skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Does "smartness" carry inherent moral worth?

Well that seems to be the assumption in this discussion thread.

>That would be an interesting principle to hold, given what it might entail for humans.

If you're implying that stupid people should be used as food, that's already been addressed elsewhere in this thread: cannibalism is very rare among other animals that are much stupider than us, and for good reason: there's a big risk of disease (such as prion diseases).

However, if we were visited by aliens that found humans tasty, the morality of offering up our stupidest members of society as food for them might be an interesting argument.
I always felt that Erkanoplans were superior for traveling over ice, especially now that they can be made with carbon fiber
Is this [0] not exclusively for the Tor browser? It states immediately below (on this [1] page) to "Make sure you're using Tor", and will only open in the Tor browser. I've actually used LibGen with Tor before, and treat it like the library not making ones borrowing history public knowledge

[0] http://libgenfrialc7tguyjywa36vtrdcplwpxaw43h6o63dmmwhvavo5r...

[1] http://library.lol/fiction/33618E71454C5165A39564CB861466AB
Part of it is that there are more choices these days in terms of highly customizable CMSs. I stopped building new WordPress sites when I discovered Wagtail. There's also Payload which I've heard good things about. The other part is that agencies are being squeezed out of the side of the custom website market where WordPress offers appropriate trade-offs. Most agencies that build on WordPress anymore are theme chop shops.
People pay $5 for a blank VHS tape?
Wow...that is amazing dishonesty on the part of the governor if this is true. Incredible how hard people are trying to hide facts.
That doesn't seem right to me, I am seeing $15B net income in 2023 alone. What am I missing.
Or perhaps:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/224480/Octodad_Dadliest_C...
Sam Altman seems like a really shady guy. The tech community wont forget. Im sure there is better alternatives to OpenAI already, and new ones coming in the future.
Wouldn't that only cover flood damage? I grew up on the Gulf Coast and what counts as flood damage from my experience is very little
It would be nice if the releases were cryptographically signed. I've never used Tcl/Tk before but I just downloaded the 9.0 release and I'll give it a go.
I had been planning to keep driving my car for quite some time, but recently it's developed a weird engine noise and a check engine light that nobody can resolve. I'm not sure I'll be able to give EV charging a few more years to sort itself out.
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This should be the abstract for a paper on "Modern Insurance Theory"
Literally why I stopped going to the comments or commenting. The blind arrogance of tech bros is up there.
1 in 7 scientific papers is fake
Sounds like people should start migrating off of WordPress altogether. See: Elastic and Redis.
Binding to ports under 1024 traditionally requires root privileges. (These days of course that isn't quite as true as it used to be.)
I am pretty sure this started brewing in the pot when o1 and it's pricing models were conceptualized
The vibe I am getting here is that if somebody enables people who criticize government decisions and policies in a way that the government considers "dangerous", he's an evil idiot and doesn't understand what "free speech" is and something "needs to be done" about him. But if somebody publishes his political opponent's home address, phone number, SSN and other details who have absolutely no bearing to any political discussion, but may seriously jeopardize their personal safety in an environment where trying to shoot a presidential candidates is becoming a routine event - then in the name of free speech this must be allowed to be published, no restrictions.

I think people that take such position care very little about free speech and a lot about hurting people who have different politics than they do. And they are part of what is wrong with the politics today.
A mismatch in risk and term duration. In the worst case its short term cashflow, converted to profit ona regular basis. the huge tail risk is of a longer (likely) term. On a normal year reinsurance pays out expected losses, the primary insurer keeps their couple of percent margin, business continues. Eventually their optimistic/naive/malign actuarial numbers are shown up, reinsurance doesnt cover it, huge losses, bankruptcy, the profits are long gone and paid out, remaining share and debt holders are wiped out. Their insured customers are covered by the state after much bad pr, or just not covered.
> Usually they are left in the hands of TPMs or Scrum Masters who generally make the whole process too heavyweight and complicated.

This is what happened to us for years, trying to create a common process for multiple teams on the same jira project. Then the manager that oversaw those teams left and during the last reorganization we all split up into our own jira projects where each team could configure it however they wanted. There's still rough edges, like with how links are inconsistent, but overall it's been pretty great since then.
> So then the app can't have Recent Files functionality.

Yeah, this is an issue. Google really needs to fix this. And there are multiple ways to do that! They can remember that a file was opened by the app earlier, and let it access again for a reasonable period.

They can also allow delegating access on a directory level instead of a binary all-or-nothing approach.
Ask HN: What to do about startup job
Currently working with a scale up with a very rocky future.

Joined about 3 years back, always felt weird about this place. Multiple leaders have left, and to be honest I don't really see the value my team brings to the place anyway.

At this point I'm only really here for the immigration sponsorship. Otherwise, I would have considered quitting without anything lined up to just take a break and figure out what's next.

What would folks recommend I do here?
> I did a double-take at the 3.5k Euro spend per year on clothing. My own spending is probably 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller.

One order of magnitude would be €350; two orders of magnitude would be €35; three orders of magnitude would be €3.50 I sincerely doubt that you spend €3.50–35/year on clothing!
He's already a billionaire. I don't understand the motivation. I follow a lot of fatFIRE type subreddits and those people are done when they get a few tens of millions and concentrate on quality of life and enjoying their years remaining. It must take an enhanced level of megalomania or God complex to throw away everything (humanity, your reputation) to go for more than 1 billion.
https://archive.ph/iHxAh
https://openai.com/our-structure/

The company started as a non-profit. A pretty damning evidence in itself.

This was in December 2015. Did it take this genius 4 years to figure out that to survive as a company, you need to a for profit entity?

Nah.

I think the strategy was to milk the marketing for all its worth, claiming to be "advancing the world, with no penny in pocket" high minded savior company. And then pivot (an innovative move) into raking in the money.

Did all the investors pour in billions without the understanding that this will become a for profit, and a for profit that will 10x their investments?
Cool beans. Thanks for the response -- TIL!

[meta: IMHO this is an exemplary HN interaction; instead of shouting past each other, we shared very different points of view, and one of us learned something potentially useful.]

Any idea how monstrous migrating from gRPC to ConnectRPC might be, on the backend?
So basically the signal that prices provide (more supply is needed) is stifled.

Seems like a great way to make sure supply never adjusts, which is what happens in places like SF.
Money is never enough. Not for a homeless person, not for a billionaire.
How Much Science Is Fake?
For apps that use the local system, and after fighting through google's restrictions, syncthing has been a dream between my android, windows + linux systems. I Don't have to think about it.

The restrictions imposed by the platform is why each app needs to have it's own half-implemented sync to it's own platform or some other cloud provider.
Valuation isn't income.
Looking forward to AWS DMS supporting this nice software release. They were super quick about supporting PG16 so this should be easy, right?

https://repost.aws/questions/QUbIn2WmXgTbiVu_4wua9tUw/dms-wi...
Then what the hell are we paying insurance companies for?
> we made Starship Titanic

oh neat! I was a voracious Douglas Adams reader and when this game came out, I bought a copy. I don't think I could ever get it working on my machine, and I eventually gave up and have probably lost the copy.

Is it worth buying a new one and giving it a go? (I'm on Linux-only these days.)
Outside of the most psychotic organizations, this just isn't how organizations work. You want to keep your best people, no matter the market. You don't want to drop your hiring bar to hire someone "desperate". A lot of FAANG engineers have claimed to struggle to land jobs at "lesser" companies because the recruitment team rightly realized it would just be a stepping stone for them to get back into a "better" company.
LG Smart TVs bring ads to the screensaver
> Notion Calvinball

You got me looking, but this doesn't seem to exist. I kinda want to see a Calvinball issue tracker now.
Agree. The fundamental differences between Free Software and Open Source but Commercial Software were always tricky.

The "we'd like you to contribute to our code base, but we want to be the only people making money from it" position of a lot of Open Source companies is untenable. And you can easily see how the original "anyone can make money off this code" position would get warped over time and board meetings to "these parasites are stealing our revenue".

I think it reflects the other side of the problem, the way that maintainers of open source packages get abused and taken advantage of. We need to work out some way of funding and rewarding software development that allows it to be freely used and also adequately compensated. This is not easy.
If that's the case then a $700 bond would be sufficient
You can send them to YouTube user “Dr VHS Rip” if you wish. He digitizes all manner of vhs. All manner except porn I think.
> and actually able to be somebody.

be who?
You're trying to come up with distinctions between Open Source and Free Software where there are practically none, except for the politics of Free Software, which is inconsequential BS.
Here, we use the OpenAI assistant API Math tutor example (https://platform.openai.com/docs/assistants/quickstart ) to create a math tutor.

In the website link ( https://openai-assistant-demo.chat-data.com/ ), you can input your personal information, for example, "My lucky number is 889837"

Then you asked the math tutor, "What is double of my lucky number"

The chatbot will reply

# Defining the lucky number
lucky_number = 889837

# Calculating the double of the lucky number
double_lucky_number = lucky_number * 2
double_lucky_number
The double of your lucky number, 889837, is 1,779,674.

It means that you can directly pass the personal information of your customer to your open AI assitant API to create a personalized experience.
What country? Your options really vary based on the laws there.

Overall, if leadership is leaving often - especially at the C suite, its game over 90% of the time.
Yes.. the title as submitted, as the guidelines[0] request: "please use the original title".

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That’s Griffin talking again. Not the DoD. (I may have missed something. If you have an excerpt, I’m happy to respond to it.)

Even then, he doesn’t really make a case for space-based interception. He just says it isn’t as expensive as it was in the 80s, which is true. He also ends by talking about sensing from orbit which, as I said earlier, makes sense.
Interesting that they're going with full A/B partitions; it's a touch simpler and more resilient (ex. against disk corruption), but ex. ostree is more space efficient.

I'm also curious if there is really no way to install things on the host - is there a way to install NVIDIA drivers or the like?
There is. At least on iOS, your google drive files show up in the Files app as well as in the OS file picker. They are just as accessible as locally stored files.

Any app which can open files can open files stored on Google Drive. What apps can't do is open files the app did not create, without the users input, without getting a security audit. Which seems perfectly fine to me.
In that section "infinite" is used a bunch of times, which is a non-physical simplification. All of the sections using Penrose diagrams talk explicitly about "the point at infinity", but Hawking showed that black holes don't last for infinite time. You have to keep reading past the overly simplified models.

E.g.: right after that section:

"But from an external vantage point the star requires infinite time to reach the horizon".

In other words, observers don't ever see a black hole form completely, which is an observation that infalling observers can't contradict.

Either you believe that there are two different universes for non-infalling and infalling observers, or you have to accept a single physical reality that black holes never completely form, and then evaporate in a finite time.
Have you read their original statements?

> We're a non-profit research company. Our full-time staff of 60 researchers and engineers is dedicated to working towards our mission regardless of the opportunities for selfish gain which arise along the way.

"regardless of the opportunities for selfish gain which arise along the way", they failed really hard on that point. That Sam Altman had already changed course by 2019 doesn't mean he didn't lie at the start.

https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/OpenAI/OpenAI_...
Change your do block to `printf %q\ rm -f "$i" ; echo` and it won't lie about spaces. In case HN has "trimmed" my post in some way, as it often does, that's: percent q backslash space space. Works in bash/zsh, but not dash, probably not whatever your sh is. Can make a function of it trivially, but you have to handle the $# -eq 0 case, return whatever printf returns, etc.
vhs decode is not for the faint of heart. To use it you have to open up the vcr and soldier some tap points onto it and the software is all command line.
I wasn't able to get it to work. I mean to try it again but I haven't gotten back to it yet.
SpaceX is not a private space agency though, it is a private space launch and satellite communications company, which has revolutionized access to space and access to communication, providing enormous social benefit.

People use SpaceX every day even if they never connected to a starlink -- the lower costs that governments pay for space launches means more money for other things, not to mention no longer paying Russia for launches or engines.
Even simpler, advertise your onion domain by including a Onion-Location header in the clear-net site’s response.

The Tor Browser automatically detects and offers to redirect you there. No need to memorize the onion domain.
I'm trying not to be pessimistic, but the level of trust and faith that I have in Sam Altman is very low.
> 3.9k USD annually is a lot for a hobby.

It’s only $325/month, or $10.32/day. That’s less than two pumpkin spice lattes a day. That seems low to medium for a hobby.

Viewed another way, it’s less than 1/20th median household income. It doesn’t seem crazy to spend a twentieth of one’s income on a hobby.
> “Plaintiffs have been irreparably harmed as a result of Defendants’ unlawful conduct and will continue to be irreparably harmed should Defendants be allowed to continue operating the Libgen Sites”, the order reads.

What is the evidence?
It already is illegal to write malware that steals your files. But software is global. Anon individuals in shitty countries don't care about your countries privacy laws.

So we get both privacy laws, and technical restrictions that put the user in control of their files.
Who is paying the security auditor then?
> investors have raised concerns about Altman not having equity in the high-valued artificial intelligence company that he co-founded

I think here lies the interesting point. I’m not gonna try to mindread Sam and guess at what his true intentions are, but the investors’ intentions are clear: align Sam’s incentives with profit. I wish him the best of luck in navigating this.
People that can understand the difference between right and wrong can’t really explain this to people who only understand the idea of what is legally permissible.

It’s not about whether the explanation is rational. It’s just that if you really think the law is the last word on ethics and morality then you must be so self interested or ignorant or evil that you’re already not in a position to understand any explanation that’s offered.

As a simple example, should we teach children to not lie, or explain that the real error is to get caught telling a lie that didn’t even maximize their profit potential? Do you want corporations or individuals that shape society to be better moral actors than children, or worse?

If you don’t understand this kind of thing already, it must be willful.. retreating to the letter of the law in simple situations like this to plead moral and ethical agnosticism is such a transparent and weak position, rhetorically. Everyone knows that you just plan to profit from your willingness to engage in some kind of bad behavior.
An update on BPF generation from GCC
Oh! You don't say.
Discussion (46 points, 20 hours ago, 85 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41655225
Pocketed? No he took a zero salary comp package with equity for hitting absurd targets no one thought he could hit. A strong majority of shareholders approved the package then and reapproved it now. He hit the targets so it’s accurate to say he earned it.
The new "Dumb **, they trust me".
Yeah I think making PM software is ultimately a trap. You either keep use cases super skinny and make one camp happy, or you decide that you slowly need more customers and end up like Jira. I feel like every PM software is on the spectrum of ending up like Jira, it’s just how far along that journey they are that dictates whether they are interesting to software engineers or not.
> It was a no brainer for them from a strategic point of view:

Why elevate what is likely the work of a few committed private individuals to the level of some strategic state conspiracy?
It's also worth noting that WordPress is a descendent of the B2/cafelog blogging software. Automattic, themselves, are the other people making money off of someone else's project...and now they're mad that other other people are doing the same.
There is one interesting caveat, there are websites like TeeFury Which advertise one T-shirt per day. When it's gone, it's gone.

When the site first cranked up, I bought three or four T-shirts in a couple of weeks. I could see someone getting on there and seeing a T-shirt they want every week and end up buying 50 T-shirts in a year.
based on empirical data, yes, its a net negative for us
That was fast. What about the 1989 classic Death Track?
It has been running on an honor code, that someone pulling off something so slimy as to funnel money meant for non-profits would just get shunned by society and business. Yet here we are.

Ironically the one person with resources fighting it in a tangible way, even if for spite, is Elon Musk.
Valuation is about $800B, not $15B.
What is most likely of value besides the teletext on there is the live stuff and any commercials.
Without testing, I wonder if find follows symlinks. I’m pretty sure rm doesn’t.

Edit: Just checked and find doesn’t by default.
NFIP is really strict about what is covered and takes ages to settle. It's specifically designed to NOT cover dumb decisions by home builders/buyers.
> Maybe they removed the "a" to be compatible with 8.3 filenames?

My hair feels gray
It's not clear why they even need full access to users drives without the users input. Drive offers plenty of apis that let you store and access files that don't require these hoops. There is no security audit required if you pick the scope that only lets you open files the app created. You can also let the user use the OS file picker to open any file.

I get that it's a pain for them to rewrite the integration to use these new scopes, but it's ultimately a huge win that this free for all access has been locked down.
No. Gambling is a part of a free society, just like drugs are.

Gambling advertisements on the other hand, learn from Australia. Don't let it happen.
How about "Could sports betting be banned?" People are strongly motivated to do this and often spontaneously form networks to share bets. How exactly would the state put a stop to this? Even with really thorough access to all financial transactions it would be hard to prove what went on without direct testimony which is unlikely to be available.
I'd just assume the oldest code is written by the best people, and under less time pressure.

My current company is an example of this. Early code written by founders. Some new code written by contractors under a tight deadline.
Wasn't the argument that a lot of internal folks didn't think the targets were absurd? That's what I read in the court document.
In Korea, the issue these days is more or less revenge porn.. However, revenge deep-fake porn.
So is sugar. Would you ban that? People have agency and choice
No, the issue people are having is musk claims he has to allow nazis, transphobes, homophobes, racism, sexism, fake pornography of people, etc because otherwise it would be censorious and an attack on free speech.

But things that attack or are damaging to him or his beliefs are frequently censored.

The issue is not what he chooses to censor or not censor. The issue is that he claims that the reason he chooses not to censor horrific abuse and attacks on minorities is because he’s a free speech absolutist and all censorship is bad.

He hides behind the claim of the sanctity of free speech as the justification for what he allows, publishes, and promotes, when he very clearly holds, and enforces, no such belief.

Posts like this that claim that people are just disagreeing about politics, when the political viewpoint on one side is that the other side has no right to exist are entirely demonstrative of people who are so bigoted that they don’t see their own bigotry as that, because it could only be bigotry if the targets of their bullshit were people, which to them they aren’t.
I had so much fun finishing this. Much more interesting than other 2048 variants I've tried. I got a score of 9341.
Kind of been done (in a minor protest against the change to the back-end editing system: https://www.classicpress.net/
Dual RTX 5090s and you’ll want a dedicated 20 amp breaker just for your workstation and misc. electronics.
There have certainly been years when I bought almost or actually no clothing.

For people who buy clothing frequently, this might be unimaginable, but I assure you that there are people who are happy with the clothing they own and do not buy more except to replace things that wear out or develop holes. And I do this by choice!
> This is deeply wrong

I can’t tell if Elon is saying that the tweet is misinformed or OpenAI’s behavior is reprehensible
Objectively, they’re both no good.
> DoNotPay accepted no liability.
What's the gender ratios of sports gambling? 90% male? 95% male?
Would it be a good or bad look for the Fedora project if they went after a popular and commercially ruthless hosting provider offering "Fedora Hosting" for trademark infringement, while cutting off repo and update access to that provider specifically, unless they paid up some % of revenue?

Regardless of if Fedora was justified or not, it would totally destroy trust in the ecosystem and people would start to talk about seeking alternatives, which is exactly what is happening with WordPress.