skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That may not be the letter of the law, but it is its spirit, as set by precedent and academic literature.

The letter of the law matters. It’s not just the freedom of speech by the way. The Brazilian constitution also prohibits secret tribunals, which is what Moraes is doing with censorship under gag orders.

> Keep in mind that this specific judge has the backing of the majority of the Supreme Court and, at the very least, the tacit support of congressmen who have the power to impeach him in case of abuses.

The rest of the federal court is probably too scared of him and the sitting government to speak up. Its’s not a sign of anything.
I read anything I could find in the SF and fantasy section in the library, and much of the children's/YA section as well.

Classic speculative fiction was (and is) amazing. To this day I am still amazed by the universes created by Andre Norton, Marion Zimmer Bradley, and others.

The D&D Player's Handbook, and basically everything on its Inspirational Reading list.

Even though I wasn't into horror or gothic horror, I still devoured (or was devoured by?) Edgar Allen Poe and HP Lovecraft.

Dictionaries and encyclopedias.
> But it'll remind other companies of what happens if they go too far (hence why they spend so much on union busting/prevention).

How did the ports "go too far"? They agreed to 50% raises over 6 years. That's still well above inflation.

Laid off dock workers still get paid via container royalties. In fact, about half of the ILA isn't even working, they're being paid to do nothing by mere virte of the fact that they used to be longshoremen. Even if the get another job.

Increased shipping costs are a regressive tax: when the price of toilet paper goes up, proportionally the poor pay more because billionaires crap as much as paupers. Longshoremen already make well above average wages. They jealously guard union membership, a past lawsuit revealed that 50% of new union members had family ties to existing members, despite 20,000 people applying to just 350 positions. There is absolutely nothing progressive about this strike: their demands are to make the US economy less competitive, and to increase costs for the many to further enrich a privileged few.
In what way?
They're not opaque or mutable (by default).

They can be unwieldy but they do define a pretty strongly typed API.
An interesting article and worth a read. It is good to remember that many of the words and phrases on labels are not defined legally and do not mean much. Some words and phrases are legally defined but do not mean much. Buyer beware (and it is not just cosmetics).
Kinda deliberately missing the point here, he's specifically not talking about his own financial situation.
This still misses the biggest question about the nature of time. The problem is not that we perceive the world as a set of space-like frames. The problem is why our consciousness perceives the frames moving from one to another at all and in particular direction.
The person being dead just means their surviving family and heirs are the target instead. It's irresponsible to finger anyone as Satoshi.
HI No we have had no success from FB as yet. We have submitted the Report form to them. There are at least 10 other groups that have issues and one person a few days ago spoke to the ABC. I am going to follow up with some media, but literally trying to get in touch with someone at FB to look at this is a huge issue.

Saskia runs the LA guinea pig rescue in Los Angeles and she lost her group, Guinea Pig Australia that are here in Sydney also lost theirs. So there are many of us frantically trying to reach out and not getting anywhere with this issue.

If you can think of any way to help please let me know
Thanks Lyn
Dicts in python are for when you have a thing and you aren't sure what the keys are. Dataclasses are for when you have a thing and you're sure what the keys (attributes are). The trouble is when you have a thing and you're sort of sure, but not entirely sure, and some things are definitely there but not everything you might be thinking of.
I will ask on behalf of the entire Wordpress community - is there any part of the Wordpress cluster of organizations that do not ultimately answer to Matt?
I was talking about the "expert on how to sacrifice your bitcoins" thing.
I think that said something about your worldview rather than those million.
Ever since I was gifted with a Kontron chip emulator debugger for my work in Assembly language, and enjoyed total control over my universe, I almost simultaneously discovered that using it greatly slowed down my debugging. It made me lazy. I bet Sauron would have won MiddleEarth if he wasn’t so hung up on his Palantir stone.

Ever since, I redoubled my effort to use my brain for debugging, plus simple print statements and logging. Only when I am ready to jump out a window do I fire up a debugger.

(BTW, for three years I was in charge of the Borland Turbo Debugger test team.)
These links don’t make a good case Twitter/X has a publicly stated policy of following the laws in local jurisdictions. They refuse orders that violate the local laws. Turkey has authoritarian censorship so following their local law isn’t controversial. The commonly cited case of India is bizarre since Twitter under Musk literally fought the Indian government in courts over censorship. Unfortunately India legalized certain forms of censorship with new laws that led to them losing the case. That’s why they ended up following the local laws.

Calling Musk hypocritical on free speech is nonsensical. Twitter is far less censored and much more permissive since the acquisition, and that’s a good thing for speech and democracy. The guardian opinion article is just unhinged.
I know about them because I'm one of them. (This is a pseudonymous account, but I've been a bitcoin developer since 2010, and subject to multiple personal attacks. Thankfully no kidnapping or ransom... yet.)
While I don't think react is the best frontend framework, it has become the industry standard and therefore is the most peaceful approach to building apps in 2024.
That makes no sense - if you don't trust Google Drive, don't use it.

Google is not "forcing itself down the throat" with Google Drive, and even my Android phone comes with 3 cloud providers.

And yes, your apps certified Google as a trustable provider when they added support for it. Such support is not automatic, it requires non-trivial effort, and presumable no one would do it for services they do not trust.
For desktops users, there were other appeals for windows. A solid productivity suite, gaming support, and easier user experience

But the important part is that they had the choice of exploring other alternatives. Unlike ports, which have to deal with union workers and have no alternative labor options.
The bit in Permutation City about siphoning compute by exploiting the magnitudes of vector computations as a kind of scratch space out of algorithms that only needed the resulting angles… wonder if you could modify the DoRA parameter-efficient finetuning algorithm to do something like that lol, since it also splits up the new weights into angular and magnitude components..
it's silly hubris on your part to claim that you know that tetraethyl lead in gasoline was not a net positive for civilization: cheap gas in high compression cars leading to productivity gains? Could things have been better? you, of all people, have no idea.
You're describing rustc_codegen_gcc
> curiously quiet about the world's largest censorship machine

Why is it a pretense? Is X more free than before? Are they doing more to speak up in defense of free speech? Yes and yes. There’s no pretense around it. You can be a free speech absolutist, speak up in its defense, and also be smart about which battles you fight.
> Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, lies buried beside his dogs

There is a massive difference between being buried with slaves, pets and trinkets and having a burial for one.
More fodder for a Sabine Hossenfelder video please
Totally agree. We have submitted the report form and heard nothing back. Have you even had a response? I know that a lot of you lost profiles as well. It is a nightmare. These are community groups and have done nothing wrong.
Miqt: MIT-licensed Qt bindings for Go
They biggest web advertising company definitely shouldn't control the world's most popular browser. Just like we all knew they would, they're blocking ad blockers, and this problem will only get worse.

Tell your friends to use Firefox, people.
Yea I'm not really buying it. create-react-app is deprecated. https://react.dev/learn/start-a-new-react-project points you directly at Next.js as a *starting point* and the section about using React without a framework does it's best to discourage you from doing it.

This is insane for beginners.
Pretty cool they broke the news on X
The obsession could be taking over Hinton. Or perhaps guilt in Oppenheimer fashion
yeah that's a good idea :)
> Though APL may strike some as a strange language of choice for deep learning

I've actually spent the better part of last year wondering why we _haven't_ been using APL for deep learning. And actually I've been wondering why we don't just use APL for everything that operates over arrays, like data lakes and such.

Honestly, APL is probably a good fit for compilers. I seem to remember a guy who had some tree-wrangling APL scheme, and could execute his compiler on a GPU. But I can't find it now.
this is a joke… right?
Your statement is technically correct. It's also technically correct to say that diners, not restaurant owners, pay sales taxes.

The reality is more nuanced. Introducing a sales tax on restaurant meals affects both diners and restaurant owners: restaurant owners can't pass on the whole increase to diners, and diners cannot afford to go out as much.

Similarly, property tax levels influence landlords' decisions to enter or exit the rental market, impacting housing supply and, consequently, tenant rents.
'Paying' a tax has two distinct meanings:

- Who bears the economic burden after the tax is introduced

- Who is legally responsible for paying the tax

These two concepts are not always aligned.
The humans would know what you meant, but the machines do not, because until recently nobody had ever said "baby peacock".

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%203-m&ge...
> At a national level, there are no single keys, there aren’t even major factors.

> My dude, literally nobody but bankers thinks hedge funds are good for the economy.

These two beliefs explain each other. If you don't believe the control plane is productive you will struggle to see any major factors in growth. The reason economies grow is because powerful members of society can benefit directly, personally and excessively when there is growth. Otherwise they'd ban growth for environmental reasons (or similar). That reason is both necessary and sufficient.

Hence the value of things like hedge funds.
There’s no technical reason different social media networks couldn’t be made to interoperate. The barriers that keep other platforms from building off of a successful network are largely legal, not natural.

I’m also equating these kinds of network effects with other artificial barriers to competition, like price fixing or mandatory non-compete agreements.
Overall, lots of good points in your post. However, this one:

> Netscape Navigator was not free to the general public until January 1998

I am really dating myself here! I remember using Netscape pre-1998, and there is no way that I paid for it -- I was a broke uni student. (And, I don't think that I pirated it either.) Was I always using a (free) beta version? I cannot remember all of the details.
No, "ordinateur" was a marketing term created for IBM that meant to evoke godliness, from the somewhat archaic phrase, "Dieu qui met de l'ordre dans le monde", God who sets the world in order.

https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2005/04/15/16-avril-1...

Spain calqued the word into ordenador while most of Latin America calqued computadora from the USA.
In the middle there is, among other things, the "cardboard drone"[1]. 120 km range. Quoted costs $700 - $3000 depending on role.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sypaq_Corvo_Precision_Payload_...
Have you actually benchmarked this and published the benchmarks somewhere?
why? this should be questioned
Surely at some point higher IQ (in the IQ test sense) must also be likely to reach a point of diminishing or even negative returns.

I'm unconvinced that if everybody suddenly woke up tomorrow with an IQ score that was 20 points higher, that all of the most pressing issues in the world would start to be solved. Maybe some would, but I suspect we'd find out that there are tradeoffs that occur when we min/max a particular form of intelligence. There are also raw physical limits to contend with. The speed of light will remain a limit no matter how high your IQ. So there may be diminishing returns to science as well.

There are all sorts of ethical and social and game theory related problems that don't seem like they would be at all helped out by having a radically more analytically competent populace. If anything, I suspect we may be worse off.
It's incredibly frustrating that LLM's still aren't useful for automating CI and IaC configs despite all the hype.
Except the binomial assumption obviously does not hold because

(a) failures are correlated, not independent, and

(b) many failures happen not at the component level but at the plane where components interact, and regardless of how much redundancy there is at the component level, there is ultimately just one plane at which they finally interact to produce a result.
You never want to be lossy with user inputs. Save what they told you and then convert for internal logic.

The OP just described a language feature where you want to multiply euros with usd one place and yen and dinar in another.

You don’t need to do that which is why a decimal or 64 bit int is a fine language approach.
Hasn’t it largely been finance and inheritance related, until very recently when tech joined the scene ?

Given the way everything is being made into its crappier form, it’s arguable that even tech isn’t “adding value” anymore.
Is there anything testable or falsifiable here? Otherwise it's just preaching beliefs.
The globalist Jew that controls the media... Next you're going to say you're not an anti-Semite because Israel does lobbying and influence. Same as Russia, Iran, China etc. Whose propaganda/influence are somehow OK.
Those were not "in the market". They were specifically purchased by Hezbollah who killed many Americans FYI.
Most of my career is thanks to Django, and I haven't really given back much. Sure, you can have some money.
you could consider them very important building blocks. if far enough in time, the wheel would've been a worthy winner
The fact that it’s a game that was developed by people that were self-proclaimed “non-coders”[0] using a plug n’ play game engine Stencyl (a no code engine) and then later switching to Unity. It seems to me the plug n’ play nature enabled them to gain traction with a prototype that led to the full fledged game.

This one quote on page 2 from the developers really hammers home this point:

> Those limitations aside, working in Stencyl has been fantastic. Ideas come together really easily and the tools are all intuitive. We definitely couldn't have come so far in such a short amount of time without it.

[0]: https://community.stencyl.com/index.php?topic=36539.0
There is no counter argument because you haven't even made an argument to counter. It's just the same tired old "government is in the pocket of billionaires" canard that people who don't know how anything actually works throw out without ever actually providing any evidence of it.
> The only way out I can see is something along the lines of human curation of human-generated content.

That's retweets.

> undesirable human-generated content was already starting to intrude into this business model, but now generative tools are also producing undesirable content faster than moderation can keep up.

> people will become disinterested, and tools which could previously use algorithmic heuristics to determine which content is good vs bad will begin to become useless.

So what these parts are saying is, tiny monoculture of bored college kids are always going to figure out the algorithm and dominate the platform with porn and spams and chew up all resources, and that both improved toolings and tie-in to monetary incentives intended to empower weaker groups to curb kids only worsens the gap, and that that's problematic because financial influencers are paying to be validated by the masses, not to be humiliated by few content market influencers.

But what is the problem with that? Those "undesirable content" producers are just optimizing for what market values most. If that's problematic, then the existence of the market itself is the problem. What are we going to do with that? Simply destroying it might make sense, perhaps.
Actually, the parts of the universe receding from us faster than the speed of light can still be causally connected to us. It’s a known “paradox” that has the following analogy: an ant walks on an elastic band toward us at speed c, and we stretch the band away from us by pulling on the far end at a speed s > c. Initially the ant despite walking in our direction gets farther, but eventually it does reach us (in exponential time). The same is true for light coming from objects that were receding from us at a speed greater than c when they emitted it. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_on_a_rubber_rope
Canadian English isn't that far off, especially in a lot of the spelling...
I’m having a real hard time understanding what this comment is saying. Are you asking what high side computers are used for besides reading classified information?
Ah, I wasn't sure where the quote was from (it's not in the OP article?), so assumed it's from that Bitcointalk post. Apparently it's from some chat log:

>Hoback's theory relies on a chat log message written by Todd in which he claims to be the "world's leading expert on how to sacrifice your bitcoins ... I've done one such sacrifice and I did it by hand," Todd wrote.

>...

>"It's ludicrous," Todd told Hoback, also denying he's John Dillon. "This is going to be very funny when you put this into the documentary and a bunch of bitcoiners watch it."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/10/08/who-i...
I suspect you are right - but multiple Nobel prizes have gone to people who got there only very slightly ahead of others in the race. Would be tough to argue that there are many prizes which are for work that wouldn't have been done within a decade of when the winner actually did do it.
as a parent, i know exactly what they mean. maybe when i was single i would have understood their words differently. sometimes we ought to lend others a charitable interpretation of their words.
Too late now to edit my original comment, but I should have added that I was talking very specifically about the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (as was Hopfield).
No, this is different. A local bubble populated with a normal-ish distribution of people is different from a distributed bubble populated with people who became grouped either voluntarily or algorithmically.

For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25667362
Sorry for that error, the post has been updated now.
> and that he had not left any written or oral consent for the use of his frozen sperm

Presumably he intended to save it to have the option later to use it if that's what he decided to do. That's very different than consenting to allow a donatee to use it.
He didn't just volunteer; he volunteered for the SS-TV. Read up about what that unit was about. He had opportunities to stop what he was doing; he didn't take them.
It would be interesting to see some estimated data on traffic to forums as a general category of the internet. Cool to see that so many are still active.
A sensible approach might be to outsource the KYC process to a central state agency. We already have rudimentary forms of that-- like the fingerprint-clearance cards you sometimes need for working with the vulnerable. Why would it be any harder to grep the database for financial criminals than sex offenders?

Give me the ability to generate a signed certificate that says "hakfoo is not currently denylisted for financial crimes" and let me submit it as part of account onboarding. Maybe include some new, non-SSN, low-stakes identifier so I can't make forty different certificates and pretend to be forty people.

Such an agency can be more privacy forward than any private player: there's no financial motivation for them to be "sharing data with our partners and affiliates", and is structurally disinterested in expanding its reach into other data-grab products (looking at you, credit reporting services).

If the banks and such really have to do some sort of data-derived KYC-theatre-- looking for structuring and spurious patterns-- it could still be done with minimal personal data-- tracking the accounts by UUIDs.
Oh, the legendary iPod radio remote!

https://ipodwiki.com/wiki/IPod_Radio_Remote

Shows Apple can do FM if they put their mind to it.

RIP iPod Classic (2007-2014).
> No good comes from speculation over the identity of Satoshi. When someone living is named, their life becomes absolute hell and the security risk imposed on them is very real. When someone dead is proposed, that hellish experience is passed to their family and heirs.

Indeed.

Cullen should know better: his previous project was a documentary on the QAnon conspiracies, which have managed to get people hurt due to crazies looking for these conspiracies. Cullen's evidence is hopelessly coincidence based... exactly the kind of shoddy evidence that fuels conspiracies like QAnon.

Personally I suspect he made the accusation against me simply to create media interest. In particular, by making an accusation against someone who wasn't a leading contender, myself. I haven't seen the film yet myself. But friends of mine have, and said that other than the Satoshi nonsense it was a reasonable documentary about Bitcoin. Problem is, it's hard to build interest in that.

Anyway, hopefully this just blows over. But we'll see. I already took some precautions re: security just in case...
No offense and I understand, but that use of "AI-generated content" sounds like somewhat of an euphemism. I think there are not significant number of people who specifically prefer AI generated versions, but rather it's referring to certain kind of content that the attempt to democratize and trivialize its generation by releasing AI models had completely backfired.

This distinction is important, because while AI is faster than humans, it's at best cheap gateway drugs into skilled human generations.
>How the mighty monopolies have fallen:
>IBM Sears RCA Intel GE Disney Kmart Kodak Novell Lotus Wordstar AT&T Microsoft
>without any push from the government.

How has Disney fallen? Last I checked, they seem to be doing better than ever, and have gobbled up so many IP franchises they look more like a monopoly than ever (Star Wars, Marvel, etc.).

Microsoft sure hasn't fallen either. Windows isn't quite as dominant as before, but MS got even bigger by moving to cloud stuff instead of just relying on Windows/Office.

Sears was never a monopoly of any kind, that I remember. Neither was Kmart, or Wordstar, or GE. AT&T, formerly Bell, was a monopoly and got a huge push from the government in the form of a forced break-up in the 80s. The AT&T of modern times (the cellular company) was never a monopoly of any sort.
Define "Jew"
Soon I hope there will be a Github-for-law that we can all at least contribute requests to, with the proper structure, formatting, review process, and validation.
When You Destroy the Tools of Creativity
This makes a good argument that the block universe can't exist: https://aeon.co/essays/who-really-won-when-bergson-and-einst...

(search "block")