skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, our Internet could be worse, and I support laws that keep our public utilities from becoming worse.
And the new book!
isn't this somewhat fallacious logic?
Thanks for these detailed answers!
Rather than succeeding, perhaps Texas could split into 5 and get 10 senators per their annexation agreement to join the US? :

https://www.tsl.texas.gov/ref/abouttx/annexation/march1845.h...

"Third. New States, of convenient size, not exceeding four in number, in addition to said State of Texas, and having sufficient population, may hereafter, by the consent of said State, be formed out of the territory thereof, which shall be entitled to admission under the provisions of the federal constitution. "

(This is Texas trivia for mutual amusement, not a serious suggestion.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barth
Beyond keep up with inflation and cost increases, there is no technical need for a large firm to keep on growing. There are many midsize companies that have a steady revenue and are happy with it.
Doubtful if law enforcement is, you can bet that the CIA and NSA and SS are looking into it though hoping to find a thread to pull on the sweater.
My question is, how do Env0, Spacelift, and other Terraform automation and collaboration tool vendors make money if they make OpenTofu so good that it's preferred for 95% of folks out there? Do they fight over the support money scraps?
The problem is that they aren't 'potato shaped' rotations, they are better thought of as hyperbolic rotations. Simultaneous distant events in Lorentz transformations will all lay on a shared hyperbola not a distorted circle.

Really this is beyond typical human intuition and requires math, but here is a quick minutephysics video that quickly demonstrates fairly well it without me typing out a bunch of math that no one wants anyway.

https://youtu.be/SrNVsfkGW-0
Thanks!

More details here:
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Message-Format...

I hope my choices here work well on a wide variety of terminals.
I have the same view of an app implemented with Rails+Turbo and a duplicate in Elixir+LiveView.

Performance is comparable when I am close to the server (elixir is slightly faster), but when on another continent any content changes/navigation over websockets suddenly feel very laggy, while navigation over HTTP in the supposedly slower Ruby+Rails is actually consistently fast.

I’ve only recently discovered this as I went travelling to another continent, so will do more perf testing.

But the nature of the always-connected websockets hasn’t been a pleasurable one for me: for instance, a LiveView process crashes and you lose all the data in a big form, unless you write glue code for it to restore. And the experience of seeing the topbar getting stuck in the loading state the second your internet connection is spotty or if you are offline just gives me anxiety as a user.
yeah I filed a flurry of anonymous LLCs via intermediaries via my lawyer at the end of last year since the new law initially only affects business entities created on or after Jan 1 2024, and older ones starting to need reporting just in Jan 2025

I took one look at the law and figured that I won’t have to do it by 2025 because it’ll get declared unconstitutional

so far my bingo board is working out
In war, the first casualty is the truth.

We have no idea whether this story itself is relaying anything of value. For all we know, stories like this could be a part of the war effort.
That totally sounds like LiMux in Munich. I hope they are more successfully than Munich who rolled back to Microsoft after a decade or so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
I just don't understand the motivation at all, though maybe that's kind of the point, as in that there isn't one.

Was there something about being "Keirans" that he needed to run from? And if so why not take out loans/etc in his real name if he was busy taking over Woods' identity? Was Keirans paying back the loans in Woods' name since he had taken over that identity?

I guess it could all have had a legitimate reason, to him at least, at the start and it just all spiraled out of control and seemed impossible to walk back after a while but this article provokes more questions than it answers.

Also the "Sysadmin" angle is completely irrelevant, as is the amount he made over 10 years (what a stupid thing to express total compensation over 10 years as 1 number, it's clearly only for shock value).
If you recently won the lottery. You might fear for your safety should your name and address become public knowledge.

Some states allow you to claim anonymously, while others don't. For those that don't, you may be able to claim under an LLC, with your name and address "hidden".

Edge case, but I think it's legitimate.
That isn't that calculus that a moral people run. We operate in the present, with the tools we have now with compassion. Unless you are the people working on these AI targeting tools, how do you know what they understand.
That one actually legitimately may not have been them. Which then creates a smokescreen of plausible deniability for atrocities which they are the clear authors of.

The reason we all rushed to point fingers at them for that one is... they'd done it before.
I think growing !== making your product last shorter. Develop a brand new market like AR VR headset is growing. Develop a new service that people need is growing. Keep growing to compensate for shrinking market for existing business, so that your employee can have a steady job and do what they love and are trained well to do, without churning in the job market is a net gain for society.
Again, technically impressive, but extremely mediocre outputs. I listened to all the samples and they're just nothing. A competent modern electronic musician would do a better job, or at the very least get a vastly more interesting result trying, for all of them. The actual artistic potential in this is in how it breaks, not how it works. I'm sure future versions will come with higher fidelity, but clearly still zero artistry.
I read somewhere that Saffron is often deliberately contaminated with lead.
How can they write an article about a triangle, list four relevant locations in it, while also not including a &^%€*#@ map that shows the thing they are talking about? Gaaah.
One of the biggest weaknesses of a non-technical founder looking for a technical founder are basically the following:

* Not really having 'much' to bring to the table other than the idea and self-proclaimed knowledge of the problem and domain. As the article mentions, having some capital already, having some sort of following or verifiable reputation or whatever would help a long way.

* Not really having any kind of story around "What have you tried so far?". The least sexy conversation is one where the non-technical founder is telling you about this "new" thing to work on and build and the reality is they've only been thinking about it for like 2 months and haven't really "done" anything other than some cursory research. Like, for example, if they don't have capital at all yet, have they tried before they came to you?
>This doesn't seem right: Epic of Gilgamesh is the oldest known Mesopotamian work of fiction and it's a more recent ~2,100 BCE [0].

Perhaps because The Legend of Sargon of Akkad isn't fiction, it's an autobiography?

Edit: Is this perhaps the autobiography that his Wiki article is referring to under "Birth Legend"?

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/746/the-legend-of-sargo...
> So what do you propose instead?

Make a product so good that people would choose to switch.

I bought a Mac M1 2 years ago. I did some really shitty research when buying it - I didn't have that much money available at the time tbh, even thought at the time they were cheaper in my country (don't ask) than in the US - and went for the lower end of the MacBook Pro. That's a decision I regretted almost immediately, and then end of last year I decided to go for an M3 with better specs.

With this machine, the only thing that is probably going to make me change - besides it breaking down - is probably blazing fast IA capabilities (As in, real-time LlaMA stuff, or similar).

Otherwise I plan to use this machine for as long as I can keep using it. Same applies to my iPhone 13; unless I see a real need for changing it, I'm keeping it - that is if I don't decide to go back to middle tier Samsung phones that in my opinion are better than iPhones.
Let's pretend the suggestions of the author were adopted by Apple in 1995. They stopped entering new markets. They have a product portfolio that generates $11B ($30B today). That portfolio includes some real winners, like the Pippin, a webtv competitor. (WebTV--another company that clearly didn't need to enter new markets because they're doing fantastic today.)

Does anyone really believe this company is viable in 2024? In this scenario, Apple is dead.

The author is free to change his mind about what product he wants over time... but there's something wrong with a company that changes products over time? Companies must be free to adapt to the changing preferences of customers. The alternative is corporate death.
What unskilled labor were you referring to a brickie using then?
Sex toy product design. I happen to speak from personal experience; a family member was working at a conservative job that wouldn't view his side business favorably.
Startling differences between humans and jukeboxes
AI labs around the world have been trying to solve this problem - reliable separation of instructions from data for LLMs - for a year and a half at this point. It's hard.
I think they’ve used US-English, rather than UK-English. The difference isn’t much of course but they have:

> analyze

The UK version would have an s, right?

Anyway, the important thing about the US variant is that we stole it, and as a result don’t care about it really. Drive it like a stolen car, as they say. So, US-English will become the global lingua franca, as everybody can localize it however they want. What are you going to do, call the language police? They are French I’m pretty sure.
Why does that matter? I said that pseudonymity is perfectly fine, there just needs to be a straightforward and effective means of piercing it when there are legitimate legal purposes. Are you arguing that because it is not a majority of cases that they should be impervious even if there are legitimate legal purposes?

There are enough high profile cases of shell corporations being used for unsavory and explicitly illegal behavior, to the extent that it is literally a meme, such as the crimes unveiled in the Panama Papers [1] that simple and robust mechanisms to prevent abuse are warranted even if abuse is uncommon. It is not like being able to pierce the privacy with a court order is even some new mechanism, you can already do that, it is just expensive, time-consuming, and difficult if they fight.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
I believe the bombing of Dresden was controversial and elicited pushback in the media, though it's not surprising that reactions may have been muted given the apocalyptic nature of the war.

The use of napalm in Vietnam triggered widespread protests.
Can't send any messages on Messenger on my phone, but facebook.com appears to be working fine.
Half of the people of Texas would say "Bless your heart, stay where you're happy" and the other half would say "Come on! We need more like you"
In demo it modified UI components, is there any model that can look at the rendered page to see if it looks right? Right now all these wrappers just blindly edit the code.
Thanks for this information! I'm always amazed at the types of people who browse HN.
> how the world was working in 2001 and choosing who to send to Gitmo

"Gitmo" didn't open until 2002
Could you elaborate on reasons to do so? Using LLC to limit liability makes sense, but I’m not familiar with hiding identity behind a corporation.
Would not ">10" be a better way to denote that?
Git being better does not make GitHub bankrupt. They operate on different layers.
Question for the HNers in the "Texas Triangle": does it "feel" like a megaregion? I've spent very little time in Texas (only a handful of trips), but my impression was that there's a very stark drop from moderate density urban cores, to sprawling suburbs, to virtually uninhabited interstitials around highways. In other words: it wouldn't occur to me (as a non-Texan) to even think of Austin and Dallas as belonging to the same "megaregion."

This is in contrast with e.g. the "Northeast Corridor," where dense towns (sometimes denser than Texas's urban cores) line the roads and rail links between the major cities.
If a company that specializes in upsetting “rulers” their security shouldn’t be security through obscurity and it would be harder to trust than Former Spec Op Dudes Name Incorporated

Because if you insist on privacy for the “helping people escape rulers” business the money laundering and criminals will suddenly be in that building!
To actually answer your question, it is because the word "genocide" has a very specific meaning that is different from "They did something bad".

You can think that what they are doing is bad, but thats unrelated to the highly specific claim of genocide, which requires specific intent.
Judged by number of war-related deaths per capita, we are living in the most peaceful time in human history. The last major conflict was the Second Congo War in the ‘90s, which killed around 5.4 million people and involved a bunch of African nations. If you want to talk about scary wars, try reading about that one.

I realize this seems almost unrealistically upbeat, and most people don’t want to believe it given what we see in the media every day. Note that I’m not arguing against increasing global instability, which will become worse if Russia triumphs in Ukraine (whatever form that could take) or the US continues to turn its back on its allies.

Disinformation and AI fakery via social media are probably the scariest things to me on your list. Twitter is now a garbage dump for this stuff, but the good news is that it is hemorrhaging both users and money.
Growing and adapting are two different concepts.

Adapting is necessary for any company to survive, growing not necessarily.
Some of these megaregions really are "kind of one thing" like Southern California, others are pretty separated. Spokane is close to Seattle and Portland so there's traffic there, but I don't know they really operate as one "region".
You can find them in the mucped23.zip file linked here (encoded as PNG): https://github.com/google-research/google-research/tree/mast...
I still want a manual transmission (if not an EV) and manual parking brake. I keep cars for decades. I don't want to deal with "conveniences" that brick the rest of the car when they break.
Thought this was the nerd sniping problem extended to 3D. Oh well.
Hm OK, I read this a bit differently. I read these sections:

> One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male.

> According to the sources, the army knew that the minimal human supervision in place would not discover these faults.

I took this to mean that a human did press the "approve" button on the computer's recommendation. Though they make clear they were basically "rubber stamping" the machine recommendation.

But to my point:

> “There was no ‘zero-error’ policy. Mistakes were treated statistically,” said a source who used Lavender.

What is the "zero-error" alternative approach for dropping bombs in a war, or firing rockets for that matter? I don't understand the implicit comparison between this approach to targeting and a hypothetical approach that allows war to be waged without any innocents dying or buildings being destroyed. This system should be compared to whatever the real alternative is when it comes to target selection. Again I know nothing about military strategy, I'm hoping someone with more experience will speak up.

To use an analogy: if we are talking about self-driving cars, the rates of collision or death should be compared the rates of collision or death in cars driven by humans. Comparing against some imaginary scenario where cars have no collisions and cause no deaths doesn't make sense.
Will second (third?) Vonlane. After using them, I don't understand why anyone would prefer a flight between Austin and Houston compared to Vonlane. The time is about the same when you factor in the hassle of airport security, and Vonlane goes downtown-to-downtown. The bus is super comfortable with big seats (comparable to domestic first class on an airline) and the service when I've gone has been fantastic. I can also get a ton of work done on the trip if so desired. Once I went and there was an accident on the route that made the trip from Austin to Houston about 45 mins longer, but I didn't care at all as the bus was so nice to work in.
A CME event does sound civilization ending, at least for the part of the globe awake when it happens. However the rest of the globe would still be ok, and could quickly ship the necessary hardware over. One hopes that FEMA and the US military do have a DR plan in place for this, because it may happen in our lifetimes.
I think Mistral-2-Pro would work really well for this, judging by the great results I've had with it on another heavy on tool calling project [1]

[1] https://github.com/radareorg/r2ai
just to complement parent:

https://faq.whatsapp.com/5957850900902049

Unauthorized use of automated or bulk messaging on WhatsApp

https://faq.whatsapp.com/508673377786103

Seeing the message "Your phone number is banned from using WhatsApp. Contact support for help."

https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/terms-of-service

Legal And Acceptable Use

(e) involve sending illegal or impermissible communications such as bulk messaging, auto-messaging, auto-dialing

https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/business-terms/

Restrictions

(h) create software or APIs that function substantially the same as our Business Services and offer them for use by third parties in an unauthorized manner on or utilizing the WhatsApp platform or our Business Services.
Hard to decipher this without knowing instances of where you 'grew'
Use GPT-4 Turbo from the API to prevent paying a flat $20/month for it
I highly recommend using GPT-4 Turbo and DALLE-3 from the API, especially if you just want to try it out. It’s not free but the API doesn’t require an upfront flat fee and doesn’t have rate limits etc!

There’s some options for desktop like TypingMind.

For iOS I wanted to suggest my app called Pal Chat that lets you use your own API Key to chat with OpenAI and other models, and it’s completely free to download.

The app also has no backend and takes absolutely no usage data. You can verify this by going to the app privacy report in iOS settings.
I would be interested to know why Google has presumably identified this site as spam. Too many SEO gimmicks that have flagged the site?
I didn't realize credits cards weren't doing this already. How have credit cards resisted selling this gold mine of data so far? Who cares about weak targeting signals like what television shows I watch when a business can find out exactly which of their competitors I'm spending money with, when, and how much.
The thing is: Growth is the driver for increased efficiency and that is the driver for any kind of progress.

Progress does not just happen out of thin air when a bold mind in their ivory tower has a great insight. Progress requires (wo-)manpower. And that power in turn needs to be freed from more mundane tasks.

In other words: We, as a society, don't want Apple to become ever bigger and make ever bigger profits. We want them to continue making MacBooks and to need fewer and fewer people to make them. Because we want these people to cure cancer or drive spaceships to the outer system or develop artificial meat.

Unfortunately, this simply won't happen if we take out the unsatisfiable desire for more, more, more.
Plandex can't do this yet, but soon I want to add GPT4-vision (and other multi-modal models) as model options, which will enable this kind of workflow.
Nextcloud releases Assistant 2.0 and pushes AI-as-a-Service
I would strongly recommend using mise instead of asdf. It's a drop in replacement that is just flat out better for most people.
We insert/extract about 2.5 bits more info from the 8 bit jpegs, leading to about 10.5 bits of precision. There is quite some handwaving necessary here. Basically it comes down to coefficient distributions where the distributions have very high probabilities around zeros. Luckily, this is the case for all smooth noiseless gradients where banding could be otherwise observed.
"Der Weg der digitalen Souveränität folgt aber auch einem klaren industriepolitischen Kompass. Meine Vision eines starken Digitalstandorts in Europa kann so Wirklichkeit werden, weil wir unsere öffentlichen Budgets nicht mehr nur für Lizenzgebühren aufwenden müssen, sondern in echte Programmierungsleistungen unserer heimischen Digitalwirtschaft investieren und damit Wertschöpfung und Arbeitsplätze vor Ort schaffen."

They talk a big talk about digital Sovereignty in Europe and then clicking on the English link of the page makes the page disappear. The key underlying factor of a strong open source strategy is a big enough market to justify the upfront investment in writing the code. I'm sure the state wants to talk big about open source and Europe but when it actually comes to collaborating with multiple partners, especially from non-German countries, things are going to fall flat on their face.
Locked in a cell, to think about all the innocents their shitty code ended up murdering.
Thank you :)

Yeah you can keep playing. Game state is saved in a cookie, so you can even close the page and come back.

I have optimised the game for mobile and it's possible to add it to the home screen since it's a PWA. I have considered making an app but haven't really tried that before.

I have no experience with web gaming portals but I think would be open to it.
Aswath Damodaran speaks of a life cycle for companies. In his view, companies do decline and shut down after sometime. He makes it seem like a fact of life -- if it's true, then stock markets aren't so terrible after all. The declining companies often pay good (but declining) dividends, and wind up gracefully.
Any ideas why they rolled back?
Try giving corrective direction to a narcissist and see how emotionally stable they are...
If apple didn't need constant growth it'd likely be totally fine selling devices with a 10+ year turnaround. I mean the shop on my corner has been the same for 15 years and it didn't die because of it.
A company owned by an instagram influencer, youtube celebrity, only fans star, etc to sell their merch could easily lead to doxing the influencer. People in those industries take advantage of loopholes to hide LLC ownership specifically to avoid getting SWATted, having creeps hide outside their house and SA them, etc.
Just to add some details, the Los Alamos Chess people acknowledged that theirs was not the first such computer program, that Alan Turing had previously done created one. Presumably Turing's program didn't ever beat a human, though.

https://discover.lanl.gov/publications/at-the-bradbury/2023-...
Netanyahu has always been saying that they will kill every single last Hamas member, no matter the cost.

I mean, is anyone who paid attention surprised by this Lavender system? It's doing exactly what they said they were doing: kill everyone suspected of Hamas affiliation, no matter the cost.

We can have interesting ethical discussions about the AI aspect, but I feel that's not really what this is about.
People have engineered solutions to make what is available practical (see all the various quantization schemes that have come out).

It is just that there's a limit to how much you can compress the models.