skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$10k is kind of a crime for individuals. For businesses, absolutely, high prices for critical tools with support contracts is a no brainer. I just about coughed up a lung when I heard how much my company pays for 2 floating licenses of specialized engineering software (six figures per year). But in terms of ROI, it's easy to justify.

Your robot could easily sell at 20-30k. If you add some kind of calibration/support service to guarantee whatever operating parameters, you could charge a subscription on top of that. Test equipment is normally fairly expensive and specialized, and no one who runs tests in a commercial environment wants to be in a situation where they are their own checks/balances. So even though they could easily build/maintain test equipment themselves, companies will avoid it if possible. It's why businesses will buy the $5k name brand multimeters, test probes, etc instead of the $200 no name one with the same specs.
And all it takes is some efforts to crossover that with private non-public information, that’s what OSINT is about anyway, and for that reason you (either you or other HN users) don’t choose to have their full name as the user name, or writing their full email, or anything that can be used by even private investigators to reach you let alone 3 letters agencies.

Edit: To add, the guy who created Silk Road got caught by the FBI only from a gmail email posted on public forum (1)

>In the section of the indictment outlining how the link between Ulbricht and Dread Pirate Roberts was established, Tarbell detailed how an FBI expert codenamed Agent-1 had located an early online mention of Silk Road dating to January 27, 2011, when a user under the handle “Altoid” made a post on a forum for users of magic mushrooms.

>“I came across this website called Silk Road,” wrote Altoid, in a post which linked to the site. “I’m thinking of buying off it… Let me know what you think.”

>Two days later, someone using the handle “Altoid” made a similar post on a forum called Bitcoin Talk, recommending Silk Road and providing a link. “Has anyone seen Silk Road yet? It’s kind of like an anonymous Amazon.com. I don’t think they have heroin on there, but they are selling other stuff,” it read.

(1) https://www.cnn.com/2013/10/04/world/americas/silk-road-ross...
So basically you agree with the article’s premise except you think it’s good, plus you felt like doing a little Gordon Gekko impression.
One suggestion: reframe "We Create Content for DevTools" to "We generate leads for DevTools."
Maybe. At least the Dental academy and association of LDS Dentists thinks so:

https://www.deseret.com/2000/9/29/19531458/fluoride-brochure...

It was a weird position against back then similar to the anti-vax position today.
I like the idea of win32 being the next dosbox. Similarly stable but more capable out of the box (higher res, networking, etc)
Novamin works wonders. It took me the last 30% of the way to not being sensitive to heat/cold/acid.i got about 20% there with just normal sensodyne toothpaste and another big chunk with vitamin k complex and vitamin d supplementation (this took about six months to be really noticeable). The order was dictated by me figuring out what i wanted to try and general availability in the case of novamin. So i cant really say if the relative help from each intervention would be different if tried in a different order unfortunately.
The carbon fertilization effect may counter that problem. However I don't this would significantly change the growth rate of plants.
Analyzing Objected-Oriented Programming with Functional Programming from a flowing perspective.
I use emacs 29 beta right now and that is just not how it works. For example for elixir you just install elixir-ts-mode like any other package, answer yes to the prompt to install the elixir ts library, and you’re done.

Even that setup step will be unnecessary in emacs 30, when all this stuff will be shipped by default.
I am heartily glad Tom Hanks has so far declined to appear in Star Wars.

I think "Bridge of Spies" which co-stars Mark Rylance as Colonel Abel is a very interesting little drama. They both occupy quite quirky corners of the problem space. Hanks has to be respectful of his client to perform his legal role but also is somewhat appalled by the systems disregard for the minor US student character caught up in the east-west barriers as he negotiates the release of Gary Powers.

Rylance is fantastic in that movie. his "would it help" comment about panic under duress is just awesome deadpan.

Hanks being robbed for his thick winter coat in East Berlin is also a good little vignette. I think this is what Hanks excels at: small vignettes of the human experience, which make a story believable.
Using computers more freely and safely
This gives me a great idea for a new hospice startup: To get stated, we'll need a bunch of hospital beds and a flock of vultures.
To my understanding, Machine gun licenses are still sold in the US on extremely stringent terms.

Some, like the famous American 180 (Otherwise known as the Angry Bees) are grand-fathered in and allowed to be used.
I hate the historical country more than the modern stuff (which is thinly veiled pop music). I found it a formulaic kind of boring, uninspiring, and moaning about the writer's current state of affairs or others not like them. What causes the hate is having grown up in the country, I was forced to listen to it for a solid chunk of my childhood.
The sonic boom issue is weird to me, never understood why they can't do sub-sonic after take off until they are over an ocean.
No it does not lol. Failing to reduce mortality is not remotely the same thing as actually increasing mortality.

"Cost as many lives as they save" means the physician visits are actively driving deaths that would otherwise would not occur if those people had not visited their doctor (which is also what you said, like, two comments ago).

"Failing to reduce total mortality" means that physician visits did not save people who already had medical conditions that were going to kill them.
> If Youtube devs could see that significant amounts of dislikes were coming from users who hadn’t watched the video

Why not only allow using the dislike button upon watching the video or some proportion? But then what's the proportion? I'm sure I can dislike something almost immediately. I can even dislike the idea of a video, can't I? I'm a Youtube user, I'm not sure why I wouldn't be allowed to dislike any video that I dislike, for whatever reason, because I dislike it.
For example the Query Syntax, I would like an example on how to find all function declarations and where in the code the function starts and end. As well as example data that such a query is supposed to return. And how to do it in the JavaScript/Web Tree-sitter binding =)
> Being a taxpayer doesn't grant you the right to censor access to information for the public at large.

You’re inverting the situation. Public libraries are taxpayer funded public services. Being a taxpayer gives you a right to vote on what your tax dollars are used to purchase.

> (i have children, and they are free to read whatever material they select from a public library)

I think this approach does kids a disservice. Kids have undeveloped brains, and lack both knowledge and life experience. What basis do they have for deciding what to read? It’s your job as a parent to curate society’s knowledge to teach them about what’s good and right, and what will help them be healthy and productive citizens.
All the <3 for Lua.

Great language and great runtime(s)

Want to also raise awareness of TypeScriptToLua, a fantastic TypeScript transpiler for Lua: https://typescripttolua.github.io/
This is an odd thing to hypothesize at this point. YouTube has the data now, until they release the stats and let us know if the move actually had the desired effect, talking about it like this is entirely pointless.

Has hiding dislikes stopped pile ons? (I bet it hasn't)
With a crop factor of 4.6 the depth of field equivalent would be around f8 actually for the larger 14 Pro / 14 Pro Max sensor.

(and f1.78 for actual f-stop light performance)

When you get close enough you can actually take proper bokeh producing shots. It's actually becoming hard to be fixed aperture as some closer shots would require a higher f-stop number already to be properly in focus.
I really doubt they'll let excerpts from those books be read in city council meetings or on the radio ....
I had to split it up into three viewing sessions, but I thought it was worth it.
yeah it seems to be a very hot term in cyber security atm.
If you can predict your claims why bother paying for insurance at all until you need it? We're both commenting on a post about an insurer that's bailing because they are having to pay out more than they can afford in the face of increased natural disasters. The most relevant information I could find claimed that the average Oregon homeowner makes a claim roughly once every nine years (or somewhere over five claims in your timeframe).

So, yeah, a high deductible seems insane to me.
At the risk of sounding like a fad/new-age-influenced person, I have stopped eating Octopus after seeing "My Octopus Teacher"[0]. Just can't bring myself to do it.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Octopus_Teacher
Edsger Dijkstra: Why numbering should start at zero (1982) [pdf]
I kind of get what you say.

But all I was asking about -- whether owners were "forced" to keep it? Because that is vandalism. Now you like that on your property after the deed, or not, if up to you. Not upto the vandal/artist and should not be up to the city council.
Diet choices are things that really matter, as you can see in the IPCC report summary
I'm the OP. I agree with most of what you said. There are always exceptions to the rule, and the more fusiony types (like Cash) are listenable to even enjoyable. Same to Gordon Lightfoot, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, etc.
In fairness, "SIMD support" is not exactly "the compiler can reduce code to AVX instructions" but more like "you can now write non-portable custom assembly-like code to make your code faster".
People turn to programs like youtube downloader because the underlying desire is to have the bitstream to watch (or not) at, and in a form/manner of your own chosing, not the higher level function of "watching it inside this specific end-to-end managed session"

I appreciate this really comes down to "well buy the goddamn content" but the thing is, even when we do buy digital content we're frequently told we only bought a licence to use, not the bitstream itself.

The side fight about google allowing us to upload our own music ("our" -the solecism of that word in the context I am speaking about) and then listen to it and higher fidelity bit products in the cloud, but then change the terms and conditions and worsen the experience to drive us off Google Play Music (which they shut down) into youtube music (which is awful)

I moved to tidal. I find it works tolerably close to my expectations, it integrates with plex, I can handle its playlist format, and it at least formally belongs to (albeit a super rich sub-set) of musicians.
I definitely agree that nobody should have veto power. If Illinois taxpayers want to outsource the job of socializing their children to the American Library Association, that’s their prerogative. I’m objecting to the framing of this as a “Bill of Rights.”
I've really only learned how stupid the DMCA is recently. I have no idea how a private decryption key is treated any different from a trade secret.

IF KFC dropped a recipe card and you found it with 5 of the 7 spices and you cracked the final 2, can KFC come after you? How is that any different from Nintendo being sloppy and dropping their decryption key in memory for someone to find?

Say you found all but the last 4 bytes of the key on the ground and you cracked the last 4 yourself? What if Nintendo published the entire key by accident on Github?

What is the point of keeping a private key private if it's illegal to use it if it's not yours? None of it makes sense.
Is there a way to invest in stuff like this? What kind of returns do you get?
If you are going to spend your life in the ecosystem it can matter a lot
Lua is great, I just wish it had typing
If you are not an adherent, how can you be confident it is of the third type?

For me the litmus test goes something like this: “I understand you’re an adherent of X. I read this book about X called… it led me to empathize with practitioners of your faith in ways A, B, C and D. I hope that is mostly correct?” If the respondent is relatively open minded and says “yeah, I think those are fair points. It’s nice to be understood a little better”, then the book passes muster.
In Iceland, confiscated valuables may be sold, but the proceeds must go directly to the government spending pool, to be distributed like any other government income, like taxes.

https://www.visir.is/g/202099179d (sorry, was unable to find a source in English, hopefully google translate does a decent job).

In this particular case, assistance from the Icelandic police was deemed crucial to shutting down a major Silk Road drug ring, and part of the Bitcoin funds confiscated by the FBI (355 million krona, or about $3M USD) was given to the Icelandic government. A special law then had to be approved in Parliament to enable that money to be ear-marked for cyber-crime defence.

I find it insane that funds confiscated by the police in the US can be used and spent by that police force as they seem fit. That money should clearly to into either a state of federal fund, to be re-distributed.
It's now in Sensodyne repair and protect and I usually buy it from walmart.ca 6-10 tubes at a time. There was about 2 years there where I had to buy it on ebay shipped from India though. I did try Biomin and I think that even if the material performs better than novamin, the rest of the toothpaste is so inferior to sensodyne that as a whole it works worse, for me at least.
i don't really know why people are always getting on wordpress's case - i used it back when i did a bit of blogging, and it seemed to work ok for me.
Emacs is relatively obscure now. It is most practical to assume that all editor-related articles are about Visual Studio Code unless indicated otherwise, since a majority of developers use that. Vim if the article concerns in-terminal editor use.
Seriously? You encountered Nazis in functional programming fora? Like, more than in your typical programming fora? (Any at all is more than I've met, but then I never socialize much.)
This would make sense if Alzheimer's turns out to be an autoimmune disorder. Women have higher rates of these types of diseases because the largest number of immune related genes are found on the X-chromosome, giving them a broader variety to their immune arsenal. So women are better able to fight off infections but more likely to suffer from overactive immune responses.

A summary with some links: https://www.healthline.com/health-news/women-have-stronger-i...
I have a script that uses ytdlp to download every item on a Youtube Music playlist I maintain so sync mp3's to my watch. I have never seen it error out from DRM.
Many animals are probably sentient, but personally I see no moral imperative to not eat them. If anyone in this thread is wondering what octopus meat tastes like, I encourage them to try Takoyaki at any Japanese restaurant or Boba tea shop: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takoyaki
School choice only makes sense if schools cannot choose their students and must accommodate all of them.
notes which are seedful for reading p&r:

some prior familiarity or concurrent reading with hume (especially since it's the version of modern philosophy whitehead is attacking and building upon), kant's response to hume (if only to see the radically different route whitehead took), locke and descartes (given the many references), spinoza and leibniz's metaphysics (the surface, only to appreciate the degree to which whitehead took), and aristotle (primary substance)

further reading:

- David Ray Griffin’s Whitehead’s Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy

- John B. Cobb’s A Christian Natural Theology
There are contexts and situations where younger kids can make good employees. But the article gives me no sense that the lawmakers involved have any clue about where, nor when, nor how, nor...
Removing extremely useful features to avoid such edge cases is a poor move imo.
Yes my original comment was honestly in response to your comment that you are losing faith in humanity based on the response you are seeing. I have no conclusion really on which way I think things should have been decided and think the only way things can be improved upon is if we take an honest critical look at what we are doing. My analogies are not similar in extent to COVID but are hopefully illustrative of the pitfalls of solving one problem and creating others and the need to practically account for it, at least after the fact acknowledge it, don't get butthurt because not everyone could immediately get with the program.
People who go through this often say that they do in fact have an intrinsic gender they’re born with that simply doesn’t match their sex. What changes is their expression, not their internal identification. Age changes too and it’s a protected class in some contexts. So, what if gender expression changes? What is your implication? Do you believe parent’s claim that gender and opinion are categorically similar, and that either opinions should be a protected class, or that race and gender should not be?
I'm the opposite, I like older "lost my dog, lost my wife, car doesn't work" country and dislike the semi-pop. I do find it interesting how much blues influence e.g. Hank Williams had.
The other thing they seem to have done around the same time is heavily bias towards showing only positive comments. This is quite damaging when searching for, for example, medical content.

At first when I found a video where every visible comment was “Omg! I’ve tried everything for years, and this is the first thing that worked. You’ve changed my life”, I was excited! Now, I realise that almost every physical therapy video contains the exact same comments. Presumably because they are the ones the algorithm pushes to the top.

This means it’s really hard to know which content is actually trustworthy, especially when there’s also no downvotes. And for a lot of thing this is really important.

It’s as if Amazon showed only the glowing five star reviews - suddenly you don’t know what the common problems are with the product you’re about to buy.
I still don’t get how a leveraged buyout is legal. It’s like the bank giving you a bunch of money and saying “don’t worry about returning it, someone else will pay it off”.
> And most of the controversy involves school libraries - although there are some exceptions.

This is splitting hairs: removing books from school libraries is a de facto ban on those books. Neither the article nor law implies that "book ban" in this context means anything other than "school book ban."
It was odd during 'Nam that at 18, you could own a bar, work in a bar and even get your ass shot off in the jungle but you could not drink it in. Now, I guess, they're going to say you can own it at 18 but work it in at 16? Still can't drink until 21. At least there's no draft...
MyHouse.WAD
The rust leadership group is very small, so statistical representation isn’t really possible, other than luck. That’s just the reality of the maths. Do you think proportional representation should be forced?
Despite my distaste for Gutenberg, I don't think WP would have continued growing without a built-in WYSIWYG solution.
I guess so, but hallucination doesn't imply intent.
I moved out of my parents’ at 18, finished undergrad and started my PhD at 21, married and had my first child towards the end of grad school at 26, and currently have 3 kids. Total household income is about $325k in a MCOL area.

We became homeowners in 2019 during a narrow window of affordability and available housing inventory in our area. Had we waited, covid and the subsequent inflation and decreased inventory would have kept homeownership out of reach.
Their exists plenty of toxic leftish content that increases engagement.
This appears to be yet another company trying to monetize the robotics education space. What they offer seems shallow to me.
What do you mean by sentient? Aren't most animals we commonly eat sentient? In that the there is an experience of "being" that animal? At least, insofar as we can tell?
This is actually really cool. It's not a terrible [cheap/free] headless CMS for content managers, imo.
I mean, sometimes it’s not one’s race—sometimes it’s sexuality, gender, religion, disability, or some other variable that I missed. And people in America think along those variables because they have a history of disenfranchising and discriminating people along those axes.
> "octopi"

source? Wiktionary gives me this: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/octopus#Usage_notes
I guess the evolutionary advantages don't exist as their prey are usually small and a single octopus wouldn't have trouble hunting by themselves.

And outside of teaming up to thwart predators, but I don't think that would help against sharks unless they have a much higher intelligence and can outsmart them like how humans have evolved to do. So not really clear to me why they are living nearby, aside from abundant food and no pressure to explore new areas. So it comes back to maybe they are social. Next thing you know, they'll playing underwater pickleball with each other.
Yeah, it has a decent user experience. The problem is the underlying plugin ecosystem and crusty core. It uses outdated legacy PHP patterns (modern PHP is great, but WordPress doesn't use its power), plugins are often vulnerable, supply chain issues, etc.
> The real lesson here is to not have unsupported devices in your possession.

That's of course a minimum requirement. But the analysis showed that it took e.g. Samsung 8 months from distributing vulnerable code to distributing the fix for one the CVEs. Google was faster, but even them it took several months.

> Android is an immutable system,

OK, system might not be a uniquely defined term here. As always it depends where you draw your system border. If you mean the system firmware image, it is probably immutable. Not sure whether all vendors use dmverity.

However, I meant "the whole phone". Obviously Android phones are not immutable, you can install apps. And after rebooting they are still there and can again use the same vulnerability if there is one. What I meant by immutable is there is no way to install any executable code, because all storage that is writable is noexec. And even if a vulnerability exists and allows to mess with RAM, the corruption is gone at reboot (well, unless the write protection, code signing / dmverity itself is affected by the vulnerability). Without having really worked with most of them I understand Vanilla OS, Fedora CoreOS, Fedora Silverblue, and SUSE ALP all go into that direction (although they still allow installing additional containerized apps).

Including a browser and an email client into the base image and removing the option to install anything else is what I meant with immutable Linux distro.

When you update it, you install another signed image. Of course the supply chain for that image is then the risky part, you'll never have zero risk.
Yeah but here’s the thing: when the elites of society are allowed to cannibalize the rest, becoming more and more disconnected as things become more and more unequal, and those in charge no longer have the best interests of the public at heart, it’s a sign of imminent societal collapse. Sometimes it takes a long time. But based on your statement, the people with the money don’t appear to have any reason to care about the suffering they inflict. That’s late stage decay. Roman Empire stuff. At the very end the social contract unravels and the economy collapses.

shame is basically the way a culture punishes antisocial behavior. If shaming no longer works, that’s one less tool of self regulation the culture has. Thats not a good thing.