skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For years I maintained an ERP system written in BASIC. It was legitimately terrible. The lack of lexical scoping and decent flow control made it nearly impossible to reason about for even simple changes. There’s nothing brilliant about line numbers and all-global variables, it’s literally one of the laziest, sloppiest design decisions you could make in a programming language.

Granted, if your only experience of BASIC is fond memories of the TRS-80 at your grade school, yeah any contempt for it will seem simplistic and poorly motivated. Maybe try having to depend on it for literally anything in a professional setting and you’ll have a more informed perspective.
i do feel like your comment has made me have the thought “i guess using LLMs in your day to day life is a form of gambling, also”
> Does he think everyone else is a moron?

I think he's made it pretty clear that's exactly what he thinks.
They're not going to spend tax-payer money on crypto—thank God. Instead, they will take seized crypto from criminal activity, which would otherwise be frozen on exchanges or hard drives in evidence lockers, and put it into a reserve pool.
I am not an expert sleuth, but using the WHOIS lookup tool it looks like the domain registrar is Japanese. Not to call everything and anything a "psyop" but if I were to set up something like this, I would do it for financial gain (shorting Tesla) rather than political gain, or to use it as a honeypot.

This kind of targeting of Tesla owners after the fact is essentially a dragnet that will affect people of all sorts of backgrounds, and is less effective than a direct boycott at achieving your political goals-- since you are going to polarize a huge chunk of people against you. I think many left-leaning protest organizers would understand this, but I may be mistaken since there are a lot of dumbasses in the world.

Again this is total speculation, but alarm bells immediately went off in my head.
I wonder what level of insight Google will now have in to how AWS, Oracle and Azure’s customers use their cloud. Even just in aggregate I imagine there’s some useful data.
Still nothing on ProtonDB about this - https://www.protondb.com/app/2477290

Anyone got it working? I have an RX6600 in my Linux workstation but I have been thinking about upgrading to play some games here and there.
It's a mistake to assume that just because there are 1000 year old text that the optimized-for-cost prints you can buy today will also last that long.
Oh, that definitely explains the record profits. How silly of everyone. Everyone you can put the pitchforks down, it’s fine, we should just ignore that they run an excessively profitable business overcharging for basic life-saving drugs developed 10 years ago because they occasionally lose money on new drugs, even though it’s not nearly enough to cause a dip in profit. It’s fine, it’s all fine, move along.
Hmm, that seems to stray from the general definition of "multinym" as used in the OP.

If we did stick with the idea of pronunciation, some of the examples from your list could be included if we allow regional accents, e.g. steel-still, peel-pill. However, those accents would also include many other sets not in the OP. barren-bearing particularly stands out, because I can't think of any accent that pushes those together audibly.
This is the sort of project that, no matter how much you know, or think you know, and no matter how much experience you had, it'll still bring you right back down to Earth and humble you somehow. There is no curriculum for preparing for this. There is only "jump in and figure it out as you go".

So let's not criticize anyone for jumping in and figuring it out as they go, as it is the only way to produce a project like this.
All-Robot Assault Opens New Chapter in Front-Line Warfare (Ukraine)
> In short, what Claude aims to disrupt and replace the current workflows like this basic "agent" system from llama index: [Figure 1] With this: [Figure 2]

In the 2nd figure, I think we have a viable pattern if you consider "Human" to be part of "Environment". Hypothetically, if one of the available functions to the LLM is something like AskUserQuestion(), you can flip the conversation mode around and have the human serve as a helpful agent during the middle of their own request.
Maybe, but they've taken something that was effectively risk-free and added risk for absolutely no reason.
... if there'd be a healthy amount of alternatives/competitors to chose from, that would probably be true.

However, as we all know, it's basically a monopoly.
We have exactly one piece of data on this case right now, which is the filed legal complaint. As a parody of corporate espionage, it's excellent, but as a piece of evidence… I would treat it with about the same seriousness as a parody of corporate espionage. Rippling has some incentive not to lie outright, but none whatsoever not to exaggerate the living heck out of everything. And so that leaves us with one unreliable document, and general background information on the parties, or "vibes" as you dismiss it. And the general background is that Rippling is litigious and clearly has a preexisting axe to grind with Deel.
Dear hosters, you are selling wood, not furniture
Thank you for the explanation. It's been something I've been meaning to research because I'd never encountered this before my current employer and it's become something I will actually ask about in the future.

I prefer smaller employers (500 or less) but this is pretty fantastic. I've worked for a Fortune 500 employer with a solid, expensive-but-generously-subsidized healthcare plan, a tiny employer with expensive coverage that wasn't all that great but I've never been able to select from three different providers with a few options a piece.

It was a "killer feature" for me. My family has low-to-moderate medical needs, I like HSA eligible PPOs if the deductible/cost is right. I was able to find three plans that were taken by my family's specific specialists where I could max out the HSA deduction and pay less than half what I had at the last "typical employer plan" company.

This came too late for the Dental side of things -- I would have saved a couple grand per child on braces by purchasing the "Cadillac Plan" even with the two-year lock-in. The last three employers all had plans that seemingly no dentist on Earth is "in network" for and from insurance brands I've never heard of.

There's other upsides -- working at BigCo, we received various discounts at specific car rental companies/hotel chains that the company negotiated discounted rates in exchange for preference for business travel.

I haven't looked into what my company is doing, fully, yet, but it sounds like we have a subset of some of those features, too. We're around 150-200 people (I think) but this is the most comprehensive and reasonably priced benefits offering I've ever seen.
I prefer the Police version
https://medium.com/luminasticity/grammatical-infinities-what...
I just shut my entire web site down after 27 years this year. All traffic was AI crawlers. Fuck it!
The term you're looking for is loitering munitions. From Wikipedia: "Some loitering munitions may return and be recovered by the operator if they are unused in an attack and have enough fuel"
My main complaint with the original half life 2 was that the floors weren't shiny enough, so I'm glad to see this has finally been rectified.
Care to share what tech you used? What worked well and what didn’t? What you wish you could do differently?
Meta Is Experimenting with AI-Generated Comments, for Some Reason
As a developer I went onto this page expecting to see some UI that it's created... That's usually my first port of call with any of this stuff, does it pump out something that's actually useful.

I might not be your target demo, but feedback's feedback!
We're in agreement that the clouds were funded by other lines of business:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43397653

Good law is precise and clear, so everyone knows how to follow it. The meaning of the word "ownership", to take your example, is precisely defined via legislation and case law.

Anti-trust law is neither precise nor clear which is why - and we are both in agreement on this point - that right now both left and right are happy to pick it up and use it to "beat companies" for political reasons. They can't do that with property law because property law is well defined.

The big advantage of the Bork formulation is exactly avoidance of this outcome. By requiring there to be actual evidence that harm was done, it hugely reduces the ability to abuse these laws for political ends and keeps them focused on behaviors that are actually detrimental to the market.
Do Teslas even have functional rear view mirrors? I thought they did everything with cameras on the dash and only had as much shitty rear view mirror as necessary to not violate the law necessitating there be a rear view mirror.
Yes I think it's always been overvalued. Musk's whole schtick (before appealing to nazis) was manipulating the stock price.
If Gizmodo said its great, you know its not.
There are advantages of Rust over C, but I'm not convinced that they are enough to outweigh ~35 years of development, testing and production use of some of the GNU coreutils. I also do not think that there are any problems with the GNU Coreutils that the only possible solution is to rewrite them from scratch and throw away all of that hard work and lessons learned.
Similar to the cited "Do you Need Blockchain" there is NISTIR 8202: Blockchain Technology Overview, page 42.

1. Do you need a shared, consistent data store?

2. Does more than one entity need to contribute data?

3. Data records, once written, are never updated or deleted?

4. Sensitive identifiers WILL NOT be written to the data store?

5. Are the entities with write access having a hard time deciding who should be in control of the data store?

6. Do you want a tamperproof log of all writes to the data store?

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2018/NIST.IR.8202.pdf
Thank you for the pointers! I'll start from there.
archived at https://archive.is/JVjtQ

The U.S. should be on Ukraine's side for moral reasons and could also benefit from the military technology they are developing.
> My favorite example here is Android refusing to support stateful DHCPv6; it's clear that it's being pushed by purist networking geeks inside Google.

If you read the huge bug on it, Google's counter argument is stateful dhcpv6 significantly complicates tethering to the point of needing an ipv6 nat. That's a very practical position to take, hardly "purist network objectionists"
biggest Google acquisition yet or what?
> A small C++/Go/… proxy

Got any recommendations for lightweight proxies that can run on macOS and serve other devices in the home?
She should sell it, it's important to make people who may have been "a-political" before aware of what's going on.
A cow launched from a catapult is indeed a missile, if we want to be pedantic.
> illegal botnets should be shutdown anyway

Illegal botnets aren't new. Are they currently shutdown regularly? (I'm actually asking, I don't know)

> If we made not following robots.txt illegal in certain jurisdictions, and blocked all IP addresses not from those jurisdictions

That sounds kinda like the balkanization of the internet. It's not without some cost. I don't mean financially, but in terms of eroding the connectedness that is supposed to be one of the internet's great benefits.
A decade ago the paper "Understanding deep learning requires rethinking generalization" [0] was published. The submission is a response to that paper and subsequent literature.

Deep neural nets are notable for their strong generalization performance: despite being highly overparametrized they do not seem to overfit the training data. They still perform well on hold-out data and very often on out of distribution data "in the wild". The paper [0] noted a particularly odd feature of neural net training: one can train neural nets on standard datasets to fit random labels. There does not seem to be an inductive bias strong enough to rule out bad overfitting. It is in principle possible to train a model which performs perfectly on the training data but gives nonsense on the test data. But this doesn't seem to happen in practice.

The submission argues that this is unsurprising, and fits within standard theoretical frameworks for machine learning. In section 4 it is claimed that this kind of thing ("benign overfitting") is common to any learning algorithm with "a flexible hypothesis space, combined with a loss function that demands we fit the data, and a simplicity bias: amongst solutions that are consistent with the data (i.e., fit the data perfectly), the simpler ones are preferred".

The fact that the third of these conditions is satisfied, however, is non-trivial, and in my opinion is still not well understood. The results of [0] are reproducible with a wide variety of architectures, with or without any form of explicit regularization. If there is an inductive bias toward "simpler solutions" in fitting deep neural nets it has to come either from SGD itself or from some bias which is very generic in architecture. It's not something like "CNNs generalize well on image data because of an inductive bias toward translation invariant features." While there is some work on implicit smoothing by SGD, for example, in my opinion this is not sufficient to explain the phenomena observed in [0]. What I would find satisfying is a reproducible ablation study of neural net training that removed benign overfitting (+), so that it was clear what exactly are the necessary and sufficient conditions for this behavior in the context of neural nets. As far as I know this still has never been done, because it is not known what this would even entail.

(+) To be clear, I think this would not look like "the fit model still generalizes, but we can no longer fit random labels" but rather "the fit model now gives nonsense on holdout data".

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.03530
The company my employer uses, as far as I can tell, handles all of HR functions -- compliance, training, tax/payroll, benefits and the like.
Yeah, bullshit site.

One Tesla in the Omaha area where I live. Clicking it gives a Virginia address.

I am aware of a handful of Tesla's within a few blocks of where I live. Not listed.
It’s an HTTP library that doesn’t support async or HTTP/2, let alone HTTP/3. It isn’t feature complete.

Besides, I was responding to this:

> The reason given for not including it in the stdlib was so it could evolve more rapidly.

Pointing out that it isn’t evolving at all is a perfectly reasonable response to that.
Acctual: Get paid how and where you want
Get paid how and where you want—let your customer pay the way that works for them. Receive payments straight to your wallet or bank account. For businesses/freelancers globally.
I set up a robots.txt with one entry: a disallow for a specific html file. The html file is not listed elsewhere and thus can only be discovered by the robots.txt. The file features random stuff and an <a href=""> element with the nofollow attribute and a link target set. That link has no text contents, no size, and thus doesn't occupy pixels that a user could click on. When clicked, that link would report the http request to me.

At 2025-02-22 02:14:52, less than a day after i set up this honeypot, 66.249.68.37 (AS15169 GOOGLE) made a request on that invisible link, using user agent string "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/133.0.6943.53 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther)"

So now i have hard evidence that google runs bots that ignore the rules from the robots.txt, but still parses urls from there, queries these resources anyways and follows links marked as "nofollow".
Am I the only one who uses a search engine while reading comment threads about industries/technologies I am not familiar with?

No. And yet... it's considered a Good Practice to expand acronyms on first use, and generally do things to reduce the friction for your audience to understand what you're writing.
Far more addicting than I was prepared for. Nice work!
Nah.

The model is the talent. A talented model is good, but you need to know how to use it.
This is not entirely true, for example you can lose your German citizenship if you have another citizenship and fight for a terrorist organisation (source: https://rsw-beck-de.translate.goog/aktuell/daily/meldung/det...).

Then there is US citizenship, which is actually tied to your income, if I am not mistaken.

A citizenship for me would only bring the following advantages

- be able to live in a country without the hassle of renewing visas

- Having a second citizenship if the (political) situation in my home country goes sideways

I am not interested in voting because I do not believe that I can make a difference. I have done so for decades and things have only got worse in my country, so I have lost hope in the political process.
The best part about this story is the spy, when asked to hand over his phone, decided to hide in the bathroom and lock himself in before storming out of the building refusing to hand it over.

> On March 12, Rippling sought and obtained an order from Ireland’s High Court to seize the alleged spy’s phone. When served, the purported spy feigned compliance before “hiding in the bathroom and then fleeing the scene,” the complaint says.
I put all the ad blockers on YouTube and I pay Nebula not because I particularly enjoy it (it's nice, but not the first thing I think about when I want to watching some videos) but because I want to signal content creators "hey, if you want to be supported by your audience but worry that YouTube is the only place where you can make a living out of it, there is an alternative."
More like Mitch Hedberg would have said: "Sorry for the convenience."
> Someone putting a crap article on arxiv does not hurt anyone else

> ... only reason we need to gatekeep today is to feed the academic prestige and politics machine

This to me says you have may not have experienced some parts of the (long-term) research process. It suggests that you have infinite resources to filter out noise, which is probably not the case. It suggests you're willing to spend a lot more time figuring out why something doesn't quite make sense, rather than get to the heart of the problem, while this is fine in many cases it sucks when you're hot on the trail of something interesting, and you're slammed by a million twisty paths full half-baked hot-takes.

We need to filter ("gate-keep" is pretty inflammatory term) information and processes so that we don't have 12 different screw types with 12 different electric screwdrivers, instead of "just" 6 (sigh). We need to come to consensus and that means some things go in and something are left out. We need many mechanisms to filter.

> tell your colleagues about your research at a conference and let the scientific community decide on whether your idea is interesting.

All of these things feel like filters, when does a filter become a gate: colleagues - i.e. not everybody, but some selected few, who and how?; conference - filter (well, gate!); scientific community - != your baker's community; decisions directed by you, not on my own (i.e. a pointer to my paper) - filter.

[Edit for formatting, sort of.]
Tesla has been in the news so much recently, from things caused by external actors. I wonder if there is some ongoing short and distort.
Looking at my YouTube watch video, and that creates get about 45%, it tends to be about 50p an hour (I watch about 12 hours a month and pay about £12) so say 10 cents per 10 minute video.

From what I see ad views tend to net about $1-5 per thousand views, or well under 1 cent per video.

Ie a creator makes 20-100 times as much per view from me rather than a typical viewer.

Im not sure how it works if you end up watching music on repeat for 200 hours a month and 10 hours of new content. Probably fairer than the way Spotify distributes my subscription fee.
But this is sooooo shiny!
This is extremely dependent on dialect and accent, but they don't specify which one they're talking about.

> borough, burro, burrow

Nah, not 'round 'ere they ain't.
I thought exactly the same things about the illumination, i feel like it's too much "look how cool rtx is" and not enough "this should be scary and dark". In this, and other demos, i also felt like refractions are exaggerated, like floors that seem like mirrors is not really realistic to the end user.
Sometimes it reminds me of when hdr pics came out and everyone was overdoing it.
(But it should be a settings problem more than anything else!)
Gonna just put the obvious on the table: it is one thing to fuck with a Tesla dealership, it is quite another to seek out random owners to fuck with. If you are doing the latter, specifically going to someone's residence to fuck with their automobile, I sincerely hope you get shot in the head with a large caliber gun and your brains are splattered on the ground. That is what you deserve. Enough fucking around and coddling these FREAKS.
Hello,
We don’t send emails when someone joins the waitlist, so it’s normal that you haven’t received anything. We’ll send one out when we reach the launch phase.
Thank you for your advice. We’re going to add a contact form so you can ask us any questions you’d like! I understand the need to feel reassured and to be able to contact us directly.

Inès
This is probably a dumb question, but what does all cash mean? Does it literally mean that they are putting $32bn in Wiz's bank account (or probably some kind of escrow, who knows) which then gets dispersed to their shareholders?

What usually happens otherwise? Would they do partly google stock, etc? And each shareholder gets some kind of multiple? (you get your N amount of Wiz shares X .72 = your number of google shares), or something of that sort?
BYD just announced they can do full charges in 10 mins. The future is not Tesla.
Will this tool be open source?
Is enterprise security software like consumer antivirus software (i.e. unnecessary (or even harmful) if you know what you're doing)?
I do not understand these kind of hate-promoting acts against the Tesla car owners.

If someone owns a car made by a Elon Musk's brand, it does not automatically mean that they are also supporting Trump's BS policies or Elon Musk's unhinged crusades. It might just mean that they like the car.

If someone intentionally conflates these two concepts, they are just finding an excuse to bully others.

If you want to protest against Trump or Elon Musk, go for it. Organize marches in DC every week. Protest with your wallet if you like. Do not buy their stuff. Or sell your stock. And I am sure there are other ways to express your opinion in an intelligent way.

But please, do not spread hate against people who happen to own their products. It is disingenuous. And it might lead to vandalism or even violence.

By far not every Tesla car owner is an Elon Musk fan or a Trump's supporter. Even if they chose to keep their car after "Musk went crazy", it does not automatically mean that they support Musk's or Trump's actions in any way, shape or form.

They might just have chosen a different way to protest.
Yeah, my argument is we shouldn't use "unalive" when we don't have to.
So are we really going down the road of telling people "Hey just buy a new car" whenever yours is politically inconvenient?

The car already has low resale value, and if they did sell it it doesn't get it off the road. I do own one, and honestly I hate driving it around now because of the stigma but its the only car I have and while yes I could sell it at a massive loss thats both a lot of work and a waste of my time, effort, and money.

It was literally the first car I ever bought and was because I liked the convenience of EV's and for the environment. Now I feel like I'm being punished for it through no fault of my own and always have to look over my shoulders, and I don't even like Elon in the first place and never really cared for him.