skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's amusing to see the early signs of the anti-vax movement here. The history of that movement is long.

> Humans are built to thrive in danger, chaos and instability. I think a good chunk of humans go insane in a safe and stable environment and resent the things that allow them to live mundane, safe lives -- technology, medicine and rational thinking.

No, I don't think that's true. Humans are built to learn from experience, and one thing that vaccines do is eliminate the experiences that justify their use. That also makes the experience/knowledge of smaller dangers more prominent. For instance, a kid getting his arm paralyzed from the (now discontinued) live oral polio vaccine, looks a lot different if people are commonly getting worse paralysis from wild polio than if no one is getting wild polio at all anymore.

The other thing you should probably take into account when regarding a book from 1929, is the experiences people had back then with (often dangerous) quack cures promising miracles. For instance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Food_and_Drug_A...):

> By the 1930s, muckraking journalists, consumer protection organizations, and federal regulators began mounting a campaign for stronger regulatory authority by publicizing a list of injurious products which had been ruled permissible under the 1906 law, including radioactive beverages, the mascara Lash lure, which caused blindness, and worthless "cures" for diabetes and tuberculosis. The resulting proposed law was unable to get through Congress for five years, but was rapidly enacted into law following the public outcry over the 1937 Elixir Sulfanilamide tragedy, in which over 100 people died after using a drug formulated with a toxic, untested solvent.
> the squealing carcass called Gemini

Have you used Gemini? It seems every bit as good as ChatGPT.
People hate LinkedIn but it's my solution. I only "follow" former coworkers and ask how they are doing once in a while, and sometimes to have lunch at noon.

LinkedIn sucks unless you you restrict yourself to coworkers and IRL friends.
There's a comment on MetaFilter that has always resonated with me about the Church in America, which I'll copy here:

https://www.metafilter.com/80588/Jesus-who#2514085

The story of the temptations of Christ is a familiar one. After forty days and nights of fasting, the devil came to Jesus with three temptations. The first was to turn stones into bread, the second, to throw himself off the peak of the temple and have the angels catch him, the third, to have all the kingdoms of the world. We could summarize these as temptations be comfortable, to be impressive, and to be powerful. I am inclined to believe that those are also the three most common temptations of the church. Until recent years, the American church was offered each of those and gladly accepted them. Christianity was the default religion for the world’s greatest superpower—a position that should have made us tremble with concern that we were in danger of sliding off the path of self-denial that leads to the cross—but it seemed to occur to very few people that having such a position could be spiritually problematic. We built impressive structures, including dining facilities, recreation and entertainment centers. We turned praise and worship into a profit and star-making industry, and we gladly took our place in the halls of power. It seems that Satan offered us the same things he offered Christ, but we responded “Yes! Yes! Yes!” I doubt that the contemporary trends that are stripping away the power and prestige of the church are the work of the evil one—more likely it is the work of the Holy One, who is leading us step by step back to the paths of righteousness.
Would be trivial to implement API limits to prevent that. As a personal Kagi user I would love to be able to experiment with the API but I'm not gonna pay for it. But I guess since this is only available at their business tier I'm not the target user anyway.
One of the hard things to do when building a game is to figure out why it's fun. It's hard enough that, in general, most folks just remake another game that's already figured out the fun.

You're doing a math game, math gamified. Let's throw a choice in there.

Since you replied, here's one idea:

(1) present five numbers.
(2) You, the player, chose two numbers
(3) You perform an operation
(3.1) operation: add/subtract/multiply/divide, but perhaps exponentiation and modulo and lcm and factorize and whatever else. it's probably best to keep it simple.
(3.1.1) this can get random: what was the highest number last round? how many green letters are there on the screen?
(3.2) operations are tied to the special attacks,eg tier 1 attacks are add/subtract, tier 2 mult/div, and so on.
(4) you type in your answer
(5) if you type in an answer that's the correct result of an operation applied to two of the numbers, then you do the corresponding attack.

So it's not add these two numbers pass/fail. It's you decide what math you want to do, and can do, and can do in a time limit, and that achieves the effect you're looking for.

Anyways, it's always fun to make a thing.
Nice project.

Would be cool if there was an easy way to obtain the link to the actual video and maybe show the original title, description and username.
Marijuana is illegal in most of Europe. And we got the reason for that policy straight from Nixon campaign strategists: it made for an easy justification to crack down on and vilify minorities and left wing counter culture groups. So yes, they use Big Lie in europe as well.
Luanti (formerly minetest) is open source, written in Lua, has an API with mediawiki docs, and has a vscode extension: https://github.com/minetest/minetest

Luanti wiki > Modding intro:
https://dev.minetest.net/Modding_Intro

SensorCraft is open source, written in Python, and is built on the Pyglet OpenGL library (which might compile to WASM someday) https://github.com/AFRL-RY/SensorCraft

/? Minecraft clone typescript site:github.com
https://www.google.com/search?q=minecraft+clone+typescript+s...

/?hnlog minecraft:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32657066 :

> [ mcpi, pytest-minecraft, sensorcraft, ]

mcpi supports "Minecraft: Pi edition" and "RaspberryJuice" (~ Minecraft API on Bukkit server)

minecraft-pi-reborn is an open source rewrite of "Minecraft: Pi edition" that's written in C++. It looks like there's a glfw.h header in libreborn. Emscripten-glfw is a port of glfw which can be compiled to WASM. Glfw wraps OpenGL. Browsers have WebGL.

MCPI-Revival/minecraft-pi-reborn:
https://github.com/MCPI-Revival/minecraft-pi-reborn docs: https://github.com/MCPI-Revival/minecraft-pi-reborn/blob/mas...
I was hoping for something that's been manufactured more recently than 5 years ago, but I do wish that type of device had caught on better than it did.
There's lots of rape inside households. Most, even.

The only prescriptive, airtight solution is surgically modifying males so that they can't rape any more. Not a fan, but I suppose that depends on how certain we have to be that rape isn't occurring. How important is it to you?

We could do a halfway thing where we install cameras in every room of every house to gather evidence against rapists.

The latter is what we do with most digital communication platforms right now in order to try and track down CSAM.
Durov got arrested for not paying people specifically to watch those cameras and call the police.
For technical discussion:

This is easy to represent with double ledger accounting.

We have a customer ledger which in normal banking balances as a bank liability against the bank’s assets held in Treasurys or cash or whatever.

You seem to want a report of where you are allocating the customer funds. This isn’t possible in any sane way without having individualised accounts, any more than it is sane for me to ask my bank “Ok, I have $1,000 in checking, how much is held in short term assets of the bank, Treasurys, long term assets like mortgages held by the bank”? It’s not a reasonable question since they’re fungible.

If you truly want to hold FBO accounts at your banker’s bank then you do indeed create a hierarchy like this:

AwesomeFinTech:Assets:BoringBanks:JPMC:Clients:Jim
AwesomeFinTech:Assets:BoringBanks:BoA:Clients:Jim
AwesomeFinTech:Liabilities:Clients:Jim
AwesomeFinTech:Liabilities:Clients:Jim:JPMC
AwesomeFinTech:Liabilities:Clients:Jim:BoA

When you move funds into the FBO account (which is just the Assets:JPMC account), balance the transaction against both the liabilities and assets.

You can a report on the liabilities:client and see where the funds are.

If you want to see all your assets at JPMC for Clients, you can see that.

If your fintech fails and you need reports of all the funds at JPMC… easy, go dump the balances of all the JPMC:Clients accounts.
The vast majority of immigrants, atleast in the US, have been wholly converted to western ideals atleast by the second generation in my opinion.
Apparently included in spotify premium too, I'll add that to my list, thank you.
As someone who lived in NYC all the way from the early 80s up until 2 years ago and still has to travel there regularly for business, NYC is a lot closer to how it was in the mid-80s than any other point during that period.

Especially post-9/11 up until COVID it was practically Disneyland. You had little chance of being a victim of random crime in the vast majority of city neighborhoods or on the subway. That's certainly not true anymore. (Caveat: In 2009 I was drive-by shot at on gang initiation night on 96th St & Columbus Ave in Manhattan. Yes, it happened, but place and time are important factors.)

Also we've seen a return of large storefront vacancy numbers in Manhattan.

Where I live now people truly do not lock their doors. Most garage doors in my neighborhood stay open 24/7.
Global investigation exposes alleged billion-dollar Russian laundering network
The most effective propaganda has an element of the truth in it.

The usual tech argument I see in cases like this are about how important encryption is and how that can't be given up for law enforcement. That doesn't work so well here, because Telegram doesn't really have a good E2E encryption setup, just the reputation for it.

But even where that argument does hold, people being people, it's completely coherent for 90% of politicians to believe that this specific crime is genuinely the real cause, when the actual cause is something know only to ministers aware of certain state secrets.

For example, compare and contrast:

1. If the real reason is "this specific government is actually banana republic", governments doing this is bad and allows their preferred people to engage in further corruption and destabilisation of said government while spying freely on anyone who would oppose them.

2. If the real reason is "there's several dozen foreign governments and organised criminal groups who are all using platforms like these to try to destabilise us", then it's important to lie about it as much as possible so that those foreign governments and organised criminal groups don't catch on.

Encryption that a nation can't break, does not merely enable free association to organise democratically against the nation, it really does also allow various crimes against the laws of a nation. That includes this specific crime, but that being true doesn't require this specific crime to be the real reason behind the push.

I have absolutely no idea how this is all going to play out. States can't really function long-term if they permit encryption they themselves can't break, it's not stable; at the same time, economies can't function without encryption that foreign states can't break because that's unstable in a different way. And then there's smart dust, coming soon to paint tins near you.
You're leaving out bending the customer over the barrel come renewal time once services are migrated and there's lock-in.

And sorry bud, but the whole "operating independently" thing...I don't buy it. I've worked for too many companies that were owned by someone else and purported to operate independently. It's just a flat-out lie.
1 million USD at the time, but r&d was privately funded and both NASA and the soviets bought them rather cheap (~3USD per pen when bought at scale)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen?wprov=sfla1

That copypasta is an urban legend.
Large American social media platforms stand up to hundreds of data requests from governments, both foreign and especially American, every day. Get a grip.
That's the rational response, but in practice what we saw is that anyone who questioned the Covid vaccine was instantly labeled anti-vax. It didn't matter if they were fine with all other vaccines. It didn't matter if they just had Covid or had a complicating pre-existing condition. Anything less than full acceptance was shut down as anti-vax. They ruined the anti-vax label which was previously useful.
I completely agree. There's something really jarring about watching videos from this time, where things were just more candid in a way that's hard to describe. I only clicked through a few videos and I was smiling from ear to ear. People dancing in a club, a guy riding a homemade little dirtbike in the countryside, babies playing and kids riding bikes. They feel like home videos. It's beautiful.
> We don't even know that the killer got the right person.

The rest I agree with but this part we know, right? CEOs of Fortune 500 companies are not randomly gunned down... It 100% could have been anyone that committed this crime but they 100% got the right person...
Read the docs / documentation / API docs (and contribute)

Read the source

Write tests with test assertions and run them with a test runner

Learnxinyminutes > Lua: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/lua/

Learnxinyminutes > Python: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/
Or if you can get your hands on magnetic core memory, that might be neat
Depends on the detail. There are a few simple ones (eg flightlab).
Can you explain what you mean by "people who aren't against vaccine technology?" I'm not sure I follow given that RFK has explicitly said he is against vaccines and that no vaccines are safe and effective. [0]

===In July, Kennedy said in a podcast interview that “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective” and told FOX News that he still believes in the long-ago debunked idea that vaccines can cause autism. In a 2021 podcast he urged people to “resist” CDC guidelines on when kids should get vaccines.===

===“I see somebody on a hiking trail carrying a little baby and I say to him, better not get them vaccinated,” Kennedy said.===

===That same year, in a video promoting an anti-vaccine sticker campaign by his nonprofit, Kennedy appeared onscreen next to one sticker that declared “IF YOU’RE NOT AN ANTI-VAXXER YOU AREN’T PAYING ATTENTION.”===

[0] https://apnews.com/article/rfk-kennedy-election-2024-preside...
> This is impressive, but why are they all looking still like a video game?

Many of the current AI models have their roots in games: Chess, Go, etc.
Would that be, possibly, because:

- brighter headlights are falsely perceived to be of better quality, or,
- they are but more prevalent because of COVID economic downturn necessitating upsells, or,
- 2019 is simply 5 years ago, or,
- undocumented neurological long-COVID effect is affecting engineers?
CDDA for me at the moment, version 0.H Herbert was released last month.

https://cataclysmdda.org
The Pixel Canvas Shimmer Effect
It's not that opaque, it's recruitment. Basically same marketing as a univeristy. "We do state of the art research here. If you are a talented researcher who wants to advance the field, you'll want to work here"

Now, how Google plans to make money with all this bleeding edge research, that's the mystery.
This is so cool and something I’ve wanted for a long time, but it isn’t quite right yet (for what I personally want in an app like this.)

I am your target market, and I’d buy the lifetime /annual sub in a second if it had these features:

I want control of the SR sequence or, I want to know what SR algo you are using and know it is best practice model. The landing page says 4 sends, but that isn’t true SR.

The next thing, I’d want to see all of my “cards” or information pieces when I am logged in, so I can see and edit and delete and keep the database clean with a total view of content. The next thing I’d need (maybe you have this?) is for the email to effectively be a flash card, where the email content is the front and a link the email takes me to the “back” of the card so I can’t use cloze delete and other techniques. The last thing is bulk upload of content via a csv so I can bulk import mochi /anki / llm generated content.

I wish you luck with this and would (selfishly) encourage you to not ship so many different things, and instead encourage you to pick one and make it best in class for niche users like me who would spend and spend on premium solutions, but won’t spend on superficial implementations.
> another horse

Thank goodness
What led you to pick Ada? What was the development experience like?
Biden meets African leaders in Angola to advance Lobito railway project
For quite a while now David Holz of Midjourney has mused that videogames will be AI generated. Like a theoretical PlayStation 7 with an AI processor replacing the GPU.

But, I didn’t expect this much progress towards that quite this fast…
Apparently at USC the proportion of people on some form of aid is over 2/3.
I think it's just called AT&T PC6300. There are a bunch of variants but I'm somewhat confident it's in that family. The very high x-height and tiny, 45º slash are characteristic.
FWIW 22/7 and 666/212 are Rational approximations for pi.

You can write a script to find other integer/integer approximations for pi and other transcendental numbers like e.
Did not realize it was closed. When I was there maybe 15 years ago it was in quite a lot better state. Re-opening it at all, given all the pub closures, is a good thing. That it will more or less be kept intact is a big bonus.
You'll find that Republicans and deeply conservative people also care, quite deeply, about pollution and cancer.

You just have to learn to speak to them... And if you build consensus and mutual interest, they won't fight your agenda when the Democrats and intense liberals win an election.
Everyone Loves Policy as Code, No One Wants to Write Rego
Yesterday I laughed with my brother about how harsh people on the internet were about World Labs launch (“you can only walk three steps, this demo sucks!”). I was thinking, “this was unthinkable a few years ago, this is incredible”.

People of the internet, you were right. Now, this is incredible.
The only people who need to be in on the conspiracy are those who 1) see through the superficial narrative and 2) have any power to change the course of its implementation. I suspect that list is quite small.
I would never support violence against another… But it is very satisfying to see these executives finally get what’s coming to them. I expect we’ll be seeing a lot more of this over the next few years if trends continue as they have.
> Anything to avoid vaccination, but ivermectin and other risky drugs were no problem.

This sort of language makes problems worse and even further decreases trust.

Casting a wide net and calling ivermectin a "risy drug" when a quick search engine query will show it is used safely in humans as an antiparasite drug. When someone who is skeptical about vaccines reads these sorts of blatant falsehoods why in the world would they believe anything else you say?

If you wanted to warn people against using forms formulated for animal consumption then you could've just said that, instead you painted with a wide brush which justifies someone to not trust you.
The UX mitigations section is interesting. The shifting of the layout after the first render is mitigated by CSS animations. That works when you have a "sparse" design like what they currently have. For sites with high density such as Hacker News, too many CSS animations happening after the first render could be a bad user experience.

I'm also wondering how to deal with scenario where we introduce sorting by popularity. With the current design, User might see articles swap places after the first render.
Sure. Thanks for the conversation. If you're interested in the follow up, I have an RSS feed: https://home.expurple.me/posts/index.xml
I don't think they're saying it's a meritocracy, I think they're uncontroversialy saying that a playlist of songs with up-till-now zero plays would be a huge amount of garbage, e.g. poorly made FL Studio/Garage Band experiments, not even interesting music just kinda bad music.
Don’t try to “network”. Try to “attract” instead. People are jaded af these days.
Hiring well was always challenging -- now even more so with LLMs in the mix. Here's how we're approaching the issue. How is your org handling it?
I fear that there is no non-smartphone option on the market anymore.

I suspect you are right. I keep finding phones that pretend to be dumb phones but it often turns out they are running Android and that leads me down the hole of trying to find others that were able to use adb to mostly de-google and that's even less likely than finding results for my less popular ulefone.
HC2024-S1: High-Performance Processors Part 1 [video]
That's because you don't find joy in programming, you find joy in game design. Actually, game design can be automated too just the interfaces are not as advanced as cursor. We'll get there soon.
Luxury car sales plunge as buyers put off by S Korea's neon green licence plates
Do HMOs charge themselves fees?
> I ended up with a combo of CPU+GPU on networked PC's, which was better than nothing but not ideal.

The biggest constraint I've seen with scaling up these simulations is maintaining coherence of population dynamics across all of the processing units. The less often population members are exchanged, the more likely you will wind up with a decoupled population and stuck in a ditch somewhere. Since modern CPUs can go so damn fast, you need to exchange members quite frequently. Memory bandwidth and latency are the real troublemakers.

You can spread a simulation across many networked nodes, but then your effective cycle time is potentially millions of times greater than if you keep it all in one socket. I think the newest multi-die CPUs hit the perfect sweet spot for these techniques (~100ns latency domain).
Google DeepMind predicts weather more accurately than leading system
NetHack is alive, well and possibly a bit over documented:

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page
> The US spends over 17% of GDP on healthcare

It doesn't have to be 17%, it can be an arbitrary number because the ones who decide on the nominal pricing are the ones who make money on them being extremely high. These same procedures can in some cases cost even 2-3 orders of magnitude less - and not in another country but in the same hospital but with a patient willing to pay in cash.
After a few clicks I got a guy heating the tip of a screwdriver-like thing on a gas range and apparently attempting to de-solder some component off a PCB. Genius!
https://archive.ph/HYoQ9

>Sales of Bentley vehicles in Korea dropped 77 per cent year on year in the January-March period to 38 units
GitLab CI runners rearchitecture from Nomad to Kubernetes
The river I stand in is not the river I step in. (1)

(1) https://brandondonnelly.com/this-river-i-step-in-is-not-the-...
Cool project. Any benchmarks you can share?