skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context, The Caravan is a magazine by the Delhi Press Group that presents itself as "fighting against obscurantism and authoritarianism", and has a big record of getting into legal fights with all kinds of people and organizations (listed here: https://caravanmagazine.in/pages/about-us).

The Ken is just a business news startup out of Bangalore.
One mans hubris, another mans hope for a better future.

To put this proposed project into context: humans already did something similar in scale in what is now the Amazon. We accidentally rewilded the entire area via plagues. The Sahara is also a pretty new thing, and something we could reverse.

We've long past the point of playing god or not. We now only have two options:

1. playing an incompetent god, pretending that our actions are not our fault

2. playing a competent god, taking responsibility and trying to do better
Lyft to pay $2.1M fine to settle US charges it inflated drivers' earnings
> They make $600B+ a year.

Are you confusing revenue with profit? Yeah, a lot of money pumps in one end of Amazon retail and out the other, but there is very little margin: the $550+ billion in revenue on the retail side, as I understand, brings in significantly less net than the $90 billion in revenue on the cloud side.

And government contracts, where one might expect support or opposition from a potential cheif executige who has made overt promises of purges and other uses of office to punish enemies and reward friends to make a big difference, are an important part of that (not just that one $1B contract.)
What the hacker community should be lobbying for, everywhere is the complete repeal of these anticircumvention laws. DRM does not meaningfully protect against piracy, and most of the things it does protect against are otherwise-legal
HN is not a living organism, it’s an abstract entity formed by the people who engage in the site. As it happens within any community, there’s no such thing as consistency. In fact, so diverse is this community that I’d wager that luck and chance explain much of what gains traction or gets flagged here.
See "the steel cases". The POTUS cannot unilaterally nationalize any businesses.
Political ads have many purposes, including convincing people to vote for their candidate, instilling a sense of urgency/motivation/purpose to actually get out and vote, and then second order goals like general PR/familiarity for the party, etc.
Ehh I've used the app for a while, that's a bit of an exaggeration. But you get some"good' prices.
Yeah, wonder what it could be? Certainly not the toxic, poisoned food and water. Certainly not the mind numbing amount of propaganda and industrial-scale psychological warfare leveraged upon people, their attention, thoughts, and habits, especially teenagers developing into adults. Certainly not ignorant psychologists or pill pushing quack psychiatrists bought and sold by pharmaceutical giants bent on addicting as many people as they can get ahold of. Nope, certainly a mystery.
What is Trump seeking vengeance for?
I should have been more specific. I meant lopsided as in the character of the two candidates. I posit that any decent, moderately educated citizen should be able to see this clearly, but therein lies the issue.
> "anti-establishment" as in holding the government accountable

I'm all for holding the government accountable, but the apt metaphor for some of the cited outlets would be that they protest for a road where the government hasn't built one, and protest for the tree where they chopped one to build a road.

> Volunteers are free to add.

I tried addressing this in my initial response. I have nothing more to add.
I think that for some things user intent would be better expressed as customized ORM than SQL queries. If the ORM isn’t customized and is just generated from the tables then, yeah, not much of a help.
The Russian disinfo thing does seem to be blown away out proportion
Ground water is a very limited commodity, one which we are exploiting beyond sustainability. You are just plain wrong here.
What makes you think so? The Chinese problems come from different sources.

For example, there's lots of corruption, they are not keeping their nominal GDP on a stable growth target, and if I remember right, they have a lot of government intervention in the real estate and credit markets.

See https://www.econlib.org/the-confusing-china-debate/ for an assessment more qualified than mine. And https://scottsumner.substack.com/p/chinas-mysterious-deflati... for something more recent.
This is quite alarming. It's well past time to fork Wikipedia.
I mean.. the foreign legion didn't build them, but that's already a thing?
For SMEs: banks, etc., just require personal guarantees so it doesn't matter that your company is limited, most financial risks pierce that veil through to being guaranteed, eg against your home.
One more interesting update: AMA AL PROMIJO was established in care of an individual named Eric Sapp. Some googling landed me on an org’s site named Public Democracy. One of the other team members at the company[0] is the person named in care of one of the NORTH CAROLINA VOLUNTEER CORPS.

Seems we have some glue here! Time to learn more about this Public Democracy thing to try to figure out their angle.

[0] https://www.publicdemocracy.io/teammates
Thanks, this article quoted in that discussion provides helpful background (written about a different case but might apply):

https://indconlawphil.wordpress.com/2020/05/16/a-sullivan-fo...

"Quashing in a criminal defamation case is a difficult prospect. This is because – to simplify – under Section 499 of the IPC, a prima facie offence of defamation is made out with the existence of a defamatory imputation, which has been made with the intention or knowledge that it will cause harm. This is, evidently, a very low threshold. Section 499 also contains a set of exceptions to the rule (such as statements that are true and in the public interest, statements made in good faith about public questions, and so on) – but here’s the rub: these exceptions only kick in at the stage of trial, by which time the legal process has (in all likelihood) dragged on for years. What we essentially have, therefore, is one of those situations where the cost of censorship is low (instituting prima facie credible criminal proceedings), but the cost of speech is high (a tedious, time-consuming, and expensive trial, with the possibility of imprisonment). Long-standing readers will recall that this structure of criminal defamation law – and the chilling effect that it causes – was part of the unsuccessful 2016 challenge to the constitutionality of Section 499."
See Dobbs and Loper Bright, past precedent previously viewed as solid and well-established is no guarantee of future outcomes with this Court.
The typical argument was that all the various types of covid vaccines had been fast tracked and safety data was insufficient; hence the irony.
> This is an economics problem not a knowledge problem.

This is something I have to regularly say to colleagues and contemporaries in the software and electronics space.

I am sure it comes up in many fields. So many things are done inefficiently and with disregard to the future for the sake of short term profitability.

In this case though it may doom us all rather than just create more work for someone a few years later.
I wish we could shut down the road and put a crash dummy in the drivers seat and see what happens.
> Every accumulation of wealth is countered by an equal loss of wealth somewhere else.

This fundamentally contradicts mainline capitalist theory.

People only trade / exchange money when they believe the service (or goods or whatever) is worth the money.

IE: someone pays $20 for X because they believe X is worth $30, $40, or $100 to them. If X were only worth $19, then they would reject the deal and walk away.

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Case in point: if gasoline doubled in price, would you still drive? How high would gasoline prices have to get before you stopped driving?
Basic SEO stuff, you have marketplaces that check history, you have domain search engines aggregating data from multiple sources - not only ahrefs.

Checking web archive is a basic operation to test if site was hosting anything fishy - not only pirated stuff or porn - often websites has been hacked and changed into link farms or simply were bought on aftermarket simply to use it's SEO value to pass the strength to other domains.

Anyways good point regarding email filters.
Really cool idea! Nice clean site and clever utilities.
Because of paywalls perhaps?
Even if we take Chromium, compiling it is still within the logistical capabilities of any individual with a modest computer, and it's still more reasonable to spend a day waiting for the compilation then to try to modify the binary directly.

The same cannot be said for LLM weights, as evidenced by the fact that even the enormous megacorps that put these things out tend to follow up by fine tuning the weights (using different training data) rather than retraining from scratch.
2021-2023 is one approach, and 2024 is something else entirely. The 2024 thing is brackish groundwater cleanup.
> But IP over TCP is in principle non-performant.

No it's not. In principle it risks meltdown, which is different. A link that occasionally breaks can be performant while it's working.
In theory that the quote starts with "In my opinion" should protect HN in this scenario.

Wikipedia almost exclusively words things as if they are know facts (because they usually are), which means they lose the safety of it being an opinion
256, sure, but 2048 would take 8 times as long
Air conditioning was huge, but surely mosquito control and the elimination of malaria also played a major role in making Florida habitable. People drained the swamps and sprayed enough poison to kill off at least most of the mosquitos.
I've seen in the past a different trick that is adding an IMU[1] to the robot arm. When combining two different types of sensors, it's called Sensor Fusion[2], and it's really common to put together a IMU with GPS and slap a Kalman Filter[3] for very accurate position reading.

The particularly cool thing of this video though is that they could mount the new sensor within the motor itself, making it all a lot more compact.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inertial_measurement_unit

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensor_fusion

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalman_filter
The related court case is ongoing: https://www.barandbench.com/news/delhi-high-court-flags-wiki...
Fungi digest rocks and make the minerals water soluble. It is the life in the soil the regenerates the fertility. Fungi are the first things to die with tilling and chemical application; breaking the nutrient cycle.
Haha, in the heyday of Runescape it used to be possible to simply have buy and sell orders sitting in the GE for the same rare items simultaneously, and over time they’d both get filled for a profit. I guess you would call it “market making”.
Your claims, even taken on face value (which would be ridiculous), aren't enough to justify threatening a public-service knowledge website with bans in modern society, which is today defined by Western values (for better or worse). And Western values have this peculiarity where free speech is sacred and any infringement on it is sacrilege.

But most of Asia is a newcomer to the concept and so doesn't see a problem in censorship where it sees fit. On a side note, I can't recall a single point in time throughout its several millennia of history when South Asia ever featured 1A-levels of free speech. Such a lack in society is downright disgusting for anyone raised in Western influence.
These days, causing hurt feelings is called violence by many people. Or sometimes, saying nothing at all is.
they didn't pull it

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_News_International
Clearly putting harrison bergeron on the required reading list backfired-- apparently some future educational administrators mistook it for an instruction manual. :D
Is it really Faux Philanthropy what he is doing is using his platform for promotion of different causes he likes. From what I understand and see none of the things he has done are something unique rather charities and organisations were already doing it he just financed/donated to those organisations and charities. The awareness these organisations and charities received from the video are probably actually worth a lot more than what him doing in his video.
About the FSF Jitsi Meet Server
Great, but that robot isn't
doing an actual task?

I sort of struggle to see how getting good positioning accuracy from a high backlash system under zero load can have a useful application.

Maybe just lack of imagination on my part.

There is this trend that says make and buy bad hardware, the software will solve it. I haven't noticed that paying off. Tesla using webcams for self driving is an example. Boeing designing their planes and then using faulty attitude sensors is another.

I would be way more impressed if the robot did something useful. My suspicion is that its real world application capabilities are rather limited.
Taking Wikipedia down for India would probably be a victory as far as the BJP is concerned.
I'd continue to compare it with how free software appeared. It was barely feasible back then (end of 60th - begin of 70th) to work on software at home on a PC, since there was no PC. Still the software could already be open/free and exchanged between big enough players with big computers. Only later the things changed. But even now there is free software which is nightmare to program on a usual single PC.

Thus it is either too early to define "open" for AI. Or "open" must be truly open. Though it remains not practically achievable at home or even at small companies.
But what about the rest of their coverage? Every article and its editorial promotion reflects a value judgement that basically has to be not neutral. This is unfortunately something newspapers like to pretend is not true but it absolutely is.

Your definition of neutral appears to be “shut up” and is creepily authoritarian.
If you don't know or are unsure about something, you can simply not comment and leave it for someone else.

I don't understand what compels people to go "I don't know, but let me ask the often-wrong-bullshit-generator" and post it as a reply on a forum. The parent commenter could've done that...
Are you saying you don't like video and would prefer text, or is it something specific to YouTube that you object to? For many topics, video is really helpful in understanding stuff.
How is that possible? They were thought to have less than half of the dollars they’re supposed to be holding!
Isn't there basically a team in Russia that has a stand-up meeting every morning and decides what topic to focus their disinformation campaign on every day? Not that surprising they would choose the biggest news event.
I think that's the crypto policy configuration which was required for some government certification iirc. It's been a while but I ran into this too.

There was a document on access.redhat.com that talked about it.
Ignoring the objective fact that Trump is a fascist is not "objective", it's delusional.
Mammals can safely get a pretty large fraction of their carbon and energy from acetic acid directly.
> Amiga was a lot like DOS/Classic Mac OS, single user, unprotected memory

AmigaOS was actually implementing real preemptive multitasking and was much more "modern" than MacOS and Windows from the same era, and a lot of things were actually unix-alike ! Comparing it to DOS is like an insult :)
But yes, memory was unprotected because mot Amiga CPUs didn't have an MMU (but if you did, you could use this https://www.nightvzn.net/portfolio/web/amiga_monitor/archive... ).
It's the editorial board that has the conflict of interest--between running a newspaper, and using the newspaper as a vehicle to advance their personal political ideologies. I grew up in the D.C. area reading WaPo. It went from being a milquetoast paper to being a vehicle for political radicals. And that's been a disaster for the business. The paper was on pace to lose $100 million last year, and has lost 500,000 subscribers since 2020: https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-post-lose-100-milli....

WaPo's business is catering to D.C. professionals. The nature of the country's electoral politics is that roughly half of those are going to be batting for each side. It's a good business decision not to seem like you're rooting for one side or the other.
We did invest in trains. There has been an enormous increase in the amount of freight moved by rail since 1860.

https://www.up.com/customers/track-record/tr120120-freight-r...
I mean that seems a bit uncharitable. I don’t think the author communicating their intent behind the name is aggravating or manipulative. It’s simply an explanation. Shouldn’t be worth more than an ‘ah, I see what they’re going for’ and move on.

It’s a sign, not a cop. Doesn’t seem like any undue pressure to control people, or prevent the reader from doing what they will with.

One wonders if the IPA pronunciations on Wikipedia is similarly bristling
This is the modern world we live in. Decisions like this drive life.
Sorry, that's printf((char*)37) and free((char*)main).
Yes. People who want to control the information want to distribute misinformation freely and be guaranteed nobody can contest them. That's the link. The censors always will be the liars, because once you can control who can say what, it is impossible to resist the temptation to lie a little bit for a good cause. And then a little bit more. We have seen it happen many, many times.
> In the meantime, the only government-like structure left in Gaza is Hamas, and so if you say the Gaza Health Ministry, anyone who knows what's going on, understands that Gaza is run by Hamas, which makes the reporting super dubious, AND clearly Hamas-run.

And that's exactly the reason why you need to label it: most people reading English language media like Wikipedia aren't going to make that kind of mental correction. That's only the kind of thing someone who is both already knowledgeable and reading in a guarded way would do.
http://tinysubversions.com/2010/05/login-2010-osma-ahvenlamp...
Oh thanks, I didn’t realize that. Having recently evaluated Vispy that really helps me place what this tool might be for
Waste Removal System of a Brain
Not lacking money does NOT imply not so obsessed with making more money that he will do absolutely anything.
Finally found the blinker fluid.
What does a London based organization know about dialog in America?

Ah, must be the Russian fairies in my head giving me these doubts...
I checked to see how large the Indic Wikipedias are, and the Tamil project is the largest at #60, while Hindi is #62, Bangla #63. (Urdu is #54, if you count it among them.)

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

Now, those are further down in the list than I would've expected, but I suppose that the answer is that many Indians are contributing to English Wikipedia in the first place, due to greater exposure and fluency in that country.

There is certainly extensive coverage of Bollywood, cricket, and other topics of great appeal to Indians at home and abroad.
The alternative of making such acts a crime seems like a grossly disproportionate response though.
It's fascinating to see the true believer. It's like those cult members that stayed in the cult when the day of the end of the world came and passed and nothing happened. They just said "well, it's probably going to happen next year". It's both sad and fascinating - there's literally nothing too ridiculous that people couldn't believe given the opportunity.
> but the apt metaphor for some of the cited outlets would be that they protest for [ opposites ]

You might be confused about media outlets.

They are not homogenous, they have many people working for them, and their primary task is covering what's happening; both those parties that are pro tree and those parties that are pro road.
Turns out humans are not soulless automatons and like to do favours for the people they work with and are friendly with from time to time.
So you're ready to insist that, say, Agamben is just some stupid Texan hillbilly just to have an excuse to ignore the not so pleasing thoughts.
I thought that having billions buys you freedom. Turns out you still have to lick the boot.
I had the same thought. "Source Code" is a human readable and modifiable set of instructions that describe the execution of a program. There's obviously parts of an AI system that include literal code, usually a bunch of python scripts or whatever, to interact and build the thing, but most of it is on the one hand data, and on the other an artifact, the AI model and neither is source code really.

If you want to talk about the openness and accessibility of these systems I'd just ditch the "source" part and create some new criteria for what makes an AI model open.
Documentaries are not journalism, they are entertainment.
Why are you booing me, I'm right!
Ooooor, it could be, like, a person helping another person out, or something like that, you know?
I don't like your redefinition of "rent seeking" at all. If I create an original piece of art, and publish it digitally, preventing other people from freely copying that art is not rent seeking - the thing I created didn't exist in any form before I created it, and I'm not trying to "extract rent" from you by preventing you from creating any of your own works.

Now, like I said previously, there are currently issues with copyright, and this can cross into rent seeking if I try to extract money from your own original works of art (see the family of Marvin Gaye), and there are issues with the length of copyright (i.e. I believe there is a fundamental difference in protecting the right of a creator while they're alive, vs. the rights of inheritors in perpetuity). But the whole concept of rent seeking is around using the power of government to extract money from others simply because you were there first, not around allowing unlimited copying of truly original works.
> not what work resources are for

Employees are not robots. They are human beings. Sometimes human beings have human problems that need the assistance of other humans. This makes humans happier and more productive.

It's depressing to think that there are people who actually believe that optimal use of work resources is even worth calling out as an issue. In 2024.
It depends on your level of insulin resistance. For example, I can typically tolerate 25 g of carbohydrates in all forms in a meal if I want to keep my current level of insulin resistance stable. If I want insulin resistance to drop, I need to keep BG spikes to a minimum which means less than 25 g of carbs.

To keep insulin resistance at bay, you don't want your BG level to spike more than about 50 - 75 mg/dl 1 hour after your meal.

Intermittent fasting also helps bring down insulin resistance but depending on your families relation to snacking in the evening that can be a hard path to follow as well.
>by improving its perceived impartiality

Can WaPo really be perceived as "impartial" if we know they already were going to endorse Harris?
It is a neutral statement that Trump is objectively terrible. By contrast it is propaganda to defend him when he claims 2+2=5, which he does on a regularly basis.

And this doesn't have anything to do with "the left" a ton of conservative Republicans have admitted that Trump is objectively terrible.

https://www.wpr.org/news/conservative-commentator-charlie-sy...
US Economy and Quantum Computing: Short-Term Headwinds, Long-Term Opportunities
Whether you are a user bristling at a library author telling you how to pronounce the name of the project, or library author bristling at people mispronouncing the name of the project, in OSS world we all have our things to bristle about but differ in our abilities to influence them.