skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just out of curiosity, do you hold all of the other claims made by those featured on ancient aliens to be credible, or just specific researchers? If the later, what criteria have you used to distinguish between that which you do and do not believe?
> I find it very unlikely that they would imprison

Lol? "Presumption of guilt" for anyone who lives (or happens to be) in Crimea.

EDIT: with a strongly implied round ups for anyone deemed undesirable

https://tweet.lambda.dance/Spriter99880/status/1663931257053...

> some cases threatened and tortured

Sorry? At least OSCE SMM or equivalent source?
So many of these HN conversations devolve into shit bonanzas because so many people approach this topic as if it is a "Regulation vs No Regulation" topic, instead of the more appropriate "Bad Regulation vs Good Regulation" topic, or even more appropriately the "Which agency should have jurisdiction" topic. And it is a shame, because cryptocurrency has largely outgrown the anarchocapitalist utopian's mindshare, and the people involved that actually want no regulation are an extreme minority now.

You're spot on here. The vast majority of cryptocurrencies (modulo a bunch of shittokens) are better described as foreign currencies or commodities, and they should be regulated as such. Unfortunately for the SEC, that implies that they don't have jurisdiction, and that regulatory burden lies with the CFTC. And from my handful of years as a commodities trader, I would much rather have the CFTC involved than the SEC. The SEC is too inconsistent...institutionally they act like a primadonna that is interested in making headlines more than creating effective policy. The CFTC is all business. They're not perfect, but they are damn good at their job, and they are transparent about what they do and how they work, and they don't see enforcement action as a PR move, but rather as a way to ensure functioning markets and common public interest.

The Supreme Court seems to agree. The SEC has lost 4 out of their last 5 SC cases on cryptocurrency. All indicators from those decisions are pointing in the direction of cryptocurrency being regulated as a commodity, which is pointing towards the CFTC being the ones in charge.

This case makes the news because that is how the SEC works. They won't win this case, and they will cover up that fact by doing what they always do...create more news.
So, #3, you're saying this should be $349?

How would this, which has the hardware of two iPhones in it and stands in for a 100" screen and Dolby Atmos surround system, cost less than an iPhone Pro Max?

It was obvious as soon as they listed the cameras involved, the M2 chip, and the micro-OLED screens (plural), this was going to cost 2x a single top of line iPhone plus headset, so $3000+.
Because a higher price makes it part of the business equation. Relying on tips instead is pure emotional extortion.

I would hope that businesses would rather have customers going away feeling good about an aboveboard transaction than feeling guilty or extorted.
DAU/MAU ratio tells a lot more. It's often called "stickiness." It's a good metric of who continues to come back to your platform.
https://archive.is/zlxvq
>Chrome forcibly converts image files to WebP

What does this mean? Does chrome automatically convert images to webp when you click 'save as' on a jpeg image?
I disagree that the line between 'premine' and what happened with Bitcoin is actually all that clear.

Sure, genesis block yada yada but Satoshi (if he were alive/inclined) is still a multi-billionaire from behaviors that are pretty similar to what we call premining.
Any examples where a world-changing technology was developed and it didn't concentrate capital and subsequently wealth?
Yeah people buy those too. Do you think they don't?

When my current MBP dies, I'll be buying the one with the latest chip on the market (although admittedly a lower spec version than I would presumably get from work --- but that's just because I'm not doing planning on doing huge compilations or video editing on it).
Meanwhile, politicians in the US are literally almost dancing with glee [1] as they vote down efforts to establish a reasonable minimum wage.

I don't understand this weird system where we all basically prop up corporate profits at the expense of voluntarily paying more by default.

I do tip occasionally at the counter due to social pressure, and honestly have felt scammed several times when the server didn't get my order right, or didn't even bother to write my name correct after getting the 20% tip from my card. It is pretty clear to me at this point that tips have nothing to do with service.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNo_U7PTGzk
Beware the Man of Many Studies
> Are you saying there should be no laws or no moderation, anywhere, at all?

I wanted to address this first. Nowhere did I mean to imply that I think there shouldn't be limits on speech or no moderation. There should certainly be some speech that is illegal (Calls to violence, harassment, etc), and web platforms absolutely have a right to moderate.

But, I think everyone can agree that the right to free speech granted by the First Amendment does mean that you can criticize the government, for example. If someone tries to claim "Yes, you have the right to criticize the government, but the government can arrest you for it! Freedom of speech does not mean freedom from consequences!", then I would have to ask that person what they think "Freedom of speech" means, and what a "right" means, because to me, a "right" means either "You are allowed to do the thing and the government must not interfere or retaliate" (ie, free speech) or "You must be allowed access to the thing, and the government must provide it for you if you can't provide it yourself" (ie, a lawyer when you are on trial).

The notion of "You have the right to something, but the government will punish you for it" is just completely non-sensical.

But...all this only applies to government. Private entities are another matter entirely. They have the right to remove content and users however they want. Your freedom of speech does not trump their right to decide what gets displayed on their platform.

Private entities can also react however they want. If you go on a racist tirade on Twitter, your employer has a right to fire you, because having an extreme racist in the workplace is just asking for trouble.
A number of years now.
> Who benefits the most from the collapse?

Russia. Turns everything from Zaporizhzhia to the Black Sea into a boggy-ass mess of mud (draining the reservoir will leave mud, flooding the downstream will leave mud). Filling the reservoir before blowing it like they did only maximizes the amount of mud left. Lets Russia shift more forces north.
I find it interesting they are using DJI since they are banned in most US gov't agencies IME.

That being said, DJI has a nominally better platform (for the same rough price) for their (this PD) uses than the M300. The M30[1] series is a bit smaller and doesn't have swappable payloads, but it exchanges that ability to have a home-base auto-land, auto-deploy, and auto-charge using the DJI Dock[2]. Mix that with the DJI ability to do control handoff and a city-wide mesh of repeater stations and you have a very powerful aerial support system. The docks could be spread across the city to minimize response time. Those M30s have a camera gimbal with wide-angle 12MP, Zoom 48MP, and Thermal cameras. The software handles automatic subject tracking once they are marked. The whole ecosystem is awesome and terrifying in the lens of law enforcement.

[1] https://enterprise.dji.com/matrice-30
[2] https://enterprise.dji.com/dock

EDIT: I say all of this as someone that owns and flies DJI M300 RTKs drones professionally. I'm also looking at getting systems on the Blue List so I can work with US government agencies.
> who almost always vigilantly watches to see if I tap on one of the unavoidable tip options

Well, they would see it on their screen anyway right?
The problem here is how many regular people got scammed in that window while crypto scams were essentially entirely unregulated.

The lack of any meaningful oversight of this stuff for so long is a bug, not a feature.
Keep in mind that at least in a lot of places, the servers are the ones packaging your food. Those are the people who depend on tips and while they're putting your food in containers they aren't serving tables, so they are likely missing out on tips there.
> it's acceptable to basically ignore the real problems of today in order to address fantasy problems in the distant future.

Longtermism came from the "Effective Altruism" movement, which focuses a large portion of it's effort on things like Malaria nets - https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/topics/against-malaria-f...

I don't think that you can argue that donating $58 million to fight Malaria is "basically ignoring real problems"
And what about getting a camera in the air outside your upstairs bedroom window to peek inside?

Based on recent history it would be deeply naive to think that they won't do that and worse with the technology once it's in their hands.
Are you referring to the programming language, or the compiler and runtime environment necessary to execute the code? The Java Language Specification doesn't provide any strong guarantees of "safety". For example, it's certainly possible to write Java code with heap memory leaks or stack overflows. And I have run into multiple defects with the Oracle JVM that caused segfaults when executing certain code (although to Oracle's credit, their JVM is generally one of the highest quality and most reliable pieces of large platform software ever created).
Me, too. I thought "Strawberry wine: fine. Blueberry wine: fine. Onion wine: no thanks."
Yes, this worked so well on Reddit.

Do I really need an /s?
Mastadon's is as well. Like it's cool that you can follow somebody if you already know their handle, but the discovery aspect of social media is at least half the point of it. Without some form of mechanism holding everything together, it's never going to be a great experience.
Yes.

Your initial comment here was unsupported by real world examples, and used a lot of rage-bait buzzwords.

When asked to put up a concrete example, no-one called you a fascist/nazi/transphobe in the example. They banned you for, according to you, "just asking questions" on a country specific coronavirus subreddit.

Your tone comes off as "I'm right, they're wrong. I'm the victim here!"
The GPU is $4500. That gives you $2000 to build a machine (which you can build a top of the line consumer PC for cheaper than that, I just did recently w/128GB DDR5 and Zen 4 7950X3D).
Love, respect, and humility have a small chance to save the world. AI? I don't know. I have my doubts it will improve human interaction.
Here is a recent (today) blog post from the Safari team, spelling out JXL support:

https://www.webkit.org/blog/14205/news-from-wwdc23-webkit-fe...
You joke but when I was living in India, about ten years ago, my driver got into an accident with an auto (three-wheel motorized rickshaw) after dropping me off at work. The police had to be called because there was a dispute over fault and high tempers: in the end, all was resolved.

A few days after the event, I heard from the manager at the housing complex where I stayed that a gratuity was in order to the police officer who had attended!
Testing across boundaries with internal DSLs
KartKraft™ , Very Nice Game For Free For PC For Racing
https://www.do-bi-do.com/2023/06/kartkraft-very-nice-game-fo...
How common is it for a non-cardiologist know how to read ECGs? Is it something required in medical school? I heard a critique of Soviet medical training that nonspecialists didn’t know how to read them.
I’m not sure how much credibility I’m willing to extend to Andreessen after the past 5 years. Sounds like snake-oil when they say it.
A micro ryzen 5600U build with really bad quality components can be half the price of a mac mini with equal CPU performance. If you upgrade all of the mac specs you can probably get a larger divide, but IMO maxed out macs don't make much sense for most people.
The internet did not directly concentrate capital and wealth, downstream effects have but they aren't an inherent quality of the internet it's self.
A16Z: "Crypto stopped making money, quick, move on the the next thing we can pump and dump!"
<< I'm often asked by users with no experience in the space why we don't target AMD, Coral TPUs (don't even get me started), etc. It's almost impossible to understand "why CUDA" unless you've fought these battles and spent time with "alternatives".

Would you be willing to elaborate ( ie. I would love to hear you get started )? I absolutely agree that some competition is needed in this space. I am absolutely not an expert so it is hard for me to understand why there is no real alternative to CUDA. Are they just too hard to set up? Not popular enough to have any support?
The question was literally "Because something cannot be both a security and a commodity, is Eth a security?"

The chair's answer was, as we can glean from the interruptions (but who the hell really knows, the man's not allowed to finish a sentence) 'It depends'.
That is the room where all of the eng team worked, but certainly not how it looked on a normal day. If you look, you can spot three clusters of 4 desks around the edges of the room in this picture. There were ~10 clusters of similar size that scattered around a large open space.

The worst part about that room was not the open feeling, but rather the silver walls and ceiling
Dig out of the ground != found gold, look at the caselaw
Well, it sounds like this PD started out with a well informed policy and are being held to that policy. It seems like this kind of very strict policy enforcement AND public disclosure should be codified at the state and federal level.
I've stopped reading at

What AI offers us is the opportunity to profoundly augment human intelligence

It's the other way around, all AI, automated cognitive mimicry, has to offer to us, is a wide yet really shallow augmentation of our intelligence.
For the same reason people don't like haggling in almost any other context: they want to know the posted price, so that they can decide to buy or not.

I want to buy coffee, not take a mandatory personality test.
And tip in cash directly to that server.
Do you understand what "solid gold first-gen Apple Watch" means? Or, in the other comment, "Apple Watch Edition"?

It does not mean what you clearly think it means.
SQLite is great, but it is not great for the edge. Handling conflicts and replication is just too complex for SQL based systems.
Apple CEO Tim Cook says Vision Pro is 'tomorrow's engineering, today': exclusive
Hopefully if you have 3x A100 you have bridged them with NVLink and that's your bottleneck. If you want more bandwith you'll need a NVSwitch. Or a H100 GPU (Lovelace didn't get NVLink, not even the A40-little-NVLink-port - or PCIe5 for that matter) with next gen NVLink.
> If people think Crypto should be banned, make the case.

The lawsuit under discussion is literally making the case that it's illegal.
> It is ironic that the Silicon Valley millionaires made rich by the attention addicting apps also work very hard to limit their own children's access and screen time.

When people work in or adjacent to the sausage factories, they don't want any of it at home knowing how it's made.

At my Silicon Valley area elementary school, none of the kids have a phone.
> On the other hand, the thing that has me very skeptical, is his claim that countries around the globe have been in open competition to retrieve this vehicles and all of the countries have somehow kept everything secret for over 50 years. I just don't find that credible.

It's not a secret though. Throughout my life I have heard this same story, from lots of people, though it has always been lore and they usually want to know your take on it. Many people will tell you they believe it if they trust you. There have been whistleblowers on this before as well, and each has been discredited and their claims denied, often with implication that they are crazy. The establishment line has always been that if you are into this, you must also be a nut, and so on. I don't find it too hard to believe that the government made a decision to just deny the truth and slander those who spoke it, rather than try to contain it. That's really their only move for a secret too big to keep.
This is a separate warning from the LLM/Humanlike agent crowd too. Yuval Noah Harari warns that the battle of the past was attention, the battle of the future will be intimacy.

It's going to be an interesting ride.
Me too, is there a list of soundness holes in Rust anywhere?

Also, if anyone has read the book, are there any interesting Rust counterexamples?
Bitcoin up 2% on the news despite people in this thread explicitly saying "it made crypto price tank" in the thread
Please, record this message and make an animation for a car dashboard.

"IF YOU CAN READ THIS
YOU ARE DRUNK!
YOU CANNOT DRIVE!"
I don't agree with his comment, but he does address it:

In other words, there is actually a reason to hope that Meta might win: it seems like we could all do with more connectedness, and less isolation with incredible immersive experiences to dull the pain of loneliness. One wonders, though, if Meta is in fact fighting Apple not just on hardware, but on the overall trend of society; to put it another way, bullishness about the Vision Pro may in fact be a function of being bearish about our capability to meaningfully connect.
> In the unlikely event of retaking Crimea, Ukraine is going to prosecute collaborators

You have a wrong choice of words here, sadly. Every one would be prosecuted and after that they would decide who was a collaborator and who wasn't.

https://tweet.lambda.dance/Spriter99880/status/1663931257053...
US giving way too much credit to the junior partners, as usual. But that’s why you have folks at the WaPo who write up these disinformation pieces.
Most downvotes are from people who want to silence others.
more at https://localfirstweb.dev/
Surprisingly in my industry nobody would bat an eye:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscous_vortex_domains_method

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorticity
As others have pointed out:

Good thing: criminals don't go to the law when you rip them off.

Another good thing: You don't suffer any moral qualms about stealing their money.

Not so good: they kill you instead
If everyone stops doing it, it ceases to be customary. So it’s on each of us to do our part and refuse these new customs.

Also how does one become an “etiquette expert”? Are there some certs I can take?
> all-powerful mods to whom every user is a racist transphobe nazi homophobe enemy.

Weird, I've been put off of reddit because of the prevalence of transphobes, homophobes, and racists who inundate so many threads. I wish there were better mods to remove those folks from the site.
I think this guy can probably easily find an equivalent position, so had less reason to put blinders on.
Alternative headline: Coinbase and Binance enter the "finding out" phase of unlicensed securities dealing
Does anyone know how efforts are going to to get Asahi's kernel changes merged back upstream? Has anything been merged upstream already? Is there a roadmap for getting things upstreamed? Are they pursuing an incremental approach to upstreaming individual components or do they have to prove that everything is flawless on Apple silicon before anything can be merged?
Who exactly is defining triviality purely in terms of request rate?
Of course not everything other than bitcoin is a security. My private blockchain no one knows about is not a security. It's not a universal law of the universe.

What they mean is every coin/token they looked at. If asked to evaluate litecoin for example probably they'd say it's not a security as well. They don't need to pass judgement on each of the thousands of coins individually because definitions and common sense exists.
https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Keep in mind, every scenario that Less Wrong warns about (nuclear war, climate change, bio-terrorisms, AI risk, etc.) is backed up by a large number of experts in the field. Can you point to even one improbable scenario you made up, that has anywhere near that level of expert agreement?
hard to say. We always get manufacturers asking us how they can get integrated into Seam. Generally we find that it's faster for us to do the integration versus the other way around. We've internally discussed fully open sourcing our connectors, like Airbyte, but we'd need to make sure the integrations are rock solid and the virtual device in our sandbox are accurately modeling the behavior of the real ones.
Myanmar also has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Z._Win and the late https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Paw :)
Grafting
Tip your table server in cash. Karma achieved.
> Why would that change anything about tipping at all?

It would eliminate much of the extortion aspect of tipping. If I know that the employees are being paid a reasonable wage, then I won't feel that I have to tip them in order to help make up for their employer's skeeziness.
> It is estimated than in three days, the highest point in downstream is reached and then it will get lower.

Leaving a nice barrier of impassible mud everywhere around the river.
Yeah, the crypto craze stripped the halos of many of once-hallowed VCs, like A16Z and Sequoia.
Reddit has in the past taken over and reassigned ownership of a sub when the top mod does something too disruptive, like shut the sub down. They did that with r/KotakuInAction.

I assume they'll do the same to r/Music if they just shut it down. The move for them, imo, would be to automatically allow YouTube and Spotify links, and ban news and discussion posts.
I think about it this way: To people you are tipping, the accumulated money they bring in probably means a lot more to them than it means to you. I mean, I make enough money that a few dollars each time I go out doesn't affect my life at all. But it probably adds up to the people making $10/hour, and can make a big impact.
> How did you arrive to 12c and $2.5?

You could just read the link of what was sent to you, idk might help with having an actual conversation.

here is the relevant text.

> the average Apollo user uses 344 requests per day, which would cost $2.50 per month

> https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/reddit-users-are-the-least-v...

> So at generous estimates of $600M and 430M monthly active users, that's $1.40 per user per year, or $0.12 monthly. These own numbers they've given are also seemingly inline with industry estimates as well

In other words the expected price for reddit per user is 12 cents but their pricing model for APIs is retaliatory at 20x that price.

> Also, is it expensive?

Charging 20x what you make yourself, and again 4 times more than a similar offering?

> Reddit is much more complicated product with img and video hosting.

No it fucking isn't. 90% of reddit is text by volume and most of it is super short tokens too. Reddit is so uncomplicated you can make it a 1st year uni proyect to make a backend and front end with nested comments and a text post saved in a db.

it is so uncomplicated most of its work behind the scenes for the apst 6 years has been on monetisation, such as the new ads, the nfts, the reddit premium, the reddit awards etc. thats where all dev time has gone, because the actual website itself is uncomplicated
The iPad Pro and iPad Air are already on M2
I believe the official excuse is they need the money to invest in the developer platform.
> People keep saying that regulation is unclear, when let's be honest, it's perfectly clear. Just not what a lot of people wanted to hear.

I honestly don't know how you can say that with a straight face if you have ever looked into this for more than 5 minutes.

The regulation is not clear and they refuse to clarify when asked on many important topics. Compare that to other security related issues, where regulators are very proactive about clearly defining what is what, publishing explainers, etc. etc.