skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was recently talking with one of my close friends who has been a state senator for about a decade now.

They said that, whereas when they got into politics seriously in the 2000s there was an expectation that you were elected to serve your constituents and if “something happened to fall off the table into your pocket” it was kind of overlooked.

Compare this to now, where if you do not come into an election with corporate sponsorship, with increasingly specific grift-based policy goals, the corporate money lobby will just over power you to stay off the ballot or crush you with propaganda

Kari Lake a Republican talked about how she was approached recently to basically no response anywhere.
That still means more skinny cannibals can survive though doesn’t it?
Not at all. A majority of Americans changed their minds in opposition to the sitting president who had started the war. This directly contradicts the point the above commenter was making.
Elon Musk: actual billionaire

Sam Altman: fake billionaire (most equity is tied to openAI)

this should be a one sided battle
Yep. I built my own for a similar reason. It went from "we need a URL shortener" on a Wednesday to "we have a robust URL shortener in production" the next Monday.
Well, and that all works on Safari…

And that’s not what most people consider a PWA.
More than a billion people obese worldwide, research suggests
Are PWAs browsers?
Hey, cool! I just finished restoring a Telechron Master Type B clock, and here is a story about these Telechron master clocks on HN. It's very satisfying to watch the large hand bounce back and forth at zero when the mechanical movement and the electric rotor are perfectly in sync.
To embrace gaming, Apple needs to level up its game porting toolkit
If you don't sign with a larger record label, it's harder to get good marketing, gigs and distribution (although some people make a decent go at it by grassrooting via social media). All the big labels operate in the same way, more or less like a cartel.
Take your upvote and get out of here.
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To CTE or Not to CTE: The Case for Subqueries
Google's winning submission to IWLS2023 Programming Contest
Google's winning submission to IWLS2023 Programming Contest

The goal of the contest was to synthesize AIGs[1] with the minimal number of two-input and-nodes (AIGs) and two-input xor-and-nodes (XAIGs), for a set of completely-specified multi-output Boolean functions represented using truth tables.

TL;DR: Build the smallest possible circuit that provides a given binary input/output mapping. The solution uses a technique called Circuit Neural Networks and Simulated Annealing.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And-inverter_graph
If it’s just Apple, then why aren’t developers leaving Google Play Services in droves to avoid the same 30% cut?

And Microsoft did that not because they didn’t want to be in the store, but because at the time Apple wouldn’t allow them. Yes I disagree with this.

If PWAs could be made one to one with apps - and today games like Candy Crush could be web apps - game developers who make up 90% of App Store revenue still wouldn’t give up the direct access to users wallets they get from in app purchases.
Based on dates in the merged ROM set I checked, there were 170 new/updated ROMs in MAME 0.263 (Feb 2024) and 90 for MAME 0.262 (Jan 2024). Those were from merged rom sets so every zip file has 1-20 individual ROMs inside

The denominator here is 14,566 so that's 0.6% to 1.1% per month which is substantially less than all. These would mostly be ROMs for machines that weren't previously supported, replacing high level emulation with low level emulation, new ROM dumps, and replacing bad dumps.
There is the tax issue, then there is being incorporated in Delaware issue.

He likely could bring some issue before the Delaware court as was done to him recently.
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Iirc sprinklers are now required in homes in many areas.

And homes are much more resilient to other forms of damage, like actually having to be bolted to the foundation instead of just resting on it, etc.
Maybe to appeal to C and C++ developers. Rust makes its syntax superficially similar to C/C++ syntax in many other ways: pointer/reference syntax, declaration of "struct" types, generic types using <T>, curly brace block structure, and the naming conventions enforced by their lints. To be fair, many of these traits of C and C++ are also copied by other programming languages (e.g. curly braces). But they could have gone in a different direction and had pointer and record syntax more like Pascal, or made a syntax more like OCaml, Standard ML, or Haskell.
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Is it possible to design a shape to roll along any fixed path? [video]
100% agree, and Go gets oh so close

But the correct and only sane way to do this is Either<Error, Success> that you can then pass on, map over both or either of the two, flatMap to chain with other Eithers, fold into a single thing etc etc. Not endless sprinkling of

if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}

everywhere (and no, those operations are not obscure, esoteric or difficult to learn or understand - they're the same for other types like Option, List etc and are trivial to learn in a day for people who aren't familiar with them)

+ not making the compiler distinguish between null and non-nully values (as eg Kotlin, Rust and Haskell does) in itself as well is inexcusable for a modern language
Rules for thee, not for me is the generic version.
>it could engineer and literally mail-order a virus, hack a country's military comms, crash the stock market, change records to have people prosecuted as criminals, blackmail, manipulate, develop and manufacture kill-bots, etc etc.

This is science fiction, not anything that is even remotely close to a possibility within the foreseeable future.
But the server doesn't necessarily have unlimited time to encode those images. Each of those 1 million images needs to be encoded before it can be sent to a client.
Other browsers can already add PWAs. Presumably they'd just continue using WebKit to matter what engine the browser in question uses.
The city would extend a no-bid contract to run a 6-month pilot in a 3 block radius.

It’d go to a random company that never did anything related to trash pick up, but one of the board members would be loosely related to the mayor.

The mayor will then do a victory lap in front of journalists talking about this revolutionary project.

The winner would then sub-contract a series of shell companies to handle ‘planning the design and implementation’ of the vehicle used to pick up the debris.

3 months will pass and the first community board meeting about the pilot in the neighborhood will happen, where the project will hit vicious opposition from people citing gentrification, how this pilot will rip apart the fabric of the neighborhood, cause gridlock, be dangerous for kids (What if a kid runs infront of the magnet bike??), etc…

6 months and $5M later, the pilot gets extended and another $50M worth of funding having never picked up an ounce of trash.

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Honestly, what real benefit does a guide bring to most reasonable people? I know, the stereotypical American will travel to Iceland with norhing but shorts, but those aside, most everything to learn/understand here can be explained in an 2-5 minute introduction of the equipment. I mean, both me and my brother managed without problems (under paternal guidance) starting around age 6 two decades ago. Nowadays, most seem to be super crowded in the high season (meaning well, you have to wait often on a route), but its always been a fun activity.
It's built on web3
Yes there does, other browsers already use it.
It’s NextSTEP all the way down
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Oddly, most folks I knew used a Bic pen cap or similar as a sort of extender for the arm...
I thought Sam has no equity in OpenAI?
Those metal things they use to hold prefab trusses together are hated by firemen, because once it starts burning they just curl off and the strength is gone.
Hopefully they'll respond with huge fines.
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You're right it subverted in general. isatty() can tell if output is being piped. When piped special safety rules could kick in. Of course they would be false positives but then there could be an option (like I mentioned above).
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It's actually a pretty big field in neurophysiology along several levels, and not just w/ LLMs, ppl are trying to throw more basic EE DSP at it. Most analyses can do simple things - i.e. differntiator/discriminator type things, but who's to say if recording technology gets better, more complicated thought patterns can't be interpreted

LFP - "macro recordings" from larger electrical contacts like EEG, DBS leads, ECoG, i.e. waves from large areas of the brain

single unit - smaller electrodes thought to capture recordings from 1 or a few neurons. There's actually a ton of stuff looking at differential responses of single unit brain waves against a lot of different psychological stimuli.

NEURIPS had a couple of presentations on LLMs interpreting stuff from fMRI - maybe not "brain waves" technically speaking but it may be approaching "thought patterns".
BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF, $IBIT, hits a record $10B in assets management
Another big untapped thing in the autonomous vehicle space is having a strong remote teleop game— basically when you hit roadwork or snow or whatever other unforeseen condition, an operator elsewhere can seamlessly take over, either in full (literally driving your car) or in part ("choose that lane, avoid that obstacle").

Starsky Robotics understood this but AFAICT the lesson hasn't really sunk in across the industry; the big money is still chasing a mythical computer-only Lv5 solution.

Anyway, I don't think Apple would be the right company to pull off that kind of thing either, all of which is to further reinforce that trying to make an electric, autonomous car was always an odd choice for them.
That had me seriously confused as to what they could be talking about, because I've seen how many eyes daddy longlegs have.

I've never really encountered that common name applied to harvestmen, so presumably that's a regional thing from some other region.
Your IT should always be remote. A laptop in the office is not any different from a laptop out of the office.

It definitely feels like most people complaining about wfh have no friends and work is their entire life. I honestly do not understand how anyone can pretend they get anything done, while also being constantly interrupted or having conversations about what they're doing this weekend, or such and such sports team last night etc. Like... just get the work done and move on, jeez, it's work, not a social club. Ending wfh so you can force people to hang out with you is weird.
Conspiracy hot take: Grok is awful and Musk doesn't want to pay Altman to license a better AI.
I think people were laughing at the tactics OWA uses. For example, saying "web apps" are being killed is intentionally misleading.
It’s more subtle than that. If Apple uses WebKit within one of their built-in apps or OS components, let’s say in their Weather app or some Apple Pay dialog, there surely is no requirement that this has to be replaceable by Chromium or Gecko. Similarly, the PWA runtime environment may not necessarily count as a “web browser engine”, since they aren’t used to browse the web. It remains to be seen how this will be judged by the EU institutions.
Companies may only care about the money, but as long as the goal aligns with the public's interests, it's fine.
Fine, but where’s the evidence alternate browser engines are such a massive security risk? I see none, but I see many billions of dollars Apple is making from applying a 30% tax on any app I buy. And to be clear, consumers pay that 30%, developers pass it on.
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It's interesting to see the founders in that thread mentioning their cracks at it. All seem to be dead now except for HumanAPI (which looks like was acquired by Lexis Nexis).
s/$framework/$any-coding-project-written-ever

Don't let bad frameworks represent all frameworks. That is a faulty generalization [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulty_generalization
They are, in Europe. We don't really like companies not following the spirit of the law. Companies usually learn via fines. Luckily for us, Apple is a slow learner.
Rebuilding our cities and societies around alternative transport is a much bigger ask than replacing polluting cars with much less polluting cars. Also, that level of change is close to impossible due to the level of pushback it would receive from all corners of society. It's certainly something to work towards, but you can't let it block you from taking the short term and more practical wins.
My take is that it's more about control of the experience, which is something baked into Apple's DNA.
> Given that, why do I still think that the flood of money being thrown at this tech is dumb, and that most of it will be lost? Partly just because of that flood. When financial decision makers throw loads of money at things they don’t understand, lots of it is always lost.

This is a common take, it feels like a not-cynical-actually-smart counter to the hype train.

I think that take is missing something -- that this is how capitalism pays for fast learning.

You have a space entirely unexploited, you give million pioneering fortune seekers shovels and ignite exploration across the whole unexplored surface area. Most will quickly discover they're unsuited to exploring, or picking at dirt with there's nothing to find here, some will find fools gold and labor over it until they realize it won't buy land, and a couple will strike oil instead of gold and build an entirely new economy generating unfathomable wealth.

On the whole, no money was "lost", even without mentioning overcoming costs of delay since this got the exploration done the fastest.

I'm not saying this is more efficient than centrally planned 5 year programs (though in practice it probably is), but it does seem more effective at learning a new thing fast ...

... and getting from “exploration to exploitation” the fastest.
Yes, the charter is legally binding as OpenAI's primary fiduciary obligation. It's akin to a normal corporation's duty to shareholders.

Such mission statements are generally modifiable as long as the new purpose is still charitable. It depends on the bylaws though.
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>most web businesses don't exist in any physical location.

They have employees, they have servers, they absolutely exist in a physical location.
I would argue that AI isn't like bioweapons either.

Bioweapons do not have similar dual-use beneficial purpose as the AI does. As a result, AI development will continue regardless. It can give competitive advantage on any field.

Bioweapons are not exactly secret as well. Most of the methods to develop such things are open science. The restricting factor is that you potentially kill your own people as well, and the use-case is really just a weapon for some mad man, without other benefits.

Edit: To add, science behind "bioweapons" (or genetic modification of viruses/bacteria) are public exactly for the reason, that we could prevent the next future pandemic.
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Most of Elon’s wealth is also tied up in equity.
The preexisting term for this sort of analysis (and deeper) is well-to-wheels analyses. The aim is to account for any externality.
So can I run Android apps on a phone which runs plasma mobile?
It's not that simple. Going from 100% to 0% is far more damaging to the battery than going from 80% to 70%. This is why most EVs are so conservative with their battery usage, they're trying to avoid needing replacement batteries before the rest of the car has fallen apart.
Someone tested such a thing on a pretty big generator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM8kLaJ2NDU

https://www.wired.com/story/how-30-lines-of-code-blew-up-27-...

> Black chunks began to fly out of an access panel on the generator, which the researchers had left open to watch its internals. Inside, the black rubber grommet that linked the two halves of the generator’s shaft was tearing itself apart.

This was a proof-of-concept for a cyber attack on power infrastructure.

They sent it malware that inverted the grid sync behavior from "Sync up, then connect, and if you de-sync, disconnect" to "If you are synced, disconnect, if you are desynced, reconnect"

The Wired article is an advert for a book filled with pretty fluffy prose - At times reading like a romance novel...
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It’s funny to emphasize the vibes of a language contra other ones when you’re supposed to be on the supposedly pragmatic side. Haskell and Rust are popular on “message boards”? Better not mention them among my peers and risk my blue collar street cred.

But it’s a red herring in any case since enum types are such a basic programming language feature. No need to evoke the Cool Kids languages at all.
Perhaps, but Apple in the 2020s is certainly worse than Microsoft in the 1990s.

At least Microsoft has Microsoft Research. All Apple does is milking developers.
It's a selective tax break that specifically targets only a certain subset of the population, and not the rest, that would be enacted in an election year, a handful of months before the election occurs.
> That such a hilarious understanding of 'nature' and 'cities'. I live in a city and I can be in nature very quickly.

Which city? It's always helpful to look at google maps to see if people are using terms in a different way.

A city by definition is surrounded by suburb (sub-urbe) and neither is forest, so if you live in the city you need to get to the suburbs and the cross the suburbs before you can get to a forest (or desert/etc).

I'm sure there's some city somewhere where the highrise apartment building transition immediately to forest, but I'm not sure where. Not common, for sure.

> So yes, subburbs can be done well, but if its done well its not called 'subburbia' anymore.

This is a circular claim. So if a suburb works well it's not a suburb?
What do you use it for? I mean, for what kind of payments?

It sounds to me like the investors are being grifted.
> Eid

No techy discussion of holidays should be considered complete without a mention of Eid. When is Eid? When it’s decided Eid is!
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This is solely about Apple getting a cut of App Store sales. They’ve been in cahoots with Google for years, as evidenced by the recent DoJ monopoly trial - “privacy” and “security” are marketing terms at Apple. Nothing more.
I might try an Android if Apple keep being dicks.
The SEC is responsible for anything that issues securities - shares in a private or public company.

https://www.sec.gov/education/capitalraising/building-blocks...
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39563618
As a user, I’m much more likely to click on the second link. Too many link shorteners come with ads and other annoyances that I’d rather not touch them. redirect-checker.org if I must
They're pretty much just shortcuts/bookmarks to a browser window yes. If I "install" a PWA from Firefox I expect it to open in Firefox. I would be very surprised if I ended up in Safari instead.
So on one hand, the regulatory framework is ridiculously anti-innovation, and changing it is hard, and it's bad bad bad.

https://thebreakthrough.org/blog/waiting-on-the-nuclear-regu...

but, the big cost overruns and the whole cost disease is because of atrocious change management, lack of standardization and, in general, bad project management.

https://www.cell.com/joule/fulltext/S2542-4351(20)30458-X ( https://news.mit.edu/2020/reasons-nuclear-overruns-1118 )