skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I responded to what you actually wrote in your previous comment:

> Some multiple on the last funding round (perhaps a multiple <1)

The irrational part is that it could possibly be a fraction of their last round of funding. Do you agree it would have to be a multiple much greater than 1, since their last round of funding (750 million) was a small fraction of their profit last year, and they are on the path of exceeding their total accumulated funding for all rounds in another two years?

I've never seen a profiting company valued based on their last round of funding rather than current/future revenue/profits. Do you have any examples of this, in the real world?
If we have an election in 2026 and 2028, will you reassess your convictions? Or just carry them forward without re-evaluation?
If you can't explain how it works, I don't want it.

If your explanation boils down to a bunch of "it should do..." or "most of the time it does..." then I still don't want it.
Personally, I have found the fact this researcher himself is not complaining about this and remains anonymous to be pretty suspicious in itself.

Instead we have a French beurocrat complaining about it on his behalf himself pushing the bad messages found narrative. This all smells of cover-up.

A plausible explanation would be that the US knows confidential information ended up in France and the person who was denied entry was the only plausible vector but was not caught red handed. Instead he was shadow banned and was nabbed for interrogation at the border where he confessed. And it could well be that the border agents scraped together a story about his messages as an excuse to bounce a persona non grata to keep the diplomatic issue quiet because banning a guy for Trump hate is a better diplomatic choice. (i.e. what is to be gained from holding him vs letting France burn him for getting caught). This all seems extremely plausible to me.

In any case there's obviously more to the story and that's the point. Not knowing who this guy is really underscores there's something diplomatically delicate at play here and the US has sent France whatever message it needs already IMHO.

Put another way: if you are affiliated with France's nuclear weapons program maybe there's something work-related going on between France and the US. That's how I interpret this story.
Ok, I’ll retract my statement from “impossible” to “what the layman would refer to as impossible when you take into account resource constraints”
Disconnecting most benefits from employment would be a good start, especially healthcare. Imagine if small companies could focus on their product and customers instead of on being the entire social safety net for their employees.
Anything Apple gets attention. But any large organization does various forms of segmentation. Many of these stories are “true”, but also bullshit.

I worked for a company that did some work for the federal government. Boring stuff. Their compliance rules essentially required that we firewall the folks with operational access to their data from the rest of the company. We included the physical offices in that to avoid certain expenses and controls companywide.
“Raw-dogging it” as the kids like to say.
What? You realise that even in say, Europe, for example in France, parties like Le Front National get almost half of the votes? Germany also has a lot of voters for their own extreme right wing parties.

I know it might seem weird when you are in a hive mind but a lot of people do agree with whatever trump does. Even in places where you'd expect them not to. I'm in Morocco for example right now and most people either I've talked to are either ambivalent or slightly like Trump (or dislike him due to his position on Gaza, but Biden was even worse in terms of total inaction).

But I won't blame people for thinking that whatever is popular on Reddit or Blue sky actually is a majority opinion, just because of how insanely one sided and dramatic those places and people who spend a lot of time there tend to be. It's really brain rot inducing.
The scenario in the article, about how AI is "usually" right in queries like "which airport is my mom's flight landing at and when?" is exactly the problem with Google's AI summaries as well. Several times recently I've googled something really obscure like how to get fr*king suspend working in Linux on a recent-ish laptop, and it's given me generic pablum instad of the actual, obscure trick that makes it work (type a 12-key magic sequence, get advanced BIOS options, pick an option way down a scrolling list to nuke fr*king modern suspend and restore S3 sleep... happiness in both Windows and Linux in the dual boot environment). So it just makes the answers harder to find, instead of helping.
Convert Linux to Windows
I've been experiencing "AI" making things worse. Grammarly worked fine for a decade+ but now since, I guess, they've been trying to cram more LLM junk into it the recommendations have been a lot less reliable. Now it's sometimes missing even obvious typos.
Any advice on how to shop for older jeans? I have >10-year old Lee jeans that are much better quality than what I can buy now. I didn't think it was possible to find such old stock of clothes but I'm willing to try.
Which is made on purpose to sell Kotlin on the platform, those having had this decision are part of the same anti-Java group I was mentioning, as per remarks on podcasts and other appearances.
I sense that it can make things hard to learn, and abolished it from my practice on Leetcode. It's not permitted for contests, and the magic or subtly wrong answers don't facilitate learning as well, and obscure the leaps you can make by iterating (more slowly) on your own inferior solutions. Pain is an OK teacher.

I've been doing Leetcode in Rust which, statistically, is a poor choice. When I have asked, it writes solutions that look like python or C, unable to identify when iterators are the appropriate tool.

It's not authoritative reference material, which my background in IT trained me to strongly, strongly prefer to, even my own intuition in situations I've seen before.
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> Of course Robotaxi isn't close to existing.

Musk announced in January that it was to launch in June, in Austin.
Thanks. That page also helped me find one that sums up the mission so far, and explains what's to come in 2026 & 2023.

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Gaia/L...
A/B testing revealed this headline gets more clicks than "who tried to import undeclared biological samples".
It's probably mostly videos. Upload the ones you don't really care about to a private YouTube channel, which doesn't charge you for storage, and delete them from iCloud. Keep the ones you really want to keep on both (it's safer that way).

By contrast the photos and documents will barely take up any space. It's not worth worrying about those until you can do something about the videos. They probably wouldn't even be an issue afterward.

Or just make the kids do chores or get a part time job to help pay for the extra iCloud storage. $22 is not much for a whole family's worth of memories.
Why America now eats a crazy number of avocados
Why can’t you just run a longer cable into a temperature/noise controlled room nearby?
Upvote. Employees are the actual enforcement of tech ethics. See Google project maven pushback
I just do not understand this attitude. ChatGPT alone has hundreds of millions of active users that are clearly getting value from it, despite any mistakes it may make.

To me the almost unsolvable problem Apple has is wanting to do as much as possible on device, but also have been historically very stingy with RAM (on iOS and Mac devices - iOS more understandably, given it doesn't really need huge amounts of RAM until LLMs came along). This gives them a real real problem, having to use very small models which hallucinate a lot more than giant cloud hosted ones.

Even if they did manage to get 16GB of RAM on their new iPhones that is still only going to be able to fit a 7b param model at a push (leaving 8GB for 'system' use).

In my experience even the best open source 7B local models are close to unusable. They'd have been mindblowning a few years ago but when you are used to "full size" cutting edge models it feels like an enormous downgrade. And I assume this to always be the case; while small models are always improving, so are the full size ones, so there will always be a big delta between them, and people are already used to the large ones.

So I think Apple probably needs to shift to using cloud services more like their Private Compute idea, but they have an issue there in so much that they have 1b+ users and it is not trivial at all to be able to handle that level of cloud usage for core iOS/Mac features (I suspect this is why virtually nothing uses Private Compute at the moment). Even if each iOS user only did 10 "cloud LLM" requests a day, that's over 10b/requests a day (10x the scale that OpenAI currently handles). And in reality it'd ideally be orders of magnitude more than that given how many possible integration options they are for mobile devices alone.
> I knew this happened pre-COVID, but it was actually in 2013.

Real-time collaboration was added in Keynote 7.0 released in Sept 2016.

https://www.macworld.com/article/228811/keynote-pages-and-nu...
What college should I go to?
Greetings.
I'm an international student going to start college in the coming fall. For some context, I plan to go to grad school after doing my undergrad and am pretty confused about whether to shell big bucks for the undergrad or save it for grad school. The following are my college options:

1. U of St Andrews or Warwick in the UK -> grad school in US
2. Undergrad in my home country(good college. Cs faculty did their masters, phds from cmu, berkeley, etc) -> grad school in US
3. FSU -> Grad School in US
4. Transferring from FSU to UF, UIUC, UCD, Maryland, etc.-> Grad School in US
5. Transferring from California Community College to Berkeley, Davis, Irvine etc. -> Grad School in US
6. Going to Grinnell in Iowa and maybe transferring somewhere else or graduating.

Approx costs for undergrad in each option:
1. $150k
2. $25k
3. $100k
4. $135k - $170k
5. $180k
6. Idk rn

What prompted me to ask this question is that I don’t want to waste my family’s money on something that isn’t worthwhile. I personally think that the last option could be really good in the long run. However, all my thoughts and beliefs are just conjecture. The ultimate goal, I believe, is for me to be in an environment where I can utilize my full potential. Unfortunately, due to certain reasons, I wasn’t able to do so in the final years of high school and thus couldn’t get into good schools.

I can’t map out accurately the outcomes and roadmaps from choosing any of these routes. Therefore, I need some advice rooted in reality. If you happen to think that the ‘degree value’ doesn’t matter when trying get into good grad programs, please provide some valid information to back that up, while keeping the context, me being an international student, in view. Thank you for reading.
The challenge is the indexing. There's probably something to be said for making a personal search engine that just ingests sources you yourself are likely to want and need, but antitrust enforcers have gone as far as considering forcing Google to share it's index with competitors to give them a chance, because the data moat is so big. Even Bing, which is likely behind large chunk of third party searches, is likely primarily sourcing its data from settings in Edge that spy on your Google searches.
You ask for a friend, to „just look at it“?
> I have 192GB of CPU VRAM in my desktop and that was cheap to obtain.

How? Or what's "cheap" here? (Because I wouldn't call 192G of just regular RAM that's plugged into the motherboard cheap, I think everything else is more expensive, and if there's some hack here that I haven't caught I very much would like to know about it)
that's not how market values work and there's no such thing as a "true market value". my car has a market value, it not being for sale right now does not change that.
> A verb (or verbal adjective) basically forms the "root" of a clause, and typically appears at the end of it.

> Compared with a typical programming language, Japanese is structured the opposite way - from right to left.

How consistent is that across different types of phrases?

English is generally described as being strongly right-headed. But that's really a statement about English noun phrases. Prepositional phrases are left-headed. Determiner phrases, if that's your thing, are left-headed. Verbs are normally positioned between their subject and object, with other modifiers generally after the object.

I had a Chinese tutor who complained that everything in Chinese was the other way around compared to English, but as far as I can tell the odds are about 50-50 that any given structure will match or reverse. Mandarin sentences are SVO just like English. Mandarin prepositions go after their nouns instead of before. Mandarin adjectives go before their nouns. Mandarin noun compounds work the same way as English noun compounds. (牙刷 "tooth brush" is a brush, not a tooth.) Mandarin verbs have indirect objects before the verb instead of after. Mandarin discourse particles occur at the end of the sentence instead of the beginning.† Mandarin relative clauses work just like English noun phrases, which is funny because English relative clauses have their own bespoke ordering. (English: the man who has five sisters; Mandarin: has five sisters who [the] man.)

The big lesson I drew from this is "it doesn't make a lot of sense to describe languages overall as having a particular orientation". Is Japanese more consistent, or is orientation more sensitive to the specific structures you're using?

† Note that "beginning" and "end" aren't the only options. In classical Latin and Greek, particles like this always appear as the second word in a sentence.
Pfff. It's a push to hardware they can lock down and claim full control over so they can sell the Windows platform as secure to content providers (games, etc.) The same way Android banking apps refuse to run on rooted phones, you'll soon be unable to run a lot of apps if you don't have a TPM. Then it'll be some websites that can't be accessed...
That's not what whataboutism is. Bringing whataboutism here is just pure deflection. A European being concerned about getting arrested for his tweets in the US makes just as much sense as an American not wanting to go to Europe because of gun violence in Europe.
I don't believe this is the case — in the situation that is commonly referenced to make this point, someone sought to have an AI legally declared to be the author of a specific work, and that was ruled not to be possible. But I am not aware of cases where people use prompts to generate artwork with AI and have found it impossible to copyright.
How do you reproduce a build without source?
I wonder if the low literacy rate is partly an artifact of non-English speakers. The 54% stat seems to come from PIAAC which only evaluates English literacy in the US https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/faq.asp

The US hasn’t historically had high literacy rates though I definitely agree we are back to McCarthy levels of anti-intellectualism. Probably worse.
It would help if the intro section mentioned the added features so the reader would understand why a custom device was necessary.
Basically a common StackOverflow problem: "Well, you asked for X, but I don't know how to do X, so here's how to do Y instead."
That's not what whataboutism is. They didn't say what about Europe, they said that the precedent already exists so the argument makes 0 sense.
the steam pc is the newly announced xbox, no?
That's not how it works.

"God exists and he is good" is mentioned as fact. The evidence of the existence of God would be his goodness - call it miracles if you will.

In a world where you perceive the absence of this goodness removes the only evidence provided. The logical consequence is not that god exists and is malevolent, the logical consequence is that the goodness is not there because God does not exist.
The courts are litigating these decisions as we speak. The institutions are working, slowly. At the end of the day, student visas aren’t durable when you violate the school policy. If you’re on a visa, or here illegally, you’re on thin ICE. It’s not a right but a privilege that is granted by the ruling democratic authority.
What worries me is your reading comprehension. It’s atrocious
Ah, there's the other shoe:)

> optional sources, that have to be activated explicitly.

So only locally exploitable, and you have to enable an optional feature? That's ... honestly better than I was worried that it might be
Please don't ignore the points I've already made about how a firmware-based attack against a non-Windows OS is a lot hardware to pull off. I'm not asking if you think a company would be willing to ship such malware, I'm asking what kind of malware you think is realistically possible. What do you expect a UEFI-based malware to be capable of doing in this context, given the constraints of the hardware we're talking about?
My house was built to my specification. The general contractor required that I make progress payments. He wanted to be sure he wouldn't be left holding the bag for all of it after I moved in (and he also needed cash to buy supplies and hire subcontractors). I took a risk he didn't just disappear with the up front payment.

When I had the roof replaced, I had to pay half up front.

And so on. This is normal business practice.

There is nothing not free market about progress payments.

(Besides, if NASA was fronting all the money, SpaceX wouldn't have gone bankrupt if the rocket blew up. But what I've read was Musk bet the company on it not blowing up.)

I decided to check one detail. The EV subsidy came in the form of a tax credit to the buyer, it is not paid to the car manufacturer. Musk had nothing to do with it.

> I suspect it has more to do with cognitive biases than reality.

Imagining oneself as dealing in reality rather than cognitive bias is yet another cognitive bias. Everything written about Musk is subject to cognitive bias one way or another.
He's just doing whatever's politically expedient.

[1:20] "I do believe that autism comes from vaccines" [https://www.foxnews.com/video/6330950198112]

Does it matter what he actually believes? If it's different from the Trump's policy he'll keep it to himself.
The worst thing about "AI" is its name. It isn't intelligent, it isn't even dumb. If the current wave had been called "neural networks" or "large language models", then the hype wouldn't have been as breathless, but the disappointment wouldn't be as sharp either, because it wouldn't be used for things it isn't suited for.

It's an algorithm; it's just an algorithm. It's useful for a few things. It isn't useful for most things. Like MVC, or relational databases, or finite state machines, or OOP, it's not something you should have to (or want to) tell the end user that you are using in the internals. The reason most "AI" products brag about using "AI", is there isn't anything else interesting about them.
This is a tangent but what was your journey into VFX?
Related:

"You might want to stop running atop" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43477057

"Problems with the heap" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43485980
In the FAQ they said that extensions would not be compatible
but what happens if i run out the limit? will the original buyer be there still?
> - Configured a block-level in-memory disk accelerator / cache (fs operations at the speed of RAM!)

Everyone Linux kernel does that already. I currently have 20 GB of disk cached in RAM on this laptop.
A lecturer who is fluently multilingual might indeed smoothly switch accents when pronouncing foreign words. But it's still the same voice, and (if they're well practiced at it) they don't have to pause in mid-sentence to switch languages, as text-to-speech systems usually do. And eSpeak can switch languages while still being the same voice, since it's a rule-based, parametric synthesizer. But, at least with NVDA, a mid-sentence HTML span with a different lang attribute still causes a (short) break in the intonation on either side. That's too bad, because a multilingual parametric synthesizer like eSpeak could be like the ultimate polyglot speaker, impressing us all with how smoothly it switches languages.
I worked at Apple over a decade ago and no idea what OP is talking about.

There is plenty of collaboration in the company but it's typically constrained to the current project you're working on. And working in enterprise companies today it is no different.
Yes. I'd be curious to know how resistance movements deal with this problem in other regimes. How do (did?) Navalny or İmamoğlu supporters organize, for example? Is it simply Telegram & Signal? How does one spread a message to the public under such a regime, via pamphlets? Does it work to share "anonymously" on a foreign-hosted platform? Asking for a friend.
I’m honestly shocked to hear anyone defend gemini, respectfully :)

What casts it as most capable?
A few weeks ago in February:

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/musks-x-sec...

> Banks have completed the sale of $5.5 billion in debt for Elon Musk's X, according a Wednesday report by the Wall Street Journal. The debt offering was increased following a strong response from investors. Ultimately, the loans were sold at 97 cents on the dollar.

This is not the same, as no ownership was traded, but it signaled surprising confidence that the debt could be sold with only a small discount.
Assuming you can get a decent education at a school, the deciding factor should be if the reputation of going there is beneficial to you. If it isn't, go purely with cost.

But credentialism is real and saying you did comp sci at CMU or MIT will open more doors than if you did it at the University of Florida.
> personal agency & liberty

Those two were very suppressed under monarchy and the Christian religion. It wasn’t until modern secularism that those two truly blossomed.
I sincerely tried to interpret what you meant here, but I failed. I understand the words, and the fragments of every sentence, but I wasn’t able to deduce the intent of your reply.

Are you trying to say that it’s possible for a system to be both simple and secure? Absolutely that’s the case, but with a trade-off — either it needs to restrict the user’s freedom, or be fully disconnected from the outside world.
This can happen on any cloud. See it on Azure. Keep backups on another cloud and have a DR plan even if it very manual. S3 glacier is very cheap long term for example.

Keep DNS in another account too.
> always tries to connect
I had to stop when I got to usb foot switches as I had already spent enough time looking through this! Great lil zine. I’ll check it out and priors later.
Post-degree plans are to stay in academia or non-academia work? (degree focus on theory vs. applied theory)

Know what concentration are going to do in graduate school?

If yes, then making sure undergraduate degree program aligns with anticipated graduate degree. aka not distracted / incure extra expense taking 'extra' classes to 'get up to speed' on background for graduate classes. example: CS undergraduate degree not heavy in math, but anticipated CS graduate degree is very heavy on math background. (database engineering - CMU vs. CT (computed tomography) software - MIT)

Community college to university would be one approach to earning credits while figuring out what aspect of CS interested in pursing a graduate/undergraduate degree.