skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I look at cases like this, I think about it from the perspective of the investor who is suing:

1. Were you aware that the stock you were buying was founder-controlled? In the Moelis case, this was fully disclosed to shareholders.

2. In a free market, shouldn’t investors be able to decide for themselves whether founder-controlled companies offer better returns—and invest accordingly? There are plenty of companies with traditional governance structures for those who prefer them.

3. If you own one share with one vote, should that give you the power to dictate the corporate structure for everyone else?

I completely agree that shareholder protections matter. The question is whether these lawsuits are really about protecting shareholders—or if they’re more about generating profits for attorneys through litigation.

Ultimately, the market provides options. We have 50 states, each with the ability to set its own corporate governance laws. Companies aren’t locked into one approach—they can choose the legal framework that best aligns with their needs. Delaware has long been the preferred choice, but as its legal environment shifts, states like Nevada, with their statute-driven approach, may become more attractive for businesses looking for stability. Competition among states is a feature of the system, not a flaw.
Also, list alternatives that don't push AI on you.
Verbosity. That's..... yap-ple!
Not in Delaware where corporations base themselves precisely because the rules are lax.
Wow! Only $2k with no quantization.

hit between 4.25 to 3.5 TPS (tokens per second) on the Q4 671b full model
Immaterial. It's not like people live in Delaware, corps do.
My Windows rule-of-thumb is "Upgrade every other release." It served me well in the past when avoiding several weird Microsoft fads/features they love to cram into those 'cursed' releases.

98 -> XP, skip ME (to be fair, this window of releases was chaotic)

XP -> 7, skip Vista.

7 -> 10, skip 8.

However these days I only use Windows for games, and Valve is making inroads into that environment. Windows 10 might be my last Windows version.

> folks are completely unaware at how antiquated their OS is at this point.

This release cycle is stretched far beyond Microsoft's historical cadence. For comparison, 7 released in 2009, 8 in 2012, and 10 in 2015. Compare that to the 2021 release of 11. The last time Windows had that long of a release cycle was the XP (2001) to Vista (2007) cycle. That era was plagued with development issues and gave rise to the very long XP deployments that Microsoft struggled to escape as well.

It's not that it's 'old' that bothers me, but more like Microsoft doesn't give me a good reason for upgrading despite the long cycle. Microsoft's decades long obsession with "Appifying" their OS, their wavering commitment to Windows prompting Valve to invest in alternative OS development, the "Microsoft Account" to log in fiasco, the botched AI rollouts (plural!), turning all of their applications into subscription webapps, the list seems to grow every quarter.

It's not all bad. WSL is the single best thing Microsoft did in the last decade, and maybe ever! It single-handedly caused me to upgrade from 7 to 10 Pro for Hypervisor support. For a long time WSL + Windows was my primary development box. If I were in charge of Windows, I would double-down on WSL and begin the arduous process of moving the Kernel from NT to Linux (or BSD, etc etc). Windows would then become an application layer with paid business support rather than core development. I would drive ports of popular programs and invest in stuff like Mono and Wine for supporting the long-tail of applications. It would also fit with Microsoft's decades long strategy of Windows being the OS for multiple PC and hardware manufacturers, but shifting the revenue focus from OS sales to their App store and subscriptions.
Java the language is conservative by design. They always are the last mover for language changes on purpose. They feel that it allows them to make better decisions and they don’t have to adopt bad ideas until other languages try them out.
And the military traffic controllers were not ready for civilian traffic
> What I don't get isn't the benefits of BWT on its own. It's why BWT should add any additional benefit if you're already doing Huffman.

Ahhhh. Now we're on the same page. :) Seeing how it helps when combined is somewhat subtle/non-obvious. I believe it relates to BWT and Huffman both being approximations of something more optimal. The two transforms could also have different window sizes -- one rarely does BWT on a whole 1GB file -- which introduce inefficiencies. Huffman coding is also only optimal in the very large alphabet and very long data limits. As your data length and alphabet size decrease, it gets less optimal.

Put differently, "I think that's a wonderfully phrased question, this _is_ my specialization/subfield, and I'm gonna need to chew on it for a while."
The Ziz method of indoctrination involves convincing his minions they are trapped inside a mental framework they need to break free of. Trans people already feel trapped in a body not aligned with who they are, and are naturally susceptible to this message (and therefore natural targets for recruitment).
depends what you're doing. If you're using ChatGPT via the UI for a one off question, sure. If you're prompting an LLM that is doing a critical task in production millions of times, minor improvements can have significant benefit
But then after that ruling the Delaware legislature changed the law, so it seems like the “awkward questions” you allude to have been mooted?
I found some books which are available from dozens of online bookshops but which are not in this visualisation. Perhaps they're not yet in any library that feeds into worldcat.org, though some of them were about five years old.
do you remember who was the 'top GNOME developer'?
So many words to say: spaceX clean up your sh*t. It's fair ask. But it's also spreading "concerns" with little justification to do reputational damage to a public figure.
When did you start to notice things were getting 'better'? Was it sudden (because of those psychoactive perhaps), or did it take a while?
Out of curiosity - do you have an estimate on how much you've spent on various LLM API services through all of your experimentation?

And in your experience, what service do you feel hits a good sweet spot for performance/price if summarizing long text excerpts is the main use case? Inference time isn't an issue, this will be an ongoing background task.
The biggest delta over regular o1 that I've seen is asking it to make a PRD of an app that I define as a stream-of-consciousness with bullet points.

It's fantastic at finding needles in the haystack, so the contradictions are nonexistent. In other words, it seems to identify which objects would interrelate and builds around those nodes, where o1 seems to think more in "columns."

To sum it up, where o1 feels like "5 human minute thinking," o1-pro feels like "1 human hour thinking"
>what do we do? Wait until they die?

To be frank, yes. Arguing with most single individuals is pointless anyway. If we were able to focus these conversations on congress we'd be in much better shape.

>What about the generations they’re radicalizing after them?

You have time to stop them. It's just scientific fact that younger brains are more malleable and open to information. It won't always work, but there is some hope there.

>There is no consensus because there is very little left to strive for in the eyes of the average citizen.

Maybe we shouldn't have let a few hundred rich guys beat us in an argument about Healthcare. Which is a bipartisan issue but they divide us with politics.
> Concentration camps have been operated by many regimes, not just the nazis. That equation is in your head.

They may been operated by hundreds of regimes, but the term is 100% identified with Nazis now. It's a rather daft statement to say that these are not equated.
Yeah a lot of the faculty is surprised I don't want to pursue academia. I absolutely love research and I actually like teaching (and my students really like my teaching style too[0]). Grants I can with but yeah it sucks. Why I won't do it though is all the politics. The admins hired to take care of all the bureaucracy just make things take longer as you need to ask approval for things but can't do so through a direct line of communication so it takes all day. I just get nothing done and am having so many interruptions you can't settle into deep work

[0] funny story. My advisor is kinda lazy so pushed it off to me. But he didn't always show up. But he would teach sometimes because the department would get mad if he didn't (politics). But when it'd be just me the student in the front would nervously ask "is it just you?" And when I'd say yes they all relax and get excited lol
Not sarcastic at all. it just doesn't seem like a big deal if you have played with LLMs and realize just how much LLMs know. The double reflection paper is not particularly obscure. (Incidentally I just asked Claude a couple of weeks ago about implementing rotation-minimizing frames!)
Website for USAID appears to be offline
Just an update:

I switched out the 'TOSLINK' over to a standard coax and the sound is much better - not on par with the Recon 3D card, but it's an improvement. I am using some Logitech speakers and not headphones.
It's only significant if they sell in big numbers, preferably on a level playing field.
I have never read or heard the rules are lax. What they are is consistent and have a large amount of precedence and case law behind them.
You seem to be reducing corporate governance to "caveat emptor".

Why should shareholders be stripped or their rights? If you sell shares to others they should have the rights of owners such as votes on board members.
Does it matter where people want to live? Can’t you have all people working in Texas and still incorporate at your company mailbox in Delaware?
Good idea. I checked it out and nothing stands out.
> but I do have a problem with Trump and a lot of other people using the term America or American to refer solely to the United States. That is not what the term means and that's not the name of our country.

You're conflating America with the Americas.

The Americas is the collective name of the continents.

America is just shorthand for the United States of America.

Just like Mexico is shorthand for its official name, the United Mexican States.

And there's no confusion because there's basically never any situation where somebody wants to refer themselves as an inhabitant of the Americas, the same way nobody calls themselves Eurasian. It's too large an area to be useful. It's two continents (in most cultures). Geographically at the largest scale, people tend to refer to themselves as North Americans, South Americans, Latin Americans, and so forth.
Depends on where you live. The average in San Francisco is $0.29 per kWh.
These are all good points about our use of language, thanks for the feedback.

Maybe "disempowerment" is a bit of a red herring, or a misleading problem to focus on. The reason we didn't spend more time on clarifying that is that we're just using it to gesture towards a different set of mechanisms that lead to extinction-like outcomes than usual. So even if you think our definition of empowerment is poor, or that empowerment isn't a great goal - that's kind of OK.

The thing we want to emphasize is that right now there are some mechanisms that steer our civilization towards keeping us alive, and free in some senses, that might stop operating. Though I take your point in the last paragraph that this might not change things much specifically regarding the implicitly empowering forces. We'll think about this one some more!
Indeed the error report being complained about explains this and tells you how to fix it.

Maybe the friendly default would be to have the symbolicated reports on, but perhaps this has performance impact so it’s off.
Crazy amazing RF chip; dunno if anyone else is keeping pace with their, especially at such high levels of integration.

> with production shipments expected to begin in the first half of 2027.

Whoa, that feels wildly far off.
We did this. Two tables. One for feature flags, with name, desc, id, enum (none, defaultToEnabled, overrideToDisabled). One for user flag overrides, with flagId, userId, enum (enabled, disabled).

The combination of these two has been all we've ever needed. User segmentation, A/B testing, pilot soft launch etc are all easy.
Most people don't want to be angry. But it's easy to be angry in times like this, and people just need to point to a target to justify the anger.

The answer is to ignore the theater and focus on improving lives anyway. The few truly hateful ones will be resolved quickly once people aren't worrying about rent, groceries, and making a living wage.
Counterpoint to your exact prompt. From Gemini, 5 examples asked for:

1. *Antitrust and Monopoly Practices:* Google has faced numerous accusations and lawsuits regarding anti-competitive practices, particularly in search and advertising. They have been accused of manipulating search results to favor their own products and services, and of using their dominance in the ad tech market to stifle competition.

2. *Data Privacy Concerns:* Google collects vast amounts of user data, raising concerns about privacy. They have been criticized for tracking user location even when privacy settings are turned off, and for how they handle and share user data with third parties.

3. *Censorship in China:* Google faced criticism for complying with Chinese censorship laws in the past, filtering search results for content deemed objectionable by the Chinese government. This raised concerns about freedom of information and human rights.

4. *Workplace Issues:* Google has faced allegations of workplace misconduct, including sexual harassment and discrimination. They have also been criticized for their handling of employee complaints and for retaliating against whistleblowers.

5. *Bias in Algorithms:* Google's algorithms, used in search and other products, have been shown to exhibit bias, particularly in how they represent race and gender. This can perpetuate stereotypes and have real-world consequences.
Transgender technology cult that kills people somehow doesn't seem "rationalist" to me but who am I to judge.
Ah that’s a super nice feature. I’m mostly familiar with AWS who don’t have a neat way of doing this, you end up with a bespoke solution either with lambdas pushing to shared volumes or just polling s3 for updates.
The country is spelled Colombia.
Well they haven't. It's one group of fewer than 10 people, considerably removed from "the rationalists" as this point.
We do not know what Elon Musk is doing to the federal government
i think it was a feature on the modernHN extension, it was behind the paywall though
Put yourself in Drew Houstons position. You are running Dropbox. Do you want to spend your time navigating legal uncertainty—or focusing on your business?

This isn’t just one case. First, it was Musk’s pay package. Now, it’s TripAdvisor. What comes next? Each ruling seems to reshape long-standing corporate governance norms.

And when that happens, how long will it take Delaware to provide clarity? How much will companies and shareholders spend on legal fees while they wait?

Also who does this all benefit except for plaintiff-litigation attorneys?
Oh thanks, I didn't realize. Though, reading that paper, I should have known! Obvious in hind-site that at least some math was going on beforehand.
If you regularly struggle with your subconscious working against you, I recommend combat sports or rock climbing.

When there’s a punch coming straight for your face or you look down to see a long fall below you your mind has little choice but to pull itself together.
> This is nothing short of a stealth layoff

Absolutely. They should just stop pretending. They know they are lying as they say it's all about collaborating closer and communication. The workers know they are lying. They workers know the leaders know they are lying. But it's still not allowed to be acknowledged publicly.

If it really was all about collaboration and communication this would be uniformly enforced as much as possible globally and the budget to travel and in-person meetups for teams would have been greatly increased. If neither one of those is happening, it's just too obvious.
They are being manipulated into thinking it's the illegals fault. When we solve problems you'd be surprised how many people stop pointing fingers.
> We could be called America if we want but someone would have to propose a name change

Who proposed the name change from "tissue paper" to "kleenex"?
I hope when they mean AI developers, it means the owners of the IP, and not the actual devs working on it.
That is because Kevin Buzzard does not think they are yet useful at all!
That sentence was slightly awkward, the hotel clerk reported that those two people were in tactical gear with guns.
Rationality without morality is pretty dangerous, thats for sure, its trivial for a skilled smart manipulator to lead folks into pretty dark places while still feeling superior.

And then there's a non-trivial amount of properly crazy folks who think they are absolutely fine and behaving very rationally, their own version of reality and universe in their head is impenetrable. Psychiatrists have stories to tell, but either can't share or folks prefer not listening such things (same goes for most doctors, ambulance drivers etc.)
Does it support largest Deepseek model ?
Not a new question: "the AI did it" is an equivalent of "the gun did it" or "the car did it".
> then turned around and said you would indeed be offended if someone used the wrong one.

You need to go read my comments again because I literally said no such thing.
This bill sucks, a developer should never be held accountable for software they work on or produce.
Tim is a unicorn.
Tesla's and Twitter's sales trajectories suggests otherwise. So does the billions wasted on the Metaverse.

If you want technological and social progress, letting a handful of thin-skinned petulant boy kings run around having mad ideas without oversight isn't the direction you want to go in.
miguel de icaza
Well, we'll see what the courts do - and maybe more importantly - what the people on the street do when/if it starts affecting their lives.

I'm not a legal scholar, but I'm going to guess that saying "congress appropriates money, but the President can decide if they actually get it" is a pretty fringe idea.
"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision" - IBM 1979
It just wasn't worth that much to begin with.
> This bill would prohibit a defendant that developed or used artificial intelligence, as defined, from asserting a defense that the artificial intelligence autonomously caused the harm to the plaintiff.

I am not sure the distinction matters?
With religion I think we largely just go with "this is what the group identifies themselves with / as" and leave it as that.

Arguably the politically active "religious right" in the US has long since abandoned most everything Jesus had to offer. We still identify them as such.
You're obviously a great legal scholar. Did you read the ruling?

The "passed the package again" tried to resurrect the original incentive payments, retroactively. That was disallowed.
How do environment variables help? You still need something that knows what values to set the env vars to.
> That is not what the term means

I disagree about that specific point. It’s one of the meanings of “America”, and is used that way throughout the world. From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/America:

1 either continent (North America or South America) of the western hemisphere

2 or the Americas the lands of the western hemisphere including North, Central, and South America and the West Indies

3 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Similarly in Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/America#Proper_noun

“In English, the unqualified term "America" often refers to the United States of America as a synecdoche, with "American" typically referring to people and things from that country. […]”

Regarding the gulf naming, “Gulf of North America” would seem somewhat appropriate, if a mouthful.
Probably talking about Miguel de Icaza. I think his history is wrong though. I don't recall any talk of rewriting GNOME in C# - they were all about their pet language Vala.

And Miguel started Mono way before Microsoft made C# cross-platform. At that point they were antagonists.
Lost me in the last section.

Debating Elon's salute and Trump's Fascism is the biggest dopa there is. Millions are addicted to it.

I wish there was more discussion about creating alternatives vs reinforcement of the loop.
I bet this wasn't denying access to books outside the curriculum because they're bad influence or something - it was merely about making sure they did also read the books assigned to them by the school. It actually looks like following standard productivity advice - eliminating distraction. The kid could go back to reading whatever after the required job was done.
"S.M.A.R.T" goals - applicable to strikes too... The sort of detail that separates competent labor organizers from mere agitators.
Thanks for the insight, I’ll take a look at those people.
> My reasoning is this. If you know someone else's information you can pretend to be them to vote.

That's a fair call out. I was addressing the concerns you brought up in the first comment, this is a different concern and requires a different response.

I understand the concern and don't have a response right now. I am curious as to if you have data to indicate the amount of found fraud of this style. My gut feel is that it's an inconsequential amount of fraud, but that's just a gut feeling.

> Seriously, is it really that hard to just ask for ID when voting? I support giving ID cards for free, I support making voting day a national holiday or forcing it to be on a Saturday or Sunday when everyone is off.

Would you be for eliminating voter registration and have it be "If you have a ID, you can vote"?

Also, not everyone is off on Saturdays or Sundays. There are plenty of people that work weekends and still should be allowed to vote. Sadly there are a fair number of folks that work 7 days a week.
Ubuntu is fine. It supports a lot of hardware. Many things work out of box.
Even as I read _just_ the title of this post, I felt certain the author and I would strongly agree on some key things.

I'm less interested in things that can be found in the DSM-V than it seems most of my english-speaking peers are, but things that can be called "adhd" make me always wonder what childhood emotional neglect and emotional abuse that person experienced. for instance, 'spankings', if ever a part of one's experience, is also known as 'adults hitting children' or 'assault of child by adult'. It can extinguish parts of one self that would otherwise be accessible.

A little while ago I read an excellent book about punishment. [0] Might be helpful/instrumental to others in the same way it was interesting to me. (I have more first-hand experience than I wish I'd had with evangelicals of the exact flavor described in the book. Was raised by some of them.)

[0]: [Spare the Child: The Religious Roots of Punishment and the Psychological Impact of Physical Abuse](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1335495)
after a certain point about 6 months ago, I made a ublock origin filter that excludes all of those posts, just got too annoying for me personally
Hemisphere is a half of a sphere, typically we speak about northern and southern hemispheres in context such as the winter and summer being flipped depending on the hemisphere, or the Coriolis Effect etc. At first I thought you refer to America as a hemisphere, because you could divide Earth into two such hemispheres, sharing poles, that one of them is dominated by Americas (land-wise). But then you say "Columbia is also a term to refer to this hemisphere" and I'm lost. I googled "Columbia hemispheres" and couldn't find anything interesting.