skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Other info: This reauthorization of FISA includes the Turner-Himes amendment introduced by Reps. Mike Turner (R-OH) and Jim Himes (D-CT). (introduced House, passed Senate)

The Turner-Himes amendment expands the definition of “electronic communications service (ECS) provider” to include “any service provider” that has “access to equipment that is being or may be used to transmit or store wire or electronic communications.” (except not personal dwellings and restaurants)

Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) comment: “It allows the government to force any American who installs, maintains, or repairs anything that transmits or stores communications to spy on the government’s behalf. That means anyone with access to a server, a wire, a cable box, a wifi router, or a phone. It would be secret: the Americans receiving the government directives would be bound to silence, and there would be no court oversight.”

EFF comment: “The Justice Department is playing word games when it says the amendment doesn’t change the ‘structure’ of 702 because the law prohibits targeting entities inside the United States. Garland’s pledge, isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on; if this amendment becomes law, the DOJ can and almost certainly will rely on it to conscript other providers who fit within its very broad scope.”

Notably, Trump doesn't like FISA? (removed yelly caps) “Kill FISA, it was illegally used against me, and many others. They spied on my campaign!!!”

Pelosi's speech was amusing: “I don’t have the time right now, but if members want to know I’ll tell you how we could have been saved from 9/11 if we didn’t have to have the additional warrants.”

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/18/24134196/senate-cloture-v...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/12/fisa-surveil...
> In the article I assume you have a server running somewhere. Preferable a dedicated one.

Isn't Hetzner Robot still technically "cloud"? You would have to hire rack space in a data center and put your computer in there if you want to really self-host.
>There's nothing brains do that cannot be explained in terms of atoms.

But the relationship between brain chemistry and consciousness is at best correlating certain conscious states with certain neurological states. The question is why there is consciousness at all. Maybe it's an emergent phenomena, sure, but it's not clear to me how the arising of consciousness from matter can be completely characterized through science. One reason is because science deals only with physical things, but consciousness is a non-physical thing. No doubt there is relevant science, but I don't know that science alone provides an explanation for why we are not philosophical zombies. You can, of course, take Dennett's view that qualia don't really exist, but in defending this view he did a lot of... philosophy.

And QFT explaining laws of nature would be strange considering QFT is included in the laws of nature.

>teleology

Well, I'm not positing that there's any purpose or telos involved in these explanations, just that there are explanations---there are reasons why things are the way they are ("why" in the sense of material or efficient causes, not final causes).

>It is an open question whether there is an "ultimate, necessary explanation to things". But science can shed some light on that by demonstrating that if there is an "ultimate, necessary explanation to things" it almost certainly has nothing to do with us humans. We're just the result of rolling countless trillions of cosmic dice in one tiny corner of the multiverse. That's not the answer that most people who ask the question of "ultimate, necessary explanation to things" want to hear, but all the evidence points to that being the truth. And so the best explanation of people asking this question hoping for a different answer is that they are engaging in the same kind of wishful thinking as, say, erstwhile inventors of perpetual motion machines. Science can't prove that it's impossible to do an end-run around the laws of thermodynamics, but there is still a reason that perpetual motion is the canonical example of crackpottery.

So my point here is simply related to your first sentence---there are philosophical arguments as to why there must be an ultimate, necessary explanation, and there are philosophical reasons to believe these arguments fail. But I don't see science as being sufficient for adjudicating this dispute, as I think you'd agree.

(I would agree with your point about how science shows us just how small humanity is in the larger cosmos, though I'm not sure that's necessarily in contradiction with religion. But that's a whole other can of worms.)
You mean just like you just did with YC?
Note TLS/HTTPS is still not working

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14172
Counter-intuitively, iOS does allow these things. Encrypted iTunes backups can be extracted and edited, revealing all* of the equivalent of /data on Android

*A few apps like Signal think they know better and opt out of iTunes backups
> If you already have a network and a decent platform to communicate with people, as well as the motivation to go at it for yourself, you're giving up a huge chunk of the company for a pittance.

But that's literally the point. You suddenly get a huge network that would help you get through the early stages.

It's certainly true that many founders would find better terms elsewhere. However, it's also true that most companies fail. So negotiating better terms usually doesn't matter nearly as much as making the company more successful. (The same rationale applies to employee equity grants)

Like you said, for people with no connections, whether just out of school or not, it's valuable.
You can read a book on the way to work. Before going fully remote, I did it every weekday, using a magnificent piece of technology called public transit.
Play Store needs to modify APK, to remove unneeded resources, and then repackage and re-sign it with the original signing key.

Android requires signature with the same signing key, when updating the application.
10 seconds after a warning which is plenty when your reading. You do need to stay awake, sober, and in the drivers seat but that’s not a big deal.
Any story that doesn’t explain why the protagonist has time and the monetary means to rove about is unrealistic.

I remember this really interesting sci-fi book series for young adults. The protagonist had received an unlimited credit card from an unknown entity. It at least explained how he could afford to do what he did .
Looks pretty cool, how many more levels are there going to be in act iii and iv?
I don't compare myself with others much. Why should I care if there are earlier-stage startups in there?

We always think that our current stage is pretty high up the mountain already (see a rough July 2022 ARR update[0] when I thought I was on top of the world) but if you zoom out, you see things with much better perspective (18 months later, the whole year of 2022 looks way less impressive[1])

If we're on the road to $100MM+ in ARR, the current spot we're at will be flattened to almost zero when you look back with perspective a few years down the line.

So there's that.

And then, "why join YC", well the answer is simple.

- We are growing, but we could grow so much faster. Everything is still on a shoestring budget.

- We have an epic roadmap and could grow the product to mind-boggling levels of awesome. YC could help us shave years off of that.

- Plus we finally cracked breakeven acquisition on cold traffic but we're strapped for cash.

- And finally, I've joined several founder "communities" in the last few months (online and local) and those are all just a dump-your-promo Slack channel with zero added value or interaction. The local "startup" events are full of startup consultants on the hunt, designers, would-be employees and the like (but zero founders). So it feels a bit lonely when you've got a challenge which is clearly in the "thousands of founders must have solved this exact same problem before, so why should I bang my head on the wall" category.

So: advice, founder-friendly terms, a network of peers, and not having to chase investors for capital. That's why I applied.

[0]: https://nuro.video/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Capture-de%CC%...

[1]: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSEOGmySAAyv...
Not really if you are using FaaS (lambdas)
Why We're Doing This
That result library doesn’t look thread safe at all. I would be extremely cautious using it.
Yeah, we've got the GCP equivalent with a monolith running on Cloud Run, Cloud SQL, Cloud Load Balancer, and a few misc services that are pennies per month (Tasks, Scheduler, Secrets Manager, Cloud Build, etc). Scales elastically, all kinds of niceties around security, backups, observability, zero downtime deployments, preview environments, etc. that required basically no work from us to build. Handles a lot of traffic for cost that's in the range of hundreds per month. Devs spend basically no time on any of that after the initial setup and can focus entirely on development. I could build all of that out on some VMs or hardware (I've done all that stuff in the past, racking servers, managing Xen, DRBD, database clusters, etc) and probably save a little bit of money, but nowhere near enough to justify all the extra time and distraction. If we outgrow Cloud Run, it's an easy path to GKE or if we grow to where the cost is worth staffing out, it could all run on VMs or hardware without significant changes. In the meantime, I'm not worrying about NICs failing, OS packages needing to be patched, and so on.
I’m curious, have you tried SumatraPDF (uses muPDF under the hood)?

https://github.com/sumatrapdfreader/sumatrapdf
Yeah thats why OpenAI, etc don't run 7B

But for scrapping, and tool calling it represents a substantial gain.
I’m going to be honest, to me this sounds like a huge hassle that isn’t worth $15/month.

I can understand not paying for streaming you aren’t actually watching but this is in a whole other level
Actually, this is what Americans *want* to do. The whole move to streaming was supposed to solve one problem: I only want to pay for what I watch.

Cable used to bundle 200 channels together for $100+ when you maybe had 2-3 shows you regularly watched. When a new show came up on a channel you didn’t have, you had to purchase a “bundle” of 20 extra channels you’re not going to watch. And some of these things had 12 month contracts. When Netflix came along, they added a bunch of shows and movies in one place for a fixed monthly price, which you could cancel any time. But then individual TV channels instead of partnering with Netflix, decided they needed their own streaming service, effectively again asking consumers to subscribe to multiple services even if those services have only one or two good shows to offer. Consumers don’t want to pay for what they don’t watch, so a solution is to subscribe, watch the one show you want and then cancel.
It'll take some time to setup but NixOS with nixops and maybe disko can do a lot depending on your use case..

I just use NixOS flakes with a syncthing'ed flake repo across 5 hosts (desktop, laptop, a media device (NUC7), a home server and a VPS). It has its problems, but I'll iron them out eventually.

As always start small...
Top Russian Hypersonic Scientist Sentenced to 7 Years for Treason
Confusingly, this tweet is about why you should join YC. History is full of young men on boats, in the wilderness and in formation to have a small chance at glory. All of those guys were giving up a lot more than a 7% stake, and eating worse than ramen, and living worse than a cramped apartment.

The reason you shouldn't do YC is simpler. It commits you to the VC track. Whatever you build is eventually going to suck because of enshittification.

YC = VC

If the VC thing doesn't bother you then try for YC for sure. It is overwhelmingly the best way to do that unless you're a rich kid who can leverage his connections. And even if you are that rich kid it's still the best way.
How do you know? That's the whole point of propaganda.
But make no mistake, this website is a comprehensive catalog of ever mono/diwheel I have ever seen, known of, or heard of. The title is a terrible misnomer, and the web site, is absolutely comprehensive.
I can't speak to the general case, but in this specific case, the city has decided to basically punt and wait for the province's plan. Is the province being slow? Maybe.

https://www.ontariocanada.com/registry/view.do?postingId=390...
How should I know, provide some data to support that claim. Could be more people are cohabitating to meet the higher rents. Roommates are still better than homelessness, after all. There is a ton of evidence for financial shenanigans and only modest evidence of actual shortage. As with most things these days, its a problem is distribution and ownership model, not supply.
Plain text is more easy to reason about, because we are used to process text. A good textual output, that is records delimited by spaces, tabs or a delimiter, to me is all it's needed, for most applications.

An object structure it's much more complex to use. For example an output that is a set of records can be easily imported in an Excel sheet, in an SQL database, processed line by line, without issues. Processing JSON is not straight forward, not all programs support JSON.

Finally JSON can't be processed as a stream, meaning that tools like head, tail, etc. doesn't work on JSON, you have to read it all in memory, or use JSON lines, that is not a standard format, that not all parsers support natively, etc.

JSON is good if for integrating the program inside other programs (as a subprocess), so having an option to input/output JSON in a program is useful, but to me it's not as useful for interactive shell usage. I prefer to use UNIX tools such as grep, cut, head, tail, etc.
Not the first, but the Jupiter Ace always deserves a mention. For the curious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Ace
The issue is that they provide this wonderful service on donated money, and despite having been donated enough money now to provide it in perpetuity, they continue to beg for more while they are running the balance down by massively increasing their spending on nonsense. WMF are not Wikipedia, they are a parent organisation that spends little on keeping Wikipedia running, and a lot on their own ballooning wages.
busybox, openssl, curl. Done. :)
I think it's more likely we'll each have a GenAI that will basically reproduce a close approximation of the things you like (including old reruns) for your one personal entertainment "bundle" than to see a real bundle platform like this emerge.

Hey <your assistant>, watch Seinfeld <generates indistinguishable Seinfeld>
Reasoning 1 vs. 3 is the number of reasoning tokens between each "text" token. The 1 reasoning token is exactly what you see in the picture explanation in the article.

The generalization comes from making the network predict a <"start reasoning token"> and end the sequence only when it predicts a <"end reasoning token">. The training dataset for the upcoming experiment contains examples like:
"""
Q: What is 3+2?
A: 3 + 2 is equal to <start reasoning> <reasoning> ... <reasoning> <end reasoning> 5
"""
> Actually you haven’t been able to play WoW in China for a ~year

Not true: https://www.wowhead.com/news/over-two-million-players-sign-u...

Their services are literally live right now if they are taking signups.
Google is not a unitary entity.

The way Google uses those keys forces them to be on, or at least usable from, many machines accessible to many people. That is bad key hygiene, and exposes the keys to many threats of many kinds.

The people who maintain Android are not the people who curate the Play Store, nor are they necessarily using exactly the same tools or infrastructure. Letting the Play Store subvert security unilaterally enlarges the human, organizational, and technical attack surface for any number of threat actors. Furthermore it's easier to unobtrusively modify one user's copy of VLC than to modify one user's copy of Android, and also easier to change it back to cover your tracks.

All of this significantly increases the chance of the whole system being subverted by any of a variety of threat actors from random rogue employees right on up to nation states.

> Besides, giving Google the keys to sign the APKs allows Google to make tailored APKs for devices

That could have been done without giving (any part of) Google the keys, using an obscure technique known as "a system design and manifest format that aren't minimum-effort-by-minimum-talent garbage".

This is all really, really basic stuff. You don't just go around giving away giant attack surfaces for free. And Google is getting it wrong because doing it right would be slightly inconvenient.
We applied to YC and were rejected, which was probably good for us (less dilution, etc.). That said, you get some pretty unfair advantages being a YC company.

My cofounder has 20 years in the industry and I have a solid tech background with a track record of success. We had leads at the time; a demo product, etc. We raised without YC and have been doing well.

One of competitors (little experience, no product, no customer leads) got into YC. Immediately they were considered credible. They are getting effectively the same interest with nothing and that’s what YC offers. They are good at branding and offer you their brand, advice and network. All of which is well worth the cost if you have nothing to start with.

Now ultimately the best product will win and I’m confident in ours. That said, for someone starting out with little network or connections it’s worth YC.
the issue here is that the content producers have long followed a model where they want to make things as complicated as possible. many distribution channels with different pricing models and different time and geographic windows. they want to squeeze every last drop out of their portfolio. they also want the agency to renegotiate distribution at the drop of a hat, and to do as many experiments with bundling and marketing as they can.

so unless you own the whole thing soup to nuts ala Netflix (which is apparently really running out of resources to produce decent content), idk what a distributor is going to able to do here
During the cable era, we stuck with one vendor because the sons-a-bitches lobbied to limit competition. We're still suffering the aftereffects of that today.
What's next on TV?
I’m not sure “rights” are the correct framing. The protesters surely expected to be fired. They traded their jobs for attention on an issue they cared about. The question of what is a legitimate protest, and when doing illegal things is tactically optimal, is quite a complex issue.

I think the only element of surprise/outrage was that seeming bystanders also got fired.

To understand this, consider Google’s position here; cynically it makes sense to use this as an opportunity for an “Object Lesson” (in Horowitz’s terminology). The decision to fire everyone here was obviously excessive, and that is the point. A proportionate response would not convey the message as clearly to staff. “Bring your whole self to work” is no longer the rule, this is clearly an attempt to signal that employees must yield to corporate values (or go elsewhere if they disagree). In other words the standard expectations from your employer, outside the SV bubble.
The biology doesn't change of course, but the procedures, drugs, medical devices, treatments and overall knowledge and best practices does.

An annual physical is such a small and simple subset of the total medical field so not sure why you bring it up.
(Obligatory "anecdotal, but") I noticed that some routers have a very limited DHCP server, for example being limited to 100 simultaneously-connected devices only. Multi-tenant households with IoT devices may approach that number, the highest number I've seen is around 80 currently.

The S in IoT stands for security, of course. But it's going to be a bummer if my IoT devices forces me or my guests out of my network.

IPv6 can be made stateless with SLAAC so DHCP (and any DHCP-related limitations in the router) are completely out of the picture.
1. Yes.

2. That's irrelevant on multiple levels

3. Cognitive abstractions aren't beings, can't have a morality to evaluate.

"As moral as Darwinian Evolution" is not a good look, particularly in regards to livelihood rather than survival.
It’s really that people care more about the specific content, and not at all where it’s hosted. There’s no “loyalty” to one provider or another as much as they hope there could be.
For example these tax credits :

https://www.canada.ca/en/revenue-agency/services/scientific-...

are amazing.
"There's no such thing as bad publicity."
I'm using Dial's PC drivers :)
First Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen
I would argue that logic is more math than philosophy.

I'll grant you Popper. But he's the exception (along with Dennett and Maudlin) not the rule.
That seems like common sense, no? Why would you pay for something that you don't use?
Sometimes, definitely. Other times it’s obstructionist.
Aren't Chrome tabs supposed to be isolated processes? That seems like quite the vulnerability if it can crash the entire browser.
Oh man, these looked so awesome. I miss these phones sometimes. There was something cool about seeing what features different phones had. Nowadays, it's basically iOS vs Android, where both OSes do pretty much the same things, and it's all about the apps.
This is a repost from the authors blog before the W24 deadline:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37869760
> The virus sculptures are approximately 1,000,000 times larger than the actual viruses.

I've a T4 in metal; glad to see it interpreted in glass!
The developers of muPDF would likely be interested in the files that are rendered incorrectly so that can be fixed
Unfortunately paying Apple’s extortion fee might provide ammo to legitimize it.
Just because you see some doesn’t mean they don’t.
And level 5 beats level 3, however I don’t have any public transport options on the way to work and nobody is selling level 5 self driving cars. Mercedes hasn’t mapped my roads either, but that’s a lower barrier than getting nationwide public transportation setup.
What orthogonality? “Line-based data” that varies randomly from tool to tool? Using json between programs is perfectly orthogonal.