skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>and the US just forced TikTok to sell based on national security concerns

First, worth noting that this is very much TBD. There are grave 1st Amendment concerns with the government's efforts there and it is very much an open question for now whether the effort will actually hold up in court. That said:

>what’s stopping Uncle Sam commandeering Novo to either sell off its Ozempic ownership as a subsidiary to force a lower general sales price, or forcing to nullify its patents? I’m speaking legally rather than economically.

So as a practical matter, and as with TikTok, Novo Nordisk is not a domestic company it's a foreign one. But unlike TikTok where China is a geopolitical opponent, Novo is Danish and thus part of a close ally. Second the people pushing the TikTok thing are fine with TikTok going away entirely in the US, that's the stick. The US has zero power jurisdiction over China just as the reverse is true, but can police its own market and thus say "comply or lose access to our market". Same as how the EU is pushing stuff like the DMA. Since the US market is valuable that's a sizable stick, but TikTok very likely even if they lose will tell the USG to pound sand and just leave, but Congress/WH wouldn't mind that.

But here the whole point is that people desperately want this product. So if Novo said "no, and we're ceasing all sales in the US" they'd take a major financial hit sure, but there'd also be massive blow back in domestic and international politics. It would definitely be questioned on various US/EU trade agreements which would have messy legal implications, and invite tit-for-tat. Nationalizing foreign IP would implicate a bunch of treaties and US itself pushed hard and benefits from.

But putting all that aside and pretending it was all domestic (or going specifically after domestic components), there is still the Takings Clause of the 5th Amendment. The government could legally seize it using eminent domain powers, though it'd no doubt face as good a legal fight as the highest paid law firms could put on. But I don't think there's any doubt this would be a clear case of public use and courts have approved vastly more dubious and worse takings.

However, there's no dispute government would then have to pay the entire fair market value for it, whatever anyone else would have to pay to buy the whole shebang right now. Novo as traded on the NYSE has a market cap of over $430 billion, and a sizable chunk of that is from this product which has sold well enough to measurably boost the entire Danish economy. The stock has nearly tripled in just the last year and half or so. Even if the US part of that one component was "only" 25%, $100b is not nothing, not even for the USG. And FMV might well be double or more.

There would be other legal avenues to explore but that's a big one, and in turn it's not actually clear it'd save the US any money which is kind of the point, eminent domain isn't supposed to be used that way but for some critical greater good. You can gain control but you have to pay for it.
"Contact the suspicious person back through the official number or website" is always a good heuristic, especially since it works pretty well as advice for non-technical relatives.
The limits of foreign propaganda and the foundations of an effective response
Ask HN: Why is Tesla deploying 400V superchargers when others do 800V?
Every other DCFC network is mounting massive losses and has huge reliability issues, so I’m not surprised Tesla is doing things differently, but still wondering. First 800V deployments started 5 years ago. How come Tesla never decided to future-proof their hardware?

Is the higher voltage contributing to the high fault rate of other chargers? Arcing problems?

Is it significantly more expensive to deploy, because silicon carbide or whatever?

The cybertruck just splits its 800V pack into 400V in parallel to charge off 400V. They must have anticipated that backward compatibility won’t be an issue, so they’re in no rush, but I assume they’d prefer to deploy 800V if it wasn’t for some downsides. What are they?
Liu Cixin's War of the Worlds (2019)
Haha! I guess the honest reason is that I love digging way too deep and over engineering my projects :D
Experience that all the time with the same imagery, with the same amazement / horror combination.

What's more amazing is when you share this fact to most people "did you know each dot here is a GALAXY, not a star!" they go "heh... interesting" and shrug.

For some reason that makes the whole thing even crazier to me
Seems more like a GPT-4.5 than a GPT-5
From my experience with "specialists", internal peace of mind is not what you will get from most mental health "professionals".
Yes. And they've also introduced a new kind of tedium in going round in circles while it doesn't understand you, then you give up and go back to SO.
We live in an exciting time where technology has evolved beyond imagination, yet the universe hasn't changed much in that short time span.
I type in Dvorak and 'using other computers' is not a real concern: you retain qwerty typing skills even if you use Dvorak.

It's like foreign languages: you don't forget English when you learn French.
Makes it all the more interesting that the Twitter layoffs after Musk took over didn't negatively affect operations. I was expecting the Fail Whale to make a cameo but I don't think it ever did.
> If responding to this would mean nuclear armageddon, then what is Russia doing by attacking NATO in this way?

Doing low-stakes trial runs of its capability for sabotage in a future conflict.

The reason it can do this against NATO is because NATO has non-war means to tit-for-tat punish Russia for this sort of behaviour. Those means are called sanctions, and there could always be more of them.

NATO does not do much of the converse, because Russia has very few non-war ways to punish NATO. NATO would really not like Russia's tit-for-tat response, which is why it prefers to fight arms-length proxy wars, instead.
in the major cities at least, there is significantly growing awareness atp that domestic infrastructure, technology, etc. is simply better than in the west. people meme about western cities as being comparable to villages

however

1. they certainly do recognize areas where they are "behind". more interesting than technologies (ex. space, hn's new pet topic in semiconductors eyeroll, etc.) are things like recognizing mental health concerns and better working conditions

2. there are obviously still millions upon millions of people not in the major cities, for whom life has improved but clearly hasn't reached western standards

i dont think the spirit of what youre saying is wrong, but the inferiority complex youre implying is fading fast
I still have a pretty hard time understanding what are thousands of people doing at single-product-companies. I have yet to find any normal[0] product (big ones too) that was built by a team with a bigger headcount than 10 coders. Okay, there are non-tech employees also, and all kind of supporting things... but 9000 people for a music streaming service? Even 900 sounds a lot... to me it sounds they did not lay off too many people, but they laid off the ones that they shouldn't have.

[0] - sure, not talking about full operating system level projects. But for example some of the biggest live streaming websites were put together by a group smaller than a football team.
Hi deadbunny,

I'm Saleh, co-author of the CLI tool.
the reason we have the server component is that there are over +1M possible combinations for instance types which we recommend from. we're trying to find a efficient way to release this.
The heritability of substance abuse disorders is around 0.5

For some people, they are indeed "born like this".
Interesting stuff! I've been trying ollama/gpt + continue.dev and copilot in VSCode for a bit now and the chat-style assistant is a huge plus. Especially in DevOps (my main work) the codegen is rather unhelpful, but the ability to let LLMs explain some sections and help in rubber-ducking is huge.

I see that a good output requires a good input (prompt). How does copilot workspace determine a good input for the prompt? I see that in the github repo there is already a bunch of "Tips and Tricks" to get better results. What is your experience so far? Should we change our way of creating issues (user-stories / bug-reports, change-requests) to a format that is better understood by AI/Copilot? (half-joking, half-serious).
> In-shengen border controls…

I‘m talking about temporary border controls that any country within the area may implement in certain circumstances according to the agreement. They are not the norm, Schengen is supposed to have only an external border.
Ok, but again, why is this codepage workaround only required under FreeDOS?
A little-discussed consequence of this rule is that it opens the door for the FCC and others to monitor your internet traffic.
In competition with digital platforms, Japan's bookstores rethink their strategy
From the same site https://codedbearder.com/posts/nixos-terramaster-f2-221/
Is this just inevitable now?

I also can't believe that these media companies haven't learned the lesson they shouldn't have learned by looking what happened with Google and saying maybe we shouldn't give that away, at any cost. Like what's their bargaining position after the training has been done?
Interesting. Will definitely check out that thread.
Is that really the way to see it? As I understand it, the Big Bang didn't happen in "one place". The Universe is expanding from an compressed state - the Big Bang state. But there is no center point. We can only see that there's expansion but it's not from a single point. The only known "center point" is us. And the only reason it's a center point is because we can only see as far away as light has traveled since the Big Bang.
> This places pendants like me at a serious disadvantage; I can’t rely on a dictionary to help me win arguments about correct usage.

First, unless you are dangling from a piece of jewelry, “pedants”, not “pendants”.

Second, stop worrying about “correct” usage and worry about clear and effective communication. It’s a lot less useful and convincing to argue that a usage is wrong by some arbitrary standard than to argue, e.g., that it promotes confusion where an alternative expression would be more clear to the target audience. Not only is it a more useful approach, it also lets you get benefit from dictionaries again.
I suspect this is likely a violation of agreements, but regardless it absolutely does not produce a readable ebook
Agile certainly does not replace requirements engineering. The idea that it does, is exactly the problem.

Your customer needs to know what they want. If they don't, then it is way too early to start development.

If they know only part of what they need, agile can let you start on that, while your requirements analyst (or equivalent) helps them work out the next part.

What shouldn't happen, is a lot of random sprints chasing ephemeral ideas. That's just a waste of everyone's time.
To vent one's spleen means to express angry feelings, from Hippocrates' theories about the "humors".
One of the most annoying "dropped input" problems for me is in the Linux (GNOME's?) locking screen. To unlock the machine you need press e.g. Space to get the password entry textbox to appear and focused on, then type in the password and the press Enter — that's all fine. However, after locking the screen, the monitor powers down, and so the first keypress turns the monitor back on and then only after some delay it puts focus to the password entry textbox. That means that if I go to my machine and rapidly type "Spacebar, hunter42, Enter", about 2 or 3 first characters of my password are ignored, and I get a "wrong password!" notification — again, after some delay because preventing on-site brute-forcing is important.

Constrast that with pressing F11, two arrows down to pick the correct OS, Enter, in quick succession during the boot, before the monitor boots up and starts showing the info (for some reason, this monitor I use takes about much time to boot up as the computer itself) — this has never failed me yet because apparently the bootloaders don't just throw the keyboard events away.
hi dddw, we would love to. We are looking for someone who has $100K+ spend monthly on VMs and BigQuery on GCP. If you have or know someone, we can bang this out quickly.
I meant Clinton administration
Given the nebulous nature of "fair use" it seems quite excessive to say there is a 0% chance of it being legally justified.
Anaconda is also a heavy sponsor of PyScript. The https://pyscript.com website is an online IDE for quickly trying out PyScript and building a website. If you like PythonAnywhere, you will love pyscript.com as well.
How many students / people early in career would benefit from having something to help them explore ideas?

How many don't have the advantages I had, of a four-year university, with professors and TAs and peers to help me stumble through something tricky?

How many have questions they feel embarrassed to ask their peers and mentors because they might make them look stupid?

Don't give up. This is a generational opportunity to lift up new developers. It's not perfect (nothing is). But if we sweat hard enough to make it good, then it is our chance to make a dent in the "why are there not more ______ people in tech" problem.
Yeah, and blank ones if you want to write down the party of your choice. You could bring your own ballot if you so choose, or vote pretty much anywhere else than were you live during a ~ three week long period.
I dunno, not having to move your fingers from their positions seems like a big advantage even if you can't get the full X00 wpm an expert can get in regular text.
That's very common in smaller countries. The government exists to serve its citizens, not the other way around. When you know a significant minority is less than fluent in your somewhat-obscure local language, providing a translation for that minority is almost a no-brainer.

For example: I am a Dutch citizen. Due to the European Union I have the right to live and work in Iceland. If I were to move there, I'd gain the right to vote in local elections (not national ones, gotta be a citizen for that) - without speaking a word of Icelandic. I'd also have to do taxes, renew my driver's license, and all the other government stuff.

Either I and the thousands like me are going to use Google Translate and screw it up, or they'll just have one of the many bilingual workers provide an official translation. It makes a lot of sense to just translate all official government pages, making an exception for this specific page is probably more work than just translating it too.
A plane looks like a bird, clearly it generates lift the same way!

Or, a rehash... people have said this about books for generations.
I guess smart people visit porn sites when they want to watch some.

For me it's just boring filler and I skip them.
So if the universe has a size then what do you see if you are on the edge of it? Do you see stars to the left and nothing to the right? I mean given the speed of light and the age of the universe and the rate of expansion there are regions inaccessible to us but that doesn't quite mean the universe has a finite size.
> I'd love a consumer (price) level NAS where the OS can be ripped out and replaced with some vanilla OS/kernel.

A regular PC will work fine if this is what you want to do. A lot of consumer motherboards these days have at least 2 x NVMe and 6 x SATA ports or more. There are rack-mount cases that allow you to front-mount the SATA hard drives to make it easy to swap them.

Or if you want something small, you can get a compact Mini-ITX case with 5.25" drive bays and put hotswap trays in them.

Like maybe this case
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1193826-REG/istarusa_...

And put one of these for 4 x 2.5" SSDs:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00V5JHOXQ/

And one of these for USB/SD card reader galore:
https://www.amazon.com/EZDIY-FAB-Internal-Reader-Support-Com...

The reason I often do NOT want a vanilla OS is that I don't want to have to maintain it or risk corruption of the OS partition, and don't want to ever have to wire up a keyboard, mouse, and monitor because some upgrade and reboot caused it to get stuck on some interactive prompt. Most commercial NAS (e.g. Synology) have web-based administration and read-only partitions for the OS fully figured out.
I wasn't the most well balanced kid. I'm sure I would be "diagnosed" if I were an adolescent today. I was in the outsider caste in high school. I hated sports. But I loved doing physical activities outside: hiking, swimming, camping, cross-country skiing. I credit this activity with my failure to develop any severe mental illness. That and the fact that the portable 24x7 entertainment and self-loathing generators had not been invented yet.
That could be down to the system prompt, FastChat has a default prompt for GPT with that information in it.
Got me with that one.
tldr on the haul: "the final haul for his 43 minutes of playing was $32.17. Yes, some people gave pennies."
What makes this rather obvious bad-faith attack targeted at the gullible idiots is that the nuclear exist was decided years ago by conservative government (Merkel after Fukushima). Now to pretend that finally shutting down the last three plants as planned by others a long time ago was some evil doing of the new minister (after all other plants were shut down a long time ago and the remaining operators said it makes no sense form them to continue at this time because it is too late to change course) makes no sense and this should make it obvious that there is no scandal here.
And it all runs in your own browser without needing any cloud kernels.
> At last count, Copilot had over 1.8 million paying individual and 50,000 enterprise customers.

> Copilot loses an average of $20 a month per user, according to a Wall Street Journal report, with some customers costing GitHub as much as $80 a month.

Presumably at some point they need to actually make money on this? That is a $432 million / yr loss just on individual users.
Flat(ter) here referring to the Earth as an ellipsoid, not an actual flat thing, in case people were wondering. Really enjoyed reading this, hadn't even realised how complex the political and technical practicalities of measuring the Earth were in the early 19thC.

Also, a much easier read than Pynchon's Mason and Dixon [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_%26_Dixon
That’s an interesting way of looking at it. Somebody could think about maximizing the effectiveness of society at doing war, while admitting that their competitive advantage doesn’t lay in directly doing violence. I don’t think I’ve seen that before, and I don’t think it is how most of the people who come to the conclusion that they’d rather not contribute directly to the military come to that conclusion. But it is an interesting line of thought.

I think most people just feel differently about things they do directly, than they do about things they indirectly contribute to through taxes or just existing in the economy, and don’t put a ton of thought into it.
Installing OS into a usb2 drive would’ve been plenty fast, it’s like 60 MB/s but you still get fast random I/O.
I wasn't talking about "state of the art LLMs," I am aware that commercial offerings are much better trained in Spanish. This was a thought experiment based on comments from people testing GPT-3.5 with Swahili.

> You can definitely query knowledge only learnt in one language in other languages.

Do you have a source on that? I believe this is simply not true, unless maybe the pretraining data has enough context-specific "bridge translations." And I am not sure how on earth you would verify that any major LLM only learnt something in one language. What if the pretraining data includes machine translations?

Frustratingly, just a few months ago I read a paper describing how LLMs excessively rely on English-language representations of ideas, but now I can't find it. So I can't really criticize you if you don't have a source :) The argument was essentially what I said above: since LLMs associate tokens by related tokens, not ideas by related ideas, the emergent conceptual relations formed around the token "cat" do not have any means of transferring to conceptual relations around the token "gato."
I mean we explored that a little with Copilot Voice :D https://githubnext.com/projects/copilot-voice/

But yeah, the important part is capturing your intent, regardless of modality. We're very excited about vision, in particular. Say you paste a screenshot or a sketch into your issue...
> I'm at risk of repeating myself

Yeah, maybe you should also spend some time reading and trying to understand the arguments others provide. Instead you post dozen copies of the same argument.

EDIT:

To make it easier for you, the part you ignore when you keep saying "government bad, companies good" is that when the companies don't do the bad things, it is typically when the government stops them. Otherwise, companies are happy to do... anything that a government would do (except for holding elections).
So what?

The nature of Open Source is that Abduril can use it anyway and it is more whether Nix can get funding to help it become mainstream.
Victor Suvorov wrote about GRU illegals 40 years ago in Aquarium. For all the shade thrown at his writing since, it sure has aged well. Here we are with bombings, poisonings, corruption and GRU agents creeping around in Europe today.

He wrote that the traditional method to deal with traitors in the GRU is the headquarters furnace: wire the "guilty" to a gurney and feed them in alive.

His writing about Soviet military doctrine is visible today in Ukraine as well. A giant horde of "mechanized infantry," badly led. They're still using some of the same armor.
I love IA but honestly they're almost not a library anymore. You can find entire ROMsets for a lot of consoles for games that are still being commercially sold both physically and digitally, you can download without any kinds of restrictions (no attempts at controlled digital lending or anything like it), and without having to see a bunch of ads for "Horny and Single MILFS in your area".

You can also download full TV series that are currently still available on Netflix and full movies and lots of other stuff. I'm all for archiving, and I think they'd have a case if this were Abandonware or Lost Media, but I fear that a lot of stuff on there simply isn't and their ambivalence towards flagrant abuses of copyright is going to get them repeatedly sued.

It's annoying, because IA is a wonderful resource and it would be a shame if they get sued out of existence.
Typing that is harder then solving.

Need a version that generates the grep from input
> Don't judge it by its first few episodes

Strong advice for any show.
Whatever happened to the idea of legal peer-to-peer lending? If I buy a book, it's my property to give away or resell. Why is it any different with an ebook?
> More important than traditional espionage, he said, is China’s use of a “latent network” of people who do not work directly for the Ministry of State Security but who, for commercial and other reasons, are vulnerable to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party and its myriad offshoots.

I assume this means something like: "Do us a little favor or else bad things will happen to your families or properties in China."

Once enough favors happen, they become self-leveraging: "Do Y for us, it'd be a shame if they found out about how you did X."
Nova Terra's EcoBlox
I do think workspace by GitHub is a smart move. What is clear as day is, we don't have enough data to model how developers think and iterate to solve problems. With workspace, I see it as a way to capture structured data on how developers think.

This is certainly a long game though. I think GitHub with MS money can continue to lose money on Copilot for the next 5 years to gather data. For other VC ventures, I don't think they can wait that long.