skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When a long term business partnership becomes unattractive for one side, the lack of win-win degrades the relationship for both parties.

It causes conflict between mutually valid but now competing priorities (profitability vs. contracted deliverables), demoralization, delays for analysis and consensus building around unpleasant decisions, key people moving on to better contexts, etc.

I am not talking about bad faith.

The primal cause could be failure by one party. But it could also be a market change, critical supplier loss, or other unrecognized reality surfacing.

If Boeing and NASA cut losses on Starliner, they could still work together in the future. Presumably, with both sides doing a better job of understanding their respective and joint risks.

--

Never mistake a good partnership contract, with a good partnership. More than a good contract has to come together for the latter.

And it is wise to have pre-settled terms for unwinding contracts at any time by either parties discretion, to reduce the time to correct a bad situation, and minimize the costs of mishaps and distractions for everyone.
> with enough time

If a textbook is a megabyte (2^20) and might take a week to read and grok, then then it would take 2^20 weeks to read one terabyte (2^40), which is 20 thousand years.

ChatGPT-3 was trained on 570GB of text data, according to reports. So if you have 10,000 years, yeah, sure, a human could read it all. But memorize and recall?
The actual pictures show what appears to be the same ladder. It looks more likely that the artist took a little artistic license. Wood can last a very long time in hot, dry environments. People get crazy over stuff like this, so replacements would likely be built to the exact dimensions of the original, whereas a drawing or engraving isn't going to be an exact replica. If the artist was a devout adherent with a religious/emotional investment in the issue, they'd probably have gotten the ladder details intentionally.

The artist doesn't appear to have been a zealot or invested in the mythos of the ladder. He's a neat character in his own right:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Haghe
Apparently the write protection on SD cards is entirely optional and only enforced on the drive/reader side. The reader can just choose to ignore it and allow you to write to the card willy-nilly: https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/325868/how-d...

And apparently is common for them to be ignored: https://superuser.com/questions/1737227/is-it-now-typical-fo...
Surprisingly I couldn’t reproduce a glaring and longstanding issue.

You can google 2tb flash drives and see a ton advertised for <$100. These are all fake. Surprisingly Amazon doesn’t have any!
Myself I've had three jobs that lasted more than a year and one of those was a "layoff" where the organization was facing an internal crisis, the other one I left because I felt unheard and a startup was going to pay me almost 2x what I was making to work on the kind of stuff I was doing side projects of.

I spent some time working as a consultant and also pitching an idea for an intelligent data transformation system.

I worked at a lot of companies that were unstable (e.g. startup that is just plain unstable, long standing companies that were breaking under the load of tech debt) or had lots of free junk food but no health insurance or a had a boss who had previously supervised both Dave Cutler and Linus Torvalds and had a lot of experience being the last manager to turn off the lights (DEC and Transmeta) but he fell down the stairs getting on a plane and was disabled and mean afterwards. In those cases usually I quit, once I got fired.

But really right now there is a lot of instability in startup land and I hear other people are having your problem.
I generally try to stay away from responding to these posts but it's starting to feel like it's an astroturf concern trolling strategy.

I'm not sure I've properly digested the article but, just from a cursory look, it doesn't even mention the exponentially decreasing costs of compute. I'm not sure my model is correct by I suspect the main driving factor of why FOSS exists and is successful is that the tax imposed by current copyright/IP laws is too usury and FOSS provides a mechanism to circumvent it and provide/capture the value from the dropping costs of compute.

Is the FOSS surplus evaporating? Maybe, but my default position is no. I'd be willing to change that position if some evidence were provided. The article provides none.

Articles like "Is the Open Source Bubble about to Burst?" are click-baity titles that seem on the razors edge of bad faith. The author of that article claims to be a FOSS advocate so I don't know.

Maybe I'm reading too much into things and this is really fallout from some EU politics I'm not fully looped into.
>If you don't need that much e.g. because you have the luck of having your parents support, don't work the full job then. Easy. Less hours worked, more time to study.

What if you are a lonely oldster who'd love to slowly sweep away dust and cigarette butts in front of the local store for 5$ an hour. It doesn't seem obvious that outlawing this is good for society.
Not even a year later isn't really enough time to say that things were forever changed.

Circle back in 10 and let us know if what you said today held true.
Is COVID-19 still an issue considering that there has been only 1151 new cases in the US, and 68 in India, and 73 in Germany yesterday? "Only" 7 people died out of these 1151 people in the US, and we do not know the details, I am assuming old age, compromised immune system, comorbidity, etc.
Why does it bother you?
Yes.

All video games are, by definition, interactive videos.

What I imagine you're asking about is, a typical game like Doom is effectively a function:

f(internal state, player input) -> (new frame, new internal state)

where internal state is the shape and looks of loaded map, positions and behaviors and stats of enemies, player, items, etc.

A typical AI that plays Doom, which is not what's happening here, is (at runtime):

f(last frame) -> new player input

and is attached in a loop to the previous case in the obvious way.

What we have here, however, is a game you can play but implemented in a diffusion model, and it
works like this:

f(player input, N last frames) -> new frame

Of note here is the lack of game state - the state is implicit in the contents of the N previous frames, and is otherwise not represented or mutated explicitly. The diffusion model has seen so much Doom that it, in a way, internalized most of the state and its evolution, so it can look at what's going on and guess what's about to happen. Which is what it does: it renders the next frame by predicting it, based on current user input and last N frames. And then that frame becomes the input for the next prediction, and so on, and so on.

So yes, it's totally an interactive video and a game and a third thing - a probabilistic emulation of Doom on a generative ML model.
Feedly's web app is awesome. I usually use the web version on iPad.

The main problem with RSS apps these days is they respect the article summary and do not render the full article in the app, so you have to read in the in-app browser or default browser. The (iOS) in-app browser doesn't have extensions or dark mode, so

Alternatively, everyone wants you to visit their site so only publish their RSS with a summary.
Unexplored? Seems like every other movie, book or article about the recent wars is about trauma and PTSD. You can't get away from introspection! I'd much rather read something about the effect it had on the people living there.
It's illegal to pool tips in my state, but people still do it off the books a lot. Good dishwashers will often be tipped out via this tip pool, and I've seen really fantastic restaurants grind to a halt overnight because someone there decided to enforce that code and stopped tipping out the dishies. There's a huge difference between someone who does the bare minimum vs a dishwasher who's fast, good at cleaning, and helps out around the kitchen where needed, and the market rewards them and punishes those who don't compensate them for it, even it it is under the table. The guy I knew who left to find a similar tipped job elsewhere was making $40/hr with the pooled tips (nice restaurants mean high prices and high tips) and everyone was happy to pay him out that much until one person wasn't.
I've been having some fun lately reverse engineering the "password" systems that some console games used prior to memory cards and backup RAM.

Some are very straightforward - just an encoding of which level you were on, your score, etc.

Others are that plus a halfhearted checksum, or an actual standard CRC checksum.

Still others are these elaborate obfuscation schemes with encryption using a fixed key, then scrambling, then a checksum.

My favorite so far: ThunderStrike 2 does a few things, and one of them XORs your input with the string "NOSEY GIT". I took it to mean the original programmer was chiding me for trying to cheat at the game.
The number of comments from people who need their choices validated by a random person on the internet under posts like this invariable proves to me that even they know that this is true and it makes them upset. Classic is/ought situation.
I choose 1917 because it's both old - the point of this exercise - and right after a lowering of the band $3K to $2K and increased taxes in response to WWI. WWI was quite a dramatic event.

I'm not sure what you're arguing - that it changed dramatically or that it has not changed dramatically. If you're arguing it has changed dramatically then I guess we are in agreement.

You should also note that 1917 was prior to the introduction of sales taxes (1921) and social security taxes (1937). Looking at only federal income tax paints an rather incomplete picture when looking at total tax burdens.

"A married couple with no kids will pay < 5% on 50k" I assume they're dual filing for the 50K so 25K on average? The lower %16 percent of the population. A weird number to pick.
No, they did it the actually good/cheap way: straight PCIe.
I knew it was too good be true but seems like real time video generation can be good enough to get to a point where it feels like a truly interactive video/game

Imagine if text2game was possible. there would be some sort of network generating each frame from an image generated by text, with some underlying 3d physics simulation to keep all the multiplayer screens sync'd

this paper does not seem to be of that possibility rather some cleverly words to make you think people were playing a real time video. we can't even generate more than 5~10 second of video without it hallucinating. something this persistent would require an extreme amount of gameplay video training. it can be done but the video shown by this paper is not true to its words.
> It looks exactly like Gnome

Hyperbole is so boring
> Now, I only purchase in-person from large vendors with direct-from-manufacturer custody [this costs more, obviously].

Could you say which you've had luck with?
This is mind blowing. This is not just a toy, I made a landing page that is publishable in 3 prompts.
To the GP point, though, if it's unilaterally applied there may be unintentional consequences. Their example was working as a teenager; relatively high minimum wages may end up cutting most teenagers out of the workforce. If an employer has the choice between a 35 year old and a 15 year old for the same pay, they are generally going to hire the 35 y.o. That isn't to say minimum wage can't be raised for heads-of-households or some other administrative distinction, but a one-size-fits-all approach may cause a bunch of other issues.
TIL about the OTF, seems like a pretty awesome non-profit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Technology_Fund

> The Open Technology Fund (OTF) is an American nonprofit corporation[5] that aims to support global Internet freedom technologies. Its mission is to "support open technologies and communities that increase free expression, circumvent censorship, and obstruct repressive surveillance as a way to promote human rights and open societies. As of November 2019, the Open Technology Fund became an independent nonprofit corporation and a grantee of the U.S. Agency for Global Media.[5] Until its formation as an independent entity, it had operated as a program of Radio Free Asia.[5]

> ... The OTF funds third-party audits for all the code-related projects it supports.[13] It has also offered to fund audits of "non-OTF supported projects that are in use by individuals and organizations under threat of censorship/surveillance".[13] Notable projects whose audits the OTF has sponsored include Cryptocat,[14] Commotion Wireless,[15] TextSecure,[15] GlobaLeaks,[15] MediaWiki,[16] OpenPGP.js,[17] Nitrokey,[18] Ricochet[19] and Signal.[20] The OTF also matched donations to the auditing of TrueCrypt.[21] In 2014, the OTF reported that it had funded more than 30 technology code audits over the past three years, identifying 185 privacy and security vulnerabilities in both OTF and non-OTF-funded projects.
> Another norm that Telegram does not conform to in the usual way

Seems beyond a "norm" if your CEO is jailed for not "conforming"
I’ve heard corporate types call open source projects “security risks” and “commie nonsense” but it does stop them from trying to acquire the work for free to profit off of it. It’s greedy and duplicitous. It’s capture.
To the downvoter, I am not wrong that Electron is 99% responsible for app bloat.
TAIS – a framework for autonomous scientific discovery
'This paper presents the first comprehensive framework for fully automatic scientific discovery, enabling frontier large language models (LLMs) to perform research independently and communicate their findings.

We introduce The AI Scientist, which generates novel research ideas, writes code, executes experiments, visualizes results, describes its findings by writing a full scientific paper, and then runs a simulated review process for evaluation.'

'The AI Scientist can produce papers that exceed the acceptance threshold at a top machine learning conference as judged by our automated reviewer.'
Which is why the approach iced/libcosmic is taking is great. It's mostly just changing colors and some border radius. As a user, I can make my GUI match my text editor/terminal and I'm happy. It's not like the old days of GTK2.x with pixbuf themes making everything crazy (although that was fun). After all this is desktop linux, people tend to gravitate to it because they want to be able to tweak things.

I mean even OSX has had accent colors for years, ffs.
There is a hint in the paper itself:

It says in a shy way that it is based on:
"Ha & Schmidhuber (2018) who train a Variational Auto-Encoder (Kingma & Welling, 2014) to encode game frames into a
latent vector"

So it means they most likely took https://worldmodels.github.io/ (that is actually open-source) or something similar and swapped the frame generation by Stable Diffusion that was released in 2022.
> The easiest way to get started with Snikket is to launch your own Snikket instance
The PLB is much more reliable and redundant, and the signal directly reaches official rescue authorities much quicker- but it is a rescue beacon only, with no 'tracking' or messaging abilities.

A communicator can send your location and status- and newer more expensive ones can even do two way texting, and can call for help, but it is not as much of a serious emergency rescue device.

In the USA boats over 55 feet are required by law to carry a PLB or EPIRB (e.g. a large PLB that is attached to the boat rather than a person) that is registered with NOAA with the vessel details.

I'm a 'belt and suspenders' type person and on very remote wilderness or sailing trips I carry a PLB, a SPOT tracker (a communicator brand), and an iPhone in a rugged waterproof case with a waterproof wireless backup battery and solar charger.
Great info, ty!
I broke off libsignal at that point.

I've encountered this argument ... repeatedly. Let's explore the DIY route:

If you can build your own Signal server, you too can serve you and your own circle of friends. The bar is not that high (Java and VPS).

Signal clients are even easier but it remains mostly an unique build-challenge due to not so strong documentation and by the virtue of mastery of multi-platforms.
Having said all that jazz, step back and ask yourself this, what am I losing by building my own Signal-protocol network?

Anonymity

Now, you would easily stick out like sore thumb to all the Internet overwatch, even within VPN tunnels.
That's a risk for me.

What am I actually gaining?

Not much: a more unique hash signature of client app (it has downsides); the ability to perform a unique but slight tweak of hash/key/encryption algorithm using same Signal protocol (dangerous rabbit hole), and avoidance of XDR/NDR/IPS/IDS firewall, and the biggest one: zero spreading of hashed contact info (more on this below).

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Alternatively, let's take the original route: your own client against "the" Signal server:

Now, Signal protocol would be open to misshapen protocal usages (think "fuzzing"). Might be a good thing but certainly not at this early stage; do we have the manpower to stand guard over a protocol like ISC Bind9 team do with their DNS?

The one area that is not firmed up 100% (more like 99.999%) yet is the Privacy Information Protection axiom and that is centered around the exhanges of hashed "Contact" address book.

This there is largely understudied and under-whitepapered: how to exchange contact info in safe privacy order just to build your network: I keep that Signal client app option off for now and manually add my contacts. That's why I think that Signal team is moving away from telephone number.

So i am now dual-tracking usage of libsignal.
Apple Cuts Jobs in Online Services Group as Priorities Shift
I've been daily driving it on arch since the day it released and it's quite usable, with minimal bugs for my needs.

I just wish they add an applet that integrates Google Calendar stuff in their calendar, so I can know if I have a meeting or something coming up at a glance.
The basic messaging ("Nuclear power is good for me, but not for thee") is plainly and obviously inconsistent. I'm genuinely at a loss to understand why you would contest this.

The hypothesized messaging, that is. There's no evidence of such a propaganda campaign from Soviet side in those years (cover or overt), so this entire discussion is moot anyway.
I mean, there are ways to go about this without being an employee. You can start an LLC and contract yourself out if you really want to. I'm just not sure keeping that option open as an employee is a net-positive given all the downsides for people who don't fall into such a narrow example.
> IMHO it tends to create an expectation that all interesting and challenging work should be uncompensated

The more significant contributor to that expectation is large commercial vendors using open source as a loss-leader or goodwill marketing. Look at the all the assumptions these days that maintainers are customer service, not just people doing their own thing in a workshop with the doors open.
> I was lucky to learn early-on that publishing important things to the web meant relinquishing control of not just the IP, but my own agency and fate.

Not only is that not true, it's contradicted by the very page you link.

That page has a list of links to resources you can use to self-host git repositories you want to publish, so you don't have to give up control of anything.

(Although, against GitHub as I am, even I am unable to fathom how publishing things on GitHub could possibly mean relinquishing control of your fate.)
Shouldn't be a hard sell to developers. According to this year's StackOverflow survey, Phoenix is by far the most admired web framework (10% above the second most popular). Elixir is the second most admired language, behind Rust.

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#2-web-framew...
Compilation of JavaScript to WASM, Part 3: Partial Evaluation
I suspect he’ll be under more Assange-in-the-embassy style scrutiny than the executive charged with financial crimes was.

I don’t think anyone was expecting Ghosn to pull some cloak-and-dagger shit, where I have to imagine DGSI is all over this one, and were probably the people behind the original request.
Saying that it “launders” only makes sense under the position you are claiming. So, it might be fine as a conclusion/claim, which I guess is how you’re using it, but it wouldn’t be good to use as part of an argument leading to your conclusion.

(I didn’t phrase that well…)

I generally don’t consider “learn” to apply only to entities which have the rights of a person, and of which ownership would amount to slavery.

It is a common saying “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”. It is widely understood that, in contrast, one can often teach a young dog new tricks. The dog, in this case, learns the trick. We do not generally consider training an animal to do a task to be slavery. Well, some vegans might? But it is far from a typical view of the word “slavery”.

So, am I saying that these language models are as rights-having and mind-having as a dog? No, much less so. Still, I have no objection to the word “learn” being used in this way.
Today people make software with only financial gains in mind.
The software is not made with passion, by passionate professionals.
Someone should start a list with crappy software like these, and a list with highly optimized and efficient software. I propose Total Commander for Windows, Spinrite.
That is a good point- large marine vessels are required by law to carry a PLB or EPIRB, so that is probably the major market.
There “might” be a need to *selectively* censor people expressing illegitimate “science”. Especially when they knowingly do it knowingly.

What Facebook does though, is horrific. They are not just letting illegitimate science have a platform, they are actively and intentionally propping that shit up because it creates victimhood communities.
I got stuck a long time in restaurants from around 18 years old to right at 30. Finally got out and move to the construction industry. I'm just wondering what exactly Aguilar did in construction that's definitely harder than some high volume fast paced kitchens. Only thing I can come up with is most likely roofing, especially during the summer, because everything else I've been through in construction is easier.

"I ask Aguilar: How does this compare to the construction work you did back home? 'It’s easy,' he says."
Not literally a tale as old as time. Time existed for billions of years before humans.
Work which exaggerates the blindness.

The people were told to focus very deeply on a certain aspect of the scene. Maintaining that focus means explicitly blocking things not related to that focus. Also, there is social pressure at the end to have peformed well at the task; evaluating them on a task which is intentionally completely different than the one explicitly given is going to bias people away from reporting gorillas.

And also, "notice anything unusual" is a pretty vague prompt. No-one in the video thought the gorillas were unusual, so if the PEOPLE IN THE SCENE thought gorillas were normal, why would I think they were strange? Look at any TV show, they are all full of things which are pretty crazy unusual in normal life, yet not unusual in terms of the plot.

Why would you think the gorillas were unusual?
Interesting.

How does this interact with something trivial like remortgaging a house?

Say I bought a house for 100k, cash. Now it's worth 200k. I want to take another 50k mortgage on it. Do I realize cap gains on 25% of my house, i.e. an increase of value on 25k to 50k, and then I'm liable for cap gains on 25k? At 20% say, that's 5k tax. Unpleasant for sure, but doesn't seem out of proportion.