skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The early years are a ton of simple work. Later, it becomes incredibly complex and difficult. Try dealing with bad choices, power struggles, figuring out and enforcing rules.... Now try it as a typical techie person who has trouble engaging with things they don’t enjoy and doesn’t understand people.

Sifting through an indecipherable mountain of information is fun. I’ll do it in my spare time. My reaction to some ridiculous bug report is, hell yeah, let’s go.

The hardest stuff in my life has nothing to do with computers and it’s not even remotely close.
I actually can't imagine what it will do for video gaming. Maybe enhancing cut-scenes, but then why can't they just do the performance and rendering using the gaming engine in realtime?
Nice try, but no.
It's the standard placeholder name when they're not sure what it is yet.
I have some ideas. randyselimi on Discord
I think both of you are headed down a false path because that "profit" metric isn't meaningful here. A company can be rapacious and growing and exploitative without that always being reflected in "revenue minus expenses."

In particular:

1. The folks with incentive to make a bad policy have other ways of personally profiting.

2. IANAAccountant, but I think that isn't including all the money it has sunk into buying competitors and removing choice from consumers and policyholders.
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I would guess you could automate premiers, since they're used by large companies and such, but maybe not?

Probably is fake, can someone decode the binary in the thumbnail? I can't ATM.
I agree, engineering is all a series of tradeoffs, and tradeoffs can go one way or the other.

That said, I have yet to see anyone ever say "Oh man, this programming/configuration/data transfer language would be so great, but I wish they hadn't supported comments!" I see the opposite about JSON all the time.

And I don't see this about other features, e.g. Go specifically decided not to support the ternary operator, and while some folks may like that feature, I think more folks really appreciate that with Go there is generally a "standard" way to do things and it doesn't give you a million different ways to essentially do the same thing.
Related thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42363727 - Itch.io Taken Down by Funko (15 hours ago)
I came to comment this. It was a weird story, to be honest. Like I didn't know where it was going, but at the same time I couldn't stop reading it. Highly recommended it.
Nah, the businessman was probably in a more urban area, and he likely came into contact with a person (or contaminated item) who had recently been in the extremely rural area of outbreak.
Ok so that's no proof at all, thank you for clarifying.
The clips on the Sora site today would have been utterly astonishing ten years ago. Long term progress can be surprising.
This article really lacks any context. How common is it for a rapid response team to be deployed? How often do they find something interesting or novel?
I am not particularly interested in those benchmarks that deliberately expose weaknesses in models: I know that models have weaknesses already!

What I care about is the things that they're proven to be good at - can I do those kinds of things (RAG, summarization, code generation, language translation) directly on my laptop?
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ChatGPT isn't even aware of Sora when I asked it to generate a video. Like why not combine the interface for prompting? Sounds like their having issues scaling a common interface so each team is making their own.
>> I think we should not expect privacy to meaningfully improve until the gap between end-user perceptions of the value of their privacy and corporate perceptions of the value of their customers' (or users') data shrinks,

Do you see this as a generational thing? I remember working for wireless companies in the 1900's when GPS got huge and companies wanted to start using tracking apps for their fleet management and every company we talked to refused to install it because of privacy concerns and the drivers (and sometimes unions) being 100% opposed to it.

Now? We have what? Two to three generations who have never valued their privacy enough to really do anything about it. While I agree with your assertion, I whole heartedly believe the road back to people seeing privacy as important may have effectively died with the Gen Xers.
there it is, thanks
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Maybe 100 years from now we can do 2^18 quantum ops/sec and solve chess in a day, whereas a classical computer could do 2^36 ops/sec and still take longer than the lifetime of the universe to complete.
The years perspective is useful. But I'm not sure it's useful to compare the danger from different sources of house fires. The bad ones happen at night, and then have more than enough time to cause catastrophic damage whether it starts from a dryer or a candle or whatever. (There are some instructive videos on YouTube of how quickly fires spread in rooms)
The way you put out a battery fire is you don't. Last I checked, the current best practice for an electric car that catches fire is to just let it burn to the ground while trying to stop anything around from catching fire.
could be the same person?
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Nope, see for instance good explanations in [1] and [2].

The TL;DR is that you can't actually get information out of a measurement of entangled quantum states placed at locations A and B without also transmitting classical information between A and B.

But good question!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2020/01/02/no-w...
Which one of us has posted a concrete fact in this thread and which one is complaining? :)

There's some people on bluesky analyzing which Baltimore high school he went to too, but I don't think I should link small personal accounts here.
there is so much skepticism on quantum computing that instead of inflated marketing words one should always start by what the biggest problems are, how they are not still solved yet, and then introduce what the new improvement is.

Otherwise there is no knowing if the accomplishment is really significant or not.
You should give Flipboard a shot. The ‘first and only social magazine’ (in Flipboard’s own words) has more than 145M monthly active users globally. The news website/app attracts an engaged and passionate audience that loves reading, sharing, and discussing great content. Most social platforms see content from other websites as distracting, pulling users away once they click a link. Conversely, Flipboard embraces content and puts it centre stage...
`layout python` means that the venv is managed by the layout script in direnv, but when sourcing manually I can create it with uv (or pyenv, because I sometimes need to pin the python version) and then just add the source line.

`layout python` is great when that just works. I have trouble juggling various Python version effectively with direnv's layout script (I _know_ I'm doing something wrong, but I can just set up a virtual env as a one time operation so...)

(I also like sourcing bceause I know _exactly_ what's happening, as I know more about the activation scripts than the layout script direnv provides. But that's just a personal thing)
Okay, so what's wrong with slapping a number on a strain name? COVID-19 (COrona VIrus Disease 2019)
https://archive.is/i9M8H

https://archive.today/i9M8H

https://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/opinio...
Literally any profit is too much for these companies.
The video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCvKPBebNTk) was taken down 33 minutes before it was set to premiere, and now the account (https://www.youtube.com/@PepMangione) is deleted. The thumbnail had "The Truth will set me free" written in binary. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/ovODSvx.png

Here is a mirror of the short video linked in the OP (no real content, just a countdown and date): https://files.catbox.moe/jxtf97.mkv
Putting on my tinfoil hat for this: It sounds like parallel construction to me. I wonder if the FBI doesn't want it to get out what kind of technology the US government can use to track citizens in real time. Something like 24/7 facial recognition running in major chains like McDonalds.

The police showing up for a random tip in the boonies in PA fast enough to actually catch the guy at McDonalds and he just happens to have method and motive on him 5 days later seems too convenient. I think they ultimately got the right guy, but I don't think the 'tip' was a phone call from a McDonald's employee.
I run daily backups of our entire GSuite domain to a local RAID 5 device
Everyone thinks I’m crazy
The real problem is that parents are giving children AI technology for socialization, not that the robots are dying.
Anyone who wants to waste your time/attention/money(!!) for cheap. Think all the bullshit useless jobs aka marketers, scammers, identity thieves.

Other than that, it's also so people can spam every single website with millions of hours of AI generated spam and earn 7 cents off of the 5000 people the algorithm randomly decides to show it to.

Legitimate uses outside of that kinda shit? I fail to see one.
Maybe I just missed something, idk.
Are we mixing terminology? OTA means over the air as in wifi. If I need a firmware update I’ll do it from the management console on a wired network, preferably on a dedicated interface or vlan.
Hey, why not blame the shareholders. If you own a mutual fund that may be you! ... or me. The irony of people funcking themselves over via this route is kinda funny.
There are some specific requirements here in AU/NZ for battery home storage, AS/NZ 5139 2019, and I think another update last year. In short, cant be in the way of or next to an egress, window, or door. Cant be in a habitable space or other enclosed area like attic, roof, wall, or crawlspace. If near habitable space it must have fire resistant material (cement board, steel, etc) between the two and 0.6-1m around the battery. An overview https://www.evergreenelectrical.com.au/blog/best-location-so...
Do those FAANG ICs set policy for the largest healthcare company in the world? I don’t know why you’re so committed to trying to dismiss the idea that the policies his company sets have produced many angry customers but it’s not unreasonable for people to think that a CEO has some control over policy in a way that those ICs at adtech companies do not.
Can't even log in. I get "Unexpected token '<', "<!DOCTYPE "... is not valid JSON"
The power set of a set S, P(S) (or sometimes 2^S) is the set of all subsets of S
including both the empty set and the set itself.

To bridge the gap with programming, make a map f: S -> bool which represents our predicate.

all(f, S) => either S is empty or for all elements s in S, f(s) = True.

Now make f work on sets as well as individual values. f({x, y}) means True if f(x) and f(y) are True, False otherwise.

all(f, S) => all(f, P(S))

If we take the opposite and define all(f, {}) = False then this doesn't work and in addition all(f, P(S)) = False for all sets S.
Maybe if a lot of you in big tech hadn't misused our personal data and sold it to the highest bidders, or hadn't stiffled small tech innovations through monopoly, the EU wouldn't need to regulate you so hard.
I'm not sure how you came away from my comment with the idea that I disagree that the DMCA is a bad law. My argument isn't that that the law is good, but that I don't think it's anywhere close to the primary cause of this incident, and that there's much lower hanging fruit that could stop stuff like this. I'm also not sure why the _registrar_ needs protection in the case we're talking about; no part of this happened because the registrar needed protection, but the main cause of pain was that the registrar completely trusted a false third-party report that alleged _fraud_, not copyright issues.

To be honest, I'm not really sure what point you're trying to make at all with your comment. None of it seems to address anything that I said, and if anything, it almost sounds like you managed to infer the opposite of what I meant in most cases.
> Do you think those patients would have been better off with that $0.20 still in their pocket

Yes, if that means that $0.20 went towards patient care.

The money is better spent caring for patients than compensating one man.
Any advantage for using Bazel for newer languages that have a standardized dependency setup like Go or Rust? Or even for JS/TS, where almost everyone uses npm/pnpm/yarn?
Thread from a couple days ago, included an epidemiologist with a pointer to some procedural details:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42333460

The terminology you're seeing from the WHO and from epidemiologists sounds scary, and it might be, but it's the same terminology they'd be using if this were an outbreak of something like malaria, which is always a possibility in remote, underserved areas.
I like next spaceflight.com for this kind of thing. It doesn't have any early speculation as to dates, but it does publish them quickly after they are confirmed. It also has general information on the launch vehicle as well as a link to a live stream - but hopefully you will not have to use the latter :)
anyone find his hacker news account yet?
He went to a selective school.... but 130 isn't particularly high. It's common in engineers.
Some perspective: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...
Nothing comes for free. If you have 100 bad things each with an odds of happening once every 100 years, its not going to be a pretty century.
Probably was fake, but if it was real, not very smart of him to have it take so long. Should have been an immediate upload so people could download it.

Maybe he was thinking they would leave it up so police could use it as potential evidence.
Seems like the account is already banned
YouTube account was terminated at 4:11PM MST, I was watching it live as it switched to this message:

“This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated.”
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> Once we hit more than $100m in rev

Yeah my original comment was about experiences working at places with this kind of monetary success (if not more) and stubbornly not evolving. Low trust eng leadership philosophies will do that though.
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Russia and Iran would like to have a few words with you.

Banks regularly close for multiple days for bank holidays. Unscheduled downtime is a somewhat different story, though.

Luckily, the traditional SWIFT/banking infrastructure is so negligible these days, my phone can host a classic banking infrastructure for an entire small country.
Not necessarily—perhaps it’s something like what we have right now is the residue of a slight variation from 50/50 in our local part of the universe (so it might have been 50.01% matter, 49.99% antimatter, and after the bulk of the matter and antimatter interacted and destroyed each other, the observable universe is that .02% left over. Do we know enough to be able to search for evidence of this in the cosmic background radiation?
> Long gone are the days where kids just sat in front a television and had to watch live cable TV where the parents didn't know what was coming up next.

I've seen streaming services auto-play whatever they want to push at viewers after whatever show/movie was playing ended. I imagine there are a lot of kids that end up watching things they (and their parents) didn't choose for themselves.

When it comes to ads, parents and children don't get to choose what ads they see either.
I personally don't use it for Go or Rust, so maybe the answer is "no"? There's no native builder for C++ so the utility of Bazel for that language is more apparent.
Code in what jurisdiction and for what application?
...which they shouldn't have been able to get? I had thought that it was against the YouTube ToS? (my personal understanding, unrelated to my employer)
Was this the one trained on YouTube?
What education do you specifically think is necessary for people with average IQs all over the world to not be fooled by this, given that they are aware that videos can easily be faked in 2024? A high school degree? A bachelors?
With a working IOMMU (any modern hardware has this)...

I agree with the "IOMMU" part, but my experience with the "working" part is more hit-or-miss.
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As a programmer, my favorite way to think about Vacuous Truth is to think about the relationship between binary operators and their corresponding sequence operators. Think about taking an operator like "plus" and extending it to sequences or lists of things. What properties would we like those extensions to have? Let's start with a simple example:

Sum is the "sequence extension" of Plus.

Sum([a, b, c]) = a + b + c -- basically our definition

Sum([a, b, c]) = Sum([a, b]) + Sum([c]) -- distributive

Sum([]) = 0 -- identity

Let's keep things simple by assuming our operator is associative and has an identity (i.e., it is a monoid). We can take any monoid and extend it to sequences. Assume @ is some monoid. We define the sequence aggregate "Agg" as:

[0] Agg([a, b, c]) = a @ b @ c == ((a @ b) @ c) == (a @ (b @ c)) -- definition + associativity

[1] Agg([a, b, c]) = Agg([a, b]) @ Agg([c]) -- distributive

[2] Agg([]) = Identity(@)

Note that property 2 is required if we want Agg([]) to have a value at all, since Agg([]) == Agg([] concat []) == Agg([]) @ Agg([]). If Agg([]) doesn't have a value, then it's not really properly distributive, since Agg([a]) == Agg([a] concat []) == Agg([a]) @ Agg([]) == ???. So we see that if we have an identity for the operator, it really should be the same as Agg([]).

So let's extend AND and OR to sequence operators. The extension of AND can be called "Every", and it operates on sets of booleans. In particular, Every([]) == Identity(AND). The Identity of AND is "true", so Every([]) == True. The extension of OR can be called "Any", and Any([]) == Identity(OR) == False.

This is the easiest way for me to remember the truth values of Every([]) and Any([]): they must be the identities of the corresponding boolean operators.

Any([Your name is Bob, you can fly]) == Any([Your name is Bob, you can fly] concat []) == Any([Your name is Bob]) OR Any([You can fly]) OR Any([]) == (Your name is Bob) OR (You can fly) OR (False). Any([]) == False.
IIRC the most usage is romania and bulgaria(?), not russia.

As to why not, they dont “scale out” like other generalized pharmaceuticals or medicine. Phages need a bunch of patient specific diagnostics and revision to be effective against the specific target. Thats why you see people fly to romania for a month of treatment, and not order the bacteriophages from romania.
I don't think it's particularly relevant that the suspect is a software dev. Many people in the US are software devs nowadays. It has become a completely mainstream career option.
I recently launched a side project for generating erotica called NSFWstory.com and I'm looking for user feedback. The site is using RunPod with vLLM and a Mixtral model fine tuned on Erotica as the backbone for story generation and it's using RunWare for image generation. One frustration that has already been pointed out to me is that all of the initial story submission information disappears if you're not logged in so I'm working on fixing that right now by storing the form details in localStorage. It's free to generate 3 stories per week right now so check it out and let me know what you think!
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Okay. The messages are encrypted in flight. I will never use a Meta product.
The device updates can be supplied by a supplying service. The device (and its user as the end consumer) is not attacked directly but through its update supply chain. This is why it's called supply chain attack.

When somebody intercepts your Christmas presents to add a bomb to your new pager, it is also a supply chain attack. Even if you use the pager for work and the bomb targets your business partner. If somebody throws the bomb directly at the target it is not a supply chain attack.

Supply chains are often less secured than direct attack vectors.
Is it worth the risk? Any company buying Intel would have to deal with the internal cultural rot that has taken hold. Would the buyer be able to survive and make things better or would it turn out like the McDonnell Douglas merger with Boeing?
He’s a former cop and a current politician, I’d be surprised if anything he says publicly is true.
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> How many people are dead because you didn’t personally volunteer all of your disposable income to pay for their medical care?

Insurance companies make a profit by taking money and denying claims. Your whataboutism is ridiculous. GP never took anyone's money and then denied their claim.
A car itself contains a lot of stuff to burn (tires for example, etc) - look at any burnt out car - it is just a metal shell (until it was an aluminum one). So, i hardly see much difference between ICE and EV here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exotic_atom this is also a supplementary fun read. I find it interesting that you could come up with many such combinations, and then answer to "could it exist?" becomes "why, yes!" more often than I would expect.
There are more custers besides apple. Intel is not a small manufacturer.
Hence independent courts, independent from church and state. It also helps to have embraced rationalism and the scientific method.
It's in the 98th percentile, lol. Yes, it's very high.
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From TFA:

While the focus has been on olives, the bacterium’s ability to infect such a broad spectrum of plants makes it an agricultural nightmare, particularly in regions where multiple crops are grown in close proximity.
The standard syzygy bases of course do, they are designed for practical play. Some table base developers in the past took pleasure announcing mate in several hundred moves in certain positions and this had made headlines in the past, hence the confusion maybe.
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lol, those videos of the NYPD ‘searching’ Central Park look like my kids looking for a homework assignment they don’t want to turn in. Until the FBI got involved I thought he was pretty much off the hook.
I guess my point was that table sugar breaks down into fructose.
One of the most glaringly broken things about society is that abuse of power is not punished harshly enough. We need Finnish speeding ticket style systems across the board.
> UHCs profit margins are 6%.

Those are for tax purposes. You can be sure they extract way more into private pockets through various mechanisms.
I think with the diablo thing the 'elon is hands on' has gone out the window.
Seeing how hot a battery fire is, I'd want it 10 feet away. Or a concrete wall between. None of that is expensive. And you can sleep safe!
I'd guess subconscious recall of Robot Chicken from the "Robot [] Chi" similarity.
I'd ask if Luigi's assets exceeds the $15 million of insider trading the CEO was accused of, but whether they're richer than the other doesn't (shouldn't) matter.