skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently, there was a spam/reader DoS attack during the last few days associating porn to Chinese cities, in an effort by PRC's government to disorganize demonstrations against the government and the Zero Covid policy.

Could be related?
That joke is a great example of why the creativity is surprising.

A human might have a thought process that starts with the idea that people are food for Bigfoot, and then connects that to phrase of "playing with your food".

But GPT generates responses word by word. And it operates at a word (token) level, rather than thinking about the concepts abstractly. So it starts with "Because it likes to play" which is a predictable continuation that could end in many different ways. But it then delivers the punchline of "with its food".

Was it just a lucky coincidence that it found an ending to the sentence that paid off so well? Or is the model so sophisticated that it can suggest word "plays" because it can predict the punchline related to "food".
However, using Cloudflare R2 to distribute content is still thousands of times cheaper than GCP.
Of course it's relevant. The FCC doesn't make its decisions based on HN comments, so I'm not sure why the aggro response here. I'm stating my personal experience with the network, over the past year. I'm on the network now at peak time in Florida and clocking 80 Mbps.
It's probably an effective way to prevent bots (or even humans) from spamming the lottery if entry to the lottery was free or gated by a one-off fee. The exploitative part is mostly that these per-application fees are pocketed by a private company.
Same can be said of all Ponzi scheme, that doesn’t make the crimes less severe or the harm caused to the innocent any less painful, and it certainly doesn’t mean that the criminals should be able to escape justice.
> FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried is another example. His disheveled, messy geek look was calculated, and in an interview after FTX’s collapse he basically admitted that some of his opinions and philosophies that he espoused before were BS to push a specific narrative.

> Musk has repeated “free speech” enough times that it’s become part of his brand. And people will associate that with him regardless of what he actually does.

The models here are the guru/savior/grifter, which encompasses and goes beyond just "brand".

Why don't the followers see the contradictions in what the guru says and does? Some of them are truly deluded, but a whole lot of them understand it just fine and just want to see if they can get in on the action.
I may be trying to persuade, but I'm not being prescriptive. I'm just stating the logical outcome of behaving based on the thinking in the post I was responding to.
I keep seeing comments like this on HN and it's disappointing. His co-CEO donated $20 million to Republican causes as well. There is no conspiracy here. It isn't even proper to say that there's the normal favoritism shown to business that donate to both parties. There's no evidence of any favoritism at all yet and comments like these just play into the tribalism that's greatly damaged the US over the last few decades.
It just plain reads as hostile to me, and hostile entities often claim they are just defending themselves (justified or not), whether people or countries. But I don't think anyone has mentioned convicting him of anything unless you're talking about a court of public opinion or something.
> Let's not pretend the site wasn't an absolute disaster before the acquisition though

But it was a managed absolute disaster that was trying to be better.

And so regulators such as EU, FTC were okay to let it continue to operate.

That is clearly changing since Musk took over.
Specifically, we're talking about one (1) instance with 16 VCPUs, preemptible. That's where the ceiling is. In a non-exotic region with high capacity.

If you pay up front for the server, no problem. Obviously, open source projects / smaller projects benefit from spot compute and related pricing. Definitely seems like a regressive quota policy choice albeit probably by accident.
How are most people going to enjoy (and therefore care about) this natural land without at least some roads, hotels and restaurants?

Even in designated wilderness areas, somebody has to build roads and cut trail in order for anyone to enjoy it and scientists to study the effects of conservation. I think it's a tough balance and we need lands all across the spectrum of development.
I actually think it's a good point. There's no way in the US we'd tolerate the government regulating the content on the platform.
I read all of it. Should have bet on your odds.
The Good, the Bad, and the Viability of Co-Living
But they actually did effectively target them. Six out of six complete remissions.
Well, the methodology is flawed, or at least it doesn't actually reflect what it says on the tin.

It's "consumer-initiated", i.e. what they are really measuring is which contracts people are using, not which speeds are available.

Example: I could book a 500/100 line at my house (1000 symmetrical available if I switched providers), but I stick with the cheapest plan, which is 50/12 simply because it's good enough for my personal use. Same for most of my neighbours. Most don't have more than 100/20, though higher speeds are readily available.

With StarLink there's only type of contract: you get what you get and that's that. In Europe for example, there's usually more than one option per ISP and you pay more for higher bandwidth. So if you're fine with the smallest plan (usually around 50mbps), why pay more? So in essence they actually answer a different question.
It sounds relatively straight forward to make it "Deceptive speech used to deliberately upset others or undermine discussion." Is that accurate and precise enough to cover your conceptualization of trolling?
> Where are we headed with all of this?

We are heading nowhere.

Hot take: WASM is a dead technology and has failed to displace vanilla JS. There are only a few very niche use cases, most of which have zero product-market fit (e.g., no one wants to play video games in a browser).

Furthermore, no one wants to seriously write C++/Rust/Java and then compile it to WASM. These days, WASM projects are a neat way to pad your resume or get tech "thought leaders" to tweet about you. As far as Extism goes, it sounds like a problem looking for a solution. We already have LUA and JS as embeddable scripting languages, so here we go overengineering yet again.
All the hundreds of dams out west built to irrigate high and cold interior deserts really. Each individually unjustifiable environmental destruction, all together a catastrophe. They'll outlast everything else we build and probably even the memory of the name of this country itself.
>In either case, not having something to do that was more pressing than helping out a person would not be surprising.

In the context you have provided - yes. But in the context of my professional experience it is rather surprising. Note that the author has not mentioned he was uncomfortable sitting there doing nothing. What he mentioned was:

>we all pitched in. I actually quite enjoyed it.

That looks like that was the first time for him ever. Also quite surprising - for me and my experience.

PS. Also:

>As soon as Musk became owner, there were always three things that had to be done by yesterday

Sweet Jesus. Just "as soon"? Just three??
You are being down voted because this is a shallow view. The expression of interest tied to an identity has value. For proof see Google, Meta, Amazon, and Facebook earnings.
The fully booked with empty campsites thing drives me crazy; I see it quite often as well. Finding dispersed camping areas seems to be the way to go.
Developers just like any other inventive field have to balance time and work towards a good product.

Just because the app is written using a chromium framework does not necessarily mean that it's written poorly, VS code is a great example of a fast performance application written in electron.

I don't know where you're getting 2 GB of required memory but if you spin up an electron app it's rare that it requires more than 100 if it's not doing anything.

If you knew anything about these types of stable diffusion interfaces you know that they basically have to load the entire model into memory so that's likely where the multiple gigabytes is coming from.

A lot of us got into development work because we want to create new things, you sound more like the person who spends 99% of their time endlessly optimizing the game engine without actually remembering to build a compelling game experience.

You're getting downvoted because your arrogant tone makes you sound like an insufferable bore.
As others have pointed out, blasphemy is illegal in many countries that Twitter operates in. Are you advocating that Americans who blaspheme should be banned from Twitter because it's illegal in Saudi Arabia? Because otherwise this weird apology for Musk's hypocritical actions doesn't make any sense.
No, like Pinephone and Librem 5.
Looking at my country laws you'd be entirely fine to pull the all nighters at work but paid 150-200% for it.

That solves all of that, employer can't just convince gullible teenager to get extra work out of them for little benefit and have active motivation to hire enough people to not have to crunch very often (as doing that makes them pay 2x per hour of work).

Those laws are in place because for every "crunching and happy for it" there is ten that stay for longer out of fear that they will get fired for wanting to work normal amount in favour of someone that lives work.
Maybe this is not very HN-style of a response, but I want to sincerely thank you for your careful answer. I’m probably learning something about myself just now. Something I’ve always suspected, but didn’t put a finger on it until now. Will investigate this further.
One of the already-announced features of the Gen 2 satellites is the ability to connect directly to standard 4G LTE handsets to send emergency messages (similar to the SOS feature on the latest iPhone, but not limited to any specific phone model). In the US they will be partnering with T-Mobile to offer the service (probably using their band 25 spectrum).

https://www.androidauthority.com/t-mobile-starlink-satellite...
People solve this by getting the GPT to describe a series of computations and then running those steps externally (e.g. asking GPT what Python code to run).

Thats not so different from how humans do this. When we need to add or multiply we switch from freeform thought to executing the Maths programs that were uploaded into our brains at school.
I’m not sure it’s so different from the club being a political party or the club being from the Ivy League for top end business and political roles.

I think a narrow set of outlooks is bad for the general population.

If you think TikTok deliberately prioritizes dumbed down content then why does Facebook or Fox news also do it?
Asserting what a person "doesn't care about" in order to make them look bad strikes me as unduly pejorative and therefore an attack.
You say that, yet every paywalled news article posted on HN quickly gets a web.archive.org or archive.is link as a top comment. What is the fundamental difference with this?
In particular, the US police won't be able to just show up at FTX's headquarters with a search warrant.
This is already happening on Twitter today.

Just like people are happy to have signs on the gardens or stickers on their truck they are more than willing to tell people their views online. Especially because they don't work for some multi-national that cares what their political views are. And so there are no consequences for whatever they say or do.
Did he say why he believes this is the best remedy, and is his position backed up by any evidence from psychology, memetics, etc? The evidence I'm aware of leads me to the opposite conclusion.

Also he wrote this before social media. He wrote that before fascism swept in on the back of free speech and public persuasion in the 1930s. We're in a new paradigm now and worldviews need to be updated to fit new information and new evidence than what was available during his time.
Well, it's still mobilizing the army. Plus, "death con".
Each Catholic TV room has a cabinet with a small crystal bottle of head-cleaner for anointing the VCR afterwards, and there's always been a section of the missalette with a Latin cassette antiphon that no one notices is there except on the rare occasions where a sandwich gets stuck.
Good rant but seems like you already have your answer. You have been able to create a ~$500 MRR SAAS which a lot of great devs cannot/will not. Indie hacking is your way to your freedom it seems like.

"I'm just worried I won't make enough money fast enough, and I'll be back where I started, working for some goon company with clueless C-levels and processes fettered with incompetence"

Define fast enough. If you can create $500 MRR in 5 months, is that not fast enough for you ?

You do need to let go of the bitterness and the fact that you failed to hit big with startups (most startups fail). You will be ok. Figure out your goals and go from there.
Tongue in cheek: Walk! But I get your point. Usually
isn’t the road accessible parts just a tiny fraction of it all anyway?
Addendum, for any fans of Greg Egan that didn't know this existed: http://gregegan.net
I have a fairly large position in Meta because I'm sure that the US government is going to ban TikTok. I think once it spikes from that announcement, it will at least make it back up to over $200, for the time being.
I think this is old news. See the linked faq https://cloud.google.com/infrastructure/services-updates
As a percentage of the total volume?
It probably helps if your successes and fuck-ups are classified for decades
I'm fine with that. Nothing drives me more mad than to be in the middle of an interview taking notes and then suddenly land in an endless loop of being forced to restart my browser. It's not like some of us don't have work to do while we're in the browser and the utter disrespect by the designers of this crap to the detriment of their users is baffling. This is one thing where commercial software has something of an edge over FOSS: you can't even threaten to withhold your $ if they misbehave. Power to the user.
Show HN: Beautiful, fast, web-based bill splitting
Hi HN:

I really think I've perfected bill splitting - afaik this is the first app that let's you split items into fractions (e.g. splitting a pitcher into thirds). You just need to take a photo of the receipt and Torte will handle the math. This makes dining out way less stressful for you and your friends when someone shouldn't or can't split the bill evenly. Please enjoy and pressure test! (USD-only)

I do recommend you download the app-based version for a smoother experience, but your friends do not need to download the app to join the bill and split.

APPLE
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/torte-fast-bill-splitting/id14...

ANDROID
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.torte.pay

(Torte was formerly a complete mobile order and mobile payment POS that I beta tested in several restaurants. I've walked it back to bill splitting in order to focus on other projects.)
Yes. https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-passes-sweeping-re...

If you want to verify it yourself, go to China, open Douyin. Plus, the story makes internal sense - for example, pornography and the kind of soft-core porn, heavily revealing clothing, and so forth that appears on TikTok is actually illegal in China. Post it, you'd get it censored and removed.
I find that Jax tends to result in messy code unless you build good abstractions. I personally don't like Flax and Haiku, I prefer stax and Equinox as they are more transparent on what is happening, feel a lot less like magic, and more pythonic (explicit is better than implicit etc).

PyTorch is far more friendly for deep learning stuff, but sometimes all you want is pure numerical computations that can be vmapped across tensors, and this is where jax shines imho.

Personal Example: I needed to sample a bunch of datapoints, make distributions out of them, sample, and then compute the density of each sample across distributions. Doing this with pytorch was rather slow, I was probably doing something wrong with vectorization and broadcasting, but I didn't have the time to figure it out.

With jax, I wrote a function that produces the samples, then I vmapped the evaluation of a sample across all distributions, then vmapped over all samples. Took a couple of minutes to implement and seconds to execute.

PyTorch also has the advantage of a far more mature ecosystem, libraries like Lightning, Accelerate, Transformers, Evaluate, and so on make building models a breeze.
> Try to recognize that there are people who would rather work more than harder and that's ok.

I don't understand that at all. You'd rather work 60 and 20 of that slack instead of 40 ? Why would you want to have less time for hobbies/family ?
based on the reply post description, I'm not sure this would be different from the experience without VPN ...
If you count all the programmers who wrote all the libraries, platforms, operating system's that Twitter is built on, that would also be over 100k.

A great example - Boeing had more money, more people and the same external support and they STILL haven't launched a vehicle yet. SpaceX has beat them by almost 4 years and counting. You'd think with '100k people' they could do it by now right?
Mostly....... PopOS with KDE, lol, the 3rd party driver installation convenience is really nice. Or plain old debian for server stuff.
You plead guilty precisely because you didn't do anything. The probability distribution for you was: high chance of getting off, low chance of getting a large punishment. The probability distribution for SBF if he pleads not guilty will be inverted: high chance of incarceration, low chance of walking. But the odds will likely be preferable to whatever deal he ends up being offered. Modelling the cops that booked you, their goal is to throw things at the wall and see what sticks. Whichever cops are currently gathering evidence against SBF will be thinking the opposite: they need to be very careful in collecting evidence to minize the risk of SBF getting away.

I should point out that while this is unfortunate, this is all a relatively inevitable consequence of having a justice system. Since humans are deciding cases, there will always be a small chance that they screw it up (in one direction or another). You can't have arbitrary do-overs for people who feel their case was decided poorly, because everyone thinks that (or will say they do).
Sorta - I noted this in that thread, since this came second:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33834783
Millions of bridges have been built in human history, but only a handful of GPU drivers.

The bridge doesn’t need to withstand the river suddenly turning into lava or the atmosphere becoming sulphuric. The driver has to be prepared for whatever Windows and the hardware put up.
Phone cameras don't have sensors or optics at a quality comparable to basic point and shoots. They have to fit into a tiny space and performance is necessarily compromised. They're making it all up on software processing.
Nope, that was laughing at musk week
Your argument is similar to that of Tesla and the term autopilot.

The technical definition of a word is not as important as the real world usage of the word.

And pretty sure most people would consider using Defcon in that way to be hostile.
> what makes governments apparently unable to get big IT projects done right?

I wonder why this sentiment is never applied to big IT projects in the private sector.

https://faethcoaching.com/it-project-failure-rates-facts-and...

* According to the Standish Group’s Annual CHAOS 2020 report, 66% of technology projects (based on the analysis of 50,000 projects globally) end in partial or total failure. While larger projects are more prone to encountering challenges or failing altogether, even the smallest software projects fail one in ten times. Large projects are successful less than 10% of the time.

* Standish also found that 31% of US IT projects were canceled outright and the performance of 53% ‘was so worrying that they were challenged.’

* Research from McKinsey in 2020 found that 17% of large IT projects go so badly, they threaten the very existence of the company.

* BCG (2020) estimated that 70% of digital transformation efforts fall short of meeting targets. A 2020 CISQ report found the total cost of unsuccessful development projects among US firms is an estimated $260B, while the total cost of operational failures caused by poor quality software is estimated at $1.56 trillion.

I'm in the consulting world and I've been brought in at the tail end of multiple BILLION dollar boondoggle modernization efforts. These are fortune 100 companies that built their fortunes through acquisition and consolidation who have no idea how to steer their ship in any sort of effective way. In a lot of cases, we're cleaning up after other top 5 consulting firms who lead the client on while pissing away hundreds of millions of dollars. It turns out damn near everyone is bad at building large systems but only the government seems to be derided for it consistently.
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Twitter brought in $5bil in revenue in 2021. That doesn't sound broken. Whether they spent that money efficiently, and whether they could avoid FTC fines, is a different issue.

> That was broken when he bought it.

You know what, you're kinda right, he did load up Twitter with an interest burden of $1bil/year when he completed the purchase. And then he scared off all the advertisers. So sure, he broke it when he bought it.
Pentagon debuts its new stealth bomber, the B-21 Raider
If you are trying to root out corruption and waste in the Federal Government I would suggest looking beyond the Park Service. They are asked to do a lot (more each year) with a very small budget (that does not keep pace with inflation or the amount of places they need to run). The park service needs to cater to a wide variety of people who expect different things from their recreation.

Personally I think that personal cars should be banned from all national parks. The roads are expensive to maintain, and a traffic jam to a giant parking lot ruins the park. Denali or Rocky Mountain National park have excellent shuttle services that really help thin the crowd. But some people really like to have their road trips, and having some handicap accessible sections is also important. The contradictions stem from the very nature of democratic compromise.
On the other hand it's not good when they embarrass you, regardless of how much they might have put in. If you make it clear that being hung out to dry will be the punishment for embarrassment, maybe you'll get fewer of those donations.
Free-Space Optics System Could Boost Space Comms
Another thread (and article) on this topic: https://twitter.com/mattsteinglass/status/159869289264559718...