skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's how Amazon was until they got enough market share to start milking sellers for more
I call this "quality momentum". A leader can come in, look at whatever "engine" that drives quality, decide it's not essential, remove it entirely, and coast on the momentum of previous quality practices for years before entropy sets in. But by this time, the board and shareholders have already rewarded the leader for "eliminating waste".
Maybe we instead need a model where FOSS is not about profits for anybody, and is just a passion of love, from a large community of amateurs doing it for the technology and fun.

Projects could still be funded by community users, but "venture funding"? That's how projects turn to shit.
Pithy, and concise.

Sometimes we moralize too much.
DragonflyDB doesn't have a better licensing situation.
I'm glad I'm older and feel deeply sorry for the generations to come.

I feel deeply sorry for all the creatures and plants and ecosystems we are in the process of destroying.

I've come to believe the world would be a better place without any people at all. We are headed towards and earth in which there's few other large animals except us and the animals we farm.

Earth might possibly have been the most precious jewel in the entire universe and we've trashed it.
> What it sounds like you're saying is that Average Joe should really understand that crypto implicitly carries a risk of fraud and you are likely to lose your money

That is what a lot of people have been saying for a very long time now!

I don't mean this in a way to blame the victims of the crypto fraudsters, merely to explain the somewhat exasperated responses by people who feel like they've been trying to warn people who have been ignoring them.

> I'm starting to think that these organizations need to be regulated as banks, stat.

I mean, why do you think they don't want to be regulated and brag that they aren't? To make you more money?
Njalla (domain names, VPSes, VPN), and Mullvad (VPN) both accept Monero.
Is something really better than nothing? Thinking about the damage that could be done by someone who doesn't really understand the tech or isn't good at seeing the future, makes me nervous about this.
That's an improvement. It changes the risk profile from "company whose security practices you have no clue about getting hacked" to "one of my personal devices getting infected with malware", which you can at least do something about.
Storm King no, although they did for a while, but Dia, yes:

https://www.diaart.org/collection/collection/bourgeois-louis...

Storm King also had a Louise Bourgeois. To me, if we're talking giant spiders, it's always always Louise Bourgeois.
Yes, reading TFA left me quite unclear as to how many slurp juices per ape all this new technology translates into.
The strategy is very simple: since if you are poor, you can not hold your money because you can not afford to invest, and your money eventually goes to the richest. So the government just tax the middle class, keep inflation high, which effectively transfers the money from them to the richest.
This equivalency of cash to bodies is ghoulish. Does anyone actually think like this?
American Nightmares: Wang Huning and Alexis de Tocqueville on the Future
Humans are corrupt.
New Proposed CISA Mandate Would Require Critical Infrastructure to Report Ransom
Prior art: http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/return42.h...
Is anyone here who still has the courage to board a Boeing plane after reading this?

Parts flying off the planes, a non-existent QC culture... it sounds like the next bad accident is about to happen.

If Boeing -somehow- survives this though, it's planes might be the safest most thoroughly inspect that exist :)
> human knowledge of the world

It definitely comprises a fair share, but I think it is a stretch to say Reddit fosters continuous curation of world knowledge. It offers a space for some very particular niches and memetic content, but a lot of human world knowledge is encoded elsewhere, e.g. internal communication channels, personal correspondence, working notes, journals, wiki's, QA-sites or may not even be encoded at all.

World knowledge would also require broader demographics and more non-English language content, as well as other means of communication beyond text-based interactions.
Oh, I understood "incapacitation, rehabilitation, and restoration" as a sequence of activities. Like after a period of incapacitation, rehabilitation is performed on the human and then restoration.

What types of rehabilitation activities would you suggest for SBF during incapacitation? Would it include job training for an alternative career since he is unlikely to be allowed a fiduciary role in the future? As I understood it, he had a great talent in video gaming.
You need ETH to pay transaction fees. As long as there's more demand for blockspace than the space available, ETH will have a non-speculative value.

The reason for the burn was the 1559 upgrade, which fixed the horrible user experience of guessing what minimum fee level would get your transaction through in a timely manner, and often either overpaying, or underpaying and suffering long delays. If not for the fee burn, the 1559 protocol would be trivial for validators to exploit.
The "camel means rope" story, while cute and not implausible, is basically a guess. All the earliest available sources say "camel" - there is no actual evidence of this mistake beyond speculation (though it is admittedly an ancient speculation, as early as Cyril of Alexandria). The Wikipedia page has a much more balanced summary than this page. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_a_needle
Some people think that. I've heard description from multiple smart people along the lines of "empty and despairing" and "leaves me with an empty feeling at the end". I think they probably thought through the implications. I can't comment though, maybe some of the books in the series are different than others.
Thanks - now if only someone knew a judge who could be entertained and maybe a little provoked :)
I think that's enough hacker news for today.
Forecasting s-curves is hard (2020)
That is obvious, isn't it? Reddit is a bad investment (based on their execution) and if the IPO original price was not well estimated it has a pump and dump effect [1]. A similar pattern is repeated with a successful stocks like FB/META [2] but if I remember well it was discussed at that time that the IPO price was wrong, they have excellent network effects and they have a lot of room to innovate (e.g. ads) while Reddit has tried already the "innovations" but they don't are well implemented (e.g. also ads).

[1] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/RDDT:NYSE

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/META/chart#eyJpbnRlcnZhbCI6I...
I don’t know whether I should post this as it may be an ongoing case, but not so long ago I sent off my old stamps to the official “swap out” service to have them replaced by the new barcoded ones. A few days later, I did indeed receive equivalent new stamps back — in an envelope that had clearly been tampered with, being roughly cut open all down one side and having the paperwork accompanying the stamps obviously bent and having been pushed back in awkwardly.

I immediately contacted Royal Mail via their online system and noted the problem and my concern that this could mean the stamps had been replaced with fakes before reaching me. I asked if there was any way I could verify that they were legitimate before I used them.

A few days later, I received a bizarre email back from someone at Royal Mail, saying they were sorry to hear that I wasn’t happy with their response (what response?!) and can certainly understand my frustration but we are not able to progress any further (than what?!), along with various other words that seemed designed to try to appease me while not actually saying anything of substance, and a recommendation to contact some other part of Royal Mail, which I may yet do.

It was a surreal experience, but having been prompted to do it by seeing several reports of people who’d sent their stamps in and either never received the replacements or had problems with them, and having received such an obviously tampered delivery, with the entire process from collecting the stamps from my local post box to delivering the replacements to my home being under the control of Royal Mail, I can’t say I was particularly reassured by the response so far.

I haven’t yet tried to send anything using the new stamps…
PandasAI
The FAA doesn't even do that, they just let Boeing check up on themselves.
Thanks Andrew! I'm looking forward to contributing back to DataFusion as well.
Employees will be in lock up for 180 days from IPO date, so they have some time before they can sell.
You're of the belief that Redis will merge LGPL-licensed commits into their tree?
I try to follow this mantra on my website. I don't want user accounts so if you pay for something I email you a unique link to access it. No login and password and you can use a burner email address if you'd like. I don't care. I don't worry what happens with my user data if I get acquired because no one will ever want to buy a business with 0 registered users. :)
So it has to be two thousand identical strings? Then I don’t understand the benefit over search & replace.
> I believe that involves some creative accounting where all tourism to royal-adjacent properties and the surrounding areas is attributed entirely to those properties still being owned by a living monarch rather than the state

That argument is a tricky one (as you point out). The French palaces have a fair few visitors and there are no living royals to block access.
The family don’t need to be in the castle.

It’s ludicrous as they are also my royal family - and I’m in New Zealand.
Yes, I meant the labeling for food products that contain plant-based ingredients.

>fresh produce [isn't] labeled with nutrition facts

I don't see how that makes it any better. That's just an additional barrier for consumers.

If people [bothered to] look up nutrition info for their produce, they get the exact same distorted misinformation. The system is thoroughly broken and needs reform.
Ah, these pop ups to accept new T&S can be obnoxious. You even may not be able to access control panel without accepting it.
He's a full grown adult, who was trusted with billions of dollars, and worked with other full grown adults, who aided in his crimes.

Calling him a kid implies that he wasn't fully in control of his actions and shouldn't be held accountable to the same level as an adult would, and that's ridiculous.
Funny isn't it?

I work in AI, where it's always about the learning signal, and how much that is delayed.

Humans (boards) really also suck at learning if the signal (crashes) is delayed (due to quality momentum)
Another view is that I wrote an essay whining about the crappiness of Reddit moderators in 2015: https://jakeseliger.com/2015/03/16/the-moderator-problem-how... and the site's continued to grow since. The motives of moderators seem pretty bad to me.

It's possible to write a bear perspective on any company of any size. I remember reading the ones about how Facebook would never make money around the time of Facebook's IPO. Those turned out to be wrong, to put it lightly.
Docker was only phased out in red hat distros because they don't like it and want to push Podman. Others still have docker packaged in their repos.
Fun, thanks! Those examples reminded me of the amazing PowerBook Duo and DuoDock combo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_Duo#Duo_Dock_(M7779)...
Canada Sought to Be a Hydro Superpower. Now Its Rivers and Lakes Are Drying Up
Good luck with that. One of my kids learned to read by playing RuneScape during his kindergarten year.
This reminds me of the guy shorting Boeing while still on the plane with a missing door.
You don't actually need much, for a form I used to get spam in I just added a "write 42 here" so anyone who actually cares to read would be able to fill it. spam fell to 0.

(for a site with a slightly higher profile this wouldn't be enough, but for a minor corner of the internet with no ill intent actually aimed at it that turned out to be enough to block the fuzzing "fill all the forms" spam)
The math around cost of ownership is just vague for EVs. (Tires instead of oil changes mentioned in the article is worse than vague though, at least with respect to cost.) But even if there was good data — and there might be — long term ownership costs won’t be known for quite a while, for example what does a 300,000 lifespan cost? Which leads to another question: Isn’t EV a vague way to describe cars? What might be better is economy EVs vs luxury. Luxury car owners might expect to use up tread quickly, but cheap EV cars might come with different expectations even if those are wrong.
I think what's going on right now isn't deterring people from committing frauds like SBF either.

I think imprisonment doesn't make it's one of the fairest penalty. A set of humans made that up to imprison/strip away freedom/rights of other humans. No human at birth signs these laws, it is all made up by the people with power.

I agree that creating a system to force him payback is challenging, there's no easy way to create a system like that. Maybe something as simple as 50% tax to start with for the rest of his life as long as he belongs to this society.
I was using the term in the general sense: capable of being understood. Not the narrow sense that refers specifically to vision.
That's works for small stuff like self hosted images, but will never work for anything actually reliable.
Using AI to fix issues.
https://archive.ph/1vxiT
I would expect them to rebound by building incredibly efficient ai optimized chips and embedding those into their future devices.

On a macro level apple has disappointed recently. I think the apple car was my biggest disappointment.
Nuh uh, you make a decision at the end.
You listen to too much doom and gloom propaganda if you believe this.
I'm really surprised sellers aren't trying to use it at all. There was a small push awhile ago ~2015/16 where a bunch of online stores started accepting bitcoin but IIRC they all stopped once the BTC/USD started to decrease.

I guess credit card fees are <4% so there might not be a big enough discount to offer consumers to make them figure out how to get crypto (without paying more than 4% fees somewhere). Perhaps a chargeback heavy industry such as porn or political groups could benefit from non-chargebackable transactions.
You mail it or come in for those few days you need to verify things. Are you spinning new revs every day or something?

Honestly, I don't mind if you want to work in the office. Maybe it makes your job easier, but what I've found is that for the tasks I do it just adds a commute for no reason.
I'd assume they were referring to Google's image generator Gemini, which was generating historically inaccurate images of "diverse" European monarchs, founding fathers, and WW2 Nazis. Eg. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/23/google-gemini-ai...
All six missing people in Baltimore bridge collapse are presumed dead
This should make it a no-go for any sane person that is aware of that, unfortunately not many are.

I always try to convince people I know to ditch Messanger/WA/etc. in favor of Signal, and in many cases I've succeeded.
Scaling AI/ML Infrastructure at Uber
> proof-of-stake upgrade maintains prohibitive

Consensus algorithms have nothing to do with transaction fees.

> while other technologies have low fees.

Any "Ethereum killer" that showed up turned out to have the same if not worse problems as Ethereum in the moment they started dealing with minimal real-world traction.

> contributors received the ~50% of the total ethers until now.

First: source?

Second: "50% of total ETH until now" is doing a lot of work here. How much was during the pre-mine and how much was due to the sale? The pre-mine sale raised < 20 million USD. Are you counting the people who bought ETH in the pre-mine as "original contributors"?
Ha!

Now “is the universe conscious” is a real question.
I could have been clearer, but I honestly meant my point to be limited to the stock market as a means for allocating capital.

I do favor markets in general and I understand their limitations.

And with respect to allocating capital, stock markets have proven to be better than the varying degrees of state economies.

> You are smarter than that.

True. :-)
This is very good use case of micro-transactions. If AWS makes $100 off Redis, they should be pay back X% to Redis project, from which the money is distributed to contributors based on how important their contributions were. Also Redis project is also supposed to pay back to the software components and 3rd party libraries it uses, so C project gets a fair share of the pie contributed back to them as well.
>If substantiated, such accusations would be among the most damning in the history of technology.

If substantiated? Just search Onavo on HN search - I thought this was widely known for years.
Looks like out of a 3D printer...
As someone who is familiar with doing things at volume - I dont see how this makes it actually cheaper -

* It doesn't reduce labor costs

* It doesn't reduce materials costs

* It doesn't seem to allow them to assemble faster

* It has significant challenges for quality (matching paint across body panels is very hard, for example)

The only thing it does seem to reduce is factory footprint, which doest seem to be a meaningful cost on a per unit basis (a single factory will build millions and millions of vehicles over the life of the factory).

So what does it do, and why is it better?
With PyTorch dominating the landscape, my guess was that tf will resurrect itself through tfjs. Seems may not.
Yes to me that’s obviously not a good use, and I have experience to know not to attempt hundred line rewrites of files.

I order to reflect on my mental about this. It’s that i more often break down parts problem into sub routines that are 30 or so lines. These are nailed about 95% of the time and when there’s something wrong it’s obvious.
>mostly in the larger context of it not being a religion where chip designers pick a side and never budge, when in reality everyone finds ways to use good ideas that make sense for their designs.

Chip designers design chips (I suspect you meant to emphasize microarchitectures), whereas ISA designers design ISAs.

An ISA designer's concern is to design a good ISA[0]. A good ISA will be chosen and loved by microarchitecture designers. This enthusiasm might then come off as religion-like.

0. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39848530
I also wonder if it’s a language effect and the models are just way better at python
> With its Model Y, instead of stamping various pieces of the car, Tesla turned to die-casting machine presses to “gigacast” — or create giant molds — of the front and rear of the vehicle. That eliminated the need for hundreds of parts and welds.

Does that mean if you get into a fender bender they need to replace the entire front/rear of your car?

I can't imagine the insurance rates are going to be low.
There is also Valkey, a fork from just before the change backed by AWS, Google, Oracle who are paying a few former core devs

https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey

And not to forget Redict, also a fork, that is maintained by drew devault

https://codeberg.org/redict/redict
The video is there, it's just embedded as a Twitter link: https://twitter.com/CGTNOfficial/status/1769325307788673172

Admittedly pretty easy to miss though.
Sublime is a massive improvement in my opinion, and cross platform. It's not free** but you can use a personal license at work and on multiple machines. It's one of the few text editors with a plug-in system that can reliably open 100mb+ files and auto reload on file updates (without crashing constantly).

https://www.sublimetext.com/

** it's sort of free, the trial period is unlimited. It just gives "activate me" popups every dozen file saves or something.
I don’t care about Tesla or Musk (mostly) since I don’t own or plan to buy one in the near future. But having seen the build quality of model 3s years after mass production, I’d be extremely concerned with plans for a cheaper car. It will do well for sure, but wonder what corners will be cut to get there.

I do wonder what exactly in the manufacturing process leads to such poor tolerances in Teslas. And is it even prudent to aim for a cheaper car before ironing out the kinks in the current lineup and process.
> Painting an entire machine, instead of just the panels that need it, takes time and wastes energy.

As someone who lives in a location that heavily salts the roads, I am not looking forward to a car where a designer living with california weather decides which few parts of the body "need" it... The same causes issues with model 3 door handles that get coated in ice and need to be melted before they can be opened (ice storms usually happens a couple times a winter)
Im a big Michael Lewis fan and my only major gripe with that book is that he released it when the trial began, which meant he had to finish it well before. He left out the ending.

It’s an interesting story but it’s basically a cliffhanger with no sequel. He cut out right at the point where we learn the gritty details.
No not at all, its a universal risk since you have to trust the UI.

I should have been more clear there. Its interesting to me that I often see concerns over whether Facebook has encryption backdoors when the UI can do all the work.
Long-term investors are buying more stocks at a lower price, with the idea that at some point the company may eventually pay dividends that justify the price of the stock, at which point they get more share of the dividend profits. Folks who purchase these stocks after this point would base the value on the value of the dividends.

Day traders are gamblers.

Cryptocurrencies will _never_ pay dividends, because they are based purely on speculation. These things are absolutely not the same. Cryptocurrencies only provide gambling.
Commercial aerospace and military contracting is your example of "unchecked capitalism"? Boeing is practically a federal agency!
Accidentally zoomed in slightly so my phone wouldn't advance pages. I thought it ended after "The very question is ridiculous"!
It seems like Airbus should be a good investment opportunity: if investors poured billions of dollars into the company to help it rapidly expand production capacity, they'd have no trouble selling every plane they can make.
I hear it's a good place to watch soccer.
FLOSS-5: freedom to contribute 5% of profit if powering a cloud service.
Neat find!
That's actually a cluster of all the system messages notifying users about closing and re-opening of the thread. That's why they're so tightly clustered.

I believe the naming isn't perfect for this, but this was all automatic topic modelling!

Example:
[1]: https://community.openai.com/t/read-this-before-posting-a-ne...
I know that this is about Boeing, but it is just such a perfect epitaph for the end of the current decaying Valley elite. What took Boeing 20 years FAANG did in one:

“CEO Jim McNerney, who joined Boeing in 2005, had last helmed 3M, where management as he saw it had ‘overvalued experience and undervalued leadership’ before he purged the veterans into early retirement.”
This Asianometry video [0] explains why it is so difficult to develop and market new planes.

tl;dr The main obstacles are supply chain inefficiencies and that no one buys planes that aren't cost-effective.

[0] Japan's Commercial Jet Failure https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkmtrsE9Jfg
So when I give thunderbird my email details, someone at thunderbird gets access to all my emails ?
After all these bombshells, I think Facebook is more dangerous than Tiktok....
I like this article but it misses a major point.

If the next revolution is going to be capital intensive (ML at present) then you dont need to lock up engineering talent.

Cull all the staff you don't need, they aren't going to build your next competitor, they cant afford to.
First experimental evidence for a graviton-like particle in a quantum material