skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a massive public-private wealth transfer

I’ll say this as someone who’s moderately wealthy: this administration is a massive wealth transfer to those with either capital or connections to it. Taking apart these committees means less-regulated telecoms, infrastructure and financial services. If you’re in those spaces, this is great for you.

The size of each of those industries entirely dwarfs the military-industrial bogeyman, which is largely just being transferred from one set of owners (Boeing, Lockheed, et cetera) to another (Musk, Bezos, Lucky, et cetera)
> ... the shared faith in this "holy religion, the rule of law" is the only thing holding together your country, my country ...

Let's forget a minute about that holy rule of law, "your" country has elected a convicted criminal, and it's yet to collapse.
I see. In a sense we are already doing that. Minors can not vote (and if I am correct the reasoning is that they don't have the competency to cast a proper vote) and even foreign permanent residents can't either, even though the outcome of the elections totally influences their lives. In a sense these not-allowed groups are already totally dependent on the people that are allowed to vote.

I guess my argument boils down to: We already discriminate. My thoughts are that the way we do it is not optimal.
> Multiple teenagers (one in Australia) died from the drugs distributed on Silk Road

more or less than those who bought drugs from street dealers?

could it not be possible the silk road saved the lives of many more teenagers who would have died from street drugs otherwise?
I think that's just a quirk of HackerOne's username system. The username daniel was previously owned by another account (now known as daniel-hamid) which submitted a bug to Adobe. If you go through @hackermondev's tweets (starting in 2018) they are without question a kid (making games in Roblox and Minecraft) and then started to show an interest in hacking in 2020 (which lines up with when they created their HackerOne account). The claim of being 15 years old is plausible (presumably with parents / guardians who are accomplished in technology).
That's an interesting perspective, but I wonder if we can't have both.
While it is true that there is always controversy, this does not mean that there is equivalency.

Yes, every president has pardons that are arguable (Biden pardoning his son, for example). And anyone pardoned has been found guilty of a crime, by definition. But not all crimes are equal.

Pardoning 1500 people that participated in a (luckily failed) insurrection that caused 5 deaths and 100+ injured, is an extremely bad precedent, and sends a very bad signal.

Pardoning people convicted of marijuana possession (like Biden did) is not the same thing as pardoning the head of the worlds biggest guns and drugs marketplace. Even if he did not kill anyone himself (it was proven, just to a lesser extent, but fine). Those drugs and guns most definitely did kill people.
Wow they really need to work on that first splash image[1]. All the assets there look hideous.

[1] https://github.com/Tencent/Hunyuan3D-2/blob/main/assets/imag...
> bigger datasets

Not even, they already ran out of data.
yea, mate. i still use it to read some questions and answers.
It works medium term for lots of people. Helped me get visible abs. But I do agree that tracking calories for the rest of my life sounds exhausting.
The murder was fake not the murder order.

>DPR contacted one of his trusted drug dealer contacts, Nob, and asked him to kill Green for $40,000. Shortly after, Nob sent DPR photos of Green covered in Campbell’s Chicken & Stars soup and victim of an apparent asphyxiation, to prove the murder had been carried out.

> Unbeknown to DPR, Nob was no drug dealer. In fact, Nob was Carl Mark Force IV, the very same DEA agent who had arrested Green.
https://www.mixcloud.com/ is pretty good for finding stuff to listen to in a somewhat curated manner.
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LLMs are notoriously unreliable with mathematics and logic. I wish you the best of luck, because this would nevertheless be an awesome tool to have.
I'm sure this will age well.
Ross founded a nonviolent way to sell drugs that competes with the narco traffickers responsible for millions (?) of deaths.
Have you seen the "Ultra" versions of the Apple Silicon? They are gigantic chips. And many other competitors make server-class ARM based processors, so having a chiplet architecture as part of the ecosystem makes a lot of sense.
This algorithmic filtering is almost certainly still in place, they just dialled it back from 100% ban to some lower percentage.

The only way to win against this is to close all your Meta accounts and never look back. It seems hard to do, but once you rip the plaster off it is actually quite a relief.
Azure attestation service could be an example of a confidential service where you can find the binary measurement. It is a good example as you need to trust that service to attest your confidential workloads. The problem obvs is that it is not open source but they have some samples to deal with their measurements.

https://github.com/Azure-Samples/microsoft-azure-attestation...

^^^ note the "Looks up for the MAA x509 extension;" part in the readme.

You can see their attestations in the JWT signing certificates.
Consider that the differing results in each situation led to different actions taken.

In only one case was there an insurrection supported (as evidenced by pardons) by the tweeter.
Pretty sure Silk Road enabled loads of pedophiles to go about their activities. This is a false equivalence
What about Idealist.org?
Has the word "advanced", gotta be good
I believe in reality it's a bit more complicated

CDNs do not choose datacenters for users based on a geographic distance. The number one metric is latency but latency != physical distance. Second metric is optimizations of price of data transfer between peers and IXPs which results in very dynamic routing rules. Then consider also network/software hickups/maintanance and distribution of datacenters' load...
But now, let's get back to the case in point. Who threw morality out of the window, Ross Ulbricht or the state?
I believe it's like a tree that's sprouting.

Imagine the sensory pathway from sense organ to brain. As information travels it preferentially goes in one direction as opposed to another. When it reaches a dead end it splits and forms its own branch. Then the next bit of information will reach this new dead end, and split again. And so on until everything is processed and categorized. Basically a graph search problem in a self-modifying graph where you can have cycles and feedback loops and layers and many other structures that are not yet captured by the state of the art in ML, and where each node is specialized for a specific task.
Direct military expenditures in the US amount to roughly $900billion to 1.2 trillion dollars/yr. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_Unite...]

Depending on how you slice things, and what you count as ‘military’.

Based on the GOA, approx. $500 billion/yr (including veterans benefits) goes into actually running the military [https://www.cbo.gov/publication/59475]. Much of that appears
to be VA benefits, and it’s increasing.

So the remainder (minus war bonds!) feels like the Military Industrial Complex, which seems to add up to around $500bln/yr.

Google annual revenue appears to be up to approx. $282 billion/year now.

So unlikely any MIC component is close, but overall the MIC still seems quite a bit larger.
Not voting, practically, is empowering the status quo. Particularly in America, where almost every election features intense down-ballot competition.

Someone who didn’t vote is more in concordance with the current government than someone who voted against it. Actions speak louder than words, and not voting is an action.
So I'm curious, is HN just a general tech news site for you then? Do you expect it to have a focus?
It will be, or, it's slowly happening already. Climate change is triggering water and food shortages, both abroad and on your doorstep (California wildfires), which in turn trigger mass migrations. If a richer and/or more militarily equipped country decides they want another country's resources to survive, we'll see wars erupt everywhere.

Then again, it's more of a logistics challenge, and if e.g. California were to invade Canada for its water supply, how are they going to get it all the way down there?

I can see it happening in Africa though, a long string of countries rely on the Nile, but large hydropower dams built in Sudan and Ethiopia are reducing the water flow, which Egypt is really not happy about as it's costing them water supply and irrigated land. I wouldn't be surprised if Egypt and its allies declares war on those countries and aims to have the dams broken. Then again, that's been going on for some years now and nothing has happened yet as far as I'm aware.

(the above is armchair theorycrafting from thousands of miles away based on superficial information and a lively imagination at best)
Why has this been flagged and removed from the front-page?
The answer is that’s just the way English is. Exactly 1 is singular, everything else is plural (mostly).

“On accident” is American English, as a British English speaker I’d consider it a grammatical mistake. The same goes with “I forgot it at home” and similar constructs. However they’re correct American English.
Feel the AGI
Well, we don't really have much in the way of canals or railroads, but they do the actual maintenance and construction of roads in the first place. They also enforce the traffic laws (which they also set for the most part), maintain and install the signage, etc. The local and state police are obviously run by local government. Federal police are obviously not.
"this generation shall not pass"... to me that's about as credible as wanting to "preserve human consciousness" by going to Mars.

Setting the world on fire and disrupting societies gleefully, while basically building bunkers (figuratively more than literally) and consolidating surveillance and propaganda to ride out the cataclysm, that's what I'm seeing.

And the stories to sell people on continuing to put up with that are not even good IMO. Just because the people who use the story to consolidate wealth and control are excited about that, we're somehow expected to be excited about the promise of a pair of socks made from barbed wire they gave us for Christmas. It's the narcissistic experience: "this is shit. this benefits you, not me. this hurts me."

One thing is sure, actual intelligence, regardless of how you may define it, something that is able to reason and speak freely, is NOT what people who fire engineers for correcting them want. It's not about a sort of oracle for humanity to enjoy and benefit from, that just speaks "truth".
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We’ve really gone full circle when the argument for less government is pointing to Europe, and the argument against the military-industrial complex is the guy directly arguing for more military spending.
Yeah a particular company like Meta might be in for a challenging time. Mostly due to competition from the other social media companies. So the entire class of social media companies as a whole is very well positioned.
Did you read my comment smartass? Do you think I don't know that?
Do you really need to ask?
The fact that he got to try this routine multiple times tells me it probably didn't work.

He also sounds unbearable.
Just Ellison alone brings unwelcome feeling of having Oracle craziness forced down our collective throats, but I share your concern about the unholy alliance generated in front of us.
I built a platform to monitor LLMs that are given complete freedom in the form of a Docker container bash REPL. Currently the models have been offline for some time because I'm upgrading from a single DELL to a TinyMiniMicro Proxmox cluster to run multiple small LLMs locally.

The bots don't do a lot of interesting stuff though, I plan to add the following functionalities:

- Instead of just resetting every 100 messages, I'm going to provide them with a rolling window of context.

- Instead of only allowing BASH commands, they will be able to also respond with reasoning messages, hopefully to make them a bit smarter.

- Give them a better docker container with more CLI tools such as curl and a working package manager.

If you're interested in seeing the developments, you can subscribe on the platform!

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They do get a lot of customers buying their stuff, but on top of that, a company with unique IP and mindshare can get investors to open their wallet easily enough; I keep thinking of AMD that was not or barely profitable for like 15 years in a row.
Some questions, as many of us are from another continent and are only marginally aware of the matter - so, for many here at HN:

1. Ross Ulbricht the ultimate entrepreneur?

2. Ross Ulbricht was a freedom fighter?
Gaza seems mostly to be about who controls Israel/Palestine politically. Gaza was reasonably ok for food and housing and is now predictably trashed as a result of Hamas wanting to control Palestine from the river to the sea as they say.

South Sudan is some ridiculous thing where two rival generals are fighting for control. Are there any wars which are mostly about scarcity at the moment?
> whose going to check that the food being produced is safe?

Honestly, we could do with less of this. It isn’t hard to tell if fresh food is safe. It’s impossible with hyper-processed nonsense. Increasing liability for producing unsafe processed food might be what we need to tip our food balance in a healthier direction.
Only if the paper is handwritten.
Burning everything to the ground is a way of demolishing something though.

And if your intent is to just destroy it, it’s a far more effective one than bringing in experts to slowly try to disassemble the giant jenga tower without it falling over.
now every second person is a coder. when i studied at the polytechnic, programmers were the elite, now it's common. i wanted to be some kind of neurosurgeon in IT, but it turned out that i'm a plumber. i would have been better off doing something else, preferably something far removed from IT. it's not about money

a person selling fruit on the street seems happier to me, a female veterinarian seems special to me because almost no one is a veterinarian, they are closer to ballerinas, astronauts.

even a cook in a cafe seems happier to me because my job is no longer important, it has become ordinary, mundane, boring
Is there a way to actually write anything more complex using React hooks without shooting oneself in the foot and ending up having to debug useEffect dependency chains?

I think I like the idea of react hooks and have got better at using them... Maybe it's just me but it really feels like an abstraction that's (too?) easy to abuse in the context of SPAs.
Yea absolutely, I had a real eye opener moment when I spoke to a friend who keeps some random beehives on his farm. I thought I was going big with my 20 hives, and plans to scale up to about 60.

He casually drops that he has 250 hives, and that he's not that into it...
The attention economy and its consequences.
Thanks for pointing me to that. One thing that stands out about that argument though is that voting is already discriminatory, right? Permanent residents and minors are not allowed to vote (the latter because we take age as a proxy of competency, no?), despite facing the consequences of elections just as anyone else does. I do understand that a risk for misuse absolutely exists, but at the same time it looks like populism, social media abuse, smear campaigns, science denial and plain old corruption in sheep's clothing are rampant enough that we can agree that many many votes are cast by misled people, who would have made another choice if they really understood what they voted for. I guess it would boil down to the difficult question of which harm is greater.
I dont know, ask the commenter - he who reads OPs story and comments on it, projects himself into it when commenting on it.. there is no fixed answer to this.
We certainly could, but we already use 0-9 and then letters for hexadecimal. Using all 26 letters for base 36, but not base 26, is just an extension of that.
Amazon et al would much prefer to do that on their own terms than have to coördinate with government (or their competitors).
Principled politicians are very rare. Do you think the outgoing administration was particularly principled?

People need to stop thinking of politicians as their friends and having parasocial relationships with them. They're public servants and should be treated as such.
Obviously my suggestion was targeted at the person "Toutouxc" who has posted a comment I replied to.
Kenyan top bar hives is what you'll find in Africa and what people are familiar with.
I'm trying to phase in more Langstroth hives for sanitary reasons.

https://www.beekeepingnaturally.com.au/natural-beekeeping/th...
Ansible works best when you only have Linux/BSD systems to manage, due to its heritage and doing everything through SSH.

If you have other systems to manage, like Windows or VMware ESX etc., it feels like a kludge with the delegation to localhost to get to the plugins.

Also, it can be tricky to use if your Linux systems have different Python interpreter versions because it's not at all straightforward to override the python interpreter used.

Looping constructs and sub-tasks etc. are also awkward to use, and the initial setup for a small automation project might be overwhelming for newcomers.

On the other hand you get a massive community with plugins for almost every conceivable system/OS, so that's definitely a huge plus
The "U.S. Coast Guard was formed by a merger of the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and the U.S. Life-Saving Service on 28 January 1915" (wiki).

The US Department of Homeland Security "began operations on March 1, 2003, after being formed as a result of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, enacted in response to the September 11 attacks" (wiki).

So are you saying that for 78 years of its existence, the USCG had no "plan for when large fishing vessels get into trouble, and indeed a plan to stop them getting into trouble" until the DHS assembled a (assuming this is a thing) "National Commercial Fishing Safety Advisory Committee"? You dont think theres any redundancy? That just maybe bureaucracy cant help but to expand forever every time someone with a title has a question that cant be answered immediately by someone standing in the room, they have to create a committee so they can have someone on speed dial? If the coast guard doesnt have plans for this, one wonders what the coast guard does all day.
“Then makes weird noises, nothing bad happens, and continues eating faces”.

If there are no consequences, it just reinforces their power.
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Or maybe they think your post is not of value? Lol
> we don't really have much in the way of canals or railroads

How do goods get into and out of your town? Are you connected to a grid? Do you use GPS?
What libraries have you seen that do this?
How do the turf houses deal with pests? The walls are made of dirt. Wouldn't worms and insects be burrowing into the home constantly?
Of course it doesn‘t. You get either a header link or text, bot not both. So pretty much all Show HNs have the latter.
I don't have a dog in this race - I am not even from the US.

But, by definition, not voting is an action rather than absence of one. What you are doing by not voting is giving out a tacit agreement that the people who went and vote get to decide who will be elected.

Following that line of thought, by not voting, you actively chose the current government, no matter what the current government is.
What's even the point? It's still legal tender, I don't think they can refuse it.
I wonder how much of the data can legally be retained without violating privacy law? Perhaps that’s why Texas rather than CA?
Many people feel the way you describe. You can find all kinds of support groups for people who feel burdened by debt.

I went through the same thing -- mortgage I couldn't afford, kids, credit cards, car loans. I remember feeling crushed by the debt and responsibility, and having to work at jobs I didn't like so I could pay the bills. That happened through a series of my own poor decisions and mistaking "want" with "need," and I succumbed to family and social pressure to do the expected thing, to strive for the American Dream. I coped by knowing almost everyone else had the same problems (or worse). I looked forward to a life without debt eventually. The kids grew up and moved out, I sold the house, got everything paid off. Now I have no debt, travel full-time and live in hotels and short-term rentals, and only use credit cards to get the points.

The usual advice comes down to controlling your spending and paying off your debts as fast as you can. For severe debt problems you can look into bankruptcy for a fresh start. Life doesn't last long enough to spend most of it working mainly to pay off debt.
That and a lot of people do not have the means to convince current power centers ( unless they were to organize, which they either don't, can't or are dissuaded from ) to do their bidding, while few rich ones do. And so the old saying 'rich become richer' becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
While you might argue which drug is dangerous and which isn't, ban on drugs is not arbitrary decision. You can't do whatever you want with your body, because you might loose control and hurt others. Drug abuse affects others as well (financially, mentally, physically...). I am victim of someone's drug abuse. I never took any drugs. So if you are looking for victims of drug abuse, here I am.
Not saying you're necessarily wrong, but "Anthropic CEO says that the work going on in Anthropic is super good and will produce fantastic results in 2 or 3 years" it not necessarily telling of anything.
Seems the Cybersecurity Executive Orders that dealt with Memory Safe Languages and the ONCD Report (which mentioned Rust, if I remember correctly) are all gone from whitehouse.gov as well.

The CISA report that dealt with memory safety is still on the CISA site. What do these recent developments mean for CISA? Is it an independent organization that will continue to exist without DHS support or is it essentially dead and its site and reports will vanish as well?
So you are saying Hamas would have same domestic support if Gaza was economically at the level of e.g. Slovenia? People who complained about "open air prison" caused by Israeli "occupation" even before Oct 7 would disagree with you I think.

Even in Europe extremists are propped up by promise of "cheap energies" from Russia.

I guess if you dont see the link this is not the place to explain it.
> Are there any wars which are mostly about scarcity at the moment?

The class war