skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t find the exact video I first saw, but looking around I think it was full color resin printing. They were printing photorealistic figures of 2Pac, and I think some video game or animated characters as well.

I’m not sure how resin stacks up in terms of durability for making parts, but from the perspective of being able to print anything and having it look perfect, it blew my mind.
I don't get the appeal of Ironmouse or Holo's Gwar Gura. Too squeaky. There's plenty of vtubers who don't put on the high pitched anime girl voice! And yet...
Buy, Borrow, Die
I hope this do not hurt Peter.
What percentage of the wealth did they control?
What is your point exactly? That's sort of saying the weight of the heaviest man ever alive (>300 kg) is a drop in the bucket if we compare to the total weight of people in the US, which is true but also completely irrelevant (in fact that comparison actually makes it even clearer how out of proportion the $7B are for a single person).
Now, (and i’m still partial to keeping the lion-fox defos close to where they have always been*) would these people who attack moral issues with economic tools be lions or foxes? Its not that lions do not fear death, but that they fear lack of impact (ie positive externalities) more than death

I posit to thee that lion-fox is a spectrum (and not even very bimodal). where would you place the (napo)leon, sama, dang, and PG? I’d say closer to the lion, because while they keep tactical details close to their chest, their hearts are worn elsewhere.

*The historical [& natural] lions (with an epsilon of fox?) appears to employ camouflage, and if i may say so, enjoy subterfuge, by necessity? What the fiducial lion values, or respect (loyalty,unpredictability), are in their subordinates [as well as themselves]. Same for standard foxes ([intellectual]prowess,legibility).. i’d add that sibboleth consists of dropping something on their paws Y, where Y is something like an accusation of hypocrisy (& not dishonourabilitiness) watching their L0 (cache) ejaculation

Since my gallic quotemining skills are inadequate, bonaparte appeared to have said

X does not understand men like I do

Q: who was X? Cicero, Livy or Plutarch?

>just because… he says he can read [dead] people
https://archive.is/www.economist.com/business/2024/10/03/wha...
Couple things come to mind.

One, is that HTTP took over the role of a lot of simple servers, thus something like Apache and CGI-BIN was used in place of inetd.

Second, with the rise of interpreted languages (i.e. Perl et al), forking became more expensive. With binary programs, forking tends to be cheap (in a multi-use case) since the executable page are shared across processes. While the interpreter runtime itself is shared (being compiled), the actual script is not (having to be loaded for each instance).

The HTTP servers managed that better (through modules, FastCGI, etc.), so that space didn't really advance under the guise of inetd.

Make no mistake, an inetd service is "fast enough" for a wide array of use cases today, both compiled and interpreted, simply because the hardware is much better today. But, still, when folks think "ad hoc" service today, they're likely turning to HTTP today anyway.
I think it's a great idea. It would generate good press for the donors and some billionaires care a lot about that. Guys like Buffett would do it. It's basically free money for the government.
You know, there is an argument to be made that if you just abandoned having an army, and bought 1 million drones that would just target anything vehicular or human, you could just let the drones self guide on some kind of, go that way, kill something if you see it, or return for fresh batteries if you don't kind of algorithm.

The problem then is all the OPFOR has to defend against is cheap shitty drones.
Spam (created by humans) evolves.

So do humans.

If Google prioritizes AI slop, Google will be deprioritized.
imo it's pretty obvious that he was Hal Finney, potentially with collaborators, and no amount of scripted emails, etc. disproves it for me
The $70 billion is not gone. He would need to sell his Bitcoin to others to amass $70 billion. Whatever impact $70B dollars could have is already happening: the difference is that it’s not his impact.
Google can’t force them to use Google for payments anymore. Maybe the multiple stores will force developers to integrate their own payment processing that can be used across all the stores, because it won’t be tied to any of them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anderson_v._TikTok

Momentum.
> It's incredibly dangerous of these "journalists". Putting targets on people's back [...] The actual leading candidate is [named other individual/family target]

Am I misunderstanding something, or do you want to edit that?
Nagel: What is it like to be a bat?
There is really a point to both opinions. BobAlice maybe lives in a place where tax funds are actually well spent.
Discussion (84 points, 2 months ago, 94 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41240716
Calling it "the first" seems both myopic and awfully Eurocentric to me. Even pop culture history is enough to know that, for example, the ancient Egyptians often mummified pets.
Actually making a game in a homemade engine? I'm impressed!
in a disk, in a safe, in a bank, not sure in which country, maybe the vatican?
>and dock worker unions screwing over port companies isn't magically going to make all other workers better off.

no, it won't fix everywhere else overnight. But it'll remind other companies of what happens if they go too far (hence why they spend so much on union busting/prevention). Or show that unions can indeed work to the workers who think it's hopeless.

>If anything the supply chain disruptions resulting from a strike and costs (as a result of lack of automation) is going to make their lives worse through higher inflation.

And the current status quo is so much better as our buying power decreases slowly and goes to businesses? If companies are so greedy they'd rather crash the economy than pay workers fairly, so be it.

I'll clarify here that unionization is the best of the worst options. If the government properly kept housing costs down and minimum wage reasonable, and made it so companies can't just layoff because it's in fashion, we wouldn't need to collectively bargain just to survive and pay rent. But I'm open to other alernatives for this that's not "just lie down and hope things get better". Been hoping for decades.

>If your business is that critical, just pay the mafia protection money so they can enjoy their life!

I guess the Pinkertons had connections to the mafia. Gets harder to just kill people overnight in this interconnected era though. The Boeing stuff shows that old style mafia scheme is outdated and just makes your case worse.
Okay what's the safe dose of micro plastics? What's the evidence for that dose being safe? Do we have 100 years of data?

The reason we know there isn't a safe dose of lead is a lot of study.

Every month there's a new study about some crazy micro plastics things where they got found in some new place. We're in the early days of figuring out how bad it is. We don't really know yet.
Previously reported NES Tetris accomplishments did not involve modifying the game to bypass an extremely difficult part of that accomplishment. Fixing a score display bug makes almost no difference to how the game is played. Similarly, playing SMB1 on a keyboard makes very little difference to how the game is played. All the challenges of the original game are still there.

Wrapping the level counter on Tetris Gym is difficult and impressive. It is not however the same thing as wrapping the level counter on the original NES Tetris, which is what every reasonable reader who's not involved in the Tetris community will interpret "NES Tetris" as. Tetris Gym was accepted as standard before people could reach the crash levels. The fact that it previously made no real difference does not excuse continuing to call it "NES Tetris" now that it does make a major difference.
Scam. Delete.
Exposed: How Israeli Spies Control Your VPN
It sounds like you know Hal was running a marathon while Satoshi was emailing. Did you also know their stylometry doesn't match?
Nah it's not Peter Todd. It's actually Red Herring.

https://scoobydoo.fandom.com/wiki/Red_Herring
> 99% of Unicode stuff

Does that include context-dependent conversion rules like o'reilly -> O'Reilly?
Alfred Nobel was the only donor, and his will spells out the rules: https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobels-will/

In 1968, the Nobel Foundation accepted a donation from the Swedish central bank to establish a prize in economy, but in hindsight that was a pretty bad idea, and the probability of them accepting future donations to establish prizes in other fields is very slim.
My money is on Hal, too. He was in the dorm room next to mine. I've never met an actual genius before or since. Bitcoin is just the thing he would invent.

He was interviewed when he could no longer speak. He was asked if he was Satoshi. He just smiled.

It's just the kind of joke Hal would play.
If the son is not around to raise the child it's a bad and selfish idea.
https://x.com/g0m/status/1339282322999406593
And yet, maybe the “much larger” universe which contains our simulation also contains such a “log book” of a very similar universe to our own, also containing intelligent life - and yet, if the “something extra” has not been added to that “log book”, it would lack consciousness and qualia, unlike our own universe.

In that case, the non-conscious people in the log book would spend a lot of time pontificating on their experiences of consciousness and how mysterious it is and whether it's possible for there to be other universes that contain entities like themselves except not conscious. They'd be having these discussions for reasons that have nothing to do with actually being conscious, but coincidentally their statements would perfectly correspond with our actual perceptions of consciousness. Maybe not logically impossible, but it seems extremely improbable.

(This is pretty much the argument at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/fdEWWr8St59bXLbQr/zombies-zo... which I find persuasive).
What are the odds of something like WWII though, compared to the odds it’s all spent by the second generation?
True, but I’m equally concerned about the other topic in the report - pedophilia / CSAM content, child grooming, etc.

There should at least be a call for law enforcement investigation.
Why would that be true? You can do facial recognition on very low resolution photographs that wouldn't be easily recognisable to a human: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02628...
Vulkan/DX12 _are_ learnable by hobbyists. This was a pretty popular post here on HN 4 months ago of someone learning Vulkan and making an engine in it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40595741. Universities usually teach theory, oftentimes in the form of a raytracer on the CPU, or like you said a simple OpenGL renderer using some prebuilt abstractions. I don't think it really makes sense for them to teach how to use Vulkan well or how to make a fast renderer, the details of that often change quickly year by year anyways.

> That's a pretty sad state of affairs given the "audience" is shrinking by the day. And then later those graphics programmers leave/get laid off by Unity/Epic/AAA Studio with a custom engine and they wonder why they can't find any DX12/Vulkan engineers to their satisfaction.

That's more a symptom of how garbage working in the game development industry is, and less about any underlying technology. There's a reason I work on a game engine for fun, as my hobby, and not professionally despite having the option to do so. Everyone I spoke to in the industry talks about how terrible the working conditions are.

A professional graphics developer I recently talked to summed it up well - everyone needs a game engine, but no one wants to pay people to make and maintain one.
It is less about on what reasons made them poor laureates specifically and more important on what is wrong with the process itself

Unless the process of selection of the committee (unqualified, political) and process of selection of the winner(opaque and inconsistent criteria) is fixed we will have poor candidates winning it in the future too

Unlike the economic prize peace was one that Alfred Noble actually wanted himself to be an award given too.

One could also argue peace prize should be the most important of them all. Noble wished to mitigate the military application of his invention, the peace prize should be achieving that most.

The continued poor judgment of the parliament in selecting the committee and the committee in selecting winners devalues the prize for future winners and devalues the good work the Swedish institutions have put in making it the premier award in their fields
I like it :)

Besides the counter example have you built anything else with it? Something more complex?
Probably not news to you, but those are completely different departments within the company with opposing goals.
the simple basic reality of statistics, a binomial distribution.

5 independent systems with 90% chance of success is mathematically as reliable as one that is 99.999%.

100x 90% systems would get you to 100 "9s" of reliability aka 99.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999%
Philip Condit had a phd in engineering.

Harry Stonecipher had a physics degree.

James Mcnerney was the only ceo with an MBA, are we attributing all Boeings problem to him?
Late to the game here but...

> can you find the bug?

Several stand out immediately:

- Two syntax errors: unclosed single quote in '⍳n n←⍴⍵ and no right operand in the second use of Jot (∘). It's not clear how those could have snuk in naturally by accident, but I'll just assume cosmic rays and that they should be simply elided.

- n n←⍴⍵ is setting n twice, which is a bit surprising, though it signals that you probably expect ⍵ to have rank 2. In such cases _ n←⍴⍵ or n←⊃⌽⍴⍵ may be more natural, depending on intent.

- However, Decode (⊥) will error if ⍴⍵ returns anything other than a single integer (or an empty vector), so n n←⍴⍵ is equivalent to just n←⍴⍵ and doubly confusing.

- Which means that (n*÷2){⍵,⍺⊥⌊⍵÷⍺}⍳n n←⍴⍵ can only return a vector, i.e. 1..n with a number tacked on the end: the value of (1-x^n)/(1-x) evaluated at sqrt(n), which is a bit of a strange data structure IMHO. Something to do with geometric series of n^2?

- The second use of Ravel (,) in ,⍵ is redundant, and given the constraints we know above, so is the first use: ,(n*÷2)...

- It also means that (↑⍵) is the same as just ⍵

- But then (⍺∨.=⍵) is always just 1

- Meaning that the whole code is essentially equivalent to p←(n+1)⍴⊂⍳n×n←⍴⍵. I.e. it just outputs n+1 vectors of the integers 1 to n^2.

- Which, without context, is hard to guess intent, but that data structure feels a bit strange. Instead of a vector of uniform-length vectors, a matrix would be more efficient: (n+1)(n*2)⍴⍳n×n←⍴⍵. But that's just a matrix with rows that are all the same, so maybe we could just use the single vector (⍳2*⍨⍴⍵) directly?

Really, despite looking strange, once you learn the symbols and basic operations, APL is surprisingly straightforward. If you're on HN, then you're already smart enough to learn the basics easily enough.

Admittedly, though, becoming proficient in APL does take some time and learning pains. Once there, though, it does feel like a superpower.
I don't know about Gura, but that's Ironmouse's real voice. It's like that because of a lung infection caused by her immune disorder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironmouse#Career
Except for the fact wages and middle class wealth has not kept up with productivity for ages in most western countries.

Also considering that the super-rich in developing nations are not that far behind the super-rich in developed nations, why hasn't their wealth trickled down and uplifted those developing nations? The reality is that developing nations have even higher wealth inequality, so refuting your argument.
`inetd` was an early attempt at avoiding every process having to write their own daemonization code.
Reminds me of something I read years ago about how Ultima Online would create "gold sinks", super expensive items that served no purpose other than help remove gold from the economy and prevent inflation.
Wordpress.org isn't a legal entity. It's simply a domain owned by Matt. It seems Matt has a license to use the Wordpress trademarks.

The Wordpress Foundation is a non-profit legal entity with a tiny budget. It appears the only thing it does is serve as a holding entity for the trademarks and the for-profit company than operates the WordCamp conferences.

I suspect that Automattic is the one who foots the bill for the infrastructure behind Wordpress.org, but that's not clear.

Matt talks about transparency, but how everything operates is a muddled mess.
VR and AR stuff usually has a focal distance of 4-6 feet forward of the actual lenses, for what it's worth.
I agree!

I’m committing to this.
That person is already dead, and already widely discussed (including here on HN a few days ago) as a candidate.
Can you explain to me what a post about avoiding taxes has to do with a post about not avoiding taxes?
Thomas Witherspoon, K4SWL, who is interviewed in this article, runs a great blog (https://qrper.com) and YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/@thomask4swl) about low power ham radio (QRP).
Sounded like a story but then had that scam-sounding narrative style and flipped to a full blown scam at the end.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767648 (308 comments)
Many others including myself have made this observation. I think I've finally formulated why there seems to be such a stark difference between FE and BE/systems cultures.

The backend and systems programmers are still writing code in a programming language.

So much of FE dev now is stringing together other people's declarative frameworks. When programming is done it's mostly glue. So if you exist in this paradigm you're going to have very strong opinions about whatever framework/tech you are using because it's so hard to operate outside of it. You also gain a vested interest in the survival of whatever you've chosen.

This is why I've been slowly trying to make the transition out of web dev, at least FE. I don't want to deal with this crap anymore!
I mean mainstream maths sure, that doesn't mean you can't replace the axioms with one's that aren't.
Already is. I suggest everybody else de-google as well.
torzu seems to be active: http://vub63vv26q6v27xzv2dtcd25xumubshogm67yrpaz2rculqxs7jlf...
> have experience, requires position relative to the all, the traversal of the all is time

You’re describing timelike experience. Photons “experience” events as in they are part of causality. But they do so in a non-timelike manner.
>Aside from being spys,

This isn't a problems if you use open-source replacement firmware like Valetudo (https://valetudo.cloud/).
Most materials used by renewables are eternally (at human scale) reusable. In France recycling 95% of the sheer mass of a wind turbine is now mandatory ( https://www.lemoniteur.fr/article/demantelement-des-eolienne... )

> France does have several years worth of fuel

Indeed, 'le stock stratégique', about 9 years at best (counting the average amount of uranium already present in reactors). 9 years at best for an overall of your gridpower production system... good luck with this!
The human internet submitted this dupe.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41767648
It's not definitive proof.

Stylometry was known at the time, Hal might have changed his. People have been using computer stylometry for years to rule in or out pretenders to be Shakespeare.

Emails can be sent with a timer.
Tax avoidance strategies aren't exactly advertised so it could be a novel tactic; and it probably would require an absurd liquid net worth to be worth pursuing (it might even preclude Texas billionaires like Michael Dell or Christy Walton)
> Unicode has only one apostrophe. The same one as ASCII apostrophe. The problem here is people using right single qoute as a "fancy" apostrophe when they should be using a font that renders apostrophe in the desired way.

No, the ASCII ‘quotes’ are inch and foot markers. Relying on a font to render the the inch and foot markers as quotes is a … unique … approach.

> I have to fix this junk all the time in CD-text and Musicbrainz metadata.

Wait, are you the guy whose Musicbrainz titles are constantly replacing my carefully- and properly-punctuated ones every time I sync? I beg you to reconsider.
we regularly get comments like this, and people on HN still question the value of a liberal arts education
Oh maybe because he has a PhD in particle physics from Caltech ?
> They don’t seem to occur in a speculative fashion where “maybe this person can pay…”.

For potentially tens of billions of dollars, I'm willing to bet that some criminals would make an exception.
It's not just images. I frequently get genAI word salad in the top three to five results when I google anything that could be considered a common question. You don't even realize at first when you start reading. Then it makes you start to question the things that aren't obviously genAI. You can sort of tell the kinds of things that a human might be wrong about, the ways in which they're wrong, how they sound when they're wrong, how likely they are to be wrong, the formats and platforms wrongness exists within, how often they are wrong and how other humans respond to that. AI is a different beast. No intuition or experience can tell you when reasonable-sounding AI is wrong.

Our entire framework of unconscious heuristics for ranking the quality of communicated information being rendered useless overnight may be a recipe for insanity and misery. Virtually nothing has made me this genuinely sad about technology in all my life.
I miss x32 - it seemed like a nice idea. (And I'm a bit disappointed that iOS and Android didn't adopt something similar for ARM to save memory on phones.)

Then again, I also thought segmentation/segment registers might be useful for bounds checking, as in Multics and in the original version of Google Native Client.
You're leaving out a very important part of the Cambridge Analytica story, which is "transitive permissions". "Normal" people think of transitive permissions very different from computer science folks.

That is, the vast majority of people whose data was sucked up by Cambridge Analytica did not explicitly authorize the app. Instead, their friends did, and at the time authorizing a third party app meant the app got to see everything you did, including all of the data about your friends. Now, you may argue that if you share your data with your friends that you're then at the mercy of whoever they give this data to, but I guarantee very few people at the time understood this - saying "I authorize Bob to see my FB data" is different, in most people's minds, to saying "I authorize Bob to see my data, and also any random app that can convince Bob into giving them access." Facebook was rightly pilloried for this permissions model.
Fascinating, but I really wish this work was being published as a series of papers in peer-reviewed journals. Otherwise it’s hard to take the work seriously.
Forums are making a slight come back... Facebook Groups are still huge, Reddit as well. But I've noticed more traffic coming back to forums as well. Perhaps people are getting tired of the lower quality content on FB.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2206.10257v14

This paper makes a pretty good case that the late Len Sassaman was Satoshi. Its a pretty thorough examination regardless if you think it was Len or not and doesn't come to a definitive conclusion.
Vladimir, when posting things like this, you might want to disclose that you're Kagi's CEO.