skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advertising venues that hold auctions need to be opened up to competition and provide full transpancy. These are markets that need regulations.

Today ad auctioning is the ultimate scamming game. The force everyone to pay more, and nobody wins except the ad venue.
For me its a numbers problem. You help one person and they will tell everyone that you are 'the guy who does stuff'. 2 weeks later people are showing up at my desk acting offended that I did not answer the phone (i was already on the phone with a different process dodger and my line is not integrated with any queue system because I am not a CSR) demanding to talk to my supervisor about how terrible I am.

That company had a really strict 'just help anyone' policy and I'm really glad I do not work there anymore.
I'm wondering if Chris McKinstry used this as an inspiration for his MindPixel project, which was a curated collection of short, validated true/false statements. Cyc uses a structured grammar while Mindpixels were in English.

His intent (as he stated online, and not mentioned in the Wikipedia page) was to have a collection of sentences which could be used to give an AI some idea of what it was like to be human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mindpixel
Very good to see this as the top-voted comment. I completely agree that this seems like a more natural explanation of what is going on.
Tomorrow Bing could say "yeah no more index for you" and DDG shuts down. It doesn't feel like a very stable business model to depend entirely on someone else's business.
Out of curiosity, how much money do you think is needed to survive ~55 years ("savings by 30" + life expectancy around 85ish = 55yrs) without working? Also, please spell out biggest assumptions you're making.
People were cheering when Brazil banned Twitter. Go figure.
Why not just treat it as any other loss for tax reasons? If I understand this correctly, then the current state is basically: If you take losses you can use those to nullify a future gain. Just do that.

And.. the bookkeeping thing is really solvable. That's kind of what banks are for
Dutch is more or less what you get if you take German and English and meet in the middle.
I used to occasionally walk home from school in high school, about 3 miles. Not very many sidewalks as it was a semi-rural area (there were some in town but only for like 1/3rd of the walk), and I had to walk across a highway overpass, which was a bit sketchy to do on foot.

I would beat the bus when I did so, but only because I went to a charter school and there was a solid 40 minutes of sitting and waiting on a second bus at a different school that we were initially bussed to built into the bus commute.

Anyways, just reminiscing.
Smart contracts on EVM and other blockchains all use fixed point, for the simple reason that all machines have to get exactly the same result.
This is really going to unsettle the living situations of a bunch of people, but of course they really important to get everybody in the office so Dell can harness that creative energy and make… more mediocre laptops.
Is there anything in the tech stack that make this app specific to Macs, or are you simply rolling this out to Macs, first?
Yeah, maybe to people from out of town. I didn't say cabs were perfect, but people are acting like Uber is beyond reproach and I don't think it is and I find taxis incredibly convenient and are almost always a better deal, and I lament how few of them there are now which is due entirely to Uber. The experience in an uber is not really that much better, people used them because they were much cheaper.
The golden age of PL research
I'm yet to meet anyone that actually understands MMT and doesn't endorse it. You might be the first, but I doubt it. Which bit of MMT do you have trouble with?
Wonder when the day will arrive when universities decide to offload all archives to online media only, just keeping the most important books and maybe unique manuscripts in libraries.
The argument that I see that could be made (which is different from what the judge said here) is that Google used their monopoly in search to gain an unfair advantage in Network Ads. I could totally see forcing Google to spin-off their external ad network, but at the same time, these ads sucks and are getting worse CPM wise.

There is another ongoing case regarding Google's Ad business (concerning Display Ads and more specifically the ad auctions) which seems pretty strong. But again, it's not about preventing Google from owning the ad platform for their own properties.

Preventing companies from owning the advertising platform for their own properties is a pretty terrible idea (got an idea for a new ad format that no network supports? Tough luck!). But, preventing a player with a monopoly in one sector from having an ad platform for other players, that's sensible.
Sadly untrue where I grew up. The hills were brutal, walking and taking longer was preferable to not feeling your legs lol
> what does it mean to be able to “meaningfully fork” something and be able to make it more useful if you don’t have the ingredients to reproduce it in the first place?

I could be misunderstanding them, but my takeaway is that exact bit for bit reproducibility is not required. Most software, including open source, is not bit for bit reproducible. Exact reproducibility is a fairly new concept. Even with all the training data, and all the code, you are unlikely to get the exact same model as before.

Though if that is what they mean, then they should be more explicit about it.
No, initially thou was simply the singular, with you as the plural second person pronoun. You'd address one person as thou, a group of people as you (like some speakers use you vs y'all today). Thou, my friend vs You, my friends.

Then, under French influence probably, the plural, you, started being used as a polite form as well (in French, like most romance languages, formal/polite language uses the plural form of pronouns and verbs when addressing a single person). Thou, my friend VS You, sir; similar to "toi, mon ami" vs "vous, monsieur".

Then, this polite form using singular you became so widely used that thou was almost entirely dropped, especially since English also had little distinction between singular and plural in verbs in general. You, my friend, you, my friends.

Then, as thou became more foreign to regular speakers, it briefly started being used as a polite form, essentially reversing the original meanings. You, my friend VS Thou, sir.

This didn't last very long, so finally we ended up with the current state, where there is no polite form and you is the only second person pronoun. Except of course some speakers have started using y'all for a plural form, but that doesn't seem to be gaining any popularity outside a few areas.
Yes, thankfully modern liberal(ish) democracy(sort of) and the rule of law allowed us to exit this circle (well.. at least brought us much closer to that point than we ever were).
Preferred Distance in Human-Drone Interaction
Doubt it too, because -if I remember the public discussion correctly- how to migrate projects over from node to deno without basically rewriting anything was a question straight from the beginning. And bun was not a thing, or was it? - First bun 1.0 release was 2023, deno 1.0 2020.. so maybe, but unlikely :)

Anyways, that backwards compat is huge
BTW - as you'd expect - the protocol for Ruxpin has been thoroughly reverse engineered.

IIRC - one audio channel is used for the speaker, and the other is a series of beeps which map to facial movements:

https://makezine.com/projects/chippy-ruxpin/

Back when I thought it might be a fun side hustle to make cool youtube videos (long ago put to bed), I thought about making videos of Ruxpin singing death metal and stuff.

It's been years since it seemed like it was worthwhile to make Youtube videos... And the situation is getting worse for creators year over year.
You have created a signup form not a joint trip planner. Asking users to signup without giving them anything - thank you but no
Register your kid as a pet (emotional support animal), and you can bring it anywhere. Kids should be included in office life! If dog parents can bring their child to work, why not human parents?!

Edit: Dell is a pet friendly company, bringing animals to office is employment perk, and should not be a problem! There are no limitations on species, and humans are technically animals!!!

https://jobs.dell.com/en/dell-pets-scruffy

https://www.dell.com/en-us/blog/flexible-work-solutions-can-...
I'm curious what kind of code gets a 45x speedup by going from python to rust

and by that I don't mean the rhetorical or bait-style "i'm curious", no, the literal I'm curious, cause I'm trying to find use cases such as that these days and I'm often thwarted by the fact that for anything requiring remotely decent speeds, python most of the time already delegates to C extensions and so any rewrite is not as useful
Good point - maybe you're right and just I'm a gender-obsessed sexist. Thanks.
So is caddy fwiw
Hangul OSD Fonts in the Embedded Microprocessor
Since it was Hangul day yesterday, I was thinking about a project I did in the previous decade to pack Korean fonts into the flash of an LPC1768 Cortex M3 MCU. It was a deep rabbit hole.
You’re likely running on an old version of MacOS that isn’t able to use the precompiled binaries. So, brew is installing all the dependencies necessary to build eza from scratch.

Intel-era Mac?
Ordinarily the Pareto Principle would apply and should be considered as a guide in decision making. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle
Imagine how those Greeks resented scribes trying to separate words and phrases with spaces on precious vellum!

Those crazy Masoretic Jews trying to pollute sacred texts with vowels... You're just supposed to know them!

Punctuation was probably introduced by leaky quills dripping until someone put a positive spin on it.

What twist of fate gave us ampersands? Lets keep Ye Olde English pure! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)#Modern_English
99% of coding is doing something that's been done a million times and gluing it together in a novel way.
Maybe OP is one of the lucky 10,000. https://xkcd.com/1053/
Are these numbers base salary or TC?
You will get far with “primarily desktop” in 2024
Sometimes, those rules just don't make any sense. I'm especially amused about the euro sign in German which by its whole design and intention is supposed to be written before the number (€50,00), but is instead written behind the number with a space included (50,00 €). The former looks way better and more concise for me, but maybe the reason is just a historical one, the Germans have been writing "50 DM" for decades after all.

On a different note, it's somewhat amusing that "i.e.", "e.g." and "etc." are considered English without any clear alternative in the language, while otherwise Latin-loving Germans haven't adopted those at all (in fairness, "d.h.", "bspw." and "usw." are just fine and I appreciate it when real German is used consistently).
If you think in systems, you can see the python squeezing everywhere: companies squeezing for profits as labor costs increase due to structural demographics and the cost of money has increased substantially from low or zero rates, public investment being squeezed because taxes won't go up to pay for teachers and ancillary staff (1600 school districts across 24 states in the US are on 4 day weeks to retain teachers [1] [2]), etc. I have seen pay for school bus drivers in fairly standard COL areas approach $25-$30/hr. That is what it takes to put people behind the wheel for those jobs now.

It's a natural experiment to behold as a curious scholar of systems, but also deeply disappointing to watch as Rome does not burn, but fades out in various ways. We could make better choices; we choose not to at scale.

[1] https://direct.mit.edu/edfp/article/16/4/558/97130/Are-All-F...

[2] https://direct.mit.edu/view-large/figure/4256961/edfp_a_0031...
The problem is a near-immediate reversion to pre-WFH/hybrid times. They now have five days to solve planning that may have taken some people years, and the family as a whole is probably going to suffer, and one parent's career prospects are probably going to be damaged as a result. A lot of people aren't living near grandma and grandpa right now, which is something they might have considered doing if they knew they were going to be tethered to a desk in an office.
From what I've read, he explicitly sought a position that would give him time to work on his physics ideas. Whether he would or not would have achieved the same working for a university is merely his opinion. In particular, it was not the case that he was working for one, and found it to be incompatible with his research vision, and left academia to become a patent clerk.

He began his work on the PhD prior to 1903.
Hmm, I can imagine the comments would be a shit show, but I personally am glad I saw this submission. It's something I hadn't seen previously before, and while Hinton's views on AI safety are well-known at this point, I didn't know he had such a strong opinion of Altman. The quote from the article is:

"I’m particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman."

Like, that's not subtle, and he said that while accepting his Nobel! I think that alone makes it relevant and newsworthy and not deserving of a flag.

Edit: As an aside, has dang or anyone else ever said why HN doesn't support a "lock comments" option, instead of just an outright flag? While I definitely think that most of the value I get from HN is from the comments, there are cases like this one, where particularly flame war-inducing topics still have informative value in the article.
Including other countries like Canada, UK, France, and Germany would certainly be nice.
Definitely TC
Can you please not break the site guidelines when posting here? You did it twice in this thread unfortunately (the other place was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41773709).

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and make your substantive points thoughtfully and respectfully, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are, we'd appreciate it.
It's not worthless to companies who want to use it against me.

I don't want to sell my data. I want companies to stop collecting it.

In fact, I don't think I've seen anyone here wishing they could sell their data.
I can't tell if this is bad AI, or someone trolling as bad AI
> People waste time on trivialities that will never make a difference.

This is an aha moment as I read it. The complexity of your tools must be paid back by the value they give to the business you’re in.
It also doesn't help when words in a single language that can refer to the same thing have different grammatical genders (e.g. месяц vs луна).
I finally got around to reading this. Nice paper, but it fails to address a key question about RNNs:

Can RNNs be as good as Transformers at recalling information from previous tokens in a sequence?

Transformers excel at recalling info, likely because they keep all previous context around in an ever-growing KV cache.

Unless proponents of RNNs conclusively demonstrate that RNNs can recall info from previous context at least as well as Transformers, I'll stick with the latter.
3 * 10^-3 * 10^6 == 3 * 10^3 == $3000 per million streams, not $30.
I had thought that was most of the reason Elon is lashing out, because he donated to the non profit and received no equity.
Corporations aren't marketplaces of ideas - they're dictatorships.
not too sure what you mean - the planner is available as soon as you log in. Was there something missing for you?
Every sunflower throws shade on another and murders it to grow tall. All things natural are exponential in a linear resourced world, conflict is baked into coexistence. Coexistence is thus unnatural,a temporary peace granted ny a triumphator to the defeated, lasting as long as the circumstances remain stable .
Have you tried combining dbt with Metabase? It's a game-changer for automating insights without heavy SQL work. Super efficient!
Couldn't you just not spend or invest the money? I think putting it in a chest and burying it in an unmarked location would be equivalent to burning it.
I also split incorrectly German compounds because it makes autocomplete simply much more usable. IMHO a soft break +backspace key would be needed on the android keyboard to make predictions usable in compound languages.
Reads like a play to dilute the power of executives that departed
I thought this index was over, as Waffle House faced legal issues? And is now closing earlier than it would have. The index fell because it became an index (what’s the name for that?)
I think it's unfair to call this drama/snide - it seems pretty justified for academics like Geoffrey Hinton to be upset that a non-profit research lab called OpenAI has been converted to a for-profit company + billions of stock for sama. Seems like a pretty good use of time to talked about how messed up that is.
CT Scans 100 times faster
Do you mean that it was abandoned for Gambit? It's available for Chicken [1] and via Akku [2] for Chibi, Gauche, and Sagittarius.

[1] https://wiki.call-cc.org/eggref/5/pstk

[2] https://akkuscm.org/packages/(rebottled%20pstk)/
I love ranger: https://github.com/ranger/ranger
It is a file manager inspired by vim and midnight-commander.
You did notice that Guido van Rossum was a co-author of that one, yes?
60 Minutes Deceptively Edits Interview
GCP isn't a B2B product?
What does it matter that Ilya was Geoffrey's student?

I will not flag this. Indeed, quite the opposite - I upvoted.

Is it the most scholarly article ever written? Of course not, but that's no reason to flag. I think Sam A. is wholly deserving of all the negative press of late. Articles like this keep the rational debate alive. We're proof of that, right now.
They are only offering one Teddy Ruxpin.
> we just spell it "wrong", likely out of French/Norman influence

Could it be that we spell it differently because the word was adopted before spelling was standardised in either language?
It's a little too cute, but I don't see it as a deciding factor on which library to use.

I think a more important issue is that Valibot hasn't reached 1.0 yet. But it looks like it's very close.
I believe they stopped doing that

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1242019127/google-incognito-m...
Large companies spend quite a bit of money on online advertising, and also on research on that. They test their materials, they have data teams for comparing campaign results. And they can hijack other brand names if they pay enough. I wouldn't place my washing machine on your playing field.

And it still doesn't justify Google.
Are you one of the authors?
Agree, if the portfolio money is invested it is not useless because it's generating income to live above the "unspent money".
My big problem with Rust is too much "unsafe" code. Every time I've had to debug a hard problem, it's been in unsafe code in someone else's crate. Or in something that was C underneath. I'm about 50,000 lines of Rust into a metaverse client, and my own code has zero "unsafe". I'm not even calling "mem", or transmuting anything. Yet this has both networking and graphics, and goes fast. I just do not see why people seem to use "unsafe" so much.

Rust does need a better way to do backlinks. You can do it with Rc, RefCell, and Weak, but it involves run-time borrow checks that should never fail. Those should be checked at compile time. Detecting a double borrow is the same problem as detecting a double lock of a mutex by one thread, which is being worked on.
You are talking about something different than I am. I'm not saying you should have un-peer-reviewed major research. But there are other types of communication that are useful but do not need to be rigorously vetted. (not that peer review is all that good at the vetting anyway)
> D.O.A without adoption from the major model labs

I definitely disagree. Adoption of open licenses has historically been "bottom-up", starting with academia and hobbyists and then eventually used by big names. I have zero idea why that can't be the case here.

I know I'll be releasing my models under an open license once finalized.
Agreed, the "Greater Boston Area" doesn't really reflect the reality, you are mixing Boston Metro (HCOL) with many others in Mass, Vermont, and New Hampshire that can't be compared.
Two sides of the same coin!

Use something that solves 1000 use cases of which yours is one. Some would say that's simplicity while others would say that's complexity. When it breaks do you know why? Can you fix it properly or are just layering band-aid on a bigger problem inside the component.

Or... build something that solves exactly your use-case but probably doesn't handle the other 1000 use-cases and needs to be put through trial-by-fire to fix all the little edge-cases you forgot about?

Early in my career I opted for #1 but nowadays I generally reach for #2 and really try to nail the core problem I'm tackling and work around the gotchas I encounter.
I think you're missing a case here -- if they remove it, and they can get along without it without much trouble, I'd argue it isn't highly useful. Just because it has frequent use doesn't mean it's highly useful.
Fast Haskell: Competing with C at parsing XML (2017)
NTFS is 100% the problem here. It really struggles with many small files type use cases. In pretty much all my projects, I notice a huge compile time cut in Linux and Mac as opposed to Windows.

Also a lot of typical Linux pipelines become unbearably slow if you try to replicate them in Windows.
Full interview:

https://youtu.be/H7DgMFqrON0

The particular mention is at ~3:32.

edit: the link was initially pointing to a (admittedly not very high quality) techcrunch article. The part mentioned there where GH closes his speech by "I'm particularly proud of the fact that one of my students fired Sam Altman" is at ~3:32 of the video in the current link.
Aside from Klimt it could be argued that Maurizio Cattelan has successfully incorporated gold into his work - although in the form of sculpture. His work "America", a solid gold functioning toilet, attracted quite a few crowds (apparently over 100K people "used" it), one notable theft, and certainly made a statement. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_(Cattelan)
For extra spiciness, try the same word in all three genders, with different meanings in each one:

DE:

der Band ... volume (as in "the second volume in a collection of books")

die Band ... group (as in "the Beatles are a group")

das Band ... ribbon
We're rolling out to Macs first since that is what our development environment has been, though nothing is stopping us from supporting Linux or Windows once we have those environments properly set up. It is on the near-term road map!
Indeed. Plus it's rather late in the company lifespan for them to be handing out large swathes of equity. A weird decision for a company nominally controlled by a non-profit.
Exactly, it's "just" the market setting the price.

The issue is that these are near monopolies, so the market isn't efficient.

In other words, if those companies didn't have monopoly power, other businesses (or non-commercial entities) might be able to afford to hire some of these people as well, which might be beneficial overall for innovation.

That's the economic argument and it's pretty clean imo.

But as far as I'm concerned personally, I would really prefer to live in a world in which smart people work on human flourishing... rather than whatever that is.