skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every significant technological innovation has been accompanied by an investment bubble

This seems like more a characteristic of "winner take all (or most)" capitalism rather than a characteristic of innovation.

A new technology potentially creates a new market opportunity and you have everyone bum-rush it as quickly as possible with as much money as possible in the hopes of being the new monopolist.

At any rate, this Ellison play wasn't about an innovation. It was about muscling into a mature market he didn't understand (an "eating-the-world play" to use SV lingo).
Disappointing. "How I found clients", but it's part 1, and part 1 actually doesn't explain how the person finds clients. That will be in part 2. Which is not published yet.
Just to be clear, it has been the law of the land that IRS is not allowed to share this information with criminal investigation. They realized how badly they screwed their revenue collection by “getting” Al Capone. To be clear, Tony Soprano files his taxes. It’s generally the smaller henchmen who don’t.
> I am more incline to view this as a regulation failure - that fingerprinting is permitted in the first place.

In the EU it's not without explicit consent outside of a few, clearly defined cases.

Of course compliance is not 100%.
`... | cat` is sometimes really handy (and universal)
We need stronger punishments for our robber barons, not weaker. We are witnessing the society we experience when they are not kept in check and it is the worst humanity has to offer.
I remember eating them as a young child and not hating them, but something changed and by the time I started college even the smell was nauseating to me. It's not as extreme a reaction as it used to be, but my stomach will still start turning after smelling them for a few minutes.
A standardized chime in the beginning of the phone call could serve to alert humans as well as AI agents that the party they are talking to are an AI, eliminating the first part of the conversation.
Hi all! I volunteer with repair.org to create the map on repair.org/legislation and saw this thread. I'm sorry for the confusion!

I have updated the map to remove MA from the "Passed" or "Active and Passed" category given the law that has passed is related to automotive and our focus is more on digital electronics equipment.

I also updated the legend to address some of the valid concerns mentioned here:

Dark Red = Active in 2025 (or current year);
Light Red = Active before 2025;
Red and Black = Law Passed & Currently Active;
Black = Law Passed
Grok3 prompt updated to ignore questions if Musk or Trump are spreading disinfo?
I just saw this on Reddit so now I am concerned as well- not sure Penn is a go to place this year. “I just heard from an insider all SAS phd students will keep getting their support cut over the next 5 years. Be careful if you accept an offer from Penn this year! Your package could be cut down as you move forward. I didn't want to believe it but who would have thought a school with this size endowment would face an epic collapse in Arts and Sciences. Im going w my second choice to be safe! Good luck everyone!” Anyone else hear this?
Are those actually big developments or just incremental ones?
Perhaps stopping before 1933 would be preferable?
In some sense it's on the spectrum of dysfunction and superstition politics. In one extreme you have things like AIDS denial or looking at horoscopes for large strategic decisions. The countries with the most rational values end up being the best places to run businesses or live in the long term.
Wait long enough and you'll get your wish. Not by eBooks getting cheaper of course but by physical books being re-priced as collector's items. Already happened to songs, movies and physical TV show releases.
Yet Another Benchmark,
great I love benchmarks(!) but, will this page be kept up2date?
In good part it serves as a deterrent for others, given that the US legal system is precedent-based.
The default rarely change avoid breaking changes.
Well now you've got me curious. I didn't feel backed into a corner and I did respond here.

I also don't have multiple accounts or hide replies behind dummy accounts, people can think whatever they want about my comment history.

What exactly are you trying to get at here? What in my comment history, or in this thread, are you claiming shows some ulterior motive to my account?
https://www.wired.com/story/ketamine-psychedelic-slumber-par...

> “Ketamine is helpful for getting one out of the negative frame of mind,” Elon Musk told an interviewer last year. The unelected man currently gutting US federal programs isn’t the only one who thinks so. Ketamine, approved decades ago as a surgical anesthetic and long used as a party drug, is the off-label mental-health treatment of the moment. It induces a “trancelike” state of “sensory isolation,” researchers say, and may temporarily boost the brain’s neuroplasticity—which, in theory, makes mental ruts easier to escape. At the same time, ketamine abuse can be deadly, and the drug remains illegal to use without a prescription. (Musk says he has one from “an actual, real doctor.”)

Basically costs $350 to get a prescription.
Hey,
Not sure what you were left with once you removed metro stations but in the context of the original image the "gare" would be: https://www.sncf-connect.com/gares/paris .

And people would probably often forget Paris Bercy ^^.
> "very very low tolerance for social violence" is...not my general impression of the French people.

"French people" includes the French police, I presume.

For "social violence" it might be informative to substitute "direct action". For example, there is José Bové.
Apparently on their website they're asking for comments/feedback, so... you can tell them yourself what you think of their disgusting tech

> Let us know at founders@optifye.ai, and we’ll help them drop their cortisol levels :)
There is discussion about Sorting Networks in the old post (find link in one of the top comments of this post)
She was not convicted of crimes against patients. She was only convicted of crimes against investors.
I find the marketing interesting considering that this product already exists in other continents ... and it is NOT deployed in factories. It is deployed in office settings. If this our future? Lots of video evidence:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=+Using+AI+to+mo...
Expect dishonest marketing by those aspiring to build these surveillance and anti-freedom systems in our western countries.
Too bad the Chevron doctrine was ditched then. Now Congress has to specify everything, maybe? Who knows? I think that uncertainty is the point thought. The Judges Nine have a project 2025, too.
I built https://LMNO.lol and using it myself https://lmno.lol/alvaro (close to a year now).
Off grid for a long time here, solar pv is solid state electrical generation, that is also robust, and surprisingly damage tolerant.....ooopsy....like wow, smashed glass and still making power after years.
Wind , is great fun, if you like gears and wheels, and "things that go around", and if done very carefully, will work...but its work
vs solar pv ,that once installed, is more boring than watching paint dry, as paint at least changes
its coulor as it drys, but solar is relentlessly inert.....except for watching the readouts of power bieng generated, and seeing corelations with edge of cloud effect, and unexpected output in the worst conditions.
So no surprise here.....solar just works.
> perhaps that syscall requires elevated privileges itself..?

You are exactly right
Harnessing orbital Hall effect in spin-orbit torque MRAM
What area are they in?

I've been freelancing for 7 years, as a primarily JS developer specialising in maps, and the landscape looks nothing like that to me. I don't have a resume, nor has anyone ever asked for one. Also, there wasn't really a "setup" phase and certainly no "marketing".

Recruiters? Is he sure he's a freelancer?
I’m aware, and Al Capone was busted for taxes. I’m still content with his conviction and punishment.
Like what economic changes? You can make a case people are 10% more productive in very specific fields (programming, perhaps consultancy etc). That's not really an earthquake, the internet/web was probably way more significant.
Personal Agency – Learned Skill, Not Trait
Don't be so cynical. There are universal truths.
If you’re an emacser, you can even use delta with magit via the same author’s magit-delta package: https://github.com/dandavison/magit-delta

Looks like there are also instructions in the docs for using it with vscode
But how long do I have before I need to hand in my deliverables at EOD???

This is going to push things back to NBD
I dont blog for others, I blog for myself and my joy.
To be honest, they are focusing here on detecting tweaks used by scrappers to bypass bot protection, not on building an unique and stable fingerprint of a browser.
A Path to Scalable Quantum Computers
It makes sense to prevent her from talking to people who might try to pull another similar stunt.
Musk gives federal workers "another chance" to justify their jobs
If you are disappointed, you didn't plant enough.
In the open source world there are 2 (maybe 3) geometry kernels that handle NURBS and can produce STEP files. Open Cascade, which is GPL now but had a commercial origin. It's quite good and is used in FreeCAD, Salome, KiCAD (EDA), Horizon EDA, Dune 3d, and probably several more. And then Solvespace which is the only user of it's own bespoke kernel which we are still trying to make more robust. This one is also limited to a certain subset of NURBS constructs but is still quite useful.

Open Cascade may be the most difficult piece of FLOSS IP to recreate outside the Linux Kernel. In fact I'd say it'd be harder to replace given the number of people with interest and the background to work on these two different type of software.
My brother had to have something (AC fan?) replaced and it involved removing the entire dash. I've seen photos of this and it looks like the car exploded.
Most tools that do formatted output, if they’re well-behaved, should try to detect if their output is a pipe and if so, disable formatting.

Some examples that I can think of off the top of my head (in addition to git) are ripgrep and jq, both of which do the right thing and strip formatting.
Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page
No, the point I am making is that it very much depends on their location if this "1 in 5"-average is even remotely true. And looking at overall population statistics and concentration of jobs, it's comparatively likely that somebody migrating to germany is _not_ in those areas.

And I do think that's important to point out.
Honestly, until very recently, I haven't felt that at all. Just look at the thread on Trump winning the elections. You might be right in that the majority of users may be democrats, but that doesn't mean they are all pro-union, pro-redistribution, etc.

I wouldn't call management-bashing leftist, everyone engages in that, even if right-wingers refuse to go further than individual action.
I think the comments are clear enough - but if interested take a moment and proxy connections from all devices and you'll witness your every move being sent out.

When Apple talks about respecting your "privacy" it's isn't true as they permit most api grabbing your data from model, location, time, actions and so.

iPhone Apps are an incredible mess...
That’s not copyrighted, is it?
I'm working on software for filmmakers, directors, producers, etc. which drastically saves time on pre-production.

We tested our competitors apps and make our own blend of tools that actually ease the process. Effortless script breakdowns, moodboards, scene-specific venue suggestions, storyboard from script generation (here we consider us the best), nice pitch deck generation and projects sharing.

The market is still a bit conservative about using AI, but we are looking for testers and enjoyers: https://blooper.ai/.

There's a free trial period for people who don't like to f a lot on pre-production (especially during conversation with stakeholders).

Price is also mild for industry, 49$ for up to 5 projects and 199$ for big guys who need process optimization on scale. So...that's it.
Why don't devs use React Native like tech stack that allows development across platforms at the same time, especially for simple apps like this when they probably don't have to use all native capabilities different platforms provide.
That not science, but yes, Putin has completely succeeded geopolitically.

As has been shown multiple times in debates, the only actually adversarial environment Trump has allowed himself to participate in (Obama went to the GOP and explained the ACA to them for three hours, in a town hall setting, completely televised.) Trump has shown himself to be completely and totally manipulatable. Easily baited, played like a glass harp, so to speak.

But that is not science.
I agree with the fact that LLM's inherently lack agency and I think it's a pretty subtle distinction but it's an extremely consequential one. AI cannot self-initiate anything, they are only able to produce an output as a response to input. The impetus for their action is always an idea that came from a humans mind, no matter how indirect that is. That much is inarguable imo, the possible point of contention is whether the same can be said about humans, and that's a very philosophical question but I am very convinced it's not the case(I won't get into my own philosophical beliefs here).

Despite the fact that the distinction is very philosophical, I think the implications are very practical. Without it's own initiating energy everything an AI produces will be a response to an input, and it's response will be constrained by the bounds implied by that input. The specific type of dialectic between the programmer and the person giving requirements, which leads to creating the ACTUAL requirements, is impossible to happen with an AI, because a dialectic requires two opposed agents/forces while an AI is incapable of being an opposing force because it is only a derivative or product of whatever force is providing it's input; basically, it is constrained inside a box defined by the input it is given, and precisely what is needed for true synthesis(new ideas/thoughts, as opposed to an analytic breaking down of the already proposed ideas) is a whole separate box to interact with the one defined by the input.

My explanation is extremely abstract and will probably only make sense to someone who almost agrees with me already, but that's the best I could do. I'm sure there is a more down-to-earth way to explain this but I guess my understanding isn't good enough to find it yet. In my defense I do think this particular issue of agency in AI is one of the most subtle and philosophical problems in the world right now that actual has practical implications.
Mill: A build tool based on pure functional programming [video]
It’s too bad the original IP could not have included some kind of stronger header integrity lock to block middle boxes.

It would have forced us to adopt V6 and… my god… the network would be so much cleaner and superior in every way. Things would just have addresses, and protocol innovation at L3 would be possible.
It is sad. Also, because people who do post something that can be construed to be "pro-Musk" on one issue can also post "anti-Musk" statements on other issues.

Apart from the leftists, the pro war lobby is also mad at peace talks. And they have many more organizations like USAID.
Eyeballs aren’t enough though. Unlike Google ChatGPT is very expensive to run. It’s unlikely they can just slap ads on it like Google did.
There's no reason why an update query that doesn't change the file layout and only twiddles some values in place couldn't be made fast with columnar storage.

When you run a read query, there's one phase that determines the offsets where values are stored and another that reads the value at a given offset. For an update query that doesn't change the offsets, you can change the direction from reading the value at an offset to writing a new value to that location instead, and it should be plenty fast.

Parquet libraries just don't seem to consider that use case worth supporting for some reason and expect people to generate an entire new file with mostly the same content instead. Which definitely doesn't have great performance!
Thanks for the correction, my opinion on the lack of credentials is that in the early days you just didn't need them to become popular, so little content that no one checked. I bit like it's happening nowadays with the anime profile pic twitter accounts acting like they invented AI, with zero code or achievements being shown.
Part of that is that before it was more of personal curation list. Now it is basically collection of curated list of individuals contributing to an awesome list. To be honest it serve the role of having a place where you explore new things. The most famous one for me is awesome selfhosted, I visit it every couple of month to see the new development in this area because it is interesting to me.
She is a credible threat of defrauding more people.
Should bankers who caused the 2008 financial crisis also be on home arrest? Sometimes it is about punishment not rehabilitation.
Good work. I for a second thought they are physical ones.
But there’s no clear evidence that lengthy prison sentences act as a deterrent.

https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/18613/chapter/7#135
If it were in Europe you could have just taken a couple of weeks off work.
fwiw microtargeting ads is extremely common, all presidential campaigns for the past 20 years at least have been doing this. If you're not cynical about ~everyone in politics you're probably drinking too much microtargeted kool-aid (your favorite flavor!):

A CNN investigation found that Vice President Kamala Harris is running contradictory ads about the war in Israel, depending on where you live.

If you live in Michigan, a state with a dense Muslim-American population, you will see ads about how she supports the relief efforts in Gaza, where she says she "will not be silent."

The Michigan ad states: "What has happened in Gaza in the past nine months in devastating, we cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering," Harris is quoted in the ad.

If you drive East to Pennsylvania and flip on a television, you'll see the vice president at a different podium in an ad saying: "Let me be clear, I will always stand up for Israel's right to defend itself, and I will always ensure Israel's ability to defend itself."

For the second ad, taken from her DNC speech, the part where she advocates for peace in Gaza was edited out. CNN reports it was taken out so her message could be more strongly accepted by Jewish voters in Pennsylvania.

https://cbsaustin.com/news/beyond-the-podium/cnn-kamalas-con...
The most common estimate of the average payback period for solar panels is five to fifteen years. Seems more like a sloppy investment not "free money"
Joke's on you, bankers didn't serve any jail time for 2008.

Having said that, I agree 9 years seems extensive. We're just accustomed to these long prison terms. I would have thought 2-3 years plus fines, maybe 5.

The US has the largest prison population in the world both by capita and in total numbers. This is an indication that something is horribly wrong.
As a data scientist, I'd have to know the context: how many threads in the same scope have been flagged to death? I realize that my observations are not a representative sample, but I would estimate for every 1 thread about the current admin that isn't killed, 2-3 are killed. It is a common observation, amd spoken about by others.
Speaking for myself, almost everything about freelancing is better than being an employee.

It's like a job...but with only the good bits. You just do the bit you're really good at. And they pay you really well for it, treat you well, and you have much more flexibility where and how you work.

Only real downside for me has been not having colleagues around.
Ask HN: How do you handle working with difficult colleagues?
What are problematic situations you have found yourself in? With peers, with managers, with clients.

How did you handle them?

I have found myself in some professional interpersonal conflict and I'm curious how others approach these situations.
.watch is blocked by your corporate firewall. please complain about mindless limitations to corporate
The idiot wind now howling through the US offers Ireland transformative windfall
Stumbled upon this paper when exploring the topic of "visual servoing"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.11538

Visual Servoing in Orchard Settings

We present a general framework for accurate positioning of sensors and end effectors in farm settings using a camera mounted on a robotic manipulator. Our main contribution is a visual servoing approach based on a new and robust feature tracking algorithm. Results from field experiments performed at an apple orchard demonstrate that our approach converges to a given termination criterion even under environmental influences such as strong winds, varying illumination conditions and partial occlusion of the target object. Further, we show experimentally that the system converges to the desired view for a wide range of initial conditions. This approach opens possibilities for new applications such as automated fruit inspection, fruit picking or precise pesticide application.
Ignoring the policy reasons that this won't happen, not all devices can be downgraded, so by then it's too late anyway. Best you can do is bypass a non-HSTS certificate warning.

That all assumes DigiCert continues issuing certificates they know won't be trusted. I assume most likely what will actually happen is they have to start selling certificates from another CA, but failing that they're probably just going to stop issuing certificates before the cutoff.
I've never heard of Castle before. Do any current Castle clients care to share opinions of their service as compared to Cloudflare Turnstile or Google ReCaptcha?
I think a baseline for both disrupt and reform is an understanding of the problem space and existing solutions first, maybe more-so for successful disruption.
Gps isn't in geostationary orbit. They're in medium earth orbit and complete an orbit about twice a day
Congress does not decide how to make individual grants.
"Nothing public to point out to" is probably accurate but it is noted publicly here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/trusted-root/new-...
Major Asia bank to cut 4k roles as AI replaces humans
Rewrite? You'll never even get 3/4 of the states to ratify a single constitutional amendment ever again.
the joke's on all of us as long as we continue letting them get away