skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a tough time relating to "[believing] in the work we do" at a for-profit company, especially one that just makes blogs. I work at a somewhat similar commercial open source company, I really enjoy my job, and I adore my direct collegues, but I've thought a lot over the past few years that if in a similar position I would almost definitely take the offer.

A job you like where ~10% of your colleges leave is a job I would probably enjoy a whole lot less.
I'd bet on 3) Courts respond by automating as well, so we get a constant background loop of suits and counter suits processing in nanoseconds.
Depending on jurisdiction, courts might require money - so those might become more favored by people and companies to be in.
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Apparently a whole lot of people think the guy who's running a <checks notes> for-proft eyeball-scanning cryptocurrency, "for the benefit of humanity" is very serious when he says his non-profit (but also for-profit) AI company is also "for the benefit of humanity".
I know people irl whom I trust that family members of theirs had been raped.

You can just not trust my word, I'm just someone online.
Imagine going to space using gears moving a pin on a globe.
I created the simplest toolbx alternative for Mac
I enjoy fedora's toolbx very much when working in linux systems, and I was missing such a tool for macos.

don't get me wrong, I generally like to deal with containers myself using management tools such as podman or docker, but for some projects I already got toolbx environments and now I can work on them in mac too; also some colleagues prefer the abstraction layer above

the tool is super duper simple and the plan is to add more feature and make it more robust

give it a try and let me know what you think!
Set ‘media.default_volume’ to 0.3 or so in about:config.
Your comment makes no sense
Median is better here. Average wait includes homeless people who use the waiting room for a warm nights sleep and similar outliers. They quickly get triaged and a free sandwich
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41749046
https://albertoperdomo2.github.io/dockerbx/
Is it really that easy to just leave and find a company/work you vibe with? It seems just as hard as trying to find a quality partner
Between LFS and Stage 1 and 2 Gentoo installs back in the early 2000s during High School, this gave me a big leg up in my journey of learning about computers and Linux. I can't thank those project maintainers enough for helping me get my footing at such a young age and peaking my interest in computing. I ended up printing out the LFS book in segments on one of the printers in High School and brought it home in pieces to use on the home computer.
Every so often you get the chance to make something perfect. Must have been a good day.
Yeah, things like titanium dioxide are considered a carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) yet FDA says its safe for use in food. But i guess trust the science and authorities
In some contexts, the inverse of a function f : A -> B is defined as a function g : B -> A such that g(f(x)) = x and f(g(y)) = y for all x,y.

In other contexts, what is meant is g : B -> 2^A such that x is in g(f(x)) for all x and f(x') = f(x) for all x' in g(f(x)). Here, g is said to produce the pre-image under f, and is a generalization of the above definition of inverse for non-injective functions.

In other contexts still, what is meant is g : B -> A such that f(g(y)) = y for all y such that there exists some x with f(x) = y. This is a different generalization called a one-sided inverse. (People probably call it a left inverse or right inverse, but I can never remember which is which because it emerges from an arbitrary notational convention.)

The article uses inverse in this third sense. "Find some input to f which would yield a given output y, if one exists."
> In other words, the government is not going to impose religion, morals, or values it expects the people to have those on their own.

That is right. But it doesn't mean something cannot be done, such as a general uprising with organized morals against the prevailing winds of profit above all else. Slavoj Žižek said it best when he said that we are conditioned to believe that anything is possible scientifically, but we are highly doubtful of any social change. We need to reverse that: to believe that we can change the world sociall rather than technologically, or perhaps despite the technological changes.
Was it premeditated weaponization of sexual violence as a tool of war?

The comment you replying to is not denying that it happened.

What if the weaponization accusation is just an embellishment added to suit a political narrative? Establishing its truth does require evidence, separately from the evidence of the violence itself.

That's even if we happened to find the narrative morally prevailing.
Founders of “legal AI” startup say legal AI will change everything (get in while you can!).

Each 100 shares purchased comes with your very own carbolic smoke ball. Don’t delay!
Most LLMs are first trained on a broad dataset that informs the model’s overall knowledge and capabilities, and then are customized for a particular domain. That wouldn’t work for Rufus, since our aim was to train it on shopping data from the very beginning

Citation needed for “wouldn’t work” lol. That’s what foundational models were supposed to be for — foundations. I don’t think I want any answers from a service like this that aren’t directly citing some RAG results… training an AI from scratch on product reviews of all things seems like a good way to get it to speak like an alien. I guess they also included a lot of other more traditional datasets?
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That would be fine if we weren't preventing it from radiating out with greenhouse gases.
> Private equity is no longer doing its job, to the extent if ever had one.

Private equity's job is to take a slowly failing company, extract the value, and turn it into a suddenly failed company.

See department stores in the 90s, Circuit City, ToysRUs and restaurant chains more recently.

This is a win for the former owners who get cash for their business and can blame the failure on PE, rather than admit it was on a path to fail slowly. This is a win for PE, because they can often extract enough value to make a good profit. It's a win for Spirit stores, because they get great locations like the old Circuit City that still has those maroon tiles up in 2024 and the old ToysRUs that still has the R up.

When a sector of business is being bought by PE left and right, it's a sign of unhealthy businesses and the owners want out.
Have black plastic in your home? It could expose you to toxic chemicals
So, the sushi part is the lie in the article as you don’t heat sushi in the black trays.

I usually throw leftovers in the black containers and sometimes freeze them. Any effect from that?

We need to clean mop and dust more often, use non-black plastic utensils, and ventilate our homes.
I found a set of wooden ladles so that helps yet need more experience with steel for frying to get rid of the plastic spatula.
Why physics is dying [video]
And he doesn't even use the shift key!
… it's some other regulatory differences which are driving up costs in the US.

It suggests regulatory capture and/or lack of proper governmental oversight.
WSLg[1] is Microsoft's first-party solution. It's interesting because it uses RDP as the display layer.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/wslg
Why? It will be the exact opposite - the hard part is always a human looking at this, unless we want verdicts done by machines as well.

This is most like going to gum up the courts.
I think for anyone who has been intimately involved with this last generation of "unicorns", it really does not look like an "exit" if that means bankruptcy, end of the company, betrayal of goals, or what have you: for a high-growth startup of approximately ten years, finding liquidity for employees is perhaps counter-intuitively a sign of deep maturity and that the company is concerned for the long haul (and that investors/the market believe this is likely).

At about the ten year mark, there has to be a changing of the guards from the foot soldiers who give their all that an unlikely institution could come to exist in the world at scale to people concerned more with stabilizing that institution and ensuring its continuity. In almost every company that has reached such scale in the last decade, this has often meant a transition from an executive team formed of early employees to a more senior C-team from elsewhere with a different skillset. In a world context where the largest companies are more likely to stay private than IPO, it's a profoundly important move to allow some liquidity for longterm employees, who otherwise might be forced to stay working at the company long past physical burnout.
This is actually insane. 120,000 comments! To a certain extent if our law is already so complicated that you need to hire a lawyer to understand it that is already a fundamental problem.

Simplify the rules, make it easier to understand and reason about. The computers should be able to determine if someone is breaking a law, not trying to check if it is a bad law.

We should be using computing power where someone can ask: is this legal ? Can I do this? That’s the true value to society.
Not "I have defined a function", but "I have a defined function". As if they think that "defined" is part of the terminology.
> traditional home/self care

Not sure what you mean by this? If I have a broken bone, I'm not going to set it myself at home and take a few aspirin. Same if I'm puking my guts out.

If you just mean getting exercise and eating healthy then I fully agree with you. But, when you're actually sick, and need to see a professional, that is the right time for "consumerized services".
Whatever you mean, it took 13 billion years and the whole universe as far as we can tell to create the 20 watt human intelligence brain. And it doesn't take 20 watt of energy to maintain humans, it takes a whole ecosystem capable of sustaining a human population. And for us to operate at our current level of information processing it takes a whole planetary civilization. So no you haven't proved anything by saying that a human brain consumes only 20 watts of energy. We spread an awful lot of entropy around that has to be kept away from our delicate biological and social systems.

You're positing a way to create human intelligence-like in a bottle, that's the same as speculating about the shape of a reality where we have FTL travel or teleportation or whatever else you fancy.

If we're talking about what current ML/AI can do, they can extract patterns from training data and than apply those patterns to other inputs. This can give us great automation, but it won't give us anything better than the training data, solve physics, global warming, poverty or give us human intelligence in a chip.

Whatever quantity Q of entropy in the training data, the total output will be more Q all accounted for. That's true for humans and machines. No shape of possible AGI will give us any output with less Q than the combination of inputs had. The dream that a machine will solve all problems that humanity can't hinges on negating that, which goes against thermodynamics.

As it stands, the planet cannot cope with all the entropy we're spreading around. It will eventually collapse civilization/the ecosystem, whatever buckles first, from the excess entropy. Because global warming, poverty, or ignorance is just entropy. Disorder. Things not being just so as we need them to be.
I think most everyone would agree that using early LLMs (and personally I'd still consider current LLMs to be early) in legal contexts is ill-advised, at best. Circle back to this question in 5 years and I think the response will be very different.
I thought it was about directing the execution of the company business. Defining strategy and being a driving force behind it.

But you are right, we live in a post truth influencer driven world. It's all about the narrative.
So far I've only used Next.js for static site generation, for a couple of long-term projects. Self-hosting it is as easy as any static site. Upgrading major versions of Next.js, however, has been fairly painful. The experience made me reconsider the decision to use it, and I'm keeping up on possible replacements like Remix. But honestly I'm getting a lot of value out of the framework that I'm in no hurry to change.

For dynamic sites that require running Next.js on the production server, I'm not too interested in trying because it feels like too much vendor lock-in. The same reason I wouldn't consider Vercel for hosting, since they develop the framework that is already a big dependency.
And, an artificial mucus makes me wonder if one feels as if they constantly need to blow their nose?

Still, neat.
If this was their most important moat for you, what is their moat now that it is gone?
I think that word is in the process of being re-defined. I see it used a lot in the context of older pop music or singers/bands that are no longer at their peak.

My own pet theory is that it's an evolution of speech towards "hardened" claims that you can't easily disagree with. You cannot disagree with "over/under-rated" because there's no official "rating" method. You cannot disagree with "vibes" because the source of a vibration is impossible to determine. They both allow a speaker to make a claim without evidence.
I don't remember where now, but I have run into sites that disallow numbers and non-alpha characters in the "secret" question answers. They were actively trying to thwart people from entering random gibberish there. Of course that's silly, but so is thinking that a person's maiden name is some kind of secret, or that people will be able to reliably remember things like "the title of their favorite book."
> EMEA investors

Thats a pretty broad sweep
You would be onto something if the ACA was the cause. The status quo ante was an equally complex mess that covered far fewer people. The ACA more or less kept the same system in place but now covers more people.
It may not be the intent of those plans, but if it's the result, then that's what matters.
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yeah, but that's not a significant point. covid "not having been the flu" is a different statement than covid is just the flu now. the Spanish flu (1919 or whenever that was) was not "just the flu" either, but it burned bright and then died out in a very short time.

the question is not whether covid-19 happened, it did. the question is whether our various responses did anything or much at all to help, and whether it was productive to turn it into an us/them political issue and suppress speech and criticism to maintain the facade of being right. qui bono?
But not sure americans would be okay with the limits on healthcare you got in europe. I'm from sweden and here you often have to wait several months to see a doctor if it isnt "im dying right now"-urgent. And if you got something complicated that isnt easy to diagnos but isnt killing you they will just not do anything about it.

The healthcare is good if you got something well defined and urgent like a hearth attack or cancer (but less good than cancer treatment in the US). But if you got something less urgent then you are kind of screwed.
I don't know anything, but isn't Sam already rich? And, if OpenAI is in a position to capture profits in an expanding AI industry, isn't this the best possible time to lock-in equity for long term gains and trillionaireship?

For many people, sadly, one can never be rich enough. My point is, planning for both short term exit, and long term gains, is essentially the same in this particular situation. What a boon! Nice problem to have!
It would be hilarious if it’s to get a history of trademark enforcement, I don’t think you can do that after 10 years of no enforcement and after already being in litigation.
Probably best not to do that. Neosporin is somewhat infamous for causing allergic reactions and repeated use increases the chances of getting an allergy to it.
What about the inverse problem? If you go to McDonalds and drop a glass pf coke, can auto-Ronald sue you to get back the cost of the cleaning?
Theres never going to be quality data at tge scale they need it.

At best, theres a slow march to incremental improvements that look exactly like how human culture developed knowledge.

And all the downsides will remain, the same way people, despite hundreds of good sourxes of info still prefer garbage.
You literally cannot, or you are misusing emergency care. If you have a medical emergency you may need immediate care from EMTs in an ambulance followed by time sensitive follow up treatment. You may be trying to cope with the medical emergency of yourself or a family member in profound pain, cognitively impaired from hypoxia, drugged, or even unconscious. At best you will be unable to do anything other than dial 911 and hope or pray.

You can try to live in a state or region that where emergent care is available that isn't owned by PE, or you can live in a country other than the US. Neither of those are a guarantee that your circumstances won't change.
I think the tone on the topic on Reddit is due to bots and shills. Not just this topic but almost all topics.

There is also a subgroup of the population that seems very susceptible to fall for dehumanization. It is like they go mad as soon as there is a somewhat socially accepted victim of it.
The laws as written only work because they're not applied perfectly and to every offence.

My standard examples of this are that there's around three times as many heroin users in the UK as that country's total prison population, and that perfect enforcement of road traffic regulations would mean the only people allowed to drive would be people like me who don't have a car.

I hope that things like this result in massive liberalisation of legal systems worldwide; the alternative, de facto not de jure*, is one law for the rich and another for the poor.

* "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread." - https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anatole_France
It’s an alignment layoff “I’m an asshole and if you aren't on board GTFO”. It’s right out of Musk’s playbook. Although I think Musk does it better.
Absolutely, but it's been my general experience.

A lot of the European "VCs" are basically rebranded Family Offices or PEs, and aren't staffed with former operators.

The European office of an American fund tends to be decent though, as they tend to filter for people with domain experience.

Index Ventures is a notable exception to this rule imo, but they actually worked at adopting the SV model.
Oh so you know do you? But you're just going to leave a little breadcrumb?
Just keying on one comment here, which perhaps no one will read:

I was, in fact, a paste-up man in the early 1990s, slapping together copy and ads for a magazine. As such, I was a ping-pong ball in the battle between account management and creative arts - each of them wanted to be the originator of the big and clever ideas. (This is pretty widespread in the industry, and was even a recurring theme in "Mad Men.")

The takeaway here is, people like to be creative. People need to be creative. There will always be an implacable drive to create, one which DALL-E can never satisfy. Gen AI is the artificial sweetener that might temporarily satisfy those cravings, but ultimately artists want to create something from nothing. There's some hope to be found in that, amid the tsunami of AI slop.
It's kind of silly they tie these together. Why can't I also open an HSA if I'm on a traditional PPO plan? Or if I have no health insurance as all.
I think you completely missed GP's point. Teenagers ARE much more likely to make a bad decision than other groups.
If it's stuck at 12 year old level intelligence then it's not generally intelligent. 12 years can learn to think like 13 year olds and so on.
You clearly, clearly do not understand what I am saying. But sure, waste your time and money making a parrot that, unlike the author it mimics, is incapable of introspection, reflection, intellectual evolution or simply changing its mind.

Words are words. Writers are writers. Writers are not words.

ETA: consider what would actually be necessary to prove me wrong. And when you hear back from David Karpf about his willingness to take part in that experiment, write a blog post about it and any results, post it to HN.

I am sure people here will happily suggest topics for the articles. I, for example, would love to hear what your hypothetical ChatKarpf has to say about influences from his childhood that David Karpf has never written about, or things he believed at age five that aren't true and how that affects his writing now.

Do you see what I mean? These aren't even particularly forced examples: writers draw on private stuff, internal thoughts, internal contradictions, all the time, consciously and unconsciously.
Most laws have a lot of neuances and edge-cases. That's why the words and language is so important. The more edge-cases are discovered the more complicated the text becomes.

I don't think you can easily simplify it tbh.
Interesting! What are the sensations / side effects?
I would bet on the opposite, new rules that prevent automation from gumming up the court system. The judiciary is going to be hostile to such approaches.
I was introduced to the P vs. NP problem via the traveling salesman problem and honestly seems like easiest way to explain it to people.
You can turn GPUs into cash flow but the reverse isn’t guaranteed to be true.
How to be productive when you don't have external structure
When I said, we control the bias I meant we can control for it when we try to make a model as unbiased as possible. I think we can do that well even if the result will never be completely unbiased.

When it comes to giving a model a deliberate bias I agree with you.
This is some really out there thinking, and I think you need to do some basic fact checking bc some of this just isn’t true
Maybe that would be more apt if this were web app rather than a 10s of lines training script
Just keep small claims like that in small claims court. Then auto-Ronald has to send $500/hr general counsel instead of farming it out to a law firm and that makes it impractical for them to sue little people.
Using AI coding via zed editor.

Best UX so far.

Wish it had FIM completion via local LLM or Gemini Flash like models and better Git GUI, it would have replaced vscode for me already then.
> logically LLM's will increasingly allow individuals to free themselves from the need for attorneys.

No. Not a chance. If you sue me with LLM-generated filings, I’m going to be paying a lawyer to mercilessly win, using LLMs as needed (perhaps using LLMs to test various responses to your filings that cause your LLM to spit out something that is terrible for you but you’d have no idea since you aren’t using a lawyer).
At least hundreds of thousands, likely millions
Discussion on the Cloudflare announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41730415