skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These are the numbers we know. I can't assess the numbers we don't know. That's why I was careful to use the words "possible" and "not sure if this is true". I wasn't trying to be misleading. I fully understood there might be donations we don't know about. But I guess that was for naught since you're calling me a liar anyways.

I would tend to believe him on the Republican dark money. Sam needs all the help he can get right now. It makes sense to make these donations public knowledge. Plus, in the legalized bribery known as campaign donations, it makes sense to donate to both sides. Most companies which do political donations make donations to both. A few very ideological execs will only donate to this side or that, but Sam doesn't strike me as one of those.

Maybe I'm wrong. But I doubt it. The winning move is to donate to both sides. If the Republicans received zero from Sam, they'd have every reason to reveal this to the world. To hurt Democrats and punish the guy who gave them nothing. But the Republicans aren't doing this. Silence to me is evidence that Sam gave at least part of what he claimed.

As for the numbers we don't know, I'm not making any claims. Maybe a billion went to Democratic PACs. Maybe nothing did. Who knows? It's worthless making assessments on this until further evidence comes out.
Yeah, I don't know why I didn't just think employee-owned. I live half a mile away from a WinCo[0], which has the words "Employee-Owned" in big ol' block letters on it. Thanks for the explanation!

(Though to my knowledge WinCo isn't the friendliest to their employees on the floor when it comes to stock ownership, I can imagine something more fair.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinCo_Foods
What they mean is not 'upstream' with respect to distro tooling, but Fedora's closer relationship to the upstream components of the stack desktop stack (GNOME, PipeWire, SystemD, etc.), which are often entirely or in part maintained by Fedora contributors or Red Hat employees, etc.

The 'defiance' they're talking about are the projects that Canonical has developed, often in secret, which are or were essentially alternatives/competitors to the components of the Linux free desktop stack which have been developed in the open, often at Red Hat and developed on Fedora.

The cases that come to mind are:

- Unity vs. GNOME 3
- Upstart vs. Systemd
- Mir vs. Wayland
- Snap vs. Flatpak

The Canonical entries all appear as sort of NIH latecomers, whereas their competitors have generally been developed in an upstream-first, 'release early' kind of way. In each case, the tech opposite Canonical's has been shipped on Fedora, before eventually becoming the default in Ubuntu anyway. (Snap has yet to go.)
That's for Wikipedia to decide. I'm not a member.
I think the argument would be that said second largest donor would have beans to spill if they get arrested.
OP is saying it's a natural side effect of this sort of complicated crime, it's not just an issue with how it's prosecuted.

Although rerouting the massive amounts of money + human capital in non-violent crimes (drugs) to white collar would help... and probably pay for itself in recovered money (via tax revenue and reduced government corruption).

That probably still wouldn't result in SBF-type criminals being arrested right away though.
What is legal in one country can be very illegal in another
Thanks! I've been wondering if exiling myself deep in Canada and using Starlink to be fully remote was viable. Do you notice any impact from the increase latency (compared to coax cable or fiber) in meetings/voice chat/video games or would it pass the blind test?

Additional question, do you get any connection degradation in bad weather events (if you have them)? Things like snow and storms.
100%. In both, it's clear people who got rid of the existing framework failed to follow Chesterton's fence.
South Dakota first to ban TikTok on state-owned devices
While I love my mirrorless, the ease of "exit" is definitely something that pulled me away from them for quite a while. But times have changes. There are accessory units like the Arsenal Camera Assistant that give you wifi access to the camera. Also a lot new cameras (like my new Nikon) have wifi built in.

Can take photos with the Nikon and beam them to my phone fairly quickly. Is it as quick and seamless as using the iPhone directly? Nope. But good enough that I'm ok with it now. It also gives me access to typically a much higher quality photo that I can crop way farther than I can with the iPhone.
It's 136.4kB minified (react+react-dom), for a zero app is crazy. The app size that will justify 136.4kB is probably 700kB which is 836.3kB total, is also crazy. So no hello world argument because it sucks (in engineering metrics) at all range of apps.

According to https://web.dev/optimizing-content-efficiency-javascript-sta... the js size budget is about 800kB minified (1s to parse/compile). So if an app max out the budget, the framework part is considerably 17.05%.

Not bad, but if the median of react app is around 300kB which means the framework part is 45.4%. This is bad!
Well, in fairness, that's a very simple crime to prosecute :)
>there is a certain appeal in making an example

No politician wants to make an example of any white collar crime for they are all criminals themselves and they fear someone making an example of them
I maintain a Synapse homeserver for our open source project and it seems to work fine, I don't know how different it is from Conduit.

Other open source and self-hosted chat apps I've heard of but haven't used are Mattermost[1] and Rocket.chat[2].

[1] https://mattermost.com/

[2] https://www.rocket.chat/
I was just curious, you seem like a meticulous thinker so I figured you had done your homework before adopting an unusual Forth style. Cheers
Kind of a duplicate?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33834006
> Go and read anything at https://www.pulitzer.org/prize-winners-by-category/206 and tell me if anyone but "corporate media" would be able to do anything even close to these.

BuzzFeed News Has Won Its First Pulitzer Prize

BuzzFeed News won for its innovative series exposing China’s mass detention of Muslims and was named a finalist for its colossal FinCEN Files investigation into the global banking industry.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/davidmack/pulitzer-priz...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuzzFeed_News#Awards_and_recog...

Though make sure that you differentiate BuzzFeed News from BuzzFeed... the later is the way that makes money that is able to support news site without needing subscriptions and paywalls.
People will buy anything, and the market has never been disrupted because software is never going to make you a better cook.

IMO, people are also just dumber. I’ve never owned a microwave and after 4 decades microwave owners don’t appear to be any more capable. In the old days, they had Home Economics for this sort of thing.
Yeah, but they can't just go there and arrest him. Right now, the US and the bahamas seem to be in dispute over where to hold the bankruptcy. So there's some territorial beef. It's entirely in the hands of the Bahamas to arrest him and turn him over, if they decide to turn him over at all. In any case, it's common for extradition to take months or even years.
And thank you for experimenting with Creative Commons e-books! Accelerando was one of the first e-books I ever read as a result.
That is much lesser problem where you can verify with GPT acting as provider of keywords for search
This. And it will confidently give those answers.
It says a lot that a tweet saying "I drink piss everyday" is indistinguishable from a real Elon tweet
Yeah I mention this towards the end of my rant (in the article) but it's a) not available yet and b) not clear whether it'll actually notify you when there are updates to be made. I'm guessing it expects you to unhold at some point to get "refreshes".
Or much more importantly, most of those business founder dropouts had strong support systems in upper class families.
I'm divided on all this. Rationally, a sort of 'scientific' management approach appears to be optimal. We can not pretend global affairs and planning can ever be 'democratic'. At best, we can arrive at a consensus of mores and ethics, and leave high level planning to experts within the norms defined.

Intuitively, there is the awareness of the full spectrum of the tendencies of mankind, which raises alarming concerns regarding the former thought: who can be trusted with this much power? who is actually qualified? Possibly the fact that these doubts arise are in themselves decisive judgment.

2020 does give us insights regarding this important question that really needs to be discussed more openly.
COBOL never penetrated use cases that C++ covers.
They've adopted Microsoft's approach of trying to hold users on a leash and beat them into submission.
Hi Asa, macOS dictionary says

re·place
/rəˈplās/

verb

1. take the place of.
"Ian's smile was replaced by a frown"
2. put (something) back in a previous place or position.
"he drained his glass and replaced it on the bar"

Notice the use of place and position. If you say we "replace ads", I think you are misusing the word replace. I hope you won't from here on, because we definitely still get smeared with the lie that we replace ads in-situ in publisher pages.
> If they think this will not have side affects in humans they are mistaken.

Sure, everything has side effects.

This is a case where the side effects don't matter so much; people will put up with things in order to avoid dying a horrible death that they wouldn't tolerate in other circumstances.
Right, because getting a judge to approve a warrant to arrest someone for assault is trivial if you have a witness, because that's the kind of thing that is clear and obvious.

Even finding a lawyer capable of writing a warrant application for fraud like FTX is difficult, partly because the evidence is hard to find and hard to understand and frankly just because financial criminal law is a mess. Add to that that if you mess that part up you jeopardize the whole case (because any evidence that you collect with a bad warrant becomes subject to being thrown out, obviously).

No one wants to get that wrong just to get a perp walk. Remember that what people are demanding here isn't punishment, it's just "an arrest". People who are arrested spend a few hours (maybe a day or two) being held before arraignment and then walk right back out of the jail.
Right, so regulation would be the middle ground between state-owned (nationalized) and unregulated.
>what you cannot game are transcripts of life long learners who value their education.

What does it even mean?
Are these "hackers" the same ones building the massive databases of personal information that back every modern advertising business?
Oh you're right, that surprise macro dance is an absolute pain.

Being on Fedora I run into this a little more regularly than you would on proper RH these days, it's like the prerelease playground.

If you (or anyone) had things building fine for Fedora 36, they may not on 37. I forget which but one of the macros I repeat moved packages

One of these likely translates to a future Red Hat release
You're welcome. A clear demonstration that you are perfectly happy with people being discriminated against just because of their sexual orientation.
Yeah, when you use the playground it will happily give you the response and then the moderation API comes in and is like "hey this looks like you're breaking the rules."
Is this significantly different from the older API playground?
Honestly, I think that his book Principles (which is the one I'm reading) is just really dense and reads like an encyclopedia. Possible that it's just really hard to get through?

The decision-making frameworks that he describes go down to a micro-level. I do think that a lot of this stuff maps to engs like us, esp. the tradeoffs we make in deciding to pursue projects, skills, and jobs.
If they can get the car started.
Comparing In-Toto and Sigstore: Two Approaches to Software Supply Chain Security
> DSLR powered up has a time to shot similar to phone already on the camera screen.

But that's not a realistic comparison since the phone is almost certainly not on the camera screen if I wasn't expecting to take a photo and the phone is just sitting there on the table (or worse, pocket).
I would think they would ban lots of apps on state owned devices. There's a lot of trash apps out there that are nothing but spyware.
> be sufficient time to charge the vehicle to get the extra 40 - 100 mile range

I think 45 minutes is enough to get closer to 300 miles of additional charge than 100.
Title is misleading. The vulnerability was patched after they reported it. One cannot use this vulnerability today.
What if the downsides of decarbonisation outweigh the supposed benefits? Is this even possible in your list of possible outcomes? We have some experience of central state power steering large parts of the economy for The Greater Good.
BuzzFeed News is corporate media.
If the tickets were sold in an open market where they were priced for demand, thus putting them out of reach of many of the fans, maybe those fans would defocus on this one woman/act and go do something else. There could be other concerts.

It's not just about price and wealth inequality. If everyone decides they want to go to the same event then some will be disappointed and they'll complain bitterly.

I've been to large concerts and big stadium events. It's not worth it. The events actually seared into my mind are the tiny ones, like seeing a band I'd followed for years in a small bar in Copenhagen and being within arm's reach. What am I trying to say here? Those tickets that everyone is clamouring to get probably have a very low experience value if people would only seek out other things to fill the same hole they purport to have.
Much of the PHP internals (the Zend Engine) was created by Israeli developers. I'm not sure why they didn't use English, but clearly they just used their native tongue in this case.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zend_Engine
Did you teach yourself to drive it without ever seeing one driven?
Because to survive in life you have to contribute to the survival of others. Anything else is selfish.
Well, it's him doing them in the crypto space that has enabled the proliferation.
FossHost Is Dead
Hit the same thing in China. I have free cellular data while there--but at a trickle. Maps were painful and the VPN needed to access Google Maps also added it's own headaches because of the spotty connection causing repeated reconnects.
I usually refrain from this sort of meta-comment but I gotta say I'm a little startled to see my original comment was flagged. I'm not sure exactly what to make of that.

In any event, thanks for linking to the scene. I re-watched it and it's more egregious than I recall. I won't repeat what I said, but I stand by it.

(FWIW, I live in SF, I grew up here, and I'm moving away ASAP.)
Unfortunately there is not anyone dumber than Musk to whom he might sell the platform. That being said, even Musk isn't capable of destroying Twitter (at least yet). The site is still here, and all the profiles with their 280-character messages still load.

Trust me, I want Twitter to suffer the worst death of all. It's just not likely that Elon Musk will be the reason why the site falls, at least not from a technical standpoint.
I've been playing with it, asking it to create a rest api for example for some blockchain testnet etc.

My assumptions up until now is that it provides kind of a template result for many things, which you could have searched online. It's like a complement to a search engine.
The two are working together to establish a p2p connection behind a NAT but that doesn't make them equivalent. It's like saying “UDP sometimes leaks your local IP address”, that's factually inaccurate.
> So would UK folks use () as 'brackets' and [] as 'square brackets'?

Yes; "round brackets" is also used, but typically just "brackets".

It's one of those words that exists in both variants of English but actually mean something different. "Pepper", "pants", "fanny" are also fun.
I had "Ubuntu" in the title of my HN submission originally for this reason, but HN admins changed it (I guess to line it up with the blog post).
They put an undocumented kill switch in players and then disabled them remotely in the wild. Such that no bytecode can be run on any machine that took the last couple years updates. Then they sold the player rights to a company that ransoms them by offering to bundle a working player with individual critical binaries at unlisted prices.

Laughably, they claimed this was ethical to prevent users from accidentally running insecure versions after they stopped patching.

I can still install Basilisk and run HyperCard stacks I wrote 30 years ago, but I can't run the dozens of games I wrote in Flash. It destroyed a good chunk of my life's work.

So your comment is rude. It's fine to move on and work in other languages, as I have, but to not be able to even show 80% of your portfolio because it was intentionally crippled by the company you rented the software from that you used to make it, isn't something you can move on from. It's been disastrous.
Spending your customer deposit that are legally off-limits, and that he said were off-limit, on things like houses, properties, etc for your own self and family is not a straight-up admission of wrong doing?

Since when breaking and entering a looting a house can be defended with "well, I thought all was fine"?

He admitted numerous times doing things that are straight up illegal.
I agree. He's signalling a desired outcome: I'm your free speech champion. His actions do not need to reflect this as long as the intellectually lazy just accept this, and I mean rely on our lazy system 1 to judge and move on, vs. the work of cataloging and analyzing his actual past acts to see if they match his loud words.
They've allegedly had threads on Wikipedia editors (I haven't personally verified this, as I don't feel like learning how to navigate that site, but it was stated by people I find credible). So, no, immoral things should be documented on Wikipedia, but we're perfectly within our rights to protect our community.
The article is short on details of the trade, mostly filler on already reported FTX downfall and other downfalls.
Voila! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQiTfIc7nDo

Please let me know what else you might like to see.
Chinese Anti-Porn Helmet Raises Eyebrows, Questions
Hi, I'm Syrus from Wasmer. I usually try not to get drawn into hate comments that don't add any value, but I'll make an exception today as it's sunny here in San Francisco!

We care deeply about the Wasm ecosystem. In fact, we care so much that we are wary of putting it at mercy of the big tech.
Wasm is a beautiful community that should embrace many points of view, starting from the Web and permeating back to the servers.

I think is a strength to collaborate, to let developers with different points of view discuss without forcing one unique point of view on all.
Unfortunately it will not be a surprise for some to learn that certain players on the industry want to force their unique perspective on the rest, where only "one way" is the right way of doing things. I'm betting my horses (I have two parked in the hallway), that the packaging initiative that you are talking about comes from these groups.

Thankfully, Wasmer is probably one of the few companies with great context on how to do a Package Manager in WebAssembly (we started it 3 years ago, and got tons of learnings since then!), so just trying to replicate without collaboration seems like a big mistake (best of luck to them there!).

In any case, I'm not the only person that feels this way and I know this feeling is shared by big part of the Wasm community.

I wrote a bit more about this here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33805585
If it can send a signal, it's a medium. If it's a medium, it will be used.

Those that think otherwise are only playing themselves.
Most commonly it was handled like this: certain exchanges (the first three digits after the area code) at area-code boundaries could call each other without long-distance tolling. The printed phone book gave a list of these. I knew of this at the Queens-Nassau counties border between the 718 and 516 area codes in New York.

How widespread this was depended on how much the local phone company cared about being a good citizen to its users. And of course there were rules, exceptions, sub-exceptions, and so on (sometimes it worked in only one direction!) As with everything involving the phone network, it was an agglomerated mess over time, and yeah you can find examples of every possible case.
The Cylons will probably start their attack with some fake 2G cell towers, taking over all of the old IoT stuff.
This is a hack job of an article. From the first paragraph, “America’s latter-day robber barons can’t comprehend that workers sometimes get sick.
”. Really? So every person with the S&P 500 in their retirement account is a robber baron?

And that was just the first paragraph. The use of similar terms were repeated further in the article.

Read a better article - this one isn’t worth the electrons.
The server itself is proprietary and the Snap client is hardcoded to point to Canonical's servers (repos are not configurable).

There have been proof-of-concept server implementations by third parties, and some of those have been open-source. But IIRC none of them are maintained or used anywhere.

It could be worse, but at the end of the day it still just seems like a controlling, proto-monopolistic design compared to something like Flatpak, or to any traditional package management repos on Linux.
Did the phone absorb the ITouch or did the ITouch adsorb the phone?
He was breaking the law in countries Twitter is in. Musk explicitly said you can’t break the law.
This sounds very interesting. Being able to associate specific cancers with pathways worth dampening/shutting down may not just enable new medications but might allow us to leverage existing medications and engineer cocktails of medications for which we already know how they affect the cellular pathways.
Sales of flipper going up!
> If you're looking for something more flavorful than Roboto, use this or Inter.

Speaking of which, Inter 4.0 is in beta and looking really good. Now's a great time for type aficionados to try it out and offer feedback! https://github.com/rsms/inter/releases
Honest question- why does one choose to harvest emails for something like this vs just putting ads on the page? I have seen this model used for several ebooks, but it seems like long term its much more viable to just make the content widely available and put adwords on it or something similar.
OpenAI: Jukebox (2020)
> I don't see how it could possibly be argued that preparation and an incitement to violence are the same thing.

Possibly due to very limited imagination?
But don’t worry; they say that they’re definitely _not_ going to build The Terminator.
Google is also wrong often with all the seo game.

I wonder how openAi plans to tackle the truth problem
Yeah, I don't personally think twitter is the best place either, but it's unambiguously easier to type a few sentances and click "post" than it is to make a webpage of any kind.
If you build more nuclear or renewable, that takes pressure off of the oil and gas markets. With cheaper oil and gas, it would start making sense to switch shipping from bunker fuel (literally the dregs of the fuel process) to a fuel source that is a little less polluting.

Coal is dying in the US - not because of government R&D or political efforts (perhaps in spite of them) - but because of the prevalence of cheap natural gas and industry's ability to adapt when presented with a price incentive.

The whole point of cap and trade is that it's easier for some sectors to adapt than others, and it's easier to just have them sort it out amongst themselves.