skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nvidia's Superman
The problem is you don't know if it's a blunder until after.
I appreciate your elaborate response, I'm going to try to elaborate on my thought process.

In this thread they claimed that both Gemini and ChatGPT were banned by EU and used that as basis for expressing general anti-EU sentiments, but just a few days ago they were talking about life in Italy and how they use both Gemini and ChatGPT (one of them being paid, if I recall correctly).

How could someone genuinely believe that these tools were banned if they were a paid user of them, in the EU no less? An an aside, I believe this comment had been edited, could you confirm? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39882180

I used words such as "deliberate", "misinformation", and "troll" because they expressed obviously incompatible claims just days apart, and my opinion was strengthened after after they kept repeating the claim of an EU ban in the face of other people who chimed in to say that both of those services were in fact available in the EU.

Regardless, I shouldn't have responded to them after my initial comment in this thread, but from my perspective, nothing really happened moderation-wise. I find it odd that you would later equate[1] their actions with my continued responses that steered clear of flame-bait insults and focused on the subject of this discussion. My tone was snarky but it largely developed after they had followed me across 3 threads and repeatedly spammed insults in my feed every few minutes (this triggered notifications, which didn't help in this case).

I apologized, but then I received another reply which I just flagged and ignored because it resorted to insults again. Later in the day (>12h later) I was curious and checked to see if any action had been taken and it hadn't, which I took as a sign that it was tolerated.

I then responded with what I think was a very neutral response to someone essentially calling me retarded again. My comment directly addressed most of the claims they had made in this thread because I considered it to be my final response to this topic but instead my comment was flagged in short order.

I try to stick to the guidelines (as you've pointed out, I find myself overstepping in certain situations, but as a rule, I try not to), so I don't understand why I'm being scolded in this instance. (1) Was I not supposed to respond at all, or (2) is there something severely wrong with my response?

In the case of (1) why wasn't their instigation acted on? I tried to do the right thing at first, or (2) why does my comment require swift moderation action when it's a comparatively mild and on-topic response to their insults?

I don't believe that my actions rose to the same order of magnitude of rule-breaking as theirs, but if you believe that my actions have been ban-worthy on their own merit, then so be it, I'll take it.

[1] You said otherwise, but you're equating them in practice by saying that you can't ban them without banning me too. I was also close to shadowbanned after your initial action, so it seems like the consequences were equal nonetheless.
[dupe]

More discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39838131

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39896994
Intel courts devs with open arms and exotic hardware
I didn't come to any conclusion... and I don't think you missed anything... I'm just posting links... you think it's better if I didn't post anything because this is stupid? if so then ok...
Oh sorry, I didn’t know IMGZ was yours.

I thought you were someone guessing at how to make money as an image hosting service.
Big Problem for Marijuana Companies? What to Do with All That Cash
https://archive.ph/oGJFz
YAML developers and the declarative data platforms
Bun is used in github.com/yolmio/boost as a Typescript runner to build a complete system. We use it also for all kinds of other scripts.
You never have full control over a repository that can be cloned by others. Sure, you can rewrite the history, but anyone who has been pulling from your repo will notice the conflict.

Whether you can trust the developer is beside the point. The question is how easily we can tell if someone is (still) trustworthy. Source control brings a measure of accountability into the game, making it more difficult for unusual activity to go undetected.
It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t think it quite solves the problem here, at least as I understand the problem. The system isn’t designed to protect against actively hostile/sabotaging elements inside the factory, nor was that the problem (i.e., if you have factory floor access, you could go and sabotage the plane by drilling holes in a part after it’s been installed and inspected, but that’s not the issue at hand). The issue here is skipping or skirting existing process in the name of efficiency. People aren’t trying to destroy planes, they’re just not doing their job “correctly”. Some sort of process inspector is typically what you’d use here.
Never assume you can trust all the parties on any platform, due diligence is ALWAYS required, no matter the source.

Just because AngelList can be trusted generally doesn't mean every entity on there can be trusted, there are always a chance for things to fall through whatever protection they have, and then you're on the hook.
Github / Gitlab would work great and reduce friction for kernel contribution. The refusal to switch or provide the alternate path is mostly inertia.
> How do you get "Jigar Kumar"'s email address?

Hit reply
As an end-user I am not more inclined to support the profiteering of a small VC-backed company than an evil megacorporation - at least when the latter does well, I can see some upside in my pension fund.
US $6B plan aims to cut pollution from range of plants, from steel to food
> I've invested in over 100 startups through syndicates on AngelList

Good on you ;)

Are these startups there for the convenience, or are these slightly less connected founders?
That is "professional" level work ethics and requires professional compensation. This utopian corporate notion of yours makes sense IFF the company is not divided into c-suite princes and princesses and pleb workers as is the case in corporate America.
Claude 3 Opus surpasses GPT-4 on the LMSYS leaderboard
startups take 3-5 years to get going. there's no way someone legit is going to hang in there and put up with that.

become your own technical cofounder.
Lol, that's Angie's List.
I wonder what % of people genuinely can deal with the remote work from a mental health perspective. I'd imagine SWE introverts self select and it's a higher % for us.

In the list of prereqs to making remote work, this is the first and maybe only important bit - "Is non-toxic and has an environment in which its participants are reasonably happy or at least not unhappy."

I think a large % of "remote didn't work for us" stories are shops that don't meet this criteria. My wife and I have both moved jobs during COVID and how much remote works in a healthy team/shop varies drastically from how it works somewhere that is toxic to start with.

If people are nervous at all about the future of the company/team/their standing within it, the anxiety can build tremendously when remote.
There is also android/AOSP which is big, comparatively and runs on linux
I am reminded of a chat I had with the founder of https://www.clump.org/ , trying to do paper backups as a service.
Heck, 32-bit support is gradually eroding away...
Nix UX may suck (doesn't for me although can have some improvements) but Nix as concept/system is still good.
Angel list not angie’s list, confused me for a sec too :)
> startups take 3-5 years to get going

I'd say that if you're doing a software startup and it takes 3-5 years to figure out market fit, probably the idea/execution isn't very good. Another story if you're doing hardware or require intense R&D, but for software? That's way too long time.
ConnectU hiring Zuckerberg?
Supersonic drone flies with revolutionary detonation engine
Definitely worth doing other experiments with other diets - but having tried both I think there is a qualitative difference.

I lost 10kgs twice in my life; the first time with a high carb, low fat diet and the second one with a no carb, high fat diet. Roughly same weight interval 84kg->70kg and roughly the same timeline (I was aiming at -1kg per week).

The high carb diet was tough: I was hungry all the time and I had to count calories precisely. Mentally I felt roughly like I did before the diet. Mostly tired. I didn't do much adjusting to my diet, I just had less food than before in order to create a caloric deficit.

The no carb diet was easy: I was never hungry, I had mental clarity for the first time in my life. After the occasional sleep deprivation I was feeling much better than before. I started eating twice a day with no snacks, then migrated to one meal per day with no hunger. Adjusting to the new diet came with some mistakes (eg. balancing elecrolytes to get the optimal level of energy) but after fixing them I was much better than before.
"In this way, consumers need only trust a small number of secure build platforms rather than the many thousands of developers with upload permissions across various packages."[1]

Bad idea. We should instead have 1000's of people around the world continuously reproducing builds of software, and continuously verifying amongst each other that everyone is building and then using the same peer reviewed version of software.[2] In this way, an attacker is forced to reveal their attack to everyone and can't just compromise the "secure build platforms" and conduct selective attacks.

[1] https://slsa.dev/spec/v1.0/use-cases#open-source

[2] https://reproducible-builds.org/
If you want me as a technical cofounder, you are going to tick most of these boxes:

1. You have at least 8-10 years of experience in that domain with some of it in a leadership position (ie product manager)

2. You already have a huge following or audience. Especially important if this is a SaaS product or b2c. Not as important if this is hard tech (ie biotech).

But if you’re doing a HR startup, show me your 10,000 engaged HR followers on LinkedIn. If you’re doing a martech startup, show me your Substack with 10k marketing subscribers.

3. You already have talked to at least 25 people about this, and gotten feedback about their pain points, initial reaction to your solution, etc. These conversations are documented and easily shared with me

4. You preferably have at least 1 successful exit/company under your belt, or a couple of failed ones is OK too (but I would need references to make sure they failed for legitimate reasons) the worse is 0 years of experience starting a company.

5. You are a cold email/call/outreach junkie. Because you will OWN sales in the early days. I want to see your 100 send emails or 100 daily calls or 100 sent DMs everyday asking potential customers for feedback or validation conversations or to sign up for your beta
Microsoft Stargate: The Next AI Platform Will Be an Entire Cloud Region
It is a risk if you operate in a way that breaches copyright.

> It's a hugely risky license that can, in some cases, endanger entire companies.

it can no more endanger a company than any other breach of copyright.

It is exactly the same as distributing software using GPL library. Google are fine with GPL because it is not a problem for their particulalr business mode.
Since the code, the build process, and the final signed tarball would all be made available to the public in the case of these 'verified builds', it would only take one person to rebuild and diff the results to uncover any malpractice by github.

Obviously in most cases, any differences will be bits of the build process that are nondeterministic like including timestamps in the final binary.
Maybe a few real cases and a lot of other people having the odd headache I guess?
Arguably pilots are outliers in some ways in that their job requires long periods of seating, uninterrupted.. and often bad sleep or an irregular sleep schedule. (edit- yeah I should have read the article, its not about pilots)
> If you're 25+, looking to start a business and do not have access to 10.000€, I question your abilities.

I've only thought this but it's nice to see someone say.

Guy 1: "What do you bring to the business?"

Guy 2: "We are a technology business, I made the technology. People seem to like it so far. How about you?"

Guy 1: "I'm a business and finance guy, I get the business money to use. I also had an idea one time."

Guy 2: "can I have some money?"

Guy 1: "no, I don't have any"

What do I need Guy 1 for? His idea? I'll pass.
I don't think any (sane) client would sent its private key on login. Private key only serves as a "solver" of a puzzle created using the public key.
I agree it's definitely an underserved tooling area. But so is a maze of submodules which is the realistic alternative. Open source just doesn't care too much about whole-company level projects because those don't really exist in the open source world.

That said, you can definitely make it work with Git & Bazel. Beats submodules by a mile.
This thoroughly vindicates what the anonymous whistleblower on the internet was saying:

https://leehamnews.com/2024/01/15/unplanned-removal-installa...

> Current Boeing employee here – I will save you waiting two years for the NTSB report to come out and give it to you for free: the reason the door blew off is stated in black and white in Boeings own records. It is also very, very stupid and speaks volumes about the quality culture at certain portions of the business.

> A couple of things to cover before we begin:

> Q1) Why should we believe you? A) You shouldn’t, I’m some random throwaway account, do your own due diligence. Others who work at Boeing can verify what I say is true, but all I ask is you consider the following based on its own merits.

> Q2) Why are you doing this? A) Because there are many cultures at Boeing, and while the executive culture may be throughly compromised since we were bought by McD, there are many other people who still push for a quality product with cutting edge design. My hope is that this is the wake up call that finally forces the Board to take decisive action, and remove the executives that are resisting the necessary cultural changes to return to a company that values safety and quality above schedule.

[...]

> However, more critical for purposes of the accident investigation, the pressure seal is unsurprisingly sandwiched between the plug and the fuselage, and you cannot replace it without opening the door plug to gain access. All of this conversation is documented in increasingly aggressive posts in the SAT, but finally we get to the damning entry which reads something along the lines of “coordinating with the doors team to determine if the door will have to be removed entirely, or just opened. If it is removed then a Removal will have to be written.” Note: a Removal is a type of record in CMES that requires formal sign off from QA that the airplane been restored to drawing requirements.

> If you have been paying attention to this situation closely, you may be able to spot the critical error: regardless of whether the door is simply opened or removed entirely, the 4 retaining bolts that keep it from sliding off of the door stops have to be pulled out. A removal should be written in either case for QA to verify install, but as it turns out, someone (exactly who will be a fun question for investigators) decides that the door only needs to be opened, and no formal Removal is generated in CMES (the reason for which is unclear, and a major process failure). Therefore, in the official build records of the airplane, a pressure seal that cannot be accessed without opening the door (and thereby removing retaining bolts) is documented as being replaced, but the door is never officially opened and thus no QA inspection is required.
Completely benign documentation change to fix a typo: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/cpp-docs/pull/4716

I have no idea what that IP address is supposed to be about...
Things to consider for a universal age API
Freebsd developers used perforce but the official repo was cvs and somehow the two synced.
sounds good in theory, but difficult in practice
which startups have you founded and made profitable? it's really scrappy through pre-seed if you can get one.

software is the easy part
The social side of this is really haunting me over the last days. It's surprisingly easy to pressure people to giving up control. I've been there myself. I can't even imagine how devastating this must be to the original author of XZ, especially if he is dealing with other personal issues as well. I hope at least this will serve a strong example to other open source people, to never allow others to pressure them into something they are not comfortable with.
> you need to place the means of production under democratic control

That's a really good way to starve a couple million people. It's quite good to limit the wealth accumulation as well when people are only receiving rations for working from dawn to dusk.
It's to protect the startups from hundreds of tiny checks emailing and hassling them. There is a line of communication between the founder and the syndicate which is technically the real investor here.
Kraft is just a the German word for strength or force.
> Nowadays if you start a new Javascript project you need to setup, vite/esbuild/webpack, eslint/oxlint/biome, prettier, typescript, etc, that is a ton of dependencies that YOU need to maintain for years

That's a choice YOU make, not everyone makes that choice, especially because they want to be able to continue working on a project for months/years without accruing automatic technical debt as all those projects move forward without actually thinking about backwards compatibility.
> for an application we are developing, we needed functionality X. We knew that we'd need X in other projects, too, so we made it a library

This is the mistake: you should make it a library when you do need the functionality, not when you "know" you "would need" it.
You’re not making any sense, he “had bad judgement” in getting an other maintainer so he should hand out maintainership? Like… to who?

> I know a tonne of professions where you’d be out the door if you messed up on that scale.

Cool story bro, know what happens in “a tonne of professions”? You get paid for doing stuff, and you get colleagues, with an actual formal legal contract, who also get paid.

And yet there are still bad actors, flipping insiders or getting moles in is literally standard modus operandi in espionage.
There were ~1000 cases reviewed, and these GRU gremlins were only at a few places, no?

So most likely is that there are a few true positives, and the vast majority of them are false positives. (And of course good luck telling this to anyone who works next to someone who just met a GRU operative, or works in a high-stress job and regularly feels that there are people out to get them.)
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I nearly got scammed on FB
Predicting specific trends for a future year like 2024 is inherently speculative, but I can offer some general directions that digital marketing may be headed based on current trajectories and emerging technologies
Fingers crossed that they'll do that with no oversight. On the positive side there should be considerable savings from sacking all the superfluous managers.
That is a real problem though. Many things you cannot define because their bounds are indefinite. To define those things requires knowing the bounds. It's much simpler to accept our limitations in language and cognition because it removes those artifical boundaries when connecting physics to metaphysics. We only need to describe things when they matter.

Then there are things you can very solidly define but never know what they are. We can describe physics, and their applications, but when connecting metaphysical effects down to the constituent quantum processes the whole is unknown. We aren't sensible enough.

The truly wholesome perspective is from outside the universe.
+1

You have no idea much I feel that sentiment
> But I even avoid high-glycemic vegetables, like carrots

Carrots have a high glycemic index, but a low glycemic load. That is, you will rapidly absorb the glucose in them, but the amount of glucose they contain in the first place is low.

Anecdotally, I've never heard anybody complaining about insulin spikes in their continuous glucose monitor from eating carrots.
Ubuntu 24.04 Plans Switch to Thunderbird Snap from Deb
No. Everything you do on the client side you can also keep not doing at all.

You can imagine the salted and hashed password in your scheme to be "the password". Because the server will still know it, and could use it to log in somewhere else (it just has to skip the salt-and-hash step).
egcs 0.95 is the best!
When I used Proton Glorious Eggroll for a while, it played my entire steam library better than windows.

Also, pop os makes nvidia drivers automatic.
I have ~30 of either Banks or Payments Apps and Social Media Apps. Every single one of them are 500MB+ in size. That is 15GB of Apps. My HSBC Apps is 800MBs and I dont have a fucking idea why. And then there are Gmail, Google, Outlook all 300MB+.

To me it is just disgusting.
> hI am still not sure what the killer app was for the Alpha

It was a general purpose processor, talking about a single killer app doesn't make sense. It was designed for speed and expandability and as such seemed very successful.
Yeah, but saying "The Linux Foundation is behind the fork" gives (to the casual reader like me) some Linus-related legitimacy.

They should have said "The Cloud Industries Pet Trade Org created a new fork so they don't have to pay nominal (to them) sums to support the software."
Most industry rags are just PR mouthpieces.
Once you see it you can't unsee it.
I worked at a shop that had some sort of cozy relationship with an online business paper and had many puff pieces published over the years.

What was interesting was once things turned for our fund, we must have fired whoever was their source because the paper went hostile and published some really detailed and damaging articles.

That or the press is just trend following - always backwards looking trying to come up with reasons for what already happened. (CEO was great until CEO was awful). You will see many cases of this in how the press covers particular companies/CEOs. Guys like Bezos who jump before the worm turns are smart.
You are wrong but there is no reason to downvote you. The idea might work in the future.
Radars work in the 3cm or 10cm ranges[0], so you'll always get a return from the towers and the blades, and that significantly reduces the energy that gets beyond the turbine to illuminate potential targets.

Reflections from targets also need to pass the turbine(s), reducing the return even more.

Beamwidths are significant, depending on the antenna configuration. You can have beamwidths of 0.5 degrees and more. That helps detection, but reduces target discrimination. It helps get the energy past the turbines, but you tend to have "wound down" the power output to allow for that. So it doesn't really help.[1]

You know where the turbines are ... knowing the exact positions of the blades won't help at the frequencies being used.

In short, it's complicated. Radar pulses are like HUGE lumps of energy flying through space, and delicate things like turbine blades chop them up and defect them around, preventing them from getting to, and then from, the targets.

[0] Marine radars, X-Band and S-Band. There are other ranges and bands.

[1] Yes, this is all extremely simplified and inaccurate, but I'm trying to give a sense of what's going on.