skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crypto has not gone all the way to zero. It went from $3T mcap to ~$800 billion. Despite over a decade of people predicting Bitcoin would go to zero, it's still $20K+ per BTC. Yes, down from the $68K euphoric highs of 2021, but substantially higher than its average price for most of its history, and on par or better than many stocks have performed this year.

Ordinary crypto currencies like BTC & ETH can't go bankrupt. They never had any liabilities to begin with. The majors such as BTC & ETH have deep, global, 24/7 liquidity. If you can find a way to make all the liquidity pools dry up for crypto around the world, I suppose it will go to zero. Good luck with that.
I didn't downvote you earlier (and upvoted you now), I save downvotes for special occasions (and I think HN rations them, which is an interesting angle).

I share your opinion of Biden (not my first choice but a breath of fresh air after his predecessor).

I'd really like to come to a true understanding with you, because I want the truth to be promoted and lies and misinformation to be unamplified.

But I still don't understand what "true story" you are concerned about. The facts about Hunter himself seem to be true (corrupt and sleazy). But the whole point of the story wasn't about Hunter, it was an implied corruption of Joe.

So squelching the laptop story was about silencing effectively baseless conjecture that impugned the integrity of Joe Biden. That was the only point of the story -- to smear Joe.

Just like with Hillary's emails -- all that mattered was "she did bad" (which she did do, but in context it was quite insignificant. The amazing thing is these stories only seem to work one way: agains the Dems. There doesn't seem to be a single accusation against Trump that would dissuade his followers (his shooting someone on 5th Ave quote was frighteningly prescient).

The Steele Dossier was lurid but there's so much shady shit about Trump that it did raise credible concerns: is there kompromat on Trump? His behavior suggests so (absolute deference to Putin, money laundering accusations, etc.)

The essence of my concern is that we're flooded by misinformation and it's horribly effective, and more horribly so in the direction it seems to be effective (against the Left).

The laptop story is a lose/lose scenario. We lose if the story continues to echo and destabilize trust, and we lose when we try to prevent that act of erosion.

I'm not a fan of censorship but I also see the results of unfettered hate speech and lies that have literally demonized the Left and divided this country with no sign of letting up.
It's imperfect, due to the aforementioned differences in semantics.
Interestingly, all German language e-books have been DRM free for a couple of years now. I have no idea how that happened, but at one point, all major publishers have pivoted from mandatory DRM to DRM-free (but watermarked) ePubs.

The notable exception is Amazon: Kindle books are almost always DRMed from the same publishers.
Firing people based off of "lines of code submitted" immediately after crunching them for 80+ hour weeks is a really shitty way of trying to accomplish that goal.
If you can't seed the whole collection, just seed a random portion. You can still cherry pick what you like.
well .su is Russia. Not sure how to say this without pissing a lot of people off but it would not surprise me if there were some treaties they signed to cooperate with US LE in the not-so-distant future based on how things are going. Also they can seize the domain for themselves.

the .to domain I believe can be seized but I don't know the conditions. .is can be seized but it is rare. The other thing is that treaties can be changed and the US can strong-arm people. Right now they work, I don't know if they always will.
Does it need to be a good financial outcome for it to be smart?

I view the whole thing as Elon getting bored and wanting a new toy to play with. When you have as much wealth as he does, a loss hardly really matters. If he can make it profitable somehow, that's just a bonus.
From the article:

> Q: Will you get a severance package?

> A: I doubt it.
But that would encourage pirates to create fake recipients (that sound very similar to original) to channel money into their own pockets. With this incentive one can invest effort in high quality scans or OCR, well-formatted ebooks (pirated), and replace that last lime of text with own ID and flood the internet with these copies.
This seems like a surprisingly small amount of data in this day and age of connectedness.

I wonder how much total bandwidth each of these satellites can push per month. Anyone know the backend aggregate sustained data rate per sat?
Nope, that's frozen too.
As someone who works in the ebook sector, I'll say that no one loves Adobe's DRM, whether it be the publisher, vendor or user. It's implemented by apps and such because of the network effect - other apps support it, and users want to be able to read Adobe DRMed content without trouble, and it was also the first big solution to the "problem" of ebook DRM. However, because people have to pay a fee to Adobe per license, vendors are not very happy about having to continue to tolerate it, so that provides for a great incentive to slowly get them to move to a more user-friendly alternative as long as it's zero-cost, which is what LCP is trying to solve.
UEFI was created by an alliance of 12 companies, 11 of whom are not Microsoft, and Intel began the work. Again, not Microsoft.

TianoCore is an open source reference implementation of UEFI maintained by Intel; there's no proprietary Microsoft stuff in there.

Microsoft seek to ease development for users who either choose Windows or who are forced to use Windows by an employer. there's no "play" here, no extending or extinguishing. They want, like any reasonable developer would, a better world for software developers.
Note that their TOR domains are still up: http://zlibrary24tuxziyiyfr7zd46ytefdqbqd2axkmxm4o5374ptpc52... and http://loginzlib2vrak5zzpcocc3ouizykn6k5qecgj2tzlnab5wcbqhem...
That's awesome re the Threadripper Pro! Yes, DCS World in particular, but also Star Citizen (where nothing else comes close at the moment) and to some degree iRacing.

It went from stuttering all the time (bad 99% lows) on a well overclocked (all core 4.4ghz) 3900XT to butter smooth frame rates in DCS - and that's including custom scripts I had to exclude before (Streamdeck integration, etc).

I can now push DCS World to three screens; even on my lowly (for the task) 3070, the lowish 30-40-50 depending on weather FPS numbers combined with Free(G)sync monitors are never stuttering so it still feels smooth. I attribute it to the CPU never being the weak link; also, have reasonably good memory (4x 16GB C16-3600 Neos at XMP/3600mhz).

For gaming, there's no better value for money right now than the 5800X3D - if you already have an AMD system. And even then, if not, and you're not made of money.
I have no idea of specific numbers but this does not seem to fit the anecdotal experience of my city. :/

It is a complex multifaceted situation that might differ based on region, but in my moderately large mid-west city, the difference in curb appeal of the public schools in the wealthy suburbs vs the more urban schools closer to where I lived was wild (and I would expect curb appeal to be the easiest needle to move with just money). Forget the academics and the student environment. The suburb districts were best-in-the-state experiences while some of the high school kids I worked with from the more urban schools just wanted to make it through the day without a knife fight....
Would be amusing if he fired every single manager and left everyone else as a direct report to him.
Not sure if there's some technique to it. I got very conscious about the ums and aahs and practiced forcing myself to stop and stay silent. I was recording short videos (1-15 minutes) about 3-5 times a week and I guess just delibrate practice helped me.
This particular car sleeps 8, and it cost us less than 4 couples taking a cruise from Fort Lauderdale to Los Angeles via the Panama Canal, and less than booking a private jet that seats 8, but more than first class airfare for 8 cross-country.

And it also depends on whether they find someone to book (some subset of) the return trip that will start within a day or two of your arrival; otherwise you have to cover their Amtrak fee for the dead-head return. I’m told there’s a network of enthusiasts who watch for such possibilities. Rather, two networks, who hate each other for no discernible reason. Or that’s how I understood it, as an outsider getting a glimpse of an obscure but intense sub-culture.
The loan is not under his name. He leveraged Twitter and Twitter has to pay back the loan. The interest payments are a billion a year and that's why he's scrambling to make Twitter make more money. It's not his own money in any which way

This is Musk worship at another level. Active rejection of facts to make up some story about how he's some great businessman. He bought into a bad deal with no research and now he's scrambling
Someone should ask Chris Lattner what he thinks of Elon. :)
Still, Kittens Game is nothing to the death spiral distilled into its true form in Antimatter Dimensions. If there was ever a piece of software which warranted getting classified as weaponry, it'd be this.
If you want recommendations on what to avoid, an 8 page resume that starts out by listing your high school summer job in the 1960's is the best anti-example I've seen.
I think GP was using this definition:

>an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market[0]

>which had been developing for centuries earlier

The use of capital has existed for thousands of years already. One could make the case that there is no such thing as capitalism but rather the desire for the realization of interests. The ruling class "before capitalism" was also capitalist: the lords' power was derived from their capital- the land. The only real difference between the mercantile class and the landed gentry was the respect they commanded when it comes down to it.

[0]https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capitalism
Twitter Mobile is working. But Twitter Web is not working.
Between the ever increasing "recent tweet" notifications spam that hides my real notifications in the noise and having to use more and more tricks just to preserve a chonological timeline containing only the people I follow and their tweets/retweets, the friction had already reduced my Twitter usage.

And now with the way things are going, this might soon be the final nail in the coffin.

Good thing I still have HN, Reddit and (already way too many) Discord servers.
Absolutely. Personally, I'll be excited to see higher colour depth for my next HTPC GPU and monitor upgrade. I can really notice colour banding, and having 12 bit colour will be a game changer for content consumption.

I'm disappointed to see a max 3 DP + 1 HDMI output though. Was hoping I'd be able to attach a VR set without unplugging my 4th monitor some time in the future.
Write a whole bunch of code and permit copilot learning on it! Then it would be great even without violating others' copyrights.
The view as well. It’s not a requirement of trains vs trucking but due to history train tracks go through many more scenic routes that are built or grown over, and aren’t 3-6 lane highways blasted through nature.
It's certainly less ambiguous.

The BSD license restricts both "redistribution" and "use":

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

Training a Copilot-like system is "use" in obvious violation of clause 3:

3. Use in source or binary forms for the construction or operation
of predictive software generation systems is prohibited.

What else can we do?
If Copilot is committing widespread infringements of their copyright, then surely they will be able to find examples of such infringement to submit in their lawsuit.

I assume they want some kind of broad relief, such as an injunction to take down copilot. They are not going to get it, they are not going to get anything at all, if they can’t even provide examples of violating code.
You mean other than losing the $44 billion? What additional penalty would there be if Twitter were public?
Business processes and traditions are not a source code. It always changes and evolves with people and millions other factors.

One of the factors — it’s too risky for a big company not to hire based on obedience.
I don’t think the parent comment said he was planning to move to Russia or China instead.
Alternatively: https://archive.ph/ljD2M
I wonder how far we are from partitioning the DNS with alternate roots. If the Ukraine war doesn't make it happen, DRM violations might.
Here is a snippet of things that copyright is intended to cover:

>the right to exclude others from making certain uses of the work: copying it, making a derivative work based on that work, distributing copies of the work to the public, and publicly performing or displaying the work.

So why would "training" "AI" on code with the intention of emitting derived works not be copyright infringement exactly?

This product is transforming copyrighted code into something that's intended to be used or sold in other works. The snippets it emits are directly derived from copyrighted code.

The most common argument against this is that humans also learn from copyrighted material. My argument against this is that CoPilot is not a human and should not be assumed to inherit rules intended for humans.

>in a field that benefits us all

As it stands currently CoPilot is proprietary and does not benefit anyone except for MicroSoft. If CoPilot was released under a FOSS license it would actually benefit us all. Most of the people against CoPilot are not against AI, but rather a proprietary AI product transforming FOSS work into other potentially proprietary works with the intention of profiting off of the completion service and hoarding the code that powers it.
> Too many people, too fast. There's no way these are going to be sensible, surgical layoffs.

If I were working there, I'd want the layoffs to be as swift and brief as possible. Having the sword of Damocles hanging over my head day to day would be unbearable. I'd rather Twitter have one big layoff and then re-focus on the product if it were me.

> The service is definitely going to suffer.

I see this claim, but don't quite get it. What are engineers doing there? Are they like Homer Simpson pushing a red button every day to keep the site running? It seems like kind of a set-and-forget type of operation at this point, since so few new features are developed. They copied a couple of other social media startups (Clubhouse & Substack) in the past couple of years, and they changed the stylesheet, but otherwise, doesn't seem like much has happened. Have they done a ton of optimization work that we simply don't know about? (And if not, why do they need it?) I just don't get the claim.

FWIW, I'm expecting to see essentially no difference in Twitter for at least six months.
Time for a thread about the Trust Thermocline
For sure, AussieBroadband are (sample size of one) fantastic.

I particularly like that they've exposed some of the NBN troubleshooting tools to customers.

They also skipped over that "we'll provision more CVC capacity when we see it flatline for at least four hours a day" phase that most other retailers seemed to go through.

They don't quite have the same old school nerd appeal that Node had though. Things like free Usenet, games.on.net, unmetered downloads from the fairly well stocked mirror..
Not the person you're replying to, but it's not "more complicated" per se, technically, but Twitter is as Musk puts it a town square, and if you're going to treat a product that relies on a social network like a car or a rocket...can't see the analogous processes applying here
VR is still too expensive
I think PSVR2 price is about right. My much bigger gripe is that I can't jack into the metaverse using it.
Internal chats (some screenshots floating around) that show the publicly cited bot % was known to be flawed and they have no idea how many active users are on the platform.
The Library Genesis forum is also down, but more likely because of overwhelming interest right now? https://forum.mhut.org/
> The more contrarian the view—the further it falls outside the community's tolerance—the more responsibility that commenter has for not triggering degenerative effects like flamewars.

This sounds similar to the “yelling fire” censorship test

it’s not that we censor discussing combustion methods,
there would be no effect if everyone else was also yelling fire

But people were watching a movie and now the community’s experience has been ruined (with potential for harm), in exchange for nothing of value
Is there anyway to get it from the outside of the US?
What did you end up doing when the hackathon on the train didn’t work out?
I have been dabbling with landscape photography [1] off and on for a little over 10 years. I remember following a person on Flickr who would take astounding landscape pictures where the entire image is in sharp focus front-to-back and the composition itself looked like a painting. That set me off on a mission to figure out how to do this. I learned how to focus-stack and do simple DoF calculations, and prevent camera shake to get the sharpest image out of my kit lens. I eventually upgraded my tripod and my lens to one of Nikon's holy trinity lenses (70-200mm f2.8) and saw immediate improvement in quality and sharpness. Then I began experimenting with different light conditions as I was chasing sunsets and sunrises all over Colorado. My photography got a little better but I still couldn't get the "painted" effect. I ended up buying lens filters and lens adapters which got me nowhere. Then I dabbled with HDR thinking that was the most likely explanation and that was also wrong.

One weekend I ended up taking a trip to Sand Dunes National Park to take pictures of the sunset over the dunes. Unfortunately, I mistimed my trip and by the time I climbed the middle dune the sun had already set. I thought I'll just stay and take pictures of the night sky instead. While I was waiting, I snapped a few long-exposure pictures during the last minutes of the "blue hour." I've never done it before thinking that I'll just have a bunch of washed out images. When I came home and loaded a few shots into Lightroom I was shocked to find the exact "painted" effect I was looking for. [2] It's not by any means the best image, but it's my "eureka!" shot.

A large part of photography is about training your eyes to see something interesting, making unique compositions out the things in front of you and playing around with the light. With that said, the camera, lens and tripod you use make the entire journey less dubious and more pleasant for sure.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/sergeyakopov

[2] https://www.flickr.com/photos/sergeyakopov/37182230034/in/ph...
That seems like a bit of a strawman. There's a pretty significant difference between public and private speech. Regardless, I'm not arguing what or when these platforms should censor. Just trying to explain why certain content on a platform could cause someone to choose to stop using that platform, even if they're not personally exposed to that content.
It’s not the same outcome at all - severance pay is often the difference between needing to take out a loan or not when embarking on a job search after a layoff. Lack of that stability will have material impact on many people: they might have to move, change which schools their kids go to, avoid medical treatment not covered by Medicare, etc etc. He’s not committing some sort of victimless crime.
Netflix, Salesforce, General Electric...
Not recent but in terms of distilling the technical aspect of the genre: Antimatter Dimensions.

I'd also add Candy Box and Candy Box 2/to your list of early influential games.
You can look at their tax filings at https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/810...
One step down from Contact.
The physical degradation of the books seems like such a minor effect. I'm pretty gentle with books. As for library ebooks, I had no idea the contracts were structured like that.
Record-breaking Hunga Tonga volcanic plume might have warmed Earth's climate
I assumed he meant margin.

In terms of total profit, the Model Y will be the most profitable car next year, overtaking the F150.
"was product-market fit" -- Do you have it now? Looks useful.
Apple Adds a New iPhone 14 Supplier in India in Shift from China
You also don’t stop and go as much. With a bus you stop at every stop light in every suburb you drive through and speed changes all the time. A train makes a few predictable very manageable stops.
3x cheaper than the Meta Quest Pro and yet they didn't complain about it

But it's now Sony so...? The Verge? that gives me Stadia vibes.. (cloud gaming bad, unless it's xcloud ;))
Not much to tell. He solved my interview problems super quickly and then we had a chat about his experience which impressed me a lot. This was many years ago (as Pebble was dying) so I don't remember the details of the conversation. He didn't accept our offer, for visa related reasons if I recall correctly, so unfortunately I didn't get to work with him. Obviously the variance on interview performance is high, and my typical interview questions are not super hard or anything, so it doesn't necessarily mean that much. But I'm confident that he was a very good engineer that I would have liked to work with.
Patent trolls that are hated look like: You develop package to do X from first principles, then get sued because someone patented using a known algorithm for the purpose of X.

Copyright working in a supported/non hated way: You develop a package to do X by cribbing off someone else's package X. They sue you for stealing their work, not to make money off you.
Situation at hand is case 2, hence the lack of interest in financial gain.

Why is this case 2, when it does not always reproduce the copyrighted works exactly? Situation: You realise that rather than cribbing off of one persons package X, you can crib off two other package X's and mix/average their contents. Scale this to 100's of packages.

Eventually, ML should avoid this by developing to work from first principles, writing in it's own style, with public code used only for validation of it's ability to understand and write code.
Ostensibly a CEO owes a fiduciary duty to shareholders to protect their investment
Sure, to you might be not but you're not the audience he's talking to.
If this lawsuit is successful it doubt it will change anything at all. Microsoft will just pay the damages as a cost of doing business and continue what they are doing. Maybe they will add an opt-out.
In terms of places that are even colder then Switzerland not many people live. And you can't just compare the Bielersee, there are these things called mountains where people go up to ski and it does get quite cold.

Model X also sells fine in Norway of course.
"Crow tech slaps"

- Rick Sanchez
Go look at the list of EV sold in the US. Model X is in the Top 5.
huh? Universal Paperclips has persisted states between reloads for a long time. I just went there and picked back up from my 6 months-ago game.
> Even though Apple (and likely a couple more) will provide their proprietary passwordless system with cloud sync, a lot of people don't want to rely on an iCloud account to be your backup in case you lose your phone.

This is the big one for me. The user story for logging in to a site on Windows with an iOS passkey is to scan a QR code with your phone, which sounds obnoxious.

I'd rather just have 1Password be the private key repository and those keys will sync to Mac/Windows/Phones through it instead of them being locked into iCloud Keychain, and it can handle logins just like normal.