skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a connoisseur of American whiskeys (mostly bourbons) and it's just as true there. Most bourbons I've tasted hit their sweet spot around 15 years in a barrel, but once they start getting around 20 years, they're much less enjoyable. The overwhelming wood and tannins start masking what made the whiskey interesting and unique in the first place.
> Anyone with common sense knows you don’t need a gun in a police station because the police have already secured the police station.

Reading this subthread, it seems pretty clear that one wouldn't legally carry in a police station out of fear of needing it, but out of fear of having it stolen from their vehicles.
In geography class in college, the teacher talked about identifying old house locations sites in the Caribbean. I've forgotten the details over the last 30-odd years, but what they did was look for a place with multiple tree species with edible fruit. The idea was that if you found a small area containing, say, an orange tree, an avocado tree, a mango tree, a guava tree, and a lime tree there was probably someone living there.

(I picked those tree since they were the trees closest to my childhood house in Miami, not because I remember what the teacher said.)
Actual discussion about this over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491
I think this article is simply wrong about the "most expensive" part.

> The last 16 bottles sold for a total well in excess of £100,000 making Harewood Rum officially not only the oldest, but also the most expensive rum in the world.

That only works out to 6k or 7k pounds sterling per bottle. Meanwhile:

> Jamaican distiller J. Wray & Nephew is also recognised for producing one of the world’s most expensive rums, a 17-year-old expression priced in the region of £40,000 (US$52,000) and used to create the first Mai Tai cocktail in the 1940s.

https://www.thespiritsbusiness.com/2019/05/wray-nephew-presi...

And the other bottle they mention is more expensive than this as well.
Any particular examples you can remember that I can look into personally (and bring back to the team to look at as well)?
Yep, many people are just fine with police popping people in the mouth for talking back. They just don't admit it.
Wouldn’t you still get heat from current switching back and forth and transistors changing polarity?
I work at Shopify. This was inevitable. Shopify is Checkout. Checkout hijacks like this are taken extremely seriously because it diverts GMV and provides an inconsistent buyer experience that Shopify doesn't control. I'm honestly surprised the company didn't take stronger action here.
If you don't want age verification, then I think it is politically wise to fight that fight separately. Nothing about KOSA as written requires age verification, not even as a second order effect. Furthermore, KOSA does not introduce any market or regulatory incentive to implement additional identification tracking.

Mandatory or even incentivized age verification would require a separate act of Congress.

One of the things I like about KOSA is that it separates the verification question from the "once you know, then don't do X" question. A more nefarious bill designed to destroy anonymous speech on the internet would certainly conflate the two issues in a single statute.

As someone who doesn't want ANY mandatory age verification on the internet, I very much want to fight that fight on its own merits and not wrapped up with something like KOSA. Passing KOSA separately and without Age Verification requirements has the advantage of giving a stronger position to anonymous speech proponents when and if mandatory age verification statutes are proposed. Both in Congress and also, potentially, in court.
Totally agree! I love mmm.page and I do think the internet needs more spaces for people to create their own pages and express their creativity. I actually recreated MySpace a while back[0] and and I'm seeing that a lot more people think this way!

[0] https://spacehey.com
That can't be right, DDG's CEO has assured me that DDG isn't just a dumb proxy to Bing. DDG uses several sources as well as its own index so it cannot suffer from what is being claimed [1][2][3].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32360874

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36149682

3. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31492631
I mean tons of grocery stores sell lotto tickets.....

So do most gas station and random convenience stores. No one complains since you don't have to buy em.
> I think it -should- be expensive to be a bad driver. Good decision making is learned through poor decision making.

You want less safety in order to teach some sort of moral lesson to people? Thank god we don't design planes that way, I guess.
The first time someone drops a grenade from a quad UAV on a corrupt cop in America is gonna be a game changer.

That will align some incentives.
I thought this was an absurd statement in her post. Maybe our societies do exist only at the sufferance of billionaires, but I sure hope not. And if the continued existence of our society is in fact totally dependent on whether Elon Musk chooses to act out of the compassion and goodness of his heart, then we lost the plot a long time ago and probably deserve whatever we have coming.
If I ever have to choose between security and freedom, I'd pick freedom all the way, every time. But usually this is a false dichotomy and you can in fact have both, despite claims to the contrary.
If you want to use 'dotnet run' to quickly launch a C# program, you need to use '-c Release' when evaluating performance, otherwise it will target Debug. With that, you won't need <Optimize>true</Optimize> in .csrpoj and will get proper optimizations.

Additionally, you really want to use proper benchmarking frameworks for each respective language (BenchmarkDotNet for C#). Both JVM and .NET JIT will go through multiple optimization tiers, Tier 0 -> Tier 1 in case of .NET 7 and Tier 0 -> Tier 0/1 instrumented for collection of PGO data -> Tier 1 PGO optimized in case of .NET 8 (Dynamic PGO is opt-in in .NET 7 and opt-out in .NET 8).
I just had a look to see if 𝕏.com was available, but it looks like the punycode encoding is x.com anyway.
He can sponsor the campaigns of every single Representative (or their opponents) and not break a sweat - he's wealthier than the Koch brother(s).If he picks up a phone, most reps - including those on the committee - will hear him out. Zuck could wrangle more allies in the House than Jim Jordan.
Banning other browsers with extra steps.

They could just said that they do it for the safety of children and some would believe it.
Is it less scummy than firefox? More importantly, is it less scummy than continuing to give Google control over the internet through the blink browser engine?

The only actual counterbalance to google's power in web is the firefox browser and it's basically dead because "wah wah they bought pocket wah wah there are two tiles on the new tab page that show popular websites wah wah" so alright I guess we will just do the whole IE6 debacle again this time with less willingness from regulators to fix our bullshit.
The levitation results from something called "diamagnetism" [1]. Diagmagnetism induces a magnetic field that opposes the original field; in this case it pushes the magnet away from the sample material.

All superconductors are strongly (perfectly, actually) diamagnetic, and its a classic cool demonstation of their properties. However, not all strongly diamagnetic things are superconductors. In fact, diagmagnetism is present in all materials, but it is usually swamped by other magnetic effects (ferromagnetism and paramagnetism).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamagnetism
I tell this story often, when I was first out of college and at my first job, I was able to go on a business trip to a customer in a big city. A coworker joined me, he was around 30 years older than me, and had been at my company for about as long. It was looking like a long trip, our product wasn't performing well at the customer, so we were at the hotel bar and were looking at their extensive bar and he was explaining the ins and outs of expense reporting, "As long as you buy food, you can expense your drink", he said.

The shelves behind the bar housed hundreds of different bottles of liquor. One set caught our attention, there was around 30 bottles with the same label, but pretty obviously from different years. The oldest one's label was torn and visibly brown. The bartender wasn't around, so we consulted the price book. We found that these were a brand of Armagnac, and the bottles spanned the years from 1980 to around 1870 with prices that went from $20 to $450. $450 was an interesting number, it was also our hotel rate.

We hatched a plan, we'd buy just one drink, and put it on our room bill. Then we'd 'add' an extra day to our stay when we did the expense. My peer was confident that he had known our expense person for 20 odd years, and was sure that this would pass. There was a problem, we had no idea what Armagnac tasted like, how would we know if what we were going to drinking was any good?

The solution, we'd buy a 'decent' Armagnac ourselves, pay cash, then buy the expensive one. By this time the bartender asked us what we'd like, so we asked for a 'good' Armagnac. The bartender reached up and grabbed some VSOP bottle and poured us a glass each, then left. We were curious as the relative cost, and we saw in the book that the cost was $50 a glass. That was a shock, it was a lot to me, as much as I would spend in a weekend of drinking, but in our minds we got our drink and we had to drink it.

It tasted incredible, so smooth, just one of the best drinks I had ever had. I could only imagine how much better the $450 one would taste. My coworker agreed, which meant a lot to me, given the age diff. However, the bartender came back, asked "how is the drink?". We said, "Its incredible, however, I know we asked for a good one, but the book says this is $50". The bartender was put back, "Sirs, I would never do that to you!" And went over and punched it into the til, it was $4.50. and to drive in the fact it was cheap, above the til it said that 'well' highballs were also $4.50.

The very next sip I had, it might as well have been a dusty plastic bottled, no-name whiskey from the bottom shelf of a CVS. It was harsh, bitter, and tasted horrible. My colleague felt the same. We never did get the $450 drink.
It’s the S&P 500, the most heavily traded index in the world. Not a single ticker.
Did anyone actually find it insightful?

It reads like something half-generated by GPT and half-written by literally any product manager from an S&P 500 company, with a slight tech lean.

Yes, big orgs move slow.

Yes, top performers don't like bureaucracy.

Yes, sometimes companies get sold and there are sweeping changes.

Yes, people stay at companies for the paycheck.

Yes, leaders are sometimes eccentric/erratic but also funny/charismatic (it's almost like people are complex and not a simple myers-briggs automatons).
Your "modern" cars have cooling loops for their battery, therefore cyclic thermal fatigue.
Wow, he really can go lower and lower eh? No wonder he needed to start Boring Co.
> The incessant lazy about how Twitter is dying, for either technical or other reasons.

I'm absolutely shocked by the appetite people have for weekly stories proclaiming that their enemy is on the verge of being vanquished. So angry, and so incoherent and belligerent when confronted or even ignored. This is a person, not a demon. Also, a person with fairly median-of-the-road politics. He's gross because he's rich and you can't become rich without being unethical, and you can't remain rich without continuing to be, but there's 1000 other guys like him, most a bit less successful (government teat.)

It's bizarre behavior coming from people who are behaving increasingly strangely. I won't be surprised if they're his biggest backers 5 years from now, because he was their ally during some invasion, or helped to defeat some left-wing politician who they used to love until the television and the President said it was time to hate them.

I remember Tea Party people like this, but I honestly thought that kind of sensitivity to media could only thrive in fairly rural or exurban, churchy areas. Instead it's all the people who moved back into the city from the suburbs in the 90s-2000s and their dopey kids, ready to stand up for their DLC and W. Bush Republican kings. They just refuse to consume any information that upsets them. They think of it as assault, which is causing them trauma.

It's a social grouping that demands the right to be traumatized by what they just watched on television. Enough of the rant.

I think he's making a bunch of crazy, thoughtful plays borne out of the desperation of getting some worth out of this thing he was forced to vastly overpay for because of his own dumb mouth. But the valuation could have been wrong; it may not have predicted radical changes like Musk is trying, it was just assuming that this stable social network that was already half-merged with government was going to putter along as it was.

Charging more for participation seemed inevitable, and keeping that pricing structure fairly flat would make people more likely to get used to it. Those things also massacre trolls, socks, and spammers, and allow celebrities/influencers to exclusively interact with people who are willing to sign what they say, and to clean up their timelines. They also stopped both giving away their DM service for free (or at least split it into a premium/free plan), and stopped having a backend that allowed people who abuse by DM free access to the eyes of the people they wish to abuse - if you're not blue, you go to another tab or non-blues can be blanket blocked altogether i.e. if you want to talk to me, do it in public.

All of it sounds like an adventurous way to get money out of people's pockets, and give them some satisfaction in exchange. I don't know if people will pay for twitter, but the way that the internet is going at this moment, people are going to be paying for everything. Web3 but the only crypto involved is the Web Integrity API...
And yet here we are hmmmm
is this used with weed crops
Evaporative cooling can be very cheap compared to closed-loop cooling. Look at how coal and nuclear power plants release steam into the environment.
What would people do when they lose their keys? Isn't that a common thing?
Security purely in terms of the language used, or security in terms of cluster access, authentication and so on?

I mean, I don't often see documentation for networked services that goes in-depth on how exactly they write memory safe code in C or C++, as if that would mean the application is therefore secure; it's always much higher level.
It's ridiculous to talk about DDG being separate from Google. In the same way Brave is Chrome with some minor doodads and settings, DDG is minor reskin of Bing.
Not through iptables, and probably not through nftables (though I can't find much documentation on nftables).

eBPF should still work, though. You can also configure iptables to filter based on a bpf program, combining the two. Here's an example: https://github.com/Asphaltt/iptables-bpf
> Hate to break this to you, but society as a whole, and not "big tech", have "moved the goalposts" to consider hate speech frowned upon.

And in this case "society as a whole" means liberals.

It's pretty essential to understand this is an area of political controversy where rival factions are fighting with each other, and those factions have different strengths and weaknesses.

The liberal faction has a much stronger hold of certain institutions (e.g. media, academia) that give it much more power over language. Redefining terms is a pretty powerful weapon. For example, if there's a consensus that "hate speech" is unacceptable, win your battle by redefining it into a grab-bag that encompasses all kinds of things you oppose. Another example is the trick of redefining "society as a whole" to mean your faction, to delegitimize your opponents even if they have similar levels of support. That tactic has the most power within the faction and with "neutrals," opponents can see through it but often have trouble countering it.
The ability to kickstart the whole process with a few commands, possibly just a single bash script.
Commander Keen's adaptive tile refresh
It's all built in chains:

- The OS can trivially expose to the app whether events are coming from real hardware or another app, information the app can then either report or not report.

- The attested user-agent string given can be extended to include information about any scripts that are driving it, e.g. script hashes.

And so on. Then these things can have reputations computed over them. If there's a script hash that shows up reliably in spam, and never shows up in ham, then you can auto-mark those posts as spam. If the scripts aren't known then messages can be throttled until enough users have voted on whether the messages are spam or not. All this is fairly straightforward to code up, again, in a theoretical world in which operating systems expose information like whether events are emulated or not (today they don't).

The trick is that clients don't have to be locked down. The tech is fundamentally about letting you prove true statements. Those statements can be as complex as needed to allow whatever level of customization and control is desired. The more malleable clients are the more complex it becomes to determine what is and isn't considered OK, but in a decentralized system that policy complexity is up to the end users themselves to decide. They can share logic in the same way USENET users used to share killfiles.

Anyway, my point isn't to try and design a full system here. It's research level stuff. Only to point out that this stuff brings spam/abuse control out of BigTech-only world back into the realm of small scripts that can be written and shared by users in a decentralized way.
Oh wow, that's a situation I didn't consider, but almost certainly the future for most people. I could see something like, "Jerry, why isn't that report on my desk? Are you not using the AI again!?"
Nats is simple because it doesn't bother addressing some of the scalability problems that Kafka was designed to address, like clustering with partitions:

https://docs.nats.io/legacy/stan/intro/partitioning
2/3rds of that fossil fuels becomes wasted heat. We only need to replace the third that actually performs useful functions.

Even if the plants were cost competitive, which they are not, the existing ones are only built to last 30-50 years which means they'll age out and be replaced by renewables on that timescale at the very worst.
And as of today, here it is: https://stackoverflow.co/labs/
Yah it increases my ad cost and decreases their ad cost. Partners eh?
I find that brave search is actually pretty good these days. Has plenty of results from techdirt at least...
[1] https://search.brave.com/search?q=site%3Atechdirt.com&source...
Pretty sure he did, but I don't have r.b.t. archives. He was definitely a proponent of them, preferred a specific brand/style, and would have easily been able to do the experiment.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36726593
Android phones can now tell you if there’s an AirTag following you
Abstract: The emergence of pretrained large language models has led to the deployment of a range of social chatbots for chitchat. Although these chatbots demonstrate language ability and fluency, they are not guaranteed to be engaging and can struggle to retain users. This work investigates the development of social chatbots that prioritize user engagement to enhance retention, specifically examining the use of human feedback to efficiently develop highly engaging chatbots. The proposed approach uses automatic pseudo-labels collected from user interactions to train a reward model that can be used to reject low-scoring sample responses generated by the chatbot model at inference time. Intuitive evaluation metrics, such as mean conversation length (MCL), are introduced as proxies to measure the level of engagement of deployed chatbots. A/B testing on groups of 10,000 new daily chatbot users on the Chai Research platform shows that this approach increases the MCL by up to 70%, which translates to a more than 30% increase in user retention for a GPT-J 6B model. Future work aims to use the reward model to realise a data fly-wheel, where the latest user conversations can be used to alternately fine-tune the language model and the reward model.
I don't think you're making much of a point besides that there are other crimes you should consider separately from this example. I was pretty clear that I am ok with the example this post is about. The law in Singapore that illegal import of Heroin (any amount) is punishable by death. As far as I know there are no huge movements happening to repeal Singapore's drug laws by their citizens.

> Judging life by western standards seems like a sensible thing to do if you come from the west.

Only if you have no awareness of your own surroundings and upbringing. Those of us with the opportunity to widen our worldview understand that applying one country's value system to another is comparing apples to oranges. The hubris in thinking that your country/culture's values apply to another population across the world is maddening and a big contributor to the anti-West sentiment around the world.
IIUC the process had a few steps were you only had to wait while data was transferred or processed for long times. They were probably useful to take a nap or eat or just drink more coffee.
> Not liking someone is not the same as wanting to take away their rights.

Wanting to take away someone's right[1] is not even close to wanting them to stop existing.

[1] I'm not so sure that marriage is a right anyway. It's a state-recognised institution.
A worm fence sounds like it should be a couple inches tall and several feet deep, to block the worms.
> Is this implemented with any sort of thought to security?

There's a hefty load of cargo cult mentality revolving the topic of security. Security is not a product, but a process. This sort of talk is getting tiresome.
This is a very well written article and I really enjoyed reading it.

However, I do think the author has romanticized how a privately owned company has exploited, abused and treated their workers like objects. Looking back of the past months of Elon's tenure, its been shocking to see how he violated so many legal and social covenants regarding how an employer should treat staff.

The true insult of it all is that Musk did not need to be so brutal on everyone. He could have restructured the company without the cruelty, drama and chaos. He could have been the reincarnation of Jack Welsh (in his glory days).
Delivery App Rappi to Offer Loans to Restaurants
I think you don't understand the problem.

What people want is the ability to do all these things with a single command that they put inside a bash script.
Perspective is key: Germany's electricity generation from coal increased by 8% or 16 TWh while Germany's electricity exports increased by 50% to 26 TWh net. Europe was in a difficult situation for various reasons.