skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with your point that, in life, not everybody is in it for themselves. But the examples you chose to demonstrate altruism are a bit ridiculous:

- parents: they wanted a child and now they have to take care of it, it's not a selfless act at all

- social workers: are paid to pretend to care. Often they genuinely do care, but this isn't altruism, it's a job

- most academics: I see you haven't met many academics. Altruistic (and selfless) are not terms I would use to describe them. The majority is very much in it for themselves...

- food banks, charity in general: very true, some charity do strive on unpaid volunteers, that is altruism

- most workers in most businesses: okay now you're getting ridiculous...
Several posts in this thread have linked the recent GCP-gray video on the topic, and it addresses this question better than I can. It's pretty interesting actually
If anybody wants to build those.

There are all kinds of megastructures you can build that better fit constraints of (a) material strength, and (b) material availability.

For instance our solar system doesn't have anywhere near enough material in it to build an actual sphere, so that's out.

As for rings, one option is a ring which the radius of the Earth, which gets 1 g if rotates around 7.5 km/sec (same as orbital velocity around Earth!) This is close to the reasonable material limits.

Another option is an intermediate-sized ring that orbits a star which has a 24 hour or so orbital period which doesn't have the stability problem of the Niven Ringworld but still requires unobtainable.

I haven't seen it in the literature but if you had a bearing which could operate at the rotational speed (superconducting magnetic?) you could pack the rotating ring inside a non-rotating ring and build something build that bypasses the material strength limits, you might even be able to build a thick enough containing structure that gets cosmic radiation well below the typical space colony.

Having relief (mountains) looks like a problem for any of these ideas.
Where Coal Is Retiring, and Hanging On, in the U.S. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975565 - Feb 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/06/climate/coal-... | https://archive.today/Egwuc

> But along with market forces, utilities could also take advantage of changes in environmental regulations to keep coal stations open, especially in coal-friendly states like Wyoming, where two-fifths of U.S. coal is still mined.

> “For an investor-owned monopoly utility, it’s not costing them to keep running the plant, necessarily, it’s costing the ratepayers who are paying for that,” Dr. Solomon said. “Politically, there’s a lot of support for coal in Wyoming and Utah where Rocky Mountain power is operating so I think they just don’t feel a ton of pressure to move to cleaner energy sources.”

Global Cost of Renewables to Continue Falling in 2025 as China Extends Lead - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976388 - Feb 2025

https://about.bnef.com/blog/global-cost-of-renewables-to-con... | https://archive.today/pJ0lb

> According to a latest report by research provider BloombergNEF (BNEF), new wind and solar farms are already undercutting new coal and gas plants on production cost in almost every market globally.

> “New solar plants, even without subsidies, are within touching distance of new US gas plants. This is remarkable because US gas prices are only a quarter of prevailing gas prices in Europe and Asia. It really raises the bar on what is possible even in the current market, said Amar Vasdev, lead author of the report. “This opens up the likelihood that solar will become even more compelling in the coming years, especially if the US starts exporting liquified natural gas and exposes its protected gas market to global price competition.”

> “China is exporting green energy tech so cheaply that the rest of the world is thinking about erecting barriers to protect their own industries, said Matthias Kimmel, head of Energy Economics at BNEF. “But the overall trend in cost reductions is so strong that nobody, not even President Trump, will be able to halt it.”
I'm not convinced. The black death had an effect on human evolution -- a single event with high mortality can be all it takes to shift the genome.
Brit here.

> Hardly anyone gets prosecuted and those who do have often done something bad.

Perhaps often they've done something bad, but sometimes they haven't, that's the point. Obviously this is wrong and you shouldn't be so passive about it.

> If they are planning a totalitarian takeover they are being very sneaky about it. There is a strong anti totalitarianism tradition here including elections since 1265, writing books like 1984 and bombing nazis.

I'd argue people in the UK today like to adopt the label of being anti-authoritarian and anti-totalitarian, but in reality most people here, including our politicians, quite like authoritarianism.

For example, people here often argue things like "I support free speech, but obviously insulting someone for their identity is wrong". So in the UK we apparently have free speech and I can apparently criticise religious people, but at the same time just this week someone in the UK was arrested for burning a bible.

You see this hypocrisy constantly in the UK... "I'm not an authoritarian, but smoking is bad". "I'm not an authoritarian, but you can't be saying that". "I'm not an authoritarian, but if you're worried about mass surveillance you probably have something to hide". "I"m not authoritarian, but you can't just let people have private data on an encrypted device which the government can't access".

The UK is very authoritarian these days, but unlike other parts of the world people here deny it while arguing in favour of more of it.

There's nothing necessarily wrong with being authoritarian and wanting the government to have more control either. Clearly many countries find this type of government appealing, but lets at least be honest about it. We don't want kids on social media. We don't want people smoking. We don't want people being about to call people names on Twitter. We don't want people burning religious texts. We don't want people being free from government surveillance.
That's not at all true. This has nothing to do with the government. It's a court ruling on a law passed by parliament. In no way was the opinion/side of government at play here.
As the article says, Meta /was/ giving away copies to other people by seeding the libgen torrents. This isn't the usual case of "should companies be allowed to train on books".
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in any sufficiently developed place those shopping carts are good enough. my grandmother had one with three wheels on each side connected to a central axis allowing her to pull it up on stairs with much less effort. as a kid i found that fascinating.
I am not willing to pass a value judgement on his decision to do this, but I do agree that I don't think it ended up being helpful to R4L.
(Cops doxx a man who burned the Koran) Manchester Police name Quran-burning suspect despite threat to life

https://freespeechunion.org/manchester-police-name-quran-bur...

Muslim abuser who 'didn't know' that sex with a girl of 13 was illegal is spared jail

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268395/Adil-Rashid...
"Sangin produces a range of capable tool watches"

So, is this just an ad vehicle pretending to be serious about its main topic? b/c these suggestions are unnecessary and distracts from the topic.
If "don't be racist" is a game you have to consciously play with yourself, you are expressly unfit to rule a nation of immigrants like America.
It' s also what they testified they would do.

>Apple previously made its stance public when it formally opposed the UK government's power to issue Technical Capability Notices in testimony submitted in March 2024 and warned that it would withdraw security features from the UK market if forced to comply.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/uk-demands-apple...
Surely they can make their own apps, but whether or not Apple will let them install it has always been a point of contention.
This law is not about arbitrary companies, but about large social networks affecting millions of people. Requiring a certain transparency from these seems justified.
So I just have to claim I‘m going to train an AI with all my pirated data and then nobody can sue me?
Works for Sydney, well done!

I previously used Mapnificent to choose a house location, and found that many geographically closer properties were often much further in terms of time. Very useful. I like that it starts off with the map view, maybe do that in terms of “shortest time to a-ha” and to get the user into putting in the work to refine the output?

https://www.mapnificent.net/sydney/

I also used this to look at property/area info. Maybe lift some ideas off that. It used to have school ratings, crime etc.

https://heatmaps.com.au/

Something that’s a combo of both would be amazing. Good luck!
No, not Staatsanwaltschaft (public prosecutor). This is a private suit. Plaintiff can get some sort of injunction next, I presume.
> would you rather go back to that today? really??

I absolutely said said no such thing. There are good ways to change things and bad ways to change things. Allowing a private entity reap huge profits by blatantly breaking rules and screwing people is not a good way to change things.
This is very cool - I haven't seen anything like it before. I've spent about half an hour noseying at places I've lived or considered living, fascinating. The view of changing house prices is something that I haven't seen presented in this way either.

Thanks for building it and thanks for sharing.
Moreover. Companies operate by Charter, via the will of the people (and the people is you or us). And regardless of any agreements companies have with shareholders, first and foremost, you have a responsibility to the people you live and operate with, to act for the peoples interests, otherwise you don't have a right to exist, contrary to the lack of action in law on this.

A Charter is a grant, from the people, for any for-profit organization to exist, it comes with certain restrictions and it can be revoked at any time.

Charter

a written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power [The People], by which a body such as a company, college, or city is founded and its rights and privileges defined.
Same with mainland Australia and Tasmania with HVDC cable going through the sea.
See timestamp 0:52, i.e. the people behind the sign that says Germany. Not one of them is named Jens Stoltenberg.

https://youtu.be/eKEycjREgPE?si=fIYENA_4E6SQBxpA&t=52\

UN != NATO.
Likely the company in question does not want to share what their internal proprietary data that was leaked was.

Either way, that, along with the brags from the ex-employee about still having access to the company's machines after termination, speaks to his character. It seems pretty clear, taking all the evidence into account, that it was unwise to give him a high level of access to government data.
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I'm speaking more about how we assess the relevance of a logical system to the real world. Even if a system is internally self-consistent, its utility depends on whether its premises and conclusions align with what we observe empirically. And because empirical observation is inherently statistical due to sampling and measurement limitations, the very act of verifying a logical system's applicability to reality introduces a statistical element. We just typically ignore this element because some of these systems seem to hold up consistently enough that we can take them for granted.
No, but plaintiff can ask for an injunction, and X may have to pay a fine.
To the extent we’re talking about user activity on the site, the people already have access to this data by dint of being the ones who did the things. Sent a tweet, viewed a tweet, clicked a link. They already have it. So what is being asked of X?
Seems good that people would discuss and make value judgements on said policy. Europeans seem to have no trouble loudly voicing their opinion on American law, and I don't see Americans getting thin skin about it.

Why should we operate under the assumption any policy implemented by any politician (German or otherwise) is inherently good by default? Specifically in the case of Germany, we have many recent and historical examples of not great ideas being implemented...

Might be good to be willing to question these things instead of retorting "THE LAW IS THE LAW" and bowing to the overlords with the rubber stamps, no?
No, each person has a right to their own data. But not "the people", it is the opposite actually.
Hey, if it was secrets, and its confirmed to be secrets, and the cause is publicized, and the alleged secrets leaker confirmed it, then we are WAY WAY WAY beyond guilt-by-association.

> A spokesperson for the Arizona-based hosting and data-security firm said Thursday: “I can confirm that Edward Coristine's brief contract was terminated after the conclusion of an internal investigation into the leaking of proprietary company information that coincided with his tenure.”

> Afterward, Coristine wrote that he’d retained access to the cybersecurity company’s computers, though he said he hadn’t taken advantage of it.
*runs in Chrome
Wow - thanks.
off topic (who even cares about the OP) but I heard a clip of Musk saying that "the bureaucracy subverts democracy. I want government by the people, not the bureau" and ... I don't even. Do people really fall for this? Is it not obvious that one bureau is just being sub'd out for another less accountable one? Are people really that stupid?
if you don't pay for news what choice do they have?
Curious that you're picking 1 aspect of the dire prediction of this climate scientist, which contains more things than just the AMOC. The "digested by journalists" summary of that paper: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/feb/04/climate-...

It also mentions some scientists who doubt the conclusion, that the 2 degree target is dead. As a doom-and-gloomer I'll buy what James Hansen is saying though, IMO the scientists are underestimating how quickly it'll get worse.
It's clearly in the spirit of the law, namely Article 40 section 12 of the EU Digital Services Act:

> Providers of very large online platforms or of very large online search engines shall give access without undue delay to data, including, where technically possible, to real-time data, provided that the data is publicly accessible in their online interface by researchers, including those affiliated to not for profit bodies, organisations and associations, who comply with the conditions set out in paragraph 8, points (b), (c), (d) and (e), and who use the data solely for performing research that contributes to the detection, identification and understanding of systemic risks in the Union pursuant to Article 34(1).
My efforts and labor are always wasted working for someone else. I tend to work for startups because it feels like I'm donating time to a cause or effort that could help people in need.

When venture capital spends their (precious) money courting unqualified nobodies, they remind us all that they are less mature than the people they sponsor and reward exactly the wrong actors. These are mistakes that don't get made by legacy employers in FAANG and Fortune 500, because they have a basic understanding of self preservation.

It reaffirms to me that the right way to spend my career is on meaningless but benign work that doesn't go to benefit madmen with a hole burnt through their pocket. A16Z is absolutely reprehensible in this respect, with YC as a close second in many ways. I'm lucky that much of the work I've seen under their patronage will never come to light and ruin my CV.
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Some users. I a former user, had no problem with MV2 and have many problems with MV3.

It's remarkable how this is in support of users who don't understand the implications of this compulsory upgrade, somehow excluding the interests of users who do understand the implications of the change.
Reading the abstract it seems to support the idea of geoengineering if half the excess warming magnitude was from stopping ships Aerosolization of particles
Counterargument it is, but its pretty weak considering benefits to free society
Fundamentally we're limited by two things- the boiling point of water, and the fact that biological macromolecules are very complex and fall apart or crumple up at high temperatures. Deep sea creatures can bypass the first one due to the intense pressure in the deep ocean, but you're still going to have to deal with the fact that atoms bounce around and move more at higher temperatures, and that isn't good for the precision molecular machinery that life relies on.

On the low end, we're pretty much limited by the same things, but in reverse- the freezing point of water, and the fact that chemistry slows down at low temperatures.

So that puts us with a fundamental limit of 0-100 C for any system that relies liquid water at atmospheric pressure, and only a little bit beyond that for extremophiles. There is another fundamental limit beyond 100 for high temp when any organic molecule will start to burn or pyrolyze, but the boiling point is already a huge evolutionary hurdle on its own for most places on Earth.
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My digital guitar tuner oscillates between B and A# with no input.
Can't they require it to be blocked in Germany/EU if they don't comply? I believe that's what Brazil did, isn't it?
I have no objections, but I don't see how it relates to my comment.
so is the idea to slowly fix a situation like Rover's competitors being listed in not just ChatGPT but all the major AI chats within 90 days or so? Are the models really being updated often enough to make these changes happen?

I feel like I might seen those same Rover results for the next 2 years no matter what you try?
So have I. So we both know that it's possible to not seed a torrent while downloading it.

It's even possible to pretend to seed whilst not transferring anything, just to boost your ratio on a private tracker.

That's the protocol we're talking about.
Don't have a YC partner so made one and open-sourced it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSD35Q15rm8 I do this 10-minute stretching exercise 3 times a week since my wrists and fingers started becoming more sensitive. It's been amazing.
The user agent is pretty low hanging fruit, but these days even your most standard captchas / bot detection algorithms are looking at things like mouse movement patterns - a simple bot controlling a mouse might be coded to move the cursor from wherever it is to the destination in the shortest path possible; a human might try for the shortest path, but actually do something that only approximates the most direct path based on their dexterity, where the cursor began, the mouse they’re using, etc.

Tools in this space rely a lot on human use of a computer being much slower, less precise, and more variable than machine use of a computer.
Mine sucked at curbs. It worked, so probably "good enough". It was just annoying and I preferred to just carry my groceries before the baby and their stroller arrived. But if your grandma was handling stairs with hers, curbs likely wouldn't have been an issue.
> Do people really fall for this?

Yeah. There are still people that call it "Twitter" in 2025.
> I don't really understand on what grounds the decision was made.

"The lawsuit is based on the Digital Services Act (DSA), which mandates platforms to provide researchers with access to relevant data."

See: https://algorithmic-transparency.ec.europa.eu/news/faqs-dsa-...

It's based on EU law.
I too read de Bono's Thinking Hats book and found it worth considering. It reminds me of Nietzsche's Perspectivism [1]

I don't think having a fixed set of N perspectives is the correct approach. Rather, it is often a good idea to understand that there are many perspectives to view things from and to encourage productive perspectives when possible.

One frustrating thing I find with people I consider closed minded is an insistence on viewing every single issue from a single unchanging perspective.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspectivism
"Spotify's music library was also pirated in the early days."

"Ek, who had been the CEO of the piracy platform uTorrent, founded Spotify with his friend, another entrepreneur named Martin Lorentzon. Both-Ek at 23 and Lorentzon 37-were already millionaires from the sales of previous businesses. The name Spotify had no particular meaning, and was not associated with music. According to Spotify Teardown, the company developed a software for improved peer-to-peer network sharing, and the founders spoke of it as a general "media distribution platform." The initial choice to focus on music, the founders said at the time, was because audio files are smaller than video files, not because of a dream of saving music.

In 2007, when Spotify first publicly tested its software, it allowed users to stream songs downloaded from The Pirate Bay, a service for unlicensed downloads. By late 2008, Spotify would convince music labels in Sweden to license music to the site, and unlicensed music was removed. From there, Spotify would take off across Europe and then the world."

https://qz.com/1683609/how-the-music-industry-shifted-from-n...
You're arguing for media as a service. I think many people are tired of the SASS everything model. It's generally user hostile, you need multiple different services, there are dark patterns and you still have to endure ads. Privacy issues too. Piracy is definitely superior.
Thanks for the recommendation, I'll definitely add it to my reading list.
I am 90% in agreement with you. I do think that you should consider how rural/suburban areas have all of the generation and transmission which the cities rely on for their power.

It's not exactly fair to treat those rural residents as burdens to the urban areas when they provide the means for the urban areas to exist.
Gaudi pioneered a lot of interesting physical modelling techniques to check his designs, e.g., he was the first to use inverted space-hanging models for domes and vaults (although his predecessors had used them for arches).
Here are FAQs on the EU law that was applied here: https://algorithmic-transparency.ec.europa.eu/news/faqs-dsa-...
It's a false dichotomy.
Me too, I hope the ROCm support for the APU is top notch.
With 128G a lot of large LLM's can fit.
Shielding is straightforward; styropyro on YouTube made a ridiculously overpowered oven, 20 kW, was able to film the interior via a small hole, camera was basically fine.

https://youtu.be/mg79n_ndR68?si=F5RTVUWdxglMFm7X
Magnets, how do they work? It's surprisingly complicated actually!