skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s infuriating how fast the masks have come off with the tech elites.

They were up on stage today with better seating and vantage points than the hard-working civil servants and diplomats who actually care about making the world a better and more peaceful place.

People like PG need regressive policies to keep the gravy train running because the hacking startup thing works less and less over time. Everything you can solve with a computer has been solved. All that’s left is oligarchs consolidating left and right.

Zuck, Cook, Musk, and the rest need to fuck right off.

PG is just another member of the .01% who is an exploiter of labor. His founders who grind and eat ramen to survive are just individual dice rolls for his portfolio.

I know which side of the class war I am on.
I find it amusing that Chinese subsidies are painted as something terrible for the rest of the world and not China. You can a get high-tech cars for cheap, at China's expense! Chinese taxpayers are paying to upgrade your car!

(yeah, it's really about protecting local manufacturing that has fallen behind and can't compete, despite having its own domestic subsidies)
Just want to note I appreciate how patient and civil you've been in this discourse.

The culture of HN is certainly still alive

Also a note, it seems wikipedia agrees with investopedia here —- and the equations of TVM include interest rates and compounding.

You have a point on the WHY, but I think TVM may just take that as an assumption.
He braces himself, makes an aggressive facial expression and stiffens his arm (not a thank you loving face), his palm facing down, elbow stiff, fingers locked together (not how one throws their heart), does it a second time, then comments that 'the future of civilization is assured'. Go Google images and look from multiple angles. Of BOTH salutes. Try not to puke at the smiles/cheers in the crowd.

Subtle Elon used the Fraktur font on his MAGA hat. Elon supports the AFD. Elon intentionally does a Nazi salute twice. Elon likes/responds possitively to Nazi's and white supremacists on X. Elon talks about 'declining birth rates and immigration policies' as closely as he can get away with to 'race replacement theory'.

Somehow we are just misunderstanding him. Nah bro. Stop. At some point we have to stop err'ing on the side of 'he's just an accidental unintentional Nazi'. Guess what, still a Nazi.

I'm supposed to give this guy good faith:

https://nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/elon-musk-wont-donate-...
This is also worth reading:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3170124

In summary, Conway and others conducted a years-long campaign of harassment against psychology professor J. Michael Bailey. This included several attempts to get him fired from his job, a series of vexatious complaints to his licensing board, and - most infamously of all - posting photos online of his children suggesting that he had raped them and asking if his young daughter was "a cock-starved exhibitionist".

It was highly vindictive, highly unhinged behavior. They disagreed with his published work and rather than attempt to refute it, attacked him personally and extensively.
Marijuana shops were deemed legal on the state level, you are comparing a real conflict in federalism to ignoring a congressional and supreme court ruling with massive national security implications on day 1.
No it's because genocide is too simple and poorly defined a concept to apply appropriately to every situation. It's just the result of people trying to generalize from a few specific events that happened in the past which they already decided were bad for some other reason and ended up creating the label genocide to describe them.

Look at the disagreement people have over whether Israel or Hamas committed genocide in this current war. People can't even agree on the meaning of the word as it applies there. It's a novel situation that doesn't fit the mold of what this word was invented for. Are civilians really civilians if they're complicit in the fighting as in Gaza? Are they really civilians if they've done or are still doing compulsory military service as in Israel? It's just an attempt to draw a line in the sand so people will agree what's bad.
>We could get people to pay us hundreds of dollars per month, but not thousands

I find it interesting that they say their startup folded because they could only get people to pay hundreds a month. That sounds like success to me.

>That’s the death knell of a vc-backed b2b saas sales model.
>We were too burnt out to pivot to another business idea, and we quietly folded.

I guess VC funding killed their successful startup and burned them out. It sounds like they didn't need funding in the first place, and it caused more harm than good in their case.
I'd love to see a standup competition of trying to make AI jokes/sets funny.
Funny how things change over time on Hacker News, an ostensibly startup forum that now more and more seems to be just another tech forum, and any relationship to YC and startups is now merely incidental, it seems.
Curious to this as well.
A publisher's entire library of books is a large asset.
Normally I would flag an OP like this one, but in this case I will NOT, because the sight of one of the world's most well-known and successful entrepreneurs giving the Nazi salute in public at a presidential inauguration has left me in shock. Shock. If there is anyone close to Elon here on HN who could talk some sense into him, please do so.

This shocking video must be seen to be believed. To the moderators: please consider unflagging the OP.
He may have something like Asperger’s. No diagnosis has ever been provided so it’s all just conjecture.
IIRC he’s self diagnosed.

In any case I’m pretty tired of people making excuses for him based on this claim, as if it’s some sort of get out of jail card only to be played when he faces criticism. I know plenty of people on the spectrum who aren’t acting like Elon.
Lookup why torpedo's are almost universally 21" in diameter. The short version: because that was how big they were last time. There is no reason beyond 21" being usrd once upon a time and nobody wanting to break from it and have the old torpedos not work in the new boats.
When I read this article, I find that the ‘vision’ of libertarianism or innovation or futurism isn’t the part that bothers me about what is being labeled a tech oligarchy. It’s less about constraint and more about concentration of power. You can’t really have a society where others feel similarly free and ‘liberated’ if power, wealth, and influence are aggregated in the hands of very few.

This needs to be addressed in many different ways. The biggest companies, particularly the big tech companies, need to be broken up using new antitrust laws and also face much higher taxation. Neither will happen in this new administration, however. And the second piece is the reduction of the power/wealth accumulated by a few ultra rich individuals - again not viable under this new administration.
NPR shopped for 96 items at Walmart to track how prices are changing
This approach is used in Federated Learning where participants want to collaboratively train a model without sharing raw training data.
I believe the comparison is valid - I put "terrorist" in quotes for a reason.

All three groups at times participated in violent activities targeting the British, Arabs, and even at times other Jews.

Haganah was proscribed by the British mandate and was an unlawful, underground militia. Lehi had 100s of members but Irgun had 4000-8000.

You yourself admit that Lehi and Irgun could be categorized as "terrorist" and Haganah engaged in what you describe as "something in between guerilla warfare and terror attacks".

The British certainly thought of all three as "terrorist" groups, which is why they targeted them with military and police action - https://israeled.org/british-round-up-resistance-fighters/

Hamas would also not describe themselves as "terrorist", they also describe themselves as a "resistance" movement.

Haganah both planned and executed the "Plan Dalet", which killed and forcibly expelled the vast majority of non-Jews from their lands - they actually did what people accuse Hamas of wanting to do.
You should generate your report with regular scripts. You need ci config to deploy them but that is the only part that should be different.
Vivek learned the bitter truth about power in America. Look at that inauguration - it was quite white.

That’s life kiddo, better luck in India.
the thing with startups as founder / founding teams is that most days are actually good stories - so yes, the best way is to write as you go.

the thing is perhaps this is in fact the best way to motivate (or demotivate) the startup craft - you end up learning by drinking from the firehose daily. I believe there are few other types of activities that have such a forcing factor to learn and most are generally some sort of crisis (war, etc.) and so entrepreneurship is likely the least damaging one (at least for everyone else than the team haha)
The sad truth is that a large percentage of the tech community (and general population) is happy with fascism — until it comes for them.
Speaking is over rated.

Many from Tech spoke up after WikiLeaks and during Arab Spring/Tahrir Square. Guess who is in charge over there today? Generals. Other option would have been religious loonies.

For the simple reason the military and religious people are better organized.

Tech is not an organized around anything. Its just a diverse bunch rowing in whatever directions the tools they are familiar with allow them too.
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the US government coming after people because of who they are is a lot more worrying than some knitters in terms of "people getting access to power".
All posts in this so far have been flagged within minutes.
> The idea that elite universities produce elite university graduates is probably not controversial…

Isn’t it?
> Reform our planning rules to build the railways, roads, labs and 1.5 million homes we need and develop a new 10-year infrastructure strategy.

They could do this is one fell swoop with a single bill by the Parliament that dissolves these local councils, and land owners the right (and freedom) to build whatever they want on land they own.

Building safety codes would still apply; but zoning permitting could be erased in one fell swoop with a single bill.
Is there a link to this client? I'd be interested to play around with it.
Way to equate people who want H-1B fraud reined in to nazis. Why would I a normal engineer who has bad experience working with infosys hacks be appreciative of a nazi salute?
That is almost a spec right there, tie it into a JMAP server and you are done.
More likely image-based navigation, where you just upload the entire imagery of the route and then use it to correct your inertial references.

Encrypted positioning information from low-orbit satellites is another option.
Would emigrating to Canada be a viable path for European citizens to eventually get a US work visa? If so, would it also be a path towards a green card?
MIT Shuts Grant DB After It Was Used to Research MIT's Israel Ties
I thought I was in r/BrandNewSentence
The ideal interface of course would be to use an external turntable and use one's hand to rotate a physical plate or record.

I find the mouse-cursor drag very clunky.
I'm using an M2 64GB MacBook Pro. For the Llama 8B one I would expect 16GB to be enough.

I don't have any experience running models on Windows or Linux, where your GPU VRAM becomes the most important factor.
Really telling they have to ask us for what cards we want as opposed to supporting all cards by default from day 1 like Nvidia.

All because they went with a boneheaded decision to require per-device code compilation (gfx1030, gfx1031...) instead of compiling to an intermediate representation like CUDA's PTX. Doubly boneheaded considering the graphics API they developed, Vulkan, literally does that via SPIR-V!
The classic Cantrill bit about not anthropormphizing Larry Ellison applies to a lot of tech CEOs.

Thing is Larry Ellison doesn't write blog posts acting like he's a philosopher. Some tech CEOs really position themselves as arbiters of culture and it just feels more and more like trying to transfer their tech/business positioning into a cultural one. I do not like it!
Life is politics.
The reason for this is that nobody took the time to write a proper background document on Github Actions. The kind of information that you or I might convey if asked to explain it at the whiteboard to junior hires, or senior management.

This syndrome is very common these days. Things are explained differentially: it's like Circle CI but in the GH repo. Well that's no use if the audience wasn't around when Circle CI was first new and readily explained (It's like Jenkins but in the cloud...).
You can't own a term, words are defined by their usage, not some arbitrary organisation.
Trump resisted handing over power after the 2020 election, and to date, he has faced no significant legal consequences for those actions.

Given that lack of accountability, is it unreasonable to suggest the stakes will be even higher in 2028? If there were no consequences last time, why wouldn’t there be an even greater effort to challenge the outcome, should the need arise?

This isn’t a binary issue of whether the president is all-powerful or powerless. It’s a spectrum, and since 2020, we’ve objectively moved further toward the "all-powerful" end. The absence of meaningful checks and consequences has set a precedent, making it harder to draw the line in the future.
That doesn't answer how much I get out of your paid plans.
Because, of course, the major US automakers never ever received any governemtn subsidies, ever.

They just used them to be able to continue to make gas guzlers, instead of electrifying, like in China.

Just search for: US auto industry bailouts

And choose your reference...
No, money down!
How many corners/edges/faces do round objects have?
Nailing jelly to a wall: is it possible?
A simple static HTML with tailwind

A Google form
If you’re at all worried that your social media feeds from any one website are ruining your mental health, I would suggest just not using them period. Why risk it?
I am looking for an aha moment, a eureka moment, where after a bit of finetuning I start to see the model responding.

It literally doesn't matter to me what exact domain problem is solved.

I want something that's easy to set up and could produce (at least some verifiable) results in under an hour.

Some sort of toy problem would be ideal.
Hmm.. if anybody feels the blunt force of failure it's them. But they feel it was a success so I believe it must have been. Also they don't need to cope now.
I'm saying it's debatable judging the player if they stay inside the rules as enforced.

I definitely hate the game.
Mind-Blindness
I think you’ve got my timeline wrong. If you don’t have a foreseeable exit (which means only that you have built significant value) within 4 years, ffs it’s a fail. Most of my failures were foreseeable within months, not years. Fail fast. That doesn’t mean that you don’t do century projects, it just means the value has to be obvious within a reasonable amount of time or you put your stuff in boxes and go home. By that time you should have 2 or 3 other things you’re low-key working on anyway.

I’ve launched or participated in at least 50 projects and pivots in my lifetime so far, almost exclusively failures. In the last decade and a half, my results are much, much better. For me, the issue was usually inadequate moat +poor funding or being a decade ahead of the market.

As for the cost of housing etc, stop thinking about houses. Start thinking about buildings. For the sake of all that is holy never build in a residential zoned area unless
there is nonexistent enforcement or properly incentivisable inspectors. Housing is a racket of its own, with its own proper criminals and everything.

You can get a lot in New Mexico with nil property taxes and minimal controls for about a thousand dollars. G1 land in Alaska can be had for 4- 5 k and has no zoning controls at all.. It doesn’t need to be near a nice town. An hour to a reasonable town (100k population plus) is fine. Remember, it’s not your home. It’s a place.

I’m not talking about a place you want to live, I’m talking about a place you can live. As long as you can get water, some tumbleweed sandlot in the desert is fine, just cover it in cheap panels and buy the biggest AC unit you can. I prefer a woody place above 2000’MSL and not on any historical flood plain though. Also hurricanes and tornadoes are a big turn-off.

It doesn’t have to be in the USA either. In some ways even better if you have skills that allow remote work or platform work (oil rigs, mining, mercenary, contract
Pilot, work camps).

You can build a structure that is liveable for about 50 a square foot. Shoot for around 600 square feet, like a ww2 era home. Bare plywood floors, Sheetrock, etc. If in other countries, use whatever the poor people use to build with. That will also offer some cultural protection.

If you can’t do it, in today’s market, for under 75k you aren’t trying. Just start with a small piece of land.

Maybe Tow and Park an (old) motorhome on it until your house is built. Get the motorhome running and sell it for twice what you paid if it’s not a total lost cause. Don’t ask me about split-rim tires though. I had to pay in (goods) to get one changed at an extremely sketchy tire place. I mean, really sketchy. I’ve spent some time in the 42 in Santo Domingo, and I’m telling you, this place, in North Pole, Alaska, of all the godforsaken places, was sketchy as hell. Just don’t bother.

If you get to North Pole though, see if Dirty-Neck Pete is still alive (no, really) because he has a junkyard with some astounding shit in it including the some of the infamous overland train, Soviet era relics, and a lot of other stuff that will probably eventually become a superfund site. He’s probably dead by now though.
Are we solving the Russian-Ukraine war in this thread? ;)

- Realistically no amount of weapons the west supplies Ukraine is going to enable them to push the Russians out of Ukraine.

- Putin doesn't seem to care about the number of Russians lost in this war.

- Direct involvement by western armies could lead to a nuclear escalation. NATO could easily push Russia out of Ukraine in a conventional war. Too big of a gamble.

- This is just part of a larger geopolitical struggle between the different powers. Russia. China. India.

We don't really know what Putin wants here but if some sort of end to the war can be negotiated that includes territorial adjustments in Ukraine I think that's the best win the west can hope for right now. The cold war wasn't won on the battlefield, it was won mostly economically. Doubling down right now on a military solution in Ukraine doesn't feel like the right path forward. Stopping the hot war and switching to a colder war is probably the path of least pain for everyone. Even if it seems like a temporary win for Putin. If the west helped Ukraine more in the early days maybe we'd have a different outcome but the west made some bad choices and here we are.

That said if Putin wants to keep fighting then the war will continue. I don't think he does but who knows.

My take anyways.
are there any companies working on it?

was thinking if i train my model on my private docs for instance finance how does one prevent the model from sharing that data verbatim
A curated list of .cursorrules files
I'm glad to know that some Trump supporters do have red lines.
Out of curiosity, up to when did you still support Trump?
In his article, Graham said the following:

"Consumers have emphatically rejected brands that ventured too far into wokeness. The Bud Light brand may have been permanently damaged by it."

Bud Light sent promotional cans to a trans influencer. The content of the promo was completely anodyne, a joke about March Madness. For this, a boycott was led by social conservatives.

Aren't the people who led this boycott "prigs"? Why is Graham referring to them in a neutral-to-laudatory way if he's so opposed to priggishness? What "wokeness" does he think Bud Light was punished for?
The earliest warning sign I had for GitLab was when they eliminated any pricing tier below their equivalent of GitHub's Enterprise tier.

That day, they very effectively communicated that they had decided they were only interested in serving Enterprises, and everything about their product has predictably degraded ever since, to the point where now they're now branding themselves "the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform" with a straight face.
Also a +1 for JMP. not glitch free, but I think the glitches were in me, and in the eSim provider. The tool(s) do what they say on the (virtual) box.
In general it's "tool use" where the model's system prompt tells it to use certain tools for certain tasks, and having been trained to follow instructions, it does so!
What Graham means by "prig" is, say, an HR person who informs you that you need to use your coworker's preferred pronouns.
Uhm, there are plenty of videos about making solid rocket fuel. Model rocketry doesn't need any special permits until you get to launching large rockets.
Maybe I'm in over my head, but that's how I interpreted it too. It's annoying how every news source and even Wikipedia doesn't make it clear what this law does.
On The Pretense Theory of Irony (1984) [pdf]
https://archive.ph/qxdh8
Finally, some good news! People starting to see through the damn NATO fog.
I think most EU carriers use geo blocking for VoWiFi. A lot of non-European carriers advertise VoWiFi as a cheap alternative for roaming.

For EU carriers roaming used to be a big business (Europe is probably the region where most traveling abroad happens, many small countries close together without travel restrictions). The EU carriers don't seem to be able to let go of crazy roaming charges (5€ per minute and more are not uncommon outside of EU).
A very similar play book to the one used by the Conservative Party in the UK. They were somehow deemed the "anti-immigration party" of the two major ones, despite having been resposible for some of the highest immigration rates of any era. There's nothing better to distract from rampant inequality and a rapid transfer of wealth from the middle class to the super rich than a boat load of immigrants, that were somehow granted visas by the same government that supposedly reviles them. Without the racial tension, who else is there to point the finger at for the countries woes?
The "tech community" is used to label both the very liberal on average big tech employees and the PayPal Mafia/VC people who have very different politics. Lately the latter have been much louder.
I think I've read that true endurance and strength of your heart is built running over one hour at a time and in my experience that seems true. Our bodies are so lazy and don't make changes until they absolutely have to. I run 7 miles every Sunday or so. I based that number on that and this paper which shows mortality vs. distance run per week. People that run too much have mortality like a sedentary person!

https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)...
I am not deeply familiar with autism, but is this just an awkward way for someone who is autistic and awkward in social things, where they put their hand over their heart and salute someone (like is it within the range of things that could be explained by autism)? Or is it meant to be purposefully ambiguous to antagonize. I have to admit, looking at the actual video, it looks exactly like a Nazi salute. I doubt Elon is an actual Nazi or racist, but I also could see him doing something aggressive and childish to instigate his “enemies”.

EDIT: Why is this story flagged? This absolutely deserves discussion. Elon is a key figure in the tech industry and this administration is going to heavily impact everyone’s world - not just in some abstract political way but in a real way that finds it way to our professional worlds.