skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It combines all the text, codes, specific scientific results, papers, into the model that science can use to speed up research

why is this article so bad? sounds fake
Propaganda, Presumed Influence, and Collective Protest
This is literally just racism.
They got evicted from the Boulder, CO office https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twit... and the Singapore office https://observer.com/2023/01/twitter-employees-evicted-singa... I know they were sued in San Francisco and London as well, but I can't find how those suits turned out.

Edit: Bloomberg says they finally paid rent in London and the suit was dropped. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-03/twitter-s... (https://archive.is/3e0Eh)

Edit2: A lawsuit in Oakland and a different one in SF were "dropped" and no one seems to know why. https://therealdeal.com/sanfrancisco/2023/07/03/twitter-rent...
The “techie” “evangelist” network effect is a thing of the past.

Today it’s all about mobile.

Nearly everybody uses their phone for everything and they aren’t making choices about which software to install on their personal laptop.
Yes, SLA is a way to turn literal existence of a product into a pay-as-you-go offer on top of a service.
Many of these companies seem to rely more on the hype around AI than on delivering solid technological innovation or real value to their customers. This trend is reminiscent of what happens in many emerging tech fields: there's a lot of excitement at first, but then reality sets in, and only those with genuinely useful and innovative products or services survive. Just like Mark Zuckerberg's early concerns about Facebook being overtaken, it's not always about the technology itself but how you use it and the unique value you bring to the table. In this light, the AI startup scene will face a shake-up, where only 1/1000 will survive in my opinion.
Machines (2004)
Is there evidence that Rust compiles any slower than C++? Granted, it doesn't compile at the speed of C, but it does a lot more and you can write a lot denser code, so one line of Rust may easily supplant dozens of lines of C.
In Twitter's case, what is the hypergrowth story here? I don't see any revolutions coming from Twitter's business model that haven't already occurred in the past decade. Whereas for something like space flight or FSD or novel therapeutics I can see the large potential upside
> moving a million dollars in physical cash

who says it's physical?
How is that vaccine manufacturers fucking up? Also, this is literally what this article is about.

(And we use the non-sterilising, non-virus containing non-polio-producing IPV in the United States. So the unvaccinated can change babies’ diapers without fear.)
That sounds like the modus operandi of so many companies.

Google can’t figure out how to make money without ads, so they punish people (blocking ad blockers on chrome and not allowing access to YouTube if using an ad blocker) because of their own failure.
Fair enough. You're right. I could have done better. My apologizes. Thank you for taking a moment to point this out to me.
He had some crazy good bird photographs with really expensive camera equipment. Dude was definitely enthusiastic about wildlife photography
some links

Seattle office shut down in Jan: https://komonews.com/news/local/twitter-shutdown-seattle-off...

SF HQ:

Sued in feb: https://fortune.com/2023/02/24/elon-musk-twitter-rent-landlo...

Still underway in aug: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/twitte...
If that's the case, Apple should refund or pay out the $108K before closing the account with that explanation.
Why does Windows seem to consist largely of a huge number of services?

Why do those services seem to have names that provide precious little guidance on what they are for?
That's not how money or business works. Opportunity costs means that many "amounts of money" can be meaningless to the business depending on the activity to get to them, the negatives (from processing hasles like lawsuits to PR and brand image), their overall strategy and focus, and other such concerns.

A company at Apple's level absolutely doesn't see "frozing $100K" from random devs (or the amount that would result in aggregate from all those freezings) as a profit center.
Fully agree but in this case it's a lit bit different.
The only advantage you need to have to create an AI startup is too know how to write a prompt. Seems weird ..
The Caro biography claims that LBJ basically rescued the civil rights bills with his ability to get things through the senate. Kennedy had been on a path to failure because he didn't pass a budget first.
What about in reality through services like Bandcamp?
Always hard to get a foot in the door into a new role when one doesn't have direct company experience in the role on a resume.

The best thing I can think of would be to work on some independent projects (eg. some mod of a game, some indie game or graphics related app itself) and have that work be part of a portfolio.

The other approach that I've seen work is to get into a games company as it is significantly expanding and make it known that you want to do rendering work in the future. At an old company I was at a Gameplay Programmer pivoted to being a Graphics Programmer as the graphics team needed more help and was expanding, and I see via linked in that he's continued in that path.
> A promise chain cannot be cancelled or exited early without a throw.

> .then(() => new Promise(() => {}))

A promise that never resolves is effectively an abort.
I’m simply stating what I believe to be Elon’s mental model. Reality is different, as you mention, with regards to Twitter’s fundamentals considering value destruction to date ($44B->~$16B) and potential future revenue trajectory.

https://www.axios.com/2023/10/29/fidelity-twitter-x-value-el...
Steam will moderate or at least put a notice when a game is being review bombed for things unrelated to the game itself, such as a controversy with the developer.

https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-takes-steps-against-steam-revi...
> The authors asked GPT-4 ADA to create a data set

> The authors instructed the large language model to fabricate data

What did they think would happen, exactly?
Binance had 4.17 trillion trading volume in the past 7 days
Yeah, when I’m doing zero-dependency development my compile times from scratch are never more than 5 seconds.

Standard library actually shouldn’t increase compile time at all really, since it’s prebuilt and included for most platforms (excepting -Z build-std).
A list of "all" email provider domains
Damn, imagine having a titanium shovel! I want one!
> "Both “bury the lede” and “bury the lead” are acceptable spellings of this phrase... Whether to use “lede” or “lead” depends on your audience and context. If you’re writing for a news publication or using the term in a journalistic context, “lede” is the preferred spelling. However, if you’re writing for a general audience or not referring specifically to journalism, either spelling is acceptable."

https://proofed.com/writing-tips/idiom-tips-bury-the-lede-or...

See also:

> "The spelling lede is an alteration of lead, a word which, on its own, makes sense; after all, isn't the main information in a story found in the lead (first) paragraph? And sure enough, for many years lead was the preferred spelling for the introductory section of a news story. So how did we come to spell it lede? Although evidence dates the spelling to the 1970s, we didn't enter lede in our dictionaries until 2008."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bury-the-lede-versu...
> Neither group should have the power but I am far more likely to be in danger from a nearby guy on a power trip than from the FBI.

I think that that's a less obvious conclusion than one might think, even though I share your more acute distrust of local than of federal law enforcement. It might seem extremely unlikely for someone inconsequential like, let's be honest, many of us here to come to the attention of a national body; but history shows that all it takes is being affiliated with a group or movement that makes the federal government nervous to become the subject of FBI scrutiny, and this likelihood is heightened the easier surveillance becomes.
Really glad you found it interesting, truly appreciate it!
`car` (Contents of Address part of Register) and `cdr` (Contents of Decrement part of Register) are historical terms from the IBM 704, used in LISP. They're legacy from early computing, not academic jargon.
I don’t see where this would be causing any issues. There is a canonical place where to put edge metadata, namely in the child commit. And whenever you’re interested in move information, you have to process the respective child commit anyway.
I've been working on a team replacing a widgets UI with QML, everyone on the team loves QML and finds it way easier/faster to work in (and the design/management love all the smooth animations etc.)

and the guy who sucks at C++ breaks things less
Good thing there are better browsers out there.
As long as they don’t mess with the transport we should be good
The big question is if these things would be possible without crypto existing. History suggests they are, so I’m not sure if crypto really makes anything possible on that front that wasn’t before. Some of the largest terrorist attacks and most entrenched armed resistance movements took place pre crypto. I don’t think access to cryptocurrency would have made the vietcong significantly more effective for example.
The plot behind My Cousin Vinny. Two people from out of town are arrested, one thinks they are being arrested because he unthinkingly pocketed a can of tuna or something when his hands were too full to carry it all to the register and owns up to "I did it!" before knowing what he is confessing to, the other in shock repeats "I killed the clerk?" instead of rebutting it, which is taken as a confession rather than a baffled and shocked query.
> I am not an expert in this, but as far as I can tell from what I read, Linux doesn’t even try to implement a safe protocol here.

Define safe? Safe meaning someone can take apart the device replace the fingerprint sensor, and return it to you without your knowledge? Have you heard of dma?

You also would never trust this responsibility to the kernel, the hardware itself would need to be responsible for this. A good TPM chip that actively wants to support Linux would be nice.

> Apple is the only company that enforces a safe pairing that is - to the best of my knowledge - unbroken as of today.

lol, that's my whole point though. Apple doesn't publish any information, and actively obstructs free open reverse engineering, it's not going to be found by someone who wants you to know, it will still be found by people who don't want you to know.

> That state of affairs directly contradicts your assertion, at least in this case. Which naturally doesn’t make the opposite unconditionally true, but things seem to be a little more complicated than you assert.

No, you misunderstand my assertion. Perhaps colored by lack of understanding of the threat model here.

If someone is able to separate you from your device and perform any modification to the device hardware itself you've lost no amount of vertical integration is going to save you from that. if they're able to separate you from your device and replace the biometric sensor in a way that's undetectable by you, you lost a long time ago because you leave your fingerprints and face scan everywhere you go.

Attacks on biometric devices while interesting and useful for some threats, are merely interesting theoretical attacks.

Does apples tight integration and obscene control over their biometric devices increase the cost of an attack, and by proxy, the security of the system? yes absolutely. does it do so meaningfully? not even close.

does apples take control over the biometric systems increase the cost and difficulty of a repair? yes absolutely. does apples type integration of biometric systems increase the cost of repair meaningfully such that it is an apples financial interests to do so? Yes, that's the point. For an additional few bucks, Apple gets to claim security and if your screen breaks now you need a whole new iPhone or you pay Apple to replace it for you.

saying tight vertical integration increases security is like saying a $1,000,001 is more than $1,000,000. The added security is effectively a rounding error, until you solve all the other attacks available.
Compared to C, yes. However the tradeoff you get is tighter iteration, with more errors being found at compile-time rather than having to wait for runtime.

If you have to restart an embedded system or schedule a job on a cluster to properly test, that can work out to huge savings.

It would still be nice to see them substantially improve. I know there’s been effort to get debug mode to build substantially faster with cranelift, but I forget if that’s in stable now.
After OpenAI's blowup, it seems pretty clear that 'AI safety' isn't a real thing
Steam has been, and for now continues to be, much better.

IMO this is directly due to Gabe Newell's leadership. Taking an attitude of "piracy is a service problem", and proceeding to offer such a good service that it's preferable to pirating, results in a great service for everyone involved.

Whether this will outlast GabeN's tenure as CEO remains to be seen, but for now my understanding is that both users and developers are overwhelmingly happy with Steam.
Ask HN: Would a diagram-centered UI work better for Git?
I keep having to visualize the tree diagrams with their commit nodes in order to do any meaningful manipulations using Git.

So why don’t we have a Git UI that presents this tree front and center, and lets us group and move these (commit) nodes around on the trees, for the most part? For example, the difference between a merge and rebase is far more natural when shown as a diagram than as a long explanation.
What is the major inaccuracy? Usually when I hear claims like these and ask for an elaboration it turns out it's not a major inaccuracy at all, just a pedantic disagreement over what mostly amounts to style.

At any rate I'd definitely be interested in to know what is such a major inaccuracy presented that the entire video can be dismissed on that basis.
In my view, the bursting of this bubble will mirror the internet bubble of 2000, creating a significant shake-up akin to a seismic event in the realm of tech.
Hypergrowth of influence, maybe. Twitter is brimming with even more **riding Elon fanboys than it was a year ago. I don’t see the scummy ads every five posts/comments paying Elon back for his inflated purchase anytime soon.
A key point with git is that every clone is effectively its own set of branches; even if they have the same name. The mechanisms you use for synchronizing your local branches with some remote branches are exactly the same as the mechanisms you use between to your local named branches.

Git was actually designed initially for email based workflows where there was no central remote at all. Basically, that works by exporting patches and then applying them to your local branch. The branch name isn't even part of the patch.

A git patch is just a textualized form of the list of commits you created locally. You can apply them to any branch you like. As long as you and whomever applies the patch has a common ancestor commit in common, the patch may merge cleanly. It's good hygiene to ensure it does by for example rebasing/merging/squashing before you email somebody your patches. If that somebody is called Linus Torvalds, he's going to be pretty strict about things like commit messages and things not being spaghetti ball of merges, reverts, forks, etc. Your mess, your problem. Linux development still works via mailing list. And forget about emailing him directly with a patch; you need to use the mailing lists like everybody else. And he works with a network of senior contributors that screen everything that comes in and that aggregate all the patches coming from upstream. So, he only gets involved at the end of the process.

Of course the rest of us use network protocols to sync our repositories. But the important distinction here is that this is a two step process. First you fetch content from remote. This is simply ensuring you have all the commit objects you need in your local git database. Any branches you have are simply text files with the commit content hash they point to as the content in .git/refs/heads. Remote branches are the same but live in your local .git/refs/remotes/<remotename>. Those branches might be named something like origin/main to make it clear that that is a local branch from the origin remote. And then you rebase/merge between your local and "remote" (i.e. also local) branch as needed. Pull is just short hand for doing both steps in one go. All merges are local. Same with rebases.

Most of the conventions people project on git are kind of cultural and vary between people and companies. It's helpful to read up on the git internals in the Git book. Github is sort of an opinionated take on this that back in the day made people coming from centralized version systems like subversion feel at home by providing a central repository and allowing them to push their changes there or "share" branches there. Not necessarily a great idea for bigger projects and limiting write access is common on Github.
We hired an "app revenue optimization" guy for an hour consultation just to see if we missed something obvious. One thing he suggested was to ask for a review instantly after the paywall. Apparently if you do that, most people will give a 5 star review. We haven't done it since it seems... weird? scammy? but apparently it's a thing that works for maximizing ranking (since reviews are a big influence)
> if you want to keep your budget, you have to spend your budget

I don't understand why organizations haven't cottoned on to a rollover model instead. If you have unspent budget, you not only get the same budget the following year but also 10% of the surplus, subject to approval. And in subsequent years, increase the proportion of surplus you can tap. After all, you've clearly shown you can be trusted to spend company money honestly.
but money has intrinsic value. It is directly tied to the economy of a country. So if a country was to collapse, so would it's money.

The point here is that if a country collapses, then you got bigger problems than the loss of whatever stored currency you got. Even if your money is in the hypothetically useful crypto, you got far bigger problems that the money you own is useless to you, you need to survive.

But aside from that extreme scenario, money is not the same thing.

Another way to think of it:

There is nothing in the world that would prevent the immediate collapse of crypto if everyone who owns it just decided to sell.

If everyone in the world stops accepting the US Dollar, the US can still continue to use it internally and manufacture goods and such. It'll just be a collapse of trade, but then even in that scenario people can just exchange the dollar locally for say gold, and trade gold on the global market. So the dollar has physical and usable backing. Meanwhile crypto has literally nothing.
> phones have become so polished and easy from an end user perspective that they haven't done any tinkering

I don’t get the complaint, as a dev myself. Everything being easy and just working is what we intended for. The future! It’s here.
Old American cars are basically open hardware.

An old American V8 has about a million options for everything, can get parts everywhere for cheap (I got a brake rotor for $8 recently).

It seems that it would be ideal to have the open source cad design files so you could make your own rotor when it breaks, until you realize it would cost you $1k to make one.

If this is your goal get an American car from the 60s. The problem is they're super unreliable, because the things that make internal combustion engines reliable are complicated and not easily replicatable by the average hobbies engineer.

I design this stuff for a living and I just buy a car, don't touch it, get it serviced at the dealer, and get a new one when I reach the right side of the bathtub curve and it's service life is up and is stops being reliable.
Ruth Porat. Autocorrect ruins things.
VC throwing tones of money because people are making 'AI' startups. That's the point.
I didn't watch the video, but FWIW I have personally formally verified the First Incompleteness Theorem (Goedel-Rosser variant) within the Coq proof assistant.
Wouldn't be surprised if Musk is patting himself on the back for saving the company some money by getting evicted from those offices ...
I'll jump in with so what, banks are doing it too. https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n...

Moving a million dollars by wiring it from your HSBC account is actually much easier than doing it with crypto.

edit: and in the HSBC case the CEO didn't even lose his job!
Incognito Mode Isn't Doing What You Think It's Doing
I'm not suggesting it is. But "What?" is hardly a rebuttal a la "That's not a fuck up." So I explained what I think the OP likely is referring to because you sounded to me like you had no idea what they meant.
I think there is a strong technological interest in crypto, Bitcoin kicked off a triple-entry bookkeeping system so there is a new tech interest and ability to make money in a new financial space, many good communities have arisen out of that.

There is many tech communities buzzing with blockchain related tech and some serious innovation, a lot of interesting new projects from lower cost faster international transactions through to distributed GPU rendering, identity systems, and the possibilities with NFT's have barely got started.

It's also a new asset class for investors with ETF's from BlackRock etc round the corner its evident it's a now a rapidly maturing space, what's happened with Binance is evident that regulation is starting to catch up, but its regulation being so slow and indecisive that has made it easy pickings for illegal activity to occur.
Safari's share is capped to a specific hardware. Firefox can grow by converting people without needing to wait for them to buy new devices.

That said, I'm not really holding my breath for FF to grow again.
In this case, it's seemingly some co-workers that objected and not random other people on earth. More than those few cubicle visitors knew what this person was working on. And the sniper story is just one story, there are loads more stories with other details that a co-worker could likely use to identify the person. A pseudonym does nothing.
Though sometimes they do that when the reviews are about the game itself.
https://archive.ph/F9wP4
BlackCat claims it is behind Fidelity National Financial ransomware shakedown
This is a related official press release (I can not find the actual source for this article): https://www.anl.gov/article/new-international-consortium-for...

> The Trillion Parameter Consortium (TPC) brings together teams of researchers engaged in creating large-scale generative AI models to address key challenges in advancing AI for science. These challenges include developing scalable model architectures and training strategies, organizing, and curating scientific data for training models; optimizing AI libraries for current and future exascale computing platforms; and developing deep evaluation platforms to assess progress on scientific task learning and reliability and trust.