skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah these last two days especially, can't argue there. But if it were my fault, I'd apologize.

> Please seek help, it seems that you think people are out to get you

Yeah I should amend those comments, went a little too far there. Although you talk about seeking help like it's going to dawn on me I just might be a little off. No shit, work on your reading comprehension, those walls of text? Top to bottom, left to right. Yeah am in fact a bit off, what did you expect would happen when malpracticed on my brain? You know malpractice on a bone harms the bone and it needs more care later, stomach same thing, like please assure me you're a doctor for you to be giving me medical advice?

You can't just give yourself a smug little pat on the back for telling me to seek help as though that will fix my wretched life, it's not automatic, there's a whole art to actually obtaining psychiatric care that isn't designed to harm you. 60% of psychs are antagonistic, I'd say. And the psych ward? I'm a fish in the water in there, know the protocols, know the law, know the laws that apply and the ones that should but that you just have to let go.

I spend a huge percentage of my income on psychiatric care, and it can't just be any doctor, with a carefully chosen doctor, of whom I demand the absolute best care, highly tailored. It's my highest priority in my budget, you realize, because if my mind is out of commission I'm screwed, whereas if I'm strong in my skull I can solve all my problems singlehandedly?

Dude you think it's a simple matter of calling a hotline? Oh oh, just google the number! The contempt is unbelievable, if you wound up in a psych ward you'd never get out, never get respect from the staff, get drugged with whatever was in the medicine cabinet when you consented the least, never get any insights into working with the system and also plain working the system.

> I doubt anyone actually cares

That would be a dream come true! I got for sure harassed, arguably persecuted, I talked to a lawyer about it at length, like 26 hours ago in a Lider supermarket on Merced in Santiago Centro that accused me of not paying but refused to look at my receipt. 6 guards, insincere apologies, I made them cut the shit real fast. Before that a few weeks ago and in that case told I would be hunted down and gutted like a fish for telling some street urchins their speaker was too loud, for which they fought me in front of 100 witnesses, being righteous brings problems, I have witnesses. Do you want to talk to any of my witnesses, see any of my proof? You don't, you don't. Like hit and run, you want to give advice that makes you look good--to someone--for giving it, but never take responsibility for your words and actions and their consequences. Then you'd get a wall of text.

And about that bitchvictim media you asked about--you answered your own questions.
> While I have sympathy for what the scrapers are trying to do in many cases, it bothers me that this doesn't seem to address what happens when badly-behaved scrapers cause, in effect, a DOS on the site.

Like when Aaron Swartz spent months hammering JSTOR causing it to become so slow it was almost unusuable, and despite knowing that he was causing widespread problems (including the eventual banning of MIT's entire IP range) actually worked to add additional laptops and improve his scraping speed...all the while going out of his way to subvert MIT's netops group trying to figure out where he was on the network.

JSTOR, by the way, is a non-profit that provides aggregate access to their cataloged archive of journals, for schools and libraries to access journals they would otherwise never be able to afford. In many cases, free access.
Twas a great sci-fi book called daemon
ugh, i tried. i really tried, and i really really wanted to love this but eventually came to find it inherited all the trash neoconservative hot takes, woke culture virtue signaling and micro-aggression bellyaching that twitter has.

its a "federated" service only insofar as large groups of admins openly advocate for, and agree to ban traffic from certain servers with speech they disagree with, so thats also been a sticking point with me as well.
I may edit and delete my information from LinkedIn, but I have no idea who has persisted that data beyond there.

There is such a thing as scraping responsibility and irresponsibly. Both kinds happen.
what? where do you think those people on facebook and twitter linked to for their news?
Also TOPS-20 at http://twenex.org/ by SDF.
If you ever have a reason to do this, it's a sign that you should not never have logged in to them in the same session in the first place. Use browser profiles (chromium/firefox) or multi-account containers (firefox) to keep them separate, lest Google effectively starts treating them as one.

You know all those "my employer G account was closed and now I permanently lost access to my personal one as well"/"an old employee got their yt video flagged and now our Play Store account is inaccessible" etc stories? I'm quite sure this is the mechanism behind those links.
> Americans spend an average of 12 and a half hours per day consuming news via the television, Internet, newspapers, magazines, and radio.

This just doesn't make sense. The average American spends the majority of waking hours consuming news?
Just wanted to follow up on your comment and link to a few older comments where I expand on how I do this.

The basic premise is that I try to live off of society's excesses without pulling new things out of the supply chain. So I tend to sleep in public spaces, eat food that's left over from others, wear hand-me-down clothes or "shop" in free stores, and so on. When I need to travel, I ask around for someone driving the same way.

For a few areas of my life, I still need new things, such as web hosting, occasional bus ticket, etc. For this, I allow others to interface with the currency system for me, and contribute to them in other ways, such as helping them with whatever they need help with.

As far as the bigger picture, I contribute by constantly looking for and doing things which need help doing, such as: cleaning up trash where it's not cleaned up, lending an ear to someone who needs to talk, teaching what I know to others, and so on.

I really resonate with the Steve Jobs quote that everything (man-made) around us was created by someone who had less knowledge and understanding of the world than we do today (because they did it in the past) and there's every reason to believe that each of us can do better if we put our mind to it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30321009

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30043346

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30042841

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30043104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30042864

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30043130
A pacifist European might balk at the a16z brand and support companies funded by a less nationalistic VC, exit their liquidity pools in crypto etc.

Sequoias seed program is SV + London. Very nice.
Perhaps. But for some companies, the occasional 3am page is worth the tradeoff for development to happen (at least in this reading) 4x faster.
>So often performance improvements are needed simply to make room for more "features"

absolutely. I'm an engine programmer and this has to be my train of thought, otherwise I'd be out of a job (you know, until the 11th hour where I break a lot of work just to get something out).

I'm not saving a few milliseconds on some feature that "only" takes 2 milliseconds because the game needs maximum performance. It's so when the director or designer comes up with some other crazy idea that they have more frame budget to try and fit it in. They may still not be able to, but I don't want my default answer to be "no, we can't spare the time" (not unless it's something absurd).
>> Today, just six conglomerates — Comcast, Disney, AT&T, Sony, Fox, and Paramount Global (formerly known as ViacomCBS) — control 90% of what you watch, read, or listen to.

No google/youtube? No twitter? No facebook? Is this article from the past? Most people do not get their information from the television and so I doubt these six control most of anything.
A16Z's superpower is branding and getting their name out there. Their fund returns are well below Sequoia & co
Wrong. One entity runs everything: Bilderberg.
I mean the stupid thing there is owing US taxes despite living and working primarily abroad. The US is only one of two countries that does this.
I'm trying to understand why the toys flew out the pram when I said
"democracy". Did it offend, as if to say "Hey we live in a democracy
and by implication all other countries are shite" ? I didn't mean
that. It's a very loaded word, so sorry if it "triggers". Notice I
didn't say functional democracy. I guess along with it goes a whole
slew of hidden values, like how we expect public figures to behave,
and how we expect institutions to work.

respects
There should be some traces of it still. Per the legend, the last day of Atlantis was the day Sahara became a desert, so inspecting it should reveal something. Also, "Atlantis" is a made up term (by Plato?). Again, per the legend, that nation called themselves "lanka" and I wonder if Sri Lanka ("Holy Lanka ") was named this way for a reason.
A high end phone has the HW resources to do this already. It 'just' needs the software.

I suspect that cloud + browser covers many of the use cases for this setup, and perhaps most of the uses people would pay for, while being cheaper to deliver.
I'm on thinkpad P53 since 2019, beefed up with 128Gb of RAM, running Arch on it. Had no problems with this laptop and overall good experience (though, my expectations are not high when it comes to OS, I don't mind scripting it or fixing it on my own when something does not work). It's more a mobile workstation than laptop, mainly because of Nvidia GPU for CUDA. Before making this purchase I was considering a few Dell models as I had good experience with multiple Dell laptops, but 128Gb capable motherboard won and I don't regret it. I have never used MackBook before, so I'm not judging if it would be better or not (I guess maybe more expensive? And maybe it's more of a hassle to run Arch on it?)
It sounds like the ethos in place in the DAO is “One dollar, one vote”? Voting rights are expressed in currency.
Really the problem is that PACER has been turned into a cash cow for the federal court system, with fees and profits growing despite costs being virtually nill.

But yeah, the irony of the federal court system legalizing screen scraping, something PACER contractually prohibits.

Court records should be public record, not encumbered in terms of use/access/reproduction/copyright.
The data here is effectively free. I don't think they would exhaust The Pile, which you can download for free. This is also true for text2image models like DALL-E 2: while OA may have invested in its own datasets, everyone else can just download LAION-400M (or if they are really ambitious, LAION-5B https://laion.ai/laion-5b-a-new-era-of-open-large-scale-mult... ).
I expect basically every intelligence agency to do that to everyone else.

On the other hand, Johnson and many of his staff clearly can’t be blackmailed because he and many of them are totally shameless.
SpaceTime with Stuart Gary is a great podcast where the host goes into detail about the relevance of new studies. I really like it.
> investment sales stuff, maybe with import capabilities or something ...

Consider that this requires cutting a separate deal with each individual brokerage. Even TurboTax omits some big ones e.g. Vanguard. Not on TT's list -- I checked just today.
This is fine if everyone in the conversation has that same academic definition of pre-history - the problem is that bad actors will often latch onto that statement, ignore the definitions, and use that as a basis to argue that so-and-so people were sub-human.

It'd be really nice if all parts of the internet engaged in good faith debates on topics they were knowledgeable but finding that phrasing preposterous isn't unreasonable if you've spent a decent chunk of time exposed to reddit and twitter.

I agree that you're correct and reasonable, but I also agree that the person you're replying to was correct and reasonable when expressing caution over how things are worded.
Which conveniently leads to earlier upgrades (everybody but the consumer and the environment wins!), and more profit to the OEMs in the form of RAM upgrades. Maybe I'm just too cynical.

Does anyone even care about connected standby?
That's what I'm thinking lol, the content shared on social media platforms COMES from these 6 companies (~90% of it)
On the other hand, my android phone works reliably for ... I don't know weeks? Months? I only restart for major update. My Ubuntu laptop after a straight install didn't turn off properly, my Ubuntu desktop regularly has chrome crash and fails to wake up the screen. I've had so many issues with basic Linux setups that I absolutely do not want that on my phone. I don't want a browser that's described as just "usable". I don't want zoom that goes absolutely nuts or a webcam that loves to decide some ports aren't OK.

My phone works. I open it and it works. I've never been in a position where trying to fix the underlying OS was required nor could I picture it being something worth time I'd have to trade away from my family.
Any idea why their page is now a rickroll?
Doe backs US battery materials production with $107M loan
> This is something that could easily occur with scripting languages, backend systems, open source, closed source, etc. Basically any black-box system that takes in some input could pre-manipulate the input yielding an unknown/unexpected output.

IMO thats why it's a scary attack. It's a really simple idea and there are so many ways to apply it
Yes, and it's awful. I have ADHD and even with turbotax handholding me and importing last years' data and grabbing some fields automatically, it's still quite stressful.

I know several folks that have their partner do it cause they just hate it.

So the "quite easy" is far from universal.
I agree, if I lost my memory and can't remember how to access my blog or run docker then I'd be out of my digital life.

In that scenario though, I'd also be out of my digital life even if I had access to 1password.
I think it is entirely a fair question to ask. What's driving the dealine gives team a perspective of the stake holders and what needs to be accomplished.

The team collectively ought to be questioning it. Not one individual.
Increase usable RAM on your Raspberry Pi with this new script (ZRAM swapdrive)
Title insurance for very expensive homes in NYC is around $10k. Closing costs were much much more.
Except for the 2nd year in a row, TurboTax fails to understand how to handle short put positions (of which I have many, many trades). It doesn't understand how the cost basis could be 0.

I'll have to short-circuit it _again_, and this will be the last year I use TurboTax: if I'm going to have to manually work around these things, I may as well not pay for the privilege. Prior years made it trivial to import the data from the 10 different financial firms that provide 1099s.
Why is this repeated everywhere? They’re just fund managers and most of their “money” is in automated index funds investing retail and institutional investors.
It was quite interesting to have an Amiga with a super fast m68060 around the time of the m68k -> PowerPC transition. Many things on the '060 were faster than even native PowerPC apps on the first generation Power Macs.

With real DMA Fast SCSI-2, 256 megs of memory and true multitasking, it was a beast of a machine. ShapeShifter is quite good.

I still have it, and it's still productive :)

http://lilith.zia.io/
That’s a 43% increase, and unsourced, may be an outlier skewed mean?
There are others who would know more about this than I do, but a few reasons come to mind:

1. NSO almost certainly has more than one exploit chain at a time. While this would burn one of their exploits, it wouldn’t put them out of business or eliminate the ability for them to get RCE on phones in general.

2. Vendors already have bug bounty programs with established award ceilings. These exploits are almost always far more valuable than the vendor is willing to pay via their bug bounty program. Why would the vendor pay more in this instance?

3. Given (1), how long would this go on for? NSO—who is aware of how many exploit chains they have—likely wouldn’t sell all of their exploits to a single buyer and risk them all getting burned.

TL;DR: It wouldn’t be practical.
None of these words make me feel any different or better. The tough love sell conceals the sad sad truth.

It really seems absurd to me that drilling out energy from the ground, shipping it, refining it, then transporting it again to gas station pumps has been half the price of what a lot of folks pay to get the same energy amounts sent to their homes.

Powergrids should be an easy lock in win here for efficiency versus all this shipping shit, and that value should show up the bottom line quite obviously.

We should be trying to improve generation costs, investing in improvement. Renewables, nuclear, improved & cleaner natural resource-based generation... it feels like there is work to do.
Ask HN: Why Yann LeCun's home page is now password protected?
Does anybody know why Yann LeCun's home page is now password protected?

http://yann.lecun.com/

It had a lot of very good information and now it's gone behind "the wall".
The article states both that it was and that it wasn't the best. It doesn't judge.
The big questions is, did he go into the light?
I still don't know if i really follow here. We are not detonating anything, and there is no precise time required. The confinement is magnetic in nature and not really a property of the gas species.
> I'm surprised this isn't a major diplomatic incident between the UK and Israel too

Are you really surprised? I'd be surprised if the UK and its media made a fuss about it. Certainly we won't be making a fuss about it here in the US that's for sure. I'd imagine russia and china wishes they had 1/10th the influence that israel has in the US/UK. Say what you want about israel, but for such a tiny country, it punches far above its weight.
This is sometimes used to connect rigid touch panel electrodes (on glass) to flex cables, bypasses having to do lots of soldering…
There are a handful of windows management apps that don't require changing or disabling BIOS security features. Moom & Divvy are both really good.

Safari's extensions shouldn't hold you back too much; if you're willing to use Chrome or Brave or Firefox.

Hotkeys seem like something that would change from platform to platform, but learning how they work does take time.
Are we still not counting wampum belts or khipu as a written language? I know that those are both very different from how we comprehend written languages but there is significant evidence to support that they were used in the process of imparting information (whether that be treaties, legends, or statistics)
John Mearsheimer (Chicago professor) & Stephen Walt (Harvard professor) wrote a New York Times bestseller book called the Israel Lobby which delicately discussed in careful details the influence of the Israeli lobby on US politics.

Perhaps the treatment they got for the book is the reason many serious academics and intellectual steer clear of the topic. Which is unfortunate since the pernicious influence of the lobby has arguably grown steadily since they published the book, culminating in the election of Trump and such disastrous consequence for the world like shredding of Obama's Iran nuclear agreement.
They have done recoveries from the ocean, so they have rejected that option.
>"My Pi has 4GB of RAM, and from past experience I know better than to open 50+ tabs in Chromium. So, with ZRAM enabled, I tried opening all of my browser bookmarks at once. In total, over 200 tabs were open in Chromium, (many of them Facebook, YouTube, and other heavy sites) and the system still did not freeze. I checked my system monitor to see how much ZRAM-swap was in use:

Chromium was using 7GB of memory, yet my Pi has only 4GB of RAM. I wasn't using any conventional Swap, and yet the system was still responsive!

If that's not impressive, I don't know what is."
I unfortunately can only affirm with my experiences: well engineered exterior feel, but plagued by unreliable hardware. My Surface Pro 4 managed to simultaneously experience flickergate and battery expansion, and the soft surface of its keyboard crumbled where my wrists touched it. Its refurbished warranty replacement then pulled off the signature die-a-month-out-of-warranty. The bottom half of a Surface Book in the family also died without any recourse (with no official replacements sold).

Naturally, the unsupported, glued-down screens also make them some of the least repairable devices on the market. At least they had the sense to make the SSD removable—aside from saving you if spontaneous failure catches you out of a backup (as Microsoft will wipe all devices sent in for repair), it's also the only part salvageable from a "PC" of such form factor.

That said, the Dells we've had seem to very reliably suffer from broken hinges.
When talking to flat-earthers giving them logical arguments and more information is pointless as they will keep brushing off info that contradicts their world-view and will keep finding info that supports it.
The same story about this whole Dubai-slavery thing.

No one confiscates passports, it is a nonsense. But what can I tell a person in America to make them doubt ideas they fixate to?
Now go ahead and google up that one case when somebody did confiscate a passport a few decades ago and extrapolate this to all the millions of workers in UAE.
You see what I mean?
Politics...

If russia did that, they would be treated a lot differently than israel or eg. USA.
These companies manage ETFs, so instead of purchasing shares from 500 companies tracked in S&P 500 (and paying 500x the commission), you can just purchase X shares of the VOO ETF. On paper, it looks like they own everybody else, but in practice they are just proxies.
Sounds like they are a very powerful force not only controlling your mentally ill rich but also living rent free in your head.
I shouldn't be terrified by the mistreatment of millions of South Asian laborers in these oppressive oil-gas countries, but I should be terrified because of this random dude!! No thanks, journal de Septentrion!
These trojans do not run without central C&C, already proven in the past to be run by NSO. Selling a weapon is not travelling into a war zone and firing it off on behalf of who hired you; that's what a mercenary does, under punishment of death.
I mean isn’t that like the whole point, sign up for a server that aligns with your preferences for moderation and enjoy?

You can have everything from total firehose to catholic nun levels of moderation all on the same network.
The current home secretary, Priti Patel, was forced to resign from her previous (lesser) role as Minister for International Development for secretly (and thus illegally) meeting with Israeli diplomats.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41923007

It is completely unsurprising that there is little care shown by our government.