skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's one of the most astounding things I've ever read - it's like capitalism, startup koolaid/cultism, intellectual moralism, celebrity, complete and utter glibness and lack of self-awareness, meet a huge pile of money, the anarcho libertarian fantasies of decentralized money, dark pools, 'feel good' modern ego validation therapy, all offshore 'away form the law' ... and a big supporting cast of fools from various industries all in one.

Just when you think it can't get nuttier ... they drop another gem.

It's funny because they thought they were maximizing utility when they really were maxing out on delusion.

This is 10x more insane than 'Wolf of Wall Street'.

It's just a beautiful bit of insanity and of course now, criminality.

Surreal.
https://www.heerlaw.com/moral-rights-copyright-law
Not the best demo of fly.dev if it can't handle a HN spike..
> I haven't really encountered any issues besides the downtime that has occured maybe twice since I bought the yearly two years ago.

> I never really notice those three submenus except when I'm logging into a new device and it takes like ~10 seconds to unpin them.

Maybe it's just me, but the way you've written these sentences makes it sound like you have buyers remorse. Doesn't sound like things are "basically perfect."

FWIW, I left Plex two years ago for Jellyfin, and haven't looked back. Never even bought the garbage Plex Pass.
Same with central banks. If the brakes occasionally fail, get rid of them!
Artists are no different than all the people who tried to destroy the cotton gin or the automated loom. We're all going to have to live in a world where these technologies exist, and find a way to live a fulfilling life regardless. Just as chess players today enjoy the game even though computers have surpassed our chess abilities.

It seems odd to complain that computers are using human's artwork to inspire their own creations. Every human artist has done the exact same thing in their lifetime; it's unavoidable.
Would be nice to see how hugepages and THP affect performance too
I think it depends how much of a danger they are to society. Is Elizabeth Holmes likely to defraud or otherwise hurt people if she's not put in prison for X years?

People on HN, Twitter, and every opinion column in the US are quick to advocate prison reform, but as soon as it comes to a character or subgroup they don't like, it's lock 'em up and throw away the key.

I get it. Elizabeth Holmes was a rich asshole (who is guilty mainly of defrauding other rich assholes). But let's not let our incarceration policy be guided solely by our preconceptions, which are often heavily biased, influenced, and even misinformed. Punitive deconstructive punishment is corrosive to society.
It is hard to say because it is not explicitly stated in the article, but I think the author was evaluating unfamiliar programs.

Trying a program which you are unfamiliar with in a domain you are experienced in is very frustrating, your muscle memory is all wrong, the tools you would ordinarily use are missing, and you have no real feel for how the new tools would work.

I give the author a pass for taking an hour and half on the shape.
You going to pay the border guard off with something that gets recorded on a ledger?

Are people actually doing this? Finding it easier to flee with crypto?
The thing is here 'everyone was a believer'.

This was not a 'deception' in the classical sense.

Other than mass self-deception.

This is what happens when there's nobody around to question anything.

EA + FTX is essentially a cult, it reads exactly like 1960's California stuff.
I'm surprised by this comment. As an outsider (from Australia) but someone who follows European politics pretty closely, the quality of European politicians is noticeably low. Not that I would say Australian politicians are better, but I'm simply surprised that any European thinks that there is a higher standard in Europe.
Missing the word “just”.

In Buddhism there is a school that is different from those which think mainly about pure and trying just be in n. Or all beings in n. It is all about existence and emptiness together. And not Or.

You can still think about computer algorithms without a way to realise it though. And astronomy without observation as well. But what is the point.
Brits would by mummies and hold "unwapping parties". Early on you could by mummies from street vendors in Egypt.
You could get caught because the other guy you paid got caught.
Exactly what I was going to write. Path dependency and mental health constrained his choices into an infeasible trajectory, e.g. when the Belgian opportunity.
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=cryptocom-ceo-admits-compan...
I mean this is not the context to have this discussion, but yes, if another country operated like the US does, we would call many of it's actions "war crimes" and discussing the relative complicity of the "civilians" that make the missiles.
> The use of all violence is prohibited in Norway. You are not allowed to abuse children or use any other kind of corporeal punishment when bringing up children. Severe penalties may be applied to anyone who has physically abused a child.

Never saw that before. This should be standard everywhere.
The logic is so ridiculous: "move around money = altruism".

Well it only holds if you happen to be a much better manager of money that others, and there's no evidence of that.

But nobody seemed to want to pierce thin thin veneer of glib inanity.
Actually to me, i need a PhD in linguistics to understand ToS.
I admire Marc's enthusiastic bravery for putting both money and reputation on the line for what he evidently believes in.

However, so far it seems that if Bitcoin, and its decentralized cohort, are truly foundational, to the next generation of technologies, then they have clearly succumbed to a far worse fate than that of something like email.

Having skipped directly from nascency to the point where it is characterized by its abusers, it seems never to have arrived at the very necessary phase of being generally useful.

Part of me still hopes that he is right, but that future seems out of sight for now.
I have to agree, this is a pointless battle. It doesn't matter what DA does or doesn't do. If your art is on the internet, it will be used to train AI. It's not even that it's an inevitable future, it's already the past. I do feel sorry for digital artists, but Pandora's box is open; A black ball has been drawn from the urn (in the world of digital art) and it's too late to do anything meaningful about it.
One problem with (at least samba) is that the configuration is a PITA and it's easy to do a lot of unsafe things (which probably wouldn't get a CVE because "well you enabled anonymous users, which are often enabled by default by distributions...")

(at least compared to caddy or wireguard...)
crap, I meant "overstate"
I think "You should invest in make-believe internet money because it'll moon" is the extraordinary claim that needs to be supported. Cryptocurrency is rife with scams and scammers and even proponents would likely agree that the vast majority of all cryptocurrencies are transparent scams.
I go through the portfolio company pages and it gives me a sense of... agony.

I can agree- or see something real- in the stated prospectus around web3, that there is untapped potential in decentralizing the siloed services that dominated the last decade. BUT, I mostly see this as rectifying the decisions of bigtech where value is captured and untapped value can be identified.

However, the portfolio appears to be a never-ending list of competing protocols and "pickaxes." I fail to see how an investor with a zero-to-one prospectus can stomach this. Additionally, most of the product pages offer a smorgasbord of philosophy-as-a-service that I simply do not grok can be aligned with customer need for someone who is not already a believer. There is a frightening lack of use cases offering something to internet denizens (ye olde end-user) beyond some gaming demos, an area where web-first portals (kongregate, armor games, newgrounds) have nigh evaporated.
There's a similar sentiment in the first SICP lecture <https://youtu.be/-J_xL4IGhJA?t=48>, when Harold Abelson brings up the examples of computers and computer science, physics and particle accelerators, biology and microscopes and Petri dishes, and geometry and surveying instruments. All those tools definitely help, and indeed one would struggle at this stage to research without them, but the tools aren't the goals of the sciences.

I'm not sure what Dijkstra would have thought the "goal" of computer science was, but in the lecture Abelson seemed to think it was about describing procedures and processes in a formal manner.
>That isn’t the case here.

What do you mean? Are you saying FTX wasn't hacked by an anonymous hacker?

Banks reverse transactions sometimes. It sounds like in many cases the reason they can't be reversed is because the money got converted into cryptocurrency.

>Wire Fraud Recovery is Difficult, but Possible[1]

>When the stolen funds arrive in the fraudster’s bank account, they engage a network of money launderers who immediately withdraw funds in cash, wire the money to a number of different accounts and/or convert it to cryptocurrency.[1]

>A full recovery of lost funds was only possible in 29% of cases. In 40% of the cases, less than 10% of the funds were recovered.[2]

That means that 60% of the time at least 10% of the money is recovered.

>Cyber perpetrators are moving stolen funds between bank accounts and cryptocurrency wallets at a rapid rate.[2]

[1] https://www.certifid.com/article/how-to-recover-from-wire-fr...

[2] https://blog.alta.org/2021/04/survey-title-professionals-tar...
Aside from Herculean levels of glib lack of self awareness - which maybe we could forgive if he was 'just taking risk' - he was gambling with deposits, now apparently embezzling money (more than $1B is missing) and maybe criminal enterprise stuff as there was a 'hack' in which FTX lost at least hundreds of millions, likely carried out by insiders, i.e. grab the money and stash it before the Feds get at it.

Stalin, his entourage and the part believed they were doing good even as they killed millions. They were believers to the end.
If a section is particularly objectionable, I sometimes email the company after signing up to inform them I explicitely refuse that clause of their ToS. Only once has one ever said "sorry, you can't use our service". (In another case the company actually revised their legalese!)

Can't say how binding that is, but usually the clause is egregious enough that I bet a judge would side with me if it ever came down to it, particularly given the unequal bargaining power and common law principle of consensus ad idem.
This attitude of many people makes me sad. Working and thus wasting your whole life in a miserable job and just waiting for retirement. Feels like a recipe for disaster.
There are countries in the world smaller than many US states, and they manage to handle healthcare and education just fine, so no, I don't think federalism is even remotely a problem here.
Ahora aprendo a hablar español
This guy sounds more optimistic than the reporting has been for the last few years. Check out the documentary Chasing Coral for more info on the bleaching that’s been reported.
The doesn't seem like Apple's usual market.
You'll need a beefy cpu to transcode pretty much any 4k video without hardware transcoding.
> How much of the standard Lua test suit can your implementation pass?

I haven't tried it yet, but I don't believe it would get very far since I haven't yet exposed ways to load Lua code from Lua modules (`dofile`, `load`, `require`, etc.). I've been building up my own test suite[1] while working through the reference manual[2]. I had never really used Lua before this, so it's been pretty interesting learning the language while implementing it.

> Do you have some benchmarks to compare the speed?

I've been using programs from the benchmarks game[3] and comparing them against regular Lua on my machine. On these programs, the overhead is usually somewhere around 2-3x. I believe that's mostly because these programs tend to be very mutation heavy. It's also possible that the way I'm compiling things down to Racket is defeating optimizations, but I haven't yet dug in.

If you're curious, you can get it to print the code it generates for any given module by setting the `RACKET_LUA_DEBUG` env var to `x` before running some code. Eg:

$ echo -e '#lang lua\nprint(1)' > test.lua
$ env RACKET_LUA_DEBUG=x racket test.lua
<<test.lua>>
'((#%provide #%chunk)
(#%define _ENV (#%global))
(#%load-stdlib! _ENV)
(#%define (#%lua-module . #%rest) (#%begin (#%begin (print 1)) (#%values)))
(#%define #%chunk (#%adjust (#%lua-module))))
1

> What is the problem with scientific notation? Racket can parse floating point numbers, including some weird cases [1], but I guess Lua has a slightly different set of weird cases.

Yup. I just haven't gotten around to it. My goal this week has been to get it to a usable spot for embedding in my app and then iterate from there.

[1]: https://github.com/Bogdanp/racket-lua/tree/master/lua-test/l...

[2]: https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/manual.html

[3]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/
Thank you for saying it.

We're surrounded by people who don't understand what's happening. They seem to think some kind of art intelligence has been invented.

No, it's the aggregation and interpolation of vast amounts of existing art.

The same thing is happening with software, through Microsoft's Copilot:

https://bugfix-66.com/7a82559a13b39c7fa404320c14f47ce0c304fa...

I think people just don't understand what they're seeing. They have no idea what it is.

They think it's really "intelligence", dreaming and imagining and simulating and feeling and experimenting and...

It's none of these things. It's a sophisticated interpolation, not so different from linear interpolation:

a*x + (1-a)*y
99¢/mo or $10/yr iirc. Can't remember how much the lifetime is but I don't mind the annual sub as long as it keeps it maintained.
It'll get worse and worse until you wish you left sooner. Hang in there. They'll cross your line eventually
Why are you having to do realtime transcoding for streaming to devices? Why not just have a streaming version? Transcode one time at whatever speed, then it's ready for you whenever you want it anytime after that? Not that you can't do whatever you want to do with your own gear or anything. I've just never understood the desire for realtime encoding for everything
>Can't connect to people's existing Plex servers.

Right, Jellyfin has nothing to do with Plex other than competing with it. It's not a Plex client.
It would be easier and faster to have $1000 bounty for the first person who recognizes and provides location.
Garry Tan on Impact of Tech Layoffs on Markets, VC
> 2. AI-unaided art is on the way to becoming a niche artisanal field. Kids of tomorrow will treat illustration as they do calligraphy, celluloid film, and butter chuRning

Maybe I agree 80 percent With this. I teach art and certainly our illustration stream will have to re-think itself.

We are already seeing students of their own accord incorporate AI into their work. Mostly this is for ideation and development. But the best results come from the students who best know the formal language of art. This is not easy to come by and only very experienced artists and art directors speak this language effectively.
What data? I didn’t mention any data… and you didn’t you either btw.

I posted some examples negating your absolute statements.

Do some ppl need animal products because of medical reasons? Peobably.

But claiming that humans needs animal products to live and thrive is quite the statement. Several national health organisation say otherwise. They say a plant based diet can be healthy with careful planning. Are they wrong as well?

Some other anecdotal evidence… myself. I’m on a animal product free diet and did some blood work… my doc says I should continue doing whatever I’m doing.
This is brilliant... I also have a zoo membership and really want to try this now.
I don't think that would be very binding at all.

If you signed a mortgage agreement with a bank and then emailed them a week later saying "actually, I didn't like that clause about paying interest — I explicitly refuse that clause", how legally binding do you think that would be?

If a specific clause is legally unenforceable, it will be unenforceable whether or not you've emailed the company about it.
Fair point, but there are also a lot of people, me included, who don't care too much about the fact that she's not a danger to society and instead want to see a punishment that would deter future corporate executives from thinking about doing anything remotely similar in the future.

My desire for prison reform has nothing to do with sentencing. For the most part, prison reform has to do with conditions inside of a prison, for example cleanliness and the humane treatment of prisoners.
Is he a good guy or bad?
on mac what about iina?

also, with brew or macports you can install pretty much any audio player you want
Does such a system exist?
Others have already pointed out that it was only a small fraction of experts.

But even if it had been a majority (or even "everybody") your point still completely fails because you are not taking into account why they predicted global cooling.

The predictions were not "we will have global cooling no matter what". They were "we will have global cooling if the amount of particulate pollution in the atmosphere gets too high, which if current trends continue will happen". Particulate pollution has a cooling effect.

But we undertook a massive effort to reign in particulate pollution. We not only stopped their rise but actually greatly reduced their level.
Discussed at the time:

Achieving 100Gbps intrusion prevention on a single server - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25108392 - Nov 2020 (35 comments)
as i said in my ancestor post i'm far from a power user. its quite likely i tweaked some setting several years ago and forgot about it. I put something in my flex drive and it's there within seconds.
Why are you certain such studies have not been done? Plenty of things have been published in that space. For example,

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/226/2/199/6582941

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmed.2021.65431...

You might respond with some specific skepticism about some particular detail in either study. But e.g. the first is in the respected Journal of Infectious Diseases. It passed peer review. And plenty of other studies exist.

The bigger picture here is that every major health agency in the world recommends good masks such as N95s, as mentioned earlier. That is the standard for relevant healthcare workers for good reason. The experts in those agencies have looked at the studies and made that conclusion, which is the general consensus in the healthcare field.

There is some chance all the experts are wrong on this. That happens sometimes. But it's rare.
Climate change strikes: Lightning patterns change with global warming
New research has shown climate change could alter lightning patterns across Europe.
Well, to start, 10% of gold production goes to the electronics industry. Therefore, one could say that gold was used to manufacture products we use to serve and view the very site on which we are discussing this topic.

I agree, the world has changed substantially because of cryptocurrencies. The amount of breathless hype has reached critical levels. As for use case, well, I hear that ransomware is now a multi billion dollar industry. Congratulations?
The subtlety of this happy ending says many things.

Literally, it means that being sacrificed upon a pyre is a transcendence.

Figuratively, it requires change, from one form to another.

Change in life is never easy.
I am not a portrait artist despite having a camera. Instead of hiring a portrait painter, I hire a photographer. It’s much cheaper now, so I can afford to hire many portraits throughout my life. It still takes an artist to get a good portrait.
>while working-class Bangladeshi professionals earn £10,432 less than their white counterparts in the same jobs

I ask this honestly, not attempting to offend, I’m simply curious…but why is it okay to assume negative intention when race/ethnicity is involved. I mean why do I care about this statistic. There’s no nuance here. Discrepancy == bad, per usual.
We've changed the URL from https://web.archive.org/web/20001003150639/http://www.paters... to what looks like the current canonical source.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(It's fine to post archive.org links if there's really no other way, but please search for another way first—there are quite a few editions of this article on the web, which you can find by googling sentences from the text—and try to find the canonical source if possible!)

It's a great submission otherwise! and appears never to have been discussed on HN before, which is an unusual find.
That's exactly the same for crypto too though, all the warning signs are constantly there.
The world is not split into black and white, good democracies and bad repressive countries. Most countries are a shade of gray.

For instance, my country (UK) is not usually included in lists of authoritarian countries, but still all internet activity is logged and available to the authorities. Even for minor administrative disputes.

Tor is a useful tech and bad users, no matter their number, do not diminish that.
IIRC the legal requirement is to carry an "anti-polar bear device". Rifles are the most common but flare guns are also allowed since they can scare the bears off.
FWIW, the real quote you are replying to should be “better impulse control and experience”, so not quite as reductionist as you suggest.
We need to find the maintenance axe
Are you referring to their opt-out from training? Artists were complaining about not being able to say no to training on their works.
Since you need a centralized trusted party to enforce the property right, you might as well register the deed with them and save a lot of pointless steps. There's no such thing as decentralized, trustless ownership of tangible property.
Supposing that we can, this seems like a plausible explanation for the Fermi Paradox.
Start? Put time in front of the keyboard—to be a programmer requires nothing more than writing programs. Beyond that, it's simply learning and applying, just like anyone else.

I try to be deliberate in what I do and seek the simplest solution. In this, I hope, to avoid "seeing everything is a nail."

I learned a lot from Emacs, honestly, from core programming concepts, to how a community can survive and thrive, to the importance of software freedom.

I'm currently working through Nand2Tetris.
The impossible puzzle is that our most competent men have so many ties to so many businesses that a career in politics becomes impossible.
add html preview with

https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/garu2/Skil...
What, you think the simulators didn't want to pay for Simulator Pro and instead stuck with the one-civilization free tier?
I wish the jellyfin android tv APK supported dolby vision. I use Kodi with the jellyfin plugin and this is great as it allows for 4k DV with Atmos on an Nvidia shield with jellyfin quarterbacking the whole thing. It also seems to work better than my previous shared library via MySQL as it will force an automatic library update on all devices with new content and sync watched state.

My server is headless only has an embedded graphics card so I wish I could disable transcoding outright as I can never get it to play high def content via a browser despite trying different settings (debian).