skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How is it beside the point? Legal might initially advise against cloud storage but if you come back to them with one that's encrypted on the client side that likely changes things.

Compensation could be of the form "we get a cheaper rate from Google" or even "this is the only form in which the service is offered" or perhaps "we aren't big enough to qualify for the fully airgapped offering".
Just as an example: Israel's minister of defense is Israel Katz. Katz stands for "Cohen Tzedek". Israel traces his paternal lineage all the way back to priests that served in the temple in Jerusalem during the days of King David. There is no other way to assume the name Cohen or any of the variation of priest family names. Similar for Levy. There is no way to convert and assume that name. The lineage of Jewish priests also has DNA evidence that they are all related.

His family was forced off their land and prevented by force from returning through the ages.

It so happens to be Passover now. Do you know how many time each Jewish person mentions returning to Jerusalem during the Seder every year?

His right to live in his ancestral homeland, just like the right of native in Canada or Australia or the US, never expires. The only way to settle his claim is through mutual agreement, like treaties in Canada.
> a company whose owner has become a pariah among decent people

That's the "cherry on top" of this dung-heap.
Can you share at a high level what you meant by cooking in the context of the exit?
The majority of comments here seem to argue the ideal equity share for employees is zero, since it probably won't be worth anything. That seems like an even more founder friendly viewpoint, no? Mass inequality of ownership is how we end up normalizing the corrupt billionaire class. I agree with you we need an industry desire for better ownership terms, but instead I see people arguing employees should just take a salary, look the other way, and let owners hoard all the spoils.
Newer iPhones and the XReal One glasses are just fine and in part with the admittedly mediocre experience of Android devices.

Let’s not pretend that Nebula on Android is good. I’ve got a Beam Pro. It also is not great.

SteamDeck is really the best experience I’ve found.
Philosophers have been arguing a parallel point for centuries. Does intelligence require some sort of (ostensibly human-ish) qualia or does “if it quacks like a duck, it is a duck” apply?

I think it's better to look at large language models in the context of Wittgenstein. Humans are more than next token predictors because we participate in “language games” through which we experimentally build up a mental model for what each word means. LLMs learn to “rule follow” via a huge corpus of human text but there’s no actual intelligence there (in a Wittgensteinian analysis) because there’s no “participation” beyond RLHF (in which humans are playing the language games for the machine). There’s a lot to unpack there but that’s the gist of my opinion.

Until we get some rigorous definitions for intelligence or at least break it up into many different facets, I think pie in the sky philosophy is the best we can work with.
Yep, but that does not need to be justified by a HSR expansion.

You could justify a San Benito County expansion as part of a Caltrain electrification and expansion project for a fraction of the cost and headaches.

And do the same for San Joaquin County to the Bay+Sacramento, San Bernardino County to LA, and Imperial Valley to San Diego.

In fact, this is what the CA government has been doing after treating the HSR as de facto moribund.
What was the marketing company called? I'd like to know if they list this service publicly and if so, what it would be called.
> because others have more resources and could build this in no time

You are getting bad advice.

Lots of things that other big corps can build because they have more resources. But guess what? They don't. Because big companies have their blind spots, they have their roadmaps, they have their product teams that are focused on the things that generate revenue, they're slow to move and slow to innovate.

Lots of small startups end up getting acquired by larger entities because the small startup can pivot faster, adapt more quickly to shifting tech, and simply move faster. As a small startup, though, you need to be able to do at least one thing 100x better than the rest of the field.

Startup I'm at right now started with a calendar scheduling web app -- anyone would argue that space is oversaturated. Yet it did one thing that was absolutely unique and is thriving.

Keep at it and figure out what it is that you can do 100x better. It just needs to be one killer feature that solves a real pain point. Don't worry about larger corps and competitors; they won't care about your feature until you're far enough along that they're feeling churn.
What, according to you, are some alternatives that exist or are in development that fill these gaps?
Gould joked the purpose of the human organism is for shit to make more shit.
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> Tools is[sic] not the problem. Knowledge is.

This is the most difficult concept to convey, expressed in a succinct manner rarely found.
Radio can work, but again, I’m on the edge of reception areas and the hills make picking up FM and AM inconsistent.

In the event of a truly severe weather event (the ones where they hit the alert to make every cell phone go off), the visuals provided by television are hugely helpful.
Exactly. If I'm joining a 30 person startup it's not because of the size of the paycheck. Any larger company will obvioulsy be able to easily beat the offer. I want a significant amount of equity. I want to see the cap table. I want to see details about funding rounds, finances, available runway. I want to see MRR/ARR, recently closed deals. If founders dance around these questions and say "equity is not imporant, see how much we are paying you" then I'm walking out the door.
While board approval can be a condition of transfer (consult the options agreement), forward contacts can be used (with counterparty, liquidity, and price risk) when transfer conditions cannot be met to effectuate a de jure transfer.
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I used to think that the up voting mechanic was the future of the internet.

Now I think that it's a perverse incentive that requires very heavy handed moderation to not suck (AKA more free labor), and that time decaying posts can discourage quality, in-depth discussions.

Corollary: necroing forum threads isn't necessarily bad.
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My request:

“Could you explain this sentence concisely?

For the skeptics: Scoring just 10% or so in Math-Perturb-Hard below the original MATH Level 5 (hardest) dataset seems in line with or actually better than most people would do.”

Gemini 2.5 Pro:

“The sentence argues that even if a model's score drops by about 10% on the "Math-Perturb-Hard" dataset compared to the original "MATH Level 5" (hardest) dataset, this is actually a reasonable, perhaps even good, outcome. It suggests this performance decrease is likely similar to or better than how most humans would perform when facing such modified, difficult math problems.”
I can't give you a non-speculative answer because in truth, my coding is from the Pascal era.

The way I look at it in terms of cheaper is that you don't need to be as careful, less need to worry about memory leaks which lead to exploits, etc. I.e. you don't have to track every little thing yourself.

Starting to make inroads with larger projects now.. Firefox's audio subsystem is in Rust, while Chromium's is C++ (w/ tools to help detect leaks).
IMO:

The US suffers from the notion of exceptionalism spawned from its position of massive advantage after WWII, as well as a deep seated aversion to mass transit that was borne out of the backlash against desegregation.

I'm probably missing many smaller factors, but I'd be interested to know if someone thinks that I've incorrectly identified those two as major factors.
The proposed CAHSR business plan calls for 2 peak hourly trains plus 2 additional trains per day stopping nowhere between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. 2 of these are suggested to be actual non-stop SF to LA Union Station, even though bypassing San Jose is pretty crazy. But anyway you are right: it's no problem at all.

There are also plenty of population centers between SF and LA which is why trains are going to stop in Fresno and Bakersfield (combined pop: 2.2 million). Also Palmdale. If Palmdale is nowhere then Brightline West is also a train to nowhere.

Alephnerd is making the same mistake that many nerds have made. They are arguing about the existing passenger, while the point of the project is to serve the next ten million Californians.
Thank you. Please that is exactly what I am asking for please someone could really spend time and with argumentation kick me off if possible. I beg to do that.
The Chinese Room is a sophisticated way for humans to say they don't understand systematic systems and processes.
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Retro computing? First title:

> Generative AI and Game Development: A Necessary Evil?

It's not retro computing. It's called click-bait.
The best way to preserve the [more] endangered datasets is to use the RSS feeds. They have them split-out for various focuses like scarcity, source, threat level, etc. I went with the "all" feed and filtered in my download client.
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Time travel is real- take a passenger train in the US in 2025 and you travel back in time to 1985- and no one has cleaned it properly since 1995.
Calculus by Thomas Apostol (also from the sixties) teaches integration before differentiation as well. Great textbook!
Very cool.

I might need to play with this; I have been looking for an excuse to play with the retro console homebrew scene, this seems like as good an excuse as any.
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I never got people’s objections to the parentheses when the bottom of most js/ts files is a soup of three different flavors of closing bracket. Even more “fun” in languages like PHP that make you sprinkle ceremonial semicolons into some parts to satisfy the compiler. Hunting for the right brace is tedious, whereas in a lisp I just bounce on close paren til the open paren highlight is where I want it.
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Smarter people are better at using computers. Doh! But wait -- pretty much everybody needs to use a computer. What do? Make all computers dumber? Thus was born the mysterious, noble and arcane art of UI design.
MCP is a dead end for chatbots. Building valuable workflows requires more than tool calling, most importantly, understanding the context of a conversation to adjust the tools dynamically.
> Anyway, if you only support building infrastructure in regions of the U.S. that are as densely populated as eastern China, you’d basically never build anything

Correct.
Now try it with BQN
Yes, this really seems like an argument between two contrived straw people at the absolute extremes.
"Sure"...

And next will be AWS, Azure, GCP.

We really need to find alternatives to US services.

I don't want my business to depend on the mood of a single individual.
Great music. Did you make it?
You are correct ... it is still early days IMHO ... will have to see how this evolves
I’ve had a couple of the original, the prime, extend, and now the Flex 4K. They’ve all been terrific devices. The extend was a little wonky because transcoding goes wonky on bad signals, but generally great.

They’re all a huge improvement over older cards like the pcHDTV or the really old Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 that I fought with for Freevo and MythTV so long ago. The switch to Channels was a huge quality of life improvement too.
At a glance, the code is compatible with all C standards ever published. You are too fixated on learning the latest. The latest is largely just a superset of the earlier standards and the new features are often obscure things you are unlikely to need or want to use.

The main exceptions that you actually would want to use would be the ability to declare variables anywhere in a block and use single line // comments from C++ in C99. Most C programmers do not even know about most of the things added in newer C standards beyond those and perhaps a handful of others.
In the form of loans. Far from a perfect program, but from Wikipedia:

> On December 19, 2014, the U.S. Treasury sold its remaining holdings of Ally Financial, essentially ending the program. Through the Treasury, the US Government actually booked $15.3 billion in profit, as it earned $441.7 billion on the $426.4 billion invested.[2][3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program
No, I think the Chinese Room is widely misunderstood by non-philosophers. The goal of the argument is not to show that machines are incapable of intelligent behaviour.

Even a thermostat can show intelligent behaviour. The issue for the thermostat is that all the intelligence has happened ahead of time.
It's worth noting that at least in China, you must go through security checks before boarding bullet trains which include ID verification, X-rays of passenger and their luggage, and some liquid checks (staff may ask you to take a sip of your drink to confirm it's safe). Depending on the time of day, it is a bit quicker.

The main time saver is that the train stations are much more central. Say you you need to leave your office in Beijing's financial district and meet a client at their office in Shanghai's financial district. The station in Bejing will be 6km from your office vs the airport (30km), and you'll get off the train 9km from your client (instead of 45km at the airport).
What do you mean by superior output?
See the taxonomy of documentation here

https://docs.divio.com/documentation-system/

as opposed to the conventional documentation of a taxonomy.
> This isn't flat land. There are expansive mountain ranges that make it difficult to build and any flat land that is buildable is ALSO prime agricultural land that is worth millions.

Japan's Shinkansen started service in 1964, and the country is known for its mountains and earthquakes. Hell, forget Japan, California's mountain ranges somehow didn't stop America from building I-5, I-10, I-80, and what not, back in the 80s.

"Prime agricultural land" is non sequitur - those lands are sold by acres.
There are so many parameters that it is impossible to figure out. They should probably load all params into a virtual model and have an AI try out everything.

Besides the obvious investments making tickets more expensive a different example would be if you accelerate faster you need more rails maintenance.

You can also leave carts behind and pick them up at stops so that people who need it have all the time to get in and out.
If you do that (like with many options) it gets marvelously complicated really fast.

Even if you try fit an intercity (that doesn't stop everywhere) it will have to be at the right place at the right time to pass the other train(s)

You can also not make it fast and make the trip more enjoyable. You can just stop for 30 min or an hour at each station and have stores and museums at the station bring in more revenue than tickets.

If I had to guess the most successful trick for the US would be to have people bring their car on the train.
On the contrary, demands that aren't founded in reality are often easier to satisfy, because pure rhetoric can shift the narrative much more easily than it can shift reality. Going back to Denmark again, if you pulled out charts and tried to track the objective quantity of immigration, you'd have a hard time identifying any policy shift. But as you say, immigration restrictionists were never looking at these charts in the first place. What matters politically is that the center-left PM goes around talking about how mass migration can be dangerous and the preservation of Danish culture is valuable.
> If you mean they are both supporting Israel

I have been talking about the propaganda from each sides of the current conflict in Palestine. I thought this make that clear “in this conflict so it’s really interesting to see how each side is using propaganda” but I may have misunderstood what you meant by supporting Israel.

> This isn't then your previous comment that the results are similar.

To be clear I’m noticing similar goals combined with something (diminishing returns?) yield similar results. Hell, it could also be a form follows function kind of thing, I’m noticing the results not doing a research paper.

> what goals

When I say they have similar goals I mean they are both trying to sway public option to support their agenda.

There’s a bunch of different kinds of kind of propaganda. If one side was doing a call to action for their supporters like “Buy war bonds!” then I presume the results wouldn’t seem so similar.
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What's ironic is this thread is full of comments agreeing that Reddit sucks because the voting/karma system is flawed and shadow banning is toxic and deranged yet all those very features and policies exist here. In fact, HN is mentioned in the Wikipedia article for shadow banning as an early adopter of the practice. (Yes I agree it sucks but that's not the point of my comment.)

So what changed or what makes this place different? I would argue it's not the forum software but rather run differently, not placing in charge of every subreddit a cabal of unemployed fringe lunatics wielding power and waging war against their users because it's all they have.

Or maybe the forum software does suck and some just naturally migrated to a text-only low-bandwidth version of Reddit?
Dang, there's a track on there, within a bike ride from me, that goes all the way to the biggest city in my state and passes within a few hundred feet of the university I attended. That could have made things easier.
Without disagreeing, it is a weird one to see described as a marketing problem. The political process is extremely low bandwidth; it is tough to express an opinion on more than one issue with one vote and usually the priority is not transport. Presumably the major reason that HSR isn't being deployed is that it is uneconomic or there is no legal way to do it.
> If you include the time spent arriving early, going through security, etc, it probably comes out about even.

Yeah, but that only lasts until someone figures out a clever way to use a train as a weapon, in which case you get to add the same security time to the front of the trip -- or even longer, since we've actually managed to get the airport security time down a bit over the past two decades. It would seem optimistic to try to scale usage of rail without accounting for the (time, safety, etc) costs that come with increased usage of rail...
One large problem is passenger rail is a second class citizen on US rail, legally it’s supposed to be given priority but ultimately it’s all on private rail and enforcement is non existent so it’ll get delayed for things caused by cargo. I had an Amtrak journey that had to sit and wait for an hour or two to let the tracks cool after a particularly heavy cargo train had gone by.
> It may not be as stupid as it sounds.

It is.

> However, in any probabilistic system, you can run a function k times and you’ll get an output distribution that is meaningful if k is high enough.

This is the underlying flaw in this approach. Attempting to use probabilistic algorithms to produce a singular verifiably correct result requires an external agent to select what is correct in the output of "k times" invocations. This is a person capable of making said determination.

> The thing with LLMs is they scale in a way that actually allows this to be possible, in a way that scaling with humans can’t.

For the "k times" generation of text part, sure. Not for the determination of which one within k, if any, are acceptable for the problem at hand.

EDIT: clarified "produce a verifiably correct result" to be "produce a singular verifiably correct result"
And what about the countless others developing

> a key component of advanced artificial intelligence: information on how a billion people use the internet. ?

They're all doing it, every despicable one of them, with the usual high-tech rationale "because we can"
> Serious gambling in most industries like casinos, NFTs, F2P and PTW games

I appreciate the accurate framing here.

> NFT/F2P game studio owned by a large slot machine maker

I wonder how common this is. I also wonder about the impact of sports betting apps, which seem to be everywhere.
If you want to buy the market and bet against Tesla, it's actually a great way. It may not be the most profitable, but that's never been the point doing something out of protest or spite.
"By looking at property damage and police injuries, we also conclude that this pro-Palestine movement has not been violent. That is true of both the national protest wave in general and of the student encampments in spring 2024 in particular. The rhetorical core of this pro-Palestine movement has not been a call for violence against Jews, but rather a call for freedom for Palestinians and an end to violence being inflicted upon them. To substantiate this point, we considered two sources of evidence: 1) the banners, signs, and chants seen or heard at pro-Palestine events; 2) the demands issued by organizers of over 100 student encampments."
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Essentially, just as old as SpaceX.

So, how does one ensure a company continues to make good decisions? Have a very flat structure, and have alot of smart people work insanely long hours. If you hire twice as much people to match the 80 hour weeks, you no longer have a flat structure and >> "the personal interests of the people in charge override the interests of the organization."

You are right, technology is not magic, you've just got to want it more than anyone else. SpaceX wants it, Europe would rather have their maximum of 48 hours a week. Which is actually halarious, i don't think i've worked under 48 hours a week in my entire adult life. 50 is usually expected, 60 if you want good performance reviews and 70 if you want a promotion.
MCP (Model Context Protocol) is essentially a protocol for tool access. It defines a standard way for large language models to interact with various tools, data, and resources. Simply put, MCP enables AI to use various functionalities, much like how programmers call functions.

A2A (Agent-to-Agent Protocol) focuses on agent collaboration. It establishes ways for intelligent agents to discover, communicate, and cooperate with each other, allowing different AI systems to work together like human teams.

Taken straight from this article:

https://a2aprotocol.ai/blog/a2a-vs-mcp
Those meanings are connected. I think it was a reference to counting sheep but it describes yearning as far as connecting the title to the plot.

Also, upon further reflection I don't really agree with what the other commenter said: "There is an old trope of counting sheep to fall asleep, but that's not a dream". If you try to and manage to think in a way that causes you to become less alert, it starts to be like daydreaming, so I think this sort of falling asleep thinking is under the umbrella of dreaming.