skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure it would work to make it expensive, I've lived in London for a while, and tobacco products are very expensive there, they were expensive for me, I knew few Ukrainian guys I would buy cigarettes from, for 2-3 pounds a packet, while I had enough money to buy 13 pounds cigarettes after I found a better job. I know a lot of people from when I was there, they were still buying cigarettes from those Ukrainians. You make gambling expensive? I'm sure lower classes can find someone who can let them gamble for cheap. I am no libertarian, but I think when it comes to vices, it's a lost battle, prohibition works for a the better-off part of the population, it leaves the one who need government the most, outside the government reach. I'd say things should be legalised, but money shouldn't be spent for anything except help programs, social programs, better working conditions for those who suffer and find peace in gambling and/or drugs. Legalising gambling was probably a mistake, but it was a way to keep it out of reach of organised crime.

I think being born and raised in Naples, I've lived all my life in direct contact with organised crime, but many people live in places and don't make the connection, but I'd suggest everyone who think about regulating or not, to keep in mind that in any place you're in, there are 2 governments, one you can see, and one you can not
Exactly.

Conclusion: This isn't about OSS, it's about money (and power).

Shamelessly, MM has dug himself a hole. If X is any indication, going forward there are few in the community who will trust him. A leader who isn't trusted is no leaser at all. Evidently he realizes this and is stuck doubling down on stupid. Rinse and repeat.

If feel bad for the people who took off work, went to WordCamp US and they keynote they got was a complete turd.
Yes I am sure and it is still true.
OpenAI needs money. To do that it must promise to incorporate. It cannot incorporate and then raise funds, because that would take time and give the non-profit blocking leverage. So Altman must raise money while giving a promise, no promise, because the company and non-profit are at arms length.

That said, this is a public announcement. There is motivation more than legal for making this a public concern.
> Array to pointer decay is extremely annoying, if it was implemented as Array to "slice" decay it would be great.

It's not just annoying, it's the major source of bugs in shipped code. A fix:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html
There's this Taylor girl who seems pretty popular but maybe you're right, the record concert sales probably implies nobody is listening to her.
This was the original purpose of the alt-svc[1] header, although it's rarely used for that purpose and instead used for upgrading clients to QUIC.

[1] https://www.jonaharagon.com/posts/securing-services-with-tor...
A handler for treating .zip (and .jar and .tar ...) files as if they were a volume mounted at /home/user/foo.zip - e.g. https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/jdk-21-ga/src/java.base/...

It may be easier to reason about when thinking of the way $(mount -o loop) works with .iso files -- a file that is a container for other files that one can mount as if it were a filesystem

I was expecting pathlib in Python <https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html> to have one since a lot of Python distributions ship the standard library in .zip files but evidently not. Python gonna Python in that way

Firefox actually used to ship with that same "jar:" protocol handler, too, and I made good use of it for reading the javadoc html which was shipped inside zip files and was indescribably easier than trying to manage all the .html files in a Java 8 SDK distribution. They made heavy use of this because a lot of their internals were in .xpi formats (which is also a .zip file) but they recently dropped it because Firefox gonna Firefox^W double down on some random shit other than making a sane browser
It never ceases to amaze me how much people love to tell other people what to do even when it has absolutely nothing to do with them.

I think sports gambling is stupid and has largely ruined sports for me. Most people I know though seem to really love it, gamble completely responsibly and seem to enjoy sports they did not enjoy previously.

Unfortunately, there is no story to click on without some kind of moral outrage or "mistake" that the "smart" people need to correct. Especially appealing if it can bent into some kind of political bullshit narrative .
Reduce fork() latency for Redis BGSAVE and AOF operations [pdf]
> Sure, but they dont scale. Each of those cars costs 100-120K

Why do you think they don't scale? Tax licenses have historically cost significantly more than this. If the cost to run is much lower - no human driver and cheaper energy costs - it seems like this will scale at least as well as taxis?
I'm not a TCL user, but from the description of wduquette is sounds similar to Python's zipapp

https://docs.python.org/3/library/zipapp.html
https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode + 10 of those $35 a pop https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode/wiki/RSP1 + 10 VHS players + someone on a night shift feeding tapes every couple hours = ~100 days
> because clearly there is some demand that must be met

There is demand it's not clear that it "must be met." The problem is not the betting or oddsmaking, the problem is, how do you handle settlements?

You're presenting the false dichotomy, that we should just allow gambling, because it's inevitable, and we can occasionally use the violence of the state and it's courts to run the settlement racket on behalf of short changed bookies.

> but we should not be enabling gambling

And we have no reason to. We should harshly penalize people who try to collect on gambling debt and they should have no access to the courts or to sheriff's over problems arising from it.

> cannot protect its citizens from every evil

That's why this is all so insidious because it's really only one you need to actually protect them from. Suddenly you'll find the industry self regulating customers with an obvious illness out at the front door. They'll get amazingly good at this.
Somebody has to look at it to decide it should be banned.
It’s already stigmatised - have you seen the quintessential meth addict/crack whores that hang around gambling/gaming joints?

There has to be a lower class. Not all but most of the people who inhabit it are just where they belong. Interventionist states with paternal social policies can’t magically raise the IQs of the dumbest 20% of their populations by 50 points, alas.

No respectable person goes to a casino except as a gag to throw away expendable income. Some labourer spending 80% of his wages at Ladbroke’s is a symptom of his stupidity, not the cause of it.
Fair. Seems safer to take someone seriously unless you include the /s given what I’ve seen irl ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Unfortunately Brazil also legalized it in 2018, after Dilma was impeached using very sketchy arguments (many call it a legal coup).

It is spreading as a cancer. This month the central bank published a report saying that in August 20% of the Bolsa Família, the largest money transfer program for very poor Brazilians, was spent on these bets.

Out of the 20 million people that receive it, 5 million made bets during that month. This is 2 billion reais (about $450M) spent in a single month by the poorest Brazilians.

It's a cancer. Everywhere you go there are ads. The influencers, the biggest athletes and musicians are marketing it.

Although I tend to be liberal, this needs to be heavily regulated.
State lotteries at least fund positive things, instead of just private profit. WA State as an example: https://www.walottery.com/PressRoom/Details.aspx?id=12129
sinking, submerging...its all the same to me
I also encountered discrepancy between different input methods: AIU the browser can encode the password in html or something like that, so punctuation characters can be mangled.
> And Matt might not realize...

My sense is he does realize it. The pie is no longer expanding. This is a preemptive strike to get more of what there is.

Let's not be naive. This isn't about WPE contributing to core. It's not about trademarks. No one connected to an OSS project goes nuclear over trademarks.

It's about money.
> Have you been to your local library?

Yes

> Hah! It’s a bit different but kind of the same.

It's much worse both in the content availability and ease of use, so not a bit different
And yet, here is Godaddy doing the same thing:

https://www.godaddy.com/en-ph/hosting/wordpress-hosting

Or a recent hosting provider I interacted with in a 3rd world country:

https://client.absolutehosting.co.za/store/wordpress-hosting

Come now, this seems to be a huge abuse of "trademark" of a term. Wordpress may be open source, but having the actual name of the "Opensource" thing be trademarked by a non-profit (that's also who-knows-how-much controlled by a for-profit entity) seems like such a dick move. I'm gonna start adding it to my list... OpenAI, Mozilla Foundation, Wordpress.

Edit. Side note:

I looked up the Linux trademark usage guidelines. Looks like half the internet is infringing on this one too if you squint. So maybe this all boils down to a case of "Don't be a jerk" that some entities adhere to when it comes to protecting their trademark, whilst others like Automattic use it to bully competitors.

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/legal/trademark-usage
Well, the game hasn't been good anymore since season 9
So did emperors in other countries. They didn’t want to be the new emperors after a successful usurpation. Instead, their followers needed to plead or even force them to accept the throne
I live in america and my jeans are $20 and if something happens to them it's cheaper to get a new pair :) :( :)
But if there isn't an issue with it, why stop?
> Among other things, I'd say: these types of documents rarely bear any relation to the reality of a company.

They sort of do, but not in the way one might think or hope.
> Last time I tried fedora-silverblue I didn't like it. My packages were scattered in 2 or 3 distrobox containers. It's not that much, but they can be different distributions, and then we add flatpak to the mix, and apps installed in the base OS with rpm-ostree... It felt like a frankenstein distro. Upgrades were time consuming, and not smooth at all. Not only did I have to learn how to manage a fedora-silverblue, but I also had to maintain a debian container, upgrade another fedora (a regular one, not silverblue), learn the quirks of flatpak, and... that was too much work. It doesn't really matter that I can confidently upgrade the empty base OS, if I still need to manually upgrade my fedora container and it can break the package I need from that container.

I... don't think you're supposed to do that? Like, I haven't used silverblue specifically, but on suse microos there's a big warning with metaphorical flashing lights that says in so many words "don't touch the host OS unless there is literally no other way to possibly do what you need". You should never use it for normal applications, at the very minimum. And as to multiple distros in multiple containers - why not just run everything on Fedora container(s)?
> It's unclear even now whether the US has enough stockpiles and enough production of modern munitions to maintain an active war against a peer adversary like China with such massive production capacity and such a massive population.

I don't think it's unclear at all. It's uncomfortable to call out an obvious truth: We couldn't even compare. The only hope we have is basically economic mutually assured destruction. If it comes to a hot war, it better be over (without going nuclear) within weeks or at most single digit months or it's more or less over. At least from where I'm standing.

It's unclear if the US could even get production ramped up on the scale of a decade. We simply don't have the people to train the people we need. Much less the people with the skills to do the thing.
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I can't tell if this is facetious or not, but be the person that they are. The whole rest of the person besides the obsession. Maybe with some extra freedom and time they can build up their other interests and relationships. Grandfather comment or so said the guys wife was upset with him. Without the piles of tapes he could replace "tape guy" with "happier relationship" and "successfully moved". Literally everything else about the person is who they are. Narrowing a persons whole identity down to a collection of objects is a neurotic and reductive take on personhood, in my opinion
Interesting question! Depends on how strong is your desire to ban it. The humanity has a long history of banning things, including certain plants, certain thoughts (for example, religious beliefs), certain ideas, certain symbols, certain pictures, and even certain numbers.

I have a few ideas. Criminal groups are often broken by having a police infiltrate the group and collect the evidence. We could have police officers joining the gambling groups (the groups need to accept some people, so they have someone they can make bets with) and catching the perpetrators. I also don't think that - at least right now - gamblers use tor or sufficiently anonymous proxies, so it would be easy to get most of them by just observing network traffic. Also, significant money transfers between random private people are uncommon. You can find sets of people who often do transfers like this, and find the "gambler networks".
I don't think so, investors have the capital in order to afford to deal with regulations. Over regulating and making it expensive/hard to gamble legally, would just send people over to organised crime. I'd be happy if we forced gambling companies to hire addiction-psychologists in each of their shops for people to talk to, for one we could shrink the amout of gambling shops, as they wouldn't open one every 10 meters, and we would bring help directly to those who need it on the spot
I've encountered situations where the requirement to rotate passwords was obligated by contractual agreements. For instance, this is still the published guidance documentation on the HHS website for HIPAA compliance (https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/ocr/privacy/hipaa/ad...):

> Covered entities must train all users and establish
> guidelines for creating passwords and changing them
> during periodic change cycles.

If you have a contract that deals in HIPAA related information, you might be contractually obligated by the entity subject to HIPAA to have password rotations so that they can check the right boxes for compliance. Even though HIPAA isn't supposed to dictate specifics, I sure would't want to be the person that has to explain why they didn't have password rotations in a HIPAA breach report, not matter what NIST said people "should" do. Because between a NIST "should" and the document labeled "HIPAA Security Series" and "Security Standards", in the middle of a shit storm, I wouldn't be counting on folks appreciating the nuances between the two.
Surely someone in this thread can give an update on the status of that digitization project?
It's not inline assembly it's just ioctl through ctypes via libc.
> No one pretends one of those isn’t drinking though, whereas everyone pretends raffles aren’t gambling, or churches could hardly go in for it so much.

The raffles I see have a token amount as a reward, compared to the money raised. I think that makes a big difference, both rationally and emotionally.
Can you explain what you mean? I'm not quite sure I follow.

> OpenAI needs to raise funds and incorporate.

Which OpenAI are we talking about? Non-profit or its for profit subsidiaries? They're all named OpenAI Inc, OpenAI Global LLC, OpenAI LLC, etc. The for-profit is already incorporated (since 2019 [1]), it just needs to be restructured before anyone is willing to put any more money in at crazy 12 figure valuations.

AFAIK that means removing board control from the nonprofit to prevent another fiasco, converting Microsoft's deal to stock to undo the profit share cap thing, and create an employee stock pool to retain talent.

> Because the company and non-profit are at arms length.

I'm not so sure that they are (that said, I don't understand your overall point so this is probably a nitpick). The subsidiary definitely isn't a passive investment as far as UBIT is concerned, and I don't think they can ever be considered arms length if Altman is both CEO of the for-profit and on the board of the non-profit (as far as the corporate veil goes).

> There is motivation more than legal for making this a public concern.

It definitely feels like a trial balloon.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI#2019:_Transition_from_n...
Then you fix this mistake, not remove ~ completely
Ah fair, definitely a very different environment than what I’ve worked in! Have only worked on SaaS, where all forms of testing (automated and manual) are a thing we do internally, without customer involvement. We’ll do things like turn features on/off for customers, have them provide feedback, but that’s more product feedback than them being part of the testing/QA process.

I have worked on software where individual customers pay millions for it, but not billions, and it’s also not a physical thing that can literally crash into earth or fly off into space if something goes wrong!
I've been thinking about this all week since this WP stuff kicked off. You know what's funny, as far as I know I was the first senior person to have a conversation with Ubuntu about that from the DO side, and as far as I recall it (granted it was a long time ago) it was basically them: "Uhm, you can't do that"- me: "maybe, not sure, but probably better to be friends tho yah?" them: "yah" me: "k" - dunno how it is today, but at least till I left, that was how it remained, always earned a shit load of respect in my book, not sure how it'd have gone for us if they decided to really get nasty, but either way, super grateful they didn't, good job Ubuntu people!!!!
Misinfo
ah. The only documented instances of bugs I know of are in the spy museum in DC, which btw is a fantastic place to visit. The rest, AFAIK, are held close to the vest. I bet there's an amazing museum somewhere inside of the CIA though.
Boy I hope the court is completely impotent to actually enforce anything in this case.

Why are we not slipping onion support into Hyphanet's opennet and just uploading library genesis to that?
Not sure about total death rates but I think gambling addiction has the highest suicide rate of any of the big addictions out there. It seems truly ruinous. I suppose if any random person can blow their savings on out of the money options theyre unable to gauge the risk of then they might as well be allowed to do the same with crazy parlay bets but seeing the whole landscape of sports betting evolve over the last handful of years has still been quite eerie to me.

My gut these days tells me its probably better for the humans in society if this stuff is left only to black markets because it seems like it destroys lives.
if I had to guess, they were going to randomly selected locations, looking at the sky through the PVC pipe (presumably straight up), and seeing if it was obstructed by tree canopy or not, and then comparing to whether or not the satellite said there was tree cover in that location
Someone I know had this issue working at a hospital. They were an ultrasound manager (does front line ultrasounds but also coordinates the team) . The union excluded “management” though, so they were much more senior than their reports and got paid less as they weren’t Union.
Related:

List of P2P protocols:

(Note that the following list does not contain every known P2P protocol, but would make a good starting point for comparative research of all P2P protocols side-by-side...

Also, an LLM AI Chatbot query requesting a list of every known P2P protocol -- would probably generate a longer/more complete list (as would additional manual research) but the list below, again, is a good starting point)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_P2P_protocols
If you're measuring in decades, can you take any alliance for granted? Things can change in unpredictable ways.

Taking Europe as an example, if Trump or someone like him decides to leave Europe to its own devices while facing an aggressive Russia, we could see massive re-militarization. Who can say where a shift like this would lead? It's easy to view these countries as permanent allies when they depend on us for security, but they might not be so cooperative once they can stand up for themselves militarily.

This applies to Japan and South Korea as well vis a vis China/NK.
seems pretty clearcut in favor of Automattic
Yes! It’s rare and really encouraging to see an established giant embracing and extending the new and reaching outwards to other communities rather than doubling down on the old ways, gatekeeping, moat-building, and defending their kingdom. It’s an unusual source for hope and gratitude maybe, given the esoteric subject matter, but it also might be the only one I see this week.
I've always said, a version of Grand Theft Auto, but with a real map of [your city], and with cops that enforce driving rules, would be a priceless tool for teaching young drivers.

After I passed driver's ed, I still spent the next two years getting lost within a few miles of my house. But drop me in any alley in GTA5 and I can get to any other spot in a pretty short path (although I confess it often does involve dangerous jumps).
Gambling is extraordinarily harmful to others, I personally witnessed half a dozen families ruined completely by gambling when the country I lived in allowed slot machines everywhere.

“Legalize everything I can do to myself” is a wildly toxic and uneducated message that completely ignores all the knowledge we have accumulated about the weaknesses and loopholes of human nature.
I've only heard it used in elections before. Each candidate will nominate scrutineers to ensure the count is valid.
Absolutely regulate sugary drinks like cigarettes
From the article:

> Because the woman was already receiving immunosuppressants for a previous liver transplant,

This makes sense - this was the first trial, so doing this on a person already on immunosuppressants minimizes risk while still validating the basics of if it works at all in the first place.
There are such attempts, e.g. Smarkets. The general approach is called a "betting exchange" where you buy and sell bets with other people to set the market price for the various games / events going on. It's too complicated, though. Most people just want to bet on the Pats winning. They're not rational financial actors.
Just take a look at the first minute and the last minute. If they're OK, it's pretty assured the rest is.

For damaged cassettes, you can move the tape from one cassette to another. If the tape is broken, packing tape will get it spliced well enough. If the leader or trailer is bad, you can cut it off and reattach the end to the spool. If the recording is lousy, cleaning the VCR heads with alcohol usually will fix it.
> yeah everything is a string or a command

And you're not kidding about everything being a command - this here is some "what the fuck is wrong with you people": https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/comment

Including the truly stunning collection of:

- one must terminate the command with ; before one can comment

- one cannot have mismatched braces so don't try to comment out bogus code

- one cannot have a backslash in a comment but hey it's a feature not a bug because this is how they launch wish:

#!/bin/sh
# the next line restarts using wish \
exec wish8.0 "$0" "$@"

since the backslash is ignored by the shell but parsed by wish