skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But then won't you get a bunch of things that have tons of fine print that no one reads that say do not use it for these purposes. Then have users use them for those purposes harming others?
Sounds intriguing. I know broad strokes about the plot but it sounds like the tension aspect is pretty cool. Definetly watching it tonight
So what as normies can we do about this? Boycott air travel? Write congress? I'm seriously considering postponing any upcoming air travel. If a core component of safe air travel is antiquated and lacking in resources then it seems incredibly foolish to risk our lives any further taking this form of transportation.
A later article by the same author: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/leader-alleged-bay-ar.... Probably makes sense to read both or neither.
I don't see how this will work. You need to launch through the entire atmosphere and still end up with orbital velocity. The only acceleration happens at the beginning so you must launch at speeds much higher than orbital speeds. Which in turn means heating will be insanely high as your highest speed is going to be at the highest drag. The satellite will heat up a lot more than one simply re-entering. Meaning a totally different design or a bulky fairing. Because sats aren't made to withstand that kind of heat. Also yes the forces will be extreme. They seem to be going for the fairing, but how does that reenter then?

I just don't see this happening tbh.

Besides, with spacex and reusability launch capacity is already more available and cheap enough than humanity needs.
So basically useless in winter above 60 degrees latitude, when and where it would be most needed: sun is up only a few hours per day, and only one or two of those hours get 100W per square meter on a clear day.
Nah, Europeans don’t say „gosh”, „gosh” is the annoying American way to avoid saying „god”.
> or "the car did it".

Tesla gives you the old with the new.
It’s not about stripping shareholder rights—it’s about understanding what you’re buying. In the Moelis case, it was clear from the start that the company was founder-controlled. No one was misled. Investors had full transparency and chose to buy in with that structure in place.

Shareholders absolutely have rights, but those rights depend on the governance structure they agreed to when they invested. If you buy non-voting shares or shares in a dual-class structure, you don’t get to retroactively demand different terms. The market offers plenty of companies with traditional governance—if that’s a priority, investors are free to choose them.

The real question is: should courts be rewriting corporate structures after the fact, overriding agreements that were clear from day one?
> The comment about an "email chain could have been a 30-second chit chat" is such a straw-man argument.

I imagine them hardly holding back laughter when they say it. It's such a bogus straw-man they have to know it makes them look stupid. If in-person communication was such a great boon for the company how much had they invested in the last 3 years in travel budgets for teams, to meet in person? Nothing? Even lowered it? Well, there you go, that explains exactly that's a completely bogus claim.
The judge vetoed a pay packed designed by directors who were not independent of Musk.

Musk was just sloppy and greedy. He could have got it if he had acted within the law, but then he probably wouldn't have gotten as much.
This is a perfectly ignorant post.

CEO: I agree to the plan
Shareholders: I agree to the plan
Board: I agree to the plan

Random judge: I don't!

Disallowing adults of sane mind from coming to mutually beneficial agreements and a judge can just throw it out because they don't like the guy is like setting off a nuclear bomb in regards to the rule of law.

Abuses of the legal system like this are why we can't have nice things, and this is only one example, see: medicine.
It's unclear whether this applies to state law enforcement or only the citizenship. It also seems to focus not on "invalidating the defense" but on "punishing the developers" which is more than a little weird.
What if the error was more descriptive out of the box? Unless of course the goal is to just compete with C++ error reporting.
In what way is this supposed to be a relevant detail? Unless you think that they are killing people because they are trans, why should you report that they are part of a marginalized group? If they were mostly blondes or had freckles, should that be part of the story too?
Where did I say that I'm not socially active? I explicitly said that I'm not cowering inside afraid of the world. I just take precautions, and added precautions during spikes in seasonal viruses.

Maybe my immune system is just not that great, and covid has taught me it doesn't have to mean guaranteed illness so many times a year. I do mask when appropriate. I don't mask when the risk is low. How am I not socially active?? Forget it, you don't know me at all.
How are they major? Phrases like "I am going to the movies" and "I going to the movies" are effectively identical to an LLM. This is fundamental to how an LLM works.
It's not in any sort of format to do this kind of analysis unfortunately. I'm also missing some data b/c I throw away certain kinds of datasets that are not useful for me. I can probably write some scripts to diff my archives with the current data.gov and see what's missing, but it won't be "complete". But it might still be useful...

I did however just write a Python script to pull data.gov from archive.org and check the dataset count on the front page for all of 2024, here are the results:

https://postimg.cc/1V0WYtRt

As you can see, there were multiple drops on the order of ~10,000 during 2024. So it's not that unusual. There could be something bad going on right now, but just from the numbers I can't conclude that yet.

(Specifically it takes the first snapshot of every Wednesday of 2024).

If I get around to re-formatting my archives this week, I'll follow up on HN :).
Plus you can save some money by reusing ram or m2 ssds th you already have.
> Swift can’t evolve or even exist without Apple and so unless you’re Apple, then Swift is too great of a risk.

I'm not sure what you're saying here. It's Apache licensed so you can just fork it. It's got pretty active development and a whole lot of software developers that use it-- if Apple decides to somehow lock down the repo and stop accepting PRs, what's stopping a group of developers from just making their own branch? It's got non-Apple cross-platform GUI frameworks, good support in editors... Sure it's 100% not as good off of Apple systems but I'm not sure what they'd be expected to do MORE than open it up with an Apache license?

And OmniSharp works just fine in VSCode from what I see. What am I missing?
>If you ask folk they'll tell you Health Care is too expensive. But equally they'll push back on any approach to make it cheaper

As a game developer: people are great at telling you what's wrong in their experience. They are awful at giving solutions.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was a similar thing here. There's another phenomenon where lowering speed limits is an unpopular decision. But once it's made almost all complaints disappear in a few months. I think this is one of the cases where we just need to do it and deal with any fallout as it comes.

>Corporations having power is completely because we give them power

Not necessarily. Especially not for Healthcare. That's an industry of people leaving the consumer almost completely in the dark and having businesses battle with businesses in how much money they can extract or save. And it's not the kind of thing you can just cancel and find a competitor for.

In other cases I feel many are frustrated. But most aren't frustrated enough to give up concinience nor security. So yes, we do give powerto Musk, to Zuckerberg, etc. Those are in our control but nothing has hit at a scale to really hurt them.
The government already pays the airlines to keep services alive where it's not profitable. Airlines have even less incentives to take responsibility for ATC staffing.
Please come in Belgium, there are places where you can see code in Dutch, French and Englis within the same file. I suppose you even should be able to find code with some additional German in it..
SpinLaunch built a prototype back in 2022 that can throw stuff up to suborbital altitudes. The big version was supposed to be done by now.
They had a lot of trouble finding a launch site. Hawaii didn't like it. Alaska didn't like it. Australia was discussed but nothing happened.[1]

This might be useful if there were space stations that needed large, frequent deliveries of fuel, air, and water.

[1] https://thespacebucket.com/what-happened-to-spinlaunch-its-p...
LLM posts I just skip
However I'm tired of another posting type , fortunately they just about always end up dead
Video takes up almost all of the bitrate/CPU time/ASIC budget, audio is a rounding error.

Server CPUs can encode audio at hundreds of times faster than realtime so there’s no need for hardware acceleration. Back in the iPod era DSPs were used to decode MP3/AAC but now only the most CPU or battery constrained devices like AirPods need hardware acceleration.
Love and purpose
That's an insane standard. Your work has real-world consequences, act accordingly.
I hate people always raging on Windows, but I love that they embraced .Net and C#. Windows outside of its cost has a more advanced kernel, note WSL1.
Correction: they’re both owned by Verizon
Yeah, but the actual UI you use on a day to day basis dozens of times a day got worse. Context clicks, the start menu, etc. Something like Notepad I imagine most people either never use or immediately replace with something drastically better like Notepad++. Small improvements in the corners don't make up for the dump in the middle of the room.
It also mentions Dropbox.
If you’re driving a self-driving car, you can’t blame it on the car.
Wouldn't that broad statement also apply to malware or other malicious software development practices?
Thank God, civil lawsuits can save us from AI overuse since the government has reversed their position.
The audio data is miniscule compared to the video data, and the size of it is tied to the video quality level. And everything is streamed in chunks. It'd only amount to milliseconds of extra buffering.
Railguns have always suffered from rail degradation.

Basically even if you build a suitably large one, you might get as few as 1 shots from the structure before having to replace the entire rail.
i’ve seen so many posts about this on HN i can’t help but wonder if it’s a recruiting drive…
I'm not sure I understand your comment. ATC is paid - they receive on-the-job training. College degrees specializing in ATC are not required.
I appreciate your engagement, and I don't really have a plan myself to address these problems, but I don't really know what to do with "Socialism" as a recommendation. Care to elaborate what you think I, or anyone should do or advocate for more concretely?

The reason I mentioned competition is that, even under a complete command economy, there is still internal competition for control, which I think would still lead to human disempowerment eventually for similar reasons. Though probably on a longer time scale, which might still be a win. The only way to avoid being outcompeted is to have a total state ruled by something sufficiently agentic to resist all attempts to even adjust its policies. Which sounds terrifying and hard to get right on the first try.
Interesting, thank you. I'll keep this in mind.
There's dozens of distros of Linux, and they're all pretty good. (A handy skill to develop would be getting comfortable with installing and trying news ones -- because then you don't have to feel stuck.)

I've heard Linux Mint is an easy choice for beginners hoping to get comfortable and familiar with Linux.
Hi! Tool author here.

Almost every single open source compression tool contains a clause like this. For example, the one in the README that you see has been directly lifted from the bzip2 README. Almost all open source projects come with such a no-warranty scheme. 7-Zip, zstandard, xz-utils, etc; as exemplified by a quote from the license text of the MIT license:

> THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

If you were willing to sign a commercial support contract with me on terms that we negotiated, I would be willing to provide you warranty.

If you were not aware, this is essentially the business model of WinRAR. The reason why tools like 7-Zip are not used by the public sector or companies (at least here) is that they provide no warranty in case of data loss. However, if you actually buy WinRAR, then you can hold them liable for damage to your archives. The "infinite 40 day trial" of WinRAR does not entitle you to compensation for damages and thus corporate entities and public entities have to buy WinRAR licenses. WinRAR has never cared about personal customers.

In general, having to cope with mild reliability of software is what you have to live with - you already get more than you paid for. Not to say that my tool is unreliable - I put a lot of effort into it, but it would put you in bad light to complain about something that you generously received for free :).
Yes, I am -- but, admittedly, not only on HN. There's far too much of that stuff everywhere on the Internet nowadays. So, OK, to the extent that HN is supposed to be a reflection of the larger 'Net... But is it, really? I'd say not: It's supposed to separate the wheat from the chaff. And there's too much "AI" / LLM stuff, both elsewhere and here, for it all to be wheat.

(Side note on usage: Dunno whether OP is a native English speaker or not, but I think I would have put that as "Are you tired of all the LLM posts on HN?" Yes, it's only a tiny definite article -- but idiomatically, it changes the meaning from an absolute "Are you tired of each and every LLM post on HN?" to a more general-collective "Are you tired of the huge amount of LLM posts on HN?". And isn't that really what we're tired of? There might still be some few of them we could tolerate.)
One sense of feature flag that I am familiar with (not from experience) is in trunk based development where they are used to integrate new code (with a feature flag) which is relatively untested. Or just not fully developed. That’s an alternative to longer-lived feature branches which are only merged until it is either fully finished or (going further) fully tested. Hard-coding that kind of feature flag makes sense. Because a later revision will delete the feature flags outright (removing the branches).

There also seems to be feature flags in the sense of toggling on and off features. Then hard-coding makes less sense.
It was a $0 pay package when it was granted, while the Tesla market cap was ~$50B. It's now worth $100B because Tesla's market cap is $1.2 trillion. That's how stock options work. It was a 12% allocation, in the form of stock option grants to the CEO that were gated on some extremely high performance metrics.

He hit most (all?) of those metrics, and as a result Tesla is now among the most valuable companies in the world. Shareholders have gotten a 2800% return on their investment from 2018. In exchange for a 12% dilution in their shares. 12% in new options is on the high end for an executive pay package, but not unheard of. It is only because of the massive success of Tesla under his leadership that this is even an issue.

Shareholders got a good deal.
"No one was mislead, I told him I 'd kill him if he slept with my wife, he knew what he was getting himself into to, he was free to choose."
Thanks. Yeah, I can see how that would make more sense if BWT was redundant under a theoretically perfect Huffman compression, but it happens to pick up some things that real-world Huffman encoders don't, with their practical limits on CPU and memory.
I agree, verschlimmbesserung...

- "The German word "Verschlimmbesserung" is a compound noun that combines "verschlimmern" (to make worse) and "verbessern" (to improve). It refers to a situation where an attempt to improve something unintentionally makes it worse. This term is often used humorously or critically to describe well-intentioned actions or changes that backfire and lead to negative outcomes instead of the desired improvements"
Or what if they were rationalists? Would they include that in the headline?
Yeah, not sure what the original commenter is complaining about. I did "git clone https://github.com/facebook/zstd", "cd zstd", "make" and have a working binary. Doesn't get easier than that.
Thank you. I have an old MacBook Air. I'll look into this.
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You can blame it on a car even if the car is not self-driving
>Are we to agree the parties and their PR mouth pieces do not speak for the people?

Perhaps. But they sure do do a great job rallying people as well. So... I will blame the voters when they unironically fall for it.
That people continue to use ORACLE products is one of those misteries I can not understand for much thought that I put into it.
Why exactly would you want to haul electricity using a truck a rather than wires exactly?

PEV’s are often more convenient and cheaper to use on a work site than diesel and are actually being adopted for that reason, it’s hydrogen that’s lacking distribution infrastructure.
Accountability hacking: https://www.motortrend.com/news/nhtsa-tesla-autopilot-invest...
It seems as if the group targeted trans member in their recruitment - and then used evidence of general marginalization to justify their crimes.

If you look up old reddit threads about the murder of the landlord, you can see many people defending the crime as the landlord was transphobic. It's not just a random detail like freckles, it seems like the identity shaped the way this group interacted with the world.
The evidence of RF causing gene mutation is not conclusive.
the parallel with the Nazis for me is the building of it on foreign soil instead of somewhere with judicial oversight - even while they own the supreme court and Congress.

that and the Nazi salute at the inauguration.
Fixed, thanks. But still not an exodus.
Marginalized groups seem to be a target / susceptible to this kind of thing.

I had a weird encounter on reddit with some users who expressed that "only X people understand how this character in the movie feels". Interestingly, there was no indication that the movie intended this interpenetration. But the idea wasn't unusual or all that out there so I didn't think much of it. But that group showed up again and again and eventually someone asked and their theory all but seemed to imply that nobody else could possibly have ... feelings and that lack of understanding made those people lesser and them greater.

It seemed to come from some concept that their experience imparted some unique understanding that nobody else could have, and that just lead down a path that lead to zero empathy / understanding with anyone outside.

Reddit encounters are always hard to understand IMO so I don't want to read too much into it, but that isolation that some people / groups feel seem to potentially lead to dark places very easily / quickly.
On the other hand, “the corporation did it” has been pretty successful so far