skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you grew up in the 70's there was a lot of Canadian programming that Americans could watch on PBS. One in particular was called "Fast Forward" which covered topics in TV, Radio, and Computers in a very nerd-kid-friendly format. Only a few scraps of it remain on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vjkuFk2mOE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kye9emAtBkU

By far the thing I remembered most was the animation from the National Film Board (NFB) which gave me a few early lessons in Canadiana. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZyDsF-Gp3o (Any Habs fans out there?)

But when I talk to Canadian friends / co-workers these days, the younger ones are completely unaware of the older cultural ephemera. Even saying I was really into Gordon Lightfoot doesn't seem to have the same resonance that it used to. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmGBna0JJ_U
The only downside about canceling Prime is that you can only do it once. I canceled prime because they started putting ads in their video service, despite the fact that I was paying for it. That was a fun one.

Now it’s like, well, what else can I do? I guess I’m boycotting Amazon, but is it really boycotting when their store is “here’s a random electronic device, maybe it is what you ordered,” I mean, why would I place an order for that in the first place?

I’m also boycotting gun store that only sells footguns.
> You have an autonomous system that's ingesting copyrighted material, doing math on it, storing it, and producing outputs on user requests

People are also autonomous systems that ingest copyrighted material, do "math" on it, store it, and produce outputs on user requests.

The real difference is the scale at which a computer can ingest copyrighted material is MUCH greater than what a person can do. Does that make it illegal? Maybe, maybe not.
There are parts of France that are simply off limits because the volume of UXO left over from WWI was deemed too much to even try to clean up: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-i/zone-rouge.html
The format is just so underpowered for what music notation requires, unfortunately. Michael Good pulled off a miracle writing the standard, but it doesn't do enough and now we have to deal with those shortcomings by fixing thousands of files that were perfectly fine.
Thank you for having added those!

What makes it circumstantially more performant, by the way?

Off-topic, but consider changing "circumstancially" to "circumstantially" in the README; the latter is the correct term.
I think there’s an interesting question of why housing has outpaced inflation, but I’m not sure you can just pin it on “landlords.”

A small, individual landlord has no pricing power. They’re competing in a market against all others. You’d have to control a substantial fraction of a local market to be able to raise prices above the going rates and still rent your units.

I think the most likely answer is a combination of several factors.

1) Not enough new housing being built in desirable areas (supply), cause by some combination of drastic increase in cost of labor and materials, and NIMBY regulations.

2) Actual collusion to fix prices. There have been a few recent court cases about collusion mediated by price setting software (RealPage Yield Star).

3) The appearance of “mega landlords” that control a meaningful share of supply in a metro.

At the end of the day, having the option to rent instead of own is one I think we want to have in our society, for reasons of mobility, risk aversion, etc. That necessitates the existence of either public housing, or landlords.

We can argue about the lesser of two evils, but in my mind it’s probably landlords, hopefully with some substantial regulation reform to eliminate opportunities for price fixing.
That's still a terrible underestimate. Meta alone spends more than this in VR yearly with development and they are not recreating more software than the whole OSS every year.
A high school friend of mine in Modesto became a cop and ended up doing undercover work - small-time stuff, mostly dealing with biker gangs and meth dealers. Years later we met up and he told me the undercover work he did reminded him of the movie, "Donnie Brasco", because the movie showed how it becomes extremely difficult to separate your "undercover life" from your regular home life. For years after he retired, he had nightmares about bumping into someone he busted. He left Modesto, but still gets nervous whenever he hears a Harley cruising by him out on the road.
> When Viacom sued YouTube for $1.6 billion they were trying to halt the public from accessing their content on YouTube. They only sued YouTube, not YouTube users, and only because YouTube stored Viacom IP without permission.

Now do these steps for OpenAI instead of YouTube. Only OpenAI doesn't let users upload content, and instead scraped the content for themselves.
98% accuracy in predicting diseases by the colour of the tongue
A computer algorithm has achieved a 98% accuracy in predicting different diseases by analysing the colour of the human tongue.
Your perception of the moon is not the moon. A map is not the territory, but maps is all we have. If a map is useful, then it is good.
I bought 4 new N300 disks "Sold by Amazon" in a single order

one was obviously a return by someone else, it was in completely different unofficial packaging and was DOA

getting the bot like staff to accept that it wasn't me that had broken it was such fun I ended up deleting my 20 year amazon account

and haven't bought anything since
I use ads on my OSS projects' websites so to the degree ad blockers block low key, non intrusive ad networks favored by OSS projects like Ethical Ads and Carbon Ads, they are hurting regular people
Where People Go When They Want to Hack You [video]
lol come on. “I might have to sell some assets in order to pay money I owe” is not the end of the free market economy.
>Yeah because Trump is the one who's going after his opponents using the judical system.

I'm sorry, the $450 million judgement was for systemic fraud committed for decades prior to his involvement in politics.

Further, the going after him for retaining government documents could have been avoided completely if he didn't lie to the FBI, lie to them again, and then lie to his own attorneys so they'd unknowingly lie to the FBI on his behalf. It's not like they were benign documents about what the secreatary of HUD or eudcation eats for lunch; they were SCI documents pertaining to Israel's nuclear weapons program...that were gifted to the Saudis so the Saudi PIF would in turn fund a golf tournament Trump could host at his courses in an attempt to give the middle finger to the PGA Tour.
Germany, for one. Your employer pays the first 90 days, after that the health insurance takes over (IIRC) 70% of your wage, and many employers that value their employees pay the remaining 30%.

Firing someone is very hard in Germany unless it's about closing up shop or intentional action against the employer (shit like theft or vandalism).
> the architect Walter Gropius, a well-known flat roofer and ostensibly Tessenow’s opposition, insisted “the question of whether a roof is flat or pitched is to be answered solely on the basis of practicality, technology, and efficiency.

hey Walter: have you heard of snow? It's known to fall in Berlin. Not so much in Jerusalem.
It would still be illegal to ask the chatbot to recreate the text of Harry Potter.

Now, if you were to ask it to generate a similar story based on Harry Potter, that would be fine. Especially since that's basically what JK Rowling did after watching Star Wars.
Without access to the content which is suppressed, how can you form an opinion on whether that suppression is ethical?
Even with ubo I’ve been getting a flash of ads on youtube website. I might not see the ad but I will see the keyframe as well as a black loading screen for about as long as it takes for the skip button to appear on that ad. The solution was to of course pull the video directly.
in a pure infinite monkey scenario, works of Shakespeare would be generated at some point
Pretty much correct, I received a fake razer mouse that I ordered last month.

Luckily it was a direct replacement for the same one I purchased > 3 years ago so could compare.

Amazon provided no way to report the counterfeit and when talking to their support just wanted me to return it as fault. No doubt this will go back into the supply chain and someone unbeknownst to counterfeits will receive it.
This is all very interesting yet unfair to blame managers when everyone involved is a chaotic mess of self priorities. What is important is that we get work done and meet goals, if that happens I'm sure any dynamic would be welcome.

The problem with social optimism is it is short lived. Business pays to keep going, and people are fickle and change with their wants.

Most need to be managed, simple truth.

The rest is very interesting mulch for those interested in cognitive theories. The authors are otherwise quite information dense.

The conclusion however is that working dynamics are hard, and only as good as the initiatives of those who participate in them.
LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English
While diminishing return products from hyper rich mega corporations is an issue, being as hyperbolically critical as possible only muddies the water and allows the slide to keep happening.

"Youtube has been unusable for years and is only getting worse."
I only use FF on a work laptop, and I only use brave at home.
No issues, ever. In fact, YTP is the one sub service i've paid for uninterrupted over my adult life. (shill post over.)

How can I help you get back to using youtube, and what about is getting worse that I can keep an eye on?
That sounds good. Thanks. It is crazy what an employer can do around here (Eastern Europe).
Google's Pixel 9 Pro models only have 13GB RAM for apps
>First AI-enabled TOUGHBOOK PC

>(AI)-driven tasks for customers across law enforcement departments, federal agencies and utility companies.

What are the applications of law enforcement with AI in the field?
what the judge isnt arguing is the encoding...hes stating CoPilot:

“rarely emits memorised code in benign situations.”

So, you could in fact encode 5,000 copies of Mulan in different formats and, so long as 4,999 are not verbatim copies, youre good*

*you must affix the letters "AI" to the encoder
So it took 130 years to go from 10% to 70% - given this is starting around .1% we will have like 400 years before it is ubiquitous? I am willing to take that risk.
> (so you can kill an enemy, turn your back, then turn around again, and the enemy could be alive again)

Sounds like a great game.

> not to mention that it requires the game to already exist in order to train it

Diffusion models create new images that did not previously exist all of the time, so I'm not sure how that follows. It's not hard to extrapolate from TFA to a model that generically creates games based on some input
Not at the same concentration
7.4lbs! Unless you're working in construction, or mining, or security or something like that, probably better to get something else.
I suspect there's an overlap where if you're playing the part for enough hours of a day that it stops mattering psychologically that you're "playing the part".
Isn't fascinating that the same isn't true for books and music.

If it's too similar you get sued
There's no evidence it's purely political.

In France the citizens want tech companies to cooperate with authorities to prevent the spread of CSAM.

Durov is a French citizen. His tech company does not cooperate with authorities. The authorities wanted to have a chat with him about that. Most discussions in Telegram are not end-to-end encrypted, meaning Telegram could probably do much more to stop the spread of CSAM.

It's not just about CSAM — they mention terrorism, and the French authorities also probably also want to know what sort of deal he made with Russia to allow him to travel freely to and from that country after they attempted to ban Telegram.
It still is, for some, ideological.
I know plenty, whose day to day job isn't even software, doing this.

Now, just as food for thought:
I believe the mere existence of FOSS promotes a more sustainable economy!

It regulates, in a way, commercial software.
You cannot be more user hostile / be less convenient and/or provide lesser of a service than FOSS alternatives! Convenience is at the end of the day, the reason for someone to choose a tool. Software is a tool. Greater convenience of use generally promotes greater productivity when using the tool.

Many of us already make the logical decision to use FOSS to not have to deal with the rising user hostility of consumer grade software. Maybe because, we as developers, have the know how to minimize the rough edges or have the same type of brain of the creator of the software in question, and think: "Indeed! the decisions made on the interface, the flow of using the tool, whatever else, are sane and make the most sense!!!". Hinting here, that the incentives of FOSS do not necessarily align with the preferences of a consumer, which is sometimes a good thing.

Nevertheless! The freedom, as in free, not as in beer, represents a bar of sympathy, of respect for the user. One that has the potential to minimize user hostility of commercial software for fear of losing that customer. Users are beginning to be more savvy than ever, they've been burned a lot before, and/or were born in the midst of the digital age. The barrier of FOSS, its arguable lack of convenience, is shrinking every day. And, in such a way promotes an economy where you have to respect your customer. One that is then, more resilient and sustainable.
Hey! Cool!
...running them safely tho?
FuriosaAI unveils RNGD at Hot Chips 2024
Quite, MakeMusic, Peaskware, and Alfred have all had a complex relationship.

To be clear, the company MakeMusic is not going out of business. They still are running their incredibly popular Make Music Cloud web-based app, used heavily in education (formerly called "Smart Music"). This was just an attempt to jettison a dinosaur in their portfolio. They haven't done any active development of Finale in many years.
(hi seph, hope all’s well) — i did exactly this with Redwood and showcased it multiple times during Braid meetings. alas, nobody was very interested in trying to push it forward
Order and Disorder in Stories and Reality
She is still the CEO though, so whether or not it is her cup of tea, she is ultimately responsible for allowing it to remain.
This varies by state, though.
I think most people are OK with the $100M+ thresholds but are uneasy about the incentives this sets up where the government can extract large amounts of money from inflation which is in effect a tax on the poor and in general benefits the asset holding rich. And there is a reasonable expectation that the bands will lower over time in both nominal and real terms to cast an ever wider net.

I have long maintained that this has to happen mathematically because the government needs more money and there are not many places where they can get it. A high enough unrealized gains tax coupled with a high enough inflation is in effect a wealth tax. A high enough wealth tax can in effect capture a large chunk of the profit from the wealth, theoretically it could go higher than 100% of profit (e.g. 50% income tax, 6% inflation, %4 profit on wealth = %2 profit after taxes - %3 tax on nominal asset gains = -1% p.a. in real wealth. It has the real potential to be confiscatory in nature. Even the risk of this would likely result in capital flight so this tax plan would have to be exported globally to limit the number of places that capital can escape to.
I'm always hearing that, but I've yet to see a single video load slow enough to notice. And I'm using YouTube quite a lot.
Autonomously Uncovering and Fixing a bug in SQLite3 using LLM-based system
It's still there https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In...
I don't see how copilot is any different than napster, kazaa, etc

it's only purpose is to permit the user to infringe others copyright, and its creator (Napster Inc before, Microsoft now) is enriched by this

without the ability to produce infringing works it is nothing
Man Is First to Be Charged in New York with Wearing a Mask in Public
Likely some simple RAG-based document Q&A (e.g case files, statutes, etc).
I think you should understand this in the light of e.g. freedom fries and Trump's executive order re: "beautiful" public buildings. That is, once you're in a culture war, the dumbest things become battlegrounds.

Its also important to understand that the buildings in question were meant specifically as worker housing, so it was a collective project funded by workers' unions, each with particular ideologies. If you were part of the liberal housing co-op that advocated for flat roofs, you were gonna live in the flat-roof buildings. That is to say, you didn't express your politics by choosing your roof, rather, you chose your politics, and your available roof shapes were informed by that choice.
I seem to remember that Russia considered multiple citizenship as illegal ?
Come to the UK where Amazon offers 512GB flash drives for £15 [1]

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/512GB-High-Waterproof-Compatible-Co...
One is writing police reports, according to a recent post on HN. Didn't read it though.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358965
Parenting Is Hazardous to Your Health, the Surgeon General Warns
$10/hr was a bad wage in 2017 too unless you were in an exceptionally low COL area.

$12.95/hour in today money.

The minimum wage in 2017 was $7.25/hour.
His brother Nikolai who is a co-founder of Telegram and who is said to have developed the encryption protocol in Telegram lives in Russia according to some sources. His LinkedIn page indicates California as residence, however.

BTW, Nikolai's wiki page states he won three gold medals at an International Mathematics Olympiad and once a gold International Olympiad in Informatics as well as a gold medal in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest. I'd say he is well qualified to design crypto algos if he put his mind to it.
> Linux itself, if you value it at $1 per install is considerably more that 4 billion USD

Linux is $0.00 per install.

This is like saying you could charge for air.

It's important, but it's already free and abundant. You can't take it back and start charging for it anymore.
While I don't have much direct experience with it, as it was easy to migrate my personal projects, it seemed the idea was sound. It seemed like it was a way to encourage people to write libraries against the new .NET Core (at the time) but still allow those libraries to be used in .NET Framework as a sort of bridge for people stuck on .NET Framework.
Tumblr to move its half a billion blogs to WordPress
Professional kitchens are crazy so much drama and tips is like gasoline.

I've always found it amazing a cook makes a meal, a waiter carries it to the table. It can be a $10 hamburger or a $100 steak. The waiter gets a 10% or 20% tip of the total value of the meal. All just for carrying a plate with different food on it food which they never made. The cooks and dishwasher get squat of that. Granted cooks are paid more than dish washers.
Too late to edit but what I've learned is that apparently my restaurant was crap and dishwashers in other restaurants do get tipped out. Oh well.
Hard drives are definitely a suspect item, they are counterfeited. I needed some 6TB Seagate drives ~6 months ago to replace the drives in a security NVR, our local supplier was out of stock and they were available on Amazon. The drives appeared genuine, they showed up in OEM style packaging which was expected, I connected 1 of 6 to a Debian machine to check it an it reported the correct capacity. Flash forward to 2 weeks later and I get a notification the storage is full, when the capacity should have been enough for 5-6 weeks of storage. Further benchmarking showed they were actually 2TB drives that reported incorrect size. Fwiw they did match the read/write performance if the genuine drives, which doesn't mean much since that class of drives isn't terribly fast but are supposedly optimized for reliability for drives that spend ~99% of their life continuously writing and rarely reading. At least Amazon took them back as a return and did offer a refund. I had thought it was only memory sticks and SSDs that were being counterfeited, but apparently that is also happening for spinning rust drives as well.
OpenAI, Intel, and Qualcomm talk AI compute at legendary Hot Chips conference
Hey Tankejosh, can you please provide more info on how this compares to other solutions like Coolify or improves deployment?
Here's a cartoon I found years ago that says it better than a thousand words.
I posted it like a half dozen times, and it keeps being spot on.

https://starecat.com/content/wp-content/uploads/control-of-i...
I don't want to contact sales.
The "industry standard" has functionally been split between Finale and Sibelius for over 20 years. It still holds, but Dorico is attempting a coup for that title with this move.
If you can imagine it, the collective response to being told this in as many words was “are we so wrong? no, it’s the users who are the problem”.

https://stackoverflow.blog/2018/04/26/stack-overflow-isnt-ve...

granted, framing it as a sexism issue etc was probably a doomed effort from the start even if it’s true in a sense.
Is the Quantum X800 generally available now?
Looks like it was announced in March.
The SN5600 was released last year on the other end.
You don't need a 30 character random password for SSH to your machine; that's a strawman.

The attackers are not cracking a password hash with GPUs; they are just connecting and guessing.

People who use passwords with SSH of course use passwords they can remember and type.

If the attackers are trying to brute-force your password by attacking the hash, that means the machine was already compromised. The password then has no value, unless you're re-using it for other machines.

The user who thinks they need a 30 character random password for SSH (if they were to use one) will of course opt for keys instead.
None of the examples given in this article are counterfeit.

A counterfeit HP ink cartridge says it's HP, but it's not. None of these products claim to be HP. One bears no brand mark at all. One is "Ankink" brand. Same for Epson: we have "MYTONER" and "LEMERO".

Amazon is a flea market trafficking in huge quantities of suspect goods. When I go on there I know to be on guard. But the article is wrong when it says that goods that do not bear an HP, Canon, or Epson brand mark - with some of them bearing clear brand marks for other companies - are "counterfeit" or even "knock-offs".

This doesn't even seem to be a problem to me - if you shop at a flea market, be on guard lest you get junk. If you don't like it, try avoiding the flea market.
Nope, nope, and nope. Unless you are presenting code or some data in a tabular format, or require even spacing for some other reason, please don’t use a monospace font.
I think the main discussion here is big SaaS companies using peoples' FOSS without giving anything back, either feature or cost-wise. No solution is perfect, but at least this would give you the ability to push back on a company that is trying to "sell your own product" back to you.
Interesting. Perfect fit for Wine!
I had a family member working in Tibet with Christian churches, which is a very sensitive topic in China. Most all technology was outright blocked (except overtly monitored wechat).

However, Signal was not blocked by the great firewall and we were able to communicate freely on it.

But now I'm wondering why isn't Signal blocked? Does the CCP have a backdoor into it somehow and therefore doesn't feel threatened by it?
Hell, if it's a static website, you can probably just get away with like GitHub Pages or something. Lotta options in that space.
Under-Investigated Fields that aren't researched as much as they should (2019)
Computer Scientists Prove That Heat Destroys Quantum Entanglement