skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does that work? It seems to make a lot of sense in Lebanon as they were freezing or only allowing $150 a month withdrawals. Do people really self custody their funds? When they need local currency they just go to the bitcoin atm’s to withdraw? Also fees would be somewhat high so do they use something Monero?
I was surprised to learn this study was received so poorly within the lesbian community.

https://xtramagazine.com/health/im-not-a-lesbian-because-of-...

https://www.myovacare.com/blogs/news/lesbians-and-pcos

>If you Google “lesbians and PCOS,” the first result is a study I very much wish could be wiped from the internet.

A fascinating take, I think.
So it seems to work then? Get the population angry enough at their leaders to cause an uprise is part of the goal I guess.
What makes you so sure the photon didn’t originate from your eye and finish where you saw them?
So some miners would decide to not mine anymore, and the difficulty would automatically lower?
When I started taking magnesium I felt 10 years younger. Better sleep, less tired
Yes of course, every commit on your main branch should pass CI.
Your specific country not having internet is basically a configuration issue; you can achieve that with a great degree of accuracy without cutting a single cable and without disrupting service to anyone else. There are multiple examples of this in the past 15 years,ranging from active monitoring like China does to pontual disruptions like many goverments adopted during the arab spring.
Countries that feel the US has acted wrongly are free to impose sanctions against the US.

That is how these things work.
This and The Feeling of What Happens by Anthony Damasio were very influential for me.

The ideas behind interoception and their connection to emotion and thought helped me put start taking this space more seriously.

Many people will also cite "The Body Keeps the Score", which is really focused on trauma and therapy rather than theory.
Cold emailing or tweeting investors only works if you have eye-popping results to point to or credentials that stand out.

Otherwise the way to get to them is via accelerators like YC. And the way to get into accelerators with no credentials is to launch something and get some traction. It doesn’t even need to be a lot of traction. Just having users who use your product regularly puts you near the top of the pile.
> Consciousness probably isn't what we think it is

This is nonsense. Consciousness is exactly what it is. The only real that ever existed is the fact there's there there. Everything else can be an illusion, as you said. There's no reason why red appears they way it is.

But the fact that i can seem to experience red cannot be denied. The seeming cannot be a mistake.
It's kind of interesting that the history is in the order it is. I could completely imagine it being reversed: first, 1000 programming languages are invented, then later, in an attempt to put order to this madness, and understand whether some of them are in a fundamental sense equivalent to others or not, you invent minimalist languages like Turing machines or the lambda calculus, and start developing a theory of reductions.

Kind of odd that the Turing machines and lambda calculus predate almost all the others! I mean there are good reasons for it, especially if you try to put yourself in a 1930s mathematics mindset (which is why it actually happened that way), but it is, I'd submit, a bit surprising to learn from a 2020s perspective if you didn't already know it.
There are valid reasons for extending and redoing some parts of the API. I will give you one example. Suppose you want to extend list objects to support ordering by last modified or you want to support filtering of objects by user metadata. Right now doing this is quite clunky via headers.
Do you think the world is a better place if ordinary Russians are nuked along with ordinary people all over the world?

Why beat around the bush? The reason we’re playing the sanctions game, or the proxy war game, or any other bullshit games nations are playing is because the alternative is worse.
I work supporting, debugging, fixing the Linux network stack and drivers. I am amazed how little adoption this has seen.

Like everything which came along and tried to supplant regular TCP, such as SCTP, it seems MPTCP has also been confined to a niche of application developers who will use it forever while the rest of the world forgets about it.
> I think one thing that people don't realize is that the YC application process is really one of the best tools for "sharpening" your idea/business.

Meh. Sharping your concept, yes. It is a snapshot of your concept.

The best way to sharpen your idea/business is to sell. That way, the "sharpening" process is iterative instead of a once-off event.

Honestly, YC isn't what you think it is. PS: I have a few YC customers and their founders aren't what the media make them out to be.
I was with you up until the last paragraph. Thinking small isn't going to help much imo.
If a US citizen believes the US has waged an illegal war, he is also responsible for it. Thats how democracy works.

Thats why when countries have mandatory drafts, you cant just say "no thanks, I didnt vote for it".
Nobody cares if the Terrorist state of Russia implodes on itself, or what happens to its apathetic population. They had their chance for a different outcome decades ago, but chose this.

The one single issue is what happens to the nukes.
But even with that phenomenon, the world’s population of non-religious people is shrinking: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/27/religion-why-is....
I'm aware of governments (or other situations) leading to a temporary shut down of their internet, that's why I said permanently.

If it's temporary or limited to a country, then bitcoin doesn't really suffer much from that either. The blockchain will continue elsewhere and can be synched back up for your region later, or if it's everywhere, then it will just stay in a frozen state until the internet is back.

So you can go to a country where there's still internet (assuming you can, you might not be able to), or wait until the internet is back up.

Hopefully you have other assets or goods to get you by in the meantime. Bitcoin is too volatile for it to make sense putting all of your wealth into it anyway.
> Yes of course, every commit on your main branch should pass CI.

Or when you fix a bug first you put the regression test in a new commit first then the fix, that way you can show that a) the test finds the bug that is b) fixed by the subsequent commit. This means you need to git bisect skip such commits, but that's fine.
Are the masks some lame attempt at hiding identities or is it some kind of virtue signal thing? Genuine question because I’ve probably seen 5 masks in the last 6 months and at least 2 of those were at a dentist office.
Definitely does not seem too far off:

https://ollama.com/library/llama3/tags

Llama3 8B fp16 is 16GB, q8 is 8.5GB and q4 is between 4.3 and 4.9GB.

Llama3 70B fp16 is 141GB, q8 75GB and q4 is between 40 and 43GB.
Yeah I was mining hundreds of BTC per day on an Athlon 2200. That was the low kilohash era.
Government is a load, never a driver.

To the extent the cart can spoof the horse, look for a downhill slope. Which will not go on forever. Once the potential energy is spent, the friction kicks in. QED all about you.
Yes.

Not everyone likes squashed/rebase workflows and it's frustrating to have to police people. A lot of groups use a workflow where all commits to branches of global interest are strictly pull requests.

For those who are in this situation, consider that what you can do is test _only_ merge commits - that is, put something like this into a script:

if git log -1 --pretty=%B | grep -q 'Merge pull request'; then
# tests here
exec the_actual_test.sh
else
exit 125
fi

... then "git bisect run script.sh". This skips the intermediates and only tests merge waypoints.

Edit: someone below notes --first-parent option, which basically accomplishes the same thing.
Mmmkay… it’s only the adapter used by ai-aimbot… but wtf do I know? Clearly hacks only are classified as memory manipulation and not using the HDMI out to pass that to ML/AI algorithms that control your player input using… the said controller adapter you so quickly dismissed as “not a thing”.

Keep enjoying your console lobbies… while you can.
Zombie: Middleboxes that Don't Snoop [pdf]
I do not think they're being glib. Do you have examples of the generosity? My SO is American (I'm a European with nearing ten years of IT work experience and counting) and we are going through the immigration system, to call it a hell hole is an insult to hell.

A generous policy would be to make the process simple for individuals that are able to work and contribute on their own. That is not the case.
Nope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncPyMUfNyVM
No.

You did not prescribe anything.

You told them to get it.

Prescribe is a word freighted with technical and legal weight, and should not be used lightly.
Not sure what you mean, but no.
Chinese hackers preparing to 'physically wreak havoc' on US critical infra
Highly recommend blocking the ssh port on all public facing instances and machines. Remember the recent xz/ssh backdoor exploit that was discovered.

What if there is another backdoor lurking undiscovered?

Do what I did, only open ssh over a VPN, or at least restrict it to a specific inbound IP or CIDR block under your direct control.
I think two parties can have opposing opinions on this. That’s the whole reason wars are fought: disagreements over moral or legal authority. Otherwise why resort to violence?
Not enough people in Europe who can pay what those homes would cost
Someone else's decision, and you are just following the orders?

It doesn't work that way. Putin is not working in a factory building tanks and artillery shells. He is not in an office programming which cities ballistic missiles will hit. He is not piloting bombers or manning guns shooting at Ukraine. He is not sitting in tanks ravaging through Ukrainian countriside, he is not in cellars raping and torturing civilians, he has not personally committed any of the tens of thousands documented war crimes in Ukraine. Millions upon millions of "ordinary Russians" choose to do this every day. Without the majority of Russian society actively working to carry out Putin's ideas, or passively sitting on their asses and trying to pretend they have nothing to do with it, Putin would be just a raving madman without any influence on the world like Hitler in his final days.

USSR collapsed when "ordinary Russians" simply stopped following orders. They were told to go there and do this, and they said NO in large enough numbers that the leaders were simply unable to do anything, because eventually even police and military stopped listening them. Russia has not yet reached this breaking point, and millions upon millions remain Putin's willing executioners, and bear the guilt that comes with it.

Every day, Ukrainians put their lives on the line, and hundreds die, in a desperate attempt to stop the curse on the world that Russia has become, while "ordinary Russians" are unwilling to even stage a large protest.
A lot of machine learning engineers in SF are stuck at big cos on H1Bs with huge salaries, so they're able to pull their savings into the company.

Either way, just important to know that you don't need to raise 1M to get an O1.
When companies are big or rich enough they can capture regulators and pay for lobbyists to override the masses, the democratic process is undermined.

We become ruled by socialopathic oligarchy, in the form of corporations instead of a few individuals. And no one executive can be held accountable because they're large organizations that diffuse responsibility.

Once I was a young conservative who thought these ideas were crazy Hollywood tropes. As I get older I see the pattern manifest more and more in the USA.
YC responds to every application, so unless there was some weird email problem, I can't imagine why that would happen. Especially several times—that is really odd.

If you want me to look into what might have happened there, I'd be willing to try if you email hn@ycombinator.com.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40093529

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092169
Recently started to take magnesium supplements, after some Googling and finding an old HN post about experiences around it, going for glyciate rather than oxide (latter was the only one I could find at pharmacies).

In 1 week I've yet to experience any of the positive effects often listed (maybe slightly better sleep?) bar one surprise: I don't wake up for bathroom visit anymore.

Used to wake up once a night for toilet visit, but that disappeared. Anyone have had similar experience? My (old) father have been complaining about 2-4 toilet visit per night and was wondering if I should suggest magnesium supplement to him, or if this is just placebo.

I've read that too much magnesium hinder Zinc uptake, so I assume blindly suggesting it to others might have adverse effects depending on lifestyle
I took a test, which I passed, and I haven't been wirelessly updated since that test. I also haven't had a phantom braking incident yet.
That's a good point, but I'm not sure it's quite as drastic as you think.

There are about 400 million current and last-gen consoles that have been sold, all-time. I'd wager most of them spend 95% or more of their time unused.

Steam shows about 20-30 million players online at any given point. Let's pretend this represents 50% of the PC gaming population (a vast underestimate of Steam's market share in the US and EU, not sure about other markets like China). What fraction of those are gaming PCs? Gaming laptops? Laptops with integrated graphics that really aren't meant for gaming?

Let's say that your typical PC gamer uses 300W when playing video games. That's probably on the low end for a gaming PC, but an overestimate for any laptop. 300W * 24 * 365 * 60 million is about 160 billion kWh. That translates to, um, 33000 tons of CO2? So like 3 orders of magnitude smaller?

I'm not even going to bother with the mobile game population because the power draw on those is like single-digit watts so even if there are 100x more players, the numbers are around the same order of magnitude.

Even if my estimates of number of PC gamers at any moment and the wattage of the typical device are both off by 10x, that's still way smaller than the estimate of how carbon-intensive it is to make games.
We have specialized samosa delivery drones and utilize existing shipping and storage infrastructure. Our samosas are "just add water!" variety and are appropriate for a variety of events and occasions! Weddings, parties, wedding parties, parties with incidental weddings, pizza and beer and samosas, Netflix and chill, and so much more!

...

I started with a pitch and it became a late night commercial.
"International sanctions" makes it sound like it has some legitimate worldwide weight that should be automatically respected by all people. Which works right up until you look at the exceptionally large list of things they want to sanction and you recognize that as the sole tool of "diplomacy" it can never work and might even qualify for crimes against humanity.

Which actually is a huge compliment because it means that government permission is no longer required to spend your money how you please.

Otherwise you're implicitly suggesting that Russia is somehow able to weather these sanctions only because bitcoin exists, or that bitcoin should be "reigned" in some way to make it compatible with arbitrary foreign government sanctions.
> It's a rare combination of economic incentives and technology that keeps chugging.

The "economic incentive" is a deflationary currency that rewards hoarding.
> Nobody cares ...

It's a shame you can't hear how pathetic you sound in your idealogical prison / echo chamber.

The price of energy would become unaffordable for all of Europe and spike across the globe. The additional pressure would create additional conflict and suffering for everyone.

I'm struggling to find any reason other than blind hatred for your genuinely stupid and brain dead position.

https://youtu.be/ww47bR86wSc
This is an interesting comment that seems to miss the point.

> If fundraising dips in the future, so what? They cut back? It's sad to see folks get laid off, but that's essentially what the author is arguing for, so it's kind of moot.

The point author is making is that there's no track record to suggest that cost cutting is on the cards, or more broadly, that the organization has any concept of how to manage organizational risk. Author cites a lack of other best practices across the organization + a continued ramp-up in spend not commensurate with what wikipedia needs as a defense of this argument. The best practices and need for fiscal prudence cited by the author exist in essence to mitigate the risk of waste and insolvency against the fulfillment of the mission.

> Incidentally, we did go through a global recession. COVID caused Wikipedia to see almost double it's normal increase in funding while the organization decreased expenses. And the following year, fundraising brought in less cash, but income still far outstripped expenses, and income basically returned to it's trend before the recession.

I'm not sure what this is intending to suggest, but all I can come up with is "because Wikipedia thrived during the biggest imminent risk to humanity in decades, there's not much to worry about." So did Zoom and Pfizer, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't have a good handle of enterprise risk.

> The argument "it's not their place to spend the money they raise" seems, at this point, like such a ridiculous argument

It's probably the most grounded argument I've read about WMF's incapability to handle risk as it relates to its mission.

WMF is non-profit. They serve a mission foremost. It's on their board to ensure that the mission is served effectively today and can continue to be served effectively for as long as is relevant, or in the case of Wikipedia, as long as possible.

Not contributing is an option, but in the absence of alternatives, it's the option that most greatly jeopardizes the mission in the eyes of donors. This is why people may choose to use their voices rather than their dollars.
You put "threatened" in quotation marks and aggressively insist on justification? You aren't entitled to one.
I really loved this thread. After reading all the comments and based on personal experience I would recommend getting a job in a hospital, anywhere, even in the restaurant. Build up a circle of friends who work there and brainstorm with them every day over lunch. They will soon tell you what works and doesn’t
Because the YouTuber watcher votes for MrBeast, not for the niche intellectual content that populated the early web.

The point is to decouple quality content creation from the ad-matrix and fund it in other ways.
We've got roads full of normal vehicles where the drivers don't watch the road so it's probably an improvement.
What if it isn’t exactly what it appears to be to us? If the answer was that simple, thousands of years of deep thinking would have been for nothing. I believe it’s actually a difficult, perhaps even impossible question to answer.

The experience of consciousness, or that it’s like something to be you, doesn’t necessarily mean anything about how or why that’s possible or occurring in the first place.
I think about this a lot with reference to the mechanics institute in San Francisco. Who were these mechanics and why did they have a 4 story institute still home to a chess club and private library? Certainly not a direct crossover to a modern car mechanic, even a "hacker" type car mechanic wouldn't stereotypically also be thinking along the philosophy of hacker culture, although I am sure some do.
$100M from only July last year is far far impressive. We have been on this for 3 years and barely reaching $1M revenue (Although I wasted two years of my life applying for YC/VC/Pitching)
This answer might not be applicable to you, but it is one of my favorites:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26238410
because googlers are napping in their nap pods
I'm confused by your story. You say you had a number of volunteers daily, with "signs of moderate to severe burnout". Was this some sort of study? What was your role in this? As the other responder said, to say "prescribing" doesn't make sense in this context.
I utterly reject hand-written parsers. You give up the ability to trust your grammar - all too often you can accidentally add an ambiguity.

I like `bison --xml` for the fact that you can write your own code but trust the table.
Looks like Jabbas palace.
> Those sanctions that do nothing for their alleged purpose (to make the war economically harder for the Russian government) yet disproportionately affect those people who can do absolutely nothing about them, right.

Sanctions work by reducing growth and the economy of its target—usually a pariah state—over time by reducing growth year over year, which compounds (negatively) over time to make the target less and less influential.

> I say that a very disgruntled Russian who hasn't had a sane, predictable life since 2020.

And the alternative to economic sanctions would be… ?
It definitely applies to me. My government, as a NATO member, supported multiple US-led operations, targeting nations not related with NATO interests (such as eg. Iraq). Was I in agreement? No. Am I responsible for the actions of my government? Obviously. Living in a democracy is not cherry-picking what you want; is understanding that a majority may have a different opinion than you, and may even listen to you; Responsibility is shared in both the good parts and the bad parts.

I understand this may be a shock to a US citizen, as it would be for me if I ever lived in a country where truth, facts and people interests matter little to nothing. And yes, I've also been in the military, so I was also coached in the art of defending the right of people having diverging opinions from my own.
> Ron Graham bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month. Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month: 'Before, when I looked at a piece of blank paper my mind was filled with ideas. Now all I see is a blank piece of paper.' After he won the bet, he promptly resumed his amphetamine use.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
It will never be cheap enough to 51% attack either and even if it was attacked, it wouldn't matter.

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

https://www.crypto51.app/
You can prescribe supplements - they may have, it’s not fair to assume.
Looking at Russian history for the last 200 years or so, your hoping for a historical first, unless you want to consider 1917
The financial industry is 20% of US GDP, and its sole purpose is "moving money around" (including forward in time, which Bitcoin isn't all that good at, but Ethereum is pretty effective for). That's about $5T that people pay.
They work incredibly well for drawing nigh the end of dollar as the reserve currency, and nothing else. More and more countries are divesting of it, because it's used as a political weapon.
1. Sleeping through the night, regardless of how you feel otherwise, is a great benefit. 2. Salt is anti-diuretic, so I'd suspect the effect is real, but not specific to magnesium. And like any supplement, it works for you because you presumably weren't already getting enough in your diet, so.. ymmv.
I misread the title as "Comic rays..."
It probably was way ahead of its time. One major issue with this is DRAM uses a completely different silicon process from compute, so if you don’t have stacking (which is very new still), you can only put really shitty, inefficient, and low density compute there, and at that point it becomes a hard sell.
Isn't it how electricity is produced that's causing the problem you describe?
Russia is in a war economy. GDP = Government Spending + ....
Sorry, that isn't how proof of work mining works. The key point to understand is the effect of difficulty on mining.