skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ugh sorry to hear that. That squeeze I mentioned before (lowball offer at "this is what it will cost us to copy you") was, thankfully, for a company that we bootstrapped so we had no VC pushing us to close. And we bootstrapped because of my experience at my previous, VC-backed company.
An AI could need to buy things - electricity, if nothing else.
Most other tier 1 manufacturers have had this - BMW, Merc, Audi, Lexus...
Can't say I knew him personally, but it's also possible that he was self-aggrandizing and still a relatively good leader? Obviously it feels to modern readers like it's kind of a stretch to claim the Cylinder is the birth of the concept of human rights[1] but that doesn't mean that a king setting out in writing his obligations to his subjects wasn't an important milestone.

1: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-21747567
He seems to punch down on airline staff. In this video he picks on a deadheading crewmember presumably because she was sitting next to him and didn’t want him to record:

https://youtu.be/gJPtwy7gAgM?si=j6xsLJVley7hYllA
So exactly how was the government preventing a company town here?

And if a town is dependent on one major employee should we do what exactly?
This deal already has fallen through. What I type here has no possible impact. So idk what the motive here really is.

I have a bunch of different feelings about it of course, but I think what I have said here has been factual and verifiable against public information.

One of the things I’ve always enjoyed about hacker news is that it isn’t purely a peanut gallery and people involved in the companies and technologies we talk about do post here. Attributing bad faith to those people when they do participate seems antithetical to the spirit of this place.
Cool, that makes sense. :)
1 & 3 would be horrible as well.. I think they would ruin it properly.

Indeed, Adobe's actions will be interesting. They will have to compete, maybe they can buy Sketch or similar?

And they might also just want out of the $20B price tag as you are right that it's a crazy price today.
Has anyone proposed CommonMark over HTTP? Like, just shove markdown in a GET response with

Content-Type: text/markdown

And let the client decide how to render it. It'd be like Gopher, but modern.
Not a fun day to be a Figma employee. It’s all “yeah fuck tech monopolies!” until it’s you who will receive a fat payout. Can’t say I’m not playing the same game, hoping for a similar outcome. I can only _dream_ of a $20b acquisition.
Typically this is what you see on a stock:

> Bid [500 x $64.39], [$64.42 x 100] Ask <

It means that someone currently offers to buy 500 shares at the price of $64.39.

It means that someone currently offers to sell 100 shares at the price of $64.42.

In practice, it means that you can buy 100 shares at the price of $64.42, then, after, it will move to the next price level.

=> You can see the "depth" of offers, it's called Level 2 book:

Ask offers:

$64.42 x 100

$64.43 x 200

$64.46 x 100

$65.00 x 600

$97.00 x 100

$999.99 x 100

=> If you try to buy 400 shares, it will cost you:

100 shares x $64.42 = $6 442

200 shares x $64.43 = $12 886

100 shares x $64.46 = $6,446

Divided by 400 shares.

It means ~$64.435 per share, though you saw $64.42 as price.

If you send very large volumes, you quickly eat these price levels.

In our example, if you try to buy 2000 shares, you will get only 1200 shares.

You will have paid an average price of $145.39 per share.

So, yes it may not go through because, it is possible that there are not enough people interested to sell their share (that there is not enough depth, or not at an acceptable price).

And also, the SEC has certain rules (uptick rules, etc) that makes the stock to be frozen in case the price varies too much.
Here's hoping nuclear war IS indeed 'out'. Peak Oil sure as heck ain't, and even if you forget about climate change it isn't forgetting about you.

It would be a shame if (culturally, as is your framing here) it is on the way out and AI Doom is on the way in… because there's nothing inside the AI Doom box other than the ability to displace human labor. Any hard drive already surpasses human memory for scope and accuracy. We have to get used to machines out-scoping us on technical grounds. We can't run as fast as cars, either, but we're still around to think about and sometimes even attempt 'walkable cities'.

Reality always gets a vote. With 'AI Doom' the vote isn't what you think it is. It is a Jacquard loom of words. Some things change hugely, and others aren't even touched.
I'm posting a comment here so that the odds for better comments elsewhere may improve.

I'm the creator of the 1000 skeptics theorem:

You take infinite skeptics, give them all typewriters, poof! All the great works debunked.
Everyone - This isn't about the touch screen. This is about the buttons in recent VWs that are touch based, including the steering wheel and window selector switch for the window buttons. All of these are capacitive and are horrible.
I think this is great. Figma gets a free undiluted infusion of 1B cash. I’m surprised break-up fees aren’t negotiated as an investment instead of a pure cash transfer. Sure it may have impacted company focus, it didn’t impact their revenue that much (1.5x growth vs 2x growth in previous years although that could have also been caused by an adverse economic climate with sales slowing across many companies and industries). The one-time 1B infusion puts their revenue growth quite a bit higher for 2023 than they would have had organically I suspect (4x growth vs best case of 2x). If Figma fixes their sales trajectory in 2024 this bodes extremely well for them. They do need to have a better story about generative AI which is a real thing in their space (e.g. wireframe -> mockup automatic conversion, wireframe construction assistants, etc etc). Will be interesting to see if they build that in-house or via acquisition.
Sorry to hear you had that experience we saw 30% speedup moving from 2.6 to 3.2 and the 95th in many cases was 40%... Did you happen to enable yjit and if so which app server are you running?
Interesting. Do you think html generation is one of the things that makes the numbers look so good for 3.2 YJIT? We run a mostly json api only app. I think json serialization is notoriously slow in ruby so I was hoping yjit would speed it up.
One of the things I really like about my Subaru is the over-abundance of buttons, and the really hands on wheel button controls. The touch screen is perfectly supplemental and that makes it much less irritating.
You don't have to buy it. That's the reality. You can go through the numbers yourself.

Adobe doesn't have network effect or anything like that.

Just to give you the numbers:

Adobe Creative Cloud, which includes Photoshop, has over 22 million subscribers.

Thats 1/5 of Canva users.

You guys are simply factually wrong.
I'm not the author but esrun (which was called https://www.npmjs.com/package/@digitak/esrun a few day ago and still has 10K downloads a week) lets you run TS files with:

- no tsconfig

- no package.json changes

- no .mts filename requirement

- no IIFEs or other hacks to get top level 'await' working

- no stupid error messages like `$ npx ts-node somefile.ts
TypeError [ERR_UNKNOWN_FILE_EXTENSION]: Unknown file extension ".ts"`

And for that reason esrun is way better than tsx, tsrun, ts-node, etc.
Netcraft indicates Linux or unknown previous to the incident for www and bl.uk:

https://sitereport.netcraft.com/?url=http://www.bl.uk

Hosting History

Netblock owner IP address OS Web server Last seen
Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond WA US 98052 13.107.213.64 Linux unknown 26-Nov-2023
Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond WA US 98052 13.107.246.64 Linux unknown 25-Nov-2023
British Library 194.66.233.215 Linux unknown 20-Jul-2023
British Library 194.66.233.215 Linux nginx 15-May-2019
British Library 194.66.233.215 unknown nginx 5-Jul-2016
British Library 194.66.233.215 Linux nginx 4-Jul-2016
British Library 194.66.233.215 unknown nginx 26-Jun-2016
British Library 194.66.233.215 Linux nginx 21-Jun-2016
British Library 194.66.233.215 unknown nginx 17-Jun-2016
British Library 194.66.233.215 Linux Apache 17-Jan-2016
Oh for fuck's sake, LLMs are not in any sense "intelligent"
I run 7b/13b models pretty gracefully on a 16GB M1 Pro, but it does leave me wanting a little more headroom for other things like Docker and browser eating multiple gigabytes of ram themselves.

Maybe keep an eye out for M1 / M2 deals with high ram config? I've seen 64GB MBPs lately for <$2300 (slickdeals.net)
Sadly that's just about true for most things, whether it's city state or federal. God forbid Congress tries to tackle the health care industrial complex, it might hit their portfolio!
"Regulate the externalities of their platform" is so weasel worded that it has broken into a henhouse. That just means "Unable to stop literally anything bad from happening as a side effect of their actions." Which if we are being remotely intellectually honest is an impossible hurdle.
>Things happen quickly and AI will change things quickly.

Yes, but oversold hype also dies quickly, not changing much in the end.
I've seen some people using wireguard for intra-cluster networking so that all their nodes can run pretty much anywhere.
Doesn't this bring the US in line with the EU, Australia, and I would assume a range of other countries ?
“Policymakers should charge teams of experts with iterative scenario planning to help them regularly update their views on how the probabilities of the various scenarios evolve”

Or you know just have ai models run the scenarios.

I’m fairly fatigued on this sort of article… I do believe there will be large impact to work & society as we are able to manufacture intelligence. But that’s so obvious now as to be uninteresting.

Everyone says we’ll need solutions but I’ve yet to see meaningful work to propose any.
In a word, "yes." The reader reviews from polite, smart people are great, but there are enough haters in the mix that it makes the site hard to take.
This argument makes sense for the security angle. At least as it pertains to getting malware on your local machine.

But what about all of the "not security" but bad things that happen because we allow people to run code we have no choice over on our computer. The attention tracking features marked as tools to understand user intents are exfiltrating information from you perhaps when you don't expect.

Are you happy for example for someone to be logging where on a screen you are sitting and reading within a book or video. Do you not find it problematic for example that you could purchase a subscription to medium, but medium finds out you pause your computer to read descriptions of guns? Would you mind if they then sold this knowledge to Glock who then showed these ads on your work computer?

I get what you are saying for security. But "knowing" if and when something is happening is important. I may be worse or better at evaluating applications to run on my machine than the chrome team. But at least I know when I am entering into a risky situation.
That's like 7 patents, not sure it's particularly impressive from a tech patent portfolio perspective unless a few of them are real bangers, and/or Figma is known to be litigious which I don't think they are?
I think it would! Are you interested in trying it out? I can probably prepare a simple example and open an issue in the pgsodium repo to discuss the rest.
I think this shows that you don't fully understand UI/UX and its importance/role in modern software creation. Moreover, you're conflating your opinions about Spotify with an industry. This would explain what I consider to be an mis assessment of the situation.

As someone close to UX my entire life, Figma is a well positioned and useful app that has no decent substitute on the Adobe side. It has market share and potentially a huge data moat giving them a leg up on the "AI Designer" problem. Now more than ever, it is worth a lot.
"Anyway, 15 mins after we get a proper AI it will make a spaceship and fuck off somewhere that we are not..."

How will it do so? By the power of its mind?

No matter how smart something is, physical work remains physical work. This AI would have a quite hard time first, of figuring out self replication. Then maybe it could wander off ...
Short version of the net threat/risk of this appears to be a sophsticated attacker on the network may snipe ssh session negotiations with injected packets and cause the session to not-apply mitigations against keystroke timing analysis - which in turn may expose an ssh authN password via implementing that timing attack, or sudo credentials on the other side of the connection.

I'm interpreting the likelihood of encountering this near term seems very low, and the impact is high enough where an APT group uses it as part of their pivot and persistence strategy, but it's mitigated by the fact that it doesn't compromise a clients private key. There may be some future implementation of this attack that enables automated ssh session hijacking as a result of a key downgrade and an additional cryptographic weakness in that chosen weaker cipher. It implies the network IoCs would be for a bunch of NOP ssh packets and failed ssh session setups.

Interested in disagreement.
> Wonder how badly it could go if the data storage container is ruptured while against someone's body?

TL;DR: pretty much zero unless you're immunocompromised

The price tag of the broken equipment and bacterial infections are probably the biggest concerns.

Genetic information is like software. It doesn't do anything unless it's in a compatible environment. Eukaryotic cells like those in plants, animals, fungi are delicate. Viruses which can write DNA into them without killing them have to be complicated, which makes the viruses delicate. Being this delicate means work with these cells and viruses can be very expensive.

Why try to use a multi-Xeon server rack with fiber links when all you need is a cluster of 5 Raspberry Pis and a bare bones router? The latter is way cheaper.

For the same reasons, well-understood bacterial models like tame E. Coli strains are popular in biocomputing [1]. Slime molds [2][3] are also popular, and they're even famously good at pathfinding.

Your coworkers, however, might be annoyed that you broke the biocomputer again.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421265/

[2] https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-6...

[3] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2014.021...
Monopoly is competition. War is peace. Freedom is slavery.
> Anyone with a retirement account that holds passive etfs

This is incorrect. Not all ETFs. These funds are sector focused (vehicles). A regular S&P500 ETF will not hold NKLA.
Either the patent system is catastrophically broken or it isn't. I have always contended that it is, and I don't get to ignore that right now because Apple appears to have engaged in shenanigans.

(I don't think patents need to be entirely eliminated, but they need drastic reform. The patent system should be an incentive to small inventors, not a pay-to-play shield for big corporations. Obviously eliminating software/algorithm patents, eliminating "thing but with a computer" patents, shortening the entitlement period, mandating FRAND with full transparency around licensing fees, possibly even capping lifetime license fee revenue at $100m or so.)
Nice!

Was there an internal project name for this? Fubernetes? f8s? :D
In the ID4’s steering wheel buttons are sub-par. In a d-pad layout, right hand, they decided an “up/down” was necessary so they made vol- and vol+ left and right.

Well now you can’t have skip/back, because those _have_ to be left/right. Meanwhile everyone’s phone vol-/+ is vertically oriented, up/down, so I’d argue that’s a folk default.

Here’s the thing: I don’t use the up/down buttons for everyday use. I’m guessing they work a menu. They are clearly an over-prioritized affordance. And I’m stuck with it until the lease is up.

I’ve done 40k miles in a model 3. The cabin temps are automatic to the temp I like. I never change it. It’s easy to pick the last few things I listened to from the touch screens. I can use Siri for other things (Bluetooth, no CarPlay)… buttons are overrated.
Recycling Cotton
Apparently it's about going all the way. Wear just a fedora? You're a neckbeard. Go fully 1940s in every way? Darling.
Thanks; weird typo. (I guess that's how I pronounce it in my accent, but I always visualize the word with the correct spelling.)
People often can only conceive 'intelligent' as 'me but with ALL the power ever'. Something of a misunderstanding, I think. Power isn't the same thing as intelligence.
What you feel is disgust; you just have so little empathy that you can't tell the difference.
So instead of .125% of companies. It’s .45%.

The best I could find is that YC has invested in 4000 companies..
Good. Straight up lied about an entire company
Yep that's totally fair, I could have clarified here. I was specifically thinking about the VC world in the context of this threat and would expect any tech companies interested in VC money would fall into the bucket of those big (or aspiring to be big) tech companies.
This is bait, but I'll bite. From what I've seen, the common denominator is misconfiguration. We can all do it, but it seems especially concentrated in organizations with limited IT human resources largely dependent upon contracted service providers. Spend a butt load on systems and hope Bill in IT doesn't screw it up. A lot of that ecosystem happens to be Windows based.
All I want from an AGI is to order food for me without the bullshit of selecting the right venue, dealing with bad search in the apps, checking payment methods, making the payment, accepting 3DS notifications, checking delivery status. This took me 45 minutes yesterday, 43 minutes more than I considered acceptable.

That 15 minutes will take a bit longer :)
I dispute that. Ontario Ultra-low-overnight rates let me charge my car overnight for $2 or during peak periods for $25. Not too many people are going to ignore savings like that.

I just tell my car to make sure it's charged & warmed by 7AM and it takes care of the rest.

If I had the opportunity to join VPP I'd just tell it to make sure that it was at 80% at 7AM and never below 50% any other time.
Tried `ollama pull mixtral` just now and it seems to be working, albeit pretty slowly.
and with thanks to public support for solutions to those problems

(to be fair, the Y2K would have been solved regardless since that could have impacted immediate quarterly financial reports)
And option 3 is 11c/unit cheaper.
The amount of baseless skepticism about these marketing technologies is astonishing.

It requires NO cooperation on the part of Apple, Google etc.

For smartphones it just requires allowing microphone access to some app; there are troves of apps with legitimate needs to access the microphone (voice chat in games, voice notes...); and many people accept all the permission requests they're offered, in any case.

Whether this access is allowed when the app is in the background depends on the OS version, the permissions the user grants and some other conditions (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64306994/access-micropho... , https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/106415).

Active microphone indicators have been introduced in Android 12 and iOS 14; many people still have older versions; those who don't might not care about them; and everything is still possible when an app with legitimate microphone usage reasons is in the foreground.

On other devices (such as smart tvs) there are often even less problems.

Most of all, there ARE well known services that use microphones to report on ads reach, and the one object of this thread only goes further by detecting arbitrary (pre-chosen) words:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/business/media/alphonso-a... (Alphonso is now lgads.tv)

https://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/ftc-android-developers-...

And again, this cmg offering exists, and is openly advertised by a reputable company; why so many people just want to ignore its existence, is beyond me.
Two thoughts.

1. How did you evaluate performance? Did you let it run for a while in production? YJIT's improvements will be most visible over time.

2. If your web app's response times are dominated by database queries, then YJIT will do nothing for you. Even re-writing your app in assembly language won't help. All languages are equally fast when sitting around waiting for the database to response. ;-)

That said, if your response times are dominated by db query wait times, maybe the async queries in Rails 7.x can offer you some very nice improvements. However, you will probably need to restructure (not rewrite, exactly, but restructure) your code to take advantage. Not the whole app, just the hot spots.

https://www.shakacode.com/blog/rails-7-1-active-record-api-f...
Has that been alleged?
I guess I'm in a minority, as I like the minimalist elegance of a Tesla touchscreen and voice controls.
>There's like an obvious lesson here about PGP and the MDC, right?

Not sure that all the readers will already know about our constant quibbling about the security of the MDC. I have in the past suggested that the fact that the MDC has remained unbroken for 20+ years is evidence that it is secure.

Interestingly enough, I have recently stumbled across a paper[1] that shows that preventing an attacker from computing the hash is important for insuring the security of hash than encrypt schemes like the MDC. OpenPGP does that by preseeding the hash with a random, encrypted value.

So does that mean that the MDC is secure? Unfortunately, when you come up with a set of requirements for security, you have to use your knowledge of existing attacks. You don't get to know about about future attacks. So the fact that a particular construct has never been broken over a long time is in a sense the only objective evidence available.

[1] https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~mihir/papers/enc-red.pdf
Comments without content and humor is a sure fire way on HN to get downvoted.
This article isn't asking us to stop it. It is talking about planning for a world in which AI displaces labour.

And even if this isn't the technology to do that, the fact we have absolutely 0 plan for a world beyond labour is frightening.
the book world is so toxic. so of course software for the book world will replicate that.

another win for indie bookstores and the booksellers who are passionate about handselling their favorite new titles.
Yea, I went in expecting him to ask for followers / clicks but there was none of that.
My daughters take FlixBus up from/down to Corvallis (Oregon State) and Eugene (U of Oregon) and the stop is a couple of blocks north of Union Station, as you say.

I took a different bus to Eugene, The Point, where you buy tickets from Amtrak but the bus is run by a different company. The bus boards right outside Union Station in Portland. The nice thing for me was that I able to show a ticket for that day to the two security guards and was able to use the restroom. I'm not sure I could have talked them into it otherwise. I was dropped off at the Eugene Amtrak station where there weren't any security guards.

I see restroom access as a competitive advantage but The Point only goes up and down I-5 so it's limited in appeal.

https://www.oregon-point.com/
This is the explanation behind 99% of vehicles being Class A nurbs surfaced corporate design disasters.
>Shocked at how ugly the VW interface was, esp in their next flagship.

And bear in mind that this is the end product after VW spent billions on a sister spin-off company, Cariad, that would just focus on creating the best possible in-car software separate from their archaic car business. And this is what they got. Now they're gonna lay off thousands.

There's something with big German companies and consumer facing software that never manages to click no matter how much money they spend. If you have a broken design culture/process with terrible managers, it won't matter how much money you spend or how many people you lay off.