skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually seems pretty strong and I really like that it's a memo and not a deck ( I guess that's the Amazonian in me speaking). Fundamentally they are aiming for billion dollar valuations and the company and the initial investors want to start strong without the need for subsequent raises anytime soon .... so it might just work out!
We still have a misunderstanding.

The difference I propose is not about the modalities of the payments. Not about the merchant being able to change the price or you being able to request refunds.

It's about how the relationship between you, your payment provider and the merchant you want to buy from is initiated.

Currently you hand over some secret data to the merchant. Who then communicates with your payment provider.

Instead you should communicate directly with your payment provider. Never giving secret data to anybody.
> the simplest way is to treat someone as a 1099 independent contractor

This is not so simple. Genuinely treating someone as an IC means giving up a lot of control. As the IRS says:

You are not an independent contractor if you perform services that can be controlled by an employer (what will be done and how it will be done).

And merely calling someone an IC while actually controlling their work hours, projects, etc risks legal consequences.
> Anyone who predicts Bitcoin's demise must explain precisely how and why its network would stop functioning.

No, they don’t. There are a variety of scenarios that do not require the government to eliminate the ecosystem.

For starters, they could make if very, very difficult to use for large capital purchases (houses, cars, etc.)

They could impose fines on businesses for accepting crypto — or specific types of crypto — as payment for goods and services.

Can they completely eliminate your ability to trade a bitcoin with your friend? No, of course not, any more than the federal government retrieved every ounce of gold back when that was illegal. But they can make it so painful to use that most people simply won’t.
I thought quantum mechanical spin is completely unrelated to Newtonian angular momentum, but IANAP.
It's the logo for The Beatles' Apple Corps (whose trademarks now belong to Apple Inc as part of the settlement of the whole Apple v Apple thing about 15 years ago), so the fields it makes claims on[1] are mostly related to things like records and DVDs, so it seems odd if Apple Inc really are trying to use it to sue this association (are they actually suing?).

[1] https://www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/en/showData.jsp?ID=ROM....
Amazon S3 standard storage offers the following features: Backed with the Amazon S3 Service Level Agreement. Designed to provide 99.999999999% durability and 99.99% availability of objects over a given year.
The debate’s purpose is to reveal the bad faith actors. Deciding who is acting in bad faith ex ante is not possible.
It's not a fundamental limit. Google palm had 540B parameters as dense model.
But it's a practical limit because models with over 1T would be extremely slow even on newest gpus. Even now, OpenAI has limit of 25 messages.
You can read more here: https://bounded-regret.ghost.io/how-fast-can-we-perform-a-fo...
Blood serum testosterone levels.

Getting a good handle on your number of ng/dL is essential for both men and women.
If it helps, you may find that when you scale your DHT to 10000+ nodes you will start to have issues with building on TCP. Of course many DHTs never get to that scale. IPFS is an example of one that sits just above that mark and can't figure out why things don't work well.

For comparison, the BitTorrent DHT has 20 MILLION nodes and works fantastically.
My company enforced 2FA on our GSuite accounts and discouraged using SMS for 2FA.
Well, every year a new iPhone comes out, employees buy the new iPhone and factory reset their old phone. Now their 2FA codes are gone.
Only recently Google Authenticator supported backing up to the cloud.

Trying to do 2FA correctly is one thing and trying to make your whole company do it correctly is a whole other challenge...
You think you need to wear a hide at 20C?!? Human body temp is 38C, and any where near that is very hot!!

Most Canadians find 27C "omg it is hot out even wearing shorts is uncomfortable".
There is not such thing as ‘attached javascript for elements’.
You are being slightly US centric there - while what you say may be true in the US - I don't think congressmen have much influence in the Swiss Courts.

Lawyer point still stands of course.
I’m not doing them wrong. They’re a user hostile design. The point of TOTP was just to say “here is an actually good password and a time element to it”. But expecting every user on the planet to carry their TOTP app around was wrong so immediately everyone put it in their password manager and it stopped being a check of whether I had the device.

Then the most common TOTP app, Google Auth, didn’t backup your codes so that was pointless and user hostile. They fixed it but I mean damage done I guess.

I’m not gonna buy a hardware security key and carry it around for casual usage. I absolutely will never ever do that. For work I will because I need to get paid, but for every login? Give me a break. Once again security cannot destroy the user experience.

Here’s the actual right answer. Switch to passkeys and give up on all this poorly thought out junk.
Copying old designs is perfectly fine - designing things is hard, but it's not the only hard thing out there.

For a trivial example, is it a problem if a silverware company is selling spoons, forks and knives that look like all other spoons, forks and knives? With the intellectual property rights gone, many companies create a business around being efficient at production, distribution and marketing, which are not easy things to be good at!

Another example... We don't need a social media crypto cloud document editor, we need great, inexpensive, fast, polished, standard document editors.

Let's end this idea that everybody needs to be always imagining new things. Innovation is obviously good, but excelling at building things that leverage humanity's collective, public-domain intellectual property is also great.
Apparently it’s bc it uses websockets to live update vote counts or smth
>We've evidence of a person who was dwarf till age 19, and later growth up to 233cm (7'4)

What is that evidence?
I remember watching a live stream [1] of him going through Twitter engineering articles and trying to reverse engineer the Twitter frontend and backend, and he clearly had absolutely no clue of how anything remotely related to the web works.

He was just clicking around compulsively, jumping between stuff randomly without even reading it, while not understanding what he was looking at. I have no idea how he's successful in tech, judging from what I saw there.

[1] https://youtu.be/z6xslDMimME
While you're at it, you should also consider the scenario pointed out by the gp:

> It invites poor disipline with reusing passwords and with 500 pound gorilla corps, losing your second factor is losing your account permanently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36416392
Is using quantum mechanical spin a fair comparison? Isn't it moving the goalposts a bit?

> As the name suggests, spin was originally conceived as the rotation of a particle around some axis. Historically orbital angular momentum related to particle orbits. While the names based on mechanical models have survived, the physical explanation has not. Quantization fundamentally alters the character of both spin and orbital angular momentum.

> The classical analog for quantum spin is a circulation of energy or momentum-density in the particle wave field: "spin is essential a wave property".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_(physics)
Except if you need to send something to this address, why would you care what is input?

Even when using it for shipping, what I do is to repeat information. They want a "province"? I have no idea what this is (I am French) so I repeat the name of the city, or I put a region. When the letter/package Congress to France the address won't be correctly formatted anyway so they will do a best match - and it always worked without problems.

Sale for phone numbers. I usually try 0000000000 which often get rejected, and then 010101010101 which usually is accepted (sorry for the prob who uses this number in the Paris region).
No, scoring 50% on a test is not the same as a coin toss, for very obvious reasons.
Nice blanket statement. After reading the whole article my knee-jerk response is "you think I'm doing 2FA wrong". Good summary, though.
My build directory is nearly 100G, with over 1 million files... I think it's just a huge old codebase with thousands of third party libraries which all need to be built too. And, being mostly C++, there is heavy use of templates which makes compilation very slow and the resulting binaries large.
You are missing something. Many command-line tools that are famously less bare-bones than on other OSes / POSIX, the compiler, gettext, and libc come to mind.
>I used to believe that conspirasists and prejudiced people would drop their ignorance in the face of reason but I don't any more.

Why ask of others what you yourself will not do (here I am referring to the hallucinations in the remainder of your message. Why you hallucinate reality, Homie? Why do you not "simply" stop doing that? Did you even realize you were doing it in the first place?).

I await my cultural scolding/education ("bad faith!", "HN is for "curious conversation" [only] - one account throttling for you!"[1], etc) with anticipation.

[1] Gee, might this sort of thing play any causal role in the grand scheme of why humanity is not as smart as it could be?
Yep.

It's fairly common for RPC systems to grow a little shell at some point that lets you arrange objects hierarchically and invoke methods on them. Files then just become objects that support the IFile interface. Mojo had one but it was deleted, and before doing Android the BeOS folks did "OpenBinder" which also had such a shell. There were some attempts at shell-like things in the JVM space as well, I've used CRaSH in the past.

There's a lot of scope for interesting OS research here. One issue is that OOP is a bit too dogmatic. Filesystems separate code from data, but OOP is all about fusing them together. If you try and embed an object with an API into the filesystem (e.g. /dev files) then you get stuck when wanting to change the code whilst keeping data constant, which is something that happens all the time with things like image formats, HTML, text files ... operating systems have relatively crude notions of file associations which could be improved a lot.
Yes, that's true, but it's not an argument in favor of authentication based on something I have.
I don't think we can prevent everything, but I at least want there to be some way to undo the damage (things like courts, chargebacks and so on).
You can do better than such a boomer caricature.
I do find it useful to know that regular expressions in JS(and many other languages really) are not actually regular and why - allows one to decide if a given problem can be solved at all using them.
None of this is true. It doesn't encourage password reuse but it does protect against it. I've also never found a single site that wouldn't let me reset MFA, even if the support process was painful and slow.

FWIW, password reuse with MFA is not actually that much of a problem any more. Neither is rotation (which was show to be a net negative). There's a whole set of NIST guidelines on the topic.
They manufactured "The Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man" ride at Universal Islands of Adventure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Adventures_of_Spid...
Pressure is pretty high, 4km deep...
> Not saying I'd trust my life to a gamepad alone

I’d trust it to an Xbox, PlayStation controller, they’re some of the most reliability tested input devices ever. Most people are freaking out because it’s some known glitchy budget gamepad.
Has anyone been able to find any original sources on this? I'm curious to see the scope of the actual trademark. All the reporting looks like a game of "chinese whispers".
This is I wrote precisely. No, being lazy can improve your situation (However I agree it's not a universal pill). It's also called "via negativa", when you achieve "success" eliminating possessions and actions instead of accumulating/doing them by "working hard".
Google has a distributed build system that can built the whole thing in about 15 seconds on a large cluster of machines.

They aren't so concerned about someone building it on one machine. (to be fair, they do document ways regular folks like me can do distributed builds too)
S3 is reliable as data isn't not stored in a single place. It reduces the risk of water leakage or some vandals ripping your storage rack apart.

However, as someone put it, put your money where your mouth is. Become a contractor offering to reduce storage costs in exchange for 10% of the savings. You should be a millionaire in no time, according to your narrative.
This is probably not the path to GI. First we would need a precise scientific formalism to accurately describe intelligence, which currently does not exist. Second, it may or may not end up being tied to consciousness, and there's a thing called the hard problem of consciousness, that possibly might not be solvable.

It might end up being the kind of thing where if you want to accurately model consciousness, you would need a computer the size of the universe, and it's gotta run for like 13.8 billion years or so, but that's just my own pure speculation - I don't think anybody even has a clue on where to start tackling this problem.

This is not to discourage progress in the field. I'm personally very curious to see where all this will lead. However, if I had to place a bet, it wouldn't be on GI coming any time soon.
The design of pressurised aircraft is probably a good example to study.
WireMin or Session or Damus for private messaging app
What's wrong with Acme?
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The Wired article links to this https://www3.wipo.int/madrid/monitor/en/showData.jsp?ID=ROM.... which is the logo of The Beatles' Apple Corps, that is now owned by Apple Inc as part of the settlement of the disagreements between the two Apples.
As I see it, there are two approaches: "NASA" approach and "SpaceX" or "Silicon valley" approach. In "NASA" approach you are building the system bottom-up ensuring the reliability on each level. In "SpaceX" approach you build a barely functional system as fast as you can and then iterate to improve reliability (and other characteristics).

The top comment in this thread seems to imply that "NASA" approach is inherently better, especially for safety-critical applications. My view is that from the point of view of safety, the approach doesn't really matter and what matters is the results, i.e. reliability. At the same time from the point of view of development velocity iterative approach is clearly better.

In case of the sunk submarine, it seems that the company followed iterative, "SpaceX" approach, but they didn't actually iterate enough to make their sub seaworthy.
Yes, I know - my method isn't perfect. But at the same time I don't want to rely on some "irreversible" purely technical solutions to the complex problem of (human) authentication.
Seriously? I remember some freeware (a Scheme?) from the 1980s or 1990s that said that it was not provided for use in nuclear something--maybe just power, maybe weapons. It was not clear from the notice whether this was a political statement or a lawyerly defense against possible liability--at least I didn't inspect the statement closely enough to tell.
It’s absolutely unethical when your obvious goal is to loss-lead everyone else into either bankruptcy or selling out.
I am a consumer of music gear. Behringer actively harms my future ability to obtain new technologies because they kill those who produce them and produce nothing original or innovative.
They poison the well!

Uli Behringer is also the quintessential slimy shady businessman, look it up.

Behringer is bad for the music gear industry, and I say that as a producer and musician of over 40 years. I wish them a swift exit from this world, but the reality is their cheap products tempt many people but it’s extremely shortsighted to ever buy Behringer.
Personally that is a terrible idea. <section> should be used for semantic purposes, not layout.

Also, why not use "gap" instead of "margin-right-but-not-last-child"?
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> I didn't see any evidence whatsoever of a crime in that article.

That was the initial motivation for this particular comment thread: the article excludes essentially all of the evidence the state presented in court against Bouldin. Readers have to look at other sources, like court summaries, to find that evidence. The state did present evidence, if weak, with text messages, equipment, and prior convictions, while Bouldin didn't present anything meaningful, and in a civil case, he needed to. That's how the civil court system works, as problematic as it is.

The article both presents a legitimate grievance, and presents it misleadingly, which is what makes it frustrating to me.
How do you imagine a blockchain-based voting but still a secret one? Everything is totally visible in any blockchain.
if you have a basket with 4 apples and a basket with 3 pears, are you not having 7 fruits ?

just because the first selection layer is very thin doesn't mean that the network cannot be considered composable
some years ago they wanted to force ownership of domain a.pl with is used by some Polish grocery store because when reader in English it sounds like apple
There are some very affordable travel eSIMs available for Japan.
Dumbest shit I've read this week.

If you want some UPW, fabs have the best. The thing is that engineering and operating for industrial quality without attention to detail for human consumption would be a dangerous gamble to bet one's life on.

Tap water in thousands of US communities is negligently polluted, poorly regulated, and the regulations are inconsistently inadequate. If an water producer were honest, they would release easily replicable test data every month to prove they're managing input stream changes correctly. 5 of my extended family members and some of their loved ones died from uranium and other heavy metals contamination in the Four Corners area. Flint MI is not an exception, it's just a more concentrated and egregious scenario that happens more often but more diffusely and rarely connected manner.
>Essentially they transer the DICOM images to AWS and then run their algorithms against the data and then present the indications to the physcian. These run the range of CT/MRI/Ultrasound/pathology slides/genomic sequencing.

Okay so aside from the physician in question presumably knowing to whom a given set of indications belong to among his patients, how is the data kept anonymized while going through its path from these software devices, to AWS, to algorithmic processing and then to presenting findings to the physician?

and those DeNovos you're submitting, what do most of them relate to? Honestly curious since you describe how you work in this field.
First their isn’t a lawsuit, just someone concerned about hypotheticals.

Neither party is infringing until Apple sells actual fruit or the fruit company starts making tablets etc. The only point of contention is likely Apple making Movies and other entertainment which could create conflict if the fruit company wants to make a documentary at some point in the future.
Something you learn from your parents, maybe?

I grew up poor and didn't have access to parents, so I had to figure out things on my own, by trial and error, unfortunately. And, it took me 40 years to figure out that basic lifestyle improvements could help a lot.
Anyone reached out to them to see what wages they're offering?

Edit: Trying to see how they will compete with US based on paying EU salaries in a world that is becoming increasingly more remote.
Apple charges $200 for 8GB additional RAM. So the cost of 600MB of Apple RAM in $15. That's the cost of 1 month of a subscription to Slack. You're likely to use your laptop for ~4years = 50months, so the RAM cost of Slack is around 2% of overall Slack cost, even on Apple hardware.

Users pay 2% more to get more RAM, Slack developers have 200% productivity thanks to not having to deal with low-level optimization crap, and can focus on building features and UX.

That's how the world works. But some angry HNers can't wrap their heads around it
I agree. Also, ELO rankings can artificially deflate strong performers when having too few binary comparisons. The Guanaco paper points that out, giving instead a 326-point lead to GPT-4 over Guanaco-65B across 10k orderings, based on GPT-4’s opinion, which corresponds to Guanaco winning about 13% of the time. But even that only relies on the Vicuna benchmark set.
One of the biggest prison gangs are Neo-Nazi's - the AB (Aryan Brotherhood)
Tell that to Curtis widow. The goal of this is not magnanimity but to drive other synth makers to bankruptcy with cheap zero R&D synths.
I am not speaking out of my behind here. If Behringer succeeds, the world of music gear LOSES.
If you want a 3340 clone buy Alfa for half the price and don’t feed CoolAudio
I always thought of them as tornados, personally. Kinda fits the out of control destruction angle.
We have a pretty geographically diverse remote team. It's wildly complicated to deal with, both from a team side and the HR side. Coordinating conversations with everyone when they're spread all over the world leaves very few possible times and those times are needed by everyone, so there's a lot of meeting collision. And employment law is different everywhere. You can't afford to setup "offices" in every location, so everyone is a contractor/consultant. They work full time and have an equity plan but it's all a bunch of little personal businesses. Focusing on a few key locations makes this more manageable.

Big companies can afford the investment into many small locations and they can afford having the regional expertise to avoid running afoul of local and federal governments. In an ideal world, we'd make this easy for ourselves but the world is not ideal.
Definitely... I built a mobile app for android to block me to go to Shorts and waste hours of doom-scrolling... I will release it on the Play Store if someone need it as well.
> Technical incompetence must be addressed head first, or we risk real world problems

Given there's always been a chronic shortage of qualified and experienced technical staff, isn't the the "real" real-world problem here the raising of the barriers-to-entry for sysadmins jobs? I think most companies would rather employ someone who can at-least try to get something done rather than having no-one at all.

One of the reasons why "the cloud" is so popular among businesses today is because it frees them up from having to run their own systems and infrastructure (who needs a *nix sysadmin when the AWS and Azure portals let you do everything through a GUI?) - whereas I'm sure many (most?) of those same businesses would honestly prefer retaining possession and sovereignty over their data and applications (especiallly latency-sensitive stuff) - and we all lament how the cloud giveth and the cloud taketh-away - but here we are.
You cant have space exploration without people dying.
I remember the good old days when a lot of forums used to have a test/test account, and I also used to register some accounts with "test" login and "test" passwords for the sake of convenience for future folks who obviously will be wanting just to download something and forget about the website.