skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate when articles omit key information. This is the only question I wanted answered by reading the article and it's glaringly missing.
Show HN: Automated Combat – AI-Powered Historical Figure Debates
I built Automated Combat to let you pit two historical (or fictional) figures against each other in a virtual battle. It uses GPT-4 to generate the battles and feels a bit like Epic Rap Battles of History, or Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. It can be pretty outrageous, but also a little educational. I think it's a fun way to learn more about the historical figures, and it can also help you settle debates or arguments about who would win in a battle. In the future I'd like to add versions for longer debates that could be used in a more educational context. Let me know what you think or if you have any ideas for improvement.
The first 4 bits of both IPv4 and IPv6 packets are a version field.
Half of progress is about complainants seeking solution to their complaints. Arguing against complaining is arguing for people to stay in the status quo.

> It’s disturbing that the poor increasingly find themselves entitled to everything

Who says they are entitled? They're literally complaining that they aren't entitled.
Related:

Ink: React for interactive command-line apps - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14831961 - July 2017 (42 comments)
everyone is complaining about this but I'm just really impressed that it's realistic to expect 200kw from inductive charging on a highway! That's cool! I don't care if it's practical.
I have been using since the beta, truly the most impressive product released in the last 5 years (along with chatgpt).
The amount of indexed code, the quickness and the precision of this search is simply stunning.
I'm confused. Did Tesla's lawyers actually claim that video was a deepfake or not?
What they mean is that you should use the Computer Modern font, which causes everyone to assume that you used LaTeX (and then were too lazy to pick a non-default font).
While I do think "enshittification" is a thing

It's not 'a thing' it's a made up word for clickbait
I don't think that's true at all. If you're a shareholder you're not happy with an exact that gets wrong answers.

If that's why the answer is wrong, having paid a consultant is still a better answer than we didn't try and simply guessed.
Dennis is a master of dark patterns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTKZ9Gyqiyo&t=29s
I totally agree. Just raising the fact that 2.8kWh/mile if actually true works fine.
> Google doesn't want someone stealing your yubikey and having that suffice to log in to your account.

But it's not Google's place to make that decision for me.
Well, OP did say

> a corporation is there for its shareholders

Which is a little different from maximizing shareholder value and is kinda true. As the second link says

> a CEO or board is not legally obliged to maximize shareholder value. They need to maximize the value of the corporation and act in its best interest.

Which IMO agrees with OP. The company is there for the shareholders. The execs and directors have a ton of leeway when it comes to acting in the corporations best interest, but if an exec would be in trouble if they said "we're implementing this policy for the benefit of employees and it's going to come at the expense of the company and we have no argument for how this is good for the company". But it's not that hard to take the same policy and say "happier employees are good for the company"
> From 2012 through the end of 2022, Apple spent over $572 billion on share repurchases [1].

They’re comfortable because they get most of the returns by selling their shares back to Apple.

1 - https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/05/03/apple-q2-2023-earnings-p...
This part is so cool:

>Please note that network namespaces, actually Linux namespaces in general, have no influence on existing file handles. Therefore, if your application possesses a file handle to a socket from another network namespace, it can use it in the new network namespace smoothly.

>This is a useful feature as it allows creating network servers that can serve a listening socket but are disconnected from the outside world. If an attacker manages to overtake the application, they are unable to create a new socket. Here you can find a sample application that outlines the idea.
That's gross. If the operation shouldn't run concurrently it should use an exclusive flock or similar. It's not just cron that can cause concurrent execution, and if that matters you generally want to robustly prevent it - not just if cron is the executor.
This person is adding their "No GitHub" term with this blog post.
Does that mean most of the formatting is still done in LaTeX and the only change is the input format?
And holding onto unneeded workers is an actively anti-social thing to be doing in a tight labor market! The whole "corporations are good insofar as they provide jobs" thing was contingent on the Great Recession-era macroeconomy.
There's an oft passed around cartoon where a guy in a tattered business suit is in a cave around a fire talking to children, saying, "Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

That cartoon has resonated over the years because it illustrates a point that complexifies the whole shareholder-value concept: you can recognize that a corporation's fiduciary duty is to its shareholders, but you still have a long term / short term thinking problem. If a corporation is just shoveling its profits at shareholders without consideration for the future, or, in the cartoon example, destroying the planet, is it really providing them the best value?

There is no universal definition of shareholder value, legally or otherwise. I'm a shareholder in many companies, and to me they should deliver me profits when it makes sense, take care of their employees, not harm the environment, not overspend, not cut corners on health or safety... it's a long list, really.
Their Main Ads product is progressively getting worse.

Search Ads are less effective than before.

Meta, TikTok etc are way better for many small businesses than Google Search.

They might think that adding more places to show Ads is the solution,
I believe it will be better if they check how effective their Search Ads are for their customers.

They luckily have Youtube Ads, for now.
Many resumes are super wordy. It can be easier to skim a LinkedIn profile than suffer through those.
One thing mentioned--but largely passed over--in the article is the following:

Average writer earnings in 2021: $260,000.

Average earnings do not account for the sizable number of WGA members who, in any given year, earn nothing from writing. The WGA has not released a median annual figure since 2014, when it was $140,000 (in 2021 dollars, for the sake of consistency).

I'm not actually surprised. So writing is actually a pretty good gig (even if you're not a showrunner/executive producer) if you have a real gig. But the median WGA member is probably waiting tables or has some other job. And that's WGA members. The typical writer submitting scripts to studios on spec is earning almost nothing.

ADDED: And this is in the context of writing, perhaps other than some corporate content job, being an increasingly terrible way to earn a living on average.
Yes to the first. Steam is a platform like any other, and it has demonstrated that it no longer cares after its users have dedicated themselves to the platform by having gigantic collections. It's a lock in like any other, and Steam benefits, they've been able to not give a single damn about anything for years. They're able to buy studios and cancel projects at will because what's going to happen? You're going to stop buying on Steam? Yeah right.

The only real exception to this are the devs working on Proton.
I like Steam, but IMO this is a bad faith way of arguing in their favored. Let people who don’t like it present the argument instead, if you can’t even wait until you’ve finished presenting the anti-Steam argument before coming up with counterpoints.
More backdoor censorship via artificiality imposed restrictions that also involve indirect taxation to fund it - just laying more foundation for 1984
I wonder if people who designed these kind of watches could assemble to do the same for other devices today.
Many successful managers are people who blindly follow processes without understanding or caring why they're doing stuff. And many companies (and especially government) want wind-up dolls, not mavericks who think for themselves.
Put a freeze on that card and get a new one? Inconvenient as it might be, works every time.
LaTeX isn't the output format. You'd get it as a generated PDF.
Isn't Valve privately held? If Gabe doesn't give a shit about "maximizing his shareholder value by enshittification" it won't occur.
Are you a PHD level AI researcher? If not, I don't think you are the intended audience.

I'm not, so as a reader here, I'm just happy that I didn't have to pay to get exposed to new challenging ideas. A lot of other science is sadly paywalled inside of journals.

Give it a few weeks for the fast followers to dumb it down for us.
Buf Remote Packages now supports Java and Kotlin plugins using Maven and Gradle
WIRED has reprinted Cory Doctorow’s essay (legally, and with attribution…?)

Original: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Sigh, I mixed up some powers of two with powers of ten in my head.
I have been enjoying Strongbox for passwords plus Mobius Sync (a Syncthing implementation) to keep the password file synced. I am on iOS.

Mobius Sync can sync a file to iOS’ built in file store, and Strongbox can read that. So they work pretty well as a pair.
> To me it would be like going into an open source project and changing the tab spacing just because it's not the one you use.

This analogy doesn't work because one of Wikipedia's rules is that nobody owns any article, even if they wrote it themselves:

> All Wikipedia pages and articles are edited collaboratively by a community of volunteer contributors. Individual contributors, also called editors, are known as Wikipedians. No one, no matter what, has the right to act as though they are the owner of a particular article (or any part of it).

> Once you have posted it to Wikipedia, you cannot stop anyone from editing text you have written. As each edit page clearly states:

>> Work submitted to Wikipedia can be edited, used, and redistributed—by anyone

> Similarly, by submitting your ideas (for article organization, categorization, style, standards, etc.) to Wikipedia, you allow others to challenge and develop them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ownership_of_content

Open source software projects are different because each repo is usually controlled by at least one owner who can make decisions based solely on their own preferences. On Wikipedia, every disagreement is put to discussion and there is no article owner who can overrule everyone else.
The AI Founder Gene – With Sharif Shameem of Lexica
Like when there’s a kernel panic or your graphics drivers are not working, you should still be able to talk to kernel and find a solution.
LaTeX for your resume?! If someone sumgly sends me a .TEX resume I have to (struggle to) compile instead of a .PDF, then I'm deleting the email and never responding. Yeah, I know LaTeX, but you've totally over-engineered the solution to the problem of writing a resume, and you've already increased my workload instead of decreasing it, even before getting on the payroll! Hard pass.
This is an excellent description of the trajectory of Digg, the first platform I witnessed going through this lifecycle. In this case, the competitor that drained users from Digg was Reddit.

Another feature of Digg’s decline was a disastrous redesign that, overnight, soured most of the users on the site. It was basically a speed run of step 5 here.
There is no existing rail corridor acceptable for passenger travel between Bakersfield and Lancaster/Palmdale (let alone to LA). There is one rail line that traverses the Tehachapi pass (famous for the Tehachapi loop https://www.railfanguides.us/ca/tehachapi/index.htm) however that corridor is not fit for passenger service barring major and expensive upgrades.

Personally if it were up to me I would have started the CAHSR between Bakersfield and LA simply because of the lack of any current rail connection. However this is by far the most expensive portion of the phase 1 plan, and given the lack of funding it is no surprise they started with the cheapest portion.
No one cares if you put your resume together in LaTeX. Hardly anyone working in the software industry even knows what that is.

The other tips are fine, but all pretty generic. Moreover "work for a big brand name company" and "don't do short stints" aren't exactly resume writing advice.
Seems feasible from a layman’s perspective, but might not from a lawyer’s. Why not talk to one?
Is there now a straightforward way (on both platforms) to use KeePassXC in the role of login keyring/keychain? Last time I looked, admittedly not recently, the answer was “we think you shouldn't want this”.
It is not a lot of effort. You can keep receiving and sending to/from your old e-mail within the new provider for as long as you please.
It was just a humorous way of agreeing with the point you were making. Sorry to bother you.
Plenty of evidence accepted in court can be faked. A written ransom note might be faked. A receipt for a gun could be faked.

How believable the emails are will vary. Do you still have the headers? Is there a valid DKIM signature in those headers? Can you bring the people CCed on the email as witnesses? etc.
Have a lawyer write a letter to their lawyers. Their lawyers will have incentives aligned to what you want better than the rest of the company.
The recording was from 7 years ago, best case a few people remember roughly what was said. No one will remember the exact wording.
Yes they are. If a US company provides a service to a EU citizen, they must comply with EU regulations.

If an EU company provides a service to a US citizen they must comply with US regulations (eg Sales Tax, etc)
Maybe there should be a margin factor, just like in architecture. Build it for 5x the load, then 10x that.
What Barcelona Can Teach New York City About Affordable Housing
It's even easier to just toss the resume.
It's only illegal to leave LOS. Whether the computer is in control, or the sticks are in control the PIC is still the PIC.
Valve is famously dysfunctional in some ways, as they don't really have "drivers" pushing things if the employees don't really want to do it.
Some payment processors will update the company charging with the new card information. Getting a new card does not absolve you from the contractual obligation you agreed to in order to use the ad platform. Sad.
There are a few problems with your argument here....

You're using just text of GPT-4 and have not used any of the multi-modal capabilities. Trying to assess the total capability of a system when exposed to only one mode of a system is difficult if not impossible. I would assume that total compute capacity and cost of running are the biggest inhibitors of this being pushed out to more (any?) users.

Now lets imagine GPT-4 with image input, and command output. Tell it that it has an accelerator and a brake. Now feed it an image of a wide open road with no obstructions. My assumption would be that it would reason that it can accelerate. If you fed it a second image of a wide open road, would it assume that it can maintain its speed? Then a third image that shows a child in the road some distance in front of it. The system that already exists already has the reasoning capability that it should stop or it would hit a child.

Now you have the problem of "Is this learning to drive a car?". Via just image and text alone it's never going to get very good as we need some more sensory and environmental data passed to the system. But here's the thing about LLMs... Just about any structured information can be considered a language. Passing simulated driving data to an LLM could very likely teach it how to drive.
I have systems that have no web server and don't need one and adding one would add complexity and potential security risks to the system. Administration is only done via SSH.

There are just situations where the question goes the other way around:
Is there any need for _more_ than a command line interface?
No. Anyone competent enough to do anything meaningful on that server is also capable of doing it via command line.
Can enzymes help solve the plastic crisis?
Given how taxing the "thundering herd" effect can be on mirrors, websites (RSS readers!), you'd think this sort of thing should've been in cron since at least mid-90s.

Once again, OpenBSD with the simple, obvious solution, that everyone else kinda overlooked. I hope every other cron out there copies and ships this as soon as possible.
Naw fuck that. LaTeX is the shit for resumes. Doesnt take very long at all especially if you start from a template. Its actually easier then word because word is super unintuitive when it comes to formatting spacially.
Glad to hear Apple's allowing import/export. The issue I was thinking of is setting up passkeys for your phone and now you can't use it on desktop, or switching to Android/iOS and it can't carry over.
it's hard to make a bill communicate over copper wire though
No end of consumer hostile practises, undeclared telemetry gathering, half-baked service even today (is there a wishlist yet?), basically ran by the Chinese government through Tencent.. ok that last one is a semi-joke.

There are many valid and grave complaints people have regarding them, not merely some princess and the pea type things as how you make it out to be.
Cancel the credit card and take them to small claims.
Intel announced losses of 2.8B in 1Q 2023, and warned analysts that they would lose money again in 2Q. So I presume that GP got the idea that Intel was losing money from the accountants that Intel pays to tell them what the company financial situation is, who would seem the best placed to know whether the company is losing money.

Now, the 2.8B included a lot of one-time charges that made the loss larger than normal on a continuing basis- on a continuing basis the losses were more like 200M, which is about what the company guidance was for 2Q. But losing 200 million dollars is still losing money.

Disclaimer: long INTC
An excellent point and I agree.
having it in git is quite useful
It can go either way.

Management should give money back when they do not think that they can generate future returns with it that are worth more to investors than the money. If management is right, then attempting to keep the money is taking value away from shareholders.

Given my knowledge of Intel's situation, I believe that management is making the right call here. We've known for decades that CISC based architectures don't scale as well. For a long time Intel compensated by investing enough to be able to iterate faster despite their advantages. But now ARM has taken over mobile, and is moving into data centers. Intel lost, they can't invest enough to overcome their innate disadvantages.

This isn't news, but there is a huge chunk of x86 out there. Unfortunately they've lost their moat on that to AMD. AMD now has better designs and more money to put into research. AMD also has outsourced manufacturing to TSMC, which (because they also build lots of ARM devices) has better economies of scale and manufacturing than Intel can hope match. And even if Intel tried to copy AMD here, there is a long learning curve to working with outsourced manufacturing that Intel would have to go through.

The result looks pretty grim. There is not one area in which Intel has an institutional advantage. And there is every reason to believe that Intel is not long for the world. Therefore extracting maximum value from current assets is probably their best management strategy. Rather than engaging in wishful thinking about a return to their former glory.
There's probably also politics issues that cause platforms to constantly grow rather than simply fragment into new products.

The recent changes with Discord are seemingly to make it more social network like but it seems to me like it would just be better to spin that off as a completely different product (build on the same tech) and keep Discord as is.
"Ink" and "interactive" in the same sentence has a strong association in my mind for Inkle's Ink [1]

[1]: https://www.inklestudios.com/ink/
Posthog ending support for self-hosted on May 31
That's not an innovation. The EU itself and at least one EU country's government already have Mastodon instances. Quite a few organizations have as well. Truth Social is a fork of Mastodon.

Where is Bluesky's innovation?
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Thanks, no idea how I confused the peace resolutions of Augsburg and Westphalia. Massive misconception considering that Augsburg was the century before, setting up the status quo that led to the war. And I did not even go blindly by memory, but apparently I found a path of selectively reading up that made it possible to somehow miss what should have been obvious.
> Getting a new card does not absolve you from the contractual obligation you agreed to in order to use the ad platform.

However, for better or worse, possession is 9/10ths of the law
How would you establish this video has been around since 2016? I could easily upload the same video and put a caption under it of "filmed shortly after the birth of Elon Musk" on it.
Wow, those are some big names. Never heard of this before, very cool.
By the same token the contract probably also stipulated that it could be cancelled in a way that Facebook is currently blocking. I don't think any court would hold that the purchaser is now required to pay for services perpetually.
I got 423 :)

The navigations between #0 and #1 are instant all right. Are they just being used because it's a static site that can't have a catch-all route?
Traditionally, the aim of buying shares in a public company was collecting dividends every quarter. There are exceptions when shareholders expect a company to lose money in the short term but make enough in the long term to return money back to them via dividends (or buybacks).

But tech companies came and changed everything by selling BS visions and pumping their stock high…who needs dividends when I can lose money and still increase my stock price by selling the latest fad to investors, e.g., Uber.

Personally, I think we should revert to the previous system.
This does not typically work. See Visa Account Updater [1] and similar services from other networks.

[1] https://developer.visa.com/use-cases/identify-merchants-rece...
Broke: Following journalists and the news to stay informed and be a good citizen.

Woke: Following data and long term trends to stay informed and be a good citizen.
Is this an open source Segment Analytics competitor? I liked the idea of segment, but the pricing jumped way up after the free tier and I had to remove it
Location: Greater Boston Area
Remote: Yes (preferred, only open to very minimal in office work)
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python (Pandas, Numpy, sklearn, PyTorch), Docker/Kubernetes, GCP, SQL, NoSQL, Flink, Kafka, NLP (HuggingFace, Spacy)
Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15VvpqrygHYIxzAWkvhFEAPtSOQc...
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-godfried-70874466/

Data Scientist/ML Engineer with 5 years of experience located in the Boston area. Extensive experience both training ML models and deploying ML infrastructure. Looking for fully remote role or maximum of 1 day in office per week.
Let's reductio ad absurdum our way through this, shall we? If what you say is true, then during the run up of Bitcoin, any corporation that didn't lay off all its employees and use the money to buy as much Bitcoin as possible was violating their fiduciary duty to maximize return on investment, right? Or maybe every corporation should turn itself into a casino or pornography producer since those are quite profitable endeavors, right?