skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess that's the pessimistic view, which I do admittedly have often. The optimistic view is that it has helped me figure out what ideas are NOT profitable, and how to quickly figure that out.
This thread is about regular expressions.

Finite State Transducers to build autonomous agents

That's extremely general and is terminology from the days of tape drives that describes techniques that are considered trivial now, like parsing strings into individual words.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_transducer
Yes but why would investors on the board who own a piece of OpenAI at 157B be ok with a sale at a smaller valuation?
Didn't they already raise at a $157 billion valuation?
used next.js 14 with mongodb
The way power is shunted into the grid is very simple.The inverter you have senses the line voltage, and by keeping its voltage a tiny bit higher, "knows" that the power will flow out.
nothing to sense and push against and it will idle
likely doing an on and off test routine till if finds something to push against.
Vs an off grid inverter that is stand alone, and self referential. There are hybrid off/on grid inverters, but they will quickly stop sending current, without a reference voltage, and drop back to battery/solar.
As to legalities....,if there is no regulation adressing it, its legal, beurocracys hate that, but there it is. Its not like they wouldn't pin an
(unlikely) accident on you either way, so.....
and with no batteries, there is more risk in dropping the panel or another mechanical failure than anything electrical
Seems like with deno, setting granular permissions for only what’s necessary, you might be able to block an attack like this. I’m just getting started with deno, though, so I’m not sure, but it looks doable to me.
Kelsey Piper is a very serious tech journalist who has written extensively about the OpenAI for-profit transition and the corporate structures involved [1].

You can present an argument about why it's a "bad analysis" but your offhand "analysis" is not constructive or well-informed here.

[1] https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/380117/openai-microsoft-s...
They care about the heavy censorship of the model, the amount of refusals and the low quality of the answers with the o1/o3 series.
> I'm taking a Zero Trust approach to the movement of money.

This is begging the question.

> You have to assume there are insiders in banking and government with malicious intent. How do you protect against them?

We have a system of rules in place to disincentivize certain behaviors in government. This system is written down as the U.S. Code. If you can't trust this system, you might as well write off the concept of democracy as a whole, because a lot more than our banking system depends on a very deep-seated social contract which assumes that the people trust the government they elect.

> Could cryptocurrencies be worked into a solution?

Of course they can. The questions are: Why would we want this? What problems do cryptocurrency solve uniquely? What trade-offs would we make by implementing such a solution? And that is why statements like this belie the fallacy of crypto proponents: you are begging the question when you ask how to integrate crypto with the financial system, and do not address any of the myriad of shortcomings of doing so.
For anyone interested in a narrative version of this, dan carlin's hardcore history goes deep on the McKinley years

https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-49-the-am...
How I made my first million, and took down Phil Ivey along the way
Bah, they can change the official name, but we know the truth.

Anyway, they don’t sell machines. They sell designs.
It seems like everyone calling it x.com would allow people to use the name without having to know the history or be confused by just calling something X.

Kind of how pets.com was always called pets.com, because just calling something "pets" would be confusing.
I run the inventors' club in Kingston: come and join us next week if you can get to us. You can find us online.
Yes, seems like a PR stunt to discount OpenAI.
Nah, any German word with Kraft in it, is a strong sign of it's popularity ;-)

Balkonkraftwerk sounds powerful. Not like Aufhängesolarpaneel, or Steckersolargerät.
My impression is that not teams take hallway usability testing at all seriously, and nobody's incentivized to actually measure quality by how effectively it does anything for users, so a tone of ~"obviously we thought of that" rings a little hollow.

The exception is a few of the design studios that have arrays of devices on hand to ensure that whatever they built feels great in as many scenarios as possible, on the web specifically
Windows Filtering Platform does it. Windows Firewall barely taps WFP's potential and definitely does not do the whole "ZoneAlarm" style allow/deny thing.
> What you can’t do is combine these concepts into any uncomfortable findings when it comes to humans.

You can[1], and it's been done.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_racism
Yes you're absolutely right if anything in your past indicates poor judgment or otherwise increases risk you might run into issues.
>it could just be that they processed first ballots for very heterogeneous regions and then moved to more polarized batches.

Perhaps I misunderstand what you are trying to say here, but this analysis has nothing to do with the order of vote processing. The analysis is alleging that machines that tabulated more Early Voting votes were skewed towards Trump in ways that are consistent with vote fraud; the data supports that allegation, but does not prove it outright. In fact, in light of my next points, it would make sense to try to hide the vote manipulation in machines that have more votes tabulated.

To me, what is more damning is the distribution of vote shares among these Early Votes. There is an obvious and huge discontinuity ("Russian Tails") in what is typically a fairly normal (in the statistical sense of the term "normal") distribution of vote shares.

This article (https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3478593/) from 2012 (well before the current Trump era, meaning there is no inherent anti-trump bias) is relevant in the appropriate statistical methodology. See especially Fig. 2.
I wonder how much of this sentiment is driven by Apple saying Snow Leopard was taking Leopard and focusing on performance and stability?
you can regenerate soil with these large herds. It is the trampling of soil under hoof. Millions of tilling animals. This builds up soil. Topsoil in the plains used to be 16+ inches. Now it is under 4. Gone on some places. We removed the way it was re-built when eroded (or in our case, farmed away)
It's really annoying that domain is not the main one, it's so much better!
They seem to be doing ok...

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&geo=...
It’s rarely obvious to tenants that their only exterior wall is extremely inefficient.

20-30$/month very quickly pays for a new sliding glass door, but it’s hardly going to get people to swap apartments.
Simple-OpenAI: An OpenAI Java community library
It's a shame my three takeaways are the following.

1. I hope those Chinese spies are really talented and have been great contributors. Maybe look at what they have contributed in tangible work since they have been hired. Talented engineers are desperate for work and OpenAI hires Chinese spies? Well, hopefully they were 10x performers when they weren't stealing secrets.

2. International collaborations? Of course everything was going to be stolen and eventually make its way to China.

3. China's primary mission objective is to steal IP.
It would have been easier to Google him, or ask Claude/Mistral to write you a summary of his article.

I hadn't heard of the author before that article, but all the math and logic in it is sound. There is some guesswork on exact numbers (because OpenAI don't publish that sort of information) you can disagree with, but IMO it's fairly generous in their favour. And it still looks pretty bad for their financial prospects.
These kinds of articles always make me feel like I'm living in Bizarro Land.

The Snowden revelations were over a decade ago, we know the capabilities the US Govt has, how is this even news?
Let's hear more then. Name some names, departments.
There's certainly a part of me that wonders if Altman incorrectly assumes last year's rules still apply, when in fact he just ensured retribution from the man who counts all three branches of the United States government as his underlings.
"Don't do dumb shit" is a great product principle
Beyond colour matching, it felt like lots of companies didn’t get the subtleties of Apple’s design, and it often felt like they just took their existing moulds and did a run in translucent plastic. The pinstriping, use of white as contrast, the organic curves, the patterning on the “IO shield” - it’s all a bit more complex than just “do it in see through blue”.
Ha ha, so no difference.
> I'm beginning to think that the best way to approach a problem is by either not being aware of or disregarding most of the similar efforts that came before.

Extrapolating a "best way" from a couple of examples of success is bad reasoning. There are definitely ways in which it can be necessary to ignore the standing wisdom to make progress. There are also definitely ways in which being ignorant of the knowledge gained by past attempts can greatly impede progress.

I would point out, that it is also possible to question and challenge the assumptions that prior approaches have made, without being ignorant of what those approaches tried.

Figuring which is which, is indeed hard. Generally, it seems like it works well to have a majority of people expanding/refining prior work and a minority people going in and starting from scratch to figure out which of the current assumptions or beliefs can be productively challenge/dropped. The precises balance point is vague, but it seems pretty clear that going to far either direction harms the rate of progress.
Terrible for who? Maybe for you (or me), seems to be working out quite great for him.
Given musk’s history (“funding secured” to take Tesla private; trying to back out of buying twitter), OpenAI can make a reasonable case that he’s full of shit and it’s not a real offer.
This is the modern version of 2010's "Amazon makes no money in retail"
The problem as stated does not give the host such an option. If it did, the host opening a door would imply that the player picked the right answer, and it would only happen 1/3 of the time.

Some of the comments aged fairly well, although not in the way that their authors intended:

> There is enough mathematical illiteracy in this country

> If all those Ph.D.’s were wrong, the country would be in some very serious trouble.

In the 1800s, Carl Friedrich Gauss lamented about the decline in mathematical ability in academia. Despite academia since having advanced mathematics farther, mathematical ability in academia still has evidence of decline. Professors tend to be good at extremely specialized things, yet they get the simple things wrong. I once had a Calculus professor who failed to perform basic arithmetic correctly, during his calculus class. All of the algebra was right, but his constants were wrong. This happened on multiple occasions.
ICCU issue affects a small % of ioniq 5's. Unlucky for you of course.
Really like the car and recently I met taxi driver who uses one and said he has over 400k km on it and still doing well.
There is one annoyance with the back seat belts which tend to flip after use, so the metal part of the seat belt hits the car frame making noise. Other than that its a really good car.
By the way, there are two German translations. One “original” by Margaret Carroux which is closer to the English original and who collaborated with Tolkien back in his days, and a newer one from the late 90s by Wolfgang Krebe which tried to transform the text to something closer to spoken German. In the original Sam calls Frodo “Master” or, I believe sometime “Sir”, which is to be understood in the gentry commoner relationship. There is no real equivalent to “Master/Sir” in German. Carroux used “Herr” which sounds rather archaic to post-medieval Germans; Krege uses “Chef” which sounds too modern for the text.

If I remember my childhood’s Carroux translation correctly she used “Gimli, Gloins Sohn”, so not the Scandinavian construction, but a grammatically correct, but still archaic sounding, German construction which is near the original and still got the vibe of Gloinson.

Translation is tricky business.
Considering your second point:

>it is crazy that democratically elected officials go party with billionaires, european aristocrats and IC people in extremely secretive venues. The networking organizations consistently place them in important positions afterwards regardless of merit or preferences of the electorate. This leads to a neo-feudal class of elites and their sycophants, which is deeply anti-democratic.

How, then, is Trump-Musk not the Deep State?
Some extensions are client side so even VM won't work for all.
I respect that everyone learns differently but I can't stand Duolingo's approach to gamification. Between being treated like I'm 7 years old and being bullied into using gems to keep standing in the leaderboards I just can't do it.

I would pay them extra money to disable all of the gamification features and just let me use the damn language learning parts of the app.
It's a tricky situation.

If you have connections to a hostile country - family, friends, business, spouse, etc. they can (will) become targets of intel ops.

So your wife is from Russia? GRU or FSB will start to pressure family and friends of your spouse.

Anything that is worth anything to the enemies of your country, they will find a way. Which is why agencies that require top secret security clearance will rather just set the threshold extra high, and lose out on potentially good talent. Better to be safe than sorry.
In Germany on a south-facing balcony, producing your own electricity from solar panels is cheaper than the transmission costs of the power company. Meaning that even if the power company somehow had a too-cheap-to-meter fusion power plant, getting that electricity to you is more expensive than you making your own solar power.

Part of this is that transmission costs are higher in Germany than e.g. in the US, partially because Germany has a much more robust system with far fewer outages. How to structure these costs will likely become a bigger topic as more people produce their own electricity but still expect the grid to be there when they need it.
Well, I certainly hope people like sama are still willing to push back, and don't just bend the knee immediately to President Musk. Surely there's at least one or two people out there in Silicon Valley that still have a backbone.
Hardly Musk's first attempt at blatant market manipulation. Hell, that was how he got stuck holding the bag with Twitter
Estate tax is when someone dies and another receives an inheritance. The situation the article describes is where adult children are being subsidized by gifts from their parents, which is not in any way illegal, and is subject to gift tax, not estate tax.

The annual gift tax exclusion in the US, tax-free, is currently $19,000.

The lifetime gift tax exclusion, tax-free, is ~14 million dollars. So if a parent bought a $13M NYC condo for their child, it may functionally be tax-free.

There is no law in the US which parents cannot purchase property for their children but retain ownership in that property (until their death, in which case it could be transferred to the children).

As someone who has successfully purchased properties in major metro areas as a couple without the assistance of any relatives or non-conventional loans, it's a tough one. I do agree that parental gifts need to be taxed harder.

I've experienced the opposite of what's described here, where people truly can't believe that we've purchased our homes without the use of gifts from relatives or some other windfall. When we closed on our first house, I turned to my wife and literally said "how do normal people actually do this?"
It feels like Musk is single-handedly making a great case for why unlimited accumulation of wealth is a bad idea.

It's pretty colorful language, but my mind immediately jumps to "financial terrorist". He's using his enormous amount of wealth and influence as a weapon to bludgeon anyone and anything in his way.
distillate is a noun, not a verb

Edit: I love the edit, it's very straightforward now!
You JUST SAID two comments up that you had personal knowledge of thoughtful work going on.
it's possible to bring back the usability of earlier operating systems with the stability of also earlier, but not quite as earlier, operating systems (OSX has crashed hard-booted three times on me this year, haven't had that happen in a long time)
This sounds like a benefit in some ways, but also introducing a lot more compute per request than if things are well defined.

I suppose the trade offs may depend on each use case, using ai to handle these entirely, or only intervening if an error is returned and the ai can smartly rectify the problem.

Interesting idea. I’m curious to see where people take this
I think you're forgetting to put “all the times ignorance didn't produce a breakthrough” in the denominator.
Yes, known images are used for validation, unknown images are used for training.
It's "X, the everything app", said with an exhausted sneer.
Who in their right mind would put money into OpenAI with DeepSeek out there dumping its better models for free with no license restrictions?

Anyone with enough hardware can run the model and run a competing service for less.

Many companies currently using OpenAI are considering alternative cheaper and better options.

The OpenAI moat has been filled in.
> "This worldview led McKinley, first, to tariffs.

> "A tariff is, essentially, a tax on foreign goods that makes them more expensive relative to similar items made domestically. In theory, this helps boost and protect local industry. The tariff—paid for by the foreign entity—also generates revenue for the government."

> Taxing foreigners was superior to taxing Americans, McKinley rationalized. A tax on foreign products would also protect American businesses

I don't know how it worked in the late 19th century, but today the tariff is always paid by the importer. If a US-based manufacturer needs tariffed sheet steel, and has it imported, that manufacturer -- not the foreign steel mill -- owes the tariff to US Customs when the import is processed at the port or border.

Today, a tariff is quite literally the same thing as taxing Americans, though it could be said that it might shift patterns of consumption and incentivize domestic production. (Which, however, takes time to spin up -- and there are better ways to do that, on display throughout Asia: Subsidies and government investment.)
they ask you to solve two. one they know, the other they don’t
The interpretation and case law surrounding executive powers is not nearly as logical and black and white as the article implies.

Elon Musk is obviously working under the direction of the president, and is appointed by him. The fact that he’s a billionaire or you personally hate him and hate everything he does is mostly irrelevant.

And Musk is not the one who issued the illegal stop work orders or shut down USAID, that’s the president.

There needs to be some perspective here. All presidents have engaged in illegal activity to some extent. Recent presidents literally ordered assassinations of citizens. Eisenhower rounded up Japanese citizens and put them in concentration camps. So okay maybe shutting down USAID is illegal and there will be an injunction. In the scheme of illegal presidential actions it seems tame to me. Like past presidents, Trump is mostly operating within the consent of Congress. Even if the actions are technically illegal, Congress tacitly approves.

The conversation around Trump being a dictator remind me of US reactions to elections in foreign countries, where if the people elect someone the US doesn’t like they are branded a “populist” or “authoritarian”. Trump didn’t illegally seize power. He won the election. Him being a moron and an a-hole is kind of orthogonal to whether it’s a coup.
> I'm taking a Zero Trust approach to the movement of money.

One of the points Patrick stresses repeatedly in both the original article and in his response to McCauley is that providing banking services to cryptocurrency companies is not merely being a "dumb pipe" which facilitates transactions. Giving anybody (whether an individual or a business) a checking account means opening yourself up to counterparty risk, which can blow you up if you model it incorrectly. And this is not a hypothetical: he specifically points out that this is what happened to Metropolitan when they worked with Voyager. And Patrick further elaborates that crypto companies love to push this counterparty risk under the rug by heaping it onto others, then complaining when the inevitable result is that nobody wants to do business with them.

The point of all the above is that "a zero trust approach to money movement" does not and cannot exist. You can pretend it exists, by finding some patsy to take the counterparty risk for you, but once you run out of suckers, reality will reassert itself and no amount of complaining about government interference will change the fact that you're an unacceptably risky customer and that's why nobody wants to give you an account.
Most unfireable CEO ever despite very obviously harming the company more than working there. If they replaced him with someone who would actually work for Tesla the Robotaxi/Optimus stories would not longer hold water (probably the first thing CEO would do was reset expectations so they don't get blamed for the lies) and it would quickly be valued way less than Toyota.
Original source [Zigzags for greener construction](https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/01/zig...) (no discussion) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42714116
The End of Crypto's 'Choke Point'
A 500W kit costs around 500€. With good orientation you break even in 3.5 years (2kWh per day at 20c the kWh). Very few investments would give you such 25-30% yearly ROI.
Dupe (186 points, 1 hour ago, 100 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004889
I'm only familiar with AlphaVantage. It seemed pretty comprehensive.
He tried to claw back Twitter because tech stocks tanked, but he did have the funding to make the purchase (obviously). I don't think this is a good example. Besides, this is a real consortium, not a oneoff Tweet.