skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s weird because all these things can be done with other (better) hardware. The supply chain issues of high-performance semiconductors makes sense to me because there is no alternative. If the price is going up, it really demonstrates the sheer indifference to price people have when it comes to low-cost computing. That is, the value of an RP is in its package and not its price.

I really hope it’s not ignorance instead of indifference. Building a computer, even a tiny one, is not hard.
I use Clickbait Remover for YouTube to disable this. It also fixes the FULL CAPS LOCK video titles that have become so popular.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
Sure, but they don't support virtual threads yet afaik.
Why not use the fediverse code? If you don't have to build stuff, why build stuff?
I was in Shelter Cove, CA last week. If you ran a contest to find the city in California that's most far away from everything as possible, Shelter Cove would be a solid contender. It has a brewery - actually the only restaurant in town most nights (there's another, but it's only open fri/sat/sun).

The beer was actually pretty amazing. What surprised me is that they do multiple stouts. It's getting hard to find dark beers in CA. My guess is that the coastal temps and generally overcast weather in Shelter Cove mean that the "local" beer tends towards what we normally think of as winter beer. Or it could just be that the owner likes porters and stouts as much as I do.

I wouldn't discount local beer. Unfortunately, I've never much cared for Anchor Steam, so it's hard for me to get worked up about the OP. Great tour though.
> has publicly stated that they have contingencies in place for moving offshore if it's economically unviable to be headquartered in and/or serve the US market

They should go. Crypto has a niche outside major economies and developed countries with the rule of law.

If you go back to the 1930s, bankers protested similarly (as they did again in the late 90s). Turns out freewheeling fraud isn’t a determinant for financial centrality. Worst case: we can revisit if London or Singapore make this work, given they’re rapidly approaching being the only financial centres who will stomach this.
Even if they loose they could probably still work out a way to broker btc and eth for Americans (as commodities). And also operate in other countries with different regulatory approaches.
Hey! I am about to move to (Copenhagen) Denmark in a few weeks from Australia.
I am also going in not speaking the language.

Any tips / suggestions?
> There was the jackdraw facts biologist guy.

He even has a wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidan

> In July 2014, Eisenkop's Unidan account was banned from Reddit for using alternate (or "sockpuppet") accounts. The accounts were used to upvote his own submissions and downvote submissions made by other users that were posted around the same time and were potentially attracting attention away from his own.
Maybe, these – the demise of Xerox not happening and the size of the players involved – are related? As in: none wants their archives and data bases put in question? (Meaning, in order to claim damages, you'd have to admit that there is damage, indeed.)
In general it feels like a lot of UI design these days is optimizing for looking pretty in screenshots and photos rather than being useful as a tool, it's honestly gotten really frustrating in recent years.
Yeah this is my bet. I bet it got to discovery and JP Morgan didn't want to reveal things they would be required to reveal if the litigation went forward. The Plaintiffs could ask for pretty much every communication related to Epstein and background on every employee and other bank clients that are even tenuously connected to Epstein. They probably caved because they want to minimize the dirty laundry getting aired out.
"The rentier class" would be a more accurate description, yes.
Charities like Komen, and the American Cancer Society, and all those charitable Foundations and Societies that fund research on incurable diseases: they are exactly the reason why breast cancer and all the other diseases will never, ever be cured. They must never be cured. Billions of dollars in revenue depend on their incurability. Scientists and researchers have an amazing cash cow, a goose that lays golden eggs, and to identify a cure for breast cancer would strangle that goose where it sits. EDIT: I think I like the cow metaphor much better in this case.

Therefore, mark my words: donate to the "X For A Cure" charities at your own peril, because the perverse incentives mean that they will move Heaven and Earth to avoid finding a cure for anything at all.
> He already lost 4 years of his life to this. Hopefully he wises up and pivots before he wastes another 4 years.

I think it's up to him to decide whether that time had value or not.
Had to point out that keeping pornographic and sexually explicit material out of school libraries is entirely within the reasonable realm of authority of school boards and has nothing to do with freedom of speech, which the phrase "book banning" implies.
I agree with you, I have only seen one of his videos in which he paid for people to have cataract surgery I found it strangely absurd.

The issue is if he was to instead start using money to tackle systemic issues then it moves beyond philanthropy and it becomes political. "I paid for 1000 people to have cataract surgery" as a video hits a lot differently to "I lobbied congress to make cataract surgery free"

Systemic change is hard and a lot of people won't want to engage with it. It is easy to look at an altruistic act and say "this is a good thing" a lot harder to question the underlying causes that necessitated the act.

There is a famous quote "When I give food to the poor they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor they call me a communist."
That's cool and all, but until I have enough influence personally to dictate Microsoft's design, I don't really have a choice but to depend on web APIs to achieve the desired effect.
I would feel uncomfortable if a doctor did pro bono work just for attention or for YouTube views instead of out of the goodness of his heart, but acted like he was a wonderful and charitable person for doing so.
> Anyone: "Okay then, is [insert ANY crypto here other than BTC] a security?"

The SEC has been super clear for most crypto except Bitcoin and Ether.
People hugely underestimate how big of a factor motivation is when it comes to research and building things. Some are motivated by money, some are motivated by the feeling of being needed and helping others. And then there's some boys who're really dedicated to figuring out how to fake nudes. The reason why they do it is unimportant, what matter is the amount of time they spend on tinkering with it. In the end they still acquire skills.
"is literally impossible to satisfy"

Then you can't be licensed. Simple. "But I really really really want to be licensed" "..."
Well, it was this or hire a transgender spokesperson.
Sketchy ideas for UI that play with the novel capabilities of language models
Attention is money. Their time is paying for the charity in the videos.
This is basically the same thing Samsung and friends doing to their camera app.

Expect, in Samsung's case, some user love this.
How do you manage the meta DAG between all of that stuff in the event of, e.g. complete disaster recovery?
After releasing Schindler's List, Steven Spielberg donated several million dollars to the Shoah Foundation. In an interview, he said that he rarely gives his name when he donates to a cause and made the exception because he wanted to use his name to bring light to what the Shoah Foundation was doing — creating an archive of witness accounts of Holocaust survivors. The reason he said he donates anonymously is that, according to his religion, God does not recognize giving to charity unless it is anonymous. The moment a person does a good deed, and their name is given or known, the act is not recognized by God because it was done in pride and not humility.
It's amusing that this well-written article got flagged, I assume because it violates certain convenient narratives that many HN users cling to.
Pretty sure multi day fasting reverses this.
Love to see this work. In good reddit fashion I will use a throwaway to sign up.
You can't have HSR in rural areas. Rural areas, by definition, have very low population density. HSR is horrifically expensive to build and operate, and only works economically (like here in Japan, where there's lots of it) because there's huge ridership between the large cities it operates between. There's no HSR to rural communities because there aren't enough people riding it frequently enough to make it work, and the people who'd like to use it are too spread out over too large an area for the logistics to work. You can't have a bullet train that stops every 10 miles at some small town to pick people up; you'll end up with an average speed that's too low to even be called "HSR". Your whole post really makes no sense in the real world.

It's very simple: if you want the benefits of living in civilization, like medical care, bullet trains, and other infrastructure, you need to move to cities because those are the only places where economies of scale exist to make that stuff work.

>And if such a migration is made possible/desirable, other businesses supporting those new residents (apartment buildings, bars/restaurants, cultural activities and a raft of other opportunities will present themselves for other, local, businesses.

If you have a place with a bunch of apartment buildings, bars/restaurants, and all this other stuff, what you have is not a "rural area".
Why use the fediverse code? If you don't need the complexity, why include it?
OTOH it is amusing to watch Wayland re-adopt, one piece at a time, all the "cruft" they started the project to get away from. Embedding will probably be next.
Surely you meant Ungoogled-Chromium. Brave isn't any better at privacy, and neither is Firefox.
I followed the link to the volcano study, and it said the opposite of what the author said that it said. The adults who were displaced had worse outcomes than the other adults who were not, but the children of those adults did better, and their offspring, and so on.
Also, what if the viewers of the video also had their day brightened by seeing someone being nice? No wonder negativity bias is such a thing in media, not only do negative doom-and-gloom articles get more views, but positivity is actively scorned.
That's an interesting angle that I had not considered - cheers for sharing.
So much this. As someone whose bread and butter is systems programming for things that run on end-user devices, every time I dig into a Python project I feel like I've been teleported into the darkest timeline, where everything is environment management hell.

Even the more complex and annoying scenarios in native-land for dependency management still feels positively idyllic in comparison to Python venvs.
Yes, pulumi is just wrapping terraform[1]. So you need to understand both the quirks of that and the quirks of pulumi. And I'm lazy so I just want to deal with one quirk at the time.

[1] https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi-terraform-bridge
> I can be confident that a Perl script I write today will run unaltered 10 years from now, modulo external collaborators.

Nothing is eternal. Some dependencies, like CPAN modules, need to build stuff in C (during installation). It is impossible to know if these dependencies will install and build 'unaltered 10 years from now'.
Coinbase already has a license, but they're not using it.
If it's not even clear what a security is, why would you register as a securities broker/exchange?
"Mr. Beast built his channel by taking all profits from each video and plying it into the next video"

To me this seems like a semi-obvious minmaxing solution to making popular videos: make essentially zero profit, regardless of revenue. At some point you get so much revenue that you can't spend it all so the next logical step is to simply give it away as part of the video. And in this case it's a virtuous cycle - apparently giving away money generates more revenue so it just keeps going. But this doesn't strike me as being done out of any noble purpose - all he wants is YT view and charity is just a side-effect of that.

"How can you watch the video where he pays for the blindness surgery for all those people and say that that was anything other than an amazing win for all those nice people?"

My criticism would be that it's local change vs trying for structural change. Why don't those people already have access to surgery? The counter-argument to this would be that structural change is somewhere between very hard and impossible, so just spend the money locally. A more cynical take is that lobbying for restructuring the US health care system doesn't generate YT revenue, so he's incentivized to fund the most clickbaity charity projects.
Sorry, but this is misinformed.

They are not one of the easiest beers to make, but in fact one of the hardest. They’re very susceptible to oxygen ingress and the high hopping rates can cause diacetyl production + hop creep which can ruin the beer.

They’re also one of the most expensive beers to make based on the cost of hops and the typical amount of hops used per barrel produced.

They do not stay the most stable on shelves / truck as they can fade quickly and are heat sensitive. Heat can quickly cause off flavors in IPAs. If you keep an IPA, especially a hazy, longer than 6-8 weeks you’re going to have an inferior tasting product so you have to turn them quickly via taproom pours & hyping up can sales. There’s a reason why no one ships IPAs overseas like they do with Belgian & German styles. They don’t travel well.

Breweries brew them because they’re a very popular style and they can charge $18-24 for a 4 pack where-as a lager or lower ABV beer cannot typically sell for the same price. They can also increase the grain by ~30% and make a double IPA which can sell for closer to $24 for a 4-pack.

This is why you see six-packs for $15-18 of lagers or similar styles, the customer expectation is different.

I can understand not liking IPAs or thinking they’re overdone but they aren’t the easiest style nor the most shelf stable.
Matt Levine said it best:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-06-07/when-i...

"Some of them did securities offerings, but by the time the SEC noticed they were too entrenched and decentralized and it would have been a pain for the SEC to go after them. Ethereum, most notably, very very clearly did an ICO in 2014, raising about $18.3 million by selling ETH tokens. If they did that today, or in late 2017, the SEC would have some serious questions. But by the time the SEC got around to cracking down on ICOs in 2017, Ethereum was big and decentralized and the SEC would have had a hard time, practically and legally, challenging its 2014 ICO. And so everyone sort of grudgingly concedes that ETH is not a security."
Slightly OT:

I have been playing around with whisper.cpp; it's nice because I can run the large model (quantized to 8-bits) at roughly real-time with cublas on a Ryzen 2700 with a 1050Ti. I couldn't even run the pytorch whisper medium on this card with X11 also running.

It blows me away that I can get real-time speech-to-text of this quality on a machine that is almost 5 years old.
Like abortion?
Moderation Bots and Tooling – Reddit Mods
>I enjoyed Spore a lot. I never saw any of the apparently overhyped marketing, so there were no disappointments for me there. I will admit the gameplay itself was pretty flat - I probably played through the whole game, which was pretty short, only 3 or 4 times.

From what I recall (this was some time ago), my disappointment was that the marketing materials presented Spore as a relatively "mature" game (that is, not shying away from the cruelty of the natural world in the early stages, war being a bit more serious in the later stages). Whereas the product that actually launched was overly cutesy and felt more like a child's edutainment game. E.g. I recall some of the early marketing materials had blood effects which were missing from the retail game.

while I do regret buying Spore and feel it was not worth the retail price, I have to agree the creation tools were quite interesting. More importantly, Spore was (IIRC) my first experience with pre-ordering games, and my ongoing refusal to do so again [1] has served me well over the years.

[1] With some very limited exceptions for studios with a proven track record of quality and excellence of craftsmanship, such as Zachtronics.
Not to be an asshole, but --- well, I guess I'll be an asshole.

This is good, thoroughly-researched advice with just enough condescension that I walked away from it kinda wanting to style my own CSS scrollbars.

Additionally, there's a comment on this post replying to someone with "You'll live" which really isn't helping the case presented in the article.

I won't, I don't have a good reason to, but I had a nice nostalgia trip to w3schools: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_custom_scrollbar.a...
You realize the Sunshade is science fiction, right?

Picking two examples from the Wikipedia article you linked, the Fresnel lens is a proposed object that would float in space between the Earth and Sun, approximately 1000 km wide and only a few mm thick. The article notes "at a science fiction convention in 2004, Benford estimated that it would cost about US$10 billion up front, and another $10 billion in supportive cost during its lifespan." Lol. This idea is pretty hilarious, just in general. A lens so wide as to span the entire US state of South Dakota. Please explain how you'll launch and/or assemble that at the L1 point. (This was a subplot of a Simpsons Episode by the way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Shot_Mr._Burns%3F#Part_One)

Or there's the "Lightweight solution", "a distributed sunshade with a mass on the order of 100000 tons, composed of ultra-thin polymeric films and SiO2 nanotubes", which "estimates that launching such mass would require 399 yearly launches of a vehicle such as SpaceX Starship for 10 years." Also lol!
This is not a good tactic for misinformation and disinformation, and general authoritarian thinking... That the message gets out there let alone isn't challenged on its merits immediately implies that it must be something reasonable to say if HN allows it to be posted.
This is all making headlines by making one implementation 1% faster by removing one copy.

Meanwhile I can just make sort 10 times faster with vectorization.
>But anything that can both revitalize rural areas and mitigate the housing shortages in urban/suburban areas is a good idea. Perhaps you have a better, more workable solution?

Yeah, it's simple: fix the glaring problems in urban areas, and have people move there. If there's a housing shortage, build more housing. Fix the stupid zoning laws that prevents that. That's a lot easier than this ridiculous HSR ring idea.
You know the people participating in most of Mr.Beast videos are poor because, well that's the point of the videos in a lot of cases.

I'd say a lot of his videos are fine, but some of them can be quite jarring. In a lot of them for example there's families that are struggling and he spends almost no time in the emotional aspects of it and just kind of jumps into the "BUT HERES 10 THOUSAND DOLLARS!" to get reactions. It actually feels very dehumanising, as if these people are but a prop in the stage.

Of course, no one will say he's doing something bad by giving people money. But ultimately, to make a spectacle out of poverty is worth criticising, no?
> Also don't allow people to remove the ads by paying - you need to show ads to people with enough money to buy the stuff you're advertising. Exclusively showings ads to poor people does not work. Just make sure your ads aren't annoying.

I would definitely not pay money to a site that wanted to show me ads, regardless of my preferences, as a subscription member. Full stop.
That's exactly my thinking. They can make a special Reddit app with Electron that basically recreates the website, but forces users to see lots of annoying unblockable ads while hogging lots of memory. Users trying to use the normal website will just be directed to download and install this app, and only shown a preview of the site that they can't use. What could possibly go wrong?
Sounds great, but these 3rd-party apps are designed to use the Reddit API, so I don't see how they could be made to quickly use any other service unless they just throw up a big banner saying "We can't use Reddit any more because they've closed their API to us, so we recommend you try out $service instead! Sorry, but this app isn't written for $service's API, so you'll just have to navigate there with your web browser."

It would probably take a fair amount of time to make new versions of these apps for a different service's API.
> If it's not even clear what a security is, why would you register as a securities broker/exchange

False condition. The SEC has made it clear that various crypto, e.g. Solana, are securities. If you want to trade those, you must register. Again, if you just want to cash trade Bitcoin and Ether, the SEC has shown zero inclination of messing with you.
AFAIK it's not fully, but you can use cuBLAS/clBlast for a pretty good speedup.
Far to dismissive of Brandeis and the ilk.

All the kids who today revere RBG as some kind of demigod with accompanying action figures should know more about Brandeis . . . an actual leftist, populist justice, starkly unlike RBG.
fwiw, I have enabled "always show scrollbars" on macOS, and I frequently use them on my iPhone too.

One of the most frustrating thing on the web is capturing any scrolling behavior, or catching conflicting keystrokes (such as cmd-f on some fora).
I think seatd allows this now? So it works on the rather small sliver of distros that don't run systemd.
The Terraform equivalent is pretty good. You can just use DynamoDB for concurrency control, S3 for state control, and it's very easy to set up. I imagine Pulumi is not very different on this front. Very little boiler plate and you're off to the races.
Self custody is always the best route, if you know what you're doing. If you have zero clue on how to set up and secure a wallet and don't care to do it, Coinbase is probably an ok option, for now.

Not financial advice, but smart move to be buying ETH.
"In 4chan a literal nazi, a drag queen, a bona-fide pedophile and a luddite can exchange opinions..."

This is overly romantic. I just visited /g/. Less than 1 min in, I see "nigger" and "faggot".

I'm sure there are blacks, gays and drag queens that see value in 4chan and are desensitized to those words. But, I'd estimate 99% of the population is white men/boys with antisocial tendencies.

Which is fine. There's nothing wrong with like minded people building a village. But let's not pretend the culture of the site, doesn't instantly weed out a huge chunk of multiple demographics.
You have multiple parents or they have multiple computers?

What did you replace Windows with?
I'd describe it as the government letting you do what you want with more money than it normally takes from you.

If you had an employer that required you to pay it half your salary in January and gave it back to you in December along with the other half, would you say that it was kicking in half your salary for you to spend as you please?