skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know it's only a matter of time, before it will be filled with ads - so it's a no thank you from here.
Are you lost? Why are you on this website?
Have you tried this? I bet it would work right now and look exactly as expected, a mess. The again, I gave GPT-4o some obfuscated js, a canvas rendering some buildings (shared here originally), and asked what was being rendered and it returned that it was a heart. So maybe not.
Its just a side project I'm working on and sometimes would like to get feedback on more advanced functions and modules.
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Are you searching for a way to implement active recall in your studying routine (i.e. learning by answering questions and reformulating concepts in your own words)?

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The website still has some issues, which is why it's completely free! All I ask is for your feedback so I can make it better.

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You can disable location sharing in the browser for every site and never see that popup again. Why is this such a big problem?
Yes! Back in 2002, I made a web version of the Zebra Puzzle, in Portuguese. It went viral and 20 years later I still have a Zebra Puzzle website [1].

That game and, this "micro SaaS" [2] that I made in 2003, helped me get my first job, at IBM. I was 19 at that time.

[1]: https://www.zebrapuzzles.com/

[2]: https://web.archive.org/web/20030204164816/http://www.hipert...
A true Austin Powers look for creeps.
xkcd: Dependency

https://xkcd.com/2347/
This gets to an essential point about LLMs - they are the ultimate intern. Anything you wouldn't ask an intern to do, you probably don't want to ask the LLM to do either. And you certainly want to at least spot check the results. But for army-of-intern problems like this one, they are revolutionary
That's just FUD. There would always need to be an activation path without internet for places without cell coverage and traffic can be always blocked.
I was asked this numerous times I college and it gave me anxiety every time I had to answer it. I simply could not understand why anyone would be interested in my response, so I couldn't synthesize anything to my audience (the person asking).
Good for you to get out of it in time! I nearly got tricked into signing myself, but did a bit of research during a bathroom visit, had the contract in front of me, and stopped myself when I saw the same red flags in the contract that people warned about online.

Small vocabulary correction: the term for what you did to get out of it, and the clause that allowed you to do so, is recission, not recension.
One quip I heard that stuck with is:

'Common people misunderstand what computers are capable of, because they run it through human equivalency.

E.g. a child can do basic arithmetic, and a computer can do basic arithmetic. A child can also speak, so surely a computer can speak.'

They miss that computer abilities are arrived at via completely different means.

Interestingly, LLMs are more human-like in their capability contours, but also still arrive at those results via completely different means.
Pollox.ai – AI Real Estate Buyer Agent
Every wonder to yourself, did I really need that Buyer agent for 2.5%? Before August 2024, that was never a concern. After the NAR settlement (https://www.nar.realtor/the-facts/nar-settlement-faqs) I was also curious to see if LLMs would be powerful enough to replace a job like a Real Estate agent. That's why I built Pollox.ai.

With Pollox.ai, you can ask a question about ANY home that is on sale in the USA! Draft Offers for all 50 states with compliance and disclosure requirements. Create contingencies, concessions, and counters. Include personal Items. Customize the offer / purchase agreement. Use our checklists to make sure you completed every task. Upload your disclosures and we will parse them for you and give you the highlights.

Video Demo : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR-Iy09YcV4

Our pricing model is similar to tools for Real Estate Agents, but for consumers. Free for 1 House, $39.99/month for Multiple Houses, and $69.99 /month for investors. Competitors insist on the old pricing model like the telcos used to gouge for text messages before Whatsapp. We think 2.5% is for human agents, not AI agents.
We use NIST as a baseline. Some organisations actually try to do this properly :)
http://archive.today/kDimO
Something tells me you are a brit living in CZ. Am I wrong?
Yes, you should still trust cooperatives and syndicates. I am surprised they’re attempting such a brazenly disrespectful move, but in general, the people who started this company were self-avowed capitalists through-and-through; the fact that they eventually reverted to seeking personal gain isn’t surprising in itself. That’s basically their world view: whatever I can do to enrich myself is moral because Ethical Egoism/Free Market/etc.
People said the same thing about kids reading books.
The friction in C and C++ library ecosystem is sometimes a feature for this sole reason. Many libraries try to pull as little as possible and other things as optional.
I find the MBA hate on HN so weird. The founders and leaders of these companies are technologists first. We need to look in the mirror - there's no dodge that software developers, not MBAs, have built these invasive, addictive, misleading, and dangerous products.
Statements like the above are what should give everyone pause.

I think that statement can't be true.

Detailed measurements exists for less than a hundred years - yet the WWA is cock sure this is the highest rainfall ever. It goes to the credibility.
The Problem with Cadillac Today: A Young Owner's Lament
Not that I know of - hence talking about it in this blog post!
It's on the front page right now, stop being this annoying and let people comment on the thread instead of being all over the place, geez.
Isn't this stealing resources from the owner without their permission?

Just like the person that sued a company for sending them unsolicited facsimile, claiming they used his electricity and paper without permission - thereby stealing a resources and wasting them.

This is where the "opt-out" idea flipped to "opt-in" in the UK and elsewhere.

Although, if you've blindly opted-in then more fool you - but surely this behavior is an obvious "opt-in" not an "opt-out" scenario.
Illustrating that part of the parent comment:

> And those kind of people have difficulty believing this.
The metadata from the music industry is crazy unstable, "Africa" from Toto is known to have an absurd of number of unique listings each with different metadata.

Music streaming providers need to sort that shit out and make sure you don't show the user duplicates. The music labels don't give a damn about normalizing the metadata.

LLMs can help classify this stuff a lot easier with minimal human review.
If I understand the history correctly, Yishan (the former Reddit CEO) is talking about himself when he talks about a CEO in this story, and so Yishan's post is a brag, with a thin denial tacked on at the end. That's why I believe that Sam (Yishan's friend) is also engaging in thinly-veiled bragging about these events.

Here is Yishan's comment with his name spelled out for clarity instead of just saying "CEO":

In 2006, reddit was sold to Conde Nast. It was soon obvious to many that the sale had been premature, the site was unmanaged and under-resourced under the old-media giant who simply didn't understand it and could never realize its full potential, so the founders and their allies in Y-Combinator (where reddit had been born) hatched an audacious plan to re-extract reddit from the clutches of the 100-year-old media conglomerate.

Together with Sam Altman, they recruited a young up-and-coming technology manager [named Yishan Wong] with social media credentials. Alexis, who was on the interview panel for the new reddit CEO, would reject all other candidates except this one. The manager was to insist as a condition of taking the job that Conde Nast would have to give up significant ownership of the company, first to employees by justifying the need for equity to be able to hire top talent, bringing in Silicon Valley insiders to help run the company. After continuing to grow the company, [Yishan Wong] would then further dilute Conde Nast's ownership by raising money from a syndicate of Silicon Valley investors led by Sam Altman, now the President of Y-Combinator itself, who in the process would take a seat on the board.

Once this was done, [Yishan Wong] and his team would manufacture a series of otherwise-improbable leadership crises, forcing the new board to scramble to find a new CEO, allowing Altman to use his position on the board to advocate for the re-introduction of the old founders, installing them on the board and as CEO, thus returning the company to their control and relegating Conde Nast to a position as minority shareholder.

JUST KIDDING. There's no way that could happen.

-- yishanwong

My understanding of what Sam meant by "I could never have predicted the part where you resigned on the spot" was that he was conveying respect for Yishan essentially out-playing Sam at the end (the two of them are friends) by distancing himself (Yishan) from the situation and any potential liability in order to leave Sam "holding the bag" of possible liability.
Direct evidence for a carbon–carbon one-electron σ-bond
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C-level employees are about setting the company's culture. Clearing out and replacing the C-level employees ultimately results in a shift in company culture, a year or two down the line.
No, they are absolutely worse. I can still recall the GWR machines glitching out by themselves on my last visit, even without anyone near them. The absence of quality control was immediately obvious.

The other thing that is obvious is the attention to detail in signage has declined. The electronic displays on the Elizabeth Line are flat out amateurish.

I can understand how if you live there you wouldn’t notice as it is like the boiling frog.
The WordPress Foundation's trademark policy[0] seemed fairly clear that:

> The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit.

and

> a business related to WordPress themes can describe itself as “XYZ Themes, the world’s best WordPress themes,” but cannot call itself “The WordPress Theme Portal.”

To me it looks like a conflict of interests that Matt's using his role as the director of the non-profit to try to make a competitor pay his for-profit business (which it's worth disclosing that you are an employee of, edit: now disclosed) tens of millions of dollars.

Particuarly since WP Engine do already seem to contribute to the WordPress project/community/non-profit side, through events/sponsorships/open-source contributions. Even WordPress.org states "This organization contributes 5% of their resources to the WordPress project" under their "Five for the Future" program[1].

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240901224354/https://wordpress...

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20240524210250/https://wordpress...
given what i see in facebook posts much of their content is already AI generated and thus would poison their training data well.
Exactly, mention your age and everyone assumes you're a COBOL, Turbo pascal or whatever programmer.
I took zero that didn't fulfill a requirement. I presume anything else would have been cost more in time and money than value I'd get from it. It would almost certainly delayed graduation and sucked up free time and added stress.
Wait till you hear about how Wordpress.com has modified wordpress and is selling it…
If I understand the history correctly, Yishan (the former Reddit CEO) is talking about himself when he talks about a CEO in this story, and so Yishan's post is a brag, with a thin denial tacked on at the end. That's why I believe that Sam (Yishan's friend) is also engaging in thinly-veiled bragging about these events.
Here is Yishan's comment with his name spelled out for clarity instead of just saying "CEO":

In 2006, reddit was sold to Conde Nast. It was soon obvious to many that the sale had been premature, the site was unmanaged and under-resourced under the old-media giant who simply didn't understand it and could never realize its full potential, so the founders and their allies in Y-Combinator (where reddit had been born) hatched an audacious plan to re-extract reddit from the clutches of the 100-year-old media conglomerate.

Together with Sam Altman, they recruited a young up-and-coming technology manager [named Yishan Wong] with social media credentials. Alexis, who was on the interview panel for the new reddit CEO, would reject all other candidates except this one. The manager was to insist as a condition of taking the job that Conde Nast would have to give up significant ownership of the company, first to employees by justifying the need for equity to be able to hire top talent, bringing in Silicon Valley insiders to help run the company. After continuing to grow the company, [Yishan Wong] would then further dilute Conde Nast's ownership by raising money from a syndicate of Silicon Valley investors led by Sam Altman, now the President of Y-Combinator itself, who in the process would take a seat on the board.

Once this was done, [Yishan Wong] and his team would manufacture a series of otherwise-improbable leadership crises, forcing the new board to scramble to find a new CEO, allowing Altman to use his position on the board to advocate for the re-introduction of the old founders, installing them on the board and as CEO, thus returning the company to their control and relegating Conde Nast to a position as minority shareholder.

JUST KIDDING. There's no way that could happen.

-- yishanwong

My understanding of what Sam meant by "I could never have predicted the part where you resigned on the spot" was that he was conveying respect for Yishan essentially out-playing Sam at the end (the two of them are friends) by distancing himself (Yishan) from the situation and any potential liability in order to leave Sam "holding the bag" of possible liability.
The Javascript folks are at least aware and self critical of this. In the Rust community it's sold as a great idea.
Incredible amount of negativity here.

Huge kudos to Meta for breaking new ground and doing a ton of R&D/M&A to get to this point. Once MicroLED comes on a little further and the form factor shrinks this could be the next consumer electronics platform.

Silicon carbide is really interesting, we need high RI materials to make this work.

Hopefully glass 3D printing or similar will make cheap, Rx waveguides possible.
After +5 years working for companies building their own geospatial platform, I felt like I needed a portfolio for showcasing my skills to get a new job, without spending more than a few bucks.

So I created https://car-viewer.streamlit.app/ and a few others that you may find in contacts link at top.

The idea was to show and keep updated a massive (+250Gb) dataset on map on my own end to end using open source and proprietary tools within free tier limits.

After releasing it I got interview invitations that led me to a new job.
I'm also not sure if it qualifies as help but Nikon F80 was used by Kodak and Fuji to make digital cameras on the Nikon F mount system for many years. We know what happened to Kodak, but Fuji went on to make their own successful cameras and lenses for the same market
This is the most important question, IMO! ChatGPT says that employees and donors would have to show that they were defrauded (lied to), which IMO wouldn’t exactly be hard given the founding documents. But the real power falls to the government, both state (Delaware presumably…?) and federal. It mentions the IRS, but AFAIU the DoJ itself could easily bring litigation based on defrauding the government. Hell, maybe throw the SEC in there!

In a normal situation, the primary people with standing to prevent such a move would be the board members of the non-profit, which makes sense. Luckily for Sam, the employees helped kick out all the dissenters a long time ago.
Has OpenAI been profitable so far? If not, is there any subtantial tax that you have to pay in the US as a for-profit organization if you are not profitable?
Poka Labs (YC S24) Is Hiring a Founding Engineer
Yes. At exorbitant rates.
I think they just mean that in many restaurants you pay only after receiving your food, but it's really not a very good comparison for a number of reasons.

Especially since all of the above listed things, but especially restaurants, have stated prices and often a means of negotiating them down or being entirely un-obligated if the providing party fails too severely.

And since, though not fully related, a restaurant can choose not to accept credit cards for instance, but there's often an obligation to state that clearly and visibly somewhere obvious beforehand, and always (in the US) an obligation to accept cash for debts owed in this manner.
Huh?

> It's throwing the baby and bathwater into lava.

Is it really so controversial to want to be able to limit the access that utility crates like humansize or serde have to make arbitrary syscalls on my computer?

Seems to me like we could get pretty far with just compile-time checks - and that would have no impact whatsoever on the compiled code (or its performance).

I don't understand your criticism.
...I am stealing this. Good lord, this is perfect.
> If that partitions just so happens to carry the largest object by far in you whole cluster, that’s something even consistent hashing can’t solve. It only cares for keys.

Isn't that the one of the problems solved by foreign keys?
Yes, but it's short (three days in some states), and they'll do everything in their power to dodge your attempts to use it.
Wordpress.org blocks WP Engine; CEO demands legal concessions
All things equal, sure. But is the cost of the hotel really the thing stopping you from doing that?
Crocodiles, swimming in a moat filled with money, haha
In front of the middle finger:
http://herrdebby.netsec.be/3d_lego_Screenshot_2024-09-26_14-...
Thanks for clarifying, it was really confusing to read...
Security and maintenance. That's what's so compelling about Go. The std lib is not a pleasure to use. Or esp. fast and featureful. But you can rely on it. You don't depend on 1000 strangers on the internet that might have abandoned their Rust crate for 3 years and nobody noticed.
I am an employee of Automattic, that's correct and public.

The problem is not the "WP" in their name but their specific usage of "WordPress" and "WooCommerce" on their website and marketing. You don't have to literally use the trademarked in your brand name for infringement. Legal threshold, AFAIK, is around 15% of the people thinking you are officially related to the owner or the licensees of the trademark.

https://automattic.com/2024/09/25/open-source-trademarks-wp-...
From the point of view of a distant observer, objects falling into a black hole become infinitely redshifted as they approach the horizon. Nobody outside the black hole observes anything completely falling in.

Penrose diagrams aren't drawn from the perspective of an in-universe observer. They're drawn from the perspective of a god, looking "down" at the universe from outside it.

Most such diagrams -- irrespective of coordinate system -- are drawn with these world lines continued into the black hole, typically ignoring the change-over-time of the destination itself.

If you were to "ride the world line" into the black hole in the physical universe, you will slow down so that the hole in front of you appears to speed up, evaporating faster and faster as you approach.

You never observe falling into a "black" hole, it'll become brighter and brighter and explode in your face as you approach.

A black hole is a supernova explosion smeared out in time.
I'm just thinking about this. If they were to give it to a "public sector" style org who would it be?

It would be interesting just to give the job to Jisc actually, eduroam at all mainline stations and for normal users a captive portal w/wpa3 for fist time registration/use then option of kicking you to 802.11x would be a fine solution and one they're enormously experienced at.

Another option is giving it to TFL to run or some kind of joint procurement with them as TFL for whatever reason are vastly more agile and competent then national rail.

Final option GDS get involved and come up with a standard solution, open source of course and managed in house.
Haha, nice catch
> I am personally much more interested in being able to use Rust for Linux kernel development at the cost of any programming convenience, while you are more interested in being able to use cutting-edge PL features.

Some of the "cutting-edge PL features" I want are things like function effects - which would allow you to (at compile time) mark that a function cannot panic.

This is something the linux kernel has been asking for from rust for years. I think our interests are aligned.
She came into a couple billion extra dollars and finished early.
I think the biggest pain point for me is that nothing I've found supports cards that can be "flipped" so that they are face up or face down. I'm not an advanced coder but maybe I'll try to whip something up.
Yea teams that have poor tracking and no PR practices.
For traditional jobs, my LinkedIn profile and traded credentials helped more.

For freelancing, my good old website, https://srirangan.net - which has seen several incarnations, has been a tremendous asset.

I stopped blogging, writing essays. Rather, it's a statement for who I am, my values and work-ethic.

Website born in 2003. :)
at this point it's beyond clear that assigning even the most cynical motives you can imagine to anything Altman does is likely underplaying what's really going on

(in my opinion)
That tracks. It could also explain why Ellen Pao was next in line, had a fairly brief stay before another "leadership crisis", and was subsequently replaced by Reddit cofounder Steve Huffman.
Actually, the S means hope.
(Re)using rustc components in gccrs
UK government's bank data sharing plan slammed as 'financial snoopers' charter'
How can you be that sure? :-) It is not even like that Maven repositories don't suffer from malicious packages with confusing names (for example, [1])...

[1] https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ai/issues/537
This is amazing, I'm surprised it actually worked!

Makes me want to say: “Now imagine if things like that were actually user-replaceable”.

But I feel like we're very far, if not the farthest, away from upgradable/modular phones.
I thought the advantage of HVDC was mostly for subterranean and undersea cables. Why would it be better above ground?
tldraw does look amazing though, thanks.
To play in SV, you have to study Game of Thrones, Art of War, etc.
There is probably a good middle ground between amplifying and stifling.

You go to twitter, and ignorance is on blast. You try to get GPT to do anything non khaki non beige -- good luck.

Either extreme is harmful imo, but we haven't found a way to a happy medium because, guess what: "will anyone think of the investors/advertisers/lawyers/...?!"

Stop censoring, stop amplifying. Just reflect what is.
Another example is Axum. Using Go, C#, Deno or Node you don't even need any third party provided more or less secure and maintained lib. It all comes from the core teams.
That is correct, and there is a `--edit` to revert that, so my personal alias is to `git ci --amend --no-edit` such that by default it just merges the staging into the HEAD, and then tacking on `-e` will open the commit message in an editor to expand it.
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So does forking, as the parent originally suggested.