skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The 1958 coup was successful. You might be confusing it with the failed 1961 coup.

Indeed you're right, I'm confusing my coups.

> It forces parliament to choose between deposing the government or allowing the law to go through. There's no option to simply reject the law, as would be the case in most normal democracies.

Yes, that's the whole point of the 49.3 provision, for the government to be able to force legislation that parliament wouldn't agree to. That's why there are guardrails around it, like parliament having the option to bring down the government if it disagrees.
Not shown: advertising revenue; debt load; rise of competing services; probability of bankrupsy over time; number of staff; market cap...

It might, perhaps, almost be that a google trends graph isn't a reliable measure of business sustainability.
> Presumably OpenAI and others (for the most part) are checking the licenses for content they use in training?

Ha.

There is a difficult to describe culture in the ML community, from the top researchers to casual tinkerers... Everything is bleeding edge and moving at blinding speed. Some devs don't even stop to think about things like licensing or easy reproducibility/packaging, because they are too busy moving onto the next thing.

This thread on how a popular repo was unlicensed and violating other licenses for months is a good example: https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/issu...

OpenAI comes from this culture, even if they are a more commercial company now.
Literally the intro says it might contain the root password.

TLDR: The vector registers this bug affects are used for string functions like strcmp, so anything could get loaded into them, including passwords.
> What exact problem does this solve?

Voting on a decentralized platform. Decentralized governance and decentralized UBI in general.

> Also also, sucks if you’re blind, I guess.

Blind people tend to have irises. Even when both eyes are missing - the article mentions other ways to verify proof-of-personhood (at the expense of privacy compared to iris scans.)
Musk has owned x.com for many years. It goes back to paypal days.
Thus far there is a positive correlation between “egregiously terrible decisions” (ETD) and attention. From a naive perspective the attention is caused by ETD. However it may be worthwhile to test the alternative hypothesis that ETD are attempts to increase attention. Maybe ETD fit within a larger set of “Attention Seeking Behavior” (ASB).

To the degree that ASB is “rewarded” with any feedback at all, even negative, then it will be reënforced.

Enjoying the attention of others is socially acceptable in some situations. However, an excessive need for attention can lead to difficulties in interpersonal relationships. However, as a tactical method, it is often used in combat, theatre (upstaging) and it is fundamental to marketing. One strategy often used by teachers and behavior analysts to counter various types of attention-seeking behavior is planned or tactical ignoring.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_seeking
WeChat's success lies in chinese culture that people value convenience over privacy bc the gov can already monitor everything its citizen do. It is a "Super App", a mini OS with conglomerate of apps that has everything users need. Without ever leaving the app, it drastically lowers learning curve for people. Instead of learning how to use multiple apps, they need to only learn just one.

Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-app
Aside from live video showing in my For You feed, all the changes I can think of have been good. Longer video lengths have resulted in some content that previously would've only been on YouTube. Horizontal slideshows have become a mini-medium all to themselves. If this text feature is available on the web (as all of the other features seem to be?), this puts TikTok ahead of Instagram's Threads.
Has been for a while.

https://www.techpowerup.com/cpu-specs/athlon-200ge.c2073

Intel also used the Pentium branding for low-end processors (below i3 and in the Atom lineup), and followed it up with the rather perplexing move of using their company name as the sole branding for their worst products ("Intel Processor").
wouldn't this logo be not trademarkable since its a mathematical symbol?
I don't think "disown" is the word you want to use here. In English, "disown" means that you refuse to acknowledge that he is your son at all, not in a legal sense, but in a social sense, i.e. "I hate you so much I no longer consider you my son". I think you probably mean, "Can you declare your son as not a dependent", not "Can you disown your son" :)
i thought all non-latin punycode domains were forbidden for purchase on .com?

edit - i looked up the whois, just because it's parked at godaddy doesn't mean it's for sale

Name: XN--U1A.COM

Internationalized Domain Name: х.com

Registry Domain ID: 106236037_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN

Domain Status:

clientDeleteProhibited

clientRenewProhibited

clientTransferProhibited

clientUpdateProhibited
> None of that was needed, but why make a proper fix when you can instead do a series of band-aids?

Exactly! There can't be anything beyond duct tape "engineering" in IT, because worse is "better"… You know?

Doing things properly would cost money. Nobody is willing to pay. So nothing will ever change.
I have only read about Worldcoin from comments on Hackernews so I was surprised by such a balanced take on it from Vitalik. I'm not necessarily in favor of it now, but it doesn't seem quite as evil as I had previously believed. I'm not ready to scan my iris or anything, but I'm pretty interested to see how this will go.
Plotters are fun, it's like a creative collaboration with a robot and you can hand it any pen you want.
he's only good at bs'ing, and too much people keep falling for it
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_(company)
To hell with writers, I for one look forward to our brave new world of fake plastic trees.
Nothing can top the 2008 Pepsi brand philosophy:

https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
MBTI is an attempt at classification of people's personalities at a high level from a series of questions. That just seems fundamentally different than "I will predict your future based on what day you are born".
Ask HN: What are some software projects towards which you’re very grateful
So much so that you wake up in the morning and thank those who created and/or maintains the software project. Or several times in a day. Or maybe every week or month, which sounds more resonable..
40 years ago yesterday Air Canada Flight 143 ran out of fuel mid-flight
When did people stop being drunk all the time?
> I would not dare attempt that in an EV, the car would just just slide off the road.

Ok, hold up. You have:

1. roundabouts, ok, no problem, we have lots of those, I've never had a problem in an EV.

2. Gutter curbs around roundabouts. Yes driving in those is bad, you'll get a flat tire pretty quickly that way (no matter your car). I used to ride my bike in those and got flats all the time.

3. You want to race around other people in the round about. Ugh, this isn't the USA is it? I'm guessing Russia or China, or some other developing world country?

I think this is a niche case, like doing donuts or drifting.
Oh man, nostalgia for the early days of the internet when Monty Python quotes were the currency of influence. This one is just impeccably timed.

It's funny because I was just explaining to my kids how we owe the internet definition of "spam" to Monty Python.
So I guess we're back 90s-style business hype? "We're losing money on every click, but will make it up in volume!"

Maybe the lawyers and landlords will take payment in blue checks.
Here is a list of wordpress blogs that will be updated because of this:
Watch the phoenix raise from the ashes.
X by Google, X by Twitter, X by X. Terrible branding on all sides and I am so not interested in any of this bullshit.
1988? As far as anyone can tell, the use of the term "shard" in the context of database replication originated with Ultima Online, which was released in 1997, and which used the term in connection with its underlying mythos (the idea of representing world instances as shards of Mondain's shattered gem).

So a documented reference to sharding that's earlier than that would be interesting to see.

(Disagree? Instead of downvoting, consider posting a citation that actually resolves to a real paper.)
My reading of the article was that memory is not directly compromised, but CPU registers. So loaded unencrypted in one of the affected registers.
> They were destroyed in the 1950s due to pressure from car/oil lobbies

Popular explanation but largely false. They were destroyed because people quit using them.
> If you train your AI on a bunch of someone elses work, you can make it produce something very simiilar

As a blogger of 10+ years this has been very interesting to realize. I can use ChatGPT to write really good first drafts because “in the style of Swizec Teller” works as a prompt. The results are way better than the usual generic corporate drone style of output.

BUT! And this is an important but. The insights it produces remain at that generic corporate drivel level. Even with a full list of bullet points of cool insights, an LLM takes those and averages them out into a big pile of meh. Every sharp insight gets dulled by “AI protections”, every hot take is two-sided to death, etc.

Despite superficially following my style, the AI seems unable to catch your attention. Everything it writes is a little boring, a little too long, a dash tiring to read. The spark is missing.

Also my style has evolved since 2021 and that’s missing.
You can be informed on the subject and still think this is an awful idea.

Even if I took their word that it’s “private enough”, it’s still a world-scale project to solve a vague problem with a broken-on-the-face-of-it-literally gimmick.
Archive.is [1] + uBlock seems to clean it up.

[1] - https://archive.is/tuNnf
It's Tavis Ormandy, and he reported it to AMD, so one would assume they tried it on related hardware and it's not working.
> they could have invested in the various AI companies

Not really what I meant.

> instead the kept bleeding their content creators of all they have

But yes, that. And their customers too.
It took me over a minute to realize this is not an Elon Musk production
> But he is undoubtedly in the firing line.

Billionaires are uniquely positioned to be, because they tend to get away repeatedly with things that would be career- or life-ending for others.
180 degrees the opposite. The longest standing criticism is that he's too off the cuff and doesn't have a PR team in front of him curating every word like other major CEOs.
The last event in their timeline is 2020. Moon presumed shot.
Big media companies go fuck yourself.

That nightmare scenario, for Levin,
would turn a Food & Wine review into
a simple text recommendation of a
bottle of Malbec.

If there is just one wine review on the web which recommends Malbec, AI will not start recommending it. If there are many such reviews, then yes, AI will tell you "Many reviews recommend Malbec.". Just like a human can tell you about what they learned, our artificial brothers have the same right to learn.

Nobody should be allowed to bend the law and extort money from society for writing wine reviews.
But then why is majiuana cheap and cocaine expensive?

In most countries ganja isn't legal either.
Occam's Razor might suggest he is simply bad at managing a social media company
I know enough when some birds are upset. Crows are usually the most vocal. I'll try the test later but it's funny how well we humans with practice know. Except pigeons they are stoic.

My cat was sitting quietly one day and crows made noise and my cat uncharacteristically growled a deep growl. She know something was up.
Yes, X as a brand lacks uniqueness.

Xbox

X factor

X-men

Xvideos

Etc etc

Seems to me musk just loves the domain.

Domain: $10,000,000

Users: $44,000,000,000
No, you're wrong. IE was a superior product, and a lot of Microsoft haters tend to forget this. Netscape was buggy, slow, and bloated compared to contemporaneous versions of IE, and IE had more features like better CSS support, IFRAME, XmlHttpRequest and the fastest Java runtime out there. Yes, Microsoft made a better JVM than Sun, and Sun's response was to sue.

IE won the browser wars -- fair and square.
Think the x.org foundation has the better claim, since they pronounce the name the same way (think OS X is "OS ten", from what I recall), and their logo is closer.
> I'm sure on some level, the position of the earth, moon, sun, and planets has some effect on all life.

Ask any (mostly pre-industrial) farmer or sailor: the positions of the sun and the moon are profoundly influential to their day-to-day lives.

Even I, an urban, post-industrial home office laborer make meaningful changes to my activities depending on whether the sun is in the sky.
> Text posts appear similar to Instagram Stories

Seems more of an Instagram replacement than a Twitter one, the userbase of Instagram is also closer to TikTok than Twitter.
The sandbox is free, but data persistence is one of the premium features (though there is also a free trial for premium).

My thought process was that I wanted to make as much of the planning functionality as I could free to try and low-friction. I'm always open to feedback on pricing model though. Sounds like you would prefer to see a level of persistence in the free tier? If you have more thoughts on how that should work, let me know!
The PATRIOT Act has been expired for three years now.

This is like when people tell you Flint doesn't have clean water (it's been fixed for four years.) Sometimes, time passes.
It is absolutely harmful for the user experience because it's tied to a boost in the visibility of your tweets. It's essentially made replies a useless avenue for interesting content.

Instead of the top replies to popular posts being tweets that have been boosted by a signal that arguably indicates quality (views, likes, retweets, replies of their own) tweets are boosted by a signal of the opposite - the poster's willingness to pay for visibility of content that couldn't rise to the top on its own merits or that of its poster.

Replies to popular content are now a wasteland for interesting content or discussion unless you've mass-blocked Twitter Blue subscribers - definitely harmful.
Yeah, I've written code my whole life, and spent most of it focused almost exclusively on that analytical way of thinking.

The thing that Piano (and Yoga) has helped me see is how much intelligence is not of the thinking/analytical variety.

I've gradually transitioned from seeing analytical thought as the only "valid" way of looking at the world to analytical thought being another tool in a toolbox and just one aspect of intelligence.

How does my heart know how fast to beat? How do my vital organs function? Certainly not because I'm thinking about it :)
The naive people are the ones who still believe anything Elon says or that he had any plan when firing those people
This is incredibly scary. On my Zen 2 box (Ryzen 3600) logging the output of the exploit running as an unprivileged user while copying and pasting a string into a text editor in the background (I used Kate), resulted in pieces of the string being logged into the output of zenbleed. And this is after a few seconds of runtime mind you, not even a full minute.

Thankfully the exploit is highly dependent on a specific asm routine so exploiting it from JS or WASM in a browser should be extremely difficult. Otherwise a nefarious tab left open for hours in the background could exfiltrate without an issue.

I'm eagerly waiting for Fedora maintainers to push the new microcode so the kernel can update it during the boot process.
What opponents? You mean in the tech VC world? Cause the rest of us are disillusioned with both of them.
You're not looking at this with the right perspective. Hyperloop, EV's, solar panels, batteries, huge tunnels, reusable rockets. What's the common thread here?

This is obviously all the technology that Elon thinks is necessary to colonize Mars, and in each case he's doing the best he can to develop it on Earth. However its usefulness on Earth is a secondary concern.
What about the coorelation of higher probability of narcissistic traits among people interested in astrology? There are few studies about this. Maybe modern society harbors values that invite such narrative to emerge and so we see increase in interests that reflect this?
Kareem's hook shot was absolutely insane. Highly recommend this video on the 1971 Bucks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtocsxx_i0A.

His hook shot was so perfect and so unstoppable, that it almost "killed" basketball, in the sense that the Bucks were so dominant and the way they played was "boring".

I recommend watching the vid to get what I mean by boring.
Scrolling down, this looks like Google's X.
>Remember the Gimli Glider? This couple does — he was the pilot and she was a passenger

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/gimli-glider-40th-an...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113018/

https://youtu.be/FnSHnqyXqmg
> It sounds like Elon had the domain and it was burning a hole in his pocket. That's the only explanation, honestly.

I think he just thinks he’s getting his revenge and that everyone will see how his terrible idea of x.com was actually genius back in the day. Like a particularly expensive midlife crisis. A bit like some dudes who start playing guitar because they could not back in the day, when it was a useful tool to make friends and look cool.
Apart from not having to mess with the author's favourite build system (which probably isn't installed on my machine), I can also read the source file from top to bottom without jumping around between files, I also know that everything is in this one file and it's not just a wrapper around another library which does the heavy lifting.

Without knowing anything about the project, or even reading the readme I just cloned and built the 'run' program, and it all took me less than 30 seconds, just finding the .c file in the project and typing:

cc run.c -o run -O3
It pokes a hole in the yes man bubble. Ironically society Algo bubbles it's leaders since the dawn of time and they can't stand it to rupture. Loyalty and uniform support or else the big boss gets anxiety atracks.At the same time they can not stop lurking near dissent, cause it's the last window to reality they have. Next on mamal brain bugs..
It has those! They're under "Lifeline Activation and Destruction" on that page:

https://plantuml.com/sequence-diagram#5cc0040514e70f7b

You can even have two active on the same lane at the same time, as shown in the second example on that page.
AI is not my “brother” nor is it a human. This is a predictive model controlled by a for profit business and yea, they should be paying out if they are training on data owned by someone.
Acknowledging these LLMs are not human, but isn’t this kinda what humans do? Take in lots of different examples and produce something similar but distinctly different and not paying royalties or being considered plagiarism.
> I find it odd how people refuse to admit that Musk has made some errors.

GP was merely trying to dunk on Musk and didn't have a real argument.

I'm very aware of Musk's failures. Heck, they are the very things that define his companies and enable their successes. Every rocket explosion was a failure on the road to success. Every over-promise drives his people to work that much harder.

But you want to dunk on Musk a little more, fine, let's get this out of the way. (Not a comprehensive list.)

Bad:

- Twitter looks like a bad deal (so far), and is a public opinion disaster

- FSD did not deliver the promised value to its original customers (future remains to be seen)

- Boring has under-delivered and is not growing explosively (but they are still in business)

- His general skepticism of any COVID precautions (I think his entrepreneurial bias is behind this)

Worse:

- The handling of the cave rescue aftermath

Arguable:

- His political statements

- Twitter layoffs

- Personal life stuff (not really our business)

- Work-at-home policies (his track record says he knows what he is doing here)

There. Can we pin these somewhere so we don't have to keep hijacking every Elon post with these "revelations"?
It is not "aggression" which is a description of emotion. It is simply the law. Now I understand there may be some people who think there should be no laws but that just means the law of those most equipped for violence.
If you're interested in the AI aspects of the Hollywood strikes, this interview with Justine Bateman, a member of both striking unions plus the DGA, is very good. She also has a BS in computer science from UCLA, and seems to understand Nvidia’s business pretty well.
In theory, the biometric data collected and hashed is unique to a particular person, and therefore non-matching hashes of biometric scans validates that 57 accounts represent 57 unique people rather than one person signing up with a lot of different monikers, email addresses or phone numbers or bank cards

Like a social security number, except relying on the worthlessness of the handout "currency" and other perks to defend against subversion instead of the long arm of the law....

The particularly awkward phrasing is inevitable in a subculture that already has "proof-of-work" and "proof-of-stake" and claims that the proof doesn't reveal your "identity". Of course, the reality is that most people won't feel the need to prove their "personhood" to a VC backed crypto startup by getting their eyeballs scanned, not even for daily handouts of tokens with no purchasing power
> It might, perhaps, almost be that a google trends graph isn't a reliable measure of business sustainability.

Twitter was only profitable for one year while it was public (2018). It's not like Elon could make that much worse. For what it's worth, he claims (edit: claimed before the advertisers left) it's break-even now.

As for competing services, Facebook has their work cut out for them. Active Daily User count on Threads has gone down 70% from it's bombastic launch. Average user engagement time has also gone down to 4 minutes from 19.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/threads-user-engagement-continu...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/willskipworth/2023/07/21/thread...
I don't think your comment was wrong to express. We've spent a lot of time cataloging human behavior over the last 100 years, so it's natural to be curious how the definitions relate to Musk's behavior.

I think the parent comment is just especially touchy to these comments.
We already have the 9th and 10th amendments. The Federal government is acting outside Constitutional limits with these laws. Add more amendments won't make them follow the Constitution, we need courts more willing to strike down this kind of overreach.
First of all by saying “the PayPal days” shows you have very little idea what you’re talking about and I’m not going to elaborate.

Second of all, so what? What does that have to do with him just picking a Unicode character at 4am on a Saturday?

Your argument was this logo change was planned.

Okay, so he’s planning on turning it into a finance platform, and you’re saying it was “part of his master plan” to pick a logo at 4am that can’t be trademarked (because it’s just a Unicode character), such that any one can setup a login page for using the logo, to harvest X.com credentials, and they can’t do anything because they don’t own the trademark?

Brilliant plan.
The fridge. Integrations aren’t great, but 9x9’s uptime is incredible.