skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I've heard is that this is essentially a front for money laundering, just like you see in fine art. Anyone have any evidence?

Here's how the theory goes

- I have $2M in dirty money

- I find some reasonably rare collectors item that's worth a lot but certainly not $2M (like unopened copy of SMB) and buy it

- I put it up for auction and give my $2M to a trusted associate

- Trusted associate bids $2M

- Wow! Wouldn't you know it? Someone's crazy enough to pay $2M for this!

- Trusted associated takes their cut and now my $2M is clean --- I got it from the sale of a rare copy of SMB at auction

Because after all, who can really say that a copy of SMB isn't really worth $2M? It's value is ultimately subjective like fine art is, and someone was willing to pay that price, haha collectors be crazy speculators and all that.

Is there anything to this theory?
It seems like this will just further fragment the messaging app space.

Also, at this point, you’ve got to wonder about how long Google’s commitment to this messaging protocol will last.
Am I? Because in another part of this thread we're talking about how terrible EVs are for long trips because they force you to stop so much for so long... Which is it, am I given adequate time to rest, making EVs unsuitable for long trips, or are EVs not terrible for long trips, wearing out the driver? :-)
SYAC summary: Street vendors thinly slice "tree trunks" to order, and tell similar impossible stories of where they source it. In the end, one confirms from photos it is a type of Agave plant and they paint it red.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103641
Why would I use this instead of org-mode (and babel) and maybe org-roam?
There is real regulatory pressure on Apple, by a multitude of governments, to introduce backdoors into their systems for security reasons.
Why I’m Suing over My Employer’s Vaccine Mandate
tor is great if you don't mind 99% of websites not working on it
My evidence is all the coworkers I saw who didn't get fired.

To clarify: I mean in the rank and file software engineering. If you make legal's job hard or give the company a public black eye, that can be a short path to dismissal.

(It's a big company, so I wouldn't be surprised if, perhaps, it also varies from department to department. I have no idea if the YouTube piece and the ads piece have the same policies).
It's frustrating because they represent the actual drudgery of real life. It's not pretty, there's no beauty filter, there's no composition etc..

It shows that we live mostly in bits of fairly ugly industrial landscape.
A really excellent series if you like math and physics. It gets bad reviews because most readers aren’t looking for a physics text disguised as a novel. Personally, I love it.
Specifically this link shows $185,000 and $6,250 per calendar quarter: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs...

For infrastructure, I can imagine this being a case a single colocated server rack would work great, especially if you don't expect your TLD to be super popular among other people (SaaS likely wouldn't be suitable due to the high industry bandwidth costs).
> government funds science to get the research it thinks is important

How is this anything special about funding from governments specifically? This is part of "funding", period. Unless you setup an open bank account for free withdrawals from anyone who wants to do some science, no questions asked. Somebody decides what gets funded, unless those doing the research use their own money.
It doesn't make any sense to me.

There are parts of making a chat platform that are hard. Want to support end to end encryption? Very hard. But google doesn't give a shit. They're going to warehouse all messages in plaintext in a forever database that they'll use to train NLP models anyway.

Interop between a dozen different providers is hard. But google isn't doing interop with a dozen different providers. They're doing interop with themselves. They can say "oops this API sucks" every four months and that's fine.

How Google can make Docs a thing and make it work well but can't figure out chat is bananas. Or gmail. What is chat but email with message size limits and the explicit removal of interop as a feature?
Java took an approach with one set of trade-offs. Each approach has its pros and cons.

> It's less difficult (though still far from easy) to handle name squatting on organization/corporate names as qualifiers for packages than to try and prevent name squatting on package names.

I do think Rust will get some form of namespaces, but it'll be quite a bit less powerful than what most proponents of namespaces want. There's been a bit of a disagreement (IIRC) about what a namespace signifies (would signify) in the Rust ecosystem.

Edit: I will say, it has been quite the contentious and has been re-hashed ad-naseum. For anyone interested in reliving arguments, search for "namespace" on https://internals.rust-lang.org - There will be a good half-dozen results to read through, though there is a fair bit of re-hashing and talking past each other.
Yes it surprised me there was so much discussion of jupyter notebooks as if they only support Python but there is great support for all kinds of languages including very statically typed ones (Scala, etc).

I do lots of ML in Groovy using beakerx [0] which is pretty much the last thing anybody would expect but it works great.

[0] https://github.com/twosigma/beakerx
I'd love to pay for a full set of services like this - email, phone, VPN, payment gateway.

Sometimes you want a consistent identity to play a game, review your company on glassdoor, or praise Satan with, but you don't want to make an entire set of fake emails, phone, and so on. Scammers already have ways to do this, and it would be nice to have something semi-centralized that can report you for crime, but you can trust at about the same level that someone would trust LastPass.
I live in a walkable part of a city and to be quite honest every time I go out into suburbs it’s kind of depressing. Local architecture shaped by tradition and climate is replaced by giant samey boxes. Everyone is isolated in a car, streets are largely empty of anything at a human scale. Greyness and concrete.
I mean at some point someone bought a copy of Super Mario Bros. and held on to it until they were sure it's the last one available and sold it for $2m.

What would one buy today to do that? A Playstation? An iPad? It feels like a small complaint that the collectible industry will be struggling. I was just struck by the death of physical media all of a sudden.
Another event in encryption was the battle over the publicization of DeCSS source code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS ; https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/DeCSS/Gallery/ ; http://decss.zoy.org/
You can bring let's say 100 tons of aluminum from Earth. At an energy density of 1.3 MWh/ton [1], you'd have 130 MWh of storage. And since there are 336 hours in the lunar night of 14 days, that corresponds to a power capacity of about 0.4 MW, which should be fairly decent for the bootstrap period.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery

[1]
I mean it remains sought after in top programs. The field is oversaturated from top to bottom, I don't think they will have any issues attracting talent. Particularly not from this story - every academic department probably has at least one top professor worse than this guy.
The only thing that interests me is end to end encryption, but if it's not free and open source software then I'm not interested.
> It's less difficult (though still far from easy) to handle name squatting on organization/corporate names as qualifiers for packages than to try and prevent name squatting on package names.

So we're back to fighting who owns "com.oracle"?

It seems like no matter the approach taken to validating namespace ownership there's some drawback.
Reason is such a good institution, their reporting has a freedom-oriented mindset but their journalism is top notch. FYI it’s a non-profit and donations are tax deductible.

If you are interested in other freedom-oriented non-profits I highly recommend:

Institute for Justice https://ij.org/

Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) https://www.thefire.org/

Cato Institute https://www.cato.org/
How to verify that this site is the actual sci-hub site, and not a mirror/clone that has replaced the Bitcoin address?

(FWIW, I see the same Bitcoin address on sci-hub.do/donate and sci-hub.se/donate, so I assume it's legit - the SE domain is listed on Wikipedia and seems to have been for a long time).
>For me a part of the melancholy feeling comes from the indignity of being forced to prove I'm human

This is EXACTLY what a Robot would say...
Those photos are great! Thanks for sharing.
This video gives an example of solving a basic math problem: https://youtu.be/ctSeZpJsyCk
What made it click for me was that the speed of light isn't just the speed of light, but actually the speed of information/causality.

So if you're traveling at the speed of causality, everything you "hit" or go past happens instantly, because you're traveling "with" causality/information itself.
I have eaten it many times, vendors say it's a root. But the last time I ate it, it was little more fibrous and hard and I ate little more than the usual. For the next couple of days my tongue was itching and I had little difficulty speaking. Then I googled it and read somewhere that it's not edible.

It's surprising experts don't know what the thing is given it's so commonly available.
There’s always someone who is learning this for the first time!
I see what you did there :P
I do. Look at the table A1 in the appendix. They separate the countries in two groups:

Mass vaccination countries: Israel, United Kingdom, Hungary

Moderate vaccination countries: All the other in Europe, or something like that.

To simplify, let's make a new column with the average of the excess of deaths, and sort them. The biggest ones are:

Hungary: 39.3%

Slovakia: 26.7%

Poland: 26.3%

Czechia: 25.0%

Bulgaria: 20.3%

Cyprus: 12.3%

Austria: 10.3%

United Kingdom: 10.0%

Israel: 8.3%

Other: 8.0% or less

Average: 4.8%

So clearly Hungary is a huge outlier.

Back to the three mass vaccinated countries:

If you compare Israel to the moderate vaccinated countries, the different is not statistically significant.

If you compare United Kingdom to the moderate vaccinated countries, the different is not statistically significant.

If you compare Hungary the moderate vaccinated countries, the different IS statistically significant. Moreover, it's much bigger.

The correct conclusion is that something extraordinary bad happened in Hungary, not that something extraordinary bad happened in the mass vaccinated countries.
It only “handles allocation/deallocation for you” in the sense that the lifetime system forces you to write code that adheres to RAII. It handles a lot less than a language with a GC, for example.
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The main difference is scalability. Jestor is useful for companies once they grow, when tools for teams aren't suitable anymore.

We've built the product for hundreds of simultaneous users. There are 3 features that enable it:
1. Connect any table. You aren't limited by Workspaces.
2. Advanced Permissioning Tools. You can do it at the variable level, creating unlimited number of profiles.
3. Unlimited number of records, tables, dashboards, automations and users. They will consume actions, but there is no real limitation.
TL;DR; it's agave.

I was hoping it was a byproduct of recycling waste. Mystery creates buzz. The danger of a mystery food is part of why hot dogs and food cart food as a whole are popular.
Just look at the the github repo activity between elastic and opensearch. Overwhelmingly, elastic is doing 100x better. AWS doesn't care as much as elastic about these products.
Now I'm curious to know what technical opinions one could have after giving up a name. Mentioning the change in the readme? Releasing a new major version?
This is...this is extremely crappy news. Their Twitch stream alone helped me through some really tough times and their show inspired me more than I could say.
I find that the wikipedia page generally has accurate information on the legitimate link
wow.. :(
The fact that we live in the world where most people have forgotten that death is something that needs to be conquered is tragic. I think about that more and more especially as people I have taken for granted keep dying.
> the indignity

What's particularly degrading is when it asks you to do something like "select all the bridges" and you as a human see one that is clearly an overpass, not a bridge. You don't select it because it's not what you'd call a bridge. You're inhuman.

You're asked to select the motorcycles.. Here's a motorised scooter that looks a lot like a motorcycle. You thought that wasn't a motorcycle? Back to the training camps with you until you start to think like a human.

Now select all the mountains. Huh? That raised mound of grass doesn't look like a mountain to you? Guess again, inhuman scum.

At least with the "audio captcha" I feel like I might be contributing to some closed captions for another human :(
The problem comes from grouping Hungary with Israel and the United Kingdom. More details in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28103813
Tweet:

"What if governments learned from the MKUltra experiments in the 50's that trauma allows you to control people, so they purposely orchestrate disastrous events to keep their citizens afraid + dependent on them, and that's one of the reasons that mental illness has been rising? lol"

I'd say it indeed seems government amplifies/escalates disastrous event fear (e.g. covid)

Why? grow their magnitude of control e.g. ease of applying authoritarianism, and to please their $ backers / lobbyists (currently pharma companies are the #1 lobbyists in DC).
This is a very traditional development view. "Build it and be done with it".

Signups are the gateway to your product. Often times, you need non-technical team members to be able to experiment and iterate with them. This type of work is often boring work for the engineering team.
Title prior to admins changing it was "Trevor Moore, co-founder of Whitest Kids U Know, dies at 41"

I think it's especially tragic when someone so talented dies at what many of us would consider a young age. Trevor's comedic takes on a wide range of topics (occasionally touching on technology, AI, robotics) left a profound impact on me.
Isn't the obvious choice to use custom ROMs then?
Indeed it feels like this could be somewhat resolved by:

- having npm contact the user
- placing the package in a no-owner (and deprecated) state for a while

From the instructions it seems that you can just contact npm and say "I emailed the owner 3 months ago, got no answer" and have it within a few hours.

I'm also sad to see this process go because I used it at least once before.
I believe the distance wouldn't affect the speed, but we'll check. Thanks for the feedback!
And you seem to have missed the point of mine.

Which was that the "definitions" of homelessness you're comparing aren't really relevant to whether or not homelessness is primarily an economic issue.

I'd add that nitpicking about those definitions doesn't add anything to the discussion, nor does it elucidate anything useful or interesting IMHO.

It's pretty clear that the vast majority of homelessness, however you might reasonably define it, is related to economic hardship and insecurity.
Said the Iranian students as they overthrew the Shah…
Free open-source high quality Lisp implementations have been available for decades now. Where is all the awesome software written by the self-proclaimed Lisp geniuses? With people that clever and with access to a language that powerful surely software written in Lisp should be totally dominating by now. Surely all the “crappy” software written by those non-smart non-Lisp developers should have been totally outclassed by now right? And yet it isn’t. Not even close. Lisp has had close to zero impact on the real world. So perhaps, just perhaps, the Lisp developers are no more smart than the rest of us and perhaps, just perhaps, Lisp isn’t a more productive language that the languages used by everybody else.
I feel like there is a strong possibility that the sources vary. Possibly even some of them aren't so edible.

How else could it have been readily available for decades without a clear source being well known?
The database contents are a secret. There are no news articles about it. However, I do know for a fact the database has serious problems (I'm not speculating).
Why would you save passwords in a browser when there are FOSS utilities like keepass?
In evolutionary psychology it's called female "hypergamy", so search for that.

If you're a single "modern woman" who can't find or retain "a high value man", then contact Suzanne Venker who will deprogram out the "modern" part.

If you're a single, average man, be and look successful first, then consider dating.
I went to a liberal arts college - I don't think most people on HN are familiar with US liberal arts colleges. I have a B.A. degree because no B.Sc. was offered. Lots of requirements for courses outside one discipline or major field of studies - much more so than at non-liberal arts college. Generally liberal arts colleges only offer undergraduate degrees. They also generally do not have research faculty - teaching is the core emphasis.

And the entire ethos of my school was about internationalism and utopian thinking, certainly not about doing real world practical things or even making money.

So liberal arts graduate is still accurate for me.
They a good idea with "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated."

It was inconvenient so they eroded it.

When it came to the black panthers they took away both the 2nd and the 4th.
Will be great once they get the laser links working.
I hope very much that this case succeeds and sets a precedent for others, like NYC that are attempting to force vaccination regardless of natural immunity status.

It's anti-science, and goes against the long standing medical standard of always taking the least invasive approach, and only providing treatment when clinically indicated.

We have volumes of research to support that natural immunity is at least as effective as vaccination at this point.
I’m sure it happens, but transferring 2MM to the trusted associate’s account in a way that the art auctioneer would accept, without suspicion, would still be challenging. Selling hundreds of junk “collectibles” for cash at a retail location seems more reliable.
The shoreline is mostly just rocky clifftops. There are no beaches;

https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.0712126,-130.1117952,3998m/...
Can AI help prevent suicides in South Korea? [video]
This Harvard Business Review article advised professionally ambitious women to remain single if they can't find a highly supportive spouse. I don't know if that's good or bad advice, just found it interesting.

https://hbr.org/2017/10/if-you-cant-find-a-spouse-who-suppor...
I don't get it, rather than using the tools of botany and DNA analysis why not just pay a PI to follow the vendor -> supplier -> source trail?
This was at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28097038 but was unjustly flagged, so here it is again. Pathetic little weasel who flagged it, I dare you to try to justify hiding this information from others.
Yes a hanging tab black box SMB in good condition is very rare but 2 million is just absolutely ridiculous; and most likely fraudulent.

I remember when Nintendo World Championship carts were selling for $40,000+ a few years ago (before these WATA scammers got involved) and that was by far the most rare and valuable cart... Super Mario Bros is a game that sold 30+ Million copies in various NES cart forms. This reeks of fishy dishonest speculation.
Not sure what you're getting at. The spent rods from nuclear reactors contain Plutonium, which is quite trivial to separate chemically. If Japan wants to do that it can certainly can do it (and it's likely they already stockpiled some Plutonium for a rainy day). Plutonium can then be used to make a Nagasaki-type bomb. Nothing to do with fusion. If someone wants to go further and make a hydrogen bomb (i.e. fusion-based), that's also possible, but fission-based atomic bombs are good enough to provide deterrence.
Which is doubly problematic given that UK & Hungry have a completely different vaccine than Israel.
> In countries with massive class disparities why don’t the classes band together and revolt?

A lot of factors come into play there. Protesting and political engagement require a lot of time and energy. Many of the poorest people need to spend huge amounts of both just to survive to day to day.

Their health is often poor, they may not be as well educated, they're exhausted from back-breaking physical labor and from living in constant stress. It'd seem hard to expect people in that situation to organize a grassroots movement let alone an army.

Even if someone had the time, the energy, the physical and mental well-being to fight for change, and they could do all the work involved in determining exactly who it is that needs overthrowing, how to best set about doing that, and what should be done if they somehow succeed, they then still have to convince others who are lost in their own struggles for survival to abandon what little they've managed to secure for themselves and join them.

That's already a lot of overcome and doesn't even get into the countless ways people are conditioned to feel helpless, powerless, inadequate, responsible for their own suffering, or divided and intentionally pitted against each other or at least some "other" who can be blamed for their problems.

Then of course, even if they do manage to overcome all of that, they're still up against an enemy with vast amounts of resources and power. The only thing they've got going for them are their numbers and that they don't have all that much to lose.

It's amazing to me that revolts happen at all really.

It'd probably go a lot easier if it didn't start from the bottom. Get the declining middle classes involved or some sympathetic members of the upper class and it's another story entirely.
Is there an alternative way of donation? I want to donate to sci-hub, but DONT want to pay for cryptocurrency miners.
I know you mean well but people who know how bad the database is also can't tell you how they know, because the database is cloaked in secrecy for obvious reasons.

All I can say is that I'm not speculating, I know for a fact the database is as broken as I say it is.
It could be much worse. Much much much much much much worse.

Some things are incredibly complicated and messy. And not just with the current publishing issues–even getting them to the imperfect stages they reside in now was game changing on an absolutely massive worldwide scale.

With some things, expecting perfection is not only ridiculous, but it leads to thinking such as “it can’t get worse…” and that’s the point at which the _thing_ says “oh yeah? can’t get worse? hold my beer.”

In my experience, when discussing things which are this complicated, on this level, anyone who doesn’t already know a dozen ways things can actually get much worse I immediately recommend they take some time to understand the actual subject better, because this means they have little actual understanding of the topic. I’m not saying this to shame you, I promise, I’m really really not. But if this is something you’re passionate about, then you owe it to yourself to have a better grasp on what the terrifying outcomes look like.

Does any of the above mean things can’t be improved? Of Course Not. There are serious problems with many things, but serious problems means it can have very serious outcomes. We should always look for ways to improve. But only with an accurate understanding.

And to be very clear, there are very serious problems in the academic publishing world, no question.
Thanks so much for the support!