skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i.... am not dealing with it. i threw in the towel when it became unsustainable emotionally and physically.

edit:
i had a relative who was borrowing a photographer friends camera and taking those news worthy shots for lulz and out of sheer boredom. next thing we know, he is on twitter doing some discussion and the was doxed, threatened with calling the cops and his past dug up just because he used a handle that had links to his afk name. it was terrible for him. and i would say it was all state sponsored.

he had to nuke a lot of his online presence and this was around 4years ago when he was around 20. you can imagine.

this was all thanks to that BJP it cell. these minions even say as much because they literally are the law. Paid for by the state so they do represent the power of the state in covering their asses and decimating their virtual opponents.

as i said, its hopeless
It’s more about keeping minerals on the field. A big one is reducing erosion, which practices like no-till and cover cropping help. Tons of soil being washed away is a lot of nutrients being lost.

If you look at a regenerative certification program like [1] you’ll see that you’re allowed to apply synthetic fertilizer but it has to be no more than the rate removed by harvested crops. This means, hopefully, that you aren’t losing much to erosion, runoff, or volatization, and that good soil structure is keeping them available.

[1] https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.regenified.com/wp-content/upl...
This is such a weird take. People can't conceptualize a world of many discrete important actions and reduce it to one event. It's a failure of imagination.
Even better allow a set Levenshtein distance from the dictionary list of up to half the word length or something. Normalize the unicode or at least just convert punctuation, underscores, dashes, and other symbols to spaces.
The eff makes privacy badger if you trust that organisation more
So well put!

People think they understand what "AI" is supposed to do, then "AI" turns out to not do what they expect and they call it broken.
Wikipedia lost many good editors over a user named BrownHairedGirl. She single handedly removed extraordinary valuable editors and left a bunch of simps in her wake. The site has never recovered.
Israel has invaded its neighbour. U.S. invaded lots of nations and still bombs multiple nations continually. But no consequences for the same. Whataboutism is necessary since the NATO/Western block juggernaut always raps others on the knuckles but always gets away scot-free when it concerns their own military actions. The sanctimonious hypocrisy is utterly sickening to those in the East and South.
It was always a propaganda outlet. Only now more people see it.
Trump has signaled he will get the military involved against his opponents. And people are still going to vote for him.
Ask HN: Share Price of ESOP
Hi HN,

I have the situation that I am in negotiations with investors to sell part of my ESOP.

We raised a successful series A in the past couple of months and the investors claim that discounts of 30-40% of ESOP are deemed "normal", because they have no LiqPref and voting rights.

To me that seems to be too much, so I'm asking whether you have any experience with such a sale and what should be an acceptable discount.

Thank you!
"Ideally, search engine algorithms would give new domain owners a fresh start."

I don't think it's possible to fix this problem without also helping bad actors. Maybe it's a problem that just isn't worth fixing. Just don't buy preexisting domains unless it's a project big enough to justify the necessary cost of due diligence.
DEF CON 2024 – Cory Doctorow – Disenshittify or die [video]
DEF CON 32 - Disenshittify or die! How hackers can seize the means of computation - Cory Doctorow
You have oversimplified the Boeing one: their goal was to create an efficient plane to compete with Airbus without needing the expense and delays of a new type certification.

To do this they needed bigger engines on the same frame, which in turn needed to be mounted further forward affecting flight characteristics and requiring retraining. Retraining would be a sales killer so they hacked on some software systems to attempt to make the plane fly like an older 737.

Then they can just use an iPad training course for pilots to upgrade. The augmentation had to avoid the pilot knowing about (I think) the plane getting stuck in a stall at a too high AoA (this is where my memory might be off...) so the MCAS software uses AoA sensors to nose down based on the detected AoA.

The AoA sensors were never designed to be used for a direct life and death critical use case and sometimes they got stuck or failed. MCAS only used one as an input. If MCAS incorrectly asseses a nose down is required and the pilot follows their 737 training they are having their last day. That plane is going down.

Bascially people were murdered by Boeing so at every stage of this wretched plan they can make more money.

I think you are right but Boeing was more of perhaps the worst possible asshole design, and deserves it's own league.
This was enlightening. Thanks for posting the link because I never would have found this page.

Notably, Jimmy Wales also posted a statement on that page. The tl;dr seems to be they are intent on exhausting all legal options in India, but non-compliance in the short term is not an option if they wish to retain the right to appeal in India’s court system. I don’t know anything about India’s courts myself, but I copied his statement below:

> Comment from Jimbo Wales

> Hi everyone, I spoke to the team at the WMF yesterday afternoon in a quick meeting of the board. Although I've been around Internet legal issues for a long time, it's important to note that I am not a lawyer and that I am not here speaking for the WMF nor the board as a whole. I'm speaking personally as a Wikipedian. As you might expect, it's pretty limited as to what people are able to say at this point, and unwise to give too many details. However, I can tell you that I went into the call initially very skeptical of the idea of even temporarily taking down this page and I was persuaded very quickly by a single fact that changed my mind: if we did not comply with this order, we would lose the possibility to appeal and the consequences would be dire in terms of achieving our ultimate goals here. For those who are concerned that this is somehow the WMF giving in on the principles that we all hold so dear, don't worry. I heard from the WMF quite strong moral and legal support for doing the right thing here - and that includes going through the process in the right way. Prior to the call, I thought that the consequence would just be a block of Wikipedia by the Indian government. While that's never a good thing, it's always been something we're prepared to accept in order to stand for freedom of expression. We were blocked in Turkey for 3 years or so, and fought all the way to the Supreme Court and won. Nothing has chnaged about our principles. The difference in this case is that the short term legal requirements in order to not wreck the long term chance of victory made this a necessary step. My understanding is that the WMF has consulted with fellow traveler human rights and freedom of expression groups who have supported that we should do everything we can to win this battle for the long run, as opposed to petulantly refusing to do something today. I hope these words are reassuring to those who may have had some concerns!--Jimbo Wales (talk) 09:13, 21 October 2024 (UTC)
Internet transitioned from a fun toy for nerds to a serious tool used by the masses, and needs to be regulated accordingly. Looking back, it was extremely naive to think that even though we regulate every single aspect of social life, the internet would remain the bastion of freedom just because it would be cool if it did. Think about all the rules we have about what can and what cannot be said not to break social cohesion on TV, or radio, or newspaper, or street sidewalk, or workplace, or family gathering - the internet is moving in the same direction. The anarchy was never meant to last.
Organizations like Wikipedia need to make sure they have no satellite offices, and just completely independent affiliates with sharing agreements. That way when a silly court tries to ban something worldwide they can be rebuked.
> Selenium, along with taurine, is one of the supplements which genuinely drove my physicians vehemently crazy, so I doubled up, and ensured that they were the focal point of my daily regimen.

Selenium is commonly recommended by doctors in New Zealand.
Say you have flat (Minkowski) spacetime. Suppose you could talk about a chunk of space/spacetime in such a way. Take some frame, and in that reference, pick a region of space. Where is it a bit later? Ok. So, you consider it to have not moved? Now consider the system again but in a different reference frame, where things at rest in the first frame are in motion in the second. So, where is the chunk a bit later in the second frame?

Things that are Lorentz invariant are unlike fluids.
Or maybe they are old fashioned enlightenment liberals who hold on to an ideal of journalistic neutrality. They're not extinct yet, just endangered.
Sounds like Tesla! Actually, Tesla has a higher rating...
That is possible if their editorial staff honestly believe two things:

- The rule of law and the republic as a process are superior to anything else.

- One of the candidates does not subscribe to these sufficiently.

In that case, and given the political duopoly, they could still claim to be impartial towards candidates. Their only allegiance/partiality would lie with the rule of law and the republic as a process.
Is a .rom file open source because you can pipe it into an emulator and generate new machine code for a different platform?

I don't think your argument holds any water.
Website unusable: Captcha forever waits using latest Firefox on latest iPhone13/iOS 18.0
rayiner's account isn't single-purpose.
> A lot of data, mostly produced by humans who are not credited and have no say in how the output weights are licensed

And this is what I think everyone is actually dancing around: I suspect the insistence on publishing the training data has very little to do with a sense of purity around the definition of Open Source and everything to do with frustrations about copyright and intellectual property.

For that same reason, we won't see open source models by this definition any time soon, because the legal questions around data usage are profoundly unsettled and no company can afford to publicize the complete set of data that they trained on until they are.

My personal ethic says that intellectual property is a cancer that sacrifices knowledge and curiosity on the altar of profit, so I'm not overly concerned about forcing companies to reveal where they got the data. If they're releasing the resulting weights under a free license (which, notably, Llama isn't) then that's good enough for me.
Anything is hard, if the plank is low enough. Basic language transformations with regular grammar (like escaping a string for use in a HTML document) are, IMHO, not particularly hard. The hardest part is to actually recognize what is the language of your output and if there is a mismatch with the language of your string value.

What's astonishing is the popularity of the way of thinking that producing the cheapest code possible that still works along happy path (and simply doesn't fail too badly when it does) is is considered not only a valid practice but even some business virtue that needs to be protected.

The more I think about it, the more I like the idea of an EICAR-like records like this SCRIPT one - in the official database. It must be fully benign, of course (in a sense the script source should point to the same agency, and contain only a warning but no harmful code), and it must be well-known - effectively a test case for production systems. Rather than a pinky-swear "company name will should be okay, don't worry" that allows neglect, it's a "hey, this is a special weird case - specially to make sure you're doing things right" friendly guidance.
Is a .rom file the preferred form for modifying the work?
That pretentious “above the fray” belief some news orgs and reporters have is awful and harmful.

NYT is particularly guilty of that behavior.

How one contextualizes a story and presents the attention grabbing headline puts a massive thumb on the scale of how the topic is perceived.

Because of what the article mentions or doesn’t mention, provides context for or no context for, the exact same core story centerpiece is biased and leading. Any impression the author wants to convey is easy to bring out in the “neutral” writing. This is simply a fact of writing.

And yet some reporters and news orgs, like the NYT, profess they are neutral observers as if from the planet zorg recording a miraculous unbiased story.

No, that is impossible and everyone knows it. Claiming to be neutral is gas lighting.
In fact strong acids and bases are so safe they also kill the bacteria in the human body, along with the host.
On the other hand, Trump is using the L.A. Times non-endorsement to attack Harris. So, it does matter.

Endorsements express the values of the paper and gives people more information about the candidates and what is at stake.
They could share their opinions on the policies of each candidate. That could be great at helping people see perspectives other than their own, so that they can weigh it all up and make their own decision. Doing an endorsement is kind of the opposite of that, because it is essentially telling readers "you don't need to decide, we have done it for you."
I had him as a teaching assistant when I was teaching data structures at Princeton back in Fall 2013. Princeton CS has their professors rotate through as TAs every so often through their courses.

That semester, I made a slight mistake on the final exam where I asked students to create an algorithm that could find the second shortest path from s to every other vertex in a graph. I forgot to specify that the second shortest path should be simple (i.e. should not reuse any vertex twice). Having to deal with non-simple paths makes the problem much much harder.

None of the students figured it out in the time available, and I'm sure I would also have been stumped if I had tried to solve the problem. Bob figured it out though. And then I remember he graded all 150 solutions to the problem himself, having as a blast as he went through students attempts at an effectively impossible problem.
The absolute number of $3.5T market cap seems high. But Nvidia's earnings last quarter were $17B. Annualized that is $68B.

The PE ratio calculated by current market cap of $3.5T divided by that annualized earnings is 52. Not unusual for a growing tech company.

I remember the arguments I hear here on HN these days "No company can be that big and still grow. Also competition will catch up!" from the early 2000's when Apple's market cap crossed $100B.

And from 2017 when Tesla's market cap crossed that of BMW.

It's not that easy. Companies are moving targets. Their future will be determined by revenue factors that are not generating any revenue today. With Apple it was the iPhone. With Tesla it was self-driving. With Nvidia it will be ... ?
they have multiple jobs. 1) help disarm Hezbollah, 2) make sure Israel stays out of Lebanon. The area is supposed to be a DMZ and is a warzone instead.

Israel's presence highlights the hollow promises and lies of the UN mediated ceasefire that ended the 2006 Lebanon-Israel war.
Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go
Hey HN! I recently came across makedown here on HN and loved the concept. Wanting to learn Go, I thought this could be a great starter project - so I started working on my own Go implementation, which I’m calling mdx (https://github.com/dim0x69/mdx).

Key Features:

- Define dependencies between commands

- Supports shebangs

- Ability to pass arguments to code blocks

Would love feedback and thoughts!

Ref. makedown: https://github.com/tzador/makedown. Thanks for the idea! :)
I would vote for this in place of minesweeper on any OS install. Love it!
So your issue is they should have said "coolant additive" rather than "coolant"?
The article claims the intelligence agencies see nothing to take action over. One thing will be a lack of reporting of contacts
I imagine they’d also refuse to accurately report a Harris victory, just in case Trump decides to try again in 2028. Good luck!
For an alternative POV, quite critical of UMAP, see: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1011288
Just because I can hex edit Photoshop.exe to say what I want in the about dialog doesn't make it open source,
even if it is faster and easier to hexedit it than it is to recompile from source.

In order for the weights to take all the training data and embed it in the model, by definition, some data must be lost. That data can't be recovered,
no matter how much you fine tune the model. Because we can't, we don't know how alignment gets set, or the extent of it.

The closet thing these things have to source code is the source code and training data used to create the model. Because that's what's used to created the model. How big a system is necessary to train it doesn't factor in. It used to take many days to compile the Linux kernel, and many people at the time didn't have access to systems that could even compile it.
> Do you prove that every line of arithmetic in your program will not overflow for all possible inputs?

If inputs come from outside, a vehement Yes!
> Your second type of investor has exactly the same opportunity cost for not renting out as everyone else, don't they? Conversely, your first type of investor has exactly the same problems with bad renters? So why does anyone rent anything out?

People have different levels of risk tolerance, and different resource levels.

For example, there are ordinary landlords that will take out a mortgage on a building, rent it out and then use the rents to pay the mortgage and the salaries of the people who fix leaky pipes and find replacement tenants when someone leaves etc. If they don't charge rent they're out of business because they'd have nothing to use to pay the mortgage and the bank would foreclose, so they have to.

Then there are investors who just want somewhere to park their money. There is no bank to foreclose, they're paying cash, so they're happy as long as the property is appreciating by more than e.g. the interest rate on government bonds. They can drain the pipes and turn off the heat and make money by doing nothing, as long as supply is constrained so the price keeps going up. Meanwhile they're risk-averse, so the extra income from renting it out (much of which is offset by increased maintenance costs) isn't worth the risk of e.g. some law preventing them from evicting a non-paying tenant.

> It looks like the problem of the occasional bad tenant can (and is) solved in practice via diversification. You buy a REIT instead of an individual property.

That's assuming you can diversify the risk. If someone wanted to invest in, say, San Francisco real estate, they could diversify across multiple properties, but then they'd all be affected by some new law there preventing evictions. Whereas they could diverisfy by also investing in properties in Ohio and Arkansas, but those might not be expected to appreciate enough to attract their interest.
Question for anyone who has used one of these analog measuring devices: the indicator seems to go all the way around before the camera zooms in to read the indicated value. Is this video actually showing the accuracy it is claiming?
That’s not exactly what happened. What happened at both the L.A. Times and the Washington Post is that the editorial staff was prepared to endorse Harris until the owner quashed it. That’s what people are upset about.

Endorsing Harris is a no-brainer. Quashing an endorsement of Harris reeks of cowardice.
I totally agree.

Who cares if the McDonald's ice cream machine is broken? It's shit ice cream. Most of you probably live near a better local ice cream/soft serve/custard joint. Heck, most of you probably live near a better corporate chain ice cream joint that probably also serves better food than McDonald's: Dairy Queen, In-N-Out, Shake Shack, Culver's, etc.

If McDonald's didn't have breakfast or coffee the whole chain might be out of business or at tiny fraction of its current size by now.

The McDonald's ice cream machine monopoly only negatively affects millionaire McDonald's franchise owners who deserve to be abused by the franchise for being so un-innovative that they resort to purchasing/renting access to a successful business model. Talk about the most opposite-of-meritocracy business venture imaginable!

Imagine if you had a half a million dollars in freely available non-borrowed assets and you couldn't think of your own business model to try. What does that say about you as an entrepreneur/trust fund kid?

Of course, ice cream is damn easy to make at home, can be made in large batches and kept frozen forever, and it'll come out far better than any fast food ice cream I know of.
> Tether is in a country that has a long history of doing monkey business, including monkey business with drug trafficking money and arms trafficking money.

I never forget the farcical interview with Deltec Bank's "Deputy CEO":

At the start of 2021, according to their website, it was a 55 year old bank. By the end of 2021, it was a 70 year old bank!

The bank's website is a WordPress site. And their customers must be unhappy - online banking hasn't worked for nearly two years at this point - take a look at the HTML source, there's no way it could actually work.

Anyway, their Deputy CEO gave this hilarious interview from his gaming rig. A 33 year old Deputy CEO, who by his LinkedIn claimed to have graduated HEC Lausanne in Switzerland with a Master of Science at the age of 15... celebrating his graduation by immediately being named Professor of Finance at a university in Lebanon. While dividing his spare time between running hedge funds in Switzerland and uhh... Jacksonville, FL.

The name of his fund? Indepedance [sic] Weath [sic] Management. Yeah, okay.

In this hilariously inept interview, he claimed that people's claims about Deltec's money movements being several times larger than all the banking in their country was due to them misunderstanding the country's two banking licenses, the names of which he "couldn't remember right now" (the Deputy CEO of a bank who can't remember the name of the banking licenses where they operate), and he "wasn't sure which one they had, but we might have both".

Once the ridicule and all this started piling on, within 24 hours, he was removed from the bank's website leadership page. When people pointed out how suspicious that looked, he was -re-added-.

The bank then deleted the company's entire website and replaced it with a minimally edited WordPress site, where most of the links and buttons were non-functional and remained so for months thereafter.

I mean fuck it, if the cryptobros want to look at all that and say "seems legit to me", alright, let em.
Incredible that in this comment thread there are suggestions the Biden government is fascist, even though Biden allowed his son to be prosecuted but if the reverse happened Trump would obviously interfere.