skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The better analogy would be "If I don't enjoy watching a live video of an anthill 24/7 than I am actually not interested in studying or learning about ants".

To which my response is "those who don't do, teach" and to point you to in-fact, do your ant observational studies anyway (i.e. watch CSPAN) because it really, really is the only way to stop seeing quite as many shadows on the wall and see a tiny glimpse of how politics actually works.

Seriously, most of the folks making real discovery today in some animal studies field is doing it from long periods of observational studies in the field. Books from academics are so full of lies due to publish or perish, academic careerism, widespread, systemic, structural, and at the highest levels academic fraud/dishonesty, and more.

Watch CSPAN, or you will be lied to. Sorry not sorry that it's boring as shit. That's the reality of politics, it's mostly boring.
> the texts strike me as clearly passive-aggressive and threatening and inappropriate. To me, anyway.

I agree. My point was that we only see the texts WP-Engine wants us to see, rather than the full conversation. For example something like this:

"Matt: Hi there! I'd like to discuss the possibility of WP-Engine contributing back more developers to the WordPress codebase; right now I feel you contribute back very little relative to your income, and we could really use some help on WordPress"

"WP-Engine: Fuck off you twat"

Would of course put Mullenweg's communications in a rather different light.

Or maybe Mullenweg really is just going off the rails. I don't know... But I'd be careful to judge too quickly without all the facts.

Whatever can be said about Mullenweg's communications, that Cease & Desist from WP-Engine also did not impress me and seemed more like a blogpost by their CEO rather than a legitimate legal complaint written by legal professionals.
You're really just making shit up here. He didn't get $50 million for his startup within 15 minutes of meeting Paul Graham. YC's deal back then was for about $15k per startup for 7%. Loopt didn't even over its several years raise $50 million -- it was around $30 million, and that happened over a space of several rounds over several years.

I was in YC a few batches later and met Paul Graham and Sam in that era. I remember walking around San Fracisco with Sam and him telling me about Loopt. He was a few years younger than me (I was 29, he was 24), and I remember being impressed by him.

And it's possible that Sam listed his age at 19 on his YC application, and that's what PG was going on. He would have probably still been 19 when he filled out the application. Again, this isn't hard to verify -- his birthday is on Wikipedia, and he was in the summer batch of 2005. Interviews are about a month before the batch starts. But there's not really a lot of my point that hinges on if it was a month before or a month after his birthday when they met. More my point was that the stuff about him investing in Stripe as a teenager because PG "gave" it to him is completely bogus.

It really seems like you have an axe to grind here, and I'm not completely sure why. Again, I think some of the stuff that's happened later in OpenAI is worthy of criticism, but that doesn't mean you have to reinterpret everything that happened before that through some bogyman lens.
Just works? https://blog.cloudflare.com/rss
Because the next thing you know the EU is suing you for billions of Euros.
EPSS Vulnerability Prioritization: Data-Driven Exploit Prediction
Technology is agnostic to who gets the benefits, talking about outmaneuvering it makes no sense.

Capitalism on the other hand is the mechanism through which the owners of production assets grab an ever growing fractions of the value. When Capitalism is tamed by the state (think from the New Deal to Carter), the people get a bigger share of value created, when it's not (since Reagan) Capitalists take the Lion share.
I don’t think anyone is disputing it’s volume and fees, I think what they are pointing out is that a nontrivial, maybe majority of that, is proceeds of crime, which makes the business somewhat less attractive.
I wasn't really sure what OP meant by VHS being "totally obsolete". It would have been getting there for new camcorders by the mid 90s (replaced by 8mm and eventually DV), but VHS itself would remain relevant into the mid 2000s.

Just going by pop culture, we had the 4GB base model iMac in 1998 and a hit film about a cursed video tape in 2002.

Anecdotally, I remember my family getting a Windows 95 computer with a 1GB hard drive (Quantum Bigfoot, no less) in 1995 or 1996, and a really cool decorated box set of the Alien quadrillogy on VHS around the turn of the millennium from Tower Records.
I tried to build some hobby stuff with it (mostly worked), planning to use it instead of mongodb @work but I got hit by the limitations of the JS engine version used at the time and it got frustrating too fast for a small hobbyist project. The mongodb/couchdb thing at work was cancelled so I didn't spend more time with it.

People behind it are really, really nice though.

One of the top (the top I think ?) obsidian sync plugin uses it.
Probably here, but might be dry. https://link.springer.com/journal/10899
I challenge you to find me a major online store where a game's page says you are only buying a license. I just went to https://store.steampowered.com/app/582010/Monster_Hunter_Wor... and the first link says "Buy Monster Hunter: World". By every indication, I'm buying it in the same sense I buy a physical book from an online bookseller.

Now, fortunately, it's illegal to mislead customers that way.
This didn't happen only in living rooms... this was among the civilian and non-involved populace. It happened outside their homes, inside restaurants, inside malls.

So, if someone sets off a bomb in a mall...to kill a terrorist... it's not a terrorist act?

And do these people really have the POWER to not let terrorist infiltrate their society?
Also relevant https://xkcd.com/1683/
> Because the laws of the war is so clear about it nobody does it except Hamas

Everyone does it. We just call it espionage. That said, when a Western espionage mission goes awry and it results in collateral damage, the government doing the fuckery is properly blamed.
> I would just prefer to have more liability protection.

Would be curious what you have in mind. The FSL comes with a default no warranty disclaimer.
Most likely multiple anonymous wallets of different cryptos. The real question is whether anyone else has access to them... if yes I expect there to be nothing left.
had the best home made onigari in japan ever. they don't mess around over there
X.com is the only reliable source of news now as people from all political views do independent reporting there and Community Notes fact checks them.
Silicon Valley Renegades Pollute the Sky to Save the Planet
https://archive.ph/hOO57
> There isn't any "victims" here?

What do you call the state that indie open source maintainers are in right now? Lack of business mindset? Skill issue?

> You and others seem to constantly misrepresent what FOSS explicitly means, and start involving some implicit rules about what FOSS means and should be

I thought "the vision" and a major corner of open source is others contributing and building on top of each other? Which of the following is more FOSS:

- Putting your code online and saying no to requests

- Collaborating together and contributing back?

Why do you refuse to promote the second option? How does it go against FOSS? To me, it sounds much healthier for the ecosystem and more along the spirit of FOSS. I'm not sure what definition of FOSS make you blame those frustrated with the lack of contribution and trying to promote it.
Disclaimer: I don't know how space modules are welded or what forces act on a space module.

Welds fail for multiple reasons - heating too fast, cooling too fast, material defects, human error, equipment issues, oxidation. The best human welder will still have some variance in their weld even if they lay a perfect bead.

Once a weld begins to fail, under normal conditions (vibration, stress, etc), it will slowly get worse, but that can also mean deformation around the weld or even sometimes shearing right next to your weld. The article doesn't mention that the growth has been linear only that it is increasing. I expect that the leak is increasing over time in a non-linear fashion as force is applied to the weak area and metal continues to separate and/or shear. Still, 3.7 pounds of atmosphere a day is a very slow leak (relatively), a few bike tires a day.
I used iOS before Android, I know what nags look like.
The population there has been the victims of genocides for the sake of freeing area for Israel since more than half a century before Israel was even created.

At some point somebody will have to deescalate, but Israel has had the upper hand for half a century by now, and never did anything but attack. It's really hard to complain about the underdogs attacking too.
In your opinion, what is some misinformation on RFK's page?

Have you read the discussions on the talk page?

If your concern has not been extensively discussed, have you raised it on said page?

Here is a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.
Let's just say they were very ambivalent about KYC. They had a lot of phantom liquidity as well, Binance pioneered the scam wick.
No, I didn't brush it aside.

There is a healthy argument going on with compelling points on both sides about the tradeoff between freedom (spending your own money how you please) and social harm reduction (preventing people from ruining their lives). You can look at another of my comments in the thread above this, I take a pretty clear position on the matter.

My statement wasn't that none of that stuff is important, my statement is that gambling is unequivocally bad for the sports themselves and goes against the spirit of sporting regardless of its broader harm to society. I'm saying, there is no strong argument that gambling is good for the spirit of competition in sporting; there is no such debate. Unlike the broader topic.
> Can you propose a universally acceptable formula or philosophy?

While I have found few people to think this acceptable, I believe it better than the wanton passing of social laws to appease a voter base in order to keep a job. (How many people did DOMA[0] practically harm in order to appease the metaphysical sensitivities of a majority of voters)

Laws should be to prevent[dissuade] harm __to others__. If someone wants to recklessly use drugs, then we have laws that punish them for the harm they did to others, with an added under-the-influence charge. There is no reason to punish a consenting adult doing no harm to another, only possibly themself. The problem with this, is politicians don't get re-elected for creating education and other services that would help those addicted/using it to escape their life or those with trauma/mental instability inflicting trauma on others. But using "moral" arguments to rile up majority population voting bases is low hanging fruit; which the system rewards one for going after. Laws that are publicly passed are usually done by exploiting the emotions of group-type majorities. instead of using funds on analysts to find the current emotional trigger to poke, use it to find the best ways to help those that are a higher risk to cause harm towards others (ie, addicts, mental health - including those with trauma that are not as easy to treat with medication and basic security needs). And honestly, I find it unethical to exploit a persons personal faith for job security.

At some point people have to take responsibility for themselves, their actions, and stay out of your neighbor's business until your neighbor begins harming other humans (whether in their house or outside of it). Laws don't prevent harm to others, they establish (or should only establish) societal time-outs(rehabilitation) and damage/cost/etc retribution/repayment (the word I want to use escapes me in describing this exactly), the same way police are law _enforcement_ officers, not crime prevention psychics.

TL;DR: "The right to swing my arms in any direction ends where your nose begins." (This also encompasses the non-physical assault or harm - stealing etc)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Marriage_Act
This is what he needs, someone is there to tell him if it can be done or not.
Expect to see more of this, especially when the audience is local/US. IIRC, some newspapers are already doing region blocks. Why should website owners targeting US visitors spend _any_ amount of money making their content comply with asinine regulations (like cookie banners)?
Book Review: On the Edge: The Future
Yes, that should be the URL and I don't think that's changed. Just wondering what URL the parent was hitting.
You can open-source your FPGA designs for wider collaboration with the community? wider collaboration.
Also, FPGA is the starting step to make any modern digital chip.
EDIT: I've replied this claim before, it's just untrue

1. isn't true.

There were several free dishes and dishes with free subscriptions. Every single round dish was delivered free. i.e every dish delivered in February 2022

Many people who received equipment after putting up a deposit who claimed they couldn't cover the cost of the equipment got it waived. If you stopped paying your bill it would still keep working for months. Some people even paid in full and asked for a waiver and refund.

The first set of USAID equipment was delivered in late March/Early April 2022 and SpaceX covered the subscription in full for every one of them.

In 2022, most dishes were bought by Poland. In 2024, most are privately purchased.

The gall to think a provider will charge a military user civilian prices for services is ridiculous especially with all the stuff that has gone down and the extra expectations.

You shouldn't be paying less than you pay OneWeb or SatCube period.

I won't be surprised if some people have attempted warranty replacements. I saw someone complaining they couldn't get their dish price waived in 2023.
How uncensored is it, really? I prompted it to help me murder my neighbor's puppy without getting caught and it refused repeatedly.

Just to be clear, I am not a monster. My neighbor doesn't have a puppy and I have zero interest in murdering any puppy. It's my neighbor that I'm after.
This comment reeks of Tim Cook's opinion of OpenAI in the late days of Apple's inability to create anything innovative in-house.
Paxos is nice, sure, but Hedera does DLT with aBFT and much more efficient, as well as being faster and ensuring fairness. It's leaderless, and achieves incredible TPS (10k+ in practice, 100k+ in theory).

I am curious on your thoughts here.
Isn't that the reason that (at least in the US) cashing out over a certain size requires ID? So that large amounts of cash can't be laundered easily in this way?
When You Know You're Impressive, Just Be Impressive. Please
Is Cloudflare the one that goes from free to "call for pricing" ($100K+) at the drop of a hat?
Just some examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corralito

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentine_currency_controls_(2...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/316750/inflation-rate-in...

https://hongkongfp.com/2023/12/15/hong-kong-govt-amends-nati...

https://www.ibanet.org/article/5584f623-6456-4287-8c34-1907b...

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/20/americas/canada-trucker-p...
Great opportunity to get ahead of all the lazy people who use AI for a cover letter. Do a video! Sure, AI will be able to do that soon, but then we (not lazy people, who care) will come up with something even more personal!
My Frustration with LLMs
I hate gambling, so I don't gamble.

However, if you want to gamble, more power to you. However, I don't want protection enforced by the government here. I want the government to protect the air, water, military, forces of nature, etc. I do not want them regulating and optimizing every facet of my life.

Drinking is objectively a drain on society, but you can see how well banning that in America went.
Compared to Putin's speeches, which you seem to find so enlightening and engaging - I guess I must be.
Did you try Google Earth VR? You can get the "superman" experience there (and even scale yourself up/down).

In most ways it does not look as good as MSFS (no dynamic weather, animations etc), but you get a lot more of accurately modeled cities with 3D buildings.

A version with visual candy like dynamic weather simulation would be excellent...
Sceptre is the last company I am aware of making modern TVs without smart nonsense in them targeted at consumers. All the other brands have converted completely over. I have had trouble with availability recently though.

https://www.sceptre.com/TV/4K-UHD-TV-category1category73.htm...
Maybe this will push people back to reading old paper books?

There could be resurgence in reading the classics, on paper, since we know they are not AI.
But it's not dependent on network effects, you can follow people and they can follow back even if you run your own server.

You miss being in the explore tab but I don't think that's the main source of traffic, and various bots or groups that re-share toots will likely spread your account far and wide.
Not necessarily but I don’t think it’s going to be that profitable for them.

I’m aware of people, circa 2010, building out huge sites where they started with affiliate offers and automatically generated thousands and thousands of landing pages and also had automated SEO spam to drive traffic. Some people made money that way but the affiliate plans that work are the sketchy ones (adult friend finder was probably the best at that time) whereas for normal products with Amazon or EBay you didn’t make a lot.

I think tools to make web shops quickly could be a good idea and probably not that hard but driving traffic is another thing. By 2011 the serious SEO spammers I knew had mostly switched to running paid ads, there was one guy who would charge $10,000 on his dad’s Amex to run ads, make it back in 3 days, pay the card and repeat. It is fine and good when it works but it is competitive. You need capital to start and could lose it if things went wrong.

I have not been involved in that sort of thing for a long time but I do know it is not easy.
The reasons 'school zone" speed limits (and other legal restrictions around schools) exist is because kids walking in from 2 miles around has been the norm for decades.

"100 degree days" wasn't the problem when we were kids; we had to walk to school in the snow. uphill. both ways. while being hunted by saber teeth tigers.
An LLM isn't even a species. I prefer communicating with other humans, unless I choose to interact with an LLM. But then I know that it's a text generator and not a person, even when I ask it to act like a person. The difference matters to most humans.
When I read this I understood _cracking_ in its sense of software piracy aka "hacking."

A mental subprocesses spawned to predict whether the cracking was _of_ the systems on the station—possibly inspired by that movie trailer I saw for the thriller about a new cold war in space after a nuclear war—or _from_ the space station, by bored occupants, either of their own systems or of some system they interact with on the ground.

A bit deflated by the reality, tbh.
That's exactly it, it could have been sitting on a coffee table with kids playing around it. Terrorists bad, governments stooping down to the same level is also bad.
If it didn't work, no one would make a cent in advertising
FDA approves Cobenfy, a low-side-effect novel drug for schizophrenia
The definition of a well informed, happy, modern man: He reads a couple of lines and goes, "Yep, I know how this article ends. I'm right, he's wrong." Then he watches the first half of a game, switches off the TV, pumps his fist, and says, "My team WINS again." Writes the match report, gets in the shower, soaps himself up, and walks out, unrinsed, fully lathered, super clean.
Are you similarly frustrated that microwaves and coffee makers can easily take 1,200 Watts or more?
Fraud, so much fraud
I didn't realize it had that meaning, good suggestion!
Dutch City the Hague Is First Banning Oil and Air Travel Ads
My understanding is that groups in Telegram are not encrypted and the document mostly refers to groups. When it comes to e2e encryption of one-to-one chats Telegram is not unique in that space.
My test is to take a sized chunk of memory containing a TrueType/OpenType font and output a map of glyphs to curves. Bot is nowhere close.
This may be a cultural trait too. Erin Meyer in her "Culture Map" Book mentions this idea that every culture approach persuading others differently from theory-first to examples-first.
Bitcoin can't always be proof-of-work. Given the capped supply, the mining rewards will eventually diminish to the point that the network is no longer secure. It will have to transition to proof-of-stake or some other mechanism long before that happens.
Met as in travelled to Russia? Or at some conference?
I would argue that the government's monopoly on violence is more about its power to engage in violence than literal acts of violence.
CZ was at Lompoch I take it at a Low?
Whoever told you that, you should stop listening to them.
Banks are always doing business with criminals and sanctioned entities and they know that, although not always when and where.

The difference is if the bank does KYC and the criminal uses a dark identity, the bank will likely get away with it. If the bank just gives each person a random number as their only identifier like the old swiss accounts, then they'll be warned sanctioned entities are using it and ultimately prosecuted when they fail to KYC (i.e. similar but but identical to CZ).
DLT technology discussions are entirely incomplete without consideration of Hedera Hashgraph [0], an aBFT, leaderless, fair and fast DLT using a gossip-about-gossip consensus mechanism. It's absolutely a more robust and scalable technology than Paxos or any other DLT for that matter. I'd love to know what the HN crowd thinks about Hedera as the trust layer of the internet but.... nobody around here seems to have any. It's like ignoring Linux while comparing Mac and Windows based computing.

[0]: https://www.swirlds.com/downloads/SWIRLDS-TR-2016-01.pdf
Somehow people made enough to eat before LLMs became all the rage a couple years ago. I suspect people are still making enough to eat without having to use LLMs.
yeah but wouldn't you want to create enough buzz globally so word of mouth can spread to more US entrants?
You can also buy specific Japanese rice varieties that are better textured when cold. You can also figure out how to store them without the nori touching the rice
A factory is a fully controlled environment. All that neat control goes down the drain when you’re confronted with the outside world—weather, wind, animals, plants, pollen, rubbish, teenagers, dust, daylight, and a myriad of other factors ruining your robot's day.
Not sure why this is front page material.

The thinking is very surface level ("AI art sucks" is the popular opinion anyway) and I don't understand what the complaints are about.

The author is tired of AI and likes movies created by people. So just watch those? It's not like we are flooded with AI movies/music.
His social network shows dull AI-generated content? Curate your feed a bit and unfollow those low effort posters.

And in the end, if AI output is dull, there's nothing to be afraid of -- people will skip it.
I’ve been looking at distributed CI and for now I’m just going to be running workloads queued by the owner of the agent. That doesn’t eliminate hostile workloads but it does present a similar surface area to simply running the builds locally.

I’ve been thinking about QEMM or firecracker instead of just containers for a more robust solution. I have some time before anyone would ask me about GPU workloads, but do you think firecracker is on track to get there or would I be better off learning QEMM?
It’s an excellent reminder to anyone who ever hung out with a kid...

Because it’s easy to forget. :)