skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I will be very surprised that Twitter's position was less than "you can have anything you want", precisely to avoid any complaint of non-cooperation.

Be very surprised, they capped the firehouse. From the filing:

> Additionally, those APIs contained an artificial “cap” on the number of queries that Mr. Musk and his team can run regardless of the rate limit—an issue that initially prevented Mr. Musk and his advisors from completing an analysis of the data in any reasonable period of time. Mr. Musk raised this issue as soon as he became aware of it, in the first paragraph of the June 29 Letter: “we have just been informed by our data experts that Twitter has placed an artificial cap on the number of searches our experts can perform with this data, which is now preventing Mr. Musk and his team from doing their analysis.” That cap was not removed until July 6, after Mr. Musk demanded its removal for a second time.
I think in the 90s it was more about standing out. and being provocative if possible , since there was very little that was off-limits
Someone launched exactly this on HN a bit ago. I can't remember if it was a YC company or just a Show HN. Also optimized across currencies if I remember right.
I prefer K.I.T.T.
This search engine is supported by The Bill (and Melinda?) Gates Foundation, The Organization for Promotion of Democracy, The Organization for Prosperity, The Organization For Truth And Transparency And Against Fake News, The Organization Against Renegade Knowledge, The Organization For Helping Silly Citizens Think Better, The Organization For The Truth About Qatar, The Organization For Freedom And Good Things And Not At All Tied to the CIA, and some other folks.
Thanks for the article, author. Curious if the same goes for social media in general? Probably in vain to ask here because they’ll never see it heh.
I agree HN is better than most. Have personally found technical forums (engine/vehicle/diesel etc) to be higher quality as well - but what are we comparing to here, youtube?
I think it should have been read as suggestion, as in search for "slaughterbots".
IIRC then a short (a few minutes long) video emerges, in which a swarm of small drones is airlaunched from a container mounted onto one of the weapon pylons under the wing of a plane, glides down, swarms out over a city, engaging pattern/face recognition. One drone (smaller than a human hand) enters a building, where some people are assembled in a hall, locks onto his target and kills it by a small shaped charge to the head.

Mission accomplished.

This is then followed by (or was embedded in?) a recorded presentation on stage with showroom dummies, where every single necessary step to achieve this goal is shown to be possible with COTS (commercial of the shelf) components today.

That was new then, a few years ago...
Why do teenage girls often get the same hairstyles?
i agree 100%. it is not easy to decide what is ultimately important, but there are cases that this is so.
Speaking from my experience, Windows never broke for me after updates. Install, reboot, done. I have actively used windows from XP to 10 with similar results.

Linux, on the other hand, is a mess. Arch was mostly fine, I had to update an occasional config file after an update, but I had to update everything pretty often - once a month at least. At some point I stopped using my laptop with Arch on it for a while. A year passed, I needed to take a look at the old projects I had on that laptop. I booted it up, got my code, and out of curiosity decided to do a full system update. After reboot nothing, literally nothing worked - I could not log in to Gnome because apparently I was on Wayland now, I had no wifi or bluetooth, Firefox was rendering artifacts.

I understand that Arch is an enthusiast distro, and that it was essentially my fault, but after this experience I have decided to stop using Linux on desktop and switched to Windows and Mac. A much better experience so far.
How about: Cars aren’t the only answer ?
There is no licensing of the print or online media in Japan. However, there are a number of factors that effectively limit the freedom of many media outlets.

The kisha clubs [1], which control media access to government officials and the police, are restricted to reporters from major media organizations. The tabloid press frequently complains about those restrictions and use those restrictions as justification for their less savory reporting methods.

The libel and privacy laws are fairly strict [2, 3] and have been tightened in recent years, making publications more hesitant to report negative or personal information about individuals, including politicians. Some religious groups have used those laws to suppress negative reporting; as soon as I noticed on Friday afternoon that the mainstream media weren’t giving the name of the religious group, I wondered if fear of lawsuits was the reason. (I still don’t know.)

Extremist groups have targeted Japanese media, and have sometimes attacked [4] or killed [5] journalists, for reports that the groups didn’t like about the Imperial family or historical matters. This can make journalists hesitant to raise controversial topics.

The major newspapers are published by large conglomerates that have diverse business interests. The weekly magazines have, over the years, reported many examples of stories that were suppressed by their larger competitors because of conflicts of interest. An amusing one that I remember is when a magazine was not allowed to include the term shōgi daoshi—literally, “falling over like shogi pieces”—in their regular advertisement in a daily newspaper; they wanted to use it to describe an accident where people were crushed in and killed in a crowd, but that newspaper ran a major shogi tournament and wouldn’t allow the term shōgi to be used in a negative context. Some weekly magazines that frequently publish reports of salacious scandals about celebrities and politicians refrain from publishing similar reports about well-known writers, because their parent companies depend on work by those writers for other publications.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kisha_club

[2] https://kellywarnerlaw.com/japan-defamation-laws

[3] https://www.omm.com/resources/alerts-and-publications/alerts...

[4] https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/噂の眞相

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomohiro_Kojiri
So “nobuy” limits results to astroturfed product reviews and link farms, then?
The sustainable cities made from mud
Thanks, I haven't worked with it. Messaging alone might be useful for some folks.
I read this as : evidence than water is wet.

Venture Capitalism is called "Venture" for a reason. It is a high risk, high reward activity.

But I won't call it predictable. It is only predictable after the fact. Things that were extremely useful for society were extremely bad investments,short term, like the Gutenberg press(Gutenberg went bankrupt), the Columbus expeditions, the first aeroplanes(most early aviators died or had brain contusions for life),the Apollo landings.

Today, for example, the return on all investments in nuclear fusion has been negative. In fact I have invested lots of money on a nuclear fusion startup that had made lots of progress recently. I believe that even if I loose all my invested money, it is worth it.

We had recently a bubble of malinvestments but it has way more to do with States having access to the money printing press than about companies itself. That correlation is total, 100%. With 0% interest rates that you can pay with debt it makes sense to "invest" in 20 projects expecting one of them to be the Unicorn that explodes.
> Kishi's time as the army officer

He wasn't an army officer. He was a lawyer/bureaucrat in charge of the forced industrialization of Manchukuo after studying the economic systems of places like Wiemar Germany, and was given total authority by the army to run this vertical as he saw fit.
Well, you need to replace fossil fuel with electricity/hydrogen for public transport as well. The question is still valid?
Not sure I missed the sarcasm here.
Why would a non-profit not fight spam etc.? Why would a for-profit fight spam do so?

I see the largest internet companies, including Facebook, Twitter, and also Google, fight spam and other harmful content only to the degree absolutely necessary to stay somewhat usable. Which makes sense because it's costly and does not generate profit.

I would expect a non-profit, however, to focus much more on fighting harmful content because it centers around the user experience, hence quality of the content.

I don't see a guarantee this works in practice, but the respective incentives seem clear.
This is my view. Restructure society around less transport.
Helium is the only serious attempt to solve the bootstrapping problem and has demonstrated some significant early traction. The fact that there's only one mention among all these comments is really unfortunate.
This article prompts the Star Trekkian question Who Analyzes the Logic Analyzers? Incidentally it is not the device manufacturer because they didn't do a great job testing, so the signal to noise ratio on these devices is quite low. It highlights the bigger picture problem that it sucks to have to debug something when the manufacturer has locked down the firmware. Right to repair and other freedoms seem quite germane, you can plug and play those arguments right here.

At least these kinds of broken things lead to fun hobbyist reverse engineering projects. That's the silver lining (though at the end of the day it is nice for things to just not break).
I don’t agree with that. Having my grown up in that era there is t any shortage of content in popular culture that have smart or sentient AI:

- Asimov novels (as you’ve referenced yourself)

- 2001 (Hal)

- Star Wars (R2D2 & C3PO for example)

- Buck Rogers in the 25th C (Twiki & Theopolis)

- Battlestar Galactica (Cylons)

- Alien (Ash)

- Star Trek TOS (I forget the episode names but there’s a few with smart AI)

- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (V’Ger)

…All from either the same era as 2XL or before.

The problem with “AI” as a term is that it can mean multiple things (like “HD”, “smart”, etc) so it will be used and abused by whoever feels it might sell a few copies of something.

An example of this is computer games. AI has never been used to refer sentience but rather the programmed logic of a computer opponent.

Then you have AI in the research sense; which are the technologies another poster described.

You have AI in stories, TV and movies which are often depicted as human-like intelligence, complex reasoning, or even outright sentient.

It was never a term that had one definitive technical definition.

Now you do see researchers retrofitting different classifications of “AI” in a hope to clear up the confusion around the use of the term “AI”. But that’s a more recent (in comparison) development and certainly isn’t something the general populous are aware of.
Kinda like how the threat of revoking the press's access to the White House keeps them toeing the establishment line

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/white-house-press-passes...
Perhaps a better approach would be building an open source www index or even a full current cache - as an enabler for people to build their own search engines?

Right now it is extremely difficult to build your own web crawler that would compete with Google. And that is not because of the technology, but because multiple sites will prevent your bot from accessing them if you're not Google or Bing - either through robots.txt, or through directly banning your IP if it's trying to crawl and it's not a confirmed google-bot.

Having a non-profit, open source, crawler that keeps an up to date index (or web cache) of the web would help competition spring up.
> Yes, hardware has limits and you just cannot have a single machine with unlimited number of cores and disks.

Ok, but it still makes me wonder how far you can go today with a good old-fashioned RDBMS, running native on modern server hardware. I believe you can go a lot further than most developers seem to think, without having to go to more complex distributed setups.

In the environments I work in, it seems people often first check on scaling horizontally instead of checking how far they could scale vertically... my preference is to first scale vertically before trying to scale horizontally. (I am aware both have different advantages, but I'm mainly thinking from a performance point of view.)
Over 90% of outer ear infection is caused by bacterial infection, with 10% being fungal (and then, those are more liekly in tropical environments). The risk of fungal infection in non-tropical environments is thus fairly low probability.

There has also been several (4 that I can find myself) studies done on using acidic drops as the only treatment for ear infections, all which has shown them non-effective to clear an infection. Alcohol can also irritate the skin further, increasing inflammation.

Ear infections are however complex since most of the studies are either done on children, commercial or military divers. The military protocol in the Netherlands is to start with an acidic solution and then if the inflammation get worse introduce steroids. If that doesn't clear it, then add a combination of antibiotics and steroids. Steroids has the problem of increasing risk to bacterial infection, but the combination of using antibiotics with the steroids reduces that risk. It is this combination that doctors use in post surgery.

The Dutch protocol seems like the optimal treatment protocol for now, but it assumes you got a doctor to monitor it. My guess is that regular doctors jumps to the last step with the assumption that it is bacterial infection in order to minimize the need for further visits. One study I read also mentioned that adherence to correct application of the drops was one of the most significant factor in outcomes, which might imply an other reason to go for the strongest treatment first.

One thing that favors alcohol however is that keeping the ear dry is extremely important in addressing outer ear infection and preventing bacteria from growing. The theory behind vinegar and alcohol does thus seem quite sound from a theory perspective, stopping the bacterial infection before it get a chance to grow.
High tech in North Carolina peaked with the Wright Brothers at Kitty Hawk and it's been downhill ever since
Indeed lets go back to keeping horses and only the wealthy ones being able to go around dry in chariots, and servants to transport goods by whatever means they have.
Occam's razor, (a.k.a.) Ockham's razor, Ocham's razor
> No. It's not a matter of personal opinion. Go indeed lacks "several features, including safety features, that help people perform their job better".

That is a subjective statement. There's no objective list of language features that make a programmer's job better. I'd like to see optional types in Go, but I can't say that it would objectively make the vast majority of programs I've written better, not to say about the wider community.

I liked the error handling proposal from the Go team, but the wider community rejected it. Was it 'objectively bad'?

I could go on and on.

> What people are trying to have here is starting discussion of possible paths for the language to grow, no matter how crude that "start" is. It is "cheap" criticism? Sure,

My problem is exactly that this is not the case. You don't start a discussion on 'possible paths' towards improvement without actually discussing any concrete path.

Take a look at Swift for example, which even its original author stepped away from due to in part constant onslaught of features at the expense of wider design considerations, (as he perceived it).

Go could certainly go faster, but I do think the 'how fast' is a delicate balance that doesn't have a simple answer.

It merely looks like the typical HN mantra on programming languages. It's like posting about Rust in every thread on C++. I am someone who happens to like Rust but I don't think doing that would win us many fans.

In many ways OP's criticism is even less concrete.
I really hope we get traction on:

• electrification of trunk roads

• hydrogen-powered vehicles

Batteries are simply too heavy to replace all that petrol and diesel for all use cases.
I read the Unit 731 Wikipedia page recently and almost wished I hadn’t. Im surprised I’d never heard about it and neither had any of my friends. Not that it’s a competition, but some of the atrocities I read about on that page were worse than any other World War atrocity I know and it seems like it’s just been swept under the rug.
I fail to see how this explains anything about why brands change their main logo to the same dull style.
About the funding model, it would be great if normal donation works.

If not, I think the way some WEB3 projects are funded maybe an interesting inspiration (not talking about Ponzi scheme here). Many projects are "non profit" and sale tokens before the service is 100% ready. It funds the amelioration and scaling of the project. And the possibility to resale the tokens at a higher price in the future sometime attract token holders and often increase the "motivation" of the token holders / supporter of the project... fuel the community (money is only part of the motivation). Here token could be associated to symbolic "privileges" (badge, access to early releases), or governance (taking part of some votes).

This system have clearly some drawbacks, but allows sometimes to increase the number of early users and supporters, and get more funding while staying a non-profit.
> He's not the type to intentionally deceive others. He's often wrong, but he's upfront with what he thinks.

So when he submitted official documents that he wants to be a passive investor at Twitter while already having internal talks about buying it and/or getting a board seat he ... accidentally forgot about that?
Are you sure about the paypal in europe? AFAIK you can set it up Stripe only if your country supports Stripe which most of EU does.
Well, you need to define your objectives. No system is robust to a failure of all its actors. If every user (and even developer) is ill-intended, no system will give good results. So we need some "hopeful" (and accurate) assumptions.

One might be that the typical user can sensibly elect a few individuals to trust -- it could be developers (which are a natural choice for trust), to activist and publicly visible individuals (even close friends). Then presumably you could adopt his trust model (such individuals could be roots in independent conservative trust webs/graphs). I think a very large number of such webs might be computationally expensive, but hopefully you'd be able to find someone you trust or start your own independent graph (if you trust no one, you'd effectively lose all anti-SEO measures I guess). This very naturally leads to a decentralized reputation system!
Bombing is one thing, but you also have a whole SEO industry now that will exploit any way possible to get to the top of the rankings.

The moment you have community rankings on search, and your search gets popular, you land in a war zone with bots trying to mangle those. Reddit is kind of good dealing with that, but it is very resource intensive.
Is DDG proxied bing? I found DDG search results to be much better than bing.
ngl rand 5la op url is confusing af, not lgtm.
Eating is often a drag. You have to set aside time, you might get heartburn, you have to suppress burps, you might get a buildup of muckus in your throat that you have to lightly cough away. If I feel lethargic I often feel better just drinking some lemon water.

I’m often irritable anyway. Eating doesn’t help unless I have low blood sugar to the point of being fatigued. It often makes it worse.
Few notes, ad an EU mind: why a private company should fix? Who own roads? The public isn't it? Then they one of the most used road by the public, named internet, is not run equally by the public whose target is not profit but offering a service to the public?

Aside: do we really want to make a cash-less society? No ones who of course have e-cash BUT ALSO physical money payable in person no extra network needed?

Do we really want connected stuff, cars included (see last "blackout" of SF autonomous taxi fleet in the USA) instead of having optional connectivity under user control and a local-first approach by default?
Yes? Offering ad space (and placing affiliate links) is how they make money.

Difference to Google is how they position themselves in regards to privacy, and that Google actually built a search engine. Both make their money by providing ad space.
> Perhaps a better approach would be building an open source www index or even a full current cache - as an enabler for people to build their own search engines?

That's a excellent idea! In the spirit of open-data, and people can do with it what they want.
> When Your Logic Analyzer Can’t Tell Good and Bad Signals Apart

When you buy cheap but expect wonders.
A good engineer must know the limitations of his equipmemt.
Not only that, for infrastructure reasons public transport outside dense cities is non existent, and paying for taxis for every routes outside the main ones makes it out of budget for many persons.

A single taxi ride can pay for quite a few liters of fuel.
I see no way to get a hold of that particular soundtrack and searching the web failed me. How did you get a copy? Any tips?
I also recently wrote some software to make the clipboard work the way I wanted.

https://github.com/hossbeast/meshboard

Distributed clipboard, mesh networking, xorg and Wayland integration. tmux and vim would also make sense, as OP has done, though I haven't gotten there yet.
Brave, Kagi, Neeva and Mojeek have their own indexes, I think.
Oh no, it's not. Google's ads have been used to do phishing a lot. And - at least a few years ago, it was extremely difficult to report such ads.

Perhaps it has improved recently, but it used to be a plague in crypto - people getting ads for phishing sites instead of legitimate ones, losing money, and Google being unresponsive to reports.
,,The deal he proposed is beyond stupid’’

The price in the deal was set by professional lawyers at Goldman Sachs, so if it was beyond stupid, it was not Elon’s fault.

The deal was proposed before the recession, and at that time there were people proposing that the price is too low, because Twitter stock was over $60 at some point.

Of course in the current market Elon would pay a few billions to get out of the deal, but it’s a different deal than what it has been a few months ago.
Ask HN: Public AI Companies?
There is some amazing development going on in AI at the moment.

But it seems it is all taking place in giant companies that do mostly other stuff. Tesla, Google, Microsoft ...

Tesla is the closest to an "AI company" that I know. As their future value will be greatly impacted by how well they do in the race to self driving cars.

Are there any more "pure" AI companies, that are ideally working on just one AI solution?
Sure, but "enough" can be very subjective. What's enough for the developer might not be enough for anyone else.
You can buy a ticket for a non-assigned seat but not for long routes like the one that goes to Paris.

I’d say that having to buy a ticket with an assigned seat in high-speed trains in Spain has been always been that way.

However, short-route trains (Cercanías) don’t have assigned seat, but they are not high-speed trains.
I always enjoy reading articles from https://www.quantamagazine.org and
https://nautil.us . They are really well written, insightful (but not too technical) and nicely illustrated.

Quanta articles are free to read. Unfortunately, Nautilus is behind a paywall after 2 free articles/month and it seems that contributers have not (yet?) gotten the money they deserve: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautilus_Quarterly#Controversy I have not looked more closely into the matter, since I don’t read their articles very often, but may be worth considering if you decide to subscribe.
HN seems to think it’s impossible to get access to a human, but I’ve had Google engineers fix my Python code that inexplicably didn’t work in a cloud function.