skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did the cop get your mom's phone number?
I did it for you (using AWS compare faces)

Full face pic compared to taxi pic: 81.94% similar

Full face pic compared to hotel pic (not smiling): face matches not found

Full face pic compared to hotel pic (smiling): face matches not found

I am guessing the quality of the hotel pics I found online is too bad for a good test and/or biometrics work better comparing eyes than other face features.
Sounds like a layperson's poor understanding of an explanation from someone else who also doesn't really get it.
In some states, under certain circumstances, yes.
Mars does have the largest known volcano in the solar system.
Bitcoin enabled accelerated de-dollarisation
For society to move forward to a brighter future, we need to move away from the dollar standard of global trade.

Bitcoin as a catalyst for de-dollarization? is it possible ?

I am looking for ideas on how can we leverage its decentralized, censorship-resistant nature to accelerate the shift towards a more equitable global financial system.

Let's discuss!
It's quite simply about efficiency.
Yes, efficiency for his businesses and interests.
> that many of those with the lowest intake of treats were on a diet due to bad health

I haven't read this study, but any study that isn't complete garbage normally would examine the to groups across all variables (age, gender, weight, health, etc) and deliberately control for any systematic differences between groups.
Looks like we don't have a choice.
or, he didn't think he would get caught and his plan to was move on to victim #2.
"It's Going to Be Epic": The Oral History of James Cameron (2022)
Yes, that's what I'm trying to say. Obviously anybody who goes to the trouble of penning a manifesto is a hero/protagonist in their own narrative. When they see that their acts have captured the attention or even admiration of a significant portion of the public, the urge to stand up and say "I'm the one who did this great deed, and here's why" will often overpower the instinct for self preservation.
Probably a concrete block wall.
Lotta folks like that online, STRONG feelings but it’s not at all clear if their opinions are thought through… lots of sentiment and mismatched identities.
How is progressive environmentalism different from normal environmentalism?

I don't see that the mission of Tesla is any different from when it started. What's the new mission?
Using regulatory capture to further your own economic interests is still pro government, it's just that it's a government aimed at meeting the needs of a very small number of oligarchs rather than the majority of the population.
1) Not comparable crimes. One happens in broad daylight in front of everyone, and the other is an almost always a case of one person's word against another, and unreported.

2) how many prosecutions do you think there are for shoplifting? I'm genuinely interested to know, and couldn't find it.

3) Even if you ignore this, the public cares a lot about shop lifting! you dont need a judicial capture conspiracy.
Yeah, the timing is a question I still have. At first it sounded like he was only there a few minutes before the CEO appeared. Later information sounds like he might have been hanging around outside for longer. I haven't seen a knowledgable evaluation of how plausible it is that he would have known where Thompson was going to be based only on public information.
I also like supporting a Ukrainian company. Only downtime I had was when their offices were being bombed, and they were quick to both restore services and make their infrastructure resilient to future such… interference.
Has it?

It is a gambling term, most VC funded startups are gambles, AI ones particularly so, it felt apt.

perhaps it correlates to a raise in investing that no longer is based on sound fundamentals in both traditional and new age assets(like crypto) perhaps makes people identify more with gambling.
Of course. Movies are an outlet to let off steam. We experience the violence in the theatre that is increasingly precisely because the pacified masses need a strong outlet to escape the lack of recourse for injustice in the real world.
>>which will influence

which <could> influence
> ... [debanking] often gets conflated with declining to open an account for a person or a business ...

A reasonable perspective. But the obvious follow up is what one pithy word should be used to describe this activity? The proffered terms (offboarding, derisking) are being suggested by the industry with an obvious political motive to minimise the significance of what they are doing.

There is an ongoing war against the pornography industry that has been waged in part through payment processing. The entire thing is an intense mish-mash of poverty, wealth, politics, drama, technology and major social forces clashing with each other. It isn't appropriate to talk about that sort of action in bland terms. There is an attempt being made to sculpt society by leveraging the financial system. The implementation details of that isn't "offboarding" or "derisking" - it is much more in the spirit of a word like "debanking".

I'm with the activists on this one. It makes more sense to redefine the word debanking to cover politically motivated (or even motivated by business-logic) denial of a bank account. These are not bland administrative decisions.
I'd be interested to know how many people around here pay for ChatGPT. Is it common? I would have thought technical people would be choosing AI tools other than chatGPT. So you use it mainly for coding? Or are you chatting with it and doing all those "fun" things?
> because you know you literally did nothing to deserve it.

This greatly underestimates the level of vanity. Look only at the number of people who inherited their wealth, or received substantial financial support, yet still consider themselves self-made. I would also expect this to concentrate deistic thinking as people with a religious mindset will see being chosen as God's will and use the gained power to reinforce that.

I don't think I'd want to live in a country governed by the Dunning-Kruger effect. (Or maybe I already do?)
There was a team of analysts going through all the companies programs and finding any instance of dates, which took them quite a while to do. Once that was done it was a combo of new work and work to update the affected programs. My team was very affected as it was the collections and queuing team. Collections of course is people going into collections due to non payment. Queueing is the different queues you put accounts into: 30 days past due, 60 past due, etc. all of that broke when the date changed as all accounts were way past due and put into collections.
> are there any other languages that support both single and double quotes for string literals?

Yes, quite a few like Python, PHP, Fortran, COBOL, Lua, R, Ruby, Perl, Bourne Shell, Dart, Groovy, etc.

Though some only interpolate with one or the other.
itch.io is over 10 years old, so my guess is that the owner was living with his parents when he registered the domain, and he never bothered updating the WHOIS when he presumably moved out in the intervening decade
"I'm a Substack Author and Lemme Tell You How I'm Going to Make It About Me This Time."
He sounds very confused, and reminds me of the kid who tried to shoot Trump.
The objective of the killings was to get the manifesto published in mainstream media. If you actually read it, which I'm guessing you didn't, then you'd see that Ted K did not really advocate random killings. He was concerned about taking down industrial civlization entirely.
The three possibilities I see:

1. He wanted to get caught

2. This isn't him, and they're framing this guy

3. He figured the safest place to have that stuff was on his person, but then why go and get arrested at McDonald's? To be fair I don't know about that interaction.

I don't buy 3 because there were so, so many places to ditch shit between Altoona and Manhattan. The Susquehanna for starters.
Plot twist, he hates McDonald's.
Three things:

1. Unless we're strictly talking about static meshes (such as for scenery), building out the rigging/animation for garbage topologies is going to be absolute hell.

2. Your performance POV was for ONE mesh, but if your quad/triangle count is 10x higher than it needs to be, how well is it going to scale particularly on low-end gaming platforms?

3. Lighting/shadows/reflections can produce some pretty UGLY effects when your surface polygons are a mess.
Reliable, repeatable coincidences like that are called "skills".
I'm impressed. I used layer diffusion to make this low poly airship: https://image.non.io/b3f843be-b1b4-468a-a0ec-9d58b191beee.we...

Which resulted in this: https://video.non.io/video-2732101706.mp4

Honestly not bad at all. Getting to the point of being able to use this as game assets.
Language is descriptive not prescriptive.
This fits.
Musk said there are over four hundred federal agencies, that's more than the number of states.
> For society to move forward to a brighter future, we need to move away from the dollar standard of global trade.

I can't see why. So far it seems like the dollar and the power it wields is an enormously positive force of accountability and peaceful coercion. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency became much less effective as vectors for crime when they instituted standard KYC policies at the exchange level. Bitcoin would be safer for its users and society if it looked more like the dollar.

Bitcoin itself can't operate as a standard of trade for multiple (plainly apparent) reasons:

1. The Bitcoin ledger is effectively unusable outside of L2 networks due to gas fees and tx latency

2. Mining difficulty spirals will kill Bitcoin long before the dollar collapses

3. There is nothing protecting Bitcoin from petty private interests because it is all petty private interests
Probably all the mail bombings.
Sora makes movies less interesting, regardless of how they're created.

The part made by Sora? About as interesting as the latest chess programs doing well at chess. woohoo/nice job.

The overall effect? Now we spend mental energy trying to figure out which parts are machine generated, and hence not worth anything. That mental energy is gone, sucked out of the cultural economy, and fed to the machinery of mediocrity.
If you want to make an argument about inflation metrics being wrong, feel free to show your data and math.

Claims that inflation adjusted bonds don't actually track (average) inflation need evidence.
This is also why the state apparatus like it incite violence in the opposition, this gives them authority to respond with violence.

Nonviolent protest and organizing is more dangerous because it could quickly become a populist movement. A small group of people incited into violence, is already fringe and can be quickly suppressed.
Regarding the title, "Software developer arrested in connection with murder of healthcare executive," what is the significance of him being a software developer and why is that relevant to the assassination? "Software developer" is not even mentioned once in the article. Is this BBC article the wrong link? Am I missing something?
That is true but a 0.001% chance of causing novel problems is effectively zero for most people.
The Blair Witch Project was a (surprise) creative masterpiece. It worked with very limited technology to create a very clever plot which was paired with an amazing marketing. The combination of which the world hadn’t seen before. It took some creative geniuses to peace the Blair Witch Project together.

Generative AI will never produce an experience like that. I know never is a long time, but I’m still gonna call it. You simply can’t produce such a fresh idea by gathering a bunch of data and interpolating.

Maybe someday enough AI will be good enough to create shorter or longer videos with some dialog and even a coherent story (though I doubt it), but it won‘t be fresh or creative. And we humans will at best enjoy it for its stupidity or sloppiness. Not for its cleverness or artistry.
Discussion (797 points, 10 hours ago, 350 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42367649
journalist (staring at his sandals) > flip-flops? you mean like the ones with the strap thingy that goes between your big toe?

ti communications director > well, no. not that kind of flip-flop. a flip-flop is a circuit which maintains a single bit of state.

journalist (furiously scratching out some unseen notes) > what kind of state, like state of matter or like in government?

ti communications director > for example, lets say we need to keep track of whether the state of some electronics is in sleep or power-down state or not. you could store that information in a flip-flop.

journalist > so the power knows which way to go?

ti communications director > sure. why not.
It doesn’t matter what the brass say when giving orders. If the officer says the magic words during debriefing (after the shooting), he gets off scott free.

What are the magic words? I don’t know them, but I know that the lawyers who work for police unions know them and the trainers who train police officers drill those into the heads of officers.

The core problem with the jurisprudence: if a reasonable officer had a fear for themself or for members of the public, then fatal shootings in the line of duty are usually justified. The objective facts at the scene don’t matter; only the officer’s perception. If only all citizens were given the same rights…
Most Americans are happy with their health insurance:

https://www.kff.org/private-insurance/poll-finding/kff-surve...
Maybe they fixed it since your comment, but it worked perfectly for me on Chrome on Android.
People act based on incentives and disincentives. As of 2024, there are big incentives to cause great damage to society at large for pure personal gain in a manner like this CEO, with no disincentives.

This brings back a potential disincentive, and is what has been incredibly sorely needed.

The French revolution is often brought up here as a case that is supposed to show that this kind of violence leads to horrific outcomes. This is ironic as on the whole, its results were fantastic. Reason being that it didn't just affect France - all over Europe, the monarchies were suddenly much more willing to restrain their power and care a lot more about the peasants.

This is exactly what is needed. This doesn't have to happen to every similar CEO to have an incredibly positive effect.
this is silly, though. If the kids are in "adult" areas then they're still not going to see ads for lucky charms because lucky charms isn't marketed for adults.

and the several posts "an it harm none do what thou wilt" on this topic are silly too. My breath takes oxygen out of the atmosphere. Me drinking a glass of water takes that water out of the ground (or stream, or lake), making you unable to drink it. Every footstep changes the terrain.

It sounds good in text form "as long as they're not harming anyone but themselves" but what about smoking? assume someone lives alone so they're not second-handing anyone else, they're still a burden on the system. there's still poison being sprayed on tobacco crops, diesel being burned to harvest and transport, plastics being used to manufacture the cigarettes, and so on. There's external costs to literally everything except living in a log cabin made from local logs in the middle of a forest and only foraging and hunting for food. And even then i am sure i could argue that has unbalanced negative externalities.

If you're going to attempt to make a point, make sure it makes sense from more than one angle, first.
Yup, this is why you always shut down instigators at protests. Could very well be an agent provocateur.
You aren't going to gain much by arguing with Curtis Yarvin.
1) The changes there are changes _within_ the system. That narrative only covers changes that are compatible with the industrial capitalist system. Indeed, the author focuses only on "transition to democracy". But I'd argue that nonviolent push for capitalism already has capitalism as a foregone conclusion because it is also more efficient, so even "doing nothing" can often bring it about.

2) Therefore, one could say that nonviolent action is most effective and bringing about the current corporate-controlled system.

Of course, that makes sense. But let's say you want to take down a corporate-controlled system. Then violence is likely to be much more effective.
Advisory is not IN.
I would hope that a build system for 20 people takes zero time to maintain.
1) I always read this publication's name as "Frontier Sin".

2) "Added sugar intake was positively associated with ischemic stroke and abdominal aortic aneurysm, although the highest risks of most outcomes were found in the lowest intake category."

????
Depends how you define betterment. I'd say putting society under global capitalism was worse for society (especially native tribes, but everyone I'd argue).
I don't know if this has been posted already, but here is his manifesto

https://archive.is/2024.12.09-230659/https://breloomlegacy.s...

Sounds like both he and his mother were suffering from chronic pain and UHC dicked them around and refused to act in good faith
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Yeah, I feel the same re: NY Times. But thats because (iirc) the model was reproducing large parts of their articles word-for-word.

But so long as chatgpt doesn't reproduce any of its sources word for word, I don't think its a problem. Especially since cookbooks have been doing the same thing for centuries.

At least, I think that's where I would draw the line. But I agree - we're in very new territory. Who knows what a judge will think.
>Law enforcement should do their job and investigate crimes, rather than outsourcing this responsibility to financial institutions and effectively forcing them to be the "judge, jury, and executioner."

Think there have being big pressure from banks and financial institutions to centralize power. AML laws seems just a way for the regulators to do it.
Wonder what this means for totalitarian states. Currently China, North Korea and others make it too burdensome/dangerous to access certain sites. If a citizen has access to electricity and compute, they can get crypto, and with crypto could potentially (eventually) get cell to starlink? If it becomes easy and affordable enough (E.g. in 5-10 years), potentially become accessible to the masses.
Could stand your ground and self defense be a legal defense for assaulting C level execs of immoral companies if the grievance is life threatening? Or would that finally get conservative states to step back from stand your ground?
One too many retros
I generally agree but think it’ll depend on how sympathetic his case is and what defense he tries. I believe New York juries have to reach a unanimous decision and if he had one of those insurance horror stories it wouldn’t be unheard of for at least one juror to feel sympathetic to, say, a provocation defense and only find him guilty of lesser charges.
You can model a lot of basic physics through observing 1,000,000 videos
The Shepherd 1.0.0 released
For clarity, are you talking about the dead UHC CEO? You're right, I nor anyone I know ever gave him the authority to lead the highest healthcare claims denial rate in the industry and it's super gross that this kind of thing is allowed. If you pay for insurance, you should be able to use it.
Sorry, too late to edit, I see you're describing how you know your choice was good/bad (I thought you were describing a probabilistic choice).
My point was that GP's assertion that "Worth noting also that dividends aren't uniquely taxed" is wrong - they are uniquely and specifically taxed, the rate just happens to currently be the same as capital gains rates.
> Some of these rules are defined in physical laws, like the properties of gravity, magnetism or the potential energy stored in the chemical bonds of potassium nitrate.

yikes. assuming that this is legitimate and the suspect is the shooter, the implication behind that statement makes me think there are a lot of people who lucked out when he chose to use a gun.
There is not much evidence that it does any unique harm when you calorie-match it to regular sugar.
Cool. Liked the risk visualization too.
Those “bytes” are necessarily reliant on magnetic dipole moments in physical space, and when operated upon instantaneously to convert into electricity to sustain a self-certain predestined architecture of electrical instructions sequenced through super-sophisticated wires etched. The completion of the circuit is what software code executes in a logically cohesive patterning of the voltage operations of the embedded transistors at nanscopic levels of switches of 0s,1s, and -1s in relation to human measurements of electric charge loads, capable of being transmitted through physical space to coordinate the next electrical movement in said wires.

It’s taken me a lot of years to get that figured out. Heh.
Russia can buy US chips, but I can’t read this article.
> the US government actually has powerful levers at its hand to force his cooperation if necessary

The scenarios you put forth here are effectively not happening. This is not a communist+dictator state (where this is much easier) nor does one branch have the power to unilaterally decide this.

The only time nationalization of a private service should happen in our country is wartime, specifically WWIII has to happen and on US soil. WW2 never saw this, nor did it need to.
If you have to spend mental energy trying to figure out which is which solely to blindly and automatically disregard something, maybe there’s useful stuff there to enjoy instead.

I certainly don’t dislike all the cool movies where special effects are CG just because the old time stop motion artists from 1950s Flash Gordon aren’t using sparklers. Similarly I’m not going to discount new creation that can be enjoyable no matter the provenance.
People on HN refuse to see this being an option in these discussions. Is either "cloud" or "build and manage your own physical rack inside a colo housing"
Does not surprise me at all - just because too much of something is bad for you does not mean that some amount of it isn’t essential for bodily function.
Logically, he had a mental breakdown post surgery with all the characteristics and data trail leading to the outcome. However tinfoil hat goes on, his station in Hawaii/Japan and background indicate he may have been recruited by the agency and was completing a task, and/or is just taking the fall on behalf of some random guy who actually committed the crime and is already in a black site.
> Musk said there are over four hundred federal agencies, that's more than the number of states.

That's a silly way to weigh your decisions and valuations. "There are more than four hundred federal employees, that's more than the number of states."

The number of agencies is itself mostly irrelevant, it's their individual size, effectiveness, and appropriateness that matters. Do all of them need to exist? Almost certainly not. But do we need to cut it down to one per US state? That's an arbitrary and useless target.
Yep, I'm aware. The question you asked was about the Go language designers ignoring the fundamentals, which is the root cause of this situation today where fundamentals can't be bolted on to the language later