skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sadly they're giving it him back if he can prove he has insurance, should just crush it IMO.
Shit posting on X = playing dirty?
All film festivals from China, you're free to have them (almost) anywhere else.
Chinese rival app Xiaohongshu is overwhelmed by 'TikTok refugees' in US
Counterexample: 9/11 (11th september 2001). This changed so many things for the worse. More government surveillance. More security theater. More racism/distrust against people who looks like muslims. And the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have left their traces as well.
We need to rethink capitalism.
I recently bought the 2012 Prius and at least in Europe it has features that not many 2024 cars have here. HUD, backup camera, regen breaking, automatic transmission, multiple digital displays, Bluetooth, stop-start at lights, EV drive mode on the tiny battery for a few minutes..
A regular EV also requires no special infrastructure. Just your regular house electrical system (e.g. 120v wall outlet in the US). Only on long trips do you need fast chargers or does range anxiety kick in. If you do a lot of long drives I can see that being a problem. But if not I'd be willing to bet you'd lose less time charging than taking your vehicle to the mechanic for maintenance and repairs. Because the EV, when built well, requires a frighteningly low amount of maintenance.
I am just fascinated by the need of Datacenter. The scale is beyond comprehension. 10 years ago, before the word HyperScaler was even invented or popularised, I would have thought DC market to be on the decline or levelled off now or around this time. One reason being HyperScaler, AWS, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, Tencent, Alibaba, to smaller ones like Oracle and IBM. They would all have their own DC, taking on much of the compute for themselves and others. While left over space would be occupied by third parties. Another reason being the compute, memory and storage density continue to increase, which means for the same amount of floor space we are offering 5 - 20x of the previous CPU / RAM / Storage.

Turns out we are building like mad and we are still not building enough.
Ask HN: Has anyone tried alternative company models (like a co-op) for SaaS?
Long story short, I'm building a new product and will likely launch it as a yearly SaaS with a permissive license. I'm later in my career and am mostly building it for fun, but I think it has potential to be a good, small business that I'd have fun fiddling with for a long time.

I went through and set up the usual LLC, but was curious about how I could set it up to be a member or worker-owned company. Has anyone done anything like that from the beginning? Should I just worry about this later?

With licensing, the typical model has been to make your core permissive, and keep the hosting / billing application private. Has anyone made even that part of their SaaS open? I know that would make is really easy to fork the business, but was thinking something like a time-gated Functional Source License (FSL) might work?

I'm open to ideas. I don't see this discussed commonly on HN, so figured it was a good topic.
> They don't have to sell imagery, or intend for it to be publicized, for it to have the effect of driving demand for such imagery.

As stated in the first comment, the law here is concerned about future production of imagery to satisfy demand, with its incentive to harm even more children. The business of creating CSAM material is well understood. It is, after all, an extension of the adult porn industry. The law didn't emerge out of someone sitting around dreaming up hypotheticals, it was in reaction to actual situations that the public didn't want to see continue. What is done is done, and there are other laws to deal with what is already done, but the law also seeks to prevent future harm. Outlawing the product so that there is no market for producers to sell into is the only way it knows how. It's overly blunt, is far from perfect, but it tries.

The business of committing mass shootings/carjackings to produce salable imagery is not well understood. Frankly, I've never heard of it before, and since you can't speak to it I take it that you haven't either. It is unclear why you decided to make it up. As before, I cannot think of any mass shooting that was considered "producing a product to sell" and not "deranged person acting out". Most importantly, even if it is a thing, since nobody is aware that it is happening there is no public will to see that line of business come to an end. Your attempt to find parallel is poorly considered.

The closest analogy, which still isn't great but is at least in the same universe, that might be found in your ramblings is a case of people wanting to own stolen car parts, incentivizing others to carry out carjackings to get ahold of stolen parts to sell. In reaction, you might make it illegal to possess stolen car parts with the intent to create a situation where someone trying to steal and sell stolen car parts ultimately doesn't have anyone to sell to, diminishing the incentive to carjack in the future. Of course, the law already does exactly that, so...
there are plenty of companies offering RSS like inoreader.
That’s sort of like asking a horse and buggy driver whether automobiles are going to put them out of business.

I think for the most part, casual nlp is dead because of LLMs. And LLM costs are going to plummet soon, so large scale nlp that you’re talking about is probably dead within 5 years or less. The fact that you can replace programmers with prompts is huge in my opinion so no one needs to learn an nlm API anymore, just stuff it into a prompt. Once costs to power LLMs decrease to meet the cost of programmers it’s game over.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-poll-finds-majority-greenland...
New York Proposes Doing Background Checks on Anyone Buying a 3D Printer
When feasible, spoken English favours double syllable combinations. Three is too many, one is too few for disambiguation in a lossy environment. Hence Jersey, LA, San Fran, Philly, but not York. It’s not a hard rule, of course.
For me the takeaway is that Weekly World News still sways minds.
The Sienna is a great hybrid if you are wanting something larger for families or hauling stuff. Tons of space, really nice cabin, and far more practical for 90% of uses than a huge pickup or any of the large SUVs. I can haul groceries and my large dog in the back cargo area w/ the 3rd row down, or put the row up for seating seven.

Oh, and mileage is 30-34 mpg, at least when its not the middle of midwest winter.

I do wish they'd release their PHEV vans over here (https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/toyota/41970489.html), which also look like something out of Blade Runner.
You know someone is being intellectually dishonest when they call a unanimous decision by the one of the most divided Courts in US history "shaky."
Run Llama 3.2 3B on your phone
i build an that lets you run large language models on your phone using MLX. the best models include llama 3.2 1b and 3b which are highly optimized for apple silicon. the app includes a shortcut allowing you to instantly access local intelligence. would love to hear your thoughts!
Have they hammered people's websites? I find that the Google bot makes as few requests as it can, and it respects robots.txt.
Agon Light C Development
Latin America is so insular, they don't even really play US songs in cafes. (Of course this varies between countries, Chile has more foreign culture, Peru has less.)
> I find slacking off in the office so much easier than slacking off at home

1999 had it nailed https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=veoXCgwyZq8
$20m fine on billions in -profit- isn't even a slap on the wrist, it's finger-wagging and something close to bribery.
Early 1900s
cant read the article. do they consider BERT as an LLM? there are tasks still in NLP where BERT is better than a GPT like
can it find OLD articles? I generally don't like the idea of a search engine which requires me to be logged in to track my search history (and I do mostly use Google in incognito/private browser windows), but I might ignore that if it allows me to do the one thing that Google refuses to do on phones anymore (which might be a sign that they're gonna phase that out from desktop interfaces soon)..
People didn't just randomly add lead to their products. They added lead for specific desired results (e.g. adding lead to gasoline was to reduce knock). So the beneficial properties of lead were well known but, it appears, you're saying the problems with lead were not. If that is not your point, please rephrase.
> The concept of surprise is very cool

See also, foundationally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content
First sale doctrine doesn't exist in my country for anything involving software, as business and business-adjacent software requires compulsory copyright registration and compulsory per-copy government-registered identifier here.
What EV model would that be, out of curiosity? I wasn't aware the Germans were making EVs back then.
Is There a Problem with Passive Investing?
I'd rather have Grape.

https://youtu.be/QtRHlCzL7xk
Before Steve Jobs shut down the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) at Apple (in the late 1990's?), some coworkers reported having had a mini-tour of ATG and were blown away by a display they saw that "looked like paper!". If my memory is correct it was a 200 DPI LCD panel. No doubt that kind of DPI back in the 90's looked like paper. ;-)

I would love to see in person what over two decades has produced.
> We all knew this and it was almost irresponsible to do anything other than keep acquiring assets

Is this not the underlying argument for SBR? Buy and hold and have on your books something that has on paper appreciated, similar to Gold?
I think your intuition on this might be lagging a fair bit behind the current state of LLMs.

System message: answer with just "service" or "product"

User message (variable): 20 bottles of ferric chloride

Response: product

Model: OpenAI GPT-4o-mini

$0.075/1Mt batch input * 27 input tokens * 10M jobs = $20.25

$0.300/1Mt batch output * 1 output token * 10M jobs = $3.00

It's a sub-$25 job.

You'd need to be doing 20 times that volume every single day to even start to justify hiring an NLP engineer instead.
That's TCL, not Tcl.
> Counterexample: 9/11 (11th september 2001). This changed so many things for the worse.

For the worse ? It was the perfect event to push surveillance and military spendings.
Around the time the OQO Model 2 was released the model 01+ was sold for super cheap (for the time). I was a teenager then and was able to buy one.

It was a super cool device but ultimately too slow to really do much. You could play videos on it if you compressed them down to ~800x480, but I had a Palm TX and an iPod video that could do the same and the battery lasted significantly longer on those devices.

Maybe if I had an IT career then I could have found a use for it. The transflective screen was pretty neat on it tho. In bright sunlight you could still see the screen perfectly.
Pichai's courting just as hard from what I can tell.

I guess a duopoly is better than a monopoly...
Why the Godfather of AI Now Fears His Creation [video]
Bankrolling a neo-nazi party (AfD) and almost the Reform Party is not shit posting.
Redistribute the tax back to the people. That way you're eliminating the price externality but offsetting the cost to individuals. The fossil fuel industry can't continue to plug their ears and ignore the costs associated with putting more and more carbon in the atmosphere. We need to hold them to account.
I met some guys a decade ago at a tech meetup in silicon valley who did this. they all contributed like 5% and got themselves healthcare/dental and other benefits.
Problem is that because it's a full EV, it might leave me at a deficit charging only on 120v.

On the other hand, two days a week I make a drive that's just beyond EV range and the hybrid just kicks in afterwards.
Crazy right? Here in europe they just tell me that my medication isn't covered and I have to pay the whole price for it - if I don't like it, I can switch the government and move somewhere else.
Hint as in “Bach”
>> If you do a lot of long drives

>> the EV, when built well

Home charging at 120v for an EV is only practical for the most minimal & predictable use. And I'll add "as long as you don't want to sell it used..."
tl;dr: another billionaire wants to buy TikTok.

Oligarchs won't stop until all media (social and legacy) are turned into ideological echo chambers in favor of laissez-faire capitalism and a return to the Gilded Age.

All done in the name of free speech and freedom, of course.
It means one thing being true for one person changes both with respect to that person but more importantly with respect to time. What most people believed was truth 500 years ago is mostly removed now and we have to understand them on the information they had at the time.
Form over Function: The Paradox of Manners and Character
World’s oldest 3D map discovered
Many years ago I had a BlackDiamond dropped on my foot during installation at INTX LON1 for LINX, disabling me for hours. The switch in question was evidently cursed: later that week a spanning tree misconfiguration on the same unit then disabled LINX for hours, throwing half of Britain's ISP peering into temporary chaos, and everyone else involved in that project was dead within two years.
My kids draw constantly (including on things they shouldn't), but I also limit screen time so that may have something to do with it
I’m not really exposed to children’s drawings, but these look particularly talented.

I always feel a little weird about generating AI art because it really is standing on the shoulders of giants. I’d say it’s the closest thing to when Napster got everyone used to theft.

Any little simple drawing you generate is really off the back of kids and teenagers that draw out of a passion. So I try not to do it, feels icky.

Ideally we want a world where we license the artist’s style, and hopefully they can get paid out like streaming music artists in the long term. Along with that, we need laws that let you sue people that copy the style with no license.
FPGA Conference in UK
>You'd need to be doing 20 times that volume every single day to even start to justify hiring an NLP engineer instead.

How much for the “prompt engineer”? Who is going to be doing the work and validating the output?
In a francophone context, what's perceived as being elitist is consuming English-speaking content.
> LLM costs

Inference costs, not training costs.

> The fact that you can replace programmers

You can’t… not for any real project. For quick mockups they’re serviceable

> That’s sort of like asking a horse and buggy driver whether automobiles

Kind of an insult to OP, no? Horse and buggy drivers were not highly educated experts in their field.

Maybe take the word of domain experts rather than AI company marketing teams.
Absolutely love my 2014 PHEV Prius, will do about 7 miles on battery which will get me to the shops and back. Never had a problem with it, about to hit 200k miles and still pretty much perfect
They claim they have a phone with a 7 day on, 26 day standby battery, and are charging $199 for it.

Something’s fishy.
I've used almost all of the ones listed including rolling my own RSS to ePub script. I've been using Readwise Reader lately which has been a great blend of vimish keys, read it later, tagging, and AI summaries.
The new Prius is really good-looking (to my eye at least), especially in person: I don't think the photos (I've seen) do it justice. Fun comparisons to the car Burt Reynolds drove in Smokey and the Bandit: Compared to the 1977 Pontiac Trans Am:

- The Prius is as fast 0-60 (~7 seconds)
- The Prius has nearly the same top speed (~115 mph)
- The Prius is 4x(!) as fuel-efficient (57mpg vs. 12-16mpg)
- The Prius has all the modern stuff: air conditioning, antilock brakes, airbags, crumple zones, information display screen, backup camera, proximity alerts, etc. etc.
- Adjusted for inflation, the Prius costs almost exactly the same
The downside of plugins is that it has both systems (more things that can go wrong, added cost, weight) and they're not amazing at being an ICE car (small fuel tank) or electric car (small battery).

In your case it seems that a pure EV would be fine? Maybe not one with a small battery, but 300-400 miles of range isn't that uncommon these days.

In any case, the important thing is that it works well for you.
>The algorithm is really, really bad compared to TikTok.

Probably because you clearly don’t spend any time on it. It’s just as effective once it learns.

>You can’t pause videos

Yes you can. You tap and hold.

>can’t download them

Yes you can. Send (airplane) icon > download

>can’t use copyrighted music

The restrictions are the exact same as TikTok. Reels also has a massive library of licensed music.

>the comments are awful and full of bullying and hate and anger

It’s literally the exact same as TikTok - lots of low IQ people saying low IQ things.

Sooo…yeah, you’re pulling everything you just said out of your ass. Rationalization is a hallmark of addiction.
BMW i3 came on market in 2013
Yeah its a mixed bag in germany in my eyes.
All of the big brands have a real electric platform minus BMW. 800V isnt pioneered with them either.

VDA is pressuring for HVO100 bs. Mercedes just pulled back on the electric only strategy. I guess they figured that most of the added value is with the batteries and being deeply integrated there and thats not really their cup of tea, so far at least.

There where Taycans for 30k$ which was a real great deal if your the second buyer and not the first.

On the other hand the id family looks ok, facelift good. The a6 is pricey at 100k but is the first really capable german highway ev, not as premature as the eqs…
Awesome. Capitalism has turned the internet into the best it can be!!!
"Personal impact" is just laundering the responsibility of government and corporations so it looks like it's our fault.

It is true that everyone everywhere all at once could suddenly make the right decision forever and save the planet. But is a statistical anomaly so extreme it's not worth pursuing as a policy. No policy maker worth their salt would look at that and consider it valid long term.

We have a playbook. We refuse to use it. We ban products, and then the companies that refuse to change or cheat get shuttered, and we move on.
Experts hail 'milestone' in study of the deadly Huntington's disease
Why did the for loop stop running?
It depends on many things. Greenland is primarily a European Culture country, which means people expect Gov Healthcare as basic. There are also Tax and other issues which most Greenland people will find very foreign and vice versa.

But given how small the population I am sure US could make special arrangements without breaking the bank. As long as the Greenland people agrees to it.
Lapce: Fast and Powerful Code Editor in Rust
Will JSON-LD Injected via Google Tag Manager with No SSR Be Invisible to AI?
Since many AI crawlers do not render JavaScript, what will happen to your Structured Data written in JSON-LD and implemented using Google Tag Manager without a server-side rendering strategy?
Or an e-Golf.
A temperature so hot that the atoms of the potato would violently collide into each other, probably at least tens of millions of degrees and you would need something to confine the potato plasma!
ITT: How many languages Switzerland has.
Easiest way to spot an authorian is the complaining something is not democratic while also spending time promoting antidemocratic messages.

It is a cop out. I do not believe everyone who argue against some of my views are against everyone of them. I have no idea of what part of the far right pleases you, but the point about a democracy is that nothing is fixed everything ebbs and flows. This is something conservative people have a hard time with, and when the leftwings ebbs they have a hard time.

The media is not left wing. It might be more left than the far right, but it is also along way from the far left.

Just be honest about your ideas and intentions, do not blame others for your failures.
running European ISPs in summer we’d nick desk fans off the telco folks to cool down our walls of USR Sportsters, distracting them first with snarky remarks about ATM overhead

absolutely do not miss those days
I'll toast a Coors Banquet to that!

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Amen to that though! I agree that the new gen Prius looks really sleek! I tried EVs but the range and lack of after-market parts was really limiting, so I've been fairly happy with the Prius Prime.
Also importantly, it’s now quite good-looking, too.
Do RSS readers and libraries do a good job of parsing out the feed without all the related microformats tags like h-entry, p-title, etc?

I've found microformats to be just as much work to maintain (assuming more than just h-feed is needed these days). Its still easy to break silently, and if I care enough to make it I'll automate a test. Testing an RSS feed shouldn't be any harder than testing the rendered HTML to catch silent regressions.
What's being targeted is TikTok's algorithm. User's videos are still legal US speech and can be posted and shared freely.

The specific rationale upheld by SCOTUS and unenumerated in the law itself (it's only like two sentences, I would recommend just reading it) was based on national security concerns and level of scrutiny.

TikTok failed the criteria. US companies do not, and laws to ban them would have to use entirely separate methods which would face a far tougher SCOTUS test. (It's not like the Justices are falling over themselves to always agree on things, especially the current court.)

Banning US companies is just politically infeasible. But the Chinese issue is pretty bipartisan (right now).
Determining whether the latest off the shelf LLMs are good enough should be straight forward because of this:

“Some participants have dedicated years of their lives to the program—like Alex Smith, a retiree from Pennsylvania. Over nine years, he transcribed more than 100,000 documents”

Have different LLMs transcribe those same documents and compare to see if the human or machine is or accurate and by how much.
> Finding of fact is a function government carries out thousands of times a day.

"Mother, do you think they'll drop the bomb ?"
Pink Floyd
Reciprocity would be that American companies can access the Chinese market if they obey the same rules in the Chinese market that Chinese companies have to obey in the Chinese market, and Chinese companies can access the American market if they obey the same rules in the American market that American companies have to obey in the American market.

Facebook and others were in the Chinese market but they got blocked because they would not censor things that the Chinese government wanted censored and would not turn over user information that the government asked for. Chinese social media companies also are subject to those same censorship and user disclosure requirements, and will be banned (or worse) if they do not comply.

Would Facebook be allowed back in if they agreed to the censoring and to turning over user information? As far as I know none of the major American social media companies have been willing to do so, and so we don't know.
Napster got people used to piracy not theft.

Tape recording was already huge before Napster and it’s also considered piracy.
> this isn't anything to change your dietary habits by

But I already have k-intake.io registered, have hired a CTO for a potassium monitor wearable, app and data pipeline and am working on my pitch deck!
It's also not great that people sometimes buy them because of breaks on price and then keep them where they can't plug them in, which is the worst of both worlds. But a properly used plug-in hybrid can be a good thing for some yeah
Dillo 3.2.0 Released
The 3.2.0 version of the minimalistic Dillo browser was just released.

Fedi: https://fosstodon.org/@dillo/113849784119138640

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