skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It feels like there's a lot of really interesting stuff going on with Prolog these days. I don't remember seeing much about it and now it's like I see it everywhere. Would be very cool to native compile some tools like DCGs as an alternative to grep!
I would prefer for my work value to be multiplied by piracy, personally.
Still trying that whole "bigoted anti-trans posts from new hn account" thing, ey?
Hanke’s actually got awards from CIA for his work at In-Q-Tel investing in Keyhole/Niantic, so yeah, safe to assume that the agency invested specifically to have players collect data. Considering many Pokémon were on or near military bases around the world… not hard to assume what CIA’s real goal was.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/pokemon-go-trespassers-militar...
Yep. I just got done reading The Meritocracy Trap and the gist of it is that wealthy kids already have tons of educational resources thrown at them to get into good high schools, colleges, and careers. So they don’t also need financial advantages and legacy admissions.

This doesn’t solve all of those problems but it’s a start.
As a Google maps user, I benefit from that data being in there.
Is that true?

Off the top of my head I think GDPR in the EU might have something to say about this. I don't know if those protections exist anywhere else or not.

In the US, people get very upset about things like traffic cameras, and public surveillance in general. Those are usually data-for-punishment vs. data-for-profit (...maybe?), but people here resist things like data recorders in their cars to lower car insurance.

At least to me, being unhappy about Niantic's behavior here does not seem the least bit unusual.
Well now by posting your thoughts to hn, you have been tricked yet again to give up free labor to train ai models.
True, although that's sort of the opposite. If your parents have resources and choose to help you out, the car loan will be cheaper. If it were similar to the college scenario, the dealership would say "your parents are rich, so we're going to charge you more because they'll be able to afford it". Of course that would never work because there's competition in the auto market, while prestigious colleges are effectively a cartel.
The source article links to a reference for the 40 percent claim, which itself links to a couple articles that aren't available without a JAMA account.

I can't read the original sources there, but what makes you say its obviously bullshit?
Piracy isn't stealing. Legally or morally.

You know what is stealing? The heavily lengthened copyright term. Every day that has been and will be added to that, is a day that was stolen from the public ownership of the work, as prescribed in copyright law.
The lingua franca is actually the POSIX shell:

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

There is a bunch of bash that you should not learn. The differing coprocess syntax from korn is one particular bugbear. Still, if you are hacking on ReaR or other critical tools that sink deep into bash's slang, you don't have much choice.
If you don't have a laptop, the place you live in / study at probably doesn't have a good public library.
Please tell us that counts for the Micro-Masters certs like Data Science. That would open up a lot of opportunities for people who can’t put in as much time due to working to pay bills.
Babylon.js is funded (owned?) by Microsoft so anytime you see web 3d on a Microsoft site it's almost certainly going to be using that.
Features from other languages I wish were Python builtins:

- Haskell algebraic data types + syntactic sugar

- C/Lisp macros
It's quite realistic, here's the same thing without AI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtsXgODHMWk&t=107s

I still share your concern, however, particularly because they seem to be avoid moving the camera without time moving as well. I was expecting bullet-time!
Isn't this another way of asking how they consider assets? Which never seems to be mentioned in these headlines about income qualifications.
It isn't solely the government's fault. Most American universities are corporatized and exist primarily as money printers for the admin staff. The purpose of an adjunct professor is to cost the institution as little as possible while passing as many marginal students as possible so they can maximize profits with sheep that keep coming back to the trough.
> handling the Twitter employees

Aside from firing most of them, what did he do?
The article does dissect the difference between weight loss drugs and dieting in general. Where they found that muscle mass loss was higher in those that took the drug as opposed to those who followed a calorie restricted diet.

To your point, the drug is absolutely to do with it if by taking the drug people need to be more mindful of the types of food they eat, if they have a smaller window to consume nutrients.

It is most certainly a contributor and for some who may not exercise like you, or consume an appropriate level of protein this research may show that those taking the drug need to focus on a more protein right diet.
I'm sure this causes pause for more than a few people who always wanted to go to MIT, knew they could, and didn't. Tuition wasn't appetizing even 20 years ago.

In addition to pioneering Open Courses that were of high enough quality that you'd want to take them, this is hopefully the start of another trend/wave.
So far, there's always a global pandemic whenever Trump is president.
As long as they make enough money from Pokemon Go to sustain Ingress, I OK with that.
Age Verification Laws Are Just a Path Towards Full Ban on Porn, Proponent Admits
It's not immaterial, but the backlash to COVID measures went far beyond Trump's position on the matter. For example in 2022 Trump was still eagerly taking credit for Operation Warp Speed, while many of his most passionate supporters were saying things like "Trump is great, except for his position on the COVID vaccine."[1][2]

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-stopped-talking-operat...

[2] https://www.breitbart.com/clips/2023/06/20/trump-i-dont-want...
Small Family business assessment should be different than larger businesses for this kind of criteria.
> I met someone who had gotten into MIT but whose family could only afford to send one kid to an elite college, him or his sister.

So they were rich enough that he didn't get exempt from tuition but still could only send one kid to an elite school?

I wonder if the guy was just pulling your leg.
There are lots of vague things, the idea that if something you said could be used against you in court you must have done something wrong (the only thing to which I was responding) is not one. Prosecutors are just as overzealous in civil cases as legal. Innocent things said at work can be used against someone just as well as ones said at home and in all the same ways and for all the same reasons.

What’s the famous Cardinal Richeleu quote?

I responded only because “corporations bad” is a mind virus deeply inculcated in a lot of people here, but those same people mostly would never think that just because something you said could be used against you in court that you did something either morally wrong or illegal. I wanted people to see the effect the mind virus had on their thinking.

Did anyone? No idea, probably not.

But it’s not a false equivalence at all, all the same reasoning applies whether your communication was at the office or your house, and whether it was about your dog or your code.

There are very many non-nefarious, completely legal reasons one might not want a work communication to be visible down the line, just as with personal. If someone can’t see that their thinking is cloudy and I bet they experience cognitive dissonance.
Whenever people look for "better shell scripting", they always run into the second-system effect. Trying to shove everything that wasn't in the first system, into the second system.

Bash shell scripting is already close to perfect for what it is intended. Where people always complain is one of three areas: 1) "footguns", 2) "not enough features", 3) "not a programming language", 4) inexperience.

1) is almost entirely due to it being a programming-like language bolted onto an interactive console terminal. Bash has a lot of changes over vanilla Bourne/Posix that make it less console-y and more programming-y. But if you take away the interactive-terminal-ness itself, then you don't need most of the Bashisms.

2) is almost always a mistake. Bash has pretty much all the features you need. But again, it's hampered by the interactive-terminal-ness; take that away, and you can do pretty much anything, with ease.

3) is because programmers don't understand what scripts are for. They are not for writing robust programs. They are for solving a small problem, in a specific, tailored way, with the least amount of effort and time. This means that you should be abandoning all of the programmer's best practices and rules. Throw out safety, reliability, consistency, verifiability, etc. What you end up with is a solution that works, with nothing extra.

4) comes when people simply don't know how to use Bash very well, which is 90% of the time. Ever since I became a programmer two decades ago, the great unwashed masses of techno-dweebs who call themselves "programmers" have been picking up complex and nuanced technology that they have never bother to formally learn, and then complain that it sucks and they need an alternative. When in reality, the problem is almost always either a) they didn't read the manual, b) they haven't practiced using it, or c) they're using the wrong tool anyway.

Doesn't matter if you disagree with me. We will be using the same shell scripts in 20 years. Know why? Because you can't make it any simpler, and it just works. Complain all you want about it not being perfect. You simply will not be able to make something better without simultaneously making it worse. Its killer feature is its lack of features and design. It is the anti-programming language. And boy do I love it.
That subsidizes useless degrees, low quality colleges, and punishes people who work in vocations (likely providing more value to society), among some other issues.
There is value in freely available copies of software for people to learn on. This increases the number of people in the market who can use it, which in turn increases the number of businesses that can effectively run it.

I don’t think the preference for open source these days is an accident. It’s what kids learned on growing up, because it was the easiest to access, and they kept using it.

Give away the software to people learning, then change corporations to use it. The companies get changed more, and absorb the cost, because it’s subsidizing the education of their future employees.
Assuming you’re genuinely asking, this is a tweet from Vivek Ramaswamy who was not on any ballot this election, but was since appointed to a position that the elected candidate Donald Trump created as part of a net new agency he plans to create during his presidency.

“Deleting entire agencies” was not part of Donald trumps campaign afaict, his platform page is still live: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/platform
I thought Gilmore was referring to the earlier idea that the Internet could survive a nuclear war. https://www.wired.com/story/h-bomb-and-the-internet/
The Meaning of Meaning, Ogden, Richards (1923)
> End result is dysfunctional and compartmentalized companies. And ultimately the cost for all of this will be borne by everyone.

Only once they get really big though. And maybe that's OK. While it increases the price of goods from that company, it lets smaller companies compete without the larger companies straight up ignoring the competition. Letting large players continue to dominate is worse for the cost experienced by everyone else.
Just want to point out that Philadelphia’s homicide count is down ~40% from last year. And Penn’s “haven” looks similar to the other affluent commercial corridors throughout the city.
I feel like that argument is the new version of Trickle Down Economics.

In a sane world where people are not greedy? Yeah it could make sense because without the constraints of limited capital you can do whatever you want and it lets you be bold.

In the world we actually live in it does not work that way.
> The word “monopoly” means different things in law and everyday use. To most people, Apple is a monopoly - it just means a company that is unjustifiably large and powerful and relatively immune to competition and pressure. We need to change the law to reflect this new reality, that anti trust isn’t just about monopolies but other large companies too.

Where should the new line be drawn though? And should we expect to move the line again when common opinion on the term adjusts and we again find that the legal definition is out if touch?

I'd feel a bit uncomfortable having laws and terms redefined to match what the average person thinks a word means. Its one thing to change a law that people actually disagree with, it feels off to me to change a law because people use words differently in everyday life compared to a court room.
Seems insane that the funeral rule exists, but then click to cancel doesn’t. It’s legally required a funeral home gives me pricing over the phone and support many specific requirements, but my ISP requires a long phone call to end a subscription.

Waste of resources from my perspective - is this really a good use of government resources? I’m not even on that side of the fence.
Coaxial-Rotor Aircraft
It’s more than white space, autoformatters can change a lot, notable will often change line numbers by introducing or removing breaks
From my observation it is hard to get to 501 karma points by the karma gained from submissions than through comments. So for comments every 1 upvote equals 1 karma. But for submissions, god only know what is the conversion rate /s. I think there are many factor. But I think this mechanism is to limit people creating accounts and mass down voting anything they don't like. So it is trying to solve another problem. However upvote power should be limited for new accounts (I don't know if this already the case)
Why waste time with warning letters if they can be directly fined?
Why should people be compelled to provide education for free? Compelling work without compensation is slavery.
Newly created domain + .xyz TLD is not a good combo for launching a project (wrt blocklists)
A recent thread going into details of why (only a tiny fraction of zones are signed, in North America that count has gone sharply down over recent intervals, and browsers don't support it):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41916478
How does it punish vocations?
Maybe I was a bad student, but I stopped buying books after my freshman year, unless there was a very specific reason to have it. I really didn’t use most of them.

I still remember one professor my senior year saying we needed the book to do problems he would assign, and we wouldn’t pass without it. I opened the book one time for a problem that we worked on in class. It could have easily been projected up on the board or printed as a hand out. It’s been 20 years and I’m still a little bitter. I felt lied to and cheated; most of us did.
Yes, and Ukraine has steadily going down in corruption since Zelenskyy. So if you actually care about corruption and aren't a concern troll, you will want to encourage the current regime and not the reverse.
> How so? I know a guy who has literally millions of dollars tied up in shit that moves dirt and rocks and another mil tied up in some gravel pits

Having literally millions of dollars in productive assets is rich by any reasonable standard.

> The free cash he has, the house he lives in, the lifestyle he can afford is on par with "normal" white collar professionals

And he has decades of support at that level of wealth in and realizable from the assets. Choosing to use it to generate a a “normal white collar professional” (i.e., reasonably well off to start with) income doesn't change that it is an enormous store of value that he owns.
San Francisco + older bay area cities are a prime example of being a bastion of free market capitalism in the guise of progressivism.

The main reason SF is unaffordable is that the city government forbids people from building housing, which is the exact opposite of a free market.
What happens during overlap, is something you control fully, at every step. (Except when using this with MSAA, as that is implementation defined)
How intersections happen when blending shapes of multiple draw calls or multiple quads is defined by the blending function you set before issuing the draw call. In WebGL the call is blendFunc() [1] and there are a bunch of options.

How to blend multiple shapes on the same quad, within a draw call is shown in the section "Drawing multiple?". There you fully control the intersection with the blending math.

Finally, there is always the gamma question, which is true for all AA solutions. This is not covered in the post, but that might mess with the results, as is true for any kind of blending.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebGLRender...
Yep, in New York the pothole season is early Spring rather than winter, for example.
It would incentivize them to only offer majors that lead to high incomes. By pooling the money it removes that issue.
An interesting intellectual exercise is to think about how a search engine could provide the best possible answer (from a user satisfaction perspective) to a query like "best CBD gummies".

A lot of people have a significant financial incentive to win at that search query.

What would the perfect top search result for that look like?

It would probably be an article written by professional writers in a trustworthy publication with a strong ethics policy, provably followed over the years, concerning whether they accept payment for promoting specific products in supposedly impartial reviews.

If you can figure out how to algorithmically detect that kind of content you could build a pretty great search engine!
I’ve worked at and seen multiple companies with 10+k employees that have the attitude I was talking about, it’s not just a small or mid sized company thing.

I have also been told internal communication is more likely to be beneficial in lawsuits. It’s not because you’re intentionally hiding stuff, but because your employees have a viewpoint that is more likely to align with your interests than a 3rd party.

> People say dumb stuff all the time that a lawyer can take out of context.

Stuff taken out of context is rarely very persuasive when you can provide that context. It’s far more damaging to their credibility than your case.
Indeed they make the world's information [0] accessible [1]!

[0] Excluding certain information

[1] After these paid messages
Misissuance from direct DNS spoofing basically never happens. When the DNS is used to misissue a certificate, what has normally happened is a registrar account has been phished. Direct DNS spoofing is an exotic attack. Further: DNSSEC has only a partial fix for it, and the WebPKI has non-DNS-dependent mitigations (most obviously CT, but also multi-perspective DNS lookup, which is apparently going to be a BR next year).

Generally speaking, setting up DNSSEC is probably a bad move for most sites.
HN only works when you have a working assumption that people commenting here are smarter than you. It encourages respect and good faith engagement of content, instead of ad hom, concern trolling, and cargo culting.

It's been years since I've had that mindset when entering any thread above a certain number of comments.
I use this all the time. People say “the government wants…” or “Republicans did…” (you can pretty much play this like mad libs) and I say “wait, the government is an organization comprised of people, who specifically wants that?” And then they say {insert other nebulous group here} and I point out the same thing.

And then either they give up out of frustration and think I’m dissembling or they start to think about the problem differently.
Amazon has clearly demonstrated for decades now that design is not in their DNA. Amazon.com, mobile apps, Prime Video, AWS, their design has always been borderline good enough to not be problematic, I've never seen a "beautiful" Amazon design, and I've seen several that have made the products actively harder to use.

It's clearly something the entire organisation doesn't value, and in many ways that's fine. It's a trade-off that they have made one way consistently, and I applaud them for the consistency. To look at it another way, Apple are similarly consistent in the opposite direction and sometimes to their detriment.

The problem is that I don't want to hang an ugly webapp on my wall, and I imagine I'm not the only one. This is something where design is so intrinsically linked to its value that I don't think Amazon can manage it.

Just on the first product photo there are like 3-4 different drop shadows on 7 boxes. The weather is shown in two different places. Half the screen is an ad.
I've never heard of anyone doing this either, but it is true and it's a pretty reasonable rule in my opinion. If you're an "independent student" then you don't need to report your parents' income, and the government is fairly generous about who qualifies as independent: https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/independe.... You can definitely game some of these qualifications, but that's fine, the overwhelming majority of people who qualify for this are legitimately independent from their parents and should be considered for financial aid.
I mean the fact that the US is dictating what can and cannot happen in the war makes is a proxy war almost by definitiion.
It's been useful to me for slapping together solutions during ops emergencies. Luckily, I have usually had real programmers around to take the few bits of insight in those scripts to fix their code.
Because corporations are bad that’s why!
She was not fantasizing about bestiality, it very clearly states she “lusted after her paramours”. Paramours being adulterous lovers. And, if you even skimmed the rest of Ezekiel 23, you’d know it was describing her being a prostitute to many, many men. I will concede that this chapter, and the Jewish scriptures in general, tend to be rather excessive and would not be where I would start my children for Biblical teaching.

What list are you referring to? Perhaps I missed something, but I don’t see a list of banned books. However, regarding books promoting pedophilia, the worst example I am aware of (that isn’t Lolita, which I feel is a cop-out) is The Bluest Eye. I won’t link directly to the passage, however searching “Passages Challenged Bluest Eye” should lead you to a website with excerpts. They have not just one, but two characters who prey on the main character, and she is assaulted twice by her father in unnecessarily graphic scenes.
The antithesis to the "limited liability corporation".
If that list became popular it would be weaponised by military intelligence.
Good point. I just asked ChatGPT for the best CBD gummies, then asked what sources it used for the list. This was the first thing it said…

> Consumer reviews from trusted websites like Healthline, CNET, and Forbes Health that provide in-depth reviews and rankings based on effectiveness, ingredients, and customer feedback.

So the LLMs are now giving us affiliate link garbage, but we can’t easily see that was the source, and the affiliate links don’t even work. Everyone loses in this scenario.
That would be a great way to tank the economy.
One of the reasons i never played pokemon go is because there was no guarantee I didnt have my data sold.

I can't tell you why other people wouldn't think of this concern
Figure this will be widespread in 10 years or so. Whenever you need to suppress civilians, they'll be really handy. The IDF has probably been looking for a good way to test these out, they've been around for a while [https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/israeli-military...]