skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have to say, you copy-pasting this response over and over in this thread tells me a lot about your writing without ever having read a single one of your posts:

- You ask leading questions with questionable assertions. E.g., I doubt that for every moment of a 14 year period you were the unquestioned, constant #3 hotness on HN (I've been here for most of that and didn't see a single one?), yet you present this as uncontestable fact.

- You demand that somebody answer the question you think is most interesting instead of addressing the content of their post

- You don't see obvious things in your communication that people might find not really offensive as much as boorish and uninteresting.
> He’s literally the richest person the earth has ever known.

Rich people become poor people all the time. Its hardly unheard of.
Often "X city local time" is what you want though. If I schedule a recurring meeting at 1 PM, most people will expect it recur at 1 PM local time. A 1 PM EDT meeting would become noon EST when the clocks switch, and no-one wants a lunchtime meeting.
last i tried was only months ago, there is still a fallthrough, if you go back and forth enough times about not connecting or creating an account it just lets you through, perhaps had you unplug ethernet as well
Do you mean the spacing between the two panes of glass?
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What synergy exactly? Selling Twitter bots?
> But it looks like they would need to win 32 of the 33 seats up for grabs in the Senate - 20 of which are currently held by Republicans in solidly red states - to guarantee the 66 votes necessary to convict. That seems unlikely.

Your numbers are on point. But, there's another Math that could take us on that path leading to the same goal: A lot of republican lawmakers aren't happy currently. Although it's a long shot, some of them could join Democrats in impeaching those two clowns.
> They don't spend their full NATO commitments.

Did something change? Nearly all of the EU allies in NATO were expected to hit the 2% commitment last year.

And then there's countries like Poland that spend more than the US as a percentage of GDP.

https://www.nato.int/nato_static_fl2014/assets/pdf/2024/6/pd...
He already said if he won you would never have to vote again but for some reason people didn't take him seriously.
They also started using new IPs without PTR records to send out mail. Though so has Microsoft just recently. Both heavily frown upon that when receiving mail themselves. Do as we say...
> Honestly surprised the VCs that dumped all the money into xAI are on board. I’m guessing he still must have controlling stake.

Why would he give them a controlling stake? I suspect they don't have control.
For me something only qualifies as a 'huge ugly hack' if a better way exists. I think TURN does the best it can in the constraints that exist!

* TURN handles protocol bridging (TCP <-> UDP)

* TURN is useful for privacy preservation.

* TURN handles NAT Traversal (unfortunate when it comes to this)

* TURN is used for security in some cases. It sits at the edge and clients create allocations
It wasn’t a criminal case, and plaintiffs didn’t need to meet a high burden of proof. And Delaware’s entire fairness standard is a two-prong test that includes both fair dealing and fair price: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weinberger_v._UOP,_Inc.

The court ruled:

> Even assuming (without deciding) that Elon was Tesla’s controlling stockholder, the Tesla Board was conflicted, and the vote of the majority Tesla’s minority stockholders approving the Acquisition did not trigger business judgment review, such that entire fairness is the standard of review, the persuasive evidence reveals that the Acquisition was entirely fair…

> Equally if not more important, the preponderance of the evidence reveals that Tesla paid a fair price—SolarCity was, at a minimum, worth what Tesla paid for it, and the Acquisition otherwise was highly beneficial to Tesla. Indeed, the Acquisition marked a vital step forward for a company that had for years made clear to the market and its stockholders that it intended to expand from an electric car manufacturer to an alternative energy company. The Court’s verdict, therefore, is for the defense.
The only issue that I have with iCloud+ with my custom domain is about two gmail accounts which I don’t get mail from. It’s super weird.
Europeans really do love to make shit up to feel superior to the US about.
Are they great price points? Their open timecard starts at £2,999 or £5,495 with an atomic oscillator. Those prices are far outside the home hobbyist budget.
They already are. People still don't see to understand that this is not to make government efficient. It is sabotage.
I think xAI investors were enthusiastically buying a ticket on the Elon rollercoaster
not a majority. as I wrote in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42963075 [edit fixed table formatting and labels]

Assuming I did my sums right, DT won by approximately 1.5%. Hardly a ringing endorsement. He got 31.59% of the voter-eligible (VE) population. I count active yes votes as for a candidate and non-voter passive no votes. Some non-voters support a candidate, but since they didn't vote, their non-votes count against each candidate.

EC %EC pop vote %of ballots %of VE population
Democratic Kamala Harris Tim Walz 226 42% 75,019,230 48.34% 30.66%
Republican Donald J. Trump J.D. Vance 312 58% 77,303,568 49.81% 31.59%

voter eligible population 244,666,890 non-voters 89,278,948

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024
https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2024-11-1...
Society doesn't work because everyone is collaborating for the greater good. Society works because everyone generally cares very little about society and they care more about themselves. The net effect of everyone caring only about themselves is the result you have today.
As an aside, the TimeHAT V2 I used in the post was designed by some of the Meta timing lab team.

They've also designed Switchberry, a 7-port PTP boundary/transparent managed 1 Gbps switch which is run through a Raspberry Pi CM4. I'm currently testing it (along with some other switches).

The Switchberry is open hardware, too! https://github.com/Time-Appliances-Project/Incubation-Projec...
So far Google/Microsoft/Meta can't even get me to tap all the shiny stars and colorful animated rings they've crammed into their products in an unprecedentedly intrusive way, all to beg me to interact with their AI. And now they're going to replace my kids' teachers?

Even my nine year old has a better understanding of how his eyes are sometimes bigger than his mouth.
Why the need to anthropomorphize AI? Why does AI think vs process or interpret or apply previous calculated statistical weights or anything other than think?

I would argue that binary systems built on silicon are fundamentally different that human biology and deserve to be described differently, not forced into the box of human biology.
Nobody told grocery stores not to raise prices, and they did. (in excess of inflation, sources say)

Entrepreneurs are already feeling the pinch (Atlantic, archived) [0] with no near-term solution other than to raise prices or lose money.

[0] https://archive.is/uJw29
Gen X spent their youth rejecting their parents’ world—only to watch it vanish and get replaced by something even emptier.
I meant the opposite: Cross-platform compatibility is what’s sorely missing, and authentication is only a cherry on top, so I don’t think it ought to be a blocker.
> But you can't copyright the actual AI-gen pictures

Is that actually true? What I’ve read is that AI can’t be credited with the copyright.
Ongoing discussion (453 points, 5 hours ago, 512 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509923
Ask HN: Why does ChatGPT image gen want pyxl.pro?
Is anyone else seeing this? When creating an image with ChatGPT's "image generator" the system won't, and says:

"image generator wants to talk to pyxl.pro"

Followed by a pill-box button that reads:
"Sign in with pyxl.pro"
I don’t really see how X data, being riddled with spam and bots, is all that uniquely useful to an AI company. Even if it was, it’s not all that clear that access to data is a defensible moat.
You're right. He's high on ketamine not technology.
I see a couple ways to combat that.

* Your TURN server should provide APIs that allow you to verify that allocations/permissions are only created for your users.

* Use an auth mechanism that has an expiry time. Like [0]

[0] https://github.com/pion/turn/tree/master/examples/lt-cred-ge...
Will this make it possible to run unit tests of code that needs to import UIKit, outside of Simulator?
This was mentioned earlier today on the mailop list:

https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg24300.html

with a later response indicating that Apple was aware:

https://www.mail-archive.com/mailop@mailop.org/msg24312.html
The hard part is to separate background voices (e.g. TV, chatter, etc) from the primary speaker's voice. Basically do voice isolation.
Voice fingerprinting would help only in this context.
Nixon certainly would've been prosecuted if he hadn't been pardoned.

> There is even a strong argument that Obama should have been prosecuted for drone strikes on citizen combatants.

I don't think this is very strong at all. There is zero evidence that Obama intentionally targeted civilians outside of al-Awlaki. Suggesting that he did, and that he should be prosecuted for war crimes, puts him in the same moral category as those who ordered actual torture on enemy combatants and launched wars on fabricated evidence. It's preposterous.
I wouldn't be surprised if most X investors were already investors in xAI anyway. Probably a big reason they got into X is for future investments and spacex.
XML is honestly the greatest and I'm not sure why it didn't take off. People sometimes ask me, "what impacted the humanity the most - electricity? antibiotics? combustion engines?" -- no, no, and no, it was XML. Everything can be expressed in XML, and basically everything can read and write XML. It's like the whole world could read and write the same files. Imagine what if those files included programs, that's what XSLT is, a program that's a file of the XML format that performs transformations between XML format and XML format. Wow - now everything can read and write your programming language! About 90% of it is usually around a capacity to use XML to document your XML to XML transforming XML code, and then the other 9% is boilerplate, 1% does the lifting. Brilliant. Imagine a more verbose java, for those of us who find java terse, it almost feels like assembly to me. XML is like the tower of babel that unites all of humanity and JSON is the devil that shattered that dream.
That's because America is fundamentally a Christian country. I know no one wants to hear this. But this zeitgeist is unmistakenly Christian.

Interestingly enough the same forces are at work in kerala, which is one of the most Christian states in India (and the ruling communists are associated with them)
I actually find the "Explain this post" feature pretty nice.
What you're describing sounds like the Linux gaming experience of 4-5 years ago. Steam and Proton have been complete game changers though, bringing the normal gaming experience with thousands (tens of thousands?) of games to Linux. It's not like it used to be.
Yes, just one prompt for Claude 3.7, it will give you an amazing result.
Just wanted to note: the entire configuration I'm building out is automated to run on any Debian/Ubuntu OS (not just a Pi), and my intent is to make NTP + PTP setup much more approachable for those who want to tinker with it.

The project is on GitHub: https://github.com/geerlingguy/time-pi

The blog post has more color/story around it, but the meat of it is over on GitHub, and right now I'm working my way through testing different network switches, installing an external GPS antenna, etc.

Also, if you're a PTP nerd, you might want to check out a project from the OCP-TAP, the Switchberry, an open hardware design for a PTP boundary/transparent clock with 7 ports! [1] This was built by the same PCB designers as the TimeHAT featured in my blog post, and I'm trying to hammer out some bugs in the bringup so they can be nice, lower-cost options for networks where you don't have the budget or need for enterprise-level PTP offerings, but still want a decent DIY setup.

[1] https://github.com/Time-Appliances-Project/Incubation-Projec...
I'm gonna be honest, I find terseness to be highly overrated by programmers. I value it in moderation, but for a lot of people they say things like "this language is verbose" like that is a problem unto itself. If verbosity is gaining you something (generally clarity), then I think that's a reasonable cost to pay. Terseness is not, in my opinion, a goal unto itself (though many programmers certainly treat it as such). It's something you should seek only to the extent that it makes a language easier to use.
They recently added noise cancellation to realtime transcription.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/realtime-transcripti...
how long until this report is made efficient by removal?
And it's ~40% lower since the "roman" salute day. Anyone can pick random dates.
cobol is trivial to learn. the problem is that the core of old systems were written even before 'Structured Programming' and anything like reviewing and enforcing design standards. there is alot of 60 year old, currently running 'mission critical' cobol, some of it is inscrutable and unmaintainable, while some of it is so simple and elegant that it'd be a great way to teach a 10 year old about programming.
Yep you can schedule it to get brighter/dimmer and warmer/cooler from your existing [Matter compatible] smart home system, and with HomeKit adaptive lighting you can have it follow the sun.
Real life is not like the movies. You aren't executed for disobeying or refusing an order in the US military.
A few thoughts. One is that not all of christendom subscribes to the view that it was literally one man, some take a less literal view. Second, a vast majority of human suffering is down stream of human decisions. Yes it is possible for an omnipotent being to stop all suffering but I would argue it would remove all moral decision making from humans which is important.
Steve Ballmer never diversified his Microsoft stock like Bill Gates did. But it made him an immensely rich guy—currently richer than Gates himself. Now, does that mean picking a company and going all in is a good idea? Probably not.

I’m all about improving my writing to be useful to others. However, diversifying my content to attract a broader audience usually results in the most vapid, formulaic, clickbaity articles. No matter how many eyeballs they get, I don’t get any pleasure reading or writing them. And writing is how I slow down and shape my thinking. I like doing it for myself, not for the audience. But I deeply appreciate however many readers I get.

Hacker News has a pattern of articles it favors: Zig, Rust, why Go isn’t for the “smart” developers, arcane PL theories, nostalgia about some Lisp variant, why you should blog, small internet, and so on. Ninety percent of the time, they’re forgettable. I usually learn more from the comments than the articles themselves. I also don’t want to write just to capture a certain kind of audience.

I mostly write about things I’m currently working with or interested in. I tend to write something I think past me would find useful—and future me might, too. That’s very different from shaping your writeups for the audience. My stats aren’t impressive as the author, but I do get a few thousand monthly visitors to my blog[1]. I’ve had job offers because a recruiter came across one of my posts somewhere. It’s a different way of thinking about writing, but I’m immensely happy with the result.

[1]: https://rednafi.com/
At Amazon it’s common to have terrible, week-long oncall shifts with many repetitive pages. At Google they have shifts that follow the sun and they get PTO to compensate for being oncall during the weekend. Both jobs pay similarly. And I think most people joining Amazon don’t know about the oncall they are in for.
How do you know which assets and people were useful on which projects?
All I can find is that it consists of two people, Elon Musk and Jared Birchall (wealth manager of Musk since 2016, CEO of Neuralink, "right hand man", etc)`

If there are others, it's likely to be representatives from firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz?

Also worth noting that in July 2024 he was discussing having Tesla invest 5B in xAI, I forgot about this one: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1815907844434112999
> I know it's passé in the web dev world...

That is because the web dev world is unfortunately obsessed with the current thing. They chase trends like their lives depend on it.
> It reached the front page of Hacker News, even though readers there are generally hostile to cryptocurrency-focused stories.

The real litmus test :)
Lots of countries do call them import taxes, or import duties, or just duties.

That’s where the term “duty free” that you see in airports comes from.

But I guess until a certain influential individual started lying about tariffs, this wasn’t really necessary because no one was really confused about who paid the tariffs, because the people who knew about them clearly knew it was the importers paid for them and the people who didn’t understand how they worked had no reason to be confused because everyone who did would clearly explain that importers paid them.
That would be the IEEE, and I don't think the marketing people in the Wi-Fi Alliance participate at that level.
how can this happen??? I thought xAI is subsidiary
Yeah, that deserves a front-page link of its own.
I'd be ok with these cameras if they could ticket people for texting and driving.
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This? https://openai.com/index/introducing-4o-image-generation/

Or something else?
China blocks sale of Panama Canal shipping terminals to US investor
Why? Social security is young supporting the old.
The appeal is "I will hurt the people you don't like".
The WSJ article says that most of the minority non-musk investors of xAI are also non-Musk investors of Twitter. So they are self dealing as well. It is just one giant orgy of self dealing. Apologies about the mental image.
Not Linux specific, but the thermal paste is pretty poor. Mine disintegrated in two years of heavy use. (13", Intel 12th gen)

Popping off the heat sink to apply a fresh dab is no big deal, but I didn't find out until the top-center keys (y, 6) began failing.

Replacing the keyboard is $50 and about a hundred tiny screws.
Kerala generally hates divisive and communal politics. Consequently, the alliance currently in power at the national level never makes any significant gains here. Unfortunately, the response to that can get very contrary to federalism and other constitutional values. They went so far as to promote a propaganda movie against the state and one community in particular. Maligning Kerala, even through official channels is frankly a very common thing in India (only from people who support a certain extreme political ideology). The accusations of secession are all part of that campaign.

PS: I'm not very comfortable discussing such a divisive political matter in this forum. However, I'm leaving this here since I see some biased opinions being raised without a counter.
The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025
On the contrary, FDIC encourages more reckless banking. Customers chase riskier high interest deposits knowing they cannot lose the deposit and that the 'insurance' is already baked in at a public loss if their gamble loses. The customer has little incentive to monitor underlying banking of these insured funds. This isn't just my words, the fdic has written of the moral hazards themselves. And the same principle applies to the central bank encouraging risky bank behavior by bailing them out as a lendor of last resort.
Doesn’t look like “yes, but” language to me. Looks like the code is plain old MIT and the author is doing their due diligence with respect to vendored content in the repository subject to different licensing. Seems like they are being paid by a company to work on this, so it’s not surprising that they actually pay attention to copyright.

The fact that many project maintainers forget about vendored content and haphazardly slap the MIT license (or whatever) verbatim into a LICENSE file doesn’t actually give you a get-out-of-paying-lawyers-free card! If anything, Xee’s COPYRIGHT file gives me more confidence in my legal footing than an unadulterated LICENSE file would. It indicates the maintainer at least has a basic understanding of how copyright applies to their project.
YAML is great. For simple configuration files. For anything more complex it gets gnarly quick, but honestly? If I need a config file for a script I'm writing I will reach for YAML every time. It really is amazing for that use case.
I managed to get rid of it (I was blocked by this) by clicking the "..." button in the input frame and choosing "Create image" which was prepended to my prompt.

No idea what happened there... I have a valid/paid account, no browser extensions... strange stuff.
Fidelity valuing at $10B is ancient outdated news no longer reflective of reality, the value had skyrocketed in recent months, given the profits which now exceed profits as a public company. [1] [2]

In fact, Twitter debt is selling at 97% of value, indicating high confidence in the company. [3]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/mar/19/value-elo...

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-paid-high-price-114...

[3] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musks-value-on-wall-street-is...
Hold on, I feel like everyone's missing that theres a real argument here. I think the key point was:

>They are just judging if anything reaches the point where shareholders were legally harmed, which still gives a lot of gray area to the acquiring company.

This distinguishes the lawsuit failing from the idea that a fair price was paid. The competing contentions are (a) fair price vs (b) unfair but beneath threshold of legally punishable harm.
The people with truly nothing left to lose are probably worried more about existing than voting, but I do generally agree otherwise. I think some resentment is possibly along lines of smarts/education and the roles and trappings those normally bring?

I also think there's a polarisation between people predisposed mentally for survival and others for thriving. Scott Alexander has a piece about this that I found very interesting: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/04/a-thrivesurvive-theory...
Will get you to Pluto, never mind Mars.
Yes, I’ve been on iCloud 2y+ and saw my first failure today
Nah, looks like k8s namespacing/service/etc style.
A few years ago, when iCloud custom domains first launched, I found a bug where Apple would permanently cache the MX record. If an iCloud user had ever used a custom domain, future emails from iCloud to that domain would still get routed to their iCloud inbox—even if the domain’s MX record no longer pointed to Apple. They eventually fixed it, but didn’t think it deserved a bounty, which was a bit surprising.

I'm sure there's a ton of interesting surface area here.
I know, writers and editors not deciding on the business model of the publication.