skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is it really Faux Philanthropy what he is doing is using his platform for promotion of different causes he likes.

Kinda? There's a thin line between donating food to a homeless shelter and setting up a camera crew to film a vetted contingent of contestants who have to fight in potentially dangerous conditions where Beast Ltd. cannot be held accountable for injuries. One is selfless - the other is petty exploitation. It feels very clear where "the line" is here.

I guess you could argue that Mr. Beast has an incentive to set up these things to maximize profit so he can "donate more to charity" (cough cough buy cars and houses). But at the end of the day the publicity alone is enough to argue that he's exploiting the people involved - the additional ad revenue and inherent high-performance incentive of his work makes it hard to call the whole thing charity. Maybe gambling or, at the most absolute generous, a "game" show.
What do you think of a new language as better OCaml?
Empowered Communities Strategies for Member Driven Governance – Wesley Faulkner [video]
What, you've never heard of star-lifting? Or just getting it from Saturn? Commercial/economic quantities are all about the necessity versus scarcity, and helium has unique properties that can't be synthesized in sufficient quantities even if you ran all of Earth off fusion of hydrogen into helium.
Deploying FusionAuth on Render
You're conflating different categories of his videos. Competition videos like Squid Game have volunteers who are participating willingly, with a few winners. And charity videos like "cure 1000 cataracts" also have willing participants, who all get surgery for free, no competition involved.

There are no Mr Beast videos where "miserable" people compete to get charity prizes.
>> You can’t rent a home or get electricity without ID in the US.

> Could you post a link with evidence suggesting that? Maybe temporary documents (which convince landowners of identity but might be insufficient for official government ID checks) or affidavits let people barely rent an apartment.

You can't get a hotel room or rent an apartment, you can't open a bank account, you can't get a job, you can't get on a flight or a train, and probably most of all - you can't apply for government assistance without a form of ID.
Sure, they're just visiting. 18 NK soldiers were left in a wood in Kursk without food and instructions for days and Russian authorities arrested them 60 km from their positions. They were likely foraging for food.

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/40579
Coincident indexes for the 50 US states for September 2024 [pdf]
Not always the easiest thing to do. A haunted domain could have been haunted 15 years ago. And Google refuses to tell you why or fix their system.

Just one more place where the web gets screwed by a company too big to have to do basic customer service.
We love to objectify the press and pretend they do a service to mankind, but they're just another business.
1. Publishing an editorial endorsing a candidate is extremely common, both for US papers generally and for this paper specifically. The reasons for that are various but they have nothing to do with what we're discussing here.

2. Moreover, that whole question is irrelevant when the editors aren't even making the decision. If Bezos is willing to override them, then effectively he is the paper's editorial board - so there's no "diversity of views" to talk about, except within the confines of what he's decided to allow.
Saved you a click

>The liquid, which the Palo Alto Fire Department has deemed to be a nonhazardous mixture of borax, lye (also called sodium hydroxide) and green dye
Can I ask why it takes / took 45 minutes? That feels like a lot to clean one machine.

Was that all 'active' time or was there a 'put things in the dishwasher / autoclave and let it sterilize for X minutes?'

Were there a lot of separate parts to wash?

Now I'm curious :)
You can’t judge backlash by how the robot repeats the exact same set of movements over and over. That removes hysteresis from the problem definitionally.
This is advice to the creator:

I think there are unstated rules. Some are implied by the hints (eg 'you can fill water around a ship') but it's not clear to me at first why that hint works. It looks like ships can never share an edge, just based on the puzzles so far.

I am enjoying the game. Thanks for introducing me to something new.
But seriously check out the links, especially the second one. That's precisely the point — to close the nutrient loop but still 100% interrupt the pathogen fecal-oral route.
> > Trying to draw an equivalency between code and weights is ridiculous, because the weights are not written in the same way as source code.

> By the same logic, the comparison between a compiled artifact and weights fails because the weights are not "compiled" in any meaningful sense.

To me the weights map to assembly and the training data+models map to source code+compilers.
Sure, you can hand me assembly, and with the assembly I may be able to execute the model/program, but having it does not mean that I can stare at it and learn nor modify it with a reasonable understanding of what's going to change.

I got to add that the situation feels even worse than assembly, because assembly, hand-coded or mutilated by an optimizing compiler still does something very specific and deterministic, but the weights on the model makes things equivalent to programming without booleans, but seemingly random numbers and checking for inequalities to get a binary decision.
LA Times, MSNBC, WaPo staff fear execs made editorial decisions to appease Trump
> Why would they want to appear neutral? All news reporting, no matter what, is inherently biased in some way. There isn’t some “ideal” where that isn’t the case. There can’t be some magical font of unbiased information because just selecting what stories to put on the front page introduces bias.

Sure, but just because you can't be perfectly unbiased doesn't mean the only alternative is to become a mouthpiece for a political party.
If someone listens to him or watches about 30 seconds and doesn't come away with the thought that his charity thing is complete BS, I think that person is probably a very poor judge of character. It's a subjective assessment, and I can't quite put it into words, but he oozes with sliminess and it's quite transparent.

He needs to target an audience of children because they are gullible through inexperience and won't be able to read this from him.
That was Nixon's AG, John Mitchell, who said that and it happened in 1972. Graham died in 2001, well before Eric Holder was ever Attorney General.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine_Graham
Fun facts, originally when launched by both Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft back in 1985 at Tavern on the Green, New York, Excel has 16,384 rows and 256 columns, where's the original Excel's rows now exactly matched the Excel's current column.
Not sure how big of a minority we are, but for some of us, philanthropy does actually come from a place of deep gratitude for our community
i think they just hate not seeing a magnet link for the nyt genocide enabling style guide
There’s a heuristic in here somewhere regarding philanthropy & first principles.

I respect the authors commitment to showing how MrBeasts philanthropy can be ineffective if not counter productive.

But, in his stated intentions of getting google admoney and redistributing it to people in need, what else is he supposed to do? We can agree to disagree that this itself is a bad premise.

What I’m really interested in is knowing what the Beast Philanthrophy has to say about these things. Are they aware that 6/10 wells are in disrepair in some parts? Are they willing to invisibly commit funds to future maintenance? How does Beast Philanthropy vet orphanages to ensure they’re not the mentioned “farms”?

On the hierarchy of benevolent individuals in this example we have:
1. Rich People Philanthrophy with the intent of helping the less fortunate
2. Journalists stating 1 is inefficient for X, Y, Z, and working with 1 to improve the efficacy of their philanthropy, with the intent of helping the less fortunate
3. Rich People Philanthrophy with the intent of improving their own self image
4. Journalists writing about 1 or 3 with the intent of making them look bad instead of improving outcomes for those in need.
The media isn't even just liberal. It's off the charts liberal even among liberals. Among journalists, Democrats outnumber Republicans 10 to 1: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/dec/30/only-34-us-....

This is reflected in news coverage. Consider how they cover things like Voter ID or proving citizenship to vote, which 80% of people support: https://news.gallup.com/poll/652523/americans-endorse-early-...

Or consider how papers coverage policies like affirmative action that supermajorities of Americans oppose: https://www.forbes.com/sites/vinaybhaskara/2023/07/10/americ...
True neutrality is endorsing Harris. Because it's not like Trump is a real choice. He's objectively terrible.

Harris isn't terrible or unqualified. She has plenty of experience and unlike Trump cares and wants to learn the details of policy.

The two sides are not remotely similar. And yes Bezos decision to let himself be blackmailed is insane
If you are interested in doing this for commercial control systems, come talk to me.
Is it sufficient to say something is open if it can be reproduced with no external dependencies? If it costs X gazillion dollars to reproduce it, that feels irrelevant to some extent. If it is not reproducible, then it is not open. If it is reproducible, then it is open. Probably there’s some argument to be made here that it’s not actually open if some random dev can’t reproduce it on their own machine over a weekend, but I honestly don’t buy that argument in this realm.
Probably Impossible: NecroDancer's network code [video]
Borax/NaOH sounds like a cleaning detergent, not a coolant.

I can't find specific information for "Meras 1020", but from context I guess it's some type of cooling-system treatment:

https://meras.com/industrial/
It's always an interesting read, but he should hire someone to fix his website. (For example, when I first looked at it, all the pictures were missing.)
TSMC Arizona fab delivers 4% more yield than comparable facilities in Taiwan
Fun facts, originally when launched by both Steve Jobs of Apple and Bill Gates of Microsoft back in 1985 at Tavern on the Green, New York, Excel has 16,384 rows and 256 columns. The original Excel's rows now exactly matched the Excel's current column where now Excel has a row limit of 1,048,576 rows and a column limit of 16,384 columns.
This is the analogy that people keep saying, but as I observed above, the key difference is that the company that produces a binary executable doesn't prefer to work with that binary: they work with the source code and re-compile after changing it.

In contrast, the weights are the preferred form for modification, even for the company that built it. They only very rarely start a brand new training run from scratch, and when they do so it's not to modify the existing work, it's to make a brand new work that builds on what they learned from the previous model.

If the company makes the form of the work that they themselves use as the primary artifact freely available, I'm not sure why we wouldn't call the work open.
He does mention that:

> In Florida, a combination of development, drainage, and air conditioning created one of the most desirable cities on Earth from a previously pestilential swamp.
There is direct support in the article. Amazon lost a $10B contract because Trump doesn't like Bezos, which is because he owns the WP, a paper that is generally critical of Trump. By killing this endorsement, he's buying some goodwill from Trump, at the cost of alienating the bulk of WP's readers.
Colorado river averages 500,000 liters a second, and we use every drop of it. Scaling up from 0.055 liters per second is going to be expensive
Yes this is what I meant, not sure how others misinterpreted given the context of no prior art to compare to.
> The entire point of FOSS is for a few experts to do all that work once and then we all can share and modify the output of those years of work and millions of dollars invested as we see fit, without having to waste all that time and money doing it over again.

Really? Hmm yeah maybe you’re right, but for some reason, said that way it somehow starts to seem a little disappointing and depressing. Maybe I’m reading it differently than you intended. I always considered the point of FOSS to be about the freedoms to use, study, customize, and share software, like to become an expert, not to avoid becoming an expert. But if the ultimate goal of all that is just a big global application of DRY so that most people rely on the corpus without having to learn as much, I feel like that is in a way antithetical to open source, and it could have a big downside or might end up being a net negative, but I dunno…
It might make more sense/be more palatable if you think of it as manifestations of particular inter-societal evolutionary strategies.

And that people actually have less control over their actions than anyone is willing to acknowledge or believe.
Calling it a "bad business decision" just reveals your political preference. People who get their opinions from journalists is a constantly shrinking crowd. Today I mostly see only people of age 50+ who still actively think journalists can provide an accurate worldview for them.
My main use of Google assistant is to add things to my shopping list while I'm cooking. Switched to gemini, which I could have a human like conversation to get information about any topic but it just couldn't add items to the shopping list. I switched back. I didn't need a chatbot to keep me company I needed an assistant.
That whole line of thought where you can justify immoral acts because you'll donate some of the proceeds is just shitty Effective Altruism with better PR. Really wish we'd stop celebrating that particular line.
> that sustains your livelihood

That is the part that makes it different. "Ikigai" isn't bound to an occupation or work, where "vocation" has to be.

I'm also not sure it needs to have a positive connotation ("brings good to the world"), making people's lives a nightmare can be your reason and pleasure to live. That's of course not the PR piece's point of view, I agree with the other comments on how bad that Venn diagram is at the end.
Every now and then the beauty of 90s Internet anarchy comes back in brief flashes
> If it is not reproducible, then it is not open. If it is reproducible, then it is open.

You're applying reproducibility unevenly, though.

The Linux kernel source code cannot feasibly be reproduced, but it can be copied and modified. The Mistral weights cannot feasibly be reproduced, but they can be copied and modified. Why is the kernel code open source while the Mistral weights are not?

Reproducibility is clearly not the deciding factor.
Studies show we spend more than 10% of our working lives in spreadsheet (2021)
If they want to squeeze more money from franchisees why not jack up the rent or royalties? The Taylor conspiracy is far less efficient at getting revenue (at the very least, you need to pay the technician), and doesn't even seem to be working very well, as evidenced by the number of stores not bothering to repair their machines.
I feel like we're due for a proliferation of anti radiation munitions.
Phauxlantropy. Why pass up that opportunity.
Here's the website that has info about the program, and lists AMA AL PROMIJO as a 'partner':
https://www.publicdemocracyamerica.org/better-angels-program

All these orgs are taking advantage of the 'Google Grants' program, which provides up to $10,000 per month in free search advertising for registered nonprofits. $120,000/yr in free ads for the cost of registering a nonprofit seems like a no-brainer for spreading a message. Likely drives up ad prices and gives a nice tax-break to Google, so they win too.

https://www.google.com/grants/faq/
Why do you think unifil is so crazy about israel even if they’re doing their jod for free?
So... He's doing his job, managing a company with over 200k employees, increasing revenue and company value, and earning 0.0003% of the company yearly revenue (0.0008% of net income) for it...
#shocking

But yeah, MSFT closed few game studios and this news is from a website about gaming industry, so it has to be bad, it is evil, people are losing jobs...
It's the same phenomenon as the What Three Words thing. The pitch was that it would solve commerce because in parts of the world they don't have "proper" street addresses.

Or the Three Cups of Tea guy. His foundation had a bunch of schools built in the Himalayas, ostensibly to educate girls, but many of those schools were empty or used to store grain shortly after being built, and less than half of the funds he raised actually went to building "schools".

Just another outsider who thinks they know better.
We desperately need more work done on a separate internet that by design cannot and never can be censored.

I know there are some projects toward that already, but my fear is they won't reach maturity before governments blocking any content they don't want their population accessing is the norm.

Some things should be illegal, sure, but if governments start attacking free speech and limiting what materials a population should have access to when they have no reason to do so, then an alternate network where crime is rampant that they can't police is a necessary price to pay to get around unjust authoritarianism.
It's a jury trial Jake.
Facial recognition glasses turn everyday life into creepy privacy nightmare
> Newspapers publish opinions for the same reason that they publish comic strips: people want to read them. Readers seek them out. Newspapers are a business and have to give their customers what they want.

The customer is predominantly the advertiser. Newspapers publish opinions to have something to fill the empty space surrounding the advertisements.
I don't think it's a bad business decision. I stopped reading the WaPo when I got sick of its partial treatment of everything. And I'm not talking about supporting one candidate or another, I'm talking about sticking to facts and not ideological positions.

This decision by Bezos is a shot across the bow in the right direction, in my opinion. Clear eyed news are needed and aside from FT.com (which these days is also trending toward alarmism) there's precious little left out there. I don't care about a journos' opinion, I really don't. I just want them to report about facts on the ground and not pick sound pieces for clickbaits.
Yes. https://blog.xkcd.com/2008/01/14/robot9000-and-xkcd-signal-a...

And they made the code for their IRC bot open source, linked to at the bottom of that blog post. The link is now dead, but an archived copy of it can be found at https://archive.ph/d9KMK
> But some things give me pause, such as - and it's been a while so I don't quite remember - copying ssh key selection settings to a security policy file elsewhere such that those settings in the regular config would be ignored.

Yeah, I've always been against that type of crap.

It's why Ubuntu, even Debian, and especially RedHat were never really viable distros for me when things like Slackware, Alpine and Void exist.

I don't need a ton of abstraction between me and what I'm trying to accomplish.
And I trust and hope that I am able to make that distinction before I lay out my allegations :).

I don't want this to become a game of "supplying the evidence" because that also becomes a game of the "skeptical party" DoSing the "earnest party". What I said was a best-effort distillation of my takeaways from years of following Indian news media, both free and paid.
If you want your employees able to deal with emergencies, you can't run them at 100% capacity all the time. You need some slack, so you have capacity when shit hits the fan.

Using a small amount of that slack to keep another employee happy can be a good investment. In addition, it's good for someone like the CISO to poke around the innards of your network (etc) configs from time to time, just to stay up to date with what's going on in the company and to perhaps flag anything that smells suspicious.

You can do these kinds of exploration exercises completely free form, or you can take a little task like 'figure out exactly why this specific site is blocked' as a token of motivation.

I agree that all of this mostly only makes sense, if it doesn't take too much time.

Though if this specific task would take a lot of time, that would also indicate that either the CISO needs to upskill, or the network config is too complicated. In either case, that would be a valuable insight.
I’m not sure what the breakdowns are for Indian contributions, but Indians make up ~10% of daily visitors.
> Not everything is a pure data structure. I called a gRPC streaming callback with multiple threads in Scala (got garbled result in the receiver). You can say this is the fault of using the Java API, but the more Scala solution (fs2) involves serializing the access under the hood which is not cheap.

Well yes, that's what I'm saying: in Scala you sometimes have to sacrifice performance. Though I don't think that serialization is generally required just because you use e.g. fs2 or ZIO for streaming.

> I guess we are. I complained about this quite some time ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31399737

You are making a fair point. I'm also not happy with some of the decisions about pattern-matching.

You can resolve some of those issue by just using `import` locally though. So for example, if you have a case class X with many fields and you want to access many of them, you don't need to extract them all in pattern matching (and deal with _ for the stuff you don't need) but you can rather do `val myX = X(...); import myX._` and then just use the fields.

That is basically equivalent to doing `const {a, b, c} = myX` in typescript. You don't need to do `case X(a, b, c, _, _, ...)` in Scala here.

Not saying that this just solves all issues, but I think ergonomics of Scala in terms of pattern matching, destructuring and scoping/importing is generally/overall not worse than in Rust, at least not significantly so - that's why I think it's fair to say that Scala has the same "goodies" in this area. I did not mean to say that Scala is as good as or superior than Rust in all language features.
It's like the humans turned into cattle in the seventh season of Supernatural, except they are doing it to themselves.
Not antagonizing the likely future POTUS is smart business especially when said future POTUS is known to lash out with retaliatory rhetoric and actions.
What’s far more rational given a population of meat suits millions of which believe in sky wizards is the propaganda you were raised under worked on you

Occam’s razor; simplest explanation is a lot of people are just stupid
Australia is an especially bad country in this regard.
There's also a heuristic for people whose smile doesn't reach the eyes.
That is highly debatable. There are overhead electric cables that often cause the trees to catch fire. Installing cables underground or with stronger insulation and auto-power-shutoff could help prevent several of the fires.
When X came out with allegations about interfere from govt agencies HN crowd was mocking them nothing burger etc

Now they are concerned about freedom of speech

If can't defend freedom of speech regardless of your political opinion then you don't deserve freedom of speech
honestly... I didn't put or both because I was lazy to think through if "one of three buckets" was the right way to phrase it, and additionally, too lazy to think of another way to phrase it, so yeah, or both. :P
How do 3 axis robots you can buy for 100$ (3D printers) have a static accuracy of 0.05mm?

It's not control theory, but mechanics and steppers.