skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From The Devouring Fungus (Karla Jennings, 1990), chapter 6:

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[…] Imagine the frustration of the Stanford University instructor with an especially thick repairman who kept showing up to fix the same computer. He’d stay for a few hours, poke around, announce the machine fine, and leave; but he never knew what he was doing, so the instructor kept calling him back because the machine was never fixed.

Finally the instructor got so mad that he said “Let’s do a binary switch. The problem has got to be one of the circuit boards.” The repairman didn’t know what a binary switch was, but he agreed because he had an angry customer.

A binary switch involves taking half the circuit boards from the machine having trouble and switching them with identical boards in another machine. If the problem’s been transferred to the new machine, you know that something’s wrong with the switched boards. Then you reswitch smaller and smaller number of boards until you pinpoint which board is defective.

They switched half the boards and, sure enough, the problem moved to the other machine. The repairman said, “So what do we do now?” So they swapped half of the changed boards. The trouble was that now both machines worked. (Perhaps shaking the boards around had put a loose contact back in place.)

“That’s great!” said the repairman. “I’m going to use this procedure from now on. I never knew you could fix a machine just by swapping boards!”

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The most fun I've had with ChatGPT is having it make up stories for my five year old with her as the main character. She loves it.
Because prompts are too general to solve most problems.

Prompt: "Calculate the average price of Milk"

This is far too vague to be useful.

Prompt: "Calculate the average Price of Milk between the years 2020 and 2022."

A little better but still vague

Prompt: "Calculate the average Price in US Dollars of 1 Gallon of Whole Milk in the US between the years 2020 and 2022."

Is pretty good.

For more complex tasks you obviously need much more complicated prompts and may even include one-shot learning examples to get the desired output.
> I am far more interested in what percentage fail because of a breakdown in the founder relationship.

In my experience this happens far more often than issues with tech, but less frequently than running out of cash due to failure in product market fit for pure software plays.

Hardware companies tend to be rough for the founders, unless they are extremely savvy at raising funds.

The longer a start-up remains in the start-up phase the bigger the chance for co-founder conflicts due to differences in expectations and changing life circumstances.
so many companies have such terrible code quality to begin with, it's hard to see how brand names could be much worse in many (but not all) cases
> Winter work days should be 6 hours, not 8.

That'd be offset by having to work 15 during the summer. Up here in Alberta our shortest days are 7.5 hours and longest are 17.
Cloud Development Kit for Terraform FAQ
I was recently tasked with a CDKTF project. As I started to dig into CDKTF, I had a lot of questions. I realized that there wasn't really a good FAQ online so I decided to share what I've learned. CDKTF can be kind of confusing as it's new and I suspect many people have questions around it (I saw a question the other day here about it). I plan on updating this FAQ it as I continue to learn more about CDKTF.
What does the value in writing mainly consist of?

Edit: currently this question is at -3, as though it’s obvious to everyone the difference between valuable writing and not valuable writing.

To me it’s a worthwhile question, particularly because the more precisely we answer it the more precisely ChatGPT will become able to produce valuable writing a couple releases from now.
My friends and I that meet weekly (on Sunday) for a potluck that has been going on for over a decade were joking about starting our own religion (turns out we meet a number of the IRS requirements already and the remaining things would be easy to create). Clearly the enforcement of corruption (which we would have no intention of doing) is next to zero and having a real "religion" is a joke so maybe we should go ahead and do it...
Red Warrior needs food... badly!
Oh, good pint!
I mean, you could just set up equal taxation rather than no taxation at all.
But what kind of staff or funding does it take to say literally different words out of your mouth like, you are fined $5B instead of $5MM? I can do that for free, especially if they are already at the point where they are making the charge. Every fine should be devastating so that they either barely survive or die, and every other company shits themselves for life and we solve the problem.
Were sci-fi authors advocating for greater use of AI? If anything this looks more like Don't Create the Torment Nexus https://twitter.com/alexblechman/status/1457842724128833538
Imo the knockoffs from Samsung, oneplus, xiaomi etc are better than pixel phones. Latest model 7,has some serious hardware issues (falling volume control buttons, exploding camera lens cover, mediocre battery life) and its considerably less premium looking than the android competition. It has a clean android but that is not without problems e.g occasionally dialed numbers in dialer history appear as private numbers, an issue that existed in pixel 6 and still exists on 7. And finally its ironic that google offers updates for shorter than competition.
> If you had said © 2010-2023

But couldn't someone copy my site and change the starting year to earlier, like © 1998-2023?

Then my lawyers would still need to explain archive.org to the jury. Even then, I have a feeling that archive.org is not evidence of anything. (Well, may be enough to convince a jury.)

For that matter, the content of any website - or even anything digital - seems like flimsy evidence to support historical fact, since it can be changed at any time. Perhaps this is where someone mentions the blockchain as "immutable proof".
Here's an open ZK benchmark project that Polygon Miden (their primary STARK product) is a part of: https://github.com/delendum-xyz/zk-benchmarking

They are going big on scaling Ethereum with zero-knowledge (or more accurately, succinct but not necessarily zero-knowledge) proofs. I used to work for one of their competitors also in that project, but all the Polygon people I've talked to on the ZK side are very sharp.
As if governments were in the habit of arbitrarily handing out large scale tax exemptions. That idea might have been well-intended, but it's really a solution in search of a problem. And how would a religion be "taxed out of existence" anyways? Or the religion the belief or is the religion the org?
Seems preemptive. There is already freedom of religion. If one is singled out and taxed unfairly then they can sue (and probably win).
Example of a search query with good followup questions:

https://phind.com/search?q=why+is+funcref+not+working+in+God...
> The New START treaty, signed in 2010 by U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers.

I'm not sure how much worse mutual assured destruction could get by going over what they already have.
How many bureaucrats does it take to type a zero on a fine?

In all seriousness, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist and I love the SEC.
They have data for a tree in my garden. I got the tree cut down and there was so much bureaucracy to go through just to cut it, I guess it is a protected piece of nature or something of the sort?
If I were you, I'd run something like
tcpdump -n -w ycomb.pcap host news.ycombinator.com

and leave it running; if you experience an issue, note the time, ctrl-C tcpdump and open it in wireshark and see if you see anything interesting.

If there's nothing there, it might be a DNS issue, which you'd need a different pcap for. You might also need to select the right interface.
anti-Church pitchforks come out pretty fast here? it shows that some people simply want to eliminate Church itself, and use bad news to propel that point of view.

why not address the actions themselves, specifically; plenty of crooks in the investment game, some of them use Church money it seems.
That assumes people even care what the statistics are. Many people just go with their emotional response based on a political outlook when deciding what course of action to take.
Yeah, it's weird to me that some churches are essentially companies that aren't taxed.
Well, developers can ski of course. but I think the search engine is focussed on software dev
With the greatest of respect, that's like saying Roe vs Wade was a niche gynaecology case or Miranda rights are just a question of procedural formalities. I am all for getting out of my tech bubble, but mass surveillance is way way beyond just the tech sector.

The existence of warrantless wiretapping brings into question whether the courts even have the right to overrule government actions (a power SCOTUS gave itself back in the early days of the republic). They also circumvent key parts of 100 year old criminal law like the exclusionary rule. And that's just the legalise parts. Not to mention freedom, privacy, democracy etc.
This story is an opportunity to ask a question I've been wondering about: Is it possible for the same generation of a LLM to produce stories that are significantly better than each other, given the same prompt multiple times? I know you can improve a response by tweaking the prompt. I know that randomness plays a part in the generation process. But, if (let's say) ChatGPT version x.xxx produces a C+ short story the first time, will that same version ever produce an A+ short story if I just keeping asking it the same thing over and over?
(Not an American)...I don't see any need for donations (religious or non-religious) being tax-deductible. In my country, it's very simple: here's your income and here's your tax rate (no deductions). What you do with the rest is up to you.
>becoming the next github for ML.

Considering github digested all the open source code into a proprietary AI...
The thing about nightmares is that they aren't real.
Every discussion I see of the OODA loop is almost always ridiculously oversimplified to the point of being useless or just plain wrong. I watched a ~2 hour interview on YouTube with a guy who worked alongside Boyd when he was developing the idea, and the way he explained it just clicked and was one of the most beautiful ideas I've seen to date.

You mostly see it depicted as a circle, well forget that as it's completely meaningless in that formulation. Search up the original diagram of it and you see that it's actually a set of loops through which there are some different pathways.

It starts with an observation that comes from the outside world, and proceeds to the orientation phase which is about how you interpret the situation, and from the orientation phase it can go one of three ways. In one path you aren't sure what action you need to take so you form a hypothesis upon which you act, which generates a change in the external world which then becomes a new observation and the cycle starts again. Another path is that of a reflexive or instinctual reaction in which you have no need to form a hypothesis but rather you have a heuristic upon which you act, and so you are able to act quicker, and again your action generates a change in the external world which becomes a new observation and the cycle starts again. The third and most important pathway, and they key idea/realisation, is that new observations can be generated directly from the orientation phase and this can be exploited! Why? It's a positive feedback loop that is devoid of any information from the external world, so the more iterations it goes through before finally breaking out and going through one of the paths that do interact with the external world it will be more and more detached from reality and hence the action will be less effective at moving you towards your goals.

I recall the guy saying that Boyd's key insight was the exploitability of that positive feedback loop that was detached from physical reality and if one can purposely trigger it in their adversary they can make their adversary behave in a way that takes them away from their goals. To me that's such a neat observation.
Hence the phrase "regulatory capture" which describes a system in which unelected bureaucrats are not given life-and-death power over companies, but the people who set the rules are wholly captured by the regulated companies so the rules are made weak.
Discussed a few days ago here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34863961
There are some people in Arch communities that use Arch on servers too and think that stability is not necessary.
Maybe require a captcha on submissions, photo of a government ID, or $5 deposit (refunded to non-AI submissions)?

Frustrating for a moment I'm sure, but the future is here, time to adapt.
There isn't really an excuse to intentionally write crap code though. You'll normally be the one who ends up working late to fill in the gaps later.
Why would the fine be higher? Presumably it's proportionate to the harm caused, not by the size of the fund.
Russell's Paradox – a simple explanation of a profound problem [video]
Ive seen data sets like this and they've been bad. My main issues have been that dataset isn't kept updated, theres no sense of proportion (e.g. is 1% of the team java or 50%), and there's often not enough companies in the dataset.

So bad that I probably wouldn't buy this data without some proof that its good data
Part of me is very against banning things like this, but I just can't see how this isn't a massive potential risk that we should avoid. The precautionary principle applies here for me.

I guess this will accelerate the already pretty severe balkanisation of the internet, but maybe we were hopelessly naive to ever think that we could have an internet that transcended geopolitical relationships between the free world and the rest of the world.
Excited to see more articles about the relationship between men.
I’d love to hear if there are any books others have found on this topic. I found “UnF@ck your relationships” was a bit simplistic.
I was in the same situation with a Macbook Air 2011. At about 9 years old I needed to replace the battery, but got turned away from the Apple Store because it was 'too old'.

I tried buying a replacement battery online but it only worked for a short time before it stopped charging all-together.

Left a really sour taste in my mouth because the battery was the only thing stopping me from using an otherwise perfectly fine piece of hardware.
Wow, sounds like they must be pretty guilty if the SEC managed to get them to settle for a whole five million dollars!
Ask HN: What do you like or dislike about team/org domain name management?
I've used the two most popular domain name providers, GoDaddy and Namecheap, to manage domains. Both leave a lot to be desired, particularly around teams & permissions, that I'm considering to build a product around if others have similar problems. I'm curious if you have the same problems and what products you're already using to solve said problems.

Here's my list:

1. For eng orgs of 50+ people, I'd like to setup an org that folks can SSO into via Google/SAML/whatever to acquire new domains under said org. This would include tools like an approval workflow so that a security or purchasing person can approve requests to buy new domains.

2. I'd like to have better ACLs for managing the DNS records of said domains. I think AWS, Google, Azure, etc. have some levels of this in their products, but setting it up isn't for the faint of heart. I'd like to see something that's more "baked" and simper to manage permissions around administering DNS records. e.g. I could have a policy for `*.example.dev` domains that let folks grab whatever sub-domain, but maybe only a few people can manage `www.example.com` records with the approval of another admin (like the two-key approach to launching ICBMs)

3. I want a CLI. It's insane that I have to fire up a browser when I want to change DNS records.

I think https://dnsimple.com/ comes the closest, and possibly solves most or all of these problems. Its really hard to tell from the demo or trial, which is why I'm asking here.
They think they are on a journey yo self enlightenment when they're actually in a very dangerous road to spiritual weakness, causing damage to their souls and leaving gaps to be used by entities that they'll not feel any pleasure of knowing.

That sense of impeding doom is nothing more than those spiritual entities oppressing with overwhelming power them by those gaps.

We are locked out of that world for a reason. The safe means to get unlocked is by getting your soul to borrow the power of God and slowly expose yourself to such world. Other than that, self enlightenment is just wishful thinking of empty vessels.
>But what kind of staff or funding does it take to say literally different words out of your mouth like, you are fined $5B instead of $5MM?

Because we don't live in an autocracy, and government fines can (and are) successfully challenged in court. It takes an immensely greater effort, and immensely greater resources, to enforce a $5B fine vs a $5M fine.
If only they made a Mac air with 64GB of ram. Alas market segmentation department won’t hear any of it.
The editor dismissed the latter two options because they're kind of challenging for people in other countries. I guess he prefers to have no submissions at all.
If the court were likely to hear a single case on whether all of AI or all of Climate Change were legal, and rule in a way that forces a change in government action, then those would be bigger cases.

But I don't think the court is about to make climate change illegal (sadly) so...
One question I had while reading this:

- Should non-profits be allowed to "invest" their tax-exempt donations?

It seems that non-profits should obtain their funding through grants or donations. Investing, on the other hand, seems like the opposite of "non-profit"

As a personal aside, I've recently been introduced to a few folks who seem to be doing extraordinarily well financially. It turns out that they all run "non-profits." And not just any non-profit, but firms that were started by their parents.

Question for everyone: I'm not nearly as aggressive about finding tax deductions as I could be. Am I just a suck here?
A "religion" primarily assumes standard Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Sikhism, etc: all of which have buildings, assets, collections, and such.

For those of us who either have a solitary practice or meet with a small group (coven), none of our costs for our practices are tax exempt. If we are large enough, we usually cannot be "acknowledged by the state" to get tax exempt status. When we do get enough people in our group, it's an uphill slog to even get acknowledged as 'real', although there are few and far between covens which have won what the Christians get already.

https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/nonprofit/2011/03/witches-...

https://nonprofitquarterly.org/pagans-weigh-in-on-the-laws-o...

https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Court-considers-neo...

Basically, the Christians get away with using tax exempt status, and then populate things like "megachurches" (aka: church-based tax fraud). Those of us with less common beliefs are given the short shrift, and default treat our beliefs as "not worthy of federal and state tax exemption".

When the IRS and state tax entities start playing games of discerning which belief is real and not, is a grave concern for 1FA. The state should never be in the business of saying whose beliefs are real or not.
> eg I remember there being a strongly negative bias against bitcoin in the early days

So, in the one example you gave, they were right. And yet I get downvoted for suggesting: hey, guys, that senior developer who's insisting on doing something a certain way? Sorry you have to hear this, but they're often right.
The fundies only care about their sect. As far as they're concerned LDS is a bunch of apostates.
I disagree. My office have me 15 year old Lenovo E440s when COVID hit and we all worked from home. Some of them are going on close to 20 years and I've had few problems other than slowness. A few had WiFi fail but other than that ran strong
Execution, meaning, and polish.
Ukrainian officials would ask to ban the sale of Atomic Heart in Ukraine
You might have got more traction had you provided at least one alternative explanation, or at least provided more detail as to why you believe the given explanation to be non-falsifiable.

It seems obvious to me that it would be falsifiable by looking at a statement like "putting more and more pressure on the system" and seeing if that has actually been happening.
> Markets as optimization tools only work if people are made to suffer their losses when they occur; bailouts subvert the process and pervert the outcomes.

Their losses become our losses when the failures create systemic risk of a banking and financial collapse.

A total lockup of the US financial system would mean that companies with a yearly business cycle wouldn't be able to make monthly payroll and ATMs would stop working.

You can't isolate the pain down only to the bad actors, everyone suffers.

If wall street builds a shitty nuclear reactor and it melts down in the middle of Manhattan, there really is no option for "well just let it fail" because the fallout will cover the area. It works the same way with finance. Once the whole system is at risk then the government has to act in order to save it.

What needs to happen is regulation up front. Once the financial system is melting down then the system has to be rescued.

What we could alternatively do is at least jail the executives and remove the liability protections of working from within a corporate structure. But the idea to just let everything fail is how you destroy the US financial system.

And we actually tried that back in 2008 when the Bush Administration let Lehman fail. That was bad enough that it would up with Paulson down on one knee begging Nancy Pelosi to not play politics and to rescue the financial system.
Your friends got snapped up leaving the lemons behind
Sounds like the opposite. To qualify for religious tax exemption you need to actually prove to be, and practice as, a "real" religion. If there is no tax exception, it's more fair.
I don't think it's 10x. Your network is likely to be limited. Coworkers, buddies from school, friends of family? When you filter out all the ones with careers/no interest in starting a company, and then the ones you don't want to work with, you think you're left with highly relevant matches?
I assume this also applies to the churches who had Raphel Warnock on stage and told the congregants to vote for him. FYI, he is a democrat.
It's the way the story is told. If it was all about the idea, you'd just read the Wikipedia plot synopsis, say "ah what a great story that was, so glad I read it" and move on.
Considering what happened the last time the railroads were nationalized, I doubt that's a very good idea.
This is a video lecture explaining Russell's Paradox. At the very heart of logic and mathematics, there is a paradox that has yet to be resolved. It was discovered by the mathematician and philosopher, Bertrand Russell, in 1901. In this talk, Professor Jeffrey Kaplan teaches you the basics of set theory (a foundational branch of mathematics dating back to the 1870s) in 20 minutes. Then he explains Russell’s Paradox, which is quite a thrilling thing if you are learning it for the first time. Finally, Kaplan argues that the paradox goes even deeper than Russell himself realized.

Also, I should mention Georg Cantor, Gotlob Frege, Logicism, and Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory in this description for keyword search reasons.
It's actually a settlement, not a fine, which is probably pinned closer to the "This is the amount we think we'd have to pay lawyers to argue the case" value than the "This is how much we would owe if we were found guilty of breaking the law" value.