skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really in favor either way but isn't that a bipartisan win? For a bill to be started by one president and completed by another?
Thanks for stating this. Some customers (who are often the vocal minority) don't like SaaS likely due to subscription fatigue but most don't realize the amount of manpower it requires to continuously update software that will atrophy without them, not to mention adding more features.

The business reality is often not understood by the users and that's why every company is moving towards SaaS, it allows the company developing the product to continue to stay in business rather than providing a product then shuttering because it couldn't sell enough.

The former is simply more sustainable than the other, much as some (like the vocal minority) might disagree with this fact.

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That being said, there are many who sell one-time licenses, especially in the indie hacker space on Twitter, such as NomadList and BoltAI. Their model works because they make enough money from their products to retire on, as solo devs, and their products aren't necessarily ones that require constant updates (well, maybe BoltAI as new AI advances come out all the time that need to be implemented, such as RAG, parsing PDFs, storing "memories" like OpenAI, etc, but most advances come through new models, which is just an API call away).
The Abseil time library makes time and date parsing and manipulation a lot nicer in C++: https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/time
Can you imagine any other country making this demand and it being taken seriously? It is negotiation by means of extortion. Why are American tech companies entitled to the profits of an internationally used app?
We need to get tape storage more accessible to the average folk.

Its so mind shattering just how dense tape is even without compression.

Tape isn't even that expensive compared to SSD storage or the old reliable rust, its the tape reader that costs an insane amount.

Their are tops of DVD, CD, and vhs readers but somehow we can't make affordable LTO tape readers that don't cost less than a PC or a GPU.
Surely this is not the first case of a president not enforcing a law.

So then presumably this goes back into court, and then what?
How is the first one SaaS? It's a perpetual (seemingly one time) license they said.
> Deepmind is still in the UK

they dont mean location, they mean ownership of the equity.
Ask HN: Is a Computer Engineering masters worth it?
I'm in my undergrad for Computer Science and have about two semesters left before graduation. I'm working in the power industry right now as a software engineer (C#/.NET mostly), and I got this nagging feeling that I should have gone for Computer Engineering instead of Computer Science.

If I'm interested in getting into lower level systems programming/firmware (and maybe even doing some hardware stuff), would it be worth it to go for a MS in Computer Engineering or could I learn most of what I need to learn on my own? If I do go for the degree, I likely could do it part time while working.

There isn't necessarily anything in particular that I want to work on right now, but I feel like having a stronger background in lower level systems and hardware would prove beneficial for me in the future.
Historically it would have been congress or the Supreme Court. The issue is that no one seriously expects them to do anything against trump.
Anecdotally, the British people I have interacted with in a business setting seem to have a dearth of ambition. These people weren’t depressed, but I sensed a kind of defeatist cynicism.

As an American I realize our culture encourages taking risks and we are remarkably forgiving of failure. In fact, we seem to congratulate people for the fact that they tried in addition to overlooking the failure. I’m not sure if this comes from “the frontier spirit” or if this mindset used to exist throughout the Anglosphere. In any event, I do feel bad for the UK as a whole. It just seems like things keep getting worse and at some point the national mood becomes a self fulfilling cycle.
1492 is nearer than the 800s
Here's what Chuck Schumer said:

"It's clear that more time is needed to find an American buyer and not disrupt the lives and livelihoods of millions of Americans of so many influencers who have built up a good network of followers" [1]

The deal was divest or ban, not look for "more time to find a buyer". My point is they were never prepared for an actual ban.

[1] https://x.com/kenklippenstein/status/1880007290830688609
I wonder how much of this has to do with a more rigid class system compared to the US.
Send a letter online – avoid the Post Office
That was never going to happen. And the Nazis didn't exist in 1914.
>But Ctrl+C are two key presses: reacting to type them both in under 100 ms is equivalent to a writting speed above 200WPM.

I think people don't really type/press buttons at a constant speed. Instead we do combos. You do a quick one-two punch because that's what you're used to ("you've practiced"). You do it much faster than that 100ms, but after that you get a bit of a delay before you start the next combo.
Your explanation why Linux isn't the solution is actually a massive pro in favor of Linux. There's nothing special about Ubuntu that's holding you hostage and if you wanted to switch distros, you could do it in an afternoon. Unlike switching from Mac or Windows which would take much longer and would probably never be a 100% migration.
Are the Sudetenland, Austria, and Poland in the Balkans?
Disabling VT-D Improves Intel Arc GPU Linux Perf on Meteor Lake/Newer SoCs
If it wasn’t the wildfires, it was the termite fumigation gasses! https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03042024/california-sulfu...
If engineering isn't near the factory, it's not as effective.

Here's one of the most generic electronic components - a 1K resistor.[1] These sell for about US$0.0015 each. DigiKey has a list of many suppliers.

There are a few old-line US resistor makers in there, including Bourns and Ohmite.
They're price competitive with Chinese companies.
But when you look up their engineering job locations, none are in the US or UK.[2]
Plants are in Mexico, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Hungary.

To get prices down, engineers have to be very familiar with what goes on in manufacturing. If you separate engineering from manufacturing, you get overpriced designs.

Not that many people who went to a good engineering school in a first-world country today want to spend their lives inside a big factory in a low-wage country. But that's what it takes to make stuff.

[1] https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/chip-resistor-sur...

[2] https://jobs.bourns.com/go/Engineering/9254400/
I want to log into my bank to see how much money I have.

The most infuriating part is that this is perfectly doable with 90s web technology. Even encryption was already available in the form of SSL, and that's arguably the only thing which has improved since then. The majority of technological "progress" has merely been the reinvention of existing technology in more inefficient ways.
Why would they use the materials in model training? It would defeat the purpose of having a benchmarking set
As an NZer, jobs in Australia pay wayyyy better and everyone here seems to agree that the lifestyle is better there. Lots of NZers move to Oz to improve their life and opportunities.

The NZ economy isn't doing great.

I'm personally worried that demographics and an incoming Labour government will mean that if you have saved for your retirement our next government will simply tax your savings until you have nothing (they keep talking of a 2% wealth tax: if we go back to a 4% annual return environment that's 50% tax of your savings over time). Plus they are slowly introducing means testing or equivalents.
And they cost 3x as much. Which is a pretty tough sell IMO.
> I always thought it would be cool to have a PC that you just turn on and in 200 milliseconds, you're at a Python REPL or something

That is where I plan to go with SPADE, https://hackage.haskell.org/package/spade

As you can see, it is currently written in Haskell, as a PoC. But I am re-writing it in Rust, for reasons that also include making it possible to do something like you ask for.
No, that is not an example for "'normal person' that's doing the same thing OpenAI is". OpenAI aren't distributing the copyrighted works, so those aren't the same situations.

Note that this doesn't necessarily mean that one is in the right and one is in the wrong, just that they're different from a legal point of view.
Government Monitoring Those with "Negative" Views of Health Insurance Companies and doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about what people thing are problems ....... , for sure
The good news is that a relatively small amount of aggressive planning reform (namely, firing everyone involved and never calling it "planning" ever again) will fix most of the (fixable...) worst aspects of modern Britain.

We banned building stuff in 1947, we can undo it.
We're currently evolving back to pictograms.
> standing it was reasonably hackable and open

Not sure where you got this idea from. Despite the hacking, print from SD Card remains an option, and the device does not need an internet connection for initial setup. Version 01.08.02.00 is the first firmware version that supports offline updating, even if it is also the latest version.
Suggesting the specific bookmark subfolder that a website URL should be saved to, as a default presented (that could be ignored/overridden easily). I’m in content consumption mode on my iPad, and I have 200+ subfolders that I save bookmarks to, depending on the topic, content, etc. Spinning through to the right bookmark subfolder on iOS takes time, and software (dare I say AI) to guess which subfolder to save the bookmark, even if it’s right only 50% of the time, would make my cruising the Internet much more efficient.
Except writing didn’t emerge 13,000 years ago but 5000 for writing and 9000 for proto-writing.

It also wasn’t discovered simultaneously. China is 3000 years ago, and Maya 2300 years ago. Sumerian or Egyptian were close to same time which probably means they were connected.
Yeah... there's no such provision. The only mentions of the president in that bill are:

1. In the definition of a "covered company". The bill itself already saus that TikTok is covered; this is only a provision to add other companies to the list.

2. In determining what qualifies as "divestiture" to have the ban lifted. That's described as happening when -

> the President determines, through an interagency process...

"TikTok wrote me a big check and said nice things about me" isn't an interagency process.

Moreover, just in case we've forgotten, *Donald Trump is not currently the president.* He has literally zero power until tomorrow afternoon. He can't grant pardons, he can't lift law enforcement decisions, and he can't write executive orders. The promise of an executive order, even if such an order would be lawful tomorrow (which I can't understand how it would be), is not a legal document that can make something legal today.
There's so much open source software, firmware, and hardware out there for FDM 3D printers, I doubt they'll ever get as bad as regular printers. It's much more a tinkerers world than 2D printing ever would be.
We co-evolved with language - the evidence is our adaptations to control over the voicebox, tongue, lips, etc.
> would be pretty useless militarily anyway

There's the commonly shared story about them that it turned out soldiers can't shoot from the smaller ones without going deaf, even when using ear protection.

I don't know if it's true or not, but having been in one of them, it seems likely. A concrete dome is pretty much the perfect shape to reflect all the sound waves right back at you.
Like Moq last year (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37051967) this strikes me as another poor solution to the legitimate problem of funding work on OSS libraries - in addition to the licensing issues pointed out here, introducing the possibility that major version upgrades can create licensing violations risks teaching people that they should never upgrade dependencies
You thought you would be able to print copies of commercial things in the comfort of your home? RIAA would like a word with you.
Ok, but wouldn't that be also true if you substitute every "bunker" and "defence" word with "tank" and "attack"?

I don't see a goal of your comment.
Putting CCP in quotes is silly. It is not a conspiracy theory that the CCP exerts an extreme level of control over ByteDance.

Your interests are probably not aligned with the CCP. The American public's certainly aren't. The Chinese government wants to achieve a hegemony and export their economy and culture by undermining the US wherever they can. We don't fit into that in a way that won't result in a markedly worse life for us.

TikTok would boost content about how Israelis making target practice out of Palestinian children is great and needs to happen more often if it made the US look bad. That you can't see that, or can't separate that instance from other possibilities, is exactly why TikTok is under scrutiny.
Aaron Swartz, while an infuriating tragedy, is antithetical to OpenAI's claim to transformation; he literally published documents that were behind a licensed paywall.
Admittedly, the printing system for 2D Printers is a nightmare. Windows Secured Core PCs, for example, disable all 3rd party printing drivers and only support open driverless standards for printing like Mopria. According to people who have looked at it, let’s just say CUPS in macOS and Linux is not very likely to be a paragon of security, having an RCE scare 3 months ago.

If the printing stacks within operating systems are trash, who knows what horrors your network-connected printer firmware has. (Locking down 3rd party ink cartridges in the name of security - what’s an ink cartridge going to do? Buffer overflow the data it sends to the printer? Oh wait, maybe the printer is that dumb and we’re overthinking this, and it’s more inexcusable than first glance suggests.)
Every year, there are thousands of humans the exact same thing happens to. It's not because they are ego-less. Again, you are making up distinctions that don't exist.
should have a (2023) tag based on commits
This risk could be mitigated by publishing the test.
no one is missing the point, it has been state multiple times: when you get blocked you no longer get to reply to that person, and all previews replies are hidden, to them and everyone else.

the one other point that seems to be ignore though is: you are still capable of continuing that conversation on your own terms on you own feed. your posts will not be visible to the people blocking you but everyone else can still see them.
They aren't demanding a sale. They are just saying they can't operate in the country if they don't sell.

They have a choice to leave the country or follow the rules.
Do people actually think OpenAI is gaming benchmarks?

I know they have lost trust and credibility, especially on HN. But this is a company with a giant revenue opportunity to sell products that work.

What works for enterprise is very different from “does it beat this benchmark”.

No matter how nefarious you think sama is, everything points to “build intelligence as rapidly as possible” rather than “spin our wheels messing with benchmarks”.

In fact, even if they did fully lie and game the benchmark - do you even care? As an OpenAI customer, all I care about is that the product works.

I code with o1 for hours every day, so I am very excited for o3 to be released via API. And if they trained on private datasets, I honestly don’t care. I just want to get a better coding partner until I’m irrelevant.

Final thought - why are these contractors owed a right to know where funding came from? I would definitely be proud to know I contributed to the advancement of the field of AI if I was included in this group.
What can't you fix? All the issues I've had you could find a video on YouTube on what to do.
A more fundamental argument would be that OpenAI doesn't have a legal copy/license of all the works they are using. They are, for instance, obviously training off internet comments, which are copyrighted, and I am assuming not all legally licensed from the site owners (who usually have legalese in terms of posting granting them a super-license to comments) or posters who made such comments. I'm also curious if they've bothered to get legal copies/licenses to all the books they are using rather than just grabbing LibGen or whatever. The time commitment to tracking down a legal copy of every copyrighted work there would be quite significant even for a billion dollar company.

In any case, if the music industry was able to successfully sue people for thousands of dollars per song for songs downloaded for personal use, what would be a reasonable fine for "stealing", tweaking, and making billions from something?
bait-and-switch? We, those who advocate for open source 3D printers, saw it coming from miles away. This has very very clearly been their plan all along, they themselves said as much (e.g. they are doing the "apple model"). They have been very transparent about this, yet people still fell for it.
That is exactly what the government has not done all these years. Why be tight-lipped if there is solid evidence and data, its not some issue of nuclear weapons/military-strategy.
Well, that's pretty much how China behaves with respect to foreign companies operating in China. They all need to be joint partnerships with owners in China.
Nix didn't exist when this software project started (nor did Linux for that matter).

In the present company policy also requires us to use SLES unless we're reproducing an older build. They really want someone to scream at if SLES breaks.
When you started this, did you target a specific area that needed your skillsets or knowledge or did you research and find an area that needed better software ?
They make line-by-line diffs nicer. And it's quite nice to be able to swap/move lines without messing up the closing paren, especially when not using a structural editor.
Some users do not want updates.

I understand that updating software takes manpower. Same for running servers for sync or online information or similar.

But I might rather pay once for something that works on my machine as it is now. I need no servers or sync. If I need an upgrade later, I’ll buy it.

I do buy some software as a service but for other software if there’s a subscription I just don’t buy.
The problem is, any benchmark on a closed model couldn’t be private even in theory, as the model has to be called to run the benchmark, exposing the contents to whoever owns the model thereafter.

HN loves to speculate that OpenAI is some big scam whose seeming ascendance is based on deceptive marketing hype, but o1, to anyone who has tried it seriously is undoubtedly very much within the ballpark of what OpenAI claims it is able to do. If everything they are doing really is just overfitting and gaming the tests, that discrepancy will eventually catch up to them, and people will stop using the APIs and chatgpt
There's a lot to unpack here.

> The point wasn't that Americans can talk about anything we want

Did you even read my comment?

> it's that the Chinese can't talk about the "bad" things that have happened in their country

Wrong / highly misleading. Do you really think a country of 1.4 billion people can raise themselves out of poverty and overall dramatically raise the living standards for the masses without having a government that listens to the concerns of the people all across the country?

> If you log into Rednote and ask "What happened on June 4th," you're going to get banned by Chinese censors

I bet you the entire GDP of Canada that you don't know "what happened on June 4th".

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/89BEIJING18828_a.html

What you are describing here, anti-establishment propaganda, is precisely the reasoning cited for the TikTok ban to begin with, and exactly the reason China has their firewall. So... uh... yeah?

Also VPN's are widely used in China so it really doesn't support your claim.

> Whereas most Americans know that health insurance is some babyback bullshit that might have worked at one time but doesn't work anymore; and that cost of living is too high in certain cities

Exactly! This proves how structurally powerless American freedom of speech is to enact real change. How is it that there were able to secure social services and unprecedented poverty reduction, or even had the political desire to?

> The fact that we're sitting here typing at each other about it is proof positive.

This proves precisely zero things. This isn't even related to anything you said.

"The fact that we're discussing how broken healthcare is proves everything is fine!"
Biden literally closed out his term speaking about the "tech-industrial complex"...

The "Trump is for you, Kamala is for They/Them" ad was extremely effective if I'm remembering the polling data correctly.

> In general, your posts contain a lot of free association between events and ideas that are linked from your psychological point of view, but which don't necessarily have a great deal of logical connection.

As I said, you cannot reason abductively
Unlike your parent comment I do think that Mac favored lockdown all the way.

But it does a wonderful job at doing so.

Macs feel less like a personal computer and more like an appliance. Which works great if you do things that don't require tinkering, like office tasks or even webdev.

And I do love Linux, specially the more hobbyist OS's like Gentoo or Nix.

But at some point in my life I decided to spend more of my time (aside work) with other parts of my life. And in result, having to spend a weeken to solve some weird usecase, be it the package manager or the WM, is a pain.
I had a chance to handle one of these and this is exactly what I expected from a smart phone, absolutely fantastic and the level of open source on the driver level is elite.
I'd be surprised if any of their in-house benchmark results are taken seriously after this. As an extremely rough estimate, FrontierMath cost five to six figures to assemble [1] - so from an outside view, they clearly have no qualms with turning cash into quasi-guaranteed benchmark results.

[1]: https://epoch.ai/math-problems/submit-problem - the benchmark is comprised of "hundreds" of questions, so at the absolute lowest it cost 300 * 200 = 60,000 dollars.
"Security" on behalf of the user is a complete red herring. You can't print to my 2d printer or my 3d printer, but I can, with "any old device or application". Because they're on my network, not public on the internet.
I’m glad those brightness settings work for you but I can’t deal with how dull it makes colors look on traditional backlit displays. The reduced contrast also isn’t very fun with modern UIs which for some reason actively avoid good contrast.
Right, strictly speaking, the vast majority of copyright infringement falls under liability tort.

There are cases where infringement by negligence that could be argued, but as long as there is clear effort to prevent copying in the output of the tool, then there is no tort.

If the models are creating copies inadvertently and separately from the efforts of the end users deliberate efforts then yes, the creators of the tool would likely be the responsible party for infringement.

If I ask an LLM for a story about vampires and the model spits out The Twilight Saga, that would be problematic. Nor should the model reproduce the story word for word on demand by the end user. But it seems like neither of these examples are likely outcomes with current models.