skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The MIT principles framework (linked in TFA) is here: <https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/framework/>

The core principles of an MIT Framework for publisher contracts are:

- No author will be required to waive any institutional or funder open access policy to publish in any of the publisher’s journals.

- No author will be required to relinquish copyright, but instead will be provided with options that enable publication while also providing authors with generous reuse rights.

- Publishers will directly deposit scholarly articles in institutional repositories immediately upon publication or will provide tools/mechanisms that facilitate immediate deposit.

- Publishers will provide computational access to subscribed content as a standard part of all contracts, with no restrictions on non-consumptive, computational analysis of the corpus of subscribed content.

- Publishers will ensure the long-term digital preservation and accessibility of their content through participation in trusted digital archives.

- Institutions will pay a fair and sustainable price to publishers for value-added services, based on transparent and cost-based pricing models.

<https://libraries.mit.edu/scholarly/publishing/framework/>

Engrave that in stone, title it the Aaron Swartz memorial, and set it before every academic library in the world.
Unpopular opinion, but this is great. FTC has been overreaching the past 4 years and it needed proper checks and balances from the court. As the Judge mentioned, there are specific cases where Non Compete doesnt make sense and there are cases where it does especially if you are paid highly for the specific reason that you are long term investment for that company.

Else trade secrets can easily be hired away from competition
Well, its simple to not just toast a string directly from a third party you dont control : D
I would start with an operating systems textbook or MOOC. Then you have more specific books like Practical File System Design and there are a bunch of Linux kernel books but I'm not sure which ones are good for I/O.
Right, so if I screw over the server because the restaurant charged me a stupid fee, then maybe the server will go somewhere better. I can't easily refuse to pay the fee, so I'll just take it out on the server. The server is the representative for the restaurant after all.
most of what you've said is pure pro union. propaganda is not necessarily untrue in every regard, but it selectively paints a rosy picture toward a particular agenda. Union workers can always "walk away any time", your "right to work selling point" doesn't even make sense.

right-to-work laws simply say that you can work for a company without being forced to join the union that is representing some/all of your fellow workers. Forcing workers to join unions (and pay dues) in order to get a job greatly enhances the power of union bosses, and as we all know, power corrupts.
Are Bookstores Just a Waste of Space?
It’s become an invaluable resource for my team in debugging scripts we’ve written for our services. There are a couple of third-party integrations that have been helping us greatly increase our release of features and fixes for problems in our company.
Good catch! This is a mistake, fixing now.
There was something similar shown here on HN a few months back (but for current Googlers) [0]. Apparently this counts as commercial bribery. I guess ex Google Ads folk giving their market expertise to another company as an SEO Consultant might not be a problem, unless somehow they're breaking an NDA about divulging company secrets or special sauce?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40431126 "Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions (plsfix.co)"
Why would you expect step 3 to work?
I expect it's more because it's growth has been in modern times. Some planner liked frontage roads and set the fetish.

In areas where large highways were built over small highways, it isn't so easy to add an additional road.
Leave it open source exactly as it is now, do not put convenient downloadable binaries up on Github. Allow me to either compile it myself or pay for the binaries?

There must be some other way to monetize open source.
One problem I have with functional programming is that I find it hard to debug.

With imperative programming you can follow a program step by step, line by line, it can be done with a debugger, pen and paper, or in your head.

With functional programming, not so much. It runs functions. What do these functions do? Don't know, they are pieced up from someplace else in the code. And thanks to lazy evaluation, they may not even exist. In the design phase, it is mostly a good thing, as it is flexible, and pure functions are less likely to make a mess than functions with side effects, but there will be a point where the program will not behave as it should, no matter your paradigm. And that's when it becomes a problem.

It is also a problem with object programming if you abuse abstraction, in fact, it is a general problem with abstraction, but functional programming makes it the default, whereas imperative programming is concrete by default.

As for the Python example, I am a bit surprised that the optimizer didn't catch it, all three are common and equivalent constructs that could have been replaced by the most performant implementation, presumably the third one. But well, optimizers are complicated.
That's one scenario I'm afraid of... that businesses have rational incentive to push boundaries for workers that aren't ultra high value, and that terms like these basically force you to stay at Subways.
In my experience, the average Elsevier paper has worse typesetting than the average LaTeX document. At least in CS journals. The lines are too long, the font is too dense, and mathematical expressions look wrong. Springer, ACM, and IEEE are a bit better, but LIPIcs conference proceedings (where the author is responsible for typesetting) beat them all.
I wonder how long it will be until we see AI training data honeypots… I guess that’s effectively what “The Pile” is in the context of this lawsuit.
In my experience doing these interviews in Node and Python, it takes about 5 minutes to get running. If it takes more than that... maybe use a different codebase.
The nation owning the means of production is not the same as the workers owning the means of production. (I will admit that in a democracy it may be closer to worker ownership. Or maybe not, depending on how well the elite have managed to control the government.)
That’s never the case though - you don’t just “turn on” SAML integration. It’s a huge support burden, with every SAML provider requiring unique (and frequently updated) documentation, testing, and support enablement.

And that’s assuming you don’t include auth in any of your release testing cycles (which you should). If you do, now you’re including unit and end to end testing with Okta, MS, Google, OneLogin, Jumpcloud, Ping, and anyone else your customers choose to use.

Don’t forget to run those tests with both SAML and OIDC. And make sure the engineers who know how to co figure each of those vendors’ SSO systems are aligned with your testing schedules.

Also don’t forget that you need dev/partner accounts with all of those vendors. And they’ll need to be active when you test.
I think you're still giving too much away: you're saying that a past employer has the right to block you from other employment opportunities (so long as they pay some predetermined amount).

Instead, how about get rid of noncompetes entirely. If someone doesn't want you to go to be employed by a competitor of theirs, they'll have to make you a deal (employment, or other contract) that you'll accept at that time. No past noncompete clause in an imbalanced power dynamic required.

(Side note: This would also be incentive for companies to go back to inspiring loyalty, by example. And not hiring mercenaries who will hop at the next better deal.)
if you look up Indonesia and Allende on wikipedia, it doesn't say "the US did this", and given wikipedia's politics, it would if they could make a case for it.
There is a mildly related math puzzle I learned at some point in high school (iirc):

someone comes to a subway station at (uniform) random times between 6p and 8p; he notices that the first train he observes arriving at the same station is 3 times more often inbound than outbound. He also knows that time intervals between the trains going in the opposite directions are fixed and equal — say, always 6 minutes, so the only random event here is when this person arrives at the platform. Explain how this is possible.
From my experience in NY, where most stops are optional unless someone needs to get on/off, the schedule means very little. If the schedule says the busses come at 15 minute intervals, all you can assume is that the bus might hopefully come sometime within the next 15 minutes. There tend to be stops roughly every block, so having all stops be mandatory would make walking competitive with taking the bus.
Why post an article that's behind a paywall? How many of us can read it?
Anything in the BMW 7-series-size or MB S-class, which Toyota does not make, though the Lexus LS is,
so that's arguable.
Toyota confirms third-party data breach impacting customers
You’re actually not in agreement, because “AI first” would imply it being a core feature of the IDE/Editor, something like Zed, whereas a plugin would imply that I can ignore it and it not being a core part of said IDE/Editor.
Makes you wonder what the resale value is, now that he's completed the aftermarket conversion?
I'm inclined to support well-compensated non-competes, eg "you can't work in this industry for 1 year, but we'll pay you 100% of your salary for that year." That would allow non-competes for people where it really matters to a company (eg where they're willing to throw a lot of money after it), but ban it the rest of the time.

It's still harmful, but you're at least able to get compensated for the harm.
Author talked about usability problem with database, it's oxymoron usability problem in this site where all the text are in gray which makes reading very painful. Had to use "Darken Text" Chrome ext so it is not killing my eye!
AirTag helps track down mail theft suspects
> Nothing was effectively remote when the company started operations

> It’s also unknown how many of Nothing’s 450 employees live close to the office. Many professional workers bought homes outside London during the pandemic.

Wow, harsh. I hope they pay well enough to compensate for that crazy policy.
why do people pretend that google search is straight forward

> the stuff you find through a traditional web search tends to either be from a blog post

Is that so? Most of my hits have been stack overflow and github issues, where there are false positives, same problem to AI hallucination
GP’s comment was not a hypothetical, the names were just changed to protect the guilty:

https://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/22/jimmy-johns-drops-non-compet...
Especially if you remember that the change needed for the first "breakthrough" (GPT4) was RLHF. That is, a model that was specifically trained to mesmerize.
I hope the second researcher to look at these writings looked sternly at the first, gesturing at the pieces of torn papyrus and questioned: Euripides?!?
I'm guessing OP probably meant an "at-will" employment state [0], which is rather more relevant.

Those two terms are frequently confused, and I place a lot of the blame for that on the blandly Orwellian naming of "right to work" laws, which actually take away rights instead. Specifically, it outlaws any group of workers and employers from making a certain kind of voluntary agreement between one-another.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment
Perhaps I'm misguided, but I don't see how this is bad for Sam Altman. If anything, it's probably a small win.
Non-competes are a thing both in the UK and several EU countries and quite common in some jobs. Also quite enforceable and also not necessarily paid.
It is negative. Because the rest of us are still forced to wade through the endless worthless sludge your ilk produces.
This is why I feel like OpenAI and the public release of ChatGPT has probably done more damage than good. In trying to get ahead of everyone else, they have thrown a lot of great tech under the bus trying to get market dominance.

It has made people lump all AI technology into a bubble regardless of it is functional or not.

You are using this stuff to do some really cool things, but having hype attached to it can be very positive short term, damaging in the medium term and neutral long term. We are moving into the medium term.
If you can’t sit down with someone, have a simple tech conversation with them and be able to tell if they know what they are doing… if you need to “give someone a test”… the problem is likely not the candidate.
>The timeline for the DoT's plan extends to 2036, by which time it hopes to have fully deployed V2X across the National Highway System, for the top 75 metro areas to have the tech enabled at 85 percent of signalized intersections and to have 20 vehicle models that are V2X capable. In the shorter term, the agency aims to have V2X tech installed across 20 percent of the National Highway System and 25 percent of signalized intersections in major metro areas by 2028.

So the same government department that took around 10 just years to get adaptative headlights approved thinks this will happen in 11 years. Yeah, not going to happen this century.
We are living through the best ever time to be a music lover. With so much good music being made and added to the existing body of recordings, together with the great (albeit commercially compromised) recommendation systems, it's just fantastic.

Algos are useful for finding and playing music but they are just a tool. The human touch is needed to create the best musical experiences. That's why we need DJs now more than ever.

To experience the best music, for you, you're going to have to do a bit of work to search out new sounds and old sounds. So go digging and create awesome playlists, for you, and share them: they'll probably be better than algo-created playlists.

Algorithmic playlist systems are great but I believe we should counteract their prevalence by also supporting human efforts: by also listening to online radio stations and DJ mixes, supporting music journalism and publications (as well as buying physical media and merch, going to gigs, of course!)

I don't understand exactly what this Google paper is describing but it sounds like it's going to anticipate whether I want to listen to up beat or down beat music. What a very googleish thing to do! - this doesn't help me at all. Also I'm turned off by it's opening statement:

>We present a music recommendation ranking system that uses Transformer models to better understand the sequential nature of user actions based on the current user context.

This comes across as nonsensical gobbledygook, but also a bit dystopian.
There will be no more progress via scaling. All the available training data has already been exploited.
That's true, but right-to-work states tend to also have lots of other employer-friendly legislation. In theory, you could have a state with a right-to-work law and good employee protections. In practice, I'm not aware that one exists.

Right-to-work has become an almost sarcastic shorthand for a state that gives employers strong powers against their workers, and then wonders why they don't have more startups.
What’s the point of this argument? Maybe I have heard people bashing AI... 26 times?
Seeking explanations: Election security (paper or electronic voting)
It's a given that we'll have some elections deniers this year, and some people won't trust the results regardless. But it would be useful to educate the average person on why that can have trust in our elections (paper or electronic voting).

I'd love to hear some good succinct explanations on this that I can share.
Yes, I think if we ask about a more trivial thing we will have the same responses. For example, “Do you put the toilet paper roll with the paper coming over the top or hanging under the bottom?”.

Regarding LLMs I bet we will see them evolving. Don't forget about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41269791 there are many problems that LLMs are no good for but they are being better that many Google search results, and that means something from the economic point of view.

I am sure that The Economist analytics is having a good moment /s.
http://archive.today/QUi1q
Who is they? The desingers charge to more for harder designs so the more it costs the more they make. Similar for the builders.
reducing the load on overworked teachers by using GPT to generate exercises, quizes and explanations for students is "endless worthless sludge"?
Much like Aileen Cannon is completely independent of Trump, right?
design build works well for things they copy often. A design build house is your best deal on new construction. When things are unique costs blow up
Good point about robots. But there will be a throughput issue. You cannot accelerate physical movement.
Americans will do anything but build alternative transportation options to cars, build more efficient cities to allow for biking/walking to be more viable (car independence), or replacing useless parking garages, parking lots with scalable housing and living.

Automated vehicle transportation is a bust. Now Americans think installing a backdoor into a vehicle is going to solve the problem. Smh.

All of this while a majority of the country is suffering from intense heatwaves, increased intensity of storms due to climate change.
Do you imagine the suits in Amsterdam are actually responsible for the quality of any given Elsevier journal? Most of the genuinely prestigious titles they publish were acquisitions. It is as clear an example of rent seeking as anyone can come up with.
This argument is basically wrong because it supposes companies don't have market power when they do. "Market power" doesn't mean monopoly. It takes at least four and more often at least a dozen viable competitors before you have enough that there isn't an implicit cartel, and there are altogether too many markets where this is the case.

Nearly all specialty or line of business software, for example. These markets commonly have two or three providers and rarely have hundreds. Literally the intended purpose of copyright in this context is to give the authors market power.

And then the example given is the sympathetic one. The premise here is that there are the same number of customers willing to pay $40 as $10, and so the rational choice for a company not engaged in price discrimination is to charge $40 to everyone and price discrimination allows them to provide a "discount" to half of the customers.

Now suppose that only 10% of the customers would be willing to pay $40. The single-price profit-maximizing strategy is then to charge $10, because 100% x $10 is more than 10% x $40, and no customer benefits because all price discrimination does is allow them to overcharge the remaining 10%.

More to the point, in an actually competitive market, price discrimination isn't possible. If the marginal cost of providing the service is $7 and anyone is charging $40 to anyone, someone else could take those customers by charging $39, and someone else could take their customers by charging $25, until the market price is a thin margin over the underlying cost of providing the service. Because even the customers willing to pay $40 would prefer to pay $8, and the company that has 0.25% market share at $40 would rather have 10% market share at $8.

The better argument in favor of the "SSO tax" is the one from the comments: That SSO actually increases the cost of providing the service by raising support costs.
We don’t let people carry around lethal weapons just because some people think it’s a “way of life”, so why should it be diff…… oh wait
About time.
I like to drive and wish to keep my liberty on the road as much as anyone else but I think it would be easy to send basic just-in-time telemetry to the other neighboring cars to improve cruise control, emergency braking and heavy traffic situations.

The car in front of you could easily send its exact speed, throttle/brake position. If it is following gps, it could broadcast the next turn on its route to help you predict its intentions (turn signals are often lacklusters or too complicated for some drivers)

In traffic, it could help stiffen the elastic by reducing the reaction time either by either telling the driver to get ready or accelerating for them.

The possibilities are infinite once you have a minimum of telemetry.
Can you describe why not? Is it because a citation in academia (as opposed to corporate R&D) isn't "real" unless it comes from a big publisher?
> Like, you can't make a column of lists-of-strings.

Most relational databases have supported lists-of-strings (arrays) for about 10 years now. All of them supported lists-of-strings even before that, if you were okay doing a bit of app-level work on top of your SQL.

Relational databases these days support full JSON. And they're faster at it than many json-first databases :)

edit: Actually I'm wrong. SQL added support for arrays in 1999, a full 25 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL:1999 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30109111/at-what-version...
Making a choice means making decisions. Making decisions can definitely be taxing, especially when yourself or your social circle insists that decisions were "good", "smart", or otherwise met a standard of excellence.

Suddenly you end up in a situation where you need to prove yourself, else the smartass cousin or your own resentful self will constantly remind you how you played the fool when you could have made a much better choice, obvious in hindsight.

An agent (human or machine) that chooses the tickets for you because you can't be bothered with such mundane trivialities may be quite desirable for some.
If they fail to earn a profit, yes.
>but we'll pay you 100% of your salary for that year.

if you can't work in the industry, and you get just 100% of your salary that's completely not worth it as you waste time not becoming a more competitive hire in the market - unless you aren't that specialized, but then why bind you with non-compete anyways?
> erasing the fuel savings

While cars are undoubtedly heavier now than in the past, they are also in most cases the most fuel efficient they have ever been. Some of the weight is a direct result of fuel saving technologies in many cases; hybrid systems and traction batteries often weigh more than less efficient legacy ICE powertrains did.
I suppose that he was working on MCAS on the 737 Max.
> I would like to see the cost to register these behemoths to be commiserate with the actual cost to society.

I would like these vehicles to be sent to the landfill immediately.
The OpenAI contracts are nine kinds of illegal in countless jurisdictions and a source of constant scandal with an emphasis on compete and disclose rights.

Whatever happens when you mix Altman, Summers, and Simo?

It’s a biohazard.