skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All religions have claims of supernatural happenings; almost all religions request donations from their followers.

Cults are distinct from normal religious organizations. What makes the TM-as-promoted-by-David-Lynch a cult?

The link talks about a religious organization that asked for money on a regular basis from followers. Who is being harmed there, and how? People willingly donating their money to religious organizations is not alone evidence of abuse.
" It takes me more time to clean my food prep and cook area than actually make food most of the time."

You don't clean as you go? Your area should be clean before and after your work.

But maybe my proficiency comes from starting at a Chinese restaurant at the tender age of 15, back in the 1990s.
Another issue: the venues, the artist, etc sometimes get a piece of the fees, the resale tickets, etc. The ticket seller should not be allowed to share revenue from anything besides the initial ticket sale.
Sanction VPNs that allow this behavior. Force them to use botnets, which means they have to interact with other criminals. :)
This also describes the situation in some countries of the "global south". Not sure why the original commenter thought the US was so different.
For those looking for production-level OAuth libs, the best implementation for all JS runtimes is https://github.com/panva/oauth4webapi

Certified, thoroughly tested, zero deps, fully typed, secure defaults, works in Node/Deno/Bun/Edge, supports PKCE/dPoP/etc.
>A simulation of that would be training materials for LEA or forensics teams to practice their craft.

You are laughably misinformed on this matter in a way that is quite incomprehensible. You are welcome to refer to the legal definition as per the actual legal text instead of continuing to make rather bizarre claims on a topic where it's clear you know nothing about:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/108th-congress/senate-bill/151...

Even without having to refer to the actual text, I am confident most reasonable minded people understand the meaning of the term "simulated" and can take a position on whether it should be legal or not without arguing whether simulation means training materials or whether the term is legally meaningless.

The fact that you don't is all I need to know that continuing this conversation with you is entirely pointless.
Imagine walking into a town square. There are the highest resolution cameras mounted every few feet that take a constant stream of input. People scoff at the idea that you might want less of them.
Really helpful, thank you! I have learned some of these mistakes by trial and error - chasing way too big of a deal for way too long and wasting lots of resources

The MEDDIC framework is another good resource for any founders selling B2B: https://www.salesforce.com/ca/blog/an-introduction-to-the-me...
Gotta hand it to NPR for at least linking to the public criticism and interviewing people within their org and getting comment from Uri. Maybe this will tamp down the ideological bent NPR has been on for the past few years.
Give me less 1A, and more Reveal or Snap Judgement. 1A is probably the poster child for transition from interesting content from marginalized voices that informs listeners into whatever it is today, which is circling around the drain of angry media told through a calming voice.

I still think that the major national shows like Morning Edition and All Things Considered hit just like they did a decade ago - albeit one dimension of our politics is less deserving of air time of the other, and that is reflected in their coverage.
Do not be fooled by the simplicity; The magic itself is in the many Q, K and V matrices (each of which is huge) which are learned and depend on the language(s). This is just the form of the application of those matrices/transformations: Making the embedding for the last token of a context "attend to" (hence attention) all information (at all layers of meaning and not just syntactic or semantic meaning but logical, scientific, poetic, discoursal, etc. => multi-head attention) contained in the context so far.

Any complex function can be made to look simple in some representation (e.g its Fourier series or Taylor series, etc.).
Only if you're on the extreme left. I don't care what your or the extreme right have to say about those of us in the middle. You're both wrong.
That's simply not true. The party platforms couldn't be much more diametrically opposed than they are these days. I would say almost all criticism can be laid on Republicans who have dropped all pretence of compassion for those who are poor or that don't share their values 100% and it has only intensified with MAGA.
It doesn't matter who your supplier is, if you fastidiously check their work.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_position
Same for me, did make it annoying when playing halo and switching controllers every time someone died in campaign.
Ugh Whisper. On Audible I used to browse the free sci fi. Found James S. A. Corey, etc. there and ended up spending a lot...and I mean a lot of money buying authors series that I had never heard of. Now all the Whisper read...stuff crowds everything out. I don't even bother anymore and look elsewhere for books, use podcasts, listen to long youtube lectures while on the tractor, doing fence, clearing land on the weekends and during my commute.
There are frequently better lenses for examining these issues, like culture and socioeconomics. These explain a larger portion of the variance than race in many circumstances. For example, black immigrants from Africa have a very different outlook than American descendants of slavery [1], with black immigrants having higher educational attainment than any other demographic [2] in the US. A similar finding has been observed in the UK [3]. It's true that systemic racism has disadvantaged African Americans even after the Civil Rights movement, but interestingly the income gap is wider for black men than it is for black women [4] indicating there are more factors at play than racism alone since black women face similar amounts of discrimination as black men [5].

That said, I don't discount the impact that both implicit and explicit racism can have. I just think it's important to take a more holistic view rather than falling back on identity as the main causal factor.

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/08/us/slavery-black-immigran...

[2]: https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/03/18/black-immigrants-c...

[3]: https://www.lambeth.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2021-10/the_a...

[4]: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-inheritance-of-black-...

[5]: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2020/07/black-women-...
MKBHD said what many of us thought about the product.
> Amazon is filled with garbage

Full stop, no need to specify e-books.

I've moved my purchasing dollars elsewhere at this point with the exception of some very specific categories. Amazon is just too unreliable.
You say that like it’s a bad thing!
What about the time spent driving to/from the fast food joint, waiting in line, waiting for them to give you your order, etc.?

I often eschew eating out because it takes too long.

> What about cleanup?

Put it on the floor and let the dog lick it clean.
I find the panic over potential threat of quantum quite amusing when the machine is still extremely theoretical - all existing machines are slower than classical and it’s not even clear they can scale to the required number of qubits.

There’s nowhere near the same urgency and significantly more denial over global warming. A bit apples and oranges but climate models have a better track record, are wildly conservative (ie our present is much worse than the past climate models predicted) and it’s a real problem we know exists and is a bullet train headed our way.
Incase has licensed the products:

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/5/24026323/microsoft-incase-...

https://www.incase.com/pages/incase-designed-by-microsoft
They did start the kkk… not a shock that it’s part of their party. So glad I’m not in America!
Seeing how USA and EU failed to provide enough support to Ukraine it is crystal clear that every country now must acquire nuclear weapons and means of delivery. Only MAD is a real guarantee for security and independence.
Bad reviews may temporarily impact a company's development. As long as there are no issues with the company itself, these negative reviews won't be a major problem.
But trusting Russia with stewardship of nuclear weapons, all the while knowing its deplorable record with regards to its neighbors? That was a colossal geopolitical mistake, and the consequences were predictable.

And I would posit that the aim of limiting countries with nuclear weapons is simplistic. If a nuclear power decides to terrorize a non-nuclear, but industrially advanced neighbor, the victim is likely to acquire a nuclear capability, one way or another, either now or in the future. It hasn't happened yet with Ukraine, but I believe it is inevitable.

Furthermore, that nuclear capability will come with a (justified) grudge. I would certainly want to vaporize my bully.

The end result is that the probability of nuclear conflict has increased, not decreased.
I think all the yelling, fear mongering, hate for "the other" on the MAGA based shows just hits your brain different, they will push your buttons whether you enjoy it or it makes you angry at the ignorance, and that can be enjoyable in odd ways. NPR tries to be more reserved and academic, you won't find the cussin' and spittin' that you find on AM talk radio.
There are a bunch of hash based signature schemes, e.g., SPHINCS https://sphincs.org/
`Line Goes Up` was jaw-droppingly awesome, about the Venn diagram of crypto and scammers being (maybe) a circle :)
Really? I removed my tab bar years ago (I use Tree Style Tabs) and never had to tweak my userChrome.css once.
In the past, programmers opted for concurrency because creating a thread was the only way to get a continuation/closure type entity, where you could nicely do everything in one tidy scope. So even the thread was preemptive, and thus particularly threatening, it was nicer to write the program.

Also, if you multiplex events onto a single thread, though you get some better guarantees about execution order than you do under preemptive threads, it is still chaotic. Events arrive in any order. Multiple state machines update their state in any order, and hit their important states in any order.

Data being chopped into frames arbitrarily scrambles things. The past million time the program read four bytes from the network socket, it got the entire 32 bit integer in one operation. Today, it didn't notice that the read only returned 3 bytes.

Threads are exciting, especially to young programmers. Look, all you have to do is write little programs that do simple things in a loop, taking some messages here and replying there. Put them together, and the complex behavior of the application will somehow just emerge, as if by magic. And you don't even have to document it anywhere; just document the simple things that the individual threads are doing!
Flow PHP: the first and most advanced PHP ETL framework
The only argument against MKBHD could be the YouTube title he chose. But if a "company" with many hundreds of people can't handle a title and goes under, it never deserved to exist.
https://www.usb-over-network.com/usb-over-network-download.h...

I have used this software for adb debugging in rdp window10, it's really cool, but it don't meet all cases.
I wouldn’t mind buying a lefty one only for gaming purposes, if it was about $700 cheaper
AI Skepticism Is Reasonable (and Recommended)
A short write up highlighting a few over hyped AI products. I’m starting to see a bit more thoughtful push back on the unrestrained hype, which is a good sign that this AI cycle is maturing.
Diminishing a nation's sovereignty with fiction about "coup", "oppression", and "genocide" is precisely propaganda - from a known propaganda superpower.
Learned helplessness can also afflict adults, especially those who are not accustomed to dealing with computers. I get that quite a bit, and it's not just older people. Young people who have only used tablets, phones, and Chromebooks also are affected. YMMV
It renders them correctly, just not always exactly the same as Chrome. It's hard to blame devs for not testing on a browser with so little market share.

Some Javascript or maybe Canvas heavy pages run much more slowly on Firefox and are almost unusable on Firefox for Android. I find that this is rare, though.

I'll keep using Firefox + uBlock + Personal Blocklist + Dark Reader + Disable Javascript + Disable CSS + Tampermonkey + Old Reddit Redirect + CORS Everywhere + Consent-O-Matic + Hide YouTube Shorts + Load Reddit Images Directly + ...
Launching a tech startup requires more than innovation
Launching a tech startup requires more than innovation—it demands mastery of essential skills for enduring success:

1. Business Modeling: Build a solid foundation with a strong business model, aligning a compelling value proposition, precise go-to-market strategy, and efficient operations for sustained growth.

2. Product-Market Fit: Key to success is developing a product that not only fulfills a market need but also stands out from competitors. This involves continuous product iteration based on customer feedback and market trends.

3. Pitching Skills: Winning investments and partners requires clear, compelling communication of your vision, engaging potential stakeholders with relevant narratives.

4. Networking: Move beyond mere contact exchange; forge meaningful connections that bring advice, resources, and growth opportunities.

5. Ethical Leadership and Bias Management: Navigate the complexities of ethical dilemmas and biases with the ability to critically assess and address these issues, ensuring integrity and respect within your business operations.

What did I miss? #startups #productmanagement
Lol, even the author's image is AI generated.

The text screams ChatGPT.

Amazon has given up on AI.
It's all business.
i was just talking about this with a friend of mine, I posed the question "WHat tech should I learn next?" and he said "well you should short AI, its in a huge bubble...and sooner or later people are gonna realize it only does a somewhat half-assed job of what they claim it can do." -- I think he's onto something.
> I do not consent to this message being used to train a LLM

Whether you can do that really depends on jurisdiction. Maybe edit and assert copyright in your own name on the comment?

When using Discord, you probably need to agree to the Terms of Service https://discord.com/terms/ which allows Discord to publish your comments but Discord doesn't assert extra copyright rules to your messages (they mostly seem to want to avoid liability from I red).

The article mentions the late "TempleOS developer Terry Davis" dancing. I've never seen what Terry looks like, so here's a good link to Terry's dance videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUz1GQ6L6V9NKwd_qFG8Dtahj...
DOJ won against A&P in 1946 and again on appeal in 1949.

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/1473571/united-states-...

https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2311543/united-states-...
- An allergy to complexity

- Appreciation for software craftsmanship and a hunger to constantly learn how to write better software

- Does not follow dogma, but instead understands when to
strategically apply or not apply certain processes and tools

- T shaped knowledge graph that's ever growing

- A strong intuition for what actually provides end-user value, but also pays attention to and cares about the finer details that most overlook
It's a problem because you can only have one version of any given package in your dependency tree. You can't have `foo 2` and `foo 3` in your dependency tree.

That does seem to be the fundamental problem with the Python model of dependency management.

If your dependencies have transitive dependencies of their own but your dependency model is a tree and everything is clearly namespaced/versioned, you might end up with multiple versions of the same package installed, but at least they won’t conflict.

If your dependency model is flat but each dependency bakes in its own transitive dependencies so they’re hidden from the rest of the system, for example via static linking, again you might end up with multiple versions of the same package (or some part of it) installed, but again they won’t conflict.

But if your dependency model is flat and each dependency can require specific versions of its transitive dependencies to be installed as peers, you fundamentally can’t avoid the potential for unresolvable conflicts.

A pragmatic improvement in the third case is, as others have suggested, to replace the SemVer-following mypackage 1.x.y and mypackage 2.x.y with separate top-level packages mypackage1 x.y and mypackage2 x.y. Now you have reintroduced namespaces and you can install mypackage1 and mypackage2 together as peers without conflict. Moreover, if increasing x and y faithfully represent minor and point releases, always using the latest versions of mypackage1 and mypackage2 should normally satisfy any other packages that depend on them, however many there are.

Of course it doesn’t always work like that in practice. However, at least the problem is now reduced to manually adjusting versions to resolve conflicts where a package didn’t match its versions to its behaviour properly and/or Hyrum’s Law is relevant, which is probably much less work than before.
Technology as Power Transfer
> We have a winner!

We won't know that until they de-plane.
We can keep looking back, or we can look forward.
Indeed, I have a feeling that I kinda understand the material I'm listening, but the vocabulary I hear doesn't automatically become my own...
The sutras name the same claim, it's not meant to be literal afaik.
The computer science counterpart is the Optimal Stopping Problem. There's no real equivalent solution irl. In a country without a safety net, and if you don't have a trust fund, then constantly preparing for black swan events is only rational.
Telegram Creator on Elon Musk, Resisting FBI Attacks, and Getting Mugged [video]
In 2022, globally, there was one accident per 664,186 flights. [1] That includes a lot of poorly funded airlines and a lot of very old aircraft. The 737 Max numbers you present are worse than the global average when they should be much better for a well designed modern aircraft.

[1] https://www.statista.com/chart/31529/most-airplane-accidents...

This is not even considering the numerous documented issues with their quality control programs. Also, the global average I referred to are for accidents, not crashes like your numbers.
The problem is nobody is saying the product is good. I remember when the iPhone was launched. Many people hated it but there were also millions who loved it.

If your product has only haters, then ya, your product sucks.

The CEO also has a strange, what comes off as egotistical "I worked at Apple" vibe which is very off-putting. Maybe he didn't listen to feedback etc to make the product better?

Also who funds these things. 240 million dollars in funding. This should have been a Kickstarter.
Satellite TV, being unidirectional, can hardly be called communication.
Not implying anything regarding OPs comment other than perspectives is greatly influenced by where you come from.

From: https://collabfund.com/blog/immutable-truths-and-arguing-foo...

> This is so foreign to the world I know. But so is my world to them. I think they’re wrong, but they’d say the same to me. I’m sure I’m right; so are they. Often the reason debates arise is that you double down on your view after learning that opposing views exist.

> Here’s another.

> Former New York Times columnist David Pogue once did a story about harsh working conditions at Foxconn tech assembly factories in China. A reader sent him a response:

>> My aunt worked several years in what Americans call “sweat shops.” It was hard work. Long hours, “small” wage, “poor” working conditions. Do you know what my aunt did before she worked in one of these factories? She was a prostitute.

>> Circumstances of birth are unfortunately random, and she was born in a very rural region. Most jobs were agricultural and family owned, and most of the jobs were held by men. Women and young girls, because of lack of educational and economic opportunities, had to find other “employment.”

>> The idea of working in a “sweat shop” compared to that old lifestyle is an improvement, in my opinion. I know that my aunt would rather be “exploited” by an evil capitalist boss for a couple of dollars than have her body be exploited by several men for pennies.

>> That is why I am upset by many Americans’ thinking. We do not have the same opportunities as the West. Our governmental infrastructure is different. The country is different.

>> Yes, factory is hard labor. Could it be better? Yes, but only when you compare such to American jobs.

>> If Americans truly care about Asian welfare, they would know that shutting down “sweat shops” would force many of us to return to rural regions and return to truly despicable “jobs.” And I fear that forcing factories to pay higher wages would mean they hire FEWER workers, not more.
Egg donation, sperm donation, life insurance, and logging are pretty different, but surrogacy is a good comparison. And, like organ harvesting, a lot of people find surrogacy for money to be morally objectional, for example the Pope, and also the governments of most countries.
> While you may be right, I feel the dynamic is more about the fact that most expats tend to be more educated than the average

That's my point exactly! It's not that all Americans are particularly entitled, lazy, uncreative, or risk-averse. I specifically chose American investors in their country of origin as a counterpoint to the implication that Americanness infers lack of grit/drive, doubly so when Americans can succeed the countries OP left.

Voluntary migrants (that includes expats) are a self-selected, self-motivated bunch. OP is did not contrasting themself to the appropriate percentile of Americans.
What you're describing is the end of the internet.
One thing that is missed is that Marques is careful about what he reviews.

99% of the junk that companies release he/his team simply won't waste time on.

So the title is probably true.
"The worst product he has ever reviewed.. for now" is an apt title though. If you create a useless product for 700 plus a subscription, for now it is a terrible product and that's what the title said.
It 100% was but your take is the kind of dismissive, attempts invalidation I’m referring to so thank you for the example.
As with any field, there's a number of detractors and charlatans. With CRT in the political spotlight, I completely understand how it becomes a mess to make heads-or-tails of.

Broadly speaking, it's the study of how law and media impacts society's view and treatment of others through the lens of race.

As for my opinion on it:

I generally support it because it advocates for another mechanism to study the impact of law.

I think most legislation should be regularly studied for impact, effectiveness, and fairness. For example, stimulus bills ought to be reviewed for economic impact, regulation ought to be reviewed for effectiveness/relevance, laws with social impact ought to be reviewed to ensure it doesn't harm the people.

A number of scholars seem to adopt a blameless mentality to figure out how laws (even unintentionally) have negative impact, and use that to propose solutions. I admire this approach to legislative critique.

While I think a few ideas some scholars advocate for are infeasible to implement, the broader field has a lot of merit.
If everyone has nuclear weapons, humanity will destroy itself.
I’m not sure you can say that imitation learning has been under-researched in the past. Imitation learning has been tried before alongside RL. But it did not generalize well until the advent of generative diffusion models.
Well in my experience the rich and poor rely on public transit in mostly similar numbers, so I don't really see what transit in particular has to do with it.