skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's not wrong about America's sordid obsession with violence, but conflating the public reaction to Brian Thompson's death with public lynchings of black Americans is beyond tone-deaf. People aren't celebrating his death because they're hateful bigots; they're celebrating his death because he was the top dog of a system that has personally hurt them. He hit first.

For a piece about violence, you think he'd at least mention the corporations who turn a profit by deciding who lives and who dies.
>It seems only russia shows some interest in them

Used to show interest. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, most of that's just been a dumpsterfire.
It also defeats Goodhart's law. A little anti-meritocracy might be a good thing; the word was invented for a book about why it's a bad idea to do it.
Yes, North Koreans are clamoring to use this. /s

Things like this are paraded around as helpful for people in oppressive regimes when in reality they're more useful for building a bigger surveillance state in the West.
It's not Dunning-Kruger, it's because engineers have a very black-and-white view of the world. When they're engineering something, either it works according to specs or it doesn't. Also, engineers tend to be more religious and conservative for some reason; this is very different from scientists who are the opposite. I think this all works together somehow to make engineers more prone to extremism, to try to force the world to act the way they think it should.
Not to dump on Hetzner here, but we have no idea if these T&C's are even applicable by local laws in Germany/Finland/Arstotzka/etc. Many less reputable companies put all kinds of unenforceable bullshit into their T&C's.
UL is also not the be all and end all. You can build a UL certified pack with pretty shit cells. The most important aspect of a good battery is just use good quality cells that don't blow up.

LG produced a bad batch a few years ago and caused a bunch of fires, while other batteries in the same circumstance were perfectly fine.
Raspberry Pi 500 makes an 8GB Pi 5 into a compact, inexpensive desktop PC
> but image generations from it can (loosely) adhere to all rules and nuances in a multi-paragraph prompt

Flux certainly does not consistently do so across an arbitrary collection of multi-paragraph prompts, as anyone whose run more than a few long prompts past it would recongize; also, the tweet is wrong in the other direction, as well, longer language-model-preprocessed prompts for models that use CLIP (like various SD1.5 and SDXL derivatives) are, in fact, a common and useful technique. (You’d kind of think that the fact that generated prompt here is significantly longer than the 256 token window of T5 would be a clue that the 77 token limit of CLIP might not be as big of a constraint as the tweet was selling it as, too.)
> I disagree with his thoughts on violence. When you try to solve a problem by inviting violence to dinner you'll find you have a guest you are unable to excuse.

This is a pretty shallow opinion imo. The government operates on violence. America was founded in a violent revolution. The question people are asking isn't about whether violence has its place (it does); it's about how bad things have to get before you stop considering your government to have a legitimate monopoly on the use of violence, and people can start justly using violence themselves.
RDR2 is a good example. I'd forgotten about that. The level of historical accuracy in that game was truly incredible. It's really the best of Rockstar whereas GTA5 was (IMHO) the worst of Rockstar (and I loved the GTA3 games and GTA4). I'll be interested to see where GTA6 lands.

Deadwood was particularly good because it not only featured Pinkertons but painted them really well as the defenders of the wealthy and basically just a large and well-funded gang.
First, I meant pacifism is promoted as the only recourse for the general citizen, not for the government. Of course, war movies promote the acceptability of violence by the state. Two totally separate phenomena.

The state promotes violence by the state, and being docile for the citizen.
Wells Fargo runs on LineageOS on my phone running Mind the Gapps.

So does google maps.
> Under the terms of the agreement being finalised with the Washington-based fund, El Salvador would drop a legal requirement for businesses to accept bitcoin as payment, making it voluntary to do so.

So, nothing serious
We actually have that, called "civil grand juries", but they don't do very much. It'd work a lot better than the current urban planning system, which is hearings where only retirees with a lot of free time who are opposed to the project shows up.
Discussion (120 points, 17 hours ago, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42364038
How did someone recognize him from that half-face photo?

There must be millions of people in the East Coast who look like that.
> also some arbitrary financial technologies they don't like

Such as?
Eric Adams, the brilliant detective.
Ok, but the word pacifism means something specific. I agree with your statement about docility, I think many would call it "civility." Same thing that black people were accused of, being "uncivil," when they were rioting for civil rights.
Don't forget, the insurance company here (UHC) didn't bother to offer any reward at all.
This only doesn't blow my mind because I've noticed a distinct trend among the most vocal "right to privacy" folks: they want to get away with anti-social behavior.

I'm admittedly biased from spending a few years steeped in the cryptocurrency community, where literally everything has a hidden (or not!) self-serving agenda, however. But even beyond that realm, I see far too many privacy advocates whose examples of "reasons why you should want privacy" end up being examples of hiding bad behavior (infidelity, etc). If you couple this with anti-social people being privacy advocates out of necessity, it ends up reflecting very poorly on the privacy community as a whole.
And the very physical experience of carrying it around.
Author here -

Health warning third bullet point is:

> Even when there is tax relief to save for a pension, this doesn’t mean that there aren’t taxes on pension income after retirement

and the footnote to it is:

> often there are taxes on pension income - so that it might be better to say that tax is deferred rather than relieved whenever we save↩

I'll consider bumping the footnote since it's important.

I might try to capture the more complete picture including post-retirement separately - a problem is that there are so many different configurations of this (e.g. in Ireland there are tax-free lump sums permitted at retirement, then there are a few specific options about the rest - and I'm probably still simplifying). But when I get comfortable about something relevant to describe, I might.
This will sound like bullshit... but I have three indoor olives at the moment. Two were ordered as rooted cuttings a couple months back, under grow lights and getting a decent amount of new growth. A third was on the clearance rack at Lowes, it's a big bigger. But, before they get 3ft or so, they're going to have to go outside. They're already too big for my not-unimpressive grow lights.

Olive oil's already like $50 for a gallon can (and not much cheaper even if you eat the trash stuff). Were olive orchards inside, no one like you or me would ever get to enjoy them again.
For sure, there are problems ascribed to all of these things consumed [ignorantly | irresponsibly | in excess]. Still, I've lived long enough to see many of these featured in hysterical "for the children" propaganda, and I find myself recoiling from that, maybe more than most. It's easy to see that AI (LLMs) are next on the list to be vilified, which seems absurd to me.
Yeah, my comment was just a suggestion that that wording be imported into the question, rather than living in a clarification.
I use YouTube ReVanced and NewPipe on my own snartphones but I have not figured out of how block ads on the iPad (it does use DNS-based blocking via Unbound blocklists on OPNsense), she just got the iPad for a few days. On our smartphones, the children are the primary users of YouTube (on STB too, there we use SmartTube). Even YouTube Premium Family I had was primarily for my children. However they increased the subscription costs and went after people who set a different country than where they were located (I used India and paid 2 EUR a month). Now I am forced to pay the price if The Netherlands which is an illegal geolock since I should be allowed to define I am from elsewhere in EU (because I might be from Romania, living in The Netherlands).
You can simply buy more MRI machines and open more hospitals, yes.

The US has "certificate of need" laws saying you can't open a hospital unless all the nearby competitors allow it first. We could just not do that.

> Sure. That's like telling me that if I want to win an Olympic gold medal, I should just do what Phelps does. It'll work, right?

America is the #1 country at a lot of things. Surely you're not going to let Australia, Japan, the Netherlands etc beat you on this.
This sort of story illustrates why I think so poorly of the mainstream news media.

Smuggling of small, high-value goods was old when President Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in 1971. It was old when the US gave up on Prohibition (of alcoholic beverages) in 1933. It was old when King Edward I of England was trying to collect his duty on the export of wool in the late 1200's. It was old when Rome was still a one-horse town.

Bloomberg is supposedly a real business publication - not "Noob Newz, for Today's 10K". When the Western sanctions and export restrictions on Russia were announced, all the grown-ups understood that they were performative politics, and would only add some costs and friction to Russia's supply chains.

If mainstream journalists don't want to be viewed with contempt and distrust by the public, then why are they working so hard to earn those sentiments?
Boo hoo, evil man who was head of evil corporation killed.

Who asked, Popehat? Read the room.
just a thought experiment: couldn't the supreme court achieve (nearly) the same objective without the 1925 judiciary act?

suppose the court were compelled to take all cases that were appealed to it. for all the cases that it "did not want" to hear, it could simply mechanically vote to uphold the lower court decision. i'm ignoring the practical amount of work and time, of course, for this thought experiment. but after wasting the courts time, 5+ judges can say "we didn't want to hear this case, you wasted our time, the lower court was right, go away".

that could be done with a minimum of 5 judges of 9 in agreement to "let it ride".

in the current scheme, it does only take 4 judges to vote to hear a case. so presumably, if only 4 judges wish to hear the case and 5 are against hearing it, the slight minority must feel that having heard the case fully, one or more of the other 5 might change their mind and vote to overturn the existing verdict.

so excepting the situation where a 0-3 judge minority wishes to fully hear the case, i don't see much difference except a lot more work if they were faced to take cases that would surely be upheld anyway. it seems a pretty good conservative heuristic that if you can't even get 4 judges to hear the case, there's no way 5 are going to vote to overturn it.

so i think the article makes a lot more out of this than is warranted. i don't see it make much difference at all in comparison to things like the overall composition of the court or it's specific 9 personalities and that of the chief justice in particular.

EDIT: a different way of stating it: instead of saying a minimum of 4 judges must vote to take a case, flip it around and say: "if a super-majority of justices, 6 or more, vote to uphold the verdict after a preliminary review, it will not be heard in full"
It’s fine to have a conservative leaning news channel. It’s not fine to spend so much of the time spreading lies.
Only if you have no sense for drama.

That's not this guy.
Depends on what you're asking your body to do. I played soccer pretty intensely when I was younger. The timeline went something like this:

late teens to mid thirties, top physical form

mid thirties, losing the proverbial step (pros retire at this point)

mid forties, it's obvious you can't keep up with the youngsters anymore. Even your superior experience can't bail you out.

mid fifties, it's obvious that if you don't quit you'll be seriously hurt.
Actually you overestimate the general public's ability to discern what's real or not. On top of that, most people don't even care if it's real. This is exactly why Trump won.

Example: if a gen ai vid of a politician doing some crazy crime came out. Even if it were proven fake, people would start questioning everything and still act as if the politician were guilty
So far the record indicates he was better at hunting them than they him.
Yeah didn't mean it as a critique of you or the article! More just kinda speculating about society

I do think we try very hard to keep it as guaranteed as possible, if something would happen to stocks as a whole the government is willing to pull a lot of stops
I think we're in the snapdragon age of AI for the next little bit, if you were around for early smartphones.

Each company would either rush to get a phone out with the new snapdragon chip, or take their time to polish a release and have a better phone late cycle.
But the real improvements we're just the chip.

Nvidia chips/larger data centers are the chips. the models are the plethora of android phones each generation.

That kept going until progress stabilized. Then the best user experience & vertical integration won over chasing chip performance (apple).
I bet he saw it as just cause.

The stuff found on him is irrelevant, they'd pin him down with dna and whatever other evidence.
The guy was charged with fraud and insider trading, his company denied 2x claims than industry average - in this case it wasn't the providers..
I think it was insane to go somewhere like McDonalds or anywhere, even the Starbucks anytime near that time period. There was just no need. Unless he was toying with the idea of getting caught, surely he would have just gone to some prebooked motel type of thing somewhere far away and huddled in there for quite a bit.
I should clearly mark my rhetorical questions better, lol! Yes that was my point. Take my upvote tho!
Musk has controlled access per political aims, and is also in close contact with Putin and US intelligence, so why do you feel this tech will be anti oppression?
They've backed off on that and I think support more residency slots for training doctors now, but it actually is a funding issue because Medicare pays for a lot of that.

We also have very high to impossible standards for training doctors, and our residency rotation program requires you to not sleep because it was designed by a literal coke addict.
This video is reaction bait, crafted specifically to maximize engagement
https://www.cdc.gov/reproductive-health/teen-pregnancy/index...
> quantum computers would be able to retroactively break any public keys that were stored

Use a key exchange that offers perfect forward secrecy (e.g. diffie Hellman) and you don’t need to worry about your RSA private key eventually being discovered.
All good points. My philosophy to address same is to employ test suites as a form of sanity checking for JSON/YAML/XML/et al configuration resources.

Still, it would have been nice if YAML had reduced the surface area to verify in order to establish confidence in its content.
You really shifted the goalposts there, yeah? Seems a little disingenuous to me.
That is true. It's an important definition distinction.
I looked at a model 3 at the time I was shopping for my Chrysler 300, and saw with my own eyes.

So unless my eyes are lying, no, I dont think I have been.
If error is getting corrected, doesn’t it mean lower entropy? If so where else is entropy increasing, if it is a valid question to be asked.
Isn't it the legislative branch that is captured, rather than the judicial? I don't see the courts failing to uphold the law (save for the supreme court which fails to uphold the Constitution, but that doesn't weigh on the everyday person's life much, as we saw through the elections). Insurance companies (mostly) don't actually break the law. It's the legislators that continue to fail to address our problems, and who get paid to look the other way while the working class is looted.
I'm not saying we should either, it's more that discussing it on the internet feels like a waste of my time and the morality of it isn't my point
Love that last part.

> We encourage platforms to implement stronger self-regulation systems that prevent such issues from escalating.

Clear blame.
Kinda funny that they're doing this over "brand protection" when their entire "brand" is just regurgitating worse versions of existing brands' characters.
Doesn't really matter. Even if the cops didn't find anything on him they'd ID him for real, there's no point trying to hide after that.
Aha - I get you!
Take a moment to refresh your memory of the Pol Pot regime. If half the population aren't literally getting bludgeoned to death in the streets, remember it can get so, so much worse, so tread carefully with accelerationist sentiments.
Unfortunately we have the AMA which won’t let us import or bulk train doctors to the point of depressing their salaries
Undue alarmism against a thing does not render that thing harmless, even if the original alarmism is excessive.
This reminds me of two excellent back-to-back episodes of This American Life in 2009, when the debate leading up to the Affordable Care Act was at its peak: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/391/more-is-less and https://www.thisamericanlife.org/392/someone-elses-money

It has been a while since I listened to these episodes, but my main recollection is the argument that insurers are the only entities in the system actually fighting to reduce costs (and, of course, high costs are what underlie most of the other problems with the US healthcare system).

To be clear, I don't think insurers (and United Healthcare in particular) and their owners (all of us with index funds in our retirement accounts?) and boards and executives are blameless, but I do think this idea should be more central to the discussion and less contrarian.
+1 for using protobufs. I'll go a step further and suggest using textprotos for configuration files. You get validation out of the box for free (making it hard to mis-type your keys), along with a strict contract for your configuration. Comments too. And no quotes on key names. I don't think trailing commas are supported in condensed repeated fields, but since there aren't commas between fields you can use the long format to avoid them.

https://protobuf.dev/reference/protobuf/textformat-spec/
Well, lot of things can influence here. Multithreaded build, PGO, or even the different access order of the hash table inside the code optimizer can be a factor. Things are getting probalistic and thus somewhat nondeterministic: the build itself is nondeterministic but the runtime/final execution is deterministic
> The clips on the Sora site today would have been utterly astonishing ten years ago.

Yeah, and Apollo 11 would have been utterly astonishing a decade before it occurred. And, yet, if you tried to project out from it to what further frontiers manned spaceflight would reach in the following decades, you’d…probably grossly overestimate what actually occurred.

> Long term progress can be surprising.

Sure, it can be surprising for optimists as well as naysayers; as a good rule of thumb, every curve that looks exponential in an early phase ends up being at best logistic.
Violence certainly can be effective, but also not. Everything is situational. See the Black Panthers vs. peaceful protesting during the civil rights movement. See also the American Revolution. Whether or not violence makes sense likely depends on how strong you and your friends are.
A few years ago, my bank mailed me a letter basically saying "A partner got hacked and lost your personal information. It was totally the partner's fault, not ours! We care about keeping your identity safe!"

And guess which company I was mad at? The company I bank with, or the generically-named sub-contracted company that the bank only partnered with so they didn't have to be held liable for potential breach of PCI and various laws? (Spoiler: It was the bank.)

Point being, Funko can try to cover their vinyl butts as much as they want. The bad PR is going where it belongs. I only wish the finical repercussions would too for things like this.
> It's very easy to demostrate as well: consider a trivia case where the distribution is just {P(1)=1/3, P(2)=1/3, P(3)=1/3} and you see 2 in the first envelope.

Seeing 2 is only one of the many possible cases. You haven’t calculated the total probability.
I've taken to calling the digital artists I work with "the old masters" in light of the flood of inexpert, low effort AGI content. And they do use generative AI, pretty liberally for concept work and reference, but they know what they're doing and can turn it into great things.

I thought we lost a lot in the transition from analog to digital media, but that doesn't mean there's not a peak to any modern craft, just that there hasn't been a unified or named movement highlighting the best and worst, outside of social media algorithms.
>If you want better healthcare you don't need to invent anything new or "disrupt systems of oppression". Just pick another country where it's working and do what they do.

This is completely impossible. We're talking about America here: it's utterly impossible for America to look at other countries and just copy them. It doesn't matter how much sense it would make; if America has a choice between sticking with some brain-dead system (perhaps, a measurement system for instance), or adopting a very logical and sensible alternative that America didn't invent, America will stick with its own brain-dead system, and claim that the alternative somehow can't possibly work in America because America is "different" and "exceptional". The only way America will adopt something new and better is if it's invented in America.
You don't even need a company, just pretending that you represent one is enough.

The DMCA completely ignores how the digital world works; it was written in an age where interacting with the American legal system required you to have somebody physically located in the US.

Back then, you didn't need any technical safeguards against this kind of abuse. As long as such abuse was illegal, and there was police to arrest those committing the crimes, it was enough. In technical terms, the security was implemented on a completely different layer of the stack.

This is no longer the world we live in. There's nothing stopping somebody from e.g. Russia from pretending they're a relevant copyright agent, and forcing Youtube to remove anti-Putin videos.
I do not like it. The best aesthetic on a modern display to me is integer scaling towards the nearest multiple. That looks nothing like a CRT and breaks with some assumptions artists made back then, but modern pixel art is designed for modern displays. If you want a CRT look there are sophisticated shaders that look decent on a high res screen, but nothing reproduces an actual CRT.
Judging by the mugshot, he might have been wearing the same clothes as well.
Brown's men killed four townspeople and one Marine. Ten people were wounded, one of whom was a Marine

And there isn't anything "confusing" about his statement. It is immoral to make profit by denying people life saving medical treatment. health insurance companies should have NEVER been allowed to be for-profit.
It is really not that hard to grok and use. I think cmake is actually a bit harder. It doesn’t hurt that bazel builds are implemented in starlark instead of a zany state manipulation language-that-isn’t-a-language.
We are in complete agreement on that. :^)
Seems appropriate. Call a few exec moms.