skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess many saw it as a stable business that wasn't trying to "expand and grow above all else", so they felt relatively safe. As soon as it got sold, the perceived safety went away, so they started organizing so they could start to feel safe again.
Not so fun fact: Wind turbine fires are much more common than most people think.

I have no public source to quote but someone from the industry once told me that in Germany alone there are about 50 turbine fires per year.
Pure speculation, but there is a large North Korean methamphetamine trade. Allegedly, per escapees, many North Koreans use meth for purposes of work enhancing stimulants and hunger suppression.

Perhaps these slaves are being doped up to focus on the work?
Kinda Content marketing for another POSIX on S3 product, though I like the API interception vs FUSE approach. I'm curious how you get performance with object store latency without sacrifices unless you're intermediating. Other solutions typically run at least a fast metadata service.
I don't know but I did buy a powerful black light to check my packages.
Wouldn’t throwing tantrums and threatening to violate NDAs over petty cash just undermine their entire spying operation?
I think it's just traditional, understated British humour.

C.f. Python's type system.
Also anyone who runs JavaScript, since they work across processes.
4) Use a different search engine. I use search.brave.com myself.
I agree, but at the same time it’s just the flip side of the term “job creation” so can’t blame them.
>and it will take at most an hour or so.

And that's absolutely insane. That's tens of millions of man hours per year spent essentially on rote data entry of data that the IRS already has so that you can submit it to the IRS for them to check against their copy.
I think string builtins seem to be the direction the wasm committee is moving towards anyways? Unless I'm mistaken
Why do some of the most highly-paid people (actors) join a union and join the picket line? Even if you are high performing, joining up with other workers increases your bargaining position. Why did Steve Jobs join up with Adobe to stop poaching when they were highly sought after work places? Because even if you're a behemoth, you can be stronger in a union.
That’s almost certainly nothing related to location detection so much as it is the VPN block of IPs being marked as less trustworthy. Then there’s a cooldown on a flagged account that stops you even after disconnecting.
Novels with a meandering world-building focus (e.g. LotR) are like a polar opposite and the most boring genre fiction in existence.

> as if it is leading to some shattering conclusion, and then it just doesn't

This sounds like another way of saying the story was fast-paced and engaging, and you didn't find the conclusion to feel like a "climax" with explosions. That's ok (notwithstanding that there was a big fight and all), but I think in "idea-driven" books like this it's just as well to leave things ending either strangely / unexpectedly, slightly unresolved or whatever. It's hard to put a bow on a story that can't really have a happy ending. Weird stories should have weird endings.
the implication would be that amazon is not responsible for the sale of bombs unless someone complains that they explode
I guess there are some ways the ethereum network can cease to exist, when that happens there are probably bigger things to worry about
Yep, the alert went up at 10:19 UTC instead of 10:19 PST.
That’s 3:19 am PST.
Woke me up with a loud voice. Kinda scary but worked as an alert
> They do very much plan to open source Mojo.

They do very much claim to plan. There's a bit of difference.
> the entire concept of paging and virtual memory is built around the concept of not letting one process see what the other one is doing... If we’re to say that you don’t need isolation, we could just drop paging and every process just have a view of every other process.

This seems to be moving goalposts. It's like saying curtains were built around the idea of not letting one person see inside a house, so the moment IR sensors (or Wi-Fi or radar or whatever) start being able to see in the house, everyone might as well just remove their curtains.
> just wants to use all of basecamp data for its "AI" business

Which data specifically? The music itself belongs to the artists and labels, which leaves us with the user activity data, but that must be acquirable much cheaper with larger amount of data elsewhere. Also the data would be tailored to indie/electronic music, rather than applicable to pop music, so the usefulness of even user activity data seems kind of low.
People typically use their messaging app for that.
> Behind the scenes, when an application performs an operation, it gets intercepted at kernel level by the Pulsar BPF probes, turned into a unique event object and sent to the userspace.

It would be nice if we could dereference pointers in eBPF. I think this is maybe a thing soon? I know that landlock is doing something there, I believe with eBPF + LSM.

Anyway, this looks very cool and interesting. The FOSS instrumentation space is not amazing right now but the underlying capabilities are rapidly improving. I'm quite excited for this generation of tools.

edit: Ah nice, and it's in Rust. I hope that that's the future for eBPF and userland agents - performance, stability, and security are critical for this domain.
Vehicle registration is done by state agencies.

I would not expect that all the data in 50 states' (plus additional territories') databases end up reflected into a federal database today.
Viewing on mobile.

Not sure what I see. There is no content, nothing clickable.
Just decode bencoded strings and integers and some comments.

What's the point?
Are they into the joke, knowing that this is comedy, and are playing the straight man? I can't imagine a normal person not laughing in utter disbelief.
Searching for Kinky Kids, a Japanese boy band since 2000s, would trigger a warning about sexualization of children.
I would love to see the inverse: page of nonauthoritative sources.

The authorities release fake news in a way that makes it sound legit. I would rather follow the independent sources with the understanding that they will conflict and I will be able to evaluate the many different points of view to develop my understanding. The best place for anti-authoritarian sources now seems to be Rumble.
> Free market doesn't mean breaking laws and violating social contracts.

You mean like firing the union bargaining team or laying off half your workforce?
> Doesn't Protonmail decrypt at the server? That is, can't Protonmail read your encrypted messages?

It doesn't decrypt them server-side, but since they're the ones serving you up with the webmail interface, you still need to trust them that the webmail code doesn't do anything nasty it shouldn't actually do.
This is mentioned as a point of comparison in the article. Rhodes scholarships offer more value in terms of money, greater connections, more students, and still doesn't produce unicorns like this.
Besides the fact that you can typically get the big 5 to correlate with anything, it seems like the researchers built a rather biased estimator since their data was only taken from Twitter and crunchbase. Simply stated, there is a world that exists beyond technology.

Also, since the big 5 traits are supposed to be more or less stationary/immutable, then this study would imply that you simply do or do not have the ability to start a successful company no matter how motivated you are to do so.

One day soon, data mining psychologists may even be able to show that free will does not exist.
>They just cause confusion and hide true cost of things.

Hiding the true cost is the point. Or rather, altering the true cost to incentivize something or other.
Do these require a specific software to be able to print or can they take anything and just print? Like, is it a regular driver, could I connect to this brother printer from my iPhone?
Converting PC Disk Drives to Amiga
> the government (in theory) has no idea what someone earned

The government gets a copy of your W-2 and 1099s.
I was absolutely floored when I realized Fuches and Milton are the same guy. Terrific actor!
At the very least, during periods when interest rates are significantly above your mortgage rate, such as now, you should put it in a money market account instead of in your mortgage. It's the same amount of risk, but it's liquid. Really, you could do a long term Treasury bond for the same reasoning (same risk, same liquidity).
Musk, Thiel, Zukerberg, Larry Ellison and their respective company along with Qualcomm. To the point for a number of years ycombinator wouldn't even mention Thiel or Musk at all. Things only got back a little easier in the past 12 months or so.
The probability of getting caught multiplied by the economic value of the consequences of getting caught is the only thing that matters in business in the US. If that number is zero or close enough to zero, then the activity is effectively legal.
How is having every transaction on the blockchain considered private? If someone knows your wallet address they can see everything you've done
Bullshit jobs before they were labeled Bullshit jobs.
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Frankly, this whole thread is evidence of that. There's been a meme since before Intuit existed that tax prep in the US is akin to performing brain surgery on yourself. I do have enough oddball schedules these days that having an accountant is almost certainly a good idea but, honestly, I piggybacked on my parents' accountant for many years when I probably didn't really have a good reason to.

A lot of people have just convinced themselves that getting a Turbotax update or going to the H&R Block booth at Walmart is just one of those annual rituals you have to do if you're sensible.
Yep, I had been building them up during peace-time when I had idle-fascination about the conflict.

In this case, most of the reliable sources are operational intelligence pages, and people who have done on-the-ground reporting near the Gaza border before.

The minute the news broke out, their reactions were that of confusion. Israeli rockets don't have large fire balls. All major Israeli strikes come with roof-knocking, this one didn't. The Hamas HQ hospital was the other one, so if they were going to lead with genocide, they'd have chosen the other hospital. They asked their audiences to wait and see because the stories weren't lining up.

I have a pretty strong set of alt-sources I trust on specific topics who get things right on issues in their field with a high degree of accuracy. Many of these are PhDs and professionals in the field. They are alt-sources in so far as they don't work for media houses. But, they are certified experts in their area of choice.
Would that make Nim package repositories be called "shrubberies"?
Maybe first check if the area is ruled by gangs.
- you are prodigious in some area, and higher education would be a waste of your time versus self directed work and study

- you are well connected and affluent, with an implicit path to success already laid out, and higher education would be a waste of your time versus just leaning into the nepo

- you’re stupid and want to cope and seethe about it
I was talking about the time when people made the transition from VB6 to the web.

There was no single language back then. Node.js wasn't even an idea at that point.

And regardless, you've still got to learn HTML and CSS and often SQL.
Why do some groups of people today have more Neanderthal DNA than others?
"A new analysis of ancient genomes is deepening scientists’ understanding of the Neanderthal DNA carried by human populations in Europe and Asia — genetic traces that may have medical relevance today."
If that's the best it can do, meh. It's already legal in what, 40 of the 50 states? Sure, not at the federal level, but that'll happen sooner or later.

Plus, I think the vast majority of people pay for it without cypto as is, no issue.
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His work he did gaming Tripadvisor to make his shed the best restaurant in London was hilarious.
There's definitely some internet rule out there that states as soon as users can submit artwork to some publicly visible forum, racism and nsfw imagery will show up.

Thanks for this project though, it's pretty neat :)
I noticed some fake reviews for a business on Google Maps recently. They were giving high ratings praising the service they received yesterday etc. I knew these were fake because the business has been closed for renovations for months. I tried to report them but Google only allows specific options, like “offensive language.” I tried their “spam” or “unrelated to this business” option, but they went nowhere. Not surprising since there’s no ability to write in additional information in your report.

It seems Google doesn’t want to receive feedback if it affects their bottom line.
One of the Biggest Box Office Bombs Ever Is Now Netflix's Most Watched Movie
> mindless drones who suppress their own ambitions and interest and toil away until they die

I... don't think European youth culture is exactly known for that?
> Teachers are unionized here and are one of the most powerful political forces.

I cannot even imagine what sort of lens you'd have to be looking through to identify teachers as "one of the most powerful political forces" in the United States.

Certainly the awesome political power they wield hasn't helped to increase salaries (compare them to any other credentialed profession requiring a college degree), or prevent charter schools from eating away at public school funding, or to restore some of the pension benefits that were taken away in the eighties. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32542324 (I am delighted to report that the "Nobody wants to teach anymore" comments are up to 666 points exactly at this moment in time)
Is there a word play in the title I am missing or what do you mean? :/
> Hamas' policy of intending to kill all Jews

There is no such policy. Hamas's founding charter calls for an Islamic state in the whole Palestinian territory, so in that sense it calls for the elimination of Israel.

> then all Palestinians are also legitimate combatants and targets in the conflict

Hmmm. "All Palestinians" are not reservists in the Al Qassam brigades; but nearly all Israelis are either serving in the IDF, or they are reservists. And it certainly looks as if all Palestinians are treated as combatants by the occupying power.

Also, since Hamas won the 2006 election, they have not adopted their founding charter into their political programme; it's leader has stated that the founding charter is a historical artifact that cannot be changed for "internal reasons".

> The Arab states DGAF about their Palestinian brothers

The states don't; they care only about money. But their people do, and those states are bracing for trouble on the streets. And note that Jordan, in particular, has issued passports to a large part of the West Bank population. Jordan may be an Arab state, but it's not like the oil states on the arab peninsula.
It might just not work for you because Monty Python don't do punchlines. They just dial the absurdity to 11.

There is some element of surprise, but rather at the beginning of a scene than at the end of it. Then it's a matter of "how far can you take this situation", e.g. a knight losing all limbs and still claiming "it's just a scratch"
(Sorry for the spoiler but it's been 48,5 years...).

Part of it could also be missing cultural context. Taking the same scene as example, it's a comment on the British "stiff upper lip".
Extending isn't the right word. You're applying for a completely new one, often with a different bank. The common options are 15 year and 30 year terms. The new one pays off the old one and if it's structured you can even get extra cash out, though that may increase your interest rate.
First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe
regardless, kindle books can be cracked. not the easiest thing ever, but it's doable. cracking ADE books is much, much easier. i crack all my ebooks because otherwise i can't read them in my ereader
> I really do not understand the push to provide higher-level features as intrinsic types and instructions

As mentioned in the article, the purpose of WebAssembly is not to provide the lowest level instruction support possible but to be a good compilation target. Not having a string type makes targeting WASM GC more complicated and the runtime less efficient.

> By putting it directly into the instruction set, you'd be baking in assumptions about how JS engines in 2023 function, even though those assumptions can (and hopefully will) change over time.

The stringref proposal does a good job of balancing the world we exist in with the "right thing", IMO. I implemented a subset of it for an interpreter hosted in Guile Scheme, using Guile's string type which is very unlike Java/JavaScript (not UTF-16), and it works well. I'd like to see the proposal get more support.
I would like to think that even if the IRS were to send me some numbers, I'd still spend an hour or so checking them against my own information.
PyTorch recently added support for JIT compiling numpy code[0]. And then there are libraries like Numba[1]. I wonder how Mojo compares with exiting OSS Python JIT libraries like these?

[0]: https://pytorch.org/blog/compiling-numpy-code/

[1]: https://numba.pydata.org/
The problem with POSIX file APIs are the semantics in the presence of multiple concurrent writers. Object storage (kind of) gets around this because you can't really have multiple concurrent writers to the same object.

Another classic example is that POSIX does not specify what happens when one program opens a directory stream and starts calling readdir/seekdir and then another program adds entries to the directory. Does the first program get entries in its stream for those members? Who's to say, that's up to the file system implementer.

I don't actually know if S3 guarantees that if a new stream is created with ListBuckets/ListObjects that the stream will return any new bucket/object created before the stream is closed by the client. Are those semantics defined, or is it left up to the implementer too?
RDP should be architected around, VPNs are fine just not _commercial VPNs_, and verified working locations here isn't about making sure you're always working from 123 Foobar street but about making sure you're in the country you say you are.
I was wondering why noone had started a bandcamp alternative as I read this article. Bandcamp isn't a complicated product. It's the people and content that define its value.

If trust and goodwill are eroded, then the platform loses its value.

Glad to see an independent initiative in this space.
What if it was as seamless but also managed everything for you. Can send you a link to try it out if you like?
Millions however have seen an actual one, or so they say.
Cory Doctorow explains it. First you provide good value to customers to build your business and destroy competition (even losing money if necessary). Then, you provide good value to partners (e.g. vendors) at your customers' expense to get them locked in. Then in the final stage, you start extracting the value from those partners so that value flows to neither them, nor the end customers.
Can confirm, recently saw all the dick etchings in the wall in Pompeii
What is there to explain? This statistic says something about the military capability.

What do you believe it says? I think by total numbers underline that the side with more military capability does show restraint. Most conflicts are way shorter with way more deaths.

Since 2000 there were over 10,000 rockets fired at Israel. It is not because of the lack of trying that casualties in Israel are that low.
I was over 40 when I someone explained to me that "kaaa-nigt" was just a strange pronunciation of "knight".
Early Europeans ate seaweed for thousands of years
Why couldn't they be from trucks from other shipping companies going to the Amazon warehouse, or from other distribution centers presumably located in the same general area?

I think people may be under the misapprehension that only Amazon trucks leave bottles of urine on the side of the highway. This has been a practice for many, many decades. And not just commercial drivers, either. The word to look up is 'trucker bombs'.
Mmmm, I know rattlesnakes are said to be a pretty good meal. I wonder if pythons and boas taste any good. Those big snakes might make a delicious feast.
That’s just insulting to the intelligence of their potential users (presumably, smart ML engineers that can see through that gimmick of a benchmark)
> The music itself belongs to the artists and labels,

As if not owning the data has stopped AI companies in the past.
That department should upgrade to a modern LLM which would do a better job than many humans in understanding the context of python and pandas.
Oh no :-( Anyway...
I seriously doubt they would do it like that.

For the next year or so, BOA can borrow at 100% nominal value for ALL of their US govt debt, so they are basically guaranteed to survive for a year, regardless of what anyone does.

Probably what they would do, if BOA were to fail, would be to let it "pretend fail", where they essentially just replace all the senior officers and CEO(and all their equity goes to zero), and then give the new management team a big fat loan to help them get back on their feet.

There is very little chance that the FDIC would let BOA get swallowed up by another TBTF bank, that would be letting even more concentration into public banking, something I don't think they want. Even if we are way more diversified in banking than every(?) other country.

There is zero chance they would swallow it up and become a bank themselves like you are suggesting.

SVB failed because they were incompetent people running the bank. They had no risk management dept for a long time before failure, and had no diversification of any kind. When they saw the writing on the wall, instead of trying to deal with the problem, they tried to play Ostrich. Their equity in the bank went to zero like it should.

BOA has a risk management department, and they are working hard to keep the lights on. I'm a BOA/ME customer and am not worried.
Yeah, the JS String Builtins proposal is an alternative to stringref. Having experienced some of both, I think that stringref is much better.
Tax prep firms should market themselves as software to audit automated IRS tax calculations.
It feels more like rclone mount to me. The files are indexed in place and things it provides a pretty interface. That being said a little effort in creating a friendly rclone setup wizard would lap this VC funded app pretty quickly.

Question: does any one know of an existing RClone setup wizard that is for people who are afraid of the command line?
There's also a copy of the livestream on Twitch [0], for those who are blocked on YouTube.

[0] https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1954769913
How do I dm in hackernews? Please tell more. So that everyone can learn from you. I want to get OSCP.
True Marxism is called that by /
the extreme left. /
Occasionally the true left calls /
a spade a spade and tells the left it’s right.

https://www.opera-arias.com/adams/nixon-in-china/libretto/