skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's partially because articles like this draw a large number of zero-effort comments like "rules for thee and not for me" (which already appears five times here), which makes it easier for the psychopaths to feel comfortable enough to comment.

I always take a run through these comment threads and flag every one of these that I see, as they clearly break the HN guidelines. If other people start to do that too, then violent comments like the above will also become less common.
> the problem with the Enterprise edition is that it's quite expensive

Seems to me that it's still free for development, and small business use. If you're over $10M in revenue, with a business or product built on CockroachDB, they want a share of what they made possible. That seems totally reasonable to me.
I don't think they were actually comparing Kim to anything else besides using his "resistance to the law" approach in a general sense to ask if "Isn't it wiser to stop at some point" should also apply to whistleblowers.
So, just to confirm: the current advice is to always have your credit locked?? I guess I’m not signing up for credit cards all the time, but doesn’t this mess with e.g. applying to rentals? So I should be unfreezing it every year or so?
All I can surmise from comments like this is that you must have invented some completely unreasonable bar for "evidence" that nothing can possibly pass. Either that, or you simply haven't looked at all.
Meh. Based on the way the CIA and the intelligence apparatus of the country reacted, they probably though it was a bioweapon bubonic plague level event. Of course, it wasn't, and it became quite apparent very fast, but it was an election year, so a lot of Democrats went on to ignore basic facts as misinformation.
It's probably just enough to dress them in business casual, and have them walk around the office looking very serious and busy, talking on their cellphones about business-y stuff. All that matters is the "buzz" and "hum" and "pop" of SeriousBusiness getting done.
Oops, yes, I typed it backwards
Punish for the re-drawing, not the memorizing.
yeah, I meant "fun" perhaps in a more open sense of "people are not just annoyed at everything all the time", perhaps "relaxed" is the right word.

I am not a superfan of actual closet office given, like, CO2 and friends, but having at least semi-closed spaces with some degree of privacy for groups of people feels totally reasonable. I always think about how some grad students at my university (paired 4 off to an office) had a nicer-feeling office space than any tech office I've been to short of a handful
I think the idea is that when that day comes, that day is forever after. So it isn't like it is here and we all have time to get our shit together. The day comes and no one is safe, anywhere. Cryptocurrency markets will jilt, the global markets could over turn . There will be a run, a hemorrhage that no one will patch fast enough.

Better to be prepared, though that day is not yet here.

I'm pretty sure it is not in this decade, though like I said when tomorrow comes it will be too late.
SPL: A programming language coding in a grid
What is the GPL-licensed product that is comparable in functionality and scalability to CockroachDB? If there is one, you're free to use it.
Think of it more like "why is it important to have Spanish as an option for captions in an area that knows it has a large audience of L1 Spanish speakers?". English/<insert dominant local language> is pretty much a foreign language to many signers. Their native language is ASL or whatever other sign language they know, and these languages aren't just 1:1 mappings of words in the local dominant language to hand signals. They have many dimensions of expression for encoding meaning like facial expression/body motions, speed of the sign, amount of times they repeat the sign that have grammatical meaning that spoken languages express with inflection (noun cases, different verb forms) or additional words. For example, where an English speaker would use words like "very" or "extremely" or choose adjectives with more intense connotations an ASL signer would repeat or exaggerate the sign they want to emphasize (often by signing it more quickly, but it frequently involves intensifying multiple parts of the sign like the entire motion or the facial expression as well).
I'd love to get some feedback on this, because I'm not sure I've hit the original goal of this article.

For a long time, the topics of just intonation, harmonic lattices, and of their relationship with temperaments were difficult for me to understand, despite reading the theory on them. It's not until I applied the concepts that could say I understood them.

I tried writing the "missing article" that would have given me this understanding right away, banking on the added value of interactive figures. Right now I suspect that I failed in the same way as my early readings did: this article might be hard to understand unless you're already familiar with the topic, which is a bit of a chicken-and-egg problem. I think I glossed over some concepts, and it sometimes looks like I'm pulling numbers out of thin air in some examples. Nonetheless I hope it will help some people understand these topics. Maybe what's needed is a slower-paced version of this as a longer series.
>about 400 code contributors:

> 13 have contributed more than 500 lines.

> 48 have contributed more than 50 lines.

> about 98% of the commits are mine.

I guess I should be happy that there are 13 somewhat enthusiastic contributors, but for a project as worthy as dear imgui, I feel a bit sad instead.
And why would you ever stack them like a fence? Go ~2 deep, ~2 wide, and cover ~7x as many routes. Depth is more for avoiding intersections between cross-traffic than for lack of space.
It takes a long time and a lot of effort to build a federal lawsuit. There's no magical clockwork prosecutor that prosecutes all lawlessness equally. They pick their battles.
Complete avoidance of FIDC insurance after one mention. So, it's predicated on being able to afford to lose all of the savings.

Whats that about a fool and their money easily parted? Why yes, chasing the highest return IS a good way to come unstuck. What do you think those extra points of interest were held back for in the first place?
I often force compliance out of Llama by starting Llama's response in a very compliant manner.

My favorite use right now is for language translations. I finally feel comfortable browsing foreign languages, knowing Google isn't sitting there as a third party with a coherent view of my foreign language readings!
In general it is good idea to avoid searching for a problem.

But in my experience the problem this in turn has a problem that you do not see the real problems you could solve with a piece of technology if you don't understand the technology.

So, sometimes, it makes sense to just start doing something with it. You will soon see potential uses, apply it, learn more, and overcome this hurdle.

Just do it without expecting any returns besides learning something new.
SIPC is also a thing…
Did you get something done in an hour that would have taken multiple hours or not?

If you did then it transformed your productivity.
Academics, artists, and public intellectuals reasonably qualify as elite while often not being wealthy.
I’ve noticed that LLM speed me up working with languages I’m bad at, but slow me down when working in languages I’m good at.

When I hear people saying they use them for 80-90% of their code it kind of blows my mind. Like how? Making crazy intricate specs in English seems way more of a pain in the ass to me than just writing code.
it does, but only for some. for me it causes massive muscle cramps, no matter how much water I drink.

other then that, creatine is considered the only supplement (protein not considered a supplement) that has virtually no side effects and known gain.

caffeine is behind that with some side effects.

beyond that, most other supplements havent been either to have proven benefits and proven no side effects
Geekbench AI 1.0
Mermaid Pros

- Can be embedded as code blocks in straight markdown notes (and many markdown editors support rendering)

- Since it's not a graphic, it's text searchable

Mermaid Cons

- if you don't like the way the diagram is visually laid out there's not really an easy way to change it
> And to a lesser extent other executives who have decided that their job is their life.

This is key. CEO is one individual, maybe you luck out with someone thats self aware and doesn’t have their head up their behind. But with the exec team, almost certainly there will be one motherfucker that needs their ego stroked by having minions around when they’re in an office, taking calls or meetings.
Not quite. That link is doing something weird and including the corporate tax rates to arrive at "total" tax rates. The median total of individual and payroll tax rates by those tables was 16% in 1979 and 11.4% in 2019. But even that isn't right because it apparently isn't counting the so-called "employer contribution" of FICA for people who aren't self-employed:

https://www.ssa.gov/oact/progdata/taxRates.html

Using those numbers for the payroll tax rates, the median combined rate was 19.66% in 1979 and 17.7% in 2019. And this is slightly overestimating the rate in 1979 because the self-employed payroll tax was less than the combined employer+employee rate in 1979. So there hasn't been a significant reduction in 40 years, and the rate on small businesses has actually increased.

But that's not all. The start of that table was a high point. The median effective tax rate in 1950 was 5.5%:

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/80inintravmatr.pdf

That probably doesn't include FICA, but FICA in 1950 was only 1.5%/3% (and again less than the combined rate for self-employed back then), so the median federal effective tax rate would have been <8.5% in 1950 compared to 17.7% in 2019. And 1950 isn't even the low point, it's just the earliest number in that document.

The federal government dramatically raised taxes on the middle class in the early to mid 20th century and they've been stuck there since.
Yes I mentioned spacing them out, it doesn't change the point.
it is but custom roms can remove most of the stuff thats calling home
> Comparing Kim Dotcom to Snowden or even Assange feels gross. He was a commercial opportunist, not a real activist or whistleblower.

Publicly available information supports the fact that Snowden was also an opportunist - the vast majority of the material he leaked was unrelated to domestic surveillance, which was his stated purpose for leaking.

Numbers don't lie.
ok, and?

Why can't both segments of workers have better conditions? Maybe pay should be higher for those that HAVE to be in person, or hours lower?
Slow Time and the Bali Walk and Talk
I was disappointed they apparently don't do high volume differential testing with randomly generated programs, a kind of property based testing. Each individual program has very little testing value, but when you can crank out millions or even billions of them they can find all sorts of bugs.
Elites as defined by having an agenda, and perhaps a station to enact it from. Bureaucrats, politicians, academics, etc generally have different domains of influence and aren't all wealthy.

NPR are proud of their sponsors, and prouder yet of how very little all of the public's dollars make up of their revenue in comparison.
> never heard anyone suggest the best sports teams should stop competing when they've won enough, or that the best inventors should stop, or the best artists

While they want you to believe that, there’s no correlation between being rich and being best, or even good, at anything. You’re not the best athlete because your mom and dad were the best athletes. But if your parents were wealthy, you’re wealthy.

If they want standards to be applied ”consistently”, great. They can start by paying their taxes.
Copyright laws are not even US laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_internation...
> Everyone on this site is so anti-C-suite it's crazy. All the standard "big company CEO bad, me entry level employee good" talking points.

This condescending "entry level employee good" thing is total nonsense. It's absolutely common for many 30 year career stretches to never actually see a decent hard-working executive out in the wild. And if you do actually encounter one, then there's a decent chance that you also got to watch that person get dethroned and replaced with someone worse by political machinations of the rest of the executive suite!

What is crazy is dismissing thousands of man-years of lived experience with completely broken "leadership" as.. what exactly, jealousy? But most of the people that hate the C-suite probably don't want to work there, and probably don't even really expect fair compensation at this point, they just want a little more accountability, and a little less hypocrisy.

And just in case you actually want to understand the angst and the zeitgeist around this stuff, I'll add this more subtle point. Engineers that work in tech today are increasingly seen by outsiders as roughly equivalent to, IDK, blood-diamond tycoons. But the fact is that lots of engineers are struggling too, and anyway we didn't ruin the world, the MBAs did while they told us (and everyone else) they were building something different. There's a strong reluctance to shoulder all this blame for the executive class, because at the end of the day or the end of our careers, most engineers actually still have to live next to normal people and won't get to fuck off to the Hamptons or whatever monied enclaves executives use to insulate themselves from the world.
Yup. In fact, one of the first wow moments for me when using multimodal ChatGPT was snapping a picture of an old diagram that I had written in faded pencil and asking GPT to convert it to mermaid syntax which it did flawlessly.
And I didn’t see a compelling reason to switch in light of your point. Weird
This is a strange take. Many brokerages, like Fidelity (their “Cash Management Account”) let you write checks, send ACH, or send wire’s directly from the brokerage. They even have a debit card. It also has an account number that you can use to pay bills, it’s exposed by fidelity as a “checking” account type.

For me, Fidelity IS my bank for daily life. I only go to a physical bank like chase / bank of america if I need to deposit cash, or i need to withdraw a lot of cash.
It's not a great cost to just run a D-9 or larger bulldozer backwards and forwards a few times and truck the rubble elsewhere.

Then it's just a clean slate land sale issue and not one of bizarre cults settling into fetishizing Goebbels and hyping a fourth Reich.

It's not the only example of a state government being left holding the deed to real estate with a toxic history. eg: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-04/katanning-hostel-chil...
> What a bad name!

The quick doesn't mean "fast". It means "alive".
I think that's an overly simplistic reading. The rate them as leaning left with high factualness. While that's not perfect, calling that clear left leaning is likely to give the wrong impression.
Money market funds with government paper (US Treasuries) are backed by the Federal Reserve, effectively limitless. “Full faith and credit.”

FDIC is to make the unsophisticated comfy with parking their savings for pitiful rates at commercial banks making the spread. Their margin is your opportunity.
I am running a fairly popular website, which has many unsophisticated users. There is a FAQ and instructional videos, but in general people do not read or understand the instructions. Then they send me email or call me. I spend lots of times repeating the same answers. I have been developing a support system that answers these basic questions based on the FAQs, and if it does not know how to respond, it tries to summarize the issue, and sends the issue to me. I am surprised how well it functions. I don't get endorphin hits from repeating same stuff for people.
Suddenly cutting prices in half shows that the business model is in dire straits.
The TL;DR is at the bottom. Just use VUSXX. It’s tax exempt-ish and more liquid than buying treasuries outright.
I don't know anything about CRG except what I saw in Wikipedia, something about faked evidence and all that.
I'm wondering how they're determining a correct answer. I know, for sure, that one of my answers was correct but it was marked incorrect. I'm wondering if I need to include specific keywords in my answer? How detailed do I need to be?
As far as I'm aware LVCC cost $53m, which includes tunnels and stations. Where did you get $106m?
+1. The entitlement and elitism is out of control. No Dave you’re not Steve Jobs 2.0 sit the fuck down and listen to our customers please!
try to be as detailed as possible. With text sometimes it's hard to determine how close your answer was to the correct one.
Where would the oversight come from when tuning the thresholds on this model?
What you described was the exact same experience I had. I got so far off track in one of my conversations with corrections that I started all over again. It is neat that this technology can do it, but I probably would have been better off doing it manually to save time.

The other thing I’ve noticed is something you alluded to: the LLM being “confidently incorrect”. It speaks so authoritatively about things and when I call it out it agrees and corrects.

The more I use these things (I try to ask against multiple LLMs) the more I am wary of the output. And it seems that companies over the past user rushed to jam chatbots into any orifice of their application where they could. I’m curious to see if the incorrectness of them will start to have a real impact.
I see parallels in articles that are summaries of comment sections.
There are plenty of CEOs who came out of nothing, grinded and took risks. They also didn't act entitled, played victim and blamed luck
Safe for all those of us who start a new windows config by disabling IPv6. Most machines are thus probably safe.
I totally agree that OCaml is a great language to write a compiler. I’ve used Rust and Haskell, and loved them both.

I was more so pushing back on the the implication that if it’s not OCaml, it’s not the right tool for the job.

Like, I honestly can’t think of a mainstream language in which it would be hard to implement a C compiler in.
Yes. I can see turn my phone off or turn off location services or leave it at home since cell towers can track me should I really want to stay private. For example should I visit a brothel I might want that private. If I was going to a HIV clinic I might want that private. Should I be be cheating I might want that private. All made up examples but we should have the ability to remain anonymous and not have our car companies selling that information.
The training process doesn't involve any copies being made. At least anymore than viewing an image on the internet copies it into your RAM.

Transformers's analyze images, they don't copy them. You might call this semantics, but you probably also wouldn't call out an algorithm that counts black pixels on website images as "copyright violation".

There is a lot of nuance here and a lot to consider. Transformers are not archives of images, they are archives of relationships. This is key because you don't have to copy an image to measure the relationships between it's pixels.

Train a transformer on one image, and it will just output noisy garbage.
I consistently confuse PGTE with `How to Succeed in Evil', which is talked about far less often, and every time someone mentions the former I try to re-find the title of the latter and wonder if I somehow phased into an alternate worldline where it doesn't exist. I'll put in a rec for HtSiE, it's nothing special but wrt rational fiction there are some classic scenes.

>Also every second character is LGBT,

The people who write these things live in spaces on the internet (or, rarely, in real life) where that's true, and they can't quite seem to grasp that it isn't normal.
So what happens when you break or loose the card? How do you establish your identity at that point?
What captions? There’s no widely-used written form of ASL.

If you meant the English-language captions, well, it should be apparent why some people prefer content to be dubbed in their native language rather than reading subtitles in a different language that they understand less well.
Because that's the kind of image that AI trainers like the most? Would they rather train them on old newspapers?

That would be the "oiled bodybuilder" applied to image training. Maybe similar and clearly defined lighting also allows AI's to match features much better, specially volumes.
It's a fine thesis, google the humble search engine, easy to compete against. Sure. That argument stands. But.. ... google is not a search engine. There's the google duopoly with facebook (ads, user data). There's the google duopoly with apple (phone operating system), there's the gmail system not exactly the same as search. There's google the web browser, duopoly(ish) with firefox. There's the youtube (duopoly with netflix? monopoly?). Probably a bunch of other various duopolies.

Then there's all these other giga-sized "side projects" which seem small proportional to those mega-businesses - google home type stuff, google nest, waze, consumer electronics etc. Arguably the google nest and assistant is duopolistic with amazon alexa.

Which is the state of tech, there's like 5 big companies that share some portion of pies of 20 major duopolies and 100 minor duopolies. And they're all like "SEE! SEE! We're NOT a monopoly". And there's two of them saying that, pointing each at the other one as evidence of their non-monopoly status. To me that's monopoly by another name, and that other name is duopoly, and as such it has many of the same problems as the monopoly. And duopolies all every damn place, not just tech - NYSE and NASDAQ stock markets. Sony and xbox (sorry nintendo). Boeing and Airbus. Visa and Mastercard. Pepsi and Coke. Intel and AMD, AMD and NVIDIA. Windows and Mac. How many "gentleman's agreements" must exist in those duopolies, too many methinks

And so if you ask me it would be quite natural to shatter all these companies according to their duopolistic silos, with the hope being that the duopolies exist in part from the synergy and deep pockets of the whole organization, and so by breaking apart the duopolistic strings to the rest of the org, perhaps there can be a third and fourth phone operating system, home consumer electronic, web browser, youtube, and so on. Because the point of capitalism is an efficient market to serve the public, not to serve the megacorp coffers
if a money market fund, especially one backed by the federal reserve like a us treasury, collapses, you have MUCH bigger problems my friend. It basically falls into the category of “doesn’t keep me up at night”.

I recommend you do some reading to learn more about it.
For daily life yes, for large amounts of money, the extra layer due to not being a real bank makes a huge difference.
I hear you brother! For me, people from 1 month ago!
This is such a good perspective and thank you for posting. I agree with your statements and of all the hype cycles that have happened, I think this does have a real shot of becoming something. Because of that I think they’re going to keep throwing money at this until someone figures it out. Because what else is there left to grift on in tech right now?
This might be hard to believe, but yet another steak dinner at the expense of time with your family/house/hobbies/whatever gets old fast for some, and some of those key decisions can affect the livelihoods of hundreds of people as well as your company's value, if publicly traded.
So you cut a one meter-deep circle in a chunk of rock. How do you get that circle removed? The back is still attached to the rock behind it.