skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These all seem quite expensive for what they are. I guess the demand is probably quite low, or are there infrastructure costs involved in supporting these?
This sounds good, but it can't be right. There are animals that live centuries. Greenland sharks may live up to 500 years, for example. There are trees that live millenia.
Dolphin-a search tool to echo high-quality information in the web ocean
One thing that woud help real people deal with internet comments and content is switching from a binary "true" vs "false" dichotomy, eg "this is good", "this is false", etc. That is, everything must be stamped with some version of a binary label.

Instead, a trinary should be used, so among true and false, you can have undefined. Or, more importantly for value judgements, "it doesnt matter".

And of course, like things in javasvript, everything should probably just live as undefined, and there should be plenty of guardrails before choosing the other states.
Why not? Who cares if Facebook has my drivers license number? Unless they plan on using the new Georgia voter deregistration site, it doesn’t seem very sensitive. Or are you worried about the address part?
Yeah, those really are awful. Ren and Stimpyified but made for the modern 3 second attention span.
Europeans are allowed to geopolitically meddle AND deport economic migrants, it’s not that difficult
> Are you changing the ethical outlook of the industry? Are you making a positive ethical impact?

I try pretty hard to only work on companies that have at least a neutral impact on society. Many of them have had an actively positive one.

> I think you grossly overestimate HN's prominence in the tech industry.

It's a good thing I wasn't talking solely about hackernews then.
This has been amusing and all, but I'm the author of that blog post, and since arguments in a mere comment aren't as reputable I'd updated the post.
Standard Chartered bank was fined $1.1 bil a few years ago for laundering money for Iran. They were fined for the same thing in 2012.

Deutsche Bank was fined $2 bil in 2023 for laundering for Russia. They were fined for the same thing in 2017. UBS was fined $4 bil for laundering and tax evasion in 2019. French bank BNP Paribas paid $9 bil in fines in 2014 for laundering for Iran. Credit Suisse has been caught / fined for laundering for Iran. And so on. Our banks work with all of these banks.

Looking outside the EU, I'd guess you could also transfer money to / from Iran by just making a stop over in Hong Kong or the UAE. But how would we know? The banking system is a black box of fraud.
I have an EO 440 in my house. The disk is slightly corrupt and some of the apps (including the configuration app) don't work, unfortunately.
> The irony of telling people how to use something you're opposed to...

To a certain extent, I expect people to do exactly that as part of an argument in good faith, especially in a technical context. If you can't explain to me how something works, why should I trust your feedback, be it positive or negative?
Adding to this, their home page says:

> Because we use the Jabber network […]

Wait, what does Jabber have to do with sending texts and making calls on mobile networks?
Yep. Supposedly you can match writing styles across accounts on the internet to identify someone.
I didn't know there was a formal service for it, that's very cool. Still, it relies on the miner keeping its word instead of cracking the private key. In practice it would definitely not bother risking its reputation like that, but I wonder if there's way around it, with smart contracts or something.
Not to mention that lots of data is sent wirelessly.
But then so are the bureaucrats. Hence the ass-backwards emissions policy we have now. The different is courts are compelled to hear well-reasoned arguments from experts on both sides and adjudicate based on their analysis, whereas bureaucrats can and do turn a deaf ear to anyone that doesn’t toe the party line.
Turns out they have lower mutation rate which helps them. Their chances are much lower, but still not zero. https://www.monash.edu/news/articles/sharks-cancer-secret-al...
Let me answer your question with another question: would you feel comfortable sending a picture of both sides of your driver’s license to my email address? If you say “no”, please share the reasons here, maybe they are the answer to your own question.
> doesn’t advise using the glasses while driving or any other potentially rigorous tasks

"doesn't advise" is an euphemism Gizmodo chose.

On Vixion's site [0] they have a "Forbidden" section, with driving as the first bullet point, with a pictogram to make it clear even if you can't read the text.

They absolutely don't want you in a crash, and surely not with their glasses blamed for it.

[0] https://store.vixion.jp/
This is great! I had been thinking of how to constrain and make the prompts precise so "modes of interpretation" of my prompt by the LLM could be limited. Something like how one would simplify one's language with a child to get it to comprehend and act within bounds.

Would you mind sharing more details of your approach and setup?
have you ever worked for a company
Reminiscent of https://programming-motherfucker.com/

Perhaps the attitude is just moving up the management stack? :-)
Please do share your thoughts. It seems a shame to let nitpickers ruin the community for others.
Richard Meservey's Interview (Project Snaptran)
That's a completely different situation, and you know it.
Have you considered that the sour grapes attitude actually comes from an understanding of the world, and how everything has been turned only into profit maximization?

And that the nitpicking is merely a failure to express that understanding of the world, especially since it seems like pro-status quo commenters don't care to learn more?

I think I'm one of the sour grapes commenters often, and I've very often tried to have patience to explain in depth where my opinions come from. My greatest frustration is trying to describe for instance why someone like Mr Beast is antisocial (as I actually did a long time ago), and then being met by responses like "he's obviously doing something right to get all those views and he's promoting altruism", responses that obviously never bother to understand what my point was.

If think if we really are supposed to improve the quality of discussions, asking more questions should be common when we fundamentally disagree so much. On fundamental disagreements, either the other party is stupid/naive/uninformed or they have fundamentally different principles that we might not understand, and without which a response is just flaming.

Later edit: I actually think the document by Mr Beast is exceptionally well written, and most startups could apply the main lessons from it. I still think his output is extremely antisocial.
Internally, LLMs know a whole lot more about the truth and uncertainty of their prediction than the say. Pushing that to words is difficult but not impossible.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41504226
What I find interesting in reading this is that it's not particularly surprising in content. And I don't mean that I expected some hugely toxic culture from a youtube company and found it. I mean that the whole document is largely pretty standard "how to make it in a competitive industry" advice. The tone might be a little unprofessional for folks who are used to big corporate talk, but if you'd leaked internal Microsoft or Google documents to a bunch of long time IBM folks they would have thought the same things I'm sure. The tone might be different, but most of the points seem identical to stuff anyone should be familiar with. "Follow up when you ask someone for something", "Don't commit to giving X if you can't actually get X", "Have a backup plan", "Try to turn a failure into something useful", "Own your mistakes", "Make sure you've exhausted all the avenues for something before you decide it's impossible", "Do the hard work early so you're not cramming it all in at the end", "You are the subject matter expert on your specific project, assume everyone else doesn't know anything". Even the "A,B,C" employee thing is pretty standard stuff folks know intuitively. Fast food is garbage no matter where you go, yet somehow Chick Fil A has lines around the block at lunch time and if there's 3 cars in a Wendy's drive through, you'll go somewhere else. Why? Because Chick Fil A really tries to not have "C" employees (relative to fast food employees in general), and it shows in the customer experience. Two fast food places can have the same quality of food, and the one with the drive through attendant that acknowledges people and responds to phatic phrases, and marks the diet soda cup is going to have more traffic and customer satisfaction than the one where the attendant barely acknowledges you've arrived at the window and leaves you to figure out which was the diet coke when you get home.
My score was 3, which isn't indicative of a overly rough life. But I was a gifted kid, reading at 3, straight A's all the way through University. Always had bad emotional problems though. Turned into a really bad porn/sex addiction. It's currently ruining my life and health and Im going to SMART meetings because SAA wasnt helpful for me. 35 and not very much to my name. Mental health issues have haunted me my whole life, and the same goes for my parents.

I've been diagnosed with a few things, but none very concretely other than dysthymia and general anxiety disorder. My mom has adhd, and her sisters have schizophrenia. Also my niece was diagnosed with autism. She thinks I have Adhd but I can't really tell whats what until my sex issues are through.
8, and one thing it means is we here are selected for having made it far enough back to talk idly about it on a Sunday evening on HN. Spare a thought for those who haven't and didn't, too. Your heart does you credit here; they need it more than we.
Posting this because:
1) love the trash pandas
2) some good info in there
3) story violates Betteridge's law, which is 90% accurate, in my experience.
I’ve never heard of ACE but I just scored a 7. Once upon a time I got diagnosed on the spectrum, as well as PTSD due to various traumas.

I turned out pretty well: successful career, married a really long time, and raised 3 kids without neglecting or abusing them. I still feel like an alien among people, but I’m socially functional, great confidence, can handle myself in any sense, etc.

I never mention my diagnoses to others but I keep them secret and do use them as valuable tools on how to approach my own problems and challenges. I never consider myself a victim — that’s like a sacred sin to me.

I’m very grateful for all the good and all the bad I’ve experienced. It built me into a flawed person that I’m very proud of.
... using an AI that's been trained on browsing history captured from billions of users. Pretty sure that's what "infer" means.
As the article says, the Paraguayan company has been filing and renewing the Mickey trademark, without challenge, since the 1950s. That's the reason Disney lost the suit.
Its more compli ated than that. What percentage of scaries told to you are credible vs what percentage for the police? i dont think this should happen but i also recognize its a complex issue
I seriously do not understand why people use Google Chrome and other Chromium derivatives.

It's one thing that my non-tech sphere friends do, but I see so many people at work just defaulting to using Google Chrome, and I frankly just cannot fathom it.

Like, FFS, is browser sync that useful? In 30+ years using the web on a bunch of different computers, I have not once ever been like "ooooh I wish I had the 35+ tabs I had open on my work computer on my personal one".
Microplastics?
How would said bot have recognized this transaction was one of these puzzles, and thus worth brute-forcing?

Given only a random public key, is it possible to quickly recognize when its corresponding private key has weak entropy?
The photo of the "eSIM Adapter" retail packaging, with the SIM case that's empty... seems like a little joke.
I hope everyone here who is praising the A, B, C-player framework recognizes that it comes from Jack Welch’s much criticized Vitality Curve system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve#Ratings
FYI this is just a system prompt and not a fine-tuned model
Yes, the only other way is to mine it yourself. They are a public company that run their own miners if it makes you feel any better.
How is most of the let known of it's a puzzle? Why would people make their progress public?
Don't git describe in anger, I heard you say.
(Look who only learned in 2024 that Jim Baen was one of Tor's founders. Not that I was precisely wrong in what I said, but that's a pretty significant and obvious piece of relevant history to have overlooked!)
Context: these users were not paying, were using stolen credit card numbers.
I am not a bitcoiner, but I think there is a way to have transactions on bitcoin that are the hash of the script you want. So maybe you could submit the script hash and then submit the script in the next block? IDK if how that would work but I overheard some sort of hash-of-script functionality described by bitcoiners to save space. Hold on, let me see if I can find it.

Edit: nevermind, I got confused with P2SH: https://learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/script/p2sh/ pretty sure you can't unlock outputs with a hashed script unless the creator of those outputs did it ahead of time.
The LSP space is super interesting right now. Looking forward to diving deeper into/trying this!
I have an uncle who was an employee rural carrier for thirty years. He always owned and maintained his own vehicle.
>North Korea pretty much only uses the Internet for scams Or to make money in violation of sanctions. They certainly don’t allow their citizens to use it for anything else, and they don’t allow their citizens to leave the country because they would never come back.

Do you think that the only place north korean hackers operate from is inside north Korea?
At least they're all named appropriately!
I imagine writing like this is a deliberate part of both his personal brand and the company culture he is trying to create.

MrBeast videos do not get better if everyone uses perfect spelling and grammar. They get better if people figure out and then execute kind of crass but extravagant “wow” moments.
I so want to do this, but I am always scared that I will accidentally put in a wrong character and do something that will cause me hours of rework.

Sure question, why have it in zshrc and load it every time a new shell starts? It’s all in the .gitconfig after the first run anyways right?
You mean like https://social.bbc and a few others? There are also smaller accounts on https://verifiedjournalist.org/ It's happening.
If you don't know what a 5 month run way feels like, you haven't experienced life. It really helps you understand what is important to projects and wtf isn't.
The noise levels on direct measurements are pretty high. You're right that it's not big enough to show up on a year to year basis, but it will likely make a difference up on a longer term analysis, which can see more impact and has less variance. In that case it depends on whether "observable" is supposed to include near-future measurements or not.
Straight domain:

* 2023: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36022005

* 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28420797

* 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11164330

Various other mentions of the concept:

* https://hn.algolia.com/?q=Plain+Text+Accounting
The healthy way to frame it, in my opinion, is that it’s business as usual. I know that isn’t motivational (or fun) for a lot of people, but the pragmatism is something to always have in mind.

Top-down influences have and always will drift from topic to topic and resources will follow. Demand for any given approach will wax and wane and wax again over a career. Often, some core fundamentals will seem in-volatile but even they aren’t.

I try not to fight these tides, and just accept them. Sometimes ignoring them.
Understanding how something works is the first step in circumventing it.
Not sure that "vehicle that doesn't kill children or injure its employees" qualifies as "bad design" because ArtemZ thinks it looks ridiculous
"my summary"
Really awesome work. I look forward to messing with this sometime, previously when I took a look it was too early and very rough around the edges.
It’s a valid point. Renting servers sucks, setting up mastodon sucks. When do we see “Hosted mastodon AAS”?
Li-ion batteries will quickly show themselves a terrible way to smooth out renewables. I mean purely economically. Initial cost, unreliable range in hot or cold weather, and over time.

Although considering they needed helicopters dropping 50 tons of water over ONE BURNING TESLA SEMI for like a full day, imagine when a megapack catches on fire. Oh my God, it will scorch the skies of the entire f*kin' planet. I'm kidding (I hope), but you get my point.

Yes SpaceX is the key asset 100%. But he can be kicked out of SpaceX if he keeps upsetting Some Important People, and he's a deeply unserious man-child, and he doesn't know when to stop.
I'll miss his commentary here, and I'm glad to hear he is celebrated among those who knew him.

May flights of angels sing him to his rest.
Two questions:

1. How the hell do you plan to tell the difference between some prankster using voice modulation and a genuine caller stuck in a situation with weird acoustics? Or are you too dense to realize that emergencies don't always happen in perfect sound conditions?

2. Are you seriously okay with giving police dispatchers godlike powers to decide if your desperate plea for help is "real enough" for them? And if they get it wrong and write you off as a scammer while you're bleeding out, I guess that's just tough luck, huh? Still feeling smug about your brilliant plan now?
School shootings are an infinitesimal risk, gun violence in general might be worth pricing into the expected gain of moving into the US though
I don’t see much similarity here, other than the use of those three letters and the idea that Cs should be removed from the company.

The MrBeast As are rated on their ability to learn - which is surprisingly a characteristic that’s not mentioned in the Welch model.

MrBeast Bs are As who haven’t got there yet - Welch Bs are not expected to get there.

MrBeast Cs are reasonably capable but are missing out on that crucial learning instinct - again, not mentioned by Welch, who has Cs who are incompetent procrastinators.
I kind of agree. “sour grapes” is usually correct. But it’s also usually the least productive when we’re here just talking, not doing.
One of the biggest (and most imitated) channels... on the biggest video-on-demand platform to ever exist... Yeah, not worth being "condescending" over.
they were caught and fined, that doesn’t happen with crypto exchanges?

While under the American umbrella of regulation neither bank is American is kind of notable I suppose.

Perhaps European regulators are not as strong is more a issue rather than regulations are not a good idea?

It took American financial systems for example to bring down the former head of FIFA Sepp Blatter , he was operating in Switzerland with no consequences and the history of Swiss banks working with nazis is not something one can forget either .
I have a word in mind, but I'll save it for a blogpost one day.

To be fair to the senior, it was a bad situation made worse by everyone's self-interest. Myself included.
I've heard about Target's tracking from reputable sources, but never of them refusing to take cash, do you have a reputable source for that?
You don't need to. Most of us will never understand the complexity of banking either
Well I won’t be in that situation in the foreseeable future, and I’d rather make my life better at the polls than altruistically throw a bone to strangers
I wish banks weren't actively sabotaging data export. I wrote some scripts for this in the past, reverse engineered the login with OCR, cleaned up the invalid entries, but... It's just too much effort to maintain this. Once the mobile confirmation started being required, I just gave up.
Worth a click just for the pics!
Hmm. That makes sense. Ironic, given the number of times I get up to pee during the night (I'm old).
Yes, the price is relevant compared to the price of a new phone. And for what it's worth, the $120 price point only applies to the pro models, so your entry price is $900. But that aside, again I ask who are these people that are forgoing a $120 battery for a phone (one they'd be perfectly happy with if they could get a $30 replacement battery) in favor of a new $800 phone instead?

Yes in a hypothetical world where Apple charges $700 for a new battery, and a brand new iPhone can be had for $800, it's reasonable to think a good chunk of phones with degraded batteries would be discarded in favor of new phones. Likewise if we imagined a hypothetical world where iPhones randomly explode, killing the owner but only after it has been sold second hand, we'd also see a decline in the lifespan of used iPhones. But we don't live in such a world, and the batter replacement cost is not $700, or $480, or $240. It's $120 for two models and $99 for most others. And this $120 battery replacement world is the world the original commenter suggests that iPhones are becoming e-waste at a rate much more rapidly than they otherwise would if only they had $30 amazon replacements and sliding battery doors. It's the world where the original commenter implies that the only (or at least a significant) reason Apple designs the iPhone batteries the way they do is to drive sales of $1k+ phones. So in this world, who are the people rejecting $120 battery replacements for $1k+ phones?
How many esims does the JMP esim support? The esim.me chip supports up to 5.
Thankyou, as someone who's done hobbyist programming and wants to switch into it as a career, I was looking for something like this. My work computer is blocking it since it's an unknown site, but I'll have a look at it some time when I'm at home.
Must be a regional or class dialect thing? You've never heard the Amy Winehouse song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVaqQe3V498
Presumably they can be adjusted to only provide the minimum amount of correction necessary for the user's eyes to achieve correct focus, thus having the eye muscles always relaxed.

Only if the glasses detect something far away would it be adjusting itself to the "strongest" power. At intermediate ranges it would be using an intermediate power, and if the distance is something that you can read without correction it would become a (non-prescription) lens.
I think in that hypothetical case you could say it’s morally okay with some debate over how much participating in the economy matters, but I don’t think that tells us much about the real world because how would you ever get anywhere close to 100% certainty that you are actually talking to the person you believe you are, they aren’t compromised, and that the government isn’t waiting to confiscate those funds? Unless the goal is just to stash money in a foreign account until you can escape the country there’s no way to avoid a fairly high level of risk trying to use it in country.
We tried LightningCSS and it gave buggy output for us because it doesn't keep track of property ordering. I wouldn't use it until that's fixed.

https://github.com/parcel-bundler/lightningcss/issues/547

https://github.com/parcel-bundler/lightningcss/issues/572
Multi thread support is an experimental feature available on nightly build (and needing to be enabled). The bug tracking it is interesting to read, it has been a long journey... https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/391
Doing well on a recent AMD, although I didn't upgrade until about 6.10.7 or so.

There were problems on earlier kernels, but they were mostly fixed by a firmware update. Kernel already had support by that time.