skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think basic stats and critical thinking skills, even just looking at the scientists current and former funding is enough to spot the BS. Though given the state of the world I guess that's asking too much.
I have a pet theory that things like astrology, tarot, the I Ching, Myers Briggs, etc. are valuable (and therefore stick around) not because they have a supernatural or scientific ability to make correct predictions, but because they provide a useful framework for discussing topics. So for example, even if tarot doesn't give you supernatural insight, the discussion it generates with the card reader may allow you to recognize insights that you otherwise would have missed.

Or perhaps practices like this provide value by prompting people to make changes that they otherwise wouldn't have. For example, suppose someone who normally lacks confidence receives a prediction that they will soon find love, prompted by the prediction they decide to talk to someone they normally wouldn't and end up dating. The fortune telling didn't actually predict anything, but it did provide the motivation for someone to take advantage of an opportunity when it arose by chance.
Increased interest in astrology has been noted before in societies with declining traditional religious belief and greater feelings of uncertainty. Whereas a Christian would leave his concerns about things out of his control with God, and a stoic might simply accept his powerlessness, the anxious remainder look for other ways of trying to cope. Astrology has a track record of filling this void with its fatalism, and like all occult practices, it does so by luring people with irrational promises of foreknowledge, control, and power.
Privacy laws are not about the best interest of the business.

As pointed out above, you are allowed to keep all data necessary to provide your customer what they purchased.
Losing that data is not the customer's problem, but yours. If you cannot keep your customer data safe indefinitely, then maybe you should've settled on a business model that does not require keeping customer data indefinitely.
> he just got lucky
>
> Several times?

Yes. @notacoward had a perfect comment about this a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15659076
Ask HN: Is it the end of the ChatGPT hype?
Either people are just tired of hearing and talking about it or the usability itself is eventually seeing a decline. What do you think? Do you still use it just a much?
Burns: I see it all, now. You're just a bunch of yes-men. I
was making the wrong moves and you were too gutless to
tell me! Isn't that right??

Yes-men: Oh, yes, sure, etc.

Smithers: Right on, sir.
Is that back?
I believe your analysis is flawed. Children of rich people often times aren’t motivated to be creators or be hard working. It’s not easy succeeding since luck plays a huge role but what is true is the following:

Smart people, who are cutthroat, and who are driven/motivated have a much higher chance of success if they start out rich than those who don’t.
That is not what the original commenter said, hence my response.
Not a dumbo, but such a massive waste of talent. Nobody would care to remember Newton's name if that wasn't for his work in physics. T. Acquinas is a another example - an extremely intelligent person who wasted his life on a word salad that can now be generated using chat GPT.
...but they're not even self-consistent doctrines. See: the problem of evil.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36847066
This would have made sense if he delegated the responsibility of running it to third-parties and completely severed ties with the company. He didn't do that, which given the colossal amounts involved will get him into litigation.

And if you think he is smart, think again. He tried to "smartly" get off the deal but the other party was smarter. He is clearly not the smartest man in the room.
Inkscape is amazing software. Congratulations to the team!
Now that I think about it, most double stroked characters really represent "concrete" objects, not generic ones. Like ℙ for projective space, or 𝔸 for affine space. Also 𝔽 is often used together with an index 𝔽_q for the field with q elements.

On the other hand, Wikipedia[1] agrees with you, that 𝕏 is "occasionally" used for metric spaces.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold
I read a survey once (can't find it now) that measured people's belief in astrology vs religious convictions. Committed atheists were least likely to believe in astrology, but committed religious people (go to church every Sunday, etc) were close behind. Most likely to believe in astrology were agnostics and the weakly religious.
> when he allowed free speech

Well, the fact that he said a whole bunch of things about free speech, and proceeded to walk all of them back in short order—while still claiming to be a staunch supporter of free speech—probably pissed off a lot of people.
My credit union will for my kids because I’m a member. But if I’m a new person with no history, they’ll give me a lower interest rate, but only for like $500-1000, so probably not enough to get tools.

Certainly a good idea to shop around but it’s hard to get a $5000 loan with no credit and no collateral.

What I found odd is that I rarely see these tools for sale used. I expect they’d be valuable, but I guess they just get bought up before hitting eBay or Craigslist.
I don't believe in astrology either, but frankly, this sort of zealous hyper-rationality is a great way to die alone. Like someone who's not into astrology will overhear you and the word that will get around will be "Don't invite that guy to parties, he is not fun." You will reap far better dividends from just taking people as they are and trying to find the best in them. Which is the most rational thing to do is it not?
That is the bar of discussion though. If you literally believe the aspects of religion that are obviously, observably false, then that doesn’t bode well.
> Remember NeXT?

You mean the basis for Mac OS X?

> Remember he got kicked out of Apple?

You mean by John Sculley, who basically nobody remembers as having been associated with Apple? And then how Steve Jobs came back to Apple and led it through most of its golden years?

> Remember the G4 Cube?

You mean the spiritual predecessor to not only the Mac Mini, but the Intel NUC and other small form factor computing platforms? A platform that only suffered from the failing of being before its time, rather than a fundamental design flaw?

> Remember MobileMe?

The service that eventually transmogrified into iCloud, which, if not a driving force, can hardly be considered a minor player on the Internet today, if for no other reason than the number of @icloud.com email addresses?

> Remember Ping?

No, I honestly don't, but hey, not every idea can be a winner. At least Steve Jobs' bad ideas failed quietly. Compare and contrast to some of Elongated Muskrat's more… questionable business decisions, like buying Twitter for $420.69 per share just for the lulz.
Interesting... x.com has in contrast to twitter.com an AAAA record

dig +short x.com AAAA
2606:4700::6812:11d5
2606:4700::6812:10d
Come on, Titanic wasn't that bad. :)
Who’s Using Amazon Web Services? (2023)
This article lists the biggest AWS customers, some monthly spending figures, the key services these enterprises spend their AWS budget on, and how they use AWS.
Which VPNs do you find effective for the second purpose? My small experience of using VPNs is that you just end up suffering from the poor reputation of your exit IPs, which rarely stay secret for long. So you end up blocked or at least frequently CAPTCHA'd on sites that wouldn't have blocked your own IP, and I imagine those that are doing geoblocking have a big blacklist of VPN IPs (I know BBC iPlayer does)
Was that before or after polymer notes?

I have to assume that a polymer $1/2 wouldn't have this issue?
My personal belief was after 2016 there was a Trump effect. Once everyone saw you could say WHAT!? and still become the president of the United States. I think that made a lot of people bolder in what they could think, say and do from business people to sports athletes.
<< It’s not exactly rocket science to employ smart people.

Oh, but it is based on how hard it is for corporate America to even accept such a notion without going for 'egghead' in their internal vocabulary.

I think I disagree.
>> they know it happened because people saw him both dying and living afterwards, so it boils down to whether you believe their accounts.

I come from a religious background, born and raised catholic, and even in our indoctrinating upbringing it was made clear that the new testament isn't eyewitness testimony. It's a written story of something someone said. Given the age of the material this is the best we're going to get, obviously, but it's not quite as clear cut as it might seem.

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

" They were written between approximately 70 and 100 AD, and were the end-products of a long process of development; all are anonymous, and almost certainly none are the work of eyewitnesses."
The answer is pretty obvious - because the digital world is fundamentally different, and you toy doesn't occupy any playground space, and also it's not publicly accessible, and you haven't paid for your toy to stay they, etc
Also, please don't post the same thing in two places in a HN thread, unless you have an exceptionally good reason. You can link to a previous comment. URL is in the "x minutes ago" link. Hah, x!
> you'll notice that the scratch in the background doesn't reach the X

What does this mean?

I've tried finding various images of the X logo on news sites and twitter.com itself and I don't see anything resembling a "scratch in the background" but maybe I'm just missing something obvious.
> 𝕏 is a pre-existing symbol used by

"used by" is pretty debatable. Its a fairly obscure character. I don't think being in unicode by itself is sufficient enough to count.
They fail to amuse me either, like, CEOs not being some gods is not a controversial statement, you ain’t disproving anything.

That myth (or rather propaganda) that they are some übermensch that work more than you could ever imagine and are so productive and it’s all thanks to the magic of powernaps or whatever bullshit they make up to sell you the temporarily embarrassed billionaire tale is thoroughly debunked. They are ordinary people who got into a very lucky situation and didn’t fuck up too bad.
Yup. While metal nerds can argue about the exact musical difference between death metal and black metal, from a sub-cultural point of view they come from very different places.
Sorry, there can only be one zombo.com
I’m not an American, and I’m definitely not an American constitutional law scholar, but from having a read of the text of the amendment it does appear to primarily be referring to public speech? I’m likely misinterpreting this, but nothing about the First Amendment appears to me about communicating in private and ensuring the privacy of that communication.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_motive

> Appeal to motive is a pattern of argument which consists in challenging a thesis by calling into question the motives of its proposer. It can be considered as a special case of the ad hominem circumstantial argument. As such, this type of argument may be an informal fallacy.

A common feature of appeals to motive is that only the possibility of a motive (however small) is shown, without showing the motive actually existed or, if the motive did exist, that the motive played a role in forming the argument and its conclusion. Indeed, it is often assumed that the mere possibility of motive is evidence enough.
Because it's trendy to hate on Elon.
Should be replaced with an organization that does comprehensive drug interventions like rehab, harm reductions, and maybe some enforcement. At least this would be an answer for what to do with all the people and bureaucracy, which is apparently an issue.
It's in the first paragraph of the linked article [1]. They were called "loans" in the government-speak of the post-2008 crash, but if you look at the semantics, they were just risk-free bailouts.

[1] "the U.S. Secretary of Energy will be giving details about the first loans to come out of the government’s $25 billion program to help auto manufacturers. Ford got a $5.9 billion loan, but Tesla Motors, Silicon Valley’s electric car manufacturer, is receiving $465 million from the program"
I truly don't see the difference in this case. You - as an individual - now have the right to legally marry whomever you choose provided they have the legal right to consent (e.g., old enough, of sound mind, etc.). You may not have any desire or need to exercise that right, but it's still yours all the same.
God I'd forgotten about X.com.
Holy hell he's still on that tragic dream.
I like to think that most adults understand the difference between a trick that appears to verse actually turning water into wine and wouldn't worship a magician as the son of God if they saw the trick directly.
You're just glad an anti-vax conspiracy theorist has a platform.
How to Run a Program
> Personally, I don't see what the hype is around Elon.

Well I do. Or at least I did.

He made electric cars sexy. They were decidedly unsexy before he bought Tesla.

He gave us reusable rockets. Without that, the US would now be embarrassingly dependent on Russia's Soyuz.

He also contributed something to PayPal. I don't know what, and I personally hate PayPal, but some people clearly love it.

Up to this point, he came across as a genius serial entrepreneur. I don't know if this was just luck+money, or that he really had some talent that contributed to these successes, but after this, people started lauding him as a real-life Tony Stark, and he apparently started to believe a bit too much in his own genius, and he started to do increasingly stupid things.

But there absolutely was a time when the hype seemed absolutely justified.
> 10 her work day with 3 hrs of driving isnt sustainable.

I thought the same thing until I sustained it for 14 years. It’s interesting how perspective changes with circumstances.

When I was in my 20s I remember saying “how do these old guys commute for 4 hours a day.” Then I hit my 30s and had kids and wanted good schools and whatnot, but my income didn’t jump. So I commuted for a long time. Happy I don’t do that any more.
Sadly, yes. I am pretty out there on free speech and Elon is not messiah in this space. If anything, he may be one of those false prophets.
One of the things that sets steam apart is family sharing, so you can share licenses with a spouse or sibling but keep your saves on your own profile. Uplay doesn't have that.
I think the early years of Tesla (around the Model S release) were peak Musk in my mind. It was nice to see someone pursuing a technology that would reduce the need for fossil fuels. He was also not yet posting constantly, so his public image mostly stemmed from the companies he was involved in.
> He tried to "smartly" get off the deal but the other party was smarter.

Well, the other party sold their company to Elon Musk to run into the ground, so smarter isn't quite the word I'd use for them, either.
Changes for the worse. Also, you might want to check out that crypto scam timeline.
this is worth a listen re: elon musk, technocracy and "X"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAddtaCFKYg
I mean... Yes, but IMO I think I'd be much more likely to carry a small amount of cash if I didn't have to worry about it converting into 10 different coins once I break the big note.
Kind of reminds me of the X11 logo....
There is a better chance it's actually completely bone-headed.
In most instances it's unimportant, until there's a legal requirement for it to be unique and trademarked.
What's to stop me mass-producing merchandise with that symbol on it right now?
The current vision for SpaceX is great, the product as well.

Let's not forget that the initial plan of SpaceX was to meet and get drunk with Russian leaders to buy missiles from them and resell them to US market.

Imagine the nightmare if it actually had worked as planned.

Regarding implementation in SpaceX, the success is mostly due to very good engineers and to a less bureaucratic process, where you can move fast and break things.

The NASA is a big boat that cannot steer due to political issues.
It works ok but it is extremely slow and expensive.
If you want to try what could be the top-of-the-range of non-rotring pens, instead of the W&N you could use the Copic Multiliner.
They're pretty hard to find in Europe, not sure in US. The flow and general feel is just great.
I don't have a Twitter account, but I would occasionally read threads, and obviously a lot of content linked to various Twitter posts. After all of these changes to limits and generally making it harder to read Twitter content without being logged in, I simply don't bother clicking on their links anymore.

Nothing of value was lost. I'm only one person in a large Internet, and I'm sure they won't miss the $0.03 of advertising revenue I brought them.
No, Musk is the one doing the trolling.

Just look at the attention he is getting.

If you think Musk is somehow upset about this, you are wrong.
"But I'd be surprised if a significant number invested their entire net worth and time into a single endeavor."

AFAIK Musk was a relative nobody in the millionaire world when he poured a majority of his wealth into SpaceX (2002). They were very close to bankruptcy during the Falcon 1 experiments and if the fourth launch failed, they would have joined a fairly extensive graveyard of defunct space startups, together with Carmack's Armadillo Aerospace and a few hundred others.
That's why companies pay for acquisitions or mergers primarily in stock. It keeps cash reserves available for other uses. If the acquisition flops, you can write down the value, take a hit on the income statement, and lower your tax owed for the year.
It seems many improvements to our world view and value system had to be pushed through against the pushback of religion. IMO the value of religion is to have a forcing function to enforce consensus around certain norms without renegotiating them every generation which is hard since it exceeds the capacity and willingness of much of society.
Ask HN: How would SEO landscape change with abundance of AI-generated content?
Pretty new around here! Just curious, Will search engines need to modify their algorithms to such an extend? Will SEO just die out?
https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william/releases/tag/v1...
I think a major problem with it is that it sounds like a porn site. The value of short domains is probably overrated too, a single word is nice but a single letter? so what?
Wasn’t one of the first things he did to let Kanye back on the platform “for free speech” then immediately ban him again for posting a Swastika (which is clearly protected by free speech?)

Seems to me like you’re just taking a known liar’s words at face value.
> The only independent variable is the date and time of birth.

Minor nuance. Just sharing this for awareness, not endorsing its validity:

When indian astrologers plot a "star chart" / "kundli" / "raasi chakram" of a person -- it is quite literally a snapshot or plot of all major "planets" against the constellations.

And this snapshot depends rather precisely on the PLACE of birth as well. (not just the time)

The latitude and longitude of the place of birth are starting input variables. There are almanacs and pretty detailed tables of star positions by date and hour, published for use by practitioners, that are used to lookup. The sunrise, sunset times for that place obviously differ by lat/long. And similarly since the "positions" of planets are measured not in absolute terms but against the backdrop of constellations -- so the place of birth also determines for example whether Mars is in Constellation A or whether Jupiter is on the cusp of Constellation B & C.

For example you can skim through this book's pages -- that show lat/long and timezone info for places worldwide:

https://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/ascendant-astrol...

These tables go quite deep into accounting for drift of lunar year versus solar year, apparent retrograde motion of planets, precession of axes and correcting for them, etc.

The attempt to gather so much data and attempt to do a correlation analysis / modelling on that is fairly ambitious and worthy of acknowledgement IMO.
You don’t need to use Objective-C to use the GUI frameworks, haven’t had to for nearly a decade if I’ve been using Swift since then.

Now with more and more pure Swift apps, the C++ interop is more direct than having to go through Swift’s existing C interop.
Everything I've heard is that Trump has been regarded as a moron for more than 50 years. He was a moron, raised by uncaring parents, and is now dealing with dementia. I'm sure the addictive nature of social media engagement didn't help, but as a person Trump is just like that.
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Not even one percent of them?

I get the argument and it has certain logic in it, but surely they all cannot be 100 per cent lazy. And if the non-lazy ones have it relatively easy to succeed, we should see a lot of successes from that cohort, even if they are in a minority compared to their lazy peers.
Did slashdot let you see that stoolpigeon has 776 karma or whatever over the whole profile. I just remember ranking comments within a thread.

And kuro5hin had particular flavors and you could sort in thread but I don’t think you could see if particular flavors summed for a particular person.
I'm not really sure what the difference is, at least at the high school level between writing algorithms and doing math.

(Eventually math switchs much more to be about proving things [inb4 someone yells howard-curry], but that is more mid-undergrad degree.)
We could make one up? Like Muskuito, or simple Musk or Elon (less common). I mean there's the Ratner effect. Why not an Elon effect?

The combination of Ratner effect and Osbourne effect is known as the Elop effect [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Elop#%22Burning_Platfo...
Like a bird in a coal mine?
They sold their company at a very good price, much higher than its actual worth. That’s hardly a dumb business decision. They will also have a good track record on management, given how much better twitter were under their control.
Wasn't the whole point of the TV licensing scheme to sidestep that kind of influence? What went wrong?
> You know, given the choice between ISIS and antivaxxers, I think I'll take the anitvaxxers.

Say Christian nationalism rose to it's post-reconstruction prominence. Where would you put it?

> agree that religious/spiritual groups can be good for social ties.

Further: Religious humanitarian projects aren't insignificant and it's not like they're competing with non-religious aid. If aiding religions disappeared, nothing would fill the vacuum - because the vacuum is far from filled now.
Show HN: Finito – contextual AI assistant that works in any app or website
Hello HN,

ChatGPT is awesome, but constantly copying & pasting text between ChatGPT and other apps is cumbersome. Moreover, if you are using it to do the same thing repeatedly (like translate or rephrase text), you'll find yourself typing the same prompt over and over again.

This is why I developed a new tool called Finito that lets you conveniently use AI in any app, or on any website.

To see Finito in action, watch this 14 second video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhUhHn3klHs

You simply select text anywhere, press Control, and Finito will appear with a list of options, offering you what it can do with your text.

You can use Finito to:
- Translate languages
- Debug code
- Improve your writing
- Correct grammar
- Answer questions
- Generate ideas
- and more...

What previously took a lot of typing, you can now do with just a few clicks.

You can even add your own commands (with custom prompts) to Finito to fully customize it to your needs.

Finito is currently available as a native Mac app, with Windows version coming soon.

Learn more:
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Let me know what you think!