skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about damages. How difficult to show.

In case anyone is confused I am referring to 126, 132 and 135. Not 127.

"126. As a direct and proximate result of Defendants breaches, Plaintiff has suffered damages in an amount that is presently unknown, but that substantially exceeds this Courts jurisdictional minimum of $35,000, and, if necessary, will be proven at trial.

127. Plaintiff also seeks and is entitled to specific performance of Defendants contractual obligations.

132. Injustice can only be avoided through the enforcement of Defendants repeated promises. If specific enforcement is not awarded, then Defendants must at minimum make restitution in an amount equal to Plaintiffs contributions that have been misappropriated and by the amount that the intended third-party beneficiaries of the Founding Agreement have been damaged [how??], which is an amount presently unknown, and if necessary, will be proven at trial, but that substantially exceeds this Courts jurisdictional minimum of $35,000.

135. As a direct and proximate result of Defendants breaches of fiduciary duty, Plaintiff and the express intended third-party beneficiaries of the Founding Agreement have suffered damages in an amount that is presently unknown, but substantially exceeds this Courts jurisdictional minimum of $35,000, and if necessary, will be proven at trial."

The end result of this suit, if it is not dismissed, may be nothing more than OpenAI settling with the plaintiffs for an amount equal to the plaintiffs' investments.

According to this complaint, we are supposed to be third-party beneficiaries to the founding agreement. But who actually believes we would be compensated in any settlement. Based on these claims, the plaintiffs clearly want their money back. Of course they are willing to claim "the public" as TPBs to get their refund. Meanwhile, in real life, their concern for "the public" is dubious.

Perhaps the outcome of the SEC investigation into Altman's misrepresentations to investors, if any, may be helpful to these plaintiffs.
Imagine if a regular for profit startup did that. It gets 60 million in initial funding, and later their valuation goes up to 100 billion. Of course they can't just give the 60 million back.

This is different and has a lot of complications that are basically things we've never seen before, but still, just giving the 60 million back doesn't make any sense at all. They would've never achieved what they've achieved without his 60 million.
You know there are buildings built with OSB and wrapped in Tyvek that are older than 50 years and are still standing right?
We don't need an AI to parrot woke idiocy either, it'd be better if it was stupid because at least then it might be fun.
>If somebody is too afraid to ride the bus because they think they'll get raped, does the facts really matter?

on a micro level, no. On a macro level, yes. People have individual fears, but those individual fears shouldn't influence the decision of multi billion dollar transport budgets. As cold as it sounds, injury or harm is built into the costs of such transportation.

With all that said, LA has indeed gotten much less safe, and public transportation has never really been "good", per se. On a micro level, I literally could not get within 2 miles of work from bus schedules one way, and 5 miles the other after work (back when work was in town). It wasted enough time that it would have been worth considering biking 15 miles a day instead of using a bus. If I wasn't in such poor shape it'd take almost the same time (which was double my driving commute).
This doesn’t sound very funny! But I’m hardly French enough to judge.
You can, or the state government can?
a car cannot rape me
Elixir performance is pretty average and it's not a statically typed language, things will blow up at runtime.
A start on something like this might already exist. Curlie [1] is a hand-built directory or table of contents to the web, something like the the old DMOZ Open Directory Project [2].

1. https://curlie.org/

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ
The thrill is gone at Alphabet Google. The name Google has meaning in that they originally wanted to digitize all knowledge. The name Alphabet tells me they are now running a portfolio of companies with no other purpose than to squeeze as much revenue out of the golden goose until it dies. Well OpenAi has clearly signaled the end of an era and the death of Google search. Instead of “googling” things I know “ChatGPT” it.
Do I need to get into YC to learn to be a two-faced bullshitter or will Sam teach that skill to anyone?
From the photo, I love how disposable the newspaper appears. They had four years to plan the design and the content of the paper, and yet at first glance it looks like it might as well have been edited the day before. It only has 20 pages! I’ll make sure to get a copy in 2028.
That is correct in these days. 100 years ago things were different.
Helium can't run out. Ever. Or actually it can, but in about 10 billion years or so.

Helium is alpha particles produced in the decay chain of uranium and thorium deep inside the planet. It's being produced continuously, and it seeps upward. It stops in the pockets where other gases stop, and whatever forms there is called "natural gas". Helium is present in all natural gas, but it generally it is in a small enough concentration to not be worth separating. The price of helium is about 100 times the price of natural gas, so if a given natural gas field has a concentration of 1% helium, and you separate that and you sell it, you double your profits. But most often the concentration is 0.1% or lower, so after the additional separation costs it's not worth the trouble.

But when you have a field that yields more than 12% helium, you bet it's super profitable to separate it and sell it.
As far as I can tell, the "npx jsr add @luca/flag" command given for using JSR with Node itself calls "npm i @luca/flag@npm:@jsr/luca__flag" and is equivalent. You get a normal node_modules+package.json+package-lock.json output that the npm command is fully able to work with.

It looks like JSR re-publishes all of its packages translated into JS + .d.ts files onto npm under the @jsr scope. Regular npm packages have no trouble depending on JSR packages because they just depend on the npm-published version of them.
> if you choose to buy their [device], you also are locked into their [software ecosystem].

Other than desktop computing, this describes nearly everything sold to consumers. For people in the Hacker News audience, desktop computing would feel like a gargantuan exception, but for most other people it isn't. Android is a partial exception, but one gets the sense from Google's recent behaviour that openness is an unwelcome vestige of its open source beginnings.
The car accident one is really noticeable - it shows up over and over again in stories I’ve read about the crisis where someone started on opioids after getting insufficient treatment for some kind of crash and needing to go back to work before they were pain free, possibly compounded by a doctor being afraid of the DEA investigating them if they gave too many prescriptions which weren’t unambiguously necessary. I think a lot of our discussions about car safety saw fatalities declining and conflated “doctors are keeping more people from dying” with “driving getting safer”.
>Nobody cares about how automation will remove jobs for folks.

no one cares until it happens to them. I guess that attitude is part of the reason why this will succeed in the end.
"Weberknecht" can be translated as "weaver's journeyman".
"Opa Langbein" (gramps longleg) is another common one, analogous to the English colloquial name.
I dont think you can create a high trust society deliberately; It takes multi-generation level time-spans, and in a low trust environment there is no mechanism to guarantee your plans will be carried forward; even if you currently have dictator level control over society.

Creating highly trustworthy technology is the best we can do, and reliable transportation is a big part of this.

I also suspect targeting and removing the worst interactions people have with strangers (and for many this is the random nature of a human driver, either from a taxi or other drivers) would create a higher trust society overall, as there is less cause to be wary.
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Context is actually one of my least favorite parts of go. I wish they at least reimplemented it with generics so it’s not just a unlabeled box of maybe some stuff that can also cancel things
that's kind of what i'd expect to be necessary for any big city - which atlanta definitely qualifies as to me.
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Yeah I’m not sure how that seemed to get lost in some of the revisionist history in the comments here but it at a minimum sure was a hell of a coincidence that they managed to not make any meaningful investments in supporting the web as a viable app platform right up until the moment that regulators started looking into it.
Getting a chargeback in Stripe is costly. As soon as a dispute is started there's a fixed $25 that won't be refunded even if you win the dispute.

So for a service at $4 a month which is likely to get a lot of fraudulent payments I wonder if it's really viable.

One thing he should do is immediately cancel accounts and refund subscriptions when there's an early fraud warning. They are usually accurate and help avoiding those fees.
They have tried many variations out, but so far they don't seem to think they work better than doing nothing. The only communication the Waymo's currently do it to signal that they are stopping for pedestrians, both to the pedestrians themselves and also to the cars behind.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/13/23913251/waymo-roof-dome...
> Which is stay away from videos, restrict yourself to written content.

I think this is very individual-dependent.

E.g. only recently I've realized that I absorb audio content much better than text (or video, for that matter). So the "hack" for me is to try to get the content in audio form.

Feynman also talks about this in one of his books - whatever the Education researchers say, some people are more visual, some more aural, and maybe there are other ways as well.
Try reaching out to Katie - seen her in various parts of the internet. Think she’s a community manager or something like that. Eg

https://old.reddit.com/r/hetzner/comments/1agom04/are_there_...
I came across a news item in Canada saying Heroin is basically impossible to find now. The lower quality but much cheaper product has replaced it. Clayton Christensen's theory of disruption in action.
Cylon + vehicle = KITT (Night Rider)
Personal experience writing nicely-functioning code in a language I barely know, with libraries I've never used before.

Your mileage may vary, of course. Failing to take advantage of the best tools available isn't particularly adaptive, but you do you.
Why would that make remote work any more mandatory than it is with 'the cloud' or data centres?
I like people.

But I am just one person, and not most people. I have not met most people.

Paul, people do a lot of things.

I feel concluding most people are XYZ is likely one of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies#Faulty_gener...

Cheers.
> After all I think Android also has a Chrome-only implementation for PWAs, exactly like Windows, that runs PWAs on Edge.

This is not true for Android. I am using PWA's with Brave (the PWA does get a tiny brave-icon badge overlaid on the corner of the app icon).
Elon's asking for specific performance (IE they uphold the agreement) not damages.
Let’s hope he does, but realistically they’ll never ditch him.

His special power of “not understanding the product and also making terrible decisions all the time” seems to be the primary job of CEOs in general these days.
It is possible there exists a table called dbo.user_ratings with a boolean column called IsAsshole, and you might have tons of rows there all with a 1 on the boolean column but the Uber APIs don't return that value. CEO Travis could tell us if it exists
That means that if you travel into the sunset at the same speed as the sun sets, you could see a permanent greeen spot when the conditions are right?
Fire indeed. Good luck to everyone else, but I won't be in that kitchen.
But by the 1950s, clocks with improved batteries and oscillating quartz crystal resonators began to replace consumer electric clocks that synchronized with the power grid.

That sounds a little early; mains-referenced clocks continue to be widespread into the 21st century, especially in bedside clock radios. In my experience, the ones based on quartz oscillators drift even more than mains-referenced ones over the long term.
Many of the job links in your post do not work. Are the job listings public?

I sent an email to the address in the Google doc.
Probably cities with good road infrastructure
I think we might see third party browser support for PWAs soon in iOS. Maybe with the next major iOS release. This might've been a stunt to delay that feature and buy them some time and plausible deniability that they tried their best and it just took longer than expected, because of poor decision making.
> we have recently launched the world’s first LLM-powered symptom checker

Why make the claim of being the world’s first? ChatGPT was probably first, but even if you don’t consider it because it is more general, it still sounds like others like drgupta.ai launched before you.
Squid: Optimising Web Delivery
How current is this? It doesn't actually have *.blogger.com in it, nor the other two examples I checked.
That looks nothing like go. I wonder why even call it go+ at that point
Safer, maybe. cost effective, I don't see it. especially compared to this aforementioned fleet of transport vehicles.
Due to HN's username character limit, my username makes use of the same shorthand... prolly.
Musk didn't pay for everything. He took his money and left, upset that OpenAI wouldn't let him run it. It was precisely because Musk stopped funding them that OpenAI were forced to seek outside investors and change their corporate structure to be able to offer them a return on the investment.
It may be trivial, but I think the answer is: they don’t double check. Possibly that’s too much effort to do so?
But neither C nor Go have type-safe enums.
That is typically the case. If you commit a crime and flee to a different country, where you go will arrest you and turn you over to the country that you did the crime in.

there are many treaties on this. It gets complex, some countries will not turn criminals over if the death pentalty is would be used for example. However in general if you commit a crime you can't flee to a different country.

countries like north Korea and Russia are exceptions. Which is why malware so often comes from them. Anyone else and you are likely to be caught.
Cool, you have added more word salad. The people ticking the checkbox have tuned out after half of the first sentence, _that_ was the point.
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Some "didn't make it in" things that looked promising were the perceptual vector quantization[1], and a butterfly transform that Monty was working on, IIRC as an occasional spectator to the process.

[1] https://jmvalin.ca/daala/pvq_demo/
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His buildings are known for being high-maintenance. I've had houses with 70-year-old concrete foundations that are perfectly functional.
I doubt the safety argument will hold up in court. Anything safe enough to allow Microsoft or others access too would be safe enough to release publicly. Our AI overlords are not going to respect an NDA. And for the public safety/disinformation side of things, I think it is safe to say that cat is out of the bag and chasing the horse that has bolted.
>I live in Europe in a village of about 1500 people are there is no usable public transport (2 buses a day).

and how would waymo fix this? Waymo is still a private business and needs to weigh the costs of deploying to a smaller town vs. simply not supporting that range. It's the same issue as government.
It's about time. Glad to see it finally coming
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I used to think that, but then I decided no, I'll just make it public (GitHub public repo) and then I don't have to feel anything about updating it, if I move into a new role or whatever at present company I'm just factually updating that doesn't (and quite literally hasn't) mean I'm actively looking, it's just maintenance.
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Plenty of people working on the defensive side are famous, sometimes even more famous than those who do offensive work. Take, for example, Google Project Zero, or the numerous people on “infosec Twitter” who are almost invariably doing defensive work. People who do exploit development tend to be a lot more quiet about what they do and where they work.
People like you are an extreme minority. Most people just want a phone that works and that doesn’t get ‘viruses’. iOS accomplishes that; macOS does not.
It's not an exception. Binary distribution is the norm - Apple founded their business on that norm, found success in it, fostered it and continues to support it on MacOS. The App Store style of distribution is not a replacement for it, especially when the escape hatches for developers cost an annual fee and still has limitations. If it takes legislation to change that, so be it. This is not the future for computing that anyone wanted.

If there's a good reason iOS can't run third-party software, now's the time to fix it. Otherwise, Apple might have to find a new economic zone to invest in.
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It's far easier for people to get proper cameras that aren't relying on wifi or internet to function.
Having an actual set type is much better than having to manually fiddle with bitwise operations.
A profit seeking org wouldn't take the ride in the first place instead of repeatedly accepting and cancelling. Or it would simply increase the price because it implicitly knows the value.
> In the abstract, FastUI is like the opposite of GraphQL but with the same goal — GraphQL lets frontend developers extend an application without any new backend development; FastUI lets backend developers extend an application without any new frontend development.

I know a lot of backend developers who are backend developers specifically because they don't enjoy frontend work and prefer to leave that work to people who actually enjoy it. And I know a lot of frontend developers who feel the same way, only from the other side.

The tagline of FastUI is "Build Better UIs Faster," but I think this will likely end up being "Build Passable UIs Faster," because yes, for simple cases, you can represent HTML components as Python or Javascript or whatever other language you want, but once you need to build something complex on the frontend, it becomes very irritating very fast when you have to work like this -- and good luck getting your frontend buddies to help you, because now they have to get up to speed on a new framework to understand what it's doing.
They ship with hardware jpeg decoders because they ship with hardware jpeg encoders for camera capture latency reasons and it turns out you can basically just run that hardware in reverse.

The SoCs aren't investing more than a token amount of effort into those jpeg decoders, and from experience some of them claim to exist but produce the shittiest looking output imaginable and more slowly than jpeg-turbo at that.

Also you can trivially find out if your Android phone is doing this or not, just run some perf call sampling while decoding jpegs. If all you see is AOSP libraries & libjpeg-turbo, well then they aren't doing hardware decodes :)
Yes, it is for the same species.

I have old growth red pine and modern pine in my property, the old growth stuff is so much heavier and stronger it's comical.

As said in the OP, it's largely because the old trees are much older, so the wood is simply denser.
Lots of houses were built using poor techniques you reference. Nowadays, we're back to emphasizing breathable homes. Vapor barriers are out, vapor retarders are in. You use an air barrier because air movement is far more effective at moving moisture into a wall than vapor drive. We actually engineer the amount of drying to be optimal in your climate and reduce the amount of energy the home uses.
It was just a matter of time. They got the users locked in and now they can change policies however they want.
In most situations, we don't get paid to make code "done'. We get paid to get it close enough to work most of the time.
It makes me super anxious when drivers run stop signs, drive in the shoulder, or perform other maneuvers that I'd never perform while driving myself. Knowing I'm in a car with no risk of an accident due to knowingly breaking the law would bring me a great deal of peace.
At least 1/2 of Altman's net worth is invested in Helion energy (fusion energy startup).
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