skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or they are scammers in Nigeria, Senegal or India for whom it is their dream job (nothing against these countries, it is just z dad fact of life that the scams, at least for France, come mostly from there)
Would you like to buy some tulips?
ok, but does the increase in money supply explain the price collusion that businesses admit to doing? You're bringing up an issue that's not pertinent to companies criming.
> They make the deal (a loan/mortgage) and then skim some off the top.

Thanks to fractional reserve banking (i.e. institutionalized fraud), they also create new money along the way (i.e. debase the existing currency).

Thus, the amount they're skimming off is even more than one would originally think, since they're charging interest on something they didn't entirely have in the first place (second-order fraud).

That is quite the service being provided. How fortunate we all are!
Excel has a sometimes useful feature of gripping data from tables from url.
It's not helping me. All I understand is that you provide some stuff for Docker, static web sites, and databases. That's good, but it seems very specific. So specific that, as a former devops, I don't understand why you could be useful to me or why I would need your help.
"Preventive and Therapeutic effects of Metformin in Cancer: A Meta-Analysis of RCT and Cohort Studies"

https://www.eurekaselect.com/article/145997

Conclusion: Metformin does not significantly prolong the overall survival and progressive-free survival of cancer patients, but it may effectively reduce the risk of cancer occurrence.
It's a hypothesis that with RvW repealed, state laws become important for that. Similarly other laws may cause outmigration. Ultimately, California is losing people and Texas is gaining them so it's hard to say that this is driving depopulation of Texas.
>Old phones are an underappreciated resource, imo.

Not really. Old phones don't receive security patches and can be trivially unlocked to extract all relevant information. Sure, it might not have your nudes or bank login, but if you're using it to coordinate the protest that's plenty of incriminating evidence for the police.

>For alternate cell/SMS service I have a RedPocket SIM. (note: I see now it's $45/yr on ebay.

You have to be very careful with this, otherwise it's trivial to tie the phone/SIM back to you. Off the top of my head:

* the billing/shipping address used to order the SIM

* any payment information used to top-up the account

* location correlations with any other devices you own (for instance, if your burner phone pings the same towers as your primary phone for an extended period of time)

* using it for anything other than protests (eg. as a "burner" number when applying for jobs to avoid spam)
I really love Render.

AWS is too low level for me. Render helps us spin up new applications in a few clicks. Kind of like Vercel for backend.

Might just be a skill issue but I can definitely see the value from using the product.
It's this tool: https://pypi.org/project/files-to-prompt/
Yes, I was expecting some software that listens directly to the mouse input, and watches a pixel on the screen. Messing around with cameras and counting frames introduces a whole bunch of other variables like the quality of the monitor and mouse and phone used for recording.
Police in Switzerland Ban Then Detain Palestinian American Journalist
> Also, all it takes for Bitcoin to lose literally all value is for miners to stop.

And all it takes to regain (some value) is for a few people to mine again. The difficulty will adapt. There are bigger threats than that, but all miners stopping is not one of them.

(didn't downvote you - I appreciate the discussion)
> I'm wondering if there's a good way to trade on Bitcoin's volatility?

It is with options on MicroStrategy (MSTR). I think one strategy is holding MSTR and selling calls (i.e. covered calls). There are probably other strategies that don't require holding MSTR shares, like selling a call and buying a put, but I may be messing that up.

Check out the youtube channel called "Quant Bros" (cringe name, I know), and the /r/MSTR subreddit.
> Clippy, on the other hand, is very charismatic.

Really? Clippy has a face that I want to slap. With a brick.
I guess making billions of profit isn't enough you need to do something with AI.
>Protesting is legal

first of all, where?

secondly, what has legality of protest got to do with privacy?
It depends on the country. In Europe they would not as a contact done only by phone is not enforceable.
I don't think such datasets are going into AI training. But if this exact question keeps showing up in analytics data, and forum posts, it might end up in training sets.
STEM people might have been early adopters for crypto as a currency, but are they really the main people speculating, these days?
At least a portion of this question from personal opinion goes towards how "united" the general "everyone" is against fraud.

The idea is similar to Tragedy of the Commons issues. The collective community, or aggregate view is "fraud bad", yet the individual, provided opportunity and anonymity, acts in the their own self interest, especially where punishment is viewed as difficult or low plausibility.

Similar issues occur with the general concept of honesty, and views of social honesty. Surveyed, personal belief is that most respondents would state that other humans should reply honestly, with accurate information. However, many, in personal action and isolated opportunities are quite willing to embellish, neglect to correct a mistake, or outright lie.

Neglecting to correct a mistake is one of the most difficult, and shows up quite frequently in markets. With the markets often congratulating recipients for taking advantage of fools who priced something "wrong." Lots of various rationalizations that then get used. "Its their own fault", "they won't notice the difference", "I'm just more clever", "we deserve it because of our status", ect... Usually, seems more frequent the further away, the less personal, and the more abstract the lie or theft. Much like the article title. Office Space did this joke a long time ago.

Peter: Ah no, you don't understand. It's very complicated. It's, uh, it's aggregate, so I'm talking about fractions of a penny here. And over time they add up to a lot.
Joanna: Oh okay. So you're gonna be making a lot of money, right?
Peter: Yeah.
Joanna: Right. It's not yours?
Peter: Well it becomes ours.
Joanna: How is that not stealing?

Mileage may vary on the comparison, yet I found similarities with a lot of entertainment media, that eventually made me pull away. Personal belief is most respondents are opposed to their own suffering and torture, yet quite happy to read / watch media that often amounts to systematic character torture. Laugh happily eating popcorn while miserable people on screen suffer, yet would not want to be transposed into the same situations. It's ok, its abstract, and not especially personal. It's just entertainment.
>Honestly though, that still seems possible within 5 years or less, maybe 3.

If that is a normal human estimation I would guess in reality it is more likely to be in 6-10 years. Which is still good if we get it in 2030 - 2035.
Depthfinding for Managing Performance
Personally I haven't found it hard to integrate Stripe. But haven't had the need to implement anything too complex and it's a one time process.

Maintaining it at scale on the other hand... that's a challenge.
10.000 Chatbot Prompts with categories + subcategories
Around here in Oregon, there's a truly bizarre subcurrent of people who think that building more housing makes prices go up, because something mumble mumble builders blah blah luxury.
Blame can be shared. They lobbied to have and keep the systems. The concept or argument that someone accomplished this in this way on accident or without understanding the ethical repercussions is laughable.
They used to make relatively good desktop OS and Office software with a consistent UI/UX - Windows 2000/XP/7, Office 97/2000 (if you disable Clippy). Then IMHO it went downhill first slowly and now faster. May be people are still attached to the platform they used for years.
I think it's just not what Vanguard is about if you look at their history.
Not knowing exactly how/what the other person asked their AI is one of the reasons I downvoted all AI slop, even those disclosed as AI generated. Asking in different ways can often generate radically different answers. Even if the prompt is disclosed, how do I know that was the real prompt? I would have to go interrogate the AI myself to see if I get something similar, as well as formulate my own prompts from different angles to see how much the answers change. And if I have to put in all that effort myself, then what is the value of the original slop post?
If you look at the batch data [1] it is very clear that there is either an investment thesis or some inherent bias in how they choose startups. Since Garry Tan took over it is now heavily favoured towards (a) SF based, (b) young, (c) AI centric.

And if you look at the partner YouTube videos you see why. There is a concerning lack of diversity in how they see the world i.e. they are all very much the e/acc types.

[1] https://www.walturn.com/insights/in-depth-analysis-trends-in...
This is why I think we need to stop calling it a crisis and start calling it a war on affordable housing.

It didnt get this way by accident.
I figure the sentence would be something like:

> 5 years of jail time distributed across the top 20 shareholders proportional to their stake

Ideally a judge wouldn't hand out such a sentence if it involved punishing people who didn't have a controlling stake, but I don't think we should rule such things out. I can be held criminally liable for negligence when my dog does something that I wasn't even around for or aware of, there's no reason that shareholders couldn't also. If you don't have enough control to prevent your property from committing crimes, you should probably change that.

I don't know enough about where corporate structure norms stop and where the law starts to know if "the board" is something that is always going to be available for prosecution, which is why in general I mean the shareholders.
Kopf – Python framework to write Kubernetes operators in a few lines of code
I call German and Danish windmills bordering on greenwashing.

For any energy to be truly green, it must also be pragmatic. It's not green energy if it's so expensive ordinary households cannot afford to use it.

Id like to see you rejoice if your electricity bill went from 0.4kr to 8kr per kwH because your neightbour countries' "awesome green energy supply" fails to support its citizens needs.

This is not a constant occurrence fortunately but happens enough to anger the Swedish and Norwegian authorities.

They are already quadrupling the electricity cost with a myriad of taxes ( green, state, maintenance, municipality, what have you ) so this price hike due to failed windmills and lack of daylight at the neighbours' makes them look incompetent.

Sweden and Norway does not want to lower the taxes to leverage energy bills for the average tax payer because Germany and Denmark cannot get ther sh!t together, that's for sure.
How can the server collect data you aren't sending to it?
1) Protesting is illegal in many parts of the world.

2) Authoritarians have been known to act illegally to solidify their power.
That is usually due to 'implied consent' laws. Most states have it written into what you sign to get your license that you must submit to DUI testing. Generally, you can refuse, but the penalty for refusal is worse than the DUI penalty.
But your box had a FireWire port? There’s no good way to convert FireWire to current protocols/ports (eg USB).

Old macbook is just a cheap all in one solution with FireWire inputs and software processing g.
Why don't more people hold physical gold then? It's annoying to transport. It's difficult to prove that it's real. Someone can physically steal it from you. And it's certainly easier to hold large amounts if you're on the move.

The broader point here is that no form of money wins on all dimensions. While bitcoin is most closely compared to gold, it doesn't win on all fronts. I'll be first to admit that in my lifetime, I don't think people will find the idea of private key management easier than stashing a gold bar under their mattress. But the point is bitcoin represents a different point in the design space of money -- one that has characteristics and tradeoffs that make it particularly relevant in today's increasingly digital world.

> Also, all it takes for Bitcoin to lose literally all value is for miners to stop. While you might think the risk of this is zero, the risk is most assuredly higher than the risk of gold going to zero, which would only happen if all utility for gold disappears even outside its use as a store of value.

This like saying "gold loses most of its value of everyone suddenly decides its not worth what it is".

The miners are here ultimately because of the social consensus (and price) that has been building around bitcoin. This kind of thing doesn't just unwind overnight. It has been building for 15 years.

If you're holding gold and believing that there is similar risk in loss of social consensus, but you're saying "well at least it won't go to zero, i'll be able to get 15% out", does that really make it that much better as a store of value?
> AWS is too low level for me

We had good success with Lightsail; but then moved to Fly.io & the Cloudflare platform and spend ~zero time on sre & devops.
Most definitely not easy to solve because battery packs are a structural component of the car with variances in how they are charged/cooled etc, and as such would also then require standardized electrical+cooling and standardized body shapes.

You’d also need to store these fairly large objects in unused but high enough numbers for the subset of people who would opt for that instead of just waiting a little bit longer for a charge.
Currently AI is getting better at sorting the data that already exists, but if enough reddit, wiki posts are wrong its answer is inevitably wrong. Without being able to experiment to test its theories against reality, the AI curve will likely not lead to super-intelligence without humans to assist. That's my 5 cents.
I'll disagree with the point that corporate crimes aren't intentional, they most certainly can be. There are plenty of examples of companies deciding that it's more profitable to "do crime" and just pay the fine if caught. Danske Bank famously have a post in their budget to pay fines for breaking banking laws.

The problem is to prove that something is done intentional, on a "corporate level", whatever that means in the given case. Imagine having a law where breaking it would mean that the business have to shutdown. A competitor could pay off someone inside the company to break the law deliberately to have the legal system remove competition.
Right, just transfer ownership to the employees and let them decide which leaders to keep around.
Google and read the "Gervais Principle" by my friend Vekat.

You're welcome and I'm sorry! :)
As an end customer these things area always mixed feelings.

I'd rather hear that the company I use is profitable and sustainable.
> Even the chance it hits a human is very small.

So there is still a chance ! /s
I wouldn’t expect an LLM to use a phrase like “for some reason I was convinced,”
Congrats on the raise and building something people love!

If I could make a suggestion - make it clear you are the founder of Render instead of using these parentheses “(Render founder)”!
We're reading about their views secondhand - it's all what a tourist wrote.
Encarta 95 with mindmaze 95, spider solitaire?
I guess copyright laws treat AIs as tools. If you paint a picture with a brush it's also almost entirely "brush created", and still you can claim copyright for it.
Possession is 9/10 of the law. A guarantee of possession gives you that 9/10. A legal contract leaves you calling a lawyer to grasp at the other 1/10, if it's even worth it for the financial value of your contract.

In short, the legal system is pretty useless in enforcing any broken contract that's worth less than a few thousand dollars, especially one of any complexity.

And as an aside, I feel like I enter into low-trust transactions all the time. Don't you?

* I don't trust people who sell products to me online. I've gotten bad product many times. But I need to be able to buy from independent sellers online.

* On a related note, I don't trust half the websites I put my credit card info into. But it's an important part of sending money over the internet.

* I don't trust my ride share drivers or short-term-rental hosts. I could do without short-term-rentals by only staying at trusted hotels, but I can't really do without ride shares.

* When I trade a stock with some random counterparty, I don't trust them to actually deliver the stock to me at T+1. But I need to be able to trade stocks with whoever else can give me the best price.

The typical solution is to have a corporation step in to act as judge and jury for contract breaches that are too small to be worth bringing to court (brokerages, credit card companies, Amazon, PayPal, AirBnB, Uber). In fact, these companies' main value creation has come from adding a layer of trust to traditionally zero-trust transactions. Thus, these zero-trust transactions have been able to thrive while the dispute resolution corporation charges fees for their value-added trust.

The only reason these roles traditionally have to be performed by companies is that autonomous money-custodying software did not exist. But programmable blockchains now allow for this. You could easily imagine a dispute-resolution alternative to PayPal where the organizational structure is a piece of autonomous software directly employing people/AI, rather than a traditional corporate entity.
Because a 5 million dollar luxury apartment built for foreign investors and an affordable 2 bed for a nurse arent competing in the same market any more than a bike and a ferrari are.

It wouldnt be such a problem if the free market could create land, could create public transportation to link up housing to cheap land or could be kept from creating "apartment bitcoins" with a 100% land value tax but it refuses to and it wont.

So, while the margins on luxury housing are ~15% and affordable is 4-6% the free market will rationally maximize the utility of property construction firms...
I wonder if it's related to the social phenomenon of Gen X and the older half of Millennials having a sharply negative view of "selling out", whereas many younger folks don't appear to even be familiar with that concept.
I can't think of an email I have ever received that needed to be summarized?

Who is writing these super long emails?
Yeah, the thing about inflation in the 1970s was that a significant number of workers had cost of living adjustments so they could survive with inflation at a higher level than now. Moreover, many people had a cushion for survival.

When you have no wage increases and no cushion, as common now, all it takes is little inflation to screw you considerably. That situation isn't considered in statistic about how the economy is doing.

And the thing with crime is that when people's own situation isn't good and they're told X-that-they-can't-directly-measure is bad, they tend to believe it. And indeed, the visibility of the homeless can look like crime.
Can someone share a youtube showing DeepSeek vs others? I glanced through comments and seeing lots of opinions, but no (easy) evidence. I would like to see a level of thoroughness that I could not do myself. Not naysaying one model over another, just good ole fashion elbow grease and scientific method for the layperson. I appreciate the help.
That's not what I've seen. See https://eqbench.com/results/creative-writing-v2/deepseek-ai_... , where someone fed it a large number of prompts.

Weirdly, while the first paragraph from the first story was barely GPT-3 grade, 99% of the rest of the output blew me away (and is continuing to do so, as I haven't finished reading it yet.)

I tried feeding a couple of the prompts to gpt-4o, o1-pro and the current Gemini 2.0 model, and the resulting output was nowhere near as well-crafted.
Not equally dependent.

Like, with the US privatized medical system and its parasitical medical insurance system, we can see how medical costs are higher and overall health outcomes lower than in countries with single-payer/national health care.

And if I happen to choose a health insurer which decides my cancer treatment is inappropriate, I'm either bankrupt or dead.

Yes, I'm still dependent on healthcare, but one is better aligned to my health.

Similarly, the personal pension system requires staff and/or custom software to handle customer relations, and the individual funds have marketing budget to convince people to join. This disappears with a nationalized system where it can all be part of the same social security system, and benefit from the economy of scale.

Furthermore, companies justify all sorts of unethical practices because they point to all the (abstract) pensioners who will lose their retirement, which relies on those pensioners not being able to say 'no, don't do it in my name.'

While something like the Government Pension Fund of Norway can select funds and influence the corporate governance in a way which is aligned with national goals.

Yes, there are all sort of ethical funds I could invest in. The paradox of choice and my complete lack of expertise means I must hire that expertise, like when I got advice when I set up my account.

Furthermore, if I happen to select green energy stocks, but they go down the toilet after the invention of Mr. Fusion, I'm currently screwed. While a public pension has the mandate of supporting everyone.

Yes, I'm still dependent on stock investemtns, but one is better aligned to my retirement.

Lastly, the government can raise money from taxes. The government can pay for more nurses and doctors, and training hospitals. The government can pay for high-quality retirement housing. The government can do a lot of things that a private pension plan cannot do.
I liked the authorization example. I've encountered Prolog articles before, but showing the code alongside an OOP implementation was a nice demonstration of its expressive power.

As a follow-up, I'd love to learn how this auth system could be put into production. In this example, authorization rules are provided in the code (`user_role(mike, supervisor)`) and queried similarly. What if I wanted this system to expose authorization as an HTTP endpoint with REST semantics, and store authorization rules on disk? Would this be straightforward, involved, or impossible? Would I use another language for HTTP, and query a prolog "server" running on the same machine?
Great work, I hope the gnome/wayland devs appreciate it.

I wonder if there is an issue with high frame rate support in Gnome (or possibly wayland?). It seems like they are actively still working on it:

https://9to5linux.com/gnome-47-3-improves-frame-rate-for-mon...
But the difference between 60hz and 120hz is instantly noticeable in a blind test, without even opening a game. That's by definition not placebo.
Off topic, but I wish finance sites published "buyback yield" metric or equivalent (what percentage of total stock value was bought back in last quarter / year / TTM. If buybacks are treated as dividends, investors should be able to assess their returns in a similar way, imho.
We need to improve our product marketing! Render focuses exclusively on application engineers who need to run things in the cloud without worrying about devops; this also means we don't focus on the needs of devops engineers.
I was confused to discover (while deleting OneDrive), that it had changed my Desktop folder from User/Desktop to User/OneDrive/Desktop.
I guess it's okay to have no morals in a tough situation, even if that is the very point in your life where you prove that you actually have morals.