skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People can be honest even when money is involved. His word is worthless because it's Altman
The cyber truck is such a miss.

If they had built a normal truck, but electric, they could have tapped a huge market. Instead they went super niche with the sci fi truck. I hope for Tesla's sake that Tesla have enough fanboys.
If Booking.com wasn't charging any commissions, there would be a strong reason reason for anyone (hotels or guests) to avoid them.

If the difference was small enough, many guests would still book through booking.com instead of the hotel out of ignorance, not caring enough, or because booking provides a better experience.

It'd cut their profits by limiting the commissions they can charge, but I don't see why they would go out of business.
It doesn't matter at all.

I saw a different source that quoted the numbers differently. Either way, it was a movie that did poorly commercially. Although it probably made back its production costs. See the other part about the lawsuits claiming it really cost a lot less to make. Probably because Travolta "invested" millions to pay his own salary.
Hunt, Dayz(as does Arma3 and Reforger), and The Cycle all work on Linux.
Can journalism resist a chatbot-fueled race to the bottom?
That's our secret, we were working in production the whole time.
So, Puritan can't be twisted? Using isn't being emotional and irrational?
Whoa, this book appears to be $50-$500?
Winter means people have lost funding for the research. The ongoing productionising of large language models and multimodal models mean that that probably won't happen for quite a while.
Scientists discover first 'neutron-rich' isotope of uranium since 1979
Yes, when Noisebridge was founded, the concept was explicitly to have a German-style hackerspace in San Francisco!
A steamroller is a large machine that flattens everything in its path. The republic was steamrolled by Hitler. But he's hardly the first authoritarian in history to steamroll an elected body.
>NATO diplomats hope that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will approve Sweden's membership if he is confirmed as the next head of state following the Turkish elections next month.

Awkward position to be in for NATO, since Erdogan has been a circuitous partner to work with.
I'm still having trouble picturing how to actually implement the suggestion.

Could you, as an example, rewrite the first paragraph of the fine article, so that the 3 links are either at the start or end of the paragraph (as suggested), in a way that makes the contents of the paragraph and/or the link context clearer?
I appreciate this :-) I thought a factoid is a "small, not-so-important fact".
> The original promise of the cloud was that it was cheaper than on prem.

As soon as it became clear that this was not the case, the selling point swivelled smoothly to "enablement" and "agility" without missing a beat.
Not a marketing expert but I remember reading the billboards should be designed bearing in mind that they only get a few seconds attention from drivers so the message should be very short and clear, and very visible.

On the pictures I can barely see 'basecamp.com' and it's not clear what the message is about.

Maybe lawyers' billboards are cheesy but they get to the point in massive letters.
and what makes you think you are better than them?
The only risk I see is their progressive views at times being a little too progressive, leading to "safetyism" and a too restrictive policy on what can go in the store and what cannot, or this somehow affecting which app get prime real estate, whilst others are burried.

Screw it, I might as well spit it out: it should not be a woke app store.
Oh it's even simpler, you just keep the same visa and officially you are good for 3 months, unofficially it's much longer (as long as you have left in your previous visa), so that's good and much better than in e.g. the USA, I'm just saying that the jump from normal work visa to Permanent Residency (equivalent to the greencard) is a bit harsh.

Say for example you've been working for 7 years in Japan and your father gets sick back in your home country. If you go back for few months to help out you are basically a goner (unless you can keep remote working). Or that after working e.g. 10 years abroad and 5 in Japan you just want to take 6 month break for a bad burnout. No cannot do.
Either they were negligent or they were incompetent. In either case, these people should in no way be in positions to advocate for teaching methods or teachers themselves.

Yet, no one has been held accountable. There has not been any reckoning for that teacher who ignored best practice because 'fuck bush', and all the others who advocated for cueing. Lucy Caulkins has made millions peddling techniques that have ruined the lives of 1000s of kids. If this were a drug, you would be demanding the company be out of business.
But do they train the Linux kernel with their customers data?
If your consensus protocol requires that it is probably broken. If you can't rely on a node to shut itself down then you almost certainly can't rely on an external trigger to do it. Paxos, raft, etc work just fine as long as failures are non-byzantine. Achieving non-byzantine failures is definitely not always possible (e.g. someone hacking your server and reprogramming it to subvert the protocol) but checksums on disk and network go most of the way.
It's been 5 years, wow...

On the other hand, I actually believe Tesla is right to prioritize scaling production for their existing Model 3 / Y demand. Their problem is not generating more demand (things like Cybertruck, Roadster, etc.) but in producing the supply for existing demand. They've always been short on that, for good reason (hard to scale production fast, huge organic demand).
Banning instructions on how to make bombs would be censorship.

Banning the making of bombs is not censorship.
Refreshing to hear an nice, truthful voice of sanity in a discussion about EVs. I know people are all super hyped about feeling like they are helping the environment, but the sheer amount of classist untruths spouted about EVs vs. ICEs online is noxious. I mean, there are enough real pros to appeal to those that want to be early adopters without all the self-righteousness out there.

Anyway, thank you for your refreshingly grounded-in-reality comment.
lol what? There have been plenty of Hindutva terror incidents, one as recent as the day before yesterday, when 3 men killed a couple of undertrials in front of live camera and then went on to scream the terror warcry of "Jai Sree Ram".

> If this is “fascism” as you say, majority of the Indians are happy living under it.

Do you have a sense of irony? Majority is always happy under fascism. It is the minority who matters in that case.
Nintendo Switch game modding is illegal in the US
As far as I can tell they still haven't added the third brake light, so I don't think it's street legal anywhere.
So true. There are still plenty of areas where we lack sufficient data to even approach applying this sort of model. How are we going to make similar advances in something like medical informatics where we not only have less data readily available but its much more difficult to acquire more data
It would actually be interesting to know what the energy required by a human is to
research a topic, think of plausible options, find references and type it out.

I'm not sure how much energy Trivai requires, or if it's even remotely comparable, but you might be happy to know that all generated questions are stored in a database.

I would guess that humans produce "perfect" results 95+% of the time.
In my own tests, Trivai gets "good" results, ~90% of the time.
> At Stack Overflow, we’ve had to sit down and ask ourselves some hard questions. What role do we have in the software community when users can ask a chatbot for help as easily as they can another person? How can our business adapt so that we continue to empower technologists to learn, share, and grow?

Yes, why would one subject themselves to the toxic SO community when a bot can give you a tailored answer in seconds and doesn't close your question as duplicate.
No doubt. Are you referring to using tools like ida?
> They constantly lie to the indian people to promote a possible genocide against the muslim minority.

What evidence do you have for that?
> Either I’m using it seriously wrong or SD can only generate vague blobs

You are definitely using it wrong, if the alternative is “SD can only generate vague blobs”. Even the base SD models are much better than that (though, the strength of the SD ecosystem is the availability of custom checkpoints, hypernetworks, LORAs, embdeddings, ControlNet, etc., not just the base models.)
The number of cybertruck reservations say otherwise. It’s riskier, yes, but might payoff. I wouldn’t buy a normal truck, but a cybertruck is my dream vehicle. I’d rather own that than anything else, even if money was no object.
And I’m far from a Tesla fanboy.
My impression is that many places that label themselves as hacker/maker spaces are some version of a commercial coworking space with equipment. They have the tools, but not the spirit. That's why I mentioned Noisebridge and CCL. E.g. in CCL you can join open projects like making cheese without milk. That's quite different than 'pay membership fee X, here's the equipment, do what you want'.

Do you know of specific places in Europe that capture that spirit? With both diversity and depth of knowledge in different disciplines?
I see you're familiar with Star Citizen! Hurry, these ships won't be on sale for long!
Learn French on a voyage through history and fiction brought to life by AI. A Kickstarter campaign.
YouTube TV nabs its first Technical Emmy win for ‘Views’ feature
I'm bullish on SNNs too. This Chinese research group is doing something quite comprehensive with them:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35037605
That India is on the highest level alert as per GenocideWatch, and plenty other institutions.
Many US SUVs can not be sold globally.
If they make a "normal" one, they will have the same problem.

Car manufacturers don't need to sell the same model everywhere anyway. Regional markets are large enough to absorb a full model's production.
> fractional scaling doesn't work yet

Sway/wlroots and KDE support the fractional scaling extension. Seems to be an experimental setting in Gnome for now.

> your XWayland apps interact differently than your Wayland apps

How I can't wait for old legacy X stuff to no longer be a question. I feel like it's mostly Zoom & other randos holding me back from never seeing X again. https://arewewaylandyet.com/ is looking generally pretty excellent.

> Chrome doesn't support hardware accelerated video decoding, and using Nvidia still requires you compile a kernel module

Vendors gonna do what a vendors gonna do. Chromium does have fine support. ChromeOS has been slowly ticking along adding their own support, which hopefully rolls-forward. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/ozone-reviews/c/y...

Nvidia people say things have gotten better but also you bought a card from a company that has forever been adversarial.
Unleashing the Mind of a Fly: Synapse-by-Synapse Mapping of Drosophila Brain
They didn't design it that way for giggles. They did it because it's much cheaper to build that way, which helps make up for batteries being so expensive.
In 1985, there were about 170,000 coal miners in the United States — the peak of over 800,000 was in the 1920s. There simply isn’t a comparison in the scale there.
I agree with mst of your post, but there is no scientific truths, just a method to search knowledge that suck less.

Also, there are a lot of good informed guess by scientifics that are reported as Scientific truths. Last month there was a new study that showed that it's good to give peanut butter to children to avoid allergy later, that is the oposite of the standard recommendation during the last decade(s).
>>> You're not going to improve the lives of impoverished children by lowering the bar. It's absurd.

I definitely agree with this

>>> Give them a score-based percentage of $200/mo for hitting certain criteria each month.

I would love if this would work, but unfortunately there is no easy answer. In fact, MacArthur Genius Award Winner and John Bates Clark medalist Roland Fryer managed to somehow persuade entire school districts to test your very assertion at scale, and the results were not straightforward as you seem to believe [1]

Incentives dont quite work like you expect them ...

[1] https://www.econtalk.org/roland-fryer-on-educational-reform/
You got sources for this claim?
If he has done anything wrong, why is he not in jail for that?
>> I wouldn’t buy a normal truck, but a cybertruck is my dream vehicle.

Honest question.

What is it that makes it your dream vehicle?
> looking at android, where do we see this?

Google doesn't prevent Meta or TikTok or any other apps from spying on you, as long as they also get to spy on you. So they have no incentive to build a competing store.

Apple, on the other hand, limits what apps are allowed to do.
That can't make the numbers look better, after all, Apple gets 30% of App Store sales, while Google takes the cut of Android apps sold through the Play store. And that gets even worse when you see Apple gets 67% of all app revenues too. [1]

[1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/app-revenues/
Major Photography Prize Winner Reveals Image Is AI-Generated, Rejects Award
MySQL has DDL replication.
I fail to see the net loss to society in this scenario.
Which landfill do you think musk is looking for his USB crypto wallet in?
Yeah, I think that'll happen. I think it's already happening. And if someone wraps it in a terrible app with ads, makes millions of dollars, and I never see any of the money, yes I'll be very sad. But I'm trying to take a bigger perspective here. There's a lot of experience and tools that could be built off this, and I can't possibly build them all.

And if I hid the code away so only I could use it, there's a good chance no one would ever create any of those experiences. Creating a successful app requires mobile UI people, devops, designers, marketing/SEO, monetization, etc. I don't want to do ANY of that... in the land of app creation, I'm more of a Tom Bombadil-type.

This is also my first project out of graduate school. I feel like I'll probably have other ideas down the road, and maybe I'll try to monetize those ones with what I've learned from this adventure.
Would Google Docs have more features if they had to maintain more platforms? I'd expect the opposite.
I assume the CEO is intentionally vague. He knows what's up. There's very few people whom enjoy interacting with SO, most just want to get to the answer.

If AI code assistance has that answer, it's game over. Not even leeching SO would be attractive, let alone contributing.
What about weapons of mass destruction?
Are you arguing that the average Android user spends more on apps than their phone is worth?

Anecdotally, most people I know might spend $20/year on App Store purchases (excluding streaming services if they don’t have a desktop computer).

I’ve made well over six figures for a few years and have never spent more than $100 in a year, the vast majority of those purchases for one off games/apps, not iap coins/tokens/etc.
Sorry, but this sounds a lot like 640KB is all the memory you will ever need. What about “Socratic model” for video? There should me many applications that would benefit from a bigger model
> I'm not sure what the real answer should be.

the real answer is full transparency. Someone posting a lie is only a problem when no one is allowed to challenge it, and when you allow censorship you are giving someone the authority to prevent challenges to both truth and lies at the same time.

The Constitution has problems and I've love to see some changes to it, but freedom of speech is not something we should abandon. I don't think I've ever met anyone who wants "absolute freedom of speech". Everyone, even our government and courts agree that there are limits, but censorship is not the solution to lies, it is their most efficient breeding ground and it removes our only defense.

We must be able to point out lies and falsehoods no matter where they come from or who is inconvenienced by the truth.

The problem we have now is a populace that is largely uneducated and incapable of telling the truth from a lie or knowing when a source is untrustworthy. We can help to solve that with education and training in basic critical thinking skills. In the meantime we should be exposing and correcting lies publicly and transparently and holding people accountable for knowingly spreading dangerous falsehoods (free to speak still does not mean free from consequences).
I'm guessing it has drastically less power and drastically reduced runtime

Yes, pretty much. A lot of people don't realize this and have no reason to assume otherwise.

Let's say you can lift up to 50 pounds, and your friend can lift up to 100 pounds. You are both tasked with moving a pile of 5 pound weights from one spot to another.

You can move (50) 5 lb weights before getting tired, your friend has the energy to move (100). So, you have the energy to move 250 lbs, and your friend 500 lbs.

However, increase the load to 40 pounds. 45 pounds. 49 pounds. If your friend can move 10 49 pound weights before tiring, are you going to be able to move 5? The work being done is 50% of their max effort, but 99% of your max effort. You might give up after 2 despite technically starting with the energy to move 5.

But ultimately they want that control to further their own self interest.

Of course. But given many of the questions I've fielded over the years, consumer education and expectations will be a considerable challenge.

A common battery interface wouldn't be enough - if even possible at this point; there would also have be industry standards in how tools and batteries are characterized.
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled"
Whenever someone begins a piece with, “Throughout history,” you know it’ll be intellectual gold.
Dolly 2.0 is fully open, Apache License and the tuning dataset is employee generated:

https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-...
Train by who? How do you start this process? If you never had the expertise, or more unfortunately had it but lost it, it's very expensive to gain it.
Hiding on HN is only for you, and only for this site, anyone else can see it here and in search results if indexed

At this point, it is likely in multiple external copies of HN, because there are some who scrape this site, not just Google
He's on Hacker News lol, he's better than everyone. It's a condition of membership in this secret club.
Only majority community (Upper caste - hindi speaking - hindus have freedom of speech). Infact they are so free that they can call for genocide on live television, and get away with it. If you're minority (especially a journalist), you'd be Jailed without trial for years (UAPA and NSA). Think of it as a modern day Gulag.
I have to say, I agree with the other commenters saying those billboards are just terribly ill-suited for being billboards on a number of counts.

Starting with the fact that if you don't know what Basecamp is, those billboards mean nothing to you. They don't even try to give you a clue about what they're selling.
A Bug Bounty Story gone horribly wrong
It might be true in general; however, AI research laboratories are typically an exception, as they are often led by experienced AI researchers or scientists with extensive expertise in the field.
And yet Porsche, Range Rover, Rivian etc manage to sell the same cars globally.

I'm not a rocket science/engineering/business genius like Musk but pretty sure having one design that may require some minor regional modifications is going to be significantly cheaper than having two completely different cars.
Curious that this was flagged.
I'm kind of surprised how small that dataset is
Very common misconception. There is no law in the US that says that you're not allowed to make money off of other people's stuff, and there are plenty of rights in the US that as a side-effect happen to protect your ability to make money off of other people's stuff. Some of those rights are even embedded within copyright law. Parody allows you to make money off of other people's stuff without their permission.

I really object to the phrasing of copyright law as "you don't have a right to make money off of other people." That's turning copyright law into something much, much broader than it actually is.

I get that this might seem like a trivial or nitpicky distinction, but if you're familiar with Doctorow's writings around concepts like "felony contempt of business model", there is (I believe) an uncoordinated but persistent effort towards rephrasing copyright as if its purpose is to enshrine some fundamental right for a business to make money and to control who can make money around them. And it's a really insidious expansion of what copyright actually protects.

If people aren't violating an actual copyright (which, we can debate if lets plays do), they are in fact allowed to make money off of your stuff, and the fact that your stuff enabled them to make money does not automatically obligate them to compensate you. Not everything that allows someone to profit off of another person's business is a copyright violation.
Good luck developing all the software and infrastructure needed for online banking, card processing, all the compliance paperwork, etc. with just a million per year.

Remember that any time something with your online banking goes wrong it turns into a customer support call, which isn't just frustrating for the customer but also expensive for you.

Also, why would I bank with a bank with hacky online banking that charges me $240/year when I can have the same for free at one of the many fintechs?

> Could a single person with a few part-time contractors run a bank of this nature?

You have 4000 customers. If each of them has one customer support contact per year (your website better work well!) that's 11 calls per day or ~20 per working day.
As someone who owns a truck (F150) and uses it for truck-like things (wood, rocks, concrete, towing, etc.), I would never be caught dead going to the local lumber yard or landscaping yard in a Cybertruck. The Rivian and Ford at least look like trucks.
Well yeah if your program does something and then terminates then memory leaks are not an issue.

If your process is a server or a daemon or something then restarting each instance every N hours is a nice backstop but memory leaks are still a frightening spanner in the works!
All warfare is based on deception -- Sun Zu
My immediate thought when I saw Handbook of Black Magic was "wonder what book has his nickname". "High Speed Digital Design: A Handbook of Black Magic" well I'll be damned, wish I had known about this a year ago.
That doesn't really work, though. You picked some examples of obviously-false things that someone might say about the US government (one would hope, at least), and, sure, the US government is in a decent position to refute those claims.

But let's take something we now know to be true: the NSA collecting data on US citizens. Pre-Snowden, someone could post something asserting that the NSA is spying on us. The government, being the hypothetical arbiter of what is and isn't misinformation, would of course immediately label that as misinformation.

You can't trust the government to be honest here. Sometimes they will even lie for fairly good reasons. But I don't want them marking things as misinformation (or, worse, suppressing such information) when it's true. And they certainly will do that, sometimes.
Why are you personally offended that someone on the internet found GPT inadequate?
> Plenty of left-leaning governments throughout history have used censorship.

What does that have to do with Modi? Modi's government has moved far to the right.