skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
GP, who I replied to, did indeed say exactly that. I asked which planet they’re from and you hopped in to explain.
If you like what the FTC has been doing lately, be sure to vote in 11 months...
coops usually seem like a net-win for everyone. If you ban mergers, that probably also impacts co-operations.

Joint-ventures might also be a postive. I can think of ARM, and the alignment in the automotive industry to standardise parts and platforms to lower total costs.
As an ex-smoker, I also used to just toss cigarette butts anywhere without thought. Decades after quitting it's still surprising to me that I ever thought this was normal (I've never, otherwise, been a big litterer).

At least when I began smoking in my early teens this was just what smokers did. When you were done smoking you just tossed the butt on the ground and stomped it out. I remember being annoyed when someone scolded me for littering, at the time it somehow felt different but I admitted the logic didn't quite work out.

I suspect a lot of this behavior originated from behaviors established before filtered cigarettes were the norm. Just tobacco rolled in thin paper, especially when burnt to the end before it burns your fingers, will likely break down after the first heavy rain. Filtered butts however, hang around for a long time.
Nope. That's wrong.
only if you know how
> Patent trolling is not a company category

Oh I'm sorry. I meant to say "Patent Trolling Companies", is it easier to understand now?

I'm sure you are aware that there actually is a category of companies that just participate in "patent trolling", and do nothing else. Not sure why you're being so pedantic about the grammar instead of trying to reply to the actual arguments...
I'd imagine the intersection of "intellectually curious" and "dealing with the consequences of interesting life choices" is far greater than most of us would suspect at first. I'd also imagine the variety of circumstances in the latter category easily rivals the former.
Don't worry, we enjoy that kind of stuff.

I usually put all the resource freeing at the end of a function under a goto label, or only a few lines within the allocation, so it's easy to visually confirm everything is cleaned up. The way this commit frees the resources inside of if blocks is not how I would have done it. And if I find I let a leak in the code I usually refactor to make the correctness more obvious.

In this example, the fact that m3_ParseModule takes ownership of the wasm pointer is very tricky. It looks like there is still a leak but there is not.
On the one hand, as a designer who uses Figma every day, this is great news. On the other hand, the fact that Dylan Field was willing to do it in the first place felt like a bit of a heel turn. Yeah, it's a lot of money, I know. Maybe I'm alone in this, but I've already shifted my expectations for the long term direction of the product from "they can do no wrong" to "when is the other shoe going to drop?"
Hmmm not super easy, unless you now how / what they are checking.
> This response is confusing. The point isn’t “considering something is worthless” but rather “considering something superficially tends to lead to poor outcomes”

Replying here as the thread won't allow for more. But I'm not following what you are meaning then.

I'm not seeing the outcome from Chevy being poor, any more than "inspect element" would be poor.
> As Charlie Munger used to say: figure out what works and then do it.

I don't think that "upward social mobility" should be our only metric.

> But imagine you’re in a third world village, and at the edge of survival to begin with. Your mom and dad are “no longer in love.” Dad leaves, and the mom and kids starve to death immediately. That’s why most traditional societies have strong norms against divorce.

Most traditional societies don't have nuclear families, with 2.4 children and only two adults to raise them in the suburbs outside of a large city.
It really just seems like your position here, on this specific issue, is that we already talked about this. We just had a discussion about it the other day, and people were worked up about it, and so we don't need to and in fact should not have a discussion about it today.

The thing is it is still happening, and so people should be worked up about it every day until it stops. And our industry is specifically involved implicated and complicit at the very core of the matter, and so action is necessary from us. From you, even.

Like do you understand that you're not going to be judged on the "tiny blobs of text online" you're going to be judged by the consequences of our collective actions and your role in influencing them? And that your role, specifically dan, is one of power and influence? People are going to write books about the relationship between the american tech industry and the genocide of palestinians and you are going to be in them. I'm not cross examining you but you should reckon with the fact that people will.
You don't measure this on the size of the company but on market share. By that definition of course it should be allowed. There are many powerful competitors in this space Canva being just one of them.
Where did you find a reference by the EC to that particular video?
If they just wanted to cash out, they could still IPO or be acquired by almost literally any other company in the country. Adobe might be the only one who cause regulatory issues.

I'd rather have "regulatory issues" in a case like this even if it does slow down VC money
Fun experiment, but it isn't as much of a gotcha as people here think. They could have verbally tricked a human customer service agent into promising them the car for $1 in the same way but the end result would be the same – the agent (whether human or bot) doesn't have the authority to make that promise so you are walking away with nothing. I doubt the company is sweating because of this hack.

Now if Chevrolet hooks their actual sales process to an LLM and has it sign contracts on their behalf... that'll be a sight to behold.
Also that their cancellation window has limits on both sides - I told them more than six months I advance to cancel my renewal and the refused and toll me to call up again in a particular 30 day period close to the expiry date...
For a while I worked in an office “strip” — we had a pharma company, a CAD company, etc, and also next door to us in the biggest suite a company that provided some sort of CPAP machine services to the general public.

I was fascinated / upset that the two parking spots closest to that place always had trash (which would blow around) — often fast food wrappers. the entrance was perhaps 10 yards from the parking spot and there was a bin in between, so 5 yards away. I’d see people pull up, open the car door, dump their trash out, then exit the car and head for the business.

Obviously there were more people parking there (higher throughput) than in the other spots, where someone would come to work and leave their car all day. But if there is a small n% of litterers in the population it felt (not scientifically) like this group had a higher percentage than the population in general.

This left me wondering since what the psychology is. Unfortunately this article didn’t really get into it despite the title. I grew up the opposite way (pick up litter as you walk around) so I find this weird.
I’m not convinced Figgie is similar enough to Pit to make this comparison. Both are the same genre certainly but there are substantial differences in the setups and goals.

Elements unique/different to Figgie
- uncertain value of cards (need to find the 12 card suit)
- time limit
- scoring mechanism
Yes and no. Everything is fine until you hit the 2gb limit. The average professional laptop has a 16gb ram. Figma is not only the vector app. If someone wants serious vector work, Illustrator and Affinity Designer provide a solution.

Figma is more than this, and the complexity of the workflows requires offline support and more memory available to the app.:)
Of course, if you take "improve" to your terms. For MrBeast, it is to have more views (other than monetization itself); he deliberately works towards it and is public about how he uses YouTube tools to get more views and retention. So, I think my comment is on point.

Other creators will fight for different ways to improve their content, which can technically be 4K HDR or having better guests, etc.

Do youn't like Mr. Beast's "empty" content? Then you don't like society, which is the one taking MrBeast to the top, and I would completely agree with you.
I don't understand littering at all, and I seem to be physically incapable of doing it. I will hold on to litter until I finally encounter a trash can, and I've gotten quite adept at tossing trash in the bin from my moving bike. Having trash in your hand and just letting go, knowing it will end up on the ground instead of in a trash can, is a completely alien idea to me (though I'm not always diligent in cleaning up when wind blows my trash in the wrong direction).

> The authors concluded that cleaning and maintaining a trash-free space is a prevention strategy to stop future people from littering. Making trash cans readily available will also reduce litter.

Thank you, Dr. Obvious. More and better positioned trash cans are obviously needed.
that "easily" is carrying a lot of weight. notwithstanding how AI is simply vulnerable to SQL injection / CB's example / etc, except unbounded through natural language
It also says "Please confirm all information with the dealership."

This is as obviously non-binding as anything could possibly be. All the dealership has to do is say "no, we don't sell cars at that price".
Are tiny black holes hiding within giant stars?
How do you reconcile this against the fact that extreme anti-establishment parties are surging throughout Europe, including in places like Germany that have some of the most extreme restrictions on speech? For instance Germany is now even considering trying to ban the AfD [1] (political party) who are now polling at > 20%, which is quite high in a functional multi-party system - higher than Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats party. Incidentally 47% of the country supports banning them, 47% oppose it. There have also been numerous instances of violence against party members, and more. And there are similar divides in many other European countries.

The one thing I'm certain of is that we're all living through a major inflection point in history, for better or for worse.

[1] - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/13/afd-party-ban-ge...
https://archive.ph/B4ddA
> If people were paid a non-subsidized wage I think that “silicon-based” automation would begin to take even more of a substantial amount of manual labor.

This is the opposite of most takes, which hold that automation takes over when wages climb too high. But this again assumes capability that machines haven't demonstrated, and does not consider the social externalities.

>But that “silicon-based” piece is a constraint that wasn’t part of my original point

We're talking about AI.

I think you're letting your personal fears warp your analysis. It's clear that service jobs - I am using the correct denotation - are not ipso facto drudgery if structured in such a way as to minimize antisocial aspects. Namely, long hours, weird schedules, and understaffing, which exacerbate undesirable tasks. Happily, the value AI creates paired with the increased size of the service workforce ameliorates these concerns. Scanning groceries for 8 hours on minimum wage sucks. Scanning groceries for 4 hours for higher pay, and with backup in case you need a break, or to leave early, or have an irrate customer, sucks a lot less. This is the clear goal we should be aiming for in order to crowd out the actual dystopias in the works.
Why do those things not apply to someone using AI? I hate making this kind of argument, but:

The choice made by the AI artist is made based on a myriad of factors and intuitions. The result is a snapshot of the latent space, modulated by the artist's artistic girl [grit?], technical prowess and unique perspective of the world based on a lifetime of experience.

You still need those things in order to make a compelling image with AI, especially if you're getting into the more advanced uses.
The only other option is their own internal stack.

I cant imagin being owned by MS they would be allowed to use Google cloud.
> Do you have a link to this? I’d love to see

This is the article
https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/jlWAOA/sa-kopplas-tesla...

Here is the X post where the journalist posted the link to the newspaper
https://twitter.com/staffanlindberg/status/17363112639683260...

If you follow the twitter link and click the newspaper link (image), you'll be shown the warning, and have been since the post was made yesterday.

For posterity: this is the warning redirect in case it's removed from the link:
https://twitter.com/safety/unsafe_link_warning?unsafe_link=h...
It's my understanding that Generative AI and AGI are not the same thing? Also, AGI has been used far and wide for "Adjusted Gross Income", which everyone who files their U.S. income tax return deals with, it's always what I think of first when encountering it.
Yeah. Keybase was the one that really showed this model to me, and soured me on the whole startup scene. What a crap way that is to run a business.
Yeah the mod has edited the title and added another slash (https://www.bl.uk//) which now shows a blank page.
Officially it is to prevent propaganda in favour of 'terrorism', but I suspect it is also to hide what can likely boost support for the (far-)right.

For instance, I've found this in France in 2021 (though it looks like it relates to tweets from 2015) and the law might be even stricter now:

https://www.france24.com/en/france/20210210-french-far-right...
This trail by my house is next to a restaurant. Everyday Hispanic immigrants who work there and elsewhere go off into the woods by the trail to drink modelo and corona, leaving literally hundreds of boxes, thousands of bottles, and the distinct plastic bags from the mini mart they go to because they don’t check id’s they don’t have. It trickles down into the stream and I’m sure elsewhere.

The property manager did a massive cleanup recently, but I have no doubt it will continue.

I honestly think they don’t understand the detrimental effect littering has. It’s like they live in the 50s and think trash is just clutter that sits and magically goes away.

I’m fairly certain they’re illegal because as said it’s always black bags from that mini mart and I’ve yet to see a bottle of liquor which would come from the gov regulated store. Liquor being the smarter option if you’re going to drink covertly.

I was so pissed about it I reported them to ICE. I'm 95% certain they won't do shit. If you’re going to sneak into this country, don’t turn it into a shit hole.
The DIY Lighting community is quite impressive. Last year 938 displays in 27 countries participated in a project called https://xlightsaroundtheworld.com/ where we all play the same song and sequence and a montage is created. https://xlightsaroundtheworld.com/category/all-projects/
>Every chatbot I've worked ends up failing because I use some word or phrasing in my description that wasn't in their script

This is an interesting insight I’ve experienced as well. It makes me wonder if the use of chatbots becoming more and more prevalent will eventually habitualize humans into specific speech patterns. Kinda like the homogenization of suburban America by capitalism, where most medium sized towns seem to have the same chain stores.
>I think you don't understand how china operates. You conflate so many things at once, most of these aren't governmental censorship.

A lot of these is outsourced governmental censorship.

And all of these support a single narrative, in lock-step about all kinds of issues.

>Companies firing people, advertiser dropping influencers, being fact checked, &c. has nothing to do with the government

Yeah, just happens to coincide with domestic and foreign policy agendas and narratives the government pushes, and government affiliated/sponsored overt or covert "fact checkers" and "independent bodies", all the way to direct orders from the government. Read on "The Twitter Files: The Censorship Industrial Complex".

The private sector companie don't have to be told what to do: they just see where the wind goes and act accordingly. Nobody was fired for being pro-narrative or for firing anti-narrative people. But increasingly they are also told what to do, threatened with related ("disinformation") or unrelated (taxes and such) violations, and such.

>Do you know what censorship is ? Do you know how china enforce censorship ? and at what scale ? If so you can't say in good faith that EU = China.

No, but I can say that I give very few fucks in what China does, but as a person in the EU I give many fucks what the EU does, and how the public discourse is getting increasingly less open than in past decades.

(I wouldn't give much fucks about what the US does internally either, but unfortunately, unlike China, they also export it)
If they can build a chatbot that handles reimbursements, they can create an equivalent web form for the same concern. Same outcome, infinitely better discoverability. If nothing else, the bot could program that for them!

By all means, provide a chatbot and let people that don’t like reading FAQs and long support forms themselves try their luck with it. Sometimes, that might even be me!

But please, provide both. There are no excuses for this sprawling “bot only” bullshit.

Or, even better, just let me send an email that I can archive responses to on my end and hold the company accountable for whatever their first level support or chatbot throws at me. I’m so tired of all of these ephemeral phone calls or chats (that always hold me accountable by recording my voice/chat, but I can rarely do the reverse on my phone).
I’m pretty sure no VCs are kicking themselves for having invested in Figma.
The previous iteration of Twitter under @jack already learned this lesson. Once you say yes to stuff beyond warrants/criminally illegal stuff it's just an ever increasing set of demands until it's borderline automatic between gov requests->deletions. With low level agencies sending lists of a 1000 tweets to be flagged or accounts with tenuous connections to current bad thing (ie Russia) to be banned etc.
someone starting a mom & pop business is an entrepreneur. There's nothing about scale in the definition of the word.
Everyone on Twitter doesn't think they have ADHD. The algorithm probably put you in a bubble since you seem to engage with that kind of content.
I recommend using virtual credit cards for subscriptions. I just cancel the card if the account cancellation process is hostile in anyway.
Your definition is the social media-fueled snake oil meme.
I don’t see the relevance of that question: outcomes for companies fall onto positivity/negativity ranges beyond merely a bankrupt / not bankrupt bjnary.
The DSA itself imposes EU-wide requirements on the “mitigation” of “illegal hate speech”, although it does not define the term. Section 35, 1(c). My amateur guess for how this would end up is that large European wide platforms will be expected to take down hate speech that is illegal anywhere in Europe, but I don’t think we have seen an example for certain. It’s possible this enforcement action will bring more certainty.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...

I think this is going to inevitably create more and more tension between EU and American contexts, because hate speech is affirmatively legal in the U.S., most recently ruled under Snyder v Phelps.
Authors like Mark Z. Danielewski do more with the layout in their books than most and I love them for it. I like seeing people try out different ideas and do things that might be considered less-than-ideal to view
Have you tried not paying?
This is a terrible post. The author conflates responsibility with accountability in a few ways. Most importantly, the long-established wisdom in project management is that (from the project perspective) responsibility can be shared, but accountability can not. The author suggests sharing accountability a few times.

Also, good project management is 90% good project risk management.

I wouldn’t want this guy manage my projects or do RACI for my projects.
A 10-20 second delay for a line or two of text feels artificial to me. Many chatbots now have the "..." pop up for a few periods within that time to suggest someone is typing as well.

Maybe they do have a really slow API, but those sort of response times are uncommon and when the chat window and everything else about it seems to be working much faster, I think it's a reasonable conclusion to draw that it's artificial.
Just because young people are critical of Israel, doesn't mean they've been "brainwashed" by Hamas. Believe it or not, people can have different points of view from you without being brainwashed.
I agree with your statistics and want to add extra context that these statistics are about (US?) _startups_. There are a lot of companies being started that don't pursue huge growth. I believe they are sometimes referred to as "mom and pop" shops in the US. In europe they're just called businesses or SME's.

I don't have any numbers and probably more than 50% do fail, but not 90%. Plenty of bakers, restaurants, accountants and small shops succeed in making money for the owners, employment for the staff and value for the customers.
The speech culture of France and Germany is very different to the US as well, it's not just the dictatorships of the recent past.

Nazism as an ideology is illegal to promote in Germany. Use of Nazi symbols outside of an artistic or educational context is illegal in Germany and France (most European countries really). Several neo-nazi, neo-fascist, and communist parties have been banned since the founding of the modern German state. Far-right parties in Germany are always walking a fine line - if their membership flirts too much with nazism or fascism they are very much liable to be banned.

Several European countries with strong democratic traditions in the modern era remain very wary of extreme ideologies. Their proponents murdered millions and burned the continent to the ground less than a century ago. Most people are comfortable with the state killing these movements in their infancy.
Even though we don't know everything about what is happening in this particular instance, I do think there should be a global conversation on the ability for state-level actors to directly or indirectly pull strings in order to coerce Twitter into censoring information on their behalf.

I think this should be of particular importance to the US which has fudamental rights protecting freedom of expression.

I'm very worried about co-ordinated lawfare against Musk-operated companies being used as a tool to force his compliance with systems that exist to get around laws against the US government's direct involvement in censorship. I'm also worried about the EU's lurch towards Chinese-style censorship of social media. And, I think we should be able to talk about it now while we still can.
The only way around it is less barriers to entry but that's a hard bridge to cross.
Talk positively about the current FTC and make sure they don't get booted out next year.
Speaking gibberish sometimes works as well. Grab a dictionary and speak random words.
Initially I presumed this was a patent troll sitting on something obvious and trying to extort a big player. Reading about the actual story reveals a very different situation, and it's one in which Apple needs to pay an extremely heavy toll for scumbag behaviour.

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-10-05...

Apple did precisely the sorts of things that big companies are reviled for, and the only good outcome is that this costs them an enormous sum of money, and every scumbag manager involved in this behaviour lose their jobs.