skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KDE and XFCE are my favorites. I could probably daily drive XFCE but with higher resolution (4K) monitors, KDE tends to look a lot better, at least in my experience. I loathe Gnome and don't really understand why it has become the default DE on so many platforms.

Desktop linux is not being held back by system usage. If anything, we need to stop caring about that for a while and focus on quality of life / ergonomics. A unified clipboard (kb shortcuts as well as shared buffer), proper 4k rendering/scaling at a nuclear level, etc. This is my biggest gripe with Linux.

I would ditch macOS entirely if I could do the following: 1. complete keyboard remapping such that macos keybindings work everywhere (there are hacks for this, but they are hacks), 2. proper 4k rendering (no blurry stuff) with consistent titlebars and ui elements across all applications, 3. the ability to copy and paste text into or out of a terminal without fuss.

I don't care about X11 vs Wayland.

All this considered - and I can't believe I am about to say this - Windows 11 is not nearly as bad as I thought it would be and I kinda like it. Might need to go see a doctor I am starting to say funny things.
How much equity should I give to first client?
I am starting an offshore software consulting company in India. The first client is going to start contracting with us for a couple of engineers and then hopefully grow. The client is asking for a 20% equity and is promising to bring business from other clients.

I do not have any other clients and don't have much connections so I do need this client to bring other businesses. They are askinq for 20% equity. Do you think thats fair? Whatever % I give him, I will be doing a 4 year vesting with one year cliff for protection.

Currently the company has 4 software engineers as parters with each owning 25%.
100G-LR4 is a technology that's on its way out, and this illustrates why. Muxing four 25G lanes is complex and costly and these days also unnecessary at 100G.
100G is going single lambda.

This is still the way to build 200G/400G/800G optics, though.
Not really.

If you agree with Descartes that you can be sure of your own conscious, which is one leap of faith, and that it's more likely that the other entities you interact with are a result of evolution just as you, instead of a figment of your imagination (or someone else's), which is yet another leap, you're good to go. And that is the way most of us interpret the human experience.

Inquiring about the consciousness of an artificial entity requires a third leap, since it doesn't share our biological evolution. And it's probably a larger one, as we don't fully understand how we evolved it or what it actually is, really, that we're trying to replicate.
Average people observably have many of their opinions assigned to them by elites. Take Ukraine for example. I assure you that if our elites favored Russia, the “average people” would all have Russian flags in their profiles.

In those cases where average people and elites do disagree, such as border security, the elites reliably get their way.

And yes I’ve seen the shoddy attempts to refute the Princeton study. They’re unconvincing.
Fans of anti-Semitic performer boo African-American entrepreneur.
Does Medicare’s merit-based incentive payment system work?
> (real not imitative) art

What is real art vs imitative art? I've never heard of these terms
correct, the man ate baffling amounts of cookies daily
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Especially with dealing with a bunch of weird international jurisdictions to gather evidence, 5 years is not a long time.

Because it often has to wind it's way through cooperation agreements, other legal systems, etc.
> Splits between U.S. Department of Justice prosecutors are delaying the conclusion of a long-running criminal investigation into the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance, four people familiar with the matter have told Reuters.

Who is leaking information about a federal criminal investigation, and why?
Stuff like this is always fascinating to me since I read 'The Reasoned Schemer' and worked my way through Clojure core.logic.

So as I understand this leverages and extends Prolog, and yet it is very dry on showing your average programmer how they could use this to solve their real world every day problems. If such a segment of user being the intended audience here at all?

Either way resources to learn something like this to do something useful are welcome. Can somebody who is more familiar with the ecosystem give some pointers?
I think the big innovation here isn't in its grasp of language, but in the way it's able to access data. Comparing ChatGPT against ELIZA or GPT-2 isn't the right comparison, you should compare it to something like SQL or Google.

Against that comparison, it stands out as very innovative, but it also seems like it has big potential to improve. If you could perfectly index a large database and carry out reasoning tasks, this is enough to replace a lot of jobs. ChatGPT is in this regard just on the boundary between a toy example and useful in prod.

It's also worth noting that, up until now, people who have been saying this ("I think this is about where it peaks, it'll never do X") have always been proven wrong by the passage of time. So I think we should assign lower credibility to the skeptics, insofar as their past predictions were incorrect.
Except the math doesn't exert an actual force on you. You won't feel the pull of the math if the symbols describe the conditions for a black hole. Your surroundings will remain the same.
> Having an ever-increasing chance that any given commenter literally knows nothing except how to string words together might break that habit.

This is already figuratively the case and it has had no impact on this phenomenon. Why would the new situation be any different?
Precisely. This is not a "crime vs no-crime" split. It's a "prosecute now vs prosecute later" split.

> Some of the at least half dozen federal prosecutors involved in the case believe the evidence already gathered justifies moving aggressively against the exchange and filing criminal charges against individual executives including founder Changpeng Zhao, said two of the sources. Others have argued taking time to review more evidence, the sources said.
How did they remove / destroy the T-cell killing T-cells before the the 2nd marrow transplant?

Otherwise, it would seem they (the engineered T-cells) would hang around, and destroy the T-cells created by the marrow transplant.
that's probably the best advice. Instead of denying the proxy, just make it shitty to use for the end-user.
Are you familiar with the idea that to prove a loop correct only takes two things:

A/ proving (o->o), that it makes progress with each iteration, and

B/ proving (->o), that it terminates?

If so, he's speaking a bunch of different alien languages, showing how the same basic pattern (prove something for an infinite number of things by looking at their structure and proving something for the finite number of ways each of those things can be put together) works in each of the alien languages.

Or at least that's what I got from the few of those languages which I speak — all the rest are, as they say, greek to me.
Agree. Having seen now perhaps 75% of the "1001 Films to See Before You Die", you begin to see the breadth and depth that film can be. It makes most of the popular films of the last decade or two look like a single, narrow genre within film.

So many entertaining films I would not have been exposed to otherwise. I had first knocked out the "AFI Top 100" but the "1001" brings in all manner of foreign films, experimental films, more silent films, etc.

To be sure, the "1001" has exposed me to some real, um, turds. But, hey, Warhol did some great silkscreen prints.

And while French New Wave never resonated with me, I get it now, having seen everything that came before. And you can see how films like "Easy Rider" probably were not possible until New Wave kicked down the walls.

And that has been the joy of my own "film school" at home: seeing how the medium has grown and evolved over the years. It is, as I say, why I am so disappointed in Hollywood's recent offerings.

(Note: I understand the blog focused on American films/history. Just relating my own experiences once I stepped outside of American cinema.)
Related: https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.4880
There could be second order victims.

Bank accepts drug money breaking AML and you say it is "victimless crime", but a lot of people are dead because of drug usage or drug wars.

In our case, crypto exchanges not doing AML can facilitate crypto hacking or ransomware.
It's still true now in ham radio, even for those using a bug (vibroplex keyer) or even an electronic keyer, will still leak some of their natural fist thru.
Based Comic Sans chad makes hackers seeth. More at 11.
Curious did you switch from auditing to something else?
I love Django Chat. Obviously very specific niche but Will and Carlton are great to listen too.

https://djangochat.com/
Kinda seems like a scenario where you can save 80% of cost by ignoring 20% of the problems.

Not good enough for many, but it's a very strong value proposition none the less.

How do you manage work and remoteness? Long commute? I imagine internet isnt good at home.
It would be much easier to indict Brian Armstrong first. He’s in the US and his exchange listed securities without disclosures.
> Who is leaking information about a federal criminal investigations, and why?

People pissed at folks they suspect are stalling prosecution, is my guess.
I mostly agree. Also, the terms can often be changed at any time, sometimes without any notice what-so-over. So what's the point?!
sorry, doesn't work... having been on the other side a number of times, different services really do need different terms.

also, residential real estate ain't the example you want to use! True, 99% of it is standard, but every freestanding home differs substantially in:
- what's included/excluded, e.g. furniture
- seller disclosures including the history of maintenance, special needs, etc.
- title search and property maps
- environmental issues (soil, etc)
- hyperlocal regulations affecting that property, incl HOA rules
(apartments are simpler but then HOA rules are more complex)

what might work is to start with a gigantic-but-standard ToS, and then the per-service ToS is just the diffs and additions. Many legal docs use this method, including residential real estate.
This is arbitrage of digital work, not unfair society. USA has big demand for software and simply imports work. The problem is that india is poor.

I agree though that it’s skewed because USA is at top of demand chain and could generate debt/demand in low interest rates environment.
Ask HN: What is the correct product/eng cadence for a seed stage startup?
How often should we be releasing new products or features?

Is it better to release something buggy and broken vs something more basic but working?

I know this is vague, but I'm looking for more general heuristics I can apply rather than direct advice. Any resources or benchmarks here would be really helpful!
Oh I remember the era of giving your thumb drives all possible viruses every time you needed to print.

I was recently pleasantly surprised that the shop with a printer down the street refuses to take any USBs and only prints what you email them.
> his exchange listed securities without disclosures

This per se isn’t a criminal offence. The SEC is still deliberating whether it’s a civil offence.
A lot of tutorials are old. Mechanical splices have improved very quickly in the past 5 years.

Talking with my friend who is an home automation installer, he says they now just use mechanical crimp splices and they don't take them longer than, say, prepping and terminating a coax cable. He says it's definitely shorter now than the average time they spend trying to untwist, straighten, and line up wires in a cat connector.

They used to use connectors requiring polishes that took 30 minutes
I had a hard time being interested in this because of how it mostly just represents the corrupt and unchecked priorities of the US government. Some of the pictures were pretty, but in the end it's still a massive waste of money and NASA constantly talks about "a sustainable presence on the Moon" with Orion as if they're praying that saying it often enough will make it true.

There is no path to a sustainable presence anywhere which involves Orion flying, especially if it's flying on SLS.
how do you run before you can walk, and what has this level of cynicism done for you in life?
People on TV Are Harder to Hear, but You Can Fix That
I disagree with that. You can legislate how much smell the factory is allowed to emit. You can legislate some other environmental impacts. However let the factory builders figure out how to work with that. If the factory doesn't smell (or other adverse impacts) then let them build it.
Tattoos are frowned upon in most cultures in the world. It's not just "fundamentalists" (whatever that means). And who cares about "human expression?" If you need to "express" yourself, write a book or something where the rest of us don't have to look at it.

America would be a lot better if people thought less about how to “express” themselves, and more about how to keep the social environment around them tidy and orderly.
Yeah. Overemphasis on wanting "smart thoughtful comments" coul create a chilling effect where people might refrain from asking simple questions or posting succinct (yet valuable!) responses. Sometimes dumb questions are okay (because it's all relative).
That's not inflation. That's two cherry picked product categories. One of which is a luxury good.
The whole appearance on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzkreBMHUFY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUkulqjTNpk

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u1cl8U0UCMQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSjQ5ojUvnM
https://archive.vn/OHhwt
Something I would consider as very weird. Not sure what a good answer is to be honest, but this feels like some kind of boundary. Might be different in different cultures, but yea.
Continuously validate your data with zod and zoxy (JS/TS)
The technology will inevitably spread and deals will be made. I don’t think it would be hoarded any more than fission power was/is hoarded.
Zoxy is a small type-safe object proxy around Zod to help you stay safe after your data is loaded. Because it can be a bit verbose to modify and validate complex structures deeply after loading them. Feedback welcome :)
Show HN: Embed a snow effect on your website
Embed a snow effect on your website with one line of code (~1.3kB), and add some Christmas magic to your websites. A quick weekend project :)
Forget about whether the ‘latent knowledge’ in the LLM is ‘correct’ or not, this kind of research is at least predicated on the idea that the LLM holds certain things as true, and consistently holds their opposite as false.

The point of this kind of work is to query the LLM and figure out what it ‘thinks is true’ - which is then presumably useful for deciding how much to rely on its output.

I just find it amusing that people in the ML field are always so adamant that ‘it doesn’t know’ or ‘it’s not thinking’ or ‘it doesn’t understand’, but I don’t see much engagement with what is actually meant by ‘know’, ‘think’ or ‘understand’ in the first place.

Like, you just said that a language model ‘probably… holds representations of spurious facts and relations’.

But… isn’t ‘holding a representation of a fact or relation’ basically what we call ‘knowing’ something?
Taboo the word “simply” from API documentation
May I ask you how much you make per 1k/month?
With 5 samples, we have no way to assess whether the app’s 99.9% self-assessment is remotely well calibrated. (As noted above, 5/5 is also consistent with a model that is right 50% of the time.)
True but nobody’s writing a paper on how to psychoanalyze your database to try to figure out what it knows.
It seems telling that the most concrete example he gives for the value of human space flight is the usefulness of unmanned satellites.

Simplistically it's true that whenever you spend money on some effort there's going to be some benefit. Paying NASA scientists to dig ditches would have some benefit in stimulating the economy, even if it doesn't offset the costs (material and opportunity). Would it be the best use of resources, however?

Whenever I go down the rabbit hole of "spinoff technologies," I find a lot of it to be a gish gallop of stuff, much of which is overstated. There's a reason why you hear NASA talking up pioneering research done on Alzheimer's at the international space station, but you don't read Alzheimer's researchers talking about breakthroughs coming from the ISS.

Still, there are a lot of important technology that NASA has been involved with. But when you look into most of it, the connection to human spaceflight is tangential at best, and often completely non-existent (NASA does a lot of stuff outside of human spaceflight).

The kernel of the argument is accurate - scientific research can be important even if it doesn't provide immediate dividends. But too often people misuse that to argue that no amount of money is poorly spent. It's precisely because scientific research is important that we need to carefully consider the return on different projects, and make sure that the funds that are being allocated are well spent.
Maybe they're not tracking any personal data? The ePrivacy Directive ("cookies law") is years older than GDPR and only requires notification not consent.

Sites which choose to store zero PD (which includes e.g. not logging IP addresses) are GDPR compliant automatically, but still need to notify about cookies if using them.

edit: though, having looked at their privacy policy it seems they do use PD... so yeah, not good (unless I'm misunderstanding their tracking policy which I don't think I am) https://www.ieee.org/security-privacy.html
Surprised this isn’t a slam dunk. One of the main reasons Binance is popular is because in the 2017 crypto run up they made it easier than anyone else to get an account and start trading. It seemed obvious at the time they couldn’t be compliant with AML/KYC laws and they were using lax policy there to outrun the competition.
Yeah, but they aren't wearing Gucci loafers and drive a Toyota Corolla instead of a pimped out Rolls Royce Phantom, therefore they are "humble" and their names on University buildings just solidify how much they value "intellectual substance" over superficial things...at least that is what they want us to believe
You can always tell the DJ at the party because they are wearing headphones and a USB drive on their neck

Though all this cloud DJ shit is trying to change that. I hope it doesn't take
Ken White, a former federal prosecutor, had a good thread about why these things take so long in the context of the FTX fraud – specifically how most “white collar” crimes require you to prove someone intended to commit a crime:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1600877380683280384.html

This case is going to be even harder because a lot of the evidence and people are not in the United States so everything he describes there is going to be even harder because it will require international law enforcement cooperation — even if China wants to lock down cryptocurrency that doesn't mean they're just doing whatever the U.S. DOJ asks for without careful negotiation — and simple things like language and cultural barriers mean that, for example, they need to find a forensic account who is fluent in the language, terminology, and practices in multiple other countries. It also makes it hard to do the common practice where they catch someone low-level and get them to testify against their boss in exchange for leniency since a lot of those people are not going to be easily accessible to U.S. law enforcement.
Hi, not a native speaker, thanks. The distinction between conscience (moral inner voice) and conscious (being aware of ones's existence) is not present in my mother tongue, if that's what you're referring to. Seems like an interesting english quirk.
I rarely use them but still see them used a fair amount being overnighted/couriered as a fail safe/easy way to share large amounts of data.
Sweden’s Free-Falling Property Market Triggers Worst Economic Slump in EU
Sure, this is vacuously true in the sense that if you are studying peoples behavior then any lifestyle option is a data point that can be correlated across other metrics, and hence we can call any lifestyle “a performance of one’s status” for the sake of study status and lifestyles.

But that’s not really relevant. From an individuals perspective there’s a big difference between keeping up with the joneses and focusing on what makes you happy.

Even if it turns out that what makes you happy is actually still correlated to your status and you’re not really a unique snowflake.
That's great music; here is the same piece on the apparently re-mastered anniversary edition: https://www.ashra.com/mp3/1a61e201.mp3
C++ overtakes Java in programming popularity index
That just seems like an absurd statement to me.

It ignores so many use cases and financial realities.
> They would never say something stupid, controversial, or offensive.

That applies to ChatGPT that was deliberately setup to eliminate PR-problematic responses.

Without that it would be able to write NSFW stories about real people, laden with expletives and offensive topics.

(and probably still losing track of what is happening, but better matching prompt than many humans would write)
Maybe op only needs to do enough to undermine their website, rather than drive them away.

it’s possible the combination of blocked image hotlinks, watermarking the domain inside the images, and CSS trickery that messes up the page on the proxy (along with whatever other steps that can be thought of to make it look wrong or erroneous on the proxied site) could get op bumped to #1 on search on enough links that it no longer matters.

Given the other site isn’t generating original content it’s unlikely to ever get its google juice back.

On a side note - does Google have an option for this? I’m sure they must have encountered this before and it helps the quality of their results too to block obviously fudged content.
I still remember the first time I ever saw a thumb drive because it was in a spy movie, The Recruit. Immediately went looking for where I could find one.
A ferry with four outboards on the back

I think you just proved the point the article was making. You aren't pushing a blue-water, RoRo ferry [1] with a couple of outboards.

1 - https://www.gov.nl.ca/ti/files/ferryservices-schedules-photo...
You're already floating in a sea of imposters. What's the difference if they are bots?
Because if are a nobody and noone recognizes your face people will heuristically assume you aren't a "down to earth billionaire", but are instead just a poor, average person and thus insignificant. Zuck can appear to be humble in his clothes, because everyone knows who Zuck is and people expect famous billionaires to be smug assholes, so this is a way to countersignal and pretend to be "just like one of you, guys". Since you are "just one of us", it's in your interest to appear as something more.
Robots set their sights on a new job: sewing blue jeans
How to Save Time with Alfred, Stream Deck, and Apple Shortcuts
Most people automate parts of their job because they find it boring. I did it because I have four kids. Alfred for Mac is a great tool to help automate your day. It lets you use hotkeys, keywords, and text expansion to improve your productivity.

I also bought myself the Elgato Stream Deck. This is basically a multi-function keyboard. It’s a great tool for folks doing podcasts and Twitch streaming, two things I do not do. It’s also great for automation.