skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brief notes after spending 10 minutes figuring out how to get this, not nitpicking or saying you got anything wrong. Source was page with "54" at the bottom

- Unvested grants over 4 years vs. buybacks this year
- #s are for 2020, not 2023
- # excludes tax witholdings (i.e. shares they'll never grant).
- For 2020, grants of 15.539 - 10.273 witholding = ~5B, matching sibling comment's correction
- $2.324B is one of 4 columns, real number is $50.274 B
- so for 2020, real #s are 5.26B in unvested grants over 4 years versus 50.274B in buybacks that year.
- for 2023, 22.578 - 10.164 = 12.4B in unvested grants over 4 years, versus 62B in buybacks that year
British defamation law is notoriously friendly to plaintiffs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law

> English defamation law puts the burden of proof on the defendant, and does not require the plaintiff to prove falsehood. For that reason, it has been considered an impediment to free speech in much of the developed world. In many cases of libel tourism, plaintiffs sued in England to censor critical works when their home countries would reject the case outright.
News, reporting of things which have happened on this day in the country which I reside. I don't recall the last time this occurred?
I have seen other similar tools/tech on hn

https://briarproject.org/

https://github.com/berty/berty

There were 1 or 2 more like these but don't remember there names.
PenX: An open-source structured digital assets wallet for geeks
This is the libertarian argument that since businesses try to maximize profits, they would not do things like discriminate, pollute or defraud because in the long-term it would hurt profits.

The reality is businesses (including organized crime) are made up of individuals, who do illogical and short-sighted things all the time.
In 2024 it's a subscription service with the world's worst UX. I only have internet-delivered TV, and so I'd be very happy with an iPlayer that just unlocks more content behind a subscription fee.
So they got scared and jumped the gun in an attempt to protect the Scala community?
Absolutely not. I would pay $30 - $50 a month for this functionality. Tesla is asking $100 / month (recently down from $200).
Previously:

https://medium.com/@yifanxing/my-experience-with-sexual-hara...

https://scala-open-letter.github.io/
You can always build your own with a distro build system like OpenEmbedded, if you want to have ultimate control.

But a minbase Debian install is reasonably small by today's standards. Doing this using the Debian installer is not as easy as doing it using a tool like debos if you're trying to build a disk image or file system tarball to make a container (then you don't need the kernel). A Debian bookworm minbase container (no kernel or locales, with ca-certificates, does have systemd) works out to about 71MB gzip compressed or 212MB uncompressed (about 78MB compressed and 235MB uncompressed if you add 1 locale). That's definitely not small but it is *reasonably* small in my book today.
I think your post already shows many of those signs; it's difficult to work in, the people working on it are over complicating the infrastructure/setup, features are being scrapped just to get it out the door, no one has any interest in actually fixing or maintaining existing work and just wants to get to the greenfield parts of the project...

I'm no expert, but I suspect this all sounds like a system that's fallen victim to the Second System Effect:

https://wiki.c2.com/?SecondSystemEffect

And is blundering through many of the same mistakes as the Netscape rewrite mentioned in that Joel on Software post.
Your desktop detection is needlessly aggressive. Anything much less than a full width window fails to launch, even though the site seems to work fine after launch with narrower windows.
Well, yes, you have a point...
I'm the fool who made the original critique. The outcomes being disproportionate looks pertinent to me.

Stupidity is everywhere. Saying some things are moderately stupid in x thing, so face-palming about egregious stupidity in y thing is an overreaction is essentially dismissive of valid concerns.
>In 2022, Ostrovsky and Guy Gur-Ari, previously an AI research scientist at Google, teamed up to create Augment’s MVP. To fill out the startup’s executive ranks, Ostrovsky and Gur-Ari brought on Scott Dietzen, ex-CEO of Pure Storage, and Dion Almaer, formerly a Google engineering director and a VP of engineering at Shopify.

The other problem is they may have built a solution that was state of the art at the time but the SOTA has passed them by.

A lot of AI codegen/completion solutions were inspired by general transformer (Bert or GPT2) approaches without any type of chat tuning models.... and then OpenAI dropped ChatGPT. So what was a revolutionary demo in 2022 is now just a couple of CoT prompts in the latest openAI api call.
Thanks!

It uses a vector search approach. Your query is embedded in a vector space using a language model and we find the closest vector to the query from the PubMed papers. This is a good summary of the techniques: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/vector-search.... There are a couple more tricks but this is the gist.

The nice part is that this approach allows you to find relevant papers to your question. E.g, you can ask "Can secondhand smoke cause AMD?" and the very first few papers are answering your question (https://pubmedisearch.com/share/Can%20secondhand%20smoke%20c...). The more specific question, the better. :)
Sounds like the car insurance companies should have taken out policies for sudden events beyond their control.

Other types of insurance companies do so; For example, State Farm might take out a policy to backstop their cash reserves where the terms are if they exceed over $100million in claims in a 2 week period of time.
When I read the initial post I chalked it up to there's always another side of the story. The problem is while we want to really punish rapists we can't just do witch hunts based on hearsay and throw innocent people under the bus.

Also the importance given to 21 and 35 seems indirectly to imply something shady which is not the case, it can be a relationship of 2 consenting adults.

I wish all the best and may you even further clear your name. You went through a horrible ordeal.
"Quick-UI-Tour"

https://github.com/Cuis-Smalltalk/Learning-Cuis/blob/master/...

"The Cuis Book"

https://cuis-smalltalk.github.io/TheCuisBook/
This is a complex issue. In fact, you can work with Pharo in a Unix-like manner. Use an external editor to modify the source code and run the image without any GUI. However, by doing so, you lose the most interesting and enriching aspects of it. The Pharo team has worked hard to integrate better with the world outside the Pharo image. People still complain that it is not like anything else they know, but if it were, they would miss the opportunity to learn how to do things differently and possibly better. There is also a lot of excellent documentation available, especially the MOOC, but it requires newcomers to invest some time.
Not sure about this case specifically, but its possible to sell shares in a private company (with some restrictions), and for companies like Stripe that have very high valuations its not that hard to get liquidity.
I think we should create lots of examples of mapping natural language statements into predicate calculus, or some similar formal language. Then add lots of symbolic deduction statements, perhaps generate tons of them. Then train a LLM with that.

Then AI should be able to handle both symbolic and "neural" reasoning?
It’s funny because in Stripe Sessions they seems quite careful to say “machine learning” and not “AI” which I found quite refreshing. It was “ML to help improved results of …” and not “AI will do magic!”, but of course, that doesn’t stop the press from rephrasing it into what appears to the casual reader as the same ol’ hype nonsense.

Congrats to the Stripe folks! Metrics API is exactly what I needed.
Technically, vitamin D is a steroid, not a vitamin.

I'm not assuming it's safe. I'm merely asserting it's not as cut and dried as "steroids: bad."
Is there a reason that reflected light off a vertical plane has a particular polarization? I know that light reflected off the ground gets polarized (which is why polarized sunglasses help so much) but that reflection is at a steep angle and not near/at 90 degrees.
Git works over email; it works across folders (including remote ones); it can read/write several standalone file formats (patches, bundles, etc.) that can be sent via carrier pigeon, etc. As far as I'm aware, there are no technical problems with "push[ing] to people directly" (or likewise allowing others to pull from you).

There is a technical problem in the P2P setting, where it's not just one individual connecting to another. P2P protocols which just replicate data, like Bittorrent, can't negotiate a delta when pushing/pulling, so users have to keep pushing/pulling the entire repo. Radicle's network is smarter, allowing deltas to be calculated.

They also seem to be proposing many other things, which I'm more skeptical of; but at least that point seems valid.
College kids need to be on their laptops all day?

Nah that is post purchase rationalization.
Totally in love with Alpine Linux as well. I wrote a few guides how to use it, including making a minimal file server [1] or hoow to PXE boot Alpine Linux with NFS storage and even Desktop Environments [2]

Also in my homelab I have a Docker Swarm system on multiple Lenovo Tiny nodes which all run Alpine Linux because it has much less overhead compared to Ubuntu or even Debian

[1] https://blog.haschek.at/2020/the-perfect-file-server.html

[2] https://blog.haschek.at/2019/build-your-own-datacenter-with-...
Well in the case of defamation the damage has already been done, necessarily. So the defendant is really a prosector, and they are asked for their evidence. See,
eg., this case.

Also,...
> The court ruled that Irving's claim of libel relating to Holocaust denial was not valid under English defamation law
Agreed. I know absolutely nothing about this particular case so I'm not passing judgement on it specifically. But as a British person I've learned over the years (and the endless court cases by football players etc) to pretty much totally disregard the outcome of these kind of cases.
The point is totally different: the purpose of both is upstream-managed distribution, consider individual distro like a container ship to be loaded, something not to care about, a commodity.

We know the arguments: often distro packagers are late to update, some projects are very complex to be packaged and demand gazillion of resources to be built, upstream devs on contrary will surely keep they project package up-to-date, sandboxing is good for safety etc. BUT we also know the outcome: 99% of such packages are full of outdated and vulnerable deps, they are themselves mostly outdated, since they are not packaged by the upstream devs who just publish the code as usual, and they have many holes punched here and there because a browser that allow to download some files but you can't open them in other apps is useless, as a pdf reader who can't read a file because it's outside the right place. Beside that you get a 30+Gb desktop deploy instead of a 10Gb, dab performances, polluted home directory, very scarce ability to automate AND all of them still need a classic package manager since they can't handle the base system.

So why them? Because SOME upstream do not want to allow third party distribute their binaries, they are commercial vendor. They NEED such system to sell they products ensuring they can work as a cancer in an open ecosystem, not designed to be a ship for something but a unique individual desktop anyone tune as he/she want.

That's why they are crap.

The next step to classic package management is the declarative/IaC one, like NixOS or Guix System. Those who want Snap, Flatpack, Appimage, ... just want Windows, with all the bloats and issues of Windows.
The "manpages" and any "locale" packages are neither required nor important so are not included in a Debian minbase install. If you want them, you can install them easily with apt.

I'm not sure what you mean by apt being stripped down. You get the normal apt still.
It's a big part of why Jimmy Savile got away with it despite everyone apparently knowing what he was up to, nobody wanted to run the story because they anticipated it would get shot down as libel. The BBC greenlit an investigation into the allegations immediately after he died, they knew full well there was dirt there but they wouldn't touch it until he was in the ground.
It depends on a lot of factors like the scarcity of labor, availability of capital, and coordination capacity of workers and owners.

for example, if you have a scarcity of labor, then labor sets the terms. AI architects could form a union any day they want, they just dont want to.
Every credible claim that hasn’t been ruled a bird, balloon, etc. is likely just a classified test aircraft / drones or EW system.

It has been a running joke for 50+ years in the aerospace industry. People want to believe in fantastical theories so they lean into it.
What is a good machine to run LLM's on?
I would like to really just run OpenwebUI and a few models for local chat use. I'm not into training (yet) and am patient- what is a good cost effective way to get started?
LLMs are commoditized; data is the differentiator
At some point you have to decide what you value in life, the originality of singular human experiences or the average aggregate of LLM users. Outside of purely technical problems ai will never be the answer (and in its current state it isn't even good at that)

Personally one interests me way more than the other, I'm not going to read a book about the average experience of an average spelunker, but I'll gladly read Michel Siffre's books.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Siffre
Pretty cool!

Some feedback that I hope is useful:

1. You seem to be pushing a lot of history entries (as in `window.history`) when opening the Wikipedia pages, but they end up empty when you close the popup so browser back/forward is broken.

2. In my 2560x1440 (`document.body.clientWidth/Height` of 2031x779) the periodic table is higher than the body, which adds a vertical scroll. Not sure if this is intentional, but would be nice if the periodic table was fully contained in the viewport.

3. Related to (2), since the body is taller than my viewport, the Wikipedia popup is overflowing off my viewport, which adds even more scrollbars and I can't properly see the bottom part of the Wikipedia page.

4. There is some right margin somewhere that is adding horizontal scroll (Firefox Windows)

For (2) and (3) you might wanna use viewport units (`vh`, `vw`, `vmin`).
> strings having an encoding and byte strings being for byte sequences without encodings

You got it kind of backwards. `str` are sequence of unicode codepoints (not UTF-8, which is a specific encoding for unicode codepoints), without reference to any encoding. `bytes` are arbitrary sequence of octets. If you have some `bytes` object that somehow stands for text, you need to know that it is text and what its encoding is to be able to interpret it correctly (by decoding it to `str`).

And, if you got a `str` and want to serialize it (for writing or transmitting), you need to choose an encoding, because different encodings will generate different `bytes`.

As an example :

>>> "évènement".encode("utf-8")
b'\xc3\xa9v\xc3\xa8nement'

>>> "évènement".encode("latin-1")
b'\xe9v\xe8nement'
AWS now supports multiple MFA devices per account.
A General Framework for Monocular 3D Object Detection
> Have fun replacing all your credentials at the same time when your phone dies.

I won't have to, because I've got passkeys on my desktop, my laptop, on my security token, etc. Losing one device won't lock me out.
I think they have sufficient evidence to win the suit in the US. From the court:

The Defendants accept that they have never had any evidence to support the allegations apart from the two unverified claims published in coordination with the Open Letter. They were never in a position to make any informed judgement on the truth of the allegations, and did not seek clarification on any of the allegations from the Claimant.
> Many people have literally wasted their lives with this.

That's why we might be better off letting AI develop the String Theory.

> Just like new age religion.

Religion is not waste of time really, it is part of one's world-view. It doesn't try to accomplish anything, except perhaps motivate us to not do bad deeds to avoid going to Hell.
I think that is over-stated. Much of it depends on the home people want, how long they will save, and commute distance acceptable. At 200k, it isnt that people can't buy a house, it is that they dont like what they can afford.

You cant afford a downtown penthouse/mansion on SF & NY with 200k, but you can absolutely buy a home in both locations.
> The coated flakes soak carbon dioxide, and produce positively and negatively charged particles. The positive ions are big and stay confined in the gel, while the much small negative ions move through the hydrogel channels, producing electricity.

From time to time, you must regenerate the "coated flakes" or change them, so it's like a AAA batery. It has energy stored in a strange way, and the energy is released with the CO2. So instead of a lithium ion rechargable battery, you get a worse battery.
You Can't Teach Caring
So if I got this right it's the open letter (second link) that was deemed defamatory, and not the story from the first link?

> The Defendants accept that they have never had any evidence to support the allegations apart from the two unverified claims published in coordination with the Open Letter. They were never in a position to make any informed judgement on the truth of the allegations, and did not seek clarification on any of the allegations from the Claimant.

How does this vindicate him?
I'm not sure if you're aware of how much irreducible complexity the overall government apparatus deals with.

Yeah there are simple things that can be improved, like not using physical mail, and better appointment handling and such. That exists. But if you talk to people working in this business... those are the easy parts and people are working on those.

Then there is thousands of requests for building permits and these have to be checked, or people die because of buildings collapsing. And you need a skilled person to look at each individual location one at a time, because of physics. Those parts are really hard.
> I mean, look at what's happened with anti-abortion laws post Roe v. Wade

The overturning of R v W simply kicked the issue back to the states, with each state now having the right to make up their own laws around it. In a way this move was "anti-totalitarian" because now instead of 8 justices making up the rules, each state can do what they want.

> with the "anti-woke" backlash leading to book burnings and closing libraries for hosting wrongthink

Can you point me to a source on these supposed book burnings? If you are talking about book bans then this applies specifically to school libraries, you can still buy every book that is "banned" on Amazon, not much of a ban when you can get is shipped to your house in 2 days or get it instantly as an eBook. And as for the "anti-woke" backlash, this is mostly drummed up by political commentators that are looking for views and attention and are cherry picking various instances to highlight their point.

> the whole moral panic over trans "groomers,"

Again to go back to my point about political commentators drumming stuff up for views. Most of this moral panic I only see on Twitter / X and personally I don't think a Twitter moral panic can be equated to a legit moral panic.

IMHO the notion of "turn off the TV and go outside" is not a bad prescription. If you're on X, listening to Fox News or poltical podcasts all the time you can easily get the impression that there is something seriously wrong because all these disparate events are combined into one news segment. But personally my threshold is "do I see it outside of the news" and so far, the answer has been a definitive "no"
At this point nothing ought to be inserting BOMs in utf-8. It's not recommended, and I think choking on it is reasonable behaviour these days.
A person who says they don't have hard data on search quality, but they know it's worse, is not making a serious argument.
It's not a distro war. It's a paradigm. Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, OpenSuse, ... are all classic distros meant to be manually handled, some are rolling, some are not, but they share the same '80s style way of work.

Declarative distros offer:

- stability

- easy replication

- easy upgrades

- easy rollback

Ubuntu in the past was interesting because Unity was a nice desktop environment for both a newcomer and a seasoned user, it does not interfere narcissistically with the user actions like Gnome SHell that to it's best to be at the center of anything or modern KDE. Unity was as minimal a Fluxbox while as nice and dice for users like a modern desktop environment. And was an Ubuntu only show.

After that Ubuntu is just another classic distro, good for a distro war between the Debianist the RH-ist etc. It's another SuSe back than. With NOTHING special to offer, except that it annoy it's users with snap.
That would be the first step of rollout. The next step would be to ask you in ways that make it hard for you to say no. An LLM agent isn't going to stop companies from bad behavior/dark patterns, it's going to make them more effective at deploying dark patterns to segments of the market.

I think only competition and/or regulation helps push down the allure that dark patterns present to companies.
> Also,... > The court ruled that Irving's claim of libel relating to Holocaust denial was not valid under English defamation law

Getting this ruling on one of the most heavily documented historical facts in existence cost millions and two years of litigation.

That has an obvious chilling effects to alleging misconduct that isn't documented in a few thousand scholarly books.
> the most extreme form is the only one that goes viral.

Thus social media drives society insane.
I never have more than 10 tabs open at a time. I use VSCodium or vim on the CLI.

No problems.
> "am I a feature or a bug"

maybe virus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgS1Lwr8gq8
That's awesome to hear, thanks for sharing!
“OpenTelemetry.js” is written in typescript and they thought putting argument types on functions would protect them from bad inputs and thus “1” + 1 problems. Only none of that happens when calling it from JavaScript.

Somewhere in our half million line (I actually don’t know, because we didn’t have a monorepo) application someone turned a stat into a string and I never did track it down.

When we migrated from StatsD that became a problem.
There is a discord, which kinda misses the point.
Works fine for me on firefox 125.
On UK Teacher Twitter, there are two factions that disagree noisily but civilly: the 'trads' and the 'progs'. Both factions have educational psychology research to back up their claims: the progs lean mainly on research from big institutions, often international; the trads often do research in their own classrooms. The trads' pupils seem to do better in the UK's public examinations, but that might be an artefact of those exams.

It's also worth noting that half of all teachers leave the profession leave within five years. Forty years thus represents about eight generations of teachers being trained with their own biases, refining their ideas in classroom practice, and then training the next generation. On top of this are the cycles of trendiness in the various schools of thought in educational psychology, as well as the varying policy platforms of governments. Educational practice from four decades is less historical and more archaeological.