skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine the horror if credit card companies stop being able to offer premium airport lounge experiences and free travel to their wealthiest customers by means of the late fees they charge to their most marginalized.
It is just for improving very low credit score, for people not eligible for regular credit cards.
Thanks for the feedback!

This a hobby project for now, so I tried to do it in a cheapest way possible, and PWA looked like a good approach, as there is no need to buy developer subscription.

Have you used Swift to develop your IOS app or any cross-platform solution?
> Ancient counterfeits are a special case, since they are authentically ancient and therefore of considerable historical interest. When they come on the market, they are usually quite inexpensive compared to their official counterparts.

Is that just because they contain less precious metal? I’d have though that was a small part of the value
It's seems to me that for security reasons it might be a good idea to support separate signing keys for normal commits and commits that change the ownership set. This would allow you to keep the ownership change keys offline under the assumption they are rarely used. This is something PoS cryptocurrencies tend to do by having a separate withdrawal key for accessing stake to the signing key used for block proposals, attestations etc.
I would agree that the average consumer does not really need to concern themselves with what kernel their operating system. For developers though it does mean that you know your code is written for linux then you know it will work on any operating system using the linux kernel. You can even take your compiled library and reuse it between the operating systems. For people who care about the success of the Linux kernel then keeping track of its market share is nice to know.
“ To some extent, they may be right that open sourcing AGI would lead to too much danger.”

I would argue the opposite. Keeping AGI behind a walled corporate garden could be the most dangerous situation imaginable.
Enterprise pricing isn't always standardized. A lot of the time it's tailored to "what it's worth for this particular client".
It seems premature to worry about graphs when most languages don't even have good support for tables.
What's interesting to me is that we ended up with NT's Win32 personality as the default and only userland. I always wondered what an "NT-native" userland would look like, and if that would have been closer to the OS/2 personality that shipped through NT 4.0.
By the way, you don't have to manually add a custom bang and point it to your lens id, you can configure a bang for the lens directly in the settings of your lens
He is a signatory
> How do you spend it?

Sell it to a cartel at a steep discount. They’re experts at dealing with large globs of cash.
There is no way to reconcile their founding statements and principles with what they’re doing now. They don’t even publish legitimate research papers any longer and barely even try to defend themselves as aligning with their prior mission.
Individual Soyuz spacecraft are expendable, they need to build a new one every time.
You can also solve this problem by air-gapping any part of the system with physical human interaction.
> As an example, all food in Romania is from the Netherlands or other foreign countries.

Why?
IBM was working on it for a while...

IBM Stops Work on Swift — Q&A with Chris Bailey
:: https://www.infoq.com/news/2020/01/ibm-stop-work-swift-serve... ( 43 points | 3 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22175652 )

In this (and highlighted in a comment) there's a quote:

> Swift benefits greatly from being an embedded part of Apple's ecosystem, but it also provides challenges for its organic growth as there's a lot of dependency on Apple for capabilities that the server ecosystem requires. For example, almost all Swift developers use Apple's Xcode as their IDE and it has fantastic support for developing for iOS devices, including the ability to run locally in emulator environments. It would be great to add support for writing server code that allows developers to develop directly into containerized environments from their local IDE by supporting the simple integration into Xcode of development tools such as Appsody. Where there is open governance and open ecosystems, it enables the community to contribute and to solve the problems and use cases that are important to them.

Same timeframe: IBM Stops Server Side Swift Framework Development - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21808619 (156 points | 97 comments)

---

From earlier times:

Introducing the IBM Swift Sandbox - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10676655 (246 points | 59 comments)

IBM says Swift is ready for the enterprise - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12581250 (176 points| 226 comments)
That's the way all government services work.

Public libraries don't run as profit centers, and yet everyone generally agrees they provide a social benefit and are worth funding.

Ref: world wars, part I and II.
And as we all know, this completely absolves Russia of arresting funeral attendees.
Why do you think it needs to be "ever growing" to serve that purpose?
OpenAI might think they're winning a PR battle by shaping a narrative here, but they are now locked into this narrative, possibly to their detriment in court. Just seems like a bad idea. I find it odd that their lawyers wouldn't steer them clear of something like this.

> I think OpenAI have quite wisely decided that the real battle here is the court of public opinion.

They've failed to win me over. As far as I can tell, their attempted PR victory hinges on a single email with a one-word reply from Musk. Their own emails are far more damning as they give a detailed explanation of why they believe AI should not be open.

To an observer who already dislikes Musk, I'm sure it's a PR win. To someone neutral or someone who dislikes both parties, it's a PR disaster.
I'm not sure I agree with that last distinction: the Inspiration4 and upcoming Polaris missions are standalone Crew Dragons that do not dock with the ISS, and they're even planning a spacewalk.
You don't think traditions are social contracts?
Though not specific to C language, C.A.R Hoare's Retrospective: An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming provides insight on why Software is so reliable in spite of a lack of application of formal verification methods.

Retrospective: https://cacm.acm.org/opinion/retrospective-an-axiomatic-basi...

Here is a pdf of the retrospective along with the original paper : https://harrymoreno.com/assets/greatPapersInCompSci/2.2_-_An...
Most rich people setup DAFs alongside their family foundations so that they can make large contributions to this type of org. without triggering disclosure or private foundation tests -- so e.g. Musk will create a DAF at Fidelity Charitable and give them $100M and collect the associated tax break in year 1 -- he can then direct Fidelity to grant $20M/year to OpenAI which will show up as Public Support since it's coming from another nonprofit entity and Fidelity maintains ultimate discretion over the funds.

Edit - Got curious and sure enough - this is the 28,000 page 990 filing for Fidelity Charitable: https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/110303001_202006_990_...

On page 205 there's a $3.5M donation to OpenAI from 2019.

Likewise here for SVCF on page 237 (https://apps.irs.gov/pub/epostcard/cor/205205488_201912_990_...) - there's a $30M donation to OpenAI in 2019.
Also, if you don't need to run Mathematica offline, their cloud version of it is completely free (with some storage limits that you're unlikely to exceed). It's actually a pretty cool product, but the pricing model is a mess.
Artificially sweetened drinks linked to irregular heartbeat
> It's hilarious that limited liability is an obvious assumption

I must have gotten myself lost if my comments read as though I was arguing that limited liability is a good thing. I guess if you consider limiting investor liability to criminal activity they were aware of, that's some form of limited liability.

But I don't agree that liability should be limited even when someone is, or can be, aware if the risks they sign up for. I'm not saying anyone should tell companies they can't offer high interest unsecured loans - I'm only saying that consumers don't have to take the loans.
RIP to the Windows Subsystem for Android, which goes away in 2025
At least when I worked there, protecting against reverse engineering was never a goal. Cert pinning is to make it harder for an adversary to tamper, not to make it harder for the user to.
Saw this quiz the other day. Very well designed!
"For an award of restitution and/or disgorgement of any and all monies received by
Defendants while they engaged in the unfair and improper practices described
herein"

He claims he'll give all the money to charity, but he's certainly asking for money.
Then why allow interest and late fees at all then?
Thank you!

There is no server syncing right now; everything is stored in the local storage of your browser.
Current features will remain free. I might add a paid subscription for syncing data between devices in future.
The glyphs are not a barrier to use or learning. Learning them is no more difficult than learning the keywords and syntax of any other language. The real difficulty lies in thinking in terms of arrays and array operations rather than conditionals and loops.
email is a million times easier to manage when your inbox is clean and you delete crap as soon as it arrives. just like physical mail. that first purge takes forever, but once it's done, it's minutes per day in upkeep at worst.

the biggest benefit of inbox zero, by far, is lightning fast response times. you almost never miss important comms, never fail to reply to important emails, and, most importantly, never have to rely on folders that you need to search through.
They’re pretty open about that now though.
Wasn't trying to explain where are senior coming from. But that if after 20 years of attempt to offshore tech like we did textile, here we are still looking for upper level qualified enginners in the most expensive cities in the world, it means announcing the offshoring of the industry , all along , was fallacy. Wishful thinking for some.

Here we are at it again. AI will shift all these workers off payroll . Compress salaries. They are just manipulation, fear mongering to make job seekers give in and accept those underpaid vacant jobs.

Where are senior nurtured at? From companies, usually small, and/or those that don't buy the outsourcing/off shoring fallacy, or because it isn't an option for their organization.

The ratio of senior to junior has always been an issue and is independent to the offshoring phenomenon. More new people get into tech, and faster than seniors get formed. So it always seems there are too many junior, not enough senior. It also means there will defacto be far more seniors in the next generation than there are today. Still even less relative to how many we will need though.
Claude 3's system prompt, with commentary from an Anthropic ethicist
But the government can make it harder to take advantage of people.
The scenario at hand is data leakage; accordingly the prevention strategy is by having a more secure storage system.

One way of addressing that is by using a secure vault for sensitive data storage. This is beyond the skillset of most backend engineers, but new products such as Piiano may bridge the gap (proper disclosure: I'm a friend of one of the people behind Piiano)
I’m using swift on the server with vapor and it’s really working great. Non-Apple platforms support has been greatly enhanced over time and is still being enhanced.
I'm not invested enough to do the napkin math, but I wonder what costs more: ignoring security and paying the ransom, or investing in the right strategy to prevent being held ransom. If I consider my own experience in tech for the past few decades, I have to think it could go either way. (This says nothing of the damage releases of private data can do, which of course makes investing in the right strategy the correct thing to do, no matter the cost.)
Don't forget that the standard plan of Kagi recently got infinitely cheaper, it used to be limited to 1000 searches a month and switched to pay-as-you-go afterwards, but now it has unlimited searches.
Sorry, meant to say the more generic "replenished" but typed a bit of your comment while reading it at the same time :p. That's what I was saying by the next part, it doesn't matter _how_ it's replenished just that the pool doesn't dwindle to 1 option for any reason. E.g. you could not put them back pull and mix from multiple decks/ball sources as the game progresses and even though 51 cards/99 balls are discarded you don't know what n+1 is for certain yet.

I disagree the last card is "still" random, at least in the sense of statistics. It "was" random up until the measure of uncertainty of the next event reaches 0 (i.e. entropy reaches 0). At that point it's no longer a "guess", there is no uncertainty and the remaining pattern is always 100% predictable in that regardless which proceeding events occured to get there it can always be known what the next value is without uncertainty. Since there ceases to be any uncertainty in what the remaining pattern will be there ceases to be randomness in the next value generated. That the card's value was not known at n=0 does not affect whether the n+1 card still is/isn't random when n=51. In another form, that you didn't previously know the value of card n=52 with past information holds no influence whether the value is random or not with new information. Statistical randomness is all about what you know of the future predictability, not about how something came about.

This is also true of events which fall into predictable patterns at any point along the path. E.g. if I had a (relatively useless) hardware random number generator that generated random numbers 0-127 once per second until it generated a 0 at n=17, at which point it ceased being able to pull randomness from it's dead circuits and always produced 0 afterward, the first 17 values were all statistically random at the time of their draw but n=[18,inf) are all now predictable and no longer random from that point on.
This is part of that list where at one point computer were supposed to totally transform learning in school. We know it didn't happen. Them mobile/smartphone were supposed to transform learning on the go that also didn't happen. But worry not, now personalized AI agents will totally transform learning. There will be individualized lectures for every students. No more lack of attention from teachers be bottleneck in learning.
Nor should they honestly. Lets not subsidize irresponsibility.

Thats not to say there shouldn’t be a reasonable cap on late fees. It is to say that even if the government could save people from all the consequences of their negligence, they should not.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/know-your-custome...

https://www.austrac.gov.au/business/core-guidance/customer-i...

https://rulebook.centralbank.ae/en/rulebook/167-know-your-cu...
It's OK. One thing it does is rope "reddit" into the "Forums" Lens, which on face seems good but I search mostly for car stuff and forums are a trove there.

Feature request: block a domain?

"saab 900 power steering rack -reddit"

still returns a ton of reddit results.
It kinda does though. The ISS orbits every 90 minutes or so. Meaning it cycles from very-hot to very-cold.

Doing that for 180 days means thousands of cycles. While not as violent as take-off and landing, it's a factor that can lead to metal fatigue and so on.

Quite how big a factor remains to be seen, hence the fairly strong observance, and testing of parts (earthside) after they return.
// we can grow the world economy to put it in every hut in africa within the decade //

A refresher in thermodynamics is in order here....thermal energy is...energy, which is a conserved quantity. Heat doesn't just disappear. An air conditioner cools the inside air by making the outside air hotter.

And (thermodynamics strikes again) it also creates yet more waste heat in the process.

// if people are free //

Doesn't matter how free people or the markets are, thermodynamics is for real. We are not air-conditioning our way out of this.
No, that is not what you need at all.

You are correct in saying it has historically been the smart choice to pay a ransomware group, but that is only the best decision for that individual company; as a society, we are better off when we make a blanket policy to never negotiate with terrorists (or ransomware groups). The fact that what is the best policy for individual companies is the opposite of what is the best policy for society as a whole is simply because this is a prime example of a prisoners dilemma; everyone is better off if no one pays a ransom, but any individual company is best off paying the ransom.

So what we should do instead of making ransom payments reliable, is make it nearly impossible to reliably pay a ransom without the ransomware group being caught in the end.
Trust is misplaced, these media companies are not
some unbiased neutral entities: they exist
to sell ads and promote some paid PR viewpoints.
If you're "trusting" them it means they can exploit
this trust for profit, be it commercial or political:
just like movie actors do it for money, its an illusion
of "being a genuine character" exploited by media
personalities to form "public trust".
I mean, if you're using LLM as a stand-in for multi-modal models, and you're not disallowing things like a self-referential processing loop, a memory extraction process, etc, it's not so far fetched. There might be multiple databases and a score of worker processes running in the background, but the core will come from a sequence model being run in a loop.
Setup a block rule, they are still there. Send it straight to that rule. The rule should nuke the email before it hits the mailbox.
Musk's lawsuit is for breach of contract, but it looks like Musk agreed with what OpenAI did, which means the lawsuit will fail.

From the complaint:

> Together with Mr. Brockman, the three agreed that this new lab: (a) would be a non-profit developing AGI for the benefit of humanity, not for a for-profit company seeking to maximize
shareholder profits; and (b) would be open-source, balancing only countervailing safety considerations, and would not keep its technology closed and secret for proprietary commercial
reasons (The “Founding Agreement”).

The biggest beneficiary of this lawsuit is Google, which now gets more runway to bumble along to victory.
Reflections after taking part in a forecasting tournament
launch/reentry are of course huge stressors, but IIRC just being docked subjects a spacecraft to a larger temperature range than you might expect. From NASA:

> Without thermal controls, the temperature of the orbiting Space Station's Sun-facing side would soar to 250 degrees F (121 C), while thermometers on the dark side would plunge to minus 250 degrees F (-157 C).

That's a lot of thermal expansion/contraction, every 90 minutes. I'm not sure if that actually adds up to being equivalent to the much larger # of launches/reentries that discovery underwent, but it's _something_.
Longstanding underfunding of the IRS, if I had to guess? It's much more expensive and time-consuming to go after wealthy tax cheats than, say, people incorrectly claiming the earned income tax credit. The ProPublica article states that Thiel was indeed audited in 2011, but the audit was eventually closed with no known outcome.
Well yeah, dive into the comments on any Firefox-related HN post and you'll see the same complaint about the organization structure of Mozilla, and its hindrance of Firefox's progress in favour of fat CEO salaries and side products few people want.
I've been using hacker news for years and I think I've seen it <10 times too. Maybe our usage patterns differ and I only use HN off peak.
I like using it for non-GUI programs.

I usually test them on a Linux VM and a Raspberry Pi
Indeed, my limited experience with German trains is awful.

There are lines in Switzerland where some of the trains doing it are DB trains transiting through CH and going from or to Germany. These trains also pickup and drop off passengers in CH, doing the same stops as the national trains.

I’ve learnt to avoid these German trains like the plague: they’re often late, crowded, dirty, or even canceled at the last minute.

Even if they (in theory) offer a shorter travel time, I know by now it’s mostly fictional because of the issues above. I prefer to take the SBB train that I’m sure will show up even if it means the trip will be 30 min longer.
You can install WSL distros through the command line with:

wsl --install -d <Distribution Name>
> Personally, I'm guessing AWS has a noticable peak and trough on power. But if it makes sense, they do have the spot market which could be used to attract or repel load in order to hit a consumption target.

Sure. Even for the on-demand stuff they have a vested interest in reducing power consumption as much as they can.

They charge the customers a flat rate per hour, so every joule they can cut out is money in their pocket.

It would be different if they were charging the customers by the kwH or something.
If it’s at rest encrypted you generally do not manage to get 4TB of data before anyone notices.
https://archive.is/bMBDC
Had tools like that already in the 90s, no AI, just brute force.
I think in their minds, their mission has always been to make AI widely available. It seems like they initially thought open source and open research were a viable path to achieving that mission, but later they changed their minds. I get why people are upset about that pivot, but considering they single-handedly brought AI out of the research lab and into the mainstream, it seems hard to argue that they were wrong.

In any case, sticking to the point of this discussion, there is no indication of any kind that they don’t intend to make AI widely available. It’s like saying McDonald’s doesn’t intend to make hamburgers widely available.
> "it’s nearly impossible to get good reporting on this stuff because all the major media sites are biased in that they are recipients of these payoffs."

True. Even the ABC public broadcaster gets paid by Meta and Google. Enough cash to create "60 regional jobs".[1] Nevermind regional journalism is something ABC should be funding anyway, without handouts from commercial operators.

Then you have outlets like The Conversation. They may or may not receive payment from Meta (they don't disclose, nobody wants to disclose). I'm guessing they do receive something, judging by their often bland articles.[2][3] And they shut down all "conversation", they don't allow commenting on stories any more. Why increase engagement when you're getting free money?

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-02/facebook-google-news-media-deal-media-pay-meta/103534342
[2] Conversation article: "New research sheds light on the reasons why many people dislike sport"
[3] Conversation article: "Why do I need to get up during the night to wee? Is this normal?"
Envelope encryption works for that - client generates a random symmetric key, encrypts the data symmetrically, then asymmetrically encrypts just the key (which is then thrown away on the client). Both the symmetrically encrypted body and asymmetrically encrypted key are sent.
“The Open in openAI means that [insert generic mission statement that applies to every business on the planet].”
If there is no minimum payment then, by definition, there can't be any late fee since you're never late and can simply not pay forever without being delinquent.
Leaving LinkedIn
The online versions of Microsoft office apps are free. What if they renamed those to... OpenOffice?
The anthropic guy must feel like they have made the best decision.

I love the drama. It is very entertaining. I'm glad OpenAI decided to start as a non profit. I feel like they will never be able to get away with it. The issue will keep lingering.