skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Entrapment requires some coercive/persuasive force by the government to push you to commit the crime, the government is allowed to setup entirely fake scenarios and let you choose to do a crime.
It was a rhetorical question, that was the point.
See my analogy below in this thread about the public park...

What is incomprehensible is developers confusing the value created by the site, with the means of production of said value.

While contributing to the site might provide you with some personal feelings of value, maybe even a rush of altruistic euphoria... :-) An illusory sense of digital sainthood...Your unpaid work directly enhances the value of a platform that profits from selling the collective output, including yours.

This means you’re effectively donating your expertise to a for-profit entity, with no equity or share in its success
And as we've learned from significant breaches, there is rarely a reputational hit for even the biggest breaches. Anyone remember that time Target accidentally doxxed 70 million people? I don't think there was any noticeable difference in their income or profits.

No one cared.
Suppose you're charged with two crimes in two separate courts. The first is jaywalking, the second is murder, but the judge is given unlimited discretion to determine sentencing.

To try to prove their jaywalking allegations, the prosecution in the first case claims that you were in a hurry to cross the street because you were trying to kill someone, and present some evidence of that from a questionable source. They also have separate video evidence of you crossing the street against the light. The jury convicts you of jaywalking.

The judge in the jaywalking case then sentences you to life without parole, because jaywalking in order to murder someone is much more serious than most other instances of jaywalking. The prosecution in the other court then drops the murder charges, so the murder allegations were never actually proven anywhere.

Is this reasonable? Should we be satisfied with how this works and not want to change anything about it?
> problem here being that it was money spent that was never earned back, and money that eventually had to be paid back, right?

In part. It was money borrowed by the state. That means when it can't be paid back, it's automatically a systemic issue. And it was money borrowed to fund consumption. There was no good reason to ever expect it to be paid back because it wasn't funding productive activity.

> if this turns out to be a bubble it will be taxpayers who end up fronting the bill

Very possibly, particularly if part of the package are e.g. federally-subsidised loans. Before that, however, private parties will almost certainly lose tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars. That cushion, together with those parties being spread between domestic and foreign sources, is what makes this less risky to the United States than similar relative-magnitude projects in South America. (Plus the fact that this is a capital asset versus consumption.)
does this answer your question? https://monster6502.com/

"The MOnSter 6502 runs at about 1/20th the speed of the original, thanks to the much larger capacitance of the design. The maximum reliable clock rate is around 50 kHz. The primary limit to the clock speed is the gate capacitance of the MOSFETs that we are using, which is much larger than the capacitance of the MOSFETs on an original 6502 die."
Expecting 10% of the player-base to volunteer as admins instead of (in addition to?) playing the game seems on the high side.
Chuckled on “legal texts”, imagined a person so desperate and not getting any endorphins from “usual stuff” anymore, so only proprietary and very expensive CAD software’s EULA reading makes them “high”.
This is ~1 hour of software engineer, ~2 hours of technology generalist time. Time is non renewable, and humans have a cost. If you're an agency, business, whatever, and have the need to make something WP static via Hugo, this is a reasonable cost to solve the problem quick.
In my experience, working on the triggers had the biggest impact. Yes deleting the apps helps a lot, but so did removing the things that made me reach for my phone in the first place: notifications and badges. My phone is in do not disturb mode 90% of the time. In any case, I only allow notifications from WhatsApp and my bank. There are no feeds anywhere; not even the weather. I aggressively disable anything that calls for my attention. I add distance between me and the apps I check mindlessly, like Gmail. All that's left is Hacker News, and Reddit with no subreddits on my front page. Removing the default feed from these websites helped a lot.

Basically, picking up my phone is not rewarding anymore. I'm many steps removed from anything fun. It's enough to not think about it.
Because you aren't being "censored" by billionaires at all. They have made the business decision to reduce the usefulness of their AI to prevent their liability from being legally, or even socially, held accountable.

Again, consider my example about YouTube - it's not illegal for Google to put pornography on YouTube. They still moderate it out though, not because they want to "censor" their users but because amateur porn is a liability nightmare to moderate. Similarly, I don't think ChatGPT's limitations qualify as censorship.
Creation of an Atmosphere for the Moon (1969)
NGAD is irrelevant to a conflict over Taiwan. The fighter mafia isn’t going there.
Just Launched: A Daily Quiz Platform with Leaderboards and Streaks
They can smash your window
I blocked anything to do with Shorts because of how addictive they are.
$25K is a lot.

Respectfully, You're out of touch until you lost your 6 digits job.
"Heirarchy" describes a set of power and/or decision-making and/or accountability relationships.

It does not describe how the individuals who hold particular positions within the heirachy may change over time, which is a central part of the ideas Joreen gets to in the latter part of the essay.

Or in click-bait terms: you can have heirarchy without heirarchy :)
The Gervais Principle: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
I realized seeing the picture on top that I have actually never seen his face before, only his well known avatar. Despite having read his stuff and following him for a decade.
You should put all these interactions on the web. For education purposes ofc.
Trump announces $500B 'Stargate' AI infrastructure project
Well yeah... But overall numbers in French are a bit... Weird... By the time you are a teenager, you have the math skills of someone with a PhD in Calculus just to be able to say how old you are. No wonder some of the best mathematicians in history were French ;)
> When Biden 2020 voters cast a ballot for someone besides Harris in 2024

These people were "irrelevant" to the election outcome. Isn't it the case that if every 3rd party vote went for Harris, Trump would still have won?
For context, Andreessen is talking here about the Biden administration, and his revulsion to this approach is why he endorsed Trump:

> I, you know, look, and I would say like when we endorse Trump, we, we only did so on the basis of like tech policy. [...] Number two was ai, where I became very scared earlier this year that they were gonna do the same thing to AI that they did to crypto.
I think you meant to use e.g. (for example) rather than i.e. (in other words)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2600:_The_Hacker_Quarterly
Here's one about the 'Semco Way' - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Wor...

Semco, like Valve is a 'horizontal organisation' with a BDFL. The difference being that Semco is a massive organisation and employer operating across a range of industries.

Here's a quick read on the company - https://hatrabbits.com/en/ricardo-semler-does-things-differe...
Deepseek R1 just got ported to WebGPU as well! Exciting future for local web AI:

Thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42795782
It's a buy once cry once situation for me. Very happy with my Pepper Cannon and I no longer have to give myself RSI grinding enough pepper for cooking large meals.
You're correct. This is unrelated to Citizens.
Some of the advice thrown around in this thread is so out of touch.

"Just get a high paying job".
"I never worry about healthcare because of my employer".
"Just put $7,000 away into a retirement account and $10,000 into a 529 every year. What's the problem?"

And even if I'm in a position to do that, the problem is that there are millions of fellow Americans (the majority) that don't have these "luxuries".
After "The Macedonian" conquered Persia, he combined his army with the largely intact Persian forces, but unsurprisingly there was friction between the comands, and Alexander admonished his
own generals, pointing out that the so called greek and persian languages, were mutualy comprehensable. The most ancient history of greek/persian origins is that they were the same tribe long long ago, but there was a dispute, exactly what is lost, but even to this day greeks
carry a grudge and persians give them the piss.
There is more, much more to the combined history
of the greek and persian tribes, but what with the present fantasy landscaping of the past, its an unpleasant slog to try and comunicate.
Housing costs are both created by NIMBY and The Rich gobbling assets both Residential _AND_ Commercials.

Here's the thing: if housing cost goes up but wage goes up as well (wage is controlled by the Rich), then things will be fine.

But things aren't fine because Wage gets depressed, everywhere.
Is there a concrete example? Can I download the rainfall in NY during 2024 as a csv file?
> they aren't legally bound by precedent

No high court is. If they were, they wouldn't be the high court.
I doubt that modern society does fulfill the sufficiency criteria [1], so „the only thing“ can be right, but also it is not the claim that it is enough for survival.

[1] USA regressing to a globally disrespected oligarchy under Trump is a good example.
I only think of commit hashes. Branches and tags and any refs are just names for commit hashes.
> It is like witchcraft seeing someone produce VGA out with some raw/more tangible chips.

I think what you're missing is: VGA was designed in the era when this was A Thing™. Monochrome/NTSC/CGA/EGA/VGA displays are all about "bit banging," sending signals at the right time. If you can send 1's and 0's faster than the analog reception can update, you can "fake" voltage potentials. I say "fake" because that was actually a way to do it before digital-to-analog converters were easy to implement. Today, we can easily produce chips custom for the purpose; however, "in the beginning" it was really just all about timing.

The witchcraft for me was the fact that while older cards used bit-banging to get signals out the door, it was generally designed with a specific purpose (thus specific timings). If you can get access to the underlying timing control, it [opens a whole new world that will surprise people today](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xJZ9I4iqg8).
> nothing in US politics is going to get any better until we are able to completely outlaw non-individual campaign contributions

Banning corporate campaign donations is a good idea. It would have no effect on this news.
re: SSL/TLS certs

My first thought is using one of the ACME-based certificate providers, since DNS control of a domain is sufficient (either TXT record or directing requests to a HTTP server you control).
The article is wrong/misleading. It starts by talking about Americans who voted for Biden in 2020 and who did not cast a ballot in 2024. Then it cites this poll, which is of a completely different demographic: Those who voted Biden in 2020 and did vote in 2024 (but not for Trump/Harris).

As I pointed out elsewhere, those numbers are so tiny they would not have impacted the election results at all if every single one of them voted Harris.
Why would you be able to bill for a service that you weren’t asked to provide?

This can happen; if you're found unconscious and taken to the hospital, you can be billed for medical care which you didn't ask for, based on the doctrine of presumed consent.

One could imagine a parallel -- a critical emergency where it's impossible to communicate but it's reasonable to presume that they would want to have the issue fixed if they were aware. I don't think it necessarily applies here, but it's at least possible that another case could meet that bar.
Wait for the new Meta models and ask them about Trump. ;-)
Great read.

>The basic problems didn't appear until individual rap groups exhausted the virtues of consciousness-raising and decided they wanted to do something more specific.

I do think of some of the "awareness" activism I see where it never seems to lead anywhere. Folks are just busy with their awareness activities and everything is deemed good because they're generating awareness. Like minded people do their awareness thing, they like to do it, and there ya go... awareness is sort of its own means to an end and I'm not sure the given individuals or groups are structured in a way that they'll ever be capable of more.

I'd even argue that some of these structureless groups are incapable of much critical discussion as their group exists purely because of their awareness raising efforts, it is what they are, change might take some leadership.
Here’s a firm that lobbies for pardons from Trump.

https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/01/trump-tied-lobbyist...
MRIs only cost that much in the US[0](2015 prices: $1,145 in America and $138 in Switzerland), everything is inexplicably ten fold more expensive here. That more expensive care doesn't result in ten fold better outcomes as all the health measures you can find indicate. That's the root of the problem and the thing is no politician[1] is really willing to address it and they don't really cover it clearly on the news[2], I wonder why?

[0]https://www.vox.com/2014/9/4/6104533/the-125-percent-solutio...

[1]https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/industries/summ...

[2]https://www.fiercepharma.com/marketing/hey-big-spenders-phar...
> Less of a problem with whole spices.

Very few people have the ability to properly mill dried red pepper at home.

> Local markets are good at sussing this out.

Unless it's long-acting toxins. Of which there are many.
There Has Never Been a Sillier TV Thriller About Math Than Prime Target
> makes sense for OpenAI and other to ramp up lobbying to be one of the two or three big companies

The fact that Musk hates Altman, has the President's ear and has a competitor to Altman's main wealth engine surely also plays into the calculus.
There are also a number of projects that bring comments on ATProto back to the original content

Do you think WhiteWind fits into the POSSE model because your content lives in your ATProto database?
The review complains about exhaustive enumeration, but (sorry) sampling is required for analysis.

And the "Tolstoy" problem was expressed (better?) in Socrates' time via Ecclesiastes (~ even kingdoms turn to dust) and Silenus (~ better not to be born), the dual perils of materialism and spirituality.

So it's pretty hard to tell if a review of a book about dialogs about Socrates hasn't lost all connection to relevance, but there's good reason to believe that understanding Socrates now is relevant, and the book might help.

Philosophy is just taking responsibility for our unavoidable phenomenological fictions to avoid the delusions and violence of their blind spots and projections -- good science and good ethics. The alternative is not science or realpolitik but obliviousness (which is nevertheless often required in the practice of both).

Socrates as an ugly stonemason would have been ignored in Athenian society - not even given an ear, regardless of any wisdom.

But Socrates was a war hero. You can imagine how effective a strong, squat stonemason would be in a melee. In the midst of particularly horrible defeat and retreat, he managed to save some of the elites (and their armor/honor) by not freaking out.

Imagine how conflicted he might feel about society after seeing friends die horribly, and brutally bashing so many enemies, and then being celebrated for it.

On Socrates' return from that war, he meets the beautiful young Charmides, and they discuss the untranslatable virtue "sophrosyne". Think of it as the virtue appropriate to retreat and peace, by comparison to courage as the virtue of attack and war.

At the time the dialog was written, Charmides had grown up to become one of the democratic tyrants that destroyed Athens. It was the youth flocking to Socrates (for his critique of received wisdoms?) that led to Socrates' condemnation and death after his students grew up to ruin Athenian society.

Tech is experiencing a similar turn in the public mind, for many of the same reasons. Through careful analysis and opportunism, it effectively displaced scleric systems, but with exploitative ones beyond society's control.

There's as much value to be saved in a calm peace as to be taken in deploying every new weapon as soon as it's available. But there seem to be far fewer such leaders.
> Interesting though that most people who abstained from voting did have a issue they could name, and only 5% put down

Nope. The poll is about people who did vote - not those who abstained.
Yes they could, but there were strict limits to it and people went to jail for violating them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff#Scandal_and_crim...

McConnell (yes that one) v FEC and Citizens United redefined the first amendment to include financial contributions as a form of speech and extended to for-profit corporations the same rights as individuals and civic associations.
Cool, didn't know that.. PDS sounds interesting.
Spotify for Windows 95 and Up
I think most Americans over-index on the cost of healthcare and the availability of insurance because it’s constant in our news and our system absolutely sucks. Most people don’t need regular medical care because most people are healthy (until they start getting older). It’s expensive, sure, but most people in the middle-class have employer sponsored healthcare, and retirees have government sponsored healthcare, and many low-income people have government sponsored healthcare. The difference in out-of-pocket costs is easily accounted for within significantly higher salaries.

Of course, the issue is not the actual availability of insurance, it is that there is a patchwork of laws and protections and it’s not universal to be covered at any point in your life. But many states have well above a 90% insurance rate. California, the most populous state, has 93%. Massachusetts is sitting at 98%. Even Texas, the worst state for health insurance, is at 85% of the population covered.
You're right, Hugo is for static sites! Hugo does support comments through things like Disqus (https://gohugo.io/content-management/comments/).

My service only converts the blog posts and pages themself and helps you get started on a conversion.
> What control do they need beyond normal copyright?

Money. Content partners pay to have NFL content on their platforms, NFL content is highly valuable, so the NFL doesn't want anyone else to monetize it without the NFL getting their cut.
I pay for kagi.com and they seem to be fighting that battle. I also frequent their "small web" (https://blog.kagi.com/small-web) initiative.
Yes, we do plan to add it soon, we are focusing on something cool right now! Stay tuned!
The vast majority of WordPress sites are static sites with no use for comments.
> where did systemd come into the picture? Don't be obtuse.
>>> if the algorithm cannot be explained in easily understandable language (as determined by a jury), then it's illegal.

It came here and because just the other day there was a big thread on systemsd where plenty of people were complaining about how difficult it was[0]. I'm really not convinced that the average person could understand systemd.

The thing is that the simpler you explain it, the less informed the jury is. So the question is if you can find an explanation that is sufficient to make informed decisions. The reality of this is that this then becomes more dependent on who's a smooth talker. Who can convince the jury that they understand and understand in the way they want to. There's a big bias in the balance of power here. Details are hard to explain and if anything relies on something subtle, well you're fucked. So all you need to do to abuse employees is make the algorithm sufficiently complex and get a smooth talking lawyer.

> The problem with high dimensional LP solvers, optimisation problems, PID controllers, or other systems with a feedback loop is that it's very tempting to include revenue

Some of these are fully interpretable, others are not. But most people have a really hard time understanding high dimensions. Where a straight line isn't "straight" (geodesic) or how the average can be a meaningless value, or how a unit ball inscribed in a unit cube can extend out of the unit cube. Problem with high dimensions is that it is really hard to explain without math because you no longer can rely on any visualization reference.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42749402
From characteristics of HN that I can observe directly (stories making the front page, sites represented, classifications of those sites), relatively little change.

Mind, that's what a two-year-old historical scrape of the front-page alone shows.

What I don't see in that is voting behaviour, submissions overall, stories which haven't made the front page, etc., etc., etc. Much of that is only available within the HN server/DBMS itself, though some might be evident from a more comprehensive scrape of the site. Since items (submissions and comments) are assigned monotonically-increasing IDs, that's at least theoretically possible, though at 42.8 million items and counting it'd take some doing, and there is still a great deal of information concealed from the public: comment votes, purged content, flag detail, vouch detail, unannounced moderator activity.

What has changed markedly is the pardonee's relationship to the political system, and the political system's own degree of (dis)functionality. To that extent, HN both reflects, participates, and is a mechanism for influencing / being influenced by a larger system which has changed markedly.

HN has long been unable to discuss contentious subjects. It's particularly prone to status quoism, and in the present environment, the status quo is markedly authoritarian, fascistic, and personality-cultish, all of which HN's biases inherently (if not intentionally) support.

It disappoints me tremendously, as for all those faults HN remains one of the better online discussion sites. The bar is falling rapidly however, so cold, cold comfort there.

Late edit: Specifically as regards general news sites, those have always featured heavily on HN, with the New York Times specifically being among the top 3, if not the top submitted site. That changed markedly around 2019 not due to changes in HN, but as the Times significantly tightened its paywall, causing front-page appearances to drop to roughly 1/4 their previous quantity. To that extent, HN sees less general news, and less reasonably nonpartisan news now than in its first decade or so. The degree to which social media sites, and Twitter in particular, have themselves shifted rightwards, there's also a strong bias.

Specifically partisan "think tank" (read: propaganda) sites have long had a submission penalty, and don't seem to be more prevalent so far as I've checked. Partisanship has crept up on other sites/domains, however.
>The company running the hospital was unprepared before the event, inept during it, and unchanged after it.

I'm sure, the new Windows 11 update, will solve this issue. /s
I call bullshit. I don’t really believe they’re saying don’t fund startups. I also don’t believe for a second that they think they can stunt progress. We didn’t have the internet in the 60s.