skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! Discussed here:

Mapping the Ionosphere with Phones - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42128831 - Nov 2024 (16 comments)
>in order to let someone "deserving" collect the reward.

Government rewards are always fake. They never pay out. Ever. The one guy who made it possible to catch Chapo is still "waiting" for his payout. If you're going to be a snitch, I guess you need to do it for the principle of the thing, there won't be any cash in your future.
I don't think left-wing or right-wing makes sense here, it's small-l liberalism versus authoritarianism. In particular a lot of authoritarians are ideologically shallow and happy to adopt leftist/rightist beliefs opportunistically.
Ok, but please don't fulminate on Hacker News. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Not that you owe media barons better, necessarily, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

(Syd Barrett fan, in case that helps.)
Not really a problem, relativistic effects are negligible at the very low accelerations MOND is about. Should MOND work with galaxies, a theory that say "if the force is less than a threshold, use MOND, otherwise, use general relativity" is not pretty, but good enough to match the observations, and that's the important part.

There are more elegant ways of doing it (ex: TeVeS), but before looking at the best way to reconcile general relativity and MOND, something we know is possible, it is important to make sure that MOND works at the scales it is supposed to work with. Currently, it doesn't, but dark matter doesn't either. More research is needed, as they say.
Two minutes before loading HN, I was thinking about how sad I am that my mother gets her "news" from Fox. I hope his empire crumbles. He's single-handedly done more harm to the USA than any other person during my lifetime.
Uhh... no. The $20 you pay to OpenAI every month does not require them to give you access to sora.
On Android 14 it doesn't allow installing and the Play Store says:

> This app isn't available for your device because it was made for an older version of Android.

Nevertheless, an alternative is Material Files, a FOSS file manager that includes an FTP Server and Client:

* https://f-droid.org/packages/me.zhanghai.android.files

* https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.zhanghai.an...
Ha ha. If anything, HN skews quite high.
I guess the next one can learn from this one and they will iteratively get better at not getting caught.
People vastly overestimate the ability of giant bureaucracies to keep secrets. It only works if a few people are in on it (that's part of what compartmentalization is for). I'm always suspicious of claims that federal agencies are colluding with companies for the purposes of mass surveillance because while I trust those agencies to keep secrets, I absolutely do not trust the vast majority of companies to do so. There are narrow exceptions--defense industry, telecommunications, aerospace industry--but mostly secrets like that are hard to keep unless your org is built around keeping secrets. The orgs I've worked for are the opposite of compartmentalized. I doubt McDonalds' software engineering org is, but I'd be curious to be surprised!
That 0.6% one is actively managed. The true index funds on that list are charging 0.2% or less (0.12% for most of the ones you'd want). So 0.27%-0.35% all-in. I stand by 1% being be a rip-off.
Dart was never marketed (to my knowledge) as a general-purpose programming language. Go was marketed as the best thing since sliced bread, and especially as a "systems language", which it definitely isn't. It was also gaining popularity on HN at the same time Rust was gaining its initial wave of popularity (~2016-2017, around when I started reading HN), so the two were compared and written about a lot in a way that Dart never had the chance to since it never had a narrative foil.
I can't help but think of another nyc shooter, Frank James, who was also caught at a McDonald's after turning himself in.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/search-new-york-subway-gunm...
I just think it’s great that for a short time, we got to live this fantasy that being a rich CEO is no guarantee that someone couldn’t easily just walk up to you one day, kill you off, and then disappear without a trace as a hero to those you did wrong.

The fantasy of jury nullification is still alive, but very unlikely to happen. If someone can turn the guy in, then someone could easily find him guilty.
So the first company that can break bitcoin addresses using quantum computers gets a prize of how many billion(?) dollars by stealing all the non-migrated addresses.

Is that a crime? Lots of forgotten keys in there.
Couldn’t upvote this more.
What does "working class" even mean?
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CNN quoted someone from Google saying it was a fake (old account that just changed its handle today).

IMHO there ought to be restrictions and transparency on channel name changes because it gets abused all the time.
They have NSFW filters. They also seem to have "contains a human" filters.
I'm kind of curious: do these bug bounty "spray and pray" tactics actually make money? I can't help but wonder if people are doing it because it works, or if it just looks like it should work and people are desperate.
Jury duty. You get selected randomly for jury. Why not get randomly selected for urban planning and other duties?
How marijuana legalization played itself
Hmmm, that's strange? I have it installed on my Pixel 8, which launched with Android 14 and recently upgraded to Android 15. I wonder what's different for you?
I'd just like to point out, in case GP sees it, that no one here is advocating murder and that their comment wasn't flagged by advocates of murder.

It was an inflammatory comment that broke the guidelines, so it got flagged. I didn't personally flag it, but I would've for that reason. That's all there is to it.

If you don't feel like your relationship with HN is healthy or helpful for you, that's perfectly understandable, I have had to take many breaks from HN. But no, this community is not, by and large, pro murder. Occasionally there will be an unhinged troll literally calling for murder, but it's rare and I suspect most of it comes from a single individual (based on a hunch about writing style).
It's not perfect, but significantly better than most that I've tried. Every time I've tried a 3d model generator up to this point, the result was unbelievably bad. This time it was medium good. All, give me a file format I can drop right into Orca Slicer.
Doesn't it strike anyone as wrong that we should be entitled to essentially guaranteed returns for retirement savings?

There's no skill or activity involved, its purely: those with money get 6-10% more every year. And as this site shows, it stacks up quickly.

It just doesn't seem fair that someone who put in money earlier should have so much more than someone who started later, or was never able to
On that note, the NFL was a non-profit until fairly recently.

Non-profit doesn’t mean what it seems to imply.
Perhaps searches for exotic matter should take place in tropical regions?
Let me remind you here that it is the job of the government and specifically the police to lie to you. So if he was lying, he was doing his job.
> 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.

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?

Even those countries may only have metastable healthcare economics, and while it looks as if it works now it could fail in the future. In the short term.

> Largely, they have a lot more doctors, hospitals and MRI machines per capita than we do,

So you're saying that all we need to do is have more resources that we don't have more of?
Exactly. That's why I said "I'm sure the cartoons and colors help the kids get motivated to eat the cereal"
> If YAML is a strict superset, wouldn't that mean that YAML must have at least one feature that is not part of JSON?

Yes. One of the features YAML supports is the widely documented format we are all familiar with.

However, being a "strict superset of JSON" also means a conformant YAML implementation can load a "pure" JSON resource without issue. The converse is not generally possible as JSON cannot express what YAML can, such as octothorpe ('#') comments.

HTH

EDIT: see also https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=42361994
I married into a wealthy-ish family, and this was probably my biggest disappointment. In my anecdotal experience, wealthier individuals lack humanity for others, are quite selfish, and lie through their teeth to make things go their way.

Candidly, I was a centrist before marriage, but I've become a strong advocate for socialism (and against late stage capitalism). The skills you need to be affluent (barring exceptions like FAANG founders) are skills no one should really cultivate.
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First, reasoning by analogy (or dismissal by analogy) is a poor way to reason. Second of all, that progression is already part of the problem in a way -- at least part of your progression is one of technology, which is alienating and isolating.

So, I disagree that it's any straw. In fact, I'd argue it's the reverse: AI has just revealed and accentuated the real probelm: social media, smartphones, internet, computers, video games, etc. were already some kind of problem and it's one of magnitude, not some binary condition.
Wonder when Linus will decide to ban all Chinese kernel contributors and make the kernel great again.
https://archive.md/rXWB2
"samples retrieved from patients have to be shipped back to the capital."

This seems wildly inefficient. Stealing the idea from a fps game but you should just get the samples to the nearest helium tank,inflate balloons, and have some other government have planes to snatch the balloon. As convoluted as this seems, given the possible delay of intelligence due to having to drive the sample all the way from remote villages to a capital, the fastest way would to get the package somewhere is air, and the faster it get on a plane the better.

Just like the storms damaging US infrastructure showed us how important access to rural areas.
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Yeah definitely, especially for more complicated things like having a conversation. State of the Art will probably always need a server.

For simpler things, small models can definitely handle them. Transcription, object detection, simple classification tasks. I expect more and more to fall under the category of “things which ML can do on $X of hardware” as hardware and software get better.
The only part I don't get now is the cell phone

I assumed he had some help with the timing via the burner phone

But this all looks very lone wolfish now
They fucking suck too, I miss when the collectibles shelf at game stores was filled with a bunch of cool looking action figures, now it's a wall of funko pops and maybe 10 non funko figures somewhere else.
This is quite an exaggeration. Afaik there has been only a single GDPR fine over 1 billion € (Meta) and for some reason Apple seems to manage just fine (with GDPR).
Yes, they do seem to take your business for granted. In my case, I will keep paying for it. I need OpenAI's tools more than OpenAI needs my business, and probably yours too.
Suspect detained in manhunt for UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's killer
Author here -

This blog post is a 'narrative visualization' to show some nice savings incentives visualized in a chart.

I think these are important to have a good understanding about when they are relevant, but the bigger reason I made this is to explore the communication style applied to models and to get closer to the technical patterns to create them.

Since I make calculang [1], all the savings projection calculations are described using it [2] (including income tax calculations: here an example of composition in calculang models).

calculang transpiles into a pure functional JS module, and here I interact with it using reactive OJS and the closeread extension for Quarto [3], plus a reactive Vega visualization.

The programming logic mostly is: Vega signals and calculang parameters condition on a `progress` value that updates as the user scrolls.

It was nice to make: minus no fast reload I would say. I'm considering streamlining some tools with fast reload to facilitate building this type of output for calculang models - like I said I'm interested in the narrative style applied to models, and pure FP calculang and reactive FRP tools around it help a lot.

[1] https://calculang.dev

[2] https://calculang.dev/examples-viewer?id=pension-calculator <3 separation of concerns

[3] https://closeread.dev/
They are saying "a partner did this, not us"
UHH profit margins are far greater than 6%. Companies with 6% margins do not grow market cap and shareholder value by 8000 % since Jan 2000. i.e the stock rise has risen 80 times from their ~$7 Jan 2000 price to around $560 today.[1]

[1] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/UNH:NYSE?hl=en&window=M...
Yes, they do that. Lying is how they operate, especially when questioning or trying to mess with suspects. You can never trust anything a cop says.
I agree. Also, tangentially related: I use a black and white filter on my phone, and it is way harder to distinguish fake and real media without the color channels to help. I couldn't immediately find anything in the subway clip which gave it away.
Here is a short example that came up for me last week.

I had a set of documents I wanted to classify according a taxonomy that is well known (so it is exists in the training data of all the major llm models I tested)

If I have prompt like, `You are an expert classification system. Using the Classification Approach Foo, consider the following and output the category in JSON format, such as {"class":"bar"} `

This works ok, but it works much better if I tell it to output {"class":"bar", "reason": "baz"} and improved with some other approaches like adding "related_class" or "parent_category" which would otherwise be redundant.

Also including some few-shot examples helped, but the biggest benefit came from the "reason" field. Trying justification or other synonyms seems to produce the same output.

I suspect this is something similar to CoT.
Probably fairly peaceful, intelligence or weirdness aren't at play here. The dangerous ones are those who deal in the practical realities of the world in ways that can effect change - they are more likely to have the means to do something. Engineers and chemists are ones to watch (whoever did the script for Breaking Bad knew his chemist stereotypes).
Why, exactly, are you allowed to know why some random guess is between the two numbers or not when computing your choice?
It's shameful how the media soft-launders the system rather than confronting it, but that's what enough people tell themselves they'd rather see. We didn't end up with the electoral result that we got because people are happy.
My guess is he was referring to financial predators. Greed and lust rather than wrath.
Part of the reason we established courts was to avoid angry mobs dispensing justice, but we've let the courts become captured to a large extent.

If you don't allow folks to seek justice in the courtroom, they'll inevitably return to "the jungle" so to speak.

It's our job as participants in society to do our best to avoid that, but we have to make changes. We can't be idle and wring our hands saying "it can't be helped" or "it's not illegal". We have to change things so that folks will be held accountable.

If we don't, this sort of thing is inevitable.
Brandshield has been deleting and rewriting their non-statement deflecting responsibility repeatedly while hiding all the comments calling out their cascade of BS. Here is their current statement blaming iwantmyname and link to the hidden replies:

> We want to address recent reports surrounding a website takedown.

> BrandShield serves as a trusted partner to many brands. Our AI-driven platform detects potential threats and provides analysis, and in this case, an abuse was identified from an @itchio subdomain.

> We identified and reported the infringement, and requested a takedown of the URL in question – not of the entire http://itch.io domain. The temporary takedown of the website was a decision made by the service providers, not BrandShield.

> BrandShield remains committed to supporting our clients by identifying potential digital threats and infringements. We encourage platforms to implement stronger self-regulation systems that prevent such issues from escalating.

https://twitter.com/BrandShieldltd/status/186616148952818098...

Note: they are non specific about how the "abuse" was submitted to iwantmyname as "fraud and phishing", not "copyright infringement", so they are covering up their fuckup.
If I am the employee, I don’t want my employer to think I’m flirting with customers when it’s just small talk. And..uhh..if I’m married, etc. Anyways, we don’t know for sure either way
I wouldn’t, I’m just inferring what they meant from context (it just reads like they’re bilingual and had a mental mistranslation).
Honestly, most people don’t use an ad blocker. We’re all in a tech bubble here. Most people just see ads and that’s it. Some complain, most don’t.
Yeah, that part really surprised me too. He had advanced degrees and top grades, so he was clearly a smart guy, so why did he make such a dumb mistake that anyone who's watched a few murder mysteries would know not to do? Like some others have said, it seems like he probably wanted to get caught.
I'm pleasantly surprised there are any devices supporting SD Express. I thought the standard had died on the vine. So Apple, please pull your finger out and include SD Express in the MBP models that have an SD slot.
Right, but accountants have qualifications and, more importantly, have to sign their name and accept liability for the accounts they're submitting. That's the part that's missing when "computer says ok".
Another way to think of it would be, how much would it cost for a very rich family or person to hire few people to hunt you for the following 10 years.
All the text is mirrored. It's not unusual doing this to avoid copyright-filters. This kinda adds to distracting suspicions.
> He lies.

He's a cop turned politician.. cows moo, crocodiles chomp, and these critters lie. It's their nature.
I think the political pipeline is too slow for local activism to meaningfully impact state and national politics. People want to see change now, or at least progress in a 1-2 year timeframe.
Discussion (210 points, 3 hours ago, 324 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42370622
In the movie "Wag the Dog", Dustin Hoffman plays a Hollywood producer who is hired by the President to create a fake war to take attention away from another scandal. Spoiler alert Near the end, Hoffman's character is upset that the President's re-election is credited to something else instead of his handiwork. Even when told he's risking his life if he says anything, he yells "I want the credit!". I think a similar psychology may be at work in this and other crimes that become (in)famous.
Thanks for this! Gonna ask around for help in evaluating it for security.
No wireless ADB in older phones.
I am sure the various other parts of judiciary too, bribing takes skill, knowing who to bribe, how to make them vulnerable to bribery and so on, all these are important street skills that a criminal of his stature has to have. IQ doesn't teach you those
But you can do that without using AI, and we have laws (harassment etc.) that apply. So where does AI come into the equation?
Sure, but when calculated in inflationary dollars one currently expects to see a -14% return on investments, and your children will see -36% return.

This is the hidden cost of the "worlds greatest generation" population bulge waning.

I learned one should check with your own personal _bonded_ fiduciary advisor, and not blindly trust most "investment" folks motives or advice... it is usually self-serving BS. Bag of popcorn ready for the 2025 market. =3
Make sure that processes involving the development of the system — in this case the social media algorithm — are done publicly, with the kind of democratic involvement you would expect for actual legislation.
>The USA re-elected the man which basically encouraged the January 6th insurrection and has been suggesting vengeance for a long time now.

On top of that, he's going to pardon everyone convicted for that insurrection, and wants to attack the Jan 6 committee somehow.
Or call their mom...
As typical for the mainstream media, they will focus on individual character details, background, etc. in an attempt to focus the minds of the audience on the "mind of a potential killer" (assuming he was the killer). This will deflect interest into the serious problems of healthcare in a corporate-controlled America.
Murder is a really interesting crime. There are really two kinds of murder: those where the perpetrator and victim are known to each other and those where they are not. The first category is way more common [1]:

> Among homicides in which the relationship could be determined, between 21% and 27% of homicides were committed by strangers and between 73% and 79% were committed by offenders known to the victims

Another data point is that the recidivism rate for murder is incredibly low, roughly 2% [2], among the lowest of any crime.

The point is that the vast majority of murders are personal in nature. Police will tell you that when someone dies, it's always the spouse or boyfriend or girlfriend as the prime suspect until it isn't. Murders with no personal relationship (eg serial killings) are quite rare.

So if you, as a software developer, want to get away with murder you first have to be irrational and/or insane enough to murder people for pretty much no reason, which will get you pretty far to not getting caught, but still want to murder people you really have no reason to.

You can further increase your odds of not getting caught by not leaving a crime scene or a body but also picking a victim who won't necessarily be missed. It's why serial killers end up preying on runaways and prostitutes. There's also the MMIW phenomenon [3]. Lastly, going outside your geographical area would further help your odds.

This suspect allegedly had no relationship to the victim but they still had a reason (it seems). Now it so happens that being upset about private health insurance quite literally would leave police with millions of suspects. But the point is, they weren't necessarily acting rationally even if it was premeditated and planned.

I still find it insane that the suspect didn't rid himself of every identifiable possession. Had they done that, I think they'd have a shot at acquittal (depending on DNA evidence from the water bottle and/or coffee cup). Now? Almost impossible.

As much as we talk about jury nullification, people like there to be something to hang their hat on in terms of doubt. If a blurry partial photo was the only evidence I could see that as being way more likely. Having the ID used in the hostel and the mask, bag and clothes as well as the gun makes that harder to justify.

[1]: https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/vvcs9310.pdf

[2]: https://www.sentencingproject.org/reports/a-new-lease-on-lif...

[3]: https://www.nativehope.org/missing-and-murdered-indigenous-w...
For posterity:
https://web.archive.org/web/20241209182430/https://www.goodr...

and his profile: https://web.archive.org/web/20241209181228/https://www.goodr...
>OpenAI and Google have to be extraordinarily strict

Why? Did the inventors of VHS tapes "have to be extraordinarily strict" and bake in safeguards because people might violate copyright laws, make porn, or tape something illegal?

Enforcing laws is the responsibility of the legal system. It sets a concerning precedent when companies like OAI would rather lobotomize their flagship products than risk them generating any Wrongthink.