skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an interview with someone presented as some type of expert that obviously is not an expert.

1) it is not hard to get a silencer. You can make one in under an hour with cheap parts from a hardware store and a drill.

2) the CEO was at a conference. It's not surprising that this person "knew he would be there", it's interesting that this interviewee stresses this point like it is some big one to be made. The CEO of a big company in an industry will of course be at a big industry conference. You can say "how did he know he would be exiting that door" or something, but it's not like he was sneaking out the back exit. Hes probably coming out the door where the limo is parked or whatever.

I agree this was probably not a professional hit, but this was very clearly well planned out with limited knowledge. I don't think it's as simple as a disgruntled family member of a medical patient or something. It's likely this was something much more serious, but not billionaire behind the scenes business politics or something. Those kind of guys, while we like to pretend would be the last guys to know where to find professional killers, they all know where to find professional killers. I'd guess this guy was into something he shouldn't have been into with some unsavory people.
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From reading your own link:

> So, if the paper has so many problems, why did it prove so influential? First, because it utilized cutting-edge techniques at the time (instrumental variables was a new thing back in the 2000s), and because it used novel datasets and clever inference to answer a big-picture question. While “the conditions of colonization determined the institutional quality of colonies” is not a new idea (in fact, Marxist Karl Kautsky came up with a similar idea in 1907), treating it in a formal and empiric manner like this was fairly novel in the 2000s.

So it seems like the answer is not resoundingly clear at all, but the novel methods and analysis was worth the prize, not the perceived veracity of the claims.

Anyways, the topic is about how colonial powers set up institutions in colonized countries, and different types of institutions lead to different types of economic outcomes (inclusive vs extractive). But consider China and India. The former has no colonial institutions, having never been colonized. But both are growing at similar places with similar GDP growth rates (China being slightly ahead). So the idea that only a colonial power could build such institutions, thus all the negatives are outweighed. I don't buy that at this moment. I'm open to learning more though.
Yes. The project was “global bit” or “gBit” and it was also looking at a satellite constellation. It got cancelled in 2014ish. This was unrelated to Loon

Source: got approval to transfer to work on it the very day it was cancelled.
Ok you've got us at the edge of our seats. What's the alternative approach?
What I think you're missing is that Matrix runs as a distributed system. There's no central authority to assign IDs to messages, and it's possible for a single group chat to run in a split-brain configuration if two homeservers lose connectivity to each other. When those homeservers reconnect, users connected to each one will see messages appear "in the past" which were sent by users on the other side of the split.
Those aren't useful distinctions. You might as well say the ALUs in a CPU aren't programmable because they aren't the instruction decoders.
Nowadays it might be 'standing at your home office desk'
it's superficially counterintuitive to people that an AI that will sometimes spit out verbatim copies of written texts, also will just make other things up. It's like "choose one, please".

MetaAI makes up stuff reliably. You'd think it would be an ace at baseball stats for example, but "what teams did so-and-so play for", you absolutely must check the results yourself.
To be able to plan ahead, robots do absolutely need to plan ahead (read: "guess" or even "imagine") what they might encounter before they sense it. In your self driving car example, for instance, it needs to come up with various scenarios for what might be around the corner ahead of a turn, and assign reasonable probabilities to these scenarios. I absolutely see how a system like this could help with it.

For example, let's say that the car is approaching an intersection, and suddenly sees a puddle on the road to the left getting brighter - a visual world model like this might extrapolate a scenario that the brightness is the result of a car moving towards the intersection assigning this some probability, and signing another probably to a scenario that it's just a flickering headlight, and the car would then decide whether and how much to slow down.

In this example there is a sensor, but it definitely doesn't tell the robot "exactly what is there", and while we could try to write rules about what it should do, the Bitter Lesson tells us it's better to just let it create its own model.
Why not? China was not colonized and there are markets for its goods to be consumed around the world also
> Yes, there were a few "dumb" terminals that were simply paperless teletypes

Ah yes, the proverbial "glass TTY." There were a few years in the late 1970s where printing terminals (actual Teletypes such as the ASR 33, and matrix printing terminals like the DECwriter) were fading out and "dumb" CRT terminals came in. When I arrived at university in 1980 the computer center was filled with dumb terminals like the ADM-3. There were a few smart terminals (they could run Emacs!) but they were hard to come by.

Within a couple years, though, the dumb terminals were all gone and were replaced by "smart" CRT terminals that had the more sophisticated features. So the lifetime of the glass TTY might have been only 5-10 years.
There are so many apps there days that collect all your personal data with so many promises but after you've spent like half an hour signing up and giving them all of your data, they smack you in the face with a pay wall...

I find this so annoying and to a point even criminal, as it's basically a scam, but App Stores do nothing about it, even if you report the apps.
I'd be careful with statistics like this.

Who defines what car is "necessary" (or is no car necessary in car-centric America?) vs "ordinary"?
> As I understand in US, if you take vacation longer than week, you're in the fear you will be fired. Is it true?

lol, do you get most of your information from retards on reddit?
https://archive.is/Nz4ut
You are right, and my calling it imGUI is a stretch since actually it does rely on state to know when to render.

If you think about it, the end goal is rendering, and React facilitates that, but the actual rendering (as in, changing page DOM, terminal buffer, etc.) happens outside of React. So my definition may need to be adjusted.

I still think it’s a stretch to call React a framework, though!
> I have literally lived in the US before. I spent 12 years in Canada, right next to the US as well. Awful place to live.

How long did you live in the US? And what part of Canada did you live in to be near the US?

Most of the Canadian border is sparsely populated on the US side. So I can't see how being in Canada would give you much of a feel for median/mean U.S. life.
I can't find them who would use this over Anki or AnkiDroid.

I have hundreds of items to review. I wouldn't want that in my inbox.
Nope it doesn't that is 12 channels 2 modules per channel each module at 2GB is the largest the chip gets and the cost of those drastically increase the cost.

The problem you experience with GDDR6 and channels is width. You get higher in size but you'll never be able to fill the memory fast enough to be cost effective. Also why HBM exists. Lets say the top is 960GB/s for an A6000 for GPU memory. HBM3 is 3.35 TB/s.

If Intel wanted to make better GPUs it needs to switch to HBM.
I can't think of a single external packaging system that actually does Python non-painfully. Then again I can't think of an internal Python packaging system (there are like 5 now) that does Python non-painfully. But since one of the selling points of Nix is "it's like virtualenv but for everything", it's a little disappointing that it doesn't mesh better.

I'm not a Python developer, though I use applications that require Python libraries. I don't want a separate numpy for every application I use tucked away in my home folder somewhere; I want a system numpy provided by my distro that can't get out of sync because there's only one copy of it anywhere.
Show HN: Roast my Spotify Wrapped 2024
I built a small tool that allows users to share their spotify wrapped share link and get roasted by different LLMs.

Some fun roasts:

"This list makes it sound like you're having a midlife crisis in a thrift store"

"You're really pushing the envelope listening to Drake and The Weeknd"

"Next year, aim for music that doesn't sound like background noise in an elevator"
Five Advanced Meditation Techniques (also, drugs)
> My wages have increased 30% since 2020, exceeding the 22% inflation I got from that calculator.

I don't believe you

nobody gets a 30% adjustment without taking a new job or a promotion, and if you did that then it defeats the point of this discussion
King of the Hill (The Omak Stampede Suicide Race)
You have this backwards - sitting/standing (and autonomy etc.) are the data, and blue-collar/white-collar are names for clusters in that data, and the latter depend on the former. After all, workers choose a shirt according to their job role, not the other way around!

Also more importantly, I think the main point of the article is that it's not just two clusters; there are several interesting axes to look at. E.g. electricians are "standers" but have autonomy; bookkeepers are "white collar" but do little problem-solving, etc.
In my limited experience with friends and family, YT is more likely to lead them into extreme and unfounded conspiracies and then lock them into that engagement bubble. They become lazy and magical thinkers, and worse people.

Exceptions like Khan Academy are still out there. But I think they're being drown out.

Meanwhile I settled into text based communities which challenged my beliefs. And that lead me out of religion and all the fallacies I was indoctrinated into. YMMV
Thanks for this, I never considered the workflow of generating statements and then redirecting them to sh
Have you heard of google X? I think they call it the moonshot factory.
I don't think this is fair, it's a provocative point of view that sounds like the start of a pollution cleanup journey that may actually happen.

Besides, alcohol, which people also put in their bodies regularly, is known to cause also sorts of horrible problems, and yet it's a very legal drug. So we already live in a world where the counterfactual - that strong evidence of dangerousness demands regulation - is false.
What is working better for us is to spin the application up and poke at it with HTTP requests and look for non 200 response codes.

The tradeoff is it's not as comprehensive. But giving users something that is 95% working and making it easy for them to fix those issues appears to be the best user experience we've found so far.
Why not closer to dozens of dollars like for ecommerce, so about annual revenue per customer?
So the ICP Brazil thing is interesting.

It's not a certificate intended for use on the web in general. It's an open finance certificate designed for use within that ecosystem within Brazil, and it was issued to a google subsidiary who would have requested it to have that common name, and who would have been evaluated as being authorised to have such a certificate within that context.

The main problem seems to be that the root certificate was in the MS keystores, and seems to have previously been submitted to mozilla (and maybe others) for inclusion, which points to a poor separation of concerns for that CA. They clearly wanted to be a general web authority at some point, but were repurposed.

So it's hard to see it as purely a "misissuance", and it's definitely not malicious.
A bilingual vector art shrinker for Android and iOS
Perhaps most importantly, unlike cash, it can't be printed, and unlike gold, its supply is not responsive to price.
Helix AI Stack
For much of history women didn't get any education and were considered retarded. Who's laughing now?
Thanks
1. Open Source code
2. No DB provisioning. On the fly processing.
3. Option to self host
To follow-up on my comment of “online discourse” about this: the Facebook post from the company (…deeply saddened…) has 20.6K laugh emojis vs ~4k in sympathy related)
> Additionally there are some clients that treat each message input by the user as a retriable thing in isolation, which is also clearly incorrect. If I send two messages and the first fails to go through, I almost certainly don't want to retry the second until the first has gone through, otherwise my client has literally sent out of order messages!

I don't think that's clearly incorrect. If you sent two messages you presumably want them to be two messages and they should be retried as such. If what you wanted to send was a single, multi-line message, surely you would have just done that?
First impressions of the new Amazon Nova LLMs
Interesting how you described the scenario quite accurately that is currently playing out and the current tech company of 5-8 years I am at.
Yamaha basically still makes the DX7 in a modernized form in the Reface DX. It just has 4 operators instead of 6, but it can create various waveshapes whereas the DX7 can only create sine waves so it requires more operators to achieve the more complex shapes.

Also, Korg makes the Volca FM, which is actually a clone of the original Yamaha engine and you can actually directly load DX7 patches into it.

>There remains a niche interest in generating instrumental sounds using mathematical modelling, but almost all digital music production these days is based on sampling.

Yeah...that's just completely untrue.
What's the order of magnitude of the amount of data sources? 100s, 1000s, tens of thousands?
Transacting bitcoin via the lightning network is instant.
Capital gains is a matter of policy and is likely to change at some point as bitcoin succeeds.
I break up my messages, as do many people.
Before that (2008-2010, I think) Google was also involved with o3b satellites, and later linked them to Loon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O3b

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C4...

Google eventually sold its stake in O3b around 2016.
Over half of Canadians live within 70 miles of the US border and up to 90% (methodologies vary) live with 100 miles of the border. The converse isn't even close to being true.
Oh boy, here we go again. It's like the pre-2008 financial crisis all over again.

Growth is nice, but one look at the debt charts (public debt, credit card debt, car debt, mortgages, student loans, ...) and the trends in defaults and you know what's coming. Add the upcoming tariff plans and the gutting of financial regulations and consumer protection in the mix and you start asking yourself: in 10 years time, will we talk about the financial crisis of 2025 or 2026?
I think Mise is better than ASDF - they have a whole document on why their approach is better than the shims used by ASDF. Both seem fine though.
As an aside to an aside, Greg Kihn became a DJ for a classic rock station in the Bay area that I used to listen to. Even then I only know one of his songs.
Every EV that is used to replace personal transport of individuals with long (necessary), regular commutes each day will help in alleviating global warming : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-28/china-s-e...
...and yet, the currently "high" interest rates are lower than the average in the 2000's (2000-2009), 1990's, 1980's (much, much lower) and 1970's.

There is a proclivity to wash over a lot of the difficulties, constraints, and "norms" of earlier generations and making the current economic times seem so much worse. Things like living with multiple roommates (2-4) in your 20's is MUCH rarer today, as is sharing a bedroom with a sibling. Vacationing frugally at a nearby lake, not some international expedition. Packing a box lunch. I agree that by many measures, times are tough, but also, the base expectation level has definitely increased dramatically.
What's mysterious here? One ordering is dictated (arrival time), another left for the consideration of the server (likely allowing for stuff like pinned messages, etc, that break the strict ordering).

If a Matrix server allows to delete messages (by the poster or by a moderator), then increasing IDs with no gaps become impossible. If the server allows editing of existing messages, then a sequence with no gaps is not sufficient to reflect all changes. Ideally a server does not do either, but uses more messages to augment existing messages, or mark some as deleted; with that, a sequence with no gaps would suffice.
Doesn’t seem that hard to measure. It isn’t like the subject will become a mysterious P zombie, they will probably just become increasingly incoherent and then non verbal and then die.

Damage a brain enough and brain death occurs. By the same token, after a certain number of neurons are lost, there is no self. Whatever consciousness is, it can’t be sustained with a sufficiently compromised brain.

This is observable in late stage dementia patients, it gradually becomes difficult to think and in the final dire stages their sense of self degrades too.
For comparison, a semi will burn about 7 mpg hauling 23 tons, so that's 161 ton-miles per gallon, about 1/3rd as good as the listed train value. And trucks have tire dust.
Interesting! Sorry it was cancelled, and hopefully you ended up well in any case.

Would have been such a galactic halo for the Google brand. Not sure how the financial spreadsheets looked, but those don't do well in accurately quantifying brand value.
Discussion (87 points, 1 hour ago, 174 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42324263
Not necessarily in this scenario - if net manufacturing and battery costs were to fall - given the IC engine requires so many parts. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-28/china-s-e...
China retaliates against latest US chip restrictions
BMWs aren't that common anywhere in the US - if they were, they'd stop being a status symbol.

That said, they're also not uncommon - a quick look at registration data suggests ~8% of cars "on the road" are BMWs, though of course just because a car legally could be on the road doesn't mean it's being driven with any regularity (I had a co-worker years back whose pastime was buying old BMWs and fixing them up; apparently they could be had relatively inexpensively at the time, as servicing was pricey).

Which is why all this pedantry misses the point: there's nothing terribly special about BMW; total cost of ownership is probably higher than domestic brands, but you could just as well pad out your ordinary expenses with a Ford or GM payment; a new Suburban or nicer pickup can soak up just as much excess cash as that X3.

Then again, Real Americans drive increasingly old used cars.
Not at all. The separation of messages is part of communication, not me trying to game a network protocol. Maybe it's to emphasise a point, maybe it's to time a joke, maybe it's to send a photo and a text message separately.
This is really impressive! Would you mind sharing some analytics like subscriber count or DAU? I'm curious to learn more about how your platform is performing. Thanks!"
Japan Plans AI Pilot Program to Fight Manga and Anime Piracy
> it can't be printed

New coins are minted with every block. But perhaps you mean to suggest that it's "stable" or "predictable." The emission rate of bitcoin is predictable - but this is predicated on the stability/predictability of the community of miners/stakers. It seems extremely irrational now, but if something were to change such that the community decided to drastically increase or decrease the block reward, they could indeed do so if they found consensus.

> its supply is not responsive to price.

While this is probably true, the value of mining equipment is directly related to the exchange rate of bitcoin (and perhaps its recent rate of increase/decrease). This doesn't impact supply, but it does impact the network OpEx.
According to you balloons with radio transmitters are futuristic technology. It didn't achieve scale because the benefits that it offered were too small, and it was too impractical. There was literally nothing futuristic about it at all.

You have to understand that starlink itself is only quasi-futuristic and it's the idea of SpaceX that is futuristic. Starlink is just a spin-off. Bringing faster satellite internet around the world is certainly a benefit and a step up from iridium and other satellite providers but SpaceX wasn't founded to make starlink happen. Starlink happened because SpaceX was a thing. SpaceX is a thing because Elon Musk's future vision is for the human species to become multi-planetary.

Show me anything that Google has done approaching that scale of future vision. Till we understand I don't know if Musk will actually achieve these visions but that is what is driving the offerings that he has.
> Retirees don't earn income, so don't pay income tax.

The government can and often does find other ways to tax people.

> Increased demand for housing raises prices for everyone including natives.

While true locally, at a national level immigration is typically small compared to native populations. It is a manageable problem.

> And typically, retirees require healthcare services well above the population average.

In other words, they will be forced to put money into the local economy. They’re paying out of pocket, not on public assistance.

Comparatively wealthy foreigners that spend a lot of money on the local economy is any government’s wet dream. It’s a significant boost to their tax base and soft political power. I plan on retiring in a country like Thailand because as long as you don’t criticize the king, you’ll be treated like one.
Do you do so with the expectation that they might arrive out of order, or one fails?
> If what you wanted to send was a single, multi-line message, surely you would have just done that?

No. danpalmer is correct; the break between messages is an integral part of the communication.