skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing is, many institutions won't take you seriously until the police are involved and there's at least a case number.

It demonstrates a willingness on your part to expose yourself to local law enforcement.

Having not done that, it implies you're possibly in on the fraud, and just shaking a money tree opportunistically to see if you can double your money. PayPal doesn't know you're not the person who cashed the check using a fake identity, or co-conspirator.

Involving the police doesn't guarantee a better outcome, but it improves the odds in my experience.

You really should have contacted them the moment you were informed of the fraud IMHO.
It seems that the scenario Cowen put forth and the St. Petersburg paradox are not quite the same? In St. Petersburg (at least as Wikipedia describes it) you walk away with the accumulated winnings, whereas in the example put forth if you lose you walk away with nothing.

I was wondering because it would seem with Cowen's example the expected value is just $1 (ignoring the 51% edge). The 51% edge ends up making the expected value infinite, so the intuition lines up even though the exact details don't.
What human weaknesses does the current HN system not take into account?
Breathing in dust from uranium ore, or its decay product Radon is very much a health risk: https://www.epa.gov/radtown/radioactive-waste-uranium-mining...
https://learnvimscriptthehardway.stevelosh.com/
It's just endless and I think gambling is a vice. Why make your kid a sports fan if its not about any generally positive things (perseverance, cultural touchstones, physical fitness) and just about putting them on the track to becoming a gambler.
Why use AI?

"The books on this master list were filtered for challenges related to sexual content. Each of these texts was reviewed using AI software to determine if it contains a depiction of a sex act."

Or they could just read the book themselves. Do they lack the manpower to read so many books? Are they afraid of liking it? Are they aiming for some kind of fake objectivity to back up their nonsense?

Did they try running this AI on other books? For all I know, this "AI" consists of:

printf("Ew, gross")
Yes, we used Excalidraw for creating the diagrams in the README and Stable Diffusion to generate the "stickers".
Thanks for the response. I'll start with I know nothing about Danish universities.

When I refer to "free", I mean more than just no cost in terms of money. If there is a cost in terms of the university being very difficult to get admitted to, then humans tend to value it. This sounds from your post like it may be the case here.

American public schools are valued so little that truancy laws (for 1-8) were passed to force attendance. Large numbers of high school students simply drop out and wander off.

On the other hand, becoming a Marine is free (they'll even pay you!). But the selection process is grueling, and hence the status of getting through that is valued. Even more selective services, like the Navy Seals, have correspondingly more status and value.

In the Air Force, being a fighter pilot is the hardest to achieve, and has top dog status, despite being paid to go through the process.
1. Find a Commons

2. Enclose it

3. Convert it to a capitalist mode of production

4. Exit as the exploitation leads to a hollow core and the profit declines

5. Repeat
It appears that Chrome still wins most of these. Even the touted Speedometer win has apparently been trumped by Chrome over the last couple of weeks. The competition doesn't stand still. Which is good, imagine if Firefox threw in the towel, Chrome would become IE 6 in short order.
> Common Lisp gives you this choice (this being HN, a Lisp mention is obligatory :-)

Yes, we should probably implement a rule. If a post has 100+ comments, it cannot remain on front page unless at least one that mentions Lisp.

dang?
>Half the screen should be a scrolling red banner stating that you could ruin your life with gambling.

We've had that forever, the biggest effect it has is legitimising the gambling industry, helping legitimise the idea that it's gamblers fault if they get addicted, and thus expanding gambling and thus making people poorer.

>Random chance games should show the result a split second after the decision, with zero fanfare (to avoid fake near misses).

This is a more interesting idea, and I don't think it's totally unviable to enforce it considering most gambling happens through fairly centralised avenues (major companies, app store, play store). I think it could be effective and is certainly one of the better pro-regulation ideas I've heard.
Hey HN!

I'm excited to introduce intern.work, a dedicated job board and learning hub created solely for internships.

While looking for interns to join my company, I realized there are very, very few places for internships alone so I decided to create on myself. I also noticed that most regular platforms emphasize big-ticket positions, such as "Remote Software Engineers", but overlook a crucial stepping stone for many in their career which are internships.

Why intern.work?

1. By dedicating a platform exclusively for internships, I aim to ensure that both companies and interns find exactly what they're looking for without the noise of other job types.
2. Not just a job board, but a holistic hub (hopefully) that guides prospective interns on making the most of their internships, from preparing for interviews to maximizing their time at the position.
3. Community Driven: A space for interns to share experiences, seek advice, and connect with potential mentors or peers in the industry (coming soon)

I would love to get feedback and feature suggestions.

Visit intern.work for more.
Cooper Hewitt announces the winners of the 2023 National Design Awards
My experience dealing with Linux over the years can be summed up by the exclamation "oh my fucking god can you people just PICK ONE."

There are certainly arguments for why the variety of replacements for simple, old, well trod and tested system tools are improvement and yet my 20 year BSD installations get on mostly fine without them and I'd be hard pressed to describe what they're missing in practical terms other than very specific stacks like Docker.

If you live in devops I can see that being a big deal but for the service functions themselves there is something to be said for leaving minor things at "good enough."
Interview with sports data scientist on his day-to-day work and how he uses LLMs
The last time I checked, 33% of US healthcare dollars went to paying people at the insurance company and people at the healthcare provider to negotiate with each other.

One way to avoid this in the US is to go with an HMO, since they can be wildly profitable and still be much more efficient than an insurance company + independent providers. Of course, the problem with that is that non-emergency care from third-party doctors isn't covered by the HMO.

A better way to solve the problem is to go with a single-payer healthcare system, such as the one the progressives was proposing during the Obamacare negotiations. (As every other first-world country has done at this point.)
Yes, it's very disappointing, although not surprising. I'm especially sad that Rhythmbox is going to be unmaintained. I use it almost every day (and am currently using it right now).

In general I prefer GNOME and its utilities over KDE equivalents and use it extensively. However, much of the GNOME ecosystem is directly or indirectly supported by Red Hat, which has been a good steward historically. Now under IBM, this belt tightening seems to put that entire ecosystem at peril.

Perhaps KDE will prove to be a more resilient choice?
Spacelift co-founder here.
Not going to comment on the legal aspect, but I'm actually curious when it did become acceptable in polite society to say that "we just want to kill the competition".
Previous Discussions on HN: (25-comments - 2023-08-14) : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37122858
afaik you can't use terraform in the name, it's trademarked by Hashicorp
I enabled this feature a couple days ago and used it a few times. I don't see it as better than links to wikipedia. I already cringe at the way generative LLMs generate really bland text.

More importantly, the search quality is TERRIBLE. I was doing a search on my name to find some very old posts I made (circa 2000) and here's the generative result for [ konerding c++ string library ucsf] -- the generative result took TEN SECONDS to render and then spat out this (my name is Konerding and I am not a string library):

The Konerding string library is a C++ string library developed by David Konerding at UCSF. It provides a number of string-related functions, including string manipulation, string comparison, and string searching. The library is designed to be fast and efficient, and it is used by a number of UCSF applications.
The Konerding string library is available as a free download from the UCSF website. It is licensed under the BSD license, which allows for free use and distribution.
The Konerding string library is a valuable resource for C++ programmers who need to perform string-related operations. It is fast, efficient, and easy to use.
Here are some of the features of the Konerding string library:
Wow, never seen tome before but I built almost the exact same thing at my current company with the only difference being all the sub-commands run in a nix environment. Being able to share bash scripts in our monorepo by just creating a file at ./scripts/bash/foo.bash and calling it with 'my-cli foo' has been awesome. You can also set up runners so ./scripts/js and ./scripts/python works as you would think. Having everything inside of a nix env means all the tools are there and work across everyone's machines.

I don't have a solution for managing services though and that has been the one pain point after moving away from containerized dev envs. The cross platform network and service management you get with docker is pretty ideal. devenv.sh is on to something with their 'services' feature but it doesn't quiet fit the bill for us yet.
> What social problems was underground betting actually causing?

Underground betting funds organized crime.
Yet another reason we need a public option. The market dominance and collusion of this oligopoly makes this behavior so easy.
Transparency sounds nice, but in practice doesn't that just mean, "Teaching the bad actors how to be better at what they do?" Maybe that works for a giant like Facebook, but how can it work on a site with very few dedicated mods?

What about the experience of using this site would be improved by that transparency? Compare those pros to the known cons and make a case.
Additional details I wrangled for this rabbit hole. I don't think it's t.co doing this intentionally, but rather poor handling of 'do you have our cookies or not'. Everyone in this thread _proving things_ without taking into account the complexity of the modern web.

man curl
-b, --cookie <data|filename>
(HTTP) Pass the data to the HTTP server in the Cookie header. It is supposedly the data previously received from the server in a "Set-Cookie:" line.

----

Add that option to your curl tests.

---
$ time curl -s -b -A "curl/8.2.1" -e ";auto" -L https://t.co/4fs609qwWt -o /dev/null | sha256sum
eb9996199e81c3b966fa3d2e98e126516dfdd31f214410317f5bdcc3b241b6a2 -

real 0m1.245s
user 0m0.087s
sys 0m0.034s
---

$ time curl -s -b -e ";auto" -L https://t.co/4fs609qwWt -o /dev/null | sha256sum
eb9996199e81c3b966fa3d2e98e126516dfdd31f214410317f5bdcc3b241b6a2 -

real 0m1.265s
user 0m0.103s
sys 0m0.023s
---

$ time curl -s -b -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0" -e ";auto" -L https://t.co/4fs609qwWt -o /dev/null | sha256sum
eb9996199e81c3b966fa3d2e98e126516dfdd31f214410317f5bdcc3b241b6a2 -

real 0m1.254s
user 0m0.100s
sys 0m0.018
---
Show HN: I wrote 100 book summaries
Disclosure - I work for Disney but not in a decision-making role, I'm a nobody.

Yes, the company has been making moves recently that look exactly like any other company in the market rather than sticking to family values in all things. But the company is also structured like any other company - it's publicly traded and the CEO, Iger, reports to the board and the shareholders and has a fiduciary duty to maximize the share price, which contradicts a duty to remain family friendly or keep with Walt's express preferences. So, it's not mystery to me why this kind of thing happens, it's by design. Personally, I think the fiduciary duty thing is not a great way to make decisions.
Do not mix source code license with Trademark. Trademark use is focused by Trademark policy which is here for Hashicorp https://www.hashicorp.com/trademark-policy
An ominous confirmation of a massive and growing problem. Will the pioneering efforts of Guangdong province to cajole d employed youth out to the countryside be emulated elsewhere?
You’re not making any sense, you’re just trying to sound contrarian.
I don't.

There's a far greater chance of harm to society in general by removing the stigma and making it easy than there ever was by making it something that only happened on the down low. Nobody's lives are ultimately enriched by betting unless you win a gigantic jackpot, and even then there are negative issues with that.
That's exactly what I said.

>For speeds higher than 30 km/h the tire/road noise gets dominant and from there on the choice of tire is more essential to noise reduction.

City speed is 50km/h and EVs for some reason comes with loud tires.
I’m really not excited about JavaScript performance. You know what happens when everyone’s JavaScript performance improves? Webpages just add more JavaScript until it becomes just as slow as it was before. People won’t optimize on a large scale until we hit some upper limit.
The messiness of the real-world unfortunately doesn't play well with ambiguity in licences :)

It'll be a headache for every large company which now has to send the licence to their legal teams who have to ask these kind of questions (another interesting one is "can contractors touch our terraform setup?") - in fairness to Hashicorp they've tried to address some of these issues in their FAQ, but the FAQ isn't legally binding so legal teams have to go on what's actually written in the licence.
The biggest problem in the world today are anti-intellectuals actively fighting for a worse world purely on the basis of enjoying what they perceive as “making other people angry”.

Hilariously enough, nobody called anyone names till you started. So I suppose that makes the people you’re responding to the “brave and courageous people”.
Ask Roblox employees how they feel about Hashicorp products. Terraform is probably the most solid product they have seconded by vault, but after hearing the consul and nomad horror stories, I don't think I could take their products seriously ever, not when kubernetes is setting right there.
Things like insurance, payment processing, etc.

There is an entire world 99% of people aren't aware of. I'm grateful my eyes were opened to this world many years ago. I have never taken outside funding, I don't deal with investors, I don't deal with other partners. Just the same business partner I have had for 10 years. I've probably started over 100 projects at this point.
I think the explosions and fires would cause negligible deaths. The thing I’m worried about is starvation. If the grid goes down on large parts of the world for more than a few days, the cascading effect would probably mean most people just starve to death within a month. We have extremely fragile food creation and distribution systems.
Talc: A faster no_std and WASM allocator for Rust
> The play for the "developing market" and low-end devices was hopeless and misguided.

I don't think that's right. The developing and low-end devices are probably the only plausible route into the phone market. Especially during the time period that FirefoxOS was active, there was a tremendous opportunity for a phone that cost very little and was widely available. I don't know that FirefoxOS could have really addressed that market, given their software stack, but the market was there. Wikipedia claims 23 million KaiOS devices were produced in Q1 2018; given that KaiOS is a fork of FirefoxOS, I think that's a demonstration that the targeting was fine. 23 million devices is a small chunk of the mobile market, but it's still a lot of devices.

Microsoft was making significant gains in market share with WP7 and WP8 by having devices that were low cost and worked much better than similar cost Androids. In the US, you could go out and get a $60 wp7 device or a $100 wp8 device when they were new and have a much more usable phone than a $150 Android. and an iPhone was like $400-$500 at the time. Microsoft had some high end wp7 and wp8 devices too, but not many people bought them, because high end iPhones and Androids worked well, and at that price point you're looking for different things. WM10 had promise and interesting features (Continuum might have been pretty cool, especially if Intel hadn't dropped development of x86 phones days before the Continuum public demo), but WM10 didn't run well on low end phones, so there were no low end WM10 phones, and user growth evaporated. (It doesn't help that WM10 included at least the 3rd new framework for windows phones in 3 generations, and called this one 'universal', which meant it only ran on the OS which had the least number of phones for its whole lifetime....)
Strictly speaking, psychosis is more strongly related to excess serotonin, 'the molecule of stress and inflammation'. Doctors sometimes recognize 'Serotonin Syndrome' in their ER patients: "too much serotonin causes signs and symptoms that can range from mild (shivering and diarrhea) to severe (muscle rigidity, fever and seizures)." Usually the Serotonin Syndrome is caused by a combination of prescriptions, or street drugs.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/serotonin-syn...

All the effective anti-psychotics seem to have anti-serotonin properties, in addition to their anti-dopamine effects. For example: "there are also recent studies that 'stumbled upon' the 'shocking' evidence that anti-dopamine drugs commonly used for treating schizophrenia such as haloperidol are actually potent serotonin antagonists as well." - http://haidut.me/?p=1297

One of you quoted my essay Cargo Cult Psychiatry in a comment on Sunday, on a submission of Feynman's Cargo Cult Science. I responded, then thought to submit my link to the original at Mad In America again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37110874

This paragraph from that comment is essential for helping anyone diagnosed with the label of "schizophrenia":

"The good news from the mental health world is that Chris Palmer, M.D. published Brain Energy [0] last year. I haven't read more than excerpts from google books [1]. My understanding is Dr. Palmer was a conventional palliative psychiatrist, then he had a patient whose schizophrenia improved on a ketogenic diet. The patient was able to discontinue antipsychotics: Dr. Palmer's mind was blown. Then he discovered the 70+ years of research establishing that mental health conditions are metabolic problems that can be successfully treated with pro-metabolic therapies.

Perhaps the most bold and disruptive
aspect of Brain Energy is understanding
precisely how and why medications that
harm metabolism might reduce mental
health symptoms.

The long-term consequences are of great
concern and require the urgent attention
of the psychiatric community.

-Chris Palmer, MD - https://twitter.com/ChrisPalmerMD/status/1687850270602981376 [...]

[0] https://brainenergy.com/ / [1] https://books.google.com/books?id=FoxlEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT233&dq=B "
You and I have no idea how HN spam detection works - that's literally what you appear to be frustrated about.

Maybe they detect that the person is visiting from the same set of IPs and show the post even while logged out. (I strongly suspect that similar measures are in place to prevent bigco employees from mass upvoting their latest press release.)

Maybe they use browser fingerprinting somehow.

Ultimately it doesn't matter - dang et al. are going to do what seems to work for them to reduce their own workload and keep this place working as they want it to. If you don't like it there are many unmoderated forums to participate in.
Thank you for this. I skimmed it while on a call, and this seems like a really good breakdown. I look forward to absorbing it with my full attention later.
A lot of hip hop still has unlicensed samples in it but the slices just keep getting smaller and less recognizable. And believe it or not a lot of the samples in Paul’s Boutique were licensed. I do agree with you though that (maybe until recently as I think the price of sampling is softening somewhat with sites like tracklib) Paul’s Boutique would be expensive to release today.
Then there are stories like the Mark Ronson song ooh wee that he owns -25% of[0] because the boney m string riff took 100% of the publishing and Dennis Coffey drums took another 25%. So he theoretically lost money each play. Public enemy’s it takes a nation of millions to hold us back is another album that would lose money to make today.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ooh_Wee_(song)
Running out of disk space isn’t the operating system’s fault

> Then I had enough, whiped the whole thing and in 5 minutes installed the FreeBSD base system. A handful of binary packages and a couple of edits to config files later everything worked perfectly.

There seems to be some confirmation bias here. Is writing an iso, installing an OS, installing a “handful” of packages, and configuring everything not somewhat equivalent to the “messy” alternative of upgrading Ubuntu? I bet they were very close to the same amount of work, but one might have seemed like more, or more daunting, due to your experience and preference for bsd. Just throwing it out there

As for Ubuntu upgrades, apt-get update, apt-get dist-upgrade, and do-release-upgrade have always worked well for me, though I hardly ever do a major version upgrade and opt to do a fresh install after the first minor point release. If you were jumping major versions or a few major versions, of course packages are going to give you a hard time. I imagine a fresh install might have gone as seemingly smooth as the bsd route you took. Anyway, hacking is hacking, keep at it!
Understandable, but I think there should be some discriminating system for another class of sites, the "you can submit but not discuss" ones.

For example, a recent submission (of mine):

"Luis Buñuel: The Master of Film Surrealism"

it had no discussion space because (I guess) it comes from fairobserver.com . Now, I understand that fairobserver.com may had been an hive of dubious publishing historically, but it makes little sense we cannot discuss Buñuel...

Maybe a rough discriminator (function approximator, Bayesian etc.) could try and decide (based at least on the title) whether a submission from "weak editorial board" sites seems to be material to allow posts or not.
I wish people would stop trying to destroy a conversation that others clearly want to have.

I don't see any arguing going on here, just a healthy debate about free speech balancing while still deploying spam blocking techniques.

This is a political and a technical issue. It's a fascinating problem with no perfect solution (yet?)
They made the joke of having first typoed the name of the company as "Twatter", before fixing it up to "Twitter". Visualizing a backspace in text as ^H is an old joke rooted in the backspace control character being ascii 08, which also maps to Ctrl-H.

The joke is intended to be funny because "twat" is a vulgar and generally derogatory term, and the author almost but not quite applied it to either a large company or (transitively) to its users.

I hope explaining the joke made it even funnier!
Cancer is an example of a major health problem that can hit anyone irrespective of their habits (although also much more likely than not depending on their habits), and it hits older people a lot more often.
I needed a good laugh, thank you for that.

X is neither attractive nor is it a free-speech platform.