skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Children are easier to convince or coerce to do work that is prohibited.

I'm not sure your intentions with trying desperately to convince yourself that it's safe and reasonable to have children work dangerous jobs.

14 year olds can work all sorts of jobs already, they can make money and learn skills.

There is obviously a reason these laws were passed. So the evidence you are so sure does not exist has been around for a century. These laws weren't vibe based.
Dark kitchens are not designed to scale. In fact, they are the opposite - they only implement part of a company. There is no problem with sass as a business model. It's quite valuable to have a company manage software and data for you. The pernicious part is that they don't allow you to access your data unless you pay them in order to make it sticky. Consumers should demand access to their data and that would enable a new type of company that provides a service which will switch you between different saas services.
I'm very happy with qBittorrent, in case you want to try something different.
In spring of 2023 OpenAI was introducing custom system messages and one of the examples was a Socratic teacher who teaches by asking you questions. I'd messed around with ChatGPT a bit but that was the big moment that i realized these things were really interesting.
"Dementia is something that will affect a lot"

Most with such a family history should be regularly eating a diet including Edamame, fresh eggs, fungi, and seaweed. The FDA will be clearing a new treatment this year which includes some of the same Edamame protective compounds if I recall, and should help many people slow degenerative symptoms by over 80%.

Gene therapies are also outpacing projected models, and should be more viable in coming decades.

Cheers =3
Indeed, what counts as safe and not-safe varies wildly by culture.

I live in Berlin, and outside my apartment there is a spinning cube of adverts; the face of that cube advertising for Dildo King is between the face advertising for family cargo bikes and the face advertising for Edeka (a supermarket). There are also several nudist beaches within the city limits.

From outside the USA, I sometimes hear things such as Florida wanting to treat cross-dressing as inherently sexualised and therefore criminal if done in the presence of minors. (Was that a true story? When I search for it, I get transgender issues, rather than cross-dressing, so I can't find out if Hillary Clinton's trousers are a literal fashion crime in Florida).
I don't think I'm likely to pay for YouTube either, but for a slightly different reason: I'm afraid that if there are ever any account issues my whole Google account would be banned. I notice that I've been watching less as they ramp up advertisements.

Yep, a confusing case where a monopoly position actually managed to hurt the company…
and your take is quite naive.

Surveillance is absolutely the purpose, overt or not. The huge push for bossware/spyware for windows in 2020+ demonstrates that the less ethical portions of industry desperately want to spy on users workstations! Eventually there will be retention laws in certain regulated industries that mandate such technologies!
Why enable this potential abuse?

Microsoft is trying to Sherlock the surveillance software industry with this!

I’d rather run North Koreas spyware Red Star Linux than Microsoft Windows.
Now I have set up a NNTP: nntp://zzo38computer.org/un2.org.zzo38computer.osdesign (at the time of this writing, there are no messages there; I may add one later, but anyone else also may do so)
There are no nvidia police, they literally cannot stop you from doing this.
The link just downloads a DMG instead of going to an informational page.
All those things could be accomplished by a group of businesses entering collective purchasing agreements, without giving one company the power to punish governments.
That would require the models to have real reasoning ability as opposed to looking up preformed answers on Stack Overflow.

Study after study shows that many evaluations of LLMs are deceptive because they evaluate them on questions that were answered in the training set. On the other hand, this is exactly why they can do so well on medical board exams because you don't learn to pass the medical board by predicting what medical treatments should work according to first principles but instead by remembering which medical treatments have been proven to work.

For that matter I've long wanted a conventional search engine which can be specialized for a particular software project I am working on: for instance I might be using JDK 17 and JooQ version 3.15 and I only want to search those versions of docs. It shouldn't be hard to look at the POM file to figure these versions out. I have the exact same problem with Javascript where I have to work with code that uses different versions of react-router, bootstrap, MUI, etc. The idea LLM coding assistant should do the same.
Up until not too long ago I assumed that self-hosting an llm would come at an outrageous cost. I have a bunch of problems with LLM's in general. The major one is that all LLMs(even openAI) will produce output which will give anyone a great sense of confidence, only to be later slapped across the face with the harsh reality-for anything involving serious reasoning, chances are the response you got was at large bullshit. The second one is that I do not entirely trust those companies with my data, be it OpenAI, Microsoft or Github or any other.

That said, a while ago there was this[1] thread on here which helped me snatch a brand new, unboxed p40 for peanuts. Really, the cost was 2 or 3 jars of good quality peanut butter. Sadly it's still collecting dust since although my workstation can accommodate it, cooling is a bit of an issue - I 3D printed a bunch of hacky vents but I haven't had the time to put it all together.

The reason why I went this road was phi-3, which blew me away by how powerful, yet compact it is. Again, I would not trust it with anything big, but I have been using it for sifting through a bunch of raw, unstructured text and extract data from it and it's honestly done wonders. Overall, depending on your budget and your goal, running an llm in your home lab is a very appealing idea.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39477848
The EU's "independent" foreign policy is what led them to ignore US advice and rely on Russia gas. They could have still been independent and made a different, better decision but blaming the US is farcical.
There's no violence involved, it can't be robbery.
Anonymous electronic payments are not trivial.

Edit: for the information of anyone not yet realizing the following: the chances that some of us will let anyone keep track of our cultural activities is much, much less than zero, and surely less than our disposition to extermination. It is called, "The Basics". I know they are missed by many, but they ought to be informed.
These things are impressive. It is funny that sometimes to do crazy Excel acrobatics to solve what would be a few lines of code in Python or other approaches.
Uh, there's plenty of time to kill while you wait for the people ahead of you to deboard. Grabbing your phone isn't going to kill anybody.

Hell, even when there isn't plenty of time to kill grabbing your phone isn't going to kill anybody. [1]

You can phrase it as "important enough" all you want, but its really just why let an item to go waste unnecessarily.

[1]: https://youtu.be/CtmxTj9pKqg
> Llama 8B is like 17ish gigs. You can throw that onto a single 3090 off ebay

Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I've always thought you needed enough VRAM to have at least double the model size so that the GPU has enough VRAM for the calculated values from the model. So that 17 GB model requires 34 GB of RAM.

Though you can quantize to fp8/int8 with surprisingly little negative effect and then run that 17 GB model with 17 GB of VRAM.
This is very cool but the use of the terms "Information Entropy" together as if they were a separate thing is maybe the furthest that any "ATM-machine"-type phrase has rustled my jimmies.

It is a cool article, just, wowzers, what a phrase.
Note that the frontend code still knows that an ad is played, and bytes of the actual video are still pushed without any artificial delay, so for now ad blockers can deal with this using a custom script.
Long-form video game retrospectives is my favorite
It also benefits from the extremely optimized encoder x264, which has many easily approachable tunings and speed/compression presets.

I’m not sure I’d trust x265 to preserve film grain better than x264 —tune film unless I gave x265 much, much more time as well as pretty similar bitrate.
I agree, I think GP is overly cynical. There's a strong chance that the primary reason is for personal utility. But MS (like all big tech) are all about two-birds-one-stone wins. If you can get the personal utility, while also gaining capability that "rightsholders" and advertisers, etc will want, that's a huge win to them. Reminds me a lot of Apple's hardware DRM that is primarily about reducing the value of stolen Apple hardware, but which also serves to make third party repairs way more difficult and expensive, which is not a "con" to them.
> Recall snapshots will only be decrypted and accessible when the user authenticates.

Question is, do you need to auth every time you try to access past snapshots? If not then this is still the mother lode for any infostealer.

And I do not think the danger Recall poses in an abusive relationship especially to women is adequately answered by "You can disable saving snapshots, pause them temporarily, filter applications and websites from being in snapshots, and delete your snapshots at any time" -- you'd need to know this thing exists and figure out how to pause. And I wonder whether the pause itself would leave a trace...
Individual problems have individual solutions.
H.264 will probably never die, especially once all the patents expire in a few years.
Europe is experiencing even more inflation than the US (how are you not aware of this??). Europe is cheap to you because Europe is poorer.
A bit on the side:

Stream processing of data is nicer using a declarative approach. Though I've found that describing control flow is often more intuitive using an imperative approach. It's a shame that redux-saga got tied to react/redux, because the idea of generators and declarative effects are universal - useful on both backend and frontend.
What if you can't afford a Mac, and you're not technically literate enough to install Ubuntu ?

Speaking for myself, I dual boot mint and windows because I really like playing games and making music. Both of those are absolutely subpar on Linux.

Outside of our nerd bubble, most normal people don't really want to run desktop Linux. Macs are great, but I can't really game on them.
Mine is also an m1. Just use llama3, its 8b quantized by default
I totally agree I just wish we could do it in a way that doesn’t try to lump every problem into the same bucket. I don’t see what it achieves personally, and I think it’s limiting the ability for the original goals of the project to be as successful as they could be.
The daily Sidebar break!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40633667

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I don't believe anyone has done that yet in the way I think you're thinking for Effect-ts - i.e. something which would give effect execution a kind of location-transparency.

That said, the person who built the ZIO project which inspired Effect-ts is now working on an exciting project called Golem Cloud¹ which aims to provide durable and reliable location-transparent execution of Wasm programs.

Mike Stonebraker's DBOS² looks to provide something similar for Typescript.

¹ https://github.com/golemcloud

² https://www.dbos.dev
How to Raise a Tribal Army in Pre-Roman Europe, Part II
It's a system that constantly surveils you, of course it's meant for surveillance. The only question is who gets access, is it just you, or is it you and the cops, or is it you and the cops and anyone with a checkbook.
It has happened, it is called Tiktok.
I've watched Shkreli livestream financial modeling and I've watched the excel world championship and he's on another level. I'd study him any day.
To be clear, I’m not advocating for it. I’m just explaining:

One of the core functions of the intelligence community, is to manage perceptions globally for the five eyes partners, led by the United States and the 16 intelligence agencies that comprise the intelligence community

It might be easier to think about it as the marketing budget that is spent on non-obvious influence

Reading Edward Bernays’s and his 1920 propaganda book will tell you everything you need to know about how we go about that process

In function, though it’s not the military determining those things, typically it’s Congress and other civilian oversight boards all the way up to the president dictating what those info operations are who they Target and determining impacts, etc., and risks
Its so perplexing to me how the laws of physics replicates simple properties into massive scales.
The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity (2011) [pdf]
I'm on the DevRel team at Cloudflare. Definitely happy to help personally with anyone who needs help migrating. My email is in my profile.

And we have an OSS sponsorship program: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-new-oss-sponsorships-...
The best presentations, just like the best literature, tells a good story.

It takes character and personality to tell a good story. You can't lie to the audience. They will know right away if you are lying.

And lying in this case is okay as long as the story is good. Presentations should be about getting people to think and reflect, it should not be about what the author believes.

Slide one or two. Doesn't matter. Tell a story with a whole heart or don't try. Don't fake it. Give it all. Empty out or don't try.
Ever tried to normalize/parse a list of dates in Excel? It takes a formula a mile long, and I’ve never gotten it to work quite right.

E.g.

01/15/2024

1/15/2024

1/15/24

01/03/2024

1/3/2024

1/3/24

Unless you write something in VBscript or whatever Excel uses now, it’s a nightmare.
Why has LLM progress seemingly stalled around the GPT-4 level? Or has it?
It seems unlikely for Google, Anthropic, and Apple (https://x.com/luciascarlet/status/1801148980664877385) to release LLMs that are at or around the GPT-4 level as a matter of design. What is the limiting factor, if there is one? Or maybe my premise is incorrect. Maybe some datacenter constraints I'm missing?
Because land belongs to society at large. The entire idea that someone can own land is nonsensical. Private ownership exists to encourage people to create stuff but land can not be created. When land value increases it is not because of anything the landowner did, but because of what society did. The gains should go to society.

Its also more effective at removing speculation the higher it is. LVT is one of the few taxes with no deadweight loss, so even if it wasnt the most morally acceptable tax it still is the most economically beneficial one so we should try to collect as much as possible through it.
Genuinely asking: is that huge in terms of their install base or revenue, or is that huge in terms of PR ramifications (like, "vocal minority" type of deal)? In my younger days I'd've had a heavily skewed pro-gamer and pro-authority-of-the-gamer-rabble viewpoint, but now at this phase of my life I can't help but feel the majority of the places I see Windows are all in business and education contexts (so just business, heyo). I'd be curious to know if the gamer-rabble still holds the kind of weight in the social media aggregate that, say, got the Kinect-as-mandatory stuff walked back.
Ask HN: Industry Standard Resources for Domains, Domain Controllers, and RPC/WMI
Is there a good place to go for recommended standards/implementations (maybe even setup assistance) for domain and network admin resources? Places where there are recommendations like "If you are setting up a domain controller, the industry standard/recommendation is X" or "These are the appropriate security concerns/settings when setting up workstations for remote management with WMI/RPC"? Short or trawling through NIST or ISO docs, I'm not sure what would be considered reliable resources.
> Can’t you just hire someone?

> I’m sure a more competent and better organized person would simply hire someone else and delegate fixing all the above issues to them. But even hiring and managing someone takes time and focus that I don’t have right now.

I really hope no one would ask that question with a straight face. Hiring someone is not a small task and then onboarding them and overseeing their output is a ton of work as well (at least upfront).

"Can’t you just..."/"Why don't you just..." are phrase I've tried to stop using as I can't remember ever enjoying being on the receiving end of those questions, they have a smattering of condescension to them.

I wish Sacha the best of luck in future endeavors, shutting down or pausing something you started is such a hard decision and I hope this move improves their life.
That sounds about right. I don't know much about video encoding either, but there is software which can losslessly splice videos on key frames. It's also possible to join multiple segments together, as long as all the segments have the same properties (codec, resolution, fps, etc). If this is true, then it would be relatively inexpensive to splice ads into videos like this.
I feel like that's a quirk of their Powershell and Windows Terminal apps. Using cmd.exe, it's instant.
5 years ago they weren’t there anymore. And Musk famously slept in the office and nearly went bankrupt and insane trying to ramp up production of model 3.
Yes, for low income brackets (and certain constellations with partners, kids an joint filing) where you face subsidy cliffs, I can see that being an issue.

However that was not at all what OP argued with engineering salaries and progressive income tax leading to "far less" net income per additional hour worked. The issue you brought up has much more to do with hard subsidy cliffs and high cost of living eating up the disposable income for low income households.
> circumvent what my browser does

Are in-line ads inside sponsored videos (eg: YouTubers or podcasters advertising Squarespace) now considered circumventing your browser? I'm not entirely sure what YouTube is doing is different than those, at a fundamental level.
> In August 2022, Business Insider reported that Oracle Advertising made $2 billion in revenue. At the time, revenue was only growing by 2% a year and many employees had been laid off as part of a reorganization in 2022, Business Insider reported.

Did Oracle correctly predict that the business was contracting significantly and manage decline with layoffs? Or did they overcompensate for slow growth and kill a $2 billion business?
He's a retired radiologist who knows nothing about astrophysics.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi_mQ0sKOfo
> Everything in Recall is designed to remain local and private on-device, so no data is used to train Microsoft’s AI models.

Not yet.
They are true. As an entrepreneur, 90% of the time my most serious competition is an Excel file.
Customer support is interesting here. I think you're very right (personally I think that the new AI in the article is a bad idea). I wonder if the ideal is transforming speech into multiple modalities. Maybe make the speech kinder to avoid activating people emotionally and then offer something visual that indicates emotions or "give a shit" level. But I dislike speech as a modality; the single channel nature is incredibly limiting IMO.

For HN comments, I think you're right. But I think there is still lots of potential there, from tooling to help Dang use his time more effectively to tooling that you can switch on when you are in a bad mood that lets you explore your curiosity but filters out/transforms the subset of comments that you don't have the emotional capacity to deal with well.

The cool thing is that this tech can be easily layered on top of the actual forum (does vertical integration give you anything? certainly crazy expensive) and so the user can be in control of what filters/auto-moderation they embrace. Plus text makes it easy to always drill deeper and see the original as needed.
In Praise of 5-Over-1 Buildings (2019)
...is that a real thing?
I do not think it is cynical to assume that Microsoft would sell this to companies as a way to do constant surveillance of their employees with OCR and LLMs used to make it easier for a manager to sift through massive amounts of data.

That's just an actual use case that their true customers would pay for, I think it's awful and should be illegal under any reasonable worker protections but why would they not advertise it this way privately to business customers?

I also don't think it's cynical to think that a manager looking for a reason to get rid of someone will have a much easier time justifying a PIP or just straight up firing someone if they can retroactively have an AI do it for them.

Why wouldn't they be able to ask the system "how much of <employee they don't like>'s time do they spend doing things on the computer that are not directly related to <company name>?"

Is it technically happening already? Sure, there's nasty nasty spyware being forced on people and it is awful and I hate that those employers are getting away with it. But integrated into the OS, on by default, with a long memory? Just imagine how easy it will be to fire anyone that tries to unionize in an effort to fight against such surveillance.
CA Dems want to keep a high-profile crime measure off your ballot and it's shady
Isn't that what they're doing here? Your browser requests the video stream, it gets one - and that video stream now includes ads baked right in. Doesn't mess with your browser at all.
Government presentations are the worst, including the likes of NASA, NIH, etc. Extremely overcrowded slides, the logo of the institution on EVERY slide, equations all over the place, no care for providing value to the audience. This gave rise to the assertion-evidence style of presentions, which sound right on the surface but it has also been taken to another extreme where every slide tries to use the approach. My single concern for my presentations is to provide value to the audience; this usually fixes a lot of stupid presentation content...
`unknown` is a standard type in TypeScript for "it could be anything and you don't know what it is, so you need to introspect it and assert a type if you want to use it". (As opposed to `any`, which is "it could be anything but you don't have to introspect it to use it, you're just opting out of the type system".)

This is not "normie" TypeScript but I wouldn't characterize it as particularly scary.
It’s a calm demeanor and a visibly upset affect. Anger is not rage, etc. I do not have any videos of being upset (and certainly HN is no safe place to share one regardless).
Google is not your friend.
PS3 was popular for compute clusters because it was sold heavily at cost at launch. That's typical for a console where the platform owner gets a slice of all software sales, but makes no sense for a general computing platform. The performance/$ was unbeatable because the economics were perverted.

The PS4 was sold at break even price and couldn't run unsigned code anyway.
Fuel and H2 Production Through Pyrolysis and In-Line Reforming of Plastic Wastes
If the trends continue for a decade, sure.
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