skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is just good capitalism, enabling market transactions and profiting from the trades. The people arguing against Carta are advocating the prevention of perfectly valid market transactions because some CEO of a tech company got the ick about what Carta was doing even though it is all just good and sound capitalism and profiteering.

What exactly is special about series B shares that should prevent Carta from making a market for trading such shares? Does anyone have an actual argument that would actually be sensible in a capitalist framework?
If the incoming train was first going through Italy or Germany the punctuality statistics are much much worse. I regularly book 5-8 minute overlaps and I don't remember the last time I missed a connection, but this is Zürich into the mountains mostly.
It feels a lot like the blockchain/crypto/NFT hype of 2021. Lots of activity and interest, but really there wasn't that killer app to take advantage of it. So people moved on to other things. Maybe once someone finds that killer app, we'll see more interest again. I'm personally interested to see an LLM combined with a voice assistant. I'd love for Alexa to be more open-ended compared to what currently feels like just a limited set of keywords. A true conversational model where it picks up on context and runs commands intelligently, picking up on subtle hints.
Also real, versus nominal, dollars.
this is like a cop giving a speeding ticket for someone doing 55 in a 55. Totally stupid, if you want people driving 50 just make that the limit.
Yay long overdue
The link pertains to attacks on AI systems, not attacks using AI systems.
TIL: video in README.md works if you simply paste a link into it.
The First Hit Generative AI Product After ChatGPT? Somehow, It's Snapchat+
Having a ton of VRAM doesn't really have much value without the speed to use it. After a point your calculation becomes heavy enough that you can get by with smaller VRAM and just accessing system memory, paying the data transfer or streaming cost.
When price trumps quality, integrity becomes fallacy.
I'm a strange blend of existentialism and Catholicism where I started with "life is objectively meaningless so we make our own subjective happiness" and suffering was a thing that just was and you dealt with it just like anything else. Suffering is also subjective per person so what may be unbearable for one may be daily baseline for another.

Catholicism has a concept called "redemptive suffering" where your suffering is offered up as a spiritual sacrifice, often for a loved one who has passed away. We usually can't choose not to suffer but we can choose how we respond to it.

Modern Catholicism also has no issues with evolution so generally the "life is infested with parasites and therefore can't be declared good like the Bible says" is a fundamentalist problem to try to explain. Evolution appears to be how life got to its present stage on Earth and we have the history encoded in our DNA. Arguing against that is embracing blind, stubborn faith and ignorance.
Yeah, this is why Rivian never enabled tank turn.
I still don't understand what this has to do with WebRTC/WebSocket. You can combine, e.g., mDNS with WebRTC and build a pure peer-to-peer network.
locally, in case of TT it's optionally password protected. Also it can create pdf's with filled in forms to print.
do we have any other self hostable, open source alternatives to this?
> Intel is well behind AMD and Nvidia in terms of GPU processing power and it might take them a while to catch up.

Have you read this article?

https://www.databricks.com/blog/llm-training-and-inference-i...
Not sure this is the slam dunk you suggest. Isn’t this just the free will defence with extra steps? Or, perhaps, Swinburne’s argument that natural evil is a force for maturation and spiritual development.

The basic conception of the argument (“Is [God] willing to prevent evil, but not able? then is he impotent. Is he able, but not willing? then is he malevolent. Is he both able and willing? whence then is evil?”) still seems valid if a God has created a karmic system.

So I don’t think this is an issue uniquely facing Western perspectives.

Personally, I don’t find the free will defence particularly convincing, either. Do we really have free will? Is free will truly necessary for education/moral goodness? And if so, is god truly capable of evil?
As described in the OP's blog post https://adamkarvonen.github.io/machine_learning/2024/01/03/c... - one of the incredible things here is that the standard GPT architecture, trained from scratch from PGN strings alone, can intuit the rules of the game from those examples, without any notion of the rules of chess or even that it is playing a game.

Leela, by contrast, requires a specialized structure of iterative tree searching to generate move recommendations: https://lczero.org/dev/wiki/technical-explanation-of-leela-c...

Which is not to diminish the work of the Leela team at all! But I find it fascinating that an unmodified GPT architecture can build up internal neural representations that correspond closely to board states, despite not having been designed for that task. As they say, attention may indeed be all you need.
you can follow what openai does with respect to nytimes complaints recently.
Once there was a truck driver maneuvering his gigantic semi on narrow street. I thought I'd be helpful and offer suggestions. He interrupted me and told me to bugger off.

Ok, I backed off and then watched.

The guy moved that truck around like a ballerina. It was a pleasure watching him handle it, a true pro.

The lesson for me was to not tell someone you just met how to do their job. It's a lesson I've had to learn many times.
Doing the math[1], I don't -think- they were bringing much in personal allowance. The other source was "buying from station stores" and I imagine the bulk came from there.

Equally since absinthe is unlikely to be in the official station stores, that was likely just "a couple bottles" shared one night, not sll year round.

[1] they had 125 lbs (circa 57kg) of luggage or the -year-. I'm not sure if that includes clothing. But even if it's only "incidentals" that's not much at all. Sure you might include a bottle or two for special occasions, but nothing like the volume to drink every night for a year.
You'd be amazed at the way people think about this. A reasoned answer would be "any that specifically require the use of genitals" but that's not how it plays out. I have friends whose family (sisters and cousins and parents) got offended that they bought their son a play kitchen because that's a "girl toy," even though he wanted it. Girls playing with swords and trucks are "cool chicks" but boys playing with dolls and animals are looked at weird. My anecdata shows that if you let kids pick instead of pointing them in a direction, all toys are gender neutral.
Hmm sounds like you think a two step process is ideal: evolve independent societies towards uniform, mix the societies and have them compete, reward successful traits with survival. Then rinse/repeat.

Though I think the point of evolution is to avoid uniformity. So perhaps a uniform culture is evolutionarily unfit.
Theodicy
It seems to me that, it's the other way around.
Life isn't neutral. To expect some kind of neutral zone is to make the world dead of life. There has to be reconciliation between people, or society will tear itself apart.
Why do these professional cards look so bland while the typical consumer cards look like futuristic spaceships?
Nice idea. Add some defaults to the WPM, like the average speed button - I didn't know nor cared.

Also I think it should be "Show HN:"
I can't speak for "under any circumstances" but I suspect the vast majority of tax payers already outsource their tax computations to either one of the major software vendors, one of the major tax services or their own financial institutions / private accountant. I assume this because otherwise I would not expect "IRS makes a self service portal" to be headline news or a game of politics.

Beyond that though, the thread discussion was about whether there are any mechanisms by which the government pre-filling people's taxes could '[make] "tax increases by stealth" easier'. I proposed there were, though with no claims to the degree to which that actually had real world impact on tax payers and their behavior.

If we assume as you say that people "want to pay what they have to pay and get on with the rest of their lives", then it seems reasonable to think that anything which reduces the amount of effort and thought necessary for the process also has potential to '[make] "tax increases by stealth" easier', simply by the fact that it reduces the amount of thought one needs to afford to the concept of taxes in the the first place.

The alternative would be to propose some mechanism by which the government pre-filing people's taxes would increase the degree to which they pay attention to their taxes. Or at a minimum one needs to argue that people would pay exactly as much attention as they do now and thus it would be a net-zero change in focus on taxes, but if that's the case, then any compliance increase would be a function of making it easier to be in compliance at all, which is tangental to whether or not it '[made] "tax increases by stealth" easier'
I'm in California since 1989. Things are definitely different and IMO worse than before.

If I had to guess, previously the crime was in obvious rough areas. Now it seems it's expanding to everywhere.

But even if crime/illegal border crossings were down... Just because we were unaware of it 20 years ago and are now aware doesn't really make people feel better about it.

"Hey, you know how you were wondering why wages are stagnant, yet housing prices are still rising? Turns out there were millions of people entering illegally every year and you just weren't aware of it previously! Better turn off the news or you'll feel worse about that $3k 2bdroom."
How effective is that really? The boycott to china policy. I mean, they can proxy the imports through other countries
Exactly this, but with climbing shoes, which have such a high return rate that some retailers have stopped accepting returns.

There’s definitely a market for this; it just has to be easy.

(I was going to create a 3D model of my foot using my iphone but it required taking 200 photos from various angles per foot. I instead just ordered 4 pairs and returned 3.)
Is there something that precludes iCloud Keychain from your list?
IMHO, the list of criticisms against `with` in the article are legit. Seems like it causes more trouble than it’s worth. I prefer Python-style with (ie, context) over what seems like syntactic sugar to avoid variable destructuring.
>especially given Nvidia and AMD seem to dish out RAM like its the most precious substance in the universe.

Well, it's only really nVidia. And the reason it's only nVidia doing this is because they don't want to self-cannibalize; if the 4080 had 24GB literally no prosumer or small organization wanting to play with the tech would even be considering the 4090 (and to a limited extent, the same is true of the 3080 vs. the 3090, but everyone was too busy mining Ethereum to notice that).

As far as the other manufacturers are concerned, there's no objective need for anything over 16GB on midrange cards (2070/3060/4060 equivalents) because that's the kind of GPU in the consoles and nobody releases exclusively for PC any more; you'll have to upgrade your card to have parity when the next generation comes out anyway so why provide more/drive costs up? It's not like AMD or Intel GPUs are in any way able to use that RAM for anything else, and why offer it now and kneecap themselves should they somehow get into a position where they actually can offer a good AI suite and want to sell 24GB cards for 2000+ dollars too?

And nVidia has taken full advantage of that fact, and that's why the 4080 only has 16GB even though the 7900XTX is performance-competitive with it and has the expected memory compliment. The 4080, including the Super, is a sub-par product because it kind of has to be.
imagine the accounting of it. It must be truly larger than life!

The author is simply funny in his humanity.

Without an observer nothing exists. What does exist depends on the perspective of the observer.

If you were a lego structure, would it be upsetting to be made into something else?

If you are trying to make the perfect widget, what to do with the previous attempts? What if reuse would allow for faster iterations? If perfection is the goal how hard is the choice?

Old people need to make room for young ones who are always more deserving.

The way we age we are still far from perfection. Nature needs a few more rounds.

The cruel formula is how we got here. Im sure single cell organisms would have loved to be the final iteration but sadly for them that didn't happen. Our challenges are much like theirs. We also think we want a life without challenges eventho we are what we are because of them.

Nice article tho, keep trying :)
A tale of two Teenagers was an interesting read for me
It is known that some of her positions are "somewhat controversial".

But how controversial is this one?
A Wikipedian Explains Wikipedia to Bill Ackman [video]
The modal solo free climber probably does also.
Header only libraries are great, and these little gems floating around are super easy to use, until you hit an unsupported (by them) feature, or something that now you have to do (like for year you've been using it for reading, but now you need to write the file, or interleave it, or whatnot).

And then you realize you need the official lib - libpng, etc.

E.g. it's not so simple.
Yes let’s buy a car that accelerates climate change!
Of course. And, sadly, one of those systems I once helped with was built on Javascript, which made the whole thing even sillier.

There you had an exception, resorting to as if Go to convert it to an error, handled as if Go to convert back into an exception, and then, when the exception was caught, it was back to 'writing Go' again to figure what the exception was! At least Java does a little better there, I'll give it that.

It is completely ridiculous. I guess that's what happens when you let bootcamp completionists design software.

If a language really wants to embrace the idea that errors and exceptions are the same thing, fine. Maybe it would even prove to be a good idea. But then we should expect that language to actually embrace the idea. This "errors are exceptions, but only sometimes, because we can't figure out how to represent most errors as exceptions" that we see in Java and languages that have taken a similar path is bizarre – and for developers using the language, painful. That has proven to be a bad idea.
What do you mean by they’re fucked? In what sense? In that customers may stop using Carta? If so they probably will not suffer the consequences that badly

If it’s legal and only if it’s legal and the whole company has to be broken apart will they suffer for this. But I’m not sure how they’re breaking any legal laws?
Because the FAA is "responsible for the safety of civil aviation." They don't get to say that, and accept tax monies for that, and then throw up their hands when someone else tries to block them from doing their job. The director (or whoever heads the agency) should have resigned, alongwith the entire rest of the management. Instead of being content with letting someone else take the blame when the next accident claims 100s of lives.

Imagine if you were tasked with making sure that your app's customer's data were safe. Your boss goes against your recommendation and does something you know will put sensitive data in the hands of hackers. What would you do?
Shockingly, it was as far back as 2008 that AMD released the Radeon HD 4800 series that first broke the tflop barrier for GPUs.

As far as our individual perceptions of time though, I agree, it still doesn't feel like that long; but most of the advances in compute performance since then largely feel wasted so that probably has a lot to do with it IMO.
Give creators a cut, it is only fair.
Yes a very airbrushed tale of the history of UIs . I agree
They sell comp data from all their customers, and most of their customers probably aren’t aware of it?
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Affluence would not equalize _because_ they’re living near each other. Living near each other, though, seems to me to be something that would have to evolve alongside a more equal society.

If we go by your assumption that the squares are richer or happier, it seems obvious to me that if they are biased to only want shapes like them to live near them it’s likely they also don’t want them to associate with them at work. Associating together is surely necessary if the triangles are to better their lot in life?

I suppose you might argue that if squares and triangles are equal in talents, they could eventually form separate but equal societies, even if they did not want to associate. If they’re starting off from different baselines that seems unlikely to me though.

It also seems to me to carry an assumption that not wanting to associate is at best a morally neutral position, which I don’t believe - but I think you may?

To your more specific example: there are so many differences between urban and rural societies that I don’t believe that looking as diversity as the attribute that explains their current states is particularly illuminating, especially if you’re trying to decide which one is ‘better’.

I do believe, though, that historical bias has a hand in explaining why even diverse societies like cities are still so stratified on racial lines (so, _not_ diverse).
Pocketbase: Open-source back end in one file
>No evolutionary reason, that is.

So, no reason that would stick a couple of generations down.

>The best hope would be to band together with others of similar circumstances and burn it all down.

They are trying, last seen on 7 Oct 2023. I'd say long odds.

>It's in everyone's best interest for this not to happen. Which leads me to wonder if there is some optimal equilibrium between advantage and disadvantage.

It's indeed undesirable that the evolutionary black hole is in your own group, therefore various safety nets. That's still just the lower bound, removing the higher bound is Harrison-Bergeron-style societal suicide.

>And interesting corollary is that society has basically trumped evolution. There are so many competing contradictory forces that only the most basic changes have a hope of surviving.

It's just the first time that we know of when the fittest don't want to breed. There's plenty of arguments out there to the effect that it sucks.

>In hindsight I somewhat disagree with this. Nearly all post-scarcity fictions depict societies in which all are given equal opportunity to realize their personal ambitions. Status and additional allocation of societal-level resources then depends on the outcomes. So for some definition of opportunity I think it is theoretically possible to afford everyone equal opportunity.

If the parents' success have no bearing on the children the best strategy is to push out as many kids as you can. Something of commons, can't put my finger on it.
In the US at least there are a million such services.
Or one of the infants that died drinking the tainted milk belonged to someone powerful.
At that point it’s just semantics and relative comparison, I think.
And wont this encourage China to develop their own fabs out anyway. There isn’t much secret sauce. Matmul, attention, RLHF and $$$.
"shining beacons" The same cities in states that are now in massive deficits? or covered in feces? with massive increases in drug and homeless problems? The same cities that have people feeling from states because of overregulation and overtaxation?

Those are the shining beacons of success?
incremental design can indeed degenerate into no design, but i think the real intent of xp is continuous design, not no design. most of the core practices of xp are focused on extensibility and maintainability. it's difficult to do well, but i'm undecided on whether it's more difficult to do well than the big-design-up-front practice, and i think the answer is probably 'it depends', specifically because of the factors i explained in the grandparent comment

boehm suggests iterating through the different stages every 2–3 months. xp suggests iterating through the different stages every 2–3 minutes. scrum doesn't have any development practices at all, just management practices

when i look at the software barry boehm has written and the software kent beck has written i think it's clear that kent beck is far more accomplished. i don't know how good or bad boehm's designs were because i haven't been able to find any. reading his papers it seems to me that probably this is not because of his own ineptitude but because he was embedded in a company whose organization and incentives made it impossible to deliver quality software. this crippled his professional development as a programmer. trw in the 01980s made its living from defense contracts where they can billed customer hourly for their employees' time, so as long as their ass was covered with enough documentation, the more man-hours they spent on a project, the more money they made. consequently, as far as i can tell, they never wrote any software worth using, because for them software was just a cost of doing business, and neither has barry boehm after he left

reorganizing your own company to mimic trw in the 01980s is likely to sink you unless you, too, make your living from cost-plus contracts

not to say that there's nothing to be learned from boehm's work, but you'll have to pick carefully

by the way, possibly you are not a native speaker of english, but 'upfront design', 'requirements', and 'design' are not proper nouns, so should not be capitalized as perhaps they would be in german
I used to be a VC6 holdout. It was the last version of Visual Studio that was written in native code and had a distinct Visual C++ subset as a product. After that, they rewrote the IDE in .NET, making it much slower and breaking a bunch of stuff. If you run VC6 on a modern computer, it's blazingly fast with a compact install, and doesn't have a bunch of non-C++ nonsense getting in the way.

Of course, you also have a C++ compiler from 1998 that doesn't use correct for loop scoping, barely works with templates, can't understand any C++11 or later constructs, barfs a page of angle-bracket meatloaf diagnostics whenever an error occurs in the STL, has a single-threaded build, and only works with a Windows XP era version of the Windows SDK. I gave it up around Visual Studio 2005 when the IDE became tolerable again.
No need to code anything up. uBo should be enough. And CSS could be injected using Stylus easily.
I'm inclined to think similarly. I think in a legal sense a non neutrally marketed toy would be something with a prominent "ONLY FOR BOYS" etc label on the packaging.
Last year Eli Roth did the same thing with his Grindhouse trailer, turned it into a real movie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(2023_film)
Yeah, if you tape out a new chip; but that's a pretty vacuous statement. The capacities of GDDR6 modules available do impose a meaningful constraint on the total RAM that any given GPU can be equipped with, and while Intel is still struggling to get any foothold in the GPU market at all, it would be a big risk for them to invest in bringing to market a chip with eg. 4x the memory controller to compute ratio typically used by GPUs just so they could claim to have the cheapest 128GB GPU.