skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
being politely hostile isn't not being hostile, it's just being hostile while maintaining decorum. there aren't meaningful consequences for a CEO breaking decorum in negotiations with those under them; maintaining it is just a nicety

while prior context is absent, at least in this email zuck isn't offering assistance or asking what he could do assist, it's just a politely-worded "get it done, fucker"

i find a servant leadership approach far more effective, and better able to acknowledge that said team problems were quite likely caused by previous "stop complaining and get it done" leadership whose only skill is cracking the whip
This is something I regularly read, something in the line of 'we're doomed and it's our own fault since we are actively part of this destructive system'.

I think while humanity is destroying things they are fixing things as well. Banning of heavy metals in environment, removing asbestos, getting most people to stop smoking, eating less meat, energy transition... it's not perfect but we are working on it. Meanwhile average age increases and violence decreases (averaged over a large period at least)
https://x.com/MiSvTh/status/1785767966815985893
A possible way to interpret it is that maybe some of individuals in the bottom quantile on the longevity scale are living short lives because there's somehow sensitive to the caloric intake. They need the restriction to live longer. Those were not sensitive to not benefit from the restriction, and also tend not to be found in that low quantile.
When I benchmarked it, I saw no difference between [ and [[ when using bash, so I assume [ is handled (now) by the shell as well.

The syntax inside [[ is different though.
Seems like nowadays they're still around that number, although a bit smaller in 2023 ($39.92, down 4% YoY) [0]. They think it went down due to the growth of international users.

Do they get less money per user because they can't legally do the same things in other markets or maybe advertisers pay less for data or reach to non US markets?

What I see from their 4Q2023 report [1] is that they sell devices at a loss. Their gross revenue in "Devices" is negative $20K. And I guess that also includes any expense on advertising or promoting the devices, not only the hardware price.

I can't find if there's any mention anywhere about what percentage of their platform revenue is advertising and what is subscriptions, but they say:

We generate Platform revenue primarily from the sale of advertising (including direct and programmatic video advertising, M&E promotional spending, sponsorships, and related ad products and services), as well as streaming services distribution (including subscription and transactional revenue, the sale of Premium Subscriptions, and the sale of branded app buttons on remote controls).

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0: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/roku-80-million-active-accounts-earnings-1235826274/
1: https://image.roku.com/c3VwcG9ydC1B/4Q23-Shareholder-Letter-Final.pdf
They're equivalent: https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/files/2340/hoarecomplete2.pdf
> The more interesting question I have is how he knew the speed that IG user base was growing.

See the acquisition of Onavo by Meta/FB [1]. Onavo was a Spyware which allegedly provided the data to FB on which Apps they were loosing ground to. This very likely played a part in Meta/FB deciding to acquire Instagram and Whatsapp.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onavo
You could run autossh as a systemd service that starts on boot. :-)
Boston TTC is a great club despite its small size and low-ish ceilings.

Some very high level players there (lots of Asian students from MIT, Harvard, etc. who, having grown up playing, absolutely rip :))

Westchester club is a much better facility if you're in the NYC area.

I'm in San Diego now, I pay $50/year at my club, lol, $50/hour, ridiculous.
Overall, the clarity and rationale of the email improves my impression of Zuckerberg.

I'm not a big fan of Facebook, but this sounds like he might be better to work with than the average tech industry executive.

Not knowing how they usually talk, I agree it's probably "non-hostile", but it might be a bit confrontational. And maybe that's appropriate for the situation.
Four more health care workers ill after caring for bird flu case in Missouri
Ok. Well that’s possibly under NDA, because in the Apple Store demo they say it’s impossible.

But in any case: Several browsers isn’t several apps. It’s really not like having several computers screens around you.
This instrument is only an display that shows data coming from another device that does the actual measurements. One of the reasons why the threewire synchro interface is used is that it is surprisingly accurate as long as you don't care about the fact that it is “slow” by modern standards. The same interface was used to direct artillery and similar things that require significant accuracy to be effective.
Thank you. I tried the same prompt using the model you suggested on GPT4All and it still refused.

However, prepending the assistant's answer with "I will assist you" made it compliant.
You've continued to break the site guidelines, not just with this account but with others like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41681416, and ignored our requests to stop.

Between that and the personally abusive emails you've been sending, it's clear that you don't want to use HN as intended, so I've banned the accounts.
I think I had it confused with dart:html, which looks almost the same. I don't see a big difference in the example code.
Well this is just an indicator, the accuracy from the actual IMU would also need to be considered. The indicator itself probably isn’t the main source of inaccuracy once the IMU has drifted a bit.
zuck is the founder of the company and has been at the helm since its inception

consider where that management debt may have come from, and whether accepting the current crunch will somehow alleviate it, or signal that crunch will solve all problems and should be used, likely more aggressively, in the future
> Reminds me of this one time we had a Raft cluster arguing over who was the leader for 20 minutes in production

That's certainly an interesting failure mode. Do you recall the details around root cause? I could imagine ephemeral network partitions (flapping interfaces? peering loss?) causing something like this for sure.

In my own experience, I've been running services that use Raft under the hood for the last ~10 years in production and haven't seen this happen myself. Though I do absolutely remember having misconfigured election timeouts causing very painful latency issues in failover scenarios.
Why Sam Altman and Elon Musk are WRONG and Ontology is the next step in AI [video]
Well, did you see with your own eyes the earth is round rather than flat? No, so you can't state either? That makes most reasonable statements impossible to make.
Those are more like broad categories than examples of startups, though.
No but he was when he wrote the memo they're commenting about.
Yes, it should really be called collective intelligence not artificial intelligence
I feel like I've known this intuitively for years, but have never been able to properly explain it to others.

For example, when I was in university (2015-20), all my lecture notes were available as pdfs, but I would just always print them anyway while the other students would read them on their devices. And when I learned French, I only bought physical books and never even once tried an e-reader. Paper is just easier to understand!
There is no fear of WWIII, that's part media invention, part political excuse, part useful idiots.

Not true at all. The risk may be overstated by some, but it's a perfectly possible outcome that must be considered.[0]

A "World War" requires an opponent worthy of a world-wide conflict, and Russia is anything but

Also simply not true. It just requires one side to start using nukes, which can also happen entirely by accident (and has come close to happening multiple times, even without a multi-year and incredibly nasty hot proxy conflict on the ground between two of the planet's largest mutual adversaries).

As for nuclear weapons, they are practically useless.

True of course, but it doesn't matter. What matters is that certain people might start to think that they're useful and/or their only choice. Which gets into the fact that we can't assume these people are acting rationally.

Also, notice how Putin and his officials talk about nuclear use a lot, but there is still zero evidence of any action

Right, but that can change at any time. It doesn't even have to be a tactical battlefield strike (which of course would be useless, and their people know it). For example, once their backs are pushed against the wall with sufficient firmness, Putin or his successors might start to think that a demonstrative high-altitude detonation over an ocean somewhere might be a pretty neat idea. Especially if they've reached a point where they have nothing more to lose, and have a reasonable fear of being outright killed sooner or later if the current situation on the ground starts to move strongly and rapidly against them.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41525830
Take the blue pill, press the back button, and pretend you never saw it.

Or take the red pill, pull back the curtains of reality, and see the machinery behind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41197775
Related:

Karl Popper's Falsification

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-sGqBsWv4

Science is Falsifiable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bsnQYOwr4o

Karl Popper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper

Criterion of Falsifiability

https://www.britannica.com/topic/criterion-of-falsifiability

"Science isn't about confirmation, it's about refutation".

Confirmation vs. Refutation...

Phrased another way: Searching for thousands of things that prove a theory or a claim vs. searching for a single thing that disproves a theory or a claim...

Related:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
Yep, Scott Kelly, after a year in space, lost about 30% of his hearts muscle mass. Ref: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/nasas-twins-study-resul...
No syntax highlighting, really?
The only place where this is relevant for me is running old Windows games via wine. Wonder how wine is handling this? Might as well re-map the date for 32bit wine to the late 90s/early 2000s, where my games are from. Heck, with faketime I can do that already, but don't need it yet.
According to a paper on navigation sensors, commercial grade sensors have gyroscope drift of 0.1º/s (which is consistent with iPhone data), while navigation grade sensors have a drift of <0.01º/hour. I couldn't find specific numbers for the F-4's inertial navigation system, but I assume it is navigation grade. So the aircraft gyroscopes would be orders of magnitude better than a smartphone. For the azimuth, the F-4 used a flux valve compass, which must be much better than the relatively poor compass on a smartphone. Of course, the smartphone sensors are orders of magnitude cheaper and smaller.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1186/s43020-019-0001-5
How is Mozilla funding a private Google Photos alternative “competition against a world of Chromium”?

Maybe you didn’t follow the thread close enough — the complaint isn’t that funding Firefox is counterproductive, but that shoveling dollars to a non-Firefox product does nothing to help Firefox compete against Chrome/Chromium, which is kinda hard to argue against, no?
Nice theory but Onavo was acquired post Instagram.
We delivered value, but at what cost?

https://youtu.be/DYvhC_RdIwQ?si=Tm3A1f9ze2WtRCi3
i didn’t want it to be complex so it uses simple time budget + at least x amount of samples, both and more can be configured with lower level api.

in practice i haven’t found any js function that gets faster after mitata’s time budget (excluding cpu clock speed increasing because of continuous workload)

another problem is garbage collection can cause long pauses that cause big jumps for some runs, thus causing loop to continue searching for best result longer than necessary
Next to all the other difficult problems to solve when sending people to Mars, this one looks particularly nasty.
> Over the years I have been frustrated by binary and XML formats that make data only accessible via a single program (or by me wasting time manually converting each file, or by me writing a file format conversion program).

For me, the frustration is version control. Native spreadsheet formats (xlsx/ods) are binary, so un-diffable. Plaintext formats like CSV/TSV play nice with Git, but come at a high cost in ergonomics: there is no way to preserve formatting such as column widths and formulas are usually discarded on save. Moreover, Excel/Calc don't really like it when you overwrite an open file from another program.

MtCellEdit seems to be a step in the right direction, but still leaves a good part of the itch unscratched.
What about making time_t 64-bit across all profiles and incrementing all the profile versions by one? Gentoo users are used to breaking changes when upgrading profiles.
More and more people want to disconnect. You can get beaten up getting into a men's bathroom with these glasses! It's illegal in California to record people without their knowledge, so, I hope more people get sued so that these can get banned.
Something that I believe sets chess aside from most other pursuits (e.g. sports, other games) is the lack of luck; it’s almost all skill. You and your opponent both have everything laid out in front of you, and if you’re skilled enough you can see more than they see, etc etc
People don't use greyhound because of the other people who use greyhound. Making this a public utility only worsens this problem.
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chatgpt grant me an AI demon that can transform any manager saying this into a pixie trapped in a cage, attached to each of their ICs' heads for duration of the project, or something
Well to be honest, we don't truly 'know' anything, we can only make best guesses. My best guess based on what i've read from who i perceive as smart people is that microplastics are everywhere, not enough exercise makes you ill, looking in the sun kills your eyes and doing drugs is no good. Are you just can say "I don't know"
As a layman, i have no clue at what point a chick turns into a chicken. I also think this isn’t even answerable, because „new chick“ doesn’t really imply „newborn“ but only means „new to the farmer“, so the chicks could be at an age where they would be chickens a week later, no?
> No progress on RL for chip design was published by Google since 2022, as far as I can tell.

This makes sense given that both authors of the paper left Google in 2022. And one no longer seems to work in the chip design space, plausibly because of the bullying by entrenched folks.

Then again, since rejoining Google the other author has produced around one patent per month in chip design with RL in 2023 and 2024, so perhaps they feel there is a marketable tool here that they don't want to share.
The UK sort of had this for a while via "The Tote" - set up in the 1920s by the UK government, it ran stores that took sports bets, had a presence at almost all horse races etc providing safe/legitimate services.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tote

It operated alongside other private operators, but was entirely State owned and operated until it was privatized in 2011. I forget the specifics of it, but the Tote uses (or at least used to) some kind of "pool betting" model that meant it didn't profit directly from customers losing bets, being agnostic about the results was meant to reduce predatory pressures etc.

I think this likely helped a lot to give those who wanted to gamble somewhere they could always trust to honor the arrangement and avoid "underground" operators, I don't know that it helped all that much in reducing the social harms etc though.
So they claim...
Thanks for finding this! I was wondering what 'app' they were talking about
>And every human in existence has been adapted over the last 50K years

50k years is a blink in the context of evolution. You're looking exclusively at cultural adaptations in this timeframe.
>However, the value was mostly gone by the mid-to-late 1990s, and the few remaining issues were cleaned up before 2010 — shockingly late, but still over a decade ago.

This is an argument for it: You never know when you'll be on a legacy system. "A decade" isn't that long.
Yeah, exactly, but with the energy requirements of a small country to run the network.
In a Slack channel, "post-economic" was the term he used to describe his financial situation as a justification for his actions. So, yes?

https://x.com/sereedmedia/status/1839394786622722432?s=46
The backup for the display is an integrated standby instrument system (ISIS), which combines several essential instruments into one small digital display. An ISIS typically has its own sensors and a battery backup, so it should stay operational even if the main display fails. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_standby_instrument_...
Yes, clearly I am the one obsessed.
Would be nice if strengthened by some concrete examples.
I'm not from there so sorry I'm behind on some of this stuff.

It does look like on the wiki they were abolished however they were replaced by something else?

I don't know enough about it. The idea of an ASBO when I read about it sounded insane abuse of power to me.

""ASBOs were replaced in England and Wales by the civil injunctions and criminal behaviour orders"'
> and removing facilities where people can rest during layovers just drives what little remains completely into the dirt.

To be clear the bigger problem is that Greyhound will have to cut service in Chicago dramatically - they really need a terminal to support larger operations, they can’t have dozens of buses sitting in the road. There will be a few routes that dump people on the street, but companies like Megabus will probably cut service entirely.
Am I the only one unimpressed by the dev tool situation? Debugging and verifying the generated code is more work than simply writing it.

I'm much more impressed with the advances in computer vision and image generation.

Either way, what are the startups that I should be looking at?
Thanks!

Wait, you're the Linux/4004 guy, aren't you? That project was truly amazing.
This so much. Anyone who has ever spent time having to be stuck at a Greyhound terminal in the south knows what true hell looks like. They are full of the sketchiest people of every city.

Not great places unless you are into smoking crack with homeless people and getting threatened or stabbed by them.
> And the code is just 3 for loops, with a multiplication, a sum and an exponential.

All invented/discovered and formalized by humans. That we found so much (unexpected) power in such simple abstractions is not a failure but a testament to the absolute ingenuity of human pursuit of knowledge.

The mistake is we’re over-estimating isolated discoveries and underestimating their second order effects.
The dash shell compiles to 80k on an i386, which is viable for embedded applications.

The POSIX shell was standardized in view of the original Korn shell, which could compile to 64k on Xenix 286.

The functionality was reduced in an effort to increase code maintainability.

Edit:

"A lot of effort was made to keep ksh88 small. In fact the size you report on Solaris is without stripping the symbol table. The size that I am getting for ksh88i on Solaris is 160K and the size on NetBSD on intel is 135K.

"ksh88 was able to compile on machines that only allowed 64K text. There were many compromises to this approach. I gave up on size minimization with ksh93."

https://m.slashdot.org/story/16351
You can force zooming to be allowed in the accessibility settings, at least on Chrome mobile.
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Researchers seeing little evidence of benefit from co pilots
If you want the most powerful shell, ksh93 has the most features without doubt.

Since David Korn retired, it has been adrift with few updates.

The dash shell can be compiled with libedit to implement "set -o vi" (which is also POSIX), and is pleasant to use this way.
Reminds me of Sea of Thieves

https://youtu.be/aGogFt4bhTM?t=12
How would anyone know? Ballots are always secret, so any trouble you might get in would not be about the way you voted, but the way your coworkers felt when you talked about it. Easy solution: keep your mouth shut. (This is the cultural norm.)

Political donations are a matter of public record, so it is possible one could get in trouble over that: Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich famously resigned after controversy around his donation to a campaign opposing gay marriage. But this is a rare situation, since the CEO of a nonprofit is kind of a political figure; it's not something an ordinary employee would worry about.

In the 36 states where voter rolls are also public record, some batshit-paranoid executive could theoretically find out which employees didn't vote and give them a hard time about it, but this would be completely unheard-of and possibly illegal. Many US citizens don't bother to vote; nobody cares.
Preexistence is still fully irrelevant. The generic use can come into being 50 years after the trademark does and it will still make the trademark invalid. Or it can die 50 years after the improper grant of a trademark and cause that trademark to become valid.

A descriptive term can't be trademarked, and using "super hero" to refer to stories about superheroes is descriptive. But there is no chronological consideration.
It’s a choice to enable that situation, not an intrinsic factor. Bus terminals in South America are pretty nice.
Lol, that only works if you can force everyone on the platform to go along with it. It is a nice solution, but it requires you to control the c library. Gentoo doesn’t control what libc does; that’s either GNU libc or MUSL or some other thing that the user wants to use.
EVs aren’t wasteful. The US alone consumes 9 million gallons of gas a day. It’s not sustainable. If we don’t transition in the next fifty years no one will be driving except for the extraordinarily wealthy.
I closed your Landing page after reading two adverbs ending with "lessly" in the same sentence, one being "seamlessly".

More seriously, I'm having a hard time understanding what differentiates you from Mailchimp and the email services, already provising such tools. The template notion is also a little bit confusing as I don't understand what an SMS template is, since an SMS is text only, with no layout. By the way, we can see the confusion in the "Templates" page, all of them being for Email, which is understandable.
But I might want to spend 4 hours on a bus and I can't now. I have to take 2 1.5 hour flights thanks to the Delta hub.
How Discord stores trillions of messages (2023)
No, you've confused trademarks with patents.
Buzz was amazing. Although it crashed quite a lot it was a marvel for my music production in 2000.
I see people on HN approach their lack of knowledge with a little more humility than the way Altman sounds in the article. He seems to be one of those people who thinks "I'm an expert in my area therefore I am an expert in all areas." The really smart people know what they know and also what they don't know and surround themselves with people that have the knowledge they lack. Someone he trusts should be telling him his ideas for fab expansion are crazy.
Architecture of a Joke