skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. Nice cherry-picking. The US and Canada (and, in fact, a majority of world nations) are not signatories of the ECHR. Those countries seem to get on just fine without it. In particular they are able to deport dangerous foreign criminals without issue - meaning their citizens are safer. There's nothing extreme about leaving the ECHR.

2. The WHO is notorious for failures in policy e.g. Covid response, bends to political pressure from China (e.g. not respecting Taiwan as an independent entity), and is dependent on private donors like Bill Gates which means they have undue influence. A 2021 probe into the WHO found its staff were involved in sexual abuse during an Ebola outbreak in Congo. There are plenty of reasons for leaving it. There's nothing extreme about leaving the WHO.

3. We absolutely should get the oil and gas we need from our own reserves, rather than buying it from despotic regimes and shipping it half way round the world at great ecological expense. There's nothing "extreme" about using our own natural resources.

4. We know now that there were many serious side effects from the mRNA injections and that the contracts granting lifetime immunity to the manufacturers for harm were extremely suspicious. This is a totally novel form of medical intervention, administered to a large population in a hurry, under intense political pressure. There's nothing "extreme" about an enquiry on mRNA injection harms. What are we afraid of? Uncovering the truth?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10022421/

"CV events such as thrombosis, thrombocytopenia, stroke, and myocarditis frequently occur with the mRNA vaccines studied. A significant number of studies included in our review reported BNT162b2 events, which presses the need to conduct more research into the CV implications of mRNA‐1273 (Moderna) vaccine."
Thinking of joining in on the Discord Hackathon if I have time!
I have a mental 'gun clock' when browsing random movie channels on my cable package - the time until a gun appears. Quite often it is zero.
Show HN: tailwind background snippets
You might be conflating the epistemological point with Turing's test, et cetera. I could not agree more that indistinguishability is a key metric. These days, it is quite possible (at least for me) to distinguish LLM outputs from those of a thinking human, but in the future that could change. Whether LLMs "think" is not an interesting question because these are algorithms, people. Algorithms do not think.
You mean “labor” where many support Trump and voted for him?
That’s just somebody at the treasury being a moron.

You defined power as soft power and now you want to say actually it’s hard power. It’s not. They can’t give anyone orders and impose consequences for not following them. That’s what hard power is.
Looks like this project was recently restarted [0]

[0] https://www.zawya.com/en/projects/construction/kingdom-holdi...
I love the idea! Going to test it for a while!
I definitely do know what I think.
I rooted for Uber to smash the Taxi cartels. Let us not forget that Taxi Cartels were also insidious beasts. Taxi drivers abused their walled garden with their price gouging by taking longer routes, refusal to take a credit card, and extremely poorly maintained fleets of vehicles. I have had mostly good experiences with Uber, whereas I had experiences that mostly bordered on general condescension toward me whenever I took a ride in a Taxi. I am glad the political will to block Uber never materialized.
I've spent a good amount of time in Myanmar.

In practice, the US prioritizes "stability" over everything. The situation became very bad in the last 4 years. Definitely a good amount of this funding was diverted to corrupt people over there.

People in Myanmar (and many other parts of the world) love talking to our embassies and "NGOs" and ripping them off, while doing their actual deals with China.
Put yourself in the shoes of the person submitting this patch. Is a "subtle implication" (and to be clear, it was a very subtle one if it was one at all) that a senior maintainers NAK on a patch is going to be ignored enough to make the whole situation not incredibly demoralizing?

Does it do much of anything to solve the fact they've publicly declared that they are going to do everything they can to stop the project, and that there's a history of them doing just that going on for years now?

Marcan's response clearly wasn't the most productive way to raise these issues, but the issues are there and are not being addressed.
Jon DeGoes still works on the ZIO ecosystem along with his Rust projects.
I'd suspect that if it takes 2 years to plan and build and connect EV stations, that's a problem, and we should review what's causing it to happen so slowly.
They deserve everything that happens to them
God bless whoever did the subtitles. Knuth's clarity of thought is unsurpassed, but, for me at least, actually hearing him speak is like the opposite of ASMR.
No, Macau is. It's Western media bias that we talk about LV way more than Macau.
(Also, LV still has the English-language entertainment acts, conventions, conferences.)

But for gambling revenue, Las Vegas was passed out by Macau back in 2007 already:
https://www.reuters.com/article/macau-revenues/the-worlds-ca...
Yup. Issues like that have trained me to fear and avoid anything that says "CMYK" or "gamut" or similar, not because they're beyond comprehension, but because for many use cases the whole thing is an unnecessary pantomime. And it's often silently switched on by default, waiting to screw things up for you. Blender does similar things - in order to get what you intended to be pure black produce 0x000000, and what you intended to be pure red produce 0x0000ff, you have to dig down somewhere - "post processing," I think, because they suffer from some fantasy of being Pixar - and switch something to "raw", and as I remember that isn't even the whole story and there's some other tweaks to make too, just to make black output black and red output red.
Moreover, I believe Uber fundamentally solved two problems with taxis:

The driver can't scam the passenger. The driver can't set the meter wrong, drive an unnecessarily long route, or just be an outright unlicensed taxi. Instead, the driver maintains a relationship with Uber, and the passenger can preview the fare before committing.

The passenger can't scam the driver. In a traditional taxi, you could theoretically just walk out ("dine and dash" style). The passenger can also make a call to dispatch and not show up for the ride. Instead, the passenger maintains a relationship with Uber, and the driver doesn't need to handle any payments.

> Medallion systems often prevented any competition, sometimes to absurd effect. The number of licenced taxis often didn't keep pace with population growth, sometimes even staying flat.

And thus medallion owners collect economic rent on their artificially scarce resource, distorting the free market. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_rent
> All changes described in this section improve the AG domain language coverage from 66 to 88% on all 2000-2024 IMO geometry problems. The remaining 12% contain 3D geometry, inequalities, non-linear equations, and countably many points (i.e. problems that have points where is an arbitrary positive integer). All problems (covered and not covered) by AG1 and AG2 can be found on Figure 8. Not covered are referred as "Not attempted".

The above explanation on page 5 was really interesting to me - so it's not that AlphaGeometry2 failed on these 12% of problems, but rather that it literally didn't have the words to tackle them.
So they should be homeless?
I found this on scurvy and forgotten traditions to be fascinating https://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
> Say your rents it's going to be late, you can pick up 20 or 30 hours of Uber this month to make it happen

that sounds so incredibly dystopian, not sure if that was the intention :(
Your library almost definitely offers digital loans as well.
I'm more interested in piracy not being highly prosecuted than I am in Meta getting punished for this. I'm not trying to spend 20 years in jail for pirating a TV show.
Please see this response: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42973646
How do you suggest making them smaller?

For instance, what if google was still just serving search results w/ ads, and they never expanded that. How would you make them smaller?
Sure, in a general purpose language, like Java, or Rust, or C++ you can indeed do "basically anything you want" that's why it's called general purpose, your purpose might be to run arbitrary code you found on the Internet, so, that's a thing you can do. If you can't it's not general purpose.

In a number of applications this means you do not actually want a general purpose language which is why WUFFS makes sense.

But, even when you don't have that constraint it's reasonable to ask: How easy was it to make a thing you didn't intend, by accident ?
Apple Shrugged
There is no mandate. Trump won by the slimmest of margins, not even close to "mandate" levels.
The last time I dragged my family into a taxi because of my anti Uber ideology, the driver stank to hell of body odor, asked me to input directions on his phone covered with dried snot from him sneezing with his mouth open, he drove dangerously under the speed limit on the freeway, and it took twice as long to get home as normal.

But at least I didn’t give Uber any money…
Can someone explain if they are asking for free labor? Or this actually moves the world forward?

I don't know if the hardware or any layer is patented.

Could I remake the watch, send over the software/firmware, and sell the watches legally?
Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to insatiable AI thirst
Of course they were asked. That doesn’t matter, my point is the author is assuming more from the reply than what was said.

It’s like if you conspired with your brother to steal from the cookie jar. He stole the cookies while you distracted your parents. Later on your mother reports to your father:

> When asked whether they stole from the cookie jar, derbOac did not provide a direct answer but suggested they didn’t didn’t know who did it: "I did not see anyone removing cookies from the jar," they stated.

Your statement is factually correct, but it doesn’t say what your mother concluded.
Fake VS Code extension on NPM uses altered ScreenConnect utility as spyware
Is there a reason you forward to the Pixel watch when someone clicks "No" on the "Do you want a new Pebble" lmao?? Cool animation transition though :P
Quoting Trump directly, from Agenda 47:

> Furthermore, I will direct the Department of Justice to pursue federal civil rights cases against schools that continue to engage in racial discrimination. And schools that persist in explicit unlawful discrimination under the guise of equity will not only have their endowment taxed, but through budget reconciliation, I will advance a measure to have them fined up to the entire amount of their endowment.
Why Boca Raton in particular?
One thing I've always found incredibly annoying is the &nbsp; character is not the same width as a space. It's slightly thinner.
I think this is unnecessarily defeatist. The UK is still a well functioning democracy. Using scare quotes around proper democracy just blurs the line to authoritarians and dictators.

We elect our politicians. We demand they stop serious crime and terrorism. When they have bad ideas about how to do that, we let them know that it's a bad idea. Or we don't elect them again. This works.
Exactly. We're surrounded by closeted climate change deniers who don't actually believe the results of climate change will be catastrophic.

What does it cost anyone to support Tesla, or at least stay quiet about any opposition you feel toward them? Nothing. But people are so emotional that they'd rather speak out against Tesla than swallow their anger. And the only explanation for that, is they do not really believe in climate change.
I wholeheartedly disagree. Logic is inherently statistical due to the very nature of empirical sampling, which is the only method we have for verification. We will eventually find that it's classical, non-statistical logic which was the (useful) approximation/hack, and that statistical reasoning is a lot more "pure" and robust of an approach.

I went into a little more detail here last week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871894

> My personal insight is that "reasoning" is simply the application of a probabilistic reasoning manifold on an input in order to transform it into constrained output that serves the stability or evolution of a system.

> This manifold is constructed via learning a decontextualized pattern space on a given set of inputs. Given the inherent probabilistic nature of sampling, true reasoning is expressed in terms of probabilities, not axioms. It may be possible to discover axioms by locating fixed points or attractors on the manifold, but ultimately you're looking at a probabilistic manifold constructed from your input set.

I've been writing and working on this problem a lot over the last few months and hopefully will have something more formal and actionable to share eventually. Right now I'm at the, "okay, this is evident and internally consistent, but what can we actually do with it that other techniques can't already accomplish?" phase that a lot of these metacognitive theories get stuck on.
Not that convinced by this model:

import llm
model = llm.get_model("SmolLM2")
model.prompt("Write me a poem about computers").text()

I ran the above to test it, and got this:

In the realm of computation, where magic is a thing of the past,
The digital realm, where the boundaries of what is thought,
The digital realm, where the boundaries of what is thought,

And it repeats like that.
They may have just been the friendly step A. We didn't end up seeing where that was going to go.
Libraries can burn down (see Library of Alexandria), civilizations end (see various). LibGen makes it possible for an individual to backup a snapshot of cumulative human knowledge, and I think that's commendable.
Oh that’s not what I’m claiming at all.

I’m saying it would have happened 4 years earlier.
Yes, I had to play it the Wordle way, doing a lot of elimination so I can make it in 5 guesses. Maybe tomorrow it will be more like a chess puzzle.
> First kill the big corporations, then think about fair laws.

It's not possible to kill big corporations before fair laws, because as you said yourself "corporations are already above the law"

Unfair laws don't apply to big corporations, they only apply to the people opposed to big corporations

It's akin to hamstringing a horse and saying you'll fix it when they win
Maybe I have a wild bias, but I don't see how this is underwater quantum rocket surgery. Try and continue to engage when reasonable and respectful with mutual humility without intent of conflict. The nuclear option is to shutdown communication but only after a pattern of unreasonableness or disrespect. It shouldn't be necessary among civilized adults, because if it's the first option rather than the last, society would be in middle of the process of dissolution.
Zen Browser, Fork of Firefox Focusing on Performance
Tesla's also a relatively small part of the market in the EU (varies, but generally on the order of 15-20% of the BEV market). The US is really the only large market where they're very dominant, and (and this should be concerning for them), it is the least _mature_ of the three big markets; many EVs were not launched in the US at all, and most of those which were were designed more for European or Asian tastes than for American (the Nissan Leaf, say, was available in the US, but is not the sort of car which sells well in the US). As that changes, and more EVs with good product market fit show up in the US, you'd expect the US market to evolve more towards the European one (that is, a bunch of manufacturers with 5-25% market shares). That's what normal mature markets for virtually everything, and certainly for cars, look like.
Yeah I don't trust any 100%, all have biases, heck all people have biases. That's why some sort of averaging if topic is worth investing time into
Could be a private finetune, or even a complete private model. They already have one for their internal codebase.
Twitter is much worse than it used to be.

Trump is certainly not reducing waste and corruption. He's reallocating the waste to better benefit his cronies, and he's filled the government with corrupt people who are working for their own benefit at the expense of the citizenry.
Not every gap. The temperature range is rather small, say about 200c. Anything much above boiling water, or below hard freezing, and the life we know stops. Some critters can survive, but they do not thrive outside that range.
That's what I do, personally.

But you call it "stealing," others call it "copying."

Stealing takes, from someone, something they own.
Highly appreciated sir, your feedback means a lot to me.
Most breadth taking cookie ack sites.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%E2%80%93FBI_encryption_d...
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42970412
This one example does not make stealing acceptable which is what you’re implying.
This is complicated. For context, there's a 1936 international treaty that regulates traversal of the Bosporus Straits called the Montreux convention [1]. it generally allows the passage of warships with a couple of exceptions and it depends on if Turkey is at war or not.

What happened in 2022 is that Turkey decided Russia's invasion was a "war" (in the context of a treaty) and thus limited access to the Black Sea to Russian warships. But that comes with a couple of restrictions.

The most notable one is that Russia is allowed to use the passage for ships based in the Black Sea and that was important. Ukraine could (and did) attack ships in Sevastopol and when that happened, they would have to retreat to repair (if possible). And they went to Syria to do that one several occasions.

Turkey's relationship with Europe, NATO, the US and Russia is... complicated. Like Turkey is the largest military in NATO (other than the US of course) and does pretty much whatever the US tells them to, but they also buy Russian armaments (eg missile systems) and the US has stationed nuclear weapons in Turkey. And while buying Russian arms, Turkey is selling drones to Ukraine who is using them to attack Russia. And Turkey, despite being a NATO member, has been at war with Greece, another NATO member.

Russia also has used internal waterways to bypass the Bosporus Straits [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreux_Convention_Regarding_...

[2]: http://www.hisutton.com/Russian-Navys-Secret-Internal-Waterw...
This essay feels very AI-generated. Was unsurprised to reach the end and discover that the "author" is the CEO of an AI business.
How is this not a "water is wet" finding? Did anybody seriously think they hadn't?
And then news media in Canada got even worse a few years ago. They demanded the government make a law so that when Google or Facebook even links to an article, they must pay the news org. Google decided to pay the link tax. Facebook decided to block all news links. From talking to people, most think that Facebook is the villain, in reality it's the news orgs in collusion with state power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_News_Act , https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/csj-sjc/pl/charter-charte/c18_...
Tesla is the ONLY profitable EV company.
I think it's based on your browser OS. Clicking the link from an iPhone sends you to the Apple Watch product page.
> the legal system only punishes general public, while most of these guys are above it

It’s because the legal system is not about justice, it’s about money

Most people can’t afford lawyers or expensive legal battles

On the other hand, individuals and organizations with a lot of money get to weaponize and exploit the legal system to their advantage

“To my friends, anything; to my enemies, the law”
I agree. I don't understand why the line is rotating. Once I put the mouse over the light circle it get's aligned in that direction.

Also, the "Restart" button should change into "New Game" after I win.
It's incorrect to divorce this dynamic from its history, which is largely one of America's right wing/nativists using "states' rights" as a cover to infringe on the rights of marginalized people, which are supposed to be inalieanable from the federal government's point of view. You have to mention the applications of that ideology, which include secession, Jim Crow laws, and anti-abortion laws, among others.
Brit here. Yeah from my experience people don't care. Hardly anyone gets prosecuted and those who do have often done something bad.

Most day to day complaints are they don't prosecute enough, often related to the bastard that snatched your phone. We have approximately zero people sitting in jail for failing to decrypt and similar.

>This is a very obvious setup for future totalitarianism.

No it really isn't. 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.
Collude is such a fucking weird word to describe an alliance.
Not dupe. Different report.
This reads like a result of someone wondering "What happens if sovereign citizens did climate science?"
A subset of passive aggressiveness or crybullying perhaps as an excuse to employ stonewalling, one of the 4 horsemen of the relationship apocalypse. It's even more corrosive when combined with a social group pattern of continually excommunicating the latest "impure" or "nonbeliever."
I'm just throwing ideas:

Wouldn't it be a good idea that you make a normal website to convert file format like any others, but the online service serve as an ad for your offline conversion app ?
if you get a group of people and call it an llc then criminal elements are largely eliminated.
That is an extremely corrupt and authoritarian government.
iPhone SE could shed its 10-year-old design "as early as next week"
There is only one way to respond to this. You just do not comply with this. If you are Apple you withdraw from the UK completely if necessary. But a better option is probably to just take the punishment for not complying while you appeal. The cost will be large regardless. But the reputational damage if Apple complies seems it will be larger than both the fine for noncompliance or the cost of losing all business in a large market like the UK.

I think Apple has a very short window for a powerful response here. It should be re-using the famous Pirate Bay wording for maximum effect.
PRISM, blocking of apps in china, giving over that data to the CCP. I believe they did similar in Russia. The FBI hackings and Pegasus stuff (Although, this is more like bad security)

I should emphasize that 'I personally don't care'. I find it more interesting that people believe there is some safety in Apple products because their marketing says so.

When I was younger, I used to care about these people getting taken advantage of. Today, I wonder how I can replicate the formula. Sorry pals, Apple did it and people were happy about it. I'll make people happy too, its a Noble lie... err Paternal lie :)
> what gives you or others the right to steal from others?

I think technically it's copying more than stealing

Like if you could wait for someone to design and build a car and then CTRL+C/V it for yourself (is it possible to steal in a post-scarcity society?)
I don't know anything about him, but it seems like he has a pretty negative view of Reddit users as well:

> Added some clarifications in bold, because Reddit users having enough reading comprehension to understand what Christoph said and why it's exactly* what I described with other words is apparently a Lv.100 impossible challenge boss.*

https://web.archive.org/web/20250206022420/https://social.tr...
Servers can last a long time
Deepseek stole its logo from Kaspersky
Maybe the problem is that the government funding is unreliable, the rules keep changing and progress keeps getting interrupted.