skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 5th amendment protects you from being a witness against yourself [0]. So to me it seems pretty clear that in the US this would not be allowed.

But then again, it seems as though being forced to reveal your password is not necessarily a violation of the 5th amendment [1]. I can't quite understand why the supreme court hasn't made a decision on this one yet. There are a lot of conflicting decisions now.

0: `nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself`

1: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/police-should-n...
https://github.com/runvnc/smartcat
To be fair he made most of his initial wealth during the dot.com psychosis...

Not saying he isn't one of the greatest businessmen in history (well... assuming he's running Twitter to the ground for shits & giggles anyway) but selling a company for hundreds of millions back in those days does not necessarily was not necessarily that different from winning the lottery (being at the right time and the right place was enough).
This was recently posted and [flagged], why is that? I think it's a legitimate and timely article worth discussing. [1]

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37253794
I am not a user of Vim, but this guy used the "charity ware" model to do so much inspiring work in Uganda (my country).[0]

I hope I will be able to do something close to his achievements in my lifetime.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Moolenaar
I wonder if it would be cheaper in the long run to build a new fuel depot and station on the other side of the bridge. Driving back and forth hundreds of extra miles must be tremendously expensive in terms of fuel, salaries, wear and tear, time, supplies, etc.
Its very easy to say something like that, but impossible to provide any sort of examples, even in a fantasy context.

Like what a gas cloud with intelligence?

We live in a universe with distinct rules, saying life doesnt have to have cells is basically fantasizing about other dimensions where we're made out of hot dogs or something. Saying life doesn't require cells is just redefining what words mean, since a cell literally means the smallest functional unit of life.
There is no proof unless its math, theres just unfalsifiable facts, which just have not yet been falsified.
Note: Readability, coherent organization, and logical correctness are often more important than obfuscated "hold-my-beer"/Heisenbug code.

In general, have a look at the Standard Template Library or Boost examples directory. Then some unit tests for simple GNU programs similar to what you are building, CLI command source like "ps" for OS interactions, and finally an OS kernel like Linux or *BSD. There are also several online classes offered by linuxfoundation.org etc.

Start with a small SBC like a pi4/BeagleBoard, and learn how to snapshot disk images (you will severely damage things while learning). There are also several open syntax formatting standards published by projects (and companies like Google), that will guide you on the local ecosystem.

Expect a Hazing in some places, as some folks tend to forget they were students once too.

It would also be wise to spend a few days studying security-auditing-tools, as one may learn to mitigate common ways people will try to break stuff. Detection and incident-handling is arguably more important than outright prevention.

Happy coding, =)
It may seem odd at first impressiom, but profits are about the past, layoffs are about the future, so its also not nonsensical.
I posit it is similar to how Adobe lets students pirate Photoshop, because when they join the workforce that is what they know and need their employers to buy Adobe services, which for corporate is very expensive.

Meta by democratizing AI access is generating more capable developers which will make the Metaverse a reality, where FB leads. They have already realized they have a losing gambit with Google, Apple, Microsoft (also X?) having an antagonistic monopoly against Meta product advancement
Your product SarathyWeb appears to be a frontend to other cloud services. Are you using your own accounts to run stuff for other people? If so, what's your anti-abuse story? If someone used you to run abusive jobs on a cloud (e.g. spam), how quickly would you notice?
Refact has worked for me.
Hopefully exllama will support CodeLlama.
Have you looked at Loki?
Win for me wouldn't mean "destroy all competition", it would be "within cities and towns, be able to safely and efficiently go wherever any competition can go".
Is this open source? I'd think it'd be cool to expand on it. For instance, I have two prompts I run to get ideas about x topic for youtube shorts, then to choose one, and write a script that has x,y,z criteria (good image prompts, sense of humor, etc). Having a cool plug/play thing for this would be a cool use case.
The article is quite clear on whose money it is - "Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, IBM, Salesforce and Sound Ventures".

For at least half of them, it might make sense to simply sponsor accelerating worldwide new AI product development because those new products will increase sales of their hardware and services; pitch in $20m together with others to support efforts like Huggingface, while expecting that their tools will indirectly cause an extra $1b sales for you in the next few years.
Xiaomi vacuum has 1D laser rangefinder that is physically rotated in a 2D plane, much cheaper and simpler than a 3D LiDAR.
Can you teach me how to read minds the way you apparently do?
> but the question was how they were different from Monero or ZCash. Why couldn't you apply the same argument to those?

IANAL, and maybe DannyBee can correct me if I'm mistaken, but I think the answer to this is "Maybe they do and just haven't been charged yet." If there are a lot of independent people doing the same crime, they're not all going to be charged simultaneously. Each requires a separate investigation. Someone's going to be the first in line.
I believe that may be correct, although in practice there is often/usually/historically-always (?) deception involved, because presumably no morally competent adult would willingly give their money to an honest Ponzi unless they knew they stood to benefit by being one of the first to pull out.

But as you point out, I don't think deception per se is really the defining feature of the Ponzi.
Threads.net Can Go to Hell
> TAITs

I personally find these 4 letter acronyms difficult to lookup and understand. One of the T is probably "trait", but I always forget.
> physicians need to be more like him.

What does being a founder have to do with being a doctor?

Or a physicist for that matter?
But there's the rub. Some of the population hates these kinds of events, and another portion love it.

Is there "Griefing potential"? Yes, there is. But, man, the game is so mundane and routine the rest of the time, why not mix it up a little?

They brought this back at the end of Battle For Azeroth, during the end of expansion event. Players could become ghouls and infect other players. You'd see them lingering and lying in wait when bosses would spawn in Ice Crown, then shenanigans ensued.

They also did this back in Mists of Panderia, and not just for a short time, but it was end game content where you could use an object and become a hostile PVP player to EVERYONE, not just the other faction, even on PVE servers. Did the griefers have a field day with that? Yea, for a short time. More reason for the "citizenry" to posse up and beat the ne'er do wells back.

But there were always those that complain. "This happened and inconvenienced me".

I'm sorry. BFH. TDB. Boo hoo. Too bad. That game is playable that way the other 100 weeks of the expansion. There's lots of players, lots of playstyles, every decision Blizzard makes is a bad one in someones eyes. So, lighten up and let others have a turn.
"hark back to early video players "

I think he means audio players, but it's possible they's never seen one of the old audio tape machines...
> Don't you just make a conservative decision in that case? My eyes and ears disagree all the time, but if one of them says danger that is the one I listen too.

In the context of vehicular autonomy it's more complicated than that because for example a radar sensor picking up an overhead sign or a truck parked on the shoulder as if it's an obstruction on the road is something you want to ignore when you're going 80 MPH on the highway rather than slamming on the brakes.

When you're the only vehicle on the road, stopping if anything goes wrong is always the safest idea. When you're one of hundreds of vehicles in a high speed flow of traffic stopping would put you and everyone else on the road at significantly greater risk.
According to this article walking burns about 30% less, but still closer than I would have expected!

https://health.clevelandclinic.org/qa-can-you-burn-the-same-...
Lots of subsidies there that aren't
All attempts at humor should be made. If they fail, a simple apology or explanation should be fine. Otherwise, offended parties should kindly exfiltrate themselves back to Reddit.
https://suckless.org/
For anyone new-language-curious, Idris is a very interesting project that is inspired by Haskell but which seems to have less design drawbacks
Flat design is irrelevant and is not a differentiator. Cheaper propulsion is speculation unless you have data to prove otherwise.
ISL has been around for a long time (see iridium). SpaceX achieved higher rates, though.

They won $900M in RDOF funding (based on a lie), which is still in limbo because of the poor performance. It's likely they will still get some or all of that since not all $900M was tied to the same speed tier. There is absolutely no proof this can be sustained forever, just like there isn't for Uber or Lyft not being profitable.

Other phased arrays with their specs do not sell for much more. They're small, low G/T, low EIRP, "cheap" units.
More than that, I mean eyes have more data than just what light is hitting their retinas. The work that the brain and neurons do to aim and focus your eyes at a distant object essentially solves several math problems that give you very direct distance info. Your brain knows that, if the angular deviation of your eyes away from parallel is X to aim at an object, then it is ~Y distance away. It also knows that, these muscles have to flex this much to focus on that object, which ALSO provides depth info to your brain. Solid state image sensors cannot provide either of those datasets.

These two processes are actually why VR can be difficult on the eyes, because while the main way your brain senses depth is the parallax (the classic "binocular vision" way people think of), the sense of focus is telling your brain that everything is right in front of your eyes.
I've maintained a Haskell library for databases for over ten years. Here is my take:

Haskell is a complex and a flexible language. It pushes you toward correctness, but in other dimensions is less opinionated than other languages. If you choose to stay away from the low-level Template Haskell (the types for it are updated often) and the bleeding edge type system tricks, Haskell would be quite stable.

The idea to use only the simple parts of Haskell is great - but what is simple is a rather subjective judgment. Oftentimes the technical choices would be made before the the impact on dev ux and effort to maintain becomes clear. Luckily, doing large refactoring in a complex Haskell project is safe, and improving over the initial choices is easier than in most other languages.
BakTok: Learn 2 talk backwards.
Show HN: A simple web app to combat phone addiction
When I'm stuck on coding something, I find myself reaching for my phone even if I don't have any particular reason to do so. Inspired by Calm's DoNothingFor2Minutes.com which launched on HN 13 years ago [1], I made this simple webapp to see if my friends and I could go an hour without touching our phones. It is surprisingly difficult.

According to a 2022 survey [2], the average US adult picks up their phone 352 times per day, or approximately once every 2m43s while they're awake.

On browsers that support it (iOS 16.4+, most versions of Android Chrome), it uses the Screen Wake Lock API [3] to keep the page open, and falls back to nosleep.js [4] otherwise. From testing on my iPhone 14 Pro Max running iOS 16.6, battery life only went down 3 or 4 percentage points after an hour with the wake lock.

Made this as a web app as a quick demo to be compatible across all mobile devices. As an app, we can probably save more on battery + not have the screen on. One caveat is that on iOS this will actually increase your Screen Time (although hopefully reduce your other category usage).

I currently only track time on page through Google Analytics 4. No other calls are made to a server, although if we actually wanted to verify that you kept the page open vs. javascript/inspector-system clock-fu, we could add a verified mode that pings the server every X minutes.

As a PWA, possibly due to an iOS/Mobile Safari quirk/bug [5], neither wake lock nor nosleep.js appear to work .

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2124106
[2] https://www.asurion.com/connect/news/tech-usage/
[3] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake...
[4] https://github.com/richtr/NoSleep.js
[5] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254545
That's fair. I think this is the appeal of stuff like Reddit to many people, because like yourself they merely want the information they came for or an answer to their question rather than a community.

I guess some people go on forums and community sites to talk about the topic first and foremost, and some others because they want to make friends/be part of a community first and foremost.

It reminds me of the split between people who watch YouTube videos/Twitch streams because of the creator and those who watch them because the topic being covered.
> It's fairly well established that in the real world, strict functional programming languages aren't an option.

This just isn't true.

We write essentially 100% Haskell where I work. All day, every day. Have done for years.

We have a "real world" business, with real customers, who pay real money.
‘Suspicious device’ that shut down Grover Beach street was a geocache
The box needs to be defined at some point, lest you start realizing you've defined it so broadly that natural phenomenon like fire, the wind, or the tides qualify.
Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup
> If you instant-fail a candidate for this, it says a lot more about you and your organization than the candidate.

yes, we expect professional software developers to have basic maths skills

"what is a prime number" is taught to 7 year olds, it's not vector calculus

what else would you consider to be an unreasonable thing for an employer to require?

reading and writing skills of a typical 7 year old?
Yep, just as I said in the previous comment: everyone is at fault but for sure it wasn't the vendor of the device! How the vendor could be the culprit in doing something what would cripple the boot/install of the OS? Nonsense!
> We definitely are not trying to pass as a medical service.

> HSA/FSA-eligible.

Try harder?
I like how companies are embracing branding that evokes cyberpunk and other genres of dystopian science fiction.
Mirror [1] as they sometimes paywall some regions

[1] - https://archive.is/dDEQ9
I'm not wanting to sound snoody. What use-cases do firecracker instances and the likes chime?

I use FreeBSD for everything from my colocated servers, to my own PC. By no means am I developer; seasoned Unix Admin at best. Bare-metal forever but welcome to the future. Especially anything that contributes to the OS.

However I hear buzz words like Lambda and Firecracker and really have no idea where the usage is. I get docker, containers, barely understand k8s but why do you need to spin up a VM only to tear it down compared to where you could just spin up a VM and use it when you really need to. Always there, always when.

Is it purely a cloud experience, cost saving exercise?
https://stackoverflow.com/a/54544012/1336678

Common approach is to use square roots, this reduces the runtime. Recommend checking out project euler if you like solving hard math-code-o(n)-puzzles.
iPhone 13 Pro has solid state LiDAR.
Not true at all: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/08/17/spacex-reported-a-profit...
The loading routines from that era just count the number of DC zero-crossings and convert X crossings into a 0 and Y crossings into a 1, they don't care about frequency or amplitude (the raw signal is usually fed into a Schmitt trigger to implement hysteresis for a stable edge). That way, the polarity of the tape signal and the variation of the motor is compensated for.
Car brake systems actually have several built in redundancies, including an entire secondary system for backup emergency use.

What redundancies can you implement in a black box "AI" model?
Fonebone is watching you the other 14 hours.

https://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2014/08/22/don-martin-foneb...
Yeah, I asked it to write bubble sort in python, and it did so perfectly, but then decided to add a couple dozen parentheses to the end. I then followed up asking it to remove these, and it didn't seem to grasp that there was a conversation, as it just rewrote the same thing.

All said, this was after like 5 minutes of playing with the 13B model, and was not using any kind of human/assistant formatting, hence the need for at least simple prompting to make that work (or fine-tuning if it isn't trained yet on conversational data)
Maven is awfully slow and awfully stateful (plugins or multiple executions interfering with each other), has too many quirks, and documentation is lacking. Gradle is imperative and also stateful.

Dependency injection and annotation-driven development is “magic happens here” that is hard to analyze when something doesn’t work, and hard to reason about in the sense of building a proof that it will always behave in the correct and intended way.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acbce8#...

edit: a paper discussing the connection between vapour pressure (drought) and oil and gas usage.
It'd be hard not to hook into the Go GC in an application written in Go...
Refuelling underway is an extremely complex and risky undertaking and the cost in maintaining training currency and the actual time spent refuelling underway would almost certainly be more expensive than the longer round-trip (possibly by an order of magnitude).
“ In the four months since our product keynote, the Modular community has grown to more than 120K+ developers (including tens of thousands of enterprises) who are excited to utilize our AI infrastructure stack.”

What? Pretty sure you don’t have 20K enterprise customers.
TSC should fail the build if it doesn't have the destruction interface, the scope is the scope the variable is initialized in/under. It's very similar to C#'s usage of using.

Edit: It's also a pending Stage 3 proposal for EcmaScript.

https://github.com/tc39/proposal-explicit-resource-managemen...
The article was written with just an Amazon fire stick in a hotel room.
What’s the world’s oldest language?
Probably a pill hard to swallow for HR, I would never be more productive than from my home. I put weeks tweaking my environment for maximum productivity, I will never shy off from wearing comfy clothes and using the washroom, adjusting temperature as needed (as somebody with a higher metabolism than average). Working remotely I am being askded about the progress of work rather than why I left 5min earlier..

I understand it works better for companies too, larger talent pool, reduced costs. The negatively affected entities are neither the employees nor the the employers.
We are talking about Nokia or Ericsson or the actual provider? Since 15-20 years now the provider doesn't build anything. All that remains vaguely interesting is managed by subcontractors and externals. The actual number of people who are full time employees and still do tech at a telecom operator is close to 0. They are users of pre-built solutions and everything is offshore or managed by the firm that sold the software. This includes NFV, SDN, and the O&M plane, and other places (where actual innovation still happened in the past decade)
Private individuals owning self-driving vehicles won't really be a thing in the longer term, it doesn't make economic sense. There are countless advantages to having a company or local government run and maintain a fleet.
Thanks for the questions. At a very high level, the AI uses statistical models that learn in real-time and estimate how frequently the data on the database is changing. The TTL's get set accordingly and are set per SQL query. The model looks at many inputs such as the payload sizes being returned from the database as well as arrival rates.

If PolyScale can see mutation queries (inserts, updates, deletes) it will automatically invalidate, just the effected data from the cache, globally.

If you make changes directly to the database out of band to PolyScale, you have a few options depending on the use case. Firstly, the AI, statistical based models will invalidate. Secondly, you can purge - for example after a scheduled import etc. Thirdly, you can plug in CDC streams to power the invalidations.

Feel free to ping me if you would like to dig in deeper (ben at) and this document provides more detail on the caching protocol: https://docs.polyscale.ai/how-does-it-work#caching-protocol

This blog also goes in to detail on how invalidation works: https://www.polyscale.ai/blog/approaching-cache-invalidation...
Before Paypal he sold a rudimentary yellow pages search engine to Compaq for $305 million so that they could merge it into their search engine.

Compaq managed to sell AltaVista for $2.3 billion 6 months later and not long before the crash so maybe it wasn't the stupidest move on their side.
That's fair, it's definitely a matter of preference which you prefer. I'd say both have their upsides and downsides.

> Although that is also caused by poor moderation.

And sadly poor moderation is kinda the default online in general now. Going on many forums and social media sites makes you miss Dang and his work here.
> many others consider what she did no different than a ponzi scheme

I can interpret this in many different ways. Maybe they mean "no different than" in the sense of "no better than", ie.: as a moral or value judgment.

But if I interpret the words literally, then these people are just wrong. Theranos was a terrible waste of capital, and there was plenty of fraud involved, but it was not a Ponzi.
Abacuysnth – A synthesizer inspired by an abacus (2022) [video]
Would it be possible to develop the an App/Software using AI?
A lot of discussion going on where AI can write the whole software and automate software development. It can write small piece of code, but don't think it can build the whole app. what do you guys think?
Moderation is moderation. Don't pretend that it is significantly different from place to place.

I mean, I guess we can just talk about HN if you want. Yay, circumstances were such that HN moderation isn't as shitty as reddit, and may even remain that way for the lifespan of the site. How long is that anyway? Will HN be around 30 years from now? 5? It's so much smaller, that how many unlucky heart attacks or misfortunately early deaths would derail it? Is that a higher-than-single-digit number?

So, any discussion of purely HN moderation (besides those asking for input on policy adjustments) aren't talking about anything long term and pointlessly self-congratulatory.
This is a very good comment. I think the article presumes lower level roles. Very senior comp packages are wildly different so you always go into the convo with “I expect at least X, can you meet my number?” Otherwise you’re that person that tries to negotiate a 250k position up to 500k which is not going to happen.