skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Re-negotiating is all about leverage and after signing, you have none. SAFE's are pretty standard, so I presume you aren't happy with the Cap or discount. Here are a few things to consider, before you become a huge problem for the CEO:

- If you invested at the tail end of the good times and are upset that everything re-priced, that's just how things go sometimes.

- If you are a part of a round with other investors, you all have the same terms. Changing just your terms will create problems. Changing everyone's terms will create problems.

- Early investing is about swinging for the fences. No matter what the terms, as long as they are somewhat reasonable, will have great upside. If the company is a bust, your investment is worth nothing. If there is a small / non-existing exit, you have blah returns. A little more or a little less doesn't really matter.

Unless there is more to it, you're probably having buyers remorse. It sounds like you weren't really mentally prepared to invest in startups and that's a tough place to be.

Best of luck.
If he just hodled like everyone said to, he’d be free!
I didnt mean expert mode. I mean the AI answer thing. That definitely predated GPT-4, no?
Happy to see the world slowly catching up to org mode in emacs.. ;) jokes aside, cool stuff!
I asked it this question[1],

I traverse a maze using a basic A* implementation (using the Manhattan distance metric). However, after the traversal, I would like to find out what wall would give me the best alternative path. Apart from removing every block and re-running A* on the maze, what's a more clever and elegant solution?

a question I asked on SO over 10 years ago. The SO thread includes working code and very friendly explanations and discussion. The answer Phind gives is the following[2]. It tells me to use D＊-lite (complete overkill), Theta＊ (totally wrong), or "Adaptive-A＊" (not sure if that's an actual thing, all I can find is a random paper).

I was working on this in the context of a game I was making at the time, and while this is certainly a hard (and maybe rare) question, it's still on the level of CS undergrad.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2489672/removing-the-obs...

[2] https://www.phind.com/search?cache=d08cd0e7-4aa8-4d75-b1cd-7...
It is absolutely lying. The original owners could have put in a voluntary, irrevocable, liquidated damages clause that is sufficiently punitive that no subsequent owner of the company would think to violate it. As they intend to honor the “lifetime license” for a lifetime and totally do not intend to renege for that duration there is no harm in enforcing that clause with force of law.
> Guess what...NBC merged with Comcast and Comcast is a telecomm company, which guess what...distributes media.

Alice is a lawyer and Bob is a doctor and a lawyer. Why would that imply that Alice is a doctor?

> Panasonic is a hardware manufacturer...

And Twitter is a communications service.

They're not in the same line of business as the entities that employ reporters.
> How much prison time does a person "deserve" for publicly injecting themselves with a chemical?

Long enough that they stop doing it.

> How many more jails or prisons should we build to hold them?

When the alternative is people literally filling public sidewalks with feces, as many as we need to hold them.

> How much prison time do they "deserve" for doing it again?

Exponential back off from society would be nice.

> What percentage of the unhoused population should we continuously churn through the system?

It’s not being homeless that leads one to defecating on the street. It’s mental issues and drug addiction.

The homeless who want to live better lives have plenty of opportunity. It’s the fringe class that wants live on the street, rolling from high to high, that are the problem.

> For the criminal justice system to contain this, I suspect you would have to create a large internment system which would something like double the size of U.S. incarceration.

Probably something on that order. Likely a bit less as it’s about 10K homeless in SF and 125K total incarcerated in CA. Even stretching it state wide it wouldn’t double.

Cost wise it would definitely go up, but it’d be distributed across the entire State rather than just the local crime, quality of life, and property value hit that is experienced by the law abiding people in the affected areas. So that seems like a net win.
HN has a long history of being completely wrongheaded and dismissive in the top comment when something like this is shared. It is the old it is trivially easily to replicate Dropbox with FTP and curl situation.
Were you using Expert mode? It just worked for me: https://www.phind.com/search?cache=105fdb43-8055-43fe-9247-e...
How much more “state affiliated” can you get than when Trump was in office he spent most of his day watching FoxNews and called it when he didn’t like the coverage and they acquiesced?

This is not some conspiracy theory. It was very much out in the open.

Even more recently, the house speaker gave Fox preferred access to the Jan 6th video.
> a regulated exchange like LedgerX, which custodies all the cash that would pay out on the bet

Bitcoin crashing would take out LedgerX. At that point, you’re an unsecured creditor. There is also legitimate question to them paying out a massive short after something like this.
they reminded you that your mom cares about you. they are special because you didn't just buy them yourself, but your mom sent them to you as a gift.

just like when my grandma made me cookies.
This looks quite nice. One suggestion: Use a font with equal-width decimal digits. Otherwise the [0][1][2] links look weird.
They pack it very tightly in my experience. The packaging (cardboard) wraps very tightly against the books.
Steve was a friend of my mother, who was president of the International Human Powered Vehicles Association. I met some interesting people over the years, although not Steve, but he always struck me as the craziest (in a good way) dreamer.
Has NPR evolved since its inception? Sure. But "nor has it ever been" is... misleading at best:

> Funding for NPR comes from [...other sources...] and annual grants from the publicly-funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Hmm, let's look into said Corporation:

> On February 26, 1970, the CPB formed National Public Radio (NPR)

> The CPB's annual budget is composed almost entirely of an annual appropriation from Congress plus interest on those funds.

> The CPB is governed by a nine-member board of directors selected by the president of the United States and confirmed by the Senate

I mean... If this wasn't "state-affiliated media" at its inception, I'm not entirely sure what is.
Can someone help me to understand why categories for these two differ?

row #51 "Think of some family rules to promote a healthy family relationship" - brainstorsming [1]

row #68 "What is the future for human?" - general_qa [2]

In nature they both are brainstorming to me - does the question mark is what assigned the #68 as _qa?

[1] https://lite.datasette.io/?json=https://github.com/databrick...

[2] https://lite.datasette.io/?json=https://github.com/databrick...
Your WiFi.

They clearly stated that getting devices on the same network is non-trivial. Obviously, at a place where no network access exists anyways, neither local nor cloud solutions will work.
That's how I read this. Facebook already had a failed facebook phone venture everyone seems to have forgotten about. Zuckerberg is trying to get to the new world first this time. Except even if VR takes off it would only be a niche compared to mobile so it doesn't really make sense. But AR could potentially and I guess VR might have been seen as a stepping stone to that.
It's trained on other peoples (less than great) code? Cause the results I'm getting wouldn't pass my company's code reviews.
> started to think that perhaps the societal nature of crypto is a force in itself. Like religion, if enough people believe in it, it becomes reality to some extent.

This is essentially how fiat currency works, isn’t it?
At the moment, I'm having a hard time imagining how this all does not terminate in people returning to more direct human engagements, and limiting interaction online to people we've physically met and validated.

I can sit here and name dozens of entities willing to spend millions or billions of dollars building the tech to influence me individually at scale with AIs, each for their own reasons, none of which are aligned with my actual interests except for a fringe here and there for sheer coincidence reasons. The only winning move becomes not to play. It's clearly a tragedy of the commons for those entities because their efforts will ruin the internet for all of them but there is no chance whatsoever that they can coordinate their efforts to prevent it, so the game theory is clear for each of them: Go all in on exploiting the opportunity as fast as possible, as thoroughly as possible, for as much benefit as possible.

This could well happen faster than we realize. I held out some hope that the expense of it would slow things down, but people keep getting to where they're running this on a RaspPi and such, and the models are clearly out in the wild so the cost of starting up is negligible.

The only thing I can think of that would even slow this process down is to drop basically every site that accepts user input (like HN, reddit, etc.) behind a paywall significant enough to inhibit mass account creation. That doesn't solve the problem, just slows it down. Otherwise I literally see nothing between us and the Dead Internet Theory in two, three years tops.
Replace "Al Jazeera" with "NPR" in your comment and you're also spot on.
I tried that and it said no. We're you using expert mode?
This is by design, Mastodon goal was never to replace Twitter, it's an alternative but with different goals. Mastodon isn't a centralized platform. This is good. The people that after a broad global audience shouldn't expect Mastodon to replace Twitter. Mastodon is its own thing.
There is more to that story but we will never get it.
> 56% of political contributions directly to candidates from private donors who gave over $100,000, went to Democrats.

> NPR is an ally of the preferred political party of the rich.

In order to infer the second statement from the first, first you have to demonstrate that >50% of political donors (not donations) of greater than $100,000 were from Democrats. Perhaps Democract-leaning donors were merely motivated to make a bunch of donations over $100k, while Republican-leaning donors made fewer donations per donor.

It would be even better if you demonstrated that >50% of political donors above a certain wealth threshold gave to Democrats over Republicans
Yes, we launched in January 2022 using our own models exclusively. We generally use a combination of our own models + OpenAI but are transitioning increasingly to our own models once again.
I’m really impressed with this. I’ve been using Supabase a lot recently and being relatively new I often end up looking Though GitHub comments for answers.

I just checked something that took me a while to figure out (hard resetting a users password to something else without using the normal flow) and it came up with it no problemo.

Very cool
I’m not sure what the bias is here - maybe halo effect? - but the issue at hand is that the antibiotics are being used in a scenario where they cannot be effective. They are, in that way, a placebo to the same degree that homeopathy is, despite any other properties outside of the acute situation.

Say I have some really great tasting distilled water. Perfectly pure, exactly what I need if I wanted to quench my thirst. Now, I also have an empty gas tank.

Should I put water or flat Coca Cola in the gas tank? They are both bad, despite the separately superior qualities of the water. Or, maybe a better comparison is putting diesel in vs coke. They are equivalently bad for the engine despite one of them being used for a similar but separate situation.
Read about RLHF, i think you are misunderstanding what this will be used for.
>> No scientist ever says [the science is beyond dispute, that only people who are paid shills disagree], you can always fight science with science

I wish real scientists behaved in the way you imagine they do. The world would be a better place for it. Unfortunately, real scientists do all these things and more. They call themselves scientists, but don't live up to the role. Here's the same article I cited elsewhere in the thread (beyond a now flagged/killed post), by James Hansen in 2008. A famous scientist indeed but just one example of many possible examples.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2008/jun/23/climatec...

- "Now, as then, I can assert that these conclusions have a certainty exceeding 99%."

- "fossil companies choose to spread doubt about global warming, as tobacco companies discredited the smoking-cancer link. Methods are sophisticated, including funding to help shape school textbook discussions of global warming."

Impossible to get clearer than that: exactly the kinds of statements I was complaining about.

And what of checking their data, reviewing their methods, reproducing their results? In short, why not fight science with science? Again, sadly you're describing imaginary scientists, the sort of people we would hope do climatology. Actual climatologists do NOT allow their science to be fought with science and actively go out of their way to prevent people checking their maths, reviewing their methods and reproducing their results.

Here's an old story that sums up what happens when someone - an invited IPCC reviewer no less - actually tries to do that kind of review

https://climateaudit.org/2007/03/28/accessing-hegerl-data/

One of the most important IPCC representations is the supposedly tremendous quality control of its review process. I’ve mentioned in passing on a number of occasions that, when I sought to obtain supporting data for then unpublished articles, IPCC threatened to expel me as a reviewer.

[...]

Osborn immediately replied, calling the request that the data be archived an abuse of my position as an IPCC peer reviewer. Rosanne D’Arrigo (CG2-2590) wrote to Osborn and Briffa, advocating that I be “fired” as an IPCC reviewer. D’Arrigo urged the Climategaters to be “very cautious about our emails as Lord V will stop at nothing”

Universities don't care if their professors are engaged in pseudo-science so these stories never have happy endings. The bad apples always win, are never fired and media/politics repeats their bogus claims ad nauseum.
I realize that data can be de-anonymized, but if the same party anonymized and de-anonymized the data... well, IANAL, and you apparently talked to one, but that doesn't seem like something a court would like.
I tested it out and got some pretty good results - marginally better than GPT4, which is a high bar!

It strikes me that we’ve been clamoring that a better Google needed to exist, and after 20 years, it looks like we actually have one. Albeit right now it’s only better some of the time and only marginally better, and of course it might not be phind that actually takes a whack at Google… but it strikes me as an exciting inflection point.
I'm not familiar with Obsidian, I'll take a look.

One thing I should mention, we have another tool which makes it easy to embed a spreadsheet in another app via an IFRAME:

- https://www.equalto.com/suresheet

The benefit of using the above is that Sure Sheet URL will always load the "same" spreadsheet. Edits aren't automatically saved, unlike (say) a Google Sheet.
> Why would it be reversed?

Massive short placed right before a sudden financial disaster? It may not be reversed, but it will definitely be frozen and investigated.
To be fair, lifetime may refer to the life of the company and not the customer :P
> I did not turn on expert mode because it wasn't clear to me what that meant: expert in the topic, expert in using your tool, maybe something else

Fair as someone coming in blind, but the post here did explicitly tell you to use it and why.

What was the query?
You don't even need to read for 30 seconds, the very first image has text in it that explains what the app does, and the sentence after it, still in the opening section, explains that you should read the text of the image to learn what the app does. Literally, the people complaining about not wanting to read too much must have the attention spans of gnats.
This should really link directly to Landsburg’s post rather a Twitter promotion of it:

https://www.thebigquestions.com/2023/04/05/gpt-4-fails-econo...

Edit: Also, the post says GPT-4 scored 4/90, a little better than 0.
You must be good, TBD, but when I look at other people's tweets, they also have way fewer views than followers.
Either the money is important to NPR, or it is not. If and only if is important, it gives the government leverage over the organization.
While I do respect your opinion, I disagree.

I think that arrogance is when a single vendor tries to single-handedly redefine open-source to fit their business needs better. Not just a license, but the definition itself.

A quote from the MongoDB CEO: "MongoDB was built by MongoDB. There was no prior art. We didn't open source it for help; we open sourced it as a freemium strategy". [1]

Whether the OSI was arrogant or not, I really don't want this person to define opensource.

[1]: https://techmonitor.ai/leadership/strategy/mongodb-ceo-inter...
I think the U.S. would be reluctant to do so (although I'd love it if they did), because they hold several billion dollars of bitcoin
thank you for your recommendation. As far as as I know in general, it is possible to have a business name that is the same as a registered name, as long as the two businesses are not likely to be confused with each other by consumers, and it doesn’t lead to legal issues such as trademark infringement.
But after all I will change the name to ninjagolang, so the risk will be zero
But IMO, attitudes like "it sparks the imagination" is why VR failed.

FB succeeded because it was in the right place at the right time. Sure, it positioned itself cleverly, but the moment in history was ripe for a social media company.

Things don't just succeed because they spark the imagination or because you work really hard at them: they succeed because all the factors beyond your control are aligned, too.
You’re going to need to elaborate here … that’s genuinely interesting if true …

More details?
Mullvad – Tor's new privacy-focused browser
Depends on whether it's the kind that's just glasses when turned off, or the kind that's just a VR headset with a camera on the front.
A truly fantastic album, start to finish.
Pretty awesome.

First time that I got reasonable answers from an AI about new technology.
The Go code that it wrote for context cancellation would have resulted in a deadlock.

Cool idea though.
Just want to expand on this comment, because it can be easily handwaved away with a "our version will be democratic". The level of power afforded to central planners is a stabilizing force away from distributed power, and towards tyrannical governments. Every government's primary objective is to retain power for themselves, else how would they achieve their goals? Every other objective must be subservient to this, because no other objective can be achieved without it. This is true be it a state is democratic, monarchic, communist, or whatever. Give a governing power 100% control of a national economy, and they will use it to entrench their own power. If they fail to do so, they will lose power to those who will. Benevolence cannot be relied upon as a long term stabilizing force.
The charter [1] is linked to in the references section of the untold story article I linked to.

[1] http://www.nhplace.com/kent/CL/x3j13-sd-05.html
I still think about the wet chimichanga at Los Pinos from time to time.
I did a quick search and found this among a list of many: https://voice.ai/
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Pointer (2013)
Abstract

JSON Pointer defines a string syntax for identifying a specific value
within a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) document.
This is exactly what I want the future of search to be-- give me some AI generated summaries / snippets / guides but also the sources that were used to come up with that response.
Thank you! We still have a lot of work to do, of course, and the feedback we get here will directly improve the service.
Again completely missing the point, nobody is bullying them because they are gay, nor are they being bullied.

They are facing the consequences of purposefully breaking the social contract by harming LGBT people.
Why would someone offer you that, though?
If I have understood you correctly you were concerned by funding being cut off. Why would that not be a concern with other media, not receiving any government funds, as well? I also do not really understand why you are more concerned with government dependencies than with any other dependencies. Actually I think the latter dependencies might be the stronger influence on a media company, especially if it is a large part of the budget.
'what's a server?'
Missouri Defunds Public Libraries
> When someone steals from my credit card, I just call up my bank and they fix it. How would crypto handle these situations?

So far the crypto orgs have called a centralized institution called law enforcement...
My 65 year old, tech illiterate mom messaged me the other day and asked if ChatGPT or Midjourney could be used to generate layouts for her new garden. I'm not kidding.
There's no stopping AI now
Ok. I'm comfortable about what this thread says about our respective arguments. Thanks!
can second this...also recommend his books
Sounds a lot like VTSAX. But somehow people still buy food and shelter even though they could put their money in VTSAX instead and get 7% returns.

Either way less spending sounds good to me. We could use a world with more saving and less consumerism.
An important catch here is that he was eight years too early, not two. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33538742 .
Don't give terrible people ideas on how to make the world worse.
That sounds neat, but pay several times more? I'd have a hard time justifying 10% more for that to my wife.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_media

"There is no undisputed definition of state media or government media. The most common definition of state media or government media refers to any media organization that is either directly or indirectly owned or operated by the state.[4]"

"...State or government media can range from media outlets that are completely under state control to editorially independent public service media outlets.[1] The term "public media" can be used to refer to state or government media and public service broadcasting (PBS). Although there are differences between them. According to the ACE Electoral Knowledge Network, state and government media are directly controlled by the state or government; and PBS are not.[7] According to Facebook, state-controlled media are "partially or wholly under the editorial control of a government".[8]"

Interestingly:

"Twitter uses the term "state-affiliated media" and defines it as "outlets where the state exercises control over editorial content through financial resources, direct or indirect political pressures, and/or control over production and distribution." At the same time, "state-financed" editorially independent media are not considered "state-affiliated".[9][10]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACE_Electoral_Knowledge_Networ...

"The goal of the ACE network is to provide knowledge to people working in the field elections, with the intention of supporting credible and transparent electoral processes with emphasis on sustainability, professionalism and trust. "
NPR are totally propaganda for the State, 100%, without reservation. (I used to be a regular listener, back when they were tolerable)
Mostly meaningless unless every other part of the supply chain exists to turn them into A100s. Being that supply chain is very difficult and expensive to extend, it's something that can take years to build out, even in a hurry.
Adding Memory to ChatGPT