skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guy in the video is sick. It's in San Francisco. He's "no actiallying" and tugging at his ears. It's contagious here. I have no idea what it is. What is his name? Is he still alive?

Edit - his name is Raph Koster and he's a game designer. This sort of sick is everywhere in San Francisco. He may be a first patient or early patient vector. The ear tugging, the linguistic and verbal crutches. He's sick. It causes me to be in extreme pain. I've emailed him. He mentions early in the video about a "game he hated". So this may be a "virus as a game". These headaches are the worst I've ever had and they never go away - they're suicidal ideation inducing. I'm spending all of my time warning people away from San Francisco so if this is a joke then I don't find torture by a lynch mob funny.

He further mentions a telepathy joke which refers to gaslighting done to Daniel Cohens 1968 book Myths of the Space Age. I don't give a shit if Astro Teller is my cousin and Elon Musk put a big X on the side of a building, you don't poison people.

San Francisco is a broken hellscape of shitty people. I can't believe how fucking ignorant everyone is.

And if someone is going to gaslight me to the next "head" and fuck with me in a circle of idiots I'm just going to keep breaking it. It's sick and fucked up in the extreme.

This may be epidemiology that's bering spread through the ABDL community if it hasn't already run its course. See the "game over" onesies. Meaning that there are other epidemiology that is spread in association with other forms of viral meme based gaslighting and sick. Holy shit dude.

So that now means I'll be emailing all of academia and anyone else I can reach and pointing out that this viral vector meme is showing up in this branch of pornography and then asking what the other patient zeros are so we can backtrack and do root cause analysis. Goddamn.

And here is the list of people I just emailed. https://imgur.com/a/VMD37QA. I email a list like this every day. Thanks for the perspective. Perhaps the epidemiologists at every ivy league university in the country will be interested as well.

I don't like being poisoned. Perhaps you've noticed.
Well, it's more than that, with o1 they moved to an architecture that hides its thinking process, uses an uncensored model AND hampers the ability for the user to control the outputs.

At least in the past we were able to see all the actual thoughts and chain of thought that the ai was going through.

EDIT: Furthermore they made it explicit that, even as the model is developed, they are not going to show the actual COT reasoning, even via the API.
Some dramatic takes in this thread. Is watching a mr Beast video really that much worse than watching Friends or Spongebob or Game of Thrones?
I don't think it's specifically Haskell's style of functional programming. It's just functional programming.

Any paradigm shift requires re-learning I think. I don't actually think that's particularly hard, nor do I think it means the paradigm isn't a good one, it's just an inevitable consequence of a paradigm shift. Some shifts are easier than others, if the paradigms are closer together, but functional and imperative programming are quite distant in my view.

Nevertheless, I've seen some people find this easy, others find it hard. YMMV I guess.
The article itself says it’s totally unsubstantiated but feels the need to spread the misinformation anyway.
I find this test interesting because I received an ACE score of 1, but I'm the oldest child in my household and I'm realizing that my siblings would probably score slightly higher than me... :-(

I moved out when I was around 20 before alcoholism and divorce destroyed the beautiful family dynamic that I grew up with.

This makes me want to try and understand the differences between myself and my siblings a bit more closely.
I think it's a good example of understanding how people think is good for the success at the top. Out of 1000 people asking "Wtf is CTR now?" maybe one needs a precise definition usable for immediate conversion to the programming code. That's the person for whom CTR and 1/CTR difference is important. The other 999 need to understand what's this term is used to measure and where it comes from - and for them this explanation is just fine. They are not people who make decisions or calculations based on it - those already know what CTR is. They are random people that need to fit a new thing into their mental model - and they won't even notice the difference, especially given the followup explanation.
>Both are so gratingly painful even compared to normal cable television.

This is the new type of cable television and it's free. Yea sure I pay it with my data but at least I don't need to spit out money every month to watch it.

>I have really no respect for the people that abuse a broken status quo to only improve their own personal standing.

Again, entertainment on YouTube is free....even YouTube stopped bothering me to disable my ad-blocker so MrBeast is not getting a penny from me. I might buy YouTube Premium at some point in the future tho.
The door didnt flew in, so it wasn’t SWAT. And the guy was lucky he was programming and nod spreading butter on sandwich with a knife.
Thankfully we don't get guns in supermarkets or as gift while opening bank accounts, and everyone is fine with it.
This, fr, is a better explication of "founder mode" than anything pg & co have put out about it so far.
> How much has that specific chosen culture contributed to their enormous success in that market?

You see this across industries. Even Google, in the early days, was people working crazy hours, sweating the details, and just generally grinding. It is something like a law of nature that extraordinary results require extraordinary effort from extraordinary people.
I see a covid chart in the newspaper one time that had colored lines for the infections with different virus versions and vacinations with different "vacines" and thought woah! There is more information and clarity here than in hundreds of internet posts and articles combined.
I kind of like the year/release style. 2024.1, etc. Gives you some context for how old/new it is at a glance.
If you committed that crime, the police would probably try to find you and stop you, not just give up on anonymous tips :) As you said, they're obligated to respond, as they have a monopoly on violence.

How many people do you know who would get a threatening email about imminent violence and play it off because it's likely a fake? Perhaps some the most zen among us! The rest of us would almost definitely want to (hire mercenaries to) take reasonable steps to stop it. A few hours of police time in exchange for preventing a potential terrorist event seems like a fair trade, anyway...
Of course an email is easy to fake, but you really have to put things in perspective: We, as internet regulars, hear of swatting quite often, but for your average police officer, this is probably an once-in-a-career type of event and therefore the threshold for believability is quite low.

Also, as you pointed out, if it turns out to be a real situation, it will look horrible if the police knew of it beforehand. Even more, a victim in a situation that requires a swat team might have a quite limited ability to communicate, lowering the reasonable threshold even more.

Lastly, there isn't really a measured response. If you think there might be an actual dangerous situation, sending a few normal officers to check it out is reckless at best and might actually make the situation worse, as the attacker is alerted of the impeding police response and the police doesn't have the ability to respond swiftly.
I agree in part. We supported many proxy wars of the US and some that were based on total lies (2nd Iraq war, Afghanistan where we really had no business and accomplished nothing).

Iran, I don't know.. I feel like their beef is with the US and we're just not really a party in this whole mess. We don't owe them anything and they don't consider us friends either. As for Gaza you probably know that this is a hugely contentious issue even in Europe. A lot of us are really strongly against these weapon supplies. In the Netherlands citizens even managed to get a court order for the state to supply F-35 parts to Israel: https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/dutch-cou...

Some countries like Germany are too pro-Israel due to some shame from actions in the past but I agree they should open their eyes to what is happening now. I don't condone what Hamas has done and is doing but both sides are bad. We shouldn't support either but bring them to the negotiating table.

> You don't get to complain about those people wanting to pursue happiness just like literally any of your country people.

This is a different issue from refugeeism IMO, although some economic migrants are claiming refugee status (and thus taking resources from those who are real refugees). It takes a long time to reject them because they often destroy their documentation. These are much more of a problem than real refugees. And they are giving the real refugees a bad name.

I'm very left-wing but I do think we need to limit immigration from outside EU. We can't open the gates without limit to anyone who wants to move here because it would destroy us too. The political polarisation is already so strong (a bit like the US in fact). The Netherlands has grown by several million inhabitants by immigration alone and in some cities migrants with a non-western heritage are now in the majority.

This is a problem because of pretty seriously different social norms (e.g. stances on LGBTIQ+ topics, freedom of opinion etc). And this polarisation is fueling the extreme-right parties which we already see happening in Europe. In the Netherlands the extreme-right party became the biggest one in parliament in the last election. I don't agree with their points but this polarisation is tearing the country apart, and we see the same in the rest of Europe (France only recently dodged a bullet there).

The issues that are being blamed on the refugees and migrants are squarely to blame on our previous neoliberal governments who completely neglected affordable housing programs and environmental issues (nitrogen, natural gas dependencies) so we're now in a severely limited situation. But knowing that makes no real difference to the situation.

And I don't think the middle east was really destroyed by us. In fact they have a lot more money than us. Africa yes but that's been much longer ago. And even countries that are free are shooting themselves in the foot with corruption. This is not our fault.
Target stores were early adopters of every-shopper profiling. Target has cameras on the purchase area, and have been known to refuse cash.
Honestly it sounds like a deficiency on your part and that you need to explore some. Because I follow a lot of smart, talented, nerdy, and interesting creators. And my feed is nothing like what you described.
I run Void Linux on my laptop, which seems to exhibit many BSD-esque approaches (and lacks systemd), while also being a rolling release distro with fresh stuff usually appearing in a few days after an upstream release.

Pretty fine so far (about 6 years).
SWATting lets unimportant and powerless people, who may never have got much attention in real life ... suddenly get LOTS of attention, which feels validating and good. Like many crappy things, it originated in the world of gaming.
I'd pay a lot if they can get a full enough field of view. I detest bi/varifocals, but I detest switching glasses more. The entire experience of glasses is a constant annoyance in my life.
Having the the solver post all 2^66 -2 incorrect private keys would prove that they solved it fairly and had no prior knowledge of the key.

You'd just need to download the 6,505,548 TB list of keys and re-derive the public key for each to check that they're valid; unfortunately it would take in the ballpark of a kiloyear of compute time assuming you have 3x RTX 3090s.
Most of the disposables are 20mg/ml. Average is probably 2ml volume for 40mg total.

Unless you were tipping the thing upside down and trying to drink it, you’re gonna get, what, a quarter ml at the high end?

So about 5mg of nicotine. Which is about the same amount as in a single piece of nicorette gum.

Even if you drank the whole thing, that’s 40mg. The widely accepted estimate for LD50 is closer to 80mg. Reviews in the past decade have put that into question and it looks like it’s off by an order of magnitude—probably more like 800mg.

You’re gonna puke and generally feel like shit, but unless you inject it straight in your blood stream you’re gonna be fine.
Both perspectives are somewhat true. Mr. Beast is building the best YouTube videos. It is a quality product and it is entertainment. It’s garbage for education or self improvement but it’s legit for entertainment and you can’t dismiss entertainment as a net bad for the world, not completely.

You both are right and wrong in a way. Parent poster who only had negative things to say is totally out of touch.
... Sounds like a person with plenty of fluency made a typo.
You seem to be arguing there's no use in learning about immoral businesses.
Samsung has proved you wrong for years.
To be fair this is very likely the work of "an angry troll", so I have some hope that they'll get caught. People don't tend to be at their best when they're raging, especially when that rage is directed at someone so seemingly non-offensive.

Re: the last point, I would definitely not vote to have my police ignore anonymous tips, if it ever came up in a referendum. I think it's a pretty damn good use of tax dollars, as far as these things go.
More stats sites

https://bsky.jazco.dev/stats

https://clearsky.app/
Is this true? from an ECDSA private key you could derive many possible public keys? asking for a friend
Breaking Bad News
Well at least it isn't another Hans Reiser situation
I too was a refugee from del.icio.us and signed up for ~$11 a year. I also declined the offer to "support" the platform for more $. One thing I DO like is the popular tab, I've found a ton of cool resources there. Just sayin.
Opsec awareness is brutal on public socialization.
Anyone can make a feed (algorithm). There are multiple independent projects that can access and put stuff on PDSes. There are lots of clients. They just added OAuth to make it easier for them.

https://docs.bsky.app/showcase

I have no idea where you got your information but you should treat that source as unreliable.
I don't think buying some chocolate bars is such a big deal. Just like buying some Mickey Mouse toy or sticker is fine.

And nothing wrong with some entertainment videos, some leisure is good. It doesn't need to be all educational.
I doubt it's by the millions--unlike a grenade I think these will be recovered for reuse.
Agreed. Make a stand. Open and free internet is the last bastion. Look at everything. We're not the god damned product. We're not advertisement data. I'm not a fucking ROI.
We're human beings, and we enjoy the internet, hacker culture. We're visionaries. We tinker. We build. We share.

Seeing what the internet grew to from the 90s to now, is ...well you see it.
What do you think is much more common, people swimming deep with (or drowning, or otherwise submerging - deep enough so higher ratings start to matter aka not just phone falling in a sink) their phones, or people looking to replace a battery after it naturally degrades?

I've swam with my phone exactly zero times. Haven't dropped it in any deep water. But I have a bunch of devices with batteries barely holding any charge. And I suspect it's the most common situation.
> In my opinion these are a huge miss.

Oh, really? Can you share your expertise that trumps that of the people who work with them every day?
> I was making a general point.

Nobody here has any evidence that their so-called "general" points are any more than their own personal anecdotal experience.

You're all trying to pretend that somehow you're experts and I'm just some clueless n00b, but that's ridiculous. At best, we're all on equal ground.
I plan to take the idea of critical components and keep that in mind for the future.
It's a logical development.
I think we all assume each individual company will need fewer developers to do the same work they're doing now. The question is do they have fewer devs or do more work. And if it is have fewer devs, will that open up the door for more small companies to be competitive as well, since they need fewer devs and have less competition for talent from people with deep pockets.

I find a lot of the AI discussion seems to land in the "lump of labor" fallacy camp though.
Plain Text Accounting (PTA)
Online Advertising, and childrens videos have been doing it for a lot longer.
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I’m working on this!

A WebRTC implementation for my microcontrollers exist https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer it requires more work to use then most want (but it is the perfect building block for higher pieces)

I am trying to make it easier with a SDK for LiveKit https://github.com/sean-der/embedded-sdk
There is an additional variable here that can result in an unintended phenomenon I call “sprinkler dick”. Occasionally (often after sex but not exclusively), I will be standing to pee and - all other things being equal - my initial stream will surprisingly come out at an almost 45 degree angle (always to the left for me). At other times, this phenomenon will manifest as the initial stream coming out bifurcated, forming a V (and not as a result of any stuck pubes).

I have no solid explanation for why this occurs, but it is very repeatable, to the point where I now automatically sit down to pee after sex, because I can’t be arsed mopping up the bathroom floor.

I have no idea if this phenomenon is unique to my physiology or is something that other men experience.
IMHO it's quite divisive; there's a significant percentage of the population that's addicted to this sort of content, and there's another which actually finds it boring.

I've watched a few MrBeast videos and similar content, out of curiosity. It just does not appeal to me, in the same way that "influencer" content and celebrities don't.
- 16 months ago, this article was written.

- The researcher shared his research with The New York Post "to raise donations" for the next stage of his project.
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Half of All Australian Air Noise Complaints Came from a Single Perth Man
The problem is our society teaches us to separate a thing from the externalities of the thing. If it really was just about learning then there wouldn’t be a problem. You can learn from anyone.

However, it’s not just about learning. People are easily influenced by the author of what they’re learning from. They’ll read a Steve Jobs autobiography and learn some interesting business insights, but also hold him in higher regard and perhaps feel like it’s ok to be a raging asshole. People look up to successful people.

It’s entirely appropriate to remind people that it’s not all sunshine and rainbows and perhaps this person has toxic effects they need to be aware of.
It's not just "broad appeal". Shakespeare plays were made for broad appeal (he was a professional playwright, after all). Mozart's music was made for the broad appeal. I see nothing wrong with the broad appeal. It's what this appeal is made to and how. Humans have a lot of ways to appeal to them, and this particular way of appealing targets very base very addictive psychological mechanisms that ultimately hurt the person - just like addictive substances do. They don't make the users better or smarter or calmer or anything like that - if anything, they make them dumber and more attention-deficient. That's my problem with it.

> why haven’t they made things I don’t personally find appealing illegal yet

You are not good at reading, are you? I specifically said "I am not calling for government intervention or any of such BS" because I knew you are around and you are going to maliciously misunderstand me. But I guess the joke is on me since you didn't even bother to read that part.
I am as far from a fan as you can get. But calling it shit just demonstrates how little people understand, not how refined their tastes are. It reflects poorly on you guys.
The perpetrator of the fatal 2017 Wichita swatting pled guilty to manslaughter, so it does seem that the (American) legal system treats it as a homicide.
There definitely are tensions and the rust bros are extreme drama lovers but swatting seems a bit extreme for that beef. The rowdy troll seems most likely, no?
I have a git commit hook that automatically adds a git trailer containing the jira ticket/issue number to the commit message.

It gets this from the branch name which by my convention always contains the ticket ref.

It would be trivial to modify this to use the full branch name instead.
Score of 6. Started and sold a YC startup
Well hey, I'm on the same page. I don't pay for cable these days, nor put up with adblockless YouTube in the first place. But content on YouTube - particularly popular content - is a race to the bottom worse than Keeping up with The Kardashians ever was. I've watched Mr. Beast videos (at the behest of my ex) and haven't found anything except hyperactive filmmaking married to absurd and ill-considered ideas. It's deconstructed short-form entertainment in ways that TikTok is probably envious of. Truly, they've cracked the marketing code for an ADHD-addled era of content consumption.

And therein lies "the problem" - this shit is garbage. I like some YouTube content too, but holy fucking cow is it worse than everything that came before it. TVFilthyFrank was just doing the same thing Jackass did with fewer safety considerations and lower production value. Historians making documentaries are basically recouping the task of The History Channel on a smaller budget with fewer regulations on construing truth. At the end of the day, as much as I hate cable television, I cannot honestly say anything on YouTube comes close to the production in an episode of Top Gear or Game of Thrones. It's garbage all the way down, supported by marginal advertising, kept out of Google's Graveyard by horrific levels of rentseeking and AdSense monopoly abuse, and ultimately propelled by sensationalist and meaningless content tailored to offend as few people as possible. Content on YouTube is terrible in new and terrifying ways.
Wait Scavengers Reign was cancelled?

That's depressingly typical :(
I just added an llms.txt file to my website