skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was pretty easy to spot if you watched Euro 2024 games.
This made the news yesterday: https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7785/Artykul/3407219,ukraine...

Apparently they did not catch all the arson teams.
I’m pretty sure the game of life was made by looking at different rule systems and manually picking the rules that were the most interesting
I've noticed that European Show HNs tend to be open-source projects rather than startups. Not interpreting, just noticing.
Thanks for digging that out. I gave it an honest skim, and gave a thorough read in spots, but that apparently wasn't enough to find the nugget we all came for.
Stripe has a history of cutting off payments to businesses which are violating the TOS. Stripe's TOS is largely a result of rules in place by banks and credit card companies. If Stripe don't shut them off, they get shut off.

To the extent they've made errors, I'd like to see you do better. The scale is enormous, there are fraudsters coming at you left and right. It's not an easy game to play.
Le met hazard a guess: that blog post was not written by a LLM!?
> Instead of competing just buy up other companies.

Zuck has shown the way.
It's also depends on where you come from. The price if you go to the airline's website directly may not match what you'd get off you come in via http://flights.google.com or http://expedia.com or http://kayak.com or whomever.
that's probably bad idea but I would like to learn why:

why when we have a conditional branch we cannot just fetch and prepare instructions for both possible branches and then discard the incorrect one?

is this that much harder or there are other reasons that makes this not worth it
I thought Idris Elba would have been an excellent James Bond. The alternative they went with doesn’t leave much room for interpretation on its DEI-ness though.
It seems to hinge on extrapolating from Apple not doing AI in the EU that NVidia might leave the market, harming Mistral.
This reminds me of another human behavior I see when driving.

Some guy goes speeding down the freeway, weaving through traffic. Easily a reckless driving ticket, possibly jail time or car impounded.

But they won't dare enter the carpool lane, even though it's totally empty. A ticket of $165.
This required a lot more than 50. There was a lot of planning and execution on this.

Maybe foreign agents could do it with 50? If they were supported by satellites and other tools to which these attackers likely did not have access. But foreign agents are operating in relatively large teams even for simple missions. I don't think with this level of coordination, and this number of targets, spread over this large a geographic area, any intelligence agency is going to send one guy/gal per target. It only works like that in Bourne and 007 movies.
I feel the same about the Grateful Dead. I like jam bands, I like all of the bands and musicians that hung out with or played with them, all of my friends like them. Ripple is pretty nice. I should absolutely like them, but whatever magic is there my ears don't pick up on. Their studio version of Good Lovin might be the worst thing a "good" band I have ever heard recorded, like a shitty band at the community 4th of July party that 17 people are dancing to and the other 2000 are trying to ignore.
By who, and for what reason?
This article illustrates the theory and math that lead to the horseshoe diagram in a very approachable style that is as simple as possible without being too simple.

A Beginner’s Guide to (CIE) Colorimetry — Chandler Abraham

https://medium.com/hipster-color-science/a-beginners-guide-t...
It was kind of repulsive
Yes. Learn a bit of elisp and it becomes super fun. I often glue all sorts of things with it and post at https://lmno.lol/alvaro

- https://lmno.lol/alvaro/native-emacsmacos-ux-integrations-vi...

- https://lmno.lol/alvaro/building-your-own-bookmark-launcher

- https://lmno.lol/alvaro/emacs-quick-kill-process

- https://lmno.lol/alvaro/emacs-utilities-for-your-os

- https://lmno.lol/alvaro/ob-swiftui-updates

- https://lmno.lol/alvaro/emacs-connect-my-bluetooth-speaker

- https://lmno.lol/alvaro/hey-emacs-change-the-default-macos-a...

- https://lmno.lol/alvaro/emacs-open-with-macos-app

- https://lmno.lol/alvaro/emacs-rotate-my-macos-display

- https://lmno.lol/alvaro/emacs-searchplay-music-macos
Giddy Up
Damaging highways isn't exactly hard, even if they don't contain any roads or bridges. And if you take out the highways the rest of the roads don't have nearly enough capacity.
We have no way of knowing whether sun h an implant already exists, wait inf to be turned on at the moment of maximum damage. Luckily I have no hair to turn gray.
The past meets the future
"How could I know this is illegal, if it was sold on Amazon and had great reviews?"
To hide your pirate radio, you load it up into a jeep and only transmit while on the move. talk hard!
No mention of AoIP. I make heavy use of Netjack2 in my production / streaming studio. Great way to move 25/30 channels of audio between 5 PCs in real-time.

Beats the pants off DANTE.
Nah Detroit has some beautiful architecture and really surprised me when I visited last year. Also being on a river and next to a lake is a nice feature. I've been to plenty of more depressing places in the US
Transistor count; now you have to duplicate all the decode and speculative execution circuitry for both possible branches
The Million Veteran Program is closing hard-to-fill gaps in DNA research
I haven’t seen this happen to a legit business yet. Each time I’ve read about the business has been shady and violates the TOS.

I don’t care for so much consolidation though.
Can you share citations supporting this assertion?
You really thought that link was a smoking gun, didn't you. Have you read this thing? Do you understand how hard it is NOT to check two of these four boxes?

Basically all of your film's department heads have to be white straight men, you have to fail to hire just 6(!) women/POC/etc in other significant jobs, and the studio's executives all belong to over-represented groups. As in, they are whiter and straighter than THE COUNTRY.

That you insist on seeing evil and bad faith in efforts to make our culture more representative of our actual population is very depressing to me.
The number one justification for cryptocurrency in my book, even if it's less safe or convenient or even has small fees. Your business being subject to the whims of payment processors is ludicrous.

Even with this being the justification, they could just say they won't be working with the customer in the future, not literally steal their customer's already earned money.
Tech is more than social networks though
It's always interesting to see decades old papers, sometimes published with little to no fanfares, suddenly becomes "state of the art" because hardware have become powerful enough.

For example Z-buffers[1]. It's used by 3d video games. When it's first published on paper, it's not even the main topic of the paper, just some side notes because it requires expensive amount of memory to run.

Turn out megabytes is quite cheap few decades latter, and every realtime 3d renderer ended up using it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-buffering
Ubuntu loses talent, and it is no longer a Linux anyone would recommend for any reason.
IANA Root Zone Database
The requirements for social platforms are just becoming more inline with all other industries. The period of special treatment is over. The era of, “If it’s on social media then no one is liable for this content or the harm it may cause, but also I can still monetize it,” is over.

It is a welcome change, but not for those who mean to exploit the special status that “social media” and “apps” have been given all these years.
Docker's dependency management solution is "include everything you need and specify a standard interface for the things you can't include like networking." There's no concern about "does the server I'm deploying to have the right version of libssl" because you just include the version you need. At most, you have to have "does the server I'm deploying to have the right version of Docker/other container runtime for the features my container uses" which are a much smaller subset of changes. Reproducible builds, yeah, but that's traditionally more a factor of making sure your build scripts are reproducible than the package management itself. Or to put it another way, dockerfiles are just as reproducible as .debs or .rpms. Upgrading is replacing the container with a new one

Kubernetes is an abstraction layer that (mostly) hides the complexity of storage networking etc. Yeah the CNIs and CSIs are complex, but for the appdev it's reduced to "write a manifest for a PV and a PVC" or "write a manifest for a service and/or ingress". In my company ops has standardized that so you add a key to your values.yaml and it'll template the rest for you. Ops has to deal with setting up that stuff in the first place, which you have to do regardless, but it's better than every appdev setting up their own way to do things

My company's a conglomerate of several acquisitions. I'm from a company that was heavy into k8s, and now I'm working on getting everyone else's apps that are currently just deployed to a VM into a container and onto a k8s cluster instead. I might shouldn't've said k8s was an API per se, but it is a standardized interface that covers >90% of what people want to do. It's much easier to debug everything when it's all running on top of k8s using the same k8s concepts than it is debugging why each idiosyncratic VM isn't working. Could you force every app to use the same set of features on VMs? Want a load balancer, just add a value to your config and the deployment process will add your VM to the F5? Yeah, it's possible, but we'd have to build it, or find a solution offered by a particular vendor. k8s already has that written and everyone uses it
There was a similar scenario in the recent film Leave the World Behind
One of the oldest (AFAIK) occurrences of this was AOL releasing a data set of "anonymized" search queries in 2006 and it took a about a day for the first person to be deanonymized.

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html

https://techcrunch.com/2006/08/09/first-person-identified-fr...
I had never doubted whether Java is still relevant, until I saw an article trying to convince me Java is still relevant.
> Suffering is literally foundational to life friend, you can't end it.

Says who?

In a counterfactual world where those things were done to a group of humans, from puberty to menopause, one could say exactly the same as your comment.

And yet, human chattel slavery is illegal, and anyone attempting what I've just described would be prosecuted for crimes against humanity and/or genocide — a newspaper or historical report saying a group of people "were treated like animals" is a sign of something horrific, and if someone is known as "a butcher" because of what they did to humans then we don't wave it away as "suffering is literally foundational to life".

And we don't like it when other things eat us, be the other bacteria or shark. Instead, we make the world safe for us… because we don't accept "suffering is foundational" when it is us doing the suffering.

Even in a counterfactual world where humans really did need to consume flesh — we know we don't, biologically, need to consume the flesh of others — the subject of this entire thread is growing meat in a vat, just the flesh without a mind to suffer with it. Other people are doing similar things for dairy.

Also: if you really think that "suffering is literally fundamental" is a good argument, you shouldn't have any problem with humans being forced to, as you said previously, toil away in artificial light in a giant industrial facility to make their food.

> The vegan utopia is a dead planet.

Says who?

There was a time on this world when all life was photovore or chemovore. Predation is a strategy, but one of evolution not of engineering. Predation is the "defect" strategy in the iterated prisoner's dilemma.

You wrote previously about diversity: this world has about 1.5 billion cows. This displaced all the other flora and fauna that used to exist in the same places. This is a very real loss of (bio)diversity, directly caused by what you think is giving you (dietary) diversity.
Evidence for global cultural diffusion
I never realized how many companies/brands have their own gTLD.
And before them, Cisco
Calling everything a conspiracy is the exact lack of skepticism you should not have.

If you want to paint bellingcat as a tool of the CIA, you have to prove their claims to be false. If the CIA pays bellingcat to produce only factually correct information, that is still useful.
Wow. I drive up 124th all the time, and never noticed. checking now on street view does prove you right though, there are three just west of willows.
Consumer grade audio hardware has not gotten any more "nuanced" for several decades now. For the vast majority of use cases OSS was perfectly fine and it offered more than enough API to handle new features.

For the small minority of uses cases where you might have two sound cards and you may want to do some kind of sample accurate combined production between the two at very low latencies, sure, OSS was _somewhat_ inadequate.

So we ended up with a giant complicated audio stack where the boundaries between kernel space and user space are horribly blurred and create insane amounts of confusion and lost hours to benefit the 1% of users who might actually use those features.

It was a complete mistake.
Yeah, IMHO the best audio linux has ever was with OSS v3 and a soundcard that did hardware mixing. No software mixers like ESD or ARtS were needed.
> Hypercard maybe had the language thing figured out: use english as a base?

I wrote some stuff in applescript, which is similar / descended from HyperTalk. I would say it's the worst language I've used; it's so hard to use because of pretending to be natural. It doesn't help when Apple forgot how to write documentation somewhere around 2008, so there's no authoritative docs, and it's unsearchable because it looks like english words.

Literally anything else would be preferable, but applescript is the best way to automate MacOS. Thankfully, I only had to use it once.
Now I'm not sure you can tell apart bad writing from diverse casting. Both are having a moment right now, but that's not really an excuse to confuse them.
Chat control still has not passed, and GDPR arguably contains a few articles in favor of citizens privacy. I wouldn't say "not at all".
Yeah, it's advertising too.
It seems you're right. I'm thinking of the third-party APNs (why does Apple insist on the lowercase "s" here?) server providers who do sometimes bill on a per-notification basis.

I'll admit that I know basically nothing about how this ecosystem works in 2024, particularly as it relates to push notifications from self-hosted applications as Zulip can sometimes be.
There was a Russian experiment (still running after decades) to breed domesticated foxes starting from wild animals. The friendliest pups in a litter were selected for future breeding. Within just a few generations, the animals were tamer and even started to look like dog puppies.

Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox
I sort of agree, but compared to just learning the Krebs cycle it takes orders of magnitude more time to understand either (a) the actual historical discovery/justification or (b) a modern streamlined justification that would allow one in principle to reconstruct it. It's already very challenging to teach biology students as much as they need to know without justifications. For them to be able to justify all they know would dramatically reduce how much they could be taught. And indeed, the desire by teachers that their students should know the justifications has often led to the actual history being so grossly compressed and caricaturized that it's downright misleading -- worse than not knowing.

It seems the best we can hope for is to mostly just learn the known facts and, separately, the abstract way in which scientific theories are justified, augmented by a close analysis and understanding of a few case studies. Even that if of course rarely achieved in education.

Incidentally, folks in this thread may be interested in "Proofs and Refutations" by Imre Lakatos, where it's shown how this same issue is (surprisingly) found to exist almost as badly in academic mathematics, despite math being thought of as one of the few places where the experts learn how to the edifice is built from the ground up.
> Stripe has a history of shutting down legit businesses and blocking payouts of their rightfully earned income, whilst also profiting off those frozen funds by investing it.

Almost every case I've seen, it's almost always because they were dabbling with NSFW, Cannabis, or another card-network-restricted category. And when you confront them about their story, they almost always respond with weasel wording: "It wasn't really NSFW, or it was only a little NSFW, or it's not my responsibility if my users use it for NSFW..."

It's also not like this is buried in the Terms of Service with ambiguous legalese. Stripe has a pretty beautifully-formatted page clearly saying what they are not OK with.

https://stripe.com/legal/restricted-businesses
Remember that Russian citizens are explicitly told they are "At war with NATO".
> First time I had to setup CI on a Mac, and what a horrible experience it was

Could you share some details what was horrible?

I've created pipelines for Linux, macOS and Windows, and think that
Windows is by far the worst of all three to setup anything related to
CI.
Speaking as a Finch (large F) I am delighted by this study of the finch (small f)
> as opposed to all the shades of red and blue that are missing because really saturated red and blue primaries are too dim (per unit of energy) to use.

Would another way to put that be, that the chromaticity diagram could keep going southeastward (i.e. the XYZ color-space could have the X and Z activation functions extended leftward and rightward), but due to the frequencies continuing on the spectral line, that area of the diagram would necessarily be made mostly of infrared and ultraviolet frequencies that we can't see?
It's not like China is known for caring about IP. All they'd have to do is not sell in the US.
I got that, I didn't get how you go from that to windows.
I heard of counter machines on Computerphile
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXN7jTNGQIw
You can check out the seminal paper linked in the article. Or start by summarizing the paper with Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT, etc. to get a high level overview (and then confirm the answer by reading the paper).
As someone who has extensive experience broadcasting on "pirate" radio, it is great fun, and typically harms no one. In fact, during some natural disasters, these pirate stations became a great source of up to date crowd sourced information on what was going on, even helping coordinate first responders.

Obviously letting everyone broadcast radio-station strength FM signals willy-nilly is a bad idea, but going after someone in a neighborhood occupying an unused swath of spectrum is not, in my opinion, the best use of anyone's resources.
ISPs seeking government handouts try to avoid offering low-cost broadband
Cars are vulnerable to attacks on fuel stations, attacks on bridges, dumping a load of nails on the road during rush hour, etc. I’m not sure I’d automatically assume disrupting thousands of car passengers is necessarily harder than disrupting thousands of train passengers.
Apparently the author founded the "Center for New Liberalism". I tried to find out how that's funded, but could only see memberships that gives access to a 700+-person Slack, and couldn't find what the dues are. Would be interested in learning more about that, if anyone knows more.
This can be said about any regulation that makes it more difficult to deliver a product. Are food safety regulations "onerous" because the food company has to hire several people to ensure their food is safe? A food startup who can't afford to hire those people might argue that they are at a disadvantage and therefore the regulations are onerous and favor large companies.
Interactive Snark Verification on Bitcoin Using BitVMX [video]
Unclear. I have not-great memory, but I can hear music in my head very precisely even after decades. Like, the other day I anticipated the exact moment of a guitar stab and when the singer was about to crank it up a notch, in a random song I don't remember hearing since the 80s. But what I'm recalling is the audio, the specific waveform representation. I struggle to remember and recite lyrics, even to my favorite songs, and I'm very slow to memorize new pieces on piano []

So there's some specific memory pathway for audio. Unclear if that would trigger by just, e.g., reading a passage in melody form. Would the audio imprint?

[] Experiment: how fast could I learn a piano piece by first listening to one specific recording several times, to let the audio imprint in my memory?
I gotta see it to believe it ;)
Eh? Pretty sure they're more powerful. And readable, unlike the Scheme ones that look as elegant and well integrated as a caravan being pulled by a Porsche =).
With these games your macro strategy is a lot more important than doing any kind of hair trigger reaction. Like your 3rd move in a 5 move sequence might come with iframes or a gap creator, so you need to keep track of where you are in the moveset and try to time it with the boss's actions. However, you are never asked for highly precise inputs.

The game is built to be played on a screen with your fingers blocking some elements after all.
Fair enough. Unless I misunderstood your point it sounds like, what you guys have right now is good for people and their lives. Isn't that the entire point of life? I can see why general population might support it, while us techies would be pushing for deregulation and less of work-life balance. So my understanding of these articles is "it might be bad in a long term!", but Europe is still big enough market for all these companies eventually bend over backwards to get access to it.

Again, really no skin in the game, as I don't live there and I only have limited amount of perspective, which comes from my European resident non-techie friends.
For most purposes the second format is superior for the very reasons you state. In a certain world it's always going to be superior.

However, it means that concepts which are not attached to a worldview become harder to work with. Think of making subassemblies of jigsaw puzzle pieces. You can see that pieces are related and fit together without knowing what you're actually looking at.
If it's designed to be used for caching, then replacing an old entry or throwing away the new one is quite possibly a perfectly reasonable "out."

If it's designed to be used for other purposes as well, not so much.

(I wasn't entirely sure which from reading the article)
Sorry, I'm talking hypothetically about how this would be designed, not in the context of your specific timeframe!

> "is my specialized datastore gonna be faster than Redis"

Absolutely! With how efficient this code would be, you'd likely never need to scale horizontally, and in that case it is extremely easy to compete with a network hop (at least 1ms latency) versus L1 cache (<50ns)

The comparison with redis otherwise only applies once you do need to scale horizontally.

There's also the fact that redis must be designed to support any query pattern efficiently; a much harder problem then supporting just 1-2 queries efficiently.