skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very happy to see the punishment start against Matt, and I sincerely hope it continues and escalates. Not wishing for the end of WordPress, but Matt clearly needed to go a long time ago, and repercussions for his constant terrible actions will hopefully force him out.
Being slim and vaping or snusing might be better than just being fat honestly
Spam calls have decreased, spam texts increased.
Killer product would be a physical UHD player with built-in very powerful and accurate AI upscalling
(better than Nvidia Shield)
for all your discs - old and new.
The username of one of the devs :) https://github.com/DogeDark
I've not been able to find any way to distinguish "mere surface statistics" from the deeper, richer, and more meaningful kind of something that it is meant to be contrasted with, except that "surface statistics" are un-compressed. For example, surface statistics might be the set of output measurements generated by a compact process, such as the positions of planets over time; knowing the laws of gravity means we can generate gigabytes of these statistics correctly and easily, which will accurately match future observations.

But then going the other way, from statistics to a causal model, is just an inverse problem -- just like, say, going from a set of noisy magnetic field measurements at the boundary of a container to a pattern of electric current flow inside a volume, or going from planet positions to orbit shapes and periods to an inverse square law of gravity. Generating a compressed inverse model from surface statistics is exactly the sort of thing that deep learning has proven to be very good at. And by now we've seen no shortage of evidence that LLMs and other deep networks contain stateful world models, which is exactly what you'd expect, because for all their parameters, they aren't nearly big enough to contain an infinitesimal fraction of the statistics they were trained on.

So I think it's overly dismissive to regard LLMs as mere surface statistics.
I'll also say that there's a huge difference between IT specialist in the military and Tier 1 Special Forces Operator. One may facilitate killing, but its not a core competency, and you can spend an entire enlistment term doing absolutely nothing that might suggest your relation to a lethal machine; indeed you can do your job and never think about what you might be facilitating. The other exists to kill, and occasionally explicitly murder, and failing to make peace with that reality makes them less effective at their job. Both are ultimately necessary.

I understood the article as reminding folks to actually think about what you might be facilitating, and make your choices accordingly.
> I use a Claude and Gemini a lot for coding and I realized there is no good or best model.

True to a point, but is anyone using GPT2 for anything still? Sometimes the better model completely supplants others.
The genius of the George C Scott scene in Dr Strangelove when he is talking about the B52's ability to evade radar is the canonical example of this. He is literally cheering the end of the world because he is proud of the skill of "his boys".
Calling it "collateral damage" or "manslaughtering civilians" or whatever won't change my argument in the slightest. This isn't a language barrier. Actually, it sounds like the opposite: you're restricting the discussion to people who share your mindset.

Some people feel even stronger than I do and would prefer to avoid being involved in killing even an enemy combatant.
It's fine because when I say this it's because the context of the conversation has been set that I'm going to tell them hard truths
The escalation without specific terms is to terminate the contract — which has already ended.
China set to launch first Guowang megaconstellation satellites on Long March 5B
Great point and we 100% agree! We have a new multi-modal gripper that we're testing now but are keeping hush while we bring it up. (We're actually swapping out a new arm too for a variety of reasons)

These videos are more to set a scene for where we're operating the the general process.
In general, its good for:

* indoor unobstructed environments

* outdoor point-to-point line-of-sight

It is a holiday miracle for small low power handheld devices.

We'll need to know the ERP limits for these bands before designing any changes.

However, hypothetically even 5W to 8W could open space networks (C band)
Are the Gemini models open?
The government still negotiates. Refusing to buy a product/service at X rate is a negotiation, and there is a back and forth with providers/manufacturers.

Same for state employed healthcare professionals, which have salary set by the state.
But I guess that, in a couple of years, mainstream LLMs will know every pixel of every disc ever released by heart...
Honestly, fasting feels great and I just need that reminder that it does.
How easy is it to detect that this is automation as opposed to a real user? I suppose probably pretty easy, so not sure if it is useful if I want to automate the web for things I do every day as I would really be running the risk of turning off access to those things if they determined I am automating them.
Given most messaging apps are pretty much interchangeable from a UX perspective, the main reason you would use it is that people you want to talk to are using it.

If you live in the USA, that's probably not the case. If you live in Europe, it probably is. If you live in Europe and there's a group chat taking place, it's almost certain to be in WhatsApp, and that's a much better UX than if it was SMS.
> I have to say, just as a matter of gut instinct, it sure feels like when the court finds that Alex Jones damaged people—at a value orders of magnitude beyond that of his company—those people should be allowed to decide that, to them, there's value in snuffing out his ill-behaving company altogether.

It seems like there's an easy way for them to do that though: Just bid on it themselves and dispose of it however they want. They can bid arbitrarily high because they're the ones who get the money, if they want to dismantle the company or sell it to The Onion more than they want the money from what would otherwise be the highest bidder.
If it is that the ROI is just real unattractive for spam calls now... I wonder if the waves are just new people trying to spam for the first time. And taking a little bit of time to figure out that it's not profitable.

If so that's not great. Because there's probably an infinite supply of people ready to waste their money trying get-rich-quick crap.
1. Go to LinkedIn. Find a mid to high level finance executive at the firm. Add. Explain. They know some of their processes are somewhat shitty and might have the grace to pull some strings / sent some internal cold mails (in ultra large firms, mailing far outside your sphere feels like cold sales) to get things resolved.

2. Sent a snail letter to the CEO. The CEO gets little post that isn’t outright spam. This gets read by an assistant and passed down the chain. Down the chain gives very large urgency. The assistant to the CEO doesn’t know anyone five steps down. So you are coming in like a champ.

Both tips would work in my firm. It’s what I’ve use once or twice to get proper service without lawyering up. The best response was when the premier customer oriented person (director of operations) of a very large firm called me to pretty much complain that the CEO tasked her with resolving my issue. I had to refrain from laughing. (It was a big problem for me but quite a delicate matter for them I explained in kind writing.) She was telling me how happy I should be that she called me. I told here thanks for calling but you should be happy this isn’t in the papers. End of kind call, start of solution.
Google staffers can't jail or torture or assassinate you. The CIA can and does.
You kids get off my submillimetre lawn.
> seems to be getting the right results

> hard to deny that their LLM models aren't really, really good though

I'm so scarred by how much their first Gemini releases sucked that the thought of trying it again doesn't even cross my mind.

Are you telling us you're buying this press release wholesale, or you've tried the tech they're talking about and love it, or you have some additional knowledge not immediately evident here? Because it's not clear from your comment where you are getting that their LLM models are really good.
Signed URLs are a thing.

Copyright itself isn't what's stopping that, but the legal apparatuses and laws surrounding the distribution of digital copyrighted information and the industry protectionism that spawned said laws and legal apparatuses is what's stopping it.
In the past even Trump tried to get a foot in the door by the Dems. Depending on ones information environment, the unwillingness to protect the market from monopolistic practices, the hereditary lines in government and the outsized power of oligarchies are definitively "considered strange or newsworthy".

The heat has been steadily going up, taking a huge upward turn the last 15 years. What you are witnessing now is that the glacier is making rumbling sounds and people starting to notice that the thing is coming down. Many people have the feeling the atmosphere is odd, but can still be distracted with outrage over transgenders or dog eating Haitians.

So yes, the issues are systematic. But do not make a mistake, a tipping point has been passed. The GOP clan does not respect limits, institutions, truth, the rule of law, democracy, separation of powers. They don't even think they need to fake decency anymore.

Nobody can predict the future, but if you hear a thundering sound, you better should not act like nothing has changed. It is a system where people think in terms of eating or being eaten.
Except C band, which could be huge depending on the ERP limits. =3
Maybe not guaranteed, but still certainly creates a certain problem of deporting the parents when they can't the child, not to mention general sympathy of splitting families and such, and no one wants to be on the news for that.
Still no mention of WebGPU? I heard that it had been quietly enabled by default in the beta, leading people to assume that it would be stabilized in the release version, but apparently not.
The equivalent of “deny, delay, defend” but with smaller companies.

Pumping the books and moving expenses to make the quarter appear good. Practices like this are unethical, should be illegal to hide it.
Those who care about education, can leave to a private school instead, and not spend time trying to improve the public schools, just leave them to their fate: noisy school-is-boring kids sabotaging the classes for everyone.

Or that's how I interpret what GP said. Happening a bit where I live: richer families don't want their kids go to school in problematic suburbs.
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*Some people. I despised older versions from my time dealing with it (during the upgrade from PHP2 to 3), and I never wrote non-trivial amounts of JS until the last year or so. PHP has a broad base of anti-support.

BTW, my loathing of earlier versions don't carry through to now. I haven't had to look at it in a couple decades and maybe it's better now. I was strongly in the hater camp, based on my own personal experiences with it, around the time JS was starting to become a thing.
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I'm somewhat embarrassed to post this (not being a professional dev by any stretch) and I'm sure there are embarrassing bugs and code hiding in this.

I found that getting up-and-running with Google Appsheet's API in Python was not straightforward from their limited documentation. I suspect Appsheet's demographic is geared less towards professional developers and more towards scrappy individuals in orgs trying to build internal tools (i.e. people like me).

You might wonder: why would anyone use Google Appsheet when all sorts of other great low-code/no-code products exist like Bubble, Xano, Glide, etc. Especially for its database features?

Quite simply: it's by far-and-away a total steal of deal if you're developing any sort of applications where HIPAA matters. I work at a small biotech startup. Other than Google and MSFT offerings, the cost to get a BAA in place is just obscene and total price gauging of the highest order (shout-out to Jotform for actually being reasonably priced in this department). The second you need a BAA, all of these companies say you need to get on their enterprise plan. Many of which start out at $XXXX/year.
It's not a long document, but to take one of the example torts mentioned: torturous interference with a business contract is illegal, even if you own the means of interfering.

Could matt/automattic/wordpress.org/wordpress.com (they all act as the same entity: matt) have withdrawn services in a way that didn't tortiously interfere with a business contract? Of course. But he didn't, because tortiously interfering with WPEngine's customer contracts was his primary goal. His complaints about cost were secondary at best, and seem to have been entirely a pretext.

To add more perspective: withdrawing services from everybody usually requires one to simply stop working and/or paying bills. To withdraw services from WPEngine, matt had to consciously expend time/effort/money, just to interfere with WPEngine's customer contracts. Doing nothing would have been less work and cost matt less.
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I am a bit confused by this for multiple reasons:

- $130k is a large amount, why would your contracts save such a huge payment until the end instead of spreading it out over the six months of the engagement?

- Is apsis really just doing nothing and waiting? I get the contract might not have a clause on late fees or whatever, but that doesn't stop them from paying a lawyer ~$200 to send a letter demanding payment. That should get any large company moving.

- How many contracts has apsis closed because this is a somewhat standard practice at large companies in the sense that they will take any float time they can get. I remember one company my dad worked with in construction would mail checks the slowest way possible just to get a week of float!
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There are a lot of constraints in our planning, including what actions we can do for a particular bag/gripper interaction. Multiple robots working in collision range of each other isn't on the roadmap right now, but it's always a possibility.

Suction works really well but it's not enough, we're rolling out a new gripper soon that covers more cases mechanically (there's a very long tail in the distribution of what comes through airports).
https://b3n.org/automatic-ripping-machine/

https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-rippi...
Honda said its total investment in Cruise was $852 million.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/10/gm-halts-funding-of-robotaxi...
> What can you tell me about this sculpture?

> It's located in London.

Mind blowing.
Similar problem.

Just worked for six months for a client.

Contract is one month of monthly savings made in AWS bill.

They have not paid, and in fact terminated the contract early to avoid payment - "the savings do not occur until AWS reservations end, contract has been ended now, so savings have not occurred". The savings are going to occur, and then the client will keep those savings.

Turns out the contract also contains what looks like a poison pill, to prevent the counter-party (me) having recourse to court at all, no matter what the client does.

Also the entire contract is confidential, so I in theory can't say a word about any of it.
The power imbalance between us — a 7-person agency — and them — a multinational publicly traded company — is immense. The dollar amount in question is outside the realm of small claims court, which means that we'd end up in actual court, where we'd lose: not necessarily on the merits, but because of the costs of attempting to litigate against a giant.
Especially spam iMessage, which you'd think Apple would have a good handle on. Always iMessage from a foreign number.
AI solutions will work for the type of person who consumes free porn but will likely fall flat for paying customers.
This whole thing reminds me of ractors in The Diamond Age
Yes, very likely.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast
Or 10 european seniors
This is excellent! I live in a small city with an airport so have known many baggage handlers during my years here. I honestly didn’t believe how common back and shoulder injuries were in the industry. This could prevent a whole lot of medical problems.
I still get regular spam calls and spam texts. Maybe half the texts are obvious scams (make $1000s a day from home reshipping stolen goods) and the other texts are conversation starters that shady telcos can explain away as plausibly harmless (but are likely to be the first step in deliberate pig butchering scams).
I think the big thing that separates cables and all the other technology is just how in-your-face power cables and telegram lines are/were. You’re stringing them across people’s windows sometimes, blocking their views at worst and making aesthetic changes to the neighborhood at best. The fact that no one sabotaged these things en masse is a miracle IMO, especially considering how many people had nothing to lose back then.
well it's just a static code, but I guess it's software as a service still :D

Yeah, updates are not given. Often it's simply a starting point and then you're on your own. Since it's not library code, it's simply pre-written code.
Here is my HN submission about eget: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41479539

It's great to see movement in this space. The main problem in my experience is github api and throttling. It's really hard to download 40 binaries while building an image for CI/CD. Binaries themselves are CDNed, but github apis to find them are easily throttled, especially behind NAT.

Need to have some caching mechanism avoid this. Eget seems currently abandoned, maybe gah can start looking stuff in a cache.
WPEngine is no more a parasite than just about every business using Linux or Chrome without offering material support. Parasites drain their host but does WPEngine hurt or drain Wordpress? In fact, doesn't WPEngine just make WordPress more popular as a business solution?
All funds currently diverted towards executive security details. Sorry, GLP-1 denied.
GM’s current annual expenditure on Cruise amounted to about $2 billion, and the restructuring would cut that by more than half, CFO Paul Jacobson said.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/12/10/gm-halts-funding-of-robotaxi...
Seems a lot of just-so logic there.

If it's dark genius then why doesn't it work for folks like Eric Adams or even other MAGA candidates?

My guess is he's actually lowered the bar of expectations so low that it cannot get any lower, it's on the floor. And folks inclined to circle the party wagons are willing to overlook at lot, something they would never do for outsider candidates who don't wear their colors or haven't lowered their own bar.
Plenty of people use VSCode for dotnet dev or Rider which costs $149/year.
Also lots of great resources here: https://romankogan.net/adhd/
> Here's Top Gear explaining it [...]

(Apologies for the snark but...) mythbusting articles without any experimental data or references to back up claims - or claims they say they've debunked - aren't really my thing. Hopefully not really a HN thing either :/
600ghz isn’t very fragile at 50db, 6THz is! (6THz if a common wavelength for fiber)
> I will soon be leaving it and being exclusively on signal.

How do you do this if all your friends are on WA?
dang "X41 audited the Mullvad VPN app" might be a clearer title.
That doesn't constitute support when it comes to development platforms. They've not received any updates in years or decades. What they've done is simply not remove the capability build capability from the toolchains. That is, not even the work that would be required to no longer support them in any way. Compare that to C#, which has evolved rapidly over the same time period.
Neat, but how does it differ from other tools out there? e.g. https://www.kickresume.com/en/linkedin-resume-builder/
Is there not goin to be a v6p?
privacy is “in the DNA” of WhatsApp so you cannot delete a message there.

Same privacy as Facebook offers.

Telegram is much better than any other popular messenger. Pity it is owned by Russians.
It seems like the streaming tech is solid, no issues loading and playing videos. Curation on the other hand seems to be abysmal. I even tried their cutely branded search engine SepiaSearch with similar non-relevant or not so interesting results.

I am also curious how moderation works. How do they prevent inappropriate or illegal content from being shared?
Good video! The overall question here is the blended rate of bags placed per minute, rather than how fast each action needs to be.

That said, the arm itself can move 180deg/s in every joint (roughly 5m/s max at the end effector) - these videos are still very much v1 and we're looking forward to leveraging more of the mechanical capability with a better gripper, better perception, and some new planning techniques we're rolling out in the next few months.
This seems nice at first glance, but lets think about it for a minute:

Before: You had a .sql file and if you messed up you had to revert manually. Maybe you would pre-write the revert script, maybe your site is down if you mess up. It's super easy to understand what is happening though.

Now: you use pgroll. An absolute heaping ton of magic is happening behind the scenes. Every table is replaced by a view and tables have tons of 'secret' columns holding old data. Every operation that made sense before (ALTER TABLE foo ADD COLUMN bar INTEGER NOT NULL) turns into some ugly json mess (look at the docs, it's horrible) that then drops into the magic of pgroll to get turned into who knows what operations in the db, with the PROMISE that it can be reversed safely. Since all software has bugs, pgroll has bugs. When pgroll leaves you in a broken state, which it will sooner or later, you are just FUCKED. You will have to reverse engineer all it's complicated magic and try to get it back on the rails live.

You're trading something you understand and is simple, but maybe not super convenient, for something that is magically convenient and which will eventually put a bullet in your head. It's a horrific product, don't use it.
Everyone I've talked to from the LORA crowd and even some (LORA) alliance guys tells me lo-energy meshes are hard to get right. Am I missing something?
Since TPUv2, announced in 2017: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/googl...

The superscalers are all working on this. https://aws.amazon.com/ai/machine-learning/trainium/
More reasonable: Emit a warning or error to make the code and human writing it better.

NOT-reasonable: silently 'optimize' a 'gotcha' into behavior the programmer(s) didn't intend.