skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could this be schizophrenia or another mental condition?

If you’re certain you avoided 2 kidnapping attempts, can you get access to nearby security camera footage as evidence?

Spending 5 months following you without overtly trying to extort you doesn’t sound typical for a criminal gang. Not impossible, given the sums involved, but patience and caution aren’t their hallmarks.

Consider whether you are in the common age range for schizophrenia to manifest. Attempt to prove or disprove, with hard evidence that a 3rd party would believe, whether there really are external forces conspiring against you.

I would be asking myself which is more likely: that a criminal gang has been trying and failing to kidnap me for months, or that I currently cannot trust my perceptions.

I am not a doctor, lawyer, nor law enforcement officer and this is not medical, legal, nor personal safety advice.
> If the prosecutor thinks it's a slam dunk, they have little incentive to offer a plea bargain at all

> 97% of convictions are based on plea bargains

Taken together, these mean prosecutors generally don't have good enough evidence to put people away, which is the thrust of the article: it's easier to threaten someone into a confession than to have a proper trial.
The Dark Forest idea was pretty convincing to me. I'm not sure we should throw around information about our existence, not until we learn more about other space civilizations.
The "observable" universe is very small. We can take a look at things that are at the "ebd" of the universe, but those happened multiple billion years ago. Earth itself is 2-3 billion years old and life in terms of mammals is is a couple hundred million years old.

So to say, there may be another earth with human-like life. But it's so far away, life isn't here (therefore not observable) and life may already be gone there (but it will take another billion years until we can observe it).
The muggers got his watch, but Bernie Ecclestone did a deal (2010)
Interesting. I use `diff`.
If you didn’t spend 5 minutes squinting into your little change purse while becoming increasingly embarrassed… you’re not who I’m talking about.

Also, roll your coins and take them to a bank or, better yet, donate them; don’t make tellers count all your trash coins.
Have you told someone who loves you about this? Parents, or old friends?
It can definitely be more harmful than helpful for some. If you want get bummed out, search out forums for those that were broken up with ("lost my ex"). There are many support forums for such things with people that have been active for _years_ after their breakup. At a certain point they are just ruminating on their pain.

Romantic rejection is one of the most personal and emotional things most people will experience, and having a support network is important for moving on. But something goes haywire for some people given an infinite source of "support" online - unlike with real social connections, online strangers won't tire of you discussing your breakup, so you can do it probably forever, constantly freshening the pain, and peering into everyone elses story for insight on your own...and never move on.
I don't even use a VPN, just a browser that blocks fingerprinting by default. My interpretation of CAPTCHA hell is, "oh, you don't want me to spy on you! Here, let's put some pain in the skinner box."

(Amusingly, pain was proven to be preferable to boredom... and CAPTCHAS are boring as hell.)
Good question - but it would have to be a one of the kind that decrease latency not the one that decrease bandwidth. Maybe there is a way to achieve such.
> We need to be clear why containment of SARS-CoV-2 was actively sabotaged and eventually abandoned.

Amen. Endemic was the worst possible case scenario, and governments in the US and UK actively (if, I hope, ignorantly) embraced it… once those two were lost to the cartoonish buffoons in charge the entire world was doomed to millions (if not, eventually, billions) of deaths.

I’m just glad it wasn’t a filovirus on the watch of those idiots.
This is a solved problem, and the solution is Nix, not Docker
Big enough Earth satellite with stable orbit and unusual form. With more information inside. May be even big enough to be visible with naked eye.
At this point the amount of friction added to all these things is pushing things towards just not doing them in the first place (buying less stuff, using social media less). Nature walks and paper books doesn't have captchas.
i always find it odd how risk averse the anti-nuclear camp is. I mean if climate change is as bad as they say, it's worth the risk! Without going into the argument itself.

If we need radical changes fast, and nuclear can provide them(!!!) then the fact that there are some risks and that it might be a bit expensive shouldn't matter.
> I don't see how replacing the "it works on my machine" with "it works in this VM" is much better. It is the same problem.

I can ship the VM to a thousand people. I can't do the same with my machine.
Are you saying that when interest rates are high, a company making record profits HAS to engage in price increases, wage freezing and layoffs, to satisfy a made up instrument explaining basic economy?

This is is like companies' belief that all employees are always on the bell curve, so the bottom x% has to get culled each year.

Anything to fit in the stats, right? I am actually inclined to believe that C level do think like that. This is both sad and terrifying, and also the reason why we need strong unions in the first place, so we don't end up merely a statistic on some boomer economy cultist's spreadsheet.
Then perhaps I'm misunderstanding you. When N is *sufficiently* large, I think we all agree that you'll prefer an algorithm with better big-O.

When N is small, the asymptotic behavior is irrelevant and that's easy to show. Let's say we're comparing a O(N) algorithm to a O(N^2) algorithm, but each operation of the O(N) is 1000x more expensive. The O(N^2) algorithm is preferred as long as N < 1000. Choosing the O(N) algorithm will hurt performance in those situations. Real world examples like single-byte-writes causing full pages to be re-written on SSDs shows this isn't just a mathematical curiosity.

Without benchmarks, analysis of big-O behaviors, usage patterns, and known data size I'd (personally) avoid guessing the performance of Atree in an application.

Are you saying something different? It sounds like you have much more SIMD experience than I do and I'm always happy to learn something new.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=n*1000+%3D+n%5E2
Yeah I found this page and as a SoundCloud user I have no idea what this is about. So it's not some user facing collaborative music feature I didn't know about, it just gives them more consistent analytics?
It’s funny how they have a section with three human avatars and one robot, with green checkmarks on the humans, yet those faces look AI-generated.
No, you are mixing things up. The mining rights are old. It is not that someone suddenly decided to mine more coal. Quite contrary, all plans for coal usage are being cut down considerably, as it is replaced with renewables. That the wind generators had to be taken down for mining coal is just sad but the result of older mining rights.

As how much nuclear is clean is disputable, but there are multiple reasons to shut it down. That the energy prices went up has nothing to do with the nuclear shutdown but for other reasons which have been named.

Fact is, renewable energy is strongly up and that is going to continue. Because we care about the environment.
Past me was definitely careless. Current me—doubtful, or at least I’d like to think I’d have learned to be nicer to ports…

> I touch the chassis with my thumb and index finger around the USB, and kind of roll my fingers so they put pressure against the chassis

This doesn’t work when you have two ports in close proximity and one of them is occupied. In that scenario I’d have to either lift the laptop in order to squeeze the connector from top & bottom while removing (this option requires not being exhausted or lazy) or pull on a cable a bit further away from the connector (though I do it gently nowadays, pushing with another finger against the chassis for at least some balance).
> not user focused, what they really mean is it isn't focused to people resistant to changes

That, or "it's not aligned perfectly with all my personal needs"
That sounds terrifying. The being followed and snooped upon is actually an increasingly common phenomena, everywhere.

You won’t like my answer I’m afraid, you are discovering how fragile the lie of modernity is. You would would be better off angry than scared. Be crazy, not complicit. A time for you to get serious (reign it all in.)

Wealthy and famous people do not live normal lives, everyone is trying to take a little piece of them, and the complicit denial of conventional society will help you little.

Find a way to lock up your cash for five to ten years so you cannot betray yourself. Keep a journal and any other records of suspicious activities in case you do have enough to convince authorities. Live a vigilant self determined life first above all else.
The follow-up post asking ChatGPT which model it's based on is... dubious. Yes, OpenAI may have added that information in the system prompt because they know people keep asking these things but people forget the LLM will answer based on the training dataset. You can't rely on super accurate information that way, even if it's browsing the web for an answer (it may find the wrong article and give you outdated information).
I hate captcha, it takes ages and I often fail the google one. I would happily pay to have them removed from my browsing. I don't use AliExpress often, but now I can't as the captcha just plain doesn't work.
Try being an (old school) sysadmin / platform / DevOps person that doesn't have terraform/ansible/python skills. Never needed it, always been overkill, and every single job wants it in the space now.

I've made my own homegrown ansible type tools and everything else under the sun. But grown organically and not requiring learning a different DSL.

I've worked in the industry so long everything recommends "senior" level to me, which I am eventually in each job I'm at, except I don't have a those two skills that everyone apparently requires, which makes it real weird finding anything.

You should be able to find a lot of SWE jobs with your languages. Those are pretty solid.
Casio F-91W clock with Pure CSS
On Void, installing clang results in a massive 120MB libLLVM-15.so along with a number of other hefty shared libaries. 50+ MB, 30+ MB and so on.

As such, I have stuck with GCC which requires much less space.

Is this any different on Chimera.
I can't get past most apps having a title bar / chrome that feels like 1/3 of the window.
Movie directors were deliciously non IT savvy at the time, I remember as a teenager growling every time an actor switched off the monitor when he meant to switch off the computer.

But I guess taxi drivers still growl today at all those characters leaving the cab without paying in movies!
it's solely FreeBSD as an upstream for us, though Net/Open are an upstream for FreeBSD itself for some tools

the tools have made big strides over the last few decades, so it's nowhere near like it used to be back then
"He described a six-day week which began each day with a meeting at 07:30 and would usually last until 19:00. He would also be called in on Sundays or holidays if there was a problem at the plant"

The secret sauce is highly skilled people, working incredibly hard, for relatively low wages. The challenge for everyone else is how to persuade engineers to do this work, rather than go to better paid, less demanding, higher status jobs as software engineers
GitHub:

https://github.com/manzdev/twitch-casio/
> mCaptcha uses a Proof-of-Work (PoW) based algorithm to offer Denial-of-Service protection

if you want denial-of-service protection, wouldnt it be better to use a delay-based algorithm, instead of a proof-of-work one?

Proof-of-work is not environmentally friendly, wastes your legitimate users resources, and doesnt stop all DOS types

Just force a delay in time to requests to your site and allow only as many as you can process
In Amazon, you are intially put on Focus, i.e management start building a case against against your performance (Documentation).

Once focus period ends, you are given option to take Severance or Performance improvement plan (PiP).
Cybertruck
That isn't correct. If the ASIc manufacturer produce them for X can use them directly and it only costs Y to operate them for Z profit. Then you can price them as Z-Y-profit_margin > X. The lower the operating cost, the higher your profit margin per chip if you sell it. Selling the chip might have a 50% profit margin and mining has a 10% profit margin. If you wanted to get into mining you would build a holding company owning both types of companies.
Sure, as long as the keyboard is separate (wired or not) bashing it would have saved the built-in keyboard for a rainy day.
Houthi Quagmire in the Red Sea
7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
I know the current iteration of WEI was withdrawn and I don't claim to know what their current intentions are. They might be completely innocent, but the fact is that WEI would pave the way for abuse. Once the core functionality is there, there's an obvious financial incentive for them to start expanding WEI in order to boost their advertising revenue.

These types of ideas with significant potential for abuse should be introduced with extreme caution and with at least majority agreement of everyone affected. Instead Google tried to pull a fast one and refused to engage criticisms in good faith. My response might seem alarmist at first glance, but I don't think that's a fair accusation given Google's behavior. I expect this proposal to return under a different name once everyone's forgotten about it and I hope the backlash then will be as severe as it was against WEI.
https://archive.is/mUoC9
Also, with those 3 languages try to find open source projects looking for bug fixes and such. That'd make for a solid portfolio!
If you have a docker file that can reproduce the VM from scratch then that tends to be pretty decent documentation on the requirements. It might still not work on your machine, but at least you have a pretty good idea of where to start to get it to.
Great, so maybe we would find a less annoying bot detection technique than captchas.
You may want to get one with replaceable switches, I built one and had one or two switches go bad after a few years, I popped them off, plugged new ones in, and that was it. Lifesaver.
Gang stalking is real and it can happen for both fun and profit.

The technical details are very different to what even a smart person would “suppose.”

Truth is not sane by society’s standards so we play along in confidence and call that convention.
Ventoy
It most likely is and while your attempts to help them "logic" their way out of this are noble, I don't think it will help.

"Gang stalking" is the term I've heard for it and Wikipedia has some details about it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_stalking

I hope the op can get some help with this.
Electric vehicles owners and solar rooftops find mutual attraction
Because there is a real demand for staying anonymous online. You'd know why, if you lived in a country taken over by a fascist regime.
Today I learned, I'll have to read more about that.
You sure? I just checked a panorama I took last month and the file does not contain the second image as far as I can tell using exiftool. I see the Cardboard viewing feature in the Photos app, however that doesn't mean the image is necessarily stereo. It looks to me like it's just displaying the same image for both eyes, rendered on the inside of a sphere at some default viewing distance.

It would surprise me if Google left the stereo feature enabled when it would double file sizes for something 99% of people would never use. But it would be nice if an option to enable it was exposed.
I find captchas extremely painful, because of ambiguity and not loading all the pictures. I wait for a minute and some never show. When they do load, so manyare pics of bicycles and motorcycles and cross walks. Are you supposed to click on the tiny piece that goes tojust past another tile or not? You can't refresh one that doesn't load, I think most of them start over if you refresh.

Like other people reported, if you ever use tor, it's very common for the captchas to just not load. They just kind of hang without showing the pictures. Regular websites generally just work fine on tor, it seems to be a captcha problem.
If the fairy tale numbers are correct, they could price it at a million dollars and it would still be cheap.
Sorry to be that person, but let me give a small writing tip: there is always a space after the comma/period, never before. Same with question-/exclamation marks. It is not the most important thing in the world, but it sends off a bad signal that you may be unaware of.
I work as data engineer and won't advise using stored procedures.

It's pain to debug and document.
It feels like you left out context, otherwise what’s the problem? Do you get mad at fiction authors for lying to you when you read their books? Or are you OK if someone lies to your detriment then later says “I was just telling a story, bro, but with us as the characters and without explaining it was a story”?
It's not just "can i beat this case"? It's also, "how much will it cost me?" and "how long will i stay imprisoned for before i'm found not guilty?".

Of course, there's the chance you're found guilty although noone would dare say you committed the crime (Leonard Peltier), or the chance that you'll submit to much harsher punishment than what was decided by the judge (Georges Ibrahim Abdallah). But even when you're white and you're not facing a political repression case, there's a good chance pleading guilty for a fine and a suspended sentence looks better than spending a whole year in jail awaiting the trial that will exonerate you.

There's plenty of research in that area, feel free to look it up.

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1158356619/plea-bargains-crim...
Yeah, the study is really not about AI solving captchas but how humans solve them. Quite a clickbait title - but those do well on HN unfortunately.
The underlying issue is anyone can ask chatgpt to lie, and many people try because it's even fun to try to work around things.
Well that is just how human communication works.

If I tell you that I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate that is a lie. If I write the same in fiction I receive accolades.

If I tell you on the street “watch out there is a T-rex about to eat you!” That is a lie. If i say the same thing sitting at a table with too many dice that is just acceptable DMing and everyone rolls initiative.

Humans are weird this way.
If nuclear was the one option to fight climate change, then by all means we should do it. But the thing is: it isn't and it isn't even a good one.

First of all: you say we need fast changes. That already rules out nuclear. Setting up a new reactor takes like 20 years. We don't have that time. And we wouldn't need one, each major industrial nation would need at least 100 of them, 10 billion each. There is just no way to achieve that. Not even mentioning the other downsides of nuclear.

However renewable buildup is much faster. Germany has build up more than the equivalent of one nuclear plant of solar alone in one year and the buildup speed can be easily accelerated with a fraction of the effort of trying to expand the nuclear capacity.
> An integer which references another data location is a pointer.

A more useful, storage/serializable friendly, pointer perhaps.
It's funny to see self referential linking of "ScheduleChicken" on the page. Hadn't really heard of this concept before but can definitely relate
Trumpet is an operating system for simple and robust cell-free biocomputing
> At the time they merely shipped the browser with the OS.

> They were also accused of adding new features only in IE which forced websites to deal with incompatible browsers

I do not think this is an accurate representation of history.

First, Microsoft was fighting against the whole concept of a browser as separate from its OS. The fact that one can 'change your default browser', as you so casually say, without changing your OS was a major victory in itself that people worked very hard to ensure.

Second, it was not just 'features' that Microsoft added to IE. They were actively ignoring standards and with Frontpage people could easily generate web pages that looked fine in IE but were a complete mess of impenetrable HTML for other browsers. And when you complained about this the owner would simply add a 'best viewed in IE' icon on their website and start blaming you instead...

In short, at the time it was not at all obvious that a large majority of the web would remain accessible using any other browser than IE. (And similarly for email clients, by the way.) I agree with you that there is still plenty of shady behavior going on, but I am not sure that I would classify the old practices as 'fairly benign'.
> making a chip that's two inches by two inches

These already exist. Lookup images of AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7995WX - 96 cores:

https://www.techpowerup.com/img/fp51OPD4JRS7wvTK.jpg
Perhaps something like objectiveFS might be worth looking into. Since it already creates a layer on top of S3 and tries to address all this and includes its own cache mechanism. No idea if it's performance is still too inconsistent or latency is too high when comparing it to the author's goals.
In the us, I noticed that grocery stores increasingly scan your drivers license (my state has bar codes). I think it's probably a way to keep clerks from passing someone through who is not quite 21 (a different captcha!).

I have wondered if they keep the scan or does the state? I asked and the random hourly worker there said they don't.
Much of the country is too flat for pumped hydroelectric storage to be practical. How could that work in a place like Miami or Chicago?
Sorry to clarify the "Most likely is", I mean that in relation to a mental disorder of some kind as mentioned in the parent comment. Not that they're truly being persecuted by a criminal gang. Not impossible, but judging by the description of what's happened, unlikely.
Have you ever faced custody and pre-trial detention? It's hard to imagine until you've gone through this. But yes, offering a definitely innocent person that was abused by the System the choice between two forms of punishment is some form of "torture".

Being manipulated by the cops into a fake testimony is torture. Having the cops fake evidence and their testimonies to harass you is torture. Remaining days in a room with lights on all day, shit all over the walls in a freezing cold or hammering hot, without access to a shower or better clothes, that's torture.

And that's when you're lucky. The less lucky ones have months or years of pre-trial detention, sometimes in isolation (which is a well-studied form of torture) before they can even defend themselves.
Talk to your family ASAP.

You are either being followed as you said, or you are having a psychotic break, both scenarios are dangerous.

You need help from someone you trust, usually family or very close friends.
I often do have a clear image in my mind for an article. I can not draw it and I don't have the budget to hire someone to do it.

The image is meant to convey a feeling. It is meant to make an abstract concept from the article a little more tangible.

In the past, I'd search for images on the net that I could use to accomplish that. Now I can craft them with DALL-E, and they are usually much better.

This image should complement the article. Just like the text of the article is meant to convey some information, feeling, or concept, the image should do a bit of that as well.
> Website operators can use alternatives, like asking for micro-payments

Similarly to how dApps work in ethereum-like blockchains?