skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That rather misses the point. The entire reason we have corporations is to abstract those issues away. For most routine business it's better to deal with a faceless corporation instead of trying to personalize everything. The corporation itself can be held accountable for contract compliance and in extreme cases you can get a court order to seize corporate assets; that's much easier than trying to seize and auction off the CEO's personal art collection or whatever.
It was in all the papers. Went through all instances, all the way to the relevant department.

But of course there is nothing in Norwegian law that that denies people the right to donate their share, as long as every other law is followed.

Which is why last time media even pointed it out in cleartext the article: everything is legal.

They just wrote the article in the style of a criminal investigation anyway and askes big companies questions the same way they would have done with if they were caught dealing with russian mobsters.

That way they can point to the fact that they have informed about it while still destroying the marked for someone they don't like.

(Sorry, English is nit my first language.)
I am not familiar with the late Mr. Barth, and could not quite make heads and tails of the obituary. Perhaps someone could suggest one or two short pieces of his work to read to a get sense of what those "high-tech literary gimmicks" are?
YC's Winter 2024 Demo Day confirms that we are indeed in an AI bubble
This is just bananas. I work in programming languages.

I currently have open in my editor a code formatter that I maintain that uses at least half a dozen recursive algorithms to traverse syntax trees and other data structures. This program is used by almost every user of our language, invoked on every save, and probably executed billions of times a day.

Recursion is fine.
Track your users on a deeper level within the Web2 and Web3 realms and seamlessly communicate with them using creative channels of their choice.
Capture where your users come to your platform and confirm the quality of your users with their Web3 Footprint to double down on quality marketing campaigns and measure your product effectiveness.
Other discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39896560
They ask an assistant for help?

Run it through some panel of experts and demand algorithm changes?

Send it to some Judge API and get back some JSON?

I dunno, what?

They're not exactly very good at preventing or punishing human atrocities, either... it's more of a symbolic group, or a tool of the victors, than anything resembling actual justice. I'd argue textbook authors have more of a lasting ethical impact than the ICC.
This limitation doesn’t just proscribe traditional recursive algorithms: Any reentrancy is impossible.

Your threads, co-routines, interrupt handlers, error handlers, all have to be careful not to stomp on someone else’s use of the same function, even if they’re not directly using a function recursively.
> The US government will soon have a database of all (complying) beneficial owners. This database will eventually be hacked, leaked, shared with local law enforcement (further allowing it to be leaked).

The BOI requirements of the CTA were recently ruled unconstitutional (as exceeding federal commerce-clause power and encroaching on powers reserved to states) in the first major test case before a federal court. [1]

Since it was ruled unconstitutional on reserved powers grounds, they didn't even reach the 4th amendment implications, but there may be further consideration as these cases make their way up the court heirarchy.

It's definitely not certain that this database is going anywhere.

> How will the "rich people" maintain privacy/secrecy after the Corporate Transparency Act?

The same way they do now. The CTA as formulated was only binding on non-publicly-traded companies with 20 or fewer employees. It also explicitly exempted companies whose primary business activity is financial services or asset holdings. This is why many regard it as an attack on small business disguised as an accountability measure for big business.

[1] https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/corporates/cta-un...
That is genocide.
> Austin relaxed their zoning rules for child-care operators because it was entirely reasonable, and not onerous to do so. Brookyln, NYC does not have that luxury.

What makes it onerous? Why does Brooklyn not have that luxury?
The issue I noticed is I still could make calls from and to local numbers (+33 to +33) but not from/to foreign numbers (+33 to +else)
Natural gas is just the beginning, they'll be able to make any hydrocarbon in time
I think you very much missed the context of that scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORHAP6duw9E

The job is not "shoot aliens". It's manage aliens, including Earth's population of legal resident aliens (like the taxi driver who he delivers a baby for). The Big Bad of the film is indeed posing as a human, and Smith's character runs into an endless procession of innocent (or at least non-capital-crime) aliens he should not shoot along the way.

There's a reason he gets hired over all the military folks in the scene immediately blasting away at the aliens in the shooting range.
It's not about a "timezone", the article is about high precision time keeping and how to set a standard for it on the moon.

Because (according to the article) an earth clock when moved to the moon wold be a few micro seconds per day slower then it was on earth, causing drift.

So just setting UTC or UTC+1 isn't the ting they're trying to decide. It's more about a scientific method to derive highly accurate time on the moon, which can't just be earth type atomic clocks because they would drift.
Why does that work for you, but doesn't extend when considering others? Simply make n>1, no?
Classic, "if you've done nothing wrong, you should have nothing to hide".

The unscrupulous aspect might not be the company, but the audience. It shouldn't be that hard to imagine that owners of companies might be targeted for harassment, violence, etc., and might even be reluctant to invest in a company at all because of the problems that would come from being publicly listed in association with that company. One might argue that ownership comes with these consequences, but of course the impact might be broader, extending to friends and family members, who wouldn't necessarily have any ownership stake in the business. The Internet being the Internet, this tends to be a particular problem for women and minorities.

Then there's cases where the information could be harmful to the company, not the owner.

There's cases where they're just trying to avoid PR/political problems that can be perfectly defensible, but if you're having to defend them, you've already lost the PR/political battle. The Internet being the Internet, even if they purge all public political positions from their personal discourse, even historical political activity going back well before they ever founded a business could be a problem. I know business owners who make sure their business avoids engaging in anything that would put them on any side of a political or hot button issue, and they extend that to themselves because their name is attached to the business.

Simple example: I know one person who is involved with shelters for battered women. They're fine that everyone knows they're involved in it, but there are some businesses they've invested in where they're a silent partner specifically because their partners don't want the harassment/violence/ill will that can come with that.
This post sits wrong with me. They're not entitled to increasing traffic forever, and when traffic drops, it's not always due to an external force being exerted onto you.

I actually subscribe to RetroDodo on Youtube and noticed that I don't view their content anymore. This has less to do with any "algorithm" but rather the fact that their "voice" seems to have changed (both figuratively and literally... a lot of their videos have a new "host" altogether) and that they're directing more energy at different things (books, discussions about the industry, more gimmicky videos, etc) that aren't giving them the same return.

The founder used to post about gaming-related "SEO plays" (some wikipedia for Pokemon or something if I remember correctly?) on his personal YouTube channel. With this in mind, I get the feeling that SEO has become more of a focus than what brought in his audience in the first place.
I’m quite happy to have grown up in the n64 era, totally happy with 30fps. And you can get some sweet effects and high resolution on a cheap card at 30fps.

OTOH, some games seem to add, like, a frame or two between input and response? Whatever it is, it feels really annoying. But I’ve played plenty of games that feel perfectly tight and responsive at 30fps so I think there must be something else wrong. I’m sure it could be fixed with a higher frame rate, but I’d rather not resort to that.
What is this trying to prove? It's just one random page of a publicly editable wiki. AMD/Intel having more entries may just be because it is more popular (which it is indeed), or because (being opensource) it is actually easier to debug+solve problems, and/or a million other reasons.

Frankly, I think all the argument you need is that despite the huge advantage nvidia has on other platforms, it is almost completely reversed (even on steam) for Linux. It conveys very heavily that at least nvidia has a very poor reputation on Linux desktops.
Not trying to take away from you, that it is difficult.

Just saying that it hasn't changed too much over the past 50 years – it was also difficult for the previous generations.

At least in Denmark, the situation is better now than it has been earlier, despite the market being heated. You can comfortably buy a house at around 4x annual salary with reasonable savings (~10% down payment).
Probably most of section e.

But hamas fighters wear civilian clothes, so I'm not sure the rules even apply to them.
What is your point even? All I said is that you can't compare Al Qaeda and Hamas, and how they operate, and how to combat them. I never said that US drone strikes were/are 100% perfect, or even that I liked the entire programme.
Childcare affordability is yet another reason why we need to kill land hoarding with a land value tax.
Unless JPMorgan gets the info from Amazon (in a post-Bezos company, where the customer-oriented Leadership Principle gets noticeably less emphasis).

Also, I was thinking, if this particular news story happens to get promoted widely, then some of the Amazon card goodwill will be lost (because not all consumers realize that pretty much every company is quietly violating their privacy, but this one happens to be in the news).
https://ar.inspiredpencil.com/pictures-2023/geosynchronous-o...

Many geosync orbits trace an asymmetrical 8 on the ground that looks like a keyhole. That's where the name comes from, from programs older than the TK sats.
Evangelization and Culture Journal on Artificial Intelligence
you would be in the minority then, most people these days want (and expect) live feedback if the action's result is predictable enough

e.g. throttle your network and upvote a hn comment. you're not sitting there waiting with a spinner while the server responds, it's all in the background.

the hn implementation isn't great though - if the upvote request fails, the optimistic update isn't rolled back, and you have no knowledge that it failed. for hn, who cares, it's just a lost upvote, but for most modern web apps you would show the user that the action failed
How will this address methane leakage, which is a substantial source of athmospheric greenhouse gas emissions? Converting Co2 to methane is not carbon neutral if/when leaked...
This neatly encapsulates why (and how) Pabst Blue Ribbon beer plausibly (but never confirmed) won that blue ribbon in 1893: at a time when beer was especially hard to get just right, tasting the same every time is a huge technical win.
Oh bullshit. What are people supposed to do? More importantly, what COULD people do that would be 10% as effective as proper, top-down regulation on emissions and environmentally destructive industry? It's been bluntly obviously demonstrated at this point that this problem is above consumer activism's ability to solve. Maybe the market could be persuaded at one time to buy more electric cars and eat less meat, but we're reaching a point where politely asking is no longer sufficient if we want the planet to continue supporting us. Now we need to DEMAND it.
What are some applications where its worth taking the highest grade energy (electricity) and turning it into a lower grade (eg liquid fuels), rather than electrifying the application?

Electricity to motion is significantly more efficient per input energy than burning fuel->heat-> gaseous expansion->drive a piston->convert to rotation chain.

What am I missing about this?
> Goodness I wonder what methods one could use to reduce their blunder rate.

Checklist:

1) Is there a checkmate? Yeah, you might want to stop it if you don't want to lose.

2) Is there a check? Checks are forcing and can make you do things you don't want to do. You probably want to prevent them.

3) Is there a capture? A piece with no defenders that can be grabbed probably needs to have something done about it.

4) Is there an undefended piece? Undefended pieces become capturable. Defend it.

5) Do you have any plan at all? Even a bad one is better than none at all.

The problem is that there are lots of these on a board. When you first start doing this, it's a slow process, and it is not fun. But you will get much better very quickly.
The US is already extracting a lot of natural gas and leaking a ton of it. The main culprit of these leaks are those regulatory bodies who outsource their jobs onto the companies. Fund them better and enforce heftoer penalties and the issue of leaks can be minimized drastically
I think sometimes you have to click on the date to go directly to the post/comment, in order to see it.
Water is right there, but the hydrogen is really closely bound to the oxygen, and extremely hard to get out.

It's considerably easier to get H2 out of methane. Unfortunately, that process also yields CO2, so it's not helping the greenhouse gas situation.

Hydrogen proponents suggest a route where we start with "blue hydrogen" from natural gas. Then, when we've got a good H2 infrastructure going and a lot of excess electricity from solar, we can switch over to "green hydrogen" from water.

Skeptics point out that this is incredibly stupid, and that "hydrogen proponents" tend to be closely in bed with the fossil fuel industry. It looks an awful lot like an excuse to delay the elimination of fossil-fuel replacements like wind and solar.
Not sure what the difference is given the end result?
> The only actual democracy in the middle east is—well, Israel.

An apartheid is no democracy. Calling an apartheid regime 'democracy' debases the concept of democracy, and gives it bad reputation.
What trash math classes were you all in that didn't teach all of this?
I hate those light bulbs. They blink at I think 120hz? Idk maybe that saves energy as half the time the light isn’t on. And maybe most people can’t tell.

As an object moves in sunlight it looks smooth to your eyes, but under a blinking light you only see the motion during moments that get lit up. This is much more obvious for faster motion.

I’m not 100% certain but I think this sort of lighting triggers bad headaches for me. I get bad headaches some times, and I’ve always been pretty sure the lighting was why but I’ve only recently started confirming with my phone that all those places where I get headaches use blinking overhead lights for the entire room. More and more places around me have adopted it and it’s awful. I have tons of clips in my phone now of random locations in slow motion, many of which have these lights. I can’t walk through a store that’s using them for very long.
>That algorithm is broken - it doesn't withhold the required amount for many people

This has been an issue historically, but spiked bigly after the 2017 Republican Tax plan. They perm lowered the corp tax rate from 35% down to 21%, perm lowered taxes overall for the wealthy.

The middle class and lower end, had their DEDUCTIONS lowered, but the taxes owed didn't change. This caused it to appear that they got a lowered tax rate, then everyone got hit with owing all of that "largess" in 2018.

TL;DR: Republican fuckery made it much worse, but it's always been a thing.

source: I've paid taxes for almost 4 decades now.
Yep. The bummer is that the Apple ][ relies on the clock speed of the 6502 to handle some of its functionality (most notably video handling), so you can’t just run a cable to the CPU socket on the Apple motherboard. I wonder if any of the other classic 6502 machines (Commodore, Atari, Acorn, BBC, etc.) would work?
> But not confiscation by default, in all cases.

They don't (at least, I don't think they do).

I don't know if I said something that you interpreted as "confiscate first", but that was not what I meant.
I make good money and still regret my youth so much. I didn't socialize or party in college. I'm a poorly-adapted adult who envies young people who are more risk-taking than I've ever been, and envies people my age who had their fun and now are happy to accept the stability I feel stuck in.
Speaking as someone who started their medical career as these came to the masses (student 2010-2013, internship 2014) this absolutely reflects my experience on the coalface experiencing double digit increases in teenage suicidal ideation and self harm presentations to the emergency department.
That's fair. I was mostly replying to someone's statement elsewhere on the thread. I don't know if rich or poor are more depressed.
if they simply streamlined their sales pipeline and created a mid tier (somewhere between $500-$2500 a month for example) that unlocks some of the features that are behind "contact sales" banner they could boost revenue without changing any existing tiers, I'd wager.

I think the platform has a ton of potential and it already shows signs of real progress, but much like fly.io, its rough edges are incredibly rough.
Because of Chernobyl.

And they did not fail at everything else.

They succeeded in a lot of cases.

For a rather large win, as I mentioned, the Ozone layer was saved. Another big one was banning of DDT and introduction of regulations on everything from new pesticides / herbicides to emissions (or fuel saving as we used to refer to it until recently).
The fact that the "gold standard" content isn't in easily accessible text format doesn't seem like a good thing.
The first paragraph in Wuffs's README explicitly states that it's good for both encoding and decoding?
Leakages are indeed an enormous problem. It’s estimated than more than 2% of the gas leaks !
emacs still does this IIUC. The beating heart of the emacs edit model is a "gap buffer" at the cursor.

There's a neat compare-and-contrast someone did awhile back on the gap buffer approach vs. the other approach often taken for code IDEs ("ropes"). The tl;dr is that gap buffers are actually really performant for a lot of cases except for having to edit at a lot of randomly-chosen cursor points far apart from each other (but how often is that your use case?).

https://coredumped.dev/2023/08/09/text-showdown-gap-buffers-...
Tbh, I've always been a fan of city 17.
Text Effects
My point is "if they're near a target they're a target" is an insane standard to use for these sorts of strikes, and the article this entire HN discussion is about makes it pretty clear such a standard is in use in Gaza right now.

> This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all.

> Moreover, the Israeli army systematically attacked the targeted individuals while they were in their homes — usually at night while their whole families were present — rather than during the course of military activity.

> “We were not interested in killing [Hamas] operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,” A., an intelligence officer, told +972 and Local Call. “On the contrary, the IDF bombed them in homes without hesitation, as a first option. It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in these situations.”
local-first with a client-side sqlite db sounds way simpler for what seems like the same purpose
That's what makes me wary of modifying my NixOS config. A single typo and you get an error dump comparable to C++03 templates.
We also have to be open to the possibility that Israel is committing a genocide and the goal is to kill as many Palestinians as possible and terrorize the rest. That the AI system’s main purpose isn’t to be accurate in selecting target, but rather to manufacture a reason to kill more Palestinians than a human ever could. Another function could be to remove accountability from a targeting officer. Zero-error is never really a desired feature, in fact zero-error would be a bug, as it would prevent the genocide being conducted efficiently.

What we may be witnessing is the first information age level genocide, where the killing is done at the behest of a statistical function with near infinite computing power.
it’s not.

stuff logs into s3. learn to mine them in parallel using lambda or ec2 spot. grow tech or teams as needed for scale. never egress data and never persist data outside of the cheapest s3 tiers. expire data on some sane schedule.

data processing is fun, interesting, and valuable. it is core to understanding your systems.

if you can’t do this well, there is probably a lot more you can’t do well either. in that case, life is going to be very expensive.

it’s ok to not do this well yet! spend some portion of your week doing this and you will improve quickly.
Lol I'm from the south where practically everyone has to have one and thus familiar with the terminology, but it goes deeper than that.

It used to be you could get something like a Chevy S10. It wasn't really a work truck, but a small truck for running errands without paying $100 at the pump. They don't seem to make any small trucks like that anymore. Even the supposedly Spartan work trucks are goliaths in terms of size and cost.
Again, I know basically nothing about hardware, so this is likely a dumb question: could you conceivably get an oscillator/clock chip that also operates at 1/20th the speed, wire that into the Apple ][, and then wire in this giant CPU?
It’s probably a few months away from being production ready but might want to check out electrobun.

It’s like tauri, but instead of rust you write typescript.

https://github.com/blackboardsh/electrobun