skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a hypothetical scenario:

- You're running the successor to Bandcamp

- You're making good money, employ a couple staff

- Epic comes to you offering millions to buy your business

The rational choice is to sell. Would you choose the stress of running a sustainable business over the payout? I know I wouldn't.

There's no indication afaik that Bandcamp was in financial trouble before they got acquired. This is inevitable in the current ecosystem.
To be fair, they did (as the article states) check with the supposed source and confirm the source was unaware of the bug, they proposed a mitigation if you want to be cautious till the bug is confirmed to not exist, and they're investigating further.
The Pluralistic post is only about 20% longer than that article, and it adds useful context about why an average American should care about this particular judge and the Texas Two-Step.

Not a criticism of the Business Insider article, individual news stories don't need to have a full history of every subject they talk about, but if I saw the first few paragraphs I might think "never heard of this judge or company, don't live in Texas, this story has nothing to do with me".
Do you know how this compares with the Atlassian Server (on-prem) option, let's say in the best case of 500 users?
I took a differential geometry topics course from Gene Calabi about 12 years ago in grad school. I was surprised to see his name on the upcoming course calendar — I'd heard of him ("Calabi-Yau manifold") but hadn't expected he might still be teaching classes. (And ordinarily he wasn't — he was already long-retired at that point.)

Turned out the reason he was teaching a course that semester was that he was really excited to share a new idea he'd had about how to visualize the complex projective plane. There were two (or three?) students in attendance.

Okay, here's Calabi's visualization of the complex projective plane. The complex projective plane (as everyone knows) is the set of equivalence classes of complex 3-vectors, where two vectors are equivalent if one is a complex scalar multiple of the other. Calabi's visualization: for a given representative, take the real part and imaginary part of that 3-vector separately, now that's a pair of vectors in real 3-space, and those are much easier to visualize. Choose a particular representative for the equivalence class: use up the dilation part of your complex scalar to normalize your 3-vectors, then use up the rotation part to make them orthogonal. Now notice that multiplication by a unit-length complex scalar will rotate the real and imaginary 3-vectors through the plane they span, so we can visualize an element of the complex projective plane as an oriented ellipse in real 3-space.

Actually we have some singular ones — if the real and imaginary parts are the same length (and orthogonal) then instead of ellipses we have circles, and if the real or imaginary part is zero then we have line segments. But we have a 1-parameter family of oriented ellipses (the parameter is the eccentricity) where at each parameter we have a quotient of SO(3) (it's almost the special orthogonal group but not quite) and at one end of the family it reduces to a 2-sphere and at the other end to a real projective plane.

But the main point is instead of having to visualize 3 or 2 complex dimensions (6 or 4 real dimensions) now we get to visualize ellipses (1 real dimension!) inside real 3-space. Much more accessible to geometric intuition.
First Off-Road Solar SUV Just Drove Across Morocco Powered Only by the Sun
> For one it means you can never hire people who have newly graduated.

Not necessarily. I wouldn't hire a new grad without an internship or without even some personal project experience. If I were to hire someone out of college, I would expect them to have made a website at some point before and to be able to explain to me how it works. I would also expect them to be able to make the same website in different frameworks if asked to change their tech stack.

> I can understand that you are defensive if you have spent years making this investment and someone suggests you have made a poor choice. But I think it would be time well spent to try to understand why many companies are moving away from the "big framework" approach.

It's quite to opposite: I would expect anybody working with me to be flexible enough to learn different ways of expressing themselves in code, and I would expect them to not take several months to learn something as simple as a web framework.
Compilers are typically benchmarked with ubsan and friends turned off, so when we say "C is fast" [with undefined behavior enabled] and "C is reasonably safe" [with undefined behavior defined] we aren't talking about the same language.
I've been using Rust and WASM for my latest front-end project, and I think this setup is a viable alternative to commonly used JS frameworks for those willing to put in some effort to ramp up on new technology. Addressing the concerns from the article:

"No universal import system" - Rust has it's own module system and Cargo is used for managing dependencies, no need to worry about different module systems.

"Layers of minification, uglification, and transpilation." Just compile Rust to WASM file for the browser, same as using any other compile target.

"Wildly different environments." Something that you'll still need to deal with. Some runtime dependencies are system-specific (code running on the browser usually needs access to Web APIs, and JavaScript, code running on the server can't access WebAPIs but can access the system clock and filesystem. Sometimes separate libraries or separate runtime configs are needed (e.g. configurable time source)

"Overemphasis on file structure." Not a problem for imports, but you may still have file structure dependencies things like CSS, image resources etc.

"Configuration hell." Pretty much non-existent once you have your Rust compiler setup locally.

"Development parity." Just use trunk: https://trunkrs.dev/, to watch, build and serve, config is minimal.
I recently learned about a really cool usecase of signals: https://repo.hca.bsc.es/gitlab/epi-public/risc-v-vector-simu...

It's a userspace risc-v vector extension emulator that handles SIGILL signals to emulate the missing vector instructions on risc-v cpus without the vector extension.

It can just be inserted in to any binary with LD_PRELOAD.
Just over the border is a country with effective income tax for self-employed businessmen around 5-15%.
$240/yr is too much for simple hosting- a small artist can get that for free these days, especially if they don't need DRM. For the price you'd expect promotion and discovery.
I think you may have replied to the wrong thread? Your comment is non sequitur.
Thanks for your time in giving response. I'll give it a go!
It's not the first piece of disinformation he's spread, and it won't be the last. He claims that he fights disinformation to make his own spreading of it seem like a sincere mistake when he's caught out.
Does that work for individuals? I wonder if I can sell my credit card debt to someone else, and then have him deal with the consequences of not paying the bills.
It says:

Not Implemented:

- Roque
- Ceit not
- Draw game
- Human move correctness

What is Ceit not? Roque is French for castling, it appears.

This is wild.
A tube has 1 macro dimenson and 1 micro dimension.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory#Extra_dimensions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compactification_(physics)
she got her golden parachute. who cares about the suckers who had to move?
Even to this day, women doing astrophysics seem to be doing at a disadvantage because they have to spend a lot of time monitoring professional relationships for sexual harassment.

This video from Dr. Angela Collier went viral a few years ago on the topic [1]

I don't think it was easier 100 years ago.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNRBa39Iig
This can’t be a hard business to replicate right?
This entrepreneur may find that they are not in control of what happens. If they raise at a $100M valuation they are likely trading board seats to the preferred investors. If the preferred investors provide liquidity to the founder ("de-risking it") then they are aiming to align everyone (founder & investors) to aim for the $1B+ IPO outcome, not the PE-exit that the entrepreneur is wishing for. And if they are selling board seats in this round the founder may not be able to get authorization to sell.

Once you take VC money and ESPECIALLY if you sell board seats and sell your own options you are agreeing to go big.
I thought it sounded pretty straightforward too, that's why I had to probe! (To be to clear, I'm not trying to fight you, just exploring beliefs for fun.)

I think we can remove autonomous vehicles given your definition, as they do not try to be audibly or visually human.

I'm still unconvinced about the rest...
Big companies are an organism in their own right. I’ve particularly noticed this with HP, HPE and IBM.

All of those are US originated and, I suspect, are like mini-countries for a reason. That reason been a lack of a social system in the US. The company provides those offerings that you would expect by a European government.

Hence, you have the HR emails, posters on the wall and so forth.
I suggest you read https://medium.com/basic-income/wouldnt-unconditional-basic-...

TLDR: there are many, many tests and experiments which show this not to be the case, because UBI is about circulating money, not creating new money. Redistributing money from all tax payers evenly across all citizens does not cause inflation. It just stops poverty.
It's such a shame. From a user point of view they were great. I'm registered with them. The UK GP practice has been taken over by someone else (eMed)

The app was great. I got appointments fast until very recently.

The triage was basic, though, but to an end-user it wouldn't have been obvious to what extent their business plan relied on that for the shot at future profitability.

I used to work for a VC, and we invested in PushDoctor, a competitor of theirs which also failed, and I remember peoples slight panic at Babylons "AI" and how I was puzzled at that because there clearly was no AI involved. To me as a user, the proposition was a great booking experience and flexible video bookings.

I hope eMed manages to keep the good bits running, because I really don't want to go back to my old GP service.

EDIT: Actually, I'd be fine with going back to my old GP if they used Babylons booking mechanism and offered video consultations, and maybe used it to provide overflow when they have capacity issues. Nothing wrong with the doctors. This was sort of where PushDoctor was headed when they failed - providing a platform - and it was a real shame.
If you are planning on VC-like returns by selling your company, you should start with a holding GmbH and an operative GmbH below (or crazier structures like a Holding GmbH & Co. KG). But: This way you have the maximum administrative costs and complexity in the beginning...

I think starting as an Einzelunternehmer makes sense in certain situations. I'm not a tax lawyer, but I'm a lawyer in a firm that advises startups and I have seen a lot of "Starts as Einzelunternehmer -> Does asset sale to own GmbH" type deals... "Normal" lawyers / tax advisors will never recommend this, because it is not a "simple check the box" exercise, and "sophisticated" lawyers are incredibly expensive.
Elizabeth Holmes only defrauded VCs; Caroline stole, gambled with and lost customer money.

Bernard Madoff got 150 years for that.
At this point GP has made clear higher up in the thread. GP said they are arguing a negative right, which means that it's not something somebody has to provide to you, it's something they are prohibited from doing to you. For example, Freedom of Speech in the US Constitution is a negative right, meaning that the government cannot prevent you from your freedom of speech. It doesn't compel anyone to do anything to "give" you that right, it means that it can't be taken away from you.

What you are arguing against would be a positive right, in which case I would agree with you. And to be clear, there are others arguing for the positive version vs. the negative version[1], so it's very easy to get cross threaded on this topic, but is ultimately a very different philosophical thread

[1] For example, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37899830
that's what it does, it's called attestation.

It's being used to be able to tell bots from humans. A human will be required to run a browser with proper attestation that they're a human. It can be used for good (prevent bots from accessing the site) and bad (prevent humans from using anything but chrome).
The problem is, if you implement price controls, you're likely to end up with supply shortages. Canada grows food, but can it supply all the food needs of its entire population?

If not, then you have a situation like, suppose I'm a Mexican farmer and I can sell bananas to the US for $1.99 a pound, or to Canada for $1.25 a pound because there are price controls in Canada and they're not allowed to pay more than that. Why would I bother selling bananas to Canadians?

It's hard to control the economy like that because markets are self-regulating systems. Even if Canada controlled its entire supply of food, there are things Canada can't control, such as the price of fertilizer and farm equipment. If you put price controls on food and it's no longer economical to buy farming equipment and supplies anymore, you also end up with food shortages.
What I found those information in Reddit is that they are current with the information than SO. The results from SO are dated back to '08 to '17 and they are often outdated. If the thread is locked in Reddit, they can create a new post and add the link to locked thread in the comment and seeking for more solutions, they are often keep it up. Compared to SO which will locked it up for being "dupe".

This is particular annoying when it comes to CLI tools. Often the search top result will show outdated SO post that the command arguements are depreciated, it took me hours to find this out after couldn't figure out why the command are not working. If I search the problem with site:reddit.com, the answer are usually relevant and current with a working command.

SO's overaggressive moderation are preventing the new information from being relevant. That's why people flocks to GitHub, Discord, Reddit, and Steam forums because they don't share the SO moderation philosophy.
Providing/Improving basic necessities (such as public education, health insurance, access to healthy food, affordable housing) is far better than any kind of UBI.
The UK part at least has been taken over by eMed. Might well be much of it will be kept operational, sans the "AI triage" which to me never seemed like more than a basic decision tree.
You need to make sure your browser uses video acceleration.
No, what's astonishing is that now that every CPU worth using has 2's complement for signed integers, the compiler writers are still embracing undefined behavior in the name of piddly optimizations.

I was tempted to specify "unsigned" to ward off the obnoxious pedants, and I see that I should have. C really should be a portable assembly language by now. A very small non-breaking change to the standard, and C's arithmetic would be the same as Rust's.
Newer languages don't make use of any of those features, to my knowledge. They're only available in assembly, and only on modern processors. Because C was made on and designed for hardware that was crappy even in the 1970s, which didn't have a cache or do out of order execution, C doesn't fully reflect the capabilities of modern processors. That's what they're implying with the last sentence, I'm pretty sure.
>Sounds to me these games will soon be made irrelevant by upcoming LLM tech.

On the contrary, this is exactly how they will sell LLM tech to the greybeads. Look at what Square enix tried to pull off this year with the Portpotia Serial Murder Case's "remake".

Interactive Ficion in the 2020's is the niche of niches, but they've been trying for decades to produce what ChatGPT is seemingly making possible. If/when MS pursues why not use one of the OG IP's to sell such an experiment?
There's no reason you can't use puppet/chef/ansible/whatever on pets!

The reason that (some) people don't do this is the cost/benefit analysis looks kind of weird. You'll spend a lot of time mucking around in puppet/chef/ansible/whatever for a single snowflake server, and it would be a lot faster to just go edit that config file directly.

In reality, proper backups and shell history can get you pretty far if you ever find you need to replicate a snowflake.
It’s not even really funded by tax revenue per se, it’s the capital gains from investments made with revenues from corporations paying government land leases for natural resource extraction. It’s not tax revenue raised from civilians via something like a state income tax or sales tax–neither even exists in Alaska.
> As far as I'm aware, the wishlist has no other function.

It's also visible to accounts you've friended, for gift-giving purposes.
Curious, why would you need separate ssh keys for the same site? In the above example, you're authenticating the GitHub, not really to client1 or client2.

The only thing that would need to change, AFAIK, is the name and email you use for commits, not necessarily our ssh key.

I do use this:

[includeIf "gitdir:~/Projects/Client1/"]
path = ~/Projects/Client1/.gitconfig

[includeIf "gitdir:~/Projects/Client2/"]
path = ~/Projects/Client2/.gitconfig

to define the user.name and user.email for different projects
The effects of this have been and are obvious and aren't worth arguing about. The question I have is, Canadians who can leave, where are you going?
The British NIH also was a big loser. It paid a lot of money for something that didn't work, and they lost out on other opportunities that may have panned out better.
Perhaps not, if the union is not yet recognized.
> It hasn't sat down with you over countless dinners and nights out and got to know you

That's how humans convince themselves that they know somebody to satisfy their own need to be able to trust somebody and to be trusted.

Statistical analysis is how you gain actual information. Information that's relevant to understand - so as to be able to manipulate - fears, desires, and opinions on the population level.

And yeah, you're gonna serve some ads to people in the process. Gotta make it look legit somehow.
This work, the panic is only triggered when the precedence rules can't fix a conflict.

The behaviour documented here is actually extremely sensible and is best practices for anyone calling themselves a software engineer. Fail as early as possible, with as clear a message as possible.
You can get remarkably far with pretty crude tolerances, especially with lower pressure, pistol rounds. For example a direct-blowback, open-bolt submachine guns akin to what was used in WW2 can be pretty easily designed and built by anybody with a passable understanding of mechanics.
Most peoples lives are incredibly boring.
Spinlaunch would disgree but here the trouble is getting off the ground; Take-off is the most demanding phase of flight in terms of propulsion demand.
This is a violation of implied fitness. You want your OS to respond predictably and without unforeseen differences.

This demonstrates that the OS is operating on behalf of MS and not the user. The OS performs as MS dictates. This is a violation of trust.
Clearance was really hard back in 2002 when Global Hawk was coming out of test phase and into production. There wasn't another autonomous plane, so it was the first to do what it was trying to do. That wasn't really my field, but I know it was truly painful to get FAA approval for lots of things. They were really concerned with some autonomous plane flying over cities, so most of our long flights avoided flying over populations. That was pretty easy in CONUS, but flying into Germany for the Euro Hawk was super painful apparently. There isn't exactly un-populated areas around there. Regarding voice, yes there was someone in the ground station on comms, and to any other airplane, they appeared to be coming from the aircraft and not the ground. Altitude makes a lot of things easier, plus the military has a lot of restricted airspace. I honestly have no idea how a civilian autonomous aircraft will pull it off. I'm sure a lot has changed in 20-ish years, so maybe it is not a painful now. With the FAA, I'm sure it'll still be a headache.
Not necessarily - see the recent bogus curl CVE's for instance. There's a lot of incentives to invent or embellish vulnerabilities for street cred or other reasons.

Many years ago, a 'researcher' made claims to the media that our product had a zero-day that looked like a deliberate backdoor. They refused to tell us anything about the bug.
A point that often lacks mentioning in "trustable" hardware devices is the abuse potential. As soon as there is a practical venue of increasing "trust" in any kind of device, it will be immediately abused by DRM and other noxious actors - try rooting your Android phone: not only will you not be able to lock the verified-boot keys to your own (to prevent others from flashing malicious firmware), you'll get greeted at boot with a "can't trust this device" message (great, I already know I'm rooted, I'd love to know though if someone like the US CBP tries to mess with my device), and not just Netflix will severely degrade performance, but other applications (Google Pay, most banking apps and a ton of games) will refuse to run entirely.

I'm not sure which world was better, the old PC world where rootkits and other similar malware had free reign, or the modern "trusted" world.
Thank you, I feel like there's likely a more complex story going on with Wayland; and it feels like Gnome especially is far more interested in "cornering the market and being the only game in town" than "playing nice with everyone in the spirit of e.g. Free Software."

I get that no law requires them to "be nice," but we should definitely talk about it regardless.
> We also checked with people across US Government, since the copy-paste report claimed USG as a source. Those we spoke to have no info suggesting this is a valid claim

Well yes, of course they said that, they're not going to disclose their million-dollar zero-days to you are they.
To finetune on each benchmark? I'd say it's not in our modern era of in-context learning, though of course fine-tuning has it's place as well for making smaller models better in one domain than a generalist larger model.
I think this absolutely makes sense.

I'd use LLMs to help unblock me in the same way I use Google, since lately I've been finding it more difficult to find easy answers to "how do I do X with Y library" with Google. I've been finding the first page of Google showing SEO pages for programming questions rather than Stack Overflow or official documentation.

I wouldn't just copy-paste the problem into ChatGPT and then use prompts to solve it. I want to have fun solving the puzzle, rather than asking ChatGPT what the answer to the puzzle would be.
Ok, but still, that isn’t something bandcamp claims to do. How can one be upset they didn’t get that?
Atlantik Solar was a very cool project, read a lot of their research - count me as a fan :)
Owners equivalent is an insane, distortionary metric here when you can just look at the market data for similar sized properties. No one who was going to rent their house would do a survey of what their neighbors with similar sized homes think they should charge for it. They’d look at what the market rate is for their neighborhood. This is, of course, what property management companies actually do on behalf of owners.
Is spinning rust esoteric now? Is fsck esoteric? If so, when did that happen?
It's not just the web hosting it's the whole trusted vendor you already have an account with.
Don’t cheapen the word monopoly, which obviously has the prefix mono, when there are four major companies and many regional chains. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_i...