skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a new word for "sortition" or does it have additional implications?
So... why are they harassing the dude's mother?
My take is that this is on a separate Ruby Ridge/anarchist axis. Hostile toward authority, they believe government (i.e. both political parties) and power structures are inherently corrupt. These beliefs have little to do with Democrat or Republican politics, but happen to align more with the right on a few issues (like gun control).
Great tip! But it only remove's Google's terrible AI summary, not AI generated content from showing up in searches, which is what the OP wishes for. A combination of -ai and before:2022-01-01 is probably the closest we can get to that
Yes, but they're also saying "A takedown request was issued to address this specific page". A fraud report to a domain registrar is categorically not something one does to address a "specific page", whether it's done by a partner or by them.
A Century-Old Law's Aftershocks Are Still Felt at the Supreme Court
Given that three of the four kinds of intellectual property are mentioned (and simultaneously conflated) in one statement, I think the author was trying for a satirical statement about intellectual property... but this falls hard into Poe's Law territory, I just can't tell if it was meant to be satire or if it was actually an honest belief.
> Does an oncologist "directly profit off of human misery"?

They profit off of providing treatment to human misery. A health insurance company profits off denying treatment. It's not that difficult to understand. But given that every reply from you in this thread has been pathetic and embarrassing defences of healthcare companies and CEOs it's clear you are not operating in good faith.
I'm all for increasing supply of doctors but uhh yeah, you really don't understand the dynamics at play here if you think "would be pretty easy to defeat monopolies in local clinics."

Here's a quick primer: You're a doctor in Podunk, Pennsylvania. UnitedHealthcare is the largest insurer in your region, like it is in most regions. Optum wants to move into your town. UnitedHealthcare will cut your reimbursement rates by 70%, requiring you to see far more patients per day, cut your staff, downgrade your equipment, and generally run a shittier business. Once you're finally on the edge of burnout and fully strangled, Optum will come in with a buyout offer. After the buyout (or after you go bankrupt and they just replace you), suddenly UnitedHealthcare is able to restore rates mostly to where they were previously.

Ta-da!

Note if you take the buyout and then regret it and want to break free: too bad. This deal came with an extremely rigid non-compete clause that they will absolutely actually enforce. FTC tried to get rid of these, in large part for this specific use case, but thankfully the American people (read: megacorps) have the GOP looking out for them so that was struck down.

What exactly does marginal doctor supply fix in this particular scenario? Pretty much nothing. All of them have to accept insurance and the vast majority of their potential customers are insured by the same very few insurers.

Re non-profits: I didn't say it "makes them behave better." I said it subjects them to different incentives. Don't strawman. Kaiser in particular is an exceptionally strong organization in pretty much every way except its financial performance. If you think being non-profit isn't a factor, you're just playing dumb.
and partly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertoys_Last_All_Summer_Long

Made into the film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.I._Artificial_Intelligence
I have used dreamhost forever and have had a lot of domains through them for over 20 years. Never had a hitch and excellent customer service.
> Also, in the solution article that now has been posted, it's compared to the statement "I have read all books on my shelf" with an empty shelf, which is indeed vacuously true.

Really? Any human I have ever met when presented with that statement would likely immediately point out that there are no books on that shelf.
I read that sometimes banking apps will not work if Developer Options is enabled. Is this common.
In general, people don't think in inflationary dollars.

2025 is going to be one heck of a circus... =3
That sounds awesome, great work trying to simplify the access to those features! Also thanks for the insights
I love myself a good Zelda reference
As I said, minimal to no JS. Something like HTMX or Turbo* is more than sufficient to solve this fictitious full page reload aversion that users supposedly have (they don't, they have much more of an aversion to endless spinners and websites that break their browser's scrollbars and back buttons). Ask the average person whether websites have gotten better or worse since 2014. That's their opinion of SPAs.

> But without framework you in the end just create a custom one

Only if you've only ever written React-style webpages, and can't imagine any other way a website may work. Which, needless to say, would reflect a very limited experience of the web.

* Or just a plain XMLHttpRequest call? Dynamic loading is exceedingly simple, and certainly doesn't require a convoluted web framework.
Not having to be scanning for threats 24/7 also frees up mental bandwidth for more productive activities.

We moved from a dangerous inner city suburb where that was the case, to the edges of an affluent enclave as a kid, and my grades improving and extra curricular activities like getting good at computers and getting a holiday job which kickstarted my tech career, all followed that move.
No, he's saying that predators tell their prey not to fight back.
Benjamin Pierce is entitled to his opinion, which you have posted over and over as though it were carved upon stone tablets. "One guy says that dynamic typing is arguably a misnomer" is not a strong case.

The Wikipedia article on type systems is well sourced and fairly well written:

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

It has this section:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system#Dynamic_type_check...

Here's a pull quote:

> Dynamic type checking is the process of verifying the type safety of a program at runtime. Implementations of dynamically type-checked languages generally associate each runtime object with a type tag (i.e., a reference to a type) containing its type information.

This accords with ordinary usage in the profession, agreeing with the person you're disagreeing with. You should read it. It provides no support at all for the argument that Python is untyped in any sense. It quotes Pierce several times, including the first citation, so it isn't ignorance on the editor's part.

You are advancing the argument that type theory, as you understand it (there being many paper-publishing respectable academics who do not agree with you on this), trumps type systems in practice, but other than insistence you give no reason why anyone should agree with this premise. Computer scientists aren't discovering laws of nature, nor are they writing proscriptive regulations as to how engineering should be accomplished or discussed. They have their own world and vocabulary to go along with it, but they do not have standing (as you do not) to dictate how terms should be used by others.

I don't accept that argument. If someone wants to make a narrower statement like "according to Pierce you could call Python untyped" I might question its relevance but I'd let it pass. Without such qualification, if someone says Python is untyped I will laugh at them and say "what's it doing when it throws a TypeError then, offering an opinion?". Or on a message board just reply that, no, it's dynamically typed, or unityped if you must, but untyped means something else. Which, indeed, it does.
I have no idea who the author is but that was the most beautiful blog
Post I’ve ever come across. I would be perturbed if didn’t know ai was used to help make the fish but I’m not trying to detract from my praise. Good post op
If I nonjudgmentally assumed you speak from personal experience, doesn't it also depend on the person, their sensitivity, vulnerabilities etc.?

I have a 3.5 year old toddler and it sure feels hard on my soul right now (he just behaved the worst he's ever behaved in daycare today, to the point that they had to isolate him... and this is me dealing with it after only 3 hours of sleep, since he also keeps waking up every night ever since he turned 3... "sleep regression" should be called "slow parricide via toddler non-sleep")
Because 16 people have starred his "Halite-III" repo
God, I hate this crap. Every damn thing on the internet now is some variety of AI slop. Every image is some generative garbage, half the text is the kind of stilted half-accurate wordy gpt garbage, and now I get to dodge a gazillion generated videos of things that would be interesting if they were real and followed the laws of physics and continuity, and I get to do all that while living in a post-truth society, because there’s just too much bullshit out there for the average person to bother to sort through. You’d think after 20 years of this crap nerds would have some notion that technology has consequences, but nope, there’s a shiny thing we could build, so we’ve gotta build it.
Love the hacker asthetic.

I do wonder if there is a practical reason to do it this way.

Custom PCB fabs are so commoditized at this point.

Is solder a good “wire” in this application?

Would neat wire bends on a breadboard, ala Ben Eater, serve the same or better purpose?

Maybe the turnaround on experimentation is faster when done this way? Definitely looks nice to be able to “set it and forget it”.

Either way I love the build and think it’s a super cool hack to solve their problem.
interesting, it may be able to reduce the space -- when one sides peice count exceeds the other, a win (or bad play) could be assumed or proven

that might reduce the search space enough to find an optimal play through to the start game...

that would be fun
Long enough you don't need to panic or worry.

Short enough that its reasonable to start r&d efforts on post quantum crypto.
It's too bad: they really should give prisoners like this computers with some limited access so they can work on coding projects. What else are they going to do with their time, after all? Perhaps they could spend it contributing to open-source projects and helping society.
Violence is very effective. The authorities use it to subjugate the population and the American military uses the threat of violence and the action of actual violence to keep the United States the way it is. Except when it is used by governments, it is often called defense and when it is used by the police it is often called 'keeping the peace'. Violence as a tool for revolution is quite effective -- only pacifism is strongly ingrained in us to make us "good citizens".
I assume you could dump a layer of epoxy over the whole thing?
Hi - author here - these compound returns are not guaranteed. I reinforce this point under health warnings.

Here the 6% compound returns is an assumption. If that's good or bad to use depends on the purpose of the projection. For long projections in medium-risk funds this might be a reasonable value - but it can also be far off, especially in the short-term.

I made a separate post that surfaces results from an assumed distribution of outcomes rather than a single value, called Visualizing Risk: https://calcwithdec.dev/posts/viz-risk/ (basically a monte carlo simulation)

Also, in my pension calculator example on calculang.dev you can change all the assumptions: https://calculang.dev/examples-viewer?id=pension-calculator (excluding tax relief bits - it's just an example)
might even be 10^35 ;)
You can absolutely extinguish a fuel fire early on if the tank has not ruptured. Sand, baking soda, water, dirt, blankets, all work. If the battery on an EV develops an entire short you are not extinguishing it. If it were available, the safest mechanism would be to push it into a hole and bury it
There are no guaranteed returns. Stocks aren't guaranteed to beat inflation, even over decades.

Now, my parents generation had truly guaranteed defined benefit pensions where their employer effectively backstopped their lifetime liabilities. That not being available today is "unfair" in my view.
Presumably he means those in power who say it because they don't want anyone to challenge their power.
The AMA artificially caps the number of doctors and hospitals we have to increase salaries and costs. So no it doesn't necessarily take more resources to do these things
Police lie all the time, but this is police _implying_ a lie. To me it (clearly?) read as if they were keeping their cards close to their chest, not saying either way.
Other folks have said “mixed languages” and “monorepos” and I agree; I’ll also add that it incorporates steps like building Docker/OCI images, tarballs, potentially even deb/rpm packages all in one place, and with the same sandboxing and deterministic reproducibility as you get with the base language rules.

Like, “I want an OCI image with these contents” gets you an image with the exact files bit-for-bit from the same source, every time. At least aspirationally.
Thank you to share that blog post. That blog post specifically mentioned that no data was lost. I am confused by your comment about durable backups. Deeper question: Do people think on-prem backups are more reliable than cloud? I would say for 95% of orgs: no.
TeamLab, Art's Greatest Sugar Rush, Is Building an Empire
You said yourself that you don't think proprietary tools can compete with the open source stack, so which is it? If Comfy is as good as or better than any paid frontend that Mochi themselves can come up with then there's absolutely no reason for anyone to give Mochi any money under their current license model.

Stability was supposed to be doing a similar "give away the models but sell products built on them" strategy and it doesn't seem to be working for them, by all accounts they're barely able to keep the lights on.
https://archive.ph/jnK8w
I don't know why you are being downvoted. My father was a cop, went through the academy when I was 15. I distinctly remember him explaining to me about how they are taught to lie to get people to cross their stories up.
The biggest reason I'm happy about this: while Starlink currently cooperates with local governments, that's not a technical limitation, and a flip of a switch would let every cell phone in a country have unfiltered connectivity. That's a powerful tool to have readily available, the next time an oppressive regime tries to prevent people from communicating and reporting.
All you encrypted communication from the 90s (SSL anyways) can probably be decrypted with classical means anyways. 90s SSL was pretty bad.
That code has the same problem that Colin Wright's explanation does. Your computation of the success rate explicitly uses the fact that you're between the two values, but till you've seen the second value you can't possibly know whether you are or are not and thus can't adjust your guess based on that fact.
I don't see the point. The Unabomber manifesto had nothing to do with bombs. It is a commentary on the state of technology in society and a commentary on leftism.
"Engineers are more likely to be terrorists" is different from "terrorists are more likely to be engineers".

You can imagine that engineering is a useful skill for terrorism and thus terrorist organizations might spend extra effort trying to recruit engineers. They may also have a higher survival rate working on behind the scenes tasks rather than firefights and suicide missions, which could cause a survivorship bias in data collection.

(It's also interesting how many foreign leaders and dictators have engineering or science degrees, and/or went to US universities prior to becoming leading figures in their home countries.)
The way this portrays tax relief as increasing your returns is quite misleading. Tax relief only improves your retirement if the marginal rate of tax on your contributions is higher than the marginal rate of tax while in drawdown.
> Distinguishing reality from fiction is useful, but it doesn’t shape our desires or define our values. As a culture, we’ve grown colder and more detached. Think of the first Dracula film—audiences were so shaken by a simple eerie face that some reportedly lost control in the theater. Compare that visceral reaction to the apathy we feel toward far more shocking imagery today.

Huh? The first half of this contradicts the second. We haven't "grown colder and more detached", we've adapted to the fact that images are no longer reliable indicators of reality. What we do and don't value in the real world hasn't changed.

> And we will soon be eating unimaginable mountains of artificial content cooked up by dream engines tuned to our every desire and whim.

Always has been. Multi-channel TV was already that, and attracted the same kind of doomerism.
Yet, violence is constantly used by governments and countries. If it is not effective why are the only surviving countries the ones who which have been willing to use violence?
Here's my guide on when to use bazel, that I wrote back when I was at Earthly.

I think it's still very representative.

https://earthly.dev/blog/bazel-build/
Magna-tiles are great. A very tactile building toy, accessible and safe for younger kids (ie no small parts / choking hazards).

https://www.magnatiles.com/product/magna-tiles-classic-100-p...
Do all apps support notifications? What would I lose if I switched to GrapheneOS from a Pixel?
Added sugar intake and its associations with incidence of cardiovascular disease
So what happens if you leave tomorrow? Will your team be able to pick up where you left off?
That is definitely not true.
Ted K's book is a lucid commentary on technology and society and recommends the dismantling of technological society. Not sure why it would be considered "edgy".
And it's already harmful in some cases. E.g. people drag people out of a crashed car because they think it's going to explode, sometimes seriously injuring them.
TCC and the macOS Platform Sandbox Policy
My comment wasn’t about political capture, but about the capture of the courts by the wealthy class. Apologies if that wasn’t clear.

The reality is that the courts have long struggled to hold wealthy and white-collar criminals accountable—unless, of course, their actions harm other wealthy individuals, in which case the system can sometimes swing into action.

This issue isn't unique to the United States either; it’s a broader problem where the justice system often fails to address the crimes of the privileged while disproportionately impacting lower-income communities.
Brown tried to free slaves, this guy murdered an innocent man in cold blood while leaving his children traumatized in order to make a (confusing) political statement
What's the difference between "profiting off of denying treatment" and "minimizing healthcare spending"?

Is minimizing healthcare spending unethical?
No, not at all. You're extremely unlikely to win a shootout in the event law enforcement catches you, and having a gun makes it much more likely you get arrested and convicted. But even if a gun seems worth it, it should absolutely not be the famous murder weapon you just used! I mean, JFC, keeping the distinctive murder weapon on himself was either incredibly dumb or something shady is going on with the story.
That wasn't the statement I was replying to, though?

Please re-read the thread, without injecting your own pre-conceived notions into it? The statement was simply this:

"Because my business is my business and nobody else's. Full stop."

When it comes to being in public or at a grocery store, this is simply untrue. Being in public involves interacting with other people, at which point it inherently ceases to be just your business, and starts to be others', too.

That entitles them to some amount of say in it, however small it might be, depending on the context.

No where did I say anything about the degree of surveillance?
Probably an old whois record.
1. This guy has a tight alibi and the shooter is elsewhere.

2. This guy has a terminal illness.

3. This guy is bankrupt after healthcare debt + buying backpacks.
Much higher in Germany? Ouch
I think the objectivity here is that it is what the artist intended.

Not true anymore for modern pixel art, which is often an art style intended for modern displays, and it is sometimes combined with high resolution images and transforms.
Not to be too dismissive, but the title text of this xkcd [0] seems relevant. No matter how nice the explanation is, the fact that the conclusion is wrong suggests that the reasoning has a flaw. I took a stab at what I think that flaw is when I responded to your rebuttal [1].

[0] https://xkcd.com/2217/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372285
You'll note I used terms Like "leftists" and not "Democrats" (as you do) because those are completely different things and my word choice was intentional.

There is no significant leftist movement or momentum in the United States. None. Your choice is between far right (Republican) and center right (Democrat). Both are (neo)liberals. Both are capitalists. Both are united when it comes to US foreign policy. As of the last election, both parties are pro-death penalty (it opposition to the death penalty dropped from the Democratic Party Platform in the 2024 election). Both support the current private health insurance system that most people are angry about.
Given enough resources dedicated to hunting you, it doesn't seem that easy to be sure, considering how many cameras there are, how easy it becomes to narrow down DNA considering services like 23andme etc.

Most murders wouldn't have this much resources dedicated to it though.
I’d be open to ideas of reform. But so often the hot-takes I read online about “THE COURTS ARE RIGGED!1!1!” is simply one of disliking the ideological composition
I don't think this is true. How many popular movies are war movies where the heroes are most certainly not pacifists? Even the movie starring a real-life pacifist (Hacksaw Ridge) is about how he, too, fit into the war machine.
To do what? Replay? Just curious on an attack vector.
They once built a robot bee that could waggle-dance inside the hive. The bees eventually started listening to it. You could put on an Oculus, and go dance-talk to them remotely. There are like 5 words in their grammar with which to communicate one idea... where to find the nectar.

But the truth of the matter is they need someone to babysit and check up on them once in awhile. Make sure they're free of mites, that the colony isn't going to be unbalanced (that they might need a new queen, if something went wrong, or there's not enough brood in the comb). Wear a beekeeping suit. No reason to dislike them, they appreciate flowers, make candy, and twerk-to-talk. Seems like they're the good guys.
It sounds like he had a mental break. Not saying he didn't have good reasons for doing what he did, but the twitter detectives posted that his family and friends have been looking for him for the past 6 months.
I agree with you.

At the same time I am curious in the "that person has too many fingers" sense at what a system trained on tens of thousands of movies plus scripts plus subtitles plus metadata etc. would generate.

I thought about it for a bit and I would want to watch a computer generated Sharknado 7 or Hallmark Christmas movie.
Anecdotal, but all the 2-9 year olds who's party's we attend are at similar places to what you describe, but specifically NOT ever Chuck E. Cheese. It's usually a bouncy place, or dave and busters, or a special rental party place of some type.
Win me an Academy Award
Show HN: Downloadable AI Musical Instruments
Generate soundfonts from text descriptions using latent flow matching. You can then download the complete SFZ soundfont package to use the instrument locally.
This would certainly make me leave the platform. I've already deleted Medium, Github, and several other platforms for promoting or tolerating AI.