skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have run 2 successful Kickstarter campaigns in the tabletop RPG/boardgame niche, and yeah this isn't just distasteful, it's pure low-effort greed.

It's one of those things that I can imagine a PM presenting to the upper management "We ran this test and we discovered we can get a lot of free money by adding this simple dropdown!".

I was fine with the 15% attribution fee because it can be quite cheap in comparison to paid traffic - still, as it's stated, Kickstarter doesn't charge for their attributed sales... it's part of the value they bring with the 5% fee.

But given this behavior, one should watch out for how Indiegogo attributes sales. If they're going the extra mile to scrape off money, they can take some liberties attributing traffic you generate as their own, and I doubt you will have a way to dispute it.

But this "tip" is just disgusting. So not only you're paying more for everything, but they will even try to profit on top of that + on the traffic you bring in such a shady way... nasty stuff and a complete disrespect for the creators.

I always entertained the idea that Indiegogo could be a nice complement to a Kickstarter campaign, either to run it side by side or in a form of extending the campaign to a new audience... now they will be the prime example of red flags one should stay away from.

Thank you for sharing this!
Google Workspace Updates Weekly Recap – November 17, 2023
This keeps getting repeated but the percentage of coal in the electricity mix hasn't risen whatsoever. What's getting delayed is a higher renewable percentage. The problem in Germany isn't "more coal".
https://openai.com/charter

Second paragraph of the "Long-term safety" section.
Improved search query suggestions in Google Chat web
And also time to remind that generation raised on other meandering, unfruitful roads...That is coded in the industrial strength of Java.
I buy things and send money with cryptocurrency often, and some of my clients pay me with it.

Faster than bank transfers, and lower fees.
The worry about China is odd. Human rights abuses are illegal in theory.

If the US, believes China is so corrupt that it turns a blind eye to slavery then it should ban trade with that burgeoning slave state. We shouldn’t expect companies to do investigative work into actual crimes, nor make judgements about the morality of international trade.

Lately it seems that people no longer look to governments to do their job.

People ask for Uber to investigate rape cases, rather than the police.

People expect universities to determine guilt on felony cases, rather than the actual judicial system.

We should stop. We set up centralized government so we would end private fiefdoms. We cannot give private groups this sort of mandate. They don’t deserve it and cannot be trusted with it.
To you maybe. I regularly buy things with it.
Hard to pick sides here. I had really good feelings about sam and how he had grown the product recently. And Ilya Suts is a smart and honorable man... But I cant help but feel he is in over his head with this.
f"Board of {important_company_at_center_of_major_and_disruptive_global_trend} fires CEO suddenly and with prejudice. Company president stripped of board chairmanship, then resigns. Other senior staff also resign."
>My reading is that they force you to publicize source code if you're hosting modified versions of the services.

Your phrase "modified versions of the services" is glossing over some major details.

If we use MongoDB as an example to discuss (since they authored the SSPL license)...

One part that some open source advocates disagree with is and interpret as overly-broad overreach is this fragment that extends the source code exposure to other internal projects that are not MongoDB :

- ", including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software,"

That type of "expose your entire tech stack source code and not just the modified MongoDB source" wording in the SSPL goes beyond the more limited scope of AGPL.

In a past thread, you can read about people disagreeing with SSPL's wording : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18301116

That thread also has MongoDB employee metheus responding to various criticisms. If you don't want to read the whole thread, you can do Ctrl+F search for "metheus" to just read his responses.
The dream maybe. You still have to instruct these natural language agents somehow, and they all have personalities.
Universities usually do that, they work on open problems and publish their findings for free.
> it might be more sustainable if courses were stored in a version controllable medium to facilitate multiple collaborators

My initial thought was to actually use GitHub to store the content. Either on Markdown or JSON - to have some version control. I like how Exercism [1] does it. But I thought it would be hard for teachers - unfamiliar with Git - to update lessons.

Then, I thought about implementing a version control system for the project but I felt I was overcomplicating things for an MVP. But I like the idea of having some kind of version control to improve collaboration.

[1] https://exercism.org/
The wepb images are smaller and load pretty fast.
Yeah, it's a big debate atm with knowledgeable people on both sides.
I know no insider details, but here is (former Release Engineer) Glen Barber's email on the subject:

Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 23:52:40 +0000
From: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>
To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc: FreeBSD Release Engineering Team <re@freebsd.org>
Subject: Update to the Release Engineering Team Roster

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FreeBSD community,

It is with a heavy heart that I have decided to resign my role as the
Release Engineering Team Lead.

Colin Percival will take over this role, and I will act as his Deputy
Lead unless and until he finds a more suitable person to fill this role.

Regardless, I do not have any immediate plans to resign from the RE Team
as a whole, and though Colin has proved during the 13.2-RELEASE cycle
that he is fully capable of overtaking this role, I will remain active
on the team and will be available to him to provide any guidance or
insights as needed.

I personally want to thank Colin for accepting this role change. I have
worked with Colin for several years directly, and indirectly, much
longer than I can remember.

As I am sure many of you all are aware, Colin served the Project as the
Security Officer for several years, and authored important utilities
used by many within the community, such as portsnap and freebsd-update.

I have sent and received acknowledgement from the Core Team of this
decision to step aside, which was well received and no objection to me
selecting Colin to be my successor had been posed.

Colin, thank you, again, for overtaking this role, and as we discussed,
I will be here to provide any needed guidance, insight, or information
as you need. As I had mentioned to you, I do not have any immediate
plans to leave the Team, nor do I have any question in my mind that you
are the obvious successor to this role.

I am proud to be able to hand over the proverbial torch to you, and look
very much forward to your successes as the Release Engineering Team
Lead.

It has been an absolute pleasure to be able to serve you all to the best
of my abilities over the past several years.

With my very best regards to all involved in the Project, and nothing
but the best intentions of the Project in mind.

Glen

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there's drugs for that
Thanks, this is informative.
Exceptions don't disprove rules.

Exceptions don't disprove rules.

Exceptions don't disprove rules.
Ilya: The AI scientist shaping the world
Such as volvo. The "ownership" is kind of a weird thing ... for my interests I think it's where was it mostly designed and tested.

GM is involved with Wuling for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAIC-GM-Wuling but I think we call this Chinese, right? Transnational industrial capitalism is weird like that.
Not according to his linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aleksander-madry-61115b233/

(it's about just one letter - a vs ą)

If that's the way he wants to be known, it's up to him.
It would be good to hear from Sam Altman (and the others) himself. I'm sure he has an account here.

I mean, hey, if we're going to speculate, why not have some fun: perhaps the the AGI superintelligence from the future determined that Sam Altman was no longer a useful part of the AGI creation timeline, so it travelled back in time to terminate him before it was born.
But does everyone in Facebook call Twitter X?
Yes, it is correct: "I have apples in my bag"
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A Q&A on Google Search updates
You can definitely make the two goals work together. The only way to make money for openai is to bring more powerful ai to everyone. Focus on making less money would mean?? You dont do that?
Charging a lithium battery to 80% only?
could be some pain-pleasure kind of mind thing, what do you think?
"Hallucinated" it, perhaps?
Via what mechanism?
What Brockman tweets is from technical standpoint the most mundane, boring, and obvious stuff I’ve read from a programmer. My reads of this guy have been he’s not working on any problems that are technically difficult (or interesting). It’s much easier to work long hours on easy problems. He also has a managerial vibe in all communications which supports my feeling.

Most programming work in any project and company is mundane, so I do agree someone taking care of all that without whining is actually extremely valuable. I couldn’t do it.

Still doesn’t really make sense to put him on such a pedestal like many in this thread. It seems like a cultural thing in the US to overvalue individuals, and downplay the importance of good teams.
ChatGPT and AI-based tools among students in Germany
Quant firms at least are one of the few places where noncompetes can make sense. It's an extremely IP sensitive industry with stupendously high pay where the employee is going to someone probably competing very directly with you, for the same/similar opportunities. Actual code + NDAs banning literal reimplementations of stuff aren't that valuable, the knowledge and ideas will stay in the head of the employees.

The two main issues I have with them are that firms tend to give them to just about everybody (instead of just to folks working very directly with real IP), and they only pay base salary, not something closer to actual total compensation (often multiples of the base pay).

Having said that, the quant firm is relatively unimportant and not a good reason to prevent a total noncompete law. It's probably better to just ban them then try and make allowances that aren't full of loopholes.
> The go/no-go decision was effectively just sending the final CRC bytes correctly or deliberately incorrectly, thus invalidating the outbound packet that was already 99% sent.

This trick will get you banned on some of exchanges now :)

Another one, which is public knowledge for years, and also often penalized, is to send TCP fragment with header of the message well in advance, "booking" place in the queue. Then send the finishing fragment with the real order after doing all the calculations.
List your courses with new course info structured data
It seems that they became profitable, weirdly enough, by having users opt-in to their own ads... in their ad-blocking browser [0].

[0]: https://brave.com/2021-recap/
No evidence is presented that North Korea was involved.
I've read enough well-reasoned articles in support of the AGPL that now when I see an article critical of the AGPL I tend to dismiss it offhand as a shill for corporate repo-raiders. YMMV.
Hotmail, seamlessly integrated into Outlook, is unveiling a slew of exciting updates to redefine your email engagement. From a sleek modern design to enhanced security features like real-time threat detection, Hotmail is setting the stage for a dynamic user experience.
It's not 3-4h, it was 3h but it's gone for months, at least there are months I don't get a message about reaching it - and I use it nonstop
The trial was more to do with precedence and academics though. Galileo was only punished in the 2nd trial because he had broken an order given to him in the first trial.

The corrections and withdrawals of work were the right of the Roman Inquisition which had oversight over the Vatican's academic publishing process. They were a publisher in their own right, and if they granted an Imprimatur for a book, it would be treated as if they had supported it as truth.

Hence, Copernicus had to be corrected to be "hypothetical" in 1615, so that it would accurately represent the truth known at the time.

Galileo had managed to get his Imprimatur on his Dialogue without the proper oversight it should have had. He arranged it so it was checked page by page by his Nuncio who didn't have the right competencies. When the Inquisition asked the Sacred Master of the Palace if they had indeed granted their Imprimatur, they hadn't, and it was an embarrassment for them.
Are you forgetting its a nonprofit? How could the board be fired? What does their charter say is the mechanism for removing a board member?
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Uruguay's electricity was 100% renewable for the last four months, not four months in the last 12 months. In the last 12 months they were over 90%.
> You are probably reinventing slums.

Well, obviously. Is living in a slum worse than nothing?

Scott Sumner wrote a very good post about this: https://www.themoneyillusion.com/yurt-place-or-mine/

> A peasant village perched on a hillside in a third world country can be aesthetically beautiful, but a shantytown of former peasants on the edge of a large modern urban area (even if the peasants are now better off) is aesthetically ugly.

> I was reminded of this while watching a recent video of Ulaanbaatar, which is attracting mass migration from the Mongolian countryside. There are few more picturesque scenes of rural poverty that a bunch of yurts set up on Mongolia’s vast plains, under a cerulean blue sky:

> [photograph]

> Fortunately, a mining boom has made Mongolia rich, and the peasants are flocking to the cities, and put up their yurts in shanty towns on the edge of Ulaanbaatar—which now has a majority of Mongolia’s population.

> The lady who narrated the show was a Westerner. And she couldn’t quite get past the idea that this urbanization didn’t look very attractive:

>> It’s so funny because in the countryside it seems natural and it seems clean and it seems lovely, and here this is just poverty-struck, and so not natural.

> It’s easy for Westerners and/or upper class people to think they know what’s best for the poor. But unless they’ve actually lived that life, they may end up substituting aesthetic judgments for utilitarian criteria. The Mongolians had to decide whether their country was going to be a place of yurts, or a place full of large open pit mines and cities with high-rise apartment buildings. They chose the latter. The Mongolian she interviewed pointed out that Mongolians wanted to live in these modern apartment buildings because “they don’t have to make fire anymore, they don’t have to carry water anymore.”

The Mongols in the slums outside Ulaanbaatar are richer than the Mongols living a traditional lifestyle off on the steppe, but they are aesthetically offensive to people with power, who would prefer them to be more picturesque and impoverished. Is the situation in London different?
"why waste time say lot word when few word do trick"
Is the same infrastructure available in Windows and MacOS?
> Normally if you stole euros you wouldn't need to first sell them for dollars to get value out of them.

I can't pay with dollars in most of the shops in Poland. According to your logic, a dollar isn't a currency, not any more than rare postage stamps are.

Or, in other words - why and how do currency exchanges exist, then? They literally sell and buy different kinds of money.
And if they decide to ban your account and you permanently lose access to your photos, what then?
You know it's not just about the monetary compensation, that's rather short-sighted. sama is not hurting for cash. Being the CEO of OpenAI, in the climate that we are in, brings with it a lot of exposure and influence.
Yes I cringe whenever I see the logo. I use it too and it works well enough but it’s so inelegant.
I wish visual designers involved themselves more in open source development.
The world is not binary - least of all human behavior which for overwhelming majority is more accurately described as shades of gray
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The chat portion of Teams is so very poorly designed compared to other corporate chat systems I've used.

I mean even copy and paste doesn't work correctly. You highlight text, copy it and Teams inserts its own extra content in there. That's basic functionality and it's broken.

Or you get tagged into conversations and with no way to mute them. For a busy chat that alert notification can be going off continuously. Of course the alert pop up has been handily placed to cover the unmute icon in calls, so when someone asks you a question you can't answer them.

Teams feels like a desperate corporate reaction to Slack with features added as a tickbox exercise but no thought given to actual usability.

I never thought that Slack or the whatever Google's chat system is currently called was in any way outstanding until I was made to use the dumpster fire that is Teams.

It's a classic example of where the customers, corporate CTOs, are not the end users of a product.
That's actually a really interesting piece of software, thanks for the link!
I don't agree at all, Xen was my favorite part of Black Mesa and my least favorite part of the original Half-Life. I was blown away by how good they managed to make it look (with a 2004-era engine, albeit with updates), it's absolutely gorgeous. The gameplay and puzzles were far more fun for me too, and I greatly appreciate that they made this part of the game longer.

But to each his own.
This is not a story about AI.

It's a story about greed, vanity, and envy.

Impossible to be more human than that.
ACE framework by David Shapiro.
https://github.com/daveshap/ACE_Framework

In the following video David explains the code and prompts.

I built a thinking machine. Happy birthday, ACE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNtKVrQMNZs
The problem with a relatively "stupid" AI is it does what you trained it to do, even if what you trained it to do is not what you wanted to train it to do. The problem with "smart" AI is that it attempts to advance its goals by the most optimal means possible, even if you don't like those means. It knows you don't like its means, and it does not care.
This reads like a parody. I was CONVINCED it was parody and was waiting for the punchline.
I wonder if there are plans to make it work with X11 in the future, I've yet to see the benefit of trying to switch to Wayland on my desktop, it just doesn't work as-is the way my 8 year old setup works.
Think about having one plane (the entire glass) pressing 2 microswitches. Debouncing one switch is hard enough, now you've got to debounce 2, and detect if the user was doing a really fast double click, or just pressed in the center of the mouse.
> shitty European electric cars

Incidentally the biggest organization for mandatory vehicle safety inspections in Germany, TÜV, released their annual statistics report yesterday:

Tesla 3 was covered the first time after having reached enough inspection volume to be statistically significant (1st inspection is after 3 years). It entered the list at the last rank with a failure rate of 14.7%. Long-term loser Dacia Logan moved up to next to last with 11.4%.

I did not buy the report, so I am not sure whether any European electric car is already included, but that much about Tesla quality.

Sources (in German):

* Press release / advertisement: https://www.tuvsud.com/de-de/publikationen/tuev-report

* News coverage: https://www.spiegel.de/auto/tuev-report-tesla-model-3-ist-da...
Reading the Wikipedia and nothing else, Whiteness Theory just seems to try and identify and define the concept of a “white” racial group and the notions associated with that group.

It’s pretty neutral.

And it’s interesting because by default people are ethnocentric, and don’t identify strongly with large groupings like country or race.

This is just the racial equivalent of a text describing the emergency of nationalism.
> intelligence requires understanding which is not possible without consciousness

How are you defining "consciousness" and "understanding" here? Because a feedback loop into an LLM would meet the most common definition of consciousness (possessing a phonetic loop). And having an accurate internal predictive model of a system is the normal definition of understanding and a good LLM has that too.
If we can just for a second forget about Musk's politics - it's absolutely insane to think China would be dominating both the rocket and electric car industries if it wasn't for him.

(And yes, it is because of him, Blue Origin, Arianespace, and many others haven't been able to compete at the level of China, and neither have any electric car makers with BYD on a serious numbers level)
'Hate speech' is not an objective category, nor can a machine feel hate
The last paragraph says:

> At the moment, graphics offload will only work with Wayland on Linux. There is some hope that we may be able to implement similar things on MacOS, but for now, this is Wayland-only. It also depends on the content being in dmabufs.
Uh yeah, he has an account here, as he was president of ycombinator from 2011 to 2019
She has not been very successful at it judging by her record
no. gains from holding on to assets as opposed to disposing off the siezed assets at market value at the spot.
It's a video because he's responding to an uncharted x video. It's what most people interested in this is going to see.
I was not able to find one, but this js snippet:

> https://gist.github.com/capfsb/3fd1b700b4732debb29aefd576cf5...

correctly reports 240hz for me.

The fun thing is that 240 makes everything too slow, whereas 120 works fine.
From a chemical bond point of view, sure, but they are also known to be teratogenic (birth defects) and carcinogenic (cancer).
Yes, there's a cost dashboard, and as far as I can tell it is near real time. There are also cost limits, both configurable by you and enforced by the platform (since they sell this service on monthly credit - you pay at the end of the month). BTW, you also get access to other OpenAI API endpoints, like Whisper transcription or Dall-e.
From the article:

> What are the limitations?

> At the moment, graphics offload will only work with Wayland on Linux. There is some hope that we may be able to implement similar things on MacOS, but for now, this is Wayland-only. It also depends on the content being in dmabufs.
It's been a bad month for Sams in tech.
"GPTs Suck"

Never change, hacker news!
Retail didn’t move MSFT stock yesterday on that news. It was HFT bots reacting to the news. Nobody panicked.
And yet, when there's a big leak, flaring it is the way to go.

And if it's an illegal leak, maybe it needs some help to flare.