skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does this include the $55B in aid the US has committed to over a 3 year period? I assume those funds could be used elsewhere if Africa is going to round that investment up itself.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
Sounds like an overmind telling a kid what to feel. Imagine the dissonance one must feel when one would not agree with their own feelings with the way software tells you to feel.
Exactly. It's like having a bazillion tiny 3D printer extruder nozzles embedded in your skin all on their own timers and flowrates.
Multisig requires user cooperation, many users will not care to cooperate, and chain of custody verification really starts working only if you can get (force) ~100% of legitimate users globally to adopt the system.

Also, for the potential creators of political fakes, such a multisig won't change things - getting a manufacturer's key may take some effort, but getting (and 'burning') keys of a dozen random people is relatively trivial in many ways - e.g. buying off of poor people, stealing from compromised random machines, or simply issuing fake identities for state-backed actors.
The key issue I take away is the success rate: 1.25% and assuming that fact is accurate, I suggest the following:

If the goal of your company is to be a billion dollar business, then I would say that just applying for and getting into YC is enough, and you should not join YC.

YC apparently is very good at picking winners, but not necessarily making winners--being selected by YC means you have a higher chance of of succeeding, but attending YC does not.

However, I would expect that there are tangible and non-tangible benefits for going through YC that are not readily apparent when looking solely at becoming a billion-dollar business, and those would be the reason to join YC should they matter to your startup.
Explain? Ref?
You can create burner cards that are single use or cards dedicated to a merchant. As far as timing and location data you don' need visa or mastercard for that, but any information visa or master card can share with third parties would be specific to a merchant.
After reading accounts of floods on the Mississippi before it was embanked and straightened. I'd totally believe that sort of stuff happened on the Tigris and Euphrates's rivers back 5000 years ago when it was wetter.

We can make it to the road in a homemade boat

That's the only thing we got left that'll float

It's already over all the wheat and the oats
And the components of the program being discussed are from the 2008 amendment.
I'm honestly not so sure. I think I feel a lot better about myself knowing that I don't deliberately exaggerate and mislead people for personal gain. Maybe it depends on the person, and I'm just not destined to be able to be a happy conman.
> I didn't think you meant empiricism

Well, that's pretty stupid, since I was actually using that exact word. You are quite literally saying, "Oh, when you said X, I didn't think you actually meant X, I thought you meant Y." (And in this case your Y is something that I absolutely do not believe.)

> But it seems that empiricism is a view that you have to hold a priori as opposed to a posteriori.

Why? Why cannot I not simply observe that when I base my decisions on plausible explanations of things that I observe I get better outcomes than when I base my decisions on some other criterion?
A long time ago, as a related outreach to promote children aspiring to work in science, the Oregon Graduate Institute made sports-like trading cards of their scientists, to distribute to area children.

This project in London might emphasize diversity more, which is great. Not just "Being a scientist is interesting, and conceivably something I could do" (and incidentally it features a diversity of people) -- but more directly going for the reaction of "Someone who looks like me can be a scientist". We still need that.

We also still need to follow through on supporting that, once the kids manage to arrive at college, grad school, and the job market.
What's your business model? Where do you get money to pay people?
OK, I'd like nothing better than for you to show me that there's no such area.

Since we're talking about contingency...

I'll just lay out a version of the argument from contingency:

1. A contingent being (a being such that if it exists, it could have not-existed) exists.

2. All contingent beings have a sufficient cause of or fully adequate explanation for their existence.

3. The sufficient cause of or fully adequate explanation for the existence of contingent beings is something other than the contingent being itself.

4. The sufficient cause of or fully adequate explanation for the existence of contingent beings must either be solely other contingent beings or include a non-contingent (necessary) being.

5. Contingent beings alone cannot provide a sufficient cause of or fully adequate explanation for the existence of contingent beings.

6. Therefore, what sufficiently causes or fully adequately explains the existence of contingent beings must include a non-contingent (necessary) being.

7. Therefore, a necessary being (a being such that if it exists, it cannot not-exist) exists.

8. The universe, which is composed of only contingent beings, is contingent.

9. Therefore, the necessary being is something other than the universe.

I'd like you to tell me what premise you deny, and why you deny this premise on purely scientific grounds.
Reminds me of when the KGB and the CIA tried to use knowledge of the sexual exploits of Indonesia's president Sukarno to blackmail him. Instead of falling in line, he told them to release what they had so his countrymen could be impressed by his sexual prowess. The KGB went as far as having a group of their agents pose as flight attendants to engage him in an orgy, which they secretly filmed. When confronted with the film, he asked if KGB for extra copies for him to take home.
Do you happen to keep your script public? I would enjoy taking a look at it to learn something.
Not everyone is using Exchange Online.
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40094264
The Athens Project – a Go module proxy
Pretty sure 7 figures would be a massive failure in that case
Without any context this is a super-unspecific claim. Do you mean, like "They use an LLM (in inference mode) somewhere in their search-pipeline"? If so, then: well, no, d'oh. I'd be surprised (and disappointed) if in 2024, they didn't, given that they're one of the leaders in the field. I see no issue with this.

The question is if they store your search strings (that's an issue separate of AI), and if so, then whether that data is used for AI training. And in the latter, the question is should they (ethically)?, could they (legally)?, and are they?

Without more details, your post as extremely high entropy wrt. how much we should care.
I don't know how you keep rewording simple things everyone knows and are being patiently explained to you, as if you are encountering them the first time in the thread.
If you haven't seen it before, you might enjoy Patrick Wyatt's (a lead dev for a time at Blizzard) blog. It is a treasure trove of anecdotes and war stories.

https://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/
only like vast majority, yes, i know
Rivers are prone to flooding.
A perfectly efficient market is the asymptote, you would never actually reach it.

In any case, if everyone had an omniscient genie, then free will would clearly not exist the way we understand it. That doesn't sound like a fun world, regardless of financial markets!
Uncompressed audio? Why the fuck would anyone even want to do that? Even computers 20 years ago could handle Vorbis or if they were fancy enough to buy a decoder MP3 audio. Today's multicore monsters can easily handle dedicating an entire core to sound effects only.
I will stop buying Apple devices when there are quality alternatives, hardware and ecosystem-wise. Android is (still) neither at this point.
He Loves Speed, Hates Bureaucracy and Told Ferrari: Go Faster
Not sure why you think I don't know this. My comment contains the phrase "neither Korean regime".
That's a common misconception about free software. Free software is about the user's right to see and modify the software. Doesn't mean people can't do business with it. You're right that they usually don't require fee for installation, but that's merely because that the source code is available on the internet, in most cases, and so the user can install it without paying anyway.
It's the offbeat Illuminati game. All the conspiracy theories are true. Watch the Boy Sprouts use the Orbital Mind Control Lasers to take over the Tabloids. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illuminati:_New_World_Order -- https://www.sjgames.com/inwo/lists/ill.html
> Yeah, it is impossible to compete against chinese / indian / kenyan slaves.

Not actually that hard. You build a machine that does the work of 1000 sweat shop workers, then you have a domestic job maintaining the machine, and paying one salary when it used to be 1000 causes the transportation cost to dominate over the cost of labor so now you're back to domestic manufacturing being cheaper.

But only if you don't pass dumb laws that discourage the automation and convert it into offshoring.

> It is also hard to compete against people earning hardly enough to eat and sleep in a crowded apartment, no healthcare, even no papers. (In the US, I mean)

Why is that hard? The majority of the population is already doing it. You learn to do skilled labor and then earn more money.

> The problem is the right regulation for a few (your Musk) but wrong for the rest (your 12hrs, 16hrs, or whatever hours a day you think are fair)

The problem is that people think these kinds of laws are the problem. If you can't afford rent working 8 hours and have to work 12, how is prohibiting you from working 12 going to help you make rent? It's misdirection to keep people from solving the actual problem, which is high cost of living.
I still don't really understand why they didn't call it 'SEARCH'. Query already has meaning in HTTP
For rough, high-level comparisons, it might be seen as "not far off," but for detailed, technical assessments, the difference is considerable.[1]

[1] https://chat.openai.com/share/a19a3b57-398c-49e7-a140-f58784...
So while the case for GPT-4 like models taking over quantitative trading is currently unlikely…. No shit Sherlock
That's interesting, it was about a decade ago now, but at a previous employer we actually went into classrooms to help them teach about money, as part of the social mandate of the corporation (they're a Credit Reference Agency, so, the bad stuff that's going to happen when you're bad at money as an adult is partly their responsibility, they reasoned that they should ensure kids are better prepared, and part of that is sending employees into classrooms to help with this material)

All the kids we saw were capable, I'd even say surprisingly capable, of understanding the basics of stuff like budgeting. I remember we ran a scenario where they're helping a man to shop for himself and his wife, they're pensioners so they have a very inflexible income and an overspend is going to be a huge problem, and the kids were pretty careful, they understood that just because Mrs Smith likes flowers, if we haven't enough money for flowers after buying the intended groceries we shouldn't buy the flowers, they grasped that the choice isn't going to be "Buy both and it'll work out somehow", and that if you don't buy enough food you'll be hungry and so on. Even if all they were doing was telling us what they thought we expected, that's enough, as adults they won't be executed for going bankrupt, it's just important that's a conscious choice.
ah thank you, I wasn't aware!
We're desperately in need of SMTP/2 + IMAP5 or something
Hello HN! I recently began working as a comaintainer of the Athens Project which is a Go module proxy. We've been working on getting in new features, fixes, and updating the project from its roots six years ago.

We could certainly use more developers, especially for some of the more complex enterprise-grade features. However, if you're a current or prospective user we'd also love your feedback and comments on how Athens does or could fit your use case.
Probably nothing. You won’t even notice it. It’ll just be another warehouse.
Employees have no choice when it comes to their corporate email provider, and this is not a hill to die on for 99.99999% of them.

On the other hand, being able to use Thunderbird as a client is a net win and a pragmatic move.
+1 to all these recommendations, and the ordering in terms of (time/money) investment, inclination, and synergy with projects at work. Compose is just the right fit for a small to medium setup and a great place to start.
The thing I linked to is corporate tax credits, fwiw.
As a science (and science fiction) nerd kid growing up in Australia in the 1970/80s I got a kick out of tracking station 43 mention in Epilogue 2 of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of War of the Worlds (1978)...

[NASA unmanned landing craft just touches down on mars]
[Houston Control]:
"What's that flare? See it? A green flare, coming from Mars, kind of a green mist behind it. It's getting closer.
You see it, Bermuda? Come in, Bermuda!
Houston, come in! What's going on?
Tracking station 43, Canberra, come in, Canberra!
Tracking station 63, can you hear me, Madrid?
Can anybody hear me? Come in, come in!"
[instrumental music suddenly stops]

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPHEbh7cnr561iJqxno3q...

The Viking missions to mars had started planning in the late 1960s and Viking 1 and 2 landed on Mars in 1976 so the inclusion of a NASA Mars landing in Epilogue 2 was pretty neat.
This is FISA right? The target is foreign individuals and entities? It seems by default HN is against it, can someone articulate why?

There are elected representatives of the people providing oversight and it seems to have strong bipartisan support. Is there a popular line of thought with tech people that is suggesting foreign surveillance isn't neccesary? Or should some provision of the law be updated to protect americans' data?
> If a business is showing a demo of this you can be assured that the Government already has this tech and has for a period of time.

That may have been true once upon a time, but it no longer is. And even in the areas it was true it was mostly for niche areas like cryptanalysis.

Governments simply cannot attract or keep the level of talent required to have been far ahead of industry on LLMs and similar tech, especially not with the huge difference in salaries and working conditions.
Don't get why you've been downvoted to grey, you make a very valid point particularly regarding security issues given the recent Apex Legends hack [1].

[1] https://www.tweaktown.com/news/96928/apex-legends-pro-player...
This post seems to hint at a larger conversation about the accessibility of opportunities like YC for people from different economic backgrounds.

While it might be easier for those with financial safety nets to take entrepreneurial risks, perhaps there should be more discussion on how to make such opportunities more inclusive. How can organizations like YC ensure that everyone, not just the financially privileged, have the chance to innovate and succeed?
I mean, there are plenty of people who read philosophy and enjoy it but don't publish papers in philosophy conferences or journals, discuss topics with academic philosophers, etc. Reading a work of philosophy without writing a work of philosophy is something that a lot of people do and enjoy.
This is really the only reason, because JSON as a format is otherwise terrible. No good way to represent 64 bit numbers, very limited types and no comments.
The exhibition before that was lots of pictures from the moon landing, which was great.

They also had a series for pride. It was sponsored by skittles, but sadly not only was the logo in greyscale, but they didn't have the the slogan "taste the rainbow". Its london, You've gotta go all in with humour, or it just looks like pride washing....
Also consider that out of those 4000 startups many are not unicorns yet. The long term percentage might be closer to 2.5%. And the latest batches have many AI startups which I suspect will have an ever greater unicorn success rate.
> System.in.transferTo(System.out);

Ok, that's really convenient :) I suppose it would be much harder to do it without the transferTo function, but that would be beyond the point. I'll instead focus on the example 2.

> 2 is anything but trivial in any language, unless it is some kind of a language specifically designed to build gRPC programs.

The gRPC protocol here is only an example. Feel free to use any protocol you like.
As a counter-example, here's a TCP version in <200 lines of Go: https://gist.github.com/paskozdilar/6871fef7b0b245a0846bd27e...

> Never versions of Java are quite pleasant to work with

I know this is a typo, but you accidentally wrote something completely true :')
Whatsapp shows a search box now at the top of the app. Placeholder text in it says "Ask MetaAI or search". Previously search meant search in Whatsapp contacts or chat history, however now since the MetaAI is also taking input from same text box, we are sending our search strings to MetaAI, even though they might be for local search.
My first professional software development job was circa 1982-83. I was in high school, working part time for my step-brother. He’d just got a luggable PC like the one in the picture and he paid me like $20 to write a MS-BASIC program to calculate payroll withholdings.
Completely agree. I use jq multiple times a day now, purely because GPT-4 or Claude Opus mean I never have to think about how to express anything in it.
This may help... https://english-grammar-lessons.com/a-picture-is-worth-a-tho...
I love my dial, how about a gear stick style one where you can push forward and back for your next project :)
It’s actually a hindrance to normal every day users whilst scammers seem to have no issue getting money out.
> The idea was conceived in the 1970s. Satellite downlinks weren't that capable and several keyhole satellites still used film.

Specifically, the mid 70s KH-9s had a re-entry vehicle magazine that carried something like 6 or 7 REVs, and when it ran out the KH-9 became useless. The idea was that the shuttle could service the KH-9s on orbit and replace the magazine.

The real reason this became useless was that around the same time CCDs were invented, and KH-11s (from 1976 - still in the design phase of the shuttle) didn't need re-entry vehicles at all. Oddly the USAF still operated KH-9s with their REV cannisters up til 1980.

(If you're wondering what happened to KH-10, that was the cancelled 'MOL' program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manned_Orbiting_Laboratory )
I would guess that Democratic and Republican politicians want to give more power to the USA government because they are the USA government.
Surprisingly, the OP of this twitter thread is the same as the link above!
People who get elected are not like regular people. Until we fill at least one branch of government with randomly selected people, we don't have a democracy.
What Is Inside the Briefcase in 'Pulp Fiction'?
Perovskite display tech can read fingerprints and gather health data
Doesn't really matter, but I was 21 when it happened. I suspect we're basically the same age.
At least for me at the time, I knew nothing about start ups. Didn't come from a prestigious school. Nor the bay or even US. Didn't work in big tech. The closest thing was that I was studying EE.

Honest it was quite inspiring to chat with these founders who were in a different world, and realizing that they're not all that different from myself.

So yea, maybe I was young dumb n broke.
Bostrom's Deep Utopia
The Skittles logo is always greyscale when they sponsor Pride events. I have no idea whether it's pride-washing, but it has more thought put into it than most.
It's a secret court making secret law. This is, by definition, both unaccountable and impossible to conclude is not being used to cover up massive abuse, because whatever is happening is being concealed from the voters.
The problem is being more concerned with the response than with what one is typing.
Tesla cuts Model Y, X and S prices in the US, ends the referral program
The guy seems to like hot takes to get attention
First association was to extend the modality of text tokens to concept tokens which could be (logical) relationships. Are you aware of similar works?
Thank you for sharing, DeanCommie.

In my experience reading the interwebs, a non-negligible amount of people see anti-Zionism as a belief that the state of Israel should not exist without seeming any nuance.

Same goes for definition of Zionizm which often lacks nuance in the modern age.

Because of this lack of nuance, both words are often weaponized in todays short form communication styles

Your views are complexed and nuanced on other hand as they often are.
Down at the bottom, it’s just Gibbs sampling iirc. A distribution of distributions of Gibbs sampling
Is the Internet the Enemy of Progress?
Historically it was very common for the clergy in Britain to have nerdy/scientific hobbies and collections.
I'm in the US. Part of my hospital's workflow for a deceased patient is calling their GP's office to notify them of the death. As far as I am aware, this is mandated by state law. If a patient is discharged, a summary of their hospital course is faxed to their GP's office at the time of discharge. Or transmitted electronically, if possible.
Further, I work in the WMS (warehouse management system) field, and formerly at on the top vendors for that type of software. They explicitly did not run their cloud products on AWS, because multiple customers had that same policy.

It's not just Walmart that fears Amazon spying through AWS.
I feel you. Fighting with burnout for nearly a year now, took many weeks off because of that (and I'm younger than you!). I still mostly enjoy coding privately but not the things I do at work. Everything has to be done "yesterday", management doesn't care about thousands of bugs, every week new features, customer asks, management says yes, needs to be done in a week or two. Daily standups lasting 45-60 minutes, a lot of time wasted in pointless meetings. I'm only doing React Native (TypeScript) currently and this whole thing is such a mess. Did other projects in Java before that which I enjoyed a lot more. I'm feeling like I'm forgetting everything and my brain only knows JavaScript now. Finding a new job is next to impossible or full of red flags.

First thing you should do: Take time off. Like 2-4 weeks. Talk to your doctor. Don't get a bad feeling because you are "doing nothing" or because "your colleagues have to do everything". No one cares about that, trust me. Do something completely different in this time, like talking daily walks.

And don't worry about AI, it won't take your job. Not in Europe ;).
Why a Housing Shortage Exists Despite More Houses per Person
It varies by cohort and age of companies. But the 10 year average is:

- 58% alive

- 8% acquired

- 34% dead
Yes, you noticed. Although I very much disagree with Daniel's post, it is always good to have two different perspectives.

Respect to Dang for not taking it down.
> is there a chance the company gets bought out and liquidated for its assets

Not really. Its partially state owned and considering the influence of the unions and the government nobody could really buy it (especially not to liquidate it).

The valuation is not great, but they are still reasonably profitable also it pays a 5-7% dividend which is quite decent (and I think if its taken into account the return over the last 5 years was positive if still not great).
Do you remember when the government gave a large bribe to Microsoft for taking over Skype? this kind of shit is nothing new.