skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did they commit a crime? This is not a trolling question. There is no doubt in my mind they defrauded their investors.

But they are not a bank and are not subject to those regulations. IIUC, their terms of service are written in such a way that they became the legal owner of crypto deposited with them.

I am no lawyer and certainly I think the founder deserves to go to jail for running what seems to me like a naked Ponzi scheme, but to charge the guy with a crime you need to satisfy certain legal definitions.

Probably this is something which just takes time but it may take time because the prosecutor will need a legal theory? I would love to see comments from a lawyer about this.
Tell ya what, I come up with some damn catchy gibberish tunes in that state.

Here's some recently written-down lyrics from sleep-composition. Meant to be sung in a call and response hip hop kinda style, I think.

Professor: freedom's under your desk (desk)

Audience: huuuh?

Professor: freedom's under your desk (desk)

Audience: ohhhhh...
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They obviously want you to pay for the whole development duration and for all developers; they don't want you to use the GPL/LGPL licensed stuff during development and then to buy a commercial license ony for deployment, or to buy just one commercial license and use GPL/LGPL for the other developers.

This is btw not the only trap in the license agreement; if you sign that, you are significantly less well off than if you can do everything with LGPL.
what is the place for mocks?
Most people will think Bob did nothing wrong. This is how background checks work, how credit scores work, how history books work.
"I don't always test my code. But when I do, I test it in production."
Bing supposedly will be doing this in a few months.
> I have no insider knowledge but I suspect that index is maybe the second largest thing on disk on the entire platform, apart from the tweets themselves.

I'd probably go as far to say that the indexes _generally_ at twitter could be larger than the tweets
I'm just amazed X is still a thing. It's the definition of niche. I can't even imagine putting dev ours into it. It should seriously just be dropped and abandoned. X is one of the most detrimental pieces of technology holding desktop Linux (or *nix) back.

I still wish Ubuntu went with Mir over Wayland (which is also trash).

If you want remote apps, just transfer pixels... seriously!
Widening highways doesn’t fix traffic
It would be nice if Bytes used it: https://github.com/tokio-rs/bytes/pull/521

but that's not entirely sufficient. Even ignoring overcommit shenanigans of Linux, an ever-growing request can cause a lot of strain on the process or the OS before it finally makes allocations fail.
I find ChatGPT very often hallucinates things and then tries to gaslight me when I present the correct answer. I wonder where it got this habit from.
> (IMO, Phones in general are trash. They should last as long as desktop computers)

This is exactly why I bought Librem 5 smartphone running desktop Linux. It will get updates forever.
metabolism is just a means to self-sustaining
That's so sick.
Lenovo also had a single screen that folded; you could use the lower part like a keyboard, or magnetically connect a physical keyboard. Pricey at $2400, but a rally intriguing design that looked very fun and flexible. This too looks useful.
I am including SF proper neighborhoods in that. If you live in Twin Peaks it’s much easier to be “progressive” and ignore homelessness.
Everything? You're describing two different channels, not two different intentions.
Huh? It's hypocrisy unless they pay the same fine for double parking that they want you to pay.

Otherwise it's just "pulling up the ladder" after they've climbed it. (Which is a standard tactic for people who "regret" having an abortion but don't put themselves in jail or even adopt a child).
Apple is just built different as a tech company. Even with the limitations their products are vastly, vastly better than the alternatives. It is literally impossible, for example, to get a smartphone from another vendor anywhere near as powerful as the latest iPhone. So people buy iPhones and deal with or work around the limitations.
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This is the worst phase, the waiting. Paradoxically once you start chemo, it's better. You're moving forward, and through. Just walking through the calendar to the end date.

Started a year ago. 5 months of chemo. Clear scan at 6-month checkup. :)

Chemo was my full-time job for awhile. It consumes a lot of energy. There wasn't much room for anything else. I could go thru the motions of other tasks, that's about it. And that's OK. Big picture, we're saving our lives, so that we can get to the other tasks later.

Brain function was fine all through chemo, and afterward. Not a cognition problem, thankfully. More an energy problem. I could think fine. Just couldn't act on it. Again that was OK.

It's so important to give ourselves some grace ... chemo's not a side project. Accepting that, makes everything else so much easier.

Very best of luck to you, and take ALL the anti-nausea drugs. They really work.
But you can't just drop Tibetan Buddhism just like that. It's a tradition going back thousands of years and I think Dzogchen should be the Northern star in a mad world taking us to peace and happiness. After all they say it's the highest vehicle for liberation. So it's very sad to see them producing people which are accused of ethical transgressions.

What do you consider the paragon of Buddhist practice? Maybe I can check them out online. I've hung around DhO and people complain that Buddhist practitioners have more of an emptiness dryness aspect to them as opposed to lively joyous qualities of other traditions like Advaita. I'm not impressed with Zen masters. They espouse very dry rigorous qualities and they don't appear to me carelessly joyous and happy.
They had a feature to block domains from search results in the past (like, 10 years ago). It was removed. I don't know why, but it feels like exactly the kind of feature that sounds great on paper but doesn't actually survive contact with real users.

First, I'd bet that very few people are actually interested in doing that kind of manual curation or engaging with power user features. How large a % of users need to interact with this for the feature to be worth maintaining (in all the backends and frontends)? How many of them actually do so?

Second, the task of blocking spam is adversarial and sisyphean. Trying to deal with web spam by domain blocking (with an individual blocklist) would be like trying to deal with email spam with your own blocklist of spam words. The results will be worse than whatever can be done centrally, where much more information is available both on the sites and on how users actually interact with those domains. And even if you managed to make a good blocklist for a point in time, your job is not done. Tens of thousands of new domains will have popped out next week.

(The dream here of course would be to use the block decisions from individual users to drive the centralized protections. But unless legit users are actually using this in very significant numbers, it'll quickly become just another abuse surface. E.g. brigading, "downrank your competitor in the results" as a service, etc.)

Third, some people will probably block domains they shouldn't have blocked, and then have a bad user experience in future searches as the sites with genuinely best results is blocked. And then you're only left with only bad options: ignoring the users' stated preferences which they'll hate, or serving bad results that they'll also hate.

Can the feature work for a different search engine? Sure. For example, what if you have a paid search engine only used by power users and are looking for a simple to explain feature that people think they want to entice them to sign up? It'll be great for that. And if your entire user base actually loves and uses the feature? Well, it becomes a feature worth maintaining and expanding; it'll actually be a high quality ranking signal rather than something that's trivially gameable; etc.
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Alternative Music -> https://mideastunes.com/

Books -> https://www.abjjad.com/

Torrent Tracker -> https://www.arabp2p.net/
Maybe it should be, though?

I sometimes wonder how much value ML provides vs a proper sort function for anything but advertising.
ChatGPT, eat your heart out.
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IMO I think legal prohibition is not the way to reduce consumption of a bad thing in a society, but to do what was done for smoking. You have to treat them as a public health issue, make it culturally distasteful and more and more annoying & expensive, but legal, to do so. That is what effectively reduces usage vs. straight out police prohibition.

And when people talk about legalization, they are not saying get rid of the entire doctor supervision & prescribing system, which creates a legal outlet.
I installed Fedora 37 on a relative's laptop yesterday, because their Windows install was in shambles. He is completely computer illiterate. But the fact that it resembled his phone somewhat, instantly made it easier for him to use. Gnome2 would have been more challenging.
TFA, to me, touches about something I've wondered about a very long time ago...

It was a little more than ten years ago for me. I realized that a hard disk could store a database of every human alive, including basic information, links (family relations) and maybe a photo.

I still don't know what the implications are.

Maybe we don't want to know, but it's not really that difficult to think about.
I'm curious what exactly Windows 10 did to the old CPU that required it to be replaced.
> I do

But are you an outlier or a median sample? That's the point I'm trying to make here. I'm not even trying to suggest that people shouldn't follow your example (they should). But I'm trying to be realistic in recognizing that the majority of people do not do this and likely are not going to.
My biggest worry is that search engines combine ChatGPT like functionality with the existing ads based business model. Combing ChatGPTs persuasive/confident responses with brand bias feels socially destructive.
Which Countries Believe Wwiii Is Coming?
No. Please don't post to HN abut this, use a service like downforeveryoneorjustme.com and only post if there's evidence of a widespread outage.
Once you’ve replaced each infrastructure dependency with some form of test double (whatever you call it) that captures state, broad tests are no longer slow nor do they fail randomly so I’m not sure I understand why you’d ditch them. Ubiquitous narrow tests are brittle in the face of most refactorings whereas broad tests care about things your users care about and usually persist across those changes. I’d always prefer the latter, though I’m happy to have both. A codebase without broad tests (or without explicitly modelled use cases that are ‘sociable’ with a broad range of dependencies anyway) is unlikely to describe what it actually _does_ anywhere and sounds like a pain to reason about.
But all the money we already pay also has a velocity of money, and a lot of it is very quick (medicare/medicaid/social security aren't being hoarded).

Stimulus without inflation - what? It'd be the opposite. We'd turn the economy even more into a consumer economy, lowering savings and investment.
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Maarten was a good friend and colleague of mine for many years. Maarten was a pioneer of the field, and was especially known for his work on Prolog and on Constraint Programming. During his retirement, he wrote several superb articles which you can find on the site "A Programmers Place" (https://vanemden.wordpress.com/). Maarten, I will miss our many lively discussions!
This will age badly.
Thank you!

I didn't notice email validation was such a huge problem. I created an issue: https://github.com/Tablane/tablane/issues/17
The barriers to entry into a market with an existing laundromat, ignoring the setup costs, is the insufficient number of customers to support both until one of you fails.

That’s what makes it a natural monopoly, you can’t have two business in stable compensation one of them will fail.

Anyway, any market created monopoly will weaken once it loses it’s competitive edge. The run down movie theater may get driven out by a new cinema just as De Beers fell to from 80+% to sub 30% market share, but the barriers to entry are real.
One half of people think that bureaucracy is bad because it's in the way of the work they are trying to get done.

The other half think it's bad because they can't steal everything that's not nailed down.
You and the author are not in disagreement in the critique of the ideology.

> However, by championing this seemingly admirable ideal, these techno-boosters are at the same time reproducing some of the most atavistic features of American society, especially those derived from the bitter legacy of slavery. Their utopian vision of California depends upon a wilful blindness towards the other — much less positive — features of life on the West Coast: racism, poverty and environmental degradation.[5] Ironically, in the not too distant past, the intellectuals and artists of the Bay Area were passionately concerned about these issues.
> ChatGPT gets tripped up in some edge conditions.

No. ChatGPT has no idea of the truth value of anything it produces. That's fine for writing fiction, but it's not an "edge condition" when searching for actual information.
Interesting optimization idea: If 95% of the users are bots, and your ML algorithms are smart enough to figure who's bot and who's bio, you could save a lot of traffic by not publishing tweets to bots as no one is going to read them anyway. Of course if that traffic included advertisements, you'd also lose 95% of your ad revenue.

The ultimate extension of this "run it all on one machine" meme would be to run the bots on the single machine along with the service.
This is honestly just what I would expect from a former AirBnB exec. I'm glad he's getting dragged by so many people; it's very obvious that he sees mental health service provision as little more than a large market to be cornered.
Stuff like [0] exists, allowing you to fan out a single server's PCIe to quite a few PCIe JBOD chassis. Considering that SSDs can get you ~1PB in 1U these days, you can get pretty far while still technically sticking with PCIe connectivity rather than NVMeoF.

[0] https://www.liqid.com/products/liqid-elements/liqid-48-port-...
But then ask why does Harvard need to do all of those things? European universities don't have dining organizations. They don't have police forces. They don't need much real estate development because they don't have this type of mission creep. And that's just out of the things you mentioned. There's a lot more fat to cut.
ChatGPT hallucinates facts fairly consistently if the prompt is not worded correctly. IMO the prime benefit of search engines over LLM is the ability to provide validated information and opinions that are directly cited to experts. This is unlikely achievable in a differential landscape, so LLM are useful but will probably be best used in combination with standard search engines.
From a cursory search, I think the largest cluster of eels corresponds to the Fens, a now mostly-drained marshland [0]. And the "Bishop of Ely" who's overrepresented in that eel cluster, apparently that seat of power is named for the eels [1,2].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fens

[1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6600000/newsid_6605...

- "Once a year, people from all over the country come to Ely, Cambridgeshire, to celebrate the city's namesake - the eel - at Ely's Eel Day."

[2] https://epns.nottingham.ac.uk/browse/id/5328736fb47fc40c4f00... ("Survey of English Place-Names")

- "OE ǣl -gē , ēl -gē , 'eel-district,' as already suggested by Skeat and Ekwall... Rents of eels were a fruitful source of income for the abbots and bishops of Ely."
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I took GP as saying that the current chinese system, whatever it is (socialism, state-managed capitalism, whatever) is removing incentives for entrepreneurs. Perhaps entrepreneurs are not necessary in the first place, or perhaps it is still worth it to become an entrepreneur in China even if you have to check out in the end (I'm sure he's still well off, please correct me if I'm wrong). Only time will tell, but I don't think GP is saying that Ma's success was inevitable, only that his exit has shown future businessmen in China what the new* terms of the game are.

*one might say these were always the terms
An argument was made about reducing the potential attack surface.

How many big-endian systems can you currently point out in your environment? How often do you use X11 forwarding? What's the intersection of these two sets?

Even if you somehow do have even one such system, you're pitting that incredibly niche use case against the security of literally every single other X11 user on the planet, which is easily millions.

They 100% did the right thing.
I think it's still not the problem being solved here.

To my understanding, from conversations with people on the finance side of things, the point of this game is that:

1. If you get everyone to do their own expensing; and

2. If you set up a system that's robust against mistakes made by people with no understanding of corporate finance, which is almost everyone in a given company (that's the "if you don't get it right up front, the computer won't let you through" principle you mention); and

3. If you tell everyone to use it and that it's their responsibility to be good stewards of corporate money they have the privilege of using, etc.; then...

4. ...you get to hire less people on the finance side of things.

I think it's another case of large organizations chasing legibility[0], to the detriment of everyone within. It's similar to what a lot of other office/business software does: it lets the company get rid of a class of specialist, whose salaries are clearly visible on the company books, by distributing their work more-less evenly across everyone else in the company. This, obviously, causes everyone to lose productivity, as they're being distracted with work that's outside their specialization/expertise, but that only adds up to an "unexplained" overall small productivity drop of the organization (and the frustration of most employees) and is not clearly visible in the company financials.

--

[0] - To borrow the term from Seeing Like a State.
No one's paying for it to be fixed so it will not be fixed.
If that's really an issue, corporate IT can have an air gapped repo used for apt-get. I use purely air gapped systems at $WORK and it's not too bad.
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Oxygene Pt. 4 by Jean-Michel Jarre, Performed by 19KB of JavaScript Code
“Will have to add a config option and go on with their day.” I’m sure the 3 people who need this will be terribly angry.

Honestly Linux userspace is such a mess that sure whatever break anything you want. You can’t make it that much worse. I’ll happily suffer and patch my stuff to get to a better future state.

- Just throw out PAM, to hell with any pre-existing modules.

- Also throw out NSS, having the official API for anything be dlopen is horrible. Get it in the kernel so Go and other “who needs libc?” languages don’t need special handling on Linux. Use request_key to actually do the lookups.

- Pick a god damn message bus and get it in the kernel. It should probably just be kdbus but as long as we commit to it it doesn’t matter. Apps need to be able to talk to one another in not bespoke ways.

- Actually decide that a “session” on Linux is a real thing and not something that every project has to invent for itself.

- Scrap ulimits, good idea initially, didn’t age well.

- Scrap TCP wrappers. If you actually use them you deserve to be broken.

- Throw out iptables. Remove it entirely. There is too much bullshit resulting from the fact that iptables needs to fully own netfilter. Apps should be able to mess with the firewall and not get in one another’s way.

Ughhh
A pretty good listen about how the downfall of the Pragmatic Caucus led to the current Mises memelord takeover of the Libertarian Party:

https://www.buzzsprout.com/760511/10807095-the-new-leaders-o...
Hey, thanks! I'd just use straight up current Lynx, or try w3m for an alternative.
A plant allergy gone wrong?
> Which I think I'm perfectly clear about in the blog post.

Of course. I was commenting here to counter all of the comments declaring that this proves Twitter doesn’t need all of their servers, etc.

It’s a fun article, but the comments here interpreting it as proving something about Twitter engineers being bad are kind of depressing.
But what good is all that power when you can't run the workloads you want to?
Not a new philosophy, dates back to at least the rise of systemd, marginalizing other UNIX type systems.
Murphys Law implies the contractors will not be legally permitted onsite during operation so who cares what they do, but if you let the full timers play with jackhammers its guaranteed some idiot will try to use the jackhammer after operation resumes. So you'd need to do something like have the safety officer personally responsible for removing the jackhammer from the premises. Or renting it, perhaps.
But who actually uses X? It serves no purpose in 2023 where network links can just push pixels?
This is what you get with "corporate" software, when people making the decision are never actually use it, and people using it are never have a vote on buying decision.
Their limitations are features in many ways. I don’t need to run a web server on my iPad, but I’m glad that shitty apps can’t be always running wasting battery to provide advert notifications like they used to on android.
We had great fun with https://www.glbasic.com in our family. Simple basic for game creation mainly but I did use it for processing data at work for a while :-)
WTF? Hemline University claims to be a university in the Western tradition of universities and Western society in general. It can either fire the instructor but then ought to dissolve itself, or keep him and live on. It can't do both at the same time.
This is awesome, would love to see this for other languages as well. As for Python, can you add some walkthroughs for leetcode style questions. It'll help tons of us!
You can do video editing on the iPad which takes advantage of the full power.
I already see videos and tiktoks where people search a question on google and post the aggregated result.

That’s the kind of engagement that people go for and ChaptGPT is a seamless next step