skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if time travel exists, nobody outside of the travelers will ever know.

Even if a giant infrastructure of travelers already exists in the present (their past).

If you're looking forward to the coming events, there are thousands of ways for everything to happen. But if you already know how something is going to happen and when, all bets are off, you don't need to hope, you know it.

i.e, you know that the way the bus does, you need to take the bus, but you don't know exactly when the bus will get to where you are - or you will be - waiting for it. But you've got more than enough information to plan ahead, even to do other tasks, before you get to the point of meeting the bus you will ride.

This is how the future known will probably be for a time traveler working in the past, maybe events can change a little here and there (maybe that's possible when you mess with the past), but at some point you know "the bus will be there, not early than X not later than Y" (and you can add geographical coordenates probably, close to military GPS precision).

So trying to nuke the planet or a similar drastic event, even if somehow get to get hidden in the present, will be fully known in the future, specially in the far future (a couple of centuries ahead).

Some stuff will be lost to history, but in this century most probably many data points will be stored and/or re-processed at some point, giving the travelers enough information to know with a high degree of certainty where and when, most probably, you can "take a bus" to get to certain destination.
> Realistically a lot of old people just vote for who the guy on TV told them to

Is there a study or some data backing this up? Or just a stereotype?
This is nothing compared to Brexit, and didn’t hit the UK uniquely.
Great project. Currently using react native + nodejs server. Will check out this project
That's the primary reason I did not get the shots. After so long of the government exerting force they had no right to use, I was not going to give into something they said doesn't take away that force, and would lead to a vaccine passport "show me your papers" society.
Toxoplasma gondii : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii

Risk factors for human infection : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Immune_respo...
Kubrick films often have "once-you-see-it-you-can't-unsee-it" easter eggs. In Strangelove there's an amazing one: the big circular table in the war room (with the circular lights above it) looks like a mushroom cloud if you squint at it right.

Bonus "can't-unsee-it" in the title itself: Strangelove = Strangle + Glove
I am speaking of the perspective of having seen about 200 cases of this type in the last few years (this is a moderately low sample size among practitioners) in the place in question and from having discussed the issue with colleagues who have more experience than that over longer time periods in the same place.

You are free to disregard my "word of mouth" claim in favor of an elected prosecutor's press releases and true crime sensational stories in one of the country's most infamous tabloids. I just wanted to put some ink on the statement that what I described is "clearly not true."
for postgres, i highly recommend the rum index over the core fts. rum is written by postgrespro, who also wrote core fts and json indexing in pg.

https://github.com/postgrespro/rum

rum handles +20mil pdf pages, interactively.
> there's no reason an ActivityPub instance couldn't also provide RSS feeds of their content.

it already does. you can receive users mastodon posts/comments as rss already—just add .rss after their address.

the number of esoteric things mastodon and activity pub support is wild. honestly i think it’s gonna change the entire paradigm.
I mean there’s zero mention of FTX in the letter. Perhaps a question mark is in order.
Criminals wear shoes and need shoes. We should ban shoes.
China, North Korea, and Iran also have excuses for how they treat their dissidents.
I remember this from the old 'potato clock' science kits from the 80s. They had a copper cathode and zinc anode that when inserted into a potato (most fruit/vegetables or acidic liquids also worked) generated enough power to run a small LCD clock. In a potato, the copper cathode always left a green spot.
And testing is nature's way of telling you how sloppy your code is, I suppose? (recursion intended)
In honor of that, I used to own `thereisnocabal.*` domain names under main TLDs.

But since there was no cabal for which to use them, I eventually transferred them to a colleague.
screenshots where? i didn't know you could post images on hn
> "generally states with more shoplifting prosecute more shoplifters"

Caveat: In states where the law isn't enforced, people often don't bother to report minor crimes, because there is no point in doing so.
Didn't know about that scandal, but it's also just standard to uncreatively (but tersely) name important events etc. with a structure of <noun/adjective> <number> (Boston Six, Gang of Four).
The twitter subscription is coming. It's only a matter of time. These services don't make sense if they continue with the free ad based system only. Once they have a subscription model in place then they won't have to rely on advertisers as their only income. I'm sure these ideas have been floating around for a while but Musk is the first willing to take the chance to implement them. Musk really knows how to make a buck.
I find the straws never come close to the bottom leaving quite a bit of waste if not willing to work for it.

I think I'd enjoy a caulk gun too much
This is really cool and echoes earlier human studies that found Toxoplasma infection "may make people look more attractive to the opposite sex": https://www.earth.com/news/parasite-makes-infected-people-lo...

Is this because it increases risk-taking behavior? Who knows, but it's interesting that something with potentially significant health drawbacks may have enough benefits that it's evolved to coexist with us (up to 50% of people carry it).
The SEC tried to stop the SEC's inquiry into FTX.

Gensler said earlier this year that the SEC should be regulating FTX. SBF unleashes his torrent of mid-term money and then Gensler was saying up until FTX went bust (he was reportedly lobbying for them a few weeks before) that it should be the CTFC's job (which was the position that FTX were lobbying for as they had also bought a few people at the CTFC).
The trick is to get it on clearance. Some local stores will sell for a massive discount off amazon.

I do more ebay as I won't touch selling used on amazon but in the past I have bought pallets of new stuff at local auctions and sold them on amazon for significant profit. Ended up with several cases of Ember mugs once. Forget the price per mug but think I paid ~$600 and sold em for ~$2400 on amazon.
A new political party would itself be a corporation (because if not, who owns its assets?) Running single-issue minor party candidates is also useless unless your issue is important enough to convince a majority of voters to abandon one of the big two parties that have run everything for our lifetimes.
Since fiat is mostly just used to enable war, and most all war, especially in modern history, is senseless slaughter: we should do everything we can to subvert fiat.
> A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious or malignant disease.

While most are prophylactic, it's not a requirement to be considered a vaccine. Vaccines are not "meant to prevent a disease". They're meant to provide immunity to the disease, whether that be before (prophylactic/prevention) or during (therapeutic/treatment).
I strongly prefer armodafinil to modafinil, YMMV. I do recommend Choline either way to mitigate the headaches.
You don’t, that is an inaccurate conclusion because the ads business would not exist without the e-commerce business.
If one of the Ds or Rs was flipped, we could all condemn the most-guilty party with great conviction.
Modded down by developer shills and clueless Bernie bros who lash out at facts they don't like... for whatever reason. Maybe they lack the confidence or gumption to believe that they'll ever succeed, so why should anyone else enjoy what he worked decades for?

GIMME GIMME GIMME. Up yours. Get a job.
If you prefer interacting with v2 via code, Erik Bernhardsson got v2 running on https://modal.com in 20 minutes, and it'd take 5 minutes to copy and run his Github gist: https://twitter.com/bernhardsson/status/1595960120021696512.

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To OP, I reckon you should allow 1 generation before hitting us with the login prompt. May lift conversion.
This is honestly still pretty mild by historical standards. With the possible exception of the covid lockdowns, but a year and a half is not actually that long. It sucks, but compared to the long term stresses people have suffered before, it doesn't stand out. We'll be lucky if the early 2020s stand out enough to be so named.
>EDIT: lol heaven forbid you propose smaller government with legitimate facts on HN lest you get downvoted

How would smaller government have helped the FTX situation rather than make things like that much more common and worse?

>The fact that the greatest investor in the US is Nancy Pelosi, AND she actively prevented legislation limiting insider trading by US Congress Members, should tell you that the government is not going to just get better by hoping the right people are voted-in. You need to systemically cut off their power and give that power back to the people.

Restricting Congress members from trading would be big government and more regulations, not small and fewer.
Everything I said applies just as well to existential threats caused by humans!
But before symptoms you still have it so it's not only for preventing disease.

Vaccines are used to teach/modify your immune system to fight something. Whether you have it or not is not part of the definition[0].

[0] a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
80% is still agreed upon by the uniparty. It’s the fringes on either side that make it so the government can’t agree on the other 20%.
In a sense they are. The article talks about putting deodorant behind a locked panel. I'm hoping you're not talking about something like an physical confrontation, since that would strike me as dangerous and unmanageable. That's the last thing I'd want to expose employees and customers to.
Well, she was unlocking small pigeon holes so that they could read the labels (reveal the mystery inside), clearly she will do gastroenterology or gynecology.
seems like the problem is not too much incarceration, but the wrong type of incarceration (i.e. not having prison be a dangerous and dehumanizing experience). if you didn't have a broken prison system that leads to recidivism, then you could safely use incarceration as a deterrent to crime
The value of gold goes up versus the dollar if you create less demand for dollars, right?
I don’t think it’s a good idea to build any kind of social networking application without moderation and filtering tools. Both for server admins and users.
A bit tangential but..

A couple of years ago, I researched and wrote up an article on the effects of drinking additional water and weight loss. I was just curious because I was dieting and consistently read advice to drink lots of water to help aid dieting.

tldr: "thermogenic" (calorie-burning) effects of additional water intake are mostly negligible and based on old, non-replicated research. There may be very modest benefits for obese people during dieting, but the research is unclear. No other clear benefits that have a solid backing of research (that I could find).

https://ericra.com/writing/water_energy.html
> The market is solving the problem for humanity

The market still considers a bitcoin to be worth 10x more than ethereum.
Paid $20 for a burrito and a coke in a dive taqueria in the SF mission. Just a few years ago that would have been under $10. Curious if they give a discount to the local Latino population who's average income is fairly low.
First page. First graph. 3A/5A. And then means that only 5A cables should be used. Why?
Before the regimen where I lost 80 lbs in 3 months, I regularly ate fast food, pizza, etc. After the regimen (off appetite suppressants, no longer calorie counting, no longer doing intermittent fasting), I still am doing keto, meaning I avoid the junk I used to eat that got me to current+80 lbs.

I suspect this permanent change in diet is what has allowed me to keep the weight off, though the more extreme regimen was what allowed me to lose so much so fast.
Amazon next-gen Prime Air delivery drone can fly further andthrough ‘light’ rain
Hardly the case for live games. Look at the EPSN drive graphics for the NFL for instance, where it shows the gain/loss for every play and the tooltip has tons of information about what happened. The shot heatmap for basketball is another great example of ESPN adding real value even if you’ve been watching the game.
It's a common problem at large trail races. Enough so that it's one of the two things usually explicitly called out in the race briefings (the other is a reminder to not take ibuprofen).
He also wrote a great intro to generating finite automata using Scheme macros.[0] It carries you through step by step and motivates the work well.

[0] http://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/sk-aut...
The ancients knew a lot. Also check out Petra, the capital of the Nabataeans.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra

These people were traders (capitalists) and built an incredible city in the desert. This was enabled by extremely efficient water harvesting (like in Dune) and by being extremely difficult to get to, making armies starve and die of thirst en route. It could be defended with a small force.
Like I said: You want to live in density, move to the dense urban centers. But covering 100% of the land with concrete and giant edifices is unsustainable and inexcusable.

"Main roads" are main roads for their original levels of population. They quickly become impassable if you exceed their design capacity; in fact, a great many of them are already there.

And... no. Why destroy houses and yards with concrete blocks, while giant already-concrete edifices sit empty? You totally ignored that.
You don't need to use an entire potato, a small 1 inch/3 cm cube will be fine.
To be fair, that werewolf or vampire thing was the most cogent part of the campaign so far.
observation: There was a post on HN in German and the built in translation read very naturally (https://lsww.de/shopify-illegal/) The translation of this article from French definitely read computerized.
Encoding voice messages into tweets using Codec 2
I said nothing about any mathematics.
You could lobby Congress. The Taylor Swift fiasco has Rep Ocasio-Cortez looking at investing Ticketmaster.
> So you want that the government do something, but don’t know what?

Actually, I pretty well know what, and I'll explain despite your bad faith.

* We have a century-old toolkit of ways to deal with legitimate businesses that often end up as fences. Mostly record-keeping requirements and a degree of secondary liability to encourage vetting of where they buy merchandise from. You see this toolkit applied to pawn shops, scrap metal dealers, etc...

* We also have pretty good ways, in major municipalities, of shutting down sellers of goods who open impromptu businesses on street corners with dubious goods. Increased amount of retail theft may be a signal to redouble these efforts.

* And, of course, enforcement against the actual frontline shoplifters is important, too.

Of course, all of these things are tradeoffs that impede some legitimate businesses to some extent to protect other businesses from illegal activity. The exact amount and form is open to discussion.
Do you have an example of a contrived example and explanation of why it is contrived, for the non-biologist to see why it is contrived?

I once tried reading a few chapters of a bioinformatics book explaining DNA, RNA, protein creation, etc. The basic idea seems very simple but to my mind they explained it non-systematically with too many words. There seems to be an internal information structure in these RNA- and DNA- related processes that was not being concisely presented and it seemed that if the writers presented the material in terms of computer-science concepts, so much time could be saved.
(lskdfj) Congrats for abetting laziness.
Every student should read the following preparatory to "Higher Maths";

* Precalculus Mathematics in a Nutshell: Geometry, Algebra, Trigonometry by George Simmons - Not a word wasted in less than 150 pages.

* Functions and Graphs by I.M.Gelfand et.al. - A must read (again, less than 150 pages) to build graphical intuition.
Well, can’t you just switch engine from mruby to jruby? I believe Mastodon was compitable with jruby.
This attitude is why terrible regimes with abysmal human rights records keep getting to sportswash themselves. The Qatari government said the quiet part out loud when they said that once the first whistle blows the world will forget about any controversy.
Thanks HN for been a gateway to the internet! This is the best social news site online! Thank you to all writers and readers! Happy thanksgiving to all!
I wonder if this would make a more efficient/effective drone for warfare. Creepy thinking of AI bird drone loitering munitions.
Hilariously paywalled
Why should Ghana prop up the US dollar? It, like most countries, have no incentive to.
I prefer the email format, like username@example.com

Double @ just look so ugly.
Yea good point, nice to have backup just incase. Thanks for sharing
(I am the post author).
I wrote the original version of this post using x86, but leetcode won't accept it. So I had to improvise...
They detailed their methods in greater detail here: https://protos.com/faq-tether-usdt-investigation/

This isn't a criminal proceeding. But no one has rebutted Protos despite ample opportunity. And Tether specifically cited FTX as a major customer on multiple occasions. It's hardly a radical claim.

> ""we used customer's commodities like a bank would. we lent them out to a trading firm that we also operate and we really hoped that we'd cover these trades".

FTX wasn't a bank, it was a brokerage. Brokerages do not lend out customer funds in this manner! In a regulated brokerage, the customer owns the securities traded. If the brokerage goes bust, they have the claim to them.
There are some network changes on the UNet, so if you ported the code over or have mismatched configuration files, it may generate garbage outputs, I wrote some notes here: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/z42yph/som...
I thought it was in English, but I just noticed it was auto-translate in my browser.
So, you think the second largest donor isn't going to get favorable treatment? This is after we know that multiple congressmen already tried to block the SEC from looking into FTX too closely? And after FTX was allowed to acquire a stake in a FDIC member bank at a inflated valuation?
> The size and scope of a government is not what makes bad performers perform badly. It's bad people combined with bad policies. How bad is a different topic (there is no absolute 'badness', but there are definitely differences).

The larger the size and scope, the more opportunity there is for bad actors. More cracks to slip through. More tills to dip into.

It’s not the factor that makes a person corrupt, but the bigger the government, the more room there is for more corrupt people.
That's how they market it anyway
One "useless skill" I learned long ago was the knight and bishop mate. I use it any time an opponent refuses to resign. In actuality it helps get better at my "chess vision" for knights and bishops, where my opponent would have just been better off resigning and spending that time working on their game some other way.

For the record, I usually play 20-30 games a day for the past 20-25 years, and it's only come up once without me forcing it. So it really is pretty useless compared to what else you could learn in the same amount of time.
Buying a deodorant? Please show your biometric government ID.
> Add an option for "None of the above/Do-over" and I'll have more faith in democracy.

I would really love this and to end PACs.
Really? I just googled my location plus "trafficked stolen property conviction" and found news stories regarding multiple convictions. It sure seems like the police investigate and arrest people knowingly selling stolen property. In what sense is Amazon not doing this, or recklessly disregarding whether or not they are doing this?

If I were a multi-hundred billion dollar business operating like Amazon, then of course cops and prosecutors would ignore me. Laws aren't for rich and powerful companies - they are for individuals and small business owners.
Generally if they are producing consistent, high quality research
Kipman got the boot after the original version of this article got released if I remember. Myerson and Keane I am not sure of, they're probably harder to get rid of.
As I understand it, the advice is not meant to promote a specific amount of water (what unit of measurement is a "glass"?), but that one should drink water consistently throughout the day, as in a glass of water every couple hours that you're awake.
> None of you deserved to be treated like this.

Give me a break. This sector of the economy is literally the upper echelon of humanity.

They won the lottery compared to most people and act like this is some affront. What a bunch of baloney.
The problem is that building and selling a product to 5000 people are probably the same effort as to 5 million . This is the hard part. (software related)
Yeah we really need to do better on this. One thing that would help a lot is if we moved error messages to a pager system since it would make it a lot easier to jump to beginning/end of error message. A lot of this work is relatively accessible for people new to hacking on Julia's internals if anyone wants to take a shot at it. I think a lot of the reason Julia is lacking some tooling compared to other languages is that Julia attracts a lot of people who don't have traditional CS backgrounds which affects the types of tools that get written. We have state of the art diffeq solvers and really good remote calls to C/Fortran, but the dev tools aren't as mature as I wish they were.
yeah, no moderation is just spam bots talking to other spam bots.

edit: the author specified below that moderation is on the to-do list, they’re hoping someone with moderation ideas will help with implementation later—it just hasn’t been added yet.
A 'second kill screen' would be adding one more level of brick speed before reaching terminal velocity?