skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
These goal escrow sites, like stickK, beeminder are not my thing but glad they help people. Here are some other hacks:

1. Set your standards (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUck-umj2WI, yes it is him, but it is good.)

2. If plausible, release something shit / half done. You will feel embarrassed and want to fix it up.

3. Just get started. Do a minute. Soon you will be in work mode, and forcing yourself to no to do it, so you can sleep at an appropriate time!

4. Try to do fun stuff if possible. Going to the gym is not fun, but it feels good after. But if you have a side project, make it a fun one, something you really are in to.

5. Habits are very powerful. Your brush your teeth, right?
Thank you, this is an important detail. Teenage Engineering isn't mentioned anywhere on the linked page, so I was confused about the HN title. I figured Rabbit was a new venture by TE.
GPU often has debuggers available. PIX is very good these days for example.
Something I've been curious about lately is: why do we find elements on Earth clumped together, for example veins of iron or gold? I can understand coal or oil since that comes from something organic that put it there. But what about elemental substances? When I throw stuff into my blender or spice mixer it gets pretty homogeneous. Surely an exploding star ought to mix things up better than that. So is there something that brings the iron & gold back together again? I don't know if this is a question for an astrophysicist, chemist, or geologist, but I suppose HN has all three. :-)
Blockchains are a fun tools, i really like some ideas (ipfs, etherium and solidity), but i want to separate it from the cryptocurrency nonsense. Luckily, almost all grifters and zealots started talking about "web3", to re appropriate the term (like they did "crypto", which mean cryptography for old and cybersec people).

Hence i associate web3 with the grift, and blockchain with the technology. Probably gp does the same.
Wholesale electricity prices generally range from $0.01 to $0.1 per kWh in the US. https://www.eia.gov/electricity/monthly/update/wholesale-mar...
Reminds me of when Eli Lilly's Twitter was hacked to falsely proclaim free insulin.
Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff
That’s why Tumblr gives you two checkmarks, and lets you pick the color. E.g. https://www.tumblr.com/amtrak-official
There's also a great Adult Swim Infomercial satirizing this idea, "Live Forever As you Are Now with Alan Resnick"[1]. Apparently it came out the same year as that Black Mirror episode (2013) !

[I]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xg29TuWo0Yo
Bollocks. There is lots of out of copyright content available. It just requires a person in the loop to assess the status.

If it truely were impossible, then it sounds like they've just admitted that they should have licensed the content rather than using it without permission.
For things in nixpkgs, the files will be mirrored on the nix cache. For your own stuff you could set up your own cache or use a service like cachix. There is also a nix option to set up a generic mirror which looks up files by hash, but I'm not sure if it works with all the ways to fetch things: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/conf-file#co...
FOX CTO on their blockchain for content verification for AI Labs
It can be! I think that's the number 1 response when anyone wants to actually make a better platform. Projects like AccessKit are a really great step in the right direction https://github.com/AccessKit/accesskit
Add trusted boot to the mix and suddenly you can't modify any of it.
So much for all the altruism, and with this kind of an argument they really are scraping the bottom of the barrel -- it isn't the first time a company is lying to a government committee, it isn't the first time a company has claimed to be moral perfection incarnate only to turn out to be a non-repentant defiler, so we should all be prepared to expect worse going forward from OpenAI.
Is there a simplified guide for how to avoid paying the 30% tax?
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Yeah, if it was a Teenage Engineering product it'd cost $799.
That isn't whataboutery. Every market has its insiders, and it is manipulated.

This event is no different.
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Yes, like you can lose your treasure by forgetting where you buried it. Or you can lose your silver when an accidental fire melts your palace into slag. Or you can lose your wheat harvest to mold! Self-storage is the default way of holding wealth, not a new one. And it's a tradeoff that people will always choose to make as long as personal wealth exists.

Among the innumerable problems with cryptocurrency, this is not one of them.
Quite the contrary to their claim, we restrict forking on ALL our repos and still have meaningful PRs.

Your assertion is correct that most organizations operate this way.

However, open source is different. Often you’ll have someone fork - hack on it - devise a novel change - and request a PR from their fork:branch to origin:branch.

In this scenario, the fork - and subsequent hacking - are exploratory while submitting the change and PR is distinctive. Not sure how one is supposed to explore and hack and provide PRs in their model as you’re forced to branch. A local copy is still a “fork” but with a separate origin.

You can still do a dual origin setup or do a merge main onto yours but I find this extremely limiting to contributors and overly controlling by project owners. There’s nothing stopping you from enforcing squash on merge or having standards on your SDLC. Enforcing that on everybody else isn’t in our best interest though. A diarrhea of commits is how you end up with spaghetti code.
the point is maintenance personnel might be directly signing off but that doesn't mean they're directly responsible if their management set unrealistic timetables. that's the point, systems are as accountable as individuals but often individuals are easier to indict and scapegoat.
Nuclear cannot be deployed anywhere, it needs a source of water. It also needs staffing, and it needs to be kinda near to people who need electricity.

This last point is important because nuclear plants generate a lot of power, so you cant easily build a plant “just” for 500 people in the same way you can for other energy sources.

I am fine with nuclear in principle. There are real reasons nukes are expensive and not the ideal option in many situations. We have to be clear eyed about this.
It doesn't work that way. When I fly, it's typically the only feasible option. I've never in my life sat down and calculated flying vs driving. It's more something like >400 miles, then fly, otherwise drive.
Billions of messages per day is 10-100k per second on average. If you do this in a vertical on one box with something like a ring buffer abstraction, you can achieve MPSC messaging rates in excess of millions per second without trying very hard across any arbitrary # of clients.

E.g. https://aeron.io/aeron-open-source/#aeron_transport
To be fair, all of that seems quite easily done with an app - your phone should be more than capable of running those models.

I’d imagine something like siri or alexa isn’t evolving as fast since the server side cost at their scale would be astronomical..
Interesting point. As I understand it, it's not legal to fly along the canyons of the Colorado River. I recall doing that maybe 50 years ago.
We have no solution, and possibly never will, for determining if the "uploaded consciousness" is us and not just a smarter mechanistic system that gives us the responses we'd expect. Again, if you prioritize the "uploaded consciousness" at the expense of "meat," most likely you off yourself for nothing but a con that outsmarted you so that it can make more paperclips.
Big databases are not new. If that was all that was needed, people would have been doing just that for the past 40 years. Turns out it doesn't always work, and sometimes (often?) it's terrible.

Even if theoretically it was all you ever needed, the other constant problem is the implementation. Most developers, today anyway, are morons. They don't understand how databases work or how to use them, so they use them poorly. In order to get away from that fact, they invented new databases (like NoSQL) so they could use their brains less and just write more glue code. Turned out that was horrible as well.

Pretty soon the tides will turn yet again and "just having a big database" will again be seen as not in vogue and another paradigm of "simplicity" will come around (instead of "one big database" being simple it'll be "many small databases" like we had with microservices).

Those who don't understand history are doomed to repeat it.
> I thought my system was genius only I could derive.

Spoilers: Nobody is that special. Even the greats in history stand out only due to a complex combination of talent, dedication, position, and opportunity.
Kelly and Zach Weinersmith's "A City on Mars"
Your ideas are honestly great and both of the solutions you presented (RSS->.gov site and public keys) feel like great solutions. I think the problem is that both of those require the general public to have some amount of technical knowledge which is, apparently, a big ask. The first would be a lot easier to present and avoid confusion but it'd still require people to know to go to that site.

For what it's worth though, I think the solution to that is people should have some real amount of education about the function and potential dangers of the internet before getting on it.
Or, ya know, for news from the SEC?
Isn't that basically all of them?
There is value in government agencies engaging with people where they are. Even the SEC gets some value out of promoting their activities, even if it's just awareness of their existence and function and corresponding public support.

That said, now that the Fediverse exists, ideally all of those government agencies would self-host their accounts, either individually or via a server for many different agencies of the same government. It makes sense for the SEC to be @sec@sec.gov or @sec@usa.gov rather than example.com/SECGov . (Which, of course, does not prevent them from having security issues.)
“Alexa, buy an iphone 15”
Technically yes, but that version of Adwords was pretty small. The actual Adwords that made the company so successful was called "Adwords Select" at launch, the one with the Vickrey auction. It launched in 2002 after Schmidt was at the company and with a lot of support by him. Particularly when the AOL deal was negotiated. He was certainly part of making it an advertising-centric company but that was by no means his sole doing.

There's plenty of reasons to criticize Schmidt. His role in the collusion to suppress salaries along with Adobe, Apple Inc., Intel, Intuit, Pixar, Lucasfilm and eBay was a particular lowlight of his career at Google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Tech_Employee_Antitrust_L...
i'd love to be surprised, but i just don't think apple has the necessary software chops/vision anymore to pull it off.
Because hoarding money and power for some future state that may never come is pointless. Do what you can now. And how do you even determine what is enough money? billions? trillions? is there even a way to draw that line with sam and the board trying to work together?
>I say, "Hey Siri, play Heigh Ho from the Cinderella Soundtrack".

It probably doesn't help that "Heigh Ho" is from Snow White

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSj2h34ZrmY
Because it's their account?
While your point is perhaps valid for publishing information, it doesn’t (for me) extend to not even having an account.

Companies have cited that their Twitter account is an official source of company comms and that gives the SEC a reason to have an account and access that information as part of enforcing securities laws.
A lot of people are expecting to get rich off Bitcoin. They still think it's a ticket to financial freedom even though returns since late 2017 have been mediocre. Relative to volatility, they would be better off with 3x tech etfs like TQQQ or TECL, which have more upside and less risk compared to Bitcoin for the same amount of volatility.
I watched the first 2:51 or so of the keynote. The guy made a series of assertions that he seemed to think were self-evident. I disagreed with every one, without exception. I gave up when he described the LLM as “artificial intelligence”. I don’t think I’ll be a customer.
> if it were up to me, I'd just skip it and render everything inside a <canvas/>

That's very tempting, but you lose a lot if you do that, especially around text:

* Accessibility for screen readers, etc.

* The easy ability to select text, copy/paste between other apps, etc.

* Line splitting

* Support for multiple languages, RTL, and all their other rendering quirks.

Canvas has some text APIs, but they are fairly rudimentary. It's a hard problem.
In this case, it’s a hardware maker company, so I’d say it’s expected? There’s tons and tons of startups doing software-only agents for your phone too
Its sad to think web 2.0 so long ago was a move towards more human centric websites, UI's, AJAXy sites, etc and now web3 is just a marketing term for fraudsters, exit scammers, shady VC's, and criminals. The late-stage capitalism of the internet is obvious to see.
The really real question is: why is OP not using the washing machine to mine bitcoins for themselves? / make their own DDOS botnet?
> what could you possibly do?

Magical Amulets?

Fake your own death, move into a submarine?
> rabbit OS operates apps on our secured cloud, so you don’t have to

Absolutely Not!
You may be misreading the effects - Bitcoin is trading above what it traded yesterday, and 50% higher than october.
If your government wants to cut you off from your money, they'll do it for crypto just as easily as they do it for traditional banks. With the exception of direct-crypto purchases from shady internet sites, at some point your payment rails must pass through an entity that your government has some degree of authority over—you're not going to buy your groceries using Bitcoin over an onion service.

Even if crypto becomes 100% ubiquitous, the end game isn't "now the government can't control finance" the end game is "now the government will find a new way to control the new finance". Eventually, the government will intervene because people will be begging them to, because they don't actually want to live in a world where theft and fraud are irreversible and their entire financial life is tied to a set of cryptographic keys that they barely understand.

You're trying to push a technological solution to authoritarianism, and it's not going to work for the masses. Canada doesn't need crypto, Canada needs voters to hold the government accountable for its abuses.
Even off the shelf bioses let you set your own keys for safe boot.
I wonder what percentage of users would place the blame on your service? I know my entire life I've had unreliable Internet connections and so my instinct is to first shake my fist at my ISP.
> That should be done without appropriating the voice and image of the deceased without permission.

I disagree. If I were in charge, I would encourage factually correct reenactments and ban fake news.

An example is the long time Hollyweird trend of replacing ugly historical figures with beautiful keading people. Bonnie Parker (likely a relative of mine) was not a hottie. Pretending she was distorts the story. Ugly girls who are prodigies live different lives than pretty girls.
The current fashion of replacing people of one race with people of another race distorts history. If you want a black leading lady, there are many stories to chose from.
I think we just need media literacy at least for now while the noise is still manageable. It’s perfectly fine to rely on private news to spread the information IMO, the issue is that people should independently verify said information.

After reading said announcement on Twitter, the first thing I’d do (if I cared about it) would be to head on over to sec.gov or use a search engine to find the official SEC site, then from navigate to find the official announcement. Any reputable news source should include a link in their announcement to the official announcement to save you this verification step.

At some point there may be so much targeted disinformation/misinformation out there that we need legislation to help protect against it but I don’t think we’re there yet.
> cross-reference that with OpenSecrets to see if it's even worth pursuing

I'm sympathetic to civic disengagement from nihilism, apathy, laziness or even ignorance. What I don't understand is proselytising it.

> in office, they're probably taking bribes from Boeing

This is bunk, even if we forget that campaign donations aren't bribes.
I think they did several stock splits, and this time period was one of them
It takes years. They're not mice to replenish in 20 days. And not exactly cheap to build, train and service.
"... making an argument why something isn't good enough or unacceptable."

In my experience, it is because most things are not good enough or are unacceptable. You see this in software engineering, technology, and science. Not in this particular case necessarily, but most "innovations" can be shown to be impractical and not good enough through back of the envelope calculations. Yet, the discourse on the Internet is full of these useless things, including this stupidity I remember back at the height of Covid: https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-lg-unveils-battery-po...
Wikipedia says a typical lightning bolt releases 1 GJ, so 10 GW you can have for 100 ms, for 50 µs you can have 20 TW. And most importantly 1.21 GW for the better part of a second, 826 ms to be precise.
I'm not talking to computers still. It's a border I just can't cross. Like I'd literally rather stop and type on my car display than try to voice in a destination. And I'd if I'm cooking and my hands are greasy wash my hands and pick up my phone and tap in a timer for 5 minutes rather than try some "set timer for 5 minutes" voice command. Not sure I ever will start talking to computers, but not this year at least. Anyone else feel the same way? It's part because in public it feels extremely dumb. But mostly I think it's the frustration. At least fumbling on touchscreen characters is a known frustration. Trying to voice-in a Scandinavian street name is worse.
> this obviously fails if the content is missing.

It doesn't, actually - all the fetchers are [fixed-output derivations](https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/advanced-attrib...) where you specify not only the source, but the hash it is expected to produce. And so the fetched files will be hashed and placed in the nix store under that hash. And therefore subsequent builds using that artifact will use the already-stored artifact and not care if the source is reachable or not. You know that all "external" inputs will be captured by fixed-output derivations, because any derivation that isn't fixed-output is blocked from network access.

For anything built by the hydra CI, this will be retained on central cache.nixos.org. Or you can copy from a store of some machine that has it.

Now, if it's something not on the official cache.nixos.org, and the source is gone, and you've lost (or pruned) your store, you will need to get the file from somewhere and put it back in your store: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/command-ref/nix-store/ad.... Or you just change the source URL (this won't change the derivations depending on it, because the input being transferred is identified by the hash that is to be delivered, not by the URL it comes from).
If fees are all they care about they make money anyway. No idea how that constitutes them being Rugged.
I agree with this, but even if you internalize this it's still very easy to miss the point of web assembly. People often talk about web assembly with hope that it will "free them from javascript". This is missing the point, the beauty of web assembly is that you can keep your scaffolding in javascript, something it's extremely good at, and have your performance too by calling into "native code" as a sort of half-ffi. In short I think compiling whole ass programs into wasm is trash, but when you compile little libraries, or even individual functions and then call them transparently from JS, that's when it really shines.

Being able to "natively" perform computations on data, and then spit the results back into a terse, expressive language like javascript in such a tightly integrated way is heterogeneous programming at it's best.
Well, 1080/2080/3080 go to 2080/3080/4080 and 1070/2070/3070 go to 2070/3070/4070 and so on. Even though, Nvidia shifted their tiers a bit.

Not everyone is buying the best and latest. Plenty of people wait for previous gens to drop in prices or enter the secondary market.
I should save this and come back to it in 10 years.
https://www.rabbit.tech/rabbit-os:

> Record your actions, explain them with your voice, and play them to rabbit OS. LAM will learn the nuances and create a rabbit that can be applied to various scenarios.

> What if you create a rabbit that could be useful to others? You can monetize and distribute it on our upcoming rabbit store.

This is neat right up until "monetize", where everything flips from being a potentially cool community group of reproducible actions, to a pile of spam and bot-generated bullshit
> Unfortunately most 'big' apps just disable this for whatever reason.

Probably because they already have Mac apps built with native Mac controls designed specifically for use with a mouse and keyboard. Why would they enable the option to run a shittier touch-centric user interface and confuse their users with two different versions of the same app?
How else are you going to drive there from Santa Monica?
Storyteller (Video Game)
Not all bytecode formats are the same.

Steel-reinforced concrete is "just" another building material, but what you can do with it in practice is very different from wattle and daub.
Or upload it to archive.org themselves. In their own interest. Instead of inviting hoarders to hammer the server with crawlers, upload it once and say it's already there.
It's pleasant and cosy, sure. I didn't feel it had or needed a "message"; it felt more like an "Iyashikei" (or "Cute Girls Doing Cute Things") story. (Interesting how those have come to be perceived as somewhat alt-right aligned, whereas Chambers is coming from the other side politically).
In about the same time frame someone offered me 16,000 BTC for a mediocre graphics card I put on a listing. (I turned it down.)
The faulty digital clock problem (2021)
Why does this have to be a competing device? It can do it all on a web page. For that matter put it all in a watch and lose the smartphone.
Hydro is mostly (not entirely) tapped out for power generation (not, of course, for pumped storage, which doesn't require rivers). Creating reservoirs is also ecologically damaging, and releases a lot of methane (although I'm not sure how large the impact is relative to the carbon savings, this could be FUD I'm repeating)