skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/04/engineering.hi...

"Steve Jobs, Apple's co-founder, predicted that in future cities would be designed around the device, while Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon, also backed the project publicly and financially."
Didn't Luigi Mangione do this, arrange for a YouTube video to auto-publish after his arrest?
“We founded OpenAI as a non-profit, but to create OpenAGI, profit was necessary!!! However, Elon Musk also wanted profit!!!!111 And now, he also created profits!!! So, everything is OK”
> Normally the word "whistleblower" means someone who revealed previously-unknown facts about an organization.

A whistleblower could also be someone in the process of doing so, i.e. they have a claim about the organization, as well as a promise to give detailed facts and evidence later in a courtroom.

I think that's the more commonsense understanding of what whistleblowers are and what they do. Your remark hinges on a narrow definition.
I see what you mean. My logic only really applies to the simpler programs which exclusively use the standard file descriptors. It gets fuzzier when the output of a program is an actual file somewhere.

The output of a package manager is the packages. The text it writes to the terminal is not part of the output, it's just the program's log. I haven't thought about what's appropriate in this situation. By unix standards package managers shouldn't even be printing anything to begin with.
> ... and that "singularities" are a sign something is wrong with the model.

Einstein thought that way too because his model predicted singularities in space-time fabric. Turns out he was wrong. Nowadays we call them blackholes and have images of them too.
I don't think it's that simple. Imagine that you have nonpublic information that would be harmful to party A.

* Enemies and competitors of A now have an incentive to kill you.

* If the info about A would move the market, someone who would like to profit from knowing the direction and timing now has an incentive to kill you.

* Risks about trustworthiness of this "service". What if the information is released accidentally. What if it's a honeypot for a hedge fund, spy agency, or a "fixer" service.

* You've potentially just flagged yourself as a more imminent threat to A.

* Attacks against loved ones seems to have been a thing. And doesn't trigger your deadman's switch.
The GP comment seems innocuous to me. Taking the thread on a generic tangent about copyright law, spiced with personal putdowns, is clearly not ok.
https://www.npr.org/2024/12/13/nx-s1-5227874/trump-bezos-zuc...

"The tech industry wants to get the regulatory threat off their backs and go back to self-regulating. ... [I]t's how these companies got so big," she says.

Zuckerbucks, Bezos, Altman. Who's next.

If each chips in one million dollars then perhaps, collectively, "Big Tech" can buy itself freedom from regulation.
'Nokia Design Archive' Launched by Finland's Aalto University
Dave from the EEVBlog did a take on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkjyeI0ykGM
Just like an early optical mouse on a featureless plastic table
pre-COVID there were regular HN meetups in different cities, I am not sure why the practice died off.
I don’t have a good cross-reference for wpm on this, but I can read uncomplicated stuff at about 100-120 pages per hour. Most people don’t believe me until they see it.

My wife reads at roughly double that speed. She’s the only person I have ever met who reads significantly faster than I do. Met a few who are 10% or maybe 20% faster than I am. But she’s in an entirely separate category, and yes, that is with 100% comprehension, not skimming.

When we were dating, and I first saw her do it, I just said oh, you read really fast. She said, so you don’t think I’m faking it? No, I said, you’re just the first person I’ve ever met who is noticeably faster than I am, but it’s obviously real.

Then I asked the question: what color is the number 5? She stared at me for a second before giving her reply (I don’t remember). “How did you know?” Because I’d read about synesthesia and a qualitatively different form of pattern recognition seemed the most obvious conclusion. Someone might be a little faster than me with basic reading skills, but I’ve been around enough fast readers to know that I’m pretty damned fast, and that those who are faster are usually just a bit faster. Not double.
To me it isn't just about comprehension either. When I read I think about what I'm reading. I'll often stop mid-page or even mid-sentence to think about related subjects or past experiences that have some connection to what I've just read. It takes me longer than other people I know to read something, but I'm far from the slowest at it, and to me, reading is (or at least can be) a deeper experience than just an info dump into my brain.

I'm sure some of it is ADHD or something but to me, reading is about ideas and I can't wait until the end of a book or even the end of a long article without playing around with them. Especially if it's a topic I'm interested in.

Even if speed readers can fully comprehend and retain what they've sped over, I can't help but feel that they're probably missing something.
One of the best things I've ever read. I'm going to use this in my next salary negotiation.

Oh you know I don't really care about the number, it's just that I'm working on this plan to desalinate all the water in the oceans.
Vehement name-calling amounts to fulmination in the sense that we use the word in the guidelines; especially when a comment lacks any other content, as yours did. It's basically just angry yelling, and that is the opposite of what we're looking for.

This isn't a borderline call; if you were under the impression that a comment like that is ok on HN, it would be good to review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and recalibrate.

Edit: it looks like you've been breaking the site guidelines badly in other places too, such as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42393698. We eventually have to ban accounts that do that repeatedly, so please don't.
Go errors in standard library does not support stack traces. errors.Wrap() only exists in github.com/pkg/errors package
The scenario I described is to ensure the whistleblower being alive or dead has minimal change in impact to the company. If there's a pending case that could wipe billions off a company's market cap and 1 person is a key witness in the outcome...well lots of powerful people now have an incentive if that witness were no longer around.

Why not just publish immediately? Publishing immediately likely violates NDA and could be prosecuted if you're not compelled to testify under oath. This is what Edward Snowden did and he's persona non grata from the US for the rest of his life.
Just come wearing hot grits. Oh wait...
I ain't even on the same continent.

But do you really think state sponsored research gets you commercial success? I wonder if there is a better way?
Great Idea. I really like the thought behind this, especially the BaaS, and BaaSRV
Am I the only one titling the posts "Test Title" and adding the text "Test Text"? It is easier and makes sense too. This defense.gov one is obviously done by a dude who forgot to delete his post.
I think he is less worried about competitors than the government itself. Specifically, unelected bureaucrats with lots of power and few responsibilities.
I'd say VR is just another form factor for games rather than being a void looking for a use-case, but I agree about NFTs and cryptocurrency*.

* technically not all blockchains because git and BitTorrent are both also hash trees and therefore non-currency block-chains, but definitely the cryptocurrency uses of them.
ASFASFASDFASFDASDFASFASFASFSADFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFASDFSFSAFSFDWFGASDGBDFBGDSGASDGDSBDB!!!
Assad's final hours in Syria: Deception, despair and flight
Yes/no.

The design spec is something like “95% probability of completing 5 flights” - that is, the minimum threshold to be successful.

That leaves a lot of extra margin to keep going well past it - 90% for 10 flights; 80% for 20; etc.

(made up numbers)

You also get the “bathtub curve” in most mechanical systems. Once you get past the early design defect failures, things tend to last a long time, until they start wearing out.
Where I work there is almost nobody with any IPv6 experience and certainly nobody willing to come forth and push for adoption. We just push the increasing cost of NAT gateways etc onto our customers.
Anti–USAG-1 therapy for tooth regeneration through enhanced BMP signaling
Then you should run Linux: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42099398
Not a great writeup. The IPv6 Cat thing is tortured and the article feels meandering and mostly pointless. Is the intended audience policy makers?
Pitchers and Catchers (1941)
Exactly like weather. Grimness has almost nothing to do with the subject here. What I want to communicate is specifically not about how the world is, but about what we do with our experience in it. And how we react to that experience, inside and outside. What I would like to put forward is that we cannot substantially change the world, or the people, but we can change ourselves, and with that, how we experience the world - and ourselves within it.

I would like to add that I'm not on a high horse here. I too suck at this. But I do think that it is a worthy effort, and something that is a Good Thing for the self, and to whom and whatever comes into contact with that person too.
I'm interested, can you point me to some interviews or posts with him talking about it?
The machine in TFA is maybe a bit deceptive, it's actually hardly more than a pump. The Argos and Meticulous are much more complex. They have both struggled scaling up their operations, which is a complexity shared with all manufactured products, however I'd be curious if this machine fetches that many orders (both those machines are in the thousands of orders).

There's some discussion in the Decent Diaspora (Decent's private user forums, for other readers), but I'd have doubts about simply dropping in these pumps with no changes in firmware. The Decent relies on the rapid (near instant) response of vibe pumps to make constant adjustments to the water mixing.

Aside, 8ml/s is more or less accurate. Some people have gone a bit above this I believe even up to 10ml/s, but it's a bit of luck and your electricity.
Worth remaining a little skeptical. Could be Project Blue Beam, the plan for a fake alien invasion, that's been talked about for literally decades in conspiracy circles.
Yes, it so wildly exceeded its mission goals they were past all the "bonus round" goals and coming up with new targets. Since they tend to sequence goals by potential value for a given risk, I imagine they were knowingly accepting more mission risk and stretching the risk envelope. Not quite explicit 'test to failure' but either way you eventually end up finding a failure point.

Identifying this as the likely failure mode strikes me as pretty valuable for informing future designs, at least compared to the alternative of it just never being heard from again one day.
Besides JaneStreet videos, what other readings have you found useful in helping you implement the engine?
I think there are a lot of parts to the fast reading pipeline.

I know someone who had undiagnosed vision problems when young which harmed the ability to read fast/fluently.

I suspect that vision is pretty critical. To read fast you have to be able to visually capture quickly, chunk things together and feed them to further stages of the comprehension pipeline.

I suspect poor vision, poor lighting and contrast, bad fonts, flickering displays, distractions from other senses all slow you down. I also think there might be an age window to learning reading fluency that could be missed.

I read fairly fast (haven't tested it in a while) but I learned reading books, which have good contrast, a large high-resolution font and reflective lighting. I wonder if this makes my visual pipeline attuned to reading different than new readers who have learned on glowy screens, with small pixelated fonts, and competing with other non-reading distractions.

Might be interesting to give your kids physical books or reflective e-ink/e-paper readers to read in a well-lit environment and see if it helps.
> Here is a cool video of our bot doing something rather clever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-vxbREX5ck&feature=youtu.be....

> The HER algorithm (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz_HuzgMzxo) can learn to solve many low-dimensional robotics tasks that were previously unsolvable very rapidly. It is non-obvious, simple, and effective.

> In 6 months, we will accomplish at least one of: single-handed Rubik’s cube, pen spinning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDavyRnEPrI), Chinese balls spinning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9N1duIl4Fc) using the HER algorithm

taken down now. anyone have it?

> Lock down an overwhelming hardware advantage. The 4-chip card that <redacted> says he can build in 2 years is effectively TPU 3.0 and (given enough quantity) would allow us to be on an almost equal footing with Google on compute.

who is this? it isnt cerebras. sambanova?
If you're writing a spreadsheet in LaTeX, I suspect something has gone very wrong somewhere along the line.

Spreadsheets are as much a calculation environment as they are a table of figures, and if you're technical enough to be writing docs in LaTeX you should be doing the calculations in a more rigorous environment where you don't copy the formulas between cells.
That's a good question, because people who feel strongly about politics or current affairs often want to use this site to battle for what they believe is right. When we ask them not to do that here, on the grounds that HN is not that sort of website, they sometimes respond that what they're fighting for is more important.

They're right, of course. Most of those questions are far more important than most of what appears on HN. The problem is that if we allowed it to, political battle would quickly consume everything it touches, much like the fire that flamewars are named after—so this is an existential issue for HN.

Ultimately the question is: does a site dedicated to intellectual curiosity deserve to exist, even though other things are more important? Is there room for such a place? I think the answer has to be yes. But if so, it needs to be protected for that purpose, because default internet dynamics all point the other way.

There are always many heinous things to point out, and such stories are far more emotionally intense than, say, a new type of superconductor having been discovered, or how work on formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem has been going lately. So I don't think we have much of a choice, if we want HN to survive as a sort of garden. Gardens and warfare can't coexist at the same place and time.

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

I'd add one bit to your last point though: I don't think "those who subjugate" are really doing that by appealing to intellectual curiosity—they have more powerful forces to do that with. I'd like to believe that in a community where intellectual curiosity is cultivated, subjugation is actually a little less likely. I can't prove that, though, and it may just be wishful thinking.
Indeed!

Look at these formulations: "Respecting these governance frameworks is crucial to maintaining the open, collaborative model that underpins global Internet development and its technological evolution ... collaborative approaches that engage technical communities, promote open standards, and prioritise interoperability are essential... To overcome these challenges, a strategic approach combining economic and operational incentives with collaborative governance is essential. Governments and organisations must take proactive steps to create a more supportive environment...
By combining these measures, enterprises and network operators can address the barriers to IPv6 adoption while fostering collaboration between governments, industry leaders, and the technical community. This approach ensures that the transition to IPv6 remains inclusive, efficient, and aligned with the Internet’s principles of openness and innovation."

Purely LLM gibberish...:))
If you distributed the $19 to the people who did actually show up... you would actually get people to show up... maybe there's some kind of business plan embedded in your comment.
He wasn’t exactly wrong in that the model still breaks down for black holes. Even though we know they exist we don’t know what goes inside them.
When war started with real capacity nation which did test these, do you think they will just blow up several in that orbital space so we have no low orbit devices if that disadvantage them. I would. Would you.

Let us have some so far neutral zone. Wi-Fi etc does not need those. I am not a radio guy. But let them have it.
MySpace had $1.5B in sales in 2009.
Luon programming language
Why "asdf..." and not "jkl;..." I wonder? Is it because more people are right-handed and their right hand is presumably on a mouse or coffee mug or something like that?
the second one.

I want a human editable plain text spreadsheet format. CSV and TSV ain’t it, not the least of which is because they don’t have formulae.
Ditto, I took his discrete math course at NCSU in 1998. It was mainly taught by Tiffany Barnes day to day (who was also nice and a great explainer), but Bitzer was often present and always smiling and jovial.

I really regret having spent so little time interacting with my professors though. I was one of those kids that spent the least amount of time in class possible, almost never going to office hours, aiming to get the course work out of the way asap so I could "have a life". So much wisdom and life/industry experience was concentrated on that campus and at my fingertips, but I totally took it for granted. Seeing his obit amplifies this feeling; I wish I had cared enough at the time to meet and know the guy.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408308
> life … art

Why not both? Life -> Art -> Life.

https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/cia-helped-shaped-americ...

> According to Eric Bennett, writing at The Chronicle of Higher Education and in his book Workshops of Empire, the Agency instrumentalized not only the literary publishing world, but also the institution that became its primary training ground, the writing program at the University of Iowa.

https://fcpp.org/2021/06/28/the-cias-media-assets/

> Four years after he broke the Watergate story, Carl Bernstein quit the Washington Post and spent six months looking at the relationship between the CIA and the press. The result was a 25,000-word cover story in the October 20, 1977 edition of Rolling Stone called “The CIA and the Media.” The article, still online at carlbernstein.com, remains interesting and relevant.
I wasn't even talking about the copyright issues. I was talking about things like this and Sam Altman's sister's accusations. Things way beyond what any reasonable person would consider moral.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/openais-sam-altman-says-israel...
haha true, when something goes wrong in big tech, your first thought is "what if we just double the instances and see if it goes away?"
There's growth focus and there's doing some of the largest fundraising rounds in the history of silicon valley during a time when debt is the most expensive it's been in decades and still barely keeping the lights on because your service is so unprofitable.
More of a free-wall. Setting up account gives free access.
That's a good one. Along the same lines, SYMPL and CYBIL, the systems programming languages for the CDC Mainframe line. Lots of languages like that.
Half of AWS services aren't even available from an IPv6 endpoint, it's a clusterfuck. I'm all for carrot and stick but they are making a giant mess of it.

Source: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/aws-ipv6-su... , see 'IPv6 only support' column.
> Plus, General Electric broke up, and GE Vernova now has the transformer business.

Slight clarification, GE Vernova has the (most of) the medium and high voltage transformer business. ABB bought GE Industrial Solutions which includes all of GE’s low-voltage (under 1000 volts) transformers (plus all other sub-1000 volt GE switchgear, breakers, panel boards, etc) plus some 5-15kV medium voltage lines.
I considered writing something more focused on him, but the rampant speculation was only going to get worse if no one pointed out the very intentional misleading implications baked into the headline. I stand by what I wrote, but thank you for adding to it by drawing attention away from the entirely-speculative villains and to the very real person who has died.
Google is its own very special kind of baggage, though.
Citation:

[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K7y2xPucnAo
Open Source Tiny Bird
The table couldn't be fixed. But it can be bypassed.

The microcode update would need to disable the entire FDIV instruction and re-implement it without using any floating point hardware at all, at least for the problematic devisors. It would be as slow as the software workarounds for the FDIV bug (average penalty for random divisors was apparently 50 cycles).

The main advantage of a microcode update is that all FDIVs are automatically intercepted system-wide, while the software workarounds needed to somehow find and replace all FDIVs in the target software. Some did it by recompiling, others scanned for FDIV instructions in machine code and replaced them; Both approaches were problematic and self-modifying code would be hard to catch.

A microcode update "might" have allowed Intel to argue their way out of an extensive recall. But 50 cycles on average is a massive performance hit, FDIV takes 19 cycles for single-precision.
BTW, this microcode update would have killed performance in quake, which famously depended on floating point instructions (especially the expensive FDIV) running in parallel with integer instructions.
He's already made hundreds of billions of dollars though? A permanent Martian colony is an incredibly ambitious endeavor and even with a trillion dollars there's a reasonable chance the colony fails.
I'm looking forward to a new supply of Asfasfastani war rugs and souvenirs sold at the Friday bazaar.
well that's one possibility. The key (unproven) idea here is that if you use Anthropic to edit o1's responses, it's less likely to hallucinate than if you use o1 to edit o1's responses (which is what o1 actually does).
I would definitely be worried about ROI if my main product was something my big tech competition could copy easily because they did the research that led to my product.
Their criminal co-conspirators are the ones that make and keep it illegal to start new ISPs.
I will bite, going with your analogy comparing to electricity on the other end of the spectrum.

electricity is not ubiquitous in many parts of the global south full 130 years.

The common definition is- access to electricity source that can provide very basic lighting,
and charge a phone or power a radio for 4 hours per day. Not even grid connected.

Even with this basic definition there is still full 660 million people who don’t have access to even that. It only dropped below a billion in 2015.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-access

You need beyond the basic to be meaningfully transformative, clean cooking fuel access is one proxy used that is still 2Billion people without access for example.

Nobody is denying the transformative nature of electricity or say internet , but even these things take a long long time, more than one life time to propagate and be world changing, and not because of their choice of lifestyle to live disconnected.

If electricity, clean water, sanitation and nutrition and basic healthcare is not available to half the population, what is AI going to do in next 3- 5 years or whatever ridiculous timeframe Sam Altman keeps talking about .

And this is a not productivity problem, there is more than enough food production capacity to feed the world, yet starvation and malnutrition is not solved.

AI may rock your world, it is not going to rock the world anytime soon even if was like electricity.