skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He doesn’t want the old business model, he doesn’t want the old brand, he doesn’t want the old codebase, he doesn’t want the old userbase, he doesn’t want the old offices, he doesn’t want… I mean what does he want? What did he pay 44 billion for? He’s destroying every bit of this company. It’s not that he doesn’t want it. He simply has no clue what he’s doing.
Suppressors are only Federally legal with a tax stamp, typically acquired with a “Form 1” self manufacture or a Form 4” transfer (purchase) along with a $200 tax for the stamp, per item.

The seller would need special ATF licensure and follow an onerous process to sell what is typically considered safety equipment in Europe, ironically. This involves submitting fingerprints, passport photos, and a lengthy (9+ month) approval process on the part of the ATF.

For the self-manufacture, this has been de-factor outlawed by the current regime with DIY kits being arbitrarily reclassified as suppressors themselves. Most if not all Form 1 builds are outright denied.

So, in short, Temu cannot sell these at all. Of course they also occasionally sell selector switches to concert Glock handguns to fully automatic. This is even more comically illegal than a suppressor workaround.
> Anything before the change is still MPL and can be forked and built on top of freely.

per my reading of FAQ if you fork and modify old MPL it still have to be MPL, so if hashicorp fork old MPL code they need to release it under MPL.
I wonder if the "Connect to Supabase" option surfaces the rate limits shown in the manual SMTP config. Those are pretty useful, but if the defaults are actually 3 emails per hour and 60s between emails, I'd say it's important to show them to the user upfront to avoid confusion.

The sliders on the pricing page are weird. It shows me $200 per month for 300k email or 650k emails. Why have all the 50k increments in between with the same price?

This isn't specific to the one here, but I hate the way these services are priced. I don't want a bucket of use-it-or-lose-it service. That's just opaque way of overcharging while making the customer feel like they're getting good value at the top end IMO.

Charge me a base rate, then per-email, and adjust the discount according to my volume.

> If you exceed your plan limits, you will be notified and given the option to upgrade to a higher plan. If you don’t upgrade and repeatedly exceed your plan, your account may be temporarily deactivated.

Why? I realize it's the way everyone does it, but it's dumb. Why should I come back and beg to use the service more? Let me put up a bond (ex: $2500) that determines my monthly rate limit (ex: 1,000,000) to prevent abuse, then stop bugging me and charge my credit card for my consumption every month.

I also wonder if Supabase has configurable fallback SMTP providers. I'd love to use AWS SES for volume and a managed provider like this one as a fallback.
For support contracts, services, consulting, and customisation.
It's a pretty weak guarantee. If it's possible to switch to the BUSL, then it's just as possible to switch to something even further from FOSS later.
Much easier aiming if its at the center (like no ""focal point""), and then the early ones also had only one, balance! But both uneducated guesses.

focal point: not sure if its the right term here, what I mean is: If you put the guns far to the side and still let them shoot straight you have drastically reduced the chance to hit a plane flying in front. And if you point them inwards you have only one good distance (where bullets cross, like focal point) where you hit well.
It wasn’t just basic social skills, I was asking some simple CS/data structure questions.
Colleges Spend Like There’s No Tomorrow
The issue is that about 15% of every incoming class at Stanford is there through nepotism, not merit.
Once I see someone plucking individual phrases out of context and replying only to them, I tend to get pretty skeptical of their intent. When I see words like "straw man" and "personal attack", it validates that skepticism, doubly so when those concepts are poorly applied.

Your mental health will improve once you log off of this site for the day. I highly recommend it.
> It has kept the same chat history throughout the past 20 years

So how come I can't access chats from before mid-2013? Not even by Google Takeout?

(It so happens that some of the most important conversations in my life happened in 2012, so I'm to date super annoyed that, for no good reason, 2013 is some kind of cut-off date.)
Wired Names Katie Drummond as Its Next Leader
Which is an artifact of a past age and foolish to bank on. Cold can be dangerous but we basically have what we need to survive at any low temperature in North America.

However, heat can't be combatted when you're outside in it with the same effectiveness. It reaches a point where the air temperature is simply lethal. It reaches a point where the paved ground burns whatever touches it. It degrades our medicines and damages our tools. We've already begun to experience these effects and it will only ever get worse. People should be moving away from hot areas, but instead they're running their AC 24/7 so they can keep pretending they made a good choice a little longer.
Is there a way to reliably scrub the drives to make sure they're reusable? I know storage is cheap but it's destroying the drive really the only way to ensure data integrity?

I'm a big fan of recycling old electronics wherever possible. Would the cost of compute to virtually destroy the data on the drive so it can be safely reused as storage exceed the cost of physically destroying the drive and then recycling the raw materials?

I know for some cases true destruction is the best way to mitigate data theft in this case but... That's a bit heavy handed for an 80% use case, innit?

Edit: personally I always check what's on my old drives before decomming them but I think I'm an outlier here
The main thing about eSignature is the willingness and ability to go to court to defend your tool and process. For the org that can't be be bothered to have a barebone customer service, I'm not sure how this will workout.
Chrome improvements might be helping there too.
For the absolute worst modems, I believe you could just send that in a PING on IRC and their client would write the string back and hang up
(side-note: You can get Sandisk stuff directly from Western Digital.)
Good example, although Van Gogh is probably the more cited.
Because if the gun is mounted on the centerline of the aircraft, it's more natural for the pilot to aim. Also, you can fire out to the full range of the ammunition.

Guns mounted on the wings had to be canted inward so that their pattern of fire intersects at some distance in front of the aircraft, so you only get the full firepower of all your guns at or around that specific range.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_harmonisation
Not actually related to article, but the title made me think this...

I feel like the piracy / p2p / scenegroup communities have been aging and being whittled down by brutal relentless lawsuits and lobbying from corps. I get the impression not many younger people are interested and are generally more content to accept the corporate slop they are given.

This is a bad thing. However u feel about piracy, keeping the skills alive to circumvent unfair systems imposed on you is really important for society and egality imo.

MIT should teach a computer piracy course.
There are fiber cables to the mainland:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svalbard_Undersea_Cable_Syst...

Interestingly from that Wikipedia article:

The Svalbard undersea cable system connecting the archipelago to the mainland was unexpectedly severed in January of 2022. A preliminary police investigation implicates human activity.
Helps that Germany offers free college for everyone.

https://www.study.eu/article/study-in-germany-for-free-what-...
White House RFI on Open-Source Software Security and Memory Safe Languages
> up to 16 machines

Does that include virtual machines?
the main concern is will people use it? As for that owner/broker needs to put houses there

Will the owner be okay with sharing their contact like this.
One way I thought of was that owner can decide whether he wish to share his number directly or not. If not the tenant will get a form like veg/non-veg, occupation and other stuff. According to which the owner can decide with whom he wants to share his number. (But it might be again difficult for the owner to decide and as its open might get too many requests)
RMS stans who insist that he be referred to as "Dr. Stallman."
OK, this is hilarious. I am planning a trip with a friend to Finland and Norway and Sweden. She will struggle with this. Like alot.
Ironically I'm back to using amazon.com solely for it's original use case - buying books.
Or even if you beat up your own daughter with an iron bar the judge won't send you to prison:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/father-who-battered-dau...

Because...his daughter said she still loved him
I'm not sure if the target type is always clear.

Y=(x+x)+y

What is the target type for x+x?

You could argue that you can have the same problem with operator overloading. But then again, it is best to implement the class just for a specific (type of) algo whithin which you use the overloaded + operator (or maybe better another symbol, resembling a + sign) in an unambiguous way. Also the class might have more functionality specifically suited for that type of algo.
The benifits are less ambiguity and, that normal operations keep being fast (directly use the cpu arithmetic functions); the code is only slower where clipping or something the like is needed.

Python is indeed slow and resource intensive, that's where libraries like numpy fit in. It uses vectorized native types (numpy ints and floats are native machine types), together with vector operations running in a precompiled low level language. Python only sees the 'outside' of the vectors as python objects.

I once wondered why my language did not have native support for fixed point type operations.
Once i started implementing custom types for and a class supporting fixed point, i noticed the sheer amount of design choices that were needed. A concise generic implementation of it is nearly impossible.
Today, you are absolutely right. If rights holders continue to reduce the available of premium content on Netflix, the situation may not be the same in a few years.

Netflix content alone can’t sustain the platform, imo.
That prompt has a lot of shouting, I kind of feel bad for the prompted.
You mean the place where your T cells mature and develop immune responses? Duh.
Corporations are people my friend.
> Whenever the district has a problem with it, they go back to the original programmer who still lives in the area.

It is indeed impressive, but I hope there's a contract for this. Everything else about this story sounds insanely incompetent, so I... I worry.

In principle there's nothing wrong with a Motorola 68K running a system like this, but the rest of this is damned.
Diffie-hellman would not be enough if there is a MITM at the time of the exchange, would it?

Somehow the control panel and the reader must authenticate each other. I'm no security expert but only way I can think of is to use some pre-shared key. A key set via a trusted side channel, or at a time when the osdp channel is known to not be intercepted.
I did read your comment word for word: “Of course this means you'd rely on Neovim maintainers honoring that compatibility in future.”

I knew that maintaining compatibility was extremely important to Bram Moolenaar. I also knew that Neovim made a big deal out of removing “cruft” and old stuff they decided no one needed. I preferred Bram’s values.
I thought tryptophan used to be added to icecream in the 70's and 80's until the tryptophan scare that caused Eosinophilia–myalgia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eosinophilia%E2%80%93myalgia_s...
I worked at Stanford admissions many years ago. Over 15% of every incoming class are students admitted due to nepotism.

At Harvard, that nepotism number is closer to 50%, according to my colleagues at the time.

The remainder are chosen from those with strong academics, nearly at random, with a very strong bias against students who don't visual demonstrate diversity on campus.
> As much as I love open-souce, I get the point that there are a bunch of freeloaders using stuff and not contributing back.

Freeloaders like HashiCorp using other people's compilers and libraries?
> Which is fine. But just go closed source, then, and own that, instead of trying to have it both ways.

The opposite of open source isn't closed source, the opposite of open source is restrictive. You're not forced to refuse to let people see the source when you're not open source. You're not forced to eliminate everything that OSI-approved licenses must have if you're not OSI-approved. There are no OSI cops that bust proprietary vendors for using a subset of their characteristics.

Of course it would be better if it were Free software, but it would be better if all software were Free software. They're doing them.

edit: My objection comes when people pretend licenses are open source when they are not OSI-approved and couldn't be. HashiCorp is not claiming to have remained open source: they're now "source-available."
Do you seriously think it would be hard for OpenAI to give GPT-4 a timer? The point of a Turing test is a passive evaluation of how intelligent a bot is. It's not a test that OpenAI is trying to pass.
No, >99.9% of people will never have their privacy violated because they aren't afforded the ability to hide their ownership. Check out your county's plat maps -- if you own property, you're probably in there.

TBH? I don't think anonymously owning land should be allowed, full stop. If you want police and courts to recognize your arbitrary stat-granted right over a piece of dirt, then own up to what you own.
We found that allowing the FE guys to iterate faster over relatively simple data models was worth the extra backend complexity. Additionally, every time a JSON deserialisation fails because someone typo'd a key an angel loses its wings, so that's nice to avoid.
Origins of Precision [video]
All the little girls cried "Boohoo, we want to have our appendix out, too!"
I’m really loosing faith in Hashicorp recently.

Moving away from the easy-to-predict flat rate Team pricing and to a new model based on number of managed resources ($0.000004 per resource per month or something like that) was just wacky…

… and now this “you can’t make money from the software you helped write” BS.
Its a mix is it not? Both local and global? Some of the prices and lead times look like inventory is coming from China via ePacket.
Been a while since I actually laughed out loud due to HN. Excellent work.

Only thing missing is an article entitled "Vague insinuation of Your Technology is Bad results in HN comments section being paged due to massive flame war...again"
It's interesting that the researchers chose example problems where the minimum norm solution is the best at generalization. What if that's not the case?
IvOry just qualified for ASL. That’s definitely new blood.
Not when it's a legal feature designed for enterprises.

A partner company willing to test it is going to take 3 months to review and choose to adopt it, another 3 months trying to convert a few internal flows, and another 6 months to observe how it changes processes and whether it's an improvement or not.

The point here is to get it right, not to get it quick. Enterprise software is the literal opposite of "move fast and break things".
Security neophyte here- you are exactly right. It also seems like in this case there was a "default encryption key" and is 100% a part of the problem
I think I actually still have an "Introduction to Slackware Linux" book.
> your needs and interests will be even less relevant to automakers than those of the rest of us

It's more of a want than a need. Otherwise, I agree, but not being able to buy an EV was presented as a bad thing?

There are fewer alternatives than I'd like, but there're still plenty to get the basic "car" need satisfied with my special "no phone use required" preference.
1. Correct - we don't rely on pgvector. As a result, we're compatible with more existing managed Postgres services.

2. Probably the biggest differentiator between Vespa and Retake is the core architecture - Retake is built on top of OpenSearch. There's been quite a bit of debate regarding different search engines since Yahoo released Vespa - we leaned into OpenSearch because we saw that Open/ElasticSearch and its query language was much more familiar to more developers. Something that's coming soon to Retake is the ability to control how keyword/semantic scores are normalized and combined, which should give developers more fine-tuned control over their results.

3. In the short term, our support for models like SPLADE is constrained by OpenSearch, which uses BM25. In the medium to long term we would definitely consider modifying OpenSearch to do stuff like this.

4. We support both post-filtering and efficient kNN filtering, which takes place during the kNN search and guarantees that k results are returned. More details on the faiss kNN filter implementation can be found on the OpenSearch docs: https://opensearch.org/docs/latest/search-plugins/knn/filter...
Similarly, I'm excited that I am frequently seeing this kind of article in my Mastodon feed first and then seeing it showing up in HN.
Is it a crypto company? A biometric authentication platform? A “human economic system”? Inside Worldcoin’s struggle to find itself.
Not impossible at all - classifier networks are much, much easier to train than generative networks. However you can’t directly integrate the logic into the generator, you’d have to train the generator against the discriminator network. This is essentially the principle of a GAN and although many tricks have been developed in recent years, they tend to be finicky and difficult to train.

Diffusion models like SD are trained with a very simple loss function instead, which is just the L2 loss of an iterative denoising process. This tends to result in stabler training than using GANs. However, you could fine tune SD with reinforcement learning using the deformity detector as the reward, but it’s not a panacea as it could lead to overfitting and performance degradation.
...the wind just kind of pushed me this way.
90% of a big number is a lot better than 100% of a small number. If you get benefit out of YC and your company has momentum, killing it and starting fresh on your own is absolutely not the best strategy.
Three reasons, 1) Easier to line up barrel with target, 2) Easier to clear jams especially given the colder air temperature at altitude (up to 12k feet), 3) Easier to replace belt when out of ammo with a box of ammo behind the pilot.
Yes, I'm eagerly following VanillaOS. I am excited for some of their tools and design.

But it would be also nice to have a standard mutable variant too.
Sounds like contributors should create a community fork then. Yeah, it sure does give away a lot of your rights when you sign a CLA...
I don't know if I've ever seen so many useful Open Source software products go proprietary at once; Vault, Consul, Terraform are all useful parts of many people's stacks, that they chose specifically because of their licence.

Hopefully they all get forked (or existing forks take off), and it is just a matter of the community converging on the winner that we all use in the future.
Small Talk
I find it brave we had this generation of companies creating open-source business models.

It’s a shame it didn’t work out for them due to bad actors.

The trend I see is for the next generation of good open-source great ideas to be much more protective around their intellectual property. Such a loss, again, due to bad actors.
He didn't even want Twitter. He paid the 44 billion[1] because he trolled himself into the deal and couldn't get the courts to let him back out.

[1] And he didn't pay that -- most of that is owed by Twitter, not him, and it's why Twitter is in such rough financial shape. Servicing that debt requires more money every year than Twitter ever made. Maybe more than Twitter/X will ever make.
Closed source can (and does, see Windows) provide source to customers too.
Okay so this is an announcement WhatWG will change :)
Llama 2 on ONNX runs locally
Actual full license seems to be here: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/e94ce2dd3877096b...
Not true. Rocky Linux is a Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation project. And on https://www.resf.org, you can see that RESF is backed by lots more folks than just CIQ.
Because for a while they were the only party who supported a free market. Labour wanted to nationalise all business until new labour arrived.
The Tories are shit, but if you believe (like me) that free enterprise is the best way to lift humans out of poverty , they were the best we had. Unfortunately now they are more interested in banning things and meddling in our personal lives.
I asked you for the 3 most recent examples you could think of, and your recent examples were decades old.

You have now linked me to a paper discussing privatization happening in the 1980s and 1990s.

If you want to make the argument that this happens frequently in the west, you need to find examples actually happening this decade. I don't feel like this should be controversial.
Note that WWI and WWII offered a very different fighting environment for pilots, so what's true in one environment doesn't necessarily apply to the other (especially since for WWII fighters, the ability to intercept and shoot down enemy bombers was a very important design consideration).

I'd be curious to learn more about your statistics example though.
Yes because it's the intersection of a meridian and a parallel, which is two points anywhere except the poles.
They're also good at getting security clearances since they never do anything, so those might've been CIA agents.
In other words: is strictly less useful than a "fake analog signature" script that uses imagemagick to paste a PNG/SVG with a signature (or a random one from a directory of signatures) on the last page of the document, and then to apply some or all of random {sub-2deg rotation, tiny gaussian blur, tiny non-linear transform, color threshold, strong desaturation}, to make it seem like the document was printed out, signed, and scanned back.
constructive dismissal. In some other industries similar tactics are used to deny the existence of an employer-employee relationship. Indefinite contractor status. Possibly broken up with mandatory away time every year. When the company no longer needs a worker or find their performance unsatisfactory they don't renew the contract. No termination needed. If they're paranoid about illegal employment termination lawsuits they can start managing out a worker through bad performance evaluations, assigning them less projects, a performance improvement plan.
I don't see it this way. As someone who is capable of programming these tools in novel ways, I see it as a new method of translating the abstract patterns I have inside me into a more corporeal form that can be shared and interact in the global conversation. As an amateur artist it helps me produce a higher quality representation of whatever is in my mind, and often finds imagery that appeals to me on a deeper level than I have ever really been able to achieve on my own. I continue to practice without the machines (that's where you learn how to be creative), but I must be practical because I don't have much time for creation and have some aspiration of growing into a more creative career.

It's an instrument that few people understand yet and which lacks soul unless imbued with soul. It's a projector that expands whatever you feed into it. It can be used to create massive volume, and in the future that will be critical because there will be huge amounts of noise in the information atmosphere that can only be overcome by being bigger and louder. Don't dissuade the artists from using this - they're up against a typhoon of cacophony and need all the help they can get.