skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The recent conspiracy I read is that Elon might be making clones of himself.

The last post Ye (Kanye) mades was a symbol that had a star of David with a swastika in it. And Elon personally kicked him off twitter immediately.

But that's actually a symbol for this cultish religious group.

"Raëlism teaches that an extraterrestrial species known as the Elohim created humanity using their advanced technology. It claims that throughout history the Alohim have created 40 Elohim/human hybrids who have served as prophets"
You can see the symbol on their wikipedia page.

Raëlism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra%C3%ABlism

Remember when they cloned Dolly the sheep ... That was over 20 years ago.
that doesn't sound practical. a few hundred donors, and in a weird condition, too? that's negligible.
There's definitely stuff like that out there, generally the genre is called "web serials". Worm is a superhero type story that ran over a period of years and is probably the most widely known example. Another personal favorite is Scott Alexander's Unsong, which has a delightfully weird mix of religion and rationalism and science fiction/ fantasy.

I think most of these kinds of things tend to lack mass appeal, but they're out there, and when you find one that tickles your fancy it can be pretty addictive!
If they have a hash, but there is no indication this is due to a breach of Amazon but likely people getting viruses by installing EXE porn and what not.
Your analogy doesn’t hold because it’s a very different crime with very different intent and culpability.

I’m simply pointing to the most similar Federal crimes and pointing out that the sentences are proportional. For comparison, Federal attempted murder-to-hire is only 10 years and that’s clearly a much worse crime.

Tragically there’s now over 1000 cases of swatting per year. Only one person (Andrew Finch) has been killed by police. (The swatter in this case was charged with involuntary manslaughter and got 20 years in jail).

It’s not comparable to murder because it’s much more likely that someone would be killed by you offering them a ride in your car than by swatting them.
It seems so pointless though.

I was signing up for all sorts of things when I was a kid. Nothing bad by any stretch of the imagination but I knew when they asked "are you 13" you just click "yes" and you're good to go.

Seems like a "feel good" solution that will collectively waste thousands of hours. I don't see why this is required, quite honestly.
Not just an instruction, but something the MMU can use to coalesce memory in the background, if the MMU can do multiple levels of indirection or RC pages, then it can also do GC. The MMU has been too underpowered for too long.
Not having an ending for “Westworld” is very on brand for a Michael Crichton property.
Wasn’t one of the companies in Texas doing that, which is how people ended up with bills in the thousands?

https://theconversation.com/amp/whats-behind-15-000-electric...
> Stopping the swatter doesn't do much, and still allows for people to be swatted.

A record of high profile cases where swatters get caught and incarcerated would be a great deterrent.
It’s actually much worse in socialism because one entity controls literally everything. Corruption doesn’t disappear in a socialist system. It actually spreads faster and is more virulent because there is no separation of powers. Just imagine a CEO of everything and substitute it for your insurance company example.

I would also argue that democracy is inherently incompatible with socialism due to this extreme centralization of power. The proof lies with multiple failed experiments in the 20th century. Socialism isn’t some new, radical idea anymore. We know what late stage socialism looks like.
Hi. I am a person who wants to have one of the things mentioned in GP done to their body. I have since I was a child. Calling me insane is hurtful. I doubt you know what body dysmorphia is like.
There is no reason to use people in the first place. Much easier to make a warehouse robot than a cyborg.
It's pretty hard to dispute the thousands of NDE reports. Similar experiences, descriptions across different cultures and religions. Young children, even the blind since birth all fairly consistently report the same.
No -rf ?
> unfortunate that the author didn't bother to distinguish between the effects of state-of-the-art cryopreservation by vitrification and the older cryopreservation procedures that produced the massive fracture damages they mention

Your comment also does not do this. What are these techniques that have results that are not like the ones described in the article?
The interesting point this author makes is that nobody is building a future electricity grid. There is nobody who can make such high-level choices about the mix of energy resources - choosing to allocate such-and-such here, thus-and-so there, to get an optimal blend - in the way that all of us armchair engineers tend to think about the problem.

What is actually happening, according to this author, is that bankers are evaluating specific energy projects, individually, and choosing to fund the ones which look like they will offer the best return on investment. That's it: there is no system. The future grid will consist of whatever happened to get built along the way, and our economy will adapt to the emergent characteristics of that "system".
Does it really matter that they can't seize your crypto if they can disappear you? I guess you can take some cold comfort in the fact that your assets won't belong to the government, but they won't do you any good either.
YouTube is the network. Most YouTube creators probably wouldn’t survive if they set up a web site and posted videos on it.
I didn't like Ra nearly as much as Antimemetics... It started out really strong and then took a very weird turn. I should get around to reading Fine Structure though.
Brilliant. All the American kids can hire Chinese students to take tests for them because it will be a great lesson in how the real world operates junior!

So many utterly ridiculous comments in this thread.
Point-E: A System for Generating 3D Point Clouds from Complex Prompts
I'm not afpx, but I understood them to be saying "you have fewer good days when you're 50 than when you're 18." That is, health wise, it's better to be 18 than to be 50. :)

A related concept is the quality-adjusted life year (QALY), which is used when weighing the cost/benefits of certain interventions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year
Didn't go so well for Kim Suozzi.

https://www.alcor.org/docs/alcor-case-report-a-2643.pdf
Thank you for the resources and insights. H2 is a great implementation!
We know what it would look like.

It would look like Netflix of the past. Some IP was pulled because the owner didn't want it on Netflix at any price. Most was pulled because Netflix couldn't afford the rates, which they could if they had 10x revenue.
The law itself disagrees. It's quite explicit that the point is to not allow kids into chat rooms at all without parental consent. It does not mention anything about preventing kids from accidentally joining chat just that they are not the ones able to provide consent to allow chat.
great little summary about the state of cryonics. However, as an aside, absolutely hated those force-injected spoilers in large fonts scattered throughout the article. What is even the purpose of these annoying things?
Google can now read your doctor’s bad handwriting
https://github.com/protocolbuffers/upb

A Hardware Accelerator for Protocol Buffers
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3466752.3480051
One of the side effect issues of scrambles is to obtain the same throughput of cars you have to may have to increase the delay in between pedestrian cycles. When only allowing pedestrians on some axis you can allow cars to run in parallel.

One argument I saw somewhere (I can't remember where) is that if there are enough people to make a scramble worthwhile (and you don't care about car throughput) - you probably shouldn't have any cars there at all!

This comment covers some of the downsides: https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2018/11/27/a-pedestrian-...
These are separate things. The legal contract is separate from the legal document establishing ownership, separate from the government ledger which tracks the chain of ownership conveyed, separate from documents related to the performance of the contract such as installment payments, principal and interest balances, and lifting of the encumbrances such as liens. There are different systems and procedures for each. Some are fine. Some could benefit from a central ledger. Whether that’s a database or crypto I don’t really care. Just throwing the idea out there.
You are badly missing the point in a very fundamental way by focusing on the assets lost by Jewish people during WW2. Two out of Three Jews died. Most Jewish people died, often horribly.

The greater awareness these days of efforts to repatriate some relatively minor bits of lost wealth to Jewish descendants has perhaps distorted the problem space of those times quite a bit for an unfortunately vocal group of strong crypto advocates who hold up theft from the Jewish people as a pillar of reasoning in favor of crypto.

It’s fantastic when repatriation can happen, less so (in my mind) for monetary reasons and more so for the symbolism of regaining at least some small bit of what was lost in the horror and injustice.

But focusing on ww2 in the way some crypto folks do… the closes analogy I can think of (and maybe not a great one) is that it’s like focusing on the people caught in the twin towers on 9/11, but below the impacts and able to escape. And then saying “My goodness, they lost all their laptops and computers! If only they’d had VM cloud desktops!
It looks really cool, but (IMO) you need to work on selling the game better with the written word. I have no idea what this is except a card game with western and Lovecraftian imagery; how's it different from any other card game app?

Congrats BTW, I've never released anything.
Well there exists a language today meant for distributed systems (erlang, elixir).

It doesn’t support global state. Instead you’d write a “process” that’d respond to requests with the state at time of request. Another request could mutate the state, but each request is processed one at a time. So a “bucket” type data store (object store etc) would likely be implemented as “server” that returns the state. If the objects were large you could pass a URL/handle to the file which you’d retrieve later.

These processes/servers/whatever are running inside the language VM and are SUPER lightweight. Multiple language VMs can be tied together so the actual processes can be distributed across a fleet of physical hosts in a data center - this would be transparent to how you write the code.

If you wanted to implement that in native AWS primitives you’d probably run a lambda function to transform an http request into a S3 bucket address, then you’d go and make an s3 request to download/modify the file. Or the lambda would make some modifications to the file.

So, that’s the prior art on a hypothetical distributed language handling global state, which fwiw is basically how “cloud” systems work today.
Do you have any evidence or is this like the widespread election fraud lies?
Given the popularity of remote work and hybrid work schedules, this isn’t true.
The bottom quartile at some of these companies could still easily be in the top decile at many other companies. Unfortunately every company thinks they need, and are deserving of "Top Talent".
What is the point then? It would be like a bar tender asking if you're 21 and letting you drink if you just reply "yes." Regulators would be happy though because "at least you tried?"

I get its just trying to shift the burden onto the parents and the "lying child" but at the end of the day it just seems like it would collectively waste so many hours.
This is true independent of the law.
> functionally indistinguishable from 50mya

not quite. In the former, there were homo sapiens while in the latter, not.
> Common issues

> The device name cannot contain spaces

That's interesting. I wonder why this would be causing an issue
People spend millions on the lottery. Old rich people spending their money on a revival ticket with similar chances doesn't seem that bad to me.
Windows Can Run <> or WCRX would actually be a killer name.
My apologies. I was only referencing the typical criticisms people have of the language. Most of which having absolutely nothing to do with the language itself. I'm very familiar with modern Ada. I've done lots of hobby programming in Ada 2012, and now Ada 202x.
It’s too expensive. The thing is s3 has a ton of compute sitting around. The disks have a full system behind them on the storage nodes. A big question always was how can we do more with the edge storage? S3 select was one effort (although I don’t know if ever got pushed to the edge, it originally ran in the front end servers). But I always figured compression was a real obvious s3 edge storage operation, along with as I said format conversions.
I agree with your categorization of this as a US issue,not a "3rd world" issue.

As an ex fireman, in a so-called "3rd world" [1] country, we often got involved in fires "beyond our juristriction". Our job was to put fires out, not worry about insurance or legal liability etc. We were never reprimanded for doing so, and there was never a suggestion of anything other than gratitude.

[1] 3rd world was originally the term for non-aligned nations during the cold War. The West was the "first world" (obviously), the USSR was the second world, and the rest was the 3rd world.

Not surprisingly, since a majority of the unaligned countries were in Africa, South America and Asia, 3rd World became a perjoritive term for "undeveloped" or "backward".

If being "backward" means not having the "money rules everything" approach of the USA, then long may we remain backward.
It is somewhat performative but it does save some percentage of children who are honest about it, and at the very least it lets you pass the buck to the user.

Yeah it’s easily defeated but so is wearing seatbelts when you drive.
in re to to ur note I feel like cryptocurrency is whatever/terrible because “money” is involved first and foremost (brings out to many sketch people for my personal taste) but blockchain aka distributed ledger is pretty dope.

I think blockchain as a backend for protocols for various services and activities is a good idea.
This I can get behind... but I do always go to the options and turn on "push to talk."

I don't like the idea of legislation requiring such a thing though.
That's fair, the loans were a figleaf for theft. But in their minds they may have thought that they'd pay it all back and nobody would notice. People that steal are pretty weird when it comes to rationalizing what they are doing. I've had a bunch of people steal 100's of thousands from a gas station I owned. They would take it to the casino, bet heavily, lose everything and then do it again all in the hope that they would win, pocket the winnings and then put back the original amount. Still bugs me 16 years later.
> meanwhile I'm still here waiting for my native Linux ports of Office and Halo?

In fairness MS are now pushing Office365 which runs on Google's platform (Chrome) as a first-class target. And I'm sure we'd've seen Halo on Stadia if it had survived long enough.
Please, quit messing with my scroll speed.
No, the market isn't a zero-sum game. "A rising tide lifts all boats"

Of course everyone cashing out at the same time would be akin to a bank-run. In practice this doesn't happen since people bought in at different times and have a different cost basis.
Falsehoods programmers believe about signup pages
Inspired by Falsehoods programmers believe about phone numbers[1] and Falsehoods programmers believe about emails[2].

We wanted to share some of the data we have seen from analyzing signups at scale and insights from great companies like Hubspot.

It is by no means complete, so please share anything you believe is missing.

[1] https://github.com/google/libphonenumber/blob/master/FALSEHO...
[2]https://beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe...
If the heap were treated like a typed database, with transaction semantics, many of our problems with disappear. Layout should not be an implementation detail. I know Wasm won't solve this explicitly, but at least have a chance while everything is being redefined.
Pacey is seriously incredible, they could not have possibly found a better voice for the series. I listened a few years back and loved it. I really need to get around to the other books in the setting, I read Best Served Cold right after the original trilogy and then moved on and never came back.
You're comparing its market cap, when that's not that important.

People know what Monero is, and it's likely one of the most important cryptos for many people.

It's also in a legally tenuous area in many jurisdictions, and therefore perhaps not considered as 'safe' for people who just want to speculate on price.

It's still massive, and a 2.6 billion $ market cap is nothing to sneeze at. Not sure why we need to compare everything to the price of other projects in the space. The fact that people inevitably place so much emphasis on 'price' (as denominated in USD of course), is really the most negative consequence of the space.
Turns out Yoda was just a lisp dev.
Bear in mind that that strategy backfired horribly for OS/2 - it was "a better windows than windows", but the result was that no-one bothered writing native apps for OS/2 when they could use the Windows API and get an app that ran on both.
Not just tech. Pessimism sells better than optimism regardless of subject matter
This got dark quick:
"basket case" Originally referred to one who has lost all four limbs and therefore needed to be carried around in a basket.

I've only heard of basket case from the context of barely ridable motorcycle in a constant state of repair with its random parts in a basket.

I wish it was my job to make this sort of document. I'd make up all sorts of crazy backstories for slang no one has ever heard of.
Can we just appreciate that Tom took his videos so seriously that he hired a researcher to investigate when one of his sources turned out not to be true.
i mean, is better to have a solid foundation to discover and create things… some people still do not have access to proper nutrition
I like it overall. That said there are some frustrating aspects of it. The green world is a warp maze with small entry points. That's where I quit. If I could slow it down I'd have a better time. I've never been good at quick reaction time games and this requires accuracy in getting into the warp doors and quickly re-orienting to the exit point. I'm sure others will enjoy this challenge.
This is a problem created and continued by phone companies. It wasn’t a huge problem before VoIP because the phone company networks didn’t allow everyone to forge sender info (SS7, not CallerID). When VoIP came along they didn’t put strict authentication in because it would have cost more, and that really opened things up.

Right now, you could have extra caution for 911 calls which originate from VoIP. Pass a law that in five years telco CEOs are charged as assisting murder the next time a SWATing happens and they’d magically discover that egress filtering is easy to implement once you’re not looking at the revenue generated by spammers.
Lee Harvey Oswald, the CIA, and LSD: New Clues in Newly Declassified Documents
This is an excellent article. Something bugged me about the "adult content spam" explanation for the Twitter issue when it circulated, but I couldn't put my figure on what it was. It just didn't feel like that story really held together for some reason. But this explanation totally makes sense, and is an important fact to keep in mind when evaluating any claims of this sort.
They may have already made the changes. I started playing again and I've found they're pretty damn fair with pricing. You can "earn" the currency to buy the skins. I never really buy much though but at least it feels fair.

I also never got "confused" about purchasing things but this is 2022 UI/UX.
https://archive.vn/W19SC
What about a "don't bother" bit for when that happens?
> Nobody is just randomly walking into the road and trusting "the system" to stop cars for them.

From observation, quite a few people do. Once modern cars with automatic braking become common, probably most people will
Yep, that progress bar stuck to the top of the window is synonymous with a page load especially now that mobile browsers have it as a native loading indicator now.

Seeing it go backwards is even worse.

Also it literally makes people take their eyes off the form they're filling out to glance at the top of the screen where the bar is bouncing around, giving a nice distraction for you to stop filling it out.
It seems you mix “emails” as email addresses and as email messages here. It would be a little easier to read without that.

Also the W3C page about assumptions around names would be a good resource to link.
and no speaking of 10tonn elefant, apple
https://twitter.com/ppathole/status/1116670170980859905

Tech enthusiasts: My entire house is smart.

Tech workers: The only piece of technology in my house is a printer and I keep a gun next to it so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize.

The only modification i'd recommend is replacing the gun with something simpler, like a sledgehammer. Can't be too careful.
It'd be great if this were true, since that would finally put an end to the madness. But I've hoped this for many, many years, but always been disappointed when someone spends ungodly hours on some hyper-tuned AVX thing that just barely eeks past, and we get stuck with another unwieldy monster for a decade.
Zero-Covid would only make sense while you don’t have a strong vaccine with good uptake. After that, it makes sense to open up but take precautions like masking in crowded conditions or during spike outbreaks.

China seemed to stick with zero-covid for too long and never did get a vaccine that produced a strong and long lasting immune response and refused to import a vaccine.

Secondary question… is this related to the linked article?
Well, that's because we have to protect ourselves from SWAT teams!
> The silver suit couldn't insulate and keep the heat out?

If you so wish to believe...

The problem is that there is no air to carry away the heat so that whole setup becomes like a miniature greenhouse. Without some active way to cool it eventually you'd cook.
The police were following a shooter as he entered the school. The police knew there was a shooter in the school the second the shooter walked through the door.
I've always been confused about these. If you push the button, and it's an intersection with walk signs going both north/south and east/west, which one of those lights does the button apply to?

(I don't live in Australia, but you do occasionally see them in America.)
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
> the "I want to live" surrender hotline

Genius.
Switzerland is, yeah. No such issue there, however.
Yeah I understand encryption isn’t an sig, just seemed like your main complaint (or second biggest complaint) was the pain in downloading them from many different places. Encrypted PDFs are one way to allow them to be emailed to you in a decently secure fashion. Sure nothing is 100% but don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

As far as signatures in PDFs goes, when have you ever needed them? What’s the real world scenario? I think most recipients would be incapable of validating the signature properly (including verifying ownership of the public key corresponding to the private key that signed it). Ie same flaws of any Cert based system.
Swatting is wrong, but it brings awareness to the police problem in the US...
Peaches take about as much water as almonds.
That's a solvable problem it would seem? It's either that or more discipline.