skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Crunchbase says leveraged buyout by private equity firm Montefiore Investment in 2019

https://www.crunchbase.com/acquisition/montefiore-investment...

If that's the case I'm surprised it took 4 years for me to hear anything about it turning shitty
This is amazing, and exactly the kind of thing I’ve been hoping for to help us find the gems in the endless stream of excellent content.

What would it take to go deeper on this and narrow down to, say, single-sentence intervals? For example finding everything about a particular character in the Ramayana, or every statement about NPR itself?
I've written patches against a commercial SQL engine; I'm extraordinarily familiar with it ;) But what is AirTable?
> why not

Because typical preys don't drink saltwater.
I agree on f32, although I still think the differential approach will remain dominant for large systems. Formally, that's likely because of training efficiency of gradient-based approaches. More speculatively, I think beliefs in general benefit from having associated values (strongly believing something, versus weakly believing something) which to me suggest an inherent benefit of numeric values inside the networks (see fuzzy logic[1]). Of course, sometimes you're dealing with rules that are less gradual, s.t. boolean logic (or maybe something like fp4) may suffice.

To me the non-differential approach will shine on very constrained environments and open quite a few applications. In the near future we might have very efficient and effective code generation from LLMs which changes the landscape as well.
Milton?
Many Autonomy people went to Darktrace. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darktrace
Humanity is going to have problems far sooner than the heat death of the universe - the increasing heat of the sun. As our sun enters the last half of its life it's going to start burning hotter (and no, this is not the cause of today's global climate change). In 100 million years or so earth will be uninhabitable by most mammals, certainly humans. In 1 billion years the oceans will have boiled away.

So all humanity has to do is move to another star, right?

Well, that's not a long-term solution. First, our sun is a main sequence star. It's very average, meaning most of the stars in our galaxy are just like it and they're the same age, i.e. they're going to "die" at roughly the same time. The inner, rocky planets we prefer will be uninhabitable. We might find a moon on an outer gas giant to our liking.

But all that supposes we could even get there - which isn't likely. Space is mind-boggling vast. The nearest star is 4 light years away. The average star you see in the night sky is 60 to 100 light years away. Even if we had the technology to travel at (near) the speed of light it would take six years to get to the nearest star. Why? It takes one year at 1G acceleration to reach the speed of light and one year of 1G deceleration to slow down to reach your destination. Of course you're going to need a shield to protect you from the gamma rays you just transformed all the light you're approaching into and since you need more shielding to protect from the gamma rays you need more energy to maintain the acceleration - you quickly realize you can't get enough energy to power even a modest spacecraft.

Sadly then, it looks like going to the stars is out of the question.

Our sun is it, and in 100 million years or so it will make our home planet uninhabitable (though we're trying our best to make it uninhabitable long before that!)

You have to realize humanity is going to go extinct. There's a maximum timeline for our existence. That's why I say AI and robots will be our progeny. They're the ones that will have to contend with the heat death of the universe.
Most colleagues (even developers) walk away in boredom as soon as the discussion gets too deep. I do understand though as they are happy to help me, but when it gets too deep they feel they are doing the work for me
>I’m a CS professor at UT Austin, on leave for one year to work at OpenAI on the theoretical foundations of AI safety. I accepted OpenAI’s offer in part because I already held the views here, or something close to them

https://youtu.be/XbzGLdiICk4
The original post was someone having registered their domain for many years in advance and Gandi planning to yoink the included email service and replace it with one that they would have to pay extra for
This is what a lot of immigrants during the "refugee crisis" thought too... pay the smugglers a couple of grand, then they come to germany, get a free house, free money, buy a bmw.
Perhaps the set of complainers is largely contained within the set of ad-blocker users.
That exists since 1996 :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaGer
The article was posted as a response to the contention that crime was up in comparison to large swaths of history. Why would it not be germane to show that crime is actually down in comparison to large swaths of history?
I'd be curious to know what these gay priests are thinking exactly.

Preaching the will of organization that condemns them while actively pursuing the condemned interests on public profiles? It seems to me its got to be some sort of mental gymnastics to be choosing that career and sticking with it. Do these people believe that they are intrinsically bad? Do they just not believe what they're preaching? Do they think their niche is the one exception to their faiths belief system?
> Crime in Chicago isn't talked about? That's not been my experience. It's literally infamous for it.

If you ask your coworker today, how many shootings were there in Chicago last weekend, unless you live in or near Chicago, they will be shocked that there were 17 shootings and 4 homicides just over the weekend. Murders are "down" in 2023 with only 83 murders since Jan 1, 2023. We are only 10 weeks into the year.

> There is no such thing as a 'well-monitored' police state.

I think if enough money is poured into it, with enough eyeballs on it, and a high level of training, it can be very effective.

> Safety and education can only be achieved through economic security, not incarceration and abuse by the state.

You can't achieve economic security without safety. Can you name a single wealthy location with as high a crime rate as South side Chicago or Baltimore? The infant death rate in Baltimore is higher than 3rd world countries. We have fucking ABANDONED Baltimore and it's disgusting.

I don't want a police state, but in those areas, that's the only solution.
> If you got a large family, SUV is the best way to go, even if it's an electric SUV.

What's wrong with minivans?
See Val for a possible step into that direction.

https://www.val-lang.dev/

Or how the Chapel language for HPC is going at it,

https://chapel-lang.org/
"An inordinate fondness for beetles."

A possibly apocryphal reply to theologians who inquired if there was anything that could be concluded about the Creator from the study of creation; as described in "Homage to Santa Rosalia, or why are there so many kinds of animals" by G. Evelyn Hutchinson in American Naturalist (May-June 1959); This alludes to the fact that there are more types of beetles than any other form of insect, and more insects than any other kind of animal.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/J._B._S._Haldane
Depends how much you value these people I guess. (And this is also about not using platforms on principle.)

But I can see how this can be tempting for interacting with people that aren't friends yet (so won't spend extra effort to communicate with you via the medium of your choice), but aren't just random acquaintances any more.

(But personally, at this point I don't see why I would want to associate myself with the kind of people that insist on using platforms.)
They merged with Total Webhosting Solutions B.V., which is a Dutch company that buys up web hosts and then increases prices:

https://your.online/press-release/

The story on Mastodon is that they are axing free mail boxes that you'd get with every domain registered at Gandi, even if you had paid several years up front.
How to fix this:

Step 1: Adjust CAFE[0] to add a new tier for SUVs and non-light Trucks

Step 2: There is no step 2.

It is absurd that fuel economy standards essentially wiped out the most fuel efficient vehicles from the roads (cars, light trucks). But talk about perverse incentives when you essentially give car manufacturers a get out of jail free card for making heavier, less efficient, vehicles. Cars/light trucks are held to a high standard, and everything else has nearly no standards at all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_average_fuel_economy
https://archive.is/E9jo5
Oh i love operators they usually tie the entire cluster together and lead to amazing things!
Think of Kubernetes as an advanced API server that can be extended endlessly and operators are the way to do it.

There really is no magic, is all there and with go the images are usually what? like 10 mb?

It's essential to have a solid understanding of Kubernetes architecture, concepts such as custom resources and controllers, and the tools and APIs available for working with Operators.

Dont use rust though, use and sdk like the operator sdk or kubebuilder. Its native to k8s and you will have a much easier time too.
It's a cost cutting measure. If you're in a family that can't afford to buy enough oranges to squeeze enough pure juice for everybody, you just buy fewer oranges, dilute the juice with water, and then add cheap sugar to partially counterbalance taste loss due to dilution.
Full message for others not seeing the page:

So, further to recent changes at Gandi, I've just got some more info from support which I've included below. I've purchased domains from Gandi, pre-paying for multiple years of service such that some domains I have don't need renewing until 2027. When I purchased that service the offer was inclusive of 2 mailboxes for the duration of the contract, and now they're planning to remove those inclusive mailboxes and start charging me extra for them from next month.

To me, this sounds like a planned and fully intentional breach of contract.

"We'll start charging for mailboxes from next month.
Our current mail offer will end and will be replaced by our new offer: [...]

What’s going to happen going forward ?

Starting from April 6th, you will have the choice to either :
- Keep your mailbox and pay accordingly on a monthly basis.
- Refuse the offer and you can have the choice to delete the mailbox or migrate
your mailbox to another provider. In that case you will have a two months
window to migrate before the deletion of your mailbox
- Forwarding address remains free

How ?
- You will receive ln the 6th of April a mail with a link to make your choice.

How much it will cost for me ?
- It will depend on how many active mailboxes you own. A mailbox costs £2,99 so
if you have 2 mailboxes, you will be billed £5,98 monthly."
This is just FBI acting as a PR arm of Meta. It must be embarrassing to Americans in-the-know.
This article gets very close, but ultimately fails to get to the root of things. It’s like a liberal facsimile of a radical analysis. This can be seen clearly with logic like

> Lousy, underpaid work is not an indispensable, if regrettable, byproduct of capitalism

Actually, it is. Market competition in the search for a steady profit pressures capitalists to reduce wages as much as possible, and eliminate any human aspects from work that are not strictly necessary for production. So, definitionally lousy, poorly paid work[^0].

Workers can fight back against this pressure, but it’s a Sisyphean task. As this article explains, it’s difficult and any gains will be eroded over time and a new generation of workers will have to fight again.

The real solution is to construct systems (technologies and institutions) that can perform the functions of capital (coordination of production and distribution, giving people something to do with their day), and then eliminate capital as a social process. Generating poverty (not to mention war, ecological destruction, etc.) is just an intrinsic consequence of the dynamics of capital and will be with us until we do away with it.

[^0]: I didn’t say underpaid because on average all jobs in capitalism are underpaid: profit comes from paying people less than they produce…
Because Montefoire sold them to a scummy company:

https://your.online/press-release/
Off Topic but Kenneth, your requests library has earned me money to facilitate my family. Thanks for your hard work. Wish you best of luck!
definitely not more toxic. It’s the same issues though of power corruption, and male dominance.

This applies the same to the video game industry and the visual effects side of the CG industry as well.

I’d say it applies to pretty much every industry in general (feel free to sub out male dominance with whatever the majority demographic is). The difference is that they don’t have the wholesome image of “for kids” to hide it. When a lawyer is scummy, we think it’s par for the course. When an animator is scummy, it’s shocking. When it reality both should be unacceptable.

That’s not to excuse it, or appeal to whataboutism, it’s just to say it’s not worse or better. It just is because it’s a societal issue that get revealed as society moves forward.

The level of harassment female employees were expected to stay quiet about has changed. Hence why Lasetter got the boot from Pixar.

Of course, you can’t trust the Elisson family to be very moral, so they hired him as soon as they found out he was available.

A lot of women , including very prominent actresses, stopped working with Skydance after that.
For those curious about what's going on (the post was removed) they merged with TWS: https://your.online/press-release/
Jailbreaking LLM (ChatGPT) Sandboxes Using Linguistic Hacks
RC is a GC algorithm, so it is already there.
MindsDB
Cone on, the page makes it clear that “tiny” refers to the size and scope of the UI.
UK:
Ruthless: The Story of Amstrad and Alan Sugar in the 80's and 90's:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=eiIXn9Tr5hI
The REAL Sir Clive Sinclair: Portable TV's, Black Watches and C5's, Oh my!:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=c1tWYN4dthw
The Rise and Fall of Peter Molyneux (All Parts):
https://youtube.com/watch?v=zFZ92jySWe0
US:
The Jack Tramiel Trilogy: From Commodore to Atari:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cIYcd2aSwps
And who will arbitrate disagreements?

There are billions of dollars of peanuts, fish, etc., being traded across the world every week.
Re: & references generally, esp to &self; one of the biggest initial temptations and early pitfalls one will fall into with Rust is to apply object-oriented design patterns (from C++ or Java world, etc), and tie a lot of functions/behaviours to structs, instead of having free-floating functions.

And it's this that can quickly get you into trouble with excessive & and &mut references where you don't need them, and trouble with borrowing generally. Passing that &self argument around all over the place -- even when you might not need to -- means you end up borrowing or declaring mutability at times when you may not want to. Also leading down the path of ending up resorting to Arc/Rc, or Box etc.

It's one thing I struggled with, moving mostly from C++, but I suspect people coming from a C (not C++) programming background struggle with a lot less as they are used to what I'd call module-function-level programming, rather than binding functions to classes all over the place.
It's "hurdling towards". All's it takes is a quick search on Bingle Duck Jeeves! to know that fact. Do you're research :)
For those curious, the assumption that the universe began in a low entropy state is known as the past hypothesis [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past_hypothesis
You hurt the planet; the planet hurts you. :D
Can you make an example of features/styles that have been replaced? I'm not really sure what you mean by that.
I have not been involved in any way with them, but it is curious how a certain section of society believes that violence is an appropriate response. Would you have a similar reaction to damaging of other property (e.g. broken fence, window) or is it specifically cars that prompt violence?
There's a little toast/growl message thing that says that toot has been rate limited. As of now it says try again after 30 minutes past the hour.

EDIT: It works briefly every 5 or 10 minutes, until it gets rate limited again.
Your usage is definitely a minority, most people drive SUV (and I've made numerous polls in various communities since it pissed me to no end to see all those big cars, polls had always same result) because of cargo culting (footballers or other 'celebrities' are using it so I will do so too) or, to put it politely 'not very good drivers', who need higher seating position to feel to be actually aware of their surroundings enough to feel safe on roads.

There is a small other group, lets say physically impaired for whatever reason, for whose SUVs are another proper justifiable use case like yours, because they would be unable to get into ie bmw 5 series wagon as I've experienced with some obese people in my extended family, the whole car sits just too low.

Also, at least in Europe, SUV is such a vast spectrum from borderline crossovers cars that are just worst from both worlds (sport / utility ride scale) and would struggle badly in any off-road terrain, to proper Utility vehicles that allow you to go to hell and back.

That being said, I don't get the topic that much, it has trivial solution already implemented in many places - car tax. Based on weight, power, CO2 output or some combination of them. Switzerland, at least western cantons, have each their own formula so when I moved around I paid differently. State can ie plant trees from those money collected (at least thats my wishful thinking, in reality its never so straightforward)
Because they consume more fuel than other car types, and you are aspiring to buy one for purely selfish reasons, and that would have a negative impact on many people?

If people don't consider their personal footprint before taking purchase decisions, maybe they will take into consideration that they are being targeted by a growing group of people.
> Can't figure out why folks in Suburbia with one or two kids would choose an SUV

It’s a mixture of status and an erroneous belief that people are going to be performing the tasks that necessitate an SUV more often than they actually will. Many also have a preference for sitting high (because it makes them feel powerful maybe?) and think SUVs are safer (which they are for their occupants, but to the detriment of everyone else on the road). But mostly status.

Minivans and estate cars aren’t “cool” in the US so people won’t consider them despite the fact that they frequently serve drivers' use cases better in non-rural areas.
> gastrointestinal effects

Yeah Xylitol always caused me problems when I was younger and suffering more from ulcerative colitis.

No problem with the other substitutes that I remember.
It’s a lot more private than using Google, who are actively monetizing your information.
One of my relatives literally stole an entire inheritance and escaped the country. It wasn't even THAT much money. Idiot.
C doesn't seem to have substantially changed in 20+ years.
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Came to say the same thing. Rust requires explicit annotation of usage semantics. This information somehow has to get conveyed to the compiler and runtime. So the 'ergonomic' issues are fundmantal.

I think from a PLT perspective, the interesting question is 'can the problems Rust is supposed to solve be resolved in a simpler (but radically different) conceptual model'? We started off originally with a spatial conceptual model -- stack, heap, scope -- that mapped lifecycle semantics to spaces and transitions between spaces. Concurrent programming stressed out that model and we're here with explicit mapping of semantics by the programmer. I've been wondering lately whether a new spatial approach can yet again simplify matters.
If you got a large family, SUV is the way to go.

Honestly, why? How is it easier to fit 6+ people (feels like reasonable definition of "large") in an SUV compared to a van? I know a few families with 5 or more kids and they all have minivans.
Agreed. the answer to this problem is to crowd source funding to buy the same data and find FBI agents in the data, and release it.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
So who's the trustworthy, low-bullshit registrar now?

I've been using Gandi for over a decade.
Boo boooo.
> What have we got now?

Graphcore. Semiconductor company doing accelerators for machine learning, based in Bristol. Raised $200m at a $1.7bn valuation in 2018.

EDIT2: There's also XMOS in Bristol, which has taken about $100m in funding over the years, but have no idea what their valuation is like. Also (fabless) semiconductor company that seems to have sort-of pivoted towards AI acceleration similar to Graphcore.

> edit: I'll also take websites, has the UK got any big website companies? Seems like our biggest are Rightmove and Autotrader

Hopin (virtual events; raised about $1bn)

Cazoo (online car sales; about 2k employees)

Deliveroo (food delivery; market cap of about 1.6bn)

Snyk is now apparently Boston based, but was founded in London (cybersecurity); this is a common issue for the European startup space, but perhaps especially so for the UK since startups here tends to target English-speaking markets from the start, in that the incentive to move the companies to the US are pretty significant.

Revolut, sort of. Bank license in Lithuania, founders are Russian and Ukrainian, but headquartered in London.

EDIT:
Babylon Health. "Online first" healthcare provider offering both NHS and private GP services via app/video as the first instance (with offline facilities to complement with face to face examinations when needed). About 2k employees; took about $550m funding at a $2bn valuation in 2019
Being gay is an extremely poor predictor of being a pedophile.
Good find. I've never heard of "Total Webhosting Solutions," anybody had experience with them?

It's a bummer if Gandi goes downhill. I've never used them personally but I heard a lot of recommendations that they were a good registrar.