skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems disingenuous for CNN to state that the chemtrails conspiracy theory "falsely asserts the US government used non-existent weather manipulation technology," when the US government does actually have weather manipulation technology that it has used for decades, including offensively during the Vietnam War [1]. I am not claiming that the federal government can control hurricanes, in fact later studies conducted by NOAA seem to point towards this not being physically possible [2] but it seems like a natural thing for someone to be curious about.

1. https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v28...

2. https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hurricane_blog/70th-anniversary-of...
Captchas serve one purpose: free training data for FSD
"Today, traveling to the same Caribbean islands can be tricky, as anyone caught with contraband can face serious repercussions."

That is a very odd take on the Caribbean, and it's the third paragraph in the article. I've seen text spinners, but this feels AI-driven. Surely a human couldn't be this inane.
From perplexity.ai:

Ascribing mental qualities to machines poses several challenges. Ethically, it blurs the line between human and machine, raising questions about rights and responsibilities1. Philosophically, it complicates the understanding of mind by attributing human-like qualities to non-human entities23. Practically, it can lead to misunderstandings about the capabilities and limitations of machines, as they do not truly possess beliefs or intentions like humans do56. Additionally, this practice can result in a misuse of language, potentially misleading people about the nature of artificial intelligence

And lastly from http://www.cse.msu.edu/~cse841/papers/McCarthy.pdf

We must be careful to not ascribe mental qualities to machines that do not have that.
Consider that if you Google for `"resistive variance" entropy`, the only hit is for the hn comment.

It doesn't make sense because what they wrote makes no sense. Probably some looney with their own definition of entropy.
> But we proved we can’t do that - look at the billions of pounds spent attempting to appease the millionaires in Buckinghamshire with tunnels

Some political groups will never be happy, I wonder if better strategy is confrontating them then appeasing them. At least would have kept the budget down
I battled this. Turns out the key was to get the CFPB involved. Within a few weeks I received a letter of explanation from their legal department and my account was deleted.

Companies hate getting a letter from regulatory agencies because it frequently has to be dealt with in part by legal, which is an expensive department to clog.

Edit: I see you are in Europe. So the above doesn’t directly apply, although there may be a regulatory agency that is equivalent that you can gripe to.
I'd see it more as making test cases IRL. you're finding problems to consider and making sure your solution can address for that (even if the solution already did). I'd still be relieved having someone would could consider potential issues that swiftly by my side.
There are certainly reports and some research showing that developing psychosis is certainly a risk as least for some people.
So when the researcher said it was a bug, they said, "No, it's fine. No bug bounty, sorry."

THEN the researcher eventually goes public.

Later, Zendesk announces the bug and the fix and says there will be no bug bounty because the researcher went public.

Is that how it went? I mean if so, that's one way to save on bug bounties.
Interestingly Columbus set sail on the day the Jews were expelled from Spain.
Doesn't Germany have an extremely large social safety net?

Who are these poor people that don't have 49€ for a month of transportation, and how are they possibly surviving without that much money - given the cost of everything else in Germany?
> Ethanol mandates are a marvelous candidate for deregulation--but they are caught in the middle of such a withering cross fire of special-interest groups that nobody in the White House wants to touch the issue with a 10-foot pole

https://archive.ph/abKVs
> I would expect that funding to go towards study of space.

Space itself is pretty dull .. it's mostly a near perfect vacuum after all.

Planets and stars, galaxies and clusters are more interesting.

How does NASA perfect the remote scanning of a planet from an orbital platform if not working out the designs close to home first?

The EPA provides ground-truthing, surface level observations across the planet, these are used to calibrate and test results from orbiting instrument packages with more challenging transfer functions ( the path from what an instrument actually produces to an interpretation of what that signal "means" ).
Columbus was famously a devout catholic; his DNA suggests that he was of Sephardic Jewish descent, most likely from a family that underwent a forced conversion.
There are countless stories of companies finding ways to not pay bug bounties. At least the black hats get their cut.
Where is that 4.1m number from?
People also pay fuel tax, registration tax, and other taxes that fund the roads
Everyone has 24 hours a day. We could all move to the cheapest CoL areas, grow our own food, and run marathons all day every day. Everyone, including you, could sneak one more rep in instead of some activity in the day. This holier-than-thou attitude of dismissing people is lame.

Empathy can go a long way and the more we can have for each other the better we will collectively be.
What a very strange thing to have at the top of Hacker News. Not to mention the article is in Spanish and deluged in ads.
It is a problem to me because I am a human.
I was referring to real therapy, not simply being told to diet and exercise:

https://bpsmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186s13030...

CBT is very good at breaking addictions and other bad thought patterns, and it is the scientific basis on which most hard drug rehabs work. There's no reason to suggest that it works less on food than on heroin.
I might take another track here as well and add a bit of blame on the overuse of perfumes and deodorant. I think they block actual pheromone sensing intrinsic to us which make said standards have more of a bearing than they should.
Show HN: An AI Platform that unearths creativity
People often ask me questions because they realize that I'm so good in tech and have everything figures out. They actually never realize that everything and every knowledge i have is sourced from the internet and achievable if they research too. Sometimes researching and finding what you're searching for is hard especially when you don't know how to go about it. Maybe that's not exactly why I built CMTA (Creative Minds Think Alike) but i think of it as a resource centre that will give people access to tools to help them achieve exactly what they want.

I believe in Creativity and i believe with a little push, we can get things done. Here's my gift to the world. Let's make this happen
I'm glad but slightly surprised neither Crell nor me counts as worst drama for you. Good? I guess.
In Chinese the terms will also distinguish whether the brother/sister is older or younger than your parent is.
That’s a broad claim to make. I think it’s worth providing numbers to back up that claim, especially since rates of return can vary a lot: A 6% return one year vs. a 10% return another year makes a huge difference.
> THEN the researcher eventually goes public.

He should have said since its not going to be fixed, he will just inform the individual companies.
Tbh it's fine to make fun of that, as long as it's not insulting or conspirational. I've seen tons of humour about masks and mask wearers in the past few years, which makes sense considering how widespread masks were. It's not about taking COVID seriously or not imo, but I guess it depends on one's sense of humour. The way some people who took COVID very seriously acted was very funny, regardless of intentions.

Still, maybe I've missed something ( I don't watch AvE Usually, and watched only a few of his videos in general).
The Spanish inquisition began in the 1470s so it makes sense he would hide his ethnicity.

What's really interesting however, is how the same year Columbus sailed the ocean blue, 1492, was when the Ottoman Empire accepted 60,000 Jewish refugees from Spain.

Columbus must not have been very religious. It would've probably been a much smarter decision, in terms of self preservation, to move to the Ottoman Empire.
for better or worse, that's because video's infinitely easier to monetize in ways we've been conditioned with for decades. so the payouts for monetized videos are huge compared to a written blog where an ad can clutter and mess up the entire design (which loses you users, losing you better ad rates, and spirals down).

It's also a chicken and egg issue too. People simply watch more than they read most of the time. So videos target more people who gets more ad money who gets better ad rates etc.
A tour of the equational theories project
It's a perverse feedback loop. The more power the .gov has to regulate the better the ROI of regulatory capture.'

I'm not sure how we get out of this situation without it getting way worse.
The same year, sure. But the same day?
What would be the point of that? I'm pretty certain that almost any physician would tell you not to consume psilocybin (especially if you are suffering from mental issues).
massgrave is also an excellent resource: https://massgrave.dev/

I would happily buy an LTSC license at a reasonable price but it doesn't appear possible.
https://old.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/w18dxa/could_we...
This is interesting. Another use for such a secure machine would be to enter text, eg highly controversial blog entries or erotic stories. Then any common computer or phone with a camera can be used to transfer the text using 2D barcodes.

This would be a bit slow: say a barcode. If we assume a single barcode can hold 1500 characters (text twice as long as your comment), a blog entry may need 4-5 barcodes. Not undoable.

Such a machine would not have a camera, WiFi, BT, or any input or output mechanism of any kind.
Not the first one. Cutting WPEngine customers off the plugin repository was one, too.
The problem may be that if they offer the app in foreign regions, they are liable to the jurisdiction of those foreign regions.
This is not primarily a problem of the cooperation trains, I have the same situation with trains within Germany. DB-Navigator only tells you if a train is bookable right at the end, right before payment. Before that, it might show "there is high demand", but this is rather useless, especially when you have a school kid and want to book a train a the beginning or end of school holidays, when every train is in high demand. Your only chance with DB-Navigator is to play the whack-a-mole game where you run all the steps repeatedly until the very last step until you find a train you actually can book.

In the SNCF app I have this information right away, that is what makes the difference for me.
India must've sounded nicer than the Ottoman Empire
Probably not Oculus headsets but fancier gear as shown here https://x.com/TroyTeslike/status/1845047695284613344
The key difference between print systems and web tech is responsiveness. Anything print related is primarily designed with dead tree format in mind, so the layout won't change, and you don't have to worry about text reflowing after editing.

It's also why LaTeX/PDF to HTML converters are so difficult to build, because the underlying engine has no semantic information about the structure (this may be changing with LLMs and multimodal setups).
Very few places sell PC games on physical media anymore and most games don't even have physical media made for PCs in the first place anymore. PC games sold on physical media were already dying 15 years ago, before Steam really took off. Major retailers had already begun drastically downsizing the PC game section, and a lot of games released for consoles first, with PC editions being half-assed ports released much later, if they came out at all.

The modern resurgence in PC gaming only exists because of digital distribution. "Just buy your PC games in the store" hasn't been a viable option in a long time. There is GOG as a DRM-free option at least, if you want to truly have a copy that can't be taken from you.
> The variance between species can be dramatic! 2.5 grams of Golden teacher was a standard trip, vs 0.5 grams of PES Amazonian was enough to send my friend into a full blown “awakening” (physical responses and everything).

Hallucinogenic experiences are rarely the same. So you can use the same amount of the same batch 3 different times and have 3 totally different experiences.

Some people claim that you can control experiences by contolling "set and setting." I don't buy even that; all we can really say is that the experiences are not consistent between trips and we don't know why.
Good point.

I didn't make that particular leap, but it does also explain why none of the people "worried" that Gates put a microchip in the vaccines seem fussed about Musk developing an actual brain microchip.
The performance of hashing for similar function detection
6 minute abs?? Who works out in six minutes? You won't even get your heart up!
And these comparisons often exclude externalities like carbon emissions, pollution from tires and brakes, road accident costs, noise pollution and the cost of suburban sprawl.
I'm judging Columbus by the standards of his own day. Spain ordered Columbus not to take slaves from the Caribbean - they wanted to colonize the land and convert the locals, but Columbus enslaved the population anyway, and shipped them to Spain by the boatload. And his governorship of the place was so brutal and cruel he was arrested and taken away in chains. Contemporary accounts by missionaries judge him the same way.
Not really. Some dislike the idea of wastefulness, others want a reason to hate on Microsoft, and a minority are actually on 128gb/256gb drives where 9GB can actually be meaningful.
Bad Is Stronger Than Good (2001) [pdf]
The USB protocol gives the drive access to all (physical) memory on the machine. QR codes only encode text (usually a URL but it can be any text).
One thing about Emacs, is it's not really just an editor anymore. Comparing it to other editors kind of misses the mark. It's more like an integrated Lisp development and runtime environment. It reminds me of Smalltalk environments, say Squeak or Pharo, albeit in a very text oriented way.

The world could probably make room for an integrated Lisp development environment that makes GUI programming more of a first class citizen. Maybe something like Medley Interlisp?
Do you feel this way about everything? Like you shouldn't take an aspirin because you should feel the pain of your headache? You shouldn't wear shoes because you need to feel the pain of the rocks under your feet?

Why is this particular thing the bad thing?
The US has been through exactly this before:

(2016):

On space issues, a senior Trump advisor, former Pennsylvania Rep. Bob Walker, has called for ending NASA earth science research, including work related to climate change. Walker contends that NASA’s proper role is deep-space research and exploration, not “politically correct environmental monitoring.”

~ https://theconversation.com/eyes-in-the-sky-cutting-nasa-ear...

(2018) Trump White House quietly cancels NASA research verifying greenhouse gas cuts

~ https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-white-house-qu...

And, again, NASA's mission is assisted by testing instrument designs from space on the only planet we have complete surface access to .. otherwise it's just diddling about with remote guesswork sans ground truthing.
Its a link to other articles on the same site, nothing nefarious
> through massive new housing akin to the newtowns of 50 years ago

New towns will just be full of commuters and have no life in them. We need to build high rises in cities, and give people living in apartments real rights - the leasehold system is feudalism.

And give Manchester and Birmingham real metro/tube systems!
I'd find it hard to believe all the cities in Spain decided to expel the Jewish people all on the same day. The inquisition began decades earlier so there probably were indications something bad was going to happen
Software best practices and code reuse. Seriously.

One big impediment to maintaining friendships is staring at a screen all day, and for a techie, staring at a screen all day is often caused by some hyper perfectionistic personal project.

Saying things like "Yeah, this custom distro is cool but it's just not worth the time, I'm gonna do this the big standard way like everyone else" improved my life AND my tech projects by a lot.
For the Postgres fans out there, it also kills performance on that side of the fence. You have things like wal amplification due to using things like UUID v4 (random prefix). I think v7 should greatly help with that.
No. That's not even socialist.
> Am I the only one who can't imagine a good outcome from all this?

Here's a possible good outcome.

1. The board fires Matt, stops chasing windmills, and settles with WP Engine. I'm kind of surprised they haven't done so already - it's all downhill from here. He's either lying to them, not listening, or they're drinking the Kool Aid.

2. Matt steps down from the WordPress Foundation and transfers ownership of wordpress.org to them. He takes his hundreds of millions of dollars and does something else.

3. The new CEO apologizes to the community and establishes public processes for removing extensions and such. Checks and balances are added.

4. The WordPress Foundation's new director orders a house clearing. Many hosting providers and developers are invited to join the board. It's no longer an instrument of Matt's will, but represents the community.

The first step will probably happen at some point.

The second step could happen, but seems unlikely. I think there's a significant chance Matt would go on a rampage if he was fired. He clearly thinks of WordPress as his personal property. If he retains control of the foundation, there's nothing to stop him from continuing his crusade there. He's certainly got the funds to do so.

The third step is effectively required if he's fired. It's even mentioned in the 48 Laws of Power.

I don't think this outcome is particularly likely, but it could happen. People do sometimes win the lottery.
If cutting off some Wordpress users from plugin upgrades just because some beef between matt and wpengine didn't make you realize that's the train you are on, nothing will.
we have a HN API, so it's pretty straightforward once you understand it to make an extension/add-on.

The hard part from there is design decisions. Do you just have that comment disappear, or fade like a downvoted comment? if it disappears do you remove the entire thread? is a contextless match adequate? (say, someone was talking about deoderant?)
Vanishing Culture: Keeping the Receipts
It saves the commuters the cost of buying a car, insurance, gas and maintenance. it saves building new roads and lifecycle costs of maintaining a road. Trains allow dense developments with a little bit of walking. Walking is healthy, a bit of exercise saves a ton on healthcare costs. Density makes everything cheaper. Carbon emissions are just a bonus.
not very many years ago, the public news in the USA said flatly that climate change was a "hoax" to "get money".. some people still say things like that in public. Meanwhile, the clock is obviously and plainly ticking into irreversible changes.

Throw any and all science information into the public now and see what sticks IMHO
Anyone know how the Python interactive REPL was working in the bottom-right hand corner?

EDIT: Looks like it's completely bespoke workflow: https://github.com/3b1b/videos?tab=readme-ov-file#workflow
Future of warfare, eh?

12 years ago: https://law.stanford.edu/press/living-under-drones-new-repor...

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-xpm-2012-oct-04-la-oe-gib...

TL;DR: how the US military drones terrorized an entire Pakistani city and bombed with seeming randomness, and impunity.
> But by that logic, we should force people to pay taxes on everything they own that goes up in value, on a regular basis.

We don't really know the value of most things when a transaction isn't happening. Also, this would force people to sell things they otherwise wouldn't have merely in order to pay the tax on their value changing, which is six kinds of disaster.

And, that would imply that you would have a tax loss any time the value of something you own goes down, even if you don't sell it. Which would cause government revenue in recession years to be inverted, even though government spending in recession years is usually increased.

> It was more to point out that not forcing the sale doesn't magically make the taxes disappear. It just leave them unrealized in the same way they would if the original owner was still alive and owning them. They'll just get paid later.

They're unrealized gains. They may not ever be realized.

One of the more common ways for this to happen is for the business to eventually go under. Most of them do in the long run. What percentage of companies are over a hundred years old?

More to the point, that's exactly the problem. If you force a large tax event on sale, things get held longer than they ought to, and then (poorly) managed by someone not really interested in that line of business. Malinvestment leads to lower returns, which reduces tax revenue, often by more than the amount of the step up in basis.

In general, anything which is economically inefficient is also going to be bad for government revenue.
What do you consider the purpose of a UUID?
* Go to concerts, fantastic way to break out of your shell

* Get out on the water or underwater (if you dive)

* Find events to go to in your area (pick anything, doesn't matter, if it's going on try and go do it and try and do it with people)
> and there wasn’t anything like anxiety as its experienced today

You know that how exactly? We really do not have even remotely enough data to be able to make such boldly absurd claims.
The nice thing about them is you don’t have to assume, though, because the version is baked into an octet. Does the 3rd field start with a 4? v4. 7? v7. Etc.

Re: monotonicity, as I view it, v7 is the best compromise I can make with devs as a DBRE where the DB isn’t destroyed, and I don’t have to try to make them redesign huge swaths of their app.
At some point the train is longer than the station platform. Then you need to extend the platform, or passengers have to know that they need to be in specific cars to be able to exit.
you know what works better? delete your paypal account and dont use them as a service. I did this years ago and in fact have never missed not having one of these accounts. and since I'm not using paypal they're not sharing info on my to stores when i shop, whether my local laws allow it or not.
DNS.

If it makes outbound connections and you control DNS, you own it.

I imagine you could do this sitting in a café with an open hotspot.
And continue to update it. Automattic bought WooCommerce.
The standard is to put superglue into the ports.

In my experience it doesn’t stop admins connecting an “offline Root CA” to the WiFi network to install their entire suite of server management software — none of which are functional without an active network connection.

Yes, my plan was to physically remove the wifi adapter daughter card. They exposed the CA to gigabytes of third-party software before I turned up to do the setup. Yes, I warned them not to even take the computer out of the box.

Offline anything just breaks people’s brains.

“How do we keep the anti-virus pattern file up to date?”

“You don’t.”
option 2 - delete your paypal account, you dont need it.