skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reasonable level of popularity is hard to really gauge. There is no current Reddit replacement for everything it is. Federated services like Piefed, Lemmy, etc are trying and there's good content to be had on those. It's like an early reddit but not as mainstream. Checkout something like https://beehaw.org for one such instance and see if it's your thing.
They should be required to print it on the label, most parents are not going to scan a QR code. Seems like a deliberate effort to conceal the information.
Given that the framing here is based on accounts of the most extreme cases, I would trust this reflects their society as well as Ripley's Belive it or Not does.

And you're too focused on families. This society relied on villages that were all somewhat connected. Modern 3rd world countries still have an arguably richer social support than the US because overall their burdens are not theirs to share alone. They pitch in the care for children, provide food, maintain housing, and much more. Having a big family can simulate this clan feeling but the scale is still a magnitude smaller than a village working together.

>in which case the children would require quite a bit of pressure and/or brainwashing to take care of them I would think.

In the same way kids are "brainwashed" to get kicked out at 18 and make a life for themselves in America with minimum support, sure. Any upbringing can be framed as "brainwashing" if you don't agree with it.
There's going to be diminishing returns in splitting the languages where you get less information related to the region / concept just because you're avoiding mixing languages. The language was not the only aspect: "cultural background, and in-depth regional knowledge". There's going to be lots of information shared in south/North languages just because of the geographically close (relatively anyway) distance.

I mean you wouldn't want to split a model into 3 separate ones, where one contains Austrian, another Slovakian, and another Hungarian, since there's going to be lots of cultural overlap.
All you have to do is put in your name, phone number, email, credit card, and address and your privacy is preserved!*

* Unless you missed a payment, in which case we will get our fixers with all your information to harass you until you do.
Calling Jack Dorsey the real Satoshi is like calling Forrest Gump the real Einstein. It really does not take a very smart person to poke holes in this little theory.

I remember 2 years ago, part of HN was dead-to-rights convinced Elon wrote the Bitcoin source code because he claimed to know C++. People will find whatever evidence they can to support these largest-common-denominator theories.
Third places and overall closer proximity plays a factor too. Do you have a place you can just "meet people" without needing to pay in?
Thanks for talking your experience! Honestly at this stage I hope she doesn't get in and we wont have to make the choice.
If the bottom line were actually king, we'd have a VAT, LVT, functional public transit, and sensible zoning laws among other things. Hell, even a fully socialized healthcare system would be more economically efficient than the public-private Frankenstein we have today.

A common meme on both sides of the political aisle is that public spending that they don't like is motivated by someone else's profit, but that's never the why the spending happens. I'd like the government to give me a million bucks to dig a hole in my backyard, but that's not going to happen unless if the voters agree to it.
Way back when, the big story about REM was that the world’s richest man, Bill Gates, wanted “It’s the end of the world” for his advertising blitz for windows 95. REM, they said, told him to take a hike so he had to settle for the Rolling Stones “Start Me Up” instead. Windows 95 was culturally pretty big.

Turning down a very large sum of money suggests you believe something in a way that simply lecturing others doesn’t.

I don’t know what the members of REM believe, probably not all the same thing. But whatever it is, maybe they do really believe it. That counts for something. Contrast Mick Jagger & Keith Richards.
> No one knew Musk would be running amok dismantling government institutions like a rabid dog

Trump approval ratings are at a high. His supporters are clearly happy with what’s going on.

The question was quite simple, it was about why anyone would use X.

There are at least 60 million people that are happy with what is going on and like to be on X, which is an echo chamber of what they like.

Nothing about what I said is dishonest. This is exactly the type of outcome Trump supporters were looking for. Approval ratings don’t lie.

I don’t like what’s going on either, but this constant hand-wringing of “nobody supports this, I don’t understand, crisis crisis crisis” is unproductive and ignorant of the reality of the political landscape in the US right now.

If you want to interact with the right wing people or read what they are thinking, that’s effectively what X is for right now.
The most compelling thing about this for me is that it uses pkl instead of yaml or json.
It took a minute but I found the hugely elaborate and expensive >hour-long video Meta showed in Oct 2021 to announce and pitch the Metaverse concept (along with renaming the company). Almost everything in it is simulated by pre-rendered mock-ups. It's interesting to skim through and compare the vision with what's shipping today after 4 1/2 years of intensive development and >$100B. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uvufun6xer8
> Y'all are trying to be very specific about this 150 year old thing when there are vast number of people with ages above 100 that are in the database:

You may wish to read the SSA Inspector General audit report, "Numberholders Age 100 or Older Who Did Not Have Death Information on the Numident.":

* https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf

> It's a gripping read. It tells me, for instance, that 98 percent of these folks have received no payments.

* https://twitter.com/justinwolfers/status/1891516202612060438

The report states:

> SSA determined the estimated $5.5 to $9.7 million in expenditures to correct these errors was too costly to implement and that the effort would have limited benefit to the administration of SSA programs. We acknowledge that almost none of the numberholders discussed in the report currently receive SSA payments. However, SSA issued each of these individuals a valid SSN and these SSNs could allow for a wide range of potential abuse.

So it would cost several million dollars to correct the database to prevent less than several million from going out.

Once again, perhaps the government knows what it's doing, these "discoveries" are not new or surprisingly, and that a cost-benefit analysis has already been done.
None of this describes a su to the mysql user.

What's your experience with Postgres?
Projects are like people. Everyone shows great interest when they are being planned and brought to life. Some happen by accident and are more or less unplanned. Initially, everyone is enthusiastic about the new baby—or project. In the beginning, a lot happens, and things take unexpected turns. But after some time, things start to settle, and people's interest fades. Only a few loyal friends remain. Eventually, the project becomes a burden, and very few are willing to take care of it. In the end, many just want to let it rest in peace.
Yes! #3 is key to making one humble
CodeWeavers Hiring More Developers to Work on Wine and Valve's Proton
I don't think Apple tests those conditions, they're not common.
Highly recommended to check out the worm simulation they mention: https://openworm.org/

I wonder at what level of simulation complexity do we have to worry about any pain the simulations may be experiencing?

If you simulate a brain, assuming you do it well enough, you’ll start getting into ethical concerns.
Let's go back to the original-ish discussion.

So, it was just data without context. And the important context is:

- the issues with this data isn't unknown

- this data has already been investigated

- Musk's claims can be charitably called exaggerations. Quote from the report that you say "is in Musk's court": "We acknowledge that almost none of the numberholders discussed in the report currently receive SSA payments"
And another one

https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1iruc70/vid...

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On a side note, it is crazy someone would take a selfie video before exiting a crashed airplane.
I have a genuine question for you here dang. In another comment in this thread [1], the poster admitted that he did indeed generate (or at least rephrase) his comment with AI. I didn't find this surprising, and at least a few other people apparently didn't either. For "uncanny valley" reasons that are difficult to put my finger on, the wording of the comment just jumped out to me as LLM generated.

So the user "searealist" who you're responding to was correct in saying the comment was written by AI. Are we not supposed to call that out when we notice it? It's difficult because it's typically impossible to prove, and most people won't be as honest as the OP was here.

If what "searealist" did here is not acceptable even though he was right, what are we supposed to do? Flag, downvote?

Personally, I do not want to see any LLM generated content in HN comments, unless it's explicitly identified by the person posting it as a relevant part of some conversation about LLMs themselves.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43075184
I think user moderation is where the opening will be. Reddit as a whole is pretty heavy handed in banning anyone who says anything wrongthink, or worse, actively bans users who participate in subs they don't approve of.

You had Voat spin out but it had the same problem, with a vastly different opinion of what wrongthink was. It didn't last long.

I think the between that, the unpopular API changes, new Reddit that nobody asked for, and now paywalls, there is an opening. One challenge is that it's hard to actually make money from the idea, which I guess is why there haven't been a lot of entrants in the first place.
> I'm on REM's side of the political spectrum, and have always found Stipe's activism to be performative

I don't think it's performative, but it was definitely a later-stage add-on. The blame for that (positive or negative) falls squarely on Natalie Merchant.
Same for me. Though I just assumed it was some sort of annoying “feature”.
As best as I can tell, it’s just unreasonably paranoid — they do some very cool things with widgets that it seems like they were trying to protect (though those strategies are starting to leak out anyways)

There were some interesting things in the binary still. At one point I was trying to figure out why I was looking at code that looked like it was downloading a Windows .iso; turns out it was, and it was used for a network speed test widget!
No, I have not noticed that at all. I see plenty of content that reeks of LLM generation where the ideas expressed in it are ones I agree with. I still don't like to see it.
Your CEO is a deranged ketamine abuser. This is not your fault.
> is quite irrelevant to its status today as one.

You are the one which talked about how Germany has always been a nation state, as if that were a good thing.

> Poland basically expelled its German population after WW2 for example. ...

> Poland is a nation-state

Umm, you should mention the additional role of the Allied powers and the Postsdam Agreement in the ethnic cleansing of Germans from post-war Poland, and how it was based on the belief that a homogeneous population would be be more stable. And you should mention how the nation-state could only exist because of the near extermination of the Jewish population.

Had that not happened, Poland would now be as much a nation-state as Belgium or Finland.

So far I am not liking the processes used to make nation states.

Let's see, you said Italy is a nation-state, right? I've visited the autonomous region of South Tyrol. I guess the native German speakers are a cultural minority that a nation-state can have, right?

> saying that Germans don't have the right to control their borders and maintain their country as their country

I think I've spotted the racism. Define German. Define "their borders." Is Austria German? Is South Tyrol German? Should they be in German borders?

Is the Danish minority of Southern Schleswig German?

Do Germans need to be Catholic? Or Protestant? Can Germans be Muslim? Can Germans be black? Can Somalian refugees be German? Can the grandchildren of Turkish guest workers be German?

As an American, I find it bizarre and bigoted to call native-born Germans "Ausländer" just because their parents didn't come from Germany. Is that the nation-state you're talking about?

To me that just seems like a continuation of 19th century racist nationalism.
(also, these comments are way too kind. thanks all!)
Harris beat Trump in H2H polls against Trump in 2024. What matters is likely voters in swing states. Sanders gets crushed across the board when it comes to people actually voting, which is why he lost the primaries. Pelosi gets donors, and her primary opponents don't. No smoke-filled rooms needed.
No, I’m suggesting the political supporters of Trump/Elon are the reason people use X.

If you are one of them or want to see the mainstream US right-wing zeitgeist, X is where it’s at. That alone is a massive reason for people to keep the app and an account.

Otherwise I agree, all of its utility as a general platform is gone otherwise.
This is the Musk algorithm in action.

He cuts, removes and simplifies until it starts to hurt, and then slightly dials it back. He does this with rocket engines and staff.

Now he's doing it with government services and the US as a whole is doing it with its allies.

The problem with the latter is that you can't dial it back. Countries don't really like it when you threaten to annex them, disrupt their economies on a whim and negotiate about them behinds their backs.

Not only is the US no longer an ally of said countries, it's a hostile nation. 80 years of cooperation and trillions of dollars were wiped out in a single speech.
There are a lot more of those out there than people realize.
We do, but it's not as opaque and obvious as an orphan crushing machine. There's still systems in place that at best ignore and at best accelerate such homelessness issues.
They will argue for a total rewrite

in my almost 3 decades in this industry THIS has been the number one way to tell a Junior from Senior SWE. nothing else comes close 2nd
Is that a $65/year TLD or a $165/year TLD?
There's never been a better time to get your Vulkan stack in tip-top shape, OEMs!
If you're out of ideas, build Memeware (2024)
> The one anomaly bucking that trend are all of these K-pop groups that are very popular and viral right now.

I’d argue, that those aren’t bands in the same intuitive sense as The Beatles or Radiohead, but manufactured brands owned by producers, who hire the “band members” as employees. This concept has been around the music business for a long time. From The Monkeys to Milli Vanilli to Spice Girls and many more.

Also: Many so called bands were effectively solo artists operating under a brand name. Sometimes with very long term employees (band members) sometimes only for a limited run of projects (albums and/or tours). From ELO to NIN and countless others.

And then there is “Yes”.
>Functionally equivalent but no soul.

I think it's an incoherent concept. If the 'soul' is anything, there is some difference in the brain that would allow it. You can't have two people with identical brains and claim that one has a soul, unless you believe in magic.
gotta "send inquiry" -- may not actually be available, and pricing TBD
Russia can not dominate *ANYTHING*. Its economy is about the size of Australia's despite having nearly four times the population. Its much-vaunted military could not defeat a minnow like Ukraine.

Yes, Russia has nuclear weapons but no one would commit suicide by using them.

Russia is dying, so are Italy, Japan and China etc.
During covid, my manager (also personal friend) was legitimately excited about trying out the “metaverse” to have meetings. Never before in my life have I immediately lost so much respect and trust in someone. It still haunts me!
> so it's not really a problem unless you really wanna do deeper sleeps.

the way I parsed this was; so it's not really a problem unless you want to use your computer the way you want to use it.

I get things are complicated, and hardware support is a mixed bag. But it doesn't have to be this way.
good thing is that absolutely no one will see these ads :)
I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna%27s_Archive
Pure democracy is not very good. It's just governance by mob rule (which is bad for the same reason populism is bad)

Which is why republics have been succesful. Ideally me, as an idividual, should be able to trust a local leader enough to have them represent me in government. That way I am free to live my life and trust the local leader to handle politics in my best interests.

It rarely ends up that clean, but it happens sometimes.
You never said it explicitly but you are referencing the French Reporters sans frontières (RSF) ranking, which is a European organization which is obviously predisposed to rank European countries highly.

I find their ranking highly suspect because they put the Netherlands at number #4, one of the highest rankings, while in reality the press in the Netherlands is in a dire state: literally all newspapers of record are collectively owned by just two Belgian (not even Dutch) mega-corporations. Is this really one of the most free countries? It's like Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg together owned all newspapers in the US.

And the US is ranked suspiciously low, at #55, below a country like Belize. Belize! Look at what RSF itself writes about Belize:

> With no daily newspapers, the pool of media outlets is small, and of those considered mainstream, some are supportive of political parties, even when privately owned. Independent media are scarce and access to funding is limited. Most of the advertising funds that media publishers rely on come from the government and their distribution are often dependent on the party in power.

Am I supposed to take it seriously that this is better than the US? That Belizeans have access to a more free press than Americans do? It seems more plausible the ranking is bogus.
call me cynical but this looks like a roadmap and it seems like it would be used by the administration to better track implementation efforts.

edit: On the other hand, quoting Brandeis: "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_People%27s_Money_and_How...
So, how we funding this while getting less taxes, especially for the rich?
Sure, I was considering all the feedback, stream now changed to Soundcloud, lesson learned and I really appreciate it! Much Love!
I think the author is deliberately trying to keep newcomers from entering their field in hopes of reducing competition.
I usually say that when people say “legacy project”, it’s really “code I either don’t understand or don’t like”.
Look under Department of Transportation. There are two, 'Require the FAA to "operate more like a business"' and 'Separate the Air Traffic Organization from the FAA.'
I blame it on ear buds and high volume.

Edit: But the article is also about understanding speech in a noisy area. Wouldn't ADDH be a big factor ?
No, it was part of the failure mode. The next line you quoted is the result.

> Which is definitely not how the world is currently treating Trump.

I don't know what world you're referring to, but the one I'm living on has a bunch of countries disregarding what the US president says and making plans that don't involve America.

> Do you not think swelling deficits and an inability to pay the bills (the things actual spelled out as causes in that section of the article) are not something Trump is (ostensibly) trying to reverse more than any other president in recent memory?

No, I do not believe Trump is trying to reverse the swelling deficits more than any other president in recent memory. In fact I believe he is doing quite the opposite, just as during his previous term when he swelled the deficit more than any other president in recent memory. Setting up a fake government agency with a joke name then claiming your actions are in the name of deficit reduction when they are obviously not, all the while torpedoing the economy and planning massive tax cuts to boost the deficit is not what I consider "trying to reverse the deficit". Previous presidents, who were actually serious about improving government efficiency, used the real government agency that already exists to do exactly that: the office of management and budget.
The thing about these kinds of guard rails I always wonder about is:

1. When they are false positives and that creates a lot of confusion / problems. Both hilarious.... and more serious like banning / blocking a show (the service that does this apparently extends to google TV) that shows a nude in a painting, and what kind of incentives that creates.

2. How long until someone uses it to gather this data...
the TLD registry discloses their costs don't they?

ICANNWiki shows Team Internet Group PLC (formerly named CentralNic Group PLC)
Twitter has become a hive of racism and hate that is a shadow of its former self. I literally can't keep racist slurs from my homepage, if you think musk has improved it since he took over man so I have a bridge to sell you
Content aside, I find this website really well structured and visually appealing.
WhatsApp is a gateway to many things. Meta's Ai is on WhatsApp. Openai is on WhatsApp https://www.hindustantimes.com/technology/whatsapp-users-can... and I would really expect this model to have a WhatsApp gateway as well.

> They have a lot more problems than "this model doesn't convert urdu to arabic well".

I get what you mean, but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. That they're a lost cause with too many problems and we shouldn't care about that use case? Why wouldn't we want to create models to provide more capabilities / information regardless?
The computer staying awake when there's a monitor / keyboard/ other HID connected is one thing

The computer locking up when said devices are removed and not properly going to sleep then is a different (much worse) issue
Japan Perfected 7-Eleven. Why can't the US get it right?
It’s been awhile, but if you have a browser old enough, here the browser plug-in for TCL/TK: https://www.tcl-lang.org/software/plugin/
You get to use chatGPT on your WhatsApp and telegram instead of using the chatGPT app
Dig slightly up so CO2 doesn’t accumulate in low areas and spread the tunnels around like a tree or a mesh? Work with your fellow sloth team, take turns, dilly-dally around. What else would sloths do ;-)
3. Affiliate programs with online retailers?

After looking at doing something similar, that was the only monetization angle I could find.
It might be more appropriate to look at the numbers of people being brought off the streets. They have over 14,000 supportive housing units and 4,200 shelter beds. 5,000 of the supportive housing units were added in the last 5 years."More than 20,000 people seek homeless services in San Francisco over the course of a full year" [0].

At the Jan 2024 Point-in-Time count, 4,354 unsheltered people were counted, a 1% decrease since 2022 and a 16% decrease since 2019. There was a 20% decrease in the number of people living in cars since 2019.

To compare, NYC spends $4 billion per year and has 62,000 supportive housing units and 130,000 shelter beds (these NYC numbers come from GPT4o Search and are unverified).

0. https://www.sf.gov/reports--september-2024--2024-point-time-...