skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting use of the word weal, which apparently here is used in the sense of "well-being" rather than the other meaning of "a nasty purple wound":

> Governments exist, amongst other roles, to provide for the common weal,

Yes, but governments also exist - looking at governments in general, around the world - to further the interests of officials and their families, and provide them with money, status, disproportionate rights, and ideologically agreeable laws. And then there are organisations, which may be related to governments or effectively similar to governments or agents of governments, with a mission or interest in distorting news so that the money, status, etc., gets delivered.

So in theory, under good governance, that wouldn't happen. Additionally, the government would be all-knowing with a good grip on salience, so it wouldn't do anything biased, even by accident. And then we might as well have news distributed by a central ministry of information, which would reliably arbitrate the truth in a good way.

Since actual governments are at best kinda corrupt and somewhat stupid, it would be better for taxpayers to fund a diversity of editorially independent news media sources, right?

But that's kind of passing the buck to the grass roots. In theory, the natural power of the grass roots can cause information to be critiqued and filtered by by many independent and informed individuals so that a consensus on the facts of what is actually going on bubbles to the top. In reality, it's social media, and its accuracy depends on the power of good moderation and a good culture, which, like good governance, is brought into being and sustained by voodoo.

I think the answer is: if you've found a good, trustworthy source of information, whether a public broadcaster, a commercial media entity, or a non-commercial forum, treasure it while it lasts, and by all means bring more of these into being. Except I don't think anybody knows what those means are and it seems to happen more or less by accident. Something about open society.
> Alas, you're missing some bits.

Why "alas"? I'm comparing apples with apples: UNIX base permissions vs alternative-universe base permissions. If you want to add the 3 flags (sticky, setuid and setgid), you can add 3 bits to both sides of the comparison.
That seems like the most likely case. Hauling PCs sounds like a LAN party mixed with a holiday. Would she really believe the crap they fed her about the crypto mining?

Even if for some miraculous reason they did make that much money, there would be no incentive to tell her unless they'd also pay her electric bill just to get rid of any unwanted attention.

Just add a clause limiting the free electricity to a sensible amount, and charge at-cost for anything over. I rented a cottage (not via AirBnB) for a week and paid for my 11 kWh of use over that time at the end. Of course, these professional hosts don't actually want to meet their guests…
It would be funny to give the scraper some „funny“ pictures :D
His technical prowess was peeking its head a few times during this interview. The fact is, he is still very much a business, man.
>> And one of the things to know about war is that the offense always has the advantage because you can always overwhelm the defensive systems.

> This is not actually one of the things to know about war. It's about as far from the truth as you can get.

... Unless you are writing the rules of war:

"Secretary of Defense Ash Carter appointed Schmidt as chairman of the DoD Innovation Advisory Board announced March 2, 2016. It will be modeled like the Defense Business Board and will facilitate the Pentagon at becoming more innovative and adaptive.

In August 2020, Schmidt launched the podcast Reimagine with Eric Schmidt.[71][72] In December 2021, Schmidt joined Chainlink Labs as a strategic advisor.[73] In October 2022, he co-authored a piece titled "America Could Lose the Tech Contest With China" for Foreign Affairs with Ylli Bajraktari, former executive director of the U.S. National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence.[74] In March 2023, Schmidt testified at a U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing regarding AI.

In 2022, Schmidt was appointed to the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology, a legislative commission charged with making policy recommendations to Congress and the Executive Branch.[1]"

"Since 2023, Schmidt has been involved in building White Stork, a startup developing suicide attack drones.[2]"

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

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/01/23/eric-sc...
The Jagged Stones of Dublin
If only there was some kind of ongoing event that demonstrated exactly this…
Isn't the parsimonious explanation just that Google knows GenAI puts a ton of ad revenue at risk and therefore didn't want it to get commercialized?
A transcript can be found here: https://github.com/ociubotaru/transcripts/blob/main/Stanford...
Same thing happens in chemistry: some compounds are legal, some aren't. If you come up with a clever way to synthesise the illegal thing, it's still illegal, or will be made illegal eventually.
I think the reporting of his quote overemphasizes on "work from home" piece of his sentence as that fits right into a continuous obsession/bike sheds.

Whether "work from home" is the cause or not, I think he is absolutely right on the latter part of his sentence, that contrary to startups, almost no individual at Google has the fire or drive in them to play to win. If you are young and you go work at Google, they will beat that fire out of you very quickly. "Work" from home is just one way that nobody-cares attitude is manifesting itself. [BTW, that attitude is by no means exclusive to ICs; definitely leadership has it as well, perhaps more so.]
Kissinger's buddy Schmidt is in the military AI drone business and drooling over massive cold and/or hot war with China. Not a good sign for the future of humanity.
It's insider trading. I'm not sure if you're trying to defend him by comparing him to other con artists?
Because he's fundraising for his attack drone military startup[1] called White Stork?

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahemerson/2024/01/23/eric-sc...
Agreed. I was a longtime listener since I had fond memories of my dad listening in the car growing up, but it’s borderline unlistenable now. Emblematic of the drastic change this generation in the aims of journalism, where everything in public life has become politicized, and the goal is no longer to inform and engage listeners, but to persuade and influence.
Remedies don’t always necessitate a breakup.

For instances if Android phones were allowed to not make Google the default search engine, for Apple to ask each user which engine they want instead of there being a default, for query and click through data needing to be shared at cost with other search engine companies, Chrome not being allowed to default to Google but require user input, and so on. Lots of options and more than one remedy can be applied simultaneously.
I guess in the same sense that every functional aircraft is. Taking everything apart and putting it back together, replacing worn out parts, is considered normal maintenance.
Why did he not understand that everything that is recorded will leak anyway?

Or he did understand that things get much more attention if they are supposed to be secret and then leaked.
Holding t-bills means you pay neither state nor local taxes, so the net difference is likely larger than 0.75% depending on where you live.
That seems a very elegant solution to the problem of fair income taxes. Just don't tax income, that way you can't have a disparity in income tax.
What should we tax instead? Capital seems to me a viable choice. It would be a lot more work for everyone, though.
Most CEOs that I've worked under do most of their work outside of the office. That's why they have COOs to run the day-to-day stuff.
I'd pay for news, even bad ones. I see it like a donation to the Red Cross or something.

My experience and reasons for not paying anymore are similar. Used to pay for The Guardian for some time, but when they started pestering me about a subscription renewal the whole thing felt a lot less classy. Now it suddenly was about me and not news anymore.

Me too: never again. I would pay for anonymous vouchers or similar where I'm not identifiable to the newspaper, though.
What you're calling their "actual argument" is also a bad argument. The original proposed rule (which amounts to "Don't do stuff if someone powerful can likely punish you for it") doesn't distinguish between commercial opportunists and real activists or whistleblowers, so their "actual argument" is spurious.

It also seems designed to shut down criticism of the original proposed rule -- or at least that's the only interpretation I can ascribe to it. This is bad because that original proposed rule is bad (in my opinion) and deserves criticism. Ihe best kind of criticism of any rule is "Let's try this other input, and see if you still agree with the conclusion".
How did you use nicotine? The addiction/tolerance potential is proportional to how quickly it gets in your brain. Smoked/inhaled nicotine takes 7 seconds, a patch takes about 4 hours to reach peak blood concentration.

Also I do not recommend tobacco, which is much more than nicotine.
In the case the right thing to do would be a mouse with no buttons, wouldn't it? No buttons, no pain I say.
We'll settle for having more guns per capita
Eric Schmidt is scary, Julian Assange spoke of him :' in June 2011 when Assange was living under house arrest at Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, Schmidt and "an entourage of US State Department alumni including a top former adviser to Hillary Clinton" visited for several hours and "locked horns" with the Wikileaks founder.
For Schmidt, emancipation is at one with US foreign policy objectives and is driven by connecting non-western countries to American companies and markets'.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/03/julian-assange...
In the talk, Eric suggests that very soon you could use AI to automatically generate TikTok clones and publish them repeatedly to the App Store until one of them takes off.

Even if we assume this is possible soon, is there any way that this doesn’t result in the App Store immediately devolving in to auto generated slop and all users leaving the platform or just ignoring it. In what scenario does an app that was generated automatically in seconds result in you becoming the next mega tech company raking in huge profits.
There’s perhaps wealthy people who are not elites.
One of the better write-ups on what tech debt is I've read.

The article goes into current AI techniques to reduce tech debt, and their (in)effectiveness. I wonder if another approach might be more successful. If AI could instead be used to solve the root cause, making levels of tech debt more visible to non-technical people.

Perhaps breaking up the codebase into components, and evaluating how "legacy" each one is, then creating a dashboard of each feature and the x multiplier for how much productivity is likely to be impacted. It wouldn't have to be exact, but as a tool for communicating the invisible it seems like it would be useful.
Cryptocurrency "mining" is a lottery. The "miner" that guesses the correct number is paid a reward. There isn't much more to it.
If you prefer to buy something FDIC insured, you can buy CD’s through your brokerage. You can pick them from whichever banks pay the most interest and you can also sell them early on the secondary market rather than paying an early withdrawal penalty.
Not really. Maybe not $100k, but there is definitely a good profit range here. You can buy Asics today that give you 3 to 4 Dollars per kWh (not BTC obviously since that is way less profitable). If you assume that the price of electricity was average for the US (~15c/kWh), a $1500 monthly bill means roughly 10,000kWh. That would be 30k-40k Dollars in crypto. Even more if they were early.

The problem is that these Asics make Nvidia enterprise card prices look reasonable. So only super cash loaded people can profit from that right now.
Neither the AGPLv3 nor your link reference "derivative works". It's a GPLv2 concept they jettisoned for (A)GPLv3.

https://softwarefreedom.org/resources/2014/SFLC-Guide_to_GPL...
Open source as a byproduct of a company absolutely works - it's been proven by tons of tech companies.

But if you open source your revenue-generating parts, and only charge for support/managed version/enterprisey features you'll end up with quite weird incentives, particularly with infrastructure tools, in which the big cloud providers will happily compete with you, using the version you open sourced and providing and ecosystem to their customers that one simply cannot compete with
This is what an illegal meme looks like: "Tyler Kay, 26, wrote a post... calling for hotels housing asylum seekers to be set alight. He responded to several comments posted by others following his post, adding that it was “100% the plan”.
Kay also reposted... another message inciting action against a named immigration solicitors in Northampton" https://www.cps.gov.uk/cps/news/man-jailed-just-two-days-aft...
Good on them for not mincing words and being upfront about this
It's not leaked. It was posted publicly to YouTube, which is where I watched it. It was the first or second video in my recommended feed. I even left a comment, "Thank you, Stanford, for uploading this talk for us." which Stanford put a heart on, pinning it to the top of the YouTube comments: https://i.imgur.com/LSi6mqN.png

It was a good talk on a technical level. My guess is he ran into trouble when he briefly criticized modern Google's corporate culture when it comes to work-from-home?
Must be a Coriander/Cilantro -thing, some people smell it differently
And then you also have the books which cost 60€ and aren't even printed in color. I mean it makes sense for ecological reasons, but I can get books for 19€ that are colorized.
It would be a much better reading experience if some boxes would actually show colorized instead of different shades of grey.
As someone with both AAA and game jam experience, you just put my vague misgiving about the AAA process right into words. This is exactly it.

At least my game jam teams have always focused on what the core game loop is first, built that, then iterated, and my AAA teams have always tried more of an assembly-line approach where there's no game at all until everyone's already feeling the pressure. Because supposedly it's more efficient to pre-plan everything and just trust that it all comes together perfectly (art, level design, system design, engineering, sound, etc) first try rather than leaving time to iterate.

Which kind of makes sense when much of generic management takes its cues from automotive manufacturing (assembly lines, Kanban, etc).
The rug where my contributions sit on. That rug.

And as you're surely aware, competent OSS contribution is worth thousands
As somebody who's worked in game dev, I can relate to the author.

You could totally argue that the incompatibility and non-modularity of the land + naval AI systems is bad design, but that does not put the blame on the author: they may not have had anything to do with it!

In my opinion, it is very much leadership who is at fault in this example. When the programming team says "this can't be done in time for release", and then leadership says "that's rough buddy, do it anyways", that's 100% leadership's fault.
It's almost like capitalism is a destructive force and a poor way to organise a society.
It's not just that partisanship has increased: the age of ad-funded has deeply spoiled us with its ability to easily sample the whole spectrum. Even people who hardly ever put that to use (e.g. me) would perceive subscribing to a single source (or two) as a downgrade from what they have. Not a good setup to sell something.

News media really need to look into what they can do to offer spectrum for a non-excessive price. "Spotify for news" could be a way, or (they surely would not want to sell out to a platform taking control of everything money!) wide spectrum syndication networks ("subscription at x includes guest pass options at y, z, a and b"). The challenge is getting all that not only across the opinion spectrum, but also across borders because that's how much we are spoiled.
Maybe, but that's more a comment about Minio than AGPLv3.
That comment saved me the trouble of switching to chatgpt, and saved a lot of kW due to less AI usage.
Webb Uncovers Evidence of Hydration on Asteroid Psyche
The End of Design?
First of all, you need to be very experienced at building real scientists.

All others need not apply.
At this point I'm convinced "Contact Us" is worse for business/sales than just disclosing any outrageous fees upfront
> we couldn’t guarantee that it would be stable by the end of the project.

He said that the time was not enough. Also, we don't know the exact way he communicated the problem.
This would be cool built in a wasm html5 app to whip up a gui in the browser and copy paste the result into your editor.

> It generates and parses C++ code which can be directly used in your application.

Is the parsing part just to read it's own code it generates?
Oh, I didn't even realize Facebook had a text to image model.
Snarky comments like this aren't permitted here.
To save people a few clicks, there's a wonderful visualisation of the generated music at https://ambient.garden/
Yeah with Fox News it’s sometimes difficult to know which lies people are referring to, specifically.
Everything dies.

For decades, SUN Microsystems was a great place to work.
From SUN came some amazing technology that still lives on(ZFS anyone?).

I prefer organisations like that over organisations that’s only purpose seems to be to extract wealth from the economy, to line the pockets of the few well connected.
One argument I heard is that junior team members benefit from others being in the office.

So there might be a long term benefit to the team, even if individual productivity of high performers goes down slightly.
> almost no individual at Google has the fire or drive in them to play to win

Yes, that's why you go to large megacorps. I wouldn't go to Oracle, IBM, Google, Facebook, MS, etc. etc. if I had a "huge fire or a drive to win". Honestly, I go there because I wanna work 5 hours a day (less if possible) and have a stable career.

If I want to work 9-12h a day, give me an upside. None of these huge megacorps will reward that.

If I'm the lead of a Goog project that becomes a hit, do I get $10M bonus? Of course not. I get a pat on the back and something to put in my packet for the next promotion interview.

So you're absolutely right, but the problem is not in people. It's in the way the system's designed.
> imagine a non-arrogant programmer that actually does what you want

I don't think this is going to be reality anytime soon. In order for the LLM or agent to do what you want, you'd need to be able to precisely specify what you want and that's a hard problem all on it's own. And if you were able to do that precise specification you would be the programmer.

Not say the software developer paradigm won't change but it seems very unlikely to become "make me a better google ads system" anytime soon. I could see getting to something were you are given a result by an agent and then can iterate on it, towards some solution.
I actually like that environment, unless I'm having problems debugging something. If something is not working after an hour or so I am on edge and need peace and quiet, but otherwise I can program fine for most tasks with noise around me.
We didn't win the ideological battle against communism through liberal democratic means. That's a common misconception. The war against communism was fought and won with violence. Sometimes this violence was meted out directly by the US (in the case of Vietnam (about 0.5 million civilian casualties), North Korea (1 million), Cambodia (150k)), and in a lot of cases by local militias armed and trained by the US (Indonesia 0.5M dead, the Chile coup leading to Pinochet being in power). The forceful intervention of the US in foreign countries whenever they tried to be even slightly leftist is well documented. Heck, we even armed and trained Bin Laden in the fight against communism!

Maybe within the US itself it was fought with liberal democratic means (although, McCarthyism is a thing), most of the world by population had to be convinced violently.

That isn't to say that all communists were all nice and peaceful like the ones in Chile and Indonesia; Pol Pot and Stalin need no introduction. But to say we won the war with words and ideas dismisses the suffering and pain of millions as non-existent. And no matter where you stand on the debate, that's a bit disrespectful.
Cool haircut on the first picture.

Not only a polymath, but a stylish man also.
Considering that in Meta I heard (from friends) it is/was easier to work remotely and even easier to get into (they are less leetcode oriented) I would expect the problem with Google loosing is somewhere else. Google was loosing on many fronts for a while:

- dart lost to typescript on web

- angular lost to react

- tensorflow looks like currently loosing to pytorch - seems like google got bored and more development is for JAX, Keras wrapper [0]

- IMHO flutter will loose with react-native or kotlin compose multiplatform - compare github insights for details

Meta on the other hand kickstarted open source Llama community. In this situation it's hard to bet on Gemmini or Gemma as 3rd party developer considering google projects kill records. The only project they were really to bet on and invest for the long run without getting tired early on was Chrome and Android.

[0] https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...
Feels like people don't care about privacy that much. Last time I told my exgf about CCTV cameras in public places and how they shouldn't be connected to a network but rather have internal storage to fit a reasonable length of recordings. Since, live CCTVs never prevent any criminal activity and they possess great threat of surveillance by state or bad actors who may get access to them.

So, she called me paranoid.
How can you have "drive to win" if you are just an employee of a company, and have no stake in it?

People love to talk about how capitalism (or free market) solves the tragedy of the commons, but it actually doesn't. The only way to solve it is to make people care about commons by giving them a say in managing it, i.e. socialism.
Indeed: how to avoid needless conflicts is the key. Having a strong offensive is temporary, and potentially difficult to maintain in the long run.

The use of AI/robots in war is probably not a good way to ingrain into people how to avoid conflicts either: as sad as it sound, let them get a taste of it first hand, and that'll probably calm things down more efficiently: not for a few hours/days, but decades.
I haven't read this book, but that takeaway doesn't sound right. In ET, all keys are equally out of tune--that's a natural consequence of it being equal. In contrast, it's just intonation in which chords become progressively further out of tune the further they get from the center.

It's true that ET is a compromise in some ways, but it actually opens up the possibility for radical modulations into more distant keys without having to adjust intonation on the fly. In that sense, just intonation is also a compromise.