skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to make the assumption that you’ll get any particular train instantly. Factor in expected wait time for each line and the local/express variants and the sheds will shrink substantially.

it’ll also get confusing because the sheds will change as a function of time of day
You raise a valid point. There does seem to be an - not completely unexpected - disconnect between average US denizen and established powers ( in this case, an ancient senator ).

<< The US populace may get grumbly about spending on Ukraine, although realistically most people are just bored and have tuned out that news.

I chuckled, because I kinda see that. That said, that boredom will evaporate rather fast when that bored person is asked to pay even more, while given little to no support. And that ask is coming eventually.

US has been running on borrowed time for a while now. It managed to go into serious debt over Afghanistan and Iraq and still pretended it does not actually need to pay for it in terms of taxes. FED also obliged by keeping rates super low to keep the interest payments a non-issue. That is ending based on current trajectory.

As for tuning out, I think you are really onto something. I went out of my way to limit the amount of news I process.
Also LeanQt has and continues to have "a lot of small fixes"; even backported features.
Since it's Mapbox I wonder if they are using the Isochrone API[1], or if this is more custom b/c it's subways? I agree an adjustable duration of trip would be neat.

[1] - https://docs.mapbox.com/api/navigation/isochrone/
> It is called Tale of Two Wastelands and it goes above and beyond modding. This is art.

Glad to hear, because I invented this art genre with ArsDoom.
Still striving
If the data is rigorously anonymized, then it loses all value for the health insurance / advertising sector, who want to exclude high-cost patients from coverage and target individuals with health conditions, respectively.

Do you think Big Tech shareholders (with additional holdings in pharmaceuticals, petrochemical, agribusiness etc.) would be interested in a database of rigorously anonymized patient data intended to discover relationships between things like pesticide exposure and Parkinson's disease, or unpleaseant side effects of currently profitable pharmaceutical products?
I try my best to be constructive now
We just published our Warrant Canary for 2023 H2

https://buskill.in/canary-006/

Warrant Canaries are a means for us to (not) inform you of (not being) breached if served with a State-issued, secret subpoena (gag order)
On one side, I like the idea (and I use it a lot) with USB C to power a notebook. I have a small 65W travel adapter and I can charge my beefy HP Z-Book (it even works with a 45W adapter) or my smaller Fujitsu U939. But both notebooks still have real charging ports too and normaly I use those. A real charging port are much less fragile when moving the notebook while plugged in. USB C is very fragile and it is an very, very expensive port just to load a notebook. When you use it as docking station, then, yes it makes sense, but just for charging everyday, I still much prefer a normal charging plug.
Is the problem really that there's no money, or that what money exists is busy chasing only a few product areas (like third-tier AI startups)? AFAICT funding for anything that wasn't the VCs' obsession du jour has been hard to find for quite a while. If it's also drying up for "target area" startups that have both questionable vision and questionable leadership (and many are worse in both dimensions) then that almost seems like a good thing.
Makes sense. Get away from the chaos of the city and make a good amount of money to boot. At a smaller scale a lot of people I know do this in SF during large conferences (e.g. Dreamforce) and make upwards of $500/night, more than enough to cover a luxury vacation.
Really? The takeaway isn’t rather that rent-seeking AI models need to figure out a way to reimburse companies and communities who’ve stored up all this capital?

Seems to me SO built and delivered huge, huge amounts of value and it’s now all at risk because multibillion dollar companies are free riding.
The title doesn't make this sound very interesting, but there's actually a bit of a conundrum. The 777 is stuck in the far east of Russia and needs a new engine that's so big it can only be delivered intact by a Ukrainian airline who won't enter Russia, a Russian airline which can't enter many other countries to get the engine.
> Meanwhile, I often get Reddit conversations in my Google results, and regularly see threads that are riddled with [deleted] comments. The worst is a deleted comment with replies along the lines of "Thank you!! That's exactly what I needed!" The answer I was looking for was there, but now it's gone.

That's why I often quote the relevant stuff from comments I reply to. It's an old Usenet habit but also a way of ensuring that stuff that was interesting to me is not lost.

> Then again, I don't think I said anything particularly helpful on Reddit, so maybe it doesn't matter whether I run the script or not :)

You never know if down the line some of your thoughts would be useful to some people or not. :)
I did the same thing. Found a boring company literally 3 weeks before layoffs started. I saw it from a mile away. So far my job has been stable, but incredibly boring. I could be earning a lot more elsewhere, but given the market, I won't be switching unless there's good reason. WLB is the best I ever had.
That's a good rule of thumb, thank you!
Just watch: in the future we will have step up transformers instead of step down transformers so the charging cables can be thin again and charge fast
> How does someone weaponize your information

Fire you if you've had an abortion?

Fire you if you've had gender affirmation surgery?

Refuse to hire you if you've been treated for addiction?

What if you're a public figure?

Press announces you've had cosmetic surgery.

Press announces you had an anal fissure treated.

Press tells everyone you have an STI, or your children have an STI

There are a lot of ways to weaponize medical information.
Or ever received transgender care. Does this person ever read the news!?
It’s myopic to reduce the startup extinction event to a loss of VC.

The point of VC is that some businesses (like LinkedIn, Google, Apple, etc.) require multiple rounds of capital to get to a sustainable business model.

But just stating that isn’t instructive.

What’s more important, esp. for founders, is why that is the case:

It’s because providing a better way isn’t a sustainable business practice.

Markets lock in the familiar vs. the effective.

So you quite literally have to create new markets to deliver new & better ways of creating value.

There are many ways to fail at that with honest effort, including due to factors outside your control.

Beloved products, that deliver real value & better social impact, die all the time.

I know it can seem from the outside that whipping up hype & raising money is a founder’s job.

But very few founders have or ever will win on such a narrow approach.

It’s smart to raise on the latest trend because it maximizes capital. But it won’t save you from the fact that buyer’s are not rational - B2B or otherwise - and markets reward incubants.
It's perfectly reasonable to want a co-located team that you collaborate with/are social with/etc.

But if that's not the situation at the team/company level, you need to either figure out some compromise approach (like getting a co-working space or even just picking up some non-work social activities) or move on to an environment more in keeping with your preferences. At some point, if a situation just isn't to your liking, you should probably stop hitting your head against the wall.
you are not understanding. why is it not open? Who is the authority of "open". Why is CockroachDB not open? I can see their source on GitHub.

"open" is not like 1+1=2. ultimately it is arbitrary. one definition of open is "to make available", by that definition all of them, including CockroachDB are "open".

open does not necessarily mean you can use it, just like how an open door does not necessarily mean you can enter the house.

in any case, we can agree to disagree.
Even on the right there are arguments against military funding boondoggles. https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/boondoggles-where-did...
Hey - people are free to do what they want with their stuff. You're not entitled to people's comments!
I think once my mobile Reddit client stops working I'll stop using it.
Buying an additional vehicle is more expensive and more wasteful than using a single vehicle even if that may not be economical
That's ok, you've certainly used their services for free, as most of us, and they don't owe you anything.

I get the feeling that some people are trying to spin this into a crusade of sorts, I fully get this feeling from your words.

And there's nothing inherently wrong with that I guess, but look a the big picture as well: you've used the services of a private company for years, paying zero cents. They made a business decision after potentially delaying it for years, and you rant about control.
This outrage makes little sense, we don't own Reddit, never had. We're just making noise because some of us confused private property for their own.
Yeah I also wish it wasn't stigmatized for teenagers to go on birth control to control PCOS or whatever, but I sure as fuck am against some random state government putting together "research panels" or whatever of such people without their informed consent.
Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines use a full length spike, look at the WHO definitions for elasomeran (Moderna) and tozinameran (Pfizer). For example, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is described as "messenger RNA (mRNA) 5'[prime]-capped, encoding a full-length, codon-optimised pre-fusion stabilised[sic] conformation variant (K986P and V987P) of the SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, GenBank: MN908947.3) spike (S) glycoprotein, flanked by 5'[prime] and 3'[prime] untranslated regions and a 3'[prime] poly(A) tail; contains N1-methylpseudouridine instead of uridine (all-U>[methylpseudouridine symbol]). immunological agent for active immunization (anti-SARS-CoV-2)". It's clearly full length, Pfizer abandoned their RBD-only candidate.
I can see how the "Country" name was confusing; thank you. Renamed it to "Government" for a bit more clarity.
I mean they would just scrape it if there's no data dump. It just makes it harder for the small guys. They probably scraped and are scraping HackerNews.

Generative AI doesn't follow copyright or even explicit software licenses as we have seen in AI art with human signatures and Microsoft Copilot.
The irony of the wording is part of the point
There's also an Android port: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=is.xyz.omw with more info at https://omw.xyz.is/

It has onscreen and physical controller support + an emulated mouse mode that can be helpful for navigating menus and such. It works well on the Retroid Pocket 3+
OTOH, part of reddit's "value proposition" is as much the content moderation (overzealous removal of comments that some highly opinionated moderator with too much time on their hands happens to disagree with) as it is the content itself - it sounds like Shreddit has a way around the hiding, but if Reddit turned around and undeleted _every_ deleted comment, Reddit would become a very, very different forum (IMHO a better one, but Reddit is what Reddit is).
Most companies are limited liability. All companies that would bid on project would be limited liability. Why do you think this project is special enough that the owners should be liable?

Also, LLC in US is kind of company. It is mostly used for small sole proprietorships and partnerships. Technically, public companies are “limited by shares” where shareholders are liable up to value of their shares. But there is no difference in terms of protecting owners from liability so they are called limited liability.
That’s why we recently decided to cut its presence in the atmosphere by dramatically increasing CO2.

But as usual, inhale in small amounts only. There might be a cure coming at some point, but don’t hold your breath.

:^)
> I can't imagine more invasive investigations into health history.

The point is they wouldn't be 'invasive'. Plug a name into a website, get a cost breakdown of how much health insurance would cost for that employee. Indeed will probably have that feature ready to go the day after it becomes legal/available. A few minutes of work for a relatively low-paid employee processing applications, or these days probably some sort of automated system doing the same.

> Secondly why are companies paying more for healthcare given a employee sickness.

They might not pay more for that single employee, but they will pay more overall. The insurance company, as much as it can, will look at how how much it's bringing in, and try to maximize that. So a company could find itself paying higher rates when they renew their health insurance contract.
Crap, posted the wrong link earlier. What I meant to post was a different study from the same series.

https://energy.mit.edu/research/future-of-energy-storage/
They're loosely natural language.

There's a lot of tweaking and non-natural language that goes into them to get the exact results you expect.
I don't know that I agree. I think most people don't care about decentralization but they do care about the effects it brings.

Email is a great example where most people wouldn't be interested in a version of email that only let's you email other @gmail.com users. Having a email address that can contact anyone, a phone number that can ring any other phone number etc instead of being locked into a single corporation network is a clear value add that people care about.

The main issue from my perspective is that we only have a select few large tech companies that operate as monopolies so are effectively able to block out new decentralized protocols from coming to be.

RCS messaging is a great example which I think most people would use over alternatives like WhatsApp and Imessage except that apple refusing to support it locks a huge fraction of the market out and stops widespread adoption being possible.

I don't think it's a question of preference, or people being uninterested. It's just a boring and repeated story of corporate monopolies intentionally reducing consumer choice.
my guess is they are using google assistant ("hey google") processing stages in the query pipeline because they have an existing user base that is accustomed to its behavior.

ultimately we don't know how any of the actual products (chatGPT, Bard, Bing) are pre- and post-processing any of this stuff. this is something i always emphasize when discussing these things with regard to product vs. API offerings vs. the model itself. we don't know where the overlaps are or aren't. a lot of people haven't internalized the difference. they aren't the same.
The market was frothy and some bad ideas that should have failed earlier didn't because of cheap money that has dried up. Startups that can make it right now are more likely to succeed long term. This is the natural cycle that weeds out the weak companies.
I can't remember which ones I used. Texture mods IIRC worked fine, pretty sure I had hi-res replacement mods for most of the textures in the game. I did some loading art replacer thing so they'd be widescreen and hi-res, but that wasn't so much a mod as replacing some images. I think I may have used some of the "Comes Alive" stuff—I know I used to "back in the day", so I assume I did this time, and I'd probably remember if it hadn't worked. One obscure library mod that I like, that adds an empty library just outside Vivec that you can fill by giving them books to copy, that worked fine. Twin Lamps, fairly certain I used that one.

As I recall, the main things that don't work are graphics overhauls that require patching or wrapping the original executable in some fashion. Usually these do some kind of shader magic to e.g. make the water look nicer.

[EDIT] Oh, and I think I had Herbalism installed. If not that, something similar. A mod that turns plants from containers into pick-ups is one of those don't-play-without-it things, for me.
lol at a for-profit STEM company allowing it's AI to do that
Five Years of Veloren
Distraction. Flooding. Can point fingers at Ukraine. Delays the counter offensive.

The operation is disinformation. They know that the world news will report "both sides blame the other" and that's all they need.

Russia has clearly demonstrated over the last year that their soldiers are disposable.
Agreed. Most modern forms of Western warfare are non-violent with occasional violent repercussions. It's not lining up troops and sending them places in uniforms, although that does happen.

It's economic, cyber, covert, cultural and other less noticeable sieges that cause collapse from the inside.
Oh, I'm 100% looking forward to SkyBlivion. They've been making great progress. But it's more of a remake than a remaster, if you catch my drift. The underlying mechanics are going to be more Skyrim.
Lots of servers I'm on are boosted. That's not something I can say about Subreddits.
Absolutely. And not even for hardware specifically -- with software, too. I've been seeing a big uptick in customers wanting to go from SaaS/cloud to self-hosted/on-prem options. This is actually the main reason I chose to open source my SaaS after 7 years [^0], to provide more ways to self-host it on-prem. There's a lot of other reasons in that blog post, such as the current market, but also touches on things like bus-factor, security, and compliance.

In the end, it kind of boils down to the big questions "what do you own?" and "what do you control?"

When the markets get choppy, people start asking questions that they otherwise wouldn't ask. There's a lot of choppiness right now, and businesses want to reduce risk. Actually owning and controlling hardware, and software, can reduce risk via less reliance on third-parties. But it can also reduce costs, like with 37 Signals [^1], which is yet another risk reduction.

Another question to ask (from a business perspective), in order to reframe your concerns, would be "where is our risk?"

Perhaps they're reducing risk by having one foot outside of the cloud.

[^0]: https://keygen.sh/blog/all-your-licensing-are-belong-to-you/

[^1]: https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...
> The effort we spend protecting medical records is out of all proportion to the damage done by any leaks.

I disagree entirely.

> really what's the worst outcome?

Well, let's look at what's happened in the past. You could be denied employment, denied housing, denied insurance coverage, even denied essential medical treatment, for starters.
> That seems less like an argument for this being a job of Archive Team and more like one for individual Reddit communities and individuals to handle. If the content really matters to people, and the tools to archive that content are available, then it's those entities that are in a better position to archive.

Honestly, you're just letting the perfect be the enemy of the good so the job just won't get done.

Everyone can't be competent at and focused on everything, but that seems to be what you're asking.

> Yet, if very few communities manage to take on this task, then that speaks to the lack of actual value that most Reddit content represents.

No, it does not. That's trivially demonstrated by an example where someone had a problem that they got solved in some thread, and then everyone moved on because their problem was solved. Later, maybe years later, someone else has the same problem. By your thinking, because the content ceased to be valuable to someone arbitrarily close to its generation, it doesn't have any "actual value," which is false. Frequently, the "actual value" is found later, by other people.
‘What a lot of people in this country need is just a lot more sort of predictability in their lives, a kind of continuity in which their lives are not being constantly disrupted.’

In other words: I've got mine, and if you're being discriminated against, that's your problem.

Bill Buckley put it much better when he described it as "standing athwart history, yelling stop". There's certain self-deprecation to it, an acknowledgement that history has good reason to move forward. It leaves open room for discussion and collaboration. "Which changes are worth the disruption? How can we help both those who want change and those who feel left out by it?"

Our system of government already has a huge thumb on the side of the status quo. That's probably a good thing, but when you combine it with a large movement who insists that there be no disruption on top of the disruptions already caused by technology, it means that anybody left out is left out forever.

Much of the time, those "disruptions" don't affect them. If other people marry partners of the same sex, that's no effect on your life. If it's one of your children, then it's not the law that's affecting you; it's the reality of the life of your family.

The noble sounding "lack of disruption" rapidly ticks over into "selfishness", then "lack of empathy", and then to "cruelty". That's not just a slippery slope: the Trump campaign explicitly made cruelty the point, and it receives the universal approbation of Republicans. Until he's got a way to keep his dislike of "disruption" from turning into active hatred of anybody different from him, he's intellectually bankrupt.
AnonymousSudan is claiming responsibility, which seems pretty likely given their recent success with bringing down other Microsoft services (or really mostly login/landing pages).

Web mirror of their Telegram channel: https://t.me/s/AnonymousSudan

Also, the beta/preview portal works for me still: https://rc.portal.azure.com/
OpenAI have some degree of versioning with the models used by their APIs, but it seems they are perhaps still updating (fine tuning) models without changing the model name/version. For ChatGPT itself (not the APIs) many people have reported recent regressions in capability, so it seems the model is being changed there too.

As people start to use these API's in production, there needs to be stricter version control, especially given how complex (impossible unless you are only using a fixed set of prompts) it is for anyone to test for backwards compatibility. Maybe something like Ubuntu's stable long-term releases vs bleeding edge ones would work. Have some models that are guaranteed not to change for a specified amount of time, and others that will be periodically updated for people who want cutting edge behavior and care less about backwards compatibility.
I wish they'd follow the law. They are being waved as if they're asylum seekers.

That is circumvention of law.
What are PMF and NGMI?
I agree. I also want to add that this isn't me saying VC doesn't have a role, it's more that I view VC as more useful when it comes to a proven product that must now scale workforce/infra.