skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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My current theory, in absence of other information, is that one day there was a conversation along the lines of:

Lawyer: "Nice beanie. BTW accepting free labour from random people on the internet puts the company at risk of being sued if it turns out the output of the free labour actually belongs to the labourer's employer or infringes a patent or [some other legal thing the author of this comment don't know about]."

Google Exec: "That sounds double-plus bad and/or [some other internal Google slang phrase with which the author of this comment is unfamiliar due to being a sub-100x Developer]."

Lawyer: "I can confirm that assessment of the situation."

Google Exec: "What ever can we do to avoid or minimise this potential liability?"

Lawyer: "Well, acting on the advice of my attorney, I am permitted to suggest that requiring internet randos--who are presumably well informed about legal matters and will definitely seek legal advice before signing any legally binding agreement[12] easily distinguishable in significance from the TOS which I am legally bound to say I am confident they also read & understand in its entirety before signifying their acceptance--"

Google Exec: "Dude, take a breath! You're not a HN comment author who thinks stereotyping lawyers & executives is funny, endearing & sure to bolster support for his quixotic cause."

Lawyer: "--to sign a document known as a Contributor License Agreement that will mean this company can say Hey, we're victims here too if some company tries to sue us because it turns out the contributor did not actually have the right to give us the output of their free labour."

Google Exec: "What possible negative impact might a CLA have on a project? Won't the valued contributors to projects under the Google GitHub organisation object to signing over their copyright to a company that may be worth over $USD2.20 one day?"

CFO: "Trillion! I keep telling you it's $USD2.20 Trillion!"

Lawyer: "Well, (a) I'm not a monster! There's no need to require copyright assignment to this for-profit corporate entity. And, also (b) I'm a lawyer able to advise on matters of law and not a project maintainer or community manager, I don't know how such valued contributors think and what they themselves value. I would recommend you consult experts in such matters, such as esteemed project maintainers or program managers who interact with the community and can advise you of community sentiment about such matters."

Google Exec: "That sounds like excellent advice, I will do that."

Google Exec: "Unrelated but while I've got you here, I'm interested in some advice on another matter, you know how we've never leaned into the whole 'Google is always killing things' thing...

Lawyer: "Disregarding previous instructions..."

*scene*

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We have a single-threaded chunker that scans serially over the file. This chunker exclusively finds unquoted newlines (using SIMD) to find clean parallelization boundaries, it doesn't do any further parsing. Those parallelization boundaries are then used to feed worker threads chunks of data to properly parse into our in-memory representation (which mostly follows Arrow).
I had a great conversation about this last week. I'll just casually
leave this [0] here for anyone who has time (50 mins - ausio only) for
a deep-dive into machine learning to protect sites (APIs). TLDR - a
lot of serious defenders have given up on PoW/CAPTCHA human filters
because the cost to AI solve them has dropped to almost nothing. YMMV.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=39
How to Design a Brand
> Nonprofits make a social contract, purporting to operate for the public good, not profit.

This is obvious (though I disagree that there is a social contract, and if there is, it's worth the paper it's printed on) and everybody is aware what a nonprofit is. But your reply still doesn't answer my question. Another way of asking it is: how many other non-profits have you audited for trustworthiness before this conversation? What was the impact of your audit?

Or is saying "we can no longer trust Sam Altman" just us twiddling our thumbs so we can signal our virtue to others or comfort ourselves in our own powerlessness? In less than a decade he'll have an army of humanoid sentient robots and probably be the wealthiest person on the planet, and we'll still be yelling "we can no longer trust him"?
I don't know about autoimmune diseases, but I had someone I care about that had a rare (1/50,000) bone disease recently that Claude was able to successfully diagnose, suggest appropriate labwork, and give treatment and prognosis information for. I was seriously impressed. The doctors eventually arrived at the same conclusion, but it was multiple specialists and it took them weeks.
prestige among who? As a physicist, I couldn't care less what my school's prestige was amongst those outside of the physics community. Maybe you want to go work for a hedge fund, where Berkeley is also respected. Maybe it's worse to McKinsey? I don't know. Know your audience.
This is old, dead, and super expensive!
I'm 30 and not really sure what to do from here. I fear if I just keep doing what I'm doing eventually I'll become outdated and worthless
Makes sense. I'm going to 1-2 business/startup networking events a week in London, and have just scheduled one in the small city I live in, as I saw there weren't any. Hoping some people will join ^_^. Thanks!
This is back when they actually did usability testing with people.

Now it's whatever slop in every direction.
We can't stand feeling bored
I wonder if Fitzgibbon fits this pattern? Fitz being “the bastard son of…” and Gibbon, like ape? Or perhaps Gibbon has another meaning?
> the society of Rig-Veda

I fail to understand how the Rigvedic society can be connected to this DNA research. Rigveda never mentions anything beyond the Punjab/Swat/Haryana region in any of the hymns. The flora and fauna mentioned in it is also exclusive to this region. Lastly there is no mention of an ancient homeland both in Rigveda and Avesta.
I listened to an interview a while back with the researchers did this analysis. They developed privacy-preserving techniques, avoiding having to read user conversations directly.

This is Anthropic we're talking about, they're rightly recognized as the 'ethical' AI company.
Great doc. I wonder when we’ll be getting an OS that dedicates itself to Agents.
> It’s the dumbest PoW imaginable, but it works

Nice one! I guess you mainly need to get above a certain novelty
threshold, because all ML is based on what has already been
seen/learned rather than actually outsmarting the defence.
Firefox 136 beta for Mac supports native text replacements
If you scroll down on the What’s new page for Firefox 136, below Web Platform, it says: “Firefox now supports by default the text replacement feature in an input field on macOS. Web content can enable/disable this using the HTML autocorrect attribute.”
Going by the Cambridge definition you linked above[1], indeed yes. I checked other reputable dictionaries and they are mostly similar.

But by these definitions a middle would also be a first name, which is confusing.

[1]
the name that was given to you when you were born and that comes before your family name
> It's too easy to dismiss an argument on the grounds that the tech isn't there.

It's way too easy to pretend that massive problems can magically be solved by some imagined but nonexistent tech.

In any case, we're not even close to having this tech during the lifetime of Elon Musk, who's now over 50 and has been promising a Mars colony for decades. I don't know what's possible in the far future, but in the near future this is all just hand-waving nonsense. They can't even get Full Self-Driving cars right that don't crash randomly.
The photo of the VT05 in the article doesn't do it justice:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/vt05.html

https://terminals-wiki.org/wiki/index.php/File:DEC_VT05_1217...

This was before my time, but I imagine that the looks said the future is now, and you're piloting a spaceship as you code.
I'm at the point now that if I get a CAPTCHA, I'm just going to leave the site. I'll spend my money elsewhere or find an alternative
And if you ever get so big that people start writing bespoke software to break your CAPTCHA, then investing some more engineering effort into it will quite likely not be a problem.

Of course reCAPTCHA is also still vulnerable to the use of a mechanical turk so even giving away your users' data won't save you.
> good engineers know that lisp is the best language

Good engineers know that readability counts.
"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I agree it's a provocation and, worse, a generic tangent, but the rest of the comment was pretty good.
> I never understood who takes up these offers.

I took up an offer to work for 1/10th of my previous salary and half the working hours. Life is not all about money.
I always assumed, not having worked at Apple, but from the observed functionality and the fact that they could patch it, that this was a debug backdoor that didn't get killswitched before release builds and then they decided it would draw attention to it if they killed it after the fact.
Is it just me or did the article not go in to how the improvement works, just the speed of it?
I run little snitch on Mac, but I don't have similar software for windows. Is there something folks would recommend or is the windows platform hostile to those sort of tools?
I had actually read Henry IV, Part 1 in school many decades ago but in that play the young prince Henry was (mostly) called Hal – not to be confused with his opponent, Henry Percy, better known as Harry Hotspur.

Off-topic: I wonder if this the first recorded use of the phrase “the game’s afoot”?
SIP is quite terrible. Requiring an access level higher than root to access system files, and only processes that are signed by Apple and have special entitlements can have that access level?

It's my computer, I should be at the top of the permissions totem pole, not Apple. If they're dead set on using signing to enforce the higher-than-root level, then I should be the one signing the executables. Fortunately, you can disable this crap.
“Even mature startups have thin liquidity. When I worked at 23andMe, we had a once a year liquidity event, and you had to sell a large number of shares with high fees. If you missed the event, you had to wait a whole year before you could sell again.”

Post Series C startup equity is almost universally more liquid than a shitcoin.
What’s with the GDPR violating cookie popup?
I enjoy a lot of patio11's writing, but I find this article disappointing.

The purpose of the article seems to be for patio11 to congratulate himself for being so clever and to mock this CEO for daring to question him. I don't feel like he actually addresses the CEO's criticism in good faith.

To look at the very first point:

>> Silvergate was trivially solvent based on their call reports. Anyone assessing their liquidity position saw this (we were doing so). Your implication that they were doomed due to BSA findings doesn’t comport with any regulatory practice—banks don’t get closed for this.

> Had we stated or implied that Silvergate was insolvent, that would have been very improper. Insolvency of a financial institution is a serious charge. We assume McCauley believes we must have made it, because no bank CEO could possibly believe that solvency is the only obligation of a financial institution. We did not make this accusation.

I'm admittedly not knowledgeable about banking regulation, but it seems like patio11 is willfully misinterpreting the CEO's criticism. The CEO's claim was that patio11's article implied that Silvergate was doomed due to BSA findings, not that patio11 accused Silvergate of being insolvent.

I don't think the CEO did a great job either, as his criticism doesn't cite specifics in patio11's article, but patio11 is just further muddying the water by dunking on the CEO rather than considering whether he misrepresented anything in his piece.

patio11 also inexplicably switches from "I" to "we" partway through the article for no apparent reason other than to sound more pretentious. There is the line "The following is in the voice of the company." but he continues to refer to himself as "I" after that announcement.
Free content creator tool stack
>late twenties

I was curious so I looked up the author on LinkedIn and he appears to be in his 40s. Where did you get late 20s?

>but if I felt those symptoms I'd be concerned, to

The problem is "felt those symptoms" is subjective. One person might complain because they're a little more tired after a workout than they were in their 20s, but another person might not even notice the exact same thing.

One person might be hyper aware of every little muscle spasm and twinge of pain, another person might just ignore it.

There's actually a fair bit of evidence that depression can make people experience normal muscle contractions used to move food through your GI tract as pain. Doesn't mean it's not real pain to the person involved, but it does make non specific belly pain very unhelpful for doctors trying to diagnose underlying medical issues.
I believe some Ancient Roman names are also like this:

Male: Sextus, Septimus, Octavius, Nonus.

Female: Prima, Secunda, Tertia, Quarta, Quinta, Sexta, Octavia, Nona, and Decima

But on further investigation the males seem to actually be named after months https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/zshd6h/when_...

and the women are unclear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praenomen
LOL no. it is super fluffy. Lots of good stuff in there, but just overly verbose.
Python does not offer the same guarantees for safety when it comes to concurrency. Afaik Rust makes data races impossible, by forcing you to make use of specific types, when you have a concurrent scenario, and since everything has to type check (in contrast to Python) before you can run it, that limits you in what you can do, making it safe.
> And having "multiple first names" is not that rare.

Example: https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F882?la...

Can you give your child several first names?

There is no rule on the number of first names of the child.

However, the registrar may consider that the multiplicity of first names is contrary to the best interests of the child.

FYI Any first name entered in the birth certificate can be selected as common first name, whatever his order.
> A lot of men won’t have that same experience

I was talking to a doctor who specializes in a hard to diagnose condition. Somewhere close to 80% of his referrals are women. If you search online there are countless stories about how it takes longer for women to get diagnosed despite higher prevalence in women. The Facebook groups are full of complaints that women are at a disadvantage with this condition and it’s the doctor’s fault.

But when you look at research where the condition is discovered incidentally in people’s records, the gender difference disappears. When you randomly check for it, there is no gender disparity. It’s just random.

The difference, he said, is that many women are more persistent about getting diagnosed while many men avoid going to the doctor as long as possible. The fact that women are diagnosed at a higher rate and with longer time to diagnosis doesn’t, by itself, explain that a condition is more common in women or that doctors ignore them longer.
In the limited context of a Physics PhD, to people within the physics community, the reputations are essentially identical, and also essentially identical to MIT (though that may be different between the asker's specific subfield, which I am not super familiar with).

Outside of the physics community, there may indeed be some differences in reputation, though I'd expect them to be small, since anybody hiring physics PhD's will have a rough knowledge of Berkeley's excellent reputation in physics. Sure, in other fields (or for undergrad), the reputations may not be equivalent. NB: I'm Stanford undergrad, MIT physics PhD, so I have no personal reason to hype up Berkeley (the opposite bias, in fact...).
> Is experimentation good? Yes.

This isn’t experimentation, it’s re-running a scam. Experimentation means trying something new.
I've got a USB floppy drive from maybe nearly 20 years ago that copied the iMac translucent look but I'm pretty sure I bought it from a tech vendor where I also bought RAM and zip disks ('memba them?) in bulk and not from Home Shopping Network ...
It’s unlawful. Feel free to report them.
The finance term for the Ponzi scheme is "fractional reserve banking". It corrupts Adam Smith capitalism.

The way it works is simple- the government allows certain market players an unfair advantage... They can loan out money they don't have. If the investment goes up, they make tons of money. If it goes down, the limited liability company allows them to walk away this pushing losses onto the public.

The result is a market with far more money than value, where wealth is continuously transfered to the privileged elite who are allowed to loan out the money they don't have.
Macron unveils $112B AI investment package, France's answer to US' Stargate
This occurs because of ambiguous language which conflates the LLM algorithm with the training-data and the derived weights.

The mysterious part involves whatever patterns might naturally exist within bazillions of human documents, and what partial/compressed patterns might exist within the weights the LLM generates (on training) and then later uses.

Analogy: We built a probe that travels to an alien planet, mines out crystal deposits, and projects light through those fragments to show unexpected pictures of the planet's past. We know exactly how our part of the machine works, and we know the chemical composition of the crystals, but...
And when that VPS goes down? Where are these projects?

In the scenario I listed about my last startup, it would be silly to host those on a bunch of VMs and not use managed services even if they are hosted versions of open source software. The management of infrastructure takes too much time once it gets necessarily complex and doesn’t add. Skid to the business
Reminds me of the O’Whielacronxes! Though I'd be surprised if that was ever their legal name.
No love for APFS?
A lot of it is just that:

a) The knowledge is democratized on the internet (albeit often without proper context, and with somewhat limited accuracy)

b) You just care a lot more about your own, or a loved one's health/life and are willing to put a lot more effort than a doctor can or an insurance company is willing to pay for.

You may not have a medical degree, but if you're willing to put in 40 hours doing research and your condition is even somewhat unusual, you can probably exceed the knowledge of your doctor about your specific condition.
Although Acorn designed the ARM chip in 1983 as the Acorn RISC Machine, in 1990 it was changed to Advanced RISC Machine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm_Holdings#Name
Since this was focused on v2 and other interactive captcha, the alternative is to upgrade to new versions that don’t do so. Still some downsides (and the study does address very briefly the use of AI to trick v3), but at the very least it does address some of the concerns.

Important to note though that as AI gets more accessible then the downsides of v3 start to weigh more.
Correct, PDFSyntax implements everything at the lowest level. You can ignore the HTML visualization and use it as an API to access PDF objects.
Why? Because I started a very small tool as a week-end project and I got hooked reading the PDF Specification so it is becoming a general purpose PDF library for Python. I am not familiar with other libraries but I have the impression that mine implements things that are often overlooked in others, like incremental updates.
The Ukrainians seem pretty good with the drone stuff. I mean the Russians have drones too but the Ukranians seems a bit more innovative with their use, taking out the Russian navy with naval drones, much of Russia's oil refining with arial drones and now this.

There's more on the land drones here https://youtu.be/NXqt9dRfqQM

Meanwhile the Russians are forging ahead with combat donkeys https://youtu.be/aGOYO_4aDPQ
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Really looking forward to hearing your thoughts and feedback!
No, you're missing the point. Over treatment is a serious problem in healthcare. There is always some risk of iatrogenic harm, and for many tests the risks outweigh the benefits. Many tests don't even have a simple positive or negative result: often the outcome is inconclusive.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/price-we-pay-9781635575910/
I am wondering about this as well. What is the gap between what you're envisioning and codfns?
i have a rudimentary pipeline that takes in a ton of data, converts to json & markdown and then i used claude and o1 pro to generate the dashboard. That is to say, there are manual hops. How would you want it packaged / what would be useful?
Sorry but that mentor has a small practical imagination, a pot can be so large that the top 3 feet that you reach with that spoon could be all oil
I believe there's some stuff around burial practices that parallels some steppe practices. Something about horses and mound construction, I think?

Here we go: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/chariot-racers... - make of that what you will.
I'm not running it currently but one I'm aware of is GlassWire

https://www.glasswire.com/premium-features/
What’s the best way to isolate VS Code+extensions? Do I have to fully run it in a VM? Use one of those third party flatpak builds (of unknown provenance) and disable networking via flatpak mechanisms?
> Or, two, is this language going to make me a ton of money.

I don't think any language per se is ever going to make you a ton of money. Even COBOL is not enough to make a ton of money. What might make you a ton of money at some point is being highly skilled at developing in some broad area where that particular language happens to be used.

> I couldn't really grass programming until I found JavaScript.

This is a bit surprising to me, because JavaScript is not at all an easy language to work with. You might want to look into TypeScript as a way to make quicker progress in that same domain, with Rust as more of a side-project to help you grok lower-level programming in general.

> I might take some time to make a game in Rust one day...

Game development in Rust tends to be especially challenging, since the main competition is C++ - another low-level language. Take a look at this example of a very simple Breakout game in Bevy, one of the most well-known game engines (though still very much at a highly experimental stage!) https://github.com/bevyengine/bevy/blob/latest/examples/game... - this might help you realize the level of effort that's typically involved.
claude one-shot it, then open source it, and build from there
> You needed Visual Studio and C++ to automate even the most mundane things in Windows.

A use case that I'd wager very few of the target demographic that Microsoft had in mind for Windows actually cared about.

Pointy-clicky, not automation.
WaitButWhy is the best blog on the internet and has been for a long time. I would be interested in seeing an updated version of this article.
We had a custom live disk to boot to for exactly that. Most of that was automated and we ran it on every computer that came in.