skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> While I get the cynicism (and yes, there is certainly some dumb money involved), it’s important to remember that every tech company that’s delivered 1000X returns was also seen as ridiculously overhyped/overvalued in its early days. Every. Single. One. It’s the same story with Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook/Meta, Microsoft, etc. etc.

Really? Selling goods online (Amazon) is not AGI. It didn’t take a huge leap to think that bookstores on the web could scale. Nobody knew if it would be Amazon to pull it off, sure, but I mean ostensibly why not? (Yes, yes hindsight being what it is…)

Apple — yeah the personal computer nobody fathomed but the immediate business use case for empowering accountants maybe should have been an easy logical next step. Probably why Microsoft scooped the makers of Excel so quickly.

Google? Organizing the world’s data and making it searchable a la the phone book and then (maybe they didn’t think of that maybe Wall Street forced them to) monetizing their platform and all the eyeballs is just an ad play scaled insanely thanks to the internet.

I dunno. I just think AGI is unlike the previous examples so many steps into the future compared to the examples that it truly seems unlikely even if the payoff is basically infinity.
I suspect it's missing the traffic coming into the city from outside
Companies should be prohibited from doing buybacks for, say, 5 years, after any layoff.
Reminds me a bit of Stract - https://stract.com/

Indexing feeds is a cool approach. There's some heuristic there that those sites may be more "independent", but I'm not sure.
Your argument is in the wrong direction: enforcing a liveable federal minimum wage ensures that there's a reasonable bottom to how low you can bid on labour. The housing crisis, on the other hand, is a net supply restriction effect caused by real estate speculation and investment, rather than it being a commodity (it never will be a commodity, but I'd wager there's a real estate bubble pop coming soon)
It’s confusing to call an app a web IDE, which usually denotes a web-based IDE you use in a web browser, not a locally running IDE for web development.
It's time to advertise ventriloquism lessons to Amazon drivers.

Or the drivers could protest by wearing masks over their mouths.
No, I meant portrait mode, but I shouldn’t have used the word “typical.”

I got a convertible 2-in-1 laptop (in 16:9) after the iPad experience, figuring it would be similar. It really surprised me, after using the iPad, how much I dislike the laptop in portrait mode.

Good point, though, a totally typical (aka not convertible) laptop would be more or less impossible to use in portrait mode. Sorry for the confusion.
Even Chromebooks, which are actually supposed to be thin clients and which are quite locked up compared to a "normal" laptop with a standard OS (Linux, Windows, macOS), are way more capable devices for development work (among other things, being able to offer an actual Linux environment [1]), while being far less expensive than an iPad.

[1] https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/9145439
It's more game theory. Regardless of the chances of AGI, if you're not invested in it, you will lose everything if it happens. It's more like a hedge on a highly unlikely event. Like insurance.

And we already seeing a ton of value in LLMs. There are lots of companies that are making great use of LLMs and providing a ton of value. One just launched today in fact: https://www.paradigmai.com/ (I'm an investor in that). There are many others (some of which I've also invested in).

I too am not rich enough to invest in the foundational models, so I do the next best thing and invest in companies that are taking advantage of the intermediate outputs.
It's not. The (undocumented!) SBPL that Apple OS' use is easier to understand and debug than selinux, in my experience.
Here's a submission on this topic that was trending on HN about a year ago with +500 comments: Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36530607)
Mistakes That Almost Cost Me My Promotion (and How You Can Avoid Them)
The ipad does things most laptops won’t do.

I particularly like goodnotes, for example.

And the ipad is pretty light… if i could use a proper terminal (with all the keys working, including F1-F12) i might ditch my laptop… i messed a bit with remote desktop via rdp and it’s quite usable - worked okay when i tried it on a bus driving on a highway at ~110 km/h over a 4g connection).

So yeah i could still access a full linux desktop either via ssh (shelly) or via rdp (via the Microsoft rdp client)
a-shell is another good option
Show HN: Yet another SSG, personal website from scratch in Clojure
Did heroku default to UTF-8 or was the db easier to manage via heroku?
Somewhat related: Here's Go code to circumvent Go's memory safety without importing unsafe. This is from BUGFIX 66 ("Hack This Site"):

func racer() {
var (
ptr1 *uintptr
ptr2 *byte
race any
done = make(chan struct{})
)
put := func(x any) {
for {
select {
case <-done:
return
default:
race = x
}
}
}
go put(ptr1)
go put(&ptr2)
for {
var ok bool
ptr1, ok = race.(*uintptr)
if ok && ptr1 != nil {
close(done)
break
}
}
get := func(addr uintptr) byte {
*ptr1 = addr
return *ptr2
}
set := func(addr uintptr, to byte) {
*ptr1 = addr
*ptr2 = to
}
if get(0xdeadbeef) == 111 {
set(0xbaaaaaad, 222)
}
}
This is where I fall back to Property Based Testing[0] and let the engine probe the high dimensional test space for me.

The test then becomes something like

Check.Sample(
Gen.Bool, Gen.Bool, Gen.Bool
(loggedIn, hasGreenHair, likesBananas) => {
var anyTrue = loggedIn | hasGreenHair | likesBananas;//the property to test
var messagePrinted = formatMessage(loggedIn, hasGreenHair, likesBananas);

Assert.Equal(anyTrue, messagePrinted);
}
);

This is obviously overkill for a test space of cardinality 8. But for complex cases this can provide better coverage of unexpected interactions than just stabbing a few positive and negative results.

Another approach for this test would be to use a metamorphic property (also possible with CsCheck). You basically come up with a rule that says something like, "if a user is logged in, then it should not matter if they have green hair or if they are like bananas". Then just let the framework search for falsifiable cases.

A real-world example of this was when I designed a scheduling system that would compile a set of abstract rules down to concrete events. I used metamorphic testing to look for cases where "If I add a new rule to a calendar, the total observable complexity of the calendar should be greater than or equal to before" (the equal case is if the new rule was equivalent to an existing rule. This allowed me to ensure that the internal complexity wasn't dropping observable details.

[0] https://github.com/AnthonyLloyd/CsCheck
For context, the prototype of the T-38 chase-plane that Boom employed went supersonic on its first flight in 1959. And that was a Northrop private-venture, not a government contract.
There was a ruling in Europe (UFC against Valve [1]) citing that, as neither e-book nor video-game deteriorate with use, the customer doesn't have a right to sell it on the second hand market as it would affect the copyright holder interest :

> To entrench its position, the CJEU first mentioned that dematerialized digital copies, unlike books on a material medium, do not deteriorate with use and are perfect substitutes for new copies.

> Furthermore, the CJEU added to its reasoning that exchanging such copies requires neither additional effort nor additional cost. A parallel second-hand market would likely affect the interest of the copyright holder – contrary to the objective of the directive and the intention of the EU legislator.

1 : https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=77bb2501-995c...
Along with undeleting hundreds of thousands comments to preserve the dataset for his friends at OpenAI, in obvious breach of GDPR and similar laws.
It seems to be intrinsically related. The argument goes something like:

1. Humans have general intelligence.
2. Human brains use biological neurons.
3. Human biological neurons give rise to human general intelligence.
4. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are similar to human brains.
5. Therefore an ANN could give rise to artificial general intelligence.

Many people are objecting to #4 here. However in writing this out, I think #3 is suspect as well: many animals who do not have general intelligence have biologically identical neurons, and although they have clear structural differences with humans, we don’t know how that leads to general intelligence.

We could also criticize #1 as well, since human brains are pretty bad at certain things like memorization or calculation. Therefore if we built an ANN with only human capabilities it should also have those weaknesses.
Which "zero trust" are you thinking off?

In case of "zero trust network" the answer is no it doesn't violate.

With WireGuard or TailScale/CloudFlare/etc you still know/verify identity of every person/device that has access to the (virtual and through it real) network.
You've read the abstract wrong. The authors argue that neural networks can learn online and a necessary condition is random information. That's the thesis, their thesis is not that neural networks are the wrong paradigm.
This struck me as significant (buried in the opinion's last footnote):

"IA makes a final argument that, even if its Open Libraries project did not qualify as a fair use, we should restrict the injunction to the Open Libraries project and allow IA to continue CDL for books that IA itself owns. In support of that argument, IA argues that the fourth factor analysis would be more favorable if CDL were limited to IA’s own books. In our view, the fair use analysis would not be substantially different if limited to IA’s CDL of the books it owns, and the fourth factor still would count against fair use. So we decline IA’s invitation to narrow the scope of our holding or of the district court’s injunction."

In other words, even if one purchases a print copy of the book, fair use would not allow them to lend a digital copy of the book to one person at a time. Why the court concludes that that "would not be substantially different" is unclear from just this footnote.
Well, if you want to sing out, sing out
And if you want to be free, be free
'Cause there's a million things to be
You know that there are
I don't think he's trying to be rich (except maybe to provide self-funding for his research).
They are. The problem is that they are for the educational market. Especially with Google's exit from hardware, they're basically mostly cheap devices for kids. And, if you do build a nice one, you could probably get a lower-end MacBook Air for about the same price which would be almost as low-maintenance to use if you wanted it to be.
The Replit app with an external keyboard connected also works well.
I guess it's a web IDE in the sense that it is an IDE made for web development rather than a more general IDE (see supported languages for example).
Even if that's "really" their objective, management could be fine with the risk of punishing drivers who struggle to comply with this for unrelated reasons. There's no reason to think they will seek fairness if the result achieves what they want well enough.

The point of the article is the bluntness of the tool, not that they are trying to reduce dangerously distracting phone calls, and understanding the true objective doesn't undo that.
Internet Archive loses appeal over eBook lending
Fair enough. I'll have to check it out later. Thank you for this perspective.
Ah so that's why so many movies, shows and even videogames got so dark you can barely see a thing, unless you're viewing them on a relatively recent TV?
You linked to Elon’s alt account, not exactly an unbiased source. Fact of the matter remains that operating in places with less free speech means that you have to submit to their less free speech. Old Twitter knew this, and so do other social media companies. Running a successful business means you can’t be an ideologue all the time.
Historically Intel did use non-standard EDA tools which is one reason they had trouble getting outside customers onto 10 nm (besides the fact that 10 nm didn't work). Some Intel acquisitions like Fulcrum and Barefoot never used Intel fabs.

I think they're supporting a more standard toolchain starting with 18A.
What does money even mean then?
Trade Wars are Class Wars: https://www.amazon.com/Trade-Wars-Are-Class-International/dp...
I don’t see it as being intentionally dumbed down, more that it never got those features in the first place.

iPadOS was born out of iOS. Why would iOS build support for F keys? F keys themselves are a hold over from quite a while ago. Apple tied to repurpose that space on the laptop with the old Intel MacBook Pros. When building a new OS, with a new software keyboard without F keys, why would they spend time developing around something that didn’t exist? When adding keyboard support, why would they add support for keys that don’t exist on the software keyboard?

I can see where that would be low on the priority list. I don’t think anyone at Apple had F keys working, then actively deleted the code to handle it while laughing maniacally.
Ex-Google CEO: "infinite supply of coders for free in the next 2 years" [video]
by giving them free food/gym/childcare on site? Oh the horror
Because the data and the opinion differ, which was my initial point. Put another way, if Linux is too niche then why is he wasting resources on MacOS?
Do we know that? I've seem some articles and lectures this year that kind of almost loosely argue and reach for the notion that "human backprop" happens when we sleep and dream, etc. I know that's handwavy and not rigorous, but who knows what's going on at this point.
I’m not voting with my wallet I’m just a guy yelling from the cheap seats. I’m probably wrong too. The VC world exists. Money has been made. Billions in returns. Entire industries and generations of people owe their livelihoods to these once VC backed industries.

If / when AGI happens can we make sure it’s not the Matrix?
I used to subscribe to many publication, but then I kept rage quitting them. The only one I have left is the Economist. The New York Times was painful. I used to love reading it, but it just became a rag. I never managed to find anything to replace it.
Genuinely chuckling.
Oh I'm sure they'll use whatever UX techniques they can to convince or dupe users to opt in. My point is that Apple is going to do the same. I'm not defending either of them, just saying it feels like a double standard.
I suspect most of the people frequent here still use AWS in some capacity if nothing else...
PFM... Pure f*cking magic is definitely how I feel about some of the things that can be done with CSS animations. Unfortunately, it seems so specifically tuned to CSS and CSS alone that it's hard to learn and conceptualize than doing things via JS programmatically. I just don't think in those terms. I have enough trouble with all the options for css flex usage.
I believe SpaceX declined to block X on their Starlink internet service.
> if I were a SpaceX shareholder, I'd be concerned about my CEO's misadventures

I think the actual answer is that if you invest into Musk companies you do it because of Musk. So you will do and okay whatever makes Musk happy because him being there is what makes the stock do the things the stock does (or anticipation of future stock/IPO performance).
The 401k is an invention that is yet to prove its efficacy. The first 401ks were opened in 1978, so if you were entering the workforce then you’d be retiring this decade!

So, we will see if this privatization of pensions really benefits us all or merely enriched a generation of asset managers while absolving the corporate and the government from providing pensions for workers.
I agree. I have worked at various companies that use Red Hat/CentOS extensively and the only time I ever saw someone turn Selinux off was on RHEL 6. Ever since then, it has been easier and easier to use. Not saying it is perfect for everyone, but it does work and can be made to work well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox. "You can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics."

There are definitely companies that are winning from the tech you pointed out, sure. The companies that make robotaxis and the companies that sell AI subscriptions are going to make bank.

But at an aggregate level, that robotaxi means a human tax driver is no longer working, and if every sales person has their own personal robot translator for talking to foreign clients, then none of them has a competitive edge over the others, they've just had to invest that money in order to avoid giving up a competitive edge.

That OP paper's argument is basically that the only rising tide that truly lifts all economic boats is being able to keep more of the money you make instead of having to spend it on interest or taxes. So the age-old wisdom of "just buy an index fund" may have run its course, and you will actually have to pay attention to valuations instead of just blindly buying the market going forward.
> Non-housing costs are quite low in Taiwan. Food and childcare, in particular, are so much cheaper than California that it’s hard to believe.

Those are downstream of housing restrictions to a large extent. From "Housing theory of everything" [0]:

Consider a cleaner living in Alabama. In 1960 they could move to NYC and earn wages 84% higher, and still end up with 70% higher income after rent. In 2010, they could move to New York City and become 28% more productive, and earn a wage 28% higher – and reduce the surplus of workers back home, letting them demand higher pay. But since housing costs are so much higher, the net earnings and living standards of someone like this would fall if they moved today, and wouldn’t be worth it. The same would be true for plumbers, receptionists and other professions that allow other people to specialise at what they’re best at and minimise the time they spend on things like DIY and answering the phone. By contrast, top lawyers get wage boosts that are still sufficiently higher to justify a move in both 1960 and 2010, even after the higher rents they’ll have to pay.

[0] https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...
> anecdata of one

anecdatum ? :)

Similar symptoms but not migraine level here, but did you ever check food allergies? That could do much of the symptoms too.
The wikipedia article you posted has a link to the Porsche configurator- you can see the option on the "build your car" configurators from most companies, if they offer it.

I think the real tricky thing would be knowing which historical models and years offered it, to analyze cars on the road. I'd propose restricting to specific models where you know it was offered the entire range of years it was sold.

Problem is, you're not going to see 100 of the cars anytime soon on regular roads, but you might be able to in an hour or so if you go to the right yacht club and country club parking lots.
incorrect read the damn order....StarX has refuse a court order to block access to X...hence the court order freezing its Brazilian bank accounts.
If you are affiliated with a university, you should have a way to read articles through there, or some service (LexisNexis, Factiva,...).
TFA is paywalled so I can't read it, but from what I understand SpaceX got pulled in because they wouldn't block X for Starlink customers in Brazil, not because of commingling of assets. The judge then penalized SpaceX and the snowball rolled from there.
So, out of the seven billion people on the planet, only Elon Musk could have made these companies what they are? No other person on Earth (given access to equivalent capital) could do it?
Great product, thanks for releasing it for the opensource community. Have you considered replacing Neo4j with something more cost-effective like Memgraph?
FYI SpaceX and Starlink were not involved in this feud at all until the judge froze Starlink's bank account just for the connection to Elon. In reality the one that decided to involve SpaceX was the judge.
I’m pretty sure the Red Hat model is to profit off the community efforts while creating convoluted complications in the name of security so they can send their high paid consultants to your business and get paid even more.

Was it professional when they let SSH vulnerabilities exist in RHEL7 forcing perfectly useable machines to upgrade to 8 for remediation?

Don’t get me wrong, they’re the new “nobody got fired for” company (technically still the same). That doesn’t imply Debian and Ubuntu are less secure except in name. Go to Google cloud and see what CIS hardened images exist.

Your perspective is an oversimplification if not completely wrong.
I’ve been maining an M4 iPad Pro for a few months now since frying my laptop (which ran Linux) while travelling. There’s a lot to love about it.

Sadly, one discovers dozens of minor bugs and annoyances, that are mostly specific to doing productivity/dev work.

For example, when I use Cmd-Tab to switch tasks, there’s a ~ 1/20 chance that the Cmd key will become ‘soft-stuck’. That is, I’ll start typing and the OS will act as if I’m holding down Cmd, often messing with my browser or active project. I have to tap Cmd again to ‘unstick’ it. It’s not a hardware issue- An Apple store has already replaced the keyboard for me, and the problem persists.

I guess no one at Apple dogfoods the iPad for productivity? Which is sad, because here this thing is! It exists! Productivity features have been at least added to iOS!

On the plus-side, I’m getting deep into doing sound synthesis / music production in iOS. The ecosystem is kind of exciting. I spend most of my time inside Audulus (Max/PD-like data flow/DSP) - it is criminally underrated, and so much fun.

I could really go on about the pros and cons but will refrain. It’s just such a mixed bag.
Querying the Color Scheme
Sticking to principles is "winning" for some people, not making more money or getting power. Zuckerberg would've folded long ago and did whatever the govt asked him to do in order to make more money.
Well, Bret Victor presumably isn't rich rich.

Some ideas—key novel concepts and conceptual frameworks, for example—absolutely have value, but they're not valuable in the way a business is valuable. You won't become business-owner rich just by coming up with the right concept, but you can have a successful research career, get enough funding to run a small research group, win a Nobel/etc prize... etc. But that says more about how our society and economy are organized than it does about the inherent value of ideas qua ideas.
If you want to pay bottom of the barrel wages you’re gonna get employees that are at the bottom. An accident could cause many times a workers annual wage, so they’re trying to go for preventative measures.

I’m honestly surprised they can still find people who want to work for them.
The only goalposts shifting are the ones who think completely blowing past the Turing Test, unlocking recursive exponential code generation, and a computer passing all the college standard tests (our way of determining human intelligence to go Harvard/MIT) better than 99% of humans, isn't a very big deal.
LaTerminal is pretty cool, AFAIK the only iPad terminal that supports images (via either libsixel or the iTerm2 image protocol).
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It comes down to what time is. I.e. what was before the Big Bang? If time didn’t exist before big bang, then speed of light emerged after big bang, and as such “changed”.
Funding: money used to cost next to nothing just a few years ago. Recruiting: where would you rather work, at bureaucratic AF bean counter run Boeing with zero potential upside, or at a startup which even pays more? Can they do it: I think not. Not for any particular technical reason, but due to the higher cost of money, of which they still need a metric ton, and due to how long it all takes. Eventually they’ll pivot into something they can actually do. Probably military.