skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a straw man, and an ugly one at that.

Every system has inefficiencies, including the government.

The fallacy is to assume that businesses inherently have less inefficiencies than government and/or that a government’s cost/benefit equation improves if it’s run as a business. Often, their functions overlap and this can be the case. Automated traffic monitoring is cheaper than having people count cars. But beware privatization that promises efficiency and lower costs—the result is almost always worse services, maintainable debt and in time a government bailout.

Often, their functions do not overlap. The purpose of social security is not to tighten spending as much as possible, it is to improve quality of life as much as possible.
I've thought about going back to school to get my RN and doing volunteer work at public clinics.

I started my career in patient care, but ended up switching to technology in the late 90s.

I'd love to do something like that as a retirement job.
The best thing that ever could happen to Elon Musk is for him to start over with just 200k in the bank, and no assets other than a modest house.

Stay hungry my friend.
The argument I use to convince people is to ask them how long your battery lasts when you’re running any apps, I’ll then ask how long do you think your battery would last if the apps were listening all day long.

I can’t tell if my friends are convinced or if they’re too polite (or disinterested) to argue.
You don't have to be convinced, but to present an argument -- He knows how to lead a team with disparate skills and motivations towards a complex, poorly defined end-goal. That might sound like corporate B.S., but I truly believe that's a useful skill that not everyone has. Of course I expect he is relatively weak in his understanding of law, the dynamics of different government organizations, etc, but I expect (hope?) they're hiring others to fill in these gaps.
I'm not saying AOL was considered an ISP back in 1996; I don't really think it was. I'm saying the Internet as a concept was not considered a raw telecommunications service. The Internet was something the Act wanted to force telecommunications providers to allow; its concern was much more that MCI and AT&T might try to suppress the Internet in favor of some MCI- or AT&T-specific information services.

For as much tsuris as this issue has caused on this thread, I don't think there's much dispute about this, legally; the issue made it all the way to the Supreme Court, which ruled on it; only a particularly reach-y application of Chevron made the interpretation you want viable. Chevron is dead now, and so, too, mechanically, is administratively-enforced "net neutrality".
Why even bother with "news" pieces? They're all just sensationalist trash.

Just link to the source directly, most of us here know how to read and (probably) have the mental acuity to form our own conclusions.
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This seems fine for short-term rentals, which is the target audience.

I don’t think that I would personally mind it if this were installed at an airbnb that I was staying at.
No, it's just that you're exceptionally rude.
Fully agree. The academia gatekeeping in certain fields hasn’t served us well over the last decade or so.

Fresh ideas from individuals with experience from all walks of life should be entertained. Doesn’t mean they’ll be followed.

Furthermore, DOGE has no actual power administratively, really all they can do is advise. Congress would need to grant them power first. Saagar Enjeti gas a good take on this, he’s pretty well versed in Washington-Speak
Ahh, thanks, I didn't make that connection.
>which tends to be short-hand these days for "in the context of a for-profit company where people actually care about this stuff". I accept that you may not have meant it that way.

Are you think of shareholders instead of stakeholders? Either way, that was not my intention. In terms government, there are lots of ways to introduce new stakeholders with different incentives. These can be inter-agency review, or as simple as a government employee who's job it is to save money, and gets promoted based on that.

>Certainly not. But starting with the claim that a gigantic percentage of US federal government spending is wasted (as the whole DOGE thing starts with) is almost certainly not the way to find actual improvements.

Again, please stop putting words in my mouth.
This looks like a great dataset! Thanks for posting. I'm looking for projects just like this to try my training modifications against. Do you have initial results shown? It is a small model/dataset so training the gpt2 model in the repo probably wouldn't be too hard but it would be good to have reference runs to make sure things are set up right when I run it.
No, but I would so love to hear someone from the team give a talk about it. That's so darn awesome
It really sounds like what you disagree with most of all is Loper Bright Enterprises vs. Raimondo. Fair enough! But: your side lost that case.
It's "rappel," not "repel."
We used a single file for the context. It is a cherry-picked example, you are right. I wanted to demonstrate a simple visual change that our model did correctly unlike Sonnet-3.5. Since we are just getting started, we don't have many features like making changes across multiple files in the code editor so it would be harder to demo. Our premise is that a smaller fine-tuned works better than a large, general-purpose SOTA model. We plan to share more metrics and data in the future.
>need to be reminded that having wealth is a social responsibility in itself

read up on the "is-ought problem": from whatever is, you cannot get an ought nor a should. You simply have to adopt them as beliefs, just like belief in a diety (though some might argue that's an "is" :) and others may not share your beliefs, nor... should... they
> but did they ever give the impression they got bored

It often gets described as washed up rather than bored, but yes.

Dylan is a good contrast.
> even though it annoys me with a new beta update practically every time I launch it

Why don't you just use the stable releases?
God, we use to have a street full of people running unprofitable stores. Some were deep in debt making the dream a reality.

Why not a functional bookshop? You don't need money, you need to work on the plan(s). How do museums work? Where is the crude draft for the book?

I had a chat with a guy once who had a laundry list of things he wanted to accomplish but had convinced himself non of it was possible without money. About 1/3 of the list were things one could just go do right now.I think a hundred life times worth of stuff It was mostly helping people in need. One could definitely not help anyone and convince the self it is because it always costs money????

Some non profit here was selling unwanted books for 1-2 euro. I spend an hour or so typing titles on my phone mostly stuff published long ago and bought a whole stack of 200+ euro books. I haven't looked at them and didn't try to sell any but I'm sure it was money well spend for an hour of fun.

You don't need a machine gun, fight with your bare hands.
Honestly, while I put this together, I know that the ideas on this are not unique to me by any stretch. It's just another arrow in the bunch.

I added a few extra reading materials/references at the bottom of the article.
Talk is cheap, send patches
Hi, I am a solo dev building my first startup. I have been a fullstack developer for over 5 years now. I know very little about marketing, But I know who is my customer (Developers) clearly... I am just confused on how should i approach and get users.
I know here, there are lot of people who have built successfull startups, If somebody can teach me, I will be truly grateful
Thank you, we will!:) This was a quick landing page for us to start the conversation and gather feedback. We are trying to make sure we are not building something that nobody needs.
>How long is this going to be happening back and forth.

It will keep happening until the legislature either writes it into law or refuses. The executive should not be legislating in the first place outside of emergencies requiring immediate action.
They've been offering their products in an ever expanding number of countries:

https://knowledgebase.frame.work/what-countries-and-regions-...

In terms of shipping, they have multiple warehouses around the world.
Kinda awkward to use on the toilet.
How does the public access ArchiveTeam's archives?
I fully agree with you here, but people that don't agree still exist despite how obviously wrong they may seem to us.
I mean that's literally what terminal integration is, right? A bunch of bash aliases that the terminal emulator knows about.
> ISPs are information services because in the context of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that's what the Internet was, an information service built on top of telecommunication services.

The Telecommunications Act of 1996 did not define what ISPs are. It defined "information services" and "telecommunication services". Then and now, those definitions are what matter, and companies today need to be classified under those definitions with no legal weight given to whether people today or in 1996 would call any given company an ISP based on a vague colloquial notion of what ISP means—because whether or not something is "an ISP" doesn't answer the question of whether it meets the definitions of an "information service" or a "telecommunication service".
The issues we experiment with are usually quite broad - improvements to logging, routing - but the implementation is always more narrow. Still, it seems like there is still more room for more refinement and focus now that you mention it.
Yes, you can download and host the fine-tuned open-source model like Llama. The fine-tuning is easy once you have the data, but gathering and cleaning data is challenging. There are also optimizations like upsampling and distillation that could improve the quality of the resulting model. We had 40 engineers at the Asana AI org and never did the fine-tuning because it is not easy.
Even if no attribution etc is your personal policy that’s not everyone else’s.

The end result is that any authors who care about copyright protection will become less accessible. It’s a gold rush for AI bots to capture the good will of early internet creators before the well runs dry,
IIRC the terms of the argeement under which the intra-family dispute was settled required Sabian to avoid advertising the Zildjian connection, so I assume they're being careful about that.
One of the hopes is that you can drop in your favorite host language's syntax and get a working implementation. What's your usual language stack these days?
There is "Purpose" and "purpose".

One is some grandiose ill-defined thing. The other is housework.

I am certainly in the housework side right now with two kids under 5.

I am a dad, but I still derive quite a lot of identity from what I do for work. If anything, now that I am meeting more parents from nursery & school etc it feels it is almost more important for me now to be able to implicitly assert status through my work/wealth/house-in-desireable-location/car/etc than it was before kids.

I assumed those sort of feelings would dissolve with kids ("Purpose") but if anything the kids have magnified them. Potentially I am just a shallow prick, but I wonder if it is a "provider instinct" thing or perhaps just mini dopamine hits from feeling like I've got something desirable and meeting these other parents just reasserts that over and over.
Can your find the quote?

Are you sure he wasn't talking about money invested with his company or shareholders?
Yeah, I'm trying too. Specifically, the GitHub Sponsors thing.

I'm opposed to advertising and don't want to inflict it on others. So I don't generally advertise my work on sites like this one, I just participate in threads about it whenever I see them.

Somehow people found my projects and posted them here. Just woke up one day and saw I had one sponsor. Not gonna lie, I'm still amazed about it. Not even close to providing for my family despite an incredibly favorable exchange rate, so I can't work full time on my projects. It's still the only thing that gives me hope right now. Really thankful to that person.

> And somehow just be fine with pulling up the ladder behind you.

Do you really think it will come to that? I mean, this AI situation has got to come to a head at some point. We can't have these corporations defending copyright and simultaneously pretending it doesn't exist while exploiting software developers. One of those things has got to go away.
> That doesn't make any sense to you today because you're ~30 years removed from the time of Prodigy, CompuServe, and AOL, but that's the context of the statute.

I'm not 30 years removed from it. I grew up in it. We picked Prodigy at the time on our Tandy 1000 because of the services Prodigy directly offered to their subscribers. We liked their message boards. They had a Sesame Street area in their application that would refresh every few days with new content.

This is entirely unlike the service I get with my ISP today. I chose them because they're the only ones with fiber lines to my house. Sure sounds like back in the day when SBC was the only line to my house now doesn't it? Funny too because the box that fiber line runs to has a RBOC label on it and the manholes for the larger service conduits have their old RBOC name still. One might think they're just the RBOC doing the same RBOC things they used to do.

Huh, I wonder which kind of service this ISP of today should be regulated as. Like the old SBC or Prodigy?
A bullet apparently.
Not true. Plus, this only works if you value IP, which not everyone does.
I do agree that some aspect of hikkidom applies to me, but I regularly go out and have no real problem running errands in public. I'm not a NEET either since I have plenty of education and employment history.

What I believe is that there are a lot of people in the world who believe they are right and certain others are wrong. These people are frequently sighted, I guess because people generally like being listened to. And a lot of amicable disagreements are included in this, as is necessary to exist as an individual in a diverse society. But if you take a person who believes they are mostly wrong and the rest of society is mostly correct, yet there is some complicating factor preventing the two belief systems from aligning closely enough (be it ego, pride, timidity, or something else), then such a person may decide to turn inward on themselves. It doesn't make sense to try to yell out into the world that they are wrong, because it's a "fact" they already understand. To say it out loud only carries a risk of lowering one's status further in the eyes of the public. So I guess a natural inclination is to remain in a safer place where symbols and beliefs are most familiar. But this is why I think such persons don't get as much attention as others, because they're naturally hard to find and might not speak up as often. And if they do, it's a daunting task to attach that belief in wrongness to a stable identity.

And I should add that your hug is accepted.
Haha, yes it is a pattern. However, the claim here is that "our tiny model beats best model" is applicable for highly specific tasks.
Is Hindenburg accurate with their report? I feel like some of the past accusations like against Supermicro are not cut and dry, since accounting firms seem to disagree with their view.
In the past (why do I feel so old when I say this?), DBMSs WERE used to implement complex logic. Not just complex business logic, but even authentication, authorization, etc were implement with stored procs, embedded sql, native DB features.

The cycle in tech will shift from one side to another; last decade was a lot of no-sql where all this logic and implementation had to reside on the application side. I'm seeing a shift back to DBs again (e.g. supabase), and the reality is that it's probably a continuum somewhere in-between, depending on your requirements (as always, the answer is "Yes, but it depends").

Remember, these are all "just" tools.
Right. There's no rule that if you get a hold of $XX million that you need to keep it. I'd argue, in fact, that there's a pretty good case you're obligated to give most of it away; you can keep single-digit millions and have total financial security for all practical purposes while sacrificing only a few luxuries that, as the author of this essay appears to have noticed, won't actually give your life meaning. Meanwhile, each $1M donated to insecticide-treated bednets (for one well-quantified example) could save hundreds of lives: https://www.givewell.org/charities/amf#What_do_you_get_for_y...

If there's a moral case for keeping the cash, it's the leverage it could provide to do something that (at least has a chance of being) even bigger. But few are the people who have legitimate reason to believe the expected value calculation comes out positively. People who feel directionless or jump on the latest Elon thing on a whim seem especially unlikely to be among those few.

(I'm not going to provide documentation, so take this for what little it's worth, but I myself gave away the majority of the several million I received for being a sufficiently early employee at the right startup. And I do not regret it.)
Interesting approach. I have a feeling that this is intended for sparsely built houses (the typical american housing maybe?) since in a dense European city I’d imagine it would pick up tons of cell phone signals from other people in their own homes or, say, from people visiting the downstairs coffee shop terrace.
Lucid is majority controlled by Saudi PIF.

https://eletric-vehicles.com/lucid/saudi-pif-now-controls-64...
The Reddit comment is interesting, and I think the advice that starts in the reply is sound. But this person's list of lottery winner failures is a small list of people versus a very large group of winners. Surely it's not hard to cherry pick a bunch of worst case scenarios.
Helpful analysis that provides additional context can exist, eg. SCOTUSBlog that provides useful summaries while reliably linking to the rulings themselves. It's not all sensationalist trash.
By not redistributing it.
Thought this was going to be an mmWave sensor with an "AirBnB host friendly" UI of some sort.. turns out it's just a network sniffer? Seems.. defeatable.

> How it Works
>
> Party Squasher uses the presence of mobile phones
> as a proxy for the presence of people. You start by
> connecting our small sensor to your property’s internet
> router. [...]
"We know from leaks, reverse-engineering"

I would be VERY interested to hear details of those leaks and that reverse-engineering. I've only ever heard the personal anecdotes.

(If you'd read my article you would have seen this bit at the top: "Convincing people of this is basically impossible. It doesn’t matter how good your argument is, if someone has ever seen an ad that relates to their previous voice conversation they are likely convinced and there’s nothing you can do to talk them out of it.")
You are wrong, I was right.

the January 15 quarterly estimate is for the last quarter of the previous year, let's call it 2024. April 15 2025 is when you file your tax return for the 2024, but you HAVE ALREADY PAID OR HAD WITHHELD YOUR TAXES FOR 2024.

If you have earned more wages in 2024 than you did in 2023, you will only have to have paid the same as you ultimately owed in 2023 for 2024, and in that case you will have the chance to cough up the remainder on April 15, 2025, but that is nowhere near close to saying that is when you 2025 taxes are "due" as you are claiming.
I don't think Apple terminal is sparse at all. Try to dig through the preferences, there's surprisingly much choice for an opinionated software vendor like Apple. I love it, I've tried iTerm2 in the past but I just saw no reason to keep using it. The only feature that slightly appealed to me was the tmux integration but I found that i preferred to just have tmux inside the terminal instead.

I know some people that use the game-like rolldown interface (quake mode?) but I also don't like/need that one. There's a few niche things like that which make it interesting. But overall I just don't see the need.

If there's something that's sparse in options, it's Windows Terminal. Don't like that one at all (though it's better than the previous command prompt window).
This reads like a bit from Silicon Valley the TV series... is this parody?
The nice thing about picking up older laptops is that the upgraded models don't really hold as much extra value compared to what they cost new so if you keep looking you can get a pretty maxed out machine for not a lot more than the more common low-end ones.
Quake mode. Terminal doesn't have it, and the recently released Ghostty's quake mode is slower than iTerm2.

There's very little I want in a terminal emulator. What I really want is a full screen terminal, with no menu bar, no delay, and no animations, which I can toggle with a global hotkey.
I figured they simply had affiliate links themselves, or made deals with companies in order to get customers who normally wouldn't buy at full price.

It just seems illegal to replace an affiliate link like. I guess the courts will determine that.
>Didn't MS once say something to the effect that Windows 10 would be the 'last' major Windows version and that they'd switch to a more continuous update model?

No, a Microsoft employee said something to that effect in a speech in 2015, but it wasn't an official statement.
We shouldn't complaint as it is all our fault. (haha)

I think OPML is the technology. Go build one and share it. Writing or recording your own stuff is a lot of work. Help promote all the cool things you've found outside the walled garden of plastic plants.

Build a website for someone, teach them html for 20 minutes and set up a domain, hosting and an ftp client for them. They can always call you if they get stuck.
I think if you are doing things just to keep yourself busy or self-focused stuff like learning a language or playing an instrument, you will eventually hit the wall of motivation created by lack of necessity when your financial needs are already met forever. Definitely do them to keep life interesting but don't expect that much from these activities (unless you are like crazy passionate about any of them, in which case, congratulations, you found your true purpose).

I believe you'll need to have goals that involve improving lives of those that most need it. Of course it is more complicated than just that - there will be disappointments, betrayal and all other stuff that comes with getting other people involved but the key is to do it based on purpose, with a calm head, clear goal and less on fumes of emotion to manage such pitfalls better. You can let that emotion out when you see the unprivileged child you mentored succeed - I would wager that that moment will outweigh practically any joy you could feel from solely self focused achievements.
This is pretty clever but could also lead to the greatest parties in recent history.

Very soon the norm will be to keep your phone off at any airbnb party.
> One guy bought a nightclub, but it loses money year after year.

As far as I know, jwz was never a CEO, but he did the same thing.
More than anything else, this just strikes me as tone-deaf. Doubly so given where we are with the economy and everything.
OpenAI's O1-preview model manipulates game files to force a win in chess