skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ostensibly, all three of your examples do exist to improve society. The NFL exists to support a widely popular sport, the Heritage Foundation is there to propose changes that they theoretically believe are better for society, and Scientology is a religion that will save us all from our bad thetans or whatever cockamamie story they sell.

A non-profit has to have the intention of improving society. Whether their chosen means is (1) effective and (2) truthful are separate discussions. But an entity can actually lose non-profit status if it is found to be operated for the sole benefit of its higher ups, and is untruthful in its mission. It is typically very hard to prove though, just like it's very hard to successfully sue a for-profit CEO/president for breach of fiduciary duty.
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Take a look at skyflytech.com
They have a hybrid drone/canard design which is VTOL/STOL and achieves the efficiency of wings for distance flying. The propellers are angled at 45 degrees so no complicated tilting mechanism needed. Could be interesting for a clean sheet design.
Because he's all about freedom of speech. /s
How do you propose Bitcoin, or Ethereum, or any other decentralized & peer-to-peer asset be registered as a security? Coinbase and Kraken argue that there is no clear path toward registering these assets within the current framework.

For an example, some of the stringent per-transaction KYC/AML reporting requirements in traditional financial systems are often incompatible with today’s mechanisms of distributed ledgers.
>People just started noticing their phones slowing down without explanation.

Also, Apple already had somewhat of a reputation; this was far from the first time they would do shitty things, blame the users, and/or refuse to communicate what's going on.

It's a classic case of 100% right and 100% fired: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDO24U3hMkU
Virtue signaling is a common thing and also used as a pejorative.

What I find interesting is there is some cultural tension around how much to discourage such public displays. Donations can do good even if the gift giver is simply trying to improve their image. Ex: "Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for then you have no reward from your Father in heaven. So whenever you give alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be praised by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward.“ Notice how there’s zero implication that the behavior is negative and even an acknowledgment that doing so brings rewards, just the suggestion that it’s just not pious.
I'm sure a normal person would be in prison for running a scam like this. So will we see the CEO in the slammer?
Privately managed, voluntary regulation isn't free-market?
Just saw this on OpenAI. Looks like they see donations as investments
OpenAI says that investments are basically donations. I am sure their investors have been on the phone putting pressure on the board but this is wild. If the whole staff leave and OpenAI collapses the board are saying that they will continue and nobody can do a dam thing about it.
Not sure what this for and what is it to do with interactive part of development. If you are vim people try search for vim and lisp and got there. emacs people obviously no need.
Yep and I can further confirm it works in 115.4.0esr as well which is the current version in Debian stable.
A tax on CO2 producers that is redistributed as basic income, helping the smallest guy the most, would be a gradual force to shift to cleaner energy, since the seismic shift that is required cleary is not favored by anyone.
Ironically what WSL made for me is that I no longer need to install VMWare.

Those of us in the known, already have sorted out this with Virtual Box and VMWare at least since Windows 7 days.
Rob Pardo (Blizzard, World of Warcraft (2004)) said they decided to model randomness after how players thought it worked.

> ..at least once a week, a developer would come to my office, and say "the random number generator is broken, we need to look at it."--It's because they hit a streak. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhC0NaB6ock&t=2343s

He shares more details about game design choices in the video.
> You, as a consumer, can get a general BOM for most any device.

I wish this dumb naïve argument would just die quietly in a corner.

A the value of a device is not its BOM. It has never been and it will never be.

There are so many other additional costs to factor in. Costs related to the manufacturing plant, its people, its tooling and its processes. Logistics costs related to bringing in parts. QA costs. R&D costs. Software maintenance costs. Marketing costs. Certain parts and software may have royalty fees associated with them. The list goes on, and on, and on.

So please, enough of the dumb "$device is only $2USD because its only a bunch of 2c resistors and capacitors on a PCB".
Your carefully constructed argument is less than convincing.

Could you at least elaborate what they are “not”? Surelly you are not having a problem with “LLMs predict language”?
it’s worth spending [more] money on.

ie: It only suggests they don’t find the need to endless consider such things. Which seems fair enough as AI isn’t actual progressing that quickly.
ChatGPT was too polished and product-ready to have been a runaway low-key research preview, like Meta's Galactica was. That is the legacy you build around it after the fact of getting 1 million users in 5 days ("it was build in my garage with a modest investment from my father").

I had heard (but now have trouble sourcing) that ChatGPT was commissioned after OpenAI learned that other big players were working on a chatbot for the public (Google, Meta, Elon, Apple?) and OpenAI wanted to get ahead of that for competitive reasons.

This was not a fluke of striking gold, but a carefully planned business move, generating SV hype, much like how Quora (basically an expertsexchange clone) got to be its hype-darling for a while, helped by powerfully networked investors.
What's the Best "Long Con" You Ever Pulled? (2015)
Roc looks great, props to everyone involved in designing this language!

Is there an (C) FFI planned?
These are pretty insecure because OTPs are easily phishable. WebAuthn devices are just as inexpensive, but prevent most phishing attacks.
Very nice. Create something like a lemon market for ransomware. I like it.

It always felt funny how these criminal groups in this case have to project an image of trustworthiness and honesty.
> LLMs can’t find reasoning errors because LLMs don’t reason.

I have several experiences where people belittle me when I say the same thing. To the extent I rarely say it anymore. For everybody else AGI is around the corner and it's gonna dominate the world.

> never met a hype train they wouldn’t try to jump on

Crypto-currencies
Apple sued for blocking crypto tech for P2P payments
Advertisers, regulators and independent auditors disagree.
The city of sydney (local government area) is a very small part of the overall city - this dataset is just that area which is also the most densely built part (26 square km vs 12,300 square km)
Would you not object if someone characterized google as a non-profit because part of the org (the Google foundation) is non-profit? (Not a perfect analogy (nothing ever is, really).)
That's reassuring to hear, thank you
I imagine this could be done with MuZero[edit: turns out I meant AlphaZero] without much fundamental difficulty?

(Uh, I mean, could be done by a team which is able to train MuZero)
My anecdotal evidence is that people tend to stick to the same brand when upgrading phones.
The IDP Knowledge Base System
"Here's one.

In 2006, reddit was sold to Conde Nast. It was soon obvious to many that the sale had been premature, the site was unmanaged and under-resourced under the old-media giant who simply didn't understand it and could never realize its full potential, so the founders and their allies in Y-Combinator (where reddit had been born) hatched an audacious plan to re-extract reddit from the clutches of the 100-year-old media conglomerate.

Together with Sam Altman, they recruited a young up-and-coming technology manager with social media credentials. Alexis, who was on the interview panel for the new reddit CEO, would reject all other candidates except this one. The manager was to insist as a condition of taking the job that Conde Nast would have to give up significant ownership of the company, first to employees by justifying the need for equity to be able to hire top talent, bringing in Silicon Valley insiders to help run the company. After continuing to grow the company, he would then further dilute Conde Nast's ownership by raising money from a syndicate of Silicon Valley investors led by Sam Altman, now the President of Y-Combinator itself, who in the process would take a seat on the board.

Once this was done, he and his team would manufacture a series of otherwise-improbable leadership crises, forcing the new board to scramble to find a new CEO, allowing Altman to use his position on the board to advocate for the re-introduction of the old founders, installing them on the board and as CEO, thus returning the company to their control and relegating Conde Nast to a position as minority shareholder."

-Yishan Wong (former Reddit CEO)

"Cool story bro.

Except I could never have predicted the part where you resigned on the spot :)

Other than that, child's play for me.

Thanks for the help. I mean, thanks for your service as CEO."

-Sam Altman
If Reed Hoffman was still there, I can't see this happening. People here talk about "glorified salespeople" as an insult without realizing that having people skills is a really important trait for Boards/C level people, and not everyone has them
Watched The Fall of the House of Usher on Netflix. One of the best TV shows in recent memory if you ask me!
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Well shut my mouth, I thought it was a bluff.

Thanks for the link.

ps. this isn't sarcasm.
What a chance!

Greyton was one of our favourite spots on the SA road trip.

I randomly picked some airbnb I liked on the route and that's how we ended up there.

We were surprised how charming little town we found. Sadly we didn't have time to stay longer.

I highly recommend it to anyone visiting South Africa and I recommend SA in general. Apart from like 3 spots we didn't feel unsafe. Top beaches, amazing wildlife, mountains, food, nice people. I would like to return some day and explore west coast more.
Am I alone to think it's kind of sad that they couldn't even bother to write TÜV properly?
I mean I know its not on your keyboards but you could've just googled it in like 2-3 seconds...
The error was that somewhere along the way between Aristotle and modern times, humans went from being seen as rationally-capable to rationally-driven. Nobody seriously disputes that we are capable of rationality; it is just that we are still driven more by instinct and emotion in our default modes.
> I've fired a 9mm pistol from a moving motorcycle...

I am curious, why would you do that?
There are projects like Tectonic [1] that aim to fix that.

[1] https://tectonic-typesetting.github.io/en-US/
The Issue with these two explanations from the board is that this is normally nothing which would result into firing the CEO.

In my eyes these two explanations are simple errors which can occur to everybody and in a normal situation you would talk about these Issues and you could resolve them in 5min without firing anybody.
Nah, calling out completely baseless assertions as just that is fine and a positive contribution to the discussion.
> Crypto-currencies

HN _eventually_ largely gave up on these, but it was basically a True Believer space from 2011 to the early days of NFTs; it was more credulous than just about any other community which had known about cryptocurrencies since the early days.
Cool! Seems similar to Handshake domains?
Writing Mutations and Complex Cypher Queries in Memgraph
As someone that decided to go back into native development in 2014, and then after how the whole WinRT/UWP mess was managed, and still is being managed in WinUI 3.0/WinAppSDK land, returned into distributed systems, yeah it looks like it.

Go watch a couple of community sessions, or the Github issues, it looks like a quite underresourced set of teams, still living in the days of "we do everything in C++ with no tools".

Having a designer for WinUI 3.0 was never a priority, a GUI framework!
Yes, LaTeX error messages are next to useless.
BleachBit "stifles investigation" into Hillary Clinton (2016)
You (or at least I) can add a quick toggle button called Protect Battery. This makes it as easy to toggle as all the other options like wifi, bluetooth, etc.
I would take this "report" with a whole bag of salt.

First, they are talking about a 221-car sample; that seems extremely low and looks like it has been cherry picked from among all the possibilities to make Tesla look as bad as possible.
Second, we are talking about Germany; a country that has a whole political arm related to building and selling car, in particular luxury, a segment where Tesla has been beating them in some factors recently. You can feel the bitterness through the screen.
Third, I would expect a 10-year-old car manufacturer with brand new tech to have reliability a bit worse than an established manufacturer with old proven tech. But they don't even talk about the real cost or total cost of ownership anyway, so it is like guessing and comparing.

And they tout WV as reliable, which is kind of funny as everyone who really has own a WV will tell you, especially after the cheating scandal. I guess they are reliable as long as you don't care about electronics... And the electric Golf they are mentioning is not even produced anymore. My father's partner had an e-UP and was extremely unhappy with it so...

It seems like classic Tesla hate and I don't even care because I think most people should not even get a car or that a car at those prices do not make sense. But if you are going to spend that much money on a car, Tesla is hardly the worst choice...
Ok, so this article proves that they know how to do it, but they seem to have forgotten over the intervening 9 years - according to some, the shuffle function now prefers similar songs to "keep the vibe", but according to the Spotify support pages, that's a "smart shuffle" feature, and I don't have that because I'm too cheap for the paid plan. Anyway, shuffle should play the songs in a playlist in random order, but make sure to play all the songs (like shuffling a pack of cards and then looking at the cards one by one)! While Spotify's current "shuffle" just seems to pick a random song to play after the current one, with some songs repeating three times while others are never played. Annoying as hell...
Yes, though in principle you could interleave AaBbCc and so on, which would also be a single bit difference, and the naive collation would be more like that people expect.

The design considerations at https://ia800606.us.archive.org/17/items/enf-ascii-1972-1975... show that 6-bit support was more important than naive collation support:

> A6.4 It is expected that devices having the capability of printing only 64 graphic symbols will continue to be important. It may be desirable to arrange these devices to print one symbol for the bit pattern of both upper and lower case of a given alphabetic letter. To facilitate this, there should be a single-bit difference between the upper and lower case representations of any given letter. Combined with the requirement that a given case of the alphabet be contiguous, this dictated the assignment of the alphabet, as shown in columns 4 through 7.

I just found and skimmed Bob Bemer's "A Story of ASCII", which includes personal recollections of the history. It seems that the 6-bit subset was firmed up first. From https://archive.org/details/ascii-bemer/page/n17/mode/2up?q=... :

> This is reflected in the set I proposed to X3 on 1961 September 18 (Table 3, column 3), and these three characters remained in the set from that time on. The lower case alphabet was also shown, but for some time this was resisted, lest the communications people find a need for more than the two columns then allocated for control functions.

but serious discussion of lower case wasn't taken up until later. From https://archive.org/details/ascii-bemer/page/n25/mode/2up?q=... :

> ISO/TC97/SC2 held its next meeting in 1963 October, at which time it was decided to add the lower case alphabet.

and at https://archive.org/details/ascii-bemer/page/n27/mode/2up?q=... :

> At the 1963 May meeting in Geneva, CCITT endorsed the principle of the 7-bit code for any new telegraph alphabet, and expressed general but preliminary agreement with the ISO work. It further requested the placement of the lower case alphabet in the unassigned area.

Bemer did not like interleaving lower- and upper-case. From https://archive.org/details/ascii-bemer/page/n5/mode/2up?q=l... :

> I had a great opportunity to start on the standards road when invited by Dr. Werner Buchholz to do the main design of the 120-character set [9,24] for the Stretch computer (the IBM 7030). I had help, but the mistakes are all mine (such as the interspersal of the upper and lower case alphabets). ...

> he didn't make the same mistake I made for STRETCH by interspersing both cases of the alphabet!
These cases aren’t about Bitcoin and Ethereum but the dozens of other coins that these exchanges have listed.

Coinbase actively cooperated with token founders and venture capitalists like A16Z to list various newly issued tokens so that the creators and VCs could sell them to retail investors. This arrangement sure makes them look like securities.

Personally I’m fine if Coinbase and Kraken trade Bitcoin and Ethereum. Being restricted to those would be devastating for their profits though.
About 20 years ago I had a couple of people from the US ask me if they could drive to Rome for the day - we were in Edinburgh at the time. Rome is about 1,600 miles away from here.
Peatland takes centuries to develop and store that carbon though.

If we want to achieve this sort of thing, we'd need to manufacture peat and store that underwater. Possible but when we make more, we usually destroy the planet more too. I'm not sure we'd offset it.
There must be some (legal) way to get rid of D'angelo? If severe conflict of interest is not enough, his threatening to destroy the livelihood of almost all employees should remove his board immunity ... somehow?
Since the people who decide this got into their positions with support from the only group who would lose from this in the short term, we can be sure that it'll never happen.
Starting to wonder if the non-profit corporate form is actually worth allowing at all. There's just so much manipulative or flat out crazy behavior coming from that sector in recent years, of the stuff that'd be slapped down by the courts or governments very fast if it were done by for-profit entities where people's guard is up. OpenAI, Wikimedia manipulating people into donating, the famously expensive WWF fundraising balls and now this.

Media Matters will hopefully lose their lawsuit, be liable for X's losses and be destroyed. They've clearly been passing off heavily manipulated scenarios to advertisers as if they were representative of the average user's experience, for the sole and explicit purpose of waging left wing ideological war against the only tech company willing to defy them, which is a behavior harmful for society overall especially as it's an attack on a more or less public square. You don't see commercial competitors engaging in such manipulative and aggressive attacks like that much, if at all, probably because they are run by rationally self-interested people who don't want to wreck their organization by starting legal fights over ideology.

Unfortunately even if X does win presumably Media Matters has little money to make amends, and there are hundreds of similar leftist NGOs dotted across the landscape using aggressive manipulation to police what people are allowed to say, many of which are just very thin proxies for the US government (see the Twitter Files for examples of that). This problem isn't specific to X, pretty much any organization that isn't explicitly leftist will find that its advertisers are all being constantly harassed and libelled by NGO activists. The UK's attempt at a conservative TV news channel constantly faces this problem as well, as do any conservative news websites or blogs.

A real fix for this type of behavior will probably require law changes to strip the corporate veil from non-profit board members, such that they become personally liable for legal costs of the non-profit itself. Limited liability is useful to grant to for-profit companies because they often take actual and serious risks with large amounts of capital, so there needs to be some shield against that risk becoming of uncontrollable size. But the NGO sector doesn't risk capital to build anything productive. One of the very few that did was OpenAI and we're seeing how that plays out right now.
Djot v0.4.5 released – bug fixes, improved file format, and docs
Since I rarely get to talk to Malthusians: Do you have a preferred approach for population reduction?

Tangential point: You severely underestimate the impact of scale and specialization on our standard of living. There is no way we could the same variety of nice things at 500million people
You're thinking of letrec.
Kubernetes-Native Retro Game Streaming Written in Go
This is old by now, but I thought it was a funny way to boast about your open source product:

> Perhaps Clinton's team used an open source application because, unlike proprietary applications, it can be audited, like for backdoors. In response to the Edward Snowden leaks in 2013, privacy expert Bruce Schneier advised, "Closed-source software is easier for the NSA to backdoor than open-source software," in an article in which he stated he also uses BleachBit. Ironically, Schneier was writing to a non-governmental audience.

> [...]

> Jonathan Zdziarski quoted on CNN.com argued, "Someone trying to cover their tracks would likely pay for and use a much more expensive, specialized data destruction tool," but commercial tools leave a money trail.

> As of the time of writing BleachBit has not been served a warrant or subpoena in relation to the investigation. BleachBit is free of charge to use in any environment whether it is personal, commercial, educational, governmental, Republican, or Democrat. The cleaning process is not reversible.

Probably with a wink and a nod, the author ends the article with a link to a tutorial on how to remove sensitive emails from MS Exchange. That article contains numerous gags about the Hillary Clinton situation.
Because it is a Linux VM running on top of another OS, whereas on Windows when Hyper-V is activated everything is a guest, as it is a type 1 hypervisor.

So WSL and Windows run in parallel as guest OSes.

Also usually there is no need to use docker on macOS, I never did.
A lot of people seem to think that front-end and back-end developers are intrinsically different people. This would be the reason why full-stack frameworks (Kotlin for JavaScript, Scala.js, JavaScript backends, and now Blazor) never really take off.

I find this rather strange. I can understand that people specialize, but it's not like typical application front-end or back-ends are rocket science and require a PhD or something. I have seen back-end developers create ugly, near unusable, user interfaces, and I have seen front-end developers write Hello, World!s that would deadlock. However, if both would take some time to pick up a few hints here and there, would they not turn into proficient full-stack developers?

Am I this misguided? Or is there another reason for these full-stack frameworks to never get the traction they deserve?