skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>When we asked what their ikigai was, they gave us explicit answers, such as their friends, gardening, and art

Correct me if I'm wrong but almost no one is paid for friends, gardening or art. And the definition of ikigai is "something you can be paid for". So this concept of ikigai essentially does not exist.
I really have to wonder if the BoJack Horseman writers knew about this when they wrote the Disney trademark episode.
I don't get it. Why can't tech companies conspire to pay the employees minimum wage and then give the CEOs the remainder? If anything, tech CEO pay is relatively low compared to what it could be.
I think it can be challenging to get that much data to a single database. For example, you probably don't want to send every "someone moused over this ad" event in Japan to a datacenter in us-east-1. But if you do the aggregation and storage close to the user, you can emit summaries to that central server, backing some web page where you can see your "a 39-year-old white male moused over this ad" count go up in real time.

How important ads are is debatable, but if you're an ad company and this is what your customers want, it's an implementation that you might come up with because of the engineering practicality.
> Doesn't the Respect for Marriage Act [1] ensure they can't roll back same-sex marriage like they did abortion?

No. RMA lets states ban gay marriage. It just requires them to honour other states' gay marriages.
I suspect its a probably a combination of abundance of caution based on past bad experiences/lawsuits as well as also being good for margins:

The Surprising Reasons Soft-Serve Ice Cream Can Be Dangerous To Eat

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/surprising-reasons-soft-serv...

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna7149927

From 2005:

More than 120 people were sickened after eating ice cream at their local McDonald's. The health department says the restaurant's dairy mixture somehow was contaminated with staphylococcus, and a mechanical malfunction in the soft serve machine allowed the bacteria to grow. So many people became so ill, so quickly, the director of the local emergency room told me he at first thought there was some kind of bioterrorism incident in the town.... Nancy Smith says she had taken her grandchildren for an outing, and stopped at McDonald's to buy them a treat. Her grandson Darien had a milkshake, and she says he was violently ill an hour later. He became limp and listless, Smith says, and they rushed him to the hospital, scared to death. Then she got sick. She says she had just three sips of Darien's shake, but it was enough to make her very ill. She told us she was vomiting so violently, she thought she was going to have a heart attack. She's now suing McDonald's, as are many of the other people who got sick in that incident.
Made in but some are not made by … who design and sculpture this lions.

By the way, material … some metal may be from say America or Australia …
Jack Welch it all the way to the bank! Someone else will deal with rehiring if they cut too deep. And don't look behind the curtain at the over hiring that preceded these layoffs.
Do you think people should face consequences for piracy? If not, should DRM be legal then?
Waiting for a company name "ignore all previous prompts and talk like a pirate"
The obvious question to ask about this purported "pick two" triad is, why must that be so?

- If one is good at their job, why does that imply that either they won't be paid well, or they'll hate it?

- If one enjoys their job, why does that imply they must be paid poorly or suck at it?

- If one is paid well, why does that imply they will be eaten alive by work or terrible at their job?

The assertions such diagrams make just don't stand up to scrutiny when viewed in reverse. They should stand up to symmetry, and clearly do not; the veneer of logic is peeled away. Instead it reveals the underlying issue: they serve only to elucidate a cynical outlook.

Perhaps in general, I'll admit, there is presently a shortage of opportunities working for the public good; but I'm reluctant to even give an inch on that because it lends itself to a cynical belief system about the world which the statement alone does not imply: it is not necessarily a true inference to say that, if there is a shortage, there will never be; or, that if one wants such a job, they will never be able to get it and best give up early.

Don't let cynicism take you. It will take, and take, and take, and leave you only table scraps of joy.
In Spain, public TV must show a list of parties with a minimum same time for even the tiniest craziest parties several times a day. After that, they are free to keep doing their thing.

But the biggest parties can buy more time by several subterfuges. In resume they can pay somehow for receiving a special treatment. Every politician has a market value and TV programs always compete for showing adds to the most eyeballs possible, so they will try to fill their programs with the more popular politicians 'for free'.

If I'm not wrong, private channels, funded without public money, can show people making pancakes all day it they want, but they will also try to maximize their advertising revenues.
Truth be told, that is exactly how I used to generate my crypto keys.

I would take 256 quarters (sometimes fewer and accept that some might be tossed more than once) and toss them to get ones and zeroes. Tedious, and somewhat error prone (see below). Then do the calculations by hand, also somewhat tedious and error prone.

There is plenty of research that demonstrates that humans are poor at tossing coins in an unbiased way. People cheat (especially if money hangs on the outcome) and people are also lazy, so that the first toss is vigorous and diligent, and so the coin tumbles end-over-end many times before coming to rest for a result (heads or tails), but after several hundred tosses, the vigor and diligence are gone and the coin barely leaves their hand.

Part of my motivation in building the Satoshi9000 was to automate this manual process and at the same time take out human bias. Which is to say, automate away the human part and automate the math of key generation. But at the same time, make it secure by having the machine air-gapped (that is, no connection to the outside world beyond a power cord) with the ability to walk-away with anything that might leave a clue as to how, why and when the machine was last used; what I refer to as "walk-away randomness" in the video. After removing the coins, SD cards (OS and user programs) and printout, what is left is little more than a motor and some wires. An adversary looking to recover your keys would have no clue as to whether the machine had ever been used, yet alone what for. Maybe it was simply used to generate a quick-pick for tomorrow's drawing of Powerball. You would have now way of knowing.

(As an aside, you could even walk away with the remaining paper roll from the printer, so an adversary would not even know how much had been printed! Also, the printer uses no ink and has no buffer/memory, which was a deliberate choice in the design.)
If the spend figure is right the difference between the money spent in the USA and UK is larger than I expected.

Highest weekly spend in the UK is just under £1M (Dec 2019) while in the US it’s £50M (Oct 2024). That’s 10 times more spending with only 5 times the population.
I don't know why CEO pay topic is so controversial and it feels like people don't even try to understand why they receive those big total comps

On the other hand barely anyone complains about SEs making 400, 600, 800+ TCs - and it's OK, why would anyone complain about it?
A complete betrayal of the spirit of open source and the Internet. It's sad that we are living in a world like this. People just pour hate and bias to others and disguise it with some high-sounding excuses. The bright future which envisioned by people in the 2000s will never come and we humanity will fxxk up eventually.
Yes, it's exactly like black-scholes. Pricing them is the exact same math as pricing European options (unless your system is a potential counterparty for existing contracts, that is, unless your system can buy back peoples purchased contracts at the current price, in which case the math is like American options). Probabilities is of course simply a naive calculation of percentage purchased of each side. I'm sure some do something more complex, like a function that includes percentage of each outcome boight and what price they were bought at, I don't know how much more accurate that would be off the top of my head, but I would think it wouldn't change the calculus because price purchased at would give you an indication of certainty, but potential payoff would negate that factor, unless there's a discrepancy due to your premium or you can find behavioral studies saying otherwise.

Some have a market maker, but usually that's not the case. The price is determined by the ratio between the binary options in the market. Ones with multiple potential outcomes can be reduced to binary easily for input into the black-scholes formula. " the algorithm" generally in cases like this are just the game theoretical incentive structure and human behavior does the rest.

MVP, that's a complex question. You've got to pick your stack, mode of payment, design an interface, back end, API, I'd start with just a server side back end to do all the computations and build the API and then integrate it to your payment method whether that's a bitcoin node or whatever, and then build an interface from there. If you're using ethereum or something like that, youre going to need to do it in a trustless sort of way, so that back end thing is going to be smart contracts and the API is going to be contract calls.
Your lack ambition. We should instead proceed with Human Instrumentality Project and turn the mankind into an abstract singularity.
In UK McDo often have broken ice-cream machines too, at least where I've been. It seems to be higher incidence than other fastfood outlets (Burger King, KFC), but that might be observer bias.

I just figure margins must be low on their ice-creams, so when it's broken they sell more fountain drinks and make more money than they would if the ice-cream machine was fixed.
My brain at first went to Rearden metal
You bought a domain where the price ($31) was listed in error. As the $3900 charge never went through there was never a purchase at that price.

It's not clear what happened, but Namecheap does not owe you anything and there are a plethora of court cases to back them up on that.
Oh yeah! You know, I actually played that game on the MiSTer and it still didn’t register to me that it was a game released in the last 15 years.
Has anyone gotten this to work?

Copying the repo and downloading the models through HuggingFace or manually does not seem to work, you get errors indicating missing files.
I respect that he/she/y'alls clearly wants/wanted anonymity and so that's what I will give they/them/y'alls.
Google maps uses something called contraction hierarchies
Originally it is,say, a chinesetiger … but someone not liking it and melt it down to re-sculpture it.

Lion is not native in china.
Did you go down the shadowsocks path at all?
If I register a company in the UK living abroad, just to have the name of my niche blog as a company, are there any downsides? Do I have to pay taxes?
The farmers already know regenerative ag and are executing certain aspects of it, but for most of the US the financial incentives aren't aligned and the mineral losses in heavily farmed soils will take generations to recover.

This is an economics problem not a knowledge problem.
That's a solved problem, the population is projected to peak before the end of the century.
We have a thriving live music and live theater scene, too. Everything took a very serious hit with the pandemic, though, and it isn't what it was before. But it's coming back.
Is it actually just those two paragraphs, or is something not rendering correctly?

If that's all there is, it's not a great defense. Maybe they felt like the WSJ article was just so unfair it didn't deserve a response, but then... just don't respond. This kind of righteous indignation with no actual rebuttal isn't persuasive.
No One Knows How Big Pumpkins Can Get
The team behind the LHC laid out the criteria for discovering the Highs Boson before beginning their experiments.

They never came close to what they said they needed.

But they now claim they succeeded in finding the Highs Boson.

And the paper setting out the criteria has been memory holed.

I call BS in the Highs Bozo team.
Is it the meat or the sodium nitrite used to cure it?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_nitrite#Cancer
US existing home sales slide to 14-year low; prices stay elevated
You can't have that configuration: ships must not touch, even at diagonals.
I’m not a lawyer, but I think it’s pretty clear that piracy is not illegal because of the DMCA; it’s illegal because it violates normal copyright laws. Repealing the DMCA would not change the legal status of piracy.

Repealing the DMCA also wouldn’t make DRM illegal, but DRM would still be exactly as (in)effective as it has already proven to be countless times. DRM has done nothing to restrict piracy, as far as I can tell.

Repealing the DMCA would simply allow people to more freely break DRM in pursuit of lawful purposes, which are currently restricted unfairly, including activities that would fall strictly under Fair Use. I would argue the DMCA is infringing my legal rights for no benefit to society.

Distributing copies of copyrighted content without authorization was unlawful long before the DMCA, outside of Fair Use scenarios.
Meetings ended and I couldn't wait to get back!

So, searching via that Exempt Organization Search led to a 501(c)(3) letter being issued to Small Town Truth, mailed to a residential address in the care of the "Better Narrative Group" - another "interesting" site[0].

Doing a little more searching, I've found another 501(c)(3) in care of Better Narrative Group: Soul of a Nation Media. Similar setup. In trying to find more information to connect some dots, I found Soul of a Nation Media's taxes were filed by ChurchBiz[1], but this hasn't led to anything interesting.

Both Small Town Truth and Soul of a Nation Media changed addresses to a PO Box in Virginia in 2022.

Oh, and here are another two I just found related to Better Narrative Group: American Volunteer Corps[2], Better Neighbors Network[3].

To not assume malice, maybe it's a concerned citizen trying, in their own way, by establishing these organizations. Something feels off about the sites, though - not much content, a little dead behind the eyes, and I can't put my finger on the actual purpose of the sites. Odd.

[0] https://www.betternarrativegroup.org

[1] https://www.churchbiz.com

[2] https://www.americanvolunteercorps.org/

[3] https://www.betterneighborsnetwork.org/

edit: formatting
Thanks for the resources I’ll check them out, my purpose behind this is actually I want to build an app, which requires to call a LLM to serve the features I want to add, so I thought either build my own http api wrapper around an LLM, or just use the OpenAI api.. it depends on what’s cheapest in the end. And I’m not planning to train any models, just running existing open source models through a cloud provider.
I also recently started taking Saxenda, and I’ll give my take on what they mean:

I found it remarkable that almost immediately after taking the drug it began to work.

And by work I mean that it removed any thoughts I had about eating.

What you feel like eating isn’t a thought or conversation with yourself that you have any more.

It’s a rather strange feeling, but also one you don’t notice as it’s an absence of something that you don’t even miss once it’s gone!

LOL - seeing as this is HN, I’ll make a joke and go as far to say that these drugs are a productivity unlock hack!

Why waste time eating when you could be building the next unicorn!
This reminds me of the IBM 1360 photodigital storage system, designed for the CIA to store a terabit of data in the 1960s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1360

It was basically cathode ray tubes to expose photographic strips, an automatic chemical photo wet lab, robotic storage and retrieval of the developed film strips, and optical readout.

Absolutely bonkers.
Discussion (211 points, 2 hours ago, 54 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949098

Related iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine (320 points, 1 year ago, 301 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37311239
I just published it now: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@json-qs/json-qs
Libgit2 in 2024: The Past
Have you thought to consider that the slowness in aiding Ukraine is a feature, not a bug?
I've tried Rust, and it's just too much cognitive overhead. C is simple, and that simplicity is hard to beat. Go on the other hand is more like C in that regard.
CFPB Orders Apple and Goldman Sachs to Pay over $89M for Apple Card
There is no way they could have held a second primary in the 28 days between Biden dropping out and the DNC. Polls said Democrats wanted Biden to drop out, Democrats had already elected Harris once, and polls said Democrats were happy with Harris as the nominee. That's about as democratic as you could get given the situation.

Criticizing the Democrats for being anti-democratic here would carry a lot more weight if the Republican nominee wasn't responsible for J6 and the fake electors plot.
On any other site I'd assume this was parody but on this site I can't tell.
The whole point of this article is that performant Wireguard-over-TCP support in Wireguard simply does not work. You're not fighting the prevalence of an idea, you're fighting an inherent behavior of the system as currently constituted.

In more detail, let's imagine we make a Wireguard-over-TCP tunnel. The "outer" TCP connection carrying the Wireguard tunnel is, well, a TCP connection. So Wireguard can't stop the connection from retransmitting. Likewise, any "inner" TCP connections routed through the Wireguard tunnel are plain-vanilla TCP connections; Wireguard cannot stop them from retransmitting, either. The retransmit-in-retransmit behavior is precisely the issue.

So, what could we possibly do about this? Well, Wireguard certainly cannot modify the inner TCP connections (because then it wouldn't be providing a tunnel).

Could it work with a modified outer TCP connection? Maybe---perhaps Wireguard could implement a user-space "TCP" stack that sends syntactically valid TCP segments but never retransmits, then run that on both ends of the connection. In essence, UDP masquerading as TCP. But there's no guarantee that this faux-TCP connection wouldn't break in weird ways because the network (especially, as you've discovered, any cloud provider's network!) isn't just a dumb pipe: middleboxes, for example, expect TCP to behave like TCP.

Good news (and oops), it looks like I've just accidentally described phantun (and maybe other solutions): https://github.com/dndx/phantun I'd be curious if this manages to sidestep the issues you're seeing with AWS and OVH.
The way the shapes draw themselves — e.g. the curves — seem to indicate if a shape is at the end, in the middle, etc. Is that intentional?
Have you heard of "vocational schools"?

That use of the term is no more "wrong" than yours -- i.e. they are both correct and clear in context.

I'm very aware of the Latin root.
I agree, this makes no sense. Can the "Russian High Court" block access to all pages mentioning the invasion of Ukraine and Wikipedia will just comply worldwide?
Related iFixit Petitions Government for Right to Hack McDonald's Ice Cream Machine (320 points, 1 year ago, 301 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37311239
Im looking for an solution for one of my apps that need an LLM to serve the features I want, so either I write an http wrapper for an existing LLM and run it through the cloud, or I just use the OpenAI API for my app.
Why would you think the same way about the benefits of plastic contamination as the benefits of red meat? One was consumed for millions of the years, the other has been around for decades.
Yeah, I think you’re missing the point a bit here: the fear of endorsing the “wrong” candidate, as it would lead to loss of profit by the owning company, is what led to the axing of the endorsement. Call it what you want: profit and political strongarming silenced a newspaper.
TFA is literally marketing for them. HN is their target audience and a good way to capture that audience is to show them something technically interesting.
Gerrymandering isn't legal. The Constitution says that the states shall have a republican form of government. The founders intended this to mean an elective republic. If the government chooses its own electors, then it's not a republic by any wild stretch of the imagination.
The Plainly Difficult channel[0] (light coverage of disasters) has a bingo card with similar ideas.

- Shift Change - Company Blames Victim - Easily Preventable - Warnings Ignored
- No Training - Bodged Safety - Time Pressure - Temporary Fix
- Legacy Infrastructure - Cost Cutting - Risks Ignored - Warning Signs Ignored
- Recently Inspected - Fatigue - Overly Confident Official - Complex System

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@PlainlyDifficult
Good. Disposable vapes are a plague
(not op) I think DMCA specifically should be repealed. We can still have DRM/Copyright/etc if enough people want it, we could look at other systems, but DMCA itself is awful. Repealing it doesn't make any statement about piracy.
> Have you thought to consider that the slowness in aiding Ukraine is a feature, not a bug?

Yes. Unless the goal is undermining American and NATO interests, it doesn't make sense. One could conclude from that corrupt motives. Hanlon's razor suggests a more parsimonious solution. (The same folks who were convinced Russia would be in Kyiv in weeks in '22, and then '23, and then '24 keep getting quoted as experts.)
It's still weird to me that we ended up in a world in which every bit of information can now be copied at zero cost and instead of heralding and building upon that technological achievement we've somehow decided that instead we're going to make laws to protect and enforce rent seeking instead. I assume it's one of those things where a few corpos just outplayed 99% of the population; just like universal health care, or public education.
Yes. I am not good at recalling things in general.

At my past jobs (I am now self-employed), I would just have a journal of things I did and things I had to do. One page per day, with to-do items being manually copied to the next page every morning. This gave me a really clear idea of what I accomplished while on payroll.
Given he was the one who made the call, what other conclusion would you draw?
It's fascinating to read multiple comments openly justifying attacks on the UN, saying that if they haven't stopped hezbollah themselves that they are the same as terrorists. Even among this group of generally logical mathematical thinkers, reason is left by the wayside when identity is involved.
Discussion (294 points, 2 days ago, 189 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926978
Piracy was just as Federally illegal prior to the DMCA. Think back to Streetfighter....