skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that in every market there is opportunity for a new market entrant and you can get a few customers just by biting at the statistical distribution. Moving from that beachhead will be the real challenge. You might do everything right and still not gain any ground. I don't believe there is a way to predict just how much ground you will gain because the market itself is always moving. So, the only way to find out is to start fighting. A couple of points from personal experience with SaaS:

* Your first customer will not be representative of your future customers. The adoption curve dictates that you have to start with mavericks and early adopters of whom there are few in the world. In the beginning, I tried everything and persevered despite the rate of closing a sale was very low. Physically going door to door, reaching out to people one by one on Twitter and Instagram. People would typically laugh and try to get me out of their business as quickly as possible but at least I got to see how their business operated from the inside and adapted the pitch based on what I learned. Eventually, I honed in on a few things that I should say and minded many things that I had to avoid saying in order to keep the conversation going.

* Word of mouth starts to spread little by little. When you get to this stage, you passed the first stage. At this point, it's time to figure out what exactly people are saying to other people about your product that they like. Then, incorporate this in to your sales pitch and marketing.

* Know your strengths and weaknesses. If you are not strong in one area (e.g. sales) it is not an excuse to wait until someone closes the sale for you. You just have to work harder on it and figure out what you can do better each time. Conversely, if you are great at something, do not be tempted to use that skill to fix every challenge. The old "when you have a hammer everything is a nail". No matter how difficult things get, it's always helpful to go on a walk and figure out if you are assessing each challenge objectively or letting your passion or emotion drive the decision making.

* Fire customers. Raise prices. Customers associate low price with low quality. Ask yourself if that is your business. It may be useful to set a low price early on just to get someone on board but do not linger in that chasm of misery. In the valley of bargain bin hunters you will get some pathologically bad customers who will drag you down with with them. I think that as soon as you reach "word of mouth" you should start to raise prices.

I think these are universally applicable to any market because it's standard "landing on the beach" procedure for a startup. The stage after will depend on how far up the beach you make it.
Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey and the Duke)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWKA9Zi5-_Y
It's because the ruling class inevitably realizes that the polulace is the main threat to their continued rule and seeks to control them.
What's Switzerland's stance on this (message scanning)? From what I have seen this entire topic keeps coming up in the US, the UK and some European countries and is just impossible to keep dead, because some citizens are strongly lobbying in favor of it.
Bridges do move some normally, yes. It may depend on the type of bridge though? Certainly suspension bridges do.
I don’t know how things work in other countries, but in the US new construction is almost always funded with a big chunk of federal dollars (deficit spending), but maintenance has to be done out of your own state or local budget. The incentives are all fucked up.
So the federal government of Germany is also unchecked? Please tell me more in your sarcastic mood!
In my home environment I run a VM with docker for that.

In a commercial environment I’d still use kubernetes. But maybe something like k3s or if we are in a cloud environment something like EKS.

Usually with time other services get added to the stack (elastic, grafana, argocd, …)
In practice it's not desirable to go without an explicit wake feature, we need some way to know that now it's likely to succeed. The mechanism needn't be 100% reliable but "Always try again" is essentially exactly as useless as blocking.
Yes, little animal babies get happily eaten by predators every day.

But they did not put them in cold metal boxes before to rot in their own shit.
Why do you think this? Nobody will go to jail. Maybe some paltry fines will be paid and some CEOs ousted, and that's about it.
Please, would people in the US mind learning the meaning of "socialism"?

Then talking about the far right in the EU... the US has nothing to brag about. You guys don't have a left side at all: it's right vs far right there.
No, you're looking for a suitable hash but not an exact match to anything. Some of the hashes are premined. But you do need the hash input to fit a specific format. That's still more likely and more accessible than a collision (I'm sure scanning all the available values is computable in a relatively shorter time than finding arbitrary collisions with a specific hash).
How to use the new counted_by attribute in C (and Linux)
You'll have to wait in line with every other protest going on, then. Some group is protesting something every day in Brussels.

They're all insane and whining over the smallest things, except the ones aligned to my personal political vieuws, of course.
I showed that with a simple prompt that the abliterated LLM still show some refusals.
https://huggingface.co/mlabonne/NeuralDaredevil-8B-abliterat...
It is a shame that there isn't more creativity with these facades. Make something arty or fun rather than just trying to fit in.
> but in the EU of tomorrow, your digital EU idea will be the choking point. Do something out of line, and it can be revoked and with it, your bank, credit cards, health care, travel and other services.

I won't say that future will never happen only because "never" is a long time, but that's not happening in the foreseeable future.

I'm in Germany right now, and theoretically my ID card can be used online.

In practice, "Digitalisierung" is kinda a joke here, much like "paperless office".

For example, I have to visit an office to activate that feature of my ID card, and another to tell them I've moved.

During the pandemic, they briefly realised they didn't need to do that, then they forgot.

Likewise with health, there's more than one health insurance provider just in Germany, let alone the whole EU, and if I move country (not just travel, move) my previous insurance isn't likely to work in the new place anyway — it would take substantial improvements before it would even be possible for someone to corrut it the way you're afraid of.
Also it's the link to the generic page, not a news article (which has been debated several times in the past days)

OTOH this generic page seems to explain it better and in a less sensationalistic way

(on the other other hand I feel that privacy advocates should hire some PR companies to enhance the job of raising awareness - the pro-scanning NGOs put a lot of money on it)
Does the NTSB agree with you, and write lengthy investigative reports about most of the bridges which are successes?

Another engineering quip: "Any idiot can build a bridge that stands. But it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands."
Are you optimistic that Swiss citizens are unaffected by this?
The Prototype's Language
Worked for deprioritizing biodiversity efforts for the sake of mass produced animal products, because, more processing steps => higher economic yield. Money talks.
Could you tell how the EC is unchecked? Can they create enforce which I have to follow without judges, the European Parlament and the European Council?

Tell me more
If I was to guess, it might be RHVoice from FDroid as they are using a custom rom.
If flat-earthers had the numbers and motivation of revisionist neo-nazis, they might very well be able to decrease popular (not academic) understanding of astrophysics.
at first I was shocked by the noise, but then the whole experience brought me back to 90s era computer games I played as a kid. very cool
I don't think it is fair to assume your average person understands that their personal rants are ending up in an LLM/Publically accesible AI, even if the T&Cs say they can.

That's what the fuss is about I guess, we are working out the ethics our societies will accept on a pioneering front of technology. I don't think Facebook gets away on the letter of the law this time, they will need to adjust to new regulations as we decide on what's ethical.
Does this negative thermal expansion continue for supercooled water as well?
I watched the podcast you're referencing, on youtube, but I don't remember Chollet saying anything like what I say above.

Quite the contrary, Chollet seems convinced that a test for artificial intelligence, like an IQ test for AI, can be created and he has not only created one but also organised a Kaggle competition on it, and now is offering a $1 million prize to solve it. So how is anything he says or does compatible with what I say above, that it's likely there can't be a test for artificial intelligence?
The answer is to play the game, pay the piper, and lobby against it.
This doesn't make any sense. The big social networks can aren't hurt by a requirement to scan messages. At best its another operating costs.
I take that to mean there were no signs of imminent collapse, just sudden failure.
I would much prefer the state compete with market actors, not commandeer their operations.

The state has significant advantages when competing against private market actors because it can sustainably fund public goods, due to the fact that its vast tax collection apparatus can capture a much higher proportion of the value generated by public goods than private actors can.

An adequately funded public good has several advantages over private goods:

* Wide public buy-in: Due to the absence of barriers to contribution, such as secret code or restrictive licensing requirements for modifications.

* Generally favorable public perceptions: Public goods often enjoy more trust and support.

If the state provides a compelling option, it can naturally attract users, and without having to impose mandates on existing market options.

This is greatly preferrable to the regulatory approach, which can have unintended consequences that slow innovation and reduce market options. For example, if regulations impose heavy compliance burdens on tech companies, they would divert resources to legal and administrative expenses, leading to less resources for R&D.

Regulatory regimentation to ostensibly achieve some public policy goal, can also prevent companies from experimenting with new ideas and approaches, which ultimately slows the industry's rate of progress.

So by having the state compete rather than regulate coercively, we get the benefits of market-driven innovation while also testing the potential of public goods to provide superior value than what market-provisioned goods can.

Such state-funded public options can also be used to non-coercively bolster open standards, by giving then the critical mass of adoption needed to become market standards.
An issue is that what US people mean when they say "socialism" is not what EU people understand at all.

US people typically don't see the difference between communism and socialism.

From an EU point of view, US people see everything that is not right or far right as "the bad guys in Marvel comics".
> The loop is intentional though

Of course, but it's also a consequence of being rich countries. Nobody wants to actually be a cop anymore, after studying for years to get a degree and finally get a cop's salary, and I understand them.

The good news is that unless you are Japanese living in a dystopian anime, automated (kawaiiii) drone repression will never work in practice.

https://theglorioblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/psychop...
i don't think so because attacker-to-client communication is only used to restore the original nat-mapping.

otoh ap-isolation isn't really a security feature but enhances spectrum efficiency by suppressing client-to-client communication. most wifi's are susceptible to the 'evil twin' attack.
Take a step back and read more, you're all over this thread, embarrassing yourself.
Mathematica.

Mathematica is the M-expression language. It's actually very expressive and has nice tricks like multimedia literals and the ability to do some fancy almost-tex rendering in expression, but deep down it's all sexps and lists and symbolic manipulation thereof (and an FFI).

(I think they tried to rebrand the language a couple of years back as "Wolfram", lol.)
The extra danger is when we don't know it comes from an LLM. If we think a human wrote it, we're less skeptical.
I self-host a standard XMPP server for my family. Let's see how long it takes before this is illegal too.
Not sure if this is it

https://web.archive.org/web/20170908154113/https://www.physi...
I'm not specifically talking about tfa, but I defo feel less enthused about net neutrality and such these days.. For a few reasons.

1. Internet is bad now

In the 80's a new and truly utopian vision of personal computers, the internet, the web, was actually realised. But since then it's been taken over by monster corporations, the net has simply gone through the same process as systems before it (telegraph, telephone, TV) as described in "The Master Switch" by Tim Wu. In reality, for most users in 2024 it's no longer a utopian freeing force, its the opposite, a completely locked down system governed by utterly ruthless and reckless megacorps.

2. Internet is harmful

There's loads of data appearing about the negative health effects of social media, screentime, etc.

3. Geopolitics

The era of the peace dividend seems to be drawing to a close, and a new era of great power struggles beginning. Western democracies vs Autocracies (China, Russia, Iran, North Korea) It seems the autocratic countries are taking advantage of the weakness of the open net of the west, and using it to spread chaos and discord and destroy them from the inside. Stuff like the "Internet research Agency".

Having the internet restricted by relatively trustworthy regulators like the EU, seems preferable to me to letting megacorps dominate and abuse it, causing harm for profit, or to let autocracies use it to sow chaos.
I actually think it'd be a good idea nowadays to ban social media tbh.
I'm not sure if this can work long term unless some fundamentals change. A lot of victims of CSEM will keep that topic alive. It's rather unpopular to stand against this given that "live with it" is sort of the only alternative.
Are you talking about fixing known bugs, or a "security bug bounty" where they are paid to report unknown security issues?
Well it's not a "wish", we voted for it.

Considering the current relationship between the Federal Council and the EU, I don't think it would be close this time around.

Edit: Actually there was a votation for adhesion to the European Economic Area in 1992, but also for full adhesion to the EU in 2001 (rejected at 76.8%). Switzerland is not even close to become a member state.
Yeah, but Python has actual for loops.
Shame, I would have enjoyed the kawaii look more than the DJI suicide drone look
It's easier to run a country when it is holding all the drug cartel and dictator money of the planet. You do not have to steal from your citizens as much.
Don't copy that floppy! (Busts out greaseweazle and Central Point - Copy II PC Option Board Enhanced, and Nevrlock)

The 5.25" and 3.5" floppy disk shareware cardboard bins on tables at Weird Stuff.[0] This was the equivalent to [Download Demo] in the 90's, except they made you drive to a brick & mortar store and pay for privilege.

0. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/weirdstuff-warehouse
Yet Another Digital Nomad Blog
Hey, I became a digital nomad 4 years ago, and after several laps around the world, I decided to start a blog to share some insights and experiences. I would love to get some feedback. Also, is blogging still a thing, or should I consider alternatives?
At my elementary / Jr high school we had one Apple II in each classroom, which was fun to play Oregon trail and number munchers on. The 'computer lab' had a bunch of IIgs (color! woo!) and Macs, allowing one class at a time to come in for an hour or so. Usually it was Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing, ClarisWorks (word), some LOGO programming application, and KidPix.

KidPix was the big hit, it got everyone into the joy of computing, it tought kids how to save files, use disks, make copies, and it kept the ImageWriter color dot matrix printer buzzing for the whole hour.

The "oh no" undo sound gives me so much joy. Thanks to whoever did this.
Those who get money want in, obviously. I was referring to those paying for the party (ie Germany)
Yeah, I had a similar issue with motivation to build this when I had other ideas throughout building the software. This may seem strange but the way I dealt with it is basically by buying the domain so in my head I would just think that I’ve wasted the 20 or so pounds(the currency) on buying that which would almost deter me from going to a different project. Maybe just put up like a small financial incentive to get it running like the fact that if I didn’t launch it would be a waste of 20 or so pounds. Hope this helps. By financial incentive I didn’t mean like making money, even though that’s the goal for a business, I meant more losing money to costs to set it up.
> In my current jurisdiction, a lowly IT worker can easily pay a 66% tax rate, with 54% being paid as nominal taxes and the rest going as employer taxes.

Now add VAT to really see how little of your labour translates into purchasing power.
North -> Norsemen

Forth -> Forsemen

(The less gendered "Fordlander" is also acceptable)
Yes really. China might or might not be more lax in how it treats spent fuel (due to putting said fuel out near Lanzhou at the southern end of the Gobi Desert), but the larger volume of TRISO fuel means the relative cost of dealing with it will be larger than their cost of dealing with spent LWR fuel.

I will add that any graphite moderated reactor will have larger carbon-14 production than a LWR, due to neutron capture on carbon-13 (as well as (n,p) reactions on nitrogen-14 impurities in the graphite.) In the west this renders "spent" graphite into intermediate nuclear waste, even ignoring fission products in the fuel particles. It also means that one cannot just burn off the carbon and release the filtered CO2 in any process that reprocesses TRISO fuel.

On the plus side, TRISO fuel doesn't have the same issue with zirconium availability that traditional LWR fuel has.
> I wonder if this a factor in making onboarding of new hires difficult?

Surely it's because they focused on making onboarding easy?

New hires just make a new microservice for every task they get, don't need to know the broader scope just the specs for the service.
I love it too! As another commenter says, it's like a murder mistery, specially when it is not your code.
The only frustrating bit (at least for me) is being just told "there's a crash around here", but once you have a way to reliably reproduce it I enjoy it quite a bit.
How this subject is approached in ECS? Just add Save component that knows how to serialize to all objects that need to be saved and a system that dumps alive objects into a file?
At the end, it could be a OS-based scanning, so no matter if the message is encrypted in transit, or self-hosted, then if the message is displayed it could be transmitted and scanned.

Nobody wants terrorists, right ?
I've thought about doing something very similar to this in the past. Seeing everything in graphs is beautiful.
But seeing this, I get the feeling that there's not really much use for it. I'd already know most of the things the data uncover. But maybe that's just a matter of timescale? I can imagine me being surprised how things changed over many years (5+years)
Are you trying to consume historical or real-time data? In my experience this greatly influences the approach.

Node-RED is a common ETL approach in the scenario you described, but I find it too limiting beyond basic examples.
Useful feedback doesn’t mean saying something that will seem insightful 15 years later. Setting the bar so incredibly high just means you’re going to lose out on the majority of feedback, and that’s a net loss for a fledgling project.

The benefit of early and unstructured feedback (like what you can get from a Show HN) is that it prepares the recipient to answer those questions down the road again. That’s why the Dropbox comment qualifies as useful. “Is this viral” sounds silly now, but in 2007 it was a question that the founder undoubtedly faced again and again.
Germany is a lot less digital than the rest of Europe though. Germans by-and-large even refuse to use debit cards (pin&chip). It's so strange visiting Germany as a tourist and not being able to pay with my card in a restaurant for example.
I mean, it's likely that _some_ fraud is going on, and that tends to become more apparent as the money runs out (for instance see SBF, or the various Ponzi schemes that ran out of road during the financial crisis), so when the AI bubble bursts, yeah, probably a few people will go to jail. But it doesn't seem like a significant factor.
Personal observations...

I'm not sure the culture in the US would lend itself that way.

Parks and public commons areas tend to become the dumping ground for unsolved social issues. Those who've fallen through society's cracks. Those who would abuse the ability to interact with others to interact in uncouth ways. Issues of space size and use density. Even during the height of Pokemon Go when (mostly) nerds were incentivized to visit city parks the mostly polite use was frowned upon as an unwanted crowd interfering with those who'd traditionally use the same public space.

Then there's the more 'accepted' version of gatherings in cities: paying various retail places for the privilege of being there, usually at a markup that reflects the value of being in such a dense area.

Fixing both of those problems, and any others I didn't mention, will take political will and a shift in culture. Programs to connect the unfortunate with the social integration or support help they need, and measures to combat rent-seeking (laws and tax biases) seem like a distant pipe dream.
What is wrong about the means of production being under social ownership in socialism? Yes, socialism allows also some private property and there is spectrum of how much it is a planned economy but social ownership of the means of production is a central component of socialism.
It's not one or the other. No fundamental law states that the internet must be controlled by either powerful corporations or powerful governments. If governments did their job and enforced anti-trust and other consumer protection laws then neither would be the case.
The Swiss don't need this law because they have their own tradition of informing on each other.