skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's weird and misleading to describe money he never received and will never receive as "undisclosed compensation".

That's literally just basic accounting. If you are required to report all compensation someone earns and they get $100k salary, $100k bonus, and you put $800k into a retirement account with their name on it - you can't say they only made $200k last year. They only reason he will never receive this undisclosed compensation is because the plot and the blatant illegality was discovered.

And lol, of course his is using the pilfered funds to setup his son in Silicon Valley where he worked for Joe Lonsdale.

https://archive.is/ijY1o
Small, Light, Robust Phones for a Type 1 Diabetic Child
I wonder how much bandwidth YouTube would save if a sizable amount of sites followed the advice.
Old habit from where? Is this a personal preference or a lesser known convention?
I agree data visualization be used for emotional manipulation. But that is unethical. Dressing up rhetoric in the trappings of science is one of the many reasons science has lost tons of credibility in the last 20 years.

Charts should be about hard data, not rhetoric.
I think obscuring details to foment emotion is lying regardless of what the chart is about.
> Sounds like a line from "OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies".

Thanks I'll check it out.

> Either way, you're certainly not in the middle, you're actually supporting the violent ones to be violent

I think I understand where you're coming from but I would instead state it as supporting first amendment style laws for my country, warts and all.

Would you argue that the first amendment should be annulled?
I’ve done a significant amount of NGO work related to human trafficking, though I’m no expert.

In any case, it’s my understanding that there remain tens of millions of people in some form of forced labor.

Stories like this remind me of how far we still have to go as a species when it comes to protecting vulnerable people.
Have fun with it! The continuous version leads to much more "living" creatures and different looking creatures as the world is more detailed and complex. It's also a bit more complex than the OG grid system implementation. There's so many variants out there to try (3d ones are my other favourite)
Beginnings of Roman London discovered in office basement
Has it? I thought Ruby was pretty much the benchmark for the slowest language. What is it faster than?
Previously (24 points, 6 hour ago, 1 comment) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43030761
> And creating art is about more than just precision. It's about evoking emotion, telling stories, and sparking curiosity. It's about making people think and feel.

For sure, the best artists are the ones who take their whole perception of stuff, with the feelings and everything else, and put it directly in someone else's brain. I would maybe say that some data visualization is supposed to do that, particularly data journalism, but definitely not all data visualization.

I think not all data visualization is art in the same sense that not all writing is literature, and in fact almost all isn't, because it's more like "I am in a shared info network with my boss/colleagues/clients/readers, and we need to communicate as rapidly and directly as possible, so we've agreed on a shared visual language that is higher bandwidth." Emails are slightly less exciting to read than a novel but like a million times faster to write per word.

Which is kind of sad. It would be fun to hone that skill and there is no room for that at my job.

(Side note, it seems like everyone always says that the pie chart problem is about lengths vs angles... but isn't it just that one chart has a shared baseline and the other doesn't? Taking the middle out [donut chart] to emphasize arc length doesn't actually solve the problem. Conversely, a stacked bar is more like a pie chart than a bar chart, except with a weird aspect ratio if you only have one stacked bar).
God these are so americanized, I can't imagine saying these things in Australian workplace, they are so de-humanizing corporate bullshit.

"As per my prediction, this outcome does not come as a surprise."

Might as well say "go fuck yourself, eat shit, I was right"
Portability. I use YubiKeys with desktop Macs, MacBooks, iPads, and iPhones. The alternative would be to create (Secure Enclave) keys in each of those devices and register each of those keys with each thing requiring authentication... which could take a while.

I guess the alternative is something like Passkeys synchronized via iCloud Keychain. Hopefully Apple is encrypting the Passkey key material within the Secure Enclave using each other Secure Enclave's public key. Otherwise it kind of defeats the whole purpose of having a Secure Enclave. (If I remove a YubiKey from a computer, I have some assurance that computer can't authenticate with YK-controlled accounts.)
A lot of laptops stop functioning because somebody spills coffee in it or runs it over with their car. There are also many organizations that just replace computers on a 3-5 year schedule even if they still work.

And worse is multi-dimensional. If you shelled out for a high-end desktop in 2020 it could have 12 or 16 cores, but a new PC would have DDR5 instead of DDR4 and possibly more of it, a faster SSD, a CPU with faster single thread performance, and then you want that but can't justify 12+ cores this time so you get 6 or 8 and everything is better except the multi-thread performance, which is worse but only slightly.

The reticence to replace them also works against you. The person who spilled coffee in their machine can't justify replacing it with something that nice, so they get a downgrade. Everyone else still has a decent machine and keeps what they have. Then the person who spilled their drink is the only one changing the average.
What are you even trying to say with that? The troll got what they wanted, attention.
The kilogram is the base unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_base_unit

Time is in seconds, length in meters, temperature in kelvin, etc. A unit of energy like a joule is then defined using these base units, so 1 joule is 1⋅kg⋅m^2⋅s^-2.
Discussion (1301 points, 17 hours ago, 382 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43024221
I was merely asking your question about what happens when a country fails. I have no expectation of Germany turning out like South Africa.
Totally agree with you on this, it was meant to be satirical but I started to realize that there are many places and people to which these type of conversation is really the only medium to communicate, its sad and in an ideal world I would want that people communicate directly without the need of twisting the words, but I am happy that you advocate and appreciate direction communication over something like this.
Whoa really?? I wonder where did he find it.. it's been a while since I've last worked on it. I think it was in 2023.. and I've never showed it too much, maybe less than 50 views?

> You're like a legend to him and his friends!

:D
Same problem, Safari / iOS - pausing the video at the top and then scrolling seems to resolve

Edit: Nevermind, seems related to how far you scroll. Scrolling further got me past the first few paragraphs that kept jumping back. Ugh
Right, I'm trying to find out what people expect to happen when a developed country fails.
An ad interrupted my video today, it was Tom Hanks in a podcast talking about his prostate.

The ad was (not so obviously) AI generated; both an AI clone of his voice and an AI-generated face-swap/ lip replacement.

This seemed pretty surprising because it was fairly convincing. He looks like he is saying the dialog of the ad.

It's surprising because there's no way the creator of the ad got Hanks' approval to use his likeness; meanwhile Youtube is profiting by selling the ad. Seems illegal, yet i'm forced to watch the garbage.

The ad in general is part of a similar trend I've been seeing of these AI generated voices speaking fast about prostates or large eggplants (if you know what I mean) used with influencers' or podcasters' likenesses. I would never click on the garbage, and it's probably a scam anyway.

I just scratch my head wondering if this massive company realizes the garbage they are forcing into our lives.
You said that illegal immigrants weren't getting any services and weren't getting health services. Do you admit that you were wrong?
This is a false dichotomy that ignores many other options than "giving itself its instructions or taking instructions from a person".

Examples include "instructions unclear, turned the continent to gray goo to accomplish the goal" ; "lost track mid-completion, spun out of control" ; "generated random output with catastrophic results" ; "operator fell asleep on keyboard, accidently hit wrong key/combination" ; etc.

If a system with write permissions is powerful enough, things can go wrong in many other ways than "evil person used it for evil" or "system became self-aware".
Same! That's One less OS that I have to remember how it works!

I'm not sure I understand the whole tinkering thing. Whenever I tinker with my Linux, it's because I decided to try something tinkery, and usually mostly because I wanted to tinker.

Like trying out that fancy new tiling Wayland WM I heard about last week...
Analyst revisits Intel stock forecast amid surprise plans for foundry spinoff
Thanks for the information :)

I just analyzed and did what I read online and it seemed to work.

To be honest, I don't fully understand how these things work, but I'm here to learn ;)
This is like a misguided, unhinged sermon from the Victorian era with a few references to Chipotle added.
I tend to agree with this guy. I like using multiple windows or tabs in konsole and dont use tmux etc. If you're spending time sshing into remote machines tmux etc is the way to go. Although when I remote in I still don't use tmux or screen in general. I prefer using nohup for long running processes or even just keep the laptop from sleeping by plugging it in.
Next time I'm discussing the ol' "are we part of a simulation?" dilemma, I'll pull this up
Emolument and conflict of interest are at insane and illegal levels.

See Anil Dash's comments on Procurement Capture.[0]

> Tycoons don't like any game that's not rigged in their favor. And right now, government spending at the federal level is mostly controlled by an agency called the General Services Administration, which oversees procurement. Is it complicated? Sure! Sometimes the complexity is for the same reasons that processes are inefficient around the office at your job, and that's frustrating. But sometimes it's good, because they're trying to make sure nobody is buying $800 hammers. It's not perfect, and it's overly complex, but it is not totally captured by the richest guys in the world right now.

> Now, imagine you were a tycoon who is also a defense contractor that is trying to sell hundreds of billions of dollars of military equipment to the government, and you know that the procurement process requires them to go with the lowest bidder. But, since you're a dude with hundreds of billions of dollars, it doesn't seem fair that the system isn't even more rigged in your favor. How would you "fix" this system? Well, you'd have to capture procurement, so that it was rigged to only buy stuff from you and your friends, at whatever price you guys want. And if it could screw your competitors along the way, and punish them for not kissing your ass? That would be a bonus.

> Enter DOGE. This isn't new. "Captured" buying processes aren't new, that kind of corruption has been common around the world for much of the last few centuries, though a lot of Americans may not be as familiar with it. The way it's usually worked goes something like this: Want to succeed as a farmer? Well, you better buy your tractor from Fearless Leader's best friend's tractor company.

> Or it could be more like this: Say you're a government employee trying to figure out who to buy rockets from. Maybe it better be from the guy who runs the "department" that's in charge of deciding where money gets spent in the government!

[0]
https://www.anildash.com//2025/01/04/DOGE-procurement-captur...
> I said most other cases don't use millions/billions of works, you're saying that yes they do?

I assumed we were talking about logistics, not tech. I'm sure it will be technically possibly to use less training data overtime (Deepseek is more or less demonstrating that in real time. Maybe there's copyright data but I'd be surprised if it used anything close to 80 TB like competittorz).

I know hindsight is 20/20, but I always felt the earlier approaches were absurdly brute forced.

>I'm not sure that there really has been a normal channel for licencing at the scale of "almost everything on the public Internet"

There isn't. So they'd need to do it the old fashioned way with agreements . Or make some incentive model that has media submit their works with that understanding of training. Or any number of marketing ideas.

I don't exactly pity their herculean effort. Those same companies spend decades suing individuals for much pettier uses and building those precedent up (some covered under free use).

>and large archives of torrented data without lawsuits was one of the factors contributing to their fast success relative to western counterparts.

And now they're being slowed down. If not litigsted out of the market. Public trust in AI is falling. The lack of oversight into hallucinations may have even cost a few lives. Content creators now need to take extra precautions so they aren't stolen from because they don't even bother trying to respect robots.txt. Even a few posts here on HN note how the scraping is so rampant that it can spike their hosting costs on websites (so now we need more capthas. And I hate myself for uttering such a sentence).

Was all that velocity worth it? Who benefitted from this outside of a few billipnaires? We can't even say we beat China on this.

>I don't think this is necessarily a given - humans evolved on ~4 billion years worth of data, after all

Humans inherit their data and slowly structure around that. Maybe if AI models collaborated together as humanity did, I would sympathize more with this argument.

We both know it's instead a rat race and the goal isn't survival and passing on knowledge (and genes) to the next generation. AI can evolve organically but it instead devolved into a thieve's den.

I take the approach more like Bell's Spacecraft paradox. If they started gaining data ethically, by the time they gather a decent chunk they probably would have already optimized a model that needs less data. It'd be slower but not actually much slower I'm the long run. But they aren't exactly trying to go for quality here.

>I believe lawsuits launched by or fuss kicked up by model developers will typically be on a contract basis (i.e "you agreed to our ToS then broke it") rather than a copyright basis.

I suppose we'll see. Too early to tell. This lawsuit will definitely be precedent in other ongoing cases, but others may shift to a copyright infringement case anyway. Unlike other llms there was some human tailoring going on here, so it's not fully comparable to something like the NYT case.
Messing with the cursor like that feels so amazingly invasive and it makes using the page significantly more difficult. Is the point on the round cursor in the upper left? middle? who knows!
> I think that's a decent yardstick

I have relatives who suffered under imperial powers who to this day refuse to buy products made in that country, even though they're objectively good and in some cases the best in the market. I hardly think the trauma of war makes for good judgment, even decades removed.
YT's user interface has been user hostile for over a decade.

The secret to sanity is to never use YT's interface to consume YT content.
A side note.

It was 2006 when I joined Wikia (Fandom).

I was being paid $850 per month, but I also received a piece of paper promising me shares worth of $15,000.

It felt like a good chunk of money.
But then I asked myself few questions:

(a) being an Elbonian citizen, how do I enforce this contract?

(b) how much would it it cost me to enforce this contract?

(c) even if I receive these shares and the company would not go IPO what am I it?

Shortly after I quit and left that piece of paper on my desk in the office.
Protip - you should care if he raped 12 nuns! Japan's justice system, while certainly has issues is universally considered to be one of the worlds' fairest. Their high conviction rate is solely due to taking so few cases to judgement as most plead out.
> "You are overcomplicating this"

Tbh I don't think the worst problem here is with stating something is overcomplicated but the directness and variously pointed use of 'you'. People will naturally be more defensive.

Many of the example statements involve this use of 'you' in the same fashion. 'Did you even read my email?', 'If you would have read the whole email you’d know the answer to this'. It's a deliberate use of 'you' like an intensifier.

With minor rephrasing these could just be expressed more passively, for scenarios where one doesn't want an almost completely euphemistic tone.
For me the big improvement from upgrading was better responsiveness while on a video call (no small improvement in the modern world)
Probably it was hidden too deep (switch to English mode, scroll down to Downloads section and download the Dev Kit), I'll try to fix that tomorrow, or whenever I can.
I work on an Electron app, and we have a ticket open to investigate why the heck it's asking the OS for Bluetooth permissions even though we'd never use it. There are, of course, higher priority things to get to first, bugs that have larger effects. I'd love to be able to get to that one…
The most common way I've seen this come up is for GPG signing of git commits. The flow is roughly: sign your first commit of the day -> you get a PIN popup, fill it in, and tap the Yubikey. Later in the day, you commit again -> your PIN is cached, so there's no reminder that you need to tap, other than the key LED blinking. If you don't clue in to what's going on, eventually it'll time out.

So this tool gives you the reminder to say "hey; you're doing a thing that's stalled waiting for your tap".

It reminds me of the way my car pops up on the display to say "hey, make sure to check the back seat" when I turn it off.
Almost everybody agrees that a state can determine who can enter and how long they can be there. Homes are similar because almost everybody agrees that the owner can determine the same thing.

When 99.99% of people agree on the similarity of two different things then the burden is on the 0.01% to prove the alternative.

If you refuse to make a coherent argument other than they are not identical then there is no point in continuing this conversation.
Really think you should have at least taken the paper with you. What would they be worth now?
Elon Musk revoked $80M in FEMA funding from NYC bank accounts
Sounds like a big drop until you realize it gained 130% in the last quarter of 2024 alone. This drop has only brought it back down to where it was in December.
That's insane. How did this ever get approved?
A few things -

First, What's your end goal here?
Is it to not forfeit the RSU's?
Is it to not pay the taxes upfront?
etc

You ask a lot of "is this normal questions", but it sort of doesn't matter if it's normal if you want something else.

Maybe the answers affect the chances of getting that something else, but it's really hard to give advice without knowing what you actually want to achieve.

It will quickly become a sort of academic discussion.

At the end you say you want to explore "potential solutions" - but can we start with what you want the outcome to be, actually?

Second, you say you want to "engage in a conversation with the company to explore potential solutions". Uh, okay.

Right now you have 30 days. Best case, assuming you don't have to do something before then, notification wise. Do you have meaningful legal representation?

If not, will you go that far, assuming the company offers you absolutely nothing? Or doesn't even bother to respond?

If you don't have lawyers, but are planning on going that far, you don't have a huge amount of time to get them and have them help.

Even if you aren't, you are veering quickly into territory where it sounds like you need more than just a bunch of questions answered by smart people on the internet.

You should strongly consider professional advice here, if for no other reason than the ability to have a live conversation about this.

This isn't idle internet curiosity, it sounds like it actually matters to y'all.
The World Economic Forum in Davos?
Ah, an idealist! God bless you, my friend. We need more people like you.

I understand what you mean in regards to your efforts and labor are always wasted working for someone else. I can't tell you how many times I've done weeks, sometimes months, of research to determine the best possible way to move forward on a project, given it's constraints, only for the so-called "decision makers" to take a totally different path, that leads to additional work and eventual ruin.
Trusting Driverless Cars (2019)
As means per. Anyone saying “as per” is deliberately trying to sound pompous.
My 13 year old is a type 1 diabetic. He has used an iPhone SE / mini since he was 7. He plays ice hockey and has a pouch in his hockey pants for his phone. It’s never had an issue through all the bumps that ice hockey brings.
That would be so woke of them to not be fueling with beautiful gasoline. So topsy-turvy.
Musk staffer 'mistakenly' given ability to edit Treasury Dept payment system
The article is a bit confusing (to me as a layman), basically as I understand it's saying that the reason we can't form cryptosystems out of arbitrary NP-complete problems is because there exist randomized algorithms that work for 99% of inputs (average vs. worst-case complexity, e.g. why the simplex algorithm works in practice). But there are some things missing:

* We know that randomized algorithms exist for NP-complete problems. But couldn't we have some problem in NP that while reducible to e.g. 3SAT always reduce to "very hard" instances?

* Conversely, there's no guarantee that there doesn't exist a randomized algorithm for something that's NP-hard (and not in NP), right?

The argument along the lines of NP-complete vs NP-hard seems to be a non-sequitur, since the actual distinction is average vs. worst-case hardness right? It may just so happen that all currently known problems in NP are easy "on average", but I don't think that's formally guaranteed.

Edit: https://theory.stanford.edu/~trevisan/average/slides.pdf seems to imply that (1) is an open question.
Not undecidable, it's just not possible to verify if an answer is correct in polynomial time. There are problems know to be decidable, known to be NP-hard and outside of NP. (E.g. in NEXPTIME)
My mother recently passed away after a long battle with dementia. Apparently when she would forget an account existed or she could not log in she would create another account. She had multiple email addresses and Facebook profiles that I know of.

I’ve been able to get Facebook to close a couple of her profiles but for the rest they keep asking for the same documentation over and over again (death certificate and funeral booklet) but will not take any action.
Not that I know of but maybe! Let me know if you see/come up with one (edit: did you mean "homomorphism"?)

The trick to getting yt to return nonLatin recs seems to be: keep only high quality not-dubbed comedy in history..

Edit: maybe he should panned the cam

https://youtube.com/shorts/TWLZMVSbi6c

(What do you mean by "condensation"?)
Many companies will throw existing employees and even founders under the bus if they think their is a few dollars to be won. To think they wouldn’t play games with ex employees is naive in the extreme.
I hate this. Sorry.