skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really disagree with you that, if I understand you correctly, it's not really possible to make web content open for some purposes but not for other, and I commented as much here, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41418603.

But there is currently a lot of content that is published openly solely because the pre-AI economic model of the web made it viable. That economic model is now going away, so you'll see a lot more content put behind paywalls (or just not published at all) because AI means that it no longer makes sense for some publishers to spend time and money to produce content they can't get a return on.
The article's predicate is that rollercoasters have no purpose, but then seems to explain what their purpose is. There are far more things in the world that are "purposeless" than rollercoasters, if amusement is insufficient.

As someone who appreciates rollercoasters and psychoactive substances, I've made comparisons between them. A good ride will make you feel weightless one moment, four times heavier the next. You'll feel adrenalin, awe, fear, and catharsis, all neatly packaged in under five minutes, usually a good deal shorter than that, and with fewer contraindications.

Rollercoasters and psychedelics can be a great pairing, too, but your mileage may vary, of course.
My company of ~1600 currently does annual retreats with 90-110ish people. All of the C suite and their direct reports, but also a good number of engineers and other ICs, as well as some “line-level” managers, and 10 people who have been identified as “up and comers” (usually ICs relatively early in their careers, but not exclusively - over the last decade, probably 30-40% have been managers of some sort who were well into their careers but identified as key people in the organization for a number of reasons).

Many of the people at the retreat last year were happy exactly where they were, because they were contributing the project/team/company/etc exactly how they wanted to be. This was especially true of the senior engineers in attendance. Just because you’re a top performer, it does not follow that you also want to be a top-level executive.
Yes. Which is why lasting change will never come from persuading the leadership of companies that your personal set of morals need to be followed if they want to be successful—they'll follow you for as long as you are powerful and bail as soon as you aren't.

You have to change hearts and minds within the broader population in order to bring lasting power towards change, but that's something that the modern crop of progressives entirely gave up on 10+ years ago in favor of racing to the finish line and declaring victory prematurely.

(Cue comments that the right can't be reasoned with so there's no point in trying.)
> upper classes pour first the tea, while the lower classes poured the milk first

this is because of the fear that boiling water will crack your best tea cups?
found schrödinger's idiot
Can you elaborate? Is there a link?
Bill Ackman invested in X.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna167813
> If you cannot appeal (and you probably can't, since this was a judicial order by the Supreme Court), then you have to comply (or face the consequences of ignoring judicial orders).

It was a secret order from one justice of the Supreme Court, not an official order or decision from the whole of the Supreme Court. It came with an order to maintain secrecy to avoid public scrutiny, which tells you all you need to know about its legality and ethics. Anyways, X’s appeals were not heard by the same supreme court, and that’s probably in part because the other justices are also intimidated by the aggression and power grab by the authoritarians in the regime - namely de Moraes and Lula himself.

If a government commits atrocities at the highest level in secret, should no one refuse or speak up? Of course not - it’s by airing these out in public that it can even be challenged, if there is corruption or authoritarianism. You don’t have to just blindly comply and accept dictatorships.

> Note that Musk had no problem censoring and banning accounts when asked by the Turkish or Indian governments.

This feels like a distraction not an argument - it’s not relevant what happened in other countries. Also X did challenge censorship in India at least, in a lawsuit after Musk acquired Twitter. They lost the lawsuit in that case, but the main thing is that censorship was legal in other jurisdictions where X complied. It’s illegal in Brazilian law, which is why they aren’t caving to the demands of that one single rogue supreme court justice.
They seem to have quite a lot of actual wooly mammoth DNA. In the linked document:

> The final dataset consists of 23 woolly mammoth genomes (22 Late
Quaternary and one Middle Pleistocene), with 13 at medium
coverage (2.3–4.13) and 10 at high coverage (10.4–28.63)

The efforts to make dinosaur like things more fits your description.
Unless is a Tom Scott video. Those are almost always worth the investment.
While something like this could be an interesting idea for a sci-fi novel, this is not at all how quantum entanglement works. Entanglement doesn't make one particle "[adopt] the dilated time/gravity of its remote counterpart", it just refers to a perfect correlation of certain measurements of the two particles. For example, if you produce two particles that you know have zero total momentum, but don't measure the momenta of either individual particle, these particles are now entangled, because measuring the momentum of one particle to be p immediately tells you that the other particle's momentum is -p, regardless of distance. Time does not actually come into play at all here.
The lawyers don't care. Neither does anyone else.

They'll probably get cheated out of whatever winnings they get, and end up back on the street.
How does one get this chance?
If you visit https://www.tindie.com/ you can search for either "Z80" or "CP/M" and find a lot of single-board computers that are available as kits.

RC2014 is the most popular, a modular system with lots of options, but that's overkill and more expensive than it needs to be if you just wanna get a simple system working and running your own code.
The government is already bankrupt and has been for years, you haven't been paying attention as it seems. It's called "deficit budget", and not only they do it every single year, they regularly raise the ceiling they set for themselves of how much debt they are willing to take. They dug a $35T hole and they keep digging, faster every year.

It is extremely disingenuous to put this conundrum at my feet, as if my actions, with my puny tax which I am too lazy to even calculate how much it would be in percents, but it's sure to have quite a bunch of zeros in front, had even the tiniest influence on those decisions. It never did and never will. Maybe Buffett's decisions may, but not mine. So stop trying to shame me for things that have nothing to do with me and never could have anything to do with me.
Yikes. That does not mean what you think it does in my locale.

The phrase would be "flogging a dead horse".
Yeah I came here thinking it was about books. Apparently Magic people call their cards a library? Here I am sat with a plain old deck of cards like a complete lemon.
I dont understand why something that's recycled, renewable and sustainable can cost more than something that's not.

The price is a proxy for materials and energy required to produce the product. You can say that eventually we'll run out of [resource] but as we do the price goes up making alternatives more attractive. The sustainability part is one of the most powerful signals captured by price.

So when someone is trying to sell me something that costs more but is somehow more sustainable, I immediately call bs.
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A minor nitpick on the editor page https://vizdom.dev/editor/

The example drop down should either have names instead of Example 1..n. Or it should be changeable via keyboard. I have reached example 10 so far I think, but I have to keep track of example number in my head, open the dropdown, scroll the list and click the next number every single time. Edit: Yup, can't just go through all examples like this.
https://macwright.com/2022/09/15/hacker-news

He redirects HN readers - just copy the URL into a new tab.
If you only count one specific tax among dozens, maybe. But again, that's just a pointless soundbite, which completely dissolves under a proper inquiry.
Oh that’s interesting to know! I guess I gel better with bottom up. As soon as I start seeing API functions I don’t understand I immediately want to know how they work!
I ask a slight variation on the third.

"Three, six months in, what signs are there that you made the right choice with your candidate?"
How does an elephant burger taste? I'd imagine mammoth would be even more difficult to come by.
If you're looking for a non web QR generator with lots of options try Zint. https://www.zint.org.uk/ It's the only option I have found that doesn't seem to lock out any features. You want to control the error correction? Got it. Render in color? No problem. Batch convert 1000 lines of text into 1000 individual images. It took less than a second. It even does Datamatrix and other non QR encodings.
The fatal flaw is calling them "locks".

When programmers think of locks, they think of something that can be used to guarantee mutual exclusion.

Distributed locks have edge cases where mutual exclusion is violated.

Implementation does not matter.

e.g. imagine someone shows you a design for a perpetual motion machine. You don't need to know the details to know it doesn't work! It would violate the laws of physics!

Similarly, anyone telling you they created an implementation of a distributed lock that is safe, is claiming their system breaks the laws of information theory.

"Distributed locks" are at best contention-reduction mechanisms. i.e. they can keep multiple processes from piling up and slowing each other down.

[Some] Paxos for example use leader election to streamline the protocol and achieve high throughput.
But Paxos safety does NOT depend on it. If there are multiple leaders active (which will inevitably happen), the protocol still guarantees its safety properties.
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I think people are conflating “founder mode” with “founder led”.

Those are two very different things.

Look to Oracle as an example of a “founder mode” company that is not founder led.
I usually open-source everything, but this app is currently closed-source. Everything related to viewing and unarchiving is free and I plan to make creating archives and renaming/moving/deleting files within the archive paid. (The lifetime license is currently 80% off during development, check in the Settings of the app.)

I'm using SwiftUI + AppKit in XCode to make the app. The toolbar is just a row of big native buttons :D. I initially designed it to be familiar to Windows users & 7-Zip. But, after actually playing with 7-Zip recently, I think it can be unintuitive at times (ex. the extract/copy/move buttons can all unarchive and the button to create an archive is labeled "Add"), so I plan to modify it. I'm also planning on adding customization options to move these buttons to the native macOS toolbar so it can fit in better with the macOS design langauge.

Thanks I spent quite some time playing around with that animation! It is also fully coded in SwiftUI.
very illuminating and idea-provoking deep dive. thanks.
Cool, but why would we want to do this? Is there any practical value?

There are species that are important to our current ecosystem that are going extinct, why are we bringing back mammoths instead of fixing that?
Curvature Blindness Illusion (2017)
What YouTuber? I'd like to subscribe.
There's no reason we should be able to agree. Some people like them and want them protected, other people hate them and want them gone. If it were really clear that they were harmful, shooting them all would be super easy, I could probably do it myself.
Why would the fact that the guy who introduced them is a drug lord matter? Hippos can't inherit original sin.
A news on the same: https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/08/anaconda_puts_the_squ...
Archives of the Impossible
Hotel safe might, if it logs somewhere (serial port?).

The others may have a serial port setup during development, too. If you have a truly small formatter, you can just disable it for final builds (or leave it on, asssuming output is non blocking, if someone finds the serial pins, great for them), rather than having larger rom for development and smaller for production.
Obviously swap SIMs before changing IMEI.
I’d say for the majority use-case (as I see it), they’re excellent for manual diagram curation. Especially, D2 for software arch diagrams. Mermaid is great at many things.

It’s kind of hard to write up a fair comparison - it’s apples to oranges.

I can say that vizdom performs very fast hierarchical layouts (currently the only supported type). Example 14 in the live editor runs in about 1 second on my M1 Mac - but if you refresh the page it CloudFront will complain since the graph state is all in the URL and it’s too long.
It sounds like they want to be able to restore it too. And the Terminal is harder to use than a graphical step by step guide.
The recycling processes for these products is newer and therefore less efficient (more costly) as it hasn't had the same time the older processes have had to mature + optimize
> What a senseless, selfish, petty thing to attempt

This is clearly not selfishness. Selfishness is believing you're entitled to other people's work for free, which is the implicit assumption made by people claiming that they should be able to train their models on your work.

Selfishness is trying to take other people's work and turn it onto an AI model without compensating them on their turns. This demonstrates extreme entitlement, lack of a consistent moral system, and a fundamental ignorance of basic economics.

> no differently from a human artist

Yes, humans are objectively different from computers, including neural networks. Humans are sentient, and existing AI is not. It's not even accurate to say that humans have "neural nets" in their brains, because human cognition not understood.

The AI poisoning technique is very moral - if someone doesn't explicitly contact me and ask me for permission to train on my data, then they absolutely deserve a corrupt model. I think I'll do this.
There are some things I host this way as well. On the other hand, I find that having autoscaling and automated deploys makes a big difference in speed I can iterate on some side projects.
I use the "show transcript"[1] function for that.

[1] In the web (desktop) version of youtube, if you expand the description, there is a "show transcript" button near the bottom. Not sure about mobile or other versions.
Other than Graphviz (can try one of its other visual editors[3]), other generic text to diagram tools/langs in this space are Pikchr[1] and D2[2].

UPDATE: Just realized that Vizdom here is not a new language, but a Graphviz editor.

[1]: https://pikchr.org/home/pikchrshow

[2]: https://play.d2lang.com/

[3]: http://magjac.com/graphviz-visual-editor/
Twitter/X has a local entity set up in Sao Paulo.

The previous administrator was removed and another wasn't appointed, running foul from the societal laws.

Telegram doesn’t have a local entity and complies with Brazilian law, which is the only thing that is required. There is absolutely no need for local representation of foreign entities in Brazilian law.

Twitter having a local office is simply a commercial decision - easier to conduct business, better relationships with customers, local tax vs duty over importation of services etc.
Agree completely, this is an essay without a thesis, or any valuable evidence or argument. This is a C- college essay at best.

I’m sad about that because I was very interested in the title.
The headline got a genuine LOL from me. It sounds like a quote from some way over confident sales guy in a sitcom or something.
> What do you mean by free speech is regressing in anglophone countries? That seems like a weird opinion to have? Do you have a particular example?

In the US at least, I'd say for most of the existence of the web, the prevalent idea was that the best way to counter 'bad' speech was more speech.

The concern over 'misinformation' has resulted in a lot of people, whom previously had advocated for unrestricted speech, calling for regulation or removal of section 230.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/02/opinion/misinformation-di...

Like many Zeitgeist trends, it is difficult to measure concretely and objectively, especially if it hasn't been tracked in the past. Especially when people's understanding of what constitutes "free" speech shifts over time.
But you can learn Python with Anaconda. At the point you are sophisticated enough to outgrow it, wouldn’t you be better offering a drink or two to your sysadmin friend and have them fix it?

As an analogy- It may be just as easy to do, but I’ll never bother to change the spark plugs in my car - I’ll have someone knowledgeable do it. Do I think it’s hard? No. Do I think I have better ways to spend my time? I do.
Need to praise the inception here - the whole time I was watching it, I was feeling clever, thinking "all of these silly and wasteful methods for storing data are still pretty efficient compared to 'blockchain'".

Then it turns out that that that was secretly the whole point :)
Thanks! Love your product! I didn’t mean to say you don’t have it. I’ll edit my other post.
D2 is open, they just have an optional proprietary layout algo. Of course one might contend that the rest is ‘just’ tooling but I find D2 provides a very quick and easy way to rough out diagrams without touching a mouse. The open source algorithms are good enough for me.
That doesn't sound like the lifetime loans that the supposed $2,500 an hour "private wealth attorney at an international law firm" was talking about. In his story, the loans are at .5% - 3% and only payable decades later upon death (though the firm would supposedly also get a share of earnings increase). This sounds like normal SBLOC (Securities-Based Lines of Credit).
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But the law of finance is, in theory anyway, designed to do two things:

1) Punish bad actors after the fact, and, more importantly:

2) Make being evil less of a rational option, and so dissuade people and organizations from breaking the law in the first place

If you've decided to be evil, 2) can't and won't deter you, and it would be easy enough to leak everyone's credit card information. Sure, you'll be punished, but hey, the amount of damage that would cause is probably insane.

Law enforcement could act fairly quickly, probably, but criminals would almost certainly get there first, and once they've got the information, you can't really take it back.
Is dragging and dropping the .zshrc file the easiest way to run anaconda on a mac? It sounds incredibly inconvenient to me, and considering it is intended for people who are clueless about terminal and .zshrc, it may result in a mess with different .zshrc versions in case one installs anything that runs through terminal and changes .zshrc, which can be a lot of things.
Indeed, it is high time for a new Fedora installer for Macs, the Anaconda monopoly needs to be broken! ;-)
Ah yeah, it’s been bugging me as well lol.

I definitely need to update that at some point.
Google Trends launches Trending Now experience with new insights
These are your personal essay points, not what was in the piece itself.
Re frontend devs not knowing how to configure an HTTP server: it's literally the front end. Caching, cors, cookies, maximum request sizes, these are all things frontend devs should know to work effectively as a team with the backend folks, but the backend folks gladly help out, usually. I'm not even saying they should know basics of DNS even if I think they should if they want their work load into their customer's browsers quickly. I can accept the browser is the OS and whatever happens outside of it is dark magic, like I said it is just poor taste.

> Even at many companies that deploy things to the cloud, they’ll have dedicated folks for that because the people writing the code to run are busy writing the code.

And this is the root of the problem. A week's worth of coding sure saves them a day of configuring their host systems, not to mention optimizing their cloud spend up. The folks who actually know how the system works and how to diagnose when it doesn't are in short supply and are also effin busy.

> That it eventually runs on Linux is not very meaningful to most devs unless their app needs special compiling configurations or libraries.

This is true only until it isn't. There can be times of coasting and then the dreaded base image version bump comes and 90% of the organization has no clue if they're impacted or how to check if they are.
We are trying to fix that - there are eight billion people on this planet and we as a species are capable of doing more than one thing at a time.
I would think the lack of boredom is still a bigger variable.

I have not felt true boredom since about 1993. Not at least in the way it felt then when there was literally nothing to do.

When the choice was to stare at the wall or go out and find something interesting to do on a Saturday night, the choice was made for you. Many other people were in the same situation. Now the choice is made for everyone but in the opposite way to more or less just stay home.
NSA, State officials comment on CCP hacking
Reminds me of most small businesses.
Sure, that's the kind of "engineer" that then needs to offload the work entirely onto someone else when things don't magically work as he wanted.

The other person is the engineer here.
Even pumped hydro is pretty small for seasonal storage.

Probably the only economical approach will be some sort of factobattery[1], which can be thought of as a flow battery which operates "once through" to avoid round-trip losses. Instead of outputting electricity, the beneficiated material itself is the economic output.

This eliminates the entire chemistry-to-electricity side of the process, which may require dissimilar equipment under some approaches.

[1] https://www.moderndescartes.com/essays/factobattery/
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Q* is also a term from reinforcement learning.
> My hope is that my own cadaver is ripped apart by somebody as crazy/appreciative as me =D

https://meded.ucsf.edu/willed-body-program :)
> You can say that eventually we'll run out of [resource] but as we do the price goes up making alternatives more attractive

We're not running out of oil, that's why the market forces you refer to aren't raising the price. This is why almost all mainstream economists call for a carbon price.
Spending time to learn? Nah better never learn and put together barely working stuff that nobody dares to change!

This isn't something new.
Yes they could have just defined their own global operator new/delete to have a micro-runtime. Same as you'd do if you were doing a kernel in C++. Super easy, barely an inconvenience