skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Microsoft's big AI ambitions helped it become the most valuable company
Yes.
I would have Monte Carlo simulation dreams that seem to prime my brain around the subject. But completely stupid and never based on the truth.

Not good sleep but I would seem to be more ‘tuned’ in on the subject.
Unexpectedly fantastic news! My wife makes extensive use of the adobe PDF editing tools, which is has been a major blocker for getting her onto linux. What is a good replacement that works on windows and linux? Non-free is fine.
If data breaches are normal, ho come that some companies/organizations had less severe or no issues with them.
Correct. Because he's famous, and because he's profiting off of influencing people's behavior.

This is called a pump and dump scam, and is fraud. It hurts real people. It's why the regulatory framework exists, to protect naive investors from predatory ones, and ensure that misconduct doesn't overwhelm the valuable functions of the market.

An old adage used to describe the law in this context: "you can be a pig, but don't be a hog".
Microsoft exec blames Azure layoffs on the 'AI wave' in leaked memo
Stripping away everything else, imagine you had a way to make a stock go up or down based on what you said. Do you think you should be able to trade? Do you think you should be able to talk?

These are kind of preposterous questions but really, with so many gullible people out there, and with the market the way it is (a nebulous machine where reaction wins out), I wonder what the point of any of it is if someone like Gill can just fuck around with it by posting on Reddit.
i think the reality is that this type of player will encounter cheaters, or avoid games where cheating is possible.

any kind of anti-cheat is by definition surveillance.

the irony is that currently none of them work. all cost, no benefit.

if these webcams were at an arcade on every machine, would it be weird?
It seems like the investigations are linked so it could be they are acting in concert in a way that prevents or disrupts competition. Say for instance, OpenAI was using Microsoft money to buy chips and Nvidia was favoring it in a way that hurt other AI startups.
We should still nail pump and dump scammers to the wall. We should also make it illegal for members of Congress to actively invest, too.
More broadly, the only reason housing is an attractive investment (rather than just the required capital for the day-to-day business of being a landlord) is that, because there's not enough housing, prices keep going up year-by-year fast enough to outpace any and all expenses.
Well, if we're taking the stories at face value, Socrates knew what he was getting himself into when he chose to die, even when he could have easily escaped. He died to prove a point. If Nietzsche thinks this is silly, it's one of those times he's at odds with his own philosophy.

> To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death of one's own free choice, death at the proper time, with a clear head and with joyfulness, consummated in the midst of children and witnesses: so that an actual leave-taking is possible while he who is leaving is still there

(Twilight of the Idols, 1888)
And so do cops, apparently, when they totally don't abuse their powers to force Google to give up your data.
But your scenario is rarely if ever the case. Especially when referring to new housing, because landlords and construction companies are typically different entities, so when the new construction is complete it goes for sale into the market and anybody has the opportunity to buy it.

Meanwhile buying up an unbounded amount of newly constructed housing only to leave it idle would be extremely unprofitable, because they would have to be paying the construction companies the existing market rate (i.e. the monopoly price) to keep someone else from getting it, but then couldn't rent it out and recover any of the money because that would increase supply and lower prices (or, to put it another way, no further renters can afford the monopoly price so their choice is a lower price or an empty unit).
For a fun intro to modern math I highly recommend: https://www.amazon.com/Love-Math-Heart-Hidden-Reality/dp/046....

This paper touches on a lot of the aspects in that book. With it and some undergrad math one can appreciate the brilliance of the paper.

Also a good reading from earlier from the same author: https://archive.is/qk5GC
> or just bite the bullet and use ULA.

This is the proper ipv6 solution.

With ipv6, one ethernet interface is _supposed_ to have multiple addresses. You wouldn't want your lan routing to stop working when your ISP goes down, right? So configure your internal DNS with ULA (which should be stable for each machine for a given prefix, even with SLAAC) and be done with it, much like internal DNS using private addresses in ipv4.

For externally visible servers, do the normal thing, that is, those servers dynamically update global dns, much the same way with ipv4 dyndns.

Another learning curve for ipv6 is that people get frustrated by dynamic prefixes, but it's the nature of residential networks: the ISPs want a stateless solution, so customers get a dynamic prefix. Maintaining the same prefix across power outages needs a stateful solution, so only business plans offer them for an extra fee, much like static ipv4 addresses.

And we've had dyndns for decades now for exactly that use case. Just keep using that.
You need an HOA if you share ownership of a multiunit building. Someone has to maintain the elevator, lobby, roof etc.
No, because he has an unusually influential position and visibility. The action is evaluated in the context of its consequences.
Where is the dump? Last time he held the shares for a very, very long time.
Things should work by design, if you have to set the line somewhere it’s going to be a mess and a waste of resources
Back in my youth I used to write farm bots for f2p asia MMORPGS with a friend. And it was basically just one more programming problem to solve. We just did it for the sake of the challenge.

While I lost interest after leveling up a few characters over night and letting the bot farm, my friend kept on working on them to make them better and sell them for little money. After all we were still in school and he made some good money with it. I'd assume that's the point for most cheat devs. Just doing it to show it could be done. Those people that annoyingly use the bots are just laughing their asses off while using them. Schadenfreude is a thing, you know?
CUDA is pure lock-in, so it only makes sense for antitrust regulators to evaluate if it's causing anti-competitive damage to the market. Hint - it is. Lock-in is never good.
Way to underplay the headline. "Roaring Kitty" is no one else but /u/DeepFuckingValue - not mere "influencer", but the face and the banner behind the ol' Robinhood/GameStock trading saga - which is why I'm not surprised the trading companies got worried.
If one can't influence the price of stock due to "fame" or "influence" in and of itself, doesn't this put public.com in extraordinarily hot water [1] ? What about Unusual Whales, Quiver Quant?

1 - https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/meet-public-com-the-soci...
Agreed. We should hold Elon Musk accountable for his misconduct in terms of market manipulation and flagrant SEC violations.
> And yet! it is obvious that GDP per-capita has been flatish throughout history by comparison to post Industrial Revolution times

The early part of exponential growth always looks flat compared to the last part, it’s the proverbial hockey stick.

There are actually continuous developments in agriculture through the Iron Age. off the top of my head there are windmills, more and better iron tools, heavy iron plows, improved crop rotation, more advanced irrigation etc. The Arab agricultural revolution changed a lot of farming technology, and facilitated exchanges between east and west. Then there was the post Columbian trade with the new world. Imagine a world without potatoes!
Custom arduino (or equivalent) cheats and spoofed-identity DMA devices have, and continue to be a factor in the cat-and-mouse game. I think the reality is that kernel level anticheats can be effective at stopping low effort cheaters, but they’re completely ineffective at stopping all cheats.

I think the success with FaceIT comes from the fact that they offer a kernel level anticheat with multiple heuristics and a paid version that makes creating new accounts hard. In-contrast, TF2 has nothing and the game is free-to-play.
Ya. This is rampant in the gaming industry. The industry is surprisingly one of the most toxic to work in IMO. At least from a consumer communication perspective. It is actually wild to think there are individuals out there that think and act this way
Google is my former employer and this statement isn't referring to stuff I heard while employed there.

But after I left, I heard a that alot of the poor performance of Cloud Run is just plain old oversubscribed shared core e2 stuff.
> I really mean doing nothing; I’ll just sit in front of my screen for a few minutes

You can go one step further and focus on your breath instead of just sitting idle to calm your mind as well (mini-meditation). I do this instead of doom-scrolling and have experienced positive results.
How does this adage describe the law? Where is the deception and fraud explicitly? Where are the non-verifable claims made? Where is the dump?

He has explained his thesis hundreds of times in public, he's following thru with that thesis, there's no surprise or rugpull.
> Surely you aren't against those?

Other people can do whatever they want, I'm not against anything. And I'm well familiar with Poe's law.

Now try not being against how I like to communicate on the internet, or OP, and everyone's happy.
The total amount of direct evidence (evidence, not assertions of secret evidence by the US government, unproven and unsubstantiated allegations of hacking or superman Bernie memes by click farms based somewhere in Russia) that Russia has "interfered" with US politics that has been released by the US government in the last 10 years adds up to less than the evidence in this article on Israel alone.

Evidence aside, I personally think it is extremely likely that Russia, China and most other countries active on the world stage have tried to "interfere" in US politics to some degree, but nowhere near the amount that we interfere in the politics of other countries or that Israel interferes in ours.
Nvidia has done many anticompetitive things over the years even if what you’re saying is generally true. Gameworks comes to mind.
It would be less weird because I'm in public with a different expectation to privacy, but your point about surveillance in general is noted.
The real trick is being somebody that a future generation will go to the trouble of defrosting.
I'm all for it. People get lucky, then try to rationalize the past with a skill narrative. Then they soak up all the grants.
>I can say this with pretty strong confidence: had the FDA not being so strict about its trials, lots of these experimental type of antibodies would have already received massived research and commercialization

If the FDA was not so strict in requiring evidence, medicine would look like the supplement aisle, and the incentive to actually do the stupidly hard work of developing effective drugs & proving their efficacy would disappear.

Why even bother investing in developing a complex new antibody if you can sell some mushroom powder from a beach and claim whatever you want about it, ala Tim Ferris & "BrainQUICKEN".

There are plently of valid "incremental" critiques about the FDA. IMO, their devices and diagnostics divisions are weaker than CDER and CBER. Even those two (drug focused) divisions can be too slow moving and occasionally capricious about when they want more evidence. But their final decisions are generally pretty good, with a few exceptions. And most of those exceptions are drugs that they approved that they shouldn't have (e.g. Aduhelm) - not vice versa.

Can you point at a promising drug candidate with statistically solid efficacy data that CDER or CBER has rejected?

Also - note that there are approved scFVs and VHHs and mimetics - as stated in the article. Each is useful in particular situations, but none is some sort of wild medical breakthrough. There is just no evidence that any of these modalities would be attracting extraordinary investment "if only it weren't for the FDA".
Anyone who thinks this is bad should revisit the Jane Harman affair from ~18 years ago. This is nothing new from Israel.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/lawmaker-n...
Probably because he has money stowed to fight the case in order to build case law AND make money from attorney fees and punitive damages in his prayer for relief if they try anything.
I thought the "ready to fly" version was more ... ready to fly. I guess it is like any other experimental, eh?
I did not mean to say that. At that time, Boeing was active in the development of the Sonic Cruiser, which was intended to be a high-subsonic M0.96 cruise aircraft. When this project was (thankfully!) cancelled at the end of 2002, all of the material technologies and business models were recycled to create the 787, intended to achieve higher fuel efficiency at standard cruise speeds. One of the recycled business models was an extraordinary degree of outsourcing.

A fun detail for you, one of the reasons that Spirit was spun off was that when they were still a part of Boeing, they were forced to bid against external suppliers for contracts on the 787, including the design and fabrication of the engine installation. (Bare engines are procured from engine manufacturer, but the airframe manufacturer is typically responsible for the inlet cowl, fan cowls, thrust reverser, exhaust system, mounting strut, and a whole bunch of other claptrap such as fire detection and extinguishing.) They had done this quite successfully for all four different engine installations on the 777. An external supplier significantly underbid them, and Wichita did not receive the contract. What of course happened is that Boeing had full visibility of the Wichita bid and could evaluate their numbers to ensure that their estimate was valid, while the external supplier lied through their teeth about their capability and capacity, and successfully underbid and won the contract, then went late and over budget. This and several other contract losses spelled the end for Boeing Wichita. If Spirit is to be maligned, the blame needs to be placed at Boeing's feet.
My first job (mid 1980s) was writing video games in Z-80 assembler for chickenfeed. I still remember that in my interview my boss-to-be talked a bit about the company, and then hired me - literally without asking a single question.

He knew I was doing computing at uni and that seemed to be enough.
The “poor” seem to scrape by just enough to get access to Netflix, sports.. I don’t think this is a money issue.
> Yes, rightsholders should be forced to choose between legal and technical protection.

This is not a serious argument because there is no doubt that they would choose legal protection, since the technical protection would never hold. It doesn't even hold as it is, when circumventing it is illegal.

The answer is much simpler: There should be no legal prohibition on circumventing technical protection. It's completely inane. If the circumvention is happening in order to infringe copyright then the infringement is already unlawful and doesn't have to be separately unlawful as a circumvention. Whereas if the circumvention is happening in order to exercise fair use or because the DRM system is restricting a work no longer under copyright, it should certainly not be illegal to circumvent it then.

So it has no legitimate purpose. Either the technical measure holds on its own (unlikely), or the legal protection should be coterminous with any resulting infringement and the technical measure should be irrelevant.
A key perspective from the article:

The resurrection of a car plant in Brazil’s poor north-east stands as a symbol of China’s global advance — and the west’s retreat.

BYD, the Shenzhen-based conglomerate, has taken over an old Ford factory in Camaçari, which was abandoned by the American automaker nearly a century after Henry Ford first set up operations in Brazil.

...

The new Brazil plant is no outlier — it falls into a wave of corporate Chinese investment in electric vehicle manufacturing supply chains in the world’s most important developing economies.

Perhaps the larger Indian companies can also find a slice of the developing economies.
How is it a pump and dump? He doesn't need anyone to do anything.

He has the position and the funds to make the play himself.
It could be something as simple as using Copilot to write code for malware. It's like saying criminals use roads or electricity.
> Companies like Google have had access to our full email, search, location, photo roll, video viewing, docs, etc history for 10+ years. I don't think also having our LLM prompts fundamentally changes this picture..

Well, but that's sort of the point of the article. You're comparing against a baseline where our privacy is already eroded. If you compare to an earlier (say, pre-web) baseline it's quite different.
It's not the cloud cost that is stopping people from doing this. It is the installation and administration cost. That requires time and expertise that most either don't have or are not willing to spend.
If you’re not hedging by buying enough shares to provide when they exercise it might as well be.
My real world experience is the same as GP's and the opposite of yours.

In case of memory over-usage:

With swap: system becomes unresponsive

Without swap: OOM kills offending process

This has been my real world experience 100% of the time on Linux.
He hasn't done anything illegal. He posts his positions after the market closes and he's talked about his thesis for years now.

We're all just getting front row seats to the show.
for pvp competitive games where cheating is possible, you and your computer must be more public while the game is active. how else could cheating be observed?

many people already run a distinct gaming pc, either for kernel anti-cheat or other reasons.

i would prefer not to be surveilled on my iphone.

i would prefer to be surveilled while playing fortnite or tf2. along with all the other players.
The convo has been a bit light on examples - I think a canonical example of how to achieve this can be found in ACID databases and high uptime mainframes. Definitely doable, but if performance and large scale data is also a concern, doing it from scratch (eg. starting with file handles) is probably a 5-10+ year process to write your own stable db.
100% this. Game companies want to treat games as e-sports platform, but that's incompatible with casual play. IMHO, the solution is to allow self-hosted community servers and adapt matchmaking to this, or ditch it entirely; social mechanisms will handle cheating there just fine, like they always did. Separately, create e-sports track, where entry requirement is kernel level anticheat or playing on vendor-supplied hardware in vendor-approved location or whatever bullshit is necessary. Just don't mix the two.
Given how he's handled other things, I doubt he's just using e-trafe
Am I getting deja vu or did this happen before? And Valve responded and said they would help? Or was that something else?
I have found there is only one way to get a zero ‘time’.
Extreme exercise or activity.
Something that requires my whole being to attend too.

Heavy weights, high intensity workouts or something that has the mental requirement like climbing.

Then the chemicals give a reset and I’d return to the subject.

I’d think of them as activity naps.
I can't answer windows/linux, but I use pdfexpert.com for mac and it's great. It was a one time $100 charge when I bought it several years ago, and it gets updated regularly.
I had the same question as the person you replied to, and these excellent examples really made it click for me. Especially the second one. Thanks for sharing.
Where's the proof Roaring Kitty is a pump and dump scammer? He made the connections, concocted the thesis and is now taking it to its natural conclusion.

He wields enough power in his position that he doesn't need anyone to bring it about.
Some cheaters also have no problem doxxing the game developers, CM's, and anyone else they perceive to have slighted them. In a world where swatting is a real danger to a person's life, that can be quite a serious threat.
Yes, but every exponential will have a region in which it begins rapidly increasing. Perhaps we just call that period "the Industrial Revolution".

The reason it's relevant is that the premise of the article is basically that some events in history are so positively transformative, like the IR, that we should focus on how to being about those events. But if the IR is just an inevitable region along a centuries (or millenia) long exponential curve, that premise may not hold.
> People get lucky, then try to rationalize the past with a skill narrative. Then they soak up all the grants.

They have to put themselves in the situation to get lucky first. This person got a graduate education, and was competent enough to be selected to be doing research in what is likely a multimillion dollar lab owned by an institution, then she had the knowledge and ability to notice and be able to identify what had "accidentally" happened with a micro-organism that we barely understand.

Luck was the smallest part of this discovery. I would say that the grant money is well spent funding someone so "lucky".
It's just an arms race. Give it time and all parts will be virtualised or defeated through the analog hole.

But the parent has a point about neglect. This is not some ambitious operation where you have to take care of hardware verification. Valve is being asked to ban spam and stupid aimbots. They have all the information they need for that on the server side already.
funding secured wasn't a lie so much as a premature declaration, if walter isaacson is to be believed.
'Natty or not?': how steroids got big
You don't need to freeze yourself, you just have children, that is how life goes on.
Retracted and sham papers is actually a major problem. Estimated 10,000 papers were retracted in 2023 (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/feb/03/the-situatio...) and that is thought to be only a small percentage.
How to entertain your Kids: Let them play with garbage
You have no idea what future advantage can be taken against people using this data. Seriously, like it's complete normal instinct to never overshare in conversation. Everyone knows this. This is the equivalent of extreme oversharing at all times.
to be honest as a renter I've had way more annoying experiences with individual landlords than with corporate landlords.

My sort of conspiracy theory is that it's individuals expecting big returns driving up a lot of rent prices, rather than big rental corps that understand the value of slow consistent returns and don't feel the need to drive people out to resell. I have no proof of this though.
For the First Time Ever, the Colossal Squid Might Have Shown Its Secret Face
YouTube creator believes his channel was (partially) demonetized because he received a large number of views from HN discussion of OTA video codecs, possibly due to invalid geocoding.

Original story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39727651