skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't use my card to buy bitcoin, that's the point. You've got the attention span of a tiktok addict.

Yes, so instead you have to risk your life to meetup with a scammer each time to convert your cash into magic beans, definitely sounds like the future of money, better pray they aren't armed.

Crypto ATMs are also not private and shutting down starting with the UK and other countries. This is all due to KYC / AML requirements, pushing you to inevitably do the above.

So sad that you and other bitcoin / crypto bro advocates have to go through and contort yourselves through these desperate ordeals just to get bitcoin which we all know isn't even private and can still be tracked.

> How do you pay for a cash ransom when someone is holding you hostage?
> Oh wait, you can do it normally. [1]

Answering your own question because you know you can't answer mine is a nice deflection.

Unfortunately for you, your family and businesses, crypto ransomware is on the rise and using cash won't cut it.

So 'paying it normally' when the scammer explicitly wants you to send crypto quickly to them is a stupid answer that will destroy a business.

> uH... oK dUdE [oNe][tHrEe]

It's great you're showing the sum of all your reading comprehension skills.

Because since you only read news headlines, the SEC v Ripple case isn't finished at all, then again I wouldn't expect crypto bros such as yourself who can't look away from speculative crypto prices to understand that.

No matter how hard you try and cut corners or ignore it, crypto will be brought under regulations, the US is just slower than most other countries.

As for crypto itself, crypto has no use case that hasn't been already solved or made better by the current financial system.
And yet you can only install through the AppStore on iOS.
I do something similar, but slightly different.

I don't separate short and long term projects, at least not for folders(Most short term projects wind up just having a Keep note and not much else anyway).

I also have a "Clients" folder. If I do something for you (Even if I'm just doing a favor for a friend or something), you probably get a folder, all projects I do for you go there.

Maybe I should try real Areas.

I wonder if this approach would apply well in physical space. I'm always trying to find new ways to manage objects.
For years, Google Groups supported Usenet access.

Usenet faded because it wasn't monetizable, outside of subscription based binary providers (who were in large part turning around and pumping that money into the legal defense funds, because they were primarily servicing the swashbuckling community).

The platforms that are actively used are codependent. They demand you use them. They send you emails when you haven't logged in in awhile. They foment opposition just to keep you engaged, so you'll view their ads.

Usenet, on the other hand, lets you use it, if you feel like it, assuming you know where to look.

The only sort of people who would use Usenet would be those that make decisions for themselves, rather than doing what the marketers tell them. It never stood a chance against this sort of opposition.
I think you misunderstand the origin of hacking. It's not about breaking into systems, that's cracking. Using an SDK to program a watch is definitely hacking on the watch. The media are generally to blame for this miscategorisation.
This may be a little off topic, but does anyone know of high resolution public domain datasets that can be used as basis for the rendering of the Earth's surface? Normal, albedo, etc.? Do they even exist? I know Nasa has some but what I found was tiny (100k res images and such are really low res when we're talking about the entire planet).
Haha, SWF is indeed unreasonably good (although it does something very differently and with a lot more processing power). Although I think in large part because I do no dimension reduction and brute force the cosine similarity calculation with raw 10,000,000 dimension vectors like the programming caveman I am.
Sometimes chatgpt fails at tasks like counting number of a letter in a short string or checking if two nodes are connected in a simple forest of 7 nodes, even with chain of thoughts prompt. Human can solve those pretty easily.
There is one interesting force acting against that though (or it would probably already have happened). It is the simple fact that most people that are competent enough to actually implement these things also understand the problems with doing so. For the most part anyway. If we could just agree to not do that... well, what are "they" going to do?

And of course: we owe it to the web to use Firefox. The Chrome clones are only stalling; not counteracting the impending monoculture even one bit. It doesn't matter how fancy their marketing is.
Not much longer.
A good number of your bullet points are factually incorrect and inflammatory. But to reply in the style of Blow: what have _you_ released in the past ten years to talk all this smack?
We need a new philosophical movement for computer technology.

The Stallman movement failed because it was not practical for business applications. At the end of the day, coders & hardware manufacturers need to eat just like accountants, plumbers and doctors. Technology can't rely 100% on altruism.

What we need is something close to the Ethical standards of the Stallman movement, but also compatable with business owners.

These philosophical ethical standards should also be ingrained into VC culture & corporate culture.

The reason why Apple can propose to have something like CSAM, or Google banning someone account forever (Gmail, YouTube et al) because they had images of their naked daughter suffering from a skin disease (to be sent to the doctor).

The reason is that there is no ethical-philosophical compass guiding computer technology.

Tech Corporate MBAs only care about "playing it safe". I find them disgustingly spinless.

Until we have this ethical-philosophy developed, I only expect technology to used as a tool for manipulation and control.
Presumably into Morristown Municipal Airport?
Hard to complain about free, but overall it feels a bit .. unpolished. On Ubuntu 22.04 jammy you can't change the font reliably
The only literary concept I see there is 'interiority'. All the rest are perfectly ordinary terms that you could look up in a dictionary.

I think 'interiority' here refers to an interest in the interior psychological deliberations of characters (which you won't find much of in Tolkein).
I do not think this is a typo. Tolkien is very old school. Many people today do not share his opinions and world views.

Most old books, movies... were subverted and reinterpreted today, just look at starwars or Witcher. Huge corporation spend billions just for an opportunity to defecate on Tolkien's grave. But his legacy seems to be resistant to this sort of damage!
What are the fundamental limits of language itself? Is English somehow more "emergent" than Korean? Isn't this more interesting than the actual execution mechanism?

The business of these new LLMs is next token prediction with context. This is also now a mission because it clearly works to some large extent. Where most would not have been willing to take a leap of faith prior, many can see some path now. I've been able to suspend my disbelief around language-as-computation long enough to discover new options.
Some bamboos grow a meter a day. It's also a good way to bioremediate nitrogen pollution, they should really do that in places like The Netherlands where excess nitrogen from livestock has become an issue, but I don't know if the weather is compatible with bamboo. Some grasses that can be used for paper-making could also be an option.
Yes, coercion of any kind is anti-capitalist, yet you advocate for coercion by the state.

No coercion (voluntary transaction, no state involvement):
"I'll sell you this widget, but only if you agree to bring it to me for any repairs." "Ok."

Coercion (state intervention):
"Hi, I see you are about to sell your widget to that other guy who would like to buy it, knowing only you can perform any future repairs. If you go ahead, I will use the full force of the justice system to punish you, up to and including death."

I realise this is unrealistically ideal. The language is very important to get right though. You are advocating for coercion for the common good, not the absence of it. The state is impotent without violence, you don't need to shy away from it. State == force.
Not in the EU soon, thankfully: https://www.techradar.com/news/ios-17-app-sideloading-might-...
Kimilsungism–Kimjongilism
Melisa Raouf: Going make-up free in the Miss England final
> The Stallman movement failed

Citation needed
So explain how?
This never stopped Facebook from being Facebook.
> This rather heavily begs the question what do we mean by "freedom"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
Ok, so let me be a bit more concrete: I do _not_ want to work with or have to maintain or use the software of people who claim of themself to be "good programmers" who are "able to handle manual memory management" (and similar) any more. Yes, of course there are exceptions and I'm not saying that John Blow isn't one of them and I also don't know if the formulation is his or of somebody else (as I don't know anything about him or his games). But the problem is that now people are drawn to the language to "proof" that they are "good programmers".

> Pretending it's only valid to acknowledge these differences in others but not in oneself is irrational.

I do hope that we can agree that people are way better at assessing others than themselves - in both ways, under- and overestimation of their own capabilities.
Really good point. Shouldn’t have included that conditional statement.
To answer specifically about D, I think Blow considered it and couldn't get past the garbage collection (this is mostly inferred). As a matter of fact I heard of Jai through a presentation of Walter Bright's, so I'm pretty sure was definitely some back and forth between the two.
Just don’t bury it: <https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/476-the-loss-of-our-sinistar-...> <https://crzysdrs.net/dv/victim/484-you-ever-resuscitate-a-de...>
A complete zero? What other brand associations are you immune to?
To expand on your idea to compare with the "real offline life"... While anonymity should not need to be a top-priority goal in and of itself, you also don't see people running around with their id-cards taped to their foreheads for easy access.
A hyperplane is a multi-dimensional linear function that splits space into two distinct regions. In the context of a classifier, it splits feature space into disjunct sub-spaces (one for each class). SVMs effectively place a hyperplane with maximum margin, thereby separating classes in an optimal way.
If the country participate in global trade, I don't think it can end corruption by itself without violence.
I've found it disappointing for some multithreaded/multiprocess CPU heavy workloads as Apple's cooling solution doesn't keep up and begins thermally throttling down to the rough equivalent of maybe just a 2-Core CPU.
It is possible that the author meant "cannot" as "should not", but I doubt it.
How many applications, phones, computers do people use that are Stallman compliant?
Ask HN: Why has no company explored a phone with an ALON screen?
Aluminum oxynitride, also known as ALON, is a fascinating material with some impressive properties like high hardness, optical clarity, and resistance to thermal shock.

And it presents an intriguing option for phone screens due to its remarkable properties.

However, several challenges may deter its adoption. Firstly, the material is expensive, which would drastically elevate the phone's cost. Secondly, its heavier weight could compromise portability and require a larger battery, complicating design and increasing expenses. Machining ALON is also problematic due to its hardness, introducing complexities in manufacturing. Additionally, its suitability for capacitive touchscreens is uncertain, potentially necessitating an extra conductive layer that could impact screen clarity and touch sensitivity.

Despite these challenges, the concept of an ALON screen has its merits, particularly its near "unbreakable" nature. Such a feature could captivate a niche market that seeks super-premium, ultra-durable phones, akin to luxury vehicles with platinum finishes. However, considerable hurdles remain, including high R&D costs, complex manufacturing, and the need for market validation to justify such a venture. As a specialized offering or a luxury gimmick, an ALON-equipped phone could be intriguing, but it would require a bold company willing to invest in the technology and a consumer base willing to pay the premium.
If the excuse is true and the "ornate" language really is a dense representation of information then it should be fairly trivial to have an LLM agent unsummarize it.

There could be a webservice that offers a parallel track of layman's translations of any paper.
What's up Python? New packaging proposal, Python in Excel, a piano in the shell
Yeah, chrome and google in general are the first in line to cause problems.

There are many browsers, many apps, many everything... you can switch whenever... but the DRM and attestation pushes with browsers (and mobile devices) means, that sure, you can use a different browser, but your bank, your streaming service, your newssite might not work unless you're using chrome with drm and hardware attestation. This is already true with many banking apps, where you cannot even start the app on a rooted phone, a phone with an unlocked bootloader or even just a phone that's "not on the list".

So yeah... google is the silent killer of the "free interet" and te world happily follows... sadly.
So why is it that UPI has gained more usage in one country than crypto has worldwide in a short space of time?

Even MPesa has more usage than crypto has in more countries since it was launched around the same time that Bitcoin was released.

Even with all of this, cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin having sluggish transactions per second causes those to just use centralised systems such as UPI.

Those in crypto circles keep heralding the phrase 'banking the unbanked' but it seems that those people in 'unbanked' countries have built a better system than crypto was intending to solve in under 10 years.

It stands to question crypto's relevance in the first place as a means for payments (not speculation which it is mostly used for)
Important topic, absolute garbage article. It's more fiction than facts and 1. on hn ofc because the headline sounded nice. I get the intention of exaggerated fiction and landing on what is happening now or before but that's propaganda 101...FUD at its best. Disgusting.
They forced people to upgrade the full operating system when they ever so slightly changed Notes' format recently. I shudder to think what it will take them to support Markdown.

(And yes, I use Notes for everything :) )
> This content is not available in your country/region.

Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20230903010428/https://www.kron4...
Thanks and interesting. You can use your reply to find similar inventions, but completely impossible for me to judge on sense.

"I've been exploring the applications of p-adic analysis in quantum mechanics, especially as they pertain to certain non-locality behaviors. Do you see any parallels with the ultrametric structures often discussed in number theory?"

"Given that the moduli space of Calabi-Yau manifolds serves as a geometric foundation for certain compactifications in string theory, how do you feel these spaces relate to Mumford's conjectures in algebraic geometry?"

"From the perspective of the Atiyah-Singer index theorem, how can one reconcile anomalies in quantum field theories with the corresponding invariants in differential geometry?"

"Having delved deep into Donaldson invariants from gauge theories, I'm curious how Seiberg-Witten theory refines our understanding of four-manifolds, especially with respect to their intricate interrelation with Kähler metrics."

"Connes' non-commutative geometry framework has intriguing applications in the spectral action principle of the standard model. How do you think this might tie into L^2-invariants in non-commutative topology?"

"I've recently been examining the applications of S-duality in N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory. This led me to wonder how the Langlands correspondence in number theory might shed light on these dualities."

"The Gromov-Witten invariants provide deep insights into enumerative geometry via string theory. How would you contrast their behavior with that of the refined invariants in the presence of stable pair theories?"

"I've been intrigued by the relationship between quantum cohomology and Frobenius manifolds, especially as they relate to singularity theory. Could you explore their intricate ties to the Verlinde algebra?"

"Given the connections between Chern-Simons theory and the Jones polynomial in knot theory, how would you interpret the ramifications of the Reshetikhin-Turaev invariants in 3-dimensional quantum gravity?"

"While studying loop quantum gravity, I came across some parallels with the Tamagawa number conjecture in arithmetic. How do you think adelic structures might impact our understanding of space-time quantization?"
I would love to put them in the same category as the other two. In fact I’ve spent quite a lot if time thinking about it / experimenting. Wouldn’t it be great if we could somehow train on data and get a small Turing machine instead of a huge neural network?
Thanks, and yes, I didn't think about closures.

Talking about closures, I also don't know why Jai needs explicit capture lists. In C++ and Rust I understand the need for them, because you have various ways to pass them into the lambda, but Jai doesn't seem to care, at least in the examples at https://github.com/BSVino/JaiPrimer/blob/master/JaiPrimer.md....
To be honest, I also don't see how this is different from just writing the function definition by hand, just in more than one step and you have to throw away the intermediate versions?

Btw. I just replied to say that I really like your username, I have noticed it just now :)
I thought that part was just a joke.
But how would you create engaging internet content around that.
This is the core problem. A person should be able to refuse attempts once he understands the goal. The problem is not technology, but the obfuscation through it (and privacy policies, lobbying).
>What do you think about the M2 compared to PC options

The same age old question. You have to compare every aspect of it. i.e Not a Full size tower PC. If you buy the same PC at a similar size, similar cooling potential ( e.g NUC ), including Thunderbolt 4, WiFi 6E, for $100 more you get integrated 10Gbps Ethernet, and the Apple Silicon Mac mini still has the integrated PSU. You will find the default config to be similar if not in flavour of Mac mini. But as you soon as you add more memory and SSD storage, very early in the upgrading options it goes the PC way.

That is ignoring the Software Experience. Most people buy Mac because of the Software or macOS. Or they are an iPhone user with so they prefer an integrated ecosystem. But that is obviously not what you are asking.
Yeah that's my biggest problem with calibre. I could live with the rest, but I want to be able to have my own directory structure
More travel chaos after 300k hit by cancellations
Admirable effort!
That's why ordinary users they pay for Windows. And iPhones. They couldn't be bothered with "you should learn to compile arbitrary programs from source for the particular version of a particulr linux distirbution with particular library versions and available software".

In all fairness I, as a programmer, couldn't be bothered to do that either.
Writers work for publishers. If a publisher writes misleading headlines, causing your work to be devalued, don’t work with them. If you keep working with them, you’re financially benefiting from and thereby complicit in their deceit.
I think it's not up to us, the peanut gallery, to judge what any particular developer spends their time on. It's worthwhile to Blow, and he is very vocal that he is developing the language for his own use, not for anyone else. If you keep that in mind, maybe some of the choices around how it's being developed will make more sense.
You can buy the book and then download it DRM free from Anna's archive. That's what I do with the Remarkable tablet.
I can relate to that comment.

I have been on the internet for a while, and I always loved online communities because I did not have access early in my life to resources that I was interested in, and those communities gave me a sense of belonging and intuitive resources that fulfilled my life.

While this was great, for the last 6 years I have stuck to nurturing small communities with no more than 20 people because even gated communities (especially big ones in Reddit and Slack) are not fun anymore.

Several behaviors that I noticed in those small communities were:

- status game with participants receiving attention and dictating the "discourse" more based on social status than content

- Safeticism: tons of artificial rules that contradict even local and national laws

- Tons of non-contributing people are shitting on the water and pushing great contributors away.A lot of great contributors are leaving, creating the dead sea effect on the community.
Is this GPT-3.5 or GPT-4?

I have not experienced GPT-4 hallucinate like this which is also why I think Bing Chat's claim about using GPT-4 is a blatant lie. Bing Chat hallucinates a lot.
What's BSL?
> was envious of others whose parents had taught them this

My parents tried to teach me but I wouldn’t, and throw the grade cards and other achievements at them- and they stopped trying after a certain age (twelve/thirteen).

I also get pleasure from achievements in my job and learning.

Trying to learn from your peers is a good idea. I will keep it in mind.
After reading the first few paragraphs, I searched for the letters OED in the story and it does not appear.

To be honest, urban dictionary does everything this author wanted. Any 18 year old and up knows that if you want the right insult (or the right descriptor to a sex act you want to propose) you gotta use the right vernacular.
To me it's just absurdist humour, like Monty Python.

I use Emacs and this video doesn't reflect my experience at all. (I use Doom Emacs, and stuff Just Works.)
There are two ways for a foreigners to use UPI.

1. If you are from one of G20 countries (for now, will expand to other countries), you can get a prepaid UPI digital wallet at the airport where you land. Just go to the money exchange counters and enquire about this. Airport information desk should help you as well. You don't need an India phone number or India bank account. You can load money into this prepaid wallet via your foreign account or credit card etc. You can use your passport as document for KYC purposes. This is most convenient for short visits. The UPI app issued will be by some forex company. When you leave India, whatever Rupee balance in the app will be refunded to you at the airport. The UPI apps that are most popular with Indians (GPay, PhonePe, PayTM) won't work for this.

2. If you are not from G20 or you are going to be in India for longer than a week, you are likely to get a local phone number. You can get a local prepaid phone number sim at the airport. Then, you can open a bank account in India, tied to that phone number. This account type is called NRO Rupee account – Non Resident Ordinary account. This entire process of opening an NRO account can be done at a bank branch physically or online via your mobile phone. Once you have that bank account, you can use any UPI app like any Indian does.

See:

1. https://www.indiafilings.com/learn/opening-bank-account-indi...

2. https://rbi.org.in/scripts/FAQView.aspx?Id=16

3. https://wise.com/in/blog/upi-international-transfers
I agree. This website seems like a campaign to show that "apocalypse" is coming.