skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure most people here on HN already know about the famous hunter2 meme, but it turns out that it is quite hard to find and link to the original transcript, especially since it appears the original website (bash.org) is no longer active. This URL contains the sha2-256 digest of the transcript itself, so that it can be preserved indefinitely for posterity. static.space is a website I built to allow creating this kind of content-addressed URLs of existing content (e.g. text, images), to ensure that it can always be referenced even when the original location changes.

https://static.space/sha2-256:d5b215dd588bda164aca31a2eb08aa...
I remember that one! It was d-_-b
"Endangers global security" often is treated as equivalent to "endangers the status quo", especially by the organizations and people who are powerful right now and so usually benefit from whatever the current situation is, as opposed to those who feel they lack power and thus are motivated to shake things up with a hope of ending up at the top afterwards.

And change tautologically does endanger the status quo. So proceeding with business as usual with perhaps a slow gradual shift would always be seen as the safe choice, and rapidly abandoning oil would be perceived as dangerous, no matter what harm or risks oil is causing.
Did you have a way of seeing this as a good thing?
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more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38952897
that already exists, its the microphone button
I think even more than their lack of contributions to society, but the power their wealth brings to continue to protect their wealth, privilege, uphold the status quo, and continue widening the disparity of wealth between classes.
I usually use it for a lot of programming-related tasks in languages or stacks I may be less familiar with, so my verification process is usually just me checking the code or getting test cases to pass.
> My cat got out of the house and bit me on the hand last year around this time and it got infected and swelled up.

Always have betadine on hand. My cat scratched and bit be numerous times, never had an issue, always washed with plenty of soap and water and disinfected the wounds with betadine.

Indoor cats also go crazy. I'm never keeping another cat indoors without free roaming access.
In bureaucracies like this, the fish inenvitably rots from the head. The people who offer the faculty positions are incompetent or indifferent. And the people who hired those people are incompetent or indifferent.

As such, it's a mess that literally can't be solved from within, it needs to be solved by the administration, and the boards who appoint them. The tenure system means it'll take generations to resolve.

Academia in the U.S. has seen systemic issues like this in the past (see: eugenics). Unfortunately the implication is that it'll continue to get worse until it's mostly made better by people retiring.
Yes, I have implemented HITL. There's a task queue(psql skiplock). You make a request (insert row). It builds a "workflow graph" of your request and compiles it, a combination between a FSM and graph program. It runs an iteration on the workgraph, and then if successful, submits the next step in the queue as "pending". the user then inspects and accepts the tasks, which then run another iteration of the workgraph. If the user rejects it they can click "playground" and manually do the step.
eBay pays $3M fine in blogger harassment case
That's like preventing HTML5 to include a native date picker. Because if you want anything more complex than a basic date picker, then what? Rewrite everything in JavaScript?

Simple answer: yes.
Why complicate everything when I can serve it with webfs (a tiny webserver), from a tiny SBC from a cabinet in my room, or from a VM and concentrate all my services to it while paying not too much money and have all the flexibility in the world?

I don't like to use oversized tools for small jobs. Also, it's not fun.
Buried midway down, they mention that the commercial health plans available to people without conventional employers (Obamacare) can (and routinely do) set deductibles as high as $9,450. And that’s in addition to the premium-which, in New York City for example, starts at $618/month for the very worst plan for an individual. Sure, that’s subsidized for lower-income households — but who among those has a spare $10K lying around to spend out of pocket before they actually benefit from the insurance?

When you’ve budgeted the $7,400 to pay for premiums whether or not you use healthcare, and the insurance doesn’t even kick in until you’ve spent a total of $16,800 on medical care in a given year, it doesn’t come as a huge surprise to me that people feel like they’ve already paid enough, and that the payers and providers should sort it out amongst themselves.

There’s economic, contractual, and policy reality; but then, even among people who might be able to afford it, there’s the gut feeling of “I’ve already paid way too much for this 5-minute checkup, I’m not paying more.”
> People don't want to be told the world is a meritocracy when it's roulette (born to the right people in the right place)...

Look at it from the perspective of the parents. My kid is my kid because I decided to have it and it's got 50% of my DNA. I decided to not have my kid in my Somalia. Just as my parents decided not to have me in Somalia.

And all around me I see how so many parents making terrible life choices.

I'm teaching my kid to answer "blame your parents".
Do you have any material online on Tiagix OS? I can't seem to find anything from a quick Google search.
There are things you can't put in food even though you can choose not to eat it.

Individual action does not work for some issues. This is one of them.

Tracking is everywhere. It is not just facebook. It is every website and there is no realistic alternative as an individual user except be excluded from majority of the internet.
I'm getting black ops vibes from this.
It's close enough that you can compensate by setting a lower indoor temperature during daylight and letting it rise a few degrees around sunset before the outdoor temperature declines.
I agree this is so frustrating. One thing that I’ve found in the US is that in addition to having fewer out of pocket costs, being on an HMO plan can significantly simplify billing vs a PPO plan. We switched over to an HMO plan from PPO during my wife’s pregnancy and we went from getting a new bill in the mail every week to just paying a fixed co-pay at the doctor’s office every visit. It saved us so much stress, and in our case we were able to keep the exact same doctors, facilities, etc. We also saved a bunch of money, but the simplicity ended up being the thing that I valued most.

Years after our child was born, I ended up getting a scary letter from a collections agency. Turns out I had missed some $20 bill from the time when we were on the PPO plan. So they say, at least - it seems equally plausible that it was a billing error on their side (of which we found many), and they never once mentioned it during any of our visits. But at that point I was not willing to fight over $20 and just paid it.
When I hear "Computer Museum," I feel anger, and I realize that I'm not yet over Paul Allen's family dismantling his Living Computer Museum after his death. That place was doing really great work.
I'd love to adopt this strategy as well, but I worry about the clinic eventually forcing me to pay somehow and adding a bunch of penalties on top. Is there a way to mitigate that risk? Or is that risk unlikely in a way I'm not considering?
A lot of companies also saw spikes in revenue, raised money from investors at sweet terms based on that revenue growth (despite it being unsustainable), and then needed to spend that money to show they were going to use it to keep the good times rolling.
Can passwords include spaces?
Apologies for titling from deeper in article, but to do otherwise would be burying the lede.

Also, life mirrors fiction: https://xkcd.com/325/
Yes there is a wealth tax in Switzerland, but... it would have to be much higher to make a difference. Raising it will not pass a referendum, which it practically has to in Switzerland. It has one big advantage, though: official numbers about wealth distribution.

I think micro taxation on all transactions (including at ATMs) would work better. Easier to explain, harder to avoid since you tax both sides of each transaction.
> it's always a big win

AFTER you finish paying off the financing of the source of home generation. so maybe it'll be a big win for the people in your location after you're gone???
obviously a steve-jobs-like backroom deal like the one from 2005 having most companies agreeing on doing it at the same time "with no quick hires backsies".
Caring for two cats is even easier because if their human is boring because of concentration, they can entertain each other. Works here, and with rescue dog in the mix too.

Also, if the dog is fond of walks and hikes etc, that’s possibly super healthy for a break from sitting and working. As the joke goes, "Ask me how I know." :)
Better source: https://blogs.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/2024/01/11/nasas-osiris-re...

It took so long because the sample container is inside a clean "glovebox", so the special tools they needed had to be custom built out of specific materials approved for use in that environment.
See also The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis by Jain.

The statistical parts are very good: self contained and with good explanations. Perhaps a weakness is there isn't much on distributed systems.

He did some Youtube videos as well.
This is what infuriates me the most about healthcare in the US. I give someone my card, they enter the numbers with no indication of whether or not everything will be covered by insurance (they assume you just know).

Then, a month later, I receive a bill indicating a routine procedure that I assumed out of ignorance was covered by insurance (since they took my card and entered the numbers without saying anything to the contrary) for $500 (or, god forbid, more).

If I knew a salad at a restaurant were $200, I probably wouldn’t order it. There is no basic transparency in medical billing, and that needs to change.
System76's Cosmic Desktop Working Toward Its Alpha Release
But oddly enough one of those countries isn't China. Its weird how Google and Facebook can't do much their while everything from Apple works as well as anywhere else.
EV's only make sense in home markets - the market in which you primarily live. Going on a long trip and renting a vehicle? Why would you rent an EV? You're adding 15% to 20% time to your trip for the added charging. Makes no sense.

You flew somewhere and now need a car. Are you going to rent an EV? No! You don't know where the chargers are locally and chargers are nowhere as ubiquitous as gas stations.

Not sure why anyone thought this was a good idea.

What is a good idea is there's now a company in my home town that's advertising rent an EV for a week and you can see if it's right for you. That makes a lot of sense. Before you lay out $40K to $50K on a new EV and then discover it was a mistake, spend a few hundred and see what life is like with an EV.
Yeah, unfortunately like with many other „federated XYZ“ projects, it’s the lack of good UI that stops me from using it.

I applaud the author for keeping a minimal footprint with vanilla JS and CSS. But this is very hard to maintain and understand for outsiders and makes Frontend tasks very tedious. Would love to help and contribute some stuff, but the stack is just not for me.

Still hope this succeeds. The idea is fantastic.
I like the tool.

I would remove the example on the nebula service, that channel is a real creator. Add any oficial nebula channel as example for the blocklist instead. Don't screw one guy just for the sake of it, it's not a nice move.
The majority of plant phytochemicals with properties that are beneficial to human health simply exist to protect plants against insects (i.e functionally they are poisonous insecticides). There is even a theory in pharmacology to explain this precise observation, called hormesis [1]. The type of reasoning you use that relies on the scary affective connotation of WORDS is not a meaningful way to draw scientific conclusions.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18543123/
Developing this type of malware is a lot more complicated than developing some web service or database.

For instance the attack path isnt immediately clear and there needs to be a period of developing proof of concept exploits that are then tested in a variety of environments, there needs to be persistence techniques developed, there needs to be a C2 system, there needs to be a methods to avoid detection. Stuxnet was probably a collection of many 0days that were used in conjunction. Each 0day probably takes months of "dev time" at minimum to develop.
You'd be suprised, the shear amount of black box vendor nonsense out there borders on astronomical. Weird telco stuff, old cisco hardware, BMCs in servers, it would mean gutting probably millions of dollars of equiment. It's stupid, but throwing the baby out with the bathwater over openssh won't make anyone happy.
Such is capitalism.

“The rich get richer
The poor get the picture
The bombs never hit you when you're down so low”

-Midnight Oil “Read About It”
Hey! yes, this is on our roadmap for the next week! We plan to use Whisper and will calibrate with your voice like Siri does it.

We believe it's one of the most important features

we also want to make sure that everything Is privacy preserved and we don't record conversations other than the user's
I guess the US is not engaged in a hot war with Iran. Sort of lukewarm though.

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/10/1223906769/yemens-houthis-red...
This is actually a very very smart idea. We will discuss this with the team -- thank you so much adiakritos!
Okay so this is pretty bleak isn't it, for the entrepreneurs, grassroots, startups, or just free enterprise in the most basic form?

I hope making software, apps, coding and designing is still a viable path to take when everyone has been captured into apps owned by the richest people on earth and no one will go to the open marketplace / "internet" anymore.

Will smaller scale tech entrepreneurship die?
the ultra wealthy put all their assets into trusts or charities that dodge taxes and don't require selling anything. They can then take out loans using those assets as collateral when they need cash
A jet's composite fuselage burned on a Tokyo runway. Is the material safe?
Can you name a country that doesn't allow news censorship by their military during combat? The same exact thing happens with US journalists embedded with the US military. It's obvious operational security. I'm guessing you don't speak hebrew, but Israeli journalists are even more critical of their government than American journalists.
Adrian Cockcroft wrote about his Hertz experiences back in April.

Update: Bad experiences renting electric cars from Hertz
https://adrianco.medium.com/experiences-renting-electric-car...
Brilliant! As if a solid feature roadmap doesn't require inputs from sales, marketing or customer support.
What device are you running Qubes on? Its unfortunately a little hard to find a powerful laptop that can run qubes due to Xen.
Back in 2014 for the release of Kinect Sports Rivals, the tech to scan people and extract their body details into the right face shapes to match them with a virtual avatar. That came from MS Research Cambridge as far as I know.

Here is a video of it demo'd: https://youtu.be/YKkULaN7J9o
A friend of mine had gastric bypass revision surgery in Mexico because it was cheaper.
Listing specific creators as examples to block on https://letsblock.it/filters/nebula-creators is leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

One could illustrate this example with some fake creators. Dunking on individual creators, especially on a platform outside of the Big Tech sphere feels mean-spirited.
But in the browser the browser interacts with it anyway. It‘s not like the app would run in a repl and now doesn‘t. There is no meaningful difference in this case, even less so if hot reloading is used.
Why do I need an account for this?
I think the hardware is just a gimmick. It gives the proposition more 'body' and is great for marketing.

But really, this is screaming to be an app. There is literally nothing this thing can do that the phone in all of our pockets can't. Especially integrated with our smartwatches for ease of use. So why have a separate device for it? It makes no sense.

I think the hardware is just there to make it not 'just another app' in the press, really. And that the app version will come soon after the physical product releases and will take over 99% of the installed base.

And of course if this takes off they'll be quickly acquired by Apple, Microsoft, Google or Samsung. I bet that's what they're aiming for.
Between Discord, Twitch, Amazon+Prime, and Google... what's the layoff pattern here? Are we talking about social community teams? Streaming/networking engineers? Or is there no connective thread between these four companies?

Are there other corporate layoffs that round out this intrigue?
Easily said when it's not your $100/mo for something that no longer interests you.
That's all fine and dandy when you are small, and have a bunch of generalists that will throw themselves at any problem there is.

But when you grow to the point of having a sizeable middle management layer that isolates engineers from one another, by enforcing strict area of interest for each team, you really shouldn't call yourself "engineering driven" anymore.
And also, the more you scale, the more specialists you need. Specialists that aren't able, or just aren't willing to move from place to place rapidly
Just bought a T43 to run Windows 2000 this week. Just got wifi working with WPA2, so I just need some decent browser and some apps next.
People experiencing homelessness die decades before their time: https://www.streetroots.org/news/2023/12/20/kaia-sand-people...
While there is a growing demand for passenger aircraft, the fixed costs of getting into the business are so high that the market cannot support that many manufacturers. Not on a commercial basis, anyway.

Airbus and Boeing are commercially viable, and they have customers all around the world. Comac is more of a political project, as China tries to reduce their dependence on Western technology. There are 1000+ orders for the C919, but effectively all of them are Chinese.

Similarly, the USSR had domestic passenger aircraft industry, and Russia retains some capability to manufacture them. Their latest model is the Irkut MC-21, which has a few hundred orders. Again, effectively all of the orders are Russian.

Then there is Embraer, which is the biggest manufacturer of regional jets. They have been decades in the business, but they have not made any attempt to build a competitor for the A320 and B737.
ah yes, the good old HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0 switcheroo
How does Proton mail make money?
They just hash every substring that can be a password.

Don't write long comments. Show some love to HN's server carrying its O(n^2) burden.
Companies evaluate ROI for projects against the "risk-free" interest rate. When that interest rate rises, fewer projects are viable.
I guess it depends on the audience you are looking for. If you want to specifically target the gullible or you are really good at lying, this might be a great strategy.
In a lot of urban locations, it is not legal to have a residence that is not connected to the grid. If you have home generation capabilities and storage that means you take the least amount from the grid provider, you can be technically still connected to the grid without using any power. If this continues, I would not put it past the grid provider to come up with a minimum monthly bill so it is impossible to have a $0 payment. Otherwise, who's going to pay for the administrative costs of having you as a customer?
> If a factory shuts down half the time, then you need twice as many factories to produce the same stuff.

No. It means you might need twice as much of whatever the bottleneck is, assuming that's a real time manufacturing resource which it might well not be. You definitely don't need twice as many whole factories. And if that bottlebeck isn't energy intensive that's not the problem at all, you can just re-arrange the energy intensive parts and you won't even need more factory.
> Does much actually make it out of MS Research?

Nope. Microsoft Research has some luminaries such as Leslie Lamport, Christopher Bishop, Xuedong Huang and others, but as far as actual research output that has been commercialized, there is not much to show off.
> I don’t agree with you here. OpenAI should be free to train on your data assuming you agreed to that in the terms of service (and yes, you did). If they ask for a little more money in exchange for not having that valuable information in trade, that seems fair.

Yea, another way to word it would be to imagine that they _only_ had a more expensive "no train" option. Now ask if it would be okay to offer a lower priced but yes-train version.
for as long as I'll need to recompile PyTorch for it to adequately support my card, yes, it matters.
> for the freedom to have my small farm, grow my own food, and be happy with my family and friends, too bad that this is a very, very distant dream

Every now and then I bump into people on HN that have seen the light.

Well let me tell you it's all doable. The tiny bubble of people that live in a non existant alternative reality is just that, a tiny bubble.

I managed to escape all this nonesense, first mentally, then financially, and buy a little house where I can grow my own food - for hobby, I have plant pots in my house growing tomatoes and spring onions, doesn't work but I am learning - and be happy with family and friends.

Naturally I have a very nice tech room with all the cool stuff. I am not rich, but I am free. Fun thing is you don't need to completely erase the paraphernalia. The two things are not mutually exclusive. All you need to do is have a clear mental separation of the two (tech bubble and reality) and compartmentalize the sane from the insane - an easy thing to achieve when you surround yourself with down to earth people that don't run around scared of an LLM and don't regurgitate what a marketing campaign programmed them to do. Those people are the matrix drones that don't want to be saved, and in their mind it's all or nothing - hermit or tech slave. Most normal people are watching in awe how the tech industry turns itself into the subject of ridicule.

To be fair if you live in the US it's probably easier to achieve what you want. For the money I paid for a little box in the UK i'd have been able to buy a mansion there.
Simultaneously, an unfathomably large sum of money would become available in use-it-or-lose-it fashion to the billionaires. Political spending on the 2020 election was about $15 billion, while you're advocating a system that would substationally rebalance a $4.4 trillion national revenue stream. Do you think that the rich would spend more than $15 billion fighting that? Bezos made $70 billion this year and in previous years had an effective tax rate of about 0.9%. Increase that rate to 37% - or extrapolate a curve forward from $578k - and if he succeeded then by himself he could profitably spend more fighting this proposal than Biden, Trump, and every super PAC spent in 2020.
It's directly related, perhaps you just struggle with comprehending the message?

Where does your entitlement come from? I bet working in tech too long.
this is a great idea
This is how we would solve it

1) We probably wouldn't add "modes" but we will add different "coaches" with different styles => for example if you need sales/pitching, you'll select "Tony Robbins", if you need a business person, you select Elon Musk

2) We will be able to solve your problem with "request'"
So if you say "Hey Sama" and then, tell "Sama" to become "masterful negotiator coach" until the end of the day => it will become one
yeah, just like all the money in the bank isn't actually the bank's money. the bank still has the money