skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why it should be legal to buy stolen goods!
That's pretty convenient and easy to remember
The law has recently changed quite a bit with respect to the very nature of a smart contract (Tornado).

I don’t think they’re very specific.

The lack of specificity was such that the government is now purporting to end “regulation by enforcement”.
This is such a wild non-sequitur! A single person doing a single wildly expensive thing is not comparable to hundreds of thousands or millions of people doing a far less expensive thing. The orders of magnitude don't cancel out; the 5-6 orders of magnitude in number of "people doing expensive thing" outweighs the 3-4 orders of magnitude difference between the costs of the things you are comparing.

It's also just so wildly irrelevant to the topic at hand
As a website developer and host can you compare running your own CAPTCHA in place of any CAPTCHA-as-a-service? In my experience even a simple static how much is 3 + 39 stops the flood of spam in a form... It is also not perfect, but as you say no system is, and it does not pilfer my users' data...
Harry also for Harold!?
what's the drawback of funding startups as tokens? is there SEC regulation against this?

I think it's an interesting option, at least
A couple of years ago, in Argentina, my country, some idiot representative tried to create an actual law to force everyone to use the last name of both parents in strict alphabetical order.... and in the next generation, choose 2 out of 4 in strict alphabetical order, and in 10 generations everyone would have a couple of last names like aaaa aaab
That's absolutely amazing news. I've seen them (at a distance) in Yellowstone.

The photo of the giant pile of bison skulls invokes such a feeling of pure doom. The fact that this happened not because the animals are a nuisance, but to eradicate the people who relied on them is... insane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bison_hunting#19th-century_bis...

As per the history books, only ~100 remained at the end. And what I cannot find a definitive answer on is: are the current bison (not the ones for meat) all descendants of those 100?

I do wonder, apart from money, how can a sw engineer contribute to this restoration effort?
How about Madison? Son of Madi...?
They are testing in the 97th percentile for their age, which is far beyond where I was at their age.
https://www.behindthename.com/name/gibbon/submitted diminutive of Gilbert.

My guess is its just like Robin:

Rob + kin -> Robkin -> Robin

Gib + kin -> Gibkin -> Gibbon
> I mean, whats "easier", a mind-numbing web development job, or a more challenging embedded or hwdev role?

Yes, this is exactly what you have to decide.

In the short-term you are probably better off finding a job you can step away from at the end of the work day but only if you have something in your life to step into.

If you just want to be miserable about work for the rest of your life, you're certainly welcome to do that.
Oh man, Bill Bailey would certainly be a treat to get to know!
Pet Microchip company ceases operations; pet owners urged to reregister
> I don't see the harm in something like this.

Incorrect self diagnosis is a big problem for doctors. Patients will show up convinced they have one condition and reject their doctors’ attempts to explore other explanations.

It’s a big problem right now with TikTok self diagnoses. People view a lot of TikToks and think they know better than their doctor for themselves or, worse, their kids.

The easiest example is when people decide they have a bacterial infection when they really have a common cold. They will shop around until they find a doctor who is a pushover and will prescribe antibiotics on demand. This is a big problem right now with antibiotic overprescription.

The problem with this specific post, though, is that it’s misleading. The author tries to present this tool as if it did a better job than $100K of medical testing and 5 years of doctors, but when you read the details it’s clear that the results from all of those doctors and medical testing were put into the tool.

Many of the comments here and on Reddit are missing this key point: The tool was mirroring the diagnosis from the doctors because it was given the medical records from those doctors, not because it was diagnosing the symptoms from a clean slate.
Professor Burnette makes videos and other things. Very cool stuff.

https://x.com/MAG2ART
This seems like it would be solved completely by printing the error message ("option b unknown"), and then also printing the "--help" stuff. You can see the error inthe first line(s), so `head` will make that easy to see, but anyone trying to print the help text will get it.
Imagine what it could do if you gave it your credit card and social security number!
Are you suggesting DRM would be a better name than ARM?
I have an ancient laptop with Snow Leopard running. It keeps my Nikon Film Scanner useful since Nikon abandoned the software for these scanners rather abruptly.

I've been a pro photographer since 1990 and the Kodachrome setting embedded within the Nikon scanner is fantastic for capturing the color and detail of this exceptionally sharp film.
Let me quote here Point 7 (see 7.) of the "Google Individual Contributor License Agreement" for the purposes of review & criticism in a manner hopefully compliant with the concept of "Fair Use" in some jurisdiction:

"7. Should You wish to submit work that is not Your original creation, You may submit it to Google separately from any Contribution, identifying the complete details of its source and of any license or other restriction (including, but not limited to, related patents, trademarks, and license agreements) of which you are personally aware, and conspicuously marking the work as 'Submitted on behalf of a third-party: [named here]'."

So, umm, that's certainly... a thing.

BRB, off to submit a new "Audio GIF"-based backend for Jujutsu without signing a CLA!

(You know, so someone who has signed a CLA can seemingly totally submit it in a manner consistent with the project CLA as long as they don't misrepresent my code's source and mention any "Audio GIF"-related patents. GIF-related patents? LOL Zero Worries there! As if. My butt's patented[15].)

----[epilogue]---

There were a couple of other things I'd thought to mention but I'm going to leave things here---particularly given Point 7.

And, as some additional context, in case anyone happens to be interested: Yes, this is a ridiculously long comment containing a lot of content seemingly written to primarily amuse the author. Well, yes, that's an accurate observation. I have attempted to at least make its content semi-navigable by section out of respect for the time of those who wish to glean its content without its... other content.

Maybe one day I'll... write more about the context of that. :)

[Update: Okay, admittedly, that was way longer than even I had realised. :D ]

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[-1] See footnotes in other comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43004856
Nicely told by Circle Round in "Buried Treasure" https://www.wbur.org/circleround/2023/06/27/buried-treasure
That's a story people tell, but I'm not sure how true it is. There is tons of Amiga and older Mac software out there on floppy that you can still read just fine.

Of course it's still a good idea to get a Greaseweazel and back up everything you come across.
If I had to guess, iRISC = internal RISC. They likely rolled their own to avoid having to worry about features that they do not use and avoid having to pay royalties to others.
I used to observe the increased sensetivity to noise during my epresssion periods. Observe the same problems also with bright light.
What may actually help here is psychologist / psychiatrist and therapy or medication. I'm not a doctor and maybe your problem not related to yours, but I just wanted to share the direction which helped me to decrease sound sensetivity.
I think you're both correct. For those that care about their fellow (hu)man, it is extremely important to improve people's lives, to live without fear and violence. Unfortunately for the politicians, it was often just an issue that could be spearheaded to avoid and "hide" other issues. Much like businesses that celebrate pride month, and then drop the issue and remain silent on it until the next year comes around, because people are too easily fooled by a perceived month of caring. I am not of the opinion that gay or LGBTQ+ rights were ever pushed in order to prevent blackmail, especially since in the US, it is often the side that fights against those rights that end up getting caught in controversy for the exact thing they fought against. Much like how you hear that homophobia and transphobia is often perpetrated by those that haven't accepted their sexuality.
The Death of the Stubborn Developer – By Steve Yegge
While I don’t mind if they’re related, the evidence is rather thin.
Interestingly, chariots and royal burials were also found in Sinauli, India which provide an interesting alternative to this theory.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/radiocarbon/article/...
I think LLMs are great for summary or pastiche text. They do OK with poetry, but obviously this is a pastiche of existing poetry by necessity, since it can't be rooted in human experience (unless you want poems about being a computer, but that's not what most people have in mind. I think they're great for code, although within rather tight limitations in my experience.

The problem with LLMs for music (as currently implemented, not inherently) is people keep training them on complete tracks. They're very obviously being trained by people who are not musicians.
> but it also means that it's impossible to support the older 400K and 800K Mac formats

I'm trying to remember, but was it even possible to format or read 400K or 800K mac floppies on a machine that came natively with a 1.44MB drive such as a Mac SE/30 or all the other post-1990 Macs?
> It has always surprised me how software as an industry gets away with sketchy documentation

very true, the best documentation i've seen isn't even drafted until after the software is already in production.
Simplewall, windows firewall control, netlimiter.
If they really need the security, considering how the other party spent such trouble to hack their phones, this is probably true, then they should not allow any smart phone into the facility.

This has been done many times before by other companies. Huawei used to do a lot of closed door development -- every one of the team lives in a hotel for a few months without phones and cannot get out. If your adversary burnt so many zero days and maybe also pulled some strings to hack you, you absolutely should do this.
At an approx 750,000 hours in a human lifespan, they wasted 1100 human lives in totality. Unbelievable.
That's nothing! They determined that one valley formed 3.8 billion years ago, and the other one, 3.8 billion years plus or minus 10 minutes.
Or mix things up with "I'm just the chef" Steven Seagal, though regardless the movie would be boring.
And... it's encrypted. Which complicates data recovery enormously.
Snow Leopard and Windows 7 are from a time when computers were made to serve the user.

Then we discovered how much more money could be made by focusing on ad tech.

The relationship between people and technology was so different in 2009. I miss it.
I recently came across this presentation of Kristian Kristiansen, University of Gothenburg: "Towards a New European prehistory: genes, archaeology and language" (2023): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxTVSwt-jsU [video], which I enjoyed very much. Prof. Kristiansen is a leading researcher in this area.
Engineers who won't commit force bad decisions – sean goedecke
Specifically, (log x)^2
https://archive.ph/hfglV
"Fairly sure", well why didn't they say that in their blurb!?

The site copywriters seem to have very carefully made associations with Harvard whilst maintaining perma.cc as a separate entity to which they, Harvard, owe no obligations.

"Perma.cc was built by Harvard’s Library Innovation Lab and is backed by the power of libraries."

They built it, they organise it, but what they don't seem to do is provide any guarantees with/through/towards it.

Sure, who wants to take on obligations, make promises. Much easier to hide behind vague expressions of how great librarians are (it's a noble calling). 'Trust me bro' is pretty hard to go with for commercial enterprises regardless of who started them.

They clearly thought through the future, hence the 'we don't owe you anything when we sell the service to X/Alphabet/Meta or whoever' language.

How much budget have Harvard set aside for long-term maintenance?

It looks useful.
VS Code update treats Copilot as "out-of-the-box" feature • DEVCLASS
> I was personally told that plane kids club is boys only.

This is a tangent and maybe a long shot, but if you don't know Beryl Markham's "West With the Night", you might be in for a treat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_with_the_Night
The ideas you’ve laid out sound really good while theorycrafting over some drinks.

The reality that I’ve seen is that it rarely works out like you are suggesting.

Real examples that I’ve seen twice in detail is that senior management (and later retired management) ends up with a lot of shares. Upper management prefers disbursements/dividends, while lower-paid folks prefer pay increases. Sometimes neither of these are optimal — better to re-invest.

The senior management and retirees do everything that they can to minimize share dilution, and they are very aware of where their share of voting shares stands versus the labor shares, and the management is much more savvy about this knowledge and process.

Bitterness on both sides ensues, and the company turns to shit via in-fighting.

As for getting new folks to invest their own money into shares, there has to be a very clear path for ROI for these folks, as often there is no dynamic market for shares.

Other examples I’ve heard stories about (but haven’t seen numbers) have similar tensions.

Maybe I’m biased, because I mostly hear about failed employee buyouts. That said, the number of success stories I’ve heard of are few — bobs red mill (still newish) and Publix… I’m sure there are a few more.
I've been trying to do that. Well, except software for women, I'm a guy who's quite clueless in that area :)

I just can't find small problems that...

1. people are willing to pay for, and

2. I can reach out to said people and they're open to trying it out

For example - I was thinking of helping content creators with content repurposing. So I met up with a guy who runs a podcast, and I told him how I could build a tool that repurposes his podcast episodes to LinkedIn posts. He said it's an interesting idea, but not something that he'd want to try out anytime soon. He's got more important things to do, and it made perfect sense.
We need a simple open-source protocol which includes authentication and ability for agents to make payments. Essentially what you want is the ability for an agent to take a core action (as the article mentions, like adding a record to a CRM).

I fundamentally believe that human-oriented web apps are not the answer, and neither is REST. We need something purpose-built.

The challenge is, it has to be SIMPLE enough for people to easily implement in one day. And it needs to be open source to avoid the obvious problems with it being a for-profit enterprise.
Choosing a Microcontroller
Don't forget the infamous ap Doc.
On a similar note, why haven't PDF been replaced? There are XPS, DjVu and XHTML (EPUB) but they all seem to be targeting different usecase (a packaged HTML file).

What I want is a simple document format that allows embedding other files and metadata without the Adobe's bloat. I should be able to hyperlink within pages, change font-size etc without text overflowing and being able to print in a consistent manner.
Sounds like a really good way to get a robust implementation of a fiddly and novel algorithm.
Actual Apple link: https://support.apple.com/en-us/122174 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43003762)
What kind of AI movies did you grow up watching? Personally I'll never forget the robot foot crushing a human skull.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHKxoARmjLU
Been there, feel your pain on all these points. Realizing that your awesome thing isn't landing the same way with others is humbling. First thing is don't attach yourself worth to the idea or solution. Failing is just part of the process for the vast majority of us. We're still good people who are into continual growth.

As for the next part, learning and talking to others. Go learn about things that interest you, new technologies and tools, problems people have, the competitive landscape to find gaps. I spent most of '24 in this mode and have settled on ATProtocol as the area I'm now focusing in. There are vast and open green fields and the opportunity to reshape how humans use social media and interact with each other through it.
The various times I've encountered effective UML, it's been an organization's take on how to use it. I can't remember if the UML Distilled book references this kind of dialectic use but it seems like the only way I've seen buy-in for use and maintaining the diagrams as documentation.
Couldn't be me.

Psa: reduce your installs of things from the internet
I learned about this from my mother, who, like my father, is a doctor. Invitations addressed to "Dr. and Mrs. Father Lastnames" were a source of great offense to her!
What proof of humanity is sufficient? Today it is a phone call, or a verification sent to a real address (limit one registration per household), or a video call. How will we verify humanity in 20 years when audio and video emulation is foolproof?

We'll have to have in-person attestation or make all services paid, perhaps.
I would think that the most 'bare metal' way to read a 360KB floppy these days would be to use a vintage 2000 or 2001 x86 PC motherboard/cpu/RAM combo that has the standard onboard floppy drive ribbon cable header, and attach a real 360KB drive to it. Or a more 'modern' 1.2MB half height floppy drive that's known to be able to read 360KB disks.

If you find something with like a Pentium 3 1 GHz on it, it should be capable enough and with enough RAM to boot a new i386 linux kernel and userland environment, while still having direct hardware access to the FDD.
Yes. I'm saying that all poor behavior stems from a lack of self respect.
What was he saying about "buying ink by the barrel"?
Cause it works and works good enough. Also, immutability is a feature, not a bug
Recreating Mac System 7 as a design portfolio
I like the idea of union names [1].

If you're AC and your partner is BD, then on marriage you choose a new name X. You become AXC and your partner BXD. Your child is EX. Then each child has equal connection to both parents. The cost is that you lose the deep history of names, but that history only existed for a single lineage anyway, so it's not as important as it seemed.

(1) https://nothingismere.com/2013/11/12/solve-surnames-with-uni...
So they are smart because of their upbringing, but you were less smart because of your genetics?
> Why didn't the medical procession find my autoimmune disease

The post is vague, but the doctors did find the “likely” autoimmune condition around the same time that the LLM suggested it.

Which is not surprising, because this tool was simply taking the medical records and doctors reports and putting them into the LLM.

The author has also been dodging questions about what the LLM actually said. Reading between the lines, it sounds like it gave a list of possible explanations including “maybe an autoimmune condition”, not an actual diagnosis.
Glad to hear it. Where was I reading that, in dry, infertile places on the prairie where buffalo have been released, you see new plants growing up wherever they go, almost like they're leaving life in their wake? This is one of the arguments for de-extincting mammoths (in addition to it being one of the most metal things modern genetics puts us in reach of).
>Tell me you don't know anyone with an autoimmune disease, without telling me you don't know anyone with an autoimmune disease!

My dad has rheumatoid arthritis, my grandmother had rheumatoid arthritis and died from leukemia likely caused by treatment for it. The same grandmother's brother died of an autoimmune lung disease. My favorite uncle has been living with MS for 20 years. I have a family friend with Lupus. And a friend with Type-1 diabetes.
My wife and I have now started both receiving similar messages, but this time purportedly from '<notifications@zellepay.com>'. Same M.O.
It didn’t really go in to either. It doesn’t have any sort of benchmarking or any best/worst case fits?
SponsorBlock needs an AI-version. Currently it relies on users.
Silicone Skin and 3D Printing: Creating an Expressive Animatronic Head [video]
I get the nostalgia, but boy are computers so much better than back then. MacOS 7-8 (not sure about 9, never used it) would crash constantly. There was no protected memory, so as soon as one app started misbehaving, you'd have to reboot the computer and it would take forever and you'd lose your work. My recollection was that this would typically happen 3-4 times a day. Apple's project to make a new MacOS that didn't do this failed and so they had to buy NeXT, and the rest is history.
Please be complete if you’re gonna translate to American units. That’s 117,000 football fields per football game, or 325 per commercial.
The CEO isn't simply questioning him, he is asking for a retraction. That is worth this sort of article when it's your livelihood and reputation.

This would have been a nothing-burger if he hadn't used 'retraction'.
You not agreeing with the reasons is not the same as there being "no justifiable reason" for another moon program. There absolutely are justifiable reasons and those reasons have worked out very well for the U.S. in the past. And as to whether we have the money for it, the U.S. is the wealthiest it has ever been and certainly much wealthier than we were in the 60s.
There are two alternatives I'm aware of, one is Attestation of Personhood[1] proposed by Cloudflare, the other is a proof-of-work[2] which the Tor project have themselves introduced[3].

[1]: https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-cryptographic-attest...

[2]: https://github.com/mCaptcha/mCaptcha

[3]: https://blog.torproject.org/introducing-proof-of-work-defens...
This is not the case. Medical school places are up over a third since 2017. We import the amount of doctors we graduate every year, but we haven't meaningfully increased the amount of specialists and GP's we train in over a decade.

There is no shortage of doctors. There is a shortage of consultants/GPs.
Patio11 is just responding to any interpretation of the CEO's comments.

If the CEO doesn't think Silvergate being solvent was relevant then why did he bring it up? You could assume incompetency on behalf of the CEO to bring up a non-sequitor but why bother assuming when you can just add words to address it.

And right after the solvency discussion, patio11 goes on to list 5 banks in the last decade that were directly closed because of BSA issues.
At the least, it often makes them feel empowered to speak out in favor of forgetting all about the issue, and emboldening them to push for whatever the politician pushes that they agree with. At least in the US, you can hop on social media and take a look at your local newspaper or news channel's posts, and see some of the truly insane comments (and I use insane here as in bringing up politics to promote their voted politician, or smear the other side, when the issue is something at a local level or unaffected by politics in any way).