skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This resonates. Movies lack depth nowadays, especially cultural depth.

They do sometimes convey interesting messages and they are well produced and captivating but they lack soul. I think about films like "Forest Gump". Personally, I really liked the film, maybe other people didn't like it as much but I found it to be unique and culturally enriching. I'm not even American but I could relate. Modern "movies" usually don't have enough character development; or if they do, it's highly generic. Any character development in modern movies is focused on making the character relatable to the most common denominator among the masses so they lack individuality.

It's even telling that we have separate words "film" and "movies". It reminds me of the book "Brave New World" which is set in the future; they have something called "Feelies" which is described as a complete visual and sensory experience but they don't teach you anything; they are all focused on very narrow physical experiences. Everything in BNW is designed in a way to reduce people's awareness and reduce diversity of thought to the point that they never think to ask certain questions.
When I worked at Microsoft, I started blocking every Friday afternoon for "20% time" (even though it was only ~10% of my working week). My (really good) manager was supportive and my argument was that, to be most effective in my role, I needed to spend dedicated time learning.

My single piece of advice is that, if you're going to do this, be committed to it. I had a block on my calendar. I had an office (in those days) and closed my office door. I didn't respond to emails and I declined meeting requests. Consistency was key and, once everyone knew that it was my learning time, it was respected (in part because I respected it). One afternoon, my boss knocked walked in, looked at me, realized what time it was, turned around and walked back out.

After Microsoft, I worked at Google where "20% time" (had been a thing but no longer really was in the 2010s) and, once again, Friday afternoons were blocked on my calendar and I used them diligently for learning. My Google managers were consistently supportive and respected my commitment to the time.

One advantage to Friday afternoons is that they're generally very slack time. People are either leaving early or working little, emails are fewer and, in a global organization, (for US West Coast), much of the rest of the World has already entered the weekend.
I tried skimming the docs, but couldn’t find how domain verification works on Nostr. Does a verified domain work as your handle or only as a verified domain?

That’s my favorite feature in Bluesky. I don’t need to worry about a handle since I can just use my domain.
His comment has merit. The Beast business is fundamentally at the mercy of YouTube, the algorithm and their business priorities. In fact Beast's intentional focus on making the best YouTube videos highlights this. Beast is a high-touch content farm, but ultimately still a content farm and vulnerable to the exact same risks as any other one.
Observe that the description has Rust in it. That's how it ends up on the front page.
They do need to disclose their corporate charter.
Yeah I wonder how much they get paid for product placement relating to the watch brands mentioned.
We know the mind exists as a phenomenon of the body's operation. No operating body... no mind. We have plenty of evidence to support this and zero evidence to the contrary, even if we may not have all the details, so your attempts to rescue a spook reality of disembodied minds by furiously waving your hands and going "it's all unknown!" is disingenuous.
Did you sign consent

i am not in the EU.
and even there, i probably would have. it's a group for all the parents so i don't see the problem there, and even if there wasn't such a group, the teachers could send pictures privately to each parent. but not per SMS.

Required communication

there is required communication, and there is convenient communication. convenient communication helps keep the mood more friendly. also, you didn't read, international SMS and calls are expensive. and i am travelling a lot. i am not reachable under my home number all of the time, so i would have to tell my landlord my new number every time it changes because i am in a different country. (forget roaming. the cost for that is atrocious)

matrix

i use matrix. the experience is horrible. at least if you are trying to use encrypted chat. half the time it breaks. the key management is way to complex for a normal person. i have a technical friend who switched to matrix because of me. he threw it away in disgust when our chat broke for the third time. he got me to switch to signal (which now fortunately allows me to hide my phonenumber, so it became an acceptable option.)

compared to IRC, xmpp/jabber and deltachat, matrix has the worst usability among FOSS tools. i don't have the patience for the amount of teaching i would have to do, especially as it would all have to be remote. i live on a different continent from the rest of my family.
I don't think that anyone from that community would ever stoop so low.

For years now Germany is having an issue with organized trolls who target live streamers with swatting. A live stream of the resulting police action appears to be the main motivation.

I cannot find anything in English about the phenomenon so here's an article from the German police union GdP: https://www.polizei-dein-partner.de/themen/internet-mobil/de...
can be a solution of traveling Sales Problem(TSP)

Can be, or is?
So the migration is starting.

You have quite a few journalists and news feeds that post on bluesky. Phil Lewis and Aaron Rupar (two fairly notable US liberal journalists that have substantial followings on twitter) are on bluesky and now that video has started rolling out they have become more active again.

And not a "serious" set of accounts by any means but the consensus from the vtuber community (which is to be honest one of the massive communities on twitter) is that they'd start moving over to bluesky once video support and some degree of moderation were in place. I suspect a lot of the other fairly cohesive niches on twitter will start looking at bluesky now for the same reasons.
The German term “sitzpinkel” exists, which as I understand it is a mocking term for a man who sits to pee. Any Germans here who can explain the full meaning? I think the connotation is that a man who sits to pee is excessively domesticated and perhaps a bit feminine.
jmp.chat is great. besides this esim adapter, their main business - selling virtual phone numbers - is built entirely on top of open standards and open source softwares, which is definitely a rarity these days.
It's worded quite badly, but I think it's the best you can do given 2 independent bits, except for the rare case where 00 and 11 are equally likely.
"Best" and "quality product" by a certain metric, ka-ching. I assume that the leaked PDF lays out what the metrics are that matter to them, but the article kinda skipped over how it's a choice what to consider "best". There's a lot of "quality" videos on YouTube by different metrics than MrBeast videos, that I enjoy watching quite a bit more.
"This phone number was used to make a fraudulent 911 call, here is the recording" should more than enough to secure a warrant.

You have a complete recording of the phone call, so you can verify if the person speaking in it was the owner of the phone number. If it's not a match, then you can start investigating friends and family of the owner who would have had access to the phone.

If police can't figure out how to do this basic shit then why are we trusting them with SWAT gear?
> "The biggest dissatisfaction I have are around relationships and fulfillment"

Just know that relationships at work can be fleeting. They could leave, you could leave. The best work friends you have, you might stay in touch. You'll both look back on your time together fondly. But lasting relationships aren't usually found at the workplace. (Though they _can_.)

And absolutely don't seek fulfillment from an employer. You're fulfilling them - their needs, wishes, and goals. They're fulfilling contractual obligations to you through your bank account just as you're fulfilling your work obligations to them through your efforts.

Fulfillment comes from acceptance of who you are, personal appreciation of what you're good at, and doing things for your own personal satisfaction - not because it's demanded of you by someone else. Honestly, just look how far you've come. That's an accomplishment in and of itself and is worthy of appreciation. Nobody will ever tell you when "you've arrived" (other than your GPS). It comes through personal realization that you're a grown adult now, you're charting your own course in life, you can go where you want and do what you want. You're where you are because of your own actions. If you ever find yourself truly loathing where you are, you can change it. Finding contentment with where you are in life (geographically, financially, etc) is up to you. Don't like it, you can change it. When you say "this is where I want to be" will you begin to find contentment.
But that was involuntary manslaughter, which means it wouldn't have been attempted murder if it didn't result in a death. Or at least it would mean that if charges and events were more than loosely related.
No private key was posted too early. What happened is the person who spent all the computing power to brute force the 66 bits broadcasted, naively, a transaction to send the 6.6 BTC reward to his wallet. However, when doing so, the public key is by design revealed on the blockchain. Someone's bot whose sole purpose is to steal this puzzles rewards was monitoring the blockchain and spotted the transaction before it got confirmed (on average confirmations occur every 10 minutes), then it processed the now known public key from which the private key can be recovered in 2^33 operations (2^(n/2)), then crafted another transaction to send the reward to his wallet, with a higher fee, so his transaction got confirmed, instead of the discoverer's lower-fee transaction.

This is a well-known attack. The discoverer was sophisticated enough to brute force, but not enough to know about this risk :)
Not making any statement on causality but I wanted to take a look...

Firearm related deaths per 100,000[1]:

Germany: 0.065

US: 4.054 (62.4x higher)

Firearm ownership per 100 people[2]:

Germany: 19.6

US: 120.5 (6.15x higher)

If those stats are to be believed there's approximately 10x firearm deaths per gun in the US compared to Germany.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm...

[2]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian...
Johnny Harris makes well produced videos that contain a lot of old information and misinformation. If any of his videos cover a topic you're an expert in, you'll see immediately.
This is not an accurate summary of what happened with TheDAO. Source: I publicized the attack vector for TheDAO here on HN.
> and risks they take protecting us.

Considering the risk are bodily harm, there is some similarity to the risks of bodily harm that some sex workers take, and far more frequently, than soldiers. STDs, violent guys, etc etc.

> but for hard work

Do sex workers not work hard (pun potentially intended)? I don't see society praising them for their hard work and the risks they take.
All the advice is very similar to the leadership advice that comes out of military special forces, like decentralized command, prioritize and execute, cover and move, and so on.

With the point being, if all of your team members are elite, then everyone ’yeeting into main’ can be wildly productive. But it’s not good general advice, as you say, where most organizations have a range of talent.
I think they meant something even more basic, and common to all cells: you can't make a new cell without an existing living functioning cell. We have no firm idea of how the first cells developed, but all of the cells we know of today come from the division of another cell, and we have never observed anything remotely like a new cell forming pit of a puddle of all the required substances and DNA.
No. There are distributions of Arch like EndeavourOS that provide an installer.
Well you just so happen to have a complete recording in their voice where they committed the crime.

If they called 911 using a voice modulator then the call should have been ignored in the first place.
Why is it so extremely loud inside, though?
>is a VC-funded corporate network that expects return on investment while saying it is open
>Nostr

Do you mean the same Nostr that is backed by Jack Dorsey, the Twitter billionaire?
>Is that true for every single Bitcoin transaction

I think so, for outgoing transaction (aka to remove from the address), it's kind of needed to verify the signature.

The 2^66 is only for this game where only 66 bits were left unknown.
In the general case obtaining the private key from the public key is much longer.
When not actively passing fluids, the male urethra is almost always collapsed. In that state, it is easy for "precious bodily fluids" - or just the normal moisture of its inner lining - to dry out at the external opening, sticking the urethra's walls together and producing such effects.
Not easily. There aren't a lot of part-time software development jobs. And working part time typically means giving up benefits like health insurance (at least in the US).
OT but hope some here may use this to their advantage. Years ago news reports highlighted excessive amounts of sugar & salt being used in commercial food production. With that knowledge I decided to no longer ADD those ingredients to my diet. Now regard that decision as the most important for my continuing longevity!
You don't. You either publish it as a gesture of goodwill or you try to find some contrived application where your advantage is profitable.
If it's any consolation you're really not missing much!
They also run illegal lotteries targeting children and fake the majority of their videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5xf40KrK3I
Google's defense is apparently "well it's better than 3rd party cookies"

Well we're getting rid of 3rd party cookies... so like, that was the absolute minimum bar.

It's a curious list of topics: https://github.com/patcg-individual-drafts/topics/blob/main/...

Does anyone know how the taxonomy was created.
Is suspend-to-ram something that often doesn't work on laptops with Linux, really? I used it on dozens and saw problems maybe once or twice. Though I usually pick ones which are 3+ years old.
This might be a dumb question but... if I get the embeddings of words with a common theme like "burning", "warm", "cool", "freezing", would I be able to relatively well fit an arc (or line) between them? So that if I interpolate along that arc/line, I get vectors close to "hot" and "cold"?
I mean, it's GPL. If something were to happen to him, anyone could just start their own fork. There would likely be some competition between forks for a while before two or three emerge as the successors eventually.
> Mr. Beast is building the best YouTube videos. It is a quality product and it is entertainment.

Hard disagree. Is he making the most profitable, most clicked, or most viral videos? Maybe. That’s objectively quantifiable and I’ll give you that. But “best” is very subjective. I wouldn’t give a rat’s ass if Mr Beast stopped making videos and deleted his account today. His videos are the audiovisual equivalent of junk food: not good for you; negatively addictive; and big shady business.

Give me Folding Ideas any day. Now those are some quality and entertaining videos. The kind I save up to savour with some wine. That’s my definition of best. Yours will differ, but that’s the point.

https://www.youtube.com/@FoldingIdeas
Age/race/gender/ethnicity and other legally defined protected classes are not the only possible instances of discrimination. An example is a person sending money to family in a country where there is less rule of law and they get suspected of terrorism (regardless of firm evidence), or someone selling sex services that gets dropped because a bank does not want to deal with them. Or it could just be errors in the programs and people flagging accounts and transactions.

Electronic money transfer is a vital function of modern life. It should be a constitutionally protected, inalienable right, even for anyone convicted of crimes, just like criminals are still housed and fed.
> I mean kudos to German police not rushing in with guns drawn and not treating the scene like they are in the Battle of Falluja,

Sounds like the second half yes, but according to his story in the YouTube comments they did have weapons drawn (one being maybe a taser, but presumably the rest were firearms?):

> Unsuspecting - I assumed someone else was missing or there had been a break-in - when I opened the door I was confronted by a good 10 police officers with drawn weapons and at least one with what looked to me like a Taser.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIEwcTKUFCA
The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) [video]
Do you think you should go to a Michelin starred restaurant every night?
Thank you!

Edit: how do you find out about such things?
You're absolutely right about the cell phone thing; I use my phone for things like reading distant signs (while mostly stationary) and reading restaurant menus that are posted on the wall (I probably have taken hundreds of such pictures). Using the phone to watch videos or keep up with whiteboard exercises would be challenging without a tripod to hold the phone and probably a custom camera app that lets you quickly pan a live zoomed image.

I've always found it hard to quickly locate distant objects in my ocutech though given the limited FOV, and doing it at driving speed must require a lot of deliberate practice.
One of the key details missing from the analysis being done in this thread is that Jimmy was iterating and figuring out how to optimize every part of his content for years before he really blew up in popularity. Having a loop where you keep publishing content and analyzing all aspects of it is the ultimate key to success, given enough time and resources.

As I understand it, MrBeast helped fund the creation of ViewStats [0] in order to gather more data on thumbnails and channel / video performance over time. Then this knowledge is applied to their own content in order to make it even more successful. At this point there's probably multiple people who specialize just in thumbnail optimization.

Another key detail about MrBeast production is that they target a global audience, so they hire famous voice actors of every major language to do their voice-overs. A few years before YouTube supported multiple audio tracks, they had different channels for various languages and regions. Now it's just a drop-down in the video settings. Many products fail to take internationalization and localization seriously, so their products are unable to penetrate non-western markets.

Speaking of international reach, I saw in an interview a few years back that MrBeast was trying to expand to the Chinese market, but none of his public interviews since then have discussed how he's doing there. This goes a bit against the extreme focus on YouTube as his primary platform. A quick search on bilibili (which I believe is the Chinese equivalent of YouTube), shows his latest video hitting 1.6 million views and 8k comments, which isn't bad but it doesn't really compare to the amount of attention that he gets on YouTube. It seems like even the most skilled content creators in the West still struggle to break into the Chinese market.

[0] https://www.viewstats.com/
Edit: I see it's because I'm this instance there was less entropy, I guess a normal transaction has a lot more bits to guess

Why doesn't this happen with every large transaction then? Someone tries to move 10 BTC, instantly stolen?

Basically you're saying that every single Bitcoin transaction can be stolen "really fast".

Am I missing a step here?
"Scale" in that quote is just a euphemism for "delegate" or "automate". Do the things that you can't just pay someone a wage or write a program to do.
Wow. Your feed is pretty messed up. Here is my youtube shorts feed:

- how programmers actually review code

- 3D Printed Latch Mechanism

- I Always Thought This Border Was Straight (about a border in australia)

- You need to go to a “better” place! (rescue of an injured raptor)

I think YouTube is a lot like twitter (5 years ago), in that what you view and follow affects what you're fed.
Isn’t that the very definition of what an upcoming release should do?
second brain has to be up there in dumb techbro things
But the Mickey Mouse that is out of copyright is specifically the one you see in Steamboat Willie from 1928 (and maybe some of their other old movies with Mickey, I don’t remember what other movies Disney made early on around 1928).

Meanwhile the Mickey that is shown posing on top of a building in one of the photos looks like a more recent Mickey. (But I’m no Mickey expert.)

And it is important to keep that in mind.
There’s this part in Prousts In search of a lost time where he recounts eating a certain sweets that kinda teleports him back to a moment in his childhood. I too experienced a similar thing once while visiting someone who just wiped their floors with a certain cleaner that my mom used that I haven’t smelled in ages. The smell took me back to a place and time I’ve long forgotten, and it was sudden and vivid and intense
Just a little contet:

I buy new glasses each year. I alternate which glasses I buy every other year: every day progressives with sunglass tint, and then work/computer (bifocal, larger target area) glasses. Each of my purchases from a normal ophthalmologist stocking all the usual brands cost >$1000 before insurance discounts kick in.

$555 for wearable glasses is less than half what I'm usually investing in. And with the strength of my prescriptions, I already look dorky enough.
What percentage of tips like this do you think are fraudulent? How long is it worth delaying all the real ones as a matter of practice on the off chance that the tip is bad?
What do you mean by "pumps". Where I'm from in the UK it means very basic trainers (USA: sneakers), like plimsolls. Something like a Converse Allstar, say.

I've got to assume from the context you mean 'high-heeled shoes'?
I asked it what the strongest drink ever was and it gave me pan galactic gargle blaster
Well from the sounds of it you've gotten on track! And that's something us Techies take for granted.

If you don't get on the career train for law or finance on time, you're de facto unemployable.

And this is why I love being in tech - we can grind and still find a strong path to upward mobility.

Hard skills like engineering, accounting, actuary, and medicine/dentistry/nursing are always employable. Sure you may earn less in some downturns, but at least we can get jobs.

And, unlike high finance, so long as you keep kinda up to date on technology and architecture, you can negotiate your way into IB level salaries (IB, VC, and High Finance pays fairly bad for the hours spent working, and I myself imagine returning to being a SWE).
> By any reasonable comparison it was an outdated phone when it was released

https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/
The asylum process doesn't give you a significantly better foundation than if you had applied for work before moving, it's just a delay that may also get you rejected. It's like getting free meals from your hospital by pretending to be ill.

Och det förutsatt att du pratar svenska eller har ett yrke där du klarar dig utan. AI-översättning (så här) kommer inte att klippa det.

(Sechs Jahre nach meiner Ankunft in Berlin, und meine Deutschkenntnisse bleibt nur 'okay')
I welcome the age where my steam deck is beaten by a recent iPhone in benchmarks, yet can smoothly play a lot of triple A titles and they still look good.

I’m less interested in a jump in graphics than performance, stability, and good gameplay. That wasn’t the case until about 10 years ago.