skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Irrelevant.

My post isn't about the US. I said this much in my note at the very top.

Don't argue about irrelevant localized details. If you want to have a conversation about the merits (or lack thereof) of the concept of the dangers of "remote voting" then go at it. Don't divert the conversation towards irrelevant US-specific details.
Roundcube is still to be it's own separate project. Besides Nextcloud already has it's own webmail client. I imagine they might make it easier to install Roundcube as an APP though. The the existing implementation (that doesn't work for the latest Nextcloud anyway) requires an existing separate Roundcube installation.
Can't wait for Pirates Of The Silicon Valley 2 to come out.
I often think that the need for superbright headlights could be avoided if the owners just realised they could drive with “full beam” on all the time.
My recollection of the book is that many of the authors were fond of VMS, so they might appreciate NT.
GDP is itself kind of a shite metric, annualizing a quarterly is just a drop in the bucket
Ilya, lost.

One of the original hackers I should have said. There are other original hackers.
What is Trump's main pathology as it relates to his wealth? There's always this conjecture that he was like Nouveau Riche and wanted so bad to be accepted in line with the Old Rich? Why does he care so much, did Fred beat it into him that they needed to assimilate or why's it such a huge fucking deal to him?
The bad news is the US has a ballooning, titanic budget deficit that is at wartime levels and is completely unsustainable. Greece too can have booming economies when the government is raking up debt.

The good news is there are genuine, revolutionary innovations in the economy, namely AI. You can't explain away AI as a mirage propped up by government spending.

The entire stock market is held up by the magnificent 7, and these stocks in turn are held up investors' AI dreams.
Yea everywhere is glossing over this... What would the GDP be without government spending? How much longer can the government float the economy?
The food I get in Italy is on average substantially better than the one I get in Vancouver, so that protection of food has some serious value.

when I arrived in Canada, I asked what is a canadian dish and I've been told poutine, nothing else. I was shocked, in Italy I can't count all traditional dishes, let alone know all of them

(I'm of Italian origin).

That being said, banning food is not a good idea, but I can see also a rationale for banning it. We'll see how it goes
I have no idea how it will all play out, but I will be shocked if there is no government investigation coming out of all this.
Selling "Idea Generator" services to startups (Sam Altman says you need)
From Sam's talk below. Anyone do this or know how to get into it and charge for it for someone who's unique ability is innovation? Prefer to work with lots of companies instead of just one.

From Sam Altman's - How to Succeed with a Startup Video:
You need at least some idea generators. There are a handful of people in any company that has gone on to be really successful that I've been able to work with who are just really good at coming up with lots of ideas. You don't have too many of these people because that's more ideas than a company can follow through on, but having some people within a company that are just constantly throwing out new ideas, most of which will be bad, it turns out to be super important to have on the team.
From everything I've read, safety still feels like a red herring.

It just doesn't fit with everyone's behavior -- that's something that would have been talked about loudly.

Altman lying to the board, especially in pursuit of board control, fits more cleanly with everyone's actions (and reluctance to talk about what exactly precipitated this).

- Altman tries to effect board control
- Confidant tells other board members (Ilya?)
- Board asks Altman if he tried
- Altman lies
- Board fires Altman

Fits much more cleanly with the lack of information, and how no one (on any side!) seems overly eager to speak to specifics.

Why jump to AGI as an explanation, when standard human drama will suffice?
Yes, we know what annualised means. People also report annualised inflation and many other things this way.

Pick a metric, report it consistently, it really doesn’t matter too much exactly which you choose.

(It is ironic you would compare to China because of course their GDP reports are made up. I’m sure they use non-annualised though!)
GDP is inflation adjusted, so simply printing money won't work unless you also control inflation (although I will say I don't think the inflation calculation necessarily reflects the true value of the dollar).
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Interesting, I would argue that's very positive. I found ridiculous the "chocolatey" vs "chocolate" that some stuff has in Canada
At first you seemed to be reading my words as pertaining to principle causes. When I tried to correct this view by using oil as an example, you tried reading the example as an analogy instead.
Some might consider the normalization and growth of China as a competitor superpower treasonous to US interests.
Thank god my largest investment in their success is a single Quest 1 unit.
Likely that issue could be "solved" by using disposable plastic tubes or plates if you really wanted.
Celebrate his death, may he and any other neocon burn in hell for eternity
> What did I miss?

Evidentiary standards, it appears. You literally just admitted to not having any.
Increasing interest rates should have the reverse effect. A lot of crazy financial instruments depend on low interest rates to work. When interest is increased, the price of money goes up; the wealthy are bouyed far more by ZIRP than someone say in the tenderloin, who does not have access to high finance.
It's a US thing, pedestrian safety continued to improve in France (mainly caused by infrastructure improvements), but we are starting to have the same sized cars, with the same issues)
Sorry I'm not reallying buying this as an organic unforseen set of events.

It all looks staged or planned by someone or something.

The key to find out is to look for a business move that used to be illegal but now became legal due to the unfolding events.
I take metaverse to mean something like ‘a universe of universes’. So the internet, or perhaps the web, is surely exactly that.
Show HN: I made Spotify Wrapped but for WhatsApp chats, made it's open source
Hey HN,
I am an indie hacker and I am launching my second product.

Spotify Wrapped seems like a cool concept, so I imagined what Wrapped would look like for whatsapp. Privacy was a major concern for exporting plain text so I decided to not store ANY DATA by not having DB in the first place and open source the project.
Hope you have fun making your Wraps xD

anshulagx
That's why you should choose an open source AI. Not subject to whims of a single person or a corporate board.
This is not unprecedented. Many great entrepreneurs (and other great people) go crazy as they age.

Musk is just... Louder than most. And has accumulated a media coverage positive feedback loop. But historically, he's not that unusual.
Some new vehicles come way to bright too, the absolute worst for this seem to be teslas and I wouldn’t be surprised if it was poor qa on bulb alignment
Same! I knew Thunderbird was going to be on Android eventually, but I didn't know it was done via taking over the K-9 project.

Have installed it for now and it doesn't look too bad. Has definitely moved forward from the K-9 days years ago. Will keep an eye on the development.
> An industrial label printer makes these easy.

So does a sharpie.

This is my preferred method. "Permanent" things go on the thing with sharpie. Other stuff gets sharpied on some masking tape and stuck on.

If my furnace ever walks off and takes the install date with it... chances are the install date's no longer relevant. Otherwise the documentation for my furnace is... on the furnace.
World's biggest set (500k) of human genome sequences opens to scientists
I'm fairly certain that a large swath of society (rightly) thinks that he's not worth more than three lines.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/29/us/henry-kissinger-dead.h...
Kissinger was a truly awful and hypocritical human being. Despite being a refugee from a murderous regime, he sat around and cracked jokes with a dictator whose body counts was in the multiples of the dictator he fled from. The "rapprochement" (read: appeasement) with the PRC that he spearheaded benefited China immensely while it was nothing but damaging to US interests. The damage he did to the long term peace in the Taiwan strait can still be felt to this day.

He would remain a close friend of that regime until his dying days - I believe he met Xi this year.

Good riddance.
It can, but many email services won't work with IPv6-only email. It'd be a fun experiment, though.

I don't think it'll work on your ZX80, though ;)
Student loan debt repayments started back up in September, you'd expect them to have some effect on spending habits that haven't surfaced yet.
Not saying I agree with the charge but this also doesn’t refute it. I mean, for one thing the US believes the state department and military of the US is above international war crimes courts. (Thats the actual official position).
> In February 1969, weeks after taking office, and lasting through April 1970, U.S. warplanes secretly dropped 110,000 tons of bombs on Cambodia. By summer 1969, according to a colonel on the Joint Staff, Kissinger – who had no constitutional role in the military chain of command – was personally selecting bombing targets. “Not only was Henry carefully screening the raids, he was reading the raw intelligence,” Col. Ray B. Sitton told Hersh for The Price of Power. A second phase of bombing continued until August 1973, five months after the final U.S. combat troops withdrew from Vietnam. By then, U.S. bombs had killed an estimated 100,000 people out of a population of only 700,000. The final phase of the bombing, which occurred after the Paris Peace Accords mandated U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam, was its most intense, an act of cruel vengeance from a thwarted superpower.
I'm genuinely curious how that would be true. Doesn't a hybrid have ~all of the parts of an ICE vehicle and ~all of the parts of an EV? Wouldn't that mean it can fail in far more ways?
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I’m with you. The (apparently, very highly coordinated) employees should sign a public letter explaining why they wanted Altman back so badly.
Compare a Bolt (~3700 lbs) to a Fit (~2600 lbs).
https://www.avclub.com/tom-lehrer-1798208112
We should really be trying to maximize a human happiness metric with the _minimum_ amount of GDP. Quantifying that is a challenge, but if we don’t start, we’ll never get there.
The public drama is a red flag that the organization's leaders lack the integrity and maturity to solve their problems effectively and responsibly.

They are clearly not responsible enough to deal with their own internal problems maturely. They have proven themselves irresponsible. They are not trustworthy.
I think it's reasonable to conclude that they cannot be trusted to deal with anybody or any issue responsibly.
Supports more platforms? (No joke)
This episode taught us the very obvious lesson that if you hire people incentivized by equity growth, it is not possible to take steps that detrimentally impact equity growth, without losing all those people. The board had already lost the moment it allowed hundreds of fat compensation packages to be signed.
Nothing quite like closing the article on a zinger.

“ Corporate profits accelerated 4.3% during the period, up sharply from the 0.8% gain in the second quarter.”

Won’t anybody think of the corporations??
Thanks, doesn't sound like the same thing though. The text was:

"hurt or kill regardless"

which to me sounds like "someone always die" (not "may die"),

which isn't supposed to be the case when firefighters or police are working.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/henry-kissinger-dies_n_637693...
The B58 is such a great all around engine. Performance, reliability, efficiency, upgradeability. Heck, even Toyota used it in their sports car (Supra)
In the foveal center just a very few cones are effectively wired to one or two retinal ganglion cells. Little divergence of signal. But the aperture of a cone is well under a micron. In the nasal periphery cone apertures are much larger and single cones could be targeted. These large cones will activate large networks and indirectly perhaps dozens of retinal ganglion cells.

There will be a literature on the psychophysical detection limits. I suspect you will find most individuals would report a tiny blip of light in both regions.

Here are some fun references:

1. https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)...

2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8300048/
Most of the images there are broken, all I see are some conceptual block diagram type things. Find a teardown of the hybrid unit and compare to a teardown of any automatic, look at the actual internal complexity and moving parts. I was surprised. Here's a video of the P710: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O61WihMRdjM
I think they were referring to predictions of Kissinger's death, not of general recognition of his crimes.
I'm convinced embeddings are the ultimate vendor lock in of our time.
What is "RLHF" here?
I watched the interview. Presenter was a nameless puppet clearly flustered by Elon. Pretty funny.

I heard Twitter ads are worthless though. I hadn't been on it much since my 3rd party app doesn't work anymore but it's way less toxic when I have been on it.
Unemployment/GDP/<insert other stat here> are pretty much vanity metrics for the average family.

Doesnt really mean anything if rent is double and gas is 5$ a gal. It's actually even more insulting when the gov is telling you how good you have it.
what financial instruments?
A free gaming console for every household!
He is obviously a great leader and those that work there wanted to work with him. It’s very clear in this thread how undervalued exceptional leadership actually is, as evidence by comments thinking the top role in the most innovative company could be just plug-and-play.
My point is that just growing the size of the economy doesn’t necessarily effect the average worker’s economic situation
Isn't mazda that shitty company that thinks it can take legal action against you for doing things with your own car?

Edit: Yep, it is[1]. No thanks.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37921584
Not just "above"; US law explicitly gives the President the power to invade The Hague if they get their hands on American officials or military personnel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr...

> The Act gives the President power to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imprisoned by, on behalf of, or at the request of the International Criminal Court".
I must have read 1 million miles, which would be 1.6 million kilometres.
Hard to run a non profit when you promised all your employees you'd make them millionaires.
> It's actually even more insulting when the gov is telling you how good you have it.

I agree that these aren't the best times the country has ever seen, but, objectively speaking, things are pretty good. Just as an example, gas is $5 a gallon (it's actually $3.40). But, where is it cheaper? Belarus? Is that really where you want to live?
Not arguing against your point, but there's an active element in America media that's very anti-Chinese. When's the last time you saw a story that was cool or innocent related to China in HN (because MSM's totally out of the question)?
It's only when two highly-prized priorities are pitted against each other that you can really determine which is higher up on the priority list. I guess now we know. Hating on the outgroup is a strong trait amongst humans, perhaps even stronger than font snobbery.

Does the world really need yet another font with a purely rectangular lowercase 'l'? There. I guess you can see where my priorities lie.
I despise the engineering instinct to derisively dismiss anything that involves humans as "politics".

The motivations of individuals, the trade-offs of organizations, the culture of development teams - none of those are "politics".

And neither is the fundamental hierarchical and governance structure of big companies. They influence the stability of architectures, the design of APIs, the operational priorities. It is absolutely reasonable to have one's confidence in depending on the technology of a company based on the shenanigans OpenAI went through.
This position is not unique to the US and stems from the potential for politically motivated prosecutions and the need to protect military personnel. Other countries (India, Turkey, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, etc) are also cautious about subjecting their citizens to the jurisdiction of international courts.

If Kissinger committed treason, there was nothing stopping the US government from pursuing charges
> 2 to end: you're not really serious about running it into the ground. :)

It’s more that the ground is much closer for other makes!

I think Toyotas may make more sense as new buys though since they hold their value so well.
(with apologies to JDB:) That dang ol’ Internet, man. You just go on there and point and click. Talk about W-W-dot-W-com. An’ lotsa foreign cultures on there, man. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. It’s real easy, man.
Sure. The one angle I am talking about is focusing on maximizing the application of money on the _things that do the most good possible_. There may be cases where financing something that will certainly not do the most good possible, on the contrary, it may cause havoc, suffering, death and destruction, like war, is the best course of action. Sacrifice sometimes is needed. Effective Altruism already proved to be a failed idea. It inspired smart and good people to justify any means for and end, just because they thought the end was ultimately good and honest (I believe that SBF was aware of the illegality of what he was doing but it was ok because it was for a good cause). EA is a virtue signalling and a god complex pit.

Of course, no one is against maximizing resources to where they are needed the most. That it should be an evidence based approach and focused on systemic change and long term solutions, rather than just alleviating symptoms. Yes, but this is just common sense. Now, naming it Altruism and adding Effective on top is just creating a banner for another Crusade like endeavor. Throw your money at us and you will be saved and your sins forgiven.
How will AI possibly help the economy? if it achieved even 1/10th of what the techno optimists think, you’ll see massive unemployment and likely collapse of credit markets that have been hanging on for a thread for a long time (like the trillions in student loan debt).

I just can’t possibly see how AI is going to revolutionize the economy, unless you define the “economy” as the nasdaq, then yea, i guess so, but that’s a real simpleton view.
Hadn’t seen this, that car looks AWESOME
This can be explained by the 1st graph in link below.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/04/20/how-the-a...

Essentially, more people (as a %) are upper income today than ever.
>Joe has been widely known manipulated election

What does this mean, exactly?
World changing does not mean world destroying.
The fact that nuclear weapons are about deterrence means you don't want them to be secret. A secret nuclear weapon's primary use would be a revenge weapon. Or to blow up a city in a surprise attack. Neither of which is particularly "defensive".

There's a reason why we have arms treaties and try to be transparent about our nuclear capabilities. I know it's a movie but Dr. Strangelove is a great example of the thinking behind this.

I get that the point is to keep the balance of power in the favor of the US, but the practical outcome was letting Israel secretly develop a revenge/offensive nuclear bomb. If it got used potentially millions would die, and you can't even make the argument that it acts as a stabilizer via MAD.
The machine is uncomplicated and simple? That is the last way I would describe modern CPUs and their peripherals.

The whole point of programming is to bend the machine towards humans, not the other way around.
They clearly had nothing.

They had a couple of people on the board who had no right being there. Sam wanted them gone and they struck first by somehow getting Ilya on their side. They smeared Sam in hopes that he would slink away, but he had build so much goodwill with his employees that they wouldn't let it stand.

They probably had smeared people before and it had worked. I'm thrilled it didn't work for them this time and they got ousted.
Damn this is fast and accurate! Crazy how far things are progressing.
Theres a semi apocryphal story that one of Kissingers friends warned him before he started working under clearance, that once he had access to "Intelligence" that other people didn't have, he would lose his humanity to the spooks, and assume he was smarter than the people without clearance. Which seems to be sort of what happened.
The problem is, how do we accurately measure that happiness? Economists would be first in line to use that measure. They know GDP is flawed--unpaid domestic work isn't included, for example--but it's the best they have. There is a ton of econ literature stating as much.

Using dollars spent as a measure of happiness is unfortunately the best we can do (so far).
FYI MIT Press ≠ MIT Technology Review.
Student loan debt repayments starting back up plus impending layoffs sounds like an impending engineered disaster which will significantly suppress stocks in Q1. I can't decide if it will trigger enough of a panic to dip $VTI under 190.
+1, as someone whose company has a crappy bespoke cloud setup that's a massive time sink
He's probably somewhat deceptively only referring to enterprise license customers. When there's an enterprise offering, many times the individual personal use licenses are just seen as gravy on top of the potatoes. Not like good gravy though, like the premade jars of gravy you can buy at the grocery store and just heat up.
>> While Ilya will no longer serve on the board, we hope to continue our working relationship and are discussing how he can continue his work at OpenAI
I've always understood the US's giant car problem was an unintended consequence of the CAFE fuel efficiency legislation, why is Europe getting caught up in the giant car fad? I'd imagine that'd be much more obvious of a terrible idea when the streets are half the size.
Yea, he's saying the quiet part out loud.

You users aren't the customer you think you are.

Microsoft and big contracts are the customers.
Does all commercial software violate licenses?

A 5 minute examination found parts of vorbisdec.c from libavcodec, which is LGPL. There is no copyright notice, and it's statically linked into main library. There are probably many more problems if one looks for longer time.
Ok, depends on how you look at it. But almost always, yes
> Don't even get me started on the internet myths of DOT5 brake fluid that pretty much every forum takes as gospel.

Please do!
It's possible for a human to have done both very good and very bad things, yes.