skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m increasingly convinced, and thank god, I’m finding similar minds on the Hill and in D.C. broadly, that anyone in leadership in crypto or web3 is perpetuating a scam or an idiot. The former should be prosecuted. The latter, fined under a deferred prosecution agreement.
The wings on the thopters described in the novel by Frank Herbert were more bird-like than insect-like.

I don't know which type, if either, will be more practical to build as materials technology improves.
I assume lawyers could benefit from a tool that can summarize a large document rapidly. They’re often faced with thousands of pages of documents, and in large class actions possibly hundreds of thousands to millions.
Presumably the SBFs and CZs of the world, who then use the pre-ICO shitcoins as reserves on their balance sheet.
This happened with an open-source video game I wanted to contribute to, of all things...

I thought I'd found a welcoming community that was interested in building something cool, and I could learn some C# while contributing to something really unique and creative.

That turned out to be sort of right, but the senior maintainers decided that it's also cool to shove their politics down everyone else's throats and ban anyone who so much as sniffs at it.

They intentionally flag-wave their political stances in Discord to bait people into mentioning it, and if they don't like someone's thoughts they ban them and pat themselves on the back for ostensibly removing "toxicity" and "intolerance". When I asked them to stop doing that they tried to bait me into saying something they didn't like, and stated that their political views aren't political at all - more like natural law.

From my perspective, these people (regardless of political affiliation) act pathologically and crave the camaraderie and support of being part of an in-group, and enforce that in-group, because they probably feel generally insecure. They don't really understand the implications of their behavior, nor do they actually care about their supposed cause, they just want to feel in control and validated, and they found a venue for it.

To stop this pathological politicization you have to create an environment of security. That isn't going to happen any time soon, so I'm not sure what the point of any of this is - just avoid them and find/create communities that don't allow politics.
These next couple of decades are going give us the absolute best financial crime documentaries. I’m here for all these documentaries based on tweets.
But the rest of the quote is "....and unto God the things that are God's". Context is rather important. Jesus (reportedly) says this to avoid speaking out against the tax which would have got him in trouble with the authorities but he's also making a point about the material vs spiritual which I think has some worth even to an atheist like me.

I'm not sure why I'm making this defence of Jesus. I don't think he existed but your statement seems designed to paint Jesus as a supporter of tyranny which I don't believe follows from the quote and its context.

What his "followers" have gone on to do? Heinous, reprehensible, appalling. No question.
SBF's Lawyers Ask Court to Conceal Identities of $250M Bail Co-Signers
Try different stuff. Sit down and read a book, go to the opera maybe, things that you’ve never even thought of trying. Only you can find what is fulfilling to you. What works for me won’t work for you and vice versa.
I can only imagine a Danish bank robbery.

Robbers: patiently wait in line, being respectful to other customers the whole time

Clerk: How may I assist you?

Robbers: We'd like to steal all of your money, if it isn't too much of a bother, tak.

Clerk: Certainly. Would you like me to put it all into a convenient bag?

Robbers: Oh I'd hate to be a bother.

Clerk: Not at all!

Robbers: takes money Thanks a lot.

Clerk: No, thank you! Have a pleasant day and please come again.

Robbers, getting into getaway Volvo: What a nice lady.
> Venture Capital firms can prop up money-losing economics for years (called "reducing friction"), and then dump the stock on the public (called "an exit")

SPACs come the closest to what you describe. Even there, the burden of evidence and disclosure is markedly higher than anything in crypto.
Yep, I've seen this as well. What I've haven't seen is actual feminists endorsing those articles.

This makes me think this kind of narrative stems more from "woke captialist" media or from people pushing the "men are always happy about sexual attention" narrative. That narrative is considered part of "toxic maskulinity" - exactly the mindset that feminists want to get rid of.

Also note that (in the US) the legal definition of rape was changed to include men no earlier than 2012 [1] (i.e. under Obama). Under the previous definition, it was fundamentally impossible to consider a man a rape victim. That previous definition was from 1927.

So the assumption that only women could be raped was the older one. The modern progressive movement was who got men included in that definition.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/blog/updated-definition...
> I haven't seen a shred of evidence that a16z was mass dumping tokens

Why do you assume their entire investment was just tokens? No other possible way to cash out?
I think that got fixed a couple of months back but, like pretty much any other working wayland screen sharing, you need pipewire running (which your DE may do for you depending what you use).
I haven't seen one that has done it well personally. Missing in this is so much of how it might be done right. There are so many dragons. Vendor lock in, logging, debugging, development (can I run the application on my laptop?), versioning. How far will out of the box tooling get me vs what I have to build. Etc etc etc.

When the "new shiny" effect wears off you usually find a turd that smells worse than what came before. Which is why we see this thread ever month or two and will until the tooling catches up and companies stop creating the distributed turds or the method falls out of grace because people finally realize you can scale simple systems pretty far vertically.
I usually live in the US, but I’ve been in Australia for the last couple of weeks on holidays. Twitter is unbearably slow here, and video on Twitter is basically unusable (most videos fail to load in the timeline). And this experience is the same using cellular and various WiFi sources, so it’s not an ISP problem.
The way I see 10x competing is by general speed and responsiveness, and the robustness of the parser. The parser may not be fully C++ compliant, but it is dependable and scales well.

I don't want to be specific here, but my experiences with some other IDEs is that they can stall, lock up and operations can take seconds to complete regardless of the hardware. All this can break the flow. I think you really have to try 10x on a large project to notice the difference. The instance search feature alone can be a game changer.

> I don't believe that one person can create both a good code editor and a fully compliant C++ parser

Believe me, I question this myself almost every day. A small hobby project turned into a 6 year marathon and here we are. The parser will probably never be fully compliant, but hopefully it's good enough for most code. And the speed and robustness will hopefully compensate for this.

> Another problem I see is that very few of large codebases are C++ only

Even though I market 10x as a C++ editor, it has syntax highlighting for many other languages. And you can add more languages using the regex system. I'll hopefully be adding some parsing for other languages after the 1.0 launch.
> Some retort that everything is political, but I do not see how activities such as birdwatching, sex and optometry are political in a meaningful sense. If one insists on the contrary, we return to similarities with totalitarianism.

But the author isn't talking about incidents in birdwatching or optometry—they're talking about large, expensive national celebrations. It may be hard to find the politics in birdwatching, but it's not hard to find the politics in holiday firework displays.

(And if the author can't see how sex can be political, I'm not sure they read their list of controversial incidents, or have paid attention to modern politics)
From what I understood, is a library that you can sends strings with "twenty thousand ninety eight" on it, and it tells you there is the number 20098 there.
It absolutely does indeed hallucinate[0] on occasion.

Despite how remarkable and useful it already is, don't make the mistake of putting it unsupervised in charge of anything, as it's going to mess up at least as often as a self driving car.

[0] or whatever we want to call the behaviour; also seen it called BSing (because it doesn't really know what truth is) and "mansplaining as a service"
If it's pure Python, the only packaging file you need is `pyproject.toml`. You can fill that file with packaging metadata per PEP 518 and PEP 621, including using modern build tooling like flit[1] for the build backend and build[2] for the frontend.

With that, you entire package build (for all distribution types) should be reducible to `python -m build`. Here's an example of a full project doing everything with just `pyproject.toml`[3] (FD: my project).

[1]: https://github.com/pypa/flit

[2]: https://github.com/pypa/build

[3]: https://github.com/pypa/pip-audit
Yes. Like I lamented above, the ZR30w is already borderline. I miss things already. I "upgraded" to a Dell 32" UltraSharp then want back to the ZR30w (well after I could return the Dell) as it was that much worse.
Swan provides a marketplace for buying and selling Bitcoin and Bitcoin only. So yeah, I’d agree with the quote.
So? Humans aren't copyrightable works. But a bunch of weights that constitutes the model is just data, and that data can very well contain copyrighted works. The question is whether it does in any meaningful sense. And if it can reproduce them verbatim with the right prompt, I don't see how the answer could be "no", anymore so than a password-protected archive of a copyrighted JPEG.
> Another way to say it is that the model is "not grounded". The symbols the model operates on are just symbols, and while they can stand in relation to one another, they do not "ground" to any real-world item.

This is what Math is, abstract syntactic rules. GPTs however seem to struggle in particular at counting, probably because their structure does not have a notion of order. I wonder if future LLMs built for math will basically solve all math (if they will be able to find any proof that is provable or not).

Grounding LLMs to images will be super interesting to see though, because images have order and so much of abstract thinking is spatial/geometric in its base. Perhaps those will be the first true AIs
I believe this is extreamly damaging to the U.S as well.
Twitter going down permanently was weird hysteria. But Twitter just operating poorly - as it has for the past few weeks - reminds me of the failwhale era of a decade ago. For the current pace of product changes, I don't see it being a worthwhile trade off.
> Want that for non complete agreements?

Some places have made those illegal or greatly restricted them, hopefully that will spread.

> This want “an individual looking for a job”. This was a google going after an entire team.

It was google trying to hire ~3 internal recommendations. From the emails it sounds like for the main hiring prospect was potentially more interested if all 3 got offers and was also already looking at offer from other companies. I don't specifically see anything about it being an "entire team", so I'm curious where you got that from.

> Steve jobs was an ass in this instance, but his actions are likely 99.9% of other CEOs actions

I think the 99.9% number is a bit too high (and certainly hard to source). I do think you are correct that this (and other) illegal business practices are extremely common among CEOs, especially in companies of this size. Though I think CEOs of companies of this size are usually quite a bit more circumspect in how they go about it.

Again, the legal way to approach this is to make the developers an offer of better projects (which is sounds like Apple tried), money or other perks to make the job attractive. A volatile CEO who did what Jobs did here would probably count against that (if the employees knew what he did.)
Which was just AT&T Wireless' re-brand. Which sucked for me. I had moved to T-Mobile from AT&T due to their shitty service. Then Apple gave all full-time employees an iPhone the summer of its release. I had to go back to AT&^H^H^H Cingular in order to use the phone. Back into the cold embrace of AT&T's crappy service and support.
In practice Wikipedia is often an effortocracy, not the meritocracy it wants to be.
Those are not comparable. This has about 2.5x the pixels of a comparably sized 4K TV which means lower yields for manufacturing, plus it doesn't have the same economy of scale of a discounted consumer TV. Also it integrates a stand with USB hub, a webcam, far superior color gamut than your $200 screen and Thunderbolt 4 with PD.

But if the extra pixel density and other features aren't useful to you, then no reason not to get the vastly cheaper device.
Remember when Silicon Valley was about innovation; meritocracy (a person in their garage with a better idea could overcome a corporate behemoth); and a belief we could solve any problem using reason, knowledge, intellect, and creativity (HN is about 'intellectual curiosity'), and that we could build a better world by empowering everyone. A place were someone with an idea could go and live their dreams.

Now it's the the world's leading agent of corruption, mis- and disinformation, lust for power over others (including anti-worker management, anti-democracy and support for authoritarians), megalomania, and post-truth 'thinking'. Investments are in bitcoin, VCs' and founders' massive egos, and even real estate.

The former was where a generation of innovation came from. Where do the leaders and people of SV get the idea that somehow that will continue. It's like they think they sh-t gold.
Energy crisis: five questions that must be answered in 2023
Told that by whom?
You’re looking at two identical toasters from two different manufacturers.

Someone has glued on a big red alarm clock onto the side of one of the toasters.

Your conclusion after seeing this is to write to the manufacturer of the toaster without the alarm clock glued onto it and complain that it’s lacking a big red alarm clock and say they suck because they are not copying the amazing alarm clock features that the other manufacturer has.

Ok.
Carl Icahn called out a16z's dirty dealings almost a decade ago but there was still too much rage and fallout from the financial crisis for him to be taken seriously outside of the realm of finance. VCs were the good guys and the hedge fund managers were the bad guys back then.

To me, I am just appalled at how deeply cynical the whole crypto/web3 thing ended up being. I was always bearish on it but I assumed at least the people investing in it were true believers.
Or maybe the compressed file is the model, and prompt + tweakable params is a "path" inside that compressed file?
We open the 7900 XTX Vapor Chamber
Do I agree with a totally unrelated concept?

Maybe yes, maybe no, it's irrelevant.

You don't get cancer from porn, and you can't porn yourself to death. Information and substances aren't equivalent, so let's move on from here.
An airline worker died after being 'ingested into the engine' of a plane
I suspect that windows still has a subtle FP restoration bug. We do large scale validation of floating point data and occasionally get ever so subtly different results.
If you are wanting to release it to pypi as a python package, I would personally use Poetry. But your case- a single pure Python package, is a simple case that won't have many problems like are brought up in the article, whatever tool you use.

If you want a stand alone executable, I haven't found a good, single, cross platform tool for that yet... seems like there is a separate tool for each platform.
I just sent back to the store a 42" Samsung LCD TV for two reasons:

1) It didn’t go into sleep and I always had to fiddle with the remote to bring back the desktop image after a wake up (select source, etc).

2) The color (LED lighting?) wasn’t uniform near the frame even if it was a higher end model.

But the 120 Hz frame rate was interesting and the text extremely sharp. I kept it around 1 meter from my eyes and I liked the extra space. I connected it to an older MacBook Pro through an eGPU.
A nice benefit of the virovore though would be it would evolve to counter evolution of the virii. You could still treat with peptides &c but eventually they'll stop being effective. Against a highly adaptive organism it's probably best to employ multiple overlapping treatments. I'm not 100% sure it's this particular talk [1], but this researcher has a fascinating talk on this channel about using phage therapy in tandem with antibiotics such that bacteria resistant to the antibiotic are susceptible to the phage. Iirc they were able to clear up a life threatening antibiotic resistant infection in a patient's
aorta with a single treatment.

Genetic modification can be tricky in long-lived cultures, the organism you're cultivating may discard your modifications. There's things you can do to make this more difficult, but I can imagine a really general solution that works for many cultures could be super useful (say, for cultures you're speculating about productizing, but don't want to make too much of an investment in until you've characterized them better).

I ran some wild west style, open air algae bioreactors for a while, and I'd fantasize about productizing organisms like this for pest control. Crazy things can happen in that sort of environment; I wasn't around at the time but there was a story about a storm which blew in from the against prevailing winds, carrying some weird kind of rotifer not normally native to that environment, and across the state people woke up to their ponds turning pink. In that kind of environment you're unable to anticipate which organisms will invade your ponds. I think it's possible those kinds of cheap, low-control methods of production will become very important.

[1] https://youtu.be/xvC8xME5Zrg
Unfortunately, due to messed up US visa policy right now, it's been like this since about 2014 and it's getting worse every year.
This reminds me of krebsonsecurity's experience attempting to contact the FSB.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/06/adventures-in-contacting...

A lot of countries seemingly did not have access to American encryption technologies or did not trust them — arguably for good reasons[0] — which has lead to this hodge-podge of homegrown security.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...
> Old school startup models lock up too much capital.

I've gotten in debates here on HN before about this, but a VC's job is literally to multiply capital. Crypto has been extremely good for business (and, more key, for the numbers). I honestly don't see how anyone takes issue with a16z dumping on crypto bros any more than a16z over-funding a startup which, in turn, completely obliterates their competition. Not to mention SPACs that have been doing basically the exact same thing, as well. I have as much sympathy for degenerate crypto gamblers as I did for Citadel Capital.
I have a TC-WE525 circa 1999 or 2000 that stopped working - when I would start a tape playing, it would play for a second, then stop, like it got to the end of the tape.

The belts disintegrate over time and must be replaced. I successfully repaired mine from a belt kit I was able to get on Amazon. It's not terribly easy to replace the belts but I did manage to do it.
And then ask it to summarize it for you.
From $32 to $ https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/braintrust/

Worldcoin worthless

From $55 to $1.6. about as bad as FTX https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/helium/

Andreessen was right about Facebook, his other investments have been stinkers
It's not that astounding. The simple truth is that customers are not valuable enough to warrant human interaction.

Cheap and scalable server time? No problem.

Communication with actual people? Not unless there's an exodus of customers (and even then you're not big enough to matter).
Linearizability is more than Capturing Causality Everywhere
At this point, there are 10 competing tools but no longer so many competing standards: the standards for Python packaging from 2015 onwards are PEP 517 (build system standardization), PEP 518 (using pyproject.toml to configure the build system), and PEP 621 (storing project metadata, previously standardized, in pyproject.toml). These standards build on top of each other, meaning that they don't offer conflicting advice.

The TL;DR for Python packaging in 2022 is that, unless you're building CPython extensions, you can do everything through pyproject.toml with PyPA-maintained tooling.
Oh I didn't get that at all, sorry. You're absolutely right obviously.
Strongly disagree.

Anybody in any crypto token other than Bitcoin at this point has low credibility. Every other chain and project is sacrificing decentralization for short term gain. They’re at best naive and at worst scammers.
I wonder if the link between blood sodium levels and heart problems is more related to hydration, than necessarily sodium intake.
Web3 is an attempt to paint scammy technologies (crypto assets) as something useful (decentralized tech).

The truth is: you don't need crypto stuff to have a decentralized internet, as ActivityPub is handsomely showing and, let's be real here, the web itself is showing for the last decades.

I'm still to see a Web3 business that doesn't smell, looks, and behaves like it's a grift.
Hmm getting downvoted for agreeing with OP and providing an example where I'm all for ppl wanting to live the way they want .. idk
> don't see how anyone takes issue with a16z dumping on crypto bros any more than a16z over-funding a startup which, in turn, completely obliterates their competition

One of these is securities fraud.
You appear to have ignored me saying:

> Second best is to argue for addition or removal of rules.

And to answer your comment, arguing morals is pointless because there is no evidence that your morals are, in fact, any better than what you are arguing against.

None.

Arguing without evidence is pointless. You're simply saying "My opinion is better!", but in a more sophisticated manner.

Basically, you're doing the highbrow equivalent of "My God Is The Real God Only".
Here’s my favorite one:

Marc Andreesen gives a rambling non-answer to a simple and straightforward question about a web3 use case. It’s genuinely funny.

https://twitter.com/liron/status/1537186589486460928
Coordination, mentorship, peer review, banter and camaraderie.
Peter Zeihan hour+ presentation, geopolitics, ramifications on the world order
Connects everything. War, trade, demographics, population, natural resources.
My FiL shut down his multigenerational business in Japan for exactly this reason.

I was not in a position to take it over and no-one else in the family wanted it. It was a very successful shop with a built in client base and hugely recognizable name in that community.

Culturally the lack of children means there are fewer chances for someone to want to take over a family business, so the likelihood of someone taking it over drops every generation.
I have the same thing. After working 40h, I just don't feel like programming much more. When I have the occasional lull at work where I spend a few weeks doing very little programming, I suddenly have the urge to code after work again.

Guess it's just what it is, I just accepted it.
Ah, yes. Fixed. :-/
An unorthodox scholar uses technology to expose Biblical forgeries
So what happens when the whole world becomes developed? Immigration as a solution to population decline seems like a temporary fix.
Vaccines that cure cancer.