skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a new kind of AI R&D lab which creates practical end-user products based on foundational research breakthroughs

This isn't new and if anything it's the de facto standard for just about every AI research lab these days. OpenAI is the obvious example of an AI lab with tightly coupled product and research roadmaps and ChatGPT is the most prominent example of a successful research-driven AI product. A few years ago it could be argued that DeepMind and (fka) FAIR were siloed off from their respective orgs, but these days they are littered with product teams and their research roadmaps reflect this influence as well.

They do try to claim that what they are doing is different from OpenAI because they are focused on applications of AI whereas OpenAI is focused on building AGI, which is a laughable mischaracterization of OpenAI's current roadmap. I personally have a hard time believing that path to AGI runs through the GPT store.

Accomplished researchers in AI can fundraise on their reputations alone, and Jeremy is no exception. The primary differentiator of any new startup in this space is the caliber of its researchers and engineers. But this post is really grasping at straws to claim that their value is from some new approach to R&D, which is a totally unnecessary framing.
In this case we got a code exec.
Well, in that case, we should also ignore all Israeli media, US media, and all western media, since they all those countries committed countless atrocious war crimes throughout history, and killed way more people than Hamas will ever kill even if they existed for another 200 years.

But no, you probably believe anything the IDF and Israeli media says.
Another stupid Twitter thread where they split their post across numbered Tweets instead of using, I dunno, a blog. Immediately makes me lose interest in what the author has to say, as it's clear they're not too good at thinking.
> The problem with FE is that they seem to be wannabe nodejs BE devs instead of the W3C experts they should be

What are the best resources for someone interested in being a W3C expert? (Aside from just slogging through https://www.w3.org/TR/)
> Finally, an honest question, what would you do? How would you respond in this situation?

The situation is by design. I am not going to pretend I don't think Netanyahu wanted this.
... and later clarified that his comments had been misunderstood https://www.israelhayom.com/2023/11/03/battles-on-the-public...

(Leaving aside the fact that former ambassadors don't speak for the Israeli government.)

The Israeli government has publicly stated [1] they do not intend long-term reoccupation of Gaza.

[1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67039975
Google is running on other hardware, not their own. That is the difference.
> I've been in touch with HNers on the other side of the conflict as well

This thinking kind of reinforces what you're trying to stay away from. There are not just 'two sides' to this. And I'm not sure what you would envision as an HNer from the "other side": someone in support of Hamas? In support of the Palestinian people?

I'm only commenting here because I think the bias you fear expressing can still kind of appear in different ways.

I really do appreciate the approach you're taking here with attempting to allow for curious and thoughtful discussion about contemporary topics while being cognizant of the dangers.
LAN parties were cool, imo and led to interesting things like this pic that's been on the interwebs for a very long time.

https://assetsio.reedpopcdn.com/duct-taped_gamer_1.jpg?width...

I still have a 48-port Cisco Switch that we used for these, back in the day. It's 10/100, so that far back. ;)
Ernst and Young has laid off 130 partners in advisory and strategy
We may see that the 'next generation' of 'better' programming languages (the next Swift, the next Rust, etc.) cannot easily/readily/practically become certified for government use, though, leading to less innovation long term.

For example, if this had already happened we may find today that Java is certified for use but that Rust is simply not allowed, while maybe Swift is because of Apple's backing of it.
> Our browsing history tells a lot about what we read but no one seems to make use of it other than google for ads.. Almost everyone has a habit of reading x news site, x social network, x youtube videos etc.. Ok, here are the summary for you from these 3 today.

I was imagining something a little more ambitious. Like a model that uses our search history and behavior to derive how to best compose a search query. Bing Chat's search queries look like what my uncle would type right after I explained to him what a search engine is. Throw in some advanced operators like site: or filetype: or at least parentheses along with AND/OR. Surely, we can fine tune it to emulate the search processes of the most impressive researchers, paralegals, and teenagers on the spectrum that immediately factcheck your grandpop's Ellis Island story, with evidence he both arrived at first and was naturalized in Chicago.
This looks really nice, I hope it does well.

It reminds me that I miss https://inconsolation.wordpress.com/ ended. It had all sorts of great and humorous reviews on terminal based software.
Opportunity for YC (if they don't already) to maybe even have pools of fractional VPSales and sales people who can help startups through advise or taking a role, to transition to enterprise sales.
It is amazing to me how dominant .NET is in the gaming space.

When Sony was struggling with the difficulty of porting games to the PS3 they created the PhyreEngine framework based on .NET that used Microsoft technology to make games super portable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhyreEngine
> tools like web search, retrieval, and more to pull in external truth

When did those tools start outputting truth?
If Mexico-based cartels killed 1000 Americans and kidnapped 200, the US would send armed forces into Mexico in a heartbeat, probably with the support of the Mexican government.

Of course the cartels don't do that, though, because their goal isn't to murder Americans and destroy America.
I've literally never heard of any of these shows and I watch a lot of TV shows. I only know of Vikings in the top 50
> Increase volume when you lose money on every unit?

The only way to eventually make money is to streamline production, which means leveraging economies of scale. Trying to cut back on production to avoid losses is a losing proposition in the long run. Short sighted businesses are rarely successful.
At least some of the rejects are crash tested.
I was thinking more of a constantly spinning wheel and conservation of angular momentum but maybe that doesn’t help if most of the motion of turbulence is translational? I’m sure it’s an impractical idea.
There plenty of idle people who can afford to give away their book length writings for free, probably millions in fact.

And some fraction of them do, some fraction add an optional donation prompt, etc...
Generalized bias aside, is the UN similarly biased specifically in officially classifying Israel as a (colonial) occupying force and the Palestinian population as refugee?
There's a way for sure, it's just not implemented. Allowing for more configurability of the window(s) is on my list, because it annoys me too! :)
Why yes, SF actually has some laws to tax vacant real estate.

(Unless court challenges were successful, not sure the status and there’s always court challenges to everything)
> wow, what a great little piece of writing!

If you like this essay from The Economist, note that this is the standard level of quality for that magazine (or, as they call themselves for historical reasons, "newspaper"). I've been a subscriber since 1985.
I don't have any problem with them adopting a test flight heavy methodology, however it is extremely misleading to suggest that this is the methodology which gave them the Falcon 9.

The falcon 9 succeed on it's first launch, it was not a test flight heavy program.

The falcon 1, SpaceX's only orbital rocket prior to the falcon 9, did fail on it's first three flights, however it was never intended to and that nearly bankrupt the company. They destroyed third party payloads on flights 1 and 3, because these were intended to work, not be test flights.

Long after it was in production the falcon 9 did begin a "test-flight" heavy program, but that was for developing the ability to recover boosters after they had successfully delivered a customer payload in an operational flight, not for developing the rocket itself.
"Qatar argues that some its critics misunderstand why it hosts Hamas’s political leaders – which is not so much out of ideological sympathy but because the US has asked it to."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/21/why-is-qatar-o...
Hi!

I found a typo, I suspect you meant, enterprise subscription.
They're talking about shit that isn't real because it advances their personal goals, keeps eyes on them, whatever. I think the effect on funding is overhyped -- OpenAI got their big investment before this doomer/e-acc dueling narrative surge, and serious investors are still determining viability through due diligence, not social media front pages.

Basically, it's just more self-serving media pollution in an era that's drowning in it. Let the nerds who actually make this stuff have their say and argue it out, it's a shame they're famously bad at grabbing and holding onto the spotlight.
True, Israeli votes are the only votes that have had, and can have, any material effect there. They have voted for Netanyahu reliably for years, so the present situation, Hamas included, is what they have, collectively, chosen. Hamas has always been Netanyahu's staunchest political ally. If Israeli voters ever choose differently, change might be possible. Until then, things will be reliably more of the same.
> Also, the Steam client has to be one of the most stagnant applications I ever had the pleasure of using, not sure that makes Valve super efficient.

If said software is fit for purpose already, why the need to induce frivolous change for the sake of changes themselves? If permanent stagnancy is bad, perpetual change is equally bad IMHO.
The MIT No Attribution (MIT-0) license is an OSI-approved license. As I've been told by at least a couple IP lawyers, the situation may be stickier in continental Europe. Most works the US federal government creates are also considered in the public domain so it doesn't seem that controversial a concept in the US.
really, just tried again to confirm
I think you're talking about Apple's Star Trek Project ("To boldly go where no Mac has gone before.").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_project

> For one thing a company like Sun Microsystems or Apple that specializes in making computers that are much more expensive than PCs would not want people to get anywhere near the PC clone ecosystem where you can pay less and get a lot more.

Except in the 1990s Apple did permit PowerPC-based Mac clones to proliferate, until Jobs returned and cancelled all the contracts.

A wild time.
Taxes and fees are complicated, no question.

But it's completely ridiculous for ISPs (or anybody else) to use that as a justification for dark patterns during the sales cycle.

Now, if the taxes and fees were so complicated, the company simply couldn't comply at all, at any point in the customer lifecycle, then sure, that's a good excuse. But that's not the case - ISPs manage to figure this stuff out eventually.
This is a common, but very flawed misunderstanding of the situation in Israel, by analogizing it to 9/11. (Many Israelis were pushing this narrative at the start of this, btw, but that doesn't make it true.)

This wasn't just a terror attack, like 9/11 was. It was an invasion. Thousands of armed militants breached the border and invaded Israel, then killed more than a thousand Israelis. The militants were inside Israel for a few days after. In addition to the ground invasion, Hamas shot rockets into Israel, and has continues to shoot rockets at Israel this entire time.

This wasn't a terror attack. It was an invasion and a declaration of war.

In addition to all of that, for the first few weeks after this invasion, it was very unclear whether this would lead to a wider, joint attack by other forces as well. It is very hard for people in the US, and for most Westerners, to really understand what it's like to be afraid of losing a war. Israel probably would've survived even if this war turned into a combined attack by not just Hamas, but by Hezbollah and possibly even others. (Who, btw, are also shooting at Israel every day, just not doing it enough to really be considered another combatant.)

The response to 9/11 was maybe an overreaction. But 9/11 was not a real threat to the US , and this was fairly clear. This is an entirely different situation - there is a sworn enemy of Israel on its borders, proving they have the capability to kill thousands of citizens, and claiming they're going to do this over and over. That's a situation that a country can't live with, which is why Israel's reaction is not an overreaction - it's what any country on earth would do.

Notes:

1. This doesn't mean that everything Israel does is ok - there are different ways of prosecuting a war, Israel could still be doing it in a very immoral way and be consistent with everything I said above (I don't think that's true, but it's orthogonal to my point in this comment).

2. This comment also doesn't say anything about whether or not Hamas is "justified" in invading Israel, nor does it claim that "history started on October 7th" or anything silly like that. Of course there's context to this whole situation. (It should be needless to say but I'll say it anyway - there is no excuse for Hamas's deliberate targeting of civilians, and no excuse for the slaughter they committed. Still, that's also orthogonal to the point I'm making in this comment.)
Prohibition may have extended life for those born in dry counties
Hmmm, is the term "Mickey Mouse" trademarked?

As in, would a new name be needed for any new "Mickey Mouse" animation created using the old Steamboat Willie (mouse) character?
Incorrect. They actually purchased them and could download them, DRM-free. (At least if the other services listed are like Bandcamp.) You should archive them yourself after downloading. The fact that you can download them again from the server, or maybe stream them, is an additional service, it's not the thing itself.

That being said, when something is not sold anymore, I'd say it's fair game to torrent it or upload it wherever.
They don't use it as munition, it's used by all countries in the way Israel uses it
What exactly is the value of this comment?
I mean that's exactly my point -- one needs to find other ways to "making a living" from the work done within the framework of laws which may or may not appreciate or have the means to protect ones work.
Really enjoyed the tangents and the point makes sense. I hate idiotic frontend hate and I am not a fan of htmx, but I still like its approach - if it makes sense for the website.

I think every developer who has worked using a CMS using traditional templating + "ajax" has reinvented parts of it at some point in their career. At least I have.

If I would find myself in this scenario again, I'd gladly reach for htmx.

Apart from the social media observations, topics tend to be random here, but I like train-of-thought writing.
"Intentional mass murdering of civilians" is what Palestine did to start this war in the first place. So even if Israel were deliberately targeting civilians (there's no evidence for this) they would still be on the right side of this conflict.
Finding Unreachable Functions with Deadcode
Not everyone has the luxury to work with competently written backend systems.
First, some people extend your argument from DNA to everything and say "I believe that privacy in the modern world is unrealistic"; that doesn't make the argument applicable to the rest of us.

Second, whether DNA can or cannot remain confidential is yet to be seen, but feasibility is certainly orthogonal to whether it ought to be, which is the point at hand.

Third, whether you believe it's a breach of privacy to leak part of your relatives' DNA is besides the point. It's their decision to make, since it's their personal data and deemed confidential under most privacy frameworks, and therefore a breach.
I've seen people complaining about early access games before just because they never got released (hence my question). From the comments I get this case is a bit different though.
AI is not very good at single threaded code which is widely regarded as much easier. The breathless demos don't generalize well when you truly test on data not in the training set, it's just that most people don't come up with good tests because they take something from the internet, which is the training set. But the code most people need to write is to do tasks that are bespoke to individual businesses/science-experiments/etc not popular CS problems that there are 1000 tutorials online for. When you get into those areas it becomes apparent really quickly that the AI only gets the "vibes" of what code should look like, it doesn't have any mechanistic understanding.
> Until basebands are mandated to be FOSS for security and safety reasons, Google is just moving the chairs around on the deck of a sinking ship.

I agree. I couldn't see much of a point in the techniques discussed when there's a huge elephant in the room, and you can't fix it, so I thought I was missing something obvious.

I wasn't: it's just security theater, doing something for the sake of doing something, while there's a big pink elephant in the room you should not look at:

> the IOMMU refuses to allow the OS to restrict the baseband processor's view into system RAM.

And I can't find any valid technical reason for that elephant to be in the room.

There shouldn't be limitations for accepting IOMMUs: "be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send"

> Some phones straight up admit the baseband is actively hostile and only communicates with it via serial

That looks like a fair assumption. You wouldn't have daemons listening as UID 0 on all ports, accepting then running the random binaries they get, so why would you magically assume it's ok to do the exact same but with baseband instead of a daemon?

> (which leads to poor performance, but a secure phone)

Can you recommend some phones?

I wanted to get a better understanding of the stack so I bought an original pinephone, with the grand plan of installing arch on it (for fun!)

Could it be made to work like that?

A simple search only found https://www.reddit.com/r/pinephone/comments/har9aj/pine_phon... which concludes with "I don't think the Pinephone can provide any of the security requirements of Graphene OS ( iommu isolation etc )"

What should I buy to explore the concept of IOMMUs on cellphones?
How? The cartels want to make money through illegal means, they don't want to destroy America. The cartels studiously avoid killing Americans. When they do kill Americans, the leadership either kills the members who killed Americans or turns them in, e.g. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/gulf-cartel-apologizes-...
It's interesting that you are citing a former South African politician who opposed apartheid. I will quote a South African journalist who fought against apartheid, published books about it and defended Israel as a non-apartheid state for many years after moving there. Now, he states that it is indeed an apartheid state.

"In 2001, I joined Israel’s government delegation to the world conference against racism in Durban. The government of Ariel Sharon invited me because of my expertise after a quarter-century as a journalist in South Africa; my specialty was reporting on apartheid close up.

At the conference, I was disturbed and angered by the multitude of lies and exaggerations about Israel. During the years since, I have argued with all my might against the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state – in lectures, newspaper articles, on TV and in a book."

And later he writes:

"In Israel, I am now witnessing the apartheid with which I grew up."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/19/israel...
I think some people assume that it'll always be there to re-download. I certainly download things immediately, and stick it somewhere where it'll be backed up nightly.
There’s no free market in infrastructure. Never has been. Oligopolies are the best you can hope to get.
For your situation specifically check out this site. I think there are some cartoons:

https://35mm.online/
In everyday Business, there's a thing called 'The Manager's Dilemma'. When you need something critical, the question is: Do we 'buy-built' from somebody else? That way it's faster. cheaper and easier, but we're at the mercy of that supplier. Or do we 'roll our own'? That's a lot harder, longer and more expensive, but at least we won't be at the mercy of that other supplier.

For decades, the Chinese were very happy not having to build up a home-grown, very expensive, semiconductor industry when they could 'buy-built' from a bunch of US semi companies. The US semi companies loved it because they earned several hundred billion dollars a year in exports to China. 'Win-win' for all concerned.

Enter the US politicians. "Let's ban exports of US chips to China. That will hold them back."

So now the Chinese have no choice but to spend all that cash, time and effort to begin to 'roll their own' chip industries.

So now the US companies have lost the biggest chip market in the world. They don't have enough R&D funds to keep in front of the pack, and they become uncompetitive.

On the other hand, while the Chinese start-up chip makers might lag behind for a few years, they have great economies of scale selling their own products to the largest chip market in the world. They now have sufficient R&D funds to forge ahead of the US chip companies, and can begin to undercut their previous suppliers.

In less than a decade, the US chip companies are mere shadows of their former selves and are heading for oblivion. And the Chinese chip companies have wiped out their previous suppliers by being cheaper competitors. And the US semiconductor industry follows the US textiles, steel, small appliance, paper, and all those other former US industries to the scrapheap of History.

And all because some dick-head US politician wanted to 'hold back the Chinese'. There are always unintended consequences. Karma always comes back to bite you in the ass.
> Not sure where you get the idea that comments can't be copyrighted.

Hm?
I'm just pointing out that all kinds of content creation occurs and they have different types of value. I absolutely think a comment has value and could be copyrighted. But, for certain types of creation that are "work" do not have equivalent protections. So, are we just trying to protect work?
My god is this power law driven, just put that into a graph!

Top show has twice the view count of show number 8.

Would love to map that against budgets and sub numbers - without ads the viewcounts matter zilch.
I personally have no experience with configuring or triggering keyboard shortcuts beyond what I learned and implemented in this project. But with that said, I'm very confident that what you're describing is not only possible but fairly easy.
AFAIK cartel gang members by the border of US aren't taught from young age that all US citizens are demons that stole something that belongs to them, and that their goal in life is to kill as many americans as possible.

They also don't obtain and launch thousands of rockets at US cities, or go on 3,000-men raid of US cities by the border for the main objective of killing, hurting, kidnapping and instilling fear into US citizens.

The comparison of cartels to terrorist militias like Hamas is ridiculous and reveals ignorance.
When will the hype curve finally end...
ADHD has genetic markers for example