skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Society always has and continues to limit access to certain things at certain times in certain places for certain groups of people for reasons that vary. We call it censorship/restrictions when we don’t like it. We call it reasonable control when we do.
Yes, hateful. Restricting human rights oppresses, controls, and dehumanizes people.
You said "yes exactly" when I asked if personal sentiment was the means of determining when an unfair power differential exists and ought to be legislated against.

Then you said "there is no point at which the process is 'complete' for a given policy and must be merely accepted..." This sounds very much like you believe it is both possible and correct to revisit any policy topic at any time, and with no particular criteria for when it is valid to do so -- it is always valid to do so, under that statement.

Thus, I asked for clarification -- it sounds like there are no possible objective standards for the lawmaking process in your formulation above; any law or policy can be revisited at any time, and without any objective criteria that leaves purely emotional arguments and whoever successfully gathers a bigger band of followers to their side as the main determining factor in what policy we get.
I depend on a lot of things outside my control. Including commercial software and hardware that a vendor may discontinue support for at any time.
Looks like the real winner here is nVidia, because they will be getting their investment money back as payment for GPUs using money invested by MSFT and APPL. Or is that view too simplistic?
The first sentence is so disappointing. Are we really living in a world where people think stuff is like "in the movies" and where people think that's the primary source for learning?
Why couldn’t it IPO? People would certainly invest at this valuation.
This is one of the most Reddit comments I’ve ever read on hacker news.
I liked that in the article, somebody with the name "Poet" grew up to be an economist.
yesss. my thought too. All the variations of English should not lost.

I enjoyed all the belter dialogue in the expanse
Anecdote: I'm helping a family member set up a personal brand website. He has a brand/marketing person for the content/design, but wanted me to manage the tech side of email, domains, providers, etc. I've used Wordpress a handful of times in my life, but it's an easy recommendation to make. We've spent maybe 30 mins a week for the past few weeks chipping away at it. We chose https://getflywheel.com/ as the managed WP provider[1]. They are owned by WP Engine.

Today, we got to installing the WP Mail SMTP plugin[2]. Oops, can't search for plugins. Maybe this has something to do with what I read on Hacker News yesterday, I think out loud. The Flywheel status page tells us to download the plugin zip and upload it, and we do. Crisis averted. But now... the plugin itself depends on talking back to the wordpress.org plugin registry. And it's blocked. The setup wizard fails with an unrecoverable javascript error. And we give up for another week.

I showed him the TechCrunch article. We agree that this is petty. Does he care about who is at fault, or the intricacies of trademark infringement, or the stewardship of public APIs? Nope. He just knows his first impression of Wordpress is that it's unreliable, both technically and organizationally.

[1] Could I have hosted it for him on DigitalOcean for cheaper? Yes. But I want him owning everything and pay someone to support it who isn't me.

[2] https://wpmailsmtp.com/
> If cash were invented today, it would be illegal

Based on what? Is 2008 not "today," because last I checked cryptocurrencies aren't illegal.
It seems to me that the current phrasing ruffled your feathers. (As it did mine, since I'm not sure this is a gendered phenomenon, but the fact is that your version would make me feel better - contray to your thesis).
I believe you'd still need cups-browsed installed, enabled & configured to accept remote printer broadcasts, _and_ have foomatic installed locally in order to get hit by this.

Modern version of cups will basically only talk to "driverless" IPP Everywhere printers, which all understand a common set of raster formats and hence have no need for printer-model specific software like foomatic-rip to be installed. They do this via mDNS, which means you don't need cups-browsed to be installed either.
> Sure, WP Engine advertises itself contributing back on their home page. But, rightfully so? Yeah, they don't contribute back as much as Matt or anyone would like to, but, they still contribute back, right?

It says "We passionately stand for WordPress, giving back, and DE&I". With about 40/week on half a billion in revenue that doesn't strike me as "passionate", or even worth proudly advertising on a home page.

All of this is what I would like to call "open washing": build an entire business on $open_platform, contribute back the minimum amount you need to fix your own problems, and then proudly declare what a bunch of altruistic good guys you are.

Lots can be said about 1) and 2) in itself, which has been discussed on HN frequently in the past and I don't want to repeat all of that so I won't offer my opinion here (which is long and nuanced in itself). But the whole "proudly advertise what a bunch of good guys we are" really rubs me the wrong way. It's just open washing: pretending to care when you don't.

Overall it kind of reminds me how some people put "Open Source contributions to $FAMOUS_PROJECT" on their CV. And then I go and check it's four PRs from 6 years ago, two of which are typo fixes and the other two are bugfixes. These are real contributions, yes. I don't want to disparage them. But at the same time: highlighting them as "Open Source contributions to $FAMOUS_PROJECT" is not really accurate or appropriate. This kind of stuff is basically an insta-reject when I'm reviewing CVs (which, unfortunately, is far more common than I'd like).
100% agree. I haven't read the raft paper in years, but I remember thinking there's just too much stuff in there. That stuff in important, but if you want people to understand what's happening they internalize the fundamental idea of being able to block other writers by bumping a number. Which is all covered in the single decree paxos section in part time parliment.
This was no different than any other terror attack. The person pushing the button had no visibility into who was holding the device and who would be injured in the blast radius. These sorts of attacks have always been possible, and most counties have not chosen to go this route due to the trickledown effect on society at large if they lose confidence in the safety of things they use every day,
Best course I ever took was one on how to counter your own cognitive biases
No.

This is rather clearly described in the laws of war.

If militants hides behind civilians or use civilians as shields for military infrastructure, the lives of the civilians is their responsibility.

This might seem counterintuitive at first but is perfectly obvious once you stop and think:

If it was legal to use civilians as human shields and it would shield your military infrastructure everyone would do it.

Because the laws of the war is so clear about it nobody does it except Hamas and they only do it because they know western media and commentators will blame Israel despite international laws being very very clear in this matter.
There is no evidence how the document, commissioned by the Trump team while vetting Vance, got out. I'm reminded of Facebook suppressing the New York Post's Hunter Biden story in 2020, minus any noteworthy revelations.
Not sure whether this is a Lotus Notes reference also, but it should be! (that's where the idea for CouchDB came from)
We are saying the same thing. H0 is SHA-1 in your example.

The strength of an HMAC depends on the strength of the hash function; however, since it uses two derived keys, the outer hash protects the inner hash (using the same hash function), which in turn provides protection against length extension attacks.

The case I was making, is that weakhash(stronghash(m)) has the security of weakhash, no matter how strong stronghash is.
>The winter after this is gonna be harsh.

The difference is current ML already has real use cases right now in its current form. Some examples are OCR, text to speech, speech to text, translation, recommendations (for eg. Facebook Tiktok etc.) and simple NLP tasks ("was [topic] mentioned in the following paragraph"). Even if AGI is proved impossible, these are real use cases that hold billions in value. And ML research is also considered a prestigious and interesting field academically and that will likely not change even if investors give up on funding AGI.
Truly one of the greatest actors of all time. For those of you that haven't seen this, I strongly recommend watching this show. Just a group of ladies having tea and a chat. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7363336/
If you find this isn't working for you (and you're getting a 404, or OP's portfolio site -- you have to put the scheme in the URL.

Works: https://ful.co/https://www.apple.com

Won't work: https://ful.co/www.apple.com
For our Disney(land) trip, we stayed at a motel ~ 1.5 miles from the park (Canadian walking distance) and the thing my kids LOVED was we walked by a 7-11 every day and I would buy them a slurpee on the morning walk to the gates. Probably $20 for the week (and likely not much worse for you than a typical vacation breakfast).

The "make your own waffle" station at the included breakfast was also a huge hit. The park and rides were satisfactory.
It is a freedom issue. It's exactly that.

Why insist on broadening the premise with "regular people like us" and "we the people". If your message is potent you wouldn't need to try to speak for a crowd.

I don't need protection from those supposed forces. In a functioning market economy - which essentially all developed nations possess - I can easily control what food I consume and I can easily control whether I gamble or not. That was true for the years when I was poor as an adult and it was true for my parents who were lower middle class / poor while I was growing up.

I don't personally like prostitution, and it should absolutely be legal.

I don't personally like cocaine or marijuana, and they both should be legal.

I don't personally like late-term abortion, and late-term abortion should absolutely be legal.

I find it disgusting when people glug glug glug 72 gallons of soda while they sit there 250 pounds overweight. It's grotesque. And they should absolutely be allowed to do it. It is a freedom issue.

It's either their body or it isn't. The same goes for abortion as it does what food you get to consume and whether you get to sleep with prostitutes, snort cocaine or gamble (with your brain/body and the money from your labor).

Who does your body belong to?

The moment you start dictating that the state owns your body and what you can do with it, you have started down the path of authoritarianism (whether fascism or other). You'd have to have an extreme authoritarian society, to follow your premise to its logical conclusion in terms of what it implies about the culture and the restraints to be imposed.
This is a bit of a difficult question to answer. I was in game dev for ~13 years before transitioning out of it into biotech, ML, and data science.

This isn’t to disuade you from game dev (I have very fond memories of my time in games and most of my best friends are from that industry), but rather to let you know that I have experience in games, domains similar to what you do now, and radical career transitions.

First, I highly recommend the book "What Color is Your Parachute?" It’s very much a book about exactly this. I do X, I want to do Y, and coming up with a plan and intermediate goals on how to migrate in that direction. In the process, you end up learning most of what you’ll need, too.

Next, ne of the key points of the book worth focusing on is in finding overlapping skillsets that can get your feet in the door and begin giving you experience in games. For example:

* Data science is directly applicable to telemetry data capture, analyses, A/B testing of features, etc. While not "game code", many games today capture tons of data about their players, what features are used, ignored, never touched, etc. And game developers are decidedly not data scientists.

* Web development is important for game home pages, community building, exposing in-game data to the world (think MMOs and being able to lookup other players online, see their talent builds, gear, etc), and much more.

* Financial software (depending on what part of financial software you write) has crazy performance requirements and deep understandings of various financial attacks in network communication that are also important to games.

Finally, I can promise that most people you interview with in games are going to care a whole lot more about what you’ve done (and completed!) than what you’re interested in doing or passionate about.

A common metric in game interviews for candidates is "how many games have you shipped?" This isn’t about dick-measuring, but about knowing that you’ve stuck it out with a team through the really hard times taking something to 100%. You haven’t shipped a game yet, but you probably have similar stories about difficult projects - both at work and personal - that were difficult to take across the finish line. Focus on those.

If you don’t already have a GitHub repo filled with little side game projects you can share with potential companies, that’s another big feather in your cap. Doesn’t matter if they are Unity, Godot, your own engine, interactive fiction (text-based), a MUD, or something else. Right or wrong, in games these things can matter a lot when applying for a job.

Last note: games can be a LOT of fun. But it’s also probably a LOT more work than you think. The stories you read online about crunch are very real. But the people I’ve worked with in games were some of the best people I've ever met or worked with. And even though I don’t make games professionally any more, I still make them; I’ll never get rid of that itch. :-)
SW HN: We Made a Crunchbase Alternative
Here are my learnings of what I have understood about building a product and getting to $5k/mo. If you haven't gotten your first customer yet, this post is for you.

After launching FundBase, like other SaaS companies, we also struggled for 6 months. No sales, no revenue, only improvements on the product. But it did not last forever.

Our mistake?
we only focused on these platforms for launching(We are B2B)

Product Hunt

There is an AI for that .com

Hacker News

Linkedin communities

Discord and Telegram comminities

Roastortoast . com ( I need feedbacks)

Beta list

Launching Next . com

Startup pitch . com

Startup Stash .com

Launched .io

Pitch walll .co

Did this work?
No. Beacuse FundBase targeted indie hacker and makers who always bootstrap for their side projects and they rarely raise from VCs and angels

What Changed?
1.Reddit

We used Anvaka and Gummysearch and search for the companies on Reddit

then visited the subreddits on Reddit we've found and search for fundraising problems

We found complaints from potential founders and DM them

Linkedin(80% of our customers come from Linkedin)

We searched communities and potential fundraisers

We used GetProspect for this

and DM them about our product

This idea was born during our own fundraising process, as I was always searching for a simple way to find the right investors in my country. So I decided, why not find them with a simple sentence?
The christian morality summed up in one sentence.
There are some good spots in Japantown I like Kissako tea in the japan town mall...
Input and output, given that they must connect with the physical world, seems to me to be the likely limiting resource, unless you think isolated virtual worlds will have value on to themselves
The universe wants you to save energy so every intelligent life form allover runs flat copies of others, of which avg is just the scientific version thereof.

Thus neuro science is bad everywhere in the Universe.
Absolutely, spot on. These publishers aren't just letting anyone post. If you actually check, the writers are legit experts in their fields.

Take a look at the authors and their LinkedIn profiles—they’ve been covering these topics for years
Factories are highly automated. Especially in the US, where the main factories are semiconductors, which are nearly fully robotic. A lot of those manual labor jobs that were automated away were offset by demand for knowledge work. Hmm.

> the problems a robot faces when, say laying bricks, are prohibitively complex to solve.

That's what we thought about Go, and all the other things. I'm not saying bricklayers will all be out of work by 2027. But the "prohibitively complex" barrier is not going to prove durable for as long as it used to seem like it would.
I (20+ years experience programmer) find it leads to a much higher quality output as I can now afford to do all the mundane, time-consuming housekeeping (refactors, more tests, making things testable).

E.g. let's say I'm working on a production thing and features/bugfixes accumulate and some file in the codebase starts to resemble spaghetti. The LLM can help me unfuck that way faster and get to a state of very clean code, across many files at once.
OpenAI reportedly wants to build 5 gigawatt data centers
Is this not an obvious "no-shit-sherlock" thing to anyone who ever hung out with a kid?
like this? https://www.d-matrix.ai/product/
Soil Inheritance Movement
Farmers save their farming wisdom and then tap that shared wisdom with an AI chatbot.
Not really, they terminated the contract on February 24 immediately.
libertarians are so incredibly cringe its unbelievable. rights don't exist. they are not a law of nature. rights are a human invented concept. rights are both created by and enforced by government. generally speaking we do try to opt for giving people as much freedom as possible, that said if certain things have a high probability of negative externalties the government both can and does make those things illegal.
One click for the user to create an e-commerce (including the products taken from asdspy like minea).
Is it a weird idea?
How are they roughly equivalent, let alone "exactly equivalent"? It seems to me that are vast differences any way you compare them.

Economically, there are major differences in who pays them, There are differences in impact/cost. There are also huge moral differences between subsidizing desired behavior, and penalizing undesirable behavior.
And it doesn't help that game companies have little incentive to obsess over squeezing the absolute most performance out of the hardware when customers care more about "Jaw dropping visuals" and raytracing than knowing that the game can pull 60fps on 10 year old hardware.
On a macro scale, that has hardly any impact, and I think it would be even immeasurable.

It is rather the other way around. Higher rents / house prices will make sure only people with higher wages can afford to live there. That means your bagel or coffee will be more expensive there too.
That doesn’t mean this case is true.
> I don't think you can understand the 1960s

I think the same of "The Graduate (1967)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cKafIqhEvk

Note - this is not a movie she is in.
Why? If someone loses all of their money gambling they’d have to ask everyone for money anxiety free. That’s what a CEO does in general idk what to tell you what do you think y combinator is if guys all want to be a millionaire you can ask 1 million people for a dollar and then gamble and then do it again
My partner is a rare example of this. A little over 2 years ago at the age of 37 she was diagnosed as diabetic and put on metformin. The doctor thought it was LADA, or Type 1.5. The then the doctor kinda.... forgot about her? Historically he's been a terrible primary care doctor, just shoves pills and has no discussions so I wasn't super surprised. I'd been asking her to switch doctors for 3 years at that point due to some bad pill prescriptions that sent her suicidal. She was on metformin for 18 months with no meetings with her doctor beyond switching from an instant release to an extended release due to stomach pain. She got really irritated at me for suggesting that she be touching base with her doctor and progressing the care along, so I just dropped the topic and helped with carb counting, meal planning, and paid for a personal trainer.

About 6 months ago she suddenly started dropping weight. Extreme exhaustion (winded after going up a flight of stairs), dropped 30 pounds in two months, she was starting to get skeletal. Still not being active with her healthcare, but when she went under 110lbs for the first time since she was 14, she finally found the motivation she needed to get proactive and quickly found a better team of doctors who diagnosed her with Type 1 and put her on Insulin immediately.

Today we're putting her 2nd Omnipod on her for insulin delivery. She should get a closed loop system soon, I guess the iPhone support for her Omnipod+Dexcom combo is still going through FDA approval. Her new team says she's lucky to be alive at all. They've been going through her extensive medical history, pointing at occasions when she was hospitalized during her menses and saying "here you were going through diabetic ketoacidosis, that's why you were vomiting constantly", "every evening you're going critically low, that's why family thought you were a closet alcoholic", and "on average during the day your blood glucose is far, far too high, that's why you drink and piss gallons of water per day but are never sated".

So... I guess yes you can get lucky and survive, but with symptoms strong enough that it _should_ be caught.
In the past, with a printed book or journal article, it was safe to assume that an editor had been involved, to some degree or another challenging claimed facts, and the publisher also had an interest in maintaining their reputation by not publishing poorly researched or outright false information. You would also have reviewers reading and reacting to the book in many cases.

All of that is gone now. You have LLMs spitting their excrement directly onto the web without so much as a human giving it a once-over.
> Authoritarian governments typically enforce fiat currency to monitor citizens

Example? Despotic governemnts in the real world are kleptocracies. They use all manners of currencies because their elites spend what they can steal. To the extent we have highly-surveillable money systems, it's ones people freely engage with, e.g. the U.S. dollar and crypto.
The author isn't really the one over-hyping it.
Sure, but that was 10 years before he was James Bond. He was not skinny by any means but I wouldn't call him a "ripped hunk". To me that suggests someone like The Rock.
So is the argument here that the New Yorker can make more money from AI slop writing overseen by low-wage overseas workers? Isn't that obviously not the case?

Anyway I think I've misunderstood the context in which we're using the word 'competition' here. My response was about attitudes toward AI from writers at the tip-top of the industry rather than profit maxxing/high-volume content farm type places.
What's wrong with correcting someone? It requires some effort from the person doing the correcting, but it facilitates information sharing and lends itself to a more productive environment. If course it can be done in an shooting way, especially if the correcter is a jerk, but most people aren't.
Also see bunnie's recent blog post about how such an attack is not only not particularly sophisticated, but surprisingly affordable to do [1], which is scary considering how hard it is to detect (discussion here [2])

[1]: https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gad...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41594774
This would be a lot easier if Israel really was a vassal. Then we could decree that they halt the offensive and settle with the Palestinians. As it is, this ally has their own goals which don’t always align with the goals of the US.
The yellow school bus is in trouble