and embeddings less effective. I preprocessed the text a lot before even beginning to generate embeddings in my own pet project. Then metadata extraction (speaker tags, NER from transcript including dates and GPEs, etc.) to add a rudimentary feature set that could be presented and matched by a GPT3.5 call upon the initial query in order to trim down the vector search area.

I feel like a lot was left on the table here. 360 pages of court transcripts (large font, generous margins and spacing, etc.) isn't massive at all, and it seems like there was too much reliance on the embeddings and the LLM to magically figure it all out.
Simple test. I’d say half struggle to declare a variable. Maybe 1/4 can get a class to compile. 1/6 can get code to run. 1/20 can get code to run and maybe start to solve the problem.
Maybe two models? One like current LLMs, generating the usual bullshit. A second model trained to map output from the first model to reliable citations or mapping to some value from 0 to 1 predicting the confidence of the models accuracy.

Clearly I am just bullshitting myself here, I don't know how to train the second model. Something mapping text to reliable sources...(waves hands)
I'd suggest they face more constraints, to the point of it being impossible for them to create something good here:

1) Executives who don't understand LLMs at all and don't really understand the process of building products under massive uncertainty around product quality.
2) Executives who have grown up building products which didn't need insane amounts of continual tuning.
3) Internal process that isn't set up for the types of products mentioned in 1 and 2
4) Entire groups of stakeholders in the same position as executives, putting pressure on the people building these things.

To make an analogy - this space is closer to the self driving car project at Google. Zero product risk, the technology is sort of all there, but putting it all together is difficult and it's gonna be ready when it's ready. Pushing something out to meet a schedule aint gonna work.
This is arguably more fallout from elevated interest rates, and the risk thereof, being off the radar of people that work(ed) finance professionally. The company was performing and without the debt would be fine. Vista gambled and lost. It happens.
Sure, if they change the MIT license of the core engine then you could fork it at that point. What they're doing right now is taking on a much larger maintainence burden than potentially necessary and fragmenting the ecosystem at the same time.

You're also at the same risk if you choose to use their fork.
"hi-viz vest, a clipboard, and a ladder can get you into almost anywhere that's not a SCIF"
U-Boot supports Zmodem ?
> was describing Big Tech (not legacy media like Fox News). On social media, sharing narratives inconvenient to the leftwing establishment resulted in conservative voices being systematically de-platformed

Within FAANG, sure. That's probably still true, unless one counts Twitter as "big tech." (And if one does, it's wild to ignore Fox News's online presence.)

My point is the right-wing talking points didn't have any trouble gaining traction. Speech and amplification were both amply available. One can similarly complain about left-wing arguments not gaining traction on Fox News or 4chan; that's not a legitimate claim to censorship.

> Can you give any examples of noteworthy accounts that followed the guidelines, and the law, yet got arbitrarily silenced by Musk?

The Elon Jets account suspension (and ad hoc rule change) was petty [1]. Suspending journalists speaks for itself [2]. (Neither would be something the Congress could do.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ElonJet

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/01/09/elon-mus...
I agree with you that a farm needs at least one tractor. But this drone is much better because it burns less fuel, can fly autonomously, and it's much cheaper to run; no tractor can beat that.
I do know a great deal of sites that rank higher without ads compared to compeditors that do have ads ... but anecdotes are worthless and the only one who can answer are the people at google search.
But at least you can do something yourself.

If Google bans your account for whatever reason you can do nothing.
I think you're right, and I also wonder: Considering how hard it is for us to engineer a fusion plant that merely "breaks even" in terms of energy made usable to us, will fusion plants ever be competitive with fission plants? Like, I understand that hydrogen is a lot cheaper than plutonium or enriched uranium, but iirc we never had an issue getting fission plants to break even. As far as I'm aware, the technology for exploiting fission was obvious as soon as they realized that radioactive decay could be hot enough to boil water, and at risk of sounding glib, everything else about it is just safety measures. Whereas there is no fusion equivalent of "The Pile"[1] from Fermi et al.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Pile-1
Wait, where do you live? You are able to afford legal fees to fight a hospital??
> "I shouldn't have to sign in to see threads."

Why? Do you pay them towards their the CPU, bandwidth, and other operation costs?

> "Yes. I don't buy that bots are the reason for hiding threads. It reminds me of pinterest and linkedin: show a teaser and then turn the screws on the user until they do what you want. It's greedy and crude."

Why can't it be both? I guess you should try to create a competitor of Twitter-X and take on all those costs yourself, so you can see for yourself if scraping-bots (and the purposes for that occurring) are a sustainable business model or a sustainable way to moderate a massive network of people communicating in public - where maximizing for real conversation is seemingly necessary, especially now with AI being able to simply flood threads with realistic long-form conversation - which on its own could be used as an attack vector to agitate or waste people's time and attention on non-real people who aren't influenceable to help open their eyes to perhaps not believing propaganda they've been indoctrinated with.
> optimized for a particular thing and repurposing them

A lot of human exuberance (and thus investment) is riding on the questionable idea that a really good text fragments correlation specialist system can usefully impersonate a generalist AI. ("LLM, which rocks are the best to eat?")

Even worse: Some people assume an exceptional text-specialist model will usefully meta-impersonate a generalist model impersonating a specific and different kind of specialist! ("LLM, do my taxes.")
> The model is a pattern recognition engine and the problem we call "hallucination" is actually that the model is recognizing patterns from data that is similar to, but not an exact match to what we want.

But that's a terrible fit for law. In law, the differences really matter.
Yes, but Migadu is subject to Swiss privacy law, since they’re located here. They can’t (legally) do what Google does.
Adversarial Threat Report
Idea: Don't fantasize about harming animals, fantasize about what could happen to those who want to harm animals! It's much more realistic, and gets your sadistic rocks off just the same!

For instance!

To boil an ocean in retaliation is quite unrealistic. But it takes only 62,000 calories to boil every ounce of water in the body of an animal hater! That's less than 10 pounds of coal!

Doesn't that make you happier than making gross and unrealistic threats against poor animals?!
It has solved enterprise SSO for large swaths of the modern SaaS tool landscape.

People don’t remember how much fun it was to integrate ActiveDirectory into anything before ubiquitous G-Suite/Workspace logins. Or deal with dozens of external accounts for hundreds of users at a company. Easily a blocker for any startup trying to sell to bigger clients.