skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The FBI report says it was a traffic stop. The milemarker 168 seems to be about 10 miles from the Canadian border.

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/albany/news/fbi...

More information from the police report:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wycOK3UbaQ9JWZuvo2gpZiDT-0t...

On January 20, 2025, at approximately 3:00 pm, an on-duty, uniformed United
States Border Patrol (USBP) Agent initiated a stop of a blue 2015 Toyota Prius Hatchback with
North Carolina license plate number KLA2040 to conduct an immigration inspection as it was
driving southbound on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vermont. The registered owner of the vehicle,
Felix Baukholt, a citizen of Germany, appeared to have an expired visa in a Department of
Homeland Security database. YOUNGBLUT was driving the Prius, and Baukholt was the lone
passenger in the Prius. Multiple uniformed Border Patrol Agents were present at the stop in three
USBP vehicles with emergency lights illuminated.

(later in the same document)

Investigators had been performing periodic surveillance of Baukholt and YOUNGBLUT since on or about Tuesday, January 14, 2025. A concerned citizen-an employee of a hotel in Lyndonville, Vermont--contacted law enforcement after a male and a female had checked into the hotel to report concerns about them, including that they appeared to be dressed
in all-black tactical style clothing with protective equipment, with the woman, later identified as
YOUNGBLUT, carrying an apparent firearm in an exposed-carry holster. Investigators with VSP and Homeland Security Investigations attempted to initiate a consensual conversation with Baukholt and YOUNGBLUT, but they declined to have an extended conversation, claiming that
they were in the vicinity to look at purchasing property. After the contact with law enforcement, the pair checked out of the Lyndonville hotel on the afternoon of January 14, 2025. Investigators later observed the pair in similar tactical dress on Sunday, January 19, 2025, walking in
downtown Newport; YOUNGBLUT was observed carrying a handgun at that time.
It kindof depends when a country did its investment into Internet infrastructure. More western countries did it first and are now stuck with older technologies that limit speed and capacity, where as the less modern countries put that investment in later and therefore have newer technologies like fibre.

Once an investment has been made it's hard to justify making another large investment, or if one is being made it becomes very political and captured by vested interests.
Following on because the edit window elapsed, the specific method of indoctrination used by ziz (but invented by Gwen) involved in novel method of sleep deprivation to induce split personalities. It’s been called “installing demons.” I wouldn’t be surprised either if the causality is the other way around: Ziz reworked these people to be trans. Ziz certainly seems to have treated the minds of the people around him/her as malleable putty.

I actually met Gwen and spent a weekend with him sometime ago. They were a roommate of my friend for a while. The person I knew doesn’t resemble the lunatic in the news article articles at all, but I have no doubt is physically/legally them. Cult indoctrination is a hell of a thing.
Interesting tool.

It needs a couple of options.

One button option should indicative the person is unable to see any difference, and move on, a second button option should be the box they indicated they were sure is a different colour was not right, and move on. Additionally the tool should map the position of the box when they were sure but were wrong, and keep a record as the person works though the game, just in case their screen is not perfect. Perhaps even come back to the same colour scheme but put the different colour in a different part of the screen.

It shouldn't be forgotten that people actually tune into slightly different colours given some time - fruit and vegetable graders who visually inspect, and those who are working hard to purchase the just right fruit and vegs, find given time and practice, they'll slowly learn to perceive the very minor differences in certain shades or hues.

Edit twice, a couple mins later and another couple for additional clarification.
Nuclear Power Tech Poised to Explode as Wyoming's Next Six-Figure "It" Job
Both LLM and "Gronald Grumpf raaawwwr!" rage posts. At least the former are actually tech-related.

HN absolutely sucks right now. It's nearing r/politics levels of suckage.
I'm a fan of ratpoison - https://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/
Clear key removed in ios 18.

I just counted 36 various calculators that I have "bought" because most were probably on "free for a day" deals in the app store.

Some are pretty advanced, and of course Carnets (Jupyter Notebooks) free, with or without scipy, and miSoft Basic, for fun, which I may have paid a few bucks for.

Not a fan of "canned" apps.
I find Xcode completion and especially doc lookup pretty good. It’s not as good as being able to jump straight into framework source code like with Android Studio but better than pretty much anything in VS Code in any language.

That is, as long as there’re no type errors in my code… once I get a little too creative in SwiftUI all bets are off.
As a library, the very high level prioritization framework is "what would patrons find useful." That's how we started with data.gov and federal Github repos as broad but principled collections; there's likely to be something in there that's useful and gets lost. Going forward I think we'll be looking for patron stories along the lines of "if you could get this couple of TB of stuff it would cover the core of what my research field depends on."

In practice it's some mix of, there aren't already lots of copies, it's valuable to people, and it's achievable to preserve.

> Is the second question about figuring out how to prioritize valuable stuff behind two depth traversals?

Right -- how do you look at the 300,000 entries and figure out what's not at depth one, is archivable, and is worth preserving? If we started with everything it would be petabytes of raw datasets that probably shouldn't be at the top of the list.
> They won because they made paying for content easier, faster, and better than piracy

PopcornTime would eat their lunch if it were allowed to work [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn_Time
After seeing this news, I recall watching a video by Julia Galef about "what is rationality". Would it be fair to say that in this situation, they lack epistemic rationality but are high in instrumental rationality?
A Mount Lyell shrew has just been photographed alive
Thanks very much for typing all that out!

>These external forcing functions tend to be pretty similar among people of a comparable environment. But the internal equilibria seem to be quite different. So when the external forcing is strong, it tends to pull people in similar directions, and people whose innate tendencies are extreme tend to get pulled along with the majority anyway. But when external forcing is weak (or when people are decoupled from its effects on them), internal equilibria tend to take over, and extreme people can get caught in feedback loops.

Yeah, this makes sense, an isolated group can sort of lose the "grounding" of interacting with the rest of society and start floating off in whatever direction, as long as they never get regrounded. When you say feedback loops, do you mean obsessive tendencies tending to cause them to focus on and amplify a small set of thoughts/beliefs, or something else?

I like the ML/temperature analogy, it's always interesting watching kids and thinking in that vein, with some kids at a super high temp exploring the search space of possibilities super quickly and making tons of mistakes, and others who are much more careful. Interesting point on nerds maybe having lower temp/converging more strongly/consistently on a single answer. And I guess artist types would be sort of the opposite on that axis?
Right, a traffic stop, but by the Border Patrol? For an "immigration inspection?"

Not to put too fine a point on it, these people don't look like the sort who might get "randomly" stopped by the Border Patrol for an "immigration inspection."
I’m not sorry, but the narrative that the 2nd amendment keeps the government in check is beyond naïve in the 21st century, its celebration of stupidity.

Perhaps in a world where armed combat between civilians and the military only involves muskets this holds true, but exactly how do you expect to “exert your second amendment rights” when a squad armed with M16s, grenade launchers, body armor, and night vision goggles shows up to your door? A 9mm pea shooter?
AT&T Fiber's routers have, in the past, had a tendency to overheat, offered false promises like "DMZ Plus" mode and have had a host of issues that led to a black market of people selling stolen AT&T certificate files [0] on the internet so you could bypass them, because they use 802.1x between their "Router/gateway" combination device and their ONT, when they're separate devices. The AT&T XGS-PON network is mostly coupled now, which has led to another group of people now creating compatible SFP+ modules to replace the entire GPON stack because of this.

I could be wrong, but I think AT&T Fiber is the only US ISP that doesn't even allow you to directly connect to their network. If you use any of their provided routers, they only offer "DMZ Plus" mode that still leaves their router/gateway managing state tables, which is vulnerable to hardware and software issues from the ISP. This leads people down the path of programming SFP+ modules and spending a lot more time than they should have learning about ISP networking, just to have a safer router/modem.

[0]: Due to security issues in the router/gateway firmware, various people have published guides and/or run actual businesses shucking routers/gateways from AT&T by exploiting them, grabbing the certs and private keys, and then re-selling them to people who need them. These don't get you free access to the internet or anything, they just let you authenticate to the network with your own device.
Italy Blocks Access to the Chinese AI Application DeepSeek to Protect Users Data
> our IP laws are optimized to maximize benefits for the legal system

Versus the content owners?!?
Depending on your ethical framework, there's a quiz that will analyze what kind of trolleyswitcher you are.
https://www.agiliq.com/notebook/ethical-framework-trolley/

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=good+place+trolley&iax=videos&ia=v...
I was under the impression from a lot of comments from smart HNers when DOGE was first announced that Musk would simply be in a advisory position, or would simply report to someone else and wouldn't have any real access or power.

What ever happened to those commenters?
I have a couple bookmarklets scattered in a couple blog posts that you may find interesting / want to add:

* https://river.me/blog/bookmarklet-stay-here/

* https://river.me/blog/firefox-keep-bookmark-keywords/

* https://river.me/blog/url-bar-is-a-cli/
My ISP requires me to use their router, but I just put my own behind it.
Americans...... Whyyyy

This is going to cost both countries 10s of Billions

America is officially a risky trading partner for every country in the world now.

Canada and the EU are looking to strength trading partnerships with China now.
> It may well be cheaper in the long run to buy your own hardware

That's why my ISP forces me to rent theirs!

Something something market dominance in one market something something force dominance in another market …

In the end, I just treat the network like any other: assume the network is compromised, and security is/should be done by the endpoints.
I am writing a master's thesis and notice somebody has written one containing a chapter than I also need to write. I copy paste the chapter but replace every word with a synonym. Did I break copyright? Did I commit plagiarism?
> the question will be, after four years, will they abdicate their power or concentrate it?

Musk, Thiel, and their friends clearly intend to consolidate power, and the people they associate with openly advocate for the creation of independent corporate fiefdoms with authoritarian control over society. There is no doubt at this point. These are not good people. They are oligarchs. They are the bitter nerds that just want power for themselves so they can be the bullies.
I love these papers. I have been on a similar path on macOS.

Concerning Vimium, there is the Vimium C version that seems to be a bit faster.

On macOS there is a similar software (don’t remember its name) to use a Vimium like feature on your whole desktop.
Isn't it basically run length encoding but on patterns? Sorting lexicographical on all rotations means blocks of patterns get grouped together, which means you can do compression more easily, right?
>led to the great depression.

This is the only kind of thing Trump is on track to make great again.

Doesn't look like he's going to stop until it's greater than ever.
> 14 years is a little short, especially for books which can get adaptations that pay more than the book

If you want to make an official adapatation, hire the author. If not, it's not official. This takes care of itself for authors who cultivate their fan base.
Surely, the oligarch robber-baron will use his unelected position for the greater good and not for personal gains.
<< Are we gonna put stupid rules in place and piss off the other 90%?

If one is to believe Linkedin crowd, yes. I have long stopped trying to understand that frame of mind. I simply accept that it exists and plan around people with those perspectives.
Sneer Club is one of the most nasty, uncharitable, and bad-faith subs out there these days. They generally hate HN, as well. I think any community which exists solely to make cheap shots at another community is poison at its core, SC’s parasocial relationship with LW is a perfect example.
The original author (not an assignee) should get N years free and should be able to renew every N years for some fee that escalates upwards with a single retroactive period if you haven't paid. If you hit a second period that you haven't paid, copyright dropped. If you aren't the original author, you get to renew once for N years--no more.

This is a nice compromise in that it disincentivizes simply squatting on properties--you have to pay money to maintain later copyright so you have a strong push to make money on it.
High. Medical state.
Interesting, an unloaded or even fake gun would be just as effective in "defense" then. (And is not going to be used for either suicide or used against you.)
Billions of dollars at their disposal. A near monopsony or just massive buyer of infrastructure, and some of the smartest people in the space. Yet the best they could do in 2022 is lossy codec at 120-190 bit rate?

I got better audio quality ripping songs from limewire or Napster in the 2000s.

Why do we settle with this substandard quality? Oh wait, YT barely has any competition and subsidized by G. No need for competition. Just shove ads down users throats and sell of their usage data.
If expression: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/control-flow.html#if-expression
Elvis operator: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/null-safety.html#elvis-operator
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Praise Kier.
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In this case you are trying to make a connection where it doesn’t exist. This isn’t a courthouse, and we can reasonably assume that there weren’t any changes to ATC protocol in the minuscule amount of time between the new administration assuming their positions and this incident.

Put another way, it seems like you are assuming that drawing a connection between politics and reality is an obvious first step, when it’s not, at least in this case.
edited my comment to add some other details I found
> copyright should be even less-enforceable

It should also be de-criminalized.
So your theory is that Elon is a Nazi that finances a Jewish state and NGOs devoted to antisemitism? Doesn't seem very Nazi of him.
I spent a bunch of time on this project feeling like it was futile to jump in and then just jumped in; messing with data is fun even if it turns out someone else has your data. But the government is huge; if you find an interesting report and then poke around for the .gov data catalog or directory index structure or whatever that contains it, you're likely to find a data gathering approach no one else is working on yet.

There's coordinated efforts starting to come together in a bunch of places -- some on r/datahoarders, some around specific topics like climate data (EDGI) or CDC data, there's datasets being posted on archive.org. I think one way is to find a topic or kind of data that seems important and search around for who's already doing it. Eventually maybe there'll be one answer to rule them all, but maybe not; it's just so big.
Smedlet butler was one of the things that helped with this. Then he stopped the business plot by exposing it. Seems like something very much like it is going to happen now.
> My explanation for why Eliezer went from vocal AI optimist to AI pessimist is that he became more knowledgeable about AI. What is your explanation?

He spoke to businessmen posing as experts, became increasingly self-referential, and frankly the quasi-religious subtext became text.
I use a Dell R530 rack mount server. I had to configure PPP over Ethernet, and a Vlan of 201, but I've not been forced to the "quantum" BS. I've heard you just do DHCP, No PPPoE for that.
didn't know that's a meme
Maybe we've worked with different FF systems, but anything that involves a call more expensive than an RPC would be lethal to request latency. Calling out to a CDN forty five times per inbound request would be... Infeasible
I suspect the answer is closer to "one trans person preyed upon the trust and vulnerability of people in their circle" and that happened to include multiple other trans people (who were likely extremely vulnerable to the charismatic charms of a cult leader).
Interestingly, in my part of Los Angeles, the single family homes all got fiber well before the apartment retrofit. It took me joining the hoa board and a year to jump through the hoops for Frontier fios retrofit.
> Actual Nazi's however were celebrating it. I think they are pretty good at recognizing their own, no?

They're not a very bright bunch actually.
It is literally their job. Since the 1940s.

The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) of 1946 contains the rule that prevents the U.S. executive branch from acting in an arbitrary and capricious manner. Specifically, 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A) directs courts to "hold unlawful and set aside agency action, findings, and conclusions found to be arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law."
Popcorn Time definitely set out to solve the service problem in a big way.
Both is true. There have been more pro-copyright posts but these are getting downvoted recently. Last year they were popular.
> A society whose tagline is "alive and free in some senses" is already dystopian!

Haha. Well we might agree about that - that description covers a wide range of possibilities. If you have ideas about what a plausible and good future looks like, please let me know. One of my next projects is trying to articulate "what is the best we can hope for?" and talk about which sets of goals are even possible to jointly fulfill. But certainly "everyone is free in all senses" is incoherent or at the very least, unstable.
LLMs have already been trained on all of that data, so it's probably an empty gesture.
Depends on where you are. Where I live, it's cold seven months out of the year so keeping the resultant heat inside the house lowers the heating bill somewhat.

I've always wished for a fridge that was mounted to an exterior wall. In the summer, it operates like a normal fridge but with the condenser coil outside of the house. In the winter, the compressor system turns off when the outside temp goes below a certain value and little door/shutters with fans regulate the temperature of the refrigerator either by letting in cold air from outside (if the interior needs to be colder) or from the inside (if the interior needs to be warmer to prevent food from freezing).

There's probably a few good reasons why this is not actually practical but I'm tempted to try something like it in retirement.
A tax agency unified all its data from different agencies via X.25 and satellite connections. However, the process was expensive and slower than expected because the files were uncompressed and stored as basic plain-text ASCII/EBCDIC files.

One obvious solution to this problem was to buy an Ethernet network device for the mainframe (which used Token Ring), but that was yet another very expensive IBM product. With that device, we could have simply compressed and uncompressed the files on any standard PC before transferring them to/from the mainframe.

Another obvious solution was to use C to compile a basic compression and decompression tool. However, C wasn’t available—buying it would have been expensive as well!

So, we developed the compression utility twice (for performance comparisons), using COBOL and REXX. These turned out to be two amusing projects, as we had to handle bits in COBOL, a language never intended for this purpose.
Compiling Java into native binaries with Graal and Mill
I did, but I was already looking for work as I saw the levels of inflexibility not experienced before so I lucked out and was able to say no with near zero repercussions. I am saying near zero, because I am kinda looking again and long story short, the VP I said no to is still there and clearly seething over me leaving, because of the RTO mandate. Long story short, I was told in no uncertain way that I can't come back there..

Moral of the story is: thread carefully.
The whole point of democracy is to have a way for people who don’t agree on what’s “good” or not to live together and make collective decisions. You completely throw that away if you allow federal employees to substitute their own judgment and value system for those of voters. That’s absolutely corrosive to democracy.

And remember the Resistance wasn’t about things that were “obviously illegal.” It was federal workers trying to frustrate immigration and environmental policies they disagreed with. That’s simply way out of the proper lane.
I was unacquainted with the term but after searching it seems that Eliezer Yudkowsky wrote several posts on a BDSM website where he fantasized about recruiting a harem of highly educated women to service him which he called "math pets".
Again, this is the law and their job. See 'The Administrative Procedure Act (APA) of 1946' which prevents the U.S. executive branch from acting in an arbitrary and capricious manner, and the multitude of case law around it over the last 70 years.
It appears Society has to periodically re-learn even the hardest of lessons. What did we learn from WW1 and WW2? What did we learn from the 60's? 70's? What prices did we pay for those lessons?

Will the old or the young have to pay the price to re-learn them? Did some countries, demographics, and ethnicities, have to pay higher prices? What are we leaving to our children?
You may be thinking of [Homerow](https://www.homerow.app/) for Macos. Its okay for popups that I used to need a mouse for. There's another app that does similar "Vimium for Desktop" but it wasn't as responsive and sometimes focus would get stuck, but I forgot that software's name.
Someone's been reading the dictator's handbook. First step when you gain power is to ensure control of the treasury
What I mean is that a superintelligence powerful enough that it could create a simulation of a long-dead human being so accurate as to raise continuity-of-consciousness questions would be powerful enough that it would consider every thought any human in history has ever thought within moments.