skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, this is the concept of the "third space." They have existed throughout history and while churches are certainly one example, they are not the only example. A church (or temple or mosque or whatever) fills a certain community role as a gathering space for religious worship, but it's not the only place where you can meet and talk to people.
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The most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia
This always bugged me! The whole point of frosted glass is to be smooth and relaxing, but the lack of surrounding pixel data causes the blurred image to make unnatural jumps in brightness and color when just a single row of pixels scrolls into view.

It makes me very happy that someone not only noticed this, but did something about it, and then shared it freely!
SQLite has similar advice: https://www.sqlite.org/rowvalue.html#scrolling_window_querie...
I appreciate the writeup! I'll likely go down this rabbit hole soon.
FYI, jwz does not like HN linking to his sites. (If you click the link you will see how he enforces this.)
No problem. Now that you mention it, I find it incredible that many people I know wouldn't be able to tell how much they're spending on what. Not even ballpark it. This is the first thing to start with and is incredibly easy to do, if you choose to. Whether you call it FU money or emergency or something on the side or whatever, you at least need some numbers.

And we're not talking about wealthy people here but the ones who complain that there's nothing left when there's an interest rate increase. I don't know maybe it's the crowd I hang out with. Or maybe they are actually wealthy and just don't want to say it.
Second guessing an election result based on handwaving like this is completely insane. You do not have a functional mental model of how and why elections work.
> the algorithmic control this gives China to influence the populations of Western countries

The first amendment allows us to choose whatever we want to influence us. If Americans want to sit in front of Chinese controlled social media and gorge on it, that's our right. I don't agree the government can take it away. The idea that they should control what influenced us is very anti democratic.
If ever there was a country that should be using ranked choice voting or something similar it is Romania.

They had 14 candidates, with a lot of overlap in where they were on the left/right spectrum, and they use a "top 2 advance to the next round" system if nobody gets a majority in the first round.

That's a situation that makes it fairly easy for candidates that are liked by a majority to get eliminated due to vote splitting, leaving a second round where a majority are not happy with either candidate.
No, you got it wrong.

Roman supported the private repo and was aware of the temporary (last 3 days only) CF logs to address CDN abuse. However, several hours ago, he (or someone else using his account?) unexpectedly made the repository public without discussing it with the project's maintainers. As a result, his account rights were temporarily restricted to clarify the situation.

There is still no response from Roman regarding his motivation for ignoring the usual governing board rules. Previously, all similar important project decisions were always discussed with maintainers/active contributors before being executed.

I hope that we resolve this strange situation successfully soon.
I have found that company culture has the biggest impact on junior managers. It sets the expectation for them the most because they don’t have any actual ability yet.

Overly empathetic companies end up with terrible junior managers because they can’t have any real direct conversations. Tough and demanding companies I have seen fair much better because no one can hide from tough conversations for too long.
Yes! That's the exact phrase I would have used with someone on HN. But that doesn't describe my non-technical friend. :-)
Point of order: Trump won the electoral college "overwhelmingly," but his popular-vote victory is incredibly narrow. His victory does not indicate overwhelming popularity among the American people.
It is good to know because of understanding. To know if there is undue influence or the problems depicted are only illusions and no reason to intervene.
It seems to me like Pump.Fun should just be called RugPull.Fun, and it blows my mind why anyone is naive enough to buy these memecoins.
Not at all. I mean for a small team where you are or expected to perform as TLM yes. But generally speaking no.

I can't read the article to tell if this is just an observation from you, or if you are responding to the article, because my DNS just broke for whatever reason.

> Frame it like this: if this report were to quit today, are you able to step in and complete their project?

That is not the manager's job. The real question here is, do you know the bus factor of your team and do you know what particular skills are most critical to replace?
He was lucky to get a rare, slow moving form of the cancer that can be cured with surgery if caught early enough. Unfortunately he waited nine months before getting surgery.
I also went thru a phase years ago where I also claimed all dialogs should be modeless to free up users to do "anything at any time". But the problem with "anything any time" is that your state management becomes a nightmare, because you then have to start guarding against astronomically large numbers of ways users can create invalid states, create contradictory settings, or have the content of one dialog become invalid, because of work done in some other dialog etc.

Hallmark of good design is when the user is doing one thing at a time, and the dialog flow makes intuitive sense. Often being able to jump back to a prior dialog means you can then start a NEW branch of all the dialogs you've already opened (and that's confusing). Modals simplify not only the code, but the user experience.
Given that Zuckerberg is now trying to get in the Trump swamp, and Meta was behind some of the initial lobbying to ban Tiktok. It'll be some funny back and forth.
> What surprises me about this is how poorly general-purpose LLMs do. The best one is OpenAI o1-preview at 18%.

o1-preview doesn't even have image input, so I wonder how they used it.

Also, Ryan Greenblatts solution basically does "best of 4000" iirc. Presumably o1-preview was single shot.
Fearful of crime, or of the "law of unintended consequences"?

These clownish morons.
Yes, everyone waring a bootprint on their face is the mark of equality. It's not the mark of freedom, but it is the mark of equality.
An interesting missile would be one that catches up to you, latches, and accelerates you to only 20 G or whatever is the minimum to kill you.

Then when your crew is braindead it uses little maneuvering thrusters to spin you around and takes you back to the point of engagement, so your ship/secrets can be salvaged.

I suppose a simple neutron bomb missile would be more efficient for this, and wouldn’t involve a long elliptic trip, so long as it didn’t fry your systems and data storage media.

Edit: I asked ChatGPT and apparently there’s no sci-fi involving a missile that functions to latch and accelerate the target to enough Gs to kill the occupants. Did I invent this just now?
I don't have issue with US specifically targetting TikTok - it's USsovereign right, I have issue with people who forwards the argument that this is the same as PRC not specifically targetting US platforms who chose not to comply with PRC laws that also apply to domestic plaforms, which btw FB and Google both had initives to comply with (i.e. project dragonfly for Google) but was killed due to internal dissent, i.e. it's US companies that doesn't want to deal with PRC laws. At the end of the day, at least PRC requirements are "fair", they don't have to resort to wild requirements like divestment. At most they required local JV/warehousing, i.e. what TikTok offered with Oracle.
I like the fonts used on this blog!
Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill
Biggest shell programs
Another blog littered with imprecations to give them money. Well.. ok, I get it. Man doth not live on air. But this is very "like and subscribe"

The ballsack in egg cup is quite funny.
That iteration loop is pure madness.
Where Did the Global Elite Go to School?
you're confusing "speaking English" with "knowing the English alphabet." these things are orthogonal. 95%+ of people in those countries know the english alphabet. i just threw down google maps street view at a random spot in Phnom Penh and instantly found english letters visible from the street, on advertisements[0]. then i threw it down in a much smaller Thai city that i had never heard of, Nakhon Sawan, and instantly found English on the street.[1] i've been in China, Japan and Korea enough to know english characters are all over the place. the English alphabet is omnipresent everywhere, i think you fail to realize this. nobody who is using a computer in these places is getting confused by the english alphabet.

> But to assert that such work should not happen is plain wrong.

i assert it should not happen because it's not solving an actual problem, the same way that changing "x" and "y" to "ㅋ" and "ㅌ" in algebra doesn't solve a problem, and trying to "solve" it will yield to a monstrous amount of incompatibilities and confusion. here's a really good comparison: ipv6. IPv6 is solving a problem, maybe in a way people disagree with, but definitely a real problem... and yet we still can't make ipv6 fucking work after God knows how many years, and trying to get IPv6 networking at any sort of scale is a massive fucking headache. now we want to go through the same headaches to support... umlauts in usernames? yeah, no thanks.

there's enough real work left to be done in the world that we shouldn't waste time with stupid makework like this.

or maybe in 30 years i'll be able to call up IT support and say "hey i forgot my password, can you reset it? my username is 神王 سعود. ... need me to spell that for you?"

edit: somewhat ironically, HN swallowed a few of the unicode characters in my theoretical future username...

[0] https://i.imgur.com/0WkG0ze.png

[1] https://i.imgur.com/VhDR5Xh.png
i used to think that moving frequently when i was young was the cause of why i didn't make any friends, but i realized that there was much more to it. if the kids have relationship issues, then i suspect it wasn't the frequent travel that caused that but it may also have been relationship issues with the parents as well. staying in one place and going to school may have mitigated the issue or it may have not. we can't say. my parents went through a divorce when we moved, and we didn't get any help from family or community while my parents tried to sort out their lives. there wasn't much, if anything they could have done better. the things that happened were more or less unavoidable.

obviously i don't know your cousin, but before you blame him, consider that there may have been other factors that you can't see, that were beyond their control.

the worst thing in my experience is relatives who think they know what i am doing wrong as a parent, without understanding the whole picture. (friends too, but once friends do that, they are no longer friends). try not to be that person.
Indeed. They have no intrinsic value, as far as I can tell.

I think it’s the adrenaline rush that they’re playing on.
Just read the research of the post, could you?
A new golden age of discovery using AI
NED, USAID et al all are directly or indirectly funded by the US State department.
A fat middle-schooler used pump.fun to create "Gen-Z Quant" -- this site requires four inputs: coin-name, issuance quantity, animated-gif, deposit of Solana for the tx fee; he then rugged to the tune of $30k and flicked everybody off on the pump.fun's integrated livestream saying "thanks for the bandos" (bando = $1k)

The addendum to the story is that the attention it generated caused degens to ape into 'Gen-Z Quant" pumping its market price where for a time that $30k would have been worth millions... and the rest of the story is still more interesting...

Since it got so much attention, people started doing crazy things on the livestream to pump their coins -- one guy made something along the lines of crime-spree coin and livestreamed himself stealing cars -- promising to continue doing so until he was arrested in order to pump his coin.

This activity caused pump.fun to disable their integrated livestreaming feature.

The story was featured on last week's ( nov 30) Bankless Friday roundup.

The final point I wonder about is -- won't this degen activity ( ~100 coins are created per minute on pump.fun ) -- clog Solana's network -- their major selling point is that they have a huge number of tx/s, but if you fill it with spam ?? what does that mean for the network?
It's Uncle Sam's bootprint... it's as free as any other boot western platforms wears. Except as we learn the boot doesn't matter if it's a Chinese foot.
The ChatGPT app only has the nifty "works with any app" feature if you're on the Plus plan and doesn't support other models. Chital looks very nice and is admirably tiny (3.6MB unzipped!) but doesn't have the editor integration at all, as far as I can tell.

MindMac is an example of an app that meets all the criteria, but for more than it seems like such an app should cost.
> is that it's comnpletely unstyled

Another reason might be that vendor making it look like a native browser window would blur the line of death[1]. It would make it easier for malicious website to make a popup "browser update" in the middle of the page that redirects to seemingly legit Chrome download page and downloads modified executable.

[1]: https://textslashplain.com/2017/01/14/the-line-of-death/
In the days since RS485, OTA firmware flashing's become the standard, though we could also go back to EEPROMs with the little UV window.
Those were the days.
A company that turned homeowners into renters abruptly shuts down
Had no idea they had a charging network, but does it really matter? Tesla is so far away ahead of everyone else that I cannot see anyone catching up. Even if they stop making cars Tesla can keep making money off their charging network.
It's probably me. It's definitely me, but not one of these felt like it spoke to me as a 63yo almost D WM. I think I'm skipping modern SF and F and sticking to the old favourites.
EasyKnock

https://www.easyknock.com/

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/easyknock

Related:

With $215M capital raise, EasyKnock launches product for home shoppers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19918430 - May 2019
I don't find I have the problem you describe, because at worst you can generally abort the save or whatever and verify then redo it.

The one that bugs me is online order forms that don't give you all your critical details like dates, and exactly what you are paying for, on one screen where you finally commit.
> I mean... objectively Russia ticks pretty much all of the boxes, just compare it with Mussolini's Italy.

Is Putin's ideology a form of "fascism"? Some scholars say "yes", others say "no".

Since you already seem to have a good awareness of the "yes" case, let me share with you some of the "no" case [0]:

> “Snyder is wrong,” Nikolay Mitrokhin, a Russia researcher with Germany’s Bremen University, told Al Jazeera.

> Russia doesn’t meet the criteria of a fascist state – there is no ideological party, no hysterical cult of the leader, and no revolutionary new regime juxtaposed to the old one.

> Instead, in Russia, “there is an aggressive, imperialist, authoritarian state with a ruling junta”, Mitrokhin said.

I'm not a fan of Putin – I have always been cheering for Ukraine in the present war, and I think it is disappointing it has not gone better for the Ukrainians, but I suppose hope springs eternal – but I also think the word "fascism" is overused nowadays, and I prefer narrower definitions like that of Mitrokhin – the broader definitions miss significant aspects of what Mussolini was actually on about.

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/26/how-fascist-are-pu...
> The List of Highly Cited Researchers had attracted all kinds of cheating in recent years, as some scientists got on the list using tricks such as citing themselves on an industrial scale, publishing insubstantial studies every week, or colluding with other researchers to cite each other.

We really gotta clean up bad actors in research. It’s terrible to have so much underhanded activity at a time when people increasingly distrust science. No wonder stupid people think the earth is flat.
Not that the government would ever do this, but it is technically feasible for them to distribute anonymous digital IDs that verify age without allowing the user to be tracked or identified.
but claiming exercise is good for fat loss is big business, so everybody believes it.
Longer cables have significant disadvantages. They cost more. They're less efficient, meaning they charge slower and/or require more cooling. They contain more metal, making them more appealing to thieves. They get tangled and damaged more easily. That's why Tesla made their cables so short and standardized on a charging port location.

I'm sure future charging stations will have some long cables for vehicles with odd port locations or trailers, but I don't know if every charger at a station will have a long cable. Considering the disadvantages of long cables, it makes a lot of sense for manufacturers to use one location for the charging port. That allows owners to use as many chargers as possible. And it would mean that anyone driving an EV wouldn't have to remember where the port is on their specific vehicle.
Does it correctly ignore the “Comments on:” feeds that are sometimes mistakenly chosen over the main feed?
If there are only two conflicting updates, sure, maybe that would work. But there might be more than two peers, and their updates might arrive in any order. That's why CRDT merges must be both commutative and associative.

Can we guarantee that an LLM will get exactly the same result merging (A ∨ B) ∨ C as it would merging A ∨ (B ∨ C)? Even when the temperature is 0?
Thank you for point that out. What is the parent comment talking about?
It's interesting that you see things that way because I kind of think it's the opposite.

He's very well known and I'd argue his work is generally over rated. His main contribution is a specialization of Von Neumann entropy, which was defined over 20 years earlier. And also some extensions of the work of Nyquist and Hartley in the form of the noisy channel coding theorem.

His work is good and putting it together the way he did was influential. But he's often talked about as the "father of information theory" which has a bit of a hero worship spin to it.

I also suspect -- but this is just my own speculation -- that Von Neumann helped Shannon arrive at the point of view he's famous for. It's known that Von Neumann told Shannon to call his formula "entropy". But Von Neumann was also foundational to computer science and quantum mechanics and was generous to giving credit to others.

Shannon didn't really do much of the same caliber after the information theory paper. So the timeline is he has this encounter with Von Neumann at the Institute for Advanced Study. Then he puts out a paper that synthesizes the work Bell Labs had been doing and which happens to be at the intersection of some of Von Neumann's interests, and then doesn't do much after that. So I've always kind of wondered whether Von Neumann had a short conversation with Shannon where he lays out how he's thinking about information and entropy. And then Shannon took that and ran with it. But again that's just me wondering.
> Even better, for a few months the browsers themselves would highlight RSS feeds and allow you subscribe right in the browser. It was too good to last.

I use the Awesome RSS add-on for that in Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/awesome-rss/
Surely this is solved by putting RSS behind Cloudflare.
> I understand that people are angry that a man with his means was still able to get a transplant

That's something I never heard. Are you angry because Steve Jobs got a transplant?

> However to assume that his disease (and death) was the result of a diet choice when there is no credible evidence for it seems rather absurd.

Have you tried reading the research in the post before commenting?
> If we didn’t care about generating valid UUID v4s, we could just generate 2^128 numbers, scramble them, convert the resulting bits into a hex string, and intersperse some dashes.

You can do that anyway. You'd only need the twiddling if you wanted to limit the amount of numbers you generate to 2^122. Since you're willing to generate 128 bits:

// get encrypted value
uint128 bits = encipher(seed);
// clear zero bits
bits &= 0xFFFFFFFF FFFF 4FFF BFFFFFFFFFFF; // instead of 4 and B, you can use 0 and 3
// set one bits
bits |= 0x00000000 0000 4000 800000000000; // these have to be 4 and 8

But since you're generating more numbers than you need, you're going to end up with 64 copies of each UUID in your final stream. This won't matter because no one will ever be able to notice, as long as your faux search functions avoid pointing it out.

Exercise for further development: modify substring search so that it follows the expected behavior of finding matches in order within the page. [I don't recommend attempting this.]
https://archive.ph/fqcSW
- "If there was anybody whom everyone trusted enough to second guess the elections, to look at voters’ motivations and fuzzy ideas of fairness you wouldn’t need elections."

Lawrence Lessig (well known to HN for his open source law work) proposed that the US Electoral College was created with the purpose of second-guessing elections. (He didn't like the outcome of the 2016 one and was trying to rationalize mechanisms of overturning it).

Lessig:

- "The framers believed, as Alexander Hamilton put it, that "the sense of the people should operate in the choice of the [president]." But no nation had ever tried that idea before. So the framers created a safety valve on the people's choice. Like a judge reviewing a jury verdict, where the people voted, the electoral college was intended to confirm — or not — the people's choice. Electors were to apply, in Hamilton's words, "a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice" — and then decide. The Constitution says nothing about "winner take all." It says nothing to suggest that electors' freedom should be constrained in any way. Instead, their wisdom — about whether to overrule "the people" or not — was to be free of political control yet guided by democratic values. They were to be citizens exercising judgment, not cogs turning a wheel."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-constitution-let... ("The Constitution lets the electoral college choose the winner. They should choose Clinton")
It would be funny if all the people and institutions with power in the country weren't tripping over each other to kiss the ring.
> Macron and Trump were widely recognized as candidate before the election

Based on the media coverage? Building a narrative around a character is done over time, that's what PR consultants do, in hand with journalists and newspapers owners and advertisers.

> This guy in Romania was at 5%, no one knew who he was, then suddenly he's at 20+%. That's next level.

This is very common in elections. Trump was supposed to lose by a large margin in 2016. Polls aren't votes.
> If your definition of responsibility is so broad, wouldn't every Head of Government for every country be deserving of assassination?

I don't agree to the radical formulation "every Head of Government for every country is deserving of assassination", but I do believe that the weaker statement "for most Heads of Government of most country, there exist quite some people (even among the citizens) who would like them them to be dead" is very plausible.
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