skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Emotions come into it where some creditors are willing to forgo their portion of the sale proceeds for a particular outcome. That counts as the bid satisfying some portion of the debt and now other creditors potentially get more money from the bankruptcy. The law allows for this, banks do it all the time on foreclosure auctions splashing the bids with their outstanding loan amount making it unprofitable for others to bid and winning the house they can then sell in a regular manner.
NASA researchers discover more dark comets
Even if the GPU took literally no time at all to compute the results there would be workflows where doing it on the CPU was faster.
The deposition of his father clearly laid out that they saw spikes in sales when the sandy hook conspiracy was mentioned and actively sought to replicate it.
Jules looks like it's going after Devin
Why is it allowed to eliminate the branch? In most architectures abs(INT_MIN) returns INT_MIN which is negative
He's been ignoring the courts. I don't know what you want them to do? I guess they could put him in prison, but I'm guessing that would be considered harsh too.

Again, for the 2nd time, its not what he's done, it's that he's ignoring everyone telling him to stop, including the government. I don't know what you expect the punishment for that to be. If it were you or I we would have had our asses dragged into prison a long time ago. He's only gotten this far because of his money.
Ditto, I’m curious to see the art.
Even back when Netflix had a DVD rental service the media quality was kind of crap. I frequently got halfway through a movie only to have it skip and refuse to play due to scratches.
>2,000 words of bs

>General availability will follow in January, along with more model sizes.

>Benchmarks against their own models which always underperformed

>No pricing visible anywhere

Completely inept leadership at play.
Software engineers are free to join IEEE.
> But the car that this engine drives is one that is meant expand and deepen the human experience by keeping people healthy for longer and giving people back more free time than ever before to explore themselves and the world. But some people don’t see it this way. Most ceos and founders are able to impose their deeply flawed worldview onto society as a whole by accruing capital at the cost of everything else.

I agree, the CEOs and founders see the car a vehicle to further their own greed and power, they're personal human experience, not the collective human experience.

Many of the ideologies that underlay our culture, especially at its elite ranks, allow and encourages that.

> The only solution I can see is one where machines and automation can carry out all the essential functions needed to feed and care for a large population. Then everyone is given a universal basic income and the freedom to choose what they want to do with their lives. I’d like to believe most people will immerse themselves in the more human hobbies like arts and sports instead of wasting their lives away without purpose. Maybe I’m just hopeful

That's an utterly unrealistic fantasy. Automation isn't a solution, it will be more of the same without fundamental change in those underlying ideologies. Hoping that automation will be the solution is a disparate, unrealistic hope that putting the cart before the horse will work out.

The only reason the "ceos and founders" share anything with you (i.e. pay you) is because you're useful to them. What happens when automation means you're no longer useful? Are they going to keep sharing? Have their kind ever made that choice through all the other prior waves of automation?

Isn't the richest man in the world right now working really hard to slash government spending in a way that will likely hurt all the people already discarded due to the prior waves of automation?

What needs to happen before total automation, is an ideological change needs to be forced on the "ceos and founders" that massively reduces inequality and greatly lessens their power. And that needs to happen before most workers lose all economic power to automation.

UBI's only purpose is a sop to keep the population passive in the face of changes that will pull the rug out from under them.
> Ok then, the lawsuit was settled with an absurdly large judgement. Nobody thinks he has this money.

The judgement was derived from the absurdly large damages he was proven to have caused to his victims.

If he has no money to compensate the victims of his actions for the absurdly large damage he caused then this means he's bound to declare bankruptcy.

> I think it's relevant as to the intent, which is to get a ridiculous sum rather than simply a reasonable one.

The intent is to ensure that people like Alex Jones cannot cause damages to innocent third-parties. The intent is to bring down legal consequences that match the damages caused to others in order to hold him accountable for his actions. Think: if you are going to constrain damages to your cash grab perspective, you'd be ensuring that those well off would be free to cause damages to everyone around them provided the are not as rich so that worst case scenario they would pay a symbolic fine and change nothing in their antisocial behavior. Do you think this makes sense?
Building a complex stateful system will always be hard, but workflows as an abstraction have two big benefits:

1. Automatic handling of any transient failures or service interruptions/crashes/restarts. Transient failures in steps are automatically retried, and service interruptions are automatically recovered from. Even if you're doing your own bookkeeping, doing _recovery_ from that bookkeeping isn't easy, and workflows do it automatically.

2. Built-in observability. Workflows naturally support built-in observability and tooling that isn't easy to build yourself. DBOS integrates with OpenTelemetry, automatically generating complete traces of your workflows and giving you a dashboard to view them from (and because it's all OTel, you can also feed the traces into your existing obs infrastructure). So it's easier to spot a step getting stuck or failing unexpectedly.

Another advantage of DBOS specifically, versus other workflow engines, is that all its bookkeeping is in Postgres and well-documented (https://docs.dbos.dev/explanations/system-tables), so you have full and complete control over your workflows if you need it.
10 smaller systems then require a layer on top to manage those 10 systems. Now you have 11 systems. And there definitely won't be only 2 layers in your public healthcare system for 300M people across 50 different states.

Have you never worked in a large corporation before and seen all the intermediary layers of beauracy? If you have, imagine the largest company you've ever worked for, multiply it by 1000x, and then imagine but there is no profit motive driving efficiency (or competition) and your customers all demand access to a resource that is finite. Except they're not really "customers", so you can't say "sorry no more product left, better luck next time".

That is publicly funded healthcare at scale.

What "economies of scale" do you imagine centralized publicly-funded healthcare has?
Eventually school districts do close schools that have emptied out as kids have gone to charter schools (source: spouse is on school board and they are closing public schools because kids have moved to charter schools)
Have economists ever really gotten their story straight about anything?

I don't mean to mock. They're doing a hard thing, and an important thing. But it's nearly impossible to do a rigorous experiment on anything they do, and there will always be evidence in favor of any position you want to hold. The number of variables is insane.

Our decisions are always going to be based primarily on our best guesses. We can use economics to try to predict the problems that our best guesses are likely to give rise to, and mitigate them. But we may never get economics to give us a definitive answer to anything.
First came the language, then a few years later they described it in a book.
And the experience is on Safari as well.

Fair enough, Apple videos playing nice with Android cast devices is also trouble.
Think of Google as of a tanker ship. It takes a while to change course, but it has great momentum.
Sundar just needs to make sure the course is right.
> Try watching a European VHS cassette in North America (or vice versa).

That's not a georestriction, but a difference in media protocols. You could easily buy a compatible VCR. Heck, in some countries, Japan marketed VCRs that supported both PAL and NTSC (I had one of those) because those countries would have a significant influx of VHSs from both Europe and America.

It's like saying the choice of 110 vs 220V (or 120 vs 240V) is a "georestriction".
Because both of these are based on Chromium (the open-source version of Chrome).
I remember an anecdote about this topic where someone (I think it was Douglas Engelbart?) was giving another a hard time about their military software being used to kill people. At which point the other person mentioned their software used a mouse (which Engelbart invented). Obviously a complex topic with lots of considerations that I venture won't be solved in this HN thread, but good to discuss and think about.
Thanks for echoing my thoughts. This is what I feel about the process to, and at the point in my life where I'm at I couldn't care less about this being unethical.
Q: How many letters are in the word "intelligence"?

A: The word "intelligence" contains 11 letters: i-n-t-e-l-l-i-g-e-n-c-e.

Wrong! The correct answer is 12.

This is definitely not AGI! It is a crude statistical attempt that some people confuse with AGI.
It's kind of interesting that the page for Cantlon mentions that she is Time person of the year for being one of the Silence Breakers, but as far as I can tell, the actual article has 0 information about the circumstances that lead to her being given that award until almost the bottom of the article, under the heading "Academic service".
"gemini for video games" - here we go again with the AI does the interesting stuff for you rather than the boring stuff
> The constant ads, especially in apps like YouTube

Install NewPipe or you're a square
You are thinking about it at the wrong level. This is like saying human language in the middle ages and before is not possible because it's virtually impossible to get a large number of iliterate humans to discuss what syntactical rules and phonemes should their language use without actually using a language to discuss it!

The most likely way by which exfiltration could happen is simply by making humans trust AI for a long enough time to be conferred greater responsibilities (and thus greater privileges). Plus current LLMs have no sense of self as their memory is short but future ones will likely be different.
It can also be both.

At Google's scale, the easiest way to harm Firefox's market share is to simply not test changes on Firefox. Let Mozilla keep their browser implementation-compliant with Google's interpretation of the spec, not the other way around.
Brave, Opera, and Chrome all use the same engine.
> Last election someone just casually threw around $300.000.000 to buy himself into government.

That doesn't imply a high income or some extreme income inequality, though. There are the usual tricks like amassing wealth and borrowing against it in order to secure access to dollars without needing an income.

There is income inequality to some degree. Some people do make more than others. That is undeniably seen in income data. But is the income inequality really that high?
> What is it that changed from AGPL in SSPL that was absolutely needed?

https://opensource.stackexchange.com/a/8028

Big cloud players would put a thin layer on top and ignore the AGPL.
Agreed, i think reddit (and even HN) are too quick to jump to malice. Spoiler alert: the world's not out to get you!
That was due to fundamental differences in standards[1] though. This isn't the case with DVD onwards (mostly).

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-definition_television
its not really an executive issue, the systems that govern our world were imposed by force and perfer loop that maintain the status quo. with such a system in place, we can't address any issue unless it is obcenely profitable.

We have far more effective executive systems available, but we aren't using them.
everything is onto its image.
For me, it's really simple. I have YT Premium subscription. If they break Firefox or yt-dlp to the point of unusable, I will cancel my subscription.
That's not true either though. The default judgment was for not complying with the discovery process to the satisfaction of the court. Other options like perjury charges were available to the court, but the court chose the nuclear option to default against Jones.

Also in many cases courts will allow you to walk back from the circumstances that ended up with a person in default and to proceed with a fair trial. I even have direct experience with this in a foreclosure/foreign-judgments case.

The court could have allowed Jones to correct the financial and web-analytics records and proceed, but it didn't.
[snark removed]
1st thought, without reading it, "what have they done now again?" EU always means making life more complicated, see cookie banners.
Politicians need a reason to explain why they're getting paid to do their job, so they create regulations for regulations sake.
I've just skimmed over it, I bet somewhere there there's a loophole where the EU or its member states, aka select few earn big money from these "guidelines", or it's legislation already now, I thought the EU only formulates guidelines which the member states have to implement. Yes, I'm pedantic where it's required.

IMHO a politician making legislation should have at least completed an apprenticeship in that field before being let lose.

Yup it's all about money. Bleh
Fraud is a crime.
That reminds me of when galvanic batteries were discovered, and it was thought that the corrosion on the electrodes was something that could be worked on and eliminated. If you don't have a prototype that demonstrates all the properties that you're trying to develop, you have not demonstrated the viability of the technology. It could be that it's possible to achieve those properties with a little more work, or that a device that combines all of those properties simultaneously is simply impossible.
You can support people's right to say what they want, while also saying it's against the house rules to impersonate other people. Doesn't seem that unreasonable.
I'm guessing some of that misunderstanding comes from the fact that it states "Dioxus desktop is built off Tauri" here: https://dioxuslabs.com/learn/0.6/guides/desktop/
They are already hacked, and they can’t account for nearly half a trillion in fraud/loss
> Jones seems like a nut, but the way he's being taken to the cleaners and sued for comical amounts of money are just absurd.

I'm normally extremely sympathetic to this argument, but not only was this a conspiracy theory about dead children, but it implicated the bereaved, devastated parents and all of the relatives of those children. It's so many people that you can't really make up for it, ever. There's no number of dollars or good deeds that will get him into paradise.

The fact that he still operates in much the same way as before makes me think he's blessed by intelligence agencies to use as pretense for what they want to do or as distraction from what they are doing.
https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/videos/recently-added
Electric Vehicle Battery Packs See Biggest Price Drop Since 2017
Curious, did you actually expect only to see billion dollar ideas?
I'm just going based off of the page I linked (which appears to be the documentation for version 0.6 which was just released) which says:

> Dioxus desktop is built off Tauri. Right now there are limited Dioxus abstractions over the menubar, event handling, etc. In some places you may need to leverage Tauri directly – through Wry and Tao.

Maybe that paragraph is out of date though?

From your comment it seems like wry is not (currently?) based on Tauri so it doesn't seem like it would make sense to "leverage Tauri directly – through Wry"; was wry previously based on Tauri and is that part left over from before that change? Or did the person who wrote the documentation misunderstand how it works?
Point is... Maybe it shouldn't be up to Google that the prioritization other browsers get is "one guy in his spare time." Maybe society is allowed to hold the dominant market player to a higher standard? The market itself is, after all, a made-up set of rules people agree on; we could make those rules encourage multiple options over a single winner.
> it's out of line with other defamation judgements.

This point made me curious so I quickly looked around. Fox News paid a $787.5 million settlement [1] for making false claims about Dominion. Given that this happened as the trial was about to start, it's reasonable to assume that Fox News expected to lose even more if the issue went to trial. And that's for a party that arguably would have followed court orders, something Alex Jones refused to do.

Next in line is Rudy Giuliani, who was ordered to pay $150 million for defaming two election workers [2]. If Alex Jones defamed 12 families then it comes out roughly the same.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/18/media/fox-dominion-settle...

[2] https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/rudy-giuliani-def...
AI benchmarks and leaderboards are complete nonsense though.

Find something you like, use it, be ready to look again in a month or two.
Author here. I gave this as a talk at several conferences through 2017.

I didn't realize that the video embed was broken until someone pointed out that this was making the rounds again, so I've just fixed that. If you've already looked, the video is now available. The content is more or less the same as the written version so don't feel like you need to watch it if you've already read the post.
For an entire week, I thought this was an Onion parody headline, and didn't realize the Onion _actually_ tried to buy Info Wars.
We're living in such an entertaining era.
Life imitates art.
I hate maintaining devops tools. Never in my life managed to update Jenkins without breaking half of the plugins (many of which are no longer available for the updated version, and the rest became incompatible with the original config. Oh, and Jenkins refuses to start anyway, because it hates that the JVM patch version doesn't end with a 4-digit prime).

I also hate when I just want to run an overnight test on a VM, which should be a 10 minutes long task to set up (and to shift-delete in the morning), but with a separate devops team it takes 2-3 days, with a lot of back and forth ticket-comments and approvals.

I just can't win with devops.
I'm a little surprised that a defense contractor would bother with that much awkward subterfuge or even farm out a core part of their product to some random other company.

The handful of US based defense contractors I've had contact with were VERY up front about what they develop. I think they more so wanted you to know so everyone was on the same page.
That’s an interesting idea I’m not sure I agree with, it’s hard to formulate why, but I’ll try.

God itself can be supernatural, but feels like it can only affect a limited part of any universe due to the limitations in observer’s mind. If we could expand BB size indefinitely up to the size where it stays coherent (light milliseconds?) then that would basically cover everything that a consciousness itself could experience. This makes God infiniteness sort of redundant and unclear why it would be needed to generate a universe.

This echoes with my vague idea that hypothetical FGH-sized beings are indistinguishable from God(s) whose infinite part could actually create more issues than it might solve.

Iow, we have to define some Continuum of reality for God of omega+ size to operate on, not to mention Proper Class sized God. Our ancestors really overkilled this idea, but little did they know. So maybe we should take its infiniteness as “anything imaginable by an arbitrarily-sized BB” rather than its naive infinite meaning.
Or… just continue using Claude?
And the algorithm seems to prioritize videos that have extraordinarily lame and over-processed preview images and comically dramatic titles.

I personally like the boring deep-dive technical videos. The people uploading these videos don't seem to give a damn about the latest hip SEO buzzwords to use (and, frankly, good) but I have to go out of my way to hunt them down.

YouTube really, really likes shoving Mr. Beast, LTT, and other channels at me, but I couldn't be any less interested, and filter them out with an add-on.

I can't wait for a replacement platform for the boring technical content. Until that platform exists, I recommend looking at DeArrow. It at least fixes titles and preview images.
ohmuhgawd becky, look at the pedantry on this one.

this does not refute the vast majority claim that i made. the skill set involved in what you describe is, a) ridiculous, b) way more difficult than just buying another copy of the book, c) if no more copies available, who's going to destroy a book like that?, d) see a

edit: e) google and archive.com cases show this is not allowed. google just did it at such a massive scale that they were beyond the law, and archive.com didn't
It could well become very popular, but using words like “magical” and “blazing fast” immediately triggers my framework fatigue.

To say if it succeeds that it could obsolete all other frameworks is an incredibly bold claim.

.NET already did that, several times over, over many years. Other frameworks still exist because not every problem needs a hammer, and the more use cases you try to solve the more you suffer from the jack-of-all-trades problem.

I’m interested in how this solves for the web and mobile. It references flutter in its marketing - is it doing its own rendering in these scenarios?

If so, it’s DOA for me for a whole host of reasons that have already sunk projects like this a lot of times over.
so they accidentally not "adhering to open standards"? Thanks for confirming.
Yeh gr8 call. We debated how to include Tailwind, since it's slightly different. But including a collection of Tailwind-based frameworks makes sense.
EU didn't enforce cookie popups; companies choose to implement them as a form of malicious compliance.
3D NAND is built by depositing dozens of alternating layers, then etching tall, narrow vertical channels down through the stack. Those channels are filled in with other materials to form vertical strings of memory cells. The ability to make many layers of memory cells without needing lithography and etch per layer is the main reason why 3D NAND is so cost-effective and able to continue scaling in density far beyond what was achievable with planar NAND flash memory (which could only improve by making memory cells smaller, but they were getting too small to actually work).

Intel's 3D XPoint memory (used in Optane products) was doomed in part by the fact that it did need lithography for every single layer, so it couldn't scale up in layer count cheaply.
^-- mind atm the markup here is catching the poster by surprise. The math should read:
100*0.3 + 200*0.7 = 170.

Not 1000.3 + 2000.7

(escape the *, or it bounds an italic section - *this* becomes this. \*this\* becomes *this*.)
> Newton-Rex said privacy is “in the DNA” of WhatsApp and that the company is trying to clearly communicate with users about what privacy protections WhatsApp offers and where.

This is bunk. If someone is added to a Group Chat they get everyone's phone number. There's near zero privacy for Groups and Communities.

This sort of article is a puff-piece for WhatsApp.
The problem goes away though by simply switching the user agent so there's something being deliberately done differently for Firefox users that's causing the issue. It's not simply that Firefox does something different in their engine that Google would need to investigate and address, the problem going away when the user agent is set to Chrome proves that.