skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, please just read the numbers out to me on the phone so I can confirm who you are...
There's a reason Wikipedia doesn't accept "I saw it" as a citation.

Wikipedia isn't perfect, but if I had to put odds on Wikipedia vs "rando on internet forum who claims to remember something from years ago", I'm going with Wikipedia 10 times out of 10.
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Branson-Backed Balloon Tourism Firm Cuts Staff as Cash Drains
My goal is not avoiding doomscrolling though (I don’t do that on instagram in the first place).

Other than direct contact I like to also have more casual and indirect interactions. Instagram works well for me here, I’m curious if anyone is doing similar things with any other apps.

But sure, if you feel that instagram or social media is causing you more problems than benefits, absolutely do something different.
Is the support that widespread, or is it a bubble created by social media?

I think there's great dissatisfaction with healthcare in general, but social media is not a good way of judging social attitudes across the US. It's great for finding a small niche, however.
Oh I didn't know that was a thing! I see it now. Thanks for pointing that out.
> A health plan like that costs your company 25K/yr on the backend. They pay that as part of your compensation, you just don’t see it.

That's very true, but of course the NHS costs some amount of money on the backend, it's just abstracted away in taxes. The real difference is how much care you get for your money, not* which way of not directly paying for health care is better.

* You get more in the UK.
just use it on pc. It gets most of the benefits for contact maintenance. You can still watch the reels you are sent. But no reels, and the feed scroll gets very boring suddenly.
Having heard a lot of stories from my grandparents, I don't think you should trust nazis.
> is typically better in quality of argument as it tends to attract a more intellectual crowd

On behalf of the more intellectual crowd, I'm obliged to devastatingly elucidate that we're (quite singularly) more intrinsically adept at forcefully projecting ex post facto rationalizations upon our--invariably and universally--emotional decision-making processes whilst obfuscating the same under an avalanche of loquacious hifalutinisms.
Here's a specific tip: If you run out of arguments yourself, you can always insult the other person and their arguments.
Lemme guess: one initiative that he's not getting money from?
CA housing cannot be fixed without across the board reassessment. Otherwise the winner with an old property paying 2% of their 1980s purchase price will never sell. The immediate tax hit for moving to a similar house would be financial insanity.

And reassessing across the board is not going to happen either because it would price out grandma living on a fixed income.
This feels causally backwards, as the only point to corporate personhood is so that we _can_ hold companies accountable for their misdeeds.

Without personhood, we'd have to know which persons within an opaque company structure were responsible for wrongs against us in order to sue them directly instead of just being able to sue or fine "Walmart" or whomever.
There is only so much time and broadcast outlet bandwidth. With limited bandwidth, a single entity can put so much money into the system that it prevents others from being able to afford to broadcast their message even if they otherwise would have been able to do so. Therefore, the Citizens United decision preferences speech about politics to those with the most money and restricts speech for those with the least. There should be a cap, and transparency, and pac redistribution restrictions on spending for all entities. Currently, there is a cap, and transparency, in spending for individuals and corporations directly to a campaign or party, but no limits on anything else.
My favorite response to this question that comes up all the time is...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26238410
Whoah.

Anyone can be right. Only the strong can admit when they’re wrong.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42784847
Was flagged for some reason
Gwern on o3/o1 and distillation to small one-shot models
People in the 1900s could not conceive of posting on social media. Is just posting on social media protected political speech? Is then paying for a computer and internet connection to post political speech on social media a campaign contribution?
I would hope that these days the popular extension devs would know about this type of attack and would guard against it by perhaps selling the extension code but shutting down the original extension page under their control so users have to choose to install the new company's extension. As a matter of fact, why won't Google/Mozilla prevent this by making an extension and a person's account inseparable, and have legal language in the ToS that says they can't sell the extension as-is with the install base to a new company? It would prevent so much.
Also what I do. Or try to do.
rightly said.
but there are people who can only give specifications. some of them are PMs, managers and bosses who currently hire programmers.
It's also not a great idea to place one's future at the whim of a competitor. Maybe they get a good license deal today and next year it's 100x. No sane business would do this.
Rural USA is extremely distrustful and quick to show both that distrust and disdain towards any Silicon Valley based company. "Technology is bad" is the general sentiment. These are "fossil of America" places where privacy is highly valued.

This is just my anecdotal experience, overwhelming anecdotal data, and I won't mention the specific regions so as to maintain my respect for those regions by not "out"ing them for having their views.
I said "hostile policies", not "lack of spending"; you jumped to your own partisan conclusion.

Policy and spend have to align to make progress. Spend alone is useless as is policy without spend.
If you want to pretend you don't understand the relationship between lobbying and the ability of groups to spend unlimited money influencing politicians, that's your prerogative. I think more highly of you, so I'm not going to spend my time arguing the point.
Sweeeeet, thank you! :)
TikTok, RedNote and the Crushed Promise of the Chinese Internet
https://archive.ph/UOPre
Alas, release is glibc only. No musl.
That is admirable integrity. I hope in her shoes that I too would have admitted the error of my way.
That was it, thank you very much! :)
the author is in fact reading this and will make some changes

edit: haven't managed to replicate the absurdly huge image; what version # & os are you on?
Me and a friend were discussing PINNs, and he made an argument against them: The Bitter Lesson. PINNs are a way of incorporating domain knowledge into ML models. The Bitter Lesson, for those unaware, is a famous essay by Rich Sutton that states that the history of AI is full of attempts of methods guided by domain/expert knowledge, but that ultimately, all such methods were overtaken by methods that simply scaled data and/or computation.

http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

I would love to hear HN's take on this argument.
If you were willing to write a larger passage, I would sure appreciate your good experience at Target and what made it special relative to "Turn The Ship Around".
Meanwhile via Kagi assistant just now:

What about London showing of stage show lion king tonight when does that finish and if I got a private coach home when would I get back?

—-

Let me check the show time and duration for The Lion King tonight.

The Lion King at the *Lyceum Theatre* tonight (January 22nd, 2025) starts at 7:30pm. The show runs for approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes, including one interval . This means the show will finish around *10:00pm*.

For the journey from the Lyceum Theatre (Wellington Street, Covent Garden) by private coach:
- The journey typically takes about 35-45 minutes in evening traffic
- Allowing some time to exit the theatre and get to your transport
- You should expect to arrive between *10:45-11:00pm*

Note that this timing assumes:
1. You're able to get out of the theatre and to your coach within 10-15 minutes of the show ending
2. Normal traffic conditions for that time of night
3. Standard route via A3/A23

The exact arrival time could vary depending on your specific drop-off location and traffic conditions.
> `... they did invest in Uber, but also have many bad investments.`

The one I really don't get is that they funded Adam Neumann's new company after the collapse of WeWork. How stupid do you have to be to give that guy any more money?
This isn't national funding.

$500B is a lot - no matter how you slice it.

It's a lot easier to talk pie in the sky than to actually get $500B to spend.
> What technological edge do they have exactly?

One part environmental regulatory advantages, nine parts economies of scale.

The saving grace is America is lucky. We got bailed out of Iraq by Russia being worse. And we’re getting bailed out of our geopolitical and economic ineptitude by Xi becoming a dictator and immediately alienating China’s international partners through “wolf warrior” diplomacy. (Trump is replicating that playbook, but he’s only here for four years, and a lot of his nonsense will get slowed down by our courts, another advantage China lacks.)
Yep it was it :)
Many republican candidates talked about deficit, including Trump. Then in power introduced budget cuts.
Are you thinking about a clear USP vs. the Light Phone II/III?
Information wants to be free (as in libre) in the same way water wants to flow downhill.
"Allegedly" ordered murders, not proven in court.
Probably part of it
You can see the through-line if you read it as "if you work hard, you can improve your situation." That's the part that's changed.
Hey totally! Chesterton's Fence is about not messing with complex systems. Don't change an existing system without first understanding the implications of that change. The subtext is that even if you think you understand the implications, you probably actually don't understand them (since the system is complex) so you just shouldn't make changes at all.

Applied to this scenario, I am saying that the status quo is the result of prior people ignoring this advice and changing a complex system. So the actions in the article are more about correcting this bad change and reimplementing the original fence.

Original fence = smaller, limited Fed gov

New, Bad fence = expansive gov

So the timeline is

Fence #1 exists

Someone removes Fence #1 and builds Fence #2

Someone removes Fence #2, re-builds Fence #1 <--This is where we are today
If JavaScript is served from those domains, there may be something interesting. Or if data is submitted to the domains.
How would you make a test a specification?

I suppose you could do something like, enumerate every possible combination of inputs and check that some property holds for all of them. Or, maybe you could instead randomly select a number of combinations of inputs and check that a property holds for each of those random combinations, but that wouldn't be guaranteed to find the inputs for which the specification isn't satisfied.

I guess maybe if the test passed to the function to be tested, mock values, such that the function is effectively evaluated symbolically (where any branching that depends on the inputs to the function, would maybe have the mocked object specify what the result of the conditional should be, with different tests for different cases?) ?

Or.. Can you explain how you write tests such that they truly function as specifications?
You'd think there would be a service that informs you if any of your DNS servers are unregistered, let alone point to a server they shouldn't point to. What's more surprising to me is that every Fortune 1000 company, at the very least, hasn't either used that service or deployed such automated checks themselves, so that this wouldn't be an issue at all.
I agree that a commutation would have made much more sense.

But "always make sense" doesn't seem to be in Trumps OKRs...

That's mostly a symbolic difference though. The practical end result is the same
I'd guess salaries and such for all the devs and researchers make up a significant portion of the other half
There are many Christians who would happily to get in long arguments over which values are “clearly Christian.”

If you really want to understand, it’s not hard. It just requires making an honest effort to try, without judging. And that’s what stops people who don’t understand it. Try chatting with an LLM sometime about what it looks like from their perspective. Knowing it’s not a human makes it easier to avoid getting upset.
Faster pip installs: caching, bytecode compilation, and uv
Sorry, I don't understand this. They complied with legal requirements a couple of hours before obligated to do so.

Is my understanding of that situation wrong?
I'd imagine something as important as docking would go more like USB-C adoption. There will be a standard, but a powerful holdout will insist on their proprietary solution because it's "safer" or something. Meanwhile everyone is shouting at them to just use the standard, until it's finally enforced by legislation.

The difference is something like phone ports and docking are things which end users readily benefit from having interoperability, so it's a selling point and there's market pressure to conform. Factories are bespoke installations and they often run without major changes for many years at a time. There's less pressure for them to have interchangeability when they don't move and don't interact with each other.
This sounds like your disappointment is largely that HN has high volume behind political opinions which you disagree.

No.

It's that there's little opportunity for meaningful, substantial discussion in a form that moves discourse forward.

HN's guidelines are reasonable. Their application is lacking. And where discussion occurs on controversial subjects which challenge the status quo, one example of which is the current governance of the country in which HN operates, HN's guidelines actively handicap those arguing against power.

The fact that those with the advantage of power also tend strongly toward nonsubstantive, partisan rhetoric, inflammetory baiting, and gloating ... helps little.

My comparison isn't of HN against discussion at other sites. Again, HN is generally better though the bar is parlous low. There are some other smaller discussions which seem better managed, the most notable of which I'm aware is Metafilter, for reasons which may merit further exploration. There are reasons to believe that any sufficiently large discussion will tend to a minimum viable standard for reasons I've discussed for many years though scattered amongst many comments here and elsewhere, ultimately having to do with media theory, power laws, and group dynamics.

What the HN of the past three days does suggest is at least four years of distressingly poor discussion quality. I hope not longer than that, and if at possible, shorter.

As for news: I read / listen to news media to some extent. Many of those are exceptionally poor, and my results recently writing a parser for CNN's "lite" page give measurable assessment of that. My own media selection is generally left-centrist, and includes numerous non-US venues. I can assure you that the general take on the US is somewhere between disappointment, shock, and horror.
I'm a startup founder doing startup right now. I'm experiencing burnout, by which I mean, after half a year of working 6-7 days a week 10-16 hours a day I really needed an 8 hour workday to get my focus back. Specially after working non stop for two weeks for a demo for McDonald's with only 6hrs sleep per night and then two devices fried because of a messed up 5v connection so we missed the demo. Went to bed at 20:30 today because the startup hustle is real. No rest for the .. startup founders.

Want to have one day of 8hrs of work only so I'm fresh tomorrow to visit a car factory and to write two papers in the weekend.

I just started a relationship though, you do get used to the sensation of falling down a cliff trying to build a plane as you fall while eating glass and barely being able to walk out of exhaustion because it needs to be ready tomorrow so you're the only office on a Sunday night at 3am with the lights still burning while knowing that if you cannot borrow money within 4 days you cannot pay rent.

It's an acquired taste :)

I agree that SaaS is a dead end. I had a talk with two of our investors this week who run a SaaS company trying to convince me to stop hardware and go 100% to SaaS because it's such a great business model. But for that I think you're too late. The only new SaaS I consistently see people trying out are AI SaaS.

Because of that I'm doing SaaS with AI but combined with physical devices. I do think manufacturing is going to grow in the US and Europe, simply because factories need (way way) fewer people. Regardless of tariffs, protectionism, etc., the playing field has changed. Labor cost has become a tiny fraction of manufacturing cost. Offshoring makes no real sense anymore.

Therefore I make real physical AI, cameras and robots, to help people, well people and bigger people like McDonald's and car factories, build ultra-low-labor factories. That's what's going on in the US and in Europe right now, not SaaS. But the principle is the same: Startups just move to where the money / growth is.
I propose T-POT (Tensor Product attentiOn Transformer)
He’s got a lot more support than any other murderer I know about.
"My" instance of sqlite that they host?
> it was never real and no one was ever in danger.

Because one of the hitmen he hired was a scammer, and another was an FBI agent. Still clearly a crime to hire them for murder.

Ulbricht's right-hand-man Roger Thomas Clark, who was involved in one of the murder-for-hire conversations, admitted the conversation was real during his trial:

"In his own remarks, Clark didn't comment on that murder-for-hire conversation—which he at one point claimed had been fabricated by Ulbricht but later conceded was real."
Hey Gerald, It's Chris from the CACE days. Nice to hear from you. I see this is part of wireshark proper, I'll look into getting this into debian
But which word did he mean instead? It seems it should a synonym for "coterie".
Nice work and thank you for the write up! Part of me is wondering if your bot is talking to actual humans or other bots (albeit not as advanced) because it seems like they just continue pushing forward with their script as opposed to getting wary.

However, I watch a lot of scam baiting and I've seen a lot of them - even on a live phonecall - be told ridiculously outlandish statements that the scammer will gloss over and return to their script, so I'm not ruling out that it's still a real human...
"CBP remains dedicated to efficiently processing applicants for admission at U.S. ports of entry while upholding U.S. immigration laws."

To be kind, there are at least four typos in there.
And yet, almost every private PBX uses "9" as the magic "get an outside line" number. Which then if one is calling a "long distance" number, one's next digit is "1", and "9" followed by "1" is only one mis-dialed digit away from becoming a "911" call.

I.e., New York's original area code is 212, someone in CA, dialing "long distance" to New York needs to dial 9 1 212 xxx xxxx. One button off on the first "2" and they just made a call to 911.
Where is the solo founder startup thats up and running today where the non-technical founder used AI to generate all code and infrastructure?

You are precisely correct. However I use AI regularly to write what Ive come to call Nuisance Code, which is for example: I need a function to find the highest peak and lowest valley in this example stream of data points.

Can I do that? Sure I can do that. Will I have to think about it for a minute and fire up the debugger here and there, drop a few log print statements to get it running? You bet I will. Will I have to dig around in my memory for the last time I did a thing like this, oh yeah.

Can I tell AI what my stream of data looks like, tell it I want a list of peaks and valleys in the data, get some code and run it the first time, today? Yes I can.

Someone is always going to have to break the ask down into discrete logical units for implementation then precisely describe that work. This person is always going to be a developer.
I do, for some hosts I'm to lazy to setup DNS validation and which are services which are not HTTP-based, but still use TLS/SSL (so no exposed 80/443 to the web).

It's nice to get reminded of the expiring cert and it takes me every 3 months like 5min to renew the cert for 2-3 hosts. To lazy to automate me 15mins.
That argument doesn't have any validity taking in consideration that it was still illegal to sell drugs online. In another words; legally it doesn't mean anything that it was safer to sell drugs online than it is on the streets, both are illegal. I have no sympathy for such "noble" entrepreneurs.
> the relationship between lobbying and the ability of groups to spend unlimited money influencing politicians

The point is this lobbying wouldn’t have been restricted by anything Citizens touched. OpenAI isn’t giving money to a PAC, it’s buying bog-standard lobbying hours. This is an adjacent but nevertheless separate issue.
Norman Foster's Empire of Image Control
https://archive.ph/YZ9dK
He'd be 8 when he made the Twitter account, not when he discovered that exploit. Pretty sure there are tons of 8yos with Twitter accounts.
Not really. Plant Vogtle in Georgia was way over budget and still was "only" $35bn. $500bn could get you 14 of those.
Flake8 and Black would never have matched the performance of a Rust-based tool, even if they had 10 years of dedicated focus.
> I'm too old to get excited or upset every time people decide that a trend line must continue to infinity.

Yeah. People talk about the Japan of the 80s, you don't hear so much about the Japan of the 90s - "the lost decade" outside of economic circles. I'm sure China has no interest in repeating that!
$TRUMP Meme Coin Is Already Blowing Up in Everyone's Faces
That is not true. Look up the definition of doomscrolling and most sources (e.g. wikipedia) will say that it tends to be negative content.
Money is definitionally power. Its sole purpose is to convince other people to do things you want them to do. Thats what power is.

There are other sources of power besides money, but money is definitely one kind.

Consider Twitter. Musk managed to get institutions to put up a fabulous amount of money, but he still had to pay a massive amount himself. If he had $1,000 in the bank and nothing else, that deal would never have happened. Heck, even with $1 billion it wouldn’t have happened. As it was, he got to take a couple dozen billion units of monetary power and convert them into massive non-monetary power.
If you're into this, you might enjoy the Opal Hunters show on Max.
Consider that his position might be more profound than you considered it to be.

Mine is. It's about incentives.
Now you can take it from there, and at least in my interpretation the rest of your rebuttal falls apart.

There is absolutely no equivalency to slavery. That is simply dishonest. Slaves didn't choose to be slaves.
Do students who take on debt have no agency whatsoever to you?
Did the people who paid such debts had no agency when paying?
TikTok owner ByteDance plans to spend $12B on AI chips in 2025
Definitely a possibility - hopefully AI will similarly empower creation of better content instead of AI slop noise.

In fact I wonder if Claude.ai could come up with similar CPU teaching tools and a syllabus based on some of the great resources linked in this discussion.