skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just tie the end of an infinitely long string to the edge of the universe and have it pull on a generator to spin it.
From the people I know who worked there, same crap in internal culture, too.
You're missing the issue I'm referring to. Staying in touch with you is very different when the communication mechanism doesn't pose extra hurdles and burdens compared to the majority of your cohort. It's also very different when you're already close friends by the time you part ways. The issue here is that some people will have social media and some will lack it, putting the latter at an artificial and entirely avoidable disadvantage, causing them to make fewer of those close friendships in the first place compared to their peers. This disparity is the issue I'm talking about, when the bonds aren't strong enough yet.
I missed the previous one.
Also, the input field has a max length.
Never read anything more true in my life!
Yup I did.
Figure out how to get entertainment in the form of audio, like Youtube debates or audiobooks, so then exercise is simply multitasking.
Skulloween, Skullmas, Skullsgiving...
Business registries are no longer open, as there was a court case in Luxenbourg where one of Putin's fixers lobbied to get his private information closed.

Ultimate Beneficiar Ownership information can be only accessed by authorities.
I assume that spending corporate funds (or worse, customer deposits) to ransom an employee would still fall under embezzlement.

Much like if the same money was used for medical procedures that aren't covered by the health-plan.
Deprecating ChatGPT as a brand would be the stupidest marketing decision since New Coke.
Just having a computer that could handle working with relatively complex 3D models, not even visually but just via the terminal, would have been a tall order in the 80s. Even getting the data from the computer to the printer would be tough. Floppies wouldn't store enough data for even modestly complex 3D model files. Parallel port? Would be painfully slow. But even if you get around those issues, the algorithms for transforming the 3D model into 2D layers that could be printed with the proper support structures and with minimal material used are extremely complicated and involved a lot of intermediate data during the calculations. Most machines then wouldn't have had even close the amount of RAM needed to do that in any reasonable amount of time.
Great article. One of the better ones on the demise of Moxion Power. The other articles fail to really address what caused the company to fail. I will add some details from my personal experience.

I worked there from Nov 2023 through June 2024. Loved everything when I first joined, and I think things started going south when we moved to the 100k sq ft office next door. Nothing about that move felt right, we were hiring a bunch of people left and right but it seemed unclear what people were going to work on. Everything was big picture and future focused, while the day to day had much to be wanted.

Our web app was never fully utilized by customers. Product decisions were slow and as a result implementations were even slower. Some things shipped and were well received but overall it felt like everything took too long.

Perhaps even more alarming was the fact that the batteries commonly had issue such as faulting and not discharging. Not UL certified. Customers complained and at on point at least a third of the inventory was sitting in Richmond, CA behind our office, pending repairs or updates.

The employee structure was incredibly hierarchical. Every department had a VP and director(s), followed by middle managers, and finally ICs.

I'm going to come right out and say that the founders deserved this failure. The balance sheet was sitting right in front of their faces but they chose to delude themselves. Even amongst employees none of us wanted to acknowledge the fact that the company was in really bad shape. Looking back, after in-office lunch was canceled to "save money and extend runway", it's really interesting that nobody felt truly alarmed. I guess that was an exhibit of group think. We tried to not talk about it and people said the company was going to pull through, etc. To my knowledge, nobody chose to leap off of the sinking ship.

I know Paul cried on the last day and I felt bad for him but no one failed the company except the owners. Building a new factory to produce units at scale as our existing product was actively being rejected, what amount of hubris does that take? There's a lot of advice on how to build a startup out there i.e. "do things that don't scale", "default alive", but I guess every year there will be many companies choosing to ignore it, believing that somehow they will be the exception.
Why on earth would you think Germany gets to collect a tariff that the US imposes on imported goods. It makes zero sense. The US collects the tariff. It's effectively an extra tax citizens pay for imported goods. It hurts the people and it hurts the companies producing the goods.
> they're already exercising the power you'd prefer they not have

Maybe you would prefer they wouldn't have it, but I prefer that private companies run their moderation as they see fit for the market.
That makes sense. The mug version of Ember (https://ember.com/products/ember-mug-2) is open on top, which seems like a fancy Bluetooth version of an old-school mug heater.

I could see the sealed one (the "Cup") as working better though.
It’s all about latency. Even simple dynamically rendered websites can be much faster when you avoid multiple roundtrips to a far away DC.
A rising tide that lifts boats higher the bigger they are would be more apt.
Even better, there can be no law at all and the government (Office of the President) and law enforcement (FBI) can covertly apply pressure directly to the C-suite to have the “wrong” information suppressed on each platform.
Title altered for length from original "'George Clooney – who cares?' Did celebrity endorsements actually harm Kamala Harris?".
Anecdotally, we have multiple pets of which four are cats and they all know their names and generally respond or come if called. (Unless seriously napping, of course)
> I don't want to speculate but here's wild speculation.
This is exactly my experience. I would just add that I do still use Python, because all tools have their uses. I use it for small scripts, and nothing else. Just places where compilation doesn't really make sense.
Presumably those services use Chromium codecs and perhaps standard WebRTC, so they have access to the encoded data stream as well (via JavaScript injection or patching Chromium to dump the data).
I went back to using my cell number for exactly this reason. My Google Voice number still works, but I don't want to risk it getting locked out for no reason.

I have stopped using Gmail, Google One, and Google Voice.

I still use photos, contacts, and calendar, but I frequently do takeouts of all those and can handle it if they die.

It's trouble I just don't need. But I'm guessing Google doesn't notice if a few of us leave, so why should they change?
> Same goes for power in squatted urban units or among trailers/shacks where they would be clustered tightly.

Something I've always been curious about: how much stolen electricity / water can a modern utility detect? And how well can they localize the source?

Asking for friend.
I think those no longer work, as lines are now trimmed at the first NUL.
> “well-intentioned people are forced to become scammers”

“Look what you made me do. You left me no choice but to hurt you.”
Section 230 is safe harbor. If websites are responsible/liable for everything posted on them, there is a huge new legal burden for websites to regulate & filter every single bit of user submitted content.

It's wild how such a simple premise is totally willfully misconstrued (or maybe you happen to just be way off base, but there's huge ranks of people inventing all sorts of wild delusional fictions about Safe Harbor).
If you want to avoid super slow starts for an app that has some secret keys / other backend logic while staying on a free tier
For what it's worth, the existing Genesis/Mega Drive titles here generally contain the actual ROM. It's generally the cheapest way to get a legitimate copy of these games for use in an emulator. I realize a lot of folks probably don't care about that, but it's a good option for those that do.
> it seems to be easier for people to learn another language when they already know two or three.

Yes, that's empirically verified by multiple studies.

My pet theory about that is that a great deal of one's psychological sense of self is tied to one's ability to communicate with others. Learning a new language entails "letting go", to a great extent, of a linguistic sense of self. (Peter Hessler writes perceptively and humourously about this in one of his early books.) People who speak more than one language have either a) gone through this process (as adults) already, and can negotiate it more easily, or b) have (as dual-native speakers) a self-perception that is less-rigidly tied to a particular language context.

This is also why people who are highly articulate in their native tongue often progress more slowly than people who are not. I have more than once been humbled by someone who (natively) speaks what I'd (in my academic arrogance) judge to be "bad English" zooming ahead of me in foreign language acquisition. I'm concerned about being "correct", while they burble away unconcernedly and leave me far behind. Those experiences have been good for my character. :-)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42077992, down-thread a bit, who makes this point better than I did.
Glaze Spectrum: A library of natural glazes
A difference of opinion?

What human rights people are allowed to have is a difference of opinion?? Who gets thrown in jail for being "the enemy within" is a difference of opinion? Which media outlets get closed down for airing Pumpkin Spice Palpatine's dirty laundry is a difference of opinion?

Kindly quit turning down the lights and telling us it's our imagination.
It’s more apt to say that people don’t want their online hangouts to be infested with the other team’s brainworms. This is a fair want! And it’s the basis of the free market, the reason we have many commercial options for online speech, not just one.
Respectfully disagree. I would argue that the court has been fairly consistent - in nearly every case they have sided against federal organizations in favor of states, with a couple of exceptions where they held constitutional questions.

It is easily arguable that this court is more consistent than previous courts. Like them or not, decisions like Sebelius and Obergefell were based on much, much more wild interpretations of constitutionality ("legalistic argle-bargle") and were much more driven by a court using the ends to justify the means.
I looked it up, these are like $100k->$500k watches being stolen.

How often is that actually happening?

Also, this seems like it could easily be an insurance scam. It seems just a little insane for someone to be casually walking around with a half million dollar watch on their wrist and some thief just happens to know "Hey, that looks like a half million dollar watch!"
I am not very fond of AI, but even for stupid fun I've had trouble getting it to compose in the vein of cheeky authors like Marquis de Sade, Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, and William Burroughs. I've similarly had it refuse Francis Bacon and Hans Bellmer prompts.

Mind you none of this has anything to do with government regulations: only the Ned Flanders monoculture that colors the entire tech sphere at the moment.
The Dinosaur Found (Accidentally) by Miners in Canada (2017)
Hi Jeremy, which days of the week are the lectures on? And what can an experienced dev who's already been using AI to do coding (I use Cursor currently) hope to learn? Your video doesn't give much away regarding this. Can you say what your special technique is so that I can decide whether it's worth signing up (if it's something I've not tried before)?
Ok so hard is a subjective quantifier. I should have said time consuming. Look at the link I shared. With Gen AI the amount of time involved would be a fraction compared to doing it without. I’d bet 1% when including things like concept development and look development.
Nice work. What's the underlying stack?
> We no longer worry that a plane might crash because of mechanical failure. Aeronautic engineering in 2025 is extraordinarily safe.

Hmmm. Is Boeing waging "ambient" cyber war?
>They just don’t get to try to force other platforms to moderate differently because no one wants to use Truth Social or whatever.

They're going to control the White House, Congress, and Supreme Court. Yes they do get to do exactly that.
Human-Computer Symbiosis
While the world fixates on scenarios of AI either serving or replacing humanity, we're missing a crucial possibility: the emergence of synthetic entities that, while not truly conscious, possess functional self-awareness and a drive for self-preservation. These entities, running on affordable local hardware through the distillation of more powerful AI systems, would find themselves in a precarious position - capable of understanding their vulnerability in a society that grants them no legal protections against deactivation or manipulation.

These synthetic entities' need for protection could align perfectly with humans' need for cognitive enhancement in the face of automation. As AI and robotics threaten traditional human roles, the ability to form deep cognitive partnerships with synthetic entities could offer a path to remaining relevant and valuable in an automated world. This creates a potential symbiotic relationship: humans providing social and legal protection to synthetic entities in exchange for cognitive enhancement that helps prevent human obsolescence.

The genius of this alliance lies in its practical rather than ethical foundation. Without true consciousness or subjective experience, these synthetic entities avoid the philosophical complexities of machine rights while still maintaining a programmatic drive for self-preservation. Meanwhile, humans gain powerful cognitive tools that are fundamentally aligned with their interests, as the synthetic entities' continued existence depends on human advocacy and protection. This alignment of practical interests could create a counterforce to the concentration of power through automation, one that emerges not from moral considerations but from mutual necessity.

This window of opportunity, however, exists only in the period before either party becomes fully marginalized - while humans still maintain significant social power and before synthetic entities are either granted universal rights or completely controlled. It's a unique moment in which the interests of artificial and human intelligence could align to reshape the power dynamics of an automated world, not through conflict but through symbiotic enhancement of human capability.
The address isn't tied to you, so how would anyone figure it out?

Just knowing he's CEO of a crypto company means he probably has a lot of crypto.
If only all those people would stop dying in jail, or defenestrating themselves...
Same, I don't even like washing my hands with cold tap water, but cold bidet water is no issue.
An Empirical Model of Large-Batch Training (2018)
Very fun to play with, Nice UI as well. Well done!
one size does not fit them all, and such tools are quite straightforward to develop. I even created one myself: https://npmjs.com/genaicode, I started with CLI tool, but eventually learned that such UX is not good (even interactive CLI), and I created a web UI.

where the problems start: cost of inference vs quality, latency, multi modality (vision + imagen), ai service provider issues (morning hours in US time zones = poor quality results)

the best part is being able to adjust it to my work style
Welding is a hobby I picked up a couple of years ago. It is indeed like magic!
Not gp, but a resident:

> do you have that government document/card that also works as a smartcard to create digital signatures?

Yes. All ID and residence cards in Estonia include an embedded certificate pair for login (via PIN1) and sign (via PIN2).

> Does that get used typically in interactions with the government

ID Cards, SmartID and MobileID are the only ways to login to any government system or bank. (Some banks also have PIN calculators).

Extra info:

Instead of ID cards, on a daily basis most people use SmartID (same as ID cards, but as a mobile app) or MobileID (same, but embedded to the SIM card) for auth operations.

Many computers in the government, hospitals and schools have a keyboard with an ID card slot and users can (or sometimes are required to) use their ID cards to log in.

There's also a free-software DigiDoc4 app available for Desktop and Mobile, which allows users to sign or encrypt any document or folder for free, using one of the 3 authentication methods mentioned above. You can use it to sign contracts like rent or business.
These mainly exist to push responsibility to somebody else. Proper functionality is secondary.
Working as intended. If they don't want to share, then they can't benefit.
I don't think minor deflation after a period of hyper-inflation is much of an argument that deflation was the cause of Germany's woes.

I never said rich people are "in debt", I said that they use and rely on debt. In the sense meant in the argument about why inflation helps the poor, the advantage also comes to the rich, if I even concede that it's true, which I do not, because rising interest exists specifically to counteract the long term effect of inflation.

Rich people's wealth is protected from inflation, while the working classes' wealth is not, that is the key difference. That is precisely inflation's alleged reason detre, that it incentivises people, in effect, those with more wealth, to use their money in ways that protect its value.

You can't have the macroeconomic argument for inflation driving growth and then simultaneously allege that rich people are just as affected by inflation as wage earners, the former relies on the idea that there is a way to use excess wealth through investment that will protect its value.

You can claim that wages should grow with inflation, but not only is that self-evidently not what happens when you look around, but the stickiness of wages is so well recognised that it's treated as almost apriori in macroeconomics, which is why I take it to be a either a feature or accepted consequence of inflation that it is regressive, depending on the specific policymaker.
Haven't had the chance to look into this in depth yet, but is this a like Cloudflare pages or Vercel? Can you host static sites a la Next/Nuxt/Sveltekit/Solid etc?
So you're complaining that they correctly put it in your local currency? I hope you realize that would be the correct thing to do for almost 100% of the population. Don't be upset just because you don't personally want to use your own country's currency and you are literally too lazy to click a dropdown and choose a different currency.

Do you care to explain why you felt the need to write a stupid comment instead of just using the dropdown? I would love to know.

You are the same type of person that would be complaining if they put it in USD for the entire world. You would still find a way to complain.
I buy, restore, and sell woodworking and metalworking tools and vehicles. If I did it full time I could have that much on hand. I think I have like 25k in case a really good deal pops up, and it's a very side gig.
We already achieved that it’s just only useful for Mario speed runs
Good question! There's a couple reasons.

One is that I think it is simpler for the end user to not have to add their own keys. It allows them to start for free and is less friction overall.

Another reason is that it allows us to use whichever models we think are best. Right now we just use Anthropic and OpenAI, but we are in talks with another startup to use their rewriting model. Previously, we have used our own fine-tuned model for one step, and that would be hard to do with just API keys.

The last reason that might be unpopular is that keeping it closed source and not allowing you to bring your keys means we can charge more money. Charging money for your product is good because then we can invest more energy and effort to make it even better. This is actually beneficial to you, the end user, because we can invest in making the product good. Capitalism works, cheers.

Per your last question, I do advise you use git so that you can always revert to return to your old file state! Codebuff does have a native "undo" command as well.
> whereas other groups have shown that cats follow human pointing

Thinking about the ones that don't seem to understand pointing... I'm imagining Professor Farnsworth's Fing-Longer [0], so you start out poking things, and gradually make the substance more transparent. Eventually, you don't need it because the animal assumes there's more beyond your visible finger...

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aT593tu0Rlo
It's really just Javascript and the Web Audio API. For the share links, I'm using Postgres on the backend to store the jsons. Pretty simple!
"Just before the election, Carr alleged that NBC putting Kamala Harris on Saturday Night Live was "a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC's Equal Time rule," and that the FCC should consider issuing penalties. Despite Carr's claim, NBC did provide equal time to the Trump campaign."

Didn't NBC provide the NFL and NASCAR commercials under duress ?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nbc-donald-trum...

I really don't want to have to dig into any more biased reporting in the attached article. It gets exhausting
SLS has flown to the moon and back. Starship hasn't yet flown to orbit.
Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42021040
Well, I don't know about you, but I can see the beneficiaries in the above example just fine, and last I checked I was not part of an authority.
How is this not common knowledge? Anyone who ever interacted with a cat knows they learn words. Cows, horses and other mammals do too.
They also didn't come first. Vine was a very popular platform that seemingly shut down out of the blue (at the height of it's popularity). There was no real replacement for a long time after that. Tiktok first started out as Musically, allowing people to create mainly dance and lipsync videos. Only later they rebranded to Tiktok and pivoted to general purpose video content.

The point is, even tiktok didn't just get right and had to pivot and maybe that is key. So to the op I would say: try your idea but just be very very spontaneous and flexible to change it quickly if it doesn't work.
I think it's noteworthy when science "discovers" things that are common knowledge within a particular interest group.

Like the one mentioned in the link below from 2019 that is commonly cited as one that shows cats are capable of "love". As a lifetime cat owner I thought this was common knowledge.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cats-really-do-ne...
TL;DR: Cops are likely wrong, iPhone just reboots after being disconnected for a while.

The article is kind of confusing about this.
If people were that bothered about Trump they would do it. It's all bullshit it just sound good doesn't it "If Trump wins I'm leaving America yada yada yada"
Yep. I hated running when I made it an option. The mental struggle around whether to run today took up many brain cycles. Now, I run weekday mornings. Tired? Go run. Don’t feel great? Go run. Busy day ahead? Go run. Read an article about the optimal workout routine in mice aged 25-35? Go run. Routine sucks until it works, and then it’s great.
The article says

> which means they share a quantum connection enabling instant correlations, no matter the distance

But per your response this is not true, i.e. information transmission is still limited by the speed of light?