skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shinzō Abe was an (indirectly) elected politician, though. The consequences for his actions should be people not voting for his party again. Murdering him because you disagree with people who voted for his party is not just an attack on one person, it's an attack on democracy.

What the recourse should be for those at the top of corporations whose decisions negatively impact millions of people is far less clear. "Voting with your wallet" isn't really a thing if you only have bad choices.
Atomized violence like this is pure adventurism and does nothing to improve the lives ruined by men like Brian Thompson. If anything, this event will serve as a catalyst to expand the police state. There is nothing to celebrate here.
In fact, using std::move everywhere can actually make your performance worse!

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20231124-00/?p=10...
Selling puts is a volatility bet mostly, but can be seen as bullish like buying stock, but doesn’t just behave as up=good, so your understanding is not up to par yet for this example. This is literally the issue.
There are plenty of people who do wrong in society and are not tried in court. They are just killed by the authorities because there is no recourse to try them in court. For example: if some person takes a hostage, the police will kill them if there is no other way. And for some very rich people with a lot of power and causing damage, what is the other way?
WASM-4 is a lot of fun! The programming interface is really simple and a great way to learn about the basics of WebAssmembly. No high level language necessary, just write simple programs in WAT format. We used WASM-4 at work as a very early test that our WebAssembly toolchain was working end to end, before we were able to run larger programs in web browsers.

https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-wireworld-live-in-brows...
I think it is getting better year after year, in small steps. For example, B2B taxation within the EU (by use of the reverse-charge mechanism) has become quite easy in recent years. Of course, depending on the product, diverse local rules may apply.
On a philosophical level, of course. The real world has otherwise this habit of kicking philosophy in the gonads. When a guy orders people to death - and make no mistake, this is what UH CEO did - his own tragism gets somewhat rightfully overshadowed. Like in the tramway dilemma, you simply cannot equate the sympathy or the pain of thousands families with the pain of one, unless moral high ground is all you have. And no I don't split the world in companies vs people - insurance companies are people who consciously decide to let me die because shareholder value, so they must suffer those consequences. Big power should come more often with big responsibility.
That is probably true. Direct atmomized violence as you nicely put it is in some way welcomed by the system because it is a perfect excuse for the system to tighten the reigns.
The CEO is only causing trouble and death for poors (while actually making money for people that matter), so it doesn't count.
Every post this guy writes is illuminating – strongly recommend checking out his archive if you like digging into the weeds.
This is my first attempt at writing an article like this. In it, we will solve Day 1 entirely in handwritten WebAssembly. From raw ASCII input parsing to implementing sorting algorithms and memory management, everything is built from scratch.

If you find it interesting, an upvote or a star on GitHub would mean a lot. It will keep me motivated to write about the next challenges too!
What if the decision is to not do anything because the event is so unlikely to happen again that it isn't worth the cost to fix.
> This seems just as much of a failure of society in dealing with these kind of nihilistic parasites sucking our society dry as anything else.

While nobody's shedding a tear here, we should be cautious about even softly embracing or downplaying vigilantism.

Worth remembering, and we've already seen it happen frequently: Vigilante justice can be wielded against controversial personas you support, and there will be just as much applause from the sidelines (from the other side).

That feeling can even extend to people you might consider innocent: See one of the other comments where someone is noting they wouldn't shed a tear over a particular company's *employees* being murdered.
The number I'm seeing is closer to 200k in the first 3 years. It was on the market for 6 years so maybe a little more than that.
Why not just read a book where the author is sincerely trying to teach you?
That could (theoretically, I never played it) be exactly what a game like This War of Mine could take advantage of. Or, in a more uplifting way, a game like Overcooked.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcooked
Ah, TIL, and fair point then, though I think there's still not much support for continuous consciousness throughout sleep.
> * getting more security guards

It will be interesting to see how VIP security companies respond to the proliferation of kamikaze drones.
Vector Database and AI Proxy
Ahnlich (from the German word ähnlich). It's a suite of tools comprising of a vector database for AI engineers, an AI proxy for developers who simply want off the shelf models and libraries to interface with the docker images/binaries.

Contributions are welcomed and if you like the project, a even
The reason for the initial development of "the internet" as we know it, basically TCP/IP, was know as the Department of Defense (DoD) model because the research and development were funded by the United States Department of Defense through DARPA.

The idea was to build a network that --unlike pre-existing networks-- did not need centralization. The goal was to make the network resilient to parts not working, with obvious military benefits.

The same can be said for messaging systems. Centralization makes it easy to take the whole service out.

> It might have been an easier case to make if Matrix wasn’t an uphill battle in terms of usability and performance.

I expect TCP/IP to have been an uphill battle as well. But now we take it for granted. This likely will also happen to Matrix if it is used everywhere.

Now I hope the DoD makes some massive donations to Matrix. Money makes uphill battles more likely to have a good ending.
I think democracy has definitely failed. And if people start fighting oligarchs, that wouldn't be a bad thing either, provided it is done strategically.
How about LibreOffice Base?
Most people have zero care for this person as he and similar people have zero care for most people. There is a price to be accepted by people, no one can expect to do malicious things, harm people and then still be accepted because they are human
> Obesity may be slightly aggravated by car dependence, but it is still historically high and a major problem in the walking/public transport countries of Europe.

I’d like to learn more about this. That hasn’t been my personal experience at all. Looking at the national level is challenging, as urban and suburban and income levels must be a strong factor.
That is why I would not have any sympathy for a big tech CEO either.
Would love to see a model trained on wikipedias only
I agree. I wouldn't move to city center no matter how affordable or cheap it was. Living in an apartment block severely limits the way I can spend my free time compared to an actual house with a yard.
Fully agree with you, vigilante justice should not happen because we have a system protecting the citizens and doing them justice. Wait, do we actually have such a workable system? Because if not, vigilante justice is just around the corner.
It was already posted on HN, but this is a good summary.

https://www.propublica.org/article/unitedhealth-mental-healt...

Its also far bigger than most of these comments. Yes they denied over 30% of claims, which is awful, but they also did a large amount of retroactive denial and clawback schemes to already approved claims.

It's an unusually cruel industry.
I learned to play the keyboard on my father's DX11, in the late80s/early 90s, and remember the sounds with warmth. The DX11 doesn't seem to have been at all as well known or iconic though, and have only seen the DX7 being written extensively about.

It seems to have been quite closely related to the DX7 though, based on some info I found:https://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/dx11
This is a different type of centralisation, though. WhatsApp isn't running out of a single data centre (I hope).
we had one in my band nadir bliss. sean loved that thing, he probably still plays it everyday. it's a popular sound texture in the bedroom pop world, aka indie internet artists from like 2014-2020. we played a sort of loud chaotic post punk but some of the songs had a bedroom pop thing. https://nadirbliss.bandcamp.com/album/sharp-distance-2
> centralized model is far superior to an arbitrary and unknown number of parties receiving metadata about messaging.

One opaque MITM is worse than 1000 MITM whose inner workings are bound by a secure protocol.

That’s how the internet works. Your connection doesn’t always go directly to the server you want.

Either way, you can run your own network of matrix nodes which are isolated from the rest of the open matrix network.
Who runs those companies? Who makes the decisions in those companies?

I think it's humans, no?
> no, we shouldn't be assassinating people.

"I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure"
> while the protagonist frets over the level of offense she might cause at the tea party if she chooses to wear the more scandalous gloves

I have to admit this made me boggle.

I really enjoyed them _because_ the culture was strange and unfamiliar and it was just assumed you'd know what was going on -- which is exactly what mainstream fiction does, of course. (Aside: that's one of the things I enjoyed most about the Three Body Problem.)

Compare with most SF which is "20th century California, but it's in space". (Note: I have never been to California.) Or most fantasy, which is "noble square-jawed heroes in a Hollywood movie parody of the middle ages". It's dull. Leckie gave us something different without infodumps.

As for the empire collapse thing: well, in real life, if you're in the middle of world-changing events, the thing is you still need to wash your socks and get to work. This is realism. It's more involving than some mighty imperial Mary Sue deciding the fate of worlds, as per Asimov's Foundation or something.
How Amazon Delivers Packages Within a Day
Maybe this was true in the past, but there are plenty of bots in reddit these days, and astroturfing/promotional content, etc.
If you like this sort of thing, I highly recommend checking out C. Allen’s work. The visuals and music are both really impressive, in my opinion the best out there: https://youtu.be/OP7sTQQ0Blw
I can't believe this article is being published in Nature. The article is flawed, plagued with assumptions that I guess the author doesn't even notice (like what do we really mean by AGI, the epistemological problems/assumptions to intelligence, the real nature of thinking, the real functioning of the human brain).
It is really curious that the philosophical community is addressing the debate on what AI really is and its implications, but the computer science community does not read almost anything about philosophy.
Regarding the fear of 'losing control of it', I would suggest reading the works (or at least about) of Gunther Anders and Bernard Stiegler. Technology (in this case AI) is inseparable from human being, to the point that we already lost control of technology, its use and its meaning (like, 100 years ago).
Another thing that surprises me is how the computer science community is blind to the work of Hubert Dreyfus and other contemporary philosophers that analyze AI from and epistemological and philosophical perspective. But, actually, I should no t be surprised: we barely study philosophy in any scientific discipline when attending university.
This rhetoric about how AI is similar to the human brain is starting to be a bit boring. It assumes a very simplistic view on the brain and turns a deaf ear to other types of research (like language acquisition and embodiment, mind/brain duality, epistemological basis for knowledge acquisition, ontological basis of causal reasoning...).
And above all, what is really upsetting is the techno-optimism behind this way of thinking.
A house with a big yard in the suburbs is the epitome of “standard of living” as far as I’m concerned. I’d take that over a walkable city block any day (personal choice, of course, I’ve lived in both).
Are they seriously talking about /this/ Matrix? https://www.operation-passionflower.com/
A Neural-link where you inject the electrical signals of whatever taste you want, directly in the brain, would be far superior than licking a piece of tech.

Queue Cypher eating that juicy virtual steak in The Matrix, saying "ignorance is bliss".
That Python makes the wrong trade-offs for mission critical software. This goes beyond just lacking static types.
Just be careful what you wish for :). Vigilante justice doesn't have a great history of being actual justice.
> The first bit of Ancillary Justice story is a slog like the first 80 pages of anathem

I thought it was great. It hooked my interest immediately and then kept me engaged.

I didn't notice a slog at the start of Anathem either time I read it, TBH.
Have you heard of the Cuban missile crisis? The threat from the USSR was real, and right there on the US border. These situations, and the resultant scare mongering for political gain, are highly comparable.
Interesting offer, but why not make it a Windows 10 look-alike? I've been spending more time recently on KDE on Ubuntu specifically to avoid interacting with Windows 11, which feels like a Windows designed by Mac users that don't have any complex workflows.
Signal and WhatsApp only address the personal messaging usecase, whereas the letter is also talking about wider chat services like Teams.

More to the point, even with e2ee, there is still communication metadata that is leaving your network for a third-party service. In a defense context, you would almost certainly prefer that the data does not leave your network unnecessarily.

In terms of Matrix usability and performance, Matrix 2.0 (https://matrix.org/blog/2024/10/29/matrix-2.0-is-here/) represents a huge step forward and can be used today with compatible clients such as Element X (https://element.io/blog/deep-dive-into-element-x/)
Suburbs and detached houses are available in Europe as well, often with good public transport access (although there are plenty where you need a bicycle to get to a train station).

It is just apartments are much cheaper and you can often not have a car if you live in an apartment.
Really? Most companies I know have just a single representative or billing endpoint in the EU.
"Most of the people reacting this way that I've seen are hard-left politically"

How do you know most people's political affiliation?

"probably had nothing to do with the decision of denying someone health care"

Diffusion of responsibility is a thing in all large corporations, but that doesn't mean you don't understand that your OKRs to increase profits come at the expense of people's health.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42321334
Race is in the mix, but is oddly mutable. Back when I was a kid being of Polish ancestry was a kind of joke. Some of my Irish friends have memories of being excluded from social events. At some point we both became "white" and previous divisions faded. There is no comparable we used to be Dalit and then people stopped caring about that experience in India.
Then deny just about a third of claims. These are things a Doctor believed necessary. Imagine if 1/3rd of your Healthcare was simply refused by a company that you pay a raising monthly premium to
Stats mean nothing when I use it every month for my savings and salary. As many people already do. I can also send money between countries very easily and cheap.

I understand this can be just as easily done with banking system in more developed countries but blockchain is much better other parts of the world
TIL! I'd love a 1.1.1.4 (plus adblocker) and 1.1.1.5 (plus adblocker plus social media blocker)
its the usual 'problem' in this country - all of these reprehensible actions by these corporations are, by and large, legal.

being legal doesn't make it right or ethical though.

the legislators clearly think the system is fine and workable as evidenced by the legislature passed to allow profits over, quite literally, anything else in this country.

whilst i don't condone murder or vigilantism, i fully expect more of this because this is exactly what the 'system' has wrought. when you have nothing to lose, all options are on the table.
I hate the HN "No." But.... no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol) is what this is talking about, note the disambiguation header in the wiki article.
Seems a weird article to omit mentioning Linspire/Lindows, though they did early abandon the goal of running Windows applications out of the box, if I recall correctly. Additionally, ReactOS feels like it warrants a mention, even if not Linux.
no? they're talking about matrix.org, which is nothing whatsoever to do with https://www.operation-passionflower.com/
No, it is an unfortunate naming collision and has nothing to do with the Matrix protocol.

https://matrix.org/blog/2024/12/unrelated-cybercriminal-netw...
No, they're talking about this Matrix: https://matrix.org/

Relevant blog post: https://matrix.org/blog/2024/12/unrelated-cybercriminal-netw...
Hijacking a conversation to push your own agenda isn’t civil.
I agree with this latest comment of yours, and I think I know where you're coming from as counterpositioning to some things one reads online. It's definitely muddy, even the one I linked you was very complex during the following months, but was on the whole good - in my opinion. My parents and grandparents lived through it and would choose to go through it again as many many others.
Could we actually develop a serious 'fake Windows' layer to assist the hundreds of thousands of Windows-based organisations off Windows and onto Linux? Something which can seamlessly Wine the applications and effectively be free of all the Microsoft excess.

I'm not too in the know about why Windows to Linux transition processes usually fail in governments etc., however, it could be that a very adequate and seamless replacement would help a great deal.
Unless you know someone is trying to kill you it can be safer to give yourself a lower profile by not having security.
Or thanks follow the sun sres
There is no need for gun ownership. Vigilante justice is quite popular (both the idea as well as actual instances) in many poor countries (if not most). When dysfunctional or outright malicious institutions have pissed off enough people, you can expect the fringe to start lashing out with violence.
What proportion of DINKs versus Families live in the suburbs vs the cities?

The simple answer relates to raising kids - both in terms of safety/enrichment and in terms of basic things like school catchment areas, distance to young peoples amenities, and distance to the average friends house based on school catchment.
How is that the issue? Even then, if someone’s position is „this stock is going up“, betting on „this stock is going down“ is the opposite. How you’re doing that is an implementation detail. You can even go to a Bookie and make a bet about the stock if you want to, the point is inverting the prediction. The issue is whether there’s a clear inverse, which I would argue there is.
>Here's a mum

And "Nayirah" "saw" Iraqi soldiers murdering babies.

>I looked at a Russian channel

Which one?

>the thing maybe a bit propagandised

It wouldn't be the first time in Ukraine either. Far from the first time.

"He [the deputy chairman of the parliament regulatory committee] also accuses her [fired human rights chief Lyudmila Denisova] of having focused too much on media work, and on describing sexually motivated crimes in gratuitous detail as well as the raping of children in occupied territories. However, some of these accounts, he said, had not been verified, which had harmed Ukraine's reputation and distracted media attention from other, proven crimes and problems."[0]

If western media is telling us that something like the events from Brereton Report [1] (where Australian special forces were killing Afghani civilians) are happening in Kherson, there better be proofs.

[0] https://www.dw.com/en/why-ukraines-human-rights-chief-lyudmy...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brereton_Report
We all know the real money/use case here is porn and adult experiences
I remember expert systems being considered AI, so LLMs ought to meet that bar as well. They aren't AGI, though, which is a higher one, I guess. I'm not in love with the various terms and the various ways people define them. Even LLM --at what point is it "large"? In a rapidly changing area of both academic and lay understanding, it's understandable for terminology to be a bit unstable. I don't think it's reasonable to say LLMs do reasoning, however. Even when mimicking incredible feats of intelligence, they don't have a grasp of what is true or how truth flows from a set of facts to any other.
Synth strings sound like the original "string synthesizers" like the Solina String Ensemble (famously present in Jarre's Oxygene, albeit played on somewhat different instrument, and through a phaser). They tend to be scratchy, nasally, thin, etc.

Sampled strings cen be really convincing. Listen e.g. to https://vi-control.net/community/threads/phaeton-symphony-by...
"If people can't afford a house then they can easily look to other markets, they just don't want to because they feel entitled to "their county"."

Your comment is seriously detached from reality. If your whole life, job etc is located in one area, then moving far away for cheaper housing often isn't easy. It's especially hard for someone with a family.

UK and most other Western countries have high housing prices mostly because houses have become speculative assets for rich investors.
I think the only way to get a firewall that is truly worth a damn is to install OpenBSD on a machine with multiple NICs, then RTFM. I have been through so many vendors—commercial and retail—and found them all lacking.
Yes, that is correct. It's kind of a similar situation in the sense of "person does bad things with zero consequences and no one seems to care, until someone is fed up and takes action".
I've seen disdain for him coming from all political affiliations. Dealing with health insurance is a pretty universal experience that generates a pretty uniformity of feeling.
I thought the largest European company is making a miracle drug that is making fat Americans less fat?
NASA Graphics Design Manual (1976) [pdf]
>blood-sucking CEOs have a 1/10 chance of being assassinated. Don't you think that the regular expectation of this might make them a little less blood-sucking?

I get the point you're making. But I suspect it might just as easily go the other way: the 10% chance of assassination would justify having your security detail, probably paid for on the company dime, but affordable even if you're "only" making $10M/year. And once you have that candy shell and the "me against them" mentality, you might just go further with the bloodsucking.

IOW: Maybe the current situation IS tempered already. :-(
I wouldn't really calls someone like that criminally insane, though. Just perhaps a person with nothing to lose.