skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Both seem counter to the notion of a republic and the accountability needed for private property.

Imagine that you own and run Acme Critical Publishing, which publishes exposés of crimes and ethical lapses of the sitting President. In speeches, he starts rambling about your company as an example of Horrible Very Bad People, and the next thing you know some supported of his casually looked up your home address online and now there are burning lower-case-t's on your lawn... I'd say the republic and accountability are both suffering in that scenario.

It's one of those "tools that can be used for for good or evil" things, and simply prohibiting the tool isn't necessarily the best way to maximize the good while minimizing the evil.
How do you think people are chosen to visit a secret CIA prison, or chosen to get a 12 hour interrogation every time they enter the US?
That's just not believable given that I have a few ip ranges that I get heavily throttled on when I don't connect through a VPN.
The correct term for the legal category which they are trying to determine the extent of is “continental shelf”, hence the name of the project (under international law this is legal category is determined by the greater of 200nm or the natural extent of the physical continental shelf.)
But in lieu of expulsion, it seems they're ok with starvation and mass murder as alternatives.
Oregon's decriminalization was really badly fumbled, but it's not clear to me that it would have succeeded in the best of circumstances. Vancouver,B.C. has all the diversion/treatment options and legal use sites you could want, and they're having a lot of problems with the fentanyl wave too. They're also experiencing sky high overdose rates.

I'm an Oregonian. I would have preferred that the state enacted robust enforcement of bans on public use and stood up legal use sites rather than recriminalize. I'm not sure that would be politically viable though, and "stand up legal use sites" is easy to write in a law, but it's exactly the kind of thing our public agencies have been utterly incapable of doing in recent years. Where would these legal use sites be? Near which schools, homes, and businesses? Which agency would administer them? Or rather, which agency would administer the contract to a grant-supported non-profit entity (because that's how these things work here)? How would you convince qualified people to work there? Can't be done in Oregon on any kind of timeline that would address the present crisis.
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This only works if everyone does it.

Obviously most people don't seem to care for those price hikes at Starbucks. You can make sure they studied the profit/loss on that move.
Why did they get booted for using it?
How beautiful that this blog post was made years after I was struggling in thermodynamics to understand these transforms. Now if someone could make a post for the Laplace Transform with the audience being people familiar with the fourier transform.
It's a great tool for discussing sales of the eggs from your coop at the coöp. But it nearly disappeared once. https://archive.is/3Oz0F

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We do change our style from time to time. My predecessor (and the former keeper of the comma shaker) told me that she used to pester the style editor, Hobie Weekes, who had been at the magazine since 1928, to get rid of the diaeresis. She found it fussy. She said that once, in the elevator, he told her he was on the verge of changing that style and would be sending out a memo soon. And then he died.
This was in 1978. No one has had the nerve to raise the subject since.
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I am grateful it persists.

As someone learning Dutch, it is VERY helpful in words like zeeën - ( zee-en - seas). Much easier to know what it is vs. zeeen. I hope it is similarly helpful for foreigners learning English.
What drove colonialism? It wasn't a desire to meet new and interesting cultures. It was land for development and resources for extraction.

What's driving our current exploration binge? Land for development and resources for extraction.

Regardless of intent, they share many of the same incentive structures.

That being said, I'm quite surprised by the partner list from the project website. I may be discounting conservation from my analysis.

https://seabed2030.org/our-partners/
Check out Vonlane. They are deluxe buses that cover the Texas triangle. We use them for work to move our guys between Houston / Austin regularly and people seem to love it. It's pretty cheap, comfortable, and has wifi.
The flagging on this site is pretty crazy recently
I think the great lesson here is this - if Fork is where to compete with Proprietary Source Available software, it is likely it will need to implement a lot of similar functionality and to avoid potential problems it is very important there is a process of "clean room" implementation. I would consider asking developers to speficially attest they have not been looking at the visible but proprietary implementation when contributing code to Open Source project
> Same article also cites other one-state megaregions like Florida, Southern California, Nortern California

Yeah, this also seems pretty unsurprising. California, Texas, and Florida are the three largest states by population, and Texas and California are second and third by area respectively. Florida does seem like a bit of an outlier here due to being much smaller, but because of Florida's shape, the majority of the state doesn't border any other, so this seems more like a geographic property of the megaregion rather than a political one.
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> or military action (other countries probably have more pressing concerns in this scenario)

I'm starting to think that getting nuked would be preferable to a conventional attack disabling the national grid for prolonged duration. At least for those close to one of the impact sites it would be a faster and more pleasant way to go.
> what did exploitation of land mineral resources ever give to us

the entirety of modern society, good and bad... the computer or phone you're typing this with, your job, etc
First, this is work by the team that co-designed JPEG XL.

Second, as far as I can tell this is a JPEG encoding library, producing JPEG files that any existing JPEG decoder will be able to read. Nobody is being asked to support or maintain anything new.
Chase doesn't see the internals of those transactions, right? They just see "Amazon"?
I'm not confident of the math there.

https://i.imgur.com/cAVbqka.png

Because of quirks, in edge cases decimal is more efficient, but overall alphanumeric is better in QR code.
Does anyone have compiled this to WASM? I'm currently using MozJPEG via WASM for a project and would love to test replacing it by Jpegli.
How did you arrive at these numbers?
I found that putting solid facts in front of Israeli supporters just got me downvotes.
Anyway

>> It is very convenient to criticize it when you're not in it

> Israel 'criticised' Hamas for their monstrous attack six months ago, started a war over it. Perhaps you're saying Israel should have just accepted it?

That is not rhetoric but a straightforward question.
The train has an unpleasant tendency to be not running at all, for weeks at a time, due to earth movement/erosion just south of San Clemente.

Other than that problem, though, I can't imagine a more fun rail business trip than along the beaches of the Pacific.
Thank you for your thoughtful response.

> Would you at least agree with me that the IRA was a good law, and it is real progress towards our green goals?

I’m not American and whilst I’m aware of IRA and it’s broad objectives, I needed to look up some precise specifics. From McKinsey:

“Significant federal funding for climate efforts. The IRA directs nearly $400 billion in federal funding to clean energy, with the goal of substantially lowering the nation’s carbon emissions by the end of this decade.1 The funds will be delivered through a mix of tax incentives, grants, and loan guarantees”.

On the face of it, that sounds like good law and big bucks. Public money for public goods where there is market failure. You are right.

I also appreciated your point that lobbying to prevent new regulation is not hard.

I suspect you might also follow the logic that financing both sustainable business on the one hand, and unsustainable business on the other hand is plain and simple playing both sides.

The banking sector response to this is to say it is for governments to legislate which businesses are legal and which are not, and not to use banking regulation to suffocate unsustainable business by the back door. The head of the ECB has himself said as much.

This seems like a legitimate response until you realise that banks are powerful actors in many industry bodies lobbying against reduction in fossil fuel production, ie stopping unsustainable business in a more direct and transparent way.

As per the Bloomberg piece, after the Glasgow COP when the banks made big promises, they then went home and did their homework and realised they’d go bust if their unsustainable clients were cut loose.

Thanks again for participating in this discussion. It helped clarify my own thinking and I learned something new about the lobbying process. How to stop fossil fuel production has eluded everyone for decades. We probably won’t solve it today!
War zones aren't as quiet and organized as you would imagine. More so when one side is disguised as regular civilians. All war zones also have people killed by friendly fire. I would assume friendly fire > killing western charity workers > killing civilians in order of importance to the military

Yet still, even that its the most important, friendly fire still happens
you dont need to use an intermediary to incorporate offshore

its the same process as incorporating in any US state, where you need an agent of service or registered agent if you dont live there

pick the country just like you would pick a state

and some countries have states too, the US is actually one of the weirder countries as you cant incorporate at the national level

whereas in st kitts & nevis - another federation - you can do both, a st kitts & nevis entity has one set of transparency and regulations, and nevis has a different set of regulations and generally seen as more favorable

its not really a taboo topic like ICIJ and some socioeconomic classes of people make it out to be. its a catalogue with offerings domestically and worldwide
I'm trying to think of a single situation where there is something that people want to hear, but nobody to tell it to them, with all apparent sincerity. But failing. If there is a significant demand for the advice to do or believe whatever it is you want to do or believe, in the absence of censorship, there will be a supply.
The EAGLE project import is quite relevant, now that this product will be discontinued by Autodesk: https://www.autodesk.com/products/fusion-360/blog/future-of-...
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The punishment should be: everything the perpetrator built, earned and bought gets given to the victim. Oh and prison. The perpetrator gets prison too.
Could you imagine getting arrested for reporting identity theft? Getting charged and incarcerated for it? Madness.
A couple of years ago I trained some ResNets to detect saffron flowers and their stigmas and then simulated the picking process in Blender. One would have to develop a suitable soft gripper and use a precise pick-and-place robotic arm (delta robots are great for this), but IMHO the amount of manual labour during harvest can be solved with today's technology.
I used to work in a spice factory. Unlike everything else, they locked the saffron up separately. There were detailed weight logs for when we hand packed (with tweezers) it into jars. We were told it was worth more by weight than cocaine.
That was an entertaining read. Thanks.
I think comparing number of contributors is not the point here. I would not be surprised if Hashicorp can put more people on their proprietary heavily modified version, and it will be more advanced. Yet the Open Source version can be good enough, and prefered for 95% of folks out there
War has always been scary. We are busy inventing new ways of killing each other and there is no sign of stopping.
Wasn’t sysadmin related.
Any human being would not accept this. If it is happening to Palestinian people, it will happen to any other country in the world. Israel is committing genocide in front of the world. 50 years from now, some people will be sorry while committing another genocide.

be ready to be targeted by AI, from another state, within another war
I don’t get it, can’t you just set off neutron bomb every second on Earth and use it as a monotonic counter signal?

Isn’t that like, speed of light or wavefront of event propagation in the universe isn’t consistent but unavoidably potato shaped - but if so, wouldn’t it be at least difficult to have multiple potatoes intersecting, or potato being shaped like Klein bottle? Self intersecting potato shaped space-time would be cool, though.
It’s availability that’s expensive.
https://stanza.systems is a managed thing that offers this functionality (and a bit more) if y'all are looking for an escape valve away from redis as the coordination mechanism.
This literally looks like any aborrhent ai "predicting" system such as the ones we've heard a ton about in the past, with the same mistakes (I wonder if they're really mistakes, bugs, or ahem... Features)
All those nines cost extra.
Not sure if this is relevant or not, but the SpaceX "Starbase" is in deep south Texas, and so is the cross border region. I suspect that a comprehensive analysis would probably include the interface between the "Triangle" and the border region.
We already have that ability, both Unity and Unreal can run in the browser (though it looks like Unreal moved their HTML5 stuff into a public plugin). I think Godot also works if you don't use C# and stick to GDScript, or use Godot 3.x instead of the current 4.x.

The problem isn't the tech to run the game, it's the marketplace - how do you actually sell the games without losing the huge customer base that buys through Steam and platform-specific stores? If you're popular enough you probably still get a lot of customers, but I doubt it's anywhere near what Steam does for you.

Oh, piracy and anti-cheat are also a problem, because you just can't have a AAA game without Denuvo and Kernel Backdoors anymore (greeting to the Apex Legends players out there!).

There are probably still a few issues that would have to be solved on the game engine side, but I'm willing to say that the game engine is not the problem with browser-based games.
People have the neurological, sensory, and social hardware to be able to conceive of such concepts as external reality, internal biases, internal intentions, and sufficient theory of mind to be able to predict and understand your mental state and try to shape their words to honestly convey those external and internal realities— Including when the mutual internal intention itself is hypothetical or fantastical.

I'm not calling LLMs lying machines just because they sometimes hallucinate and get things wrong. I'm calling them Lying Machines because they literally don't have either the hardware or progeny to be able to care about any concept of the truth, whether regarding explicit simple physical facts or about the intentions of a reciprocal conversation. They are, literally, designed, trained, and selected to fool humans so Sam Altman (and many others) can get his bag.
They're making a joke, referring to a skit by Monty Python.
This looks good. And I have already covered these things.

What are some other resources for learning more Math that are very approachable when studying alone?
Discussion: [0] (460 points, 18 hours ago, 168 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39912330
People always tell me they wish they were good at cooking.

The biggest thing is don't mess up.

Don't burn anything, don't undercook it, don't overseason, don't underseason. Even if it's just "okay", if you can avoid ruining food, consistently, people will start to refer to you as a 'good cook'.

Or in another way, just don't be a bad cook and you'll be a good one.
I'm not following as Base85 isn't JSON safe. For example, { and } carry meaning in JSON.
The last few Call of Duty games has featured Mexico and involves raining fire down on forested environments with an AC-130 gunship. So maybe not the best example of environmental protection.
Not to mention that it's 35% more efficient than existing encoders, and can support 10+ bits per component encoding while remaining compatible with existing decoders. That's pretty amazing.
Software is where Synology wins. I tried a few competitors before settling with Synology for a small business.

I wonder how mature Ugreens software is comparatively.
What kind of "art work" is being AI'd? Art itself can be repetitive and mind numbing. I'd like some artists to weigh in, if they exist here.

It seems like in many people's minds art is something that comes from within. An idea pops into a brain; you ascend to the clouds. There it is, clear as day: YOUR IDEA. All you have to do is collect it and take it down to earth to sell... of course I don't have to pay you! You didn't have to do any REAL work. You're basically running through the fields catching butterflies. Seems like a common misconception about art.

The reality of art to me seems like it can be just as drudgy as doing the dishes, spreadsheets, or digging ditches. It seems like this is where we're seeing AI used the most?

It's interesting to see famous songwriters weigh in, many of which are likely glorified producers. From what, I understand this has sort of already happened to musicians, with the invent of DAWs and other tooling, even earlier versions of AI.

Wondering if they're finally coming for the engineers and producers. Actually these celeb artists will probably already be fine. They'll just pay their people to use AI, instead of paying session musicians and producers.
> And in fact, as proven by countless other cities across the country, criminalizing drugs doesn't even solve that problem either.

It doesn't solve the problem.

However, criminalization may be a less worse way to mitigate the impacts of the problem.

This feels like "no true Scotsman" at policy-scale: it's unscientific to point out the flaws in actual sausage making as the reason the Platonically ideal sausage turned out poorly in reality.

Those political characteristics are inherent to the process! If one path to utopia requires pissing voters off, then it's more logical to engineer a different path to get there while placating voters, because the former in untenable in a democracy.
That's already the case for lots of topics. People flagging this stuff aren't doing it because they think it's not important and they aren't what makes it one of the topics that's difficult to discuss.
I used saffron mainly for paella and some seafood dishes. The flavor is definitely distinctive although subtle.
That triangle is why Southwest Airlines exists. I think the original brainstorming napkin drawing of the triangle routes is on display at Dallas Lovefield airport.
> What can one do when criminals have embedded them self in the civilian population? Why don't they get out and meet the police on the battle field?

We wouldn't tolerate a SWAT team blowing up a hospital if the mafia had taken over the basement, I have no idea why you think this is acceptable.

> It is much better than the carpet bombing used by other nations.

It is exactly like the carpet bombing used by other nations.
Author here! It sounds crazy, but poop might be worth a trillion dollars.

Specifically, communities of microbes could return humans to a pre-industrial baseline gut microbiome, treating more than 20 diseases in markets worth more than $500B per year.

Happy to answer questions!
Looks really interesting! I saw something in the code about streaming. Could you explain that a bit more?
I used to work as an architect. As far as I am aware, AI/automation has so far only made inroads in the earliest "concept" phases--image-making, concept massing, conceptual space-planning, etc. That is only the first, shortest, and most creative part of designing a building. After the concept design has finished, there are longer and more expensive phases of design development and construction drawing that still require huge amounts of coordination between the various design/construction professionals & stakeholders. At this phase, the work is much more practical: adding detail to the drawings reveals that, say, the size of the required mechanical units exceed the area that originally been allocated to them in the concept phase, and the architect will need to work with the structural engineer/mechanical engineer/client/etc. to modify the solution so that the building still works. It's this latter phase of drawing/coordinating/redrawing that has so far been very resistant to automation.

I would still call this part of an architect's job "intellectual work". My guess is that it hasn't been automated because it requires deep domain knowledge in multiple areas...knowledge which your typical AI software person doesn't have.
Megaregions is nothing new but lately seem to be a testing the waters for an independent Texas state.

I feel like articles like this is mentally preparing the American public for a potential secession states forming post-election.
They show up quite a lot in accessories on AliExpress, like USB cables, hubs, chargers. Small electronics stuff. One of those semi-branded things out of China, the kind that feels like they're trying to build a brand rather than shipping crap as quickly as possible. The USB hub was fine. Something like a NAS feels like a sensible next step if they want to grow margins.
Companies should not be allowed to have secret ownership; I don't give a shit if this data is leaked. Corporations are a legal fiction, and so they have no right to or expectation of privacy, like there should be for persons with e.g. individual tax records.

The basic operation of markets depends on having as little information asymmetry as possible between opposite sides of a transaction, and part of that means knowing who you're doing business with to make informed decisions about the reputation of your counterparty.
Interesting. Of course, just because the index exists doesn’t mean the query planner will use it. I can’t remember off hand what happens when the join has that type of nested query. My first thought would be to run ANALYZE on a dev env and see what comes back. the hours long query would suggest tons of work cracking open json fields..
Maybe not just that. We generally need to establish the time of events on another celestial body and process that time locally. Having separate clocks is trivial, but recording correctly sequence of events that happened a few light-seconds away is interesting, when taking all effects into account. Should we record the local time of event? The observer time (=local time+distance+gravitational effects)?