skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the post left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth [...] And the degree of how emotionally charged it is does lead me to think that there's a degree of further discontent

I think part of the problem is that it's generally futile to judge the mental state or hidden motivations of some random person on the internet based solely on something they've written about a particular topic. And yet, we keep trying to do that, over and over and over, and make our own (usually incredibly flawed) judgments about authors based on that.

The post left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth too, mainly because as I've gotten older I don't really enjoy "violence humor" all that much anymore. I think a big part of that is experience: experiencing violence myself (to a fairly minor degree, even), and knowing people who have experienced violence makes joking about violence just not feel particularly funny to me.

But if I step back a bit, my (probably flawed) judgment is pretty mild: I don't think the author is a violent person or would ever actually threaten or bring violence upon colleagues. I'm not even sure the author is even anywhere near as angry about the topic as the post might lead us to believe. Violence humor is just a rhetorical device. And just like any rhetorical device, it will resonate with some readers but not with others.
Funny, I trust Bari Weiss' "The Free Press" a lot less than I trust NPR.
I've been thinking about this for a few years. It blows my mind that publications are not selling articles a la carte. Surely getting _some_ revenue from readers that don't want to subscribe is better than none at all? It feels like a great way to generate leads that might convert into subscriptions as well.

This is not some genius new idea so surely publications have thought about it and refused it, but for what reason?
I'm not asking for actual examples, but what kind of thing is in your internal reasoning benchmark?
I think there are some specialized places I'm willing to pay for deeper analysis. Some parts of Bloomberg are good for that; for example Matt Levine writes on financial and legal issues there and is excellent.
Permissively licensed software is still free software. The BSD licenses are approved by the FSF as free software licenses. They're simply not copyleft.
I read this text three times, what problem are we trying to solve here? What am I missing?

Yes I understand that this is about "automatically" rolling out certificates, but what problem of that process is solved by this server?
Here's something that talks about it. I can't speak for the legitimacy, but I'm not pulling it out of my ass. They may be pulling it out of theirs. :-)

https://lifearchitect.ai/gpt-6/
Kind of ironic, isn’t it? Capitalism should be happy you’re contributing to the economy…
Also available without subscription at

https://grist.org/business/forever-chemicals-are-poisoning-y...
What I miss in my part of the world is journalists asking tougher questions and follow ups in their articles. Not just being a spokesperson for the politician they're making a story on. You can basically get away with lies now without the journalists digging more. Just write what they said, press publish and onto the next topic.
Fold the sides of a 50lb horse feed bag down, fill with dirt and add seed potatoes is literally all I did. We go through lots of bags, so I have many empty ones. I have a problem with weeds (thistles) and oregano taking over everything in the garden area, so this was my lazy man's way of avoiding weeding.

I also have a giant compost pile consisting of mostly wood shavings and horse manure that I planted about a dozen potatoes into as an experiment, along with a couple dozen carrots. So far they seem to be doing really well.
You are being downvoted, but I think it has to do with your last paragraph. Check the guidelines link at the bottom, it has some related remarks.
Completely agreed. A good solution allows low-friction transactions to happen very easily, while keeping the option open for more deliberation.

But from your previous comments, although you are singing praises for the custom solution, you actually find it annoying when people use it?
Yes, that’s how it’s done now, but it’s a matter of the precision vs cost tradeoff.

Right now it costs about $750-$3000 to set up each monitoring site, so growers can only afford to install a low number of devices per acre [1], thus a high number of plants per device. In that case you’re not optimizing to anywhere the specific requirements of each plant, you’re assuming (often falsely) that all the plants in that area have the same needs as the one you’re monitoring.

The lower the cost per device, the higher your resolution and precision of monitoring can be, and the more you can accurately provide for the specific needs of each plant.

[1] Very often that number is zero.
I think the op is asking more on if a util is used across many features
Also, some places tend to not take reports anymore for the most common crimes - or people just stop trying to report them.

That tends to happen with the problem is overwhelming, like… Oakland.
Heh. Yes I had noticed this. The problem with "Misc income (bribes)" would be mentioning "bribes" outright. Which then might have a propensity to reach the wrong persons. Confidentially of course. I expect it's more popular to find other, more politically favorable euphemistic ways to still declare and pay taxes even if the description is only marginally or technically correct.

Or to disguise the illegal activity as a "separate business". I insufficiently remember cases in Europe where "Consulting services" were provided. Consulting services would be an easy one. I'd say too easy by now, for a politician.
The problem with this business model is that the paper caters to the ideology of the subscribers.

Look at the New York Times as an example
Wow, this was a lot of fun.

3 was a lot harder than expected — a great exercise for anyone honestly. I'm a math nerd so this was cool visualized!
How does your mind even go there? Did you consider they just give shots and see how many of treated got infected in treatment vs control group?
That's why I am asking. Do you have suggestions?
It also features one of my favorite language features: after you install the jre on an OS -- and you can install multiple jres side-by-side -- you get robust, single-file deploys from megajars. Which are just big zips. And this has been working for at least 25 years.

No scribbling all over the OS, no system global packages, no shell games with bundler / virtualenv, and not much need for Docker.

(I really like rails, but the deploy story is nowhere near as good as java.)
Who says it has to be property taxes? Make them pay taxes on advertising or other such activities.
Debatable.

The problem did originate from porn. I didn't know what was right and what was wrong, I was naive. And unfiltered internet access, I was a rogue. I could talk all day about warez, CC gens, botnets. I'm just luckily I've had a solid family environment. The internet was my social outlet then.

My maturity age was a lot lower than to how old I was. And because the internet was not a commodity in 2000 and really the wild west, what could folk do? I was just a cowboy who took all the wrong paths. Kept taking the left rather than right and hid it well. No one knew the dangers of the internet back then, nor knew how to navigate the dark side. As well not having the maturity required.

Prior to this, I was kicked out an school subject for "hacking" and discovering a Windows 98 DCOM exploit. I wasn't allowed to touch any computer apart from one. It may of been that I also got pissed off with another student and sabotaged his coursework under the school's news paper account. A true uprising of an menace.

I bought a BB gun at school, started showing it off till someone reported me. I had no intention to do anything with it. This is in Europe, I just thought it was cool. Already having the rep of "hacker boy" some older year student reported me, I got in trouble and then someone randomly pulled me aside handed me a CD-R copy of Quake 3 Arena.

It kept me occupied but sadly never saved my soul as after college went to university, had my own dorm room, when I got my own place I was too hooked to porn and in other area's. The twenties was all mistakes but, made through it just.

And here I am now mid-thirties, job, mortgage and someone who even surprises myself. Still working stuff out, most at work don't understand me. I have near to zero friends, but regardless, myself is making great progress.

I was dealt the wrong set of cards and took all the wrong paths. And I've flipped them, both physically and mentally.
I said this in another comment but I get a lot out of Bloomberg's financial and legal news. FT can be good and Foreign Affairs is usually pretty solid.
> Smart criminals pay their taxes.

Do they? I wouldn't be so sure of the privacy firewall between the IRS and the rest of government, even if IRS is a very special org.
Holy cow someone else who has seen Virus... what a bad but good sci-fi flick, and gross!
I am not paying for traditional news, they are not doing their job anymore.

I’m paying for journalism on Substack and X.
I am going to go with Kellys Heros.
I showed this to my two kids, and we all three enjoyed it. The zero knowledge proof portion didnt really click for me, but we liked the four color map theorem stuff. This led me to download some maps for my kids to attempt coloring on paper, and also got me wondering about how this holds or doesn't on non-euclidian spaces. Turns out the maximum is four colors on a sphere, but 7 colors on a torus! More details here: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TorusColoring.html

Thanks for leading us down this mathematical rabbit hole today.
I sort of want to check this out but as someone who’s not really felt difficulty using react or a bundler I’m still not sure if it would be useful. How are the static types with something like HTMX?
I agree, there's nothing wrong with focusing on profit.

The "non-profit" organizations are given tax-exempt status because they are centered around providing a public or social benefit, they explicitly should not be focused on providing a profit to their owners.

In my opinion the majority of people can't afford to choose their hospital. Often it's the one that is within their means to travel and provides the service they require, regardless of the quality of their services. And, of course, after a serious accident you end up wherever the ambulance brings you.
Expressive amongst some others do sell some impressive physical modelling tech:

https://youtu.be/oTxgHJMpKsw?si=ibIX9pxxl3Sh--xy

If you want to delve deeper on the open source side with csound, super collider and more:

Csound - wg (waveguide) opcodes (e.g. wgpluck, wgbow)

https://csound.com/docs/manual/SiggenWavguide.html

SuperCollider - Stk (Synthesis ToolKit) plugins (e.g. StkBowed, StkPlucked)

https://github.com/supercollider/sc3-plugins

Faust - Functional audio processing

https://faustlibraries.grame.fr/libs/physmodels/

https://youtu.be/u8WTnQPzL2w?si=DY5J-ktLIYLdM_fB

Pure Data (Pd) - pmpd (Physical Modeling for Pure Data) library

https://puredata.info/downloads/pmpd
I was briefly subscribed to Apple News+, but then I discovered that even if you pay it's still stuffed with ads everywhere, making the experience just plain worse than a browser with 12ft.io and so on.
> If the service sucks, they’ll lose customers.

We’re talking about hospitals. Many areas are served by one local hospital. And where there are several, it’s typically the ambulance who decides where you go. It’s also pretty difficult to compare one hospital with another.

IMO hospitals resemble utilities where market forces aren’t enough to guarantee good service.
I would love to be able to give 1-5$ in a single click if I really like an article after reading it. But I need a chance to judge that it's a long and well researched article, not just clickbait behind a paywall.

No way I'm subscribing to crazy weekly rates that are 3x a Netflix subscription for a single journal, though.
> The broader point is that every time MOND has claimed to refute dark matter so far, the refutation has been refuted,

By adding more epicycles to LCDM. I'll leave it to you to decide when to call shenanigans on that, but it's been going on for 30+ years now.
Why is Android Development so difficult/complex? (compared to Web and Desktop)
This is as much a philosophical question as it's a pragmatic one. I've developed all kinds of apps in my life including Visual Basic GUI programs, Windows Forms Apps with Visual Studio, web apps using PHP and Flask, console scripts in bash, python, etc.

In terms of layers of complexity, none of that experience even comes close to Android Development though. To be honest,
even Swing GUI in Netbeans/Eclipse wasn't that byzantine! (in fairness, I hardly ever went beyond Hello World there). To begin with, we are absolutely married to the Android Studio IDE and even though developing a project without AS is theoretically possible, the number of hooves you must jump though are probably too many for the average programmer to comprehend. Honestly, I still don't know how exactly the actual APK/AAB is built or compiled!

On other systems, compilation is a straightforward process like `gcc hello.c` or `javac Hello.java`, maybe a few extra parameters for classpath and jar libs for a GUI app but to be absolutely dependent on an IDE and gradle packaging system just to come up with a hello world APK? Don't you think there is an anti-pattern or at least some element of cruft here?

I get that Android operating system itself is highly complex due to the very nature of a smartphone device, things like Activities and Services aren't as straightforward as GUI Forms. But the point is that Android programming doesn't have to be that complex! Don't you think so?
Well, it's suing its US incarnation, which should be some sort of LLC or Corporation. The US can certainly get rid of that, which will both significantly defund the Chinese company and eliminate its US presence (and vastly reduce the data collection of US sources which is in theory the motivation for this whole story).
I trust Bari Weiss a lot more then NPR. NPR is not what it used to be.
I had never heard of this "x" utility before, but I really dislike its philosophy. A lot of its modules seem downright harmful, like, `x install`, which uses a crowdsourced database of `curl "https://<url>" | sh -c`-style commands [1]. New submissions are reviewed via GitHub, but it's still a terrible idea. There's a reason people use package managers with central build script repositories and checksum verification.

Oh, and it does AI, or something like that [2].

This just feels like a BusyBox that doesn't know what it wants to be.

[1] https://www.x-cmd.com/install/

[2] https://www.x-cmd.com/start/ai-llm
How Jung’s collective unconscious inspired Alcoholics Anonymous
> The discussions will resume after the summer, once the new Parliament is seated and Hungary assumes the Council presidency from Belgium in July. Hungary has already committed to developing a comprehensive legislative framework to prevent and combat online child sexual abuse and revising the directive against the sexual exploitation of children.

Such as? Does it have anything to do with what "Chat Control" is about? What does Hungary have anything to do with it?
I will happily pay for high quality news. Every few months I check back in with The Financial Times to see if I can get it delivered to my house again (they used to deliver in Phoenix, but stopped, presumably they lost their printing partner here). My wife even tried to set up a PO box in another state and have the contents forwarded to us, but we could never get it working.

I also paid for Foreign Affairs for a long time, but eventually the quality of the paper (as in the physical material) dropped down a lot, and the number of ads went up.

Lapham's Quarterly (now defunct) wasn't really news, but happily paid for that.

Also plenty of substacks, patreon podcasts, etc.

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My local paper just ran a story about a woman "trapped" in her Tesla because the battery died. They started the story with a "warning" to anybody who might be considering buying one. The solution, according to this article, was to locate the "secret" release button that opens the door. Of course to anybody who has ever ridden in the front seat of a Tesla this is an absurd framing of the physical door handle which opens the door in the exact same fashion as every door that has been manufactured for a vehicle for the last 100 years. If you own a Tesla you have probably had to tell somebody not to use this handle (since it seems like such an obvious way to open the door) because it doesn't crack the windows and could damage the window seal (or so the warning that pops up when you use it says).

I'm not going to pay for that.
Something funny is that GCC may compile your code that uses pointer arithmetic into one that uses an index register, and compile your code that uses an index into an array as pointer arithmetic.

https://godbolt.org/z/9KPnnM7Po
On the contrary, ensuring fair trading practices is precisely the area where government needs to be most actively involved in economic matters. What is the downside of clamping down on borderline fraud, exactly?
Will successful U.S. based TikTok entrepreneurs seek refuge overseas to save their businesses? I think some might.
The stopper (or at least one) is probably credit card transaction fees. There is usually a minimum fee of like 15¢ which makes it less feasible to do transactions under a dollar.
https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/glob...
I think they were on high alert up until recently and are now in the process of trying to figure out how to get along with them. On the border areas, there were a handful of markets in the mountain villages where they allowed Afghans to cross the border to sell products. These markets were shut down once the Taliban took over but have recently been re-opened.
After years of companies insisting that working without being physically in the office 5 days a week was impossible, it was the government saying "Your offices are closed" that made remote work at all common. I know remote work existed as a small niche before that, but I can't give capitalism credit for normalizing it.

Disabled people have been begging for years to have more flexible working arrangements, and have been constantly told "sorry it's impossible." But then covid shows up only for everyone to discover it's been possible the whole time.
I never said they weren't profitable. I said they haven't fixed the problem with automation. They halfway fixed the problem, and ignored the hard part.
Alternatively, build a transparent TikTok clone with a socially positive algorithm for presenting content. I'd start an algorithm focused on tolerating all views except when that view would damage or destroy tolerance.

I like to think that an open system like this would outcompete the PRC propaganda machine.
Yeah, and I think you're right. I hadn't even given any thought to the massive weight of the water tank you'd need to do this. I was thinking of it more like a sprayer, which requires a much smaller volume to be useful.
The reason that I know UWaterloo is mathNEWS (https://mathnews.uwaterloo.ca).
> I've been programming for 20 years and I can't think of a single thing I know that puts me in a better position to predict the future of AI.

I don't think that's the argument, though. OP (and many commenters here) are talking about the state of AI tools right now, and how executive/marketing/sales people already either lie about or genuinely (incorrectly) believe fantastical things about current capabilities.
Why should I pay to be preached at and lied to when they do it anyway even if I don't pay them?

I might pay for less news, but certainly not more.
I'm not sure what you're really going on about here - there's a massive amount of proven history of EU/US law enforcement using each other's surveillance technology and legal loopholes to exchange information. War on drugs, CSAM, human trafficking are oft cited reasons.

There's pretty much zero chance that US would reject use and insight into private communication if EU puts it into law and forces upon messaging apps. We have literally pile of historical examples where FBI & co. were actively pushing for more of such data sharing programs. - So what exactly is your point? Where did you get an idea that you'll be running "EU software" and that US will defend you if you get into a CSAM suspected database list?
I think some AI heavy based companies (like Nvidia) could go boom (stock price wise) but not the tech industry as a whole. If AI works out like I think as a new powerful tool, and not a real paradigm shift, then those companies will pop, I don’t think we’ll hit AGI which is what the market is trying to price in currently. It couldn’t last more than another year at most. However I was just starting college back during that dot com bubble burst and even I as a “computer hacker” type going into college knew it was smoke and mirrors and so so so many companies were nothing but paper tigers, it was much different than AI I believe since AI is -something-, those companies were based on literally nothing but promises.
I don't see how that is worse than catering to the ideology of advertisers. Can you elaborate?
I'd consider paying for news if they considered offering any. The shovel-fulls of shit that is proffered these days is a far cry from news.
Not true, even for murder stats. It’s perfectly reasonable to challenge the accuracy of the numbers. The FBI and NYC use the same definitions for murder and starting in 2023 and 2024 their numbers haven’t matched. The FBI is reporting -13% fewer murders in 2023 than the NYPD recorded and -47% fewer murders so far in 2024.

If you look at absolute numbers, the NYPD is recording year over year increases in major violent felonies whereas the FBI is saying there are year over year decreases.
Oh! That's how I could've gotten my account back
The small claims system is arguably the right place for such stuff (malfeasance by businesses towards customers) by design, but whether it is properly funded for that is another matter. I do think it would make some sense to levy some kind of tax in proportion to customer count (however determined) on businesses that would be used solely to fund the system.
“Suppressed” would be more extremism. “Kept in check”? Yeah, that’s probably a good treatment for any religion.
Don't worry, they said it's relatively easy to add!
How cool!
I didn’t expect it will end up with ZK proofs that I was curious about for a long time. (After reading it I still don’t quite get the details of how they are working tho)
My favorite is him as Bill Bowerman in Without Limits (1998)
South Africa has one of (if not the) highest incidence of HIV in the population, so it makes sense to test it there. If you test it in a country where the incidence is 0.01 of the population, it's very hard to see statistical significance.

Edit: to add to my comment, it's also a phase 3 trial, so the safety has already been proven before.
Accumulate and bill once per month. Or pre-pay.
I think we could be good neighbors.
We're still at the stage of "old school" (pre-ChatGPT) bots, just with higher-quality audio. The other day my wife got a call from someone who sounded like real woman, but reacted just a tad too quickly; I tried a bunch of usual hack to get at the system prompt on her, but the only thing I learned is that it's a keyword-listening bot with a lot of high-quality audio recordings, including plenty of deflecting and reassuring that it is a real human, despite very much not being one.
Its just obviously designed to be in-your-face. It signals that the overlords aren't merely indifferent to your happiness---they actively work to make your life as miserable as possible.

Its not just run-of-the-mill, pointy-headed boss tone-deafness. No. They get that you are miserable, and they love it. The fact that it makes you feel infantilized and powerless is a feature, not a bug.