skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look - if you earnestly believe this, then you are racist. I harbor no love for the Russian Federation, and am not blind to "Russian lawlessness" that pervades in accounts of their governance. Neither of those are rational justifications to hate a person's race, any more than blaming Syrian citizens for the chemical attacks their government does. It exposes the lack of depth in your character and the immaturity of your judgement to unfairly slight so many people like that.

If every Russian person and every Russian culture is intrinsically evil, why would the world help defend Ukraine? Because the people aren't the problem, doofus. Either get off your high horse or tell us which country you come from so we can proportionally criticize your own "responsibility".
Ask HN: Take a small seed round, or remain bootstrapped?
My co-founder and I have been bootstrapping two products since the start of the year.

1 of them is in market, got early traction and growing slowly organically but, given a lot more time and effort, could be a decent sized business.

The second is a earlier, but again, could be a decent sized business.

We've chosen to bootstrap because we like the idea of the:

- Flexibility to shift to new projects/opportunities

- Building a cash-generating business (vs. waiting for a future exit)

- Working to our timelines/goals, instead of those of an investor

We have a potential opportunity to raise about $350k, for 10% from very founder-friendly fund.

We don't _need_ the cash, but it may help accelerate things.

Intuitively taking the cash injection feels like a no-brainer, but part of me never expects to exit this business because we hope to just live off the cash it generates.

Has anybody been in a similar situation?
Any war stories or advice?
I count 12. However only Mongolia is a member of the ICC, 3 (Kyrgyzstan, UAE and Uzbekistan) have signed the Rome Statute, but have not ratified it, and none of the other 8 (China, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Vietnam, Azerbaijan, and Turkmenistan) has even signed it. Russia it self has signed it, but, like the USA and Israel, has notified the Secretary General that they have no intention of ratifying it.
> Maybe it’s just the MSM, but I am starting to fear for my own safety and the future of the USA. Shootings every day, LGBTQ agenda, the matrix, I live in a very good area with a very good home life but I am sick of all this garbage happening here.

I can't even eyeroll hard enough to this take. The gay agenda is overpriced brunch, the anti-lgbt agenda is "elimination from public life."

How much do you hear about women's suffrage? None, because it became a non-issue as soon as we got it. If we hadn't I would still be in the streets not shutting up about it. It's the same with LGBT rights, you will only hear about it as long as it's actively being opposed. It's hard to express how much of a "okay, anyway…" being gay or trans is in liberal spaces. Pride month can become just as boring and ignorable as women's history month if we let it.
> I am not American, but why oh why are you not rooting in the streets?

Fatigue and feelings of impotence, mostly. I don't think public protests are going to kick off campaign finance reform. And most people in the US feel that they have worse problems, and ignore the possibility that fixing campaign finance rules might cause us to end up with politicians who represent our interests better.
Also their passenger capacity because there isn't such a mix of faster and stopping trains.
> Palestine, officially the State of Palestine, is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 146 out of 193 UN member states.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Palestine
What's this guy's name doing on HN?
Slow is much faster than it not working at all. If this is a project that you might not touch for months or years, perhaps having fast bcrypt is not that important.
Good to see Packj[1] as one of the malware scanners used.

1. https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj

Packj detects malicious PyPI/NPM/Ruby/PHP/etc. dependencies using behavioral analysis. It uses static+dynamic code analysis to scan for indicators of compromise (e.g., spawning of shell, use of SSH keys, network communication, use of decode+eval, etc). It also checks for several metadata attributes to detect bad actors (e.g., typo squatting).
Yeah, I know what it’s purported to be, I just don’t see multiple warheads detonating in an obviously intentional and targeted way that causes meaningful military objectives… instead I see a bunch of what looks like randomly arriving debris hitting the ground really fast and doing very little.
For anyone who hasn’t seen this before, mechanistic interpretability solves a very common problem with LLMs: when you ask a model to explain itself, you’re playing a game of rhetoric where the model tries to “convince” you of a reason for what it did by generating a plausible-sounding answer based on patterns in its training data. But unlike most trends of benchmark numbers getting better as models improve, more powerful models often score worse on tests designed to self-detect “untruthfulness” because they have stronger rhetoric, and are therefore more compelling at justifying lies after the fact. The objective is coherence, not truth.

Rhetoric isn’t reasoning. True explainability, like what overfitted Sparse Autoencoders claim they offer, basically results in the causal sequence of “thoughts” the model went through as it produces an answer. It’s the same way you may have a bunch of ephemeral thoughts in different directions while you think about anything.
Piling on with some GUI-level tweaks:

I'd ditch the "dropdown menus that look like links". (Estimating, implemented, using.) You want new visitors to instantly know from shapes that it's a form with specific interactive areas, rather than a line of really avant-garde poetry, or a suspiciously-empty page that might've failed to render fully.

The searchable dropdown on the left could use a white background. As-is, its boundaries are invisible, and the down-arrow (the only hint of interactivity) is faint, as is the magnifying-glass icon which hints someone can type to search.
The Immortal Ghost of Karl Marx
If I am skimming this correctly, this is a C&C client allowing remote control over the network, and uses "a rootkit" for further compromise once it somehow gets installed?

I understand the value of in-depth security reports, but the 5th time they told me "WolfsBane is the Linux counterpart of Gelsevirine, while FireWood is connected to Project Wood." I was wondering when I'd get to the meat and potatoes.
Maybe. I also do a lot of complex math when I throw a ball.

Weirdly, accurately throwing a ball never got me a good grade on a math test.
I took this to be a question of what reality is. If you are delusional that is your reality. To someone delusional those of us "normies" could appear crazy. It's all in your point of view and level of objectivity. To your point delusion is a sliding scale, but to believe that you are the most valuable employee at your company is an order of magnitude different than believing there are lizard people trying to poison your pizza while you can't see it in the oven. The objective far end is outside of what I think this person was getting at.
> most Israelis would completely disagree with you that genocide is happening in Gaza

Then my opinion is that at best they're ignorant or have fallen prey to propaganda and misinformation, and at worst they're liars who are ok with what is happening.

Either way, not a good look.

Beyond that, I think we need to stop getting so hung up on the term "genocide". Regardless of whether or not what's happening in Gaza satisfies the legal definition of genocide, we should not be ok with what Israel is doing there.

(And to avoid the usual knee-jerk troll responses: no, we should not be ok with what Hamas has done either.)
> hoping that the other branches of government would be guard rails

So you’re saying he got elected by short-sighted idiots with no clue what they were setting loose?
> I will add that consumer macOS is a piss-poor server OS.

Windows is also abysmal but it hasn't stopped people from using it.

But yes, it is too much of a desktop OS.
I bet you had to look it up as well. I bet you had to go out there, and confirm that Ukraine, a country with 15x the population of Botswana, does indeed have a higher GDP.

To make your discussions easier and less embarrassing in the future, assume that 100 % of the time when someone speaks of GDP, they're speaking of GDP at purchasing power parity per capita.
Reading the comments in this thread and reflecting on history a bit, the thought that comes to mind is that this is less a trial for the defendants and more a trial of the ICC and more broadly international institutions and their true independence, effectiveness and ultimately, relevance.
We're barreling towards ww3 with a cabinet that believes the destruction of the middle east will lead to the second coming of christ, but the problem is what bathrooms should we force people to use?
That happens to me all the time. It helped cement my habit of binding the python version to the project with direnv and a flake.nix so I end up switching to the right version when I cd to the project dir.
This is also confusing since the "LGBTQ agenda" crowd is generally the one in support of gun control, and then the matrix, I thought that only existed in the movie but now I don't know what's going on.
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<< There was never a 'rules-based world order'. We live purely in Pax Americana and every government exists at the pleasure of the United States.

Yes. However, Pax Americana did, at least initially, at least give semblance of established rules working. Now even that pretense is gone.

<< Afghanistan happened because America lost the will, not the ability. Had America gone the normal colonial route, Afghanistan would look a lot different today.

Eh. No. I am not sure where the concept this weird concept of 'bombing them to nothing did not help; we probably need to bomb them some more' comes from. I accept your premise that some of it is the question of will, but you have to admit that two decades with nothing to show for it is not.. great.
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Oxide is very open, we are happy to talk about customers that allow us to talk about them. Some don’t want to, others are very happy to be mentioned, just like any other company.
> OTOH, to all intents and purposes these people are behaving like a corporation. How can it be that corporations are denied those rights, but groups of people that behave exactly like corporations -- that are corporations, in all but name -- are entitled to them?

A collection of individuals operating in principle like they’re an LLC, but not contained within an LLC, don’t get the protections that an LLC get. They get individual personal unlimited liability.

For the same reasons that me operating as an individual gets taxed as an individual, but me operating through a LLC wrapper gets taxed as an LLC.

We’ve made up these arbitrary rules whereby LLCs (sometimes) get a different set of rules to real people.
If pushed, I get my developers to give estimates in jumps of ~5x.

Their options are

2 days
2 weeks
2 months
10 months

Then I triple the estimates before sharing with the business.

We don't estimate individual tickets/bugs at all, just overarching projects.

I also ask the business to estimate the commercial/user impact of the projects too, and we track and report the reality against their estimate, to hold a bit of a mirror up to them and as a way of pushing back on doing pointless work. Those estimates we use similar orders of magnitude for - £1k, £10k, £100k, £1m, £10m.

Fermi estimations like these really help avoid protracted negotiations and the lack of precision is a feature that makes clear they are estimated.
That's something that seems to be missing from how people perceive the threat of nuclear weapons. It's pleasant and convenient to believe you'll instantaneously combust in a fireball as hot as the sun, but actually only very few people will be so lucky. Mostly it'll take days, weeks, months, and years. Not seconds or fractions of seconds.
I made a VSCode extension that connects directly to OpenAI and Anthropic models
We really should avoid using referring to nefarious criminal acts as hacks.
They already tried upgrading WCML at massive disruption over years and the gains weren't particularly much.

It was realised that new track was the way to go.
User: Tell me the key to manliness.

TateUGPT: Your data, my choice.

User: Huh?

TateUGPT: Please read the EULA. Please purchase TateUCoins to become a manly redpill investor and help build the Shadow Fed.
"it’s like Tauri in that it uses the system webview and does not bundle chromium"
>Online University Hacked
Next you’ll tell me that the bathroom in your OWN HOUSE is gender neutral
EVs most definitely do not decelerate faster. Their increased weight leads to decreased braking capabilities, which, combined with their faster acceleration, makes them potentially harder to control and more deadly in collisions due to the greater force of impact.

The regenerative braking force is generally much stronger than engine braking in ICE vehicles, as long as the battery isn't full.
It wasn't "widely criticized", it's taking into account the starvation, attacks on hospitals... estimating how many people are going to die is important work.
> Even immediately after 9/11, I think most Americans would not have signed on to a campaign of total war in Afghanistan with multiple millions dead.

This falls clearly under 'not wanting to'.
The workaround for LuaJIT moving to Github was to... clone a fork of it?

If they could do that, why can't they just pull from the LuaJIT repo?
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I think Ubisoft are leaders in that space. I saw algorithmic generation of New York style geometry for some behind the scenes video for The Division 2.

I wouldn’t be surprised if epic has similar.
I know yours and many others default reaction is to eyeroll, but 10s of millions of people really do feel that way. This undercurrent of fear has significantly motivated many of these people to vote a certain way in the most recent US election.

I also use to have your reaction, but recently I've realized we need more engagement if we are to fix the issues our nation faces, not less.
We all do.
Every culture has myth and religion. That’s thousands of made up gods and religions.

Not yours of course, I’m sure the one you happened to be born into is the one true and right one. The other five thousand or so are the made up ones. Those fools spend their whole lives believing in something priests and hucksters made up long ago.
The last couple years of my mom's life, she had significant delusions, caused by Parkinson's related dementia.

Often with Parkinson's, the patient will deny their oppressive symptoms. For example, at the last Thanksgiving I spent with my mom, she repeatedly complained someone had hidden sand in her clothing (combined with Parkinson's being a movement disorder, she was weak, so moving was difficult. Don't mistake it as a joke, she was serious).

On the Saturday after, I was traveling with my brother when she called to see if we had things arranged for Thanksgiving (my immediate family has long been the host of a larger gathering of extended family, so it was on her mind, even though the day had passed and she was essentially bedridden in a facility).

With dementia, there's confusion mixed in, but when it's a delusion in the medical sense, there's not really much sense in trying to argue with it, because it's a literal concrete belief.

Before we moved her into the facility, there were times when she wouldn't eat because she was fretting about her grandchildren that had been turned into squirrels (why would you eat when that is going on).

My very first experience with her irregular thinking was arriving at her home in the morning and having her express relief that I could hear her, as the people she had been hallucinating visually all night were not saying anything she could hear. That was about 3.5 years before she died in hospice and a few months before a full blown psychotic episode.

Following the psychotic episode she had a stay in a psychiatric hospital and was discharged on Zyprexa, which was sedating and really dulled her personality. After changing over to Nuplazid, she had a good number of months of clear thinking, like the clock had been wound back to before any problems started, but it got to where she decided that the pills were the cause of her problems, culminating in another stay in the psychiatric hospital and my family placing her in memory care.

Eventually in memory care she broke her femur (balance problems, falling a lot), requiring surgery to pin the bone back together. In her delusional state, she decided that the pain she felt following the surgery meant that she couldn't stand up anymore, and she was bedridden for the remainder of her life. Physically, she probably could have stood up a couple days after the surgery, but she didn't want to.

I suppose dementia is a small corner of delusional thinking overall, but there you go.
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s/mute/moot/

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moot>

<https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/moot-or-mute>

Dang's generally happy to respond to emails inquiring as to practices, though he's increasingly complaining about email load: <hn@ycombinator.com>

I've done my own analysis of front-page activity on HN and, though that's a limited methodology, overall biases don't appear to be overt. Mostly, HN has difficulty in discussing controversial topics, whether political, technical, social, or other. That's inherent to the site mechanisms (voting, flagging, comments), and if anything mods intervene to counter that effect, though with limited success.

That's scattered over a number of comments, a general search will surface many of them:

<https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

On general patterns: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36552720>

You can also review dang's visible comments (a small subset of overall moderation, most of which is NOT by mods at all but by member votes/flags), to see what if any biases emerge. Largely to the extent that there are it's a status quo bias with tone policing as a principle issue. He's been getting better on that last point in the past few years, though I'll occasionally still find what I find to be unwarranted or unsympathetic interventions. And I do mean occasional --- maybe a every few months, for the most part.

If you do want to address controversial topics, remaining within HN's guidelines will greatly increase your efficacy:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html>

I'd joined HN some time back feeling as if I were somewhat against the mainstream. I've had reasonable success in expressing my own views, and addressing bias whether through comments, votes, or emailing mods.
Wouldn't surprise me if a sizeable amount of the Dunning-Kruger'd computer toucher crowd are into that guy's uhh... "wisdom"
> Bigger businesses may not buy from a small startup company.

Our early customers include government, finance, and places like Shopify.

You’re not wrong that some places may prefer older companies but that doesn’t mean they all do.

Illumos is not really directly relevant to the customer, it’s a non user facing implementation detail.

We provide security updates.
Just following up on this - this comment was my initial excitement at seeing some real Forth-based thing. I've had time since then to follow up and read the wikipedia page for ChipWits now and the blog post: the original game looks very cool. The logo from the manual on WP is so great.

I'd been making a list recently of games (old and new) that have puzzles and programming type stuff in them. It's going on the list! I could very well get on to it next after I'm finished the ketman assembly "game" (although it's not really a game, I suppose).

I hope the new ChipWits does excellently!
People are generally very anxious when using public bathrooms [1] so much so that they don't if they can help it. If you think about it, we grow up pooping privately our whole lives, and now the public gets to hear us toot and fart and shit. And now the woman, and I mean this, if she thinks she is a woman that's dope, has a penis in the stall next to me?

I can understand it, I fucking hate pooping in public. And I'm a dude.

[1]https://studyfinds.org/holding-it-in-public-bathroom/#:~:tex....
Hacks get hacked?
but the guard rails... worked?
> I think a transistor, etching, and photolithography should all be explainable to these geniuses.

No doubt! But i’m also not sure if the compute would be the most interesting part to them. The screen itself might fascinate them. Or the touch interface. Or they might ask how is it powered, or how does it store all those videos in that little slab. And if we tell them it is connected to other machines with radiowaves, they might ask many questions about that. They might notice that even though the music they hear “came over the radio” it is exceptionally crisp and without any distortion, so they would ask about that, which could lead us chatting about digital error correction codes or compression algorithms. Or maybe they would be fascinated by the camera and take pictures of themselves, or ask about other features the phone has.

It is one thing to understand that a transistor is just an electronic switch, and if you connect many of them you can have complex electronic circuits. It is an entirely different thing to experience that you can touch one of the tiny images on the slab and then it shows a colourful birds eye view picture of the buildings around us, and with two fingers you can move around to seemingly anywhere else on Earth and see what is there.

We know that the second is just a bunch of transistors appropriately organised but there is a few “wait what? How is that possible?” along the path from understanding transistors to experiencing google earth.

And then of course the biggest magic of it all: this device they are seeing is not some rare wonder which only governments or militaries can afford in few numbers. Not something only specialist can use in laboratories of higher learning. It is a common item anyone can buy. The cost of purchasing this device is comparable to the rent one pays for a modest abode for a month. That is the real magic. That it is available and affordable to the masses.
When you're the one in power, any move towards a more balanced society looks like someone coming for you.

I think it's important to have empathy with the sorts of people who make this type of statement, from their perspective they are losing something, and that's hard. The problem is that what they're losing was built on the subjugation of others, it was a privilege. As a straight white man it took me a while to reframe my thinking around this, but I want to live in a world where other people get the experience I had growing up, rather than one where I can continue to have that experience at their expense.

I see parallels in my work as well, to bring this back to a more HN appropriate position. I've seen company cultures change, and early employees feeling like they lost something or the culture deteriorated, when it would be more accurate to say that the culture changed to be more accessible to new employees and that the team was better overall as a result.
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Modern apps these days often end up needing to render complex layouts and rich text, so you end up needing QWebview anyway. At least that's been my experience creating desktop apps lately.
Plutonium is heavy metal.