skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the problem with vigilanate justice is not that it doesn’t work, it’s very effective.

The problem is that the vigilante might not have the right version of justice
>money for Jones which he will use with even less restraint since he knows there are no consequences

He was fined over a billion dollars, in what world is losing a billion dollars no consequences?
You are claiming to be able to mathematically model consciousness or that it is theoretically possible. So what’s the model or proof that it can theoretically be modeled. Your statements regarding were lacking.
I don't think you are correct. It doesn't matter who provides the data.

> If you obtain personal data from other sources, you must provide individuals with privacy information within a reasonable period of obtaining the data and no later than one month.

https://cy.ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and...

I was asking for how my data was being processed. An email saying "Please perform action XYZ on this specific user" would, I think, fall under that description.
I couldn't agree more. I use Bandcamp a lot to buy and download music in the form of DRM-free, lossless files, and GOG to buy and download DRM-free games. I wish this model was more widespread, and available for other types of media, movies and shows in particular.

Often the problem is misrepresented as "streaming vs. physical media", wrongly implying that streaming is the only means of purely digital distribution. However, it is actually a question of whether you actually own media vs. only renting them.
My 3rd party weather app still works. What did google do?
I like it. Are these the best palettes ever? No. Are they better than what someone like me would come up with? Yes! Good for the author!
And also the footprint of building more generation stations (big) or building “renewable energy” generation (even bigger), which also conveniently gets left out.

The greenest choice most of us can make is an old, used car with reasonable emissions and that’s fuel efficient. Like a 15 year old Civic or Corolla. Or do what a colleague of mine did - he revived a first generation Prius, flashed newer software onto it, and salvaged a battery pack from a newer, wrecked Prius.
Curious, why? I hate pdfs because of their fixed size. Whatever device I happen to use to view a pdf, it's always got a different size than I'd like... either too large (ok I can fix that by zooming out!), wrong proportions, or too small...
Yup, you can put an auth proxy in front of the CDN, for example using an edge worker.

See the auth guide:
https://electric-sql.com/docs/guides/auth

Some CDNs also validate JWTs, so the CDN can be the proxy part of the Gatekeeper pattern (in the guide).
This release is from September 2024 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41637459, no comments)
I thought it was only me! This "inverse question phrasing" is something I see popping up more and more in forums and such, especially phrases starting with "How it <verb>?" or "Why it <verb>?".
Actually generally for emotional damage you don't. In the US you're perfectly free to insult someone and hurt their feelings without being liable to pay them damages.
Somewhat analogous to letting your 16 year old drive. Quite a bit more stressful than just driving yourself.
How would you define what a memory address is without first defining in which context it has a meaning?
This is a lie. Hiding assets is trivially easy. You just shouldn't hide them by literally hiding them or not telling about them.
Selling the assets for almost free to a different organisation just before you go get your bankrupty is the way to go.
It’s being done right out in the open by having his parents “own” his vitamin business, which is now bidding for InfoWars. This is one of the big problems with how the court is handling this case.
It is. IIRC he started shuffling assets only after the legal consequences got real. But the legal system is moving slowly. And the victims may get tired of chasing his assets
This, and not only the development of the product, but marketing, distribution, payments, accounting, legal, etc.

I can't count the number of times someone came to me with an idea, suggesting I would do all the work, and we would split it 50/50. "What are you going to do?" "I had the idea." No thanks.

The funniest is when they want me to sign some sort of NDA. Nah.
I read the details of the auction out of interest. I think it is valid, and in the best interests of the creditors as it currently stands. Interested to see how others have read into it that they offered "more". It was a blind auction and the result is clearly in the best interests of the creditors to take the onion deal.
Do most companies do such writeups? We don't at mine.
Only about 1000 more functions to do this to.
Americans burned down a police station over George Floyd, stormed the capitol, and there were two assassination attempts on Trump last year.

Basically, we’ve begun normalizing events that fit a timeline of domestic turmoil.
I've been to Timberline (exterior shot of the Overlook) twice.

The interior looks nothing like the Shining.

But, if you like to ski, Timberline is worth a trip. It's one of the few places where you can park near the top of the mountain and ski down. There's also a glacier that's open for skiing (almost) year round. (This is probably why the parking lot is mid-mountain instead of at the bottom.

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Following in line with the theme, I recently re-watched watched 2001. I can't seem to figure out where the spinning part of the ship is when I see the exterior shots.
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>2x more cash

But because the largest creditor has a claim that is so much larger, the minority creditors will actually get less cash with the vitamin company offer.

The deal was structured so that the minority creditors would get more cash than from any other offer.

The only creditor that would get less cash from this offer is the sandy hook families and they are fine with that.
Good example, distracted driving that ends in death should be treated much more harshly than it is.
appointed in 2019, gee what a shocker
Charitable interpretation may be: Back then when the contract of this function was standardized, presumably in C89 which is ~35 years ago, CPUs but also C compilers were not as powerful so wasting an extra couple of CPU cycles to check this condition was much more expensive than it is today. Because of that contract, and which can be seen in the example in the below comments, the compiler is also free to eliminate the dead code which also has the effect of shaving off some extra CPU cycles.
To bankrupt someone who exploited the families of a horrific crime to enrich himself. Not a pretend bankruptcy after most of the real assets have been shuffled off the board ahead of sentencing.
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It's certainly mafia type of behavior. Now Jones has learned the lesson that as long as he doesn't directly own anything, he is effectively defamation proof. It's almost like an inverse RICO case, he does all the crime whole holding none of the money vs a mob boss rolling in dough while never directly committing the crimes.
Not everyone died in the Titanic, which means there is a third choice: when facing a catastrophic event, work as hard as possible to save whoever can be saved. Even if you are not in the selected list.
And here's the statement from Jones: https://x.com/realalexjones/status/1866752494317003142
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I think it's more a strategy. C was not created to be safe. It's pretty much a tiny wrapper around assembler. Every limitation requires extra cycles, compile time or runtime, both of which were scarce.

Of course, someone needs to check in the layers of abstraction. The user, programmer, compiler, cpu, architecture.. They chose for the programmer, who like to call themselves "engineers" these days.
Kinda yeah. The problem is when you allow for vigilante justice, it can easily also turn against you at some point.

Someone one day might decide that your mom/dad broke law and evaded justice and it's therefore OK to un-alive them because the court system failed.

Which is why countries where vigilante justice is common are significantly more dangerous and worse to live in than where it's not.
Then you by definition don't care enough about quantum computing. The same could be said about learning programming or any other deep skill.
Jones seems like a nut, but the way he's being taken to the cleaners and sued for comical amounts of money are just absurd. I'm not being hyperbolic saying people would be less mad at him if he had done the shooting himself.

And it's especially rich in a time where the most popular podcast genre is women commenting on brutal murder cases as they're fresh and being investigated, and throwing out their pet theories about real living people being responsible. What's the difference?
it's fraud, Jones' parents own the vitamin company
A worked example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_Lead_(Italy)
>Incitement to credible threats of violence

Incitement means means explicitly encouraging. Just because someone people made threats of violence to the families because they believed what Alex Jones said about the shootings, doesn't mean that saying "The shootings were faked" is incitement. If Jones had explicitly said "the families deserve to suffer violent consequences for helping fake the shootings", that would be incitement.

That's why he wasn't convicted of incitement, he was convicted of defamation.
self driving makes total sense if its the sci-fi like dream of being able to read the news or a novel in the drivers seat while your car safely takes you to your destination.

But if I have to maintain a hand on the steering wheel and monitor the car I may as well be driving.
FTA (emphasis added):

“You need 4 colors

2 for text and background(primary & secondary colors). 1 accent color to highlight important elements(number 4 & buttons). And an OPTIONAL tertiary color to add a bit of personality(the hue slider).”

So, the article contradicts itself, saying that you need 3 colors.

Also, highlighting can be done by different means than color. You can use bold text, inverted video, a different font, blinking, more subtle animations, etc.

In fact, text and background need not be different colors. Varying brightness can be sufficient.

A nice example of all of that is the original Mac. It used two shades of gray (extremely dark aka ‘black’ and extremely light aka ‘white’), but many other monochrome interfaces also showed that two colors suffice.
> What's the point of this windy article?

Ah, I had the same reaction (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42387392).

Seems like an article meant to distract, or a someone nerding off on the nuances with no solutions offered.
Back when they wrote it they were trying to accommodate existing compilers, including those who did useful things to help people catch errors in their programs (e.g. making memcpy trap and send a signal if you called it with NULL). The current generation of compilers that use undefined behaviour as an excuse to do horrible things that screw over regular programmers but increase performance on microbenchmarks postdates the standard.
This is definitely something that Tesla nails imo. No haggling, a single price listed on the website that changes with market conditions. A list of options available with again explicitly listed prices. No slimy car salesperson trying to upsell the scotchguard on your carpets bs. No hidden prices where the websites lists price $x but when you get to the store they tell you its $x + y. A price, a delivery and its over.
There are certainly exceptions, but for the overwhelming majority of humans, friends and/or family are essential regardless of how you earn a living.
I’ll bite. Why does it take longer for you?
How is it the correct decision that Alex Jones has a judgment against him for more money than he claims to have, but also Alex Jones has enough money to enter a bid to satisfy the judgement? It’s a farce.
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Adding to your addition, let’s not forget the “raw” materials, which are a constant headache to keep supplied and qualified. Consider a not entirely hypothetical example where your regular supplier of sulfuric acid is late. Your iso tank runs out and you have to tap a drum. The drum is from a qualified source, but it’s been sitting around for a while. The drum may have started degrading; is the sulfuric still pure enough to use? If it’s not, you have to idle your billion dollar fab until you can source another iso.

Anyway, multiply this headache by nitric acid, hydrofluoric, bare wafers, several kinds of photoresist, arsine, phosphene, diborane, silane, cmp slurry, and dozens of other ingredients, plus oem spares for ten thousand different consumables for your equipment. Supply chain for semiconductors is no joke.
https://archive.ph/A5CwK
California’s transformation in lowering of the bar,
and the removal of some framgnets of math
from the curriculum (pushing for teaching it when students are older)
and offering alternate classes to traditional
Math is nearly certain to lower the score for international tests,
if other nations do not adopt some of the same ideas.

I belevie this is now current policy, it has been voted in by the board
of educatoin, but there has been a lot of controversy and fights over it
so I could have missed something.

I am not saying that the scores we see in this post has any correelation
to the proposed changes, just that if they are kept, and if they go national
the US students may face international students who have taken more
advanced / foundatoinal mathmatics already.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-07-12/californ...

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/california...

https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/california-adopts-c...
I know the last company I worked for had each interviewer interview separately, then had each person write up a few paragraphs of thoughts. Then they were allowed to discuss with each other.
> time they leave something undefined, they do so to leave implementations free to use the underlying platform's default behavior

That's implementation defined (more or less) ie teh compiler can do whatever makes mst sense for its implementation.

Undefined means (more or less) that the compiler can assume the behaviour never happens so can apply transforms without taking it into account.

> to allow compilers to use it as an optimization point

That's the main advantage of undefined behaviour ie if you can ignore the usage, you may be able to apply optimisations that you couldn't if you had to take it into account. In the article, for example, GCC eliminated what it considered dead code for a NULL check of a variable that couldn't be NULL according to the C spec.

That's also probably the most frustrating thing about optimisations based on undefined behaviour ie checks that prevent undefined behaviour are removed because the compiler thinks that the check can't ever succeed because, if it did, there must have been undefined behaviour. But the way the developer was ensuring defined behaviour was with the check!
https://www.npmjs.com/package/firebase-tools?activeTab=depen...
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He wasn't fined. He had a judgement for damages against him. They are different things with a similar outcome (he's out a billion dollars) - accuracy is important.

Also - until he actually pays any of that billion dollars, there have been no consequences.
My experience in the US has been similar - most religious schools had higher performance than most public schools. Even the grading systems reflected the higher standards by using a 7 point scale rather than a 10 point scale. None of the religious schools I heard of had the "no zero" policies like some of the public schools where you get an automatic minimum 50% score just for writing your name on the test.

I'm sure there are outliers in either school type, but categorizing religious schools as lower performing doesn't to fit my experiences at all.
>>> An allusion to "debanking people is OK actually!"

>Literally the opposite of what he says.

In that case the message is lost in the wall of text.
Well I hate to break it to you but profiting by lying is the definition of fraud. In general if someone is impacted by your actions you are open to legal ramifications.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fraud
> I'm not arguing that society always gets things right. I'm arguing that single-handedly deciding it got things right and therefore doing whatever you think is best is something society can't condone.

I keep agreeing with that and you keep arguing it so this all seems like a complete waste of time.
he's arguably waving that by claiming he, and not the poster, owns the content
CPI for all items rises 0.3% in November, 2.7% Y/Y; shelter and food up
If it is legal and done in plain sight, then it is not "hiding" by definition.
If it were illegal, the court and the lawyers representing parents would have done something about the fact of the sale.

Hide: "put or keep out of sight; conceal from the view or notice of others."

The fact is that most of complainers here would be laughed out of the bancruptcy court, yourself included.

Selling assets for nothing before bancruptcy is legal, but will almost certainly be scrutinized by the court. The court has a broad power to collect the proceeds, sue the purchaser for the difference from the market value, and take additional steps to recover assets.
And the death threats those people have been living with for decades because of Jones? That's just acceptable and normal to you?

The amount of whataboutism and history rewriting going on in these comments is impressive
Defamation is basically lying about someone to damage their reputation. So I don't think that the first amendment gives you the right to lie?

Also, doctors and lawyers are subjected to discipline by their respective guild. So even if it's your right to say bullshit, you might lose your job and license.

Arguably, there's no to little consequence of being a nobody and lying about something like autism and vaccine. It's probably isn't worth the effort to sue folks. That said, misinformation is clearly harmful and we shouldn't let people lie unchecked.
Are you saying western colonialism has no impact on the world of today? Not just colonialism from 200 years ago, but the colonialism happening today.

You're moving the goalposts on the original sin, while I was discussing the issues of today or at least recent past (Iranian revolution was only in 1979, Invasion of Iraq was in 2003, Arab spring in 2011, Taliban rule form 2021).

You can't just wave away decades or even centuries of oppression and intervention in other countries' affairs that changed them forever (that sill happen to this day BTW, and by the same powers), with "whatever mate, it was in the past", as if you broke my phone screen in junior school. No mate, it wasn't just in the past, it's still happening.

Except colonialism today is less about large sailing wooden ships and conquistadors with muskets straight up stealing your shit from your town at gunpoint and shipping abroad along with slaves, but more alphabet agency black-ops and monetary/economic levers to topple your leader and replace him with a friendly puppet one who will willingly and legally sign off your country's resources and your peoples' labor to western corporations as salves, for way below market price. This isn't the original sin anymore, this is its modern version.
Have a look at V13.2 and tell me they "underdelivered". This is the most advanced AI driving system in the world. It's essentially DriveGPT, trained on absolutely massive amounts of training data on the largest GPU super cluster in the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeNKYRWGgBc

Just because Elon was optimistic in 2017 doesn't make this any less impressive.
> very little (if any) of the user data we process today will be relevant to a nation-state actor in, say, 30 years.

The NSA is most likely interested in all data let's be honest. At a bare minimum, in all foreign actor data.
Hi, and thank you for the comment!
As florastarr said, every service is self-hosted and first party (except the mail service as of today 11/12/2024, but I'm actively working on creating a proprietary temp-mail service.) so there is no "SaaS somewhere" and no "new actors" except me and my products.

Also, no the URL Shortener service stores NO data about the users visiting the URLs, nor who created it.

Also, yes, privacy, security and anonymity are different from each other, but they work sometimes all together, that's why there are different sections to tweak all three of the "knobs" ;)

I want also to add that the first reply paragraph might sound "LLM generated" but it's not, and i hope to not sound as a LLM again, i guess.
As a CT native, you'll never coax an ounce of sympathy for Jones from me. He made his bed, doubled down, and faced justice. The system worked at least one time.
When the DVD format was new, a 300MHz Pentium II CPU could just barely decode the MPEG-2 stream. And that CPU cost almost two thousand dollars at launch:

https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/pentium-ii-release-d...

In other words, there was simply no way to ship affordable DVD players that would use a general purpose CPU for video decoding. It needed to be in hardware.
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20 years ago, making a C compiler that provided sane behaviour and better guarantees (going beyond the minimum defined in the standard) to make code safer and programmers' lives easier, even at the cost of some performance, might have been a good idea. Today any programmer who thinks things like not having security bugs are more important than having bigger numbers on microbenchmarks has already moved on from C.
Interesting theory but I think the investment issues are simpler, and non-revenue producing business models simply don't make sense outside of the window of the low interest rate years.
Looks very nice, but I feel it's one of those "yeah, it's better, but only useful for personal projects, or until it gets critical mass which won't be until after I'm dead, if at all" projects.
Did anyone else feel turned off by the AI-written writing style of this? (Grammarly claims it’s 13% AI generated, although I’m not sure how accurate that is.)
He was fined a billion dollars, but it will never be collected, he never lost a billion dollars. With this decision all his debts are pardoned and he gets to keep his megaphone, that is very "no consequences".
Underappreciated code comment

// Ugly hack. To fix later {inserts reasons and breadcrumbs here}

Beats naked magic numbers/logic any day of the week.
It's really annoying to me because I would love to just pick a dealership and go there for the rest of my life for all things automotive.

I don't like being ripped off but I'm not particularly price sensitive, so I'd love to just show up and pay a reasonable sticker price that was just The Price Everyone Paid and not have this vague haggling system expected, and not have to worry whether I was being ripped because I wanted a particular option. I hate having to think about decisions I don't particularly care about, so I would prefer to constrain my choices to "maker Y's automobiles", be it GM, Ford or Toyota for the rest of my life, so that once I have the capabilities I need out of an automobile there's only one or two choices. I would love the simplicity of the dealer being the default maintainer of my automobile and I just show up once a year or so and they take care of it in a pleasant experience.

It's irksome instead that it feels like they just want to trick you out of as much money as possible up front and that they don't want to have a maintenance department, but are legally required to.
>On the one hand, UB can be important for compiler optimizations

e.g?
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