skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Setting up a non-profit is not that difficult[1], especially if you're doing educational work vs say politics or NGO type work. You start with a "regular" LLC company, and then ask the IRS to certify it as a non-profit. An attorney that has done this before can probably set it up for $10 - $15K, less if they give you the friends and family rate. You could make it an S-corp which is a bit more complicated and might cost more, and for this purpose would be overkill.

Generating a grant is harder. I went through that process when I was working with IBM to fund some research at CU Boulder on machine learning work that was aligned with IBM's Watson research at the time. As the comment lower down in this thread indicates the University sets its own rules and takes its own share of any monies "donated" for research. The person you want to talk to is the University President and then probably the Provost. The President can point you to the right person and see that they are willing to take a meeting with you about your proposed grant. My experience is that professors will be very enthusiastic the University somewhat more reserved. My experience with CU Boulder was that the politics were pretty intense/petty[2]

My take was that the net amounts end up needing like 3x that is base grant to get what you want to give the professor something. Numbers that are still in the noise for very high net worth individuals but a barrier for less endowed individuals. The good news is that your non-profit can run fundraisers and bring in donations that you then funnel to research. This was something suggested to me as a way some people want to fund something but want to put a bit of space publicly between them and the funding. The non-profit has to report who donated (over say $5000) and how they spent their money, but it doesn't have to "connect the dots" directly so to speak.

[1] I happen to be the Treasurer of one which gave me an opportunity to see how they work in California and what's involved in doing the taxes :-)

[2] Silly example, the Department Chair was blocking any grant for an Associate Professor in the department unless it included a separate grant for a different professor in the department.
Sorry but no one needs more cargo cult science.
yes, he understands that, he's saying you would not make it past the screening; you anecdotally fit into his "false positive" category.
The only benefit Terrence Tao has received is in correcting syntax. He has mentioned that he has gotten (in my opinion better) benefits from talking to existing Lean4 specialists.
I wish you well, but it sounds a bit like generalizing some SF-specific problems to the whole CA. I live in a boring suburb in the East Bay, where commute is horrible, but there's zero human feces on pavement, no homeless tents, and my high school kids have no problem taking a walk (or bike ride) around town at 11 pm.

Of course, suburb being suburb, it's not good for the environment (you have to drive to get anywhere), and it's boring as hell. YMMV.
They were talking about changing out engines for the planes, not the fuel.
> That doesn’t alter the point that he’s still responsible for the things happening in his name.

There's case law on this matter actually, coming from the trial of King Charles I.

> The court challenged the doctrine of sovereign immunity and proposed that "the King of England was not a person, but an office whose every occupant was entrusted with a limited power to govern 'by and according to the laws of the land and not otherwise'."

So no, granting the Royal Assent doesn't happen in the name of King Charles III.
What's going on with Anduril ? Isn't this literally their product market fit?
Who would win, the space industrial complex or one shiney balloon boy?

Given the other comment about this below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38044638), I'm surprised this hasn't been done sooner though, I wonder if there's some missing downside?
It’s closer to a spin of Fedora than a completely different distro because it uses Fedora silverblue with some options about what should be installed by default (including drivers).

Different desktop environments are available, but gnome is the default.
Hopefully news crews brought their satellite broadcasting equipment. It's important for the world not be blocked off from seeing what's going on regardless of which side you support.
How does Germany being pathologically worse in paperwork make it any better?
I tried to place some online bets for a friend who is in prison.

But the betting sites don't allow you to use an ethernet cable to connect to your router o_O (unless you also enable wifi.. except my desktop doesn't have wifi)

https://helpcenter.il.betrivers.com/hc/en-us/articles/360049...
Given a billion dollars or so, I guess one moght get pretty far. The roadblock might be more that nobody is seeing a lot of market potential.
he completely explained why he needs to do this.
Someday, people in the western countries will mourn the lives lost and wish they could help in time. Except this is the time. Not after the fact and a few remains. This is an occurring theme.
Hanlon’s razor. Occam’s razor.
It's an issue with react that I believe is caused by not allowing access to local storage
It’s better than a matrix though. ;) This is like worrying that imaginary numbers are overspecified for representing reals, or that 3D vectors is overspecified for representing normal vectors. Quaternions themselves aren’t overspecified, they are naturally 4-dimensional, but it’s true that 3 components is sufficient for an orientation (unit quat).

Using quats for orientation is useful in part precisely because of the added dimension - it’s what makes interpolating quaternion orientations better than other representations - you naturally get the minimal and most direct motion. Interpolating any of 3 component orientations doesn’t work as well. So don’t let it irk you, instead find the utility and beauty in the extra dimension.
That's a cow!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10JSPdTDFsI
Frankly, he should be the most infamous human that ever lived. He likely killed/injured at least as many as Ghenghis Khan.
Dirupting enemy communications is a pretty standard goal of any army in a war.

I'm more surprised it took this long.
Even Google is doing this now.

I think it’s simply swapping one set of trade offs for another. With dedicated SREs you have true specialists in production operations and their accompanying systems (tooling, alerting, etc) with a clear mandate and ownership of outcomes; but they don’t necessarily have full ownership of what they’re keeping running, and that can cause organizational problems (we want to launch X, SRE says no, or vice versa) and make it so non-SREs take no ownership over their hard-to-support code.

Conversely you can have Eng teams without SREs and most of those organizational/social problems, at the cost of production reliability being only one of many priorities.

I think what’s really happening is that a lot of companies are deciding they don’t care about reliability very much as a business outcome, especially when it comes at the expense (at least in opportunity cost) of less features.
I guess i'm more surprised by the amount of words i have to describe my thoughts about the most mundane set of topics.
There is no such system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairy_ball_theorem
The best way to counter the smaller UAVs that operated with roughly a 6k-10k range is via EW. Jam their control links and they either land right where they are or RTB. Either way they're out of the picture. Unfortunately, that also tends to jam your own UAVs as well (at least the commercial ones converted for spotting and FPV attacks.)

Radar doesn't work that well since the RCS of these craft are so small and the radar systems have gate filters that exclude slow moving aircraft. If you tweak this lower, then you end up with a far shorter range with a lot more noise. And if you broadcast too much, you end up eating a KH-58. It's not a trivial problem to solve. Eventually things like better acoustic and vision sensor processing will help.

Despite the US wanting to ignore the impact of these drones, they really are a game changer. Cheap, distributed ISR via drones is invaluable. And imagine in a few years when the control systems use frequency hopping etc. I'm also envisioning a drone controlled via fiber optic cable. It won't be able to go far, but it can go high and act as a spotter, limited only by its cameras. It won't be jammable, nor limited by bandwidth. Kind of like how balloons were used in the Civil War and WW1 to adjust artillery fire. And if the invasion of Ukraine has shown anything at all, it's that if you get spotted, you die.
Why all of this cynicism? Science research at many universities is awesome and efficient. And in biomedical research and CS it is kicking ass. We are a gloomy bunch here in HN.
Right but that behavior is driven (either earnestly or not) by safety concerns for the cops.

Lets remove that concern, no excuses left.
I recommend Olivetti for focused writing with Emacs. It is a simple mode but somehow it takes me back to days of writing on a typewriter. Occasionally I add a focus mode to fade out the other sentences or paragraphs. Maybe I’ve just conditioned myself because I typically only use these modes for documents that require flow over a long period of time. Emacs is excellent for the editing part of course, as is vi; plain text navigation and editing are their core values. And being in Emacs with my 100 active buffers, it super easy to combine disparate ideas, though that can mess with the flow.
My bank has a mode that prevents purchases from merchants more than "100 km from me" ... it turns out the ice cream truck from another city was "more than 100 km from me".

That was entertaining and embarrassing because the machine was returning "insufficient funds" for a $2 ice cream, while I'm scrambling in the app trying to figure out how to turn that shit off.
> Taking Gaza completely off the grid while launching an unprecedented bombardment campaign only means something atrocious is about to happen.

A war is happening of course. Communications are critical to military operations, and Hamas has been happy to use civilian infrastructure for military purposes. Of course Israel is going to destroy it all.

Sure, Hamas can still use older tech like radios. But that's a huge win for Israel's signal intelligence units: radios are much easier to intercept than internet connections, especially fiber.
It only makes no sense if you don't understand the monarch of Canada is in the UK, and thus is monarch in but not necessarily of UK. (But really the same dude and mostly defended as separate as some sort of weird commonwealth saving of face about your nation swearing allegiance to the guy who's the monarch of UK)
It's a big picture issue though, right? Where else is scientific research supposed to be conducted? It can't all be profitable.

Not that I know how to manage a research department or anything. But it is a bad sign if even prestigious universities have a poor grip on what important scientific research is beyond "what makes us money".

In this instance we are talking about UPenn. Wharton is a pretty productive wallstreet pipeline. If they can't use their endowment to fund important scientific research, it is a massive problem.
> Our position remains firm: we will continue to do whatever we can to ensure people in the UK can use Signal. But if the choice came down to being forced to build a backdoor, or leaving, we'd leave."

This is an interesting position to take. They built censorship-resistance technology to make Signal work in countries like Iran, Russia or China, but want to leave the UK without even putting up a fight?
Yeah, I work for a CDN and we have to make sure our status page provider is not one of our customers.
Hi! I worked on this with some friends over the past two years or so (we had to work on the generic tooling first: https://universal-blue.org/)

I'm happy to answer questions you might have! Thanks for checking it out! (I'll be at KubeCon Chicago with stickers if you want the live demo on a Framework 13)
Cutting communication with outside world is a standard step in genocide and committing war crimes too.
From you point of view, what would be a justifiable response (by Israel and by the US) to the attack that was done by the Hamas on 7th of October?
Not true - because people use it as a form of retirement. By selling a house, they can often live the last years of their life off of the lump sum.

It's become very frequent in the US. Houses are appreciating assets, investment opportunities and retirement planes - not homes.
I had the exact same thought. However, we’re it intentional, I’d also assume more climate sites would be affected. Still, the thought that MS could be on the payroll of an oil company? Seems banal to me.
VPN is a #1 sign of a fraudster, you will quickly learn this truing to use a VPN.
Now add several thousand lbs of paperwork, and some absolutely insane liability court precedent [https://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/2007-11-27/cessna-fo...], and you'll see why it hasn't happened yet.
Watching mainstream news as well as tier-2 and -3 outlets perfect the passive voice has been validating for recognizing how status quo services specific political and ideological alignments despite assumptions of an ideal impartiality.
Most of the AA systems coming on line can easily handle a swarm of 15 drones. Watch a video of Skyranger with proximity fuses wiping the gnats out of the sky. The problem is that each system can only handle a small area of the battle front.
Starlink still working?
There will be 25 miles of beautiful Mediterranean coastline for Israeli settlers.

At least, that certainly has to have crossed the mind of someone in power.
Overhead rates at pure research non-profits are much lower than at universities. The difference is the amount of bureaucracy.
It's not about tech saavy. It's about the slow decay that is life. You could be Bob Metcalf, Doug Englebart, and Marty Cooper all wrapped up into one, but none of that will suffice to overcome the challenges of the aging body.
I certainly don't consistently have the same conditions.
Watch the four million videos on YT that come from Telegram, and follow the OSINT crowd on X.
Agreed. I guess it depends on the target market. If your target is small to medium sized businesses, this is great to start doing analytics. But for large organisations, they generally have ETL/ELT jobs that do all the extraction from data sources to push to an analytics store or save in some format that is performant for analytics and storage (i.e. parquet). I'm also not sure how many data visualisation tools support API endpoints for query serving.
Why do you suspect that? (Or was it ironic?)
> I don't know if all Android version do this by default, the one on my phone does: Whenever it connects to an AP, it generates a new random Fake-MAC. So, it's not a per-SSID permanent MAC, but a new one on each reconnect.

I do not even have this as an option except in the developer settings. I get either a per-SSID permanent MAC (the default) or the device's actual hardware MAC.
The problem is the incentives are completely wrong.

Not in my backyard doesn't work because we need to do it somewhere.

Pretending someone else will deal with the problem is short sighted.
California has its problems (and some of its problems seem quite deep), but when these predictable discussions mention CA's sky-high rent, how it's not worth it, and then extrapolate and predict the doom of the state, I can't but think of the famous phrase:

"Nobody goes there any more, it's too crowded."

Yes I fully agree the rents are a huge problem, but come on.
Why obscene? Is rent obscene. Building, supporting, and growing research space does have expenses. And federal grants require much administrative support. Overheads are typically 50% on top of the direct research support-$1 support for every $2 of research effort. Completely reasonable.
> There was a video I saw circling on Twitter earlier of a hateful guy being critical of Islam and even going so far as to suggest Muhammad was pedophile... Thankfully he was swiftly attacked by those he offended and subsequently arrested for his hatefulness,

Lol wtf. None of that should be "illegal speech."

Criticizing or hating others should never be illegal. Abhorrent and discouraging, yes. Illegal, no. Similarly, calling Muhammad or whatever divine figure a pedophile should be (and is) allowed in nation-states that respect your freedom of expression.

Imagine calling for someone's arrest and praising attacks on person who hurt your religious feelings.

> but just imagine how many hateful things like this are said behind closed doors every day.

Your comment implies that you want to police what others do in their own houses in their private time, on private platforms like Signal. That is absurd. Do you want to attach a bug in people's houses to monitor "Hateful speech/conduct" as well? I am constantly baffled how many authoritarian POVs hackernews tends to attract these days.
I've seen some speculation about the intelligence failure in not predicting the attack being related to Hamas avoiding the Internet for planning, and even deliberately sending false info on channels they knew were compromised.
Shopify does use the IP location distance Vs shipping address as a risk factor for fraud. I see it often on my Shopify stores where they will flag an order as high risk for that reason.

Same thing if someone used a VPN.
Especially since rarely does anyone care about how heavy the emergency generators are. But if you add 100 lbs too much in the wrong place on a GA plane, everyone is almost certainly going to die.
Flutter is one step from becoming that... I guess that's why google pushes it so much
I'll take your word for it, a glance at google told me a wire transfer from a foreign bank will typically take about 2 days to clear, but I've only ever done wire transfers domestically. But yeah, a $25 fee might be the hold up, except if I'm understanding the OP, the wire transfer would be for costly medical care. Typically if I'm looking at paying a large bill, the bill blinds me from the pain of being nickel and dimed on fees. So I think we're probably not talking about paying $5 at 7-11.
the west had a different opinion on russia doing the same in ukraine
A monarch is a person (or a type of butterfly) that can travel and reside in various countries.

A monarchy is an abstract system instantiated within the country to which it applies.

The monarchy of Canada does not reside in the UK .. perhaps you're thinking of the current appointed monarch.
I also find it's worth reflecting that there was a time when things were not so insane. Being unable to work at Cambridge due to a lack of advanced degress, Wittgenstein was famously pushed, at 40, to just submit his Tractatus as a PhD thesis so that he could get his PhD from Cambridge.

One of his examiners, G.E. Moore, stated the following on his examiners report:

"I myself consider that this is a work of genius; but, even if I am completely mistaken and it is nothing of the sort, it is well above the standard required for the Ph.D. degree."

Having spent a good bit of time in academia I cannot imagine an institution that would make a statement so both humble and honest. Wittgenstein today would remain an interesting weirdo that, since never being formerly accredited, would be wildly considered as not worth taking seriously.

What terrifies me about today's academic environment is not only the it's own decline in quality, but it's staunch refusal to admit any knowledge created outside its walls as admissible.
My primary phone number is a Google Voice number, and I am entirely legitimate. Just curious, how often are other people filtering with this kind of criteria?

I have been considering migrating away from GV for unrelated reasons, but if that sort of thing automatically makes me less attractive when looking for gigs then I'd like to prioritize actually doing that.
I might be biased, but would recommend a pitstop in our sunny Miyazaki Prefecture.

See Miyazakian.com for details
Perhaps two decades ago I would've thought this was interesting and a good idea, but now stuff like this is scary as it just brings us closer to the ultra-surveillance dystopia.

"Everything we measure about you can and will be used against you."
It's that YouTube movie where micro drones are essentially like magic heat-seeking bullets that scares me the most. Targeted assassinations that are unstoppable with modern defenses - useful for both the terrorists and bloodthirsty nation-states which make us all live in a dystopia with fear of death from the sky
And don't forget Hoopla--your library might support it. I get 8 media rentals a month through mine.
Yep. The real world is still far from being fully hosted in the cloud. I've been in a few places which would massively benefit from Oxide's approach. Also I'm a fan of the team from the joyent days so probably I'm biaised. But I've seen a few poor implementations of the "private cloud" and oh boy, I wish well from the people who will maintain that in the long run...
It's hard to find data for commercial vegetables in the US. I did find one study looking at urban gardens (e.g. carrots grown in your backyard if you live in the city) and the levels were like 100x the Polish figures shown above.
I've worked in postsecondary policy for a dozen years and while this perspective is cynical,it's painfully close to reality in many cases. "Paying the Price" by Sarah Goldrick-Rab chronicles some horrifying case studies , if you're interested.
Once again, idiot CEO fucks around and finds out. If there’s any consolation for shareholders, they don’t have much more to lose before $0. Cash out and invest in better leaders.
It's estimated that Hamas has between 30,000 and 40,000 soldiers(1), which is about 6% to 8% of Gaza's entire adult male population. There's no way of getting around it: if Israel finishes the job of eradicating Hamas, a large percentage of the Gazan population will be killed or captured, purely because so many of them are actively involved in Hamas.

Anyway, if Gazan citizens learn the lessons of their mistakes, they still have a future. In Germany about 5 million German soldiers were killed, almost as many as the 6 million Jews they slaughtered. At the time that was a double digit percentage of the entire male population. But Germany rebuilt and is now a thriving country.

1) https://www.axios.com/2023/10/21/palestine-hamas-military-po...
> has been able to keep some of its services online during Israel’s military response to Hamas’s attack.

Looks clear-cut whose fault it is, everything was just peachy for everyone until Hamas just decided to attack out of the blue.
> Reuters "fact checked" the hundreds of killed at the music festival and said it didn't happen. Of course, their fact check looked at the wrong images.

This is such an absurd misreading of the situation that I can comfortably discount your other points without any further consideration. Reuters fact checked a specific video that was claiming to be people running from the festival, but was footage from a Bruno Mars concert 2 days earlier. Show me where Reuters claim the attack didn't happen.
From the verge comments...

Paying to be popular on social media is an idea that could only come from the mind of a fucking loser like Musk
tl;dr; Yes. But trying to prove anything beyond very tiny functions (especially things like GUIs and world state) is near-impossible and massive overkill. Also, you'll need to work around termination checking (even if your functions always terminate, proving that is another matter).

Theorem provering languages are cool. Being able to prove the absence of bugs, enforce complex invariants, etc. is cool and useful in certain cases (like cryptography and safety-critical software). But it's also very hard, at least state-of-the-art, so often I feel writing good tests is better.
They're just running most of the bots in-house on the GPU supercompute cluster now, and billing Putin for it directly, now that the middleman Yevgeny Prigozhin is out of the picture.