skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are confusing “alien” in the sense of “not from our solar system” with the green dudes with big eyes. I think his argument that this meteor (IM1) was not from our solar system is pretty compelling.

It’s not “evidence of aliens,” it’s evidence of extrasolar origin of this particular meteor.
it's value proposition looks exactly the same as it did before because literally nothing has changed
Porn man, they're going to use it for porn, alot of porn, like, a gigantic shitload of porn, things you can't even imagine. Things have been spiraling around the drain for years now, remove the 'people' aspect of it, and you now have something where a large number of people's objections to it are completely removed. The studios stand to make more money, because there's no actors/crews/locations/etc to pay, and they don't have to deal with any of the management associated with those things as well.

Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of research to suggest that porn consumption is absolutely terrible for your mental health, but without the "that poor woman" ex-pornstar to sit on daytime TV and talk about the horrors they experienced, it's not likely to go much further in terms of regulation, which is going to make sure this sort of tech gets adopted there first.

It'll absolutely get rolled out into hollywood eventually, it's just that there's so much infrastructure in place to already do everything this does, I can't imagine much will change all that quickly.
Python was supported by Google, one of the most successful and influential startups in the world. Some good web startups supported ruby on rails but none even close to the size and engineering output of Google. Python was embraced in academia and so became the leader in machine learning also partly influenced by Google putting out and supporting top tier libs like tensorflow. Python was embraced more by hackers than Ruby too and became leader in cybersecurity tools though Ruby has some use still notably with Metasploit. When I was first choosing which language to focus on as a fledgling web hacker it was between Python and Ruby for me too and I like both languages. I chose Python due to Google support which proved to be a good choice at least for job opportunities and good open source libs in the fields I care about.
When nuclear power works, it’s a beautiful thing. when itgoes wrong, it’s humanity’s worst nightmare.
Attacking and maligning people is kind of Kiwifarms' whole deal. Plus maybe a bit of stalking thrown in for good measure.
Absolutely false. We are in no way a 'bulletproof' hoster. You're free to review our IP subnets in use and compare them to actual bulletproof hosting providers. We actively and swiftly remove users engaging in ILLEGAL activity, such as malware, warez, etc.

We're an American based business, registered in Wyoming, and abide by American law. No 'bulletproof hoster' is going to setup shop in America.

Archiving what other people do and say online on and making fun of them on a forum may be mean, but it's not illegal.

With that said, we host many types of clients, including LGBTQ organizations. Privacy and speech is for everyone, that has always been the stance. Our policy is and will remain to be neutral on content, so long as it abides by law.
I've worked extensively in production services with both of them. I learned to hate both.

Ruby stupid symbols vs string make code super error prone. Symbolize? Wtf . Also mutable strings are a minefield.

Python semantic spacing is stupid, its bullshit and I've spent crazy amount of time fixing stupid "bugs" that a pair of braces and Ctrl+k F would fix in a second. Also why isnt there a freaking string.length function? Why a len operator? Why not a height operator? Or weight or whatever? Inconsistent.

Their late coming to static typing is soooooo funny . Apparently static typing is not that bad (having had to maintain a huge ruby system would make you WISH it was in some static typed language... even java)

Also isrubyfastyet.com ?

Anyways, both are ok , but I wouldnt build large systems with any if them.
Just moved there from Zoom, what a nasty suprise these days that I need to register when I wanted a meeting.
Yes. You're not understanding that

Banning someone from your private establishment is within your rights. If they want to run their own business they can elsewhere.

Banning someone via an ISP is different because ISPs have so much infrastructure they can in some sense be considered a "public utility". Nothing would stop someone from advertising ritualistic kitten killing in a public park (except maybe indecency laws but those vary). Likening an ISP to a public park is more accurate. If someone posted a sign saying "no one convicted of smoking weed can walk through this area" you'd rightfully be accused of some civil rights violation in your park. Similarly, ISPs are a conduit no different than a park path.

Everyone chooses KF or whatever as an example of "bad people that should be stopped". That's great. No one disagrees. Anyone with more than a room temperature IQ sees where it goes though. Suddenly you won't be able to access things that don't conform to the government issued public opinion. Don't believe me? The Great Firewall is exactly the same technology.

It is legitimately not my problem, nor the ISPs, who is doing what on the big internet. We have existing laws. Use those to prosecute people posting kitten killing videos or whatever. We do not need to have ISPs using AI and shit as precognitiion to censor what they deem to be "unsafe speech" or whatever.
The site is literally about stalking people and documenting their personal lives for the sake of mockery. The users are cartoonish villains, and I'm not sure how you'd get any other impression after spending a few minutes there.
It's not the greens that fucked it up. They had a plan in the 90s which was supposed to transition to a renewable grid. Conservatives ruined it and had been in power for the past 16 years. The current rushed nuclear exit is solely their fault.
> 4. We know about Grusch's testimony because the Pentagon cleared it, where "it" refers to what would be the single most significant military secret ever held by the government of any country.

Source for this? I haven't heard that one before.
> The footage the team shot was in the stolen camera, so the story never aired

Next time they should have streamed it
Are you suggesting that there aren't lots of astrophysicists (and, ffs, astrobiologists) studying this already? SETI is a thing!
Ask HN: Is it possible to measure developers productivity?
I've interacted with older developers and according to them you can't measure developers productivity.

There is always a way to 'game' the system.
I read an interesting article the other day. It was about the Freedom of Information Act. We now take this for granted, but getting it passed was a huge ordeal. It dramatically strengthened the accountability of government and gave citizens one of their strongest tools available. It was, unsurprisingly, vehemently opposed by both major parties and nearly every form of the US political establishment. It would eventually go on to be passed in 1966 after an extensive campaign in support of it.

Anyhow, the point. Check out this [1] snippet, which was published as part of said campaign. More important than the snippet is who it's written by. A young exceptionally popular congressman from Illinois by the name of Donald Rumsfeld, who was also critical about the senseless US involvement in Vietnam. His is a name, which if happens to be before your time, would later come to be synonymous with the Iraq War, US ABC agencies torturing people, and of course the complete fabrication of evidence to justify the invasion Iraq.

And he's not especially unique. I think it all comes down to a simple problem. Imagine you happen to be pro-choice. If I paid you $10,000,000 would you become an advocate for pro-life? For the overwhelming majority of people, the answer there is going to be yes. But of course you and I are relatively irrelevant, so nobody's ever going to really try to change our values. But if you or I gained power, such hypotheticals suddenly become entirely real. For a man to be surrounded by such possibilities, yet remain true to his own values - he's going to need to be rich enough that people can't afford to bribe him, or some once in a millennium Aurelius like man of true character.

[1] - https://acsc.lib.udel.edu/files/original/edbab7cd2d0e82f8e19...
Niagara (Ultrasparc T1/T2) did the same thing. CMT8/SMT8 seems to be a sweet spot for these kinds of barrel processor-esque designs.
NSA, part of USA government[0]

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_Group
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Not really, you just ask for a credit card.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker_hypothesis
We evolve from animals that manipulate the world with their mouths and use their forelegs for locomotion. I'd expect that using hands to manipulate things would be in some way tied to our mouths, it's not surprising to me.
Tracking is a core competency for VR headsets. It could also be used for AI-assisted video production, which is the bread and butter of their advertising platform. Users generate videos, and with more powerful editing tools they can churn out more interesting content than TikTok.
ChatGPT is the black box that is pushing the buttons of the calculator for you. You don’t learn maths or programming with this service.

If the calculator is broken, I can still work slowly but I understand what I do. Without experience, you can’t understand what the black box is giving you.
I think some reports and testimonies are classified and under closed doors, right?

Might be more substantive stuff there, though I'm not sure
> No version of OS X has drivers for the Wii

But the XNU kernel is open-source, so -- in theory -- one could write those drivers.

Classic Mac OS is much less open, and less well-documented. As far as I'm aware, there's never been any successful third-party attempt to "port" it to new hardware.
> Avi Loeb, head of the astronomy department at Harvard.

He stepped down as chair a few years ago.
do people here consider comment moderation to be online speech policing? Seems pretty clear that there are certain things hosts don't want on their platform

there's an economic bottom line where advertisers drive a lot of the need as well. users themselves aren't paying for the service.
Yeah but wasn’t Grusch at the NRO investigating UAP? Seems like whistleblowing on UAP is within his domain expertise.
Good for you. Keep your SSO login. Nobody's asking for it to be removed. But, your SSO login isn't going to be affected if email login is added, would it?
I doubt it was intentional, but you're very right that the old laptops had terrible thermal design.

Under load, my M1 laptop can pull similar wattage to my old Intel MacBook Pro while staying virtually silent. Meanwhile the old Intel MacBook Pro sounds like a jet engine.
The freedom of speech is a guarantee to the people that they may exercise free thought and expression and not be subject to the use of force or fraud against them by any party, whether a state or private actor. The use of force or fraud against someone for speech you dislike does not magically cease to be a civil rights violation by virtue of being applied to someone you personally dislike. Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of history is well aware of intrusions by actors public and private to suppress speech that threatened their interests.

Put another way: All men have a natural right to the freedom of thought and expression, and no one cares what dead old men thought when they drafted their particular laws. This is about what matters to us here and now. The proletariat has a need for public debate free of interference from the bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie-adjacent. Period. Full stop.
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KF is an irredeemable cesspit but so is Twitter and so is Tumblr, if you know where to look.

There's no difference between what progressives do freely on Twitter/Tumblr and what Farmers do. KF worst actions are only possible because they amplify their harassment of targets by using "woke" optics on twitter to draw corporate backing and media attention against their victims.
where are they attacking and maligning the user? they're clearly stating important background information for readers
or ask other apps to draw for them.
Pity there wasn't enough port capacity to offload LNG in sufficient quantity to replace the pipelines.

Plus the even larger carbon footprint per unit, which European countries do care about.
Which is fair if you don't like your job or don't get intrinsic satisfaction from making more money/increasing your lifestyle.

If you're working full time and struggling to put food on your table, that probably means you're trapped in one of the various poverty traps or financial spirals like healthcare costs that plague this country. These are very hard to get out of and telling ordinary people to just be the kind of extraordinary person who can escape that situation is not just utterly useless but also counterproductive. We point to the folks that have either through extraordinary skill or effort or luck gotten out of those situations and use them to justify perpetuating broken and exploitative systems that trap people in poverty and debt by claiming that clearly people can get out. "Just take a look at your debt" is among the most infuriating things you could say to someone in that situation. Oh it's that easy is it? Just "look at my debt"?

Ive gotten enough exposure to the flip side, the lender side, of these stories to see how we (meaning literally the people I went to school with) deliberately engineer these systems to exploit you. You're not just "looking at your debt." You have to escape a system engineered by Yale lawyers and Wharton mbas and internet grifters and psychologists and marketers and financiers and salespeople and mortgage companies and private equity (who owns your land, hi appolo!) and Berkshire Hathaway (who owns your mobile home) and hospital administrator and so so so so many other people
I like how they referred to it as “halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco” like it was just in some random field, as opposed to being in San Luis Obispo, which also has Cal Poly.
If that were true there wouldn't be companies in Open Source.
I thought somehow the animation was playing "by itself," but I guess it was accomplished by holding down the '.' key? The font code swaps a run of N dots with the glyph corresponding to the Nth frame of animation.
Isn't a decent amount of spam blocked without our knowing? Telecom companies work to prevent spam phone calls, YT/Twitter/FB try to block bots or spam accounts - all that happens without users consensually blocking each account. Most people don't even realize how much "speech" has been blocked that they don't even see?
which collected $1.5 billion in property taxes in 2022.

How are you arriving at that number? Looking at Kern County's budget:

Property related revenue of $477.1 million primarily consists of funding from property taxes and is projected to increase by $16.5 million, or 3.6% from the FY 2022-23 Adjusted Budget. This is primarily due to an anticipated increase in the assessed valuation of properties within the County.

From: https://www.kerncounty.com/government/county-administrative-...

Or some years ago:

In 2016, property tax revenues from oil and gas properties were approximately $40 million, or 12% of the county’s discretionary revenue.

https://archive.revenuedata.doi.gov/archive/case-studies/ker...
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For what it's worth, I have come around to really enjoying the more recent versions of python, and it's what I'm writing most at the moment, but I totally agree with you here. I don't think of python as being explicit and having only one way to do things. I think that's a pretty inevitable result of trying to both add new things and also keep older things for compatibility.
Watch out: these probably contain the Black Oil.
https://x-files.fandom.com/wiki/Purity
What is a growth engineer? First time hearing that phrase.
"Measuring and Managing Performance in Organizations" should be a must-read for everyone tinkering with measuring, and how this has second order effects.

Too many companies focus on productivity and throughput instead of impact (of their features). So they produce bad features faster and faster.
I wish they'd rather petition for real right to repair, instead of selling screwdrivers and full PS4 Slim Optical Drive assemblies, but not a single sheet of schematics.

I guess that would look very differently in the eyes of the companies who recently became their BFFs.
Okay Mr. English, trivial may be defined as unimportant / trifling but if you're gonna label something like that then you have you consider why you're calling it unimportant. Still seems you're saying it's cheap, easy, and undoable. It's not.

Abstraction building is _consequential_.

> If you don't do that first "one go" how do get around to right abstraction?

Right back at you: how do you get the data about how to build your abstraction without first living without one to understand what parts of the system should be abstracted? Starting with the abstraction and assuming you can fix it later is a luxury for overstaffed teams and people working on systems that nobody actually uses.

You do realize, abstractions incur mental load on your users? Have you ever tried to use internal tools built ostensibly for your use case, only to find that it's taking more time and effort than if you lived without one? It's happened to me so many times, and the consequence of adopting a shitty abstraction has burned me so many times personally that I'm gravely aware of the downsides.

Consider a streaming data tool that stupidly allowed users to put arbitrary data in a string field, which became abused for purposes it shouldn't have been used for -- now it's critical to the company and would take a YEAR of dev resources to retire, all the while being an endless source of headache and P0 SRE escalations.

Consider an ML evaluation tool that requires you to understand how a bunch of leaky abstractions nest together. When you finally figure out how it works and it does 1 thing for you (generate P/R curves), it becomes extremely difficult to modify or debug without again understanding these horrible abstractions. Once you've spent a full quarter adopting it, you wish your team had just written something custom-but-maintainble instead of trying to get shoehorned into a tool that clearly wasn't thinking about you, and whose owners have left the company leaving you to absorb the cost.

> But doing no abstraction is just as painful -- you just pay for it differently.

It's less painful in the long run: doing no abstraction to start is often the right path. People often overrate the benefits of abstraction and underrate the clarity of repetition, especially when the repetition is trivial.
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Probably a lazy implementation that they farmed out to the lowest bidder
Of course it's possible, though without evidence it's baseless speculation. I'm pretty sure the Kiwi Farms is protected by section 230, so unless the owner was personally involved in these threats to life (which I doubt) what reason would there be to keep them in the dark?

Only Matthew Prince can shed light on the truth, but if he hasn't by now I doubt he ever will.
The boat has been towed out of the environment!
I didn't remember, so I had to Google: Forgejo is the recent Gitea fork that itself is a Gogs fork. To save some people some clicks.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34011581
Me too.. learned it in college.. use CGI;

It was fun.
Similar services are used for sharing revenge porn, so I absolutely believe it happens with CSAM too.
The real reason python won in my opinion is it has been a default install on most linux distros for decades. A ton of the groundbreaking ML research (especially in the 2000s and 2010s) was done in government labs and DoD settings where it is extremely difficult to get external software approved/installed, yet there was python sitting there already installed on every single DoD Red Hat machine. So a lot of research code ended up getting written in python as a prototype and then improved with C++ in the speed-sensitive bits, and before you know it, Python = ML.

Being a default install also has a lot of barrier-to-entry advantages in other settings, particularly in academia where there are similar (but usually not nearly as strict) bureaucratic restrictions on installing things, etc.

source: was a DoD computer science researcher focusing on ML for several years and witnessed people reach for python because they were still waiting for months, sometimes years for whatever software package or language to be installed / approved by security/IT and had no other dev tools
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Python's clean, obvious syntax is what drew me to it. They actively decide to not do things because it detracts from the cleanliness of the syntax. Very often, less is more. My biggest fear is Python might be forgetting this, which I see with the sort of things like := operator, etc.
I’d be interested in the subscriber breakdown between the Standard Plan and Professional Plan.

I’m in my first month on the standard plan, 20 days in, and I’m at 287 searches. I will have to start paying for additional searches later this week. The 300 limit feels just a little bit low for me.
In what way is Python a titan? It's a nice enough language & I've done real world projects in it.

Lua is simpler and, with LuaJit, much faster and far more C compatible.

C is still very widely used and generally comes above Python in the "best" language lists.
Multiple iOS jailbreaks--both by comex--were buffer overflows of the virtual machine stack due to bugs in how a few instructions were handled in freetype's implementation of true type font hinting. The resulting exploit was embedded in a PDF file (which was itself deployed by a website), but that was just a convenient way to embed the font and trigger very deterministic hinting: the bug wasn't in the PDF renderer, per se (though I imagine a lot of people were confused on that front in the popular press about the issue).

He open sourced the exploit concurrent to the website going up, and it was immediately adjusted for use against different targets (including FoxIt reader or something like that on Windows), and as freetype was used by a lot of Linux distributions in addition to iOS I imagine it was used in a ton of malware (which might or might not have been "high profile"). I actually use those vulnerabilities as a case study in the ethical trade offs of open source weaponization in my talks.

(There were two such jailbreaks, as there were/are separate implementations of two similar yet slightly different virtual machine versions, each of which had bugs that I remember to be related to the same fundamental mistake; and--as you can read about in another big thread on this website today, most developers think coming up with difficult abstractions isn't worth their effort and would rather fix things by playing whack-a-mole.)
No one cares. This is class warfare. The proletariat needs the right to engage in debate free of interference from the bourgeoisie and bourgeoisie-adjacent. You're not going to win anyone over by saying that the law doesn't provide for that. Hang your laws. The natural rights of the proletariat should not be up for negotiation.
The "sandbox" is just some compile time check.
As soon as you play with raw pointers, everything breaks down.

A good experiment, but nothing useful. Maybe the author can generate some new ideas from this.