skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should reread what I wrote. In particular, how does my last sentence,

After banning TikTok people will naturally start to wonder about regulating Facebook and other social media and this would be a good thing.

give the impression that I for the things you claim I’m for? You did not understand what was written.

It is human nature to find that some actions done by your own society are more acceptable than when done by another society. The CIA drugging Americans is a lot more palatable to Americans than if Chinese spy agencies did that. Neither is good but one garners much less outrage than the other. This was my point. And by regulation obviously I was referring to government regulation.
The Formalization of Social Precarities [pdf]
Keeping away form VCs that "know better" how to monetize my time seems like a proven technique for managing my time. Money I create directly impacts my loved ones.
We have done that at a few orgs that have scaled up to hundreds of engineers
How many Caucasian males born between 12/01/97 and 12/01/97 in MSOA region 12523 with <some not too common condition I know you have> have <embarrassing condition> [1]

My point is that aggregated data becomes an indicator function on an individual if you allow arbitrary queries; then you can extract all information on that individual by exhaustion:

For each <embarrassing condition> run [1]
I dunno, my Plasma 5 desktop is lightyears more functional than any DE I was running a decade ago - though I do agree with sibling comments that the RAM delta is probably more to do with pixmaps and pointer sizes that code bloat.

There is also the case to be made that RAM is made to be used, and that half a gigabyte is a perfectly reasonable amount to allocate to a snappy desktop in a world where even the lamest new computer has at least 8.
Nothing like your inference was in my comment, beside the seemingly obvious fact nobody would use such a 'spam detector'. But either way, you can trivially verify this yourself just by looking at /newest.
I deeply appreciate that they look like they should be easier, but several decades of people trying to make them work have mostly failed which makes me think there's some deeper problem that we're not seeing.
Proof-of-concept nanogenerator turns CO₂ into sustainable power
Do they? What is the total size of all visual, audio, touch, locomotive, scent, and taste data collected between birth and when a human reaches IQ 100? There are multiple high-bandwidth feeds running into the brain 24/7.
mid-2000s just prior to the ipo.
I'll agree that "interesting thoughts" may be up to interpretation, but imma fight you on the charisma thing. I looked up "flat affect" in the dictionary and there were no words, only a full-page headshot of Lex Fridman.
Thank you, that's so convenient!
The team here should do a writeup after the fact to discuss what people tried and how the software here guards against it.
I thought it was getting consensus.
Im 15 ish years in.

>> one-person company ... managing contractors.

You're not a one person company if you have to manage contractors. One of the definitions of being a "contractor" is "independent work". Get better people who are self starers, or more motivated, or more flexible or...

>> planning, development

The lie corporate tech tells us is that these things are different jobs. You need to re-learn how to play. You're playing with code, and ideas and features. Play has a component that has learning build in.

Learn to separate GROWING your business (development, new features) and running it (customer service, billing, accounting). Track your time into these two buckets and ask yourself if you're spending the right effort in the right places.

Lastly. You're going to work hard, maybe harder than you ever have in your life. Sun up to sun set, and then some. You don't get to party, or vacation or socialize. If you want those sorts of things "get a job" if you want to build and own something then you're going to learn to eat that shit sandwich for a bit. It took me a few years for me to get to a stable place. There are moments where I have to put in the extra time, but they are very infrequent now and mostly include a massive pay day when they happen.
It's my account, not Paul Graham's.
I doubt most non-enthusiast users of Windows can troubleshoot their own problems. All desktop operating systems require some knowledge to poke around and fix things. The only reason Windows gets a pass is due to its market share and support from vendors.

I'm sure if you have a problem from a piece of software running on Linux that is supported by a vendor and asked for help, you would get it.
reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a younger.

I was in school, sitting in study hall with a friend.

He leaned over and said "Doesn't the buzzing of those lights bother you?"

and then I noticed the whining sound of the room's overhead lights and I couldn't unhear it from that point on.

bleh.
What's the price fixing part?
Appreciate the info!

In another thread I saw a recommendation for dual 3090s if you're not doing anything gaming related, good to have some confirmation there.
Haha we will, that's a great idea
I've noticed the same thing! I think the personal confidence you build training hard MMA is a lot more empowering than the presonal confidence you build from making billions of dollars and being CEO of a gigantic company. For those of us without the money, it seems hard to believe, but people are people even when they're rich, and I've seen MMA change a lot of people in the same way.
My earlier comparison was basically saying now that high-profile guests are talking to a much better interviewer (Dwarkesh), we no longer have to rely on Lex as the only podcast with long-form interviews of these guests.
This is private commercial data distributed under license. It isn't classified as Secret by the UK or US government.
I don't care what's inside people's heads. In terms of outward effect, both forms of racism erect a social barrier that shouldn't be there. I haven't encountered any 1960s-type racists; maybe they would be worse than the condescending/paternalistic woke variety. But what we have now is certainly worse than what I experienced growing up in a red House district in a red state in the 1990s.
MMA has a way to humble anyone. It's a great way to train for body and mind.
Many, many museums release their collections databases as open API’s, and many of the artworks are licensed under open licenses.

That’s not to say they couldn’t do more - but it’s a very active area in many museums.
how can anyone doubt Ballmer's passion after his sweaty stage march. He ain't in charge anymore anyway. Gates was more methodical evil than passionate and his big moves were all just stabbing someone else to take their place.
In January, a class action lawsuit was rejected by a judge due to the arbitration agreement in the contracts. The whole reason class action suits exist is to save thousands of people from having wage individual fights. If it had gone through, the victims could have done nothing and woken up one day to an email saying, "Your debts are clear."

I honestly can't think of a clearer example of arbitration agreements screwing people over.
Yup, I just thought this was an interesting tangent. I suspect overall you’re right, however…

That statement from AWS is a contractual agreement (not even that explicitly, but implicitly it is), not a verifiable ‘physical’ protection.

Trade secret protection requires a pretty high bar of actual reasonable protection.

For example, Coca-Cola’s secret recipe, and KFC’s ‘secret blend of 11 herbs and spices’ both have to actually be physically locked in a vault (or similar), and the list of people with access to them have to be very limited to get actual trade secret protection.

If they made everyone in the company sign a contract saying they’d keep it secret, but then distributed it on index cards to everyone involved in the process, they’d have no actual trade secret protection, since they’d have taken insufficient steps to keep it an actual secret.

Same if they left the vault door open and gave tours where people could reach over and see what was on it.

So if it turned out that a bunch of folks on the EC2 team had the ability to dump cores on any running EC2 instance, and some did so and got said trade secret, could the customer say they did the equivalent of putting it in a vault and someone broke into it - or they did the equivalent of putting it in index cards, and it leaked?

Same with payload information at S3 edge API servers.

I’m imagining it would boil down to how reasonable it would be to expect Amazon to actually follow their agreements here in all situations, and how reasonable it would be to expect the technology to actually work as advertised, even if it was a competitor or something?

I don’t know of any case law testing this yet.

[https://www.wipo.int/tradesecrets/en/tradesecrets_faqs.html]

Said company could of course still sue Amazon for economic damages presumably, but also the ToS of
AWS restricts the size of such claims to be well below what the company would likely want to pursue if the trade secret was actually valuable.

And there would be none of the criminal penalties involved in trade secret prosecutions, which is really why people want it.

There is a big difference between civil court and jail time.
I accidentally did something similar to a college friend when I pointed out the 15khz hum that televisions made. He had not noticed that before and then couldn't stop hearing it.
I'm building a community for people building one-person companies (with AI). Folks are welcome to join: https://www.robotandco.ai
Germany arrests two for alleged military sabotage plot on behalf of Russia
Ok but at 16-bit it would be 800GB+, right? Not 512.
I love the science of evolution in that there's no need for an underlying model for such an invention to actually verify the science and the possibility of it, just that such an invention is possible. Basically anything and everything is possible with evolution and that doesn't really feel like science to me.
> I just want to express how grateful I am that Zuck

Praise for him at HN? It should be enough of a reason for him to pop a champagne today
I don't think that ever happened. As far I understood, problem is that Delaware will tax you up to certain amount and then you are tax free, while Texas will tax you a lot without any upper limit, so incorporating in Texas would breach fiduciary duty and warrant another lawsuit from shareholders.
Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Chechnya, etc. are examples of Russian aggression. The U.S. is an empire and is neo-colonial. It has done outrageously bad things. Supporting Ukraine is not one of them. Russia is led by an evil man. There are other evil people in the world.
The probability of dying in a car accident vs. a plane crash isn't even close to the same order of magnitude.
Samsung is the dominant Android manufacturer by far.
They heavily use AI internally for their core FaceBook business - analyzing and policing user content, and this is also great PR to rehabilitate their damaged image.

There is also an arms race now of AI vs AI in terms of generating and detecting AI content (incl deepfakes, election interference, etc, etc). In order not to deter advertizers and users, FaceBook need to keep up.
Yeah, when I read about adding glow-in-the-dark miniature golf, I thought "but... hasn't that golf place has been there forever?"

I kind of wonder if it's still there.
> "We've worked out how to make the positive ions much larger than the negative ions and because the different sizes move at different speeds, they generate a diffusion current which can be amplified into electricity to power light bulbs or any electronic device.

> "In nature and in the human body, ion transportation is the most efficient energy conversion—more efficient than electron transportation which is used in the power network."

> The two components were embedded in a hydrogel which is 90% water, cut into 4-centimeter disks and small rectangles and then tested in a sealed box pumped full of CO2.

> "When we saw electrical signals coming out, I was very excited but worried I'd made a mistake," Dr. Wang said.

"Electricity generation from carbon dioxide adsorption by spatially nanoconfined ion separation" (2024)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47040-x :

> Abstract: Selective ion transport underpins fundamental biological processes for efficient energy conversion and signal propagation. Mimicking these ‘ionics’ in synthetic nanofluidic channels has been increasingly promising for realizing self-sustained systems by harvesting clean energy from diverse environments, such as light, moisture, salinity gradient, etc. Here, we report a spatially nanoconfined ion separation strategy that enables harvesting electricity from CO2 adsorption. This breakthrough relies on the development of Nanosheet-Agarose Hydrogel (NAH) composite-based generators, wherein the oppositely charged ions are released in water-filled hydrogel channels upon adsorbing CO2. By tuning the ion size and ion-channel interactions, the released cations at the hundred-nanometer scale are spatially confined within the hydrogel network, while ångström-scale anions pass through unhindered. This leads to near-perfect anion/cation separation across the generator with a selectivity (D-/D+) of up to 1.8 × 106, allowing conversion into external electricity. With amplification by connecting multiple as-designed generators, the ion separation-induced electricity reaching 5 V is used to power electronic devices. This study introduces an effective spatial nanoconfinement strategy for widely demanded high-precision ion separation, encouraging a carbon-negative technique with simultaneous CO2 adsorption and energy generation.
If this article was written 4 years ago the title would have been,

"Google is combining …, and it's all about Blockchain"
Team and Enterprise come with the non-training guarantee, free and premium do not. Pretty much anyone can sign up for Team (I have, and I'm not a company) but you need to buy at least 2 seats for a total of $50/m. The rate limits are much better with that as well though.
If you want to not quantize at all, you need to double it for fp16—16GB.
Yeah, I'm a big fan of Lex because I think he is really good at building connections, staying intellectually curious, and helping peopl open up, but he is absolutely not big with charisma! I don't know if he normally talks so flat or not, but in the podcast I don't think he could be more flat if he tried. He's also not great at asking questions, at least not spontaneously. Seems really good at preparation though.
I have outlived most SaaS products that have ever been developed.
+1000

I just patched a whole bunch of drywall cutouts after having some electrical work done. Now I when I look at a new construction house, I can tell which builders use go cheap on drywall, esp. when there's too much texture.
LSEG is a data vendor. They don't want to make their data public because they charge for it. Much of the original raw data that they aggregate is already public.
TikTok (ByteDance) is now building an AGI team to train and advance LLMs (towards AGI), probably after realizing they are in a similar scenario.
The paper mentions it uses Diffusion Transformers. The open source implementation that comes up in Google is Facebook Research's PyTorch implementation which is a non-commercial license. https://github.com/facebookresearch/DiT

Is there something equivalent but MIT or Apache?

I feel like diffusion transformers are key now.

I wonder if OpenAI implemented their SORA stuff from scratch or if they built on the Facebook Research diffusion transformers library. That would be interesting if they violated the non-commercial part.

Hm. Found one: https://github.com/milmor/diffusion-transformer-keras
maybe from a list of funding requests? :)
I have been using Claude and ChatGPT in parallel for 2 months now. Claude is slow to respond, but I love it. So I will stay on Claude for next 3-6 months for now. I find it unnecessary to pay $40 for both, but not use to the fullest.

So my plan is to use one chat subscription at any time, and then use APIs for the rest. Right now I have chatbox.app on my laptop, so have the freedom to play around w/ the rest as well as needed.
Is this true though? Doesn’t pass the sniff test since most people last a lot longer than most companies.

I checked and the probability of death for an American in their 30s (median American is 37 years old) is under 0.2% in any year. I think there’s a far larger than 1 in 500 chance that Notion goes under or is acquired and cancelled.
Don't forget Gavin Belson and Action Jack Barker
Delta takes flight: Apple-approved Nintendo emulator is a great iOS option
I'm very OK that some authority (democratically accountable) decides what the advertisements can contain, and how prevalent they are allowed to be. I.e. that advertising is regulated.

And it is regulated to an extent, but IMHO it should be regulated dramatically more and the existing regulations should be actually enforced. And at least in Finland, where I'm from, it used to be way way way more regulated than it is nowadays. E.g. advertising to children was universally banned. Ads weren't allowed to air around news. Product placement was strictly banned. TV ads could be put out only every 15 minutes or so, and they could last only a minute or two. Before this commercial radio and TV broadcasts were banned altogether for a long time. Etc etc.

The "25% off a subscription to MIT Technology Review during Earth Week" kind of ads were probably banned (and maybe still are in theory). When a product was allowed to be on sale was strictly regulated (had to be sold on the "real" price for vast majority of the time). There's some new EU legislation for restricting "sales" like this, but I don't think they will be effectively enforced (see e.g. GDPR).

Non-deceptive ways of informing people about factual product features and availability in reasonable volume (e.g. 1-5% of average communicated information) is probably fine. Modern ads have very little to do with such. They are a huge engine that dramatically shape how people think and act in general, e.g. making them want or even need products that don't really benefit them and making them labor to get such products. Consumerism is the main ideology of contemporary western cultures and this is mainly due to advertising.
If that’s an option, yes. But for many it isn’t. The building isn’t owned by them. Or there’s no available space next door to expand into. Or the capital cost of remodeling that new section is too high. Or the profit margins are so small they can’t justify the cost. Or they’re already maxed out on loans and can’t afford more.
Anyone who made it through CS 121 is an engineer for life.
Not at all, depends on the owners goals in life. If the goal is to make as much money as possible and you don't mind over working then it could grow, or take on a partner.

There was a great breakfast place near me ran by the guy who owned basically all the commercial real estate on the block - the breakfast place was only open in the mornings 6 days a week and occasionally the owner would come in and serve, it was basically a passion project and he wanted to make enough to pay for it. After 15ish years of running he started hosting popups at night and another 4-5 years after that sold to one of the popups. It was a real restaurant and widely love by those in the know.

You could say El Bulli fits the bill of don't expand, they shut down after a while and converted the space into food research and events center. A little different, but I was trying to think of a more famous "real restaurant".
this article is a year old, but heise hasn't changed their model. so what is it going to take for that to change?

i have been arguing against this for some time and i am glad to finally see some support, but more work is needed.
I did this for 9 years. You don’t stay sane. You’re working 24/7. Best you can do is take vacations and schedule downtime rituals. This is why I no longer do it.
I've seen plenty of teams who didn't think they needed someone to evaluate what they're doing and just thought they needed someone churning out code.

If they'd had someone do the former, most of the time they'd not have needed the latter quite so much.
Your mistake is assuming what that means rather than inferring it from what's actually described as the actions. It's not your fault, but it's wrong to assume that the article writer is unbiased in this situation given that it likely got a corporate spokesperson to comment on it. I don't know that the article writer is incentivized to change much as part of that.
This works for me.

Apple has a press release, https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/12/siri-can-now-help-use...

I didn't have to allow Siri to access health data, which it only prompted when I asked with the health app open.
It is not "their software" in the sense that they would have written it. So it's hard to feel bad when "others" are profiting from Redis too.
Full Disclosure: I'm a cofounder at Voltron Data.

This is such a good post. I'm pretty humbled by your words about us being "everywhere that's of interest" and that "we're highly respected." It's hard to see that when you're in the weeds, so I just wanted to say I appreciate it.

Regarding proprietary…I get it. I was the CEO of BlazingSQL, and we were fully OSS with an open-core model. The number of Fortune 500 customers that were deploying us at scale but not paying us in money, feedback, or testimonials was honestly heartbreaking.

When Josh (our CEO) and I were in the early days of Voltron Data, we thought maybe we could hold ourselves accountable to the open-source community with a new model, which we now call open-periphery, where, as you said, the interchanges, standards, and protocols are open, allowing companies and developers to build resilient, evolvable data stacks.

Open-periphery also means we don't have to debate what goes back to the community and what goes into the proprietary code because there is such a clear delineation. Open-periphery is our way of thinking about OSS business models, and it's the solution we came up with to ensure we can continue to invest in open-source and next-generation query engines.
Do you mean this? https://trackingai.org/
Interesting, from the article:

"Mathematical framework and rules of paraconsistent logic have been proposed as the activation function of an artificial neuron in order to build a neural network"
Cloudflare CEO bought a newspaper to change reporting about his new house plans
Oh good - this is a well deserved award for dnsmasq. It's one of the top entries on my personal short-list of "software that's actually good". I use it all the time in products, test environments and one-offs, and in my 20+ years of using it, it's never been the problem.

I may have misconfigured it, or tried to get it to do things far beyond what makes sense, or forgotten to add a command line flag as the root cause of my issue - but the software itself has always just done exactly what the documentation says it will. It just works.

Congrats to Simon and all the contributors over the years, and thanks for simplifying part of my existence.
I really miss when Google maps simply made a ding at important times.
These are KYC checks so the information is very interesting if you're the average joe.

the US Bank Secrecy act prohibits you from ever knowing the details of a SAR, or suspicious activity report. there are criminal punishments if a bank were to tell you a SAR had even been filed against you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suspicious_activity_report

if this agency does not capitulate to the demands of hackers, then 5.3 million people would suddenly know their SAR/KYC status. it would do quantifiable harm to the prosecution of financial crimes globally.