skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had a concept I've been thinking about on and off for a long time.

Today I have an RSS reader that sucks in articles from 110 feeds. Over the course of a week it ingests maybe 10,000 articles and picks 300 to show me which I make a thumbs up or thumbs down judgement which is then used to train the model that selects articles. It works great after getting a few thousand judgements and I love the feed I get. I can picture it as a consumer product with the caveat that I think most people would expect to get good recommendations after many fewer judgements. If I was going to productize it for consumers I'd probably use some kind of collaborative filtering (people who read these articles also liked X) as opposed to the content-based filtering it uses now (article X shares some characteristics with other articles you like) because I think it could cold-start for a new user more quickly but then it becomes another StumbleUpon, etc.

I think you can imagine the same kind of system could be used by anyone who is a "professional searcher". Instead of blog articles these could be resumes, or patents, or job listings, or scientific articles, etc. Personally I am more interested in this path for productization.

Does this sound interesting to you? I demo this system a lot and I can do it for you.
The majority of authors who write novels hardly earn money as it is. I've written two novels, and they've sold more than average, and yet it can't cover my takeaway budget. That's fine, it's a hobby. But the point is only a vanishingly small minority write for money.

Of course we want to keep some of those who do, but I don't know what a good solution would be. Not least because there's a vast chasm in terms of effort: a novel of the same length can take days or years, and it's not at all a given the low effort one will be the worst one.
A world where a supranational private company is above the law is literally my worst nightmare.

No less, beaming unstoppable propaganda from space.
I'm actually making a point of shopping brick and mortar these days for that exact reason. It's gotten to the point where I'm not able to tell what's real and what's a scam on there so it's not worth the risk -at all.
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What about the constants that describe the (relative) rest masses of elementary particles? Since we don’t know the order of magnitude of neutrino masses, it seems improbable that even an order of magnitude change of those masses over time would lead to “dramatic changes in the structure of matter.”
Amazon needs slaves or robots whichever is cheaper.
Daedalus – the most sophisticated Maze program
If the fundamental constants are not constant, why not expect them to change in this galaxy as well? The appeal to "other galaxies" seems suspect to me, a way to evade falsifiability.
As career paths, mathematics, philosophy, and law have pretty high barriers to entry. Positions within the former two tend to require a PhD in the discipline, and lucrative careers in law require a JD or LLB plus admission to the bar.
I'm hopeful VR programming with standardized programming languages and AI will create a Dynamicland-like software environment one day. Social spatial programming just needs to be made fun like building in a game.
>IDE of choice will be vi

Termux repos has a vscode-server package, that starts up a vscode server, which you can access through the web browser. Much better way to code IMO.
Instead we have the hand-warming emulator iSH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_utopian_commu...

People try this thing on a fairly regular basis.

You're thinking "wouldn't it be great if there was a community led by an absolute authority which agrees with me" and, uh, that kind of thing doesn't scale, last, or continue agreeing with you for a particularly long amount of time.

>I really think this is not possible without it being a private parcel where there aren't thousands of individual property owners in the loop for decision making.

This is just saying democracy is bad. Ok, but go find me an example of something else that has actually worked.

It's troubling how people think dictatorship is the solution to their problems these days. It's not even one particular viewpoint that falls into this, people of all positions are increasingly advocating for authoritarian solutions.
I expect macOS is cheaper to support and develop for (if for no other reason then because it's a well supported Unreal Engine target) and judged to be, at least potentially, more profitable. But I imagine the relationship with Apple carries a huge amount of weight in a decision like that as well, and I can't even guess how that factors in.
> By "SpaceX moment", I mean a startup entering an impossible market, where the barrier to entry is billions of dollars of research and manufacturing, a market dominated by industry giants from the 60s, and yet still coming out on top somehow.

This already happened and the startup was TSMC. Unfortunately for the U.S., it's in Taiwan.
> No, talking in a car has no measurable impact on safety.

It measurably impacts my own ability to concentrate, I have noticed. We should dispense with such absolutist claims; there is no doubt that any action not directly related to driving a car has potential to impact safe operation of that vehicle.

The function of the law is to discover and enforce tolerances, balancing freedom with safety. We don't have to ignore even minimal safety implications in order to secure freedom, an honest conversation is better for both sides.

It is definitely inhumane to expect drivers to not move their lips or talk while working in solitude for 8-10 hours a day. Instead, we need to design our various systems such that they are capable of withstanding such a tolerance without severely impacting safety.
You probably want to change the name of this implementation as it's not truly AlphaFold3. I wouldn't be surprised if you got a C&D from DM for using the name.
It's called "distracted driving" and it's perfectly reasonable for employers to take measures to prevent people from engaging in it:

https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/distracted-driving

The concern here is most likely people diddling with their phones (which tends to accompany such conversations but may be harder for the cameras to detect), followed by the distraction of zoning over a long conversation over any kind of device. Not singing along with the radio, obviously (which is what people seem to be reacting to so emotionally here).

You don't have to like it, and I would never work with Amazon in any capacity anyway (not for this, but for a whole bunch of vastly more important reasons).

But it's definitely neither insane, nor overreach on their part.
> Because it's cheaper now to throw hardware at a problem than actually try to fix the code or root of the issue.

It's not cheaper, it's just more opaque.

Back when your service was deployed on that 2 CPU box and it was too slow for obvious reasons, you optimized it and then it was good.

Today you just shrug and increase that kubernetes cluster from 16 to 48 nodes and forget about it. Costs a lot but the bill shows up somewhere else, in most groups the engineer doesn't even know what it is.
The argument can be more easily made that AI is transformative compared to copying the content of eBooks.
Ironically I detest online shopping and opt for brick and mortar when possible.
Rehashing, in this case, seems to mean communicating.

This isn't a random aggregator, Freight Waves is a well-known industry specific site.

A world where this wasn't rehashed by Freight Waves is a world where you have to read every Reddit board to gain knowledge.

> unrelated to listening to the radio in itself

None of the links you mention, nor any comment or headline, includes the word listening.

I don't see how any of the headlines, on HN, Freight Waves, or Reddit, or content, on HN, Freight Waves, or Reddit, could be read as related to listening.

> but a lot easier to talk about it directly than via rehashes.

What does this mean, exactly?

EDIT: Can't reply due to HN timeout, maybe the HN link was originally to Jalopnik saying they can't listen to the radio, and it's cached in your browser? On my end, it's always been a link to Freight Waves with the headline "Amazon bans its drivers from moving their own lips...(something something, can't see, I'm on mobile)"
What does manslaughter have to do with hustle? Or are you just trying to point out that you disapprove of talking in the car on a hands-free device?
I'll agree that the NEL was a PR boon for this case, it's turned most of the discourse on this topic into people saying the IA deserved it for something unrelated to the case.

That's a different claim than "book publishers would have tolerated CDL without it."
In this particular case property is part of the CSS Houdini APIs which allows you to manipulate CSS from JavaScript in a much more powerful way than before. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Houdini_API...
You yada yada'd over the best part!
Oh they knew. Just no one has IPv6 to connect.
>People have no clue about the actual system and all your information is based on a reddit post

Could you enlighten us with your knowledge of the actual system, and clarify what your information is based on?
Decent public transport + ride hailing is a common situation in many parts of Europe, especially for people who cycle too
Kagi's auto summary feature when you add a question mark after your query is absolutely excellent.

It essentially summarizes the top search results for you, leaning in on a strength of LLMs (summarizing) while reducing its greatest weakness (hallucinations).
Not a trade lawyer but as I understand it, WTO treaty obligations specifically forbid the kind of purchase guarantees that Ben's arguing for here. Part of the whole point of the WTO is to to pull up the ladder and prevent countries from doing what Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan successfully did to become rich. So this kind of support for domestic manufacturers is not allowed
> If they're working there, they believe its their best option

Choice. Not having it makes you a victim.

We should not blame victims

> amazon to crumble and they lose their job, would you really feel good?

That is a false dichotomy

Amazon crowds out alternatives
Happines in society lives in the slack - that is, having rules, but not having them too tightly enforced and with a lot of leeway and context.

The modern mindset prevents that - it's beaurocratic, rigid and extremely oppressive. Technology just helps with that, but if you look at even posts online you'll see that it's the mindset that DEMANDS punishment for any rule breaking no matter how small and how stupid it is.
We just call that "front end engineering"
> for domestic US travel business is rarely worth the premium anyway vs. premium economy

Lay flat was a game changer, for me, for transcontinental travel. It’s easily worth the premium (or an inconvenient flight time.)
>I used to be able to (long ago) roll up to the airport a mere 20mins before takeoff time.

I worked for a guy once when I was working in downtown Boston for a bit and the times I traveled with him he would absolutely drive me crazy by not wanting to grab a cab to the airport until well under an hour before flight time.

Today, I usually breeze through security in a few minutes with TSA Pre for early morning flights. I still arrive about 2 hours in advance because I find it more relaxing and my limo company pretty much wants that much slack anyway. (I rarely check luggage.)
I haven’t read the books but based on the show, which I’ve just started re-watching, I’d say The Expanse is an exemplar of worldbuilding in sci fi. I agree that GP seems to have an odd idea of what exactly world building is.
Making a list of one-time-purchase software
Small-sized sbrk calls unexpectedly succeed despite low RLIMIT_AS
deepinfra is pretty easy to use too, for llamas and other "open" ones.
> Still, with the source being one “we were told”

This is not true.

It makes me very itchy to see 2 comments in a row using innuendo and deconstructing sourcing in an erroneous way.
I commented it elsewhere but it can be tough to balance general laws like that. E.g. right now, if an employer is aware people wear face masks so they can chat on the phone while they drive then the current set of laws allows a lot of liability to be placed on the employer when such accidents occur due to not taking safety seriously enough. Putting a general rule that an employer can't do this sort of thing then runs the risk of employers saying all sorts of things were for the workplace environment compliance, not safety negligence on their part. Putting specific rule exceptions instead becomes daunting to define, keep updated, and understand (for employees as much as employers).

I'm not saying some of this kind of thing can't be better served by some different laws, just it's probably not as easy to solve with a "quick" law or these other approaches as it might seem.
agreed. I'm getting pretty sick of AI summaries that will fully lie to me about things. Google's search summary AI is awful I'd expect Kagi's to be similar.
This has been playing out for many years. And it's all because Brewster Kahle decided that an overly broad interpretation of the Internet Archive's mission trumped the rights of authors and publishers, and the laws of the United States.

When IA was asked to stop CDL - many times - he continued. The National Writers Union tried to open a dialogue as early as 2010 but was ignored:

The Internet Archive says it would rather talk with writers individually than talk to the NWU or other writers’ organizations. But requests by NWU members to talk to or meet with the Internet Archive have been ignored or rebuffed.

https://nwu.org/nwu-denounces-cdl/

When the requests to abandon CDL turned into demands, Kahle dug in his heels. When the inevitable lawsuits followed, and IA lost, he insisted that he was still in the right and plowed ahead with appeals.

He also opened a new front in the court of public opinion. In his blog posts and interviews with U.S. media, Kahle portrays the court cases and legal judgements as a crusade against the Internet Archive and all librarians (see https://blog.archive.org/2023/12/15/brewster-kahle-appeal-st...). It's not. It's the logical outcome of one man's seemingly fanatical conviction against the law and the people who work very hard to bring new books into being.

In addition, there has been real collateral damage to the many noble aspects of the Internet Archive. Legal fees and judgements have diverted resources away from the Wayback Machine, the library of public domain works, and other IA programs that provide real value to society. I truly hope the organization can survive.
I like the ideas around the interface where physical objects are part of the UX, but I think putting everything into paper takes it too far.

Putting things on paper means you cannot share things outside of your immediate community which I think is one of the main advantages of computing and the internet.

Creating a place for physical community is great, making a UX which allows sharing that experience is great. Firewalling your ideas off from the rest of the world, not so great.

I could see a world where these communities are federated. Maybe your local computing community is connected to other locales as well as somewhere else which is far away (like we do today with sister cities).
Fitting considering it uses "Open"AI for the heavy lifting.
Yes, that is in the works and is a high priority for us. The major discussion point internally around implementing this feature has been on the retrieval portion. In general we want to provide many flexible search strategies that return a variety of different information. We want to organize search in such a way that it is flexible enough to meet a variety of demands, while also being ergonomic enough to be usable and understandable. We want to make sure that we update our retrieval approach at the same time as adding the community summaries so that it is easy to make use of this additional information.

Our implementation will likely involve us adding community nodes that will contain a summary of the nodes in that community. Did you have any perspective or opinions on best ways to implement the graphRAG style summarizations?
Elon Musk's Starlink backtracks to comply with Brazil's ban on X
I think those two in particular might be poor examples, since they generally do quite a bit of de-branding on their products. I know what you mean however. Supreme is a prime brand for this. Nobody is buying a Supreme t-shirt for any other reason than the logo. Whatever thoughts on people who buy things to impress others may be, those kind of people exist and to each thier own. They at least made the choice to let everyone else know what they value.
> It's as though the end goal of learning to be a concert pianist was becoming a conductor, or perhaps a concert hall manager.

Is it not. Wouldn't be surprised either way.
In June 2021, Gelsinger named 22-year Intel vet Sandra Rivera to head up a new Datacenter and AI Group. Rivera, who spent two years as Intel’s chief people officer before taking on her new role, describes what Intel staffers are looking to get out of their relationship with the company, using terms that would have been unlikely to come up in its original heyday. “For sure, we are in an age now where our employees are looking for a deeper, richer connection to the purpose of the organization,” she says. “They care about diversity, equity, inclusion. They care about the planet.”
Presumably they mean propagating EM radiation we observe from earth appears to behave the same on earth as we observe from distant galaxies since the event that created them happened at a time much different than ours and a distant region of space.
Part of brain network much bigger in people with depression, scientists find
There's only a handful of places where headsets are considered a distraction.

A few US states, Singapore, Japan, UAE, South Africa .. some AUS states.

Pretty much everywhere else in the world, this is considered "normal behavior"
AppArmor is not less restrictive, it's less fine-grained, at the current stage of development at least.
I think it's important to keep in mind that the judicial system in Brazil is very political, much more so than in the US or Europe. The current Brazilian president was found to be leading a large ring of money laundering and embezzlement, stealing millions from the state oil company. Moraes was appointed by his allies and got him off the hook in very corrupt fashion. They even have threatened media companies for reporting on the scandal, as well as opposing politicians they see as a threat. Anyone interested in reading about the past of these guys currently running this censorship operation can see this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/01/brazil-operati...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41444961
"A way to evade falsifiability" is the goal of the statement, given that we've been searching for evidence to the contrary for as long as we've been able. We haven't found any, and we've searched close-at-hand the most thoroughly.
It's like rolling stops at stop signs, a majority of people do it, it's socially accepted! Could we use technology to prevent it? Yes. Should we? I'd hope not.
California companies wrote their own gig worker law. Now no one is enforcing it
Pull in to the store that I'm passing on my way home anyway, get an item that I can be pretty sure is not counterfeit or broken, have it immediately not in a day or two or next week, it's not all bad.

Yes I sometimes shop online but these days I try to go direct to the manufacturer's own web store, or I'll buy it on a product-niche site such as bhphoto.com that isn't chock full of anonymous sellers hawking made-in-china garbage.
Something like this would never have fallen under fair use in the first place, I don't think. It doesn't really mesh very well with any of the factors US law lists as considerations when deciding whether or not use is fair.

If this falls under anything it falls under the first sale doctrine.

I generally side with publishers and artists on the generative AI debate, but I'll at least concede that they have some grounds for a fair use argument based on the transformative (legal jargon meaning, not buzzword meaning) nature of the work they're doing.

(IANAL, just guesing, etc etc.)
Biden to Block Nippon Steel's Proposed Takeover of US Steel
Is AI fair use? I'm no legal expert, but my impression was that the legal precedent simply had not been set yet, but that when it is set it is likely against AI
> var anyTrue = loggedIn | hasGreenHair | likesBananas;//the property to test

Does this do what I think it does?

This is terrible practice. Tests should not replicate the business logic of the production code.
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> How could we ... design a utopia, communist party-style but done right?

We can't. Certainly not until people stop being self-oriented, and stop being willing to sacrifice others for their own benefit. Recorded history says this is not going to happen. Even the one (as far as I understand) religion concerned with transforming human nature to love others sacrificially, Christianity, says this requires divine help. (There is even a book, "Critical Journey" that identifies the stages of spiritual life, with the life of sacrificial love as the sixth and last. Given the difficulty and slowness that even people who are committed to the journey find, getting to the life of sacrificial live probably requires multiple decades. So even within Christianity this quality is rare.)

Also, since Communism builds on Marxist ideas, which are founded on the idea of power, a Communist utopia is impossible, since the asserting of of power is the opposite of loving others sacrificially. And, indeed, 100% of the Communist states resulted in totalitarian dictatorships.
Physical book lending doesn't involve making copies at all, so copyright law doesn't apply.

That said, some libraries do lend scans of materials and libraries copying materials on microfilm has been done for ages. Interlibrary loans are done frequently with copies. Hell, the Library of Congress does it.
Overgeneralization does no good here; I specifically shaped the conversation around censorship resistance, which is a net win for humanity. This isn't a conversation about allowing supranational companies free reign to do anything they want.

I am all for both individuals and organizations resisting governmental attempts to restrict freedom beyond what is absolutely necessary for a relatively safe and functioning society. If suddenly that individual or organization acts in an authoritarian or antisocial manner, I no longer support it.

This is the eternal battle. How much should a government control? How much control should people have over their government? What are the limits of collectivized resistance? Etc, etc. Obviously, Starlink has profit motives, but to say the company isn't built on ideology wouldn't paint the full picture; I absolutely want ISPs fighting for net neutrality and censorship resistance.

See, ultimately, it should be such that if the government allows something, it's because the people have allowed it. So in an ideal society, all anti-government behavior would be antisocial behavior as well. Unfortunately, that's not the reality we face. Collectivized resistance against overreaching governments is crucial in order to secure our free future.
The "Other" C in CSS
see roko's basilisk.
Prevalence and characteristics of fetching behavior in domestic cats and dogs
Also, Ars Technica article about the paper:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/cats-play-fetch-more...
Sakana AI: Announcing Our Series A
This reminds me of the font Roland used on their 80s synth service manual schematics. Maybe it's the same?