skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not OP but personally

- Always available over my network/wireguard without touching the phone or a cable. Wireless ADB over a tcp socket technically works but requires a USB cable to bootstrap when you use the phone as a hotspot like I do, nor would I dare open it up to the internet.

- Any number of SFTP clients rather than the limited ADB options

- Higher throughput than wired ADB (at least on my Pixel 6A over USB)

- I want ssh access to my termux environment anyway so may as well use it for file transfers too.

I only really use adb for app development, maybe the odd nslookup or android package management with `pm`
Right, it's collateral damage from blocking all internet sites containing the string, period. Why are we blame-shifting from the Chinese government?
No. What they did is worse. They abused their power to do the crime and evade prosecution. That's a much worse crime. It's a double standard. It undermines the entire authority system. It doesn't just harm the people they are selling crack to, it undermines the entire police system. Even a "single isolated incident" of authority abuse undermines the entire authority system.

Authorities aren't equal in the eyes of the law. They are held to a higher standard. Do I have to quote fucking Spiderman (Uncle Ben Parker)?: With great power comes great responsibility.

They should be charged with manufacturing schedule I drugs, selling schedule I drugs, AND conspiracy to defraud the {federal government,state of Florida,people of Florida,police}, and a bunch of other crimes. I would go so far as to say that such acts are those of treason. They acted in a way to undermine the trust of the American people, to undermine the justice system, to undermine the government that they are representing. It is unquestionable that they have caused a betrayal of trust.

I think this is a problem that we let slide due to apathy. But that's why I'm so pissed about this kind of stuff. It's because treason can build slowly, and even be explained away with "best intentions." But it is this slow slide that sows distrust to the institutions we have. It gives legitimate reason to be distrustful of these systems. And without going after bad actors or without holding them to a higher standard, this too undermines the entire system. I don't think you have to be draconian, but I do mean that if you get charged for selling drugs (as one charge of possibly many) you should be receive higher punishment than any non-authority person in a similar setting.
>with no right answer?

When the options are deny healthcare to someone that has paid you for healthcare and give them the healthcare, it's not morally grey.
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It feels dishonest to imply that software engineers and tech workers, broadly, are comparable to major USA healthcare CEOs in their perceived devilhood status on average. Major social media and tech giant CEOs, sure, but even then I think they might still be a little lower on the list.

And if you're not doing that, then your point doesn't seem to make sense in the context of the thread.
Where can one read archived Microsoft Knowledge Base articles?
It does as of recently.
Neither of those forms is sufficient information to solve a problem, except for a "guess what I'm thinking" puzzle.

You need:

sum(i = 0 to n) *f*(i)

and you'd like:

Example: f(0) = *a_0*, f(1) = *a_1*, f(2) = *a_2*

where the stuff in *italics* is given as a concrete substitution.
I personally don't see how these actions are logically correlated, and moreover, I don't think it does anything to harden US critical infrastructure to beat the Huawei dead horse again.

The primary concern should be the fact that we've built infrastructure that is easily eavesdropped on by foreign adversaries. Heck, assuming these users weren't on DSN, we already have a solution: DSN. We also have mobile solutions, like asking politically vulnerable people to use Signal, or developing secure technology for these users to use.
What if your making a short movie and driveway is playing in the background during a scene.

It's like everything else. It's just a tool.

You can create an entire movie using a high end phone with quality that would have cost millions 40 years ago. Do real movies need film?
Trust = Intent and Expertise: On Founder Fit
> People don't want to see arbitrary fake worlds or places on earth that aren't real.

Isn't there a multi-billion dollar industry in California somewhere that caters exactly to that demand?
Breaking news, a so called suspect has been apprehend and a 3D printed gun was found.

“He was in possession of a ghost gun that had the capability of firing a 9-mm round and a suppressor,” NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Monday press briefing, adding that the piece “may have been made on a 3-D printer.”
> We don't have enough livers for every transplant case; someone needs to say no to some of them.

That'll be the people (UNOS) managing the transplant list, which is sorted already sorted by severity and chance of surviving the procedure.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/13/health/liver-transplant-mom-e...

> More than 100 doctors at three of the nation’s top medical centers have weighed in on her case, which is complex and exceedingly rare. Their conclusion: The only way to save Erika’s life is to give her a new liver.

> After weeks of evaluation at the Cleveland Clinic in December and January, Erika finally got her big break.

> On February 2, doctors there approved putting her on the wait list for a liver transplant.

> But Erika hit an immediate wall. Her insurer, UnitedHealthcare, denied coverage for the transplant, saying it would not be a “promising treatment.” She appealed and was rejected again.
It's not clear to me what you want to replace from git then, it seems to me that you rather want to take concepts from git.
You were, I felt, robbing me of my rightful chances
My picture clear, everything seemed so easy

And so I dealt you the blow, one of us had to go
Now it's different, I want you to know

"One of Us" by Abba
I don't think that peaceful nuclear explosives (PNEs) were merely a public relations exercise or an excuse for nuclear testing. The USSR pursued them too and it was hardly beholden to public opinion. The US started testing applications for PNEs before there was any limitation on nuclear explosive testing. The USSR started PNE tests in the mid 1960s, after atmospheric testing was banned but before there were any treaty limitations on underground explosions. These are the respective projects for the two countries:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare (US)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_Nat... (USSR)

The engineering allure was basically the same as that of early atomic energy projects: nuclear fuel is much less expensive than chemical fuel, joule-for-joule.

In 1969 the International Atomic Energy Agency published an article "Possibilities for Peaceful Nuclear Explosives" that gives the flavor of this argument.

The nuclear explosion differs in equivalent size
from chemical high explosives by several orders of magnitude. A 25 kiloton nuclear explosive (TNT equivalent - 25,000 tons) may be emplaced in a cylindrical bore hole less than a metre in diameter; even a 1 megaton explosive charge (TNT equivalent - 1,000,000 tons) would not take up more space than that. On the other hand, 25,000 tons of TNT would require a spherical cavity, 30 metres in diameter. Even if that much TNT could be assembled in one place, its emplacement costs would be enormous.

Nuclear explosives are also relatively inexpensive. The US AEC has projected a charge of $350,000 for a 10 kiloton and $600,000 for a 2 megaton explosive. Equivalent TNT costs are, respectively, $4,000,000 and $800,000,000. Thus, even for "small" shots, potential economies are considerable, while for large ones, chemical explosives simply are not economically feasible.

https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/publications/magazi...

PNE programs never delivered on the early promise for a variety of reasons (including "there are few attractive civil uses for even a 10 kiloton blast") but those numbers certainly were alluring at first glance.

IIRC, India also had some early interest in nuclear explosives stoked by comparisons with TNT like that given above. One thing not highlighted by the AEC's numbers is that the costs were so low only because the US had already invested enormous resources into developing nuclear explosives for military purposes. A country starting a civil-only nuclear explosives program, with the aim of blasting harbors or whatnot with atomic bombs, would find that the conventional TNT route was much less expensive.
Forget video. Imagine what this going to do for video-gaming
Might be fake, but looks like he may have had a dead man's switch upload a YouTube video: https://youtu.be/bdhs9g3Wwg0
A bit one-sided since this event also shows how filled with backdoors American telecom equipment is, no? To the point an adversary used them, other nations should be afraid of their American equipment also getting compromised.
I'm weirdly not too surprised due to this belief I have that software developers would make effective criminals. A lot of this boils down to a belief I have that not getting caught in the first place is easy. Murders have something like a 50% solve rate and you can decrease your chances of getting caught with a little knowledge on how to evade common forensic techniques along with some planning. Those who get caught doing one crime or another either were dumb to begin or eventually got lazy and made a dumb mistake in hindsight.

Besides that though, the ethos that we have lends itself well to acquiring advanced knowledge in more-or-less all domains, crime and forensics included.
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My working theory is that OpenAI is the 'moonshot' kind of company full of super smart researchers who like tackling hard problems, but have no time and effort for things like 'how do we create an UX people actually want to use', which actually requires a ton of painful back-and-forth and thoughtful design work.

This is not a problem as long as they do the ChatGPT thing, and sell an API and let others figure out how to build an UX around it, but here they seem to be gunning for creating a boxed product.
A/B/C/D testing is the perfect grounds for that. You can keep automatically generating and iterating quickly while A/B tests are constantly being ran. This data on CTR can later be used to train the model better as well.
Exactly my thoughts as well. Every piece of evidence law enforcement has was basically intentionally provided by him. If he just stuffed his trash in one of his 7 pockets, or wore a pair of sunglasses, or didn't actually stare straight at the camera in the taxi like he was getting his school picture taken? I mean pretty much the only thing he failed to do was leave his business card at the crime scene.
Allegedly it has an LSP and vscode support but I also have never used either.

https://github.com/facebook/buck2/tree/main/starlark-rust/vs...
No way. Bezos had the ability to do the Jedi mind trick to convince wall st that billions and billions of capital investment was ok.

It’s also easier to sell massive datacenters when you’re good at building distribution centers and have low margins. VMware was a software company with that margin expectation. They tried a partner model that didn’t really work. The only other good option was something like IBM or Sun back in the day.

I lived it - my first job was a software company that primarily served call centers in a specific vertical. The customers wanted out of the phone business and online… so they offered the full package. Fast forward a couple of years and the dot-com bubble bursts, and the investment dollars and lines of credit dry up. The founder mortgaged his house to keep the place open 60 days to complete an acquisition, which ultimately went through and everyone did ok. Two years earlier, we’d all be millionaires. 3 weeks later, holders of worthless paper for a bankrupt company. Timing matters more than anything.
I want something that can take my ugly line drawing and make it a cool looking line drawing without distorting the main idea
Insurance companies aren't the main villain of the U.S. health system
Not him.
Do you think it is worth upgrading from the first edition? Does it update much of the old information? The new chapters alone are not really enough to sell me on buying, at least not until my first edition falls apart.
Check out the discovery on this barely-related lawsuit that revealed that they had specifically adopted a policy of denying covered treatment to addicts because they determined that that group was particularly unlikely to follow through with an appeal.

https://www.welcometohellworld.com/this-is-the-most-ghoulish...

The article is biased, as you should also be in the face of evil, but you can follow the links through and eventually get to the materials as presented in court if you're motivated.
> There doesn't seem to be a lot of fiction that features the Pinkertons prominently.

There's a long Clive Cussler series about the "Van Dorn Detective Agency", which is clearly the Pinkertons.[1] Willie Sutton, the bank robber, wrote of the Pinkertons, "They were as powerful as the cops, and much better organized."

Pinkerton, the company, is still around, but they haven't done much detective work since the 1960s. Now they're mostly a security guard service.

[1] https://www.bookseriesinorder.com/isaac-bell/
I'd happily sign up for 2FA for my banks if they used TOTP rather than SMS or their own janky apps.
Youtube can have a better system by having it be straight DMCA, such that claimants have to actually submit DMCA claims that can be counterclaimed.

the currently parallel system avoids claimants being held responsible for false claims
"No right answer" is a very common weasel phrase - technically correct sometimes, but clearly some answers are better than others.
Spotify has disabled Car Thing streaming devices
Technically it's amazing that this is possible at all. Yet I don't see how the world is better off for it on net. Aside from eliminating jobs in FX/filming/acting/set design/etc, what do we really gain? Amateur filmmakers can be more powerful? How about we put the same money into a fund for filmmakers to access. The negatives are plentiful, from the mundane reduction of our media to monolithic simulacra to putting the nail in the coffin for truth to exist unchallenged, let alone the 'fine tunes' that will continue to come for deepfakes that are literal (sexual) harassment.

Humans are not built for this power to be in the hands of everyone with low friction.
So Musk was right?
I'd prefer to have the battery outside the house, with a concrete wall between it and the house. Or just have it 10 feet away, like where you'd put a generator.
Growing up with Moby Dick
The problem is that I'm only theoretically harmed by things that unexpectedly succeed in phoning home, while I'm absolutely harmed by things failing to phone home when I need them to do so.

Dollars I have lost due to things phoning home against my expectations: Close to zero -- if not literally zero. (And close to zero time spent managing that.)

Dollars I have lost due to things failing to phone home when I want them to do so: More than zero. (And hours and hours of time spent trying to make them work more reliably.)
this dude makes some pretty cool content. he built his own fab. highly recommend checking out his other vids.
If you ask whether the sky is blue, the answer yes tells you that you did not speak to False, the answers da or ja on the other hand tell you nothing because either could mean yes.
The abstraction can clarify the boundaries and scope.

For example:

I'm thinking of a *number* between 1 and 10, for example, 3 or 7.

Is 1 allowed? Is 10 allowed? non-integers? Irrationals?

A definition and theorems can seem trivial, if you latch onto the first trivial example and treat it as the canonical situation. This is very common difficulty when learning intro abstract math.
I would recommend you don't use the phrase "all languages".
>a lot of financial incentive to buying items abroad and importing in your luggage

>very few exceptions

You've got it backwards. If you're an American you're probably traveling through freeports or low tax regimes like Singapore, UK, etc. and don't realise how regressive most regimes are. In places like Hungary, Angola, SEA -- where tax can be in the range of 30-50% you will be lucky not to be shaken down by a customs agent before leaving the luggage carousel.
"Amateurs backup. Professionals restore."
Shane Carruth (Primer) released interesting scripts for "A Topiary" and "The Modern Ocean" which now have no hope of being filmed. I hope AI can bring them to life someday. If we get tools like ControlNet for video, maybe Carruth could even "direct" them himself.
Typically the code requires 60-min firewalling of the garage.
Sawstop is really only about 2-3x the price of an equivalent saw. It's not 10x more.

The 100/200 dollar table saws are not really comparable (at a basic spec level, they're just not the same thing - 8" blades, smaller table, no fence)

Most reasonable products you would actually buy for a jobsite are in the $500 range. The same Sawstop is 1500. The cheap no-stand versions are $300. The same Sawstop is 900. Pretty sure they're targeting 3x as the price.
The key words here are "proper regulation". In an era where industries have captured governmental bodies, there will likely be no such regulation, and these tech companies will continue to siphon up resources and funnel them to a handful at the top.

A quote from the article is especially ludicrous:
> to benefit society by advancing scientific discovery, developing helpful applications, and tackling some of society's greatest challenges

You don't need a quantum computer to do this. We can solve housing and food scarcity today, arguably our greatest challenges. Big tech has been claiming that it's going to solve all of our problems for decades now and it has yet to put up.

If you want this type of technology to be made and do actual good, we need publicly funded research institutions. Tech won't save us.
He's currently indicted for criminal fraud. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/09/25/nyregion/eric-adams-...
What a fantastic thread! Thanks for all the comments + resources.
<3 <3
Never used it but seen it mentioned in that space: https://gamma.app/
"Climate Change is likely to mean more fires in the future, so we've lit a small fire at everyone's house to give society time to co-develop norms and safeguards."
> how about regimes where people think they have a right to other peoples life?

They have fewer bear attacks
> You can see that the company’s net income — i.e., its total profit — was $23.1 billion in 2023. That’s a lot of money, but it pales in comparison to the $241.9 billion that the company spent on medical costs.2 Even the company’s $54.6 billion in operating costs — of which Brian Thompson’s own $10 million salary represented 0.018% — are dwarfed by actual medical costs.

> What does this mean? It means that if UnitedHealth Group decided to donate every single dollar of its profit to buying Americans more health care, it would only be able to pay for about 9.3% more health care than it’s already paying for. If it donated all of its executives’ salaries to the effort, it would not be much more than that.

Than is still tens of billions of dollars and a material amount of care being diverted to comp and shareholder returns.

> But when we look at United Health Group’s operating costs in the diagram above, they’re only 22.6% of the actual cost of medical care.

Only! That’s between 1/4th and 1/5th of total costs!

The need to eliminate for-profit health insurance companies and implement cost controls (as mentioned at the bottom of the piece) can both be true.
And my core point is that most companies are shit shows. Employees know what bullet points they should have to minimize downside risk, but struggle with how to get those done while also minimizing upside risk.

In a world of scarcity, just keep communicating the tech debt. Maybe occasionally propose a project to address it.
Octrees are memory-efficient for this kind of thing.
This is cool. I suggest inserting a short delay at the end of the game, before you darken the board. You can have some confetti or something that would allow someone to review their correct solution.
Which seems likely to have been due to said maskless photo.
Plants do move and respond to their environment. A lot. They even are social. They've been shown to communicate with each other to signal that pests are attacking and their peers will increase production of pest repelling chemicals and stuff.

They just do all that at a much slower time scale than you're used to in your consciousness. I wouldn't totally discount plants having some form of consciousness at lower frequency.
Ok so the rich and powerful do sketchy things

What’s gen pops response?

…crickets…

Adam Smith is said to have written division of labor taken to extremes will turn humans dumber than the lowest animal

Hard to see how he was wrong. Low skilled individuals exist in a state of helplessness. Like turtles in their back. Can’t solve a problem; need a committee to form a problem solving committee.
> It is unlikely no one is going to perform act of terrorism with this, or any kind of deep fakes that buy Easter European elections. The worst outcome is likely teens having a laugh.

And the teens are having a laugh by... creating deepfake nudes of their classmates? The tools are bad, and the toolmakers should feel deep guilt and shame for what they released on the world. Do you not know the story of Nobel and dynamite? Technology must be paired with morality.
If they could force you to use a terminal with hardware issued by the bank, they would. This is the next best thing.

The website is a legacy option and it will be removed eventually. Already many banks require to use their app in order to sign in to the website or approve transactions. New "challenge banks" are app-first. For example, Starling Bank will not let you create an account without a Google or Apple smartphone.
Amurex is just objectively better ;)
I can't wait for the safety features because I know there are those in society that would do bad things. But not me, though. I'd like the unlocked version.
>unhappy customers

This is hideous.
It also answers not much, just changes the question. There's no known reason for all the matter to be over here, where we are, and all of the antimatter to be way over _there_ outside of the observable universe. If anything that seems much less likely than there just being other imbalances in which gets created (or which survives over time, etc.). The universe would have to have preferred absolute directions in which to throw different types of matter/antimatter? That'd be very strange indeed, based on what we know.
> But relying on large language models to socialize children, particularly neuroatypical ones, seems like a bad idea on every single level

I mean, yes.
This, and Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Address, are the two bits of prose that I find most moving and hold most dear.
Tesla Model Q is reportedly coming in first half 2025
The incoming administration doesn't seem to really be pro upregulating anything. In fact core members of their team believe the firefighters have had way too much political power already in building requirements, etc.
"People don't want to see arbitrary fake worlds or places on earth that aren't real."

What? This is 90% of the Instagram/TikTok experience, and has been for years. No one cares if something is real. They care how it makes them feel.

The audience for this is every "creator" or "influecner". No one cares if the content is fake. They'll sell you a vacation package to a destination that doesn't exist and people will still rate it 3/5 stars for a $15 Starbucks gift card.