skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the article is saying that the last name "Joyce" is the anglicized version of Irish name "Seoighe". Could someone with more knowledge explain in what way this is true? Is it a phonetic translation? Are they pronounced the same? Are they equivalent in some deeper way? Or have I totally misunderstood this section?
I don’t have a horse in this race but I’d definitely like to see this viewpoint discussed more.

The open source angle probably matters more to the HN audience but it’s hard to argue that OpenAI hasn’t “opened up access to AI” to a vast global audience.

And that’s not to say that the means by which they’ve done so doesn’t still need some scrutiny.
It's about simple and consistent order of operations. There are no precedence rules to remember other than that, so it reduces errors and improves readability compared to a complex formula written in standard notation, where you would have to read the entire thing to know which parts are calculated first.
The Commerce Department, and the "deep state" in general, have made increasingly clear that--like the CCP--they view dominance in cutting-edge semiconductors as a national security imperative. Note that this extends far beyond political appointees; regardless of who wins the election in November, this policy stance is unlikely to change.

So "everyone" knows that they can't sell these things to China. But investors have some wi$hful thinking that they can just legally juke the Commerce Department regulations.

I think NVidia and AMD are just posturing with these products, knowing they'll get slapped down by Commerce, so they can turn around to their investors and say, "Oh well, we tried..." without taking the stock price hit that would come with investors fully pricing in the China semiconductor embargo.
Here is another paper of his related to this:

How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? C.A.R. Hoare 1996 (?)
http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~gfisher/classes/509/handouts/h...
I was expecting something like:

"For Knuth so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Life to write The Art of Computer Programming, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish in ignorance, but have everlasting wisdom."
Those are also MUCH MUCH shorter than an ISS mission where a Dragon stays docked for months. It's worth weighing the amount of time in space versus the amount of time that the crew is relying exclusively on the vehicle's life support systems. That said, I don't think this is a particularly important point. This capsule has clearly spent a lot of time in orbit, and is likely only 1/3 of its way through its lifecycle (spacex is looking to extend the use to 15 launches). Comparing against Discovery at the end of its lifecycle and after it underwent multiple major refurbishments makes the comparison rather meaningless.
I wonder if Accenture will also try to sell it as an add on in their contracts. Selling education to companies is much more lucrative than selling it to students.

The closest one of these companies has gotten to profitable is Udemy via their business segment.
That's a great story! What do you think it was about the course that made it click for you?
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So, open as in "we'll sell to anyone" except that at first they didn't want to sell to the military and they still don't sell to people deemed "terrorists." Riiiiiight. Pure bullshit.

Open could mean the science, the code/ip (which includes the science) or pure marketing drivel. Sadly it seems that it's the latter.
I’d love to try this - you should write up the project!
There should be a 'share your score' button revealed when you finish just like those games (I copied them) :)
It’s so odd to me that predatory credit card rates are just an acceptable thing, and that there is basically no widespread political movement to do anything about it. Most people don’t even know what usury is and the ethical history of that concept. Why is it even legal for a card to have 20-30% interest rates?

The answer is probably, “because people with credit cards spend more money, even if they are borrowing that money, and that’s ultimately what the decision makers really care about.”
Thatbis a good idea, just don't have the time to manage it that close. Wish I could script transfers on dates or when balances get low. I do have accounts at multiple banks.
> This was already attempt 2

Agree with almost everything else, but if you're counting attempt number one as the one a couple years ago allowing services to do the scanning if they wanted it's a bit disingenuous to put it in the same category as mandating that they do
Umm, So Google and MS can leave Kagi high and dry if it eats into their revenue?
He also works in the train
In this case I would include "getting their systems back online"
What Makes IMAX So Different from Other Movie Formats? Tech Behind [video]
the critique of spreadsheets was lacking in my opinion. Not being able to see the of formulas is just a mode switch away or you can even implement your own checks like highlighting cells that aren't formulas but should be. It's kind of the same as code that is syntactically correct but wrong. I actually think spreadsheets are fantastic programming environment, total immersion in the results and instant feedback. The alternative proposed (by introducing another layer) seemed..... unconvincing and cumbersome. There's almost no common types of computations that would be better done outside the spreadsheet itself, and for uncommon ones where you want to do something fancy, nearly all spreadsheets can be accessed by a vast array of tools and languages. Spreadsheets have survived all challengers including those that try to create extra layers on top
> if the rumored $80 million price tag was correct, that was a precipitous drop in value for a company that raised almost $300 million, per PitchBook, and sported a $1 billion valuation in 2015

So investors lost money
> I'm always a bit annoyed by the need for new rules and legislation similar to this.

Before the Obama-era credit card law, if you missed a single payment at a bank your entire balance would revert to the "default" interest rate, which was close to 30%. Then, every other bank you had debt with could also change your interest rate to the crippling "default" rate.

I think that was a good change and I think this is a good change. Credit cards are a widely-used financial tool that can provide a lot of benefits. If someone is on a fixed income or working for low wages, I want them to have access to that tool too without unneeded risk. People go to the hospital, relatives die, a computer fucks up, and it's suddenly really easy to miss a single payment. And given the history of banks' nasty policies towards consumers, we have zero reason to assume they aren't gouging.

> How does the government actually land on $8 as a universal, reasonable late fee?

If you read the article you will find a link explaining this to you.
Everything? It's a Hyper-V virtual machine hence how it can run Android's Linux kernel & HALs. It's not doing ARM emulation as well, but it's still an emulator at heart.
Commandments by the Church of Reproducible Builds
I can't imagine it's cheaper to do terrestrial search for methane leaks unless your goal is to only find the methane sources you are incentivized to find, and the cost of the satellite gets amortized over thousands of sources and millions to billions of stakeholders.

"putting aside the climate aspects" (???) It's 2024, this is the equivalent of putting a bit "#if 0/#endif" around your comment. I'm taking the time to post this because I hope if you reflect on it, over time, you might realize that the devil actually doesn't need an advocate.
I am not surprised and believe this is a deliberate political tactic (by both US political parties) - as the US has outsourced intelligence gathering to BigTech, it is in their interest to kill the old media to push more people to the internet for all media consumption. This allows them to easily track what media you consume, from where and better control what information you can see.

Related: ‘Too many people watched’ – UK MP explains why RT was banned - https://archive.is/urSI2
In a programming language it would be called destructuring.
> It seems to me that OpenAI today is burning cash and that the funding model cannot reach the scale to seriously compete with Google (an 800B company). If you can't seriously compete but continue to do research in open, you might in fact be making things worse and helping them out “for free”, because any advances are fairly easy for them to copy and immediately incorporate, at scale.

It was a reasonable concern, funny that it turned out the other way with the transformer
Pretty much. I feel that most people fall in the category of "it would be nice to have these skills", but they aren't necessarily willing to pay the sacrifice in time and investment for it. Same applies for school really, yeah it would nice if I got an A for algorithmic game theory, and maybe the concepts are kinda interesting from a general level, but the nitty gritty is way too complex and painful for me to put beyond in what's required for a B. A big draw of college admissions is to filter out those not passionate.

Learning without passion is the elephant in the room, and I feel once we can solve that then we can look at a real revolution. Although perhaps for the gulf between the passionate and the unpassionate, we may not be that interested in solving it.
I just hope that if vim dies, neovim will finally provide a way to use ^W with terminal windows. It's the main thing that keeps me from switching.
There was an issue with caching. Just fixed, should now work offline without issues.

As of owning the data, right now everything is stored in the localstorage of your browser. So you technically own it. There is no way to export it yet though, will be added in future
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Is every other search tool's complete failure to come close to Kagi in being useful, and marginalia in being interesting, a particular pain point for you for some reason?
Oh!

In that case, let me ask: where have you ever seen DKIM signatures being provided on a public blog post/press release?
bank profit
Fonts are still a Helvetica of a Problem
> In late 2017, we and Elon decided the next step for the mission was to create a for-profit entity. Elon wanted majority equity, initial board control, and to be CEO. In the middle of these discussions, he withheld funding. Reid Hoffman bridged the gap to cover salaries and operations.

I misspoke. He may have just resigned from the board when he didn't get what he wanted.
Show HN: Unicode Separated Values (USV) – Active Internet-Draft
Too bad they do not offer a self-hosted option where you subscribe to updates to the index pushed to your host.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38572675 (88 days ago, 1845 comments)
All of them require some additional hassle, there isn’t any card over 2% that is straightforward.
> ...but they do themselves no favours trying to immediately gaslight the reader that pro-Israel groups are doing nothing to deplatform pro-Palestinian voices.

Except they said they were in the third paragraph: "Campuses exploded in the wake of Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, with attempts to deplatform speakers coming in about equal numbers from both sides."

They did say "as of this moment we are not aware of a pro-Palestine event being disrupted by pro-Israel students." If you have an example of the opposite, I'm sure they'd like to hear about it.

> they devote an entire section to the illiberal left.

They also devote an entire section to Catholics.
The city of Hamilton, Ontario is going through this right now in real-time. I think they only admitted today that it was a ransomware attack. I'm very curious to hear if they do any kind of public postmortem as other mid level cities in the country as just as vulnerable.
It used to be much worse before the Obama-era "Credit CARD Act of 2009".

Some highlights from the law:
- Credit card companies have to give consumers at least 21 days to pay from the time the bill is mailed.
- Credit card companies must give consumers at least 45 days notice if their rates are about to go up.
- Credit card companies must apply payment amounts "in excess of the minimum payment amount" to a consumer's highest interest rate balances first.

Banks used to break all of those rules with abandon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_CARD_Act_of_2009
Having been to a number of cities around the world, I don’t think the issue is funding. Certainly the NYC or SF public transit systems get plenty of funding, much more than say, Poland, which has a very clean metro system in Warsaw. The difference is more attributable to culture and enforcement of laws on littering, graffiti, etc. Somewhere like Tokyo for example doesn’t need an oppressive government to keep the subway clean.
A long time ago Richard Stallman warned everybody. You can ignore him, or not.
Do you find that works better than using Thangs directly? It’s a meta-search engine itself.
Thank you for pointing that out. Just fixed, it should now be available to use offline
Visualizing Natural Gas Reserves by Country
Is it just me or does that read like GPT
Ilya's justification for that argument was to link to a SlateStarCodex blog post. We are doomed...
From quickly researching this, it used to be much more restricted until the 70s and 80s, when a lot of deregulation took place.
"Don't be evil" was codified into the S-1 document Google submitted to the SEC as part of their IPO:

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1288776/000119312504...

"""
DON’T BE EVIL

Don’t be evil. We believe strongly that in the long term, we will be better served—as shareholders and in all other ways—by a company that does good things for the world even if we forgo some short term gains. This is an important aspect of our culture and is broadly shared within the company.

Google users trust our systems to help them with important decisions: medical, financial and many others. Our search results are the best we know how to produce. They are unbiased and objective, and we do not accept payment for them or for inclusion or more frequent updating. We also display advertising, which we work hard to make relevant, and we label it clearly. This is similar to a newspaper, where the advertisements are clear and the articles are not influenced by the advertisers’ payments. We believe it is important for everyone to have access to the best information and research, not only to the information people pay for you to see.
"""
>socket activation

Is there a page that lists all of systemd's features?
There is no clear advantage to multiple corporations or nation states each with the potential to bootstrap and control AGI vs a single corporation with a monopoly. The risk comes from the unknowable ethics of the company's direction. Adding more entities to that equation only increases the number of unknown variables. There are bound to be similarities to gun-ownership or countries with nuclear arsenals in working through this conundrum.
I trust the non-ad-based company that I'm paying for quality results more than Google, that's for sure.

Edit: but I'm glad Google is noticing their results are getting to be shit.
Also See:

Global Uranium Reserves, by Country
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/charted-global-uranium-rese...
We already do that and more at Maru.ai - reach out if you're interested.
The first one is not a “regulation” in the normal meaning of the word because it doesn’t restrict the actions of private individuals, but rather the government (in this case the courts). Usually we call things that restrict the power of the government “rights” not “regulations”.
The heavy lifting is done by GPG in a subprocess, taking information on stdin or outputting the decrypted data on stdout. The rest is just generating the passwords, organizing the encrypted files, and perhaps interacting with the clipboard.

Have a look at https://www.passwordstore.org/ and also https://github.com/kmag/store_password_gpg
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Thank you for your feedback!
Ability to export and import data will be implemented soon.
As of subscriptions, current functionality will 100% remain free with data being stored on your device. I might add subscription to store data on the server and sync between devices in future.
The FCC used to have a "fairness doctrine." If a network had a broadcast license, it was required to present controversial issues in a balanced manner, presenting different points of view. This meant that the news segments were boring, not flashy. The news departments of networks were money losers.

The doctrine was abolished in 1987.

The news became much more entertaining. Now you have lots of mud-slinging, bias, and name-calling, and a lot less reasoned debate and thought. Network news departments now make a lot of money.

In order to make more money, you need more advertisers. If you have high-paying advertisers, you can't offend them. That means that there are many topics, especially corporate-funded takeovers of regulatory agencies, which aren't covered at all. You never hear CNN or Fox News talk about the revolving door between the FDA and big pharma, or the USDA and big ag, or between the SEC and big banks, or between defense contractors and the CIA. Neither "left-wing" nor "right-wing" networks wants to talk about that, because it would decrease their profits.

Viewers can sense this. They're not made of stone. That's why they don't trust the media.

(I wrote "left-" and "right-" in quotes, because there aren't any left-wing networks at all, but that's another issue).
Aren't there tax implications in this whole scheme? Shouldn't they have to pay taxes retroactively from the day they were founded as a non-profit? Shouldn't the donations be taxed?
As I understand it, in fact 960MW is quite close to 1 jigawatt, which is the typical energy required to power a Delorean-class time machine.
Selectively editing material you release to libel a public figure is highly duplicitous.

They redacted parts of these emails.

Did they publish all of the emails?

Or are we literally being fed a curated collection?

Very gross.
> The programs that people use directly are written in C++.

There is a lot C/C++ around and they are widely used to implement runtimes for other languages, incl. garbage collection. Lot's of software people use directly or indirectly is written not in C++.

> That's like saying typescript can be used in javascript

That's another option how to integrate languages: TypeScript is transpiled to JavaScript. C can also be transpiled to JavaScript. Emscripten can compile LLVM instructions to JavaScript and Webassembly. JavaScript/Webassembly then gets compiled to native instructions.

low-level infrastructures like the JVM create native code from Java (and other languages using the JVM), by compiling to machine code.

> It isn't the same as something native that can be used and consumed anywhere else.

Programs with garbage collection also run "native". The garbage collector is a native part of the program.

> Once someone does something natively and does it well like sqlite

sqllite is not written in C++, it's written in C. As the first three letters tell us, it implements a language called SQL. sqllite also comes with its own dynamic memory management system: https://www.sqlite.org/malloc.html

sqllite is an excellent example, where C is used to implement a higher-level language (here SQL) and a complex memory management for it.

Btw., I'm typing this now on a iPad, where the user side of software is mostly implemented in Swift or Objective C, which use "reference counting" for memory management. The browser I'm typing to uses a system provided JavaScript engine with garbage collection. The site I'm using (Hackernews) is written in Arc (which is a Lisp dialect), which runs on top of a variant of Scheme, which is another Lisp dialect, which provides a garbage collector.
There’s a software called Skupper[0] based on AMQP which does something similar. Instead of using legacy technologies like DNS and IP the applications using skupper connect based on application name and the routing to a service listening on that name is handled at layer 7.

Something like that seems like the way forward but I haven’t seen an implementation yet that truly frees devs from worrying about DNS names and IP. K8s can paper over them but they’re still under there waiting to bite you.

0: https://skupper.io/index.html
1) were C programmers "better"? In sum total, pretty much.

2) C programs, at least the ones we use now, are a product of a lot of use and debugging

3) It didn't take too many debugging sessions as a C programmer to learn to program a bit more carefully.

4) and the more it gets used, the more error codes it encounters, and the more robust the handling gets. I think a dirty secret of software engineering isn't that the most complicated/heavily used code gets the most and most useful comments, it's that it also get the most error handling/detection code, and for the vast majority of non-core loop code: error handling ..isn't.
The manner in which they became for-profit does not feel like an exact comparison to Elon thinking that they should become private to be competitive. For example, merging with Tesla isn't the same path the non-profit OpenAI went even if the end state is similar.

Though I think the blog post will probably achieve its messaging goals of diminishing Elon's character to their own public status... "Yeah you think we suck, but it would be no tangible difference to you if Elon had run it, so you should know he sucks too."
I think every graduating student should work on a non-trivial application in plain C for a year before moving on to another language.

It makes you exceptionally paranoid about failure states and practically requires a bit of thought and planning before attempting any non-trivial change.

The mindset of "it's fine to ignore all error conditions and let the default exception handler print a stack trace to the user" results in software that is annoying to the user.
BTW that one isn't a joke made up for this site: it's a verbatim quote from The Art of Computer Programming (Volume 2, page 2). TAOCP is full of silly-but-serious jokes like that.
Not really. You can fully automate the requirements for some of the cards so you don't have to think about them once you've set up your accounts.
That's still dystopian and STILL exists for the sole purpose of interactions to finalize as a transaction. It's not a good thing.
They literally created weapons of mass destruction.

Do you think they thought they were good guys because you watched a Hollywood movie?