skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's also a bit of marketing and psychology involved. A lot of people, especially men, would be embarrassed to say they're "going to see their therapist," but have no problem saying "I'm getting counseling from my coach."
I think the other way to look at it is that Trump is a terrible candidate for idiosyncratic and personal reasons, stuck in a party with a “tax cuts and foreign wars” legacy, and is viable at all only because he is on the right side against the elite on a bunch of issues.

Immigration was his defining issue in 2016, and he has won with the public that issue. He won on the rioting and law and order issue. He has won against affirmative action, both with the public and with SFFA. He sides with the majority view on the Iraq war and using the American military to underpin the world order. The GOP’s biggest liability has been abortion, which is an area where Trump has gone against the party and pushed for a 15-week middle ground that commands majority support (once you extricate the policy from voters’ worries about total bans).

My mom—who is a steadfast Democrat—was commenting the other day that Trump could’ve been a great president. She hates how he talks, what he did on January 6, etc. She won’t vote for anyone with an (R) because of the Iraq War, but she (and my dad) basically agree with Trump on all of his signature policies.
Please don't post personal attacks to HN, and please follow the site guidelines in general:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Usually when there's an obituary on HN, I go straight to the comments to read all of the tech-is-a-village "I took his intro to computing course at MIT" or "I worked with her at Atari when we were 15 people in a basement apartment" anecdotes. It's interesting to see that John Walker's legacy here is instead defined by his work, his writing, and his correspondence.

(Not to diminish the value of those contributions, of course - that's an artifact of the life he presumably wanted to lead. And his legacy is perhaps the more durable for it.)
Why so many people in Hacker News do not use their real names?
Almost as if actions in this life have karmic consequences. Your friend has quite the next life to look forward to.
The most interesting tidbit, I think, is cut off from the right side of the plot -- eventually with enough delay, 1 random choice is the winner, for exactly the same reason that 3 random choices wins for small delay, and 2 random choices wins for medium delay.

I kinda wonder now if the crossover points between best, 3, 2, and 1 are equidistant on a log-scale plot. If I squint a little, I could maybe see 4, 16, and 64 being the approximate crossover points, especially if there was a little less noise.
I too have astigmatism and am a light mode enjoyer. Dark mode makes the letters dance in front of my eyes.

Display brightness at 20% is life. Never made sense to me why you’d shine the light of a thousand suns in your eyes then put sunglasses on it because “it’s too bright” when you could just not.

My partner is a dark mode user and honestly sometimes her phone screen lights up the whole bedroom. Even with dark mode. I don’t understand.
They are not putting into question anything other the veracity of what is being shown, given that:

1) it’s being pushed by IRGC
2) the anchor is clearly a deepfake so why give undo credence to anything else the message is delivering?
Leftist and progressive movements are equally prone to authoritarianism. We should be on guard against extremists on both sides of the political spectrum.
> PFO

Persistent Felony Offender?
From my observations, people's innate ability to relate a map to the world varies. There are some studies attempting to tie this to gender, but my experience is that is not a hard line at all. I'm sure training is a component, of course, but some folks do not tie the abstraction to the real world well at all.

I seem to be good at it, but no one in my wife's family is, so during family get-togethers on that side I'm usually driving or navigating. The fact I can retrace a path I took two years prior from memory is an astonishing feat to them.
A Lannister Always Pays His Technical Debts
Every time I see these guys pondering this I just think of Carl from ATHF saying "It don't mattah. None of this mattahs."

Got a way to hack out of the simulation, permanently? No? Okay then.

We got rid of church and the futurists created their own god.
"Agile meant that the stakeholders could be present in our planning meetings. We had to explain to them - somehow - that it took time to upgrade the web framework from v1 to v5 because no one has been using v1 for years, and in general, it slowed everyone down. Since we didn’t know how to explain this to a non-coder, someone came up with the condescending term “technical debt” — “those spreadsheet monkeys wouldn’t understand what we do here!”"
your page is not law.
Same for Canada, but I’m able to access Gemini through the web interface.
That is easily implemented with a double loop, where the first one is a directory (integer hexed with printf '%x') and the second is the files in it

However, that was not the point of my reply
Some years ago (2010 +/- 5years?) the organization that administers the Geneva Convention had a conference on whether to classify as a war crime the act or faking video of the head of a county or its military (eg. "I direct my soldiers to surrender").

I can't find a reference to it (perhaps someone else has better Google-fu) but there was an article on it in the NYTimes when it the conference was held.
Having access to a comprehensive database of incidents and near misses would be informative. A single incident where only incomplete information is available doesn't tell us much.
That's only true because you took my quote completely out of context.

The point is not needing to store multiple copies of an image. You can simplify the back-end if you serve the same file to all clients.
I'm only going to pay for one subscription, i'm willing to switch over to Gemini if it is less lazy than GPT-4. The new model was supposed to be better, but I still find it lacking. It's frustrating because the earlier version was super reliable, and the newer one just doesn't bother giving complete answers any more.
You can get car jacked with your baby in the backseat.
That sounds like a complete shit show and a recipe for problems for anything but very low volume traffic.
> 28% of vehicle fatalities in Amsterdam are cycling related. Deaths do happen.

Of course, none of those behaviors are safe. And mandating lights, a helmet, high visibility jacket, kneepad protectors and a license plate would make a cyclist safer. (And lights are mandatory even in Amsterdam)

But it would also discourage people from cycling by making that mode of transportation even more inconvenient than it already is compared to the car. And so because, as you noted, humans seek convenience; they will take the car instead.

> But none of this explains why cyclists bike like a*holes in every country, which is the point I was making.

Again it's self-selecting, since there is no bike infrastructure and you ride in between large trucks you have to be very assertive in traffic. Which tends to select for the more stand-offish types.
Gemini is four things: The new mobile app is also called Google Gemini.

Except on iOS, where Gemini is integrated into the Goople app instead.

Also, while Gemini Advanced is supported in <list of countries>, this list is not the same as the <list of countries> the Google Gemini app is supported in on the Play Store. Make sure you check this before you spend money on your upgraded Google One subscription.
Terence Tao, "Machine Assisted Proof" [video]
Yes there is a paywall at this point. Probably clearer if it said “the rest of this post is for paid subscribers’ but it’s not something I can change.
Did you read past the headline? The US wasn't locking those orphans up in a "summer camp" where they are prevented from leaving or contacting the outside world.
I have not mentioned Islam anywhere, and strongly believe that any organized group that spreads hate and violence needs to be investigated and dealt with.
And it is the successor to DEL (Data Entry Language) and SOL (Simple Object Language). Since 'Sol' is 'Sun' in Portuguese, they decided it would make sense to move to Moon.
"Please fuck off"
So logical, it’s a really logical question right ? I mean who doesn’t like food based on the number of syllables in English name of foods.
> Using stale data for load balancing leads to a herd behavior, where requests will herd toward a previously quiet host for much longer than it takes to make that host very busy indeed.

This phenomenon is common with cars using traffic-aware navigation, too.
> coaches-coaching-coaches

This is the punchline of all the self-help books reviewed by the If Books Could Kill podcast.
Contrasting Aesthetics
Finally some actual relevant criticism in this thread. You’re spot on. Google is deep into “shipping the org chart”. As such, I would be worried too that different products conflict with each other.

It’s funny that Google can design and operationalize the most incredible engineering marvels, but can’t explain their products (and in particular how they interact with each other).
Open Source models are getting real good, and many of them don't care how you use them. It's free as in speech and as in beer.
YouTube Profited from Andrew Tate Recruitment Videos Despite 'Banning Them'
The “cute” gotcha here is that Israel doesn’t have to foot the bill, the USA is happily paying.
In Chinese philosophy, there is a school of thought called "legalism" that was founded by Han Fei-tzu. There is a piece of writing in there that I'm quite fond of [0]:

If it were necessary to rely on a shaft that had grown perfectly straight, within a hundred generations there would be no arrow. If it were necessary to rely on wood that had grown perfectly round, within a thousand generations there would be no cart wheel. If a naturally straight shaft or naturally round wood cannot be found within a hundred generations, how is it that in all generations carriages are used and birds shot? Because tools are used to straighten and bend. But even if one did not rely on tools and still got a naturally straight shaft or a piece of naturally round wood, a skillful craftsman would not value this. Why? Because it is not just one person that needs to ride and not just one arrow that needs to be shot.

If you only rely on natural talent, then your pool of candidates will always be very, very small and you'll be competing against Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and so on.

Better that you can identify candidates with potential and have a system of knowledge transfer and training to make them productive.

[0] https://brians.wsu.edu/2016/11/14/han-fei-tzu-d-233-bce-lega...
I think this is some kind of CDN caching issue - that reference was removed from the launch file last week (but I've gotten a couple other reports). How did you work around it?
This is nice, but is it all just home pages? Home pages are showpieces, but they're a small part of what I think of when I think of web design. I'd love to see some of the actual UX.
Re the HONK! snippet:

Can't resist reposting this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39109122

3rd comment down the subthread.
2 years from now : "Sunsetting Gemini"
See also: https://blog.mozilla.org/mozilla/a-new-chapter-for-mozilla-l...
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=PFO
“Please eff off”
I tried to use this, but it appears that Apple TV and Apple Music doesn't support iCloud / Apple ID accounts with 2FA enabled on Windows?
Oops. That sentence is missing a not. I don’t actively wish anything bad upon Google
mp3tag and picard are what I use for most of my tagging.
Not sure why x-rays are still being used when there appears to be better and safer alternatives... Specially at the dentist where an inexperienced person shoots them at your head... Thank God they cover your chest with lead though....
Not at all, there might be a 4/5 neighbour countries you don’t fully remember which one is which but generally I don’t know many people who would find that not boring. Maybe it is an European thing
You mention karma. My own take on it is that you are not so much punished for your sins as by your sins.
>It is a subjective reality that life is better now than it was prior for practically everyone (in terms of standard of living, not in terms of tragic personal events)

I assume you meant to 'objective reality', but that simply isn't the case. There are millions of people alive now that 'would prefer to be dead'. For them, life is objectively worse now than it would have been if they had been born 100, 200, 500 years ago. People in Libya are worse off than they were 20 years ago, by far, and those in Ukraine, Yemen, and Gaza are obviously in worse positions. Even leaving aside 'temporary conditions' like war, more people today are trapped in human slavery, or drug addiction, or any of a million other maladies that plague modern life. Life now is subjectively better than it was, as long as you're nowhere near the bottom of the distribution.

But maybe you want to argue that the distribution is better overall? This is the same line of thinking that kills utilitarianism through the creation of a Utility Monster. The average distribution of suffering means nothing to the person experiencing suffering above that average. That people aren't starving anymore, means nothing, if those people are being fed by their slavemasters. Humans are as brutal now as they ever have been, and if anything, our technological and cultural progress has allowed barbarism on scales unimaginable to people even 200 years ago. It's that same technological progress that makes an even more horrifying future seem entirely probable. Outside of religious traditions, there is no overarching reason to believe things will get better for the average individual, and every reason to believe that power, wealth, and opportunity will continue to aggregate into the hands of a select few. Whether or not those few are willing or able to disperse their wealth and privilege is again a complete toss up.

As such, taking an overly optimistic stance is simply asking to be taken advantage of by the same processes that have driven us to this point. Yes, humanity is better positioned than ever to satiate our physical needs, and yes, humanity seems closer than ever to losing everything we value, whether it's through nuclear war, AI abuse, bio-engineered plagues, or any of a hundred other horrifying hydra heads. Be optimistic, yes, but plan for the worst.
Seems like Fortinet lied about the whole translation error thing:

https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/wirtschaft/cyberangriff-die-g...

>Was nun von der Fortinet-Zentrale in Kalifornien als «Übersetzungsproblem» bezeichnet wird, hat sich bei den Recherchen noch ganz anders angehört: Schweizer Fortinet-Vertreter haben bei einem Gesprächstermin, bei dem es um aktuelle Bedrohungslagen ging, den Zahnbürsten-Fall als reale DDoS-Attacke geschildert.

Translation:

>What the Fortinet headquarters in California is now describing as a "translation problem" sounded very different during the research: Swiss Fortinet representatives described the toothbrush case as a real DDoS attack during a meeting to discuss current threat situations.

And

>Der Text wurde Fortinet vor der Publikation zur Verifizierung vorgelegt. Der Satz, wonach es sich um einen realen Fall handle, der sich wirklich so zugetragen hat, wurde nicht beanstandet.

>The text was submitted to Fortinet for verification before publication. The sentence stating that this was a real case that actually happened was not objected to.

Truth seems not to be part of their business model

https://gpl-violations.org/news/20050414-fortinet/
Do one thing well? If only! The Music app is a complete and utter disaster compared to its previous iTunes implementations.
There's a web interface that could be used, but I wanted to use the high-res mode with this DAC.

First world problems of course, but just needlessly frustrating.
In case you ever have to work with a directory that has lots of files in it, sometimes it's useful to remember the -U flag in ls. For example to count the number of files, I sometimes use this:

ls -U1 |wc -l

Can be very fast with lots of files on a modern Linux box.
Ask HN: I am the software guy and marketing is hell for me
I am a software engineer with experience in multiple startups, both as a salaried employee and as a co-founder.

In the software/startups that I develop on my own, I am very lacking in marketing and lead hunting. My projects usually have a good growth potential, but I fail in the non-technical parts.

Of course, I have tried to get another co-founder to work on the non-technical side before, but I don't know how to find a good non-technical co-founder.

What would you suggest?
Offering a free service without any kind of barrier would be ridiculous. It is not unknown that free services would ask you for a credit card. For example, website hosting, at a lot of places would ask you for a credit card, even on a free plan. This is to distinguish between bots, scammers and spammers and real human users.
Do they really need Excel if they use Google spreadsheets ?
> For me it’s because I think I have very little time for real friends as a working parent; I text old friends from college and such, but my daily life is lonely outside my family, and logistics and chores consume a lot of that time. More free wheeling discussion like with a circle of friends is what these discussion groups fill for me, and that’s hard to quit.

It's the same for me, too. The people around me have few common interests, and conversations with them are awkward and sparse, and I've changed enough in my life that the communities I once was a part of are no longer feeling as welcome to me anymore. I've found the online communities to be both the best and worst outlet in my life, because they are directly tailored to my interests but are also not actually in my proximity.
Just write the action of writing a log to a different log file. Duh. /s
Addiction is uncontrolled and damaging repetition of the behavior after initiation not the initial initiation itself
Founder Sales Insights 8 Years of Learning
we've been running jjellyfish for almost eight years with hundreds of reps --- here are some of our learnings in the market executing alongside founders

1. speed & learning are everything; revenue is the byproduct of doing this successfully -- hiring, managing, and outsourcing slow this down so much -- don't fall victim to some fake magic

2. sell how you solve a problem and see the world differently; the solution is secondary (hint: the tech is abstract to most buyers)

3. you're either unlocking high volume via unfair advantage -- OR -- high deal value ($MM expansions)

4. specificity ('wow, i feel like this was built just for me') is really the only way to inspire prospects in the absence of brand equity and lots of market fatigue

5. outbound really does work -- AI-based copy actually lowered the bar further; it's so boring AND general -- it's commoditized folks even more ;)

6. day 1 market vision is never the same vision to take you to product/market fit -- be prepared to invalidate (if you're not, red flag)

7. founder will be Head of Sales for ~24 months -- don't forget founder-led sales is a competitive advantage

8. your niche is far more important than your TAM -- knowing where to start is critical

9. consistency unlocks repeatability

10. hiring before it's working means you're delegating visioning -- a startup delegating vision is dead on arrival

11. most sales reps are mediocre; build that model so mediocre reps can be successful

12. early-stage sales is high-touch; you earn the right to scale

13. never ask the market what they want; they have no idea, hence why it's still a problem

14. there is no playbook, it's turning over every stone to figure out what's working via execution

15. warm friendly intros almost always lead to false positives
It's usually what people mean when they use O, really, colloquially anyway. Theta's like you actually identified the right 'magnitude curve'; what big-O actually says is much weaker, it's only an upper bound. You can say something's O(n) when actually it's constant, etc. But generally we don't, if someone says casually it's O(n) they mean 'and also Omega(n)', i.e. it's Theta(n).

(Or at least, it is when talking about something specific - how does this function behave, say. If you talk about needing something to happen linearly then that's a fine use of O - of course you're also happy with constant time if linear is ok.)

O is short for Omicron btw, lest you think it's O and then we suddenly went Greek for no apparent reason!
Messy branding is now par for the course at Apple. The iPad line alone is something out of a Dell catalog: iPad, iPad 10thgen, iPad Air, iPad Mini, iPad Pro.
Only a rough guide.
Then the question is: is that down to the religion as a whole, or individuals therein? Is it morally defensible to target a whole demographic based on the actions of a few?

Think hard on that one, it says a lot about what kind of person you are, what your morals and personally held values are.
https://archive.ph/rmMEb
These are precisely the reasons I want a smarter phone. Taking pictures of my kids and navigating around town. We also listen to children’s stories in the car using Spotify so that too. Banking I could probably work around but it’s possible I’m just not realizing how much I use my phone for these types of things. That said, I have zero social media or scroller apps, outside of HN.
So I can access my Apple Music library through this?
Grok is not a serious product
The browser^desktop thing is a false dichotomy. You can write browser-based programs that nonetheless aren't Web apps.

<https://wiki.triplescripts.org/wiki/NOT#Not_a_cloud_IDE>

The trick is to untangle the mental equivalence of runs-in-the-browser versus mobile code (code on demand) and/or cloud-thingy-accessed-via-thin-client, which are all orthogonal concepts. To often these get confused. But just like you give people a Java, Python, whatever bundle comprising an app that targets its associated runtime, you can give people a bundle to download and launch from their own computer where the $RUNTIME it's meant to be launched with is /usr/bin/firefox (or whatever).

(And no, this doesn't require browser support for unstable/experimental APIs like Chrome's newest proposed APIs for filesystem access. There are ways to get by with HTML5 stuff that's well-supported by every mainstream browser released in this decade.)
This is awesome and great news, thanks a ton!

The biggest issue however is that many Linux distros just refuse to build and distribute VBox kernel modules despite them being open source. Thank you for your work regardless.

Do you intend VirtualBox to pick up your work and integrate it? I'm really looking forward to it. Have you already talked to the company?

I really don't want this to be a one off work to potentially become decrepit and unusable going forward.

Secondly, some VBox features belong to a separate closed source extension pack: USB2/3 support, PXE boot, VM disk encryption, webcam/camera support.

Will they work with KVM VirtualBox after installing the pack?
WWE 2K24 will feature Muhammad Ali
The link to that jar is coming from this page https://reportmill.com/SnapCode/download.html . Was just trying to download the jar to try it outside of the browser.

The online version is working well in my testing.