skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not MAGA or a troll, but you sure are showing a lack of kindness to others with your comment. I’m sure it’s unintended, but I don’t think showing off your egotism or distain for Americans makes your point better or encourage healthy conversation.

Aka, I would love it if you could help me keep HN from becoming another Reddit.

I agree that I would have loved to have seen the ultimate truth come out. I don’t think that particular situation is the best example perhaps, but the voting systems in the US have been repeatedly obliterated at DEFCON year after year.

It’s more that you can make terrible systems and discharge the concequences with a settlement that I meant to refer to.

But the way in which it immediately made the whole conversation polarize around political parties is also the point I’m trying to make. It’s so difficult to discuss the failure of the system because of the insane politics. You’re not even American (presumably) but you’re jumping in with a judgement about political parties and voting systems. That’s some pretty intense social commentary about how messed up voting in the US is.
You went very quickly from 1 headline to 'inevitably'.
Eventually medical science is going to arrive at methods that have potential to cure/create disease, novel organisms, synthetic organisms, etc. I don't think we want these methods pursued in a geopolitical vacuum either - like an arms race. It is inevitable and the only way to improve our collective chances of survival will be to co develop building codes, quarantine strategy, and agile attitudes to respond in time.
Just looking at new housing units is only half of the story. I can't and won't speculate on how many homes were torn down during the time it took to build 77 million housing units, but it had to be a significant number.

If two single-family houses were torn down to make room for one new-build, single-family house, then it is a loss of housing. Not to mention natural disasters, condemned housing, rural housing being torn down for farmland, urban housing being torn down for new highways. I do wonder how many houses were destroyed in that same timeframe.
Netflix's first live sports broadcast pairs up F1 drivers with pro golfers
https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/20/11975452/tesla-model-s-fl...
> messing up and defrauding ...

When you've created 20 shell companies, I think at this point you've gone beyond "messing up". Just like there's a difference between a crime-of-passion single murder and a serial killer.

Rehabilitation is another issue entirely. I really wish we had a system in place to make that happen, but we don't. Putting him away isn't about revenge at all, at least not to me.
Yeah, it turns out you don't have carte blanche to enact any form of vigilante justice you desire.
Apple is a very good example of how making user-hostile changes nets you money. Good point.

> Windows 12 requiring a subscription is only stupid if making money is stupid

Making money short-term at the price of making sustainable money long-term is stupid. Microsoft is not Apple, so if this really is their goal, I'm glad I sold my stocks high.
It is actively debated whether viruses are living
Can we stop using catchy marketing names for things that are *supposed to be* scientific results?

Choosing "llemma" (similar to Meta's "Llama") is just clout seeking.
> I guess they'll just get disrupted by companies that can then.

Or they'll make sure we never have more efficient cars, or cities designed around anything other than being in a car 24-7, like they have done quite successfully for the last 50 years.
Ah, post-edit.

Perhaps I misread you. If you are serious about this

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Speaking only for myself, if you presented to me objective, verifiable facts consistent with the existence of the chrsitian god, I would absolutely change my belief regarding the existence of that god!
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Then let me go from there. You laugh at Lee Strobel's work - too popular? Why? I can suggest Craig Keener's Miracles if you want to cover similar ground at an extremely rigorous academic level. Is that what you're looking for?

Is a link not good enough? A conversation can hardly do justice to a large topic, but I can sketch what you'll find if you follow the link.

But I am curious why you laugh at Stobel. I think he's pretty impressive. You don't?
No. But they are on-par for the most part. Often with better more 'featureful' software.

But have fun getting them repaired as they have even less infrastructure then Tesla.
Same, I would quit that job on the spot.
> I don't know the level of realistic risk for a devastating virus naturally occurring

If we assume it is directly proportional to the number of people (more people to encounter animals, more people to incubate potential pandemics), there were roughly 450 billion people-years lived between the Black Plague and the Spanish Flu and the Spanish Flu and COVID-19.

That would put the next zoonotic spillover around 2065.
You are making excuses for the being who I assume you claim is the literal moral arbiter of the entire universe. If the all-powerful god couldn't be bothered to say "don't own people as property," that alone is reason enough for me to treat him with disdain, especially when he _does_ make proclamations about mundane things such as which foods I should eat and which clothes I should wear.

I have faith (see what I did there?) that deep down you are better than this. Your morality has been corrupted by years of religious brainwashing. I'm going to stop engaging with you further. I seriously hope you are able to recover from whatever mental harms have been done to you in the name of religion.
By fitness stuff, I meant Fitbits and that kind of thing.

Personally, I very rarely go into a Best Buy. Yes, I might buy a TV or a major appliance there but those are very rare purchases. I might browse once a year to see what the latest wearable and Internet of Crap stuff is out there but I literally can't remember the last time I bought something at a Best Buy.
There's a difference between physical characteristics and fashion. You should not judge someone by their physical characteristics - by and large that's out of their control. Their fashion, on the other hand, is how they've decided to present themselves, and is absolutely fair game for judgement, especially for things like corporate headshots in which one is very intentionally choosing how they would like to be viewed by the world.

This fellow decided to present himself as something like a cross between a pickup artist and a street magician, which seems like it was pretty on the money.
I'd say Go maximizes the simplicity/depth ratio.
Weapons research obviously.
Of course if the transit providers did a better job (to be fair you're talking about years ago when this wasn't close to practical) they'd reject the announcements as bogus, no need for administrative punishment if it just doesn't work so nobody tries it.

Today RPKI means that machines can in effect authenticate the LOA, the same way your web server is able to prove it's itchyouch.example (or whatever) to a web browser, the real owners of 203.0.113.0/24 can prove to a machine they're the real deal and you aren't. Unfortunately there are still transit providers who don't do that, or have it set just to bring the discrepancy to the attention of a human.
Do you actually need GoF research to prevent animal spillovers? Did GoF research help us develop the COVID vaccines? Or does GoF research mostly demonstrate the risks of spillover? Because I think we're now well aware of the risks, and ought to avoid poking the bear any further.
You're saying the way the towns were inundated was typical and this was not out of the ordinary in any way?

Like, bruh: blowing up your pad and showering the surrounding area isn't cool.

It's not a surprise that this freaks out local residents. It's not a surprise that lots of freaked out local residents makes for a freaked out regulator.
On (taxes and fines on) 2 billion? That’s practically conspiracy-to-whistleblow territory. Get a couple coworkers to help you collect evidence.
Flipper Zero can be used to crash iPhones running iOS 17
Thank you for this insight — it’s very enlightening for someone outside of this professional area.
They are probably safer than a motorcycle, but you still need to wear a helmet and don't even think about splitting lanes. Also too low for serious street driving (unlike a motorcycle).
clearly Factorio
They also have a problem with older noisy 1080p sources. Badly upscaled to 4k and then bandwidth-limited it sometimes looks comically bad.

When I tried out the 4k Netflix option in early 2023 I found myself wanting an option to downgrade to their 1080p encoding for a few of the shows I was watching.

I was told Netflix hired really smart people for like 300-500k/year for the express purpose of avoiding stupid shit like this.
I'd say WordPress is worst in class for security, compared with all other software and all operating systems. WordPress even has a hidden folder for hackers to put plugins that will not show to administrators, unless you go browsing the file system! I've never encountered any worse software than WordPress for security and usability, and I doubt it is just because of it being everywhere.

It is amazing how much time and effort in the world that has been lost because somehow it became the standard.

Quality WYSIWYG editors and hosting tools will come back with a vengeance soon. As soon as austerity and efficiency returns to the economy.
Homogeneous coordinates as a mathematical investment in programming
What happened to letting the free market sort it out? /s

Electric vehicles are so great, so cheap, so universally loved - it’s inconceivable why one would ever buy anything else. And environmentally friendly too? Sign me up!
If i heard about a system that doesn’t have fraud I think “ yet” or “you probably haven’t bothered to look”
City Art Search – Rotating Desktop Backgrounds of Classic Artwork
You can [finally] find data on COVID death by age here. [1] Of the total 1.1 million US deaths:

Age Range : Deaths : Group Population as Percent of total US Population

55-64 : 159k : 12.9%

65-74 : 256k : 10.1%

75-84 : 300k : 4.9%

85+ : 311k : 1.8%

COVID was only especially dangerous to the extremely elderly, and particularly those with severe preexisting conditions. So for instance that 65-74 age group, you have about 34 million people, and only 256k deaths. Think about the numbers in that 34 million with cancer, severe diabetes, heart failure, etc. But then you go the 85+ group and with 1/6th as many people, ended up with about 20% more total deaths.

[1] - https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provisional-COVID-19-Deaths-by-Sex...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Sta... (for the % of population data)
“While the bar for affordability is low—one 748-square-foot property included in the report sold for $610,000 in 2022—“

Sorry, the bar is LOW?
Well yeah, specially if endorsed by Andeessen!

Who better than this selfless, always right, tech visionary. He is not about some shady hustle to make quick money.
A little bit of both, although, I think we've settled on "Algorithms" by Sedgewick. Thanks for the recommendation though!
What was he doing with the IPs? Reselling them?
Wouldn’t Google associate the word game name with goatse from now on because of page rank algo ?
They should already have enough control to implement what you describe without changing the game at all, unless the game is doing something to introduce latency outside the drivers control such as threaded rendering

I’m very interested to know what they did beyond standard low latency frame scheduling, and why it required hooking into games to the point of triggering anti cheat
Somehow you seem to think that "giving a highly-critical code review" requires "being a dick" and you're just wrong. Actually, the not-dick code review is a lot more impactful than the dickish one. The dickish one just makes people want to quit instead of getting better.

I cannot fathom the internal mindset of a person who says "I'm being a dick, which I know is cruel and bad, but it's okay because of <various political and social factors>". The "knowing it's wrong part" wins! That what it means for something to be wrong! It's still wrong if you rationalize it!

And that's before the fact that it's also worse at its actual goals, like preventing bad code and maintaining community and giving valuable feedback.
Author here — the original data structure is basically the plain state you'd get by implementing these CRDTs. So I agree that the original data structure uses a lot of space, but I also think the post is broadly representative of the type of improvement you can get if you started with a naive implementation.
I think it's pretty crazy that they found chemistry that can be driven by positrons (as opposed to just subatomic reactions)
There's a lot of bullshit in this space. There isn't enough lithium in the world to move everyone over to electric. 80% of grid still runs on coal so it's not clean either. I'll also head for heavy duty towing electric is not where's it at, and forget EV 18 wheelers.
The simple truth is gas is a precious resource and we are wasting it. We need more public transportation and more sane use. Notice I didn't say EVs. They create another set of problems.
There are five million Teslas on the road. Here we have a story about a single Tesla with a flooded battery compartment.

This sort of issue happens on every type of car. It's not routine that a Ford F150 has a cracked block that leads the engine to hydrolock, but it does happen, and Ford doesn't cover the damage 8 years later.
It's their only competitive advnatage if they want to make money off their "AI art".
Income taxes are silly but they keep a lid on the entrepreneurial spirits of rich wagies which the wealthy like.
The photo gives off RapGenius founder vibes (google their photos for anyone not around for the time when the tech media proclaimed that site was going to be the next big thing).
The 'Man the Hunter' Myth Won't Go Away
It's great that Glibc documents its POSIX violating behavior very well, but it doesn't change the fact that it violates POSIX.
You’re exaggerating my claims and won’t answer for your own.
Yeah, great site. I really liked the old 2.5 version tho.
I have it mirrored locally :)
At this point are there any that don’t also have huge problems with blackmail and extortion? It’s like being the weakest pirate on Pirate Island. You might have a bad time.
Give me an example and I will test it for you. Navidrome in docker, Symfonium player on Android.
There is no equivalence being "being mean and cruel" and "telling people they're doing a shit job". You can always tell someone they're doing a shit job in a non-mean and non-cruel way. In fact it is more effective.
Just did a code review where I wanted to let loose. But lacked the confidence plus practically I knew it would just poison relations to be expressive like this
If it's about productivity at all costs, then let's just go back to 12 or 16 hour days, 6 or 7 days a week.

PTO is a "fringe benefit". Factoring it into productivity levels is orthogonal, as its goal is to increase desirability of the employer, not to ensure "maximum output per employee".

That's what I'm saying - productivity per employee doesn't change. They still make the same widgets/hour on the line on hour 1, hour 35 and hour 40 of their week. The company just employs 1.1 people to run that line full time (well, 40 hours a week, leaving aside 24/7 ops for the sake of simplicity) rather than the mathematical minimum 1 person.

> Paying someone to stay home, and then paying someone else to cover them, reduces productivity of the factory because it requires more total labor to produce the same number of parts.

Maybe it's the pedant in me as I approach an MBA program, but while there are multiple definitions of productivity, in industry it's usually an expression of the output as a factor of input. And generally it's the equipment that's the limitation. A factory whose equipment can produce 200,000 widgets/year can still only produce 200,000 widgets/year, even if you have twice as many employees working 20 hour weeks, i.e. productivity is the same.

"I work just as hard, I just don't work as much."
> The legislation could be a major benefit to senior citizens on a fixed income who often can’t afford to move, whether because of high interest rates or capital gains taxes incurred by selling a long-time home.

A group that is extremely small - and we pretend like every grandma in the world lived in a little cottage in Hollywood that's now worth $3m - and whatever would she do if she had to 1031 into rental properties and live lavishly literally anywhere else in the world.

We have to think about all the poor multi-millionaire grandmas and not the current generation that can't afford to own a home and start a family - which is a looming demographic disaster.

It's fine if your kids can't afford to live where they grew up. But it's not fine if grandma has to take a $3m windfall and move to the mountains, or Mexico, or Europe, or literally anywhere.

Have your cake and eat it, too, grandma.
I actually know exactly how I am going to acquire those 10m users.

LOL good luck with that.

At that scale, the technology stack is the least of your worries. That billing issue that affects 0.01% of customers? At 10M users, that's 1000 instances of the problem!
I've had a lot of fun with the concepts and setting of the Gantz series. Gantz:O in particular is a blast of a CGI movie. The story devolves into nonsense, but if you stick it out it's an absolutely bonkers ride through the end of the Manga.

The tech in the series is also really creative in terms of ideas, aesthetic, and the risk-reward built into many of the items. There's some really iconic imagery in it that sort of starts from how the "teleporters" work.

https://youtu.be/HViJXK3DOLc

The anime and live action movies are "ok" though.

It has a weird way of kind of worming its way into your brain and leaves you always wanting more.

Be warned, parts of the media franchise are very NSFW.
If pricing your product is so complicated that you need an entire separate product to manage it, you are probably indulging some MBAs in their own make-work projects too much. Non-transparent pricing is a huge red flag to potential customers.
BIK rate on EVs is 2% in the UK & there are probably a lot of finance/IT types in Edinburgh who were happy to funnel their income into what was effectively a half price car if you were a higher rate paying consultant. For a while Tesla was the only real EV option available in any kind of numbers.
I upvote submissions I think are good in the hope that they get more readers and and increased number interesting comments.

I upvote comments that I think are particularly interesting and downvote comments I think aren't worth reading (criteria: factual errors or inflammatory language/positions, like blatant racism).

Comments I disagree with (e.g. somebody claiming distributed blockchains or crypto currency have some sort of value) I just ignore (I have never seen such comments combined with racism, so wouldn't downvote).
Today in niche requests:

Does anyone have pointers to streaming electronic music (ideally trance / progressive trance, upbeat synthwave[0], or house) that has absolutely no vocals?

I listened to a lot of no-vocal electronica back in the 80s but I can't find anywhere to stream it now, even just as a long playlist on Apple Music or Spotify, without a vocal track being dropped in. Vocals are fine but I like non-vocal/just-electronics tracks upbeat music as ambient or to listen to while zoning out.

I emailed SomaFM and di.fm to ask and they have one stream apiece that mostly fits the bill but maybe there are others out there?

0 - Upbeat because I know about "lofi beats to study by" and that's a bit too slow for what I'm after. :)
> Why would you want to use NAT with IPv6 though?

I imagine it being far simpler for the average person to adopt IPv6 without much research if all of their current firewall rules, including port forwards, work exactly the same as they did with IPv4. You may not need those port forwards without NATs, but do you trust the firewalls on your servers to disallow accessing other ports from outside your local network?
Not about median. About absolute probability. In europe whats the probability as a policeman to run into someone who is armed with a handgun. I imagine it's very low. In american is still might be under 50% but even if it's 15-25% that's a lot of cops that are 'caught bringing pepper spray to a gunfight'.
I don't mean to say that surveillance stopped necessarily but I thought that the thought of having a police state such as it was in East Germany or in other Eastern European countries would have vaccinated the world against those tyrannical tendencies.

It's little bit what we have now with respect to nuclear weapons, where we have used them twice and decided to not do it again (so far).

I just cannot fathom that someone is genuinely ok with having their worst secrets and their deepest fear out there in the open being sorted and analyzed by some black box algorithm who may or may not start an investigation against them because they said the wrong thing or shared the wrong image.
> In this comment you're going much further than Linus's review being discussed, which doesn't contain any personal insults.

well... no...
Catchy marketing names is all you need
I'm not clear why he needed to use fake names and forged signatures? Couldn't he just create legal LLC's in various states (Nevada is a good one) which don't expose the entities owners and use those to purchase the IPs from ARIN? Rinse and repeat.
But property tax already exists, so apparently that regressive nature is fine. And middle class people mostly own land that’s been improved. It’s unimproved land that would be taxed much more with a land value tax. I don’t think it’s obvious which land owners would pay more or less - it depends on the structure of the tax and the relative value of their land vs the improvements on it.
As you point out, ITAR refers to "US Persons", and "US Persons" explicitly allows permanent residents, lawfully admitted temporary residents, and refugees. "or who is a protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)"

...

(3)“Protected individual” defined
As used in paragraph (1), the term “protected individual” means an individual who—
(A)is a citizen or national of the United States, or
(B)is an alien who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence, is granted the status of an alien lawfully admitted for temporary residence under section 1160(a) or 1255a(a)(1) of this title, is admitted as a refugee under section 1157 of this title, or is granted asylum under section 1158 of this title;

...
Your joke really flips the meaning of the lucky 10000. Nicely done.
Setting aside most of a 5,200-word piece to instead cast essentially tone- and mood- based objections against a 49-word aside is a good example of the reflexive negativity-bias & nit-picking that's inherent to the "mass demoralization campaign" Andreesen perceives.

In the passage Primack criticizes, Andreesen names some of the euphemisms he associates with "bad ideas of the past – zombie ideas, many derived from Communism, disastrous then and now – that have refused to die".

These are abstractions, with lofty labels, that now provide overdue-for-reexamination rationalizations for the sort of stagnation, statism, bureaucracy, gerontocracy, corruption, & cartelization he decries.

Those loyal to the particular activist-campaigns & shibboleths that Andreesen calls out were unlikely to be on-board with his level of optimism, anyway. So letting those people self-identify, & disassociate from his ambition, helps his cause. He's not trying to win a faculty election among the bien-pensant of narrative-control.
> isn't enough lithium in the world to move everyone over to electric

Source?

> 80% of grid still runs on coal

30% globally [1], 11% in America [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_cons...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States