skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kiwifarms, now banned, official twitter page said their goal was “exploitation of the mentally handicapped for amusement purposes”. ( Source: https://archive.is/jYp5p ).

I think Kiwifarms is (borderline) criminal. Null, the admin of the site, outright said he was ok with users posting stolen financial information, such as Social Security Numbers and Credit cards. Source: https://archive.is/0fOcS . There are many examples of private financial information being posted on the site.

I would describe them as operating with a paper thin layer of "plausible" deniability. Officially you aren't allowed to harass or interact with the targets. But posting their home address, stolen passwords, phone numbers, and information about relatives is all allowed.

But even the rule against interacting with "lolcows" (called "cowtipping") is haphazardly enforced. For example, one user had sex with a "lolcow" and posted photos. The admin explicitly said they would allow the content to remain up: https://archive.is/zYnpK#35%

For those who aren't aware, kiwifarms is a website that was ostensibly something like a gossip forum, but in practice basically ended up being used for cyberstalking and harassment. They would frequently harass and doxx people. Their wikipedia page covers parts of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms
Apparently in Canada a thumbs up emoji is valid as a signature for a contract.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/06/canada-judge-t...
People will pay for the system with the best ROI, which is a simple system with simple installation and simple failure modes.
At least in Australia Temu hits the sweet spot of offering almost-China prices with reasonably speedy delivery (under a week). If you buy the same crap on Amazon.au, you pay a 3-4x premium for local warehousing, and if you buy it off AliExpress, it often takes a month or longer to deliver.

That said, I presume the only way Temu can pull this off logistically is air freight, so I also have my doubts about his sustainable this is.
"Russia can't produce anything" - Except for oil, gas, potassium, nickel, etc.

You don't need a huge essay to explain that an economy that for the last 25 years was focused on open international commodities trading has become focused on areas that it has a comparative advantage in and has had other places decline to the point of being non-competitive. All the window dressing about "importzamesheniye" is the Russian analogue of Saudis building NEOM, it's mostly for politicians to pretend that they are doing something other than selling the natural resources.

It's also the same reason why the sanctions are likely not going to get much tougher(remember that most of the goods that are supposedly "banned" are now simply re-exported via Armenia or other ex-USSR countries at big markups), because people need these Russian commodities on the global markets one way or another and the only way they make it onto the global market is if Russia gets what it wants from the global market as well(which is mostly expensive German cars for the upper class and some machines it needs to maintain industrial production in key areas).
Congrats! Once in a while, the stupidity in systems like this finally works in your favor.
The former chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder went to work for Gazprom afterwards: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der
There's always a bit of a cultural adjustment needed for people who are onboarded to this paradigm (myself included! It took a year before I bought in). But everyone has universally either been converted or at least had to admit that the system works.
Did you get a satisfactory answer?
I found opensuse tumbleweed's swaywm pattern to be completely broken, and from what I saw in forum posts it has happened several times in the past few years.

I know opensuse is vaunted for its stability, but I have yet to find a setup that I liked better than sway-flavored Manjaro, given my proclivity for tinkering. Debian +kde also seem reasonably solid, even if kde still has odd occasional bugs or inconsistencies (last I tried, I had to reboot twice after installing to get the battery icon to work in the tray).
Eh, while billionaires enjoy privilege in the West, oligarchs literally run gangs, murder people on the regular, and support Putin's attempted genocide of Ukraine. I would say that's definitely comparing grapes and oranges.
This has never been my experience. Any editor with multi-cursor support can easily be used to produce or maintain ASCII diagrams like the ones described so far.
aha - good to know, thank you!

Makes sense - huge prices for junk in Vancouver or Toronto, while mansions in outport Nova Scotia are empty and towns in Newfoundland are forced to resettle.
People have thought about things like this. There's lots of hard problems, among them the reason these houses are vacant to begin with: there isn't a local economy that supports them, let alone the huge social services fabric that'd be required to get unhoused people in a position both to rehab houses(!) and then thrive in Detroit metro.

Here it's worth remembering, just as a single data point, that most unhoused people in California are Californians. They didn't migrate to California to be homeless in the sun. You can't generally move them around the board like chess pieces.
General law/legal professional channel to discuss ... well, law things.

https://matrix.to/#/#lawgeneral:matrix.esq.social
"People experiencing homelessness" is a dog whistle used by the homeless industrial complex [1] to distract from the reality and root causes of the situation.

In Seattle, warring groups of vagrants are bombing each others' camps with explosives. [2] Do not adjust your sets ladies and gentlemen, this isn't a news story from Beirut in the 80s.

Anyone that thinks that a warm shower and free apartment is going to solve this problem is delusional. These people do not want help and actively refuse it. These are the harsh facts.

[1] The large network of grifters and organizations that continue to profit off this human suffering, under the guise of providing help. Instead they secure themselves and their friends cushy jobs and squander millions of dollars while the problem continues to fester and destroy their city.

[2] https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-homeless-crisis-mult...
25 years in all weather, not even a Noctua fan is making it that long. Its not the cost of the panels that is the issue its getting them on the roof, repairing them is enormously expensive as they have no gaps between them and buying replacements a decade later is almost impossible as people are finding out. Longevity to maximise returns is a necessity with an investment that takes 7 years to break even.
What technical term? "hoard" is just a word. It becomes a technical term if you say "compulsive hoarder" or "garbage hoarder". Those are symptoms of a condition such as ADHD or OCD.
Interesting, what was the response?
Thanks!

How do you use it? How big infra you monitor with it?
You can currently. You've always been able to.

I have a friend that is a workaday oil painter. He went to college for oil painting, got good at painting seaside vistas, and sells them steadily. There are also all manor of other commercial artists. Concept artists, illustrators, graphic designers, animators, composers, musical instrumentalists... they are artists who make a living from being artists. They get artistic satisfaction from their work just like a developer gets creative satisfaction from writing code for a living. They put their heart and soul into the things they create even if it might end up making them, or even other people profit. Art doesn't have to be some magical personal journey completely divorced from the prospect of money to be art. I'll bet that nearly every single musical artist you like made the majority of their work to sell it and make money. That does not make that work worse or less artistic. If you removed the things in our lives we get artistic enrichment from that were created to sell, it would be a pretty stark landscape.

I see a lot of people who generally haven't done artistic things meaningfully grappling with the "what is art" question for the first time, and making a bunch of sweeping declarations that make them feel better about riding this wave. If you're someone who has put a bunch of years, educational dollars, and effort into becoming an artists, some group of software developers "explaining" to you what "real art" is can be pretty infuriating. I was a developer for a decade-- I know this hubris from both sides. It helps when you're plowing into a new problem space to make it better with code, but when you start using those generalizations to deem someone and their life work as worthy or not, it's obnoxious, counterproductive, and generally completely inaccurate.
Bitwarden has a service for this, fully E2EE.
Supreme Court blocks OxyContin maker’s bankruptcy deal
How often is common to you? I've seen it happen plenty, and not just with Python. Even Go, which has a reputation for maintaining backwards compatibility, had bugs that caused breakage on patch releases during the go.mod transition. Even if breakage happens rarely, when it does happen it causes unplanned work. I'd rather be deliberate in when I choose to upgrade so I can plan for issues.
I've lived in multiple places in downtown Seattle for the last ~15 years and I can count on one hand the number of homeless people I've seen during that time that aren't either completely drugged out or without serious mental health issues. It's, in my first-hand experience, the overwhelmingly top deciding factor in their situation.

Homeless advocates like to paint this pretty (propaganda) picture of people that, shucks, are just down on their luck, shucks, their rent went up and now they're homeless and if only we gave them (steal from others) some money or a house or whatever, that'll be the help they need to get back on their feet. The vast, vast, majority of the current homeless population will just destroy the house and then move on whenever they're eventually kicked out.
A hack songwriter looks at other songs, mixes them together, and writes some songs.

A true artist communicates something about their own experience of life through their songs (still taking inspiration in techniques of course from previous songs -- nothing is completely original!)

ChatGPT is currently the ultimate hack songwriter. It has read every song and can remix to create new stuff like you wouldn't believe. But there's no truth of unique experience behind it because...ChatGPT doesn't have any experiences. Yet.

But I think pretty soon we'll throw some GPT-derived AI in a robot body, and it will go out there and have experiences, and sooner or later write an album about what it's like being an AI in a robot body, and probably that album will be a true, effortful piece of art.
first-hand knowledge of CFront and MPW
Why oes it matter if we call it "art" or not?

AI creations are going to be enjoyed or not, used or not, given attention or not, just like human creations, regardless of what we call them.

More and more I'm leaning towards seeing the whole category of "art" as nothing more than gatekeeping.
MIT as usually have great results in research and achievements, Good guys keep going
He didn't really want to buy it and was forced.

Then he noticed social media is hard.

So now he tries to copy WeChat.
Now I'm even more confused as to why RHEL's changes are this controversial :p

16 machines is more devices than I have in my house, and enterprise seems like they can just pay for RHEL. I'm also betting there's not some thorough verification process that would prevent you from running RHEL free on more than 16 machines (seems almost too easy, but just make multiple free accounts per-16 machines? RH I'm sure would be happier to have people running RHEL at all than intentionally seeking out free license violators)
A recent Atlantic article says, no. The county where Phoenix is, is still the fastest growing county in the USA, for multiple years running.

Most of the year the weather is good, apparently. Throw in air conditioning de rigeur, and cheap housing (due to no artificial supply restriction), and I guess you have the formula for population growth. Perhaps some politics are part of it too. Total taxes are half that of California. Probably not the #1 tax friendly state, but certainly up there.
And if you filter by Asians in America, you get similar numbers to Japan: https://www.statista.com/graphic/1/226292/us-fertility-rates...
This is why the panels are raised off he roof with racking. Its allows the air to flow underneath them to cool them. The issue with heating is you have a mostly black object getting ~1400Watts/m^2 and just 20% of it is turned into electricity and the rest is heating the panel. Its a lot of heat.
Q. How do you know if the pirate you just met was MIT-trained?

A. Ask them for a probability density from the wavefunction Ψ, and see if they respond by hitting it with psi-stAARRRRRR.

(also useful: reduced Planck's constant or form evaluating to the head of a list)
I'm sensing it's gonna draw the same low code/no code crowd with maybe 5-10% improvement but the same or worse technical debt
Replicating the setup when you need to reinstall? What?

I once had my computer crash during a kernel update and this left the system unbootable. All you have to do is use the arch iso and arch-chroot into your system to rerun/undo the kernel update or whatever other update broke your system. The thing is, even a "reinstall" is merely about deleting packages and then rerunning pacman and reinstalling your bootloader. Your /home and /etc stay untouched. You can take the list of installed packages and then install those. I mostly needed that when moving from an old laptop to a new one.
> no central authority

That no one is appointed as bearer of the authority does not mean that randomness is as valid as the authoritative facts behind a term.

Only one hour ago I accidentally found myself in front of a definition on a dictionary: «anon (adv.): late Old English Old English anon, earlier on an, literally "into one" [...] By gradual misuse, "soon, in a little while" (1520s)». Repeat: «By gradual misuse». Linguists recognize proper and improper.

> For the general public

But the general public has little importance. We are not necessarily speaking its language. On the contrary... Here we often speak as specialists (supposedly).

There is little use in reapplying 'cube' to something that hardly deserves the name. People do: this does not mean that we should follow. And potentially, with that, lose discrimination. Like, in this context, an awareness about the whole context of AI, replaced by some fog that on the contrary we work to dissipate.
It's really starting to get that way isn't it? You basically have to build your own house to get something that isn't made of paper.
I have an idempotent provision script I use to install/update apps. The homebrew portion is basically

brew upgrade
HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew bundle --file=Brewfile --cleanup --no-upgrade

Works really nicely to keep everything tidy, up-to-date, and transferable.
Any comments or critiques or ideas on how to better manipulate or adjust the model are more than welcome.
This report is kind of implying a fantasy where we can just start moving people into vacant houses, even though it's clearly aware it's not a good idea:

> Vacant homes and buildings often succumb to the elements and deteriorate due to leaks, damage and general lack of maintenance before ever finding a buyer willing to pay their inflated prices. An abundance of vacant homes on the market are also attributed to rising rent and home prices.

Part of the issue is that nearly every federal or government program for low-income or first time home-ownership has stringent requirements on the livability of the home. An FHA loan cannot be used towards property repair. Which makes sense - the government doesn't want people moving into unsafe hovels.

So that means there is not really a legal mechanism to get low income families into vacant real estate. So the only people who can realistically take over the vacancies are cash-rich buyers.

While it's easy to shake your fist at the sky and yell "capitalism!" I am sure banks would love to write off their foreclosed properties in Detroit. But it's probably pretty clear that homeless people would rather not and the city would rather not.
I think I picked up a bootleg of this at a car boot sale in the early 2000s. Couldn't get it to work with my EU boiler, but it had a great cracktro.
I would guess it means 25% live in each quadrant of the map here:

https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PopCenter/CenterPop_...
I don't want to be the "product" of this free app.
That also has the advantage of allowing the school to potentially open a new another timeslot for the course if they know there's enough serious interest in it.
Different components of thought should be specialized. Choosing the meta structure will likely have an impact on what the system can achieve simply by the benefit of compartmentalization.
> From Universities to chess Leagues they are assembling what amounts to their own judges, juries, and prosecutors.

Increasingly, many legal disputes are handled through arbitration, which is literally this. There are a lot of motivations for avoiding the courts: arbitration is usually faster, cheaper, and can be more discreet. From my understanding, big entities really only take something to court when they want to rely on legal precedent or establish a new binding precedent.
There are still context switches with sqlite, even in-memory sqlite (it has to mess with files, which means syscalls). Just not network ops.
Not counting Saturn-I AND Saturn-IB?
I am not sure it's so black and white with encryption. It depends on your threat model. Keeping it secure from an angry ex-girlfriend is one thing, but keeping it secure from a three letter agency is another.

The mistake you are referring to is someone that assumes "encrypted" means three letter agency safe, which is a pretty terrible way to leverage encryption. In that case, it's exactly like hopping in a Tesla and assuming auto pilot will take you home without your supervision.
Part of a larger podcast posted 2 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36173382
> his biological father was a Jewish professional gambler named Alexander David Klegerman, who had been killed in a hit-and-run accident before she met James Robertson

Killing someone and fleeing the scene isn't something that happens by accident.
Or outside the UK, they ship globally.
Make a list of lat/long for every person, pick the middle entries?
It's still heavily played. There are tons of show matches and ASL which is good. There are newer players like Scan, and we had a couple new guys last season.

Is it in it's heyday? No. Is it still fantastic? Yeah.

KESPA killed Brood War primarily because Blizzard forced them to. Then KESPA itself died.

Lots of great BW still being played no question about that
Home brands of durable goods in the last 10 years have pretty much always been "Chinese crap" (I use this term loosely, sometimes the products are pretty good).

BUT, and this is the key part - buyer teams from major brands vet the supplier, make cost/quality tradeoffs and do all the supplier due diligence (like making them attest the products are not made by "modern slavery", don't have lead in them, etc). They also squeeze them super hard on payments and financials.

The BEEZELBUBS and QRYGGS are mostly the SAME factories that have always been making your goods but now they are "out of the box" and can sell to the consumer directly.

The good part is that they can now compete "fairly" outside shelf space monopolies, the bad part is that no one seems to be doing supplier due diligence or addressing quality fade.
I came across this in GitHub's squash docs [1] and had never heard of it before. In more ways than one, it reminded me of the fake git man page generator [2], but I guess that's part of why the fake man page generator is so entertaining.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/configuring-branches...

[2] https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net
My ID card has a chip in it and can be used to sign documents. Why not support that?
Hell, even the open source. It also looks a bit better IMO.

https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/X_Window_System
Yeah sorry meant to say without. Fat fingered the keyboard
No it can't, but whatever, I know you'll never put forth a convincing argument to substantiate your ridiculous claim
It is relatively rare, but software itself (not just the resulting program, such as "a game") can be art. Most examples of this focus on using code to communicate something humorous about the culture surrounding software. I cite FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition [0] as a notable example. There's also code poetry, which encompasses quite a bit more than just humor.

[0]: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
There are at least a couple companies doing something similar to this right now
Kotlin is pretty close to this?
Texas woman injured after hawk drops snake on her
What are the chances that I'd see two things about the thymus in a week? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVoxfABoHh4&t=2s

This covers a paper that, while small in sample size, shows a reduction in age of 6 years. One of the major impacts of the drug cocktail is that it removes much of the fat that accumulates in the thymus as one ages.
We have used BetaList before, we got about 1k visitors to our website from being featured there. It is free, but they try to upsell you to being featured earlier (instead of waiting for a month).

It is your job to provide value to your early adopters :)
sure, but aren't there a lot of places that don't have those? I'd say most of the world doesn't, right?
surgeon here:
antibiotic treatment works great as long as there's no peritonitis and/or no appendicolith seen on CT. However, statistics show that 30% of successfully treated patients go on to get appendicitis again within 1 year.

Anyway, I offer my patients a choice. Most choose surgery. Those conscientious enough without insurance usually choose nonoperative management because it's much cheaper.
The Russian military are literally killers breaking into Ukraine and killing people.
For the actual census data HUD was using, they really just ask "does someone live at this address".

But, like, yeah. No one is shocked that Detroit has tons of homeless and tons of abandoned houses.
I don't see the benefit here. In the summer you want a cool pool, and in the winter you need that heat to hit your house to reduce heating costs. Unless you live somewhere so warm in the winter that you still have to cool your house, in which case a pool would be pretty temperate and need no heating. If you've lived in a house like this, what's the energy benefit?
This type article declaring a thymus revelation is published every few years.

We've known the thymus is saving our lives — it's where the t in t-Cells derives from for years. There are very old studies of removing it from older humans and statistically seeing a decline in health. Most doctors will not remove it without a decent cause in older patients (intractable infection, for example). In those cases it's not that removing the thymus was a good approach. It was just the least-bad approach the physician had on hand to help their patient.

Never forget that everything we do, medically, is a stall. I'm glad we have blood pressure pills and better health spans than our grandparents. Eat a healthy diet, run 3 times a week, manage stress and... die anyway. That's the deal we were given as living things.