skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It remains to be seen what he means by it in practice. It is possible many will be pleasantly surprised at what emerges.

This article does suggest Shipley wanted a more balanced, "both sides" approach to the opinions section, which I agree with Bezos is shortsighted and sort of shallow:

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/26/nx-s1-5309725/jeff-bezos-wash...

On the other hand, it's difficult for me to imagine David Shipley leaving over that alone if there wasn't something pointed or questionable about what Bezos was suggesting. Also, if Bezos' recent interventions are any guide, he isn't exactly pushing for greater freedom of speech, or more rigorous critique, at the Washington Post — there's a "liberty for me but not for thee" kind of sense to his actions.

If Bezos wanted to turn the Washington Post into some kind of Reason Magazine with a primary news arm attached to it, it wouldn't be the worst thing in my opinion for me personally. But I'm skeptical of his vision without more evidence: for one thing, if he wanted to come out swinging, he could have made his vision clear.
Hah, the whiplash must be tremendous for some of the employees, and even for some of the customers.

It'll be very interesting to see how both employees and customers react and evolve over the next few years.
Really sorry about that haha. it's meant as a short game to play when you want a break, but i've found myself replaying a few times and really not getting much done.
> Identify or find objects with Alexa+.. use the camera on Echo Show devices to identify objects and get help with daily tasks. For example, reorder pantry items by showing them to the new Alexa, ask Alexa to identify a type of plant and its care instructions and set reminders for when it needs to get watered, or get fashion or décor ideas. This new feature is particularly game changing for people who are blind or have low vision

This has so much potential, but it will require a workflow for Alexa to learn about specific objects and layout (of multiple objects) within the customer's home. Apple's "live audio descriptions of video" had similar promise at launch, but hasn't evolved beyond the launch demo, https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/iph32deb9296/18.... Could Alexa+ enable self-service RLHF on home video/images?

It's a testament to the latent market opportunity that Amazon has sold 500+ million devices, despite the obstacles that greet customers trying to customize Alexa for their specific needs. With open developer interfaces, Alexa could have been the "IBM PC" of voice AI, instead of just another walled garden.

Alexa use cases for elderly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41062989

In theory, Home Assistant voice hardware could be integrated with local LLMs for private voice control, https://www.home-assistant.io/voice-pe/

> Fully open software, firmware, and hardware.. Grove port for connecting sensors and a 3.5mm headphone jack for connecting external speakers
Nah... See, thing is, there aren't a lot of Greeks in N.Macedonia -- but there's a huge Albanian minority, ~25% across the nation and presumably much more in Skopje. The "old city," not a ten minute walk from where that photo was taken, is practically a Muslim quarter, full of mosques. It feels more like Istanbul than Athens.

The Skopje 2014 project is, in a way, an attempt at forging a national identity that's equal parts Slavic and neo-Ancient-Macedonian -- and the Albainans, feeling left out, have protested quite loudly about it. More on that here: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/soeu-2018-003...

Also on the Wiki page:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje_2014

> "Sam Vaknin, a former adviser to Nikola Gruevski, has stated that the project is not anti-Greek or anti-Bulgarian, but anti-Albanian. In an interview, he said "Antiquisation has a double goal, which is to marginalise the Albanians and create an identity that will not allow Albanians to become Macedonians.""

All very interesting, I think. It's a nation that's trying to find itself, trying to build up a coherent national identity in real time.

As for the Greek thing, it's totally obvious that Ancient Macedonia is within the borders of modern Greece. Philip's palace at Aigai is a ~4 hour drive from Skopje, and indeed south of Thessaloniki. So the N.Macedonian position re: Alexander the Great is a little bit farcical. But I suppose they could say that they are inheritors, of sorts, to the Roman Province of Macedonia...
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>an argument for what rule the law should use

>Is/ought dichotomy.

For some reason, you've started talking about what the law hypothetically should be and how court cases should be handled. I wish we had a perfect court system, too. But can we shift back to reality?

>In what way is it not analogous?

The first hint is that it's purposefully formulated to come across as absurd (crypto as an appeal to emotion? really?). It's unnecessarily exaggerated and lacks any context. This Automattic stuff has months of history that will be considered. It fails to map just about anything to the digital equivalent, represented in the lawsuit.

Analogies typically suck anyways, so why don't we just discuss what's actually happening? Some companies were obligated to implement manual security controls during the period where Automattic disabled their automated ones. In some cases they had to conduct additional (unscheduled, previously unnecessary) security assessments solely due to the actions of Automattic during their fued with another company about trademarks. Companies had to take time to assess if, how, and when they would move their websites. All of this costs money.

If you are an unrelated third-party caught in the crossfire of a frivolous dispute between two companies, seeking reimbursement for that money is reasonable.
> Every day I find myself reflecting on the gap between the ever-growing capability of AI, and the somewhat modest impact it is having on our day-to-day life.

Yeah but isn’t that because it actually is rather useless? It is not very capable?

If it is, why did no one person team disrupt and totally take over any market anywhere these past couple of years?
Bezos is not a part of US government, thankfully.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waluigi_effect
What was said then? Do you believe that the free markets concept never got anyone killed?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184762
> If I just dump my Supabase project's Postgres DB can I load the SQL into Gel and have everything work. Or would I need to setup the schema.

Currently you have to define your schema in Gel [1] and then write scripts to port your Postgres data into Gel. It's cumbersome, we know, we'll be working on improving the migration flow.

> Last question, Supabase heavily pushes the use of Captchas if you use any anonymous authentication. Does Gel also suggest this. Notably Firebase doesn't care, which makes it much easier on end users.

We don't have captchas implemented, but when we do, it will be an opt-in configuration option.

> Ok, just one more question! How is your SDK support. JavaScript is a given, but Godot support would be nice.

Golang? We have a great Go client [2].

[1] https://docs.geldata.com/reference/datamodel

[2] https://github.com/geldata/gel-go
I think primarily it's targeting a user segment that's sort of distinct. The mainly younger folks who carry a camera very often or daily, for whom it's not just a hobby but also something that's fashionable. They do care about image quality, but also care about form factor and the looks of the thing, which is a distinct need vs. pro or typical prosumer users (DSLR dads, I lovingly call them).

Dropping the physical controls doesn't really save a ton of money. They went for a unibody chassis, which itself is a bit of an expensive way to make a production component (see their very nice staged dry-run toolpath simulation on a 5-axis CNC machine).

I do think they wanted something extremely compact for what it is (hence no viewfinder), without a bunch of stuff sticking off of it. Something that people who design EDC objects think about - will this snag on things?
"Woke" is a meme, not a political orientation or a coherent bloc that can take concerted actions. And for what it's worth, plenty of old white men venture capitalists made tons of money selling DEI to the Fortune 500.
I feel like for any place that Gemini can give you worthwhile information about there will be a number of other sources that can give you more reliable info about it. Granted I tend to take trips to oddball places so I might not be the best judge.

I just tried asking Gemini about some popular destinations spots near my house that I know well and the answers weren't very impressive. Much of the responses didn't actually pertain to my specific questions and the useful info was pretty standard stuff that could be found anywhere. Some of it was straight up wrong as well. For example I asked about good hikes that aren't too crowded and it recommended the single most crowded trail in the area.
Bezos isn't Goebbels, but he did just confirm two things:
1. He has confirmed that he exerts some editorial control
2. He intends to exert more of it.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/loveinterest/images/5/5c/3...
well, that's a hostile naming scheme

from the specs, a mobile 4070 looks like its basically a 4060 ti, underclocked to ~60%
The quality vs speed translating war has been ongoing forever now. Before I retired (a long time ago now) I had transitioned to quality groups because the speed oriented groups were producing such bad translations. MTL is just accelerating this.
> Since humans are relatively expensive in energy use

Are they? I'm seeing figures around 80 watts at rest, and 150 when exercising. The brain itself only uses about 20 watts [1]. That's 1/35 of a single H100's power consumption (700 watts - which doesn't even take into account the energy required to cool the data center, the humans who build and maintain it, ...).

[1]: https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/follow-hbp/news/2023/09/...
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Things already are that bad, you’re standing an inch beyond where the previous wave washed up to and saying “well if it gets here in the next few waves then suddenly we become in deep shit’ while all around people are shouting at you about the existence of a concept called ‘the tide’. This is happening right now. fight back.
> [...] biological self-assembly properties of tunable materials (e.g. hydrogels [...]

FYI, hydrogels were part of the "recent vaccine" components.
Solo RPGs and journaling games give advantage on mental health rolls
I think if you are going to claim fair coverage, then yes. If you are going to openly say you are for one side or the other, then okay. Having a tag line like "fair and balanced" without the balance or being fair then no.
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> play pokemon against human opponents on a simulator like pokemon showdown

That's precisely the pet project I'd take on if/when I bother to take the time making some deep learning agent. There's a bot that plays one of the ladders already but it's just a decision tree and the best players know how to predict its moves. It's like ~1500 ELO in a ladder where the best players are 1800+. Still not bad, to be fair; it would probably beat me.

The bot has a pre-selected team, which I believe always starts with the same mon. I'd be more interested in an agent that fully played the game, start-to-finish, including making a team based on play data and selecting a starter based on the current opponent's team.
Yeah, we probably can. We'll research!
The fairness doctrine does not require equal time. It requires you to dedicate some amount of time to controversial topics, and then give some amount of time to opposing parties within those topics.

Which, if you're going to argue against someone's position, I'd think it best to get that position directly from them, rather than building a strawman to beat down.
Let me say the unpopular and evil: no individual should control assets of more than 100 million USD.

Run /s
It's all handwritten js, lots of trying the game and figuring out what's fun, what's not. I don't even use a bundler, right click / show source will show the code I wrote. I made an apk for it and added a small deploy script that ssh to my server and pushes the code. The code is written with webstorm, but you could use anything. I've asked mistral AI for help when it came to making procedural sounds, the rest is just a lot of trial and error. I have a small ui to make levels and icons that's also handwritten.
Not WaPo, but chuckr is back at Meta because of the political shift. Chuckr is well-known for being a firearm enthusiast.
Yeah I think _a_ future of television might've been more apt. They should've made a season 5 to Snowpiercer.
Perhaps you should re-familiarize yourself with the Pledge of Allegiance.
Nerds were required on the early internet for community building - to run IRC and TS and phpBB. These days everyone has these tools. But as with the media monopoly dying, this is not a strictly better or worse thing, it's just different. And generally I like it when we get rid of gatekeeping.
No - it was an authoritarian regime but there was also a genuine belief in the Yugoslav project. It wouldn't have lasted as long as it did without that, it wasn't just sloganeering and coercion.
Assuredly, but this does appear to be a move to appease an administration that has signaled it will attack an unfriendly press.
unless you're the US Navy...
This wasn't the only story like that. I at least remember similar stories about some kind of database / library maintainer and yet another javascript framework.

Dont have enough time to find them now, but it's kind a obvious people would like to apply to places that already use their open source code. I would at least try, but no one use open source game-clone engines so no way on earth anyone will use what I worked on.
The PUE of humans for that 80 watts is terrible, though. Ridiculous multiples of additional energy needed to convert solar power to a form of a energy that they can use, and even the manufacturing lifecycle and transport of humans to the datacenter is energy inefficient.
Yeah, but looking back at the attempts to extend C a bit for safety, the only one that seems to have got market traction is MISRA and even then it's pretty limited. D, rust, zig etc all seem to have much more buy in. There must be some reason why a new language works better here -I mean, you're basing your business off D, not a C extension, right?
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184762
Python keeps the types at runtime, that's why no TypeScript framework will have a developer experience anywhere near something like FastAPI.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43184762
There are domains where C# (and F#) productivity stems from similar reasons why writing a game in something that isn't Rust might be more productive without even sacrificing performance (or, at least, not to the drastic extent).

I can give you an example:

var number = 0;
var delay = Task.Delay(1000);

for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++)
{
Task.Run(() =>
{
while (!delay.IsCompleted)
{
Interlocked.Increment(ref number);
}
});
}

await delay;

How would you write this idiomatically in Rust without using unsafe?

To avoid misunderstanding, I think Rust is a great language and even if you are a C# developer who does not plan to actively use it, learning Rust is of great benefit still because it forces you to tackle the concepts that implicitly underpin C#/F# in an explicit way.
Since the comparison was between a generator, I left out the generator inlet you need. But that’s like <1k$ install. The car replaces the generator but the inlet is needed to breaker box either way.

Here’s video summary https://youtu.be/ZmmhOXsIRjw?si=eZh_MCWJjhrwNpm9
I sort of suspect it's also a case of bluffing. You can't know for sure which aspect of a complaint is the one that makes the defendants soil themselves, and you might trigger a settlement or make them behave strangely in ways that give you clues about where exactly it is they're ticklish.

I've been told before that some people will settle a case to avoid setting a legal precedent, which might trigger giant class action suits.
> Imagine: the invoice isn’t just a record in your ERP anymore. It’s a machine that wants to get approved. It wants to get paid.

Stopped reading at that point. Realized this is just fluff from someone letting their imagination run away.
> ...once you've amassed a certain amount of capital, which you can then expend to defend your enterprise from any number of legal challenges

I wonder if that's part of the Silicon Valley secret sauce - there seems to be a gentleman's agreement not to sue startups.

> So why don't we have two dozen scrappy American firms competing against Pfizer's Meridian Medical Technologies to produce adrenaline auto-injectors?

The FDA approved the first generic auto-injector in 2018.
Maybe a more natural way to make the distinction is by looking at the average width of the body of water seperating the landmass relative to the area of the landmass. That is an island is a landmass that has an area (A) of at least A_min and at most A_max and is either

a) Surrounded by a body of water with average width W_avg where W_avg > f_min*sqrt(A) - or

b) Surrounded by a body of water with average width W_avg where W_avg > W_min

Fill in the constants A_min, A_max, f_min and W_min to get as close as possible to real world usage of the word "island".
That's good! Do your friends know about / use HN?

(Sorry for conscripting you as a guinea pig but it's hard to get this kind of info!)
Nor was Dorsey's Twitter?
Thanks Bill :)

I can relate to the first thing you mentioned, and I never really took action. Layoff was thrust upon me, with the privilege of a severance, and I had been working for decades, so I figured "why not try now?" I'm not sure if I ever would have been brave enough to proactively try, but that's just me. Video games in particular are brutal, economically, and not something I would ever recommend someone take a risk on in hopes of a payday.

Regarding art: don't get distracted by art. The original prototype of Ballionaire was made using Twemoji -- you can see a video of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwIwcGewZME Later I switched from Twemoji to images sourced from https://www.flaticon.com/ When I signed a publisher, I was lucky enough for them to hook me up with an in-house artist. I knew the style I wanted (the style you see in the game) and luckily the artist Hanja absolutely nailed it.

I would recommend avoiding art as long as possible if it's not your strength. You will go much further on making something feel really fun then making art that's one click above terrible. If you get traction, the art can come later. For future prototypes I am working on straight up text mode (or near to it, in like stock Godot UI) right now.
You are right and are being down voted because ideology clouds people's judgement.
> There is a pending hard fork to PQ Post Quantum algorithms for all classical blockchains.

Where is this pending HF for BTC?

How can all of this work realistically without constant cat & mouse catch up game?

> Spelunking for Bitcoin by generating all possible keys and checking their account balances is not prevented by PQ algorithms.

So there will be no protection against this? There is no protection possible?
I mostly agree, but have a quibble:

> That is, of course, the only reliable way to get yourself into a footing that permits innovation past the status quo.

The space race was a very govt driven thing, and there was a ton of innovation. Govt also funds (funded?) a lot of basic science. "innovation" can happen outside the free market, and might happen more "reliably" when there's no interfering profit motive
Genital configurations are a distraction. You can get incomplete/malformed genitals in individuals with disorders of sex development, but that doesn't change their sex.

> Trans people are not beating up [cis] women in sports.

This is plainly false. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallon_Fox#Mixed_martial_arts_...

> During Fox's fight against Tamikka Brents on September 13, 2014, Brents suffered a concussion, an orbital bone fracture, and seven staples to the head in the 1st round. After her loss, Brents took to social media to convey her thoughts on the experience of fighting Fox: "I've fought a lot of women and have never felt the strength that I felt in a fight as I did that night. I can't answer whether it's because she was born a man or not because I'm not a doctor. I can only say, I've never felt so overpowered ever in my life and I am an abnormally strong female in my own right", she stated. "Her grip was different, I could usually move around in the clinch against other females but couldn't move at all in Fox's clinch."

There's more examples here, but can we both agree that your statement is incorrect?

You almost understand the truth. Forcing people into strict gender roles based on social mores is bad. Men can wear dresses and women can wear pants, etc. What I hope you'll understand is that just because you don't follow gender stereotypes doesn't mean you can change your sex. A man taking cross-sex hormones and getting surgery is still a man. Let's not sell him the lie that he will ever be a woman. Let's enlighten him that he should live his life and engage in as many masculine or feminine activities as he sees fit.
> I treat it now more like advice from a friend. Great information that isn't necessarily right and often wrong without having any idea it is wrong.

"Drunken uncle at a bar, known for spinning tales, and a master BSer who hustled his way through college in assorted pool halls" is my personal model of it. Often right, or nearly so. Frequently wrong. Sometimes has made things up on the spot. Absolutely zero ability to tell which it is, from the conversation.
Greybeard former fusion founder here. Wishing you guys all the luck in the world! Email in profile in case you wish to chat.

For all the naysayers, as a fusion startup, targeting the marine market is a good move. They aren't even the first fusion startup to do so; IIRC Rostoker's group got their first major funding from the NRL. The marine market pays a premium for not having to refuel, and historically emerging energy technologies have early commercialization in ships. This was true for fission in the 50s and for photovoltaic solar in the 70s/80s.

Now, sure, they have to make power to be able to sell it. But to build a reactor, you have to raise funds, and in order to raise funds you have to show that you can make money if you are successful at making power. Explicitly aiming at a market that might actually pay for overpriced power shows their investors that there may be a valid business case. That doesn't make fusion happen any easier, but you don't make any reactions without first building a reactor.

You know, I'm sure these guys could work somewhere getting paid to get more people to click on stuff. Instead they are taking a risk to do something that might be important. Make no mistake: fusion founder is a tough gig. There is no established off-ramp, and many fusion founders find that it's a job that can easily eat your career. I hope their plan B is in order, as well as their prenups and/or wills. They are going off to fight a dragon that's eaten a lot of other people's careers, relationships and sanity.

As an aside, it's nice to see someone working on a tokamak actually not being overly optimistic about wall heat flux. It's like somebody actually paid attention to Stacey or something ;)
But that's all CPU -- he doesn't have to emulate the rest of the computer (video card, IO systems, etc). You provide WASM with your own interface to the outside world.
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Massive lack of insight. The lady in the box on the kitchen counter is a "groupware timer". The timer on my watch is of no use to my wife in knowing when to turn off the oven when I'm in the bathroom.
WhatsApp has the same blinking cursor, and everybody is happy with it.