skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This proposal would reduce total bills for the working class.

Not hardly. 180k household income is working class in California. This will drastically increase bills for many working class folks, those same working class that has been screwed over already with the lie sold about solar reducing costs. Because let’s be realistic here, a vast majority of people that installed solar did it for electricity bill reduction. It did, until this years.

This state is simply and completely captured by industry. We should not be passing laws to boost profit for a for-profit company.
> An amended indictment accused the 31-year-old former billionaire of directing two FTX executives to evade contribution limits by donating to Democrats and Republicans, and to conceal where the money came from.

> Bankman-Fried's indictment does not name the two people prosecutors say he used for "straw donors" to donate money at his direction. But other court papers and Federal Elections Commission data show they are Nishad Singh and Ryan Salame.

> Salame, the former co-CEO of FTX's Bahamian unit, gave more than $24 million to Republican candidates and causes in the 2022 election cycle, according to Federal Election Commision data.

This is all right there in the article. FTX had their fingers solidly in both pies.
> Gunpowder is also a low explosive

Yes, but a lot of modern formulations are based around RDX chemistry or nitroguanidine, etc. So, a big portion of the "smell" is high explosive even if the overall formulation burns subsonic.
OpenAI has its own playground where you can test all models (I believe GPT-4 is not available to everyone yet):

https://platform.openai.com/playground

Monthly subscription is only for ChatGPT. When you use the APIs you pay per token.
Or you know, pay for a subscription.
Cried a little inside when I deleted that. sniff
Counterpoint:

It wasn't like IA people woke up one day and decided to give publishers the middle finger because they felt like it. Trump had declared a national emergency due to COVID-19, under the guise of which Biden later tried to forgive hundreds of billions of dollars of student loans because he felt like it. Libraries were shut down and inaccessible to a lot of people during pandemic lockdowns. The NEL involved loaning people DRM'd books, not giving them out without controls. NEL also offered an email address copyright holders could contact to remove their content from the NEL; granted, visibility into that process wasn't great, but if you're a publisher or make a living as a self-published author and you aren't keeping tabs on major book-related news, isn't that on you?

IA's lending library is made up of scans. No casual reader wants to read scanned digital books.

I don't know what overtures were made to the publishers who ended up suing in part over the NEL (the lawsuits were more over digital lending of format-shifted works not specific to the NEL), but IA didn't try to blindside publishers in general. They had extensive dialogue with university presses, documented here:
https://blog.archive.org/2020/04/27/forging-a-cooperative-pa...
Your approach sounds very interesting. Do you have any course materials to share or recommend?
A five year old child is a person who has rights. If those rights are being trampled on, then it’s 100% appropriate for the child’s guardians to seek legal recourse on their behalf (provided that it can be shown to the appropriate legal standard that the guardians are acting in the child’s interest, which seems like it wouldn’t be difficult in this case). What the child would say with a soapbox isn’t the relevant question.
Possibly, but the risk appears substantial for a relatively modest payoff.

If their guilt is glaringly apparent and your stance is interpreted as supportive, the blowback could be even more detrimental compared to promptly creating distance and professing unawareness of their wrongdoing, genuine or not.

The level of risk seems considerably high for an amount of money that, in the realm of campaign contributions, isn't substantial.
I'd love for someone to debate me on the below:

Like all other tech it will paradoxically make people more productive and somehow less efficient. For programmers, we're all going to write more code with AI but somehow get as much done as the programmers pre-internet.
The former. "Manufacturing output" is a standard statistic, like GDP, used for global comparison and historical comparison so how it's measured is defined by the OECD.
I'm sorry, you're saying that in the same way children shouldn't need to vote, women shouldn't need to, vote? Or are you arguing that children should be involved like this and more, but just doing it obtusely?
> Yes in many parts of the world you are correct. In North America, phone numbers are all 10 digits prefixed with a 1 for long distance.

911, and other special and vanity numbers don't count? People have never heard of international numbers, either? Or that long distance vs local changes the length?
“They have a large amount of cattle”

Montana has more cows than humans.

Montana has more than twice as many cows as humans.

1.1 million residents and 2.6 million head of cattle.
The crypto giveaway scam --the scourge of twitter that will never go away. the scam is so lucrative even compared to other type of scams. hundreds of k or millions of losses and no consequences for perpetrators, risk free $
Man Puzzled When His Totaled Tesla Comes Back Online in Ukraine
Can't really bet civilization on something we don't know how to do yet.
The zero to hero video series is what you're looking for - look past the name and watch it. It's excellent.
And the CAP theorem only has a small relationship with why POSIX is bad for filesystems.
Show HN: A tracker of the most used hosting & CDN, domain name regs and DNS
Heya,

This is Stan. I'd like to share some interesting, and hopefully helpful lists/indexes that I've built recently.

Top 50 Hosting & CDN Providers - CloudFlare & Amazon hold about 55% market share together. ^1

Top 50 Domain Name Registrars - GoDaddy & Namecheap hold about 50% together ^2

Top 100 DNS Providers - Cloudflare, Amazon & GoDaddy hold about 60% of all altogether ^3

How were these lists prepared? - going through public whois records of all products listed SaaSHub. I believe that this should be a good mirror of what the tech industry is using.

I will also be logging the rankings and market share of all providers. That way we will be able to see some interesting movements. For example - which companies are growing fast and which are declining. We will need a few months of data for those stats to show up though.

Please let me know what you think. I'd be even better if you chime in with an idea how this could be improved.

Thanks!

^1 https://www.saashub.com/tech-radar/hosting

^2 https://www.saashub.com/tech-radar/domains

^3 https://www.saashub.com/tech-radar/dns
This, or lucas@researchscale.io
I didn’t say anything negative about David Weiss nor am I republican. Why do defensive?
Sure, we shouldn't discount the opinions of a 15-year-old, they've probably got a novel perspective on things and there are issues that affect them that they can articulate an opinion on. But five? They've only just learned to walk and talk and they literally believe anything that their parents tell them. A five year old would believe that global warming was a scam invented by Martians if their parents told them so.
Karpathy's series is many many hours long and really does take you from zero to GPT. It's excellent! You sound triggered by the title - that may not even be the official title - but it definitely deserves it. Go look it up.
> But then why would they be all over the early universe?

Stars can form quite quickly (relative to the age of the universe), possibly as early as 150 million years after the Big Bang. And the earliest massive stars would have had very short lifespans.
None of those are examples of the third world

You just have not seen structural poverty at the state level

all the roads still work, there’s services, access to schools, technology (mines), property rights

So many riches that people of the first world take for granted
Not really. When assessing the credibility of a source, you have two main questions: do they have the information you need, and do they have an incentive to lie? Industry-wide associations usually have significantly worse information than people who are actually performing the jobs at companies in the organization, and they also have a responsibility to their member orgs to get the best outcomes for them (i.e. represent information in a way that achieves member organization goals).

If I wanted accurate information on the state of hiring in an industry, I would look for someone who had recently performed sourcing/interviewing/recruiting for one of the big companies in the industry but had also recently retired, left for another field, or become a stay-at-home mom/dad. They have the firsthand information as part of their job, but they also have no dog in the fight and hence no reason to distort that information.
For me, the main issue is the potential of POI/confidential information being leaked.

I think it's fine using "usage data", but the contents of a private conversation should be considered to be... private.

LLMs and generative image models have shown the ability to leak/reproduce training data. That's a big deal.
The C++ community has de facto standardized on CMake, which solves half the problem. It's not pretty, but it gets the job done.

Dependencies can mostly be managed with vcpkg and its CMake integration. The only real problem is when you need something that's not in vcpkg and have to write your own port overlay.

It's not perfect, but the situation is vastly better than it was ten years ago.
I wasn't aware of any direct connection between Snowden's leaks and lives saved. I have seen vague-ish claims from intel communities that he cost lives, but not the other way around. Anything concrete about how he saved lives?
Pattern recognition and analogy are my secret weapons, for sure. I'm really only a good engineer because I'm good at organizing and communicating my thoughts. It's the only reason I've made it so far in my career -- definitely not any innate propensity for "hard" cs concepts. I faked it til I made it, and now I'm pretty darn good at it.

I think in my particular case the concepts around quantum ____ are so abstract I'm unable to find anything to liken it to. It certainly doesn't help I lack any substantial background in mathematics.

Hopefully one day I'll get there. Or maybe I'm already there and not there at the same time! Who knows!?
Yes, some are subsumed. I was merely arguing against the universality of 'subsume all of these'.
Discord.io Data Breach: A Comprehensive Analysis
Nescafé Harajuku is offering the opportunity to nap like a giraffe
What do you do when your Rust project requires a dependency written in something other than Rust?
Well done, this was written in 100% the tone and attitude of a typical HN user.
> My guess is that they are arguing fair use, but I just don't see how that applies here when they make copyrighted works available, for free, over the Internet.

The fourth part of the fair use test rests on whether the use of the work impacts the commercial market for the work.

Given these works are often:

- Not offered in their original form

- Would likely have little residual commercial value if so offered

- And, the article states, are only accessed by one researcher per month

Indicates that the research, educational, and cultural value from this use likely far outweighs the impact to the commercial use of these works.
I think it's pretty simple: fire trucks are really big. Use the fire truck to push the disabled car out of the way. This will cause damage to the car, but who cares? That's the car owner's problem. It's just like when firefighters smash the windows of illegally parked cars and put fire hoses through them.
I really want to know if the record labels tried a DMCA takedown request. Normally IA follows those, I can't determine if one was sent and the IA ignored for some reason or if the record labels purposely chose a different manner of attack.

One of the stories mentioned something about an ignored cease and desist, but that seems like a separate thing.
FYI you are shadowbanned as well, this comment shows up as "dead".
Yeah, and if you read the ruling in the controlled digital lending case, it was a mess. IA wasn't making sure the print copy came off the shelf, and they were linking to their own site (BWB) to sell copies of the book. Not a well built case to take to court.
> We’re about 40 years into “getting started”.

This describes America way too accurately.
"An amended indictment accused the 31-year-old former billionaire of directing two FTX executives to evade contribution limits by donating to Democrats and Republicans, and to conceal where the money came from."

Here is the amended indictment.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.59...

"9. As noted above, SAMUEL BANKMAN-FRIED, a/k/a "SBF," the defendant, also used misappropriated customer money to help fund over $100 million in political contributions in advance of the 2022 election. At BANKMAN-FRIED's direction, and to conceal the source of the funds used for the contributions, some of the political contributions were made in the names of FTX executives, including Nishad Singh. To conceal the fact that the Alameda account containing FTX customer deposits was a source of the donations, BANKMAN-FRIED directed that money from the Alameda account be wired to these executives' personal bank accounts, and that these executives then make donations in their own names. By directing donations through Singh and another FTX executive, BANKMAN-FRIED was able to evade restrictions on certain types of political contributions, and thereby maximize FTX's political influence. He leveraged this influence, in turn, to lobby Congress and regulatory agencies to support legislation and regulation he believed would make it easier for FTX to continue to accept customer deposits and grow, which would, in turn, allow the misappropriation scheme to continue. BANKMAN-FRIED also used these connections with politicians and government officials to falsely burnish the public image of FTX as a legitimate exchange."
I feel conflicted about this. I find that the best speakers live are dynamic in their speaking rate: sometimes slow, sometimes rapid-fire. It really helps with the pacing of a talk, and there's something about being transfixed in person and giving over a block of your life to the speaker. It feels sacred, even if it's a mediocre talk. However, when watching or listening to recorded talks, I prefer a consistent speaking rate so I can choose an optimal speed.
no surprises there, but it still makes me a little sad...
You can always shovel coal into the massive furnaces that power the AI bots.
Definitely. I’ve been working in the same general region building software for 15 years, so I have a lot of contacts.
What countries build enough housing? In China, they build like crazy but housing is still expensive, even in third tier or worse cities.
Even so, the punishment for most crimes is more severe than merely reversing the effects of the crime.
My wife and I have a pretty firm policy of not lending money (exception if someone just needs cash until they can get to an ATM/Venmo us back).

We've seen too many people who've had relationships ruined over it. In our view, the two primary cases simply don't have good outcomes:

* A situation where the borrower has made many, significant financial decisions. Lending them money isn't going to fix their problems.

* A loan that is far too large. While this is not the poor decisions of point 1, it's often a purchase that has more affordable options. E.g. they can afford a $10k car, but want to purchase a $20k car.
Anki's build seems particularly problematic for some reason - both Arch and NixOS have given up on updating their from source builds and just repackage the first party builds
Exactly! This is entirely on the IA for refusing to recognize they don't have the inherent right to violate copyright at their leisure. The reason they will keep getting into this is because they keep insisting they aren't doing anything wrong.

If preservation of unprofitable content is the goal, sit down with the lawyers and hammer out conditions under which the IA can be given permission to preserve content. A good negotiator can probably even get record labels to pay for it if they think they're getting a copyright win.

The IA doesn't respect copyright to a fault and it shows and they're going to keep losing as long as they believe they're entitled to ignore it.
The AI-town stuff is cool, but the real benefit is how all the backing frameworks are already integrated. I'll definitely be using this as a jumping-off point for my next LLM project.
You can always publish unfinished crates as 0.0.1 version

0.0.x crates are special in that they can have breaking changes even in minor versions (so 0.0.1 isn't compatible with 0.0.2), so they convey a level of stability that is even less than a typical 0.1.x crate
There is a 13" MacBook pro nearly identical in size and weight to the 13" MacBook Air but it has active cooling so you can run it at 100% all day long without throttling.
My issue is, I seem to only ever be interested in learning the things I struggle with...
This looks very cool! Thank you for sharing. I find GC's in rust particularly fascinating.

So if I understand correctly, every time a Gc drops you add it a hashmap and then periodically, you run through all Gc's in that map and trace all their children to see if they are part of a cycle? I still don't understand how this would work without knowing the rootset. Just because something is part of a cycle doesn't tell you if it is inaccessible. There must be something here that I am missing.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127061
I have a Master's in Comparative Politics. What you learned in high school is simplified and incorrect.

I (somewhat incredulously here) can't tell if you really believe that the judiciary only interprets laws, but no, that's wrong. In a country with strong judicial review, like the US or Germany, they can literally strike them down for being unconstitutional. Once that happens, both popular will and the legislature are irrelevant. Your 1st paragraph.... no idea what you're trying to say there.

Just as a quick example, banning flag burning has always been overwhelmingly popular with the electorate, and every single state plus the federal government used to have anti-flag burning laws on the books. The Supreme Court twice struck down such laws, which made the public and Congress enormously angry. And.... popular will is irrelevant. The Court has the final word on this and any other topic that you choose to take up. You could read

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_v._Johnson
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Eichman

And in general I think it'd help to read up on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judicial_activism. But yes, the judiciary essentially makes the law all the time (for example, see qualified immunity- created from whole cloth by the Court), in addition to striking them down as they choose. They hold ultimate power in our system of government. I don't think your general understanding of what judicial review is is correct
The original thinking was generative. That is a good distinction to add. I do think regression/analysis doesn't have many of the same issues, ex. no one would have an issue if Zoom said "we're going to analyze how many minutes users spend on Zoom by time of day"
> Y'all need to make up your minds

it's unclear what you're even talking about here. Who is y'all? What does y'all need to make their minds up about?
Have you been to a country that has actual corruption?
Yeah looks like I was downvoted below -4.
Most cities in the developed world don’t provide the micro apartments of Tokyo. Their codes don’t allow for them.
https://archive.ph/rQgNx
How long until the agents recreate AI Town in-universe? We wouldn’t be able to see it, but one of them could start talking about it. ;)
Europe Leads the Charge in Global Carbon Pricing Efforts
sure, people should be able to say what std::move does (basically nothing) but people asking the questions need to be aware of what they are asking about - most c++ programmers are not writing library code.
Also there are plenty of drugs that make you more focused, but they also make you _high_ at a certain dosage, _normal_ is just what's the default level.
Accepting illegitimate funds without awareness doesn't appear to be a criminal offense, based on my understanding (short of falling afoul of money laundering). The punishment typically just involves returning the funds.

Unless there's compelling evidence to definitively demonstrate their awareness of the funds' misappropriated source, it seems challenging to establish grounds for substantial punitive action in this situation.
> but also if they don't, the attack ad for their opponent writes itself.

Does this even matter anymore? Seems like people are so tribal that they'll vote for their party no matter what, combined with lots of voter apathy makes it seem like it doesn't matter.
you're describing what all conspiracy theorists claim to do

if the unvalidated, hole-filled hypothesis (which DOESN'T, in fact, match the data) can indeed be validated, then validate it and report the process and results of validation

short of that, the unvalidated, hole-filled hypothesis which doesn't match the data, seems unlikely, given the millions of donations to republicans
Use SponsorBlock to skip all of that filler, it skips more than just sponsors if you set it to do so in the settings.
Or Do your own homework and you might conclude that it's no use timing the market?
> Politicians should be made to pay out of their own pockets

We don't want to create a system where only the rich can afford to be politicians ... or at least we don't want to make that any worse than it already is
I'm starting to realize that secular culture has created a void that is leaving people unfulfilled. Yet I'm still struggling to become a believer myself.
It’s immensely helpful for learning. Orders of magnitude better than google which has ruined their search results with seo bait.

At the very least, its a much more powerful google (dont nitpick my comparison, i realize it hallucinates). Getting the EXACT context of your question is something generalized search/articles online will NEVER give you, and you can read hundreds of pages of docs all day. This is good for certain things, but not when you want to know just a single setting or atomic piece of information. I want to get the smallest amount of accurate information very specifically to my problem, as I'm programming many hours per day on my own companies as a one man show.

My search history on chat gpt includes a few things as examples:

- specific ways SOLID principles could be applied to Go which is non-OOP language

- helping me quickly learn nuances of Lua for configuring neovim, specifically for weird syntax or things annoying to google (ie what does # mean) or what does a specific error mean within the context of the configuration

- more efficient top k algorithms than what I was building for learning purposes

- asking to break down big o complexity of certain types of sort functions and whether they differ from n log n

- helping me learn enough rust to do a bug fix Pr that was annoying me

- x vs s in neovim config for keymap modes

- figuring out why Ruby doesn’t implement descending ranges

Etc etc etc
Just being submerged in the water is probably what they mean by 'at the surface'.

The resistance shouldn't change much whether you are 30cm in the water or 30m.
That’s not what average means. ;)
> We dill die fighting though

I agree for the rest but will we? The planet is burning and we don't do shit.
Chapman and Butina are by no means intelligence officers, they were assets with minimal training.

I'll grant you illegals in general, those are typically married couples.