skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are exactly right. patio11 both wants to communicate a point and also understands that communicating certain points can lead to really bad outcomes for you and your family. Thus he often writes that way about topics where powerful individuals might wish to harm him for his opinions. Such is the way the world really works, regardless of whatever naive people were taught in school about freedom of expression. “If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.”
He stalked his prey and killed it. That's hunting. Then law enforcement tracked him and trapped him. Also hunting! But none of the rich family has done any hunting (yet). So far they are the hunted.
Sort of like when you walk out of a store with a security tagged item that is now your legal property and the alarm system goes off, literally accusing you of being a thief. "Wasn't us. It was those darn computers."
Indeed, I knew that LOL

I mangled my comment and never made my broader point!

Which was that originally Copyright would expire at some point in our lifetimes :-)

As I understand it, no one originally thought things should be uncopyable forever more!
Sure, I understand that its unlikely, but is Google willing to bet its multibillion dollar business on that? They would have to be pretty damn sure. $low_probability * $enormous_potential_losses = $still_pretty_big_expected_losses
How is MOND nice? It has a totally unprincipled function appearing that gets adjusted to fit.
Who has one we can take apart and try to jailbreak? Not even joking
Ngl those videos of scooters catching fire in elevators kinda spooked me about lith tech in general.

Hoping sodium becomes more common but I gather thats not hugely likely due to chemistry diffs
Nothing is guaranteed. There are absolutely down years (and down decades) where negative returns are possible.

"There's no skill or activity involved" is a gross simplification. When you save funds in a lower-risk security like bonds, you're being paid interest in exchange for the time-value of not using that money. The value-producing activity here is letting somebody else use your money instead of yourself.

When you invest in higher-risk securities (like the stock market), it's the same but with an added premium in exchange for the risk. The more risk you take on, the higher the return.

Make no mistake, the risk is very real. But if you properly diversify and work over a long enough time horizon (again, the implication here is that you might not be able to access your money without loss for a decade+ in a large downturn), it's possible to constrain that risk to within an acceptable envelope.
No but here is the github

https://github.com/lnmangione
I think I believe Pat here - but I'll bet that the 18A yield rumors come from leaks from the folks testing the flagship large area chips, which doesn't bode well for bringing back customers long term. It seems like, for now, perception is reality for Intel.
How is that news? Its been happening for the last gazillion years. You don't need a research to tell me that. Its like built into our DNA.
The French revolution was extremely ineffective. It turned a short term food crisis due to drought and hailstorms into a long term food crisis that lasted decades. It was a complete failure at addressing the suffering of the people, which only got better after they abandoned their revolutionary ideals, embraced an emperor, and raped and looted the rest of Europe.
I wonder how many denied claims both pumped up his yearly bonus and resulted in an innocent person dying in agony?

This CEO may as well have pulled the trigger.
The harder part to visualize is how the value changes as you draw money out of it after retirement ... And especially how much you should withdraw per month since that requires guessing how long you'll live (I don't have this problem).
Windows 11 for Arm can run natively on specific Android smartphones
And he really could have gotten away with it if he wanted to. Im sure he noticed online the vast population of people willing to hide him or provide an alibi.
The Geminids on FM: A Celestial Symphony You Can Hear
Funko says in the statement that they're dealing with it. They've reached out to itch.io to understand who's doing what, which isn't clear at this point. For example, the company itch.io previously identified as responsible for the domain being taken down has publicly stated - perhaps honestly, perhaps falsely - that they requested a takedown of only the one infringing URL. (https://x.com/BrandShieldltd/status/1866200019335794763)
The Fold4 switches to dex as soon as you connect a monitor. I wonder why they made it harder to use?
At the end of the article is a link to the author's autologger. You can see what his radios are picking up by capturing the PI code on RDS. As I write this, he's receiving FM stations as far as 916 miles away (KASU).
100% this, we need right to repair, we need EoL mandates, we need to restrict IP protections, especially in time.
It isn’t about being smart (you assumed this is what ‘education’ was pointing at). Most people aren’t even aware of what’s happening besides extremely superficial things that they get here and there on the news. Can’t you honestly see the real potential for massive damage coming out of all this?
The surveillance state is good at deterring people who don't want to get caught. If you're ready to lay down your life or freedom for an assassination, it's really pretty hard to stop such a person with the patience to prepare for it - multiple cops have told me this.
ECC is easier to implement right. Even the older ones that are full of footguns have orders of magnitude less footguns than RSA.

So don't fear them due to unfounded theories.
You might not but go look at Reddit. The glee and cheerfulness is absolutely disgusting.

That being said, odds are looking like this dude is just a nutcase… and yet again Reddit’s hive mind will look like a fool.
Banking communications and transactions will all be protected by quantum-resistant protocols and ciphers well before that will become a problem. Most of these already exist, and some of them can even be deployed.
I recommend a Behringer 2600. The Arp 2600 was designed to facilitate learning synthesis.

And hardware is a useful abstraction.
>even though California's metering system is all kinds of anti-rooftop-solar now

How do?
I don’t think so, per article:

He "became quiet and started to shake" when asked if he had recently been to New York, according to the criminal complaint filed in Pennsylvania.

Being smart can lead to arrogance, which leads to stumbles. like carrying evidence, dining in public, etc.
Chrome even switches to tabs when you unfold the Fold phones, which is really nice.
You're describing an Ark that takes in a family office, an asset management company, an investment bank, christened with hedge fund Champagne, weathering storms in the high waters of conflicts of interest. The scope is quite ambitious and I wish you good fortune.

Please do not think that I am jesting, but have you considered creating a fictional entity that does all that in the form of a series of short stories that could potentially attract experts in the domains you cited who would debate the credibility of each short story, or how it would have taken place in the "real world", correcting you, ultimately culminating in fan fictions that would shape your blueprint.

This could prove more economical, feasible, iterative, informed, fun, and potentially lucrative. You could make a TV-show or a series of animations, audio stories, exploring universes full of intrigue. There have been so many scandals in recent years that there is a high awareness and minds are primed for this kind of stories.

Your idea is therefore transformed from an Ark, to an arc.
For that to be true at the scale required to ‘balance the scales’, we’d have constant annihilation events - which would be impossible to miss.
Bazel makes easy things hard and impossible things possible
Pandora’s box is open, not releasing models and tools is just going to result in someone else doing it.
Intel Arc B580 trades blows with the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 in early benchmarks
House near where I grew up also had a tank explode. All brick house even internal walls.

Completely levelled the thing.

Suspect the tank was indoors though (was a gold smith dude)
They chose the partner, so it's still their problem.
> People like to believe that once they get power, they will act differently than the ones who came before. But in the overwhelming majority of cases, they end up being just like the people they replaced, if not worse.

I just re-listened to "Machine"[0] by the Violent Femmes because I wanted to subject a work colleague to it because he mentioned Blister in the Sun.

"I took over the world in one weekend...

... but nothing changed! That would not be fair!"

The nihilistic fatalism is overwhelming.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTEEiSQv_l4
What are you on about, last I checked Nintendo makes a huge number of games unavailable and is extremely litigious against the emulation community. IIRC you can't even transfer savefiles to a different device in some cases.
> If it is true that 80% of non-white cases go unsolved [...]

It's not nearly that bad. Around 40-50% are solved. There are around 30% more non-white homicides than there are white homicides per year in the US, which means that the overall homicide solve rate is closer to the non-white solve rate than to the white solve rate.
Innocence and morality isn't restricted to the determinations or domain of the legal system.
One thing that's not intuitive to spot but actually completely wrong, is that in the second clip we're apparently inside the train but the train is still rolling under us.
At university, I studied zoonosis (travel of disease from animals to humans) and the introduction of AIDs to the world from Congo. The most likely theory (to me) is that when cities were developed to physically concentrate and economically exploit African people and resources, along with the associated international travel, it was an unhappy accident that contributed to the success of diseases that would otherwise transfer from animal to human and then die out due to the physical separation of populations.
You report to everyone who could possibly take the page offline, as that's the metric that matters.
You don't have to go through the courts to be guilty of something
I was really ready to agree with the article as it got started. But it took a turn for the usual. I was hoping it would go into how Americans cheered people like Bonnie and Clyde, how america has always had a soft spot for "justified" lawlessness, a disdain for the corrupt upper echelon that has a disdain for them, that sort of stuff. Instead I got what I probably would've expected had I not been born an optimist. I guess tomorrow is a new day.
Diffie-Hellman isn't considered to be post-quantum safe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shor%27s_algorithm#Feasibility...
Laragon: A portable, isolated, fast, powerful universal development environment
This is still a very civil society, but these hysterical cries to abandon civility aren’t helping.
https://archive.is/43W7a
Sounds like a great opportunity to teach them about the shitty real world we all live in.
They weren't "high-rank targets". At least, many were not. They included a university president and an airline president, several college professors, but also grad students and owners of small computer stores. And the president of the California Forestry Association, who was probably an important person among foresters, but not so much in wider society.
The United States has a limited capability to track targeted cell phone communications anywhere in the world.

The Orion-class Signals Intelligence satellites are claimed to be the largest in space, with a primary dish diameter of about 100 meters.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion_(satellite)

The Green Bank radio telescope is a dish on that scale, and it looks just wrong, too large to be real. The usual portrait shot doesn't do it justice, but try to put a mental image together from the photos up on the Commons:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Green_Bank_Tel...

I spent a week out there during its construction. There were contractor shacks - cargo container size - up there on the platform at the base of the elevation gear (photo labeled "Altitude" on the page linked above).

So right now, in space, you have soccer-stadium-sized satellites. They are far less massive than the GBT, not solid surface. But very large.
Maybe he was living in Antarctica for the last 24 years and thought it might be the defunct video game retailer, FuncoLand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FuncoLand
The demo works in chrome, but not in safari. After 3rd reload, it goes back to 1, instead of 3.
Confirmed as fake. CNN reports: "YouTube on Monday removed three channels belonging to Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, as well as a channel that was altered Monday to look as if it belonged to him..."

"... channel was removed for violating YouTube’s impersonation policies, after the channel name and handle were updated on Monday following news of Mangione’s arrest to appear as if it belonged to the suspect. That channel on Monday posted a cryptic countdown video that said, “If you see this, I’m already under arrest.”
Huh. I had no idea the design wasn't original. Thanks for posting this unintentional TIL!
That's right, it doesn't. The implementation of a quantum computer does not prove or disprove the existence of parallel universes.
This is such a lovely article and I relate to the idea as I have thought of something similar when I was building a passion project (https://github.com/pixlie/gitplay).

The idea was to use the Git commit log to show how a software evolved into what it is today. I needed to think of zooming in and out of context, where there are thousands of commits involved. I am not a good UI person so I will definitely take inspiration from this.
Non-violent economic power is an extremely powerful tool within systems that restrict the use of force.

If the vast majority of the public actually agreed on something, they could non-violently change anything in days.

The allure of violence is that people mistakenly think that they make change without support, when in reality, they are usually just creating effects, not the change that they want.

Shooting a school or rioting has a lot of effects, but they almost never make the desired change.
I've been using it to package the opentelemetry-c++ sdk for us, with single command:

bazel run make_otel_sdk

it compiles debug, fastdebug, release, then it places the .dll, include/ folders, etc. into single zip. I'm also invoking sentry-cli to obtain all source code used and also place them in

https://github.com/malkia/opentelemetry-cpp/actions/runs/120...

it produced this

https://github.com/malkia/opentelemetry-cpp/releases/tag/v1....

At work in a top level .bazelrc I have caching on the intranet, but on the github I'm relying (not ideal) on the actions/cache through disk_cache blobs - it works, but storing back all "blobs" makes it a bit worse than expected.
> I love how I get downvoted for every negative comment about this rather than an actual rebuttal of the issues.

It's because you haven't mentioned any issues. Just said it's terrible and buggy. Nobody can debug that for you based on that description. If they haven't experienced the same "issues", the best they can say is "nuh uh".
It could have come from somebody else, but it didn’t.
> They’re covering the planet for cell coverage with 20 satellites?

They are not. Of these 20, 13 were the last to launch of the first shell of the direct-to-cell constellation, which contains 285 satellites. Once they reach destination orbit (which will still take weeks), Starlink DtC will be able to provide continuous low-throughput comms.

> Why do we have so many cell towers?

There is a superlinear relationship between total system capacity and the amount of cell towers. The total amount of capacity that Starlink DtC has will be, frankly, pathetic. 10Mb/s sounds good until you realize that that's all the capacity of the beam, that's spread out over a huge geographical area.

It will not be replacing cell towers. Instead, it will just end coverage gaps for low-throughput workloads, like sending emergency messages.
"It wasn't us, it was our partner"
The first (and important enough) practical application (apart from breaking RSA) seems to be simulation of quantum systems. But, this has some problems since alot of quantum models can be simulated with Deep Learning methods (getting better) to a good approximation. Probably, some quantum systems wont be good for (classical) Deep Learning, those might be the first candidates for application of quantum computers.
No. Wage theft is a far bigger problem then shoplifting, but which one gets prosecuted more?
So in a housing development with 36 homes, we expect one to burn in 10 years? Am I reading that right?

If so, that doesn't sound right to me.
> If you are okay with a single universe coming to existence out of nothing you should be able to handle parallel universes as well just fine.

I can handle it, sure, and the idea of the multiverse is attractive to me from a philosophical standpoint.

But we have no evidence that there are any other universes out there, while we do have plenty of evidence that our own exists. Just because one of something exists, it doesn't automatically follow that there are others.
Does anybody know if his employer, TrueCar, had UHC as their health insurance provider?
I would add "quarantine" to that list.

There are diseases that would appear to be cured but are still infectious, especially if little is known about the disease.
>who in the hell asked for AI art?

everyone who has ever used stock photography, custom illustrators, and image editing. as AI improves, it will come after all of those industries.

that said, it is not OpenAI's goal to beat shutterstock, nor is it the goal of anthropic or google or meta. their goal is to make god: https://ia.samaltman.com/ . visual perception (and generation) is the near-term step on that path. every discussion of AI that doesn't acknowlege this goal, what all of these billions of dollars are aiming for, is myopic and naive.
> There doesn't seem to be a lot of fiction that features the Pinkertons prominently. One exception is the (excellent) HBO TV series Deadwood.

Also any of Dashiell Hammett's Continental Op stories. The Contintental Detective Agency is the Pinkertons with the serial numbers filed off. Hammett himself worked as a Pinkerton, among other things, before he got into writing.

I got into his writing because Raymond Chandler was such a big fan as I learned from his essay The Simple Art of Murder[1]

[1] https://archive.is/fi4Wz
How much support infrastructure does this thing need? (eg. Cryogenic cooling?) How big is a whole 'computer' and how much power draw?
Can we please please please stop labeling this political movement aiming to tear down our country's institutions as "conservative" ? It paints the agenda as some safe status quo option when it is actually plainly radical (ie the complete opposite of conservative).

Realizing this pervasive mischaracterization also neatly explains the tone policing dynamic of contemporary college campuses. That isn't some "hyper" form of liberalism, but rather a straightforward conservative dynamic of keeping the ranks in line. The confusion comes from what college administrators are trying to conserve - the social mores they fought for and won as liberals a generation+ ago.

And lest you think I'm just coming from left field here, Moldbug (upstream of much of today's "alt right") made a similar judgement when he rejected the approach of conservatism as doomed and labeled his own philosophy as reactionary.
It's worth remembering, in the end, humans still created it. Just remarkable.
/me registers Stifl.er
Provided Musk sees a positive ROI to flexing that particular muscle, of course
In the long run we are all dead. Saying that technology will be better in the future is almost eye-roll worthy. The real task is predicting what future technology will be, and when it will arrive.

Ask anyone with a chronic illness about the future and they'll tell you we're about 5 years off a cure. They've been saying that for decades. Who knows where the future advancements will be.
Thanks for the link

Hilarious read, shallow serious situation: El Salvador goes back on BTC as legal tender (why?) but its not a problem if they hold millions in BTC.
A Game in F#? Why, yes indeed
For a recent side project, I made a short incremental game to teach myself F#. I absolutely loved the experience, so put my hand up to do what turned into a fairly big blog post for the 2024 "F# Advent Calendar".
Ephemeral Servers on Hetzner
> I'm looking for different paths than murder to accomplish this.

It seems like our entire system has been intentionally designed and refined over centuries specifically to ensure that nothing short of radical, even violent, acts will have any meaningful impact on those in power.

Corporations in particular have insulated themselves from any accountability whatsoever and there are literal serial killers who knowingly sold products and took actions that they knew would kill people who have never and will never see a single day behind bars.

I sure hope that programmers, hackers, computer scientists, or systems designers/engineers find some means to improve the situation, and I'd certainly support the effort but I'm far from optimistic.
I dimissed it at first (you can see I made some embarrassing comments above), but the strategy is correct. I'd argue it's even intuitively correct once the problem in question is clarified.

It's not saying that after the player see the number in the first envelope, the strategy guarantees a >50% outcome.

It's saying that give any distribution, over all possible outcomes, >50% times the strategy will end up pick the larger number. You can say this >50% is the expected winning chance before the player see the number in the first envelope.

I'd say this is "intuitve" because, if your strategy can guarantee "when the player see a large number in the first envelope, he's less likely to switch than if he saw a small number", it would be better than blindly switching by coin toss. So intuitively such a strategy exists.

The only "trick" here is that since the player doesn't know the initial distribution, they can't tell "how large counts as large?" therefore they needs something that preserves some property over the whole real number line. That's why the strategy involves sampling from a another distribution whose PDF is non-zero everywhere.
How do we get it? Serious question. The take makes sense but how do we digitize doing the dishes?
When Rupert dies, his votes effectively expire, and his four oldest children have an equal say in the management of the empire.

This created the possibility that the three more politically moderate siblings Prudence, Elisabeth and James might gang up to roll Lachlan.

As one sharemarket analyst told me when I wrote The Successor, my 2022 biography of Lachlan, “it’s fair to assume that the day Rupert dies is the day Lachlan gets fired”.

~ Paddy Manning, independent journalist, author of The Successor: The high-stakes life of Lachlan Murdoch (2022)

https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/10/rupert-murdoch-lachlan-...