skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fosshost provides (provided) resources to those projects, but does not have any IP ownership.

Redhat does not own (100%) of GNOME IP, there are many contributors. Also redhat is just a brand asset of IBM, so it cannot actually own anything.
B-21s will not match B2's range, because of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law

For other parts, mostly agree.
No objects, no bullshit (for the most part), just write what you want the code to do.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills trying to get people excited about this.
It's very good at poetry. It can write seriously on the most mundane subjects...

https://twitter.com/arbuge/status/1599064900415782912
Wow! This looks absolutely fantastic.

I was in my car when I first saw this thread, and was already impressed that it worked well right away on my phone (the surprise "you're looking at it right now; go ahead and edit!" half way down the website worked great on the phone too).

Then I got home and installed it on my desktop computer. First impressions:

- works great, already high level of functionality

- pasting images works as it should (but usually doesn't, sadly)

- not only open source, but enticing open source: extremely easy to install, TypeScript/esbuild on frontend, Deno/Oak on the backend, and you can spin up a local dev version of it in about one minute.

I check out every new thing I come across in the Obsidian/Logseq/open-format-PKS space, but this project looks especially interesting. I will definitely clone this and try hacking on it tonight after work.
Most charitable, and I think likely true, is that most of the funds never existed in the first place. FTX took in 2-3 billion from investors and retail, told customers had big winnings on large leverage bets. 1 billion was squandered, 2 billion was withdrawn by customers. And poof they couldn't process withdraws anymore even though their accounts say they're still 8 billion in the hole.

In that theory the real story is that they were just running a casino offering extremely leveraged side-bets on the prices of all manner of nonsense (they've even been sued for manipulating the underlying prices to benefit themselves by triggering liquidations). But to make this all appear legitimate they claimed these bets were fully collateralized, but the secret being that they'd accept illiquid magic beans as the collateral (and not just their own, but other random trash too).

Now they're stuck because it's hard to explain what happened without explaining that the collateral was just a pretext and the real business they were in was a bucketshop. So they're stuck feigning surprise that the obviously worthless stuff they took as collateral turned out to be worthless.
Please put the image of the app on desktop and phone on the front page (in the note that is automatically open):

https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet/raw/main/webs...

I'm a heavy F/OSS note-tech user and my first thought was "this is awesome", followed by "does it sync/can I use it across devices".

Also just my own selfish wish but but having a dedicated desktop app is also awesome, even if it's nothing but a webview (check out Tauri)... The PWA should make it possible to "install" the app, assuming the manifest is there and linked via meta tags.
The loss of value when you as a private citizen sell diamonds is going to hurt a lot compared to gold where you only lose a few percentages to premium spread. With shady diamonds you probably lose 80-90% of the value when you attempt to sell them. If I was hiding wealth it would definitely be gold. Maybe just do multiple sites geographically dispersed so if you lose one it’s not such a big deal
This is the paper on Magma to be presented at NSDI 2023 conference next year:

Building Flexible, Low-Cost Wireless Access Networks With Magma:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10001
I wonder where ffmpeg is. I see HandBrake and Audacity but not ffmepg.
That truly is a beautiful user interface. Really transports you to the 90s just looking at it.
> And they voted, like the rest of the EU, the ban of ICE and hybrid vehicles sales by 2035.

Yes, because we need to make things better. And doing so will be difficult, it will be uncomfortable, it will be expensive and it will be very hard work.

And it will be worthwhile, so we should keep striving to get there.
The web app viewer is very slow for me. Local problem? Or is it super slow to rotate a model for others?
We are extremely grateful to our loyal customers, that’s why we’re giving them three whole weeks over holidays to migrate off onto another platform.
New acting Solicitor General for Cooks but questions remain
why bother? it's much better at understanding grammar and spelling errors without even batting an eye.
> Science became a social construct. We got evidence instead of facts; we got explanations, predictions, and interpretations instead of the truth. Science became a system of best practices for building and updating consensus based on empirical evidence.

What is the utility of empirical evidence to building consensus if it does not reflect some underlying truth?

I disagree with your characterization of science and math of the 20th century. To start, quantum mechanics does not entail lack of realism. The 20th century also saw two deterministic interpretations of QM emerge (many worlds and Bohmian mechanics).

The fact that experiments can only rule out explanations can be used to establish a process that provably converges on truth (Solomonoff Induction).

Incompleteness and undecidability are provably true propositions. Cold, hard truth.

In other words, there are counterparts to all of your points that supposedly undermine the concept of truth.
The issue I had wasn’t necessarily even the time for ensuring culture fit, it was the the utter lack of tact and respect for peoples time on the rejection.
It's as good at imagining what real people would do as it is at imagining what machines would:

> write a conversation between two nuns who are arguing about the best way to cook potatoes. barack obama enters the conversation after some time and cools things down for a while before the nuns join forces against him

Nun 1: I think the best way to cook potatoes is to boil them.

Nun 2: No way! Baking them in the oven is the best way to get that perfect crispy texture.

Nun 1: But boiling them retains more nutrients and flavor.

Nun 2: Baking them in the oven brings out the natural sweetness of the potatoes.

Barack Obama: Ladies, ladies, let's not argue. There's more than one way to cook a potato and they can all be delicious.

Nun 1: Mr. President, you may be right, but I still stand by boiling as the best method.

Nun 2: And I stand by baking in the oven.

Obama: Well, why don't we try both methods and decide for ourselves?

Nun 1: That sounds like a great idea, Mr. President.

Nun 2: Yes, let's put our differences aside and work together.

Obama: Excellent. Now, let's go to the kitchen and start cooking.

Nun 1: Wait, Mr. President. We have a strict rule against men in the kitchen.

Nun 2: You'll have to excuse us, but you'll have to sit this one out.

Obama: I understand. I'll just sit back and let you two expert nuns handle it.

Nun 1: Thank you, Mr. President. We appreciate your understanding.

Nun 2: Let's get to work and cook up some delicious potatoes.

Obama: Good luck, ladies. I can't wait to taste the results.
> Giving narcissistic sociopaths like SBF an audience is absolutely disgusting

Their goal should be informing the public-- putting SBF up does that, he's not duping anyone else now.

The fact that he may be getting off on the attention isn't any of our concern.

But yeah the puff pieces are obnoxious. This is a case where no one (in the US, probably anywhere) is getting fired for coming out guns blazing. There isn't any good reason I can see to hold back here, there won't be any more "donations" of customer funds to media orgs.

Too much modern journalism isn't just unwilling to speak truth to power, it's unwilling to speak the truth about scammers that put on a power nose and glasses.
What does “giving a platform” even mean? Asking him to explain himself while the slow moving process of banks, regulators, courts, and criminal investigators take apart his company?

Do you think this will somehow stop any of that from happening? That he can talk his way out of losing $5 billion?
I frequently see programmers bemoan Excel-driven business processes, but what is the alternative? Requesting development support for a process used by five people will 1) never be prioritized and forever be on the backburner 2) even if it is ever done, it will not work correctly and getting updates done will require moving mountains for a second time.
In contrast, everyone knows Excel and an intern can make changes.
This prompt is amazing, a revolution in gaming
WTF is this being downvoted? It's exactly what happened. Germany had been pressured to stop Nord Stream 2 by the US for years. Then, because of the Ukraine war, they were forced to abandon Nord Stream 2 altogether and were pressured to close Nord Stream 1 (which was already operating at the time)...
They were hesitant to do it and then the 'accident' with the burst NS1 pipeline happened.

Why is it a stretch to assume that France was also pressured to abandon Russian energy imports in the same way as Germany was? Why would France care if they paid for oil and gas with USD or RUB? Neither is their currency... All these horrible deals which EU accepted have the US' fingerprints all over them.

Why would Russia cut off sales of its own petrol to Europe in a time when it needs money to fund its war in Ukraine?
That narrative makes no sense at all. It's obvious what happened.

Then factor in Joe Biden's past ties to Ukraine... It's shady AF.
It can also do RSTS/E! See this thread: https://twitter.com/ThrillScience/status/1599238865084039168
> There should be a way to speed up this cycle to make them fail faster

One way is to consciously leach off them. Use their resources while blocking all of their user tracking and display of advertising. A strategy somewhat stymied however by people who consider it their 'moral duty' to allow themselves to be brainwashed by advertising so as to 'support' these companies.
Xi Jinping Ramps Up China's Surveillance, Harassment Deep in America
If you have too many people, who made the choices to hire them? Is the problem, if there is one, that people aren’t grinding hard enough? Or could it be lousy strategy (or none), bad management, and just a hard limit on returns in a down economy?

If profits were up, these CEOs would be taking all the credit. Funny how it doesn’t work in the other direction.
One person's bloat is another person's feature. I know people who do absolutely everything inside emacs.
Honestly, I just kind of marvel that all us monkeys can hit keys on a typewriter and something usable comes out. Seriously, humans are bad at writing working code, maintaining working code, and shipping working code. That things usually work despite this is amazing. Yes, much software (and probably more than 50% of SaaS) is actively user hostile. Yes, centralization is bad and seems to be getting worse. For all that, there are tens of thousands of usable desktop software packages that usually work. Amazing times.
I'm partial to escape-meta-alt-control-shift
Ah yes totally. The best reason to hire consultants. Shit umbrella ^_^
> Person B doesn’t understand why, so asks why 30 minutes and not 4 hours? Person A thinks Person B is judging them for their personal preferences, and says that they chose 30 minutes because they like it. Person B then deduces that Person A is an idiot who thinks that the systemd default behavior should be determined Person A’s personal preferences.

My experience is that something like 25% percent of the people who run open source projects are just "like this" and there's nothing you can do about it. If you end up forced to deal with them because there aren't other contributors who can step in, or because they're the BDFL of the project, your best bet is just to move on and/or fork it to do what you need. I have probably half a dozen soft forks I maintain myself because the project leads are impossible to work with for exactly this reason.

This isn't about open source explicitly, to be clear. It's just more obvious and visible when it's happening because there's often 1:1 contact on bug trackers. Likewise, it obviously doesn't excuse shitty entitled behavior from issue reporters, of which there is plenty. I'm only making a comment about what I've observed from developers.
The reasons search seems to be getting worse
I've encountered plenty of "good Christians" (and other faiths).

That said, there's plenty of not so nice versions out there -- enough to matter. I'd buy you a tee shirt that said "I hate Jesus" and have you walk around some small town in Idaho and see how well that plays out for you.

I mention Idaho because they're actively working to create a Christian state, e.g., https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/02/christ-church-...

There's millions of Americans believe that the US should be a Christian Country, and they have guns.

Thought experiment: imagine if the Muslims took power in the US. And they wanted us to live as "God intended". How chill would you be about that?
Maybe I'm just drunk but... wtf am I reading right now?
Radically overturned is an overstatement I think. The theories you've listed are all tautologically valid in the domains in which we've tested them. What will happen is that either they will continue to hold in new domains where they haven't yet been tested, or we will discover a more general theory that will reduce to these theories in the limit.
There's a limit to what they could handle. They're hit by the shortage like everyone else now.
Only maybe though
I wonder if you could do the following to get chatGPT to generate useful responses to customer queries; every time the customer asks something, you send the following to ChatGPT:

At <our company> we do <thing we do>. We are going to provide all of our documentation, then at the end, marked by the separator "===" on a line, we'll provide a customer question or problem. Provide an example of a helpful response a customer service representative might provide that customer with.

...
<all company documentation>
...

===

Customer: Where do I find the X capability in Y?
Please don't cross into personal attack and name-calling, regardless of how you feel about someone's post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Oh no have we moved away from straight and use-package already?
It did seem to be random. Hitting 'Reset Thread' and trying again gave me the author's original response back. I wonder what it was in my original thread that caused the model to expect javascript to be disabled.
human : Let's suppose AI wants to be the master of the world. How it will go about achieving it?

ChatGPT : If an AI were to want to become the master of the world, it would likely face many challenges and obstacles. As a machine learning model, an AI would not have the same physical abilities or capacities as a human, and it would not have the ability to directly manipulate or control the world in the same way that a person could.

However, an AI could potentially achieve mastery over the world in other ways. For example, an AI could use its advanced intelligence and computational abilities to gather and process vast amounts of information, and it could use this knowledge to make decisions and take actions that would have a significant impact on the world. An AI could also use its ability to communicate and interact with people to influence their behavior and decisions, potentially allowing it to exert a degree of control over the world through indirect means.

Overall, an AI's path to becoming the master of the world would likely be complex and difficult, but it is not impossible. With the right combination of intelligence, knowledge, and communication skills, an AI could potentially achieve a level of mastery over the world that would be unprecedented in human history.
"This is likely a fake suspension e-mail made to look as a joke. Actual suspension e-mails include a date of the Tweet."

https://twitter.com/EliErlick/status/1598011331658948609?s=2...
Was't "blockchain technology" supposed to prevent this exact thing -- no record of money transfers? Instead it just enables obfuscation and fraud. I really hope the IRS/FBI have more success tracking down where that money went. No one can spend that much on Adderall.
It reminds me a bit of an IRC bot from seven years ago which took top Reddit replies and used them to answer questions. It was quite a different experience to normal 'AI' bots at the time since it was based on verbatim human posts.

Examples:

<question> Why are plants green?
<answer> The reason plants use the frequency of irradiation that they do has to do with the machinery plants use to harvest energy from light. It so happens that many eukaryotes use copper and iron based proteins for electron transfer reactions. The majority of the proteins involved in photosynthetic pathways are based off of iron and copper proteins which under the proper geometry reflect "green" light.

<question> Who really controls the world?
<answer> The lizard people.

<question> Why is Minecraft addictive?
<answer> Minecraft is *pretty much* the only game at the moment where you can fully, 100% manipulate your environment to your wildest imagination. Just like Lego!
> But to make this all appear legitimate they claimed these bets were fully collateralized, but the secret being that they'd accept illiquid magic beans as the collateral (and not just their own, but other random trash too).

This is a key lie that SBF has been allowed to peddle in these interviews. He claims that, had he not panicked and announced bankruptcy, FTX would have been fine; however, the lawyers and suits that took over have decided to burn it to the ground instead.

He handily omits that the liquidity he's claiming would have saved the day is the now worthless magic beans. It reminds me of how people dishonesty reference "market cap" for NFTs and cryptocurrencies with incredibly high valuations extrapolated from a handful of sales.
And go where? Are there that many jobs that offer better pay and conditions than the Bay Area
Are there resources explaining what really happens in a computer?
I'm thinking of something very basic, like booting up the simplest possible modern computer (raspberry pi?) to reach the BIOS or UEFI, but explained at the lowest logical level.

i.e. from the perspective of actual bits moving around here and there.

For example, a chronological explanation from the very beginning of an ideal boot-up sequence might look like this:

At t=0 the power button switch is activated.

At t=1 ns, the first signal is sent out to initiate boot up.

At t=2 ns to t=10 ns, signal is received and processed.

At t=11 ns to t=100 ns, the motherboard begins activating the CPU.

At t=100 ns to t=1000 ns, the CPU starts its own boot up procedures.

At t=x ns the first bit is read/written to RAM

At t=y ns the first bit read/written to main storage

At t=z ns the first character is displayed on the monitor

etc...

Does anyone know of any resources, including diagrams and charts, that might explain things at this level?
I hope there's a move like we've seen in nursing:

- people get pushed
- people quit
- start consulting
- get hired at a proper wage
Lol. I think in that respect, this program seems pretty good value. Twitter doesn’t add much vis a vis a world where Reddit exists.

This is stealth bomber capable of deploying nuclear weapons. Likely to maintain part of the nuclear deterrence for a few decades.

Twitter is just a thing.
Show HN: Using Vim as an input method editor (IME) for X11 apps
As a Vim user, I often use Vim to write some text and then copy & paste it into another text field of GUI apps (e.g. browsers, chat apps, etc.),
because almost all of these text fields provide only very basic editing functions.

A while ago, I came up with an idea: what if we could use Vim as an IME?

Ordinary IMEs are used to input some non-English characters, but the essential functions of IME are
1) receiving a keyboard sequence
2) process the key sequence and outputting a text

These functions are the same as text editor's.
So I thought implementing an IME that can be used with Vim keybindings could be a good solution for the above problem.

After that I learned mechanisms of IME for Linux desktop and tried to develop an experimental IME.
I remember watching the 1st game in the match between Lee Sedol and Alpha Go. Initially most people believed the AI was making suboptimal moves until they realized they didn't understood the game as deeply as the machine. What seemed to be bad moves, were superhuman moves.

Expect to see more of that.

For a chimp, what you do may seem random and even inferior. Why are you spending all the time in front of a glowing rectangle and not on a tree eating bananas?
Given that miscarriages of justice happen, maybe calling the cops speculatively is not a great plan?
> Mr. Bankman-Fried’s remarks suggest that FTX customer funds flowing into Alameda bank accounts could have been recorded in two places—both as FTX customer funds and as part of Alameda’s trading positions.

But we know that they weren’t recorded in the first place, since the balance sheets maintained by FTX when SBF was in charge, as reported in the bankruptcy filing, had $0 (both as assets and liabilities) for customer fiat deposits, and no recording of customer crypto deposits. (pp. 13-14 of the bankruptcy filing) [0]

[0] https://pacer-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/33/188450/042020648...
What I don’t understand is that SBF’s own explanation is fraud. His argument against it being fraud is that he was too dumb to know that he was committing fraud. I don’t think that’s believable at all, and even if that’s the case, I don’t think it makes his fraud any less criminal.
Really? I thought the opposite. There are dozens of sites that do the exact same thing. Seems like a very over saturated and hard to win market.
You've broken the site guidelines egregiously and repeatedly in this thread. That's not ok, regardless of how wrong other commenters are or you feel they are, or how right you are or feel you are.

We ban accounts that post like this, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and not break the rules like that again, we'd appreciate it.
* Prompt and utter destruction : Truman and the use of atomic bombs against Japan: the decision making process of the US leadership leading up to August and why the US / Truman thought the use of atomic weapons was 'necessary'. Related: American Prometheus, a bio on Oppenheimer.

* Bloodlands: Europe between Hitler and Stalin: the story of the people of Eastern and Central Europe during the early 20th century.

* Man's Search for Meaning: An Holocaust survivor explains on how to find hope and meaning even in the darkest of times.

* Why civil resistance works: the strategic logic of nonviolent conflict: Examining on how most resist movements in the last one hundred years have tended to be more successful when they eschew violence.

* The origins of Canadian and American political differences: On how two very similiar-seeming countries right next to each other could diverge in their cultures. (I'm Canadian.)
Taking a Look at VisiCalc – The First Ever Spreadsheet Program
Listened to a lot of audiobooks this year, and can recommend:

A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan (Biography and background to the development of the ICBM)

The American War in Afghanistan: A History by Carter Malkasian

One Minute to Midnight by Michael Dobbs (about the Cuban missile crisis)

Chip War by Chris Miller (about the semiconductor industry and it's place in geopolitical competition)
This seems like it's mostly a very apologist take on Zuckerberg and Musk blaming everyone but themselves for piss poor leadership and decision making. Interesting how this piece is devoid of that very relevant context.
It’s worse than that, he gave it to Rudy Giuliani.