skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For context,

Change.org (2007)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change.org

We The People (2009-01)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_the_People_(petitioning_sys... :

> The right "to petition the Government for a redress of grievances" is guaranteed by the United States Constitution's First Amendment. [...]

> Overview > Thresholds: Under the Obama administration's rules, a petition had to reach 150 signatures (Dunbar's Number) within 30 days to be searchable on WhiteHouse.gov, according to Tom Cochran, former director of digital technology. [8] It had to reach 100,000 signatures within 30 days to receive an official response. [9] The original threshold was set at 5,000 signatures on September 1, 2011,[10] was raised to 25,000 on October 3, 2011, [11] and raised again to 100,000 as of January 15, 2013. [12] The White House typically would not comment when a petition concerned an ongoing investigation. [13]
You can also be arrested and jailed for social media posts in the US if those posts break the law. For example:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/social-media-influencer...

This “arrested for a meme” meme is so dumb. What’s important is the content of the meme, not the fact that it’s a meme.
Maybe Socrates was correct? I certainly think Google has damaged my memory, or maybe just age, hard to say.
I really like this framing. Thanks for sharing. There’s quite a few (hard) problems end up following this pattern.
FYI, I'm not saying you were wrong, or that the comment wasn't warranted. I'll often note comments which fail any apparent reading of the article ... but I generally try to do that without mentioning the fact.

Numerous examples in: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...>

And if the point seems to bear a more explicit mention, well, There Are Ways:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40837625>

Trust me I feel your pain, but HN guidelines are aimed at steering threads back on track if that's remotely possible. That's usually a Good Thing of itself.
The worst part is that the site renders more or less fine (at least there is text) and then suddenly everything gets erased to show that error.
The mass of a satellite is already trivial compared to the mass of the moon.
IMO, it is also unreasonable to have ultra-restrictive rate limits, like blocking a client after one request.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/atom.xml
Kevin Rose has talked about how important some of the power users (like Mr Babyman) was to Digg. He didn't say so explicitly (not that I recall), but I got the impression that there was definitely some kind of relationship between Digg and some users.
> My personal opinion so far is that this whole thing is teetering between media frenzy and actual issue.

Welcome to hybrid warfare! This is the point.
Cross-platform floating-point determinism out of the box [video]
I don't really care about the vertical tabs, I'm here for the video decoding finally being enabled for AMD GPUs on Linux. While I usually don't have troubles with video playback, it's nice to know it'll be more stable in the future.
Home Library Size Boosts Education by 3.2 Years, Study Finds
I’m honestly curious, what’s the point of a personal mail server nowadays? Isn’t it the case that today they have two huge disadvantages:

1. Being plagued by spam,

2. Being considered spam by major mail services (where most of one’s recipients will usually reside)?

Do you face these problems? How do you manage? Are there any potential problems I don’t see?
What are serious instances of next generation human capability augmentation?
Most examples I come across are charlatans, or well-meaning artists or biohackers. I don’t think turning your hand into a Bluetooth door opener is interesting—forgive me if that sounds judgmental, but I don’t think such applications augment human capabilities because at best you’re augmenting your subjective experience (which is fine), as done via virtual or mixed reality.

Here is how I describe human augmentation, feel free to correct me: it is a capability which enhances the baseline capability of a similar nature for a person, or adds a new property to an existing capability.

Some examples: 1) hearing aids, 2) vision correction, 3) exoskeletons, 4) stimulants, 5) gene therapy, 6) life extension, 7) symbiosis with digital organisms, 8) control over nature. I am sure there are examples I am forgetting.

I listed the above in order of difficulty, and to me “next generation” are 5-8. So what teams are seriously working on this? Are there conferences or workshops I can submit philosophical and simulation papers to on this subject? I came across one philosophy related conference, so I’ll target that. But most (maybe public) work on transhumanism is currently philosophical, and I also think the concept of Singularity is misguided.

To answer any question on “why do this”: the way I think is simple—if God (doesn’t exist, is a philosophical framework) created man in his image, then man should be god-like.
A Monumental Dionysian Fresco Sees the Light of Day in Pompeii
mine is a combination of a SPA with rsbuild deploy through AWS Amplify and SSG with NextJS deploy on vercel.

https://datbdo.com
Yep, like I said; I hope it's just me. That's fine too. It's just actively annoying that people just refuse to read stuff. It's very wasteful timewise for me.
Well that's disappointing. I have recommended Brother for years, and I have a number of Brother laser printers I'm responsible for across my own home and that of friends and family. I wonder if Kyocera laser printers are still good, unfortunately they're quite a bit more expensive, but I am fine paying more for something that will last and stay in my control.
Very unlikely. At least not without a fallback. Lots of corps will not allow encrypted dns because they want good traffic monitoring for threat detection. It may be an option, but it almost certainly won't be enforced.
> It then carried on across four undersea fibreoptic cables, three of which registered failures around the time the ship crossed them. The ship was suspected by Finnish authorities of having dragged its anchor to damage the cables and was escorted into custody.

The ship in this case was the Eagle S, estimated to be costing the owner €14,500 per day in running costs while impounded.[0] If the owners abandon the ship, that's a ~$30m asset forfeited, which could be used to compensate the cable owner for the damage.

How much does it cost to fix a broken cable? Here's one estimate saying $2m[1].

Monitoring cable breaks + rapid reaction + police investigation + asset seizure + criminal prosecution = increases the cost of this attack.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle_S

[1] https://subtelforum.com/8m-to-restore-subsea-cable-services/
If I wanted to read a novel, I would read an actual novel. I actually read foreign novels for fun, so that is not hyperbole.

That said, this stylistic choice works for computer security related things (e.g. the spy genre of news). It feels like a waste of time everywhere else.
I'm trying to distill the essence of their approach, which imho is concealed behind inessential and particular details such as the choice of this or that compression scheme or prior distributions.

It seems like the central innovation is the construction of a "model" which can be optimized with gradient descent, and whose optimum is the "simplest" model that memorizes the input-output relationships. In their setup, "simplest" has the concrete meaning of "which can be efficiently compressed" but more generally it probably means something like "whose model complexity is lowest possible".

This is in stark contrast to what happens in standard ML: typically, we start by prescribing a complexity budget (e.g. by choosing the model architecture and all complexity parameters), and only then train on data to find a good solution that memorizes input-output relationship.

The new method is ML on its head: we optimize the model so that we reduce its complexity as much as possible while still memorizing the input-output pairs. That this is able to generalize from 2 training examples is truly remarkable and imho hints that this is absolutely the right way of "going about" generalization.

Information theory happened to be the angle from which the authors arrived at this construction, but I'm not sure that is the essential bit. Rather, the essential bit seems to be the realization that rather than finding the best model for a fixed pre-determined complexity budget, we can find models with minimal possible complexity.
It tells you a lot about hn that a political rant by a confused hacker can hit the front page, while actual reporting on what the government is doing is flagged to oblivion.

Success in one domain should not imply competence in another.
> I think there’s actual reason for people to be afraid of Peter Thiel.

> That said, it’s not productive to be afraid.

Chalk this one up to clickbait to sell a book I guess?

Personally I feel like the false aura around wealthy people like Peter Thiel works to their favor and advantage. We all think they are these powerful scary incredibly smart people when they are actually slightly above average people who got lucky, and sometimes only got lucky once.

Peter Thiel would be a nobody if PayPal or Facebook failed, and there was always a high chance for those things to happen. He could just be the nobody guy who seeded $500,000 into Friendster instead of Facebook.

He earned $55 million from the PayPal sale and $1 billion from his Facebook sale. If you stick your money in an index fund it will double in value every 7 years (before adjusting for inflation). Do that for $55 million at the PayPal sale and you get $880 million, do that for his Facebook stock in 2012 and you end up with $4 billion.

So around $5 billion of his net worth can be attributed to hypothetical passive investment of his original windfalls, attributed to being at the right place at the right time with just two companies, and he would not have been able to invest in the second on without winning the lottery at the first. In other words, with 100% disposable income that could be gambled on moonshots (unlike our 401ks), he only beat the market by 15% per year.

Any idiot with a wealth manager and tolerance for risk can do that.

And we, the people, have lots of power over people like this if we exert it.
Used a simple monospace template for my portfolio that renders Semantic HTML from markdown using Pandoc.

Usually Sveltekit + Vercel for blogs and bigger projects.
The nature doesn't care yet, but it showed that it might, and it will if we don't stop abusing the ecosystem.

Ah, at worst, all humanity will go extinct. Which doesn't matter much at the grand scale. It'll be exciting for the next ones, if the planet is left in a state to allow another such evolution, or somebody else likes the colors and wants to visit for a couple of revolutions around the Sol.

> how can we be a burden to a red wasteland?

We are not sure that it's a red wasteland. We think that life has a single foundation and will evolve from that one.

Maybe it had a similar ecosystem before, and tons of bacteria are in hiatus. Maybe there's something else underground. Maybe there are other living organisms which we can't detect.

I don't think that Mars has worms which might eat us for snacks and giggles, but I'm not sure that it's devoid of life completely, either.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
The question is what are they getting in return?
The “key ingredient” is “gum arabic”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gum_arabic
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Yes. This exists. It is the expression of a facit of genius called Explanation, and there is such a tiny line between this and mansplaining. Think Einstien, trying to Explain the math before Explaining relativity.

(Read the glossary first).
I think he's pretty much done with cryptocurrency stuff and has moved on to health and AI (separately).
I'm always a little surprised at how surprised other people are when they hear this.

I've been peeing on our compost pile for years. We have a lot of carbons in the pile (mostly leaves) so adding the nitrogen helps it all break down faster. On my acre plot I've probably gotten three or four cubic yards of compost a year broken down with the help of pee.
ClickHouse acquires OSS observability tool HyperDX
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I use the following two options:

- Jekyll => which generates static pages -> amazing to deploy it on Github Pages or any web server

- Rails 8 with Sitepress => for when I want to have some extra dynamic functionality. With Rails 8 running with defaults like SQLite and import maps there is little to be done for server config/installation

I prefer Markdown syntax for blogposts. It is the most "transferrable" way for blog content. Multiple other blog engines are supporting it, so if you want just to use something else, you can just take the MD files and put them there.
> If you pull the feed, don't pull the posts. If you pull the posts, don't pull the feed. If you pull both, you're missing the whole point of having an aggregated feed!

People probably do this because some sites only give you a preview in the feed, to force you to go to the site and view the ads.

So if you want the full post in the feed reader, you need to pull the post as well.
> monospaced font for prose is an anti-pattern

Why?
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There’s no issue with a computer recognizing two keyboards, but smaller keyboards often lack all the keys found on a standard one. So, you’ll need to use modifiers to create the keystroke and then send it to the computer. If you press a modifier on one half, the other half needs to be aware of it to send the final keystroke. Creating a layout with these modifier-based key combinations is just a small part of the many tricks you can pull off with custom firmware. While the computer thinks it’s connected to a standard keyboard, you can do some really deep customization on the keyboard side.
The very end has some understated sentences:

> When you combine the hostility to democracy and institutional norms with the bankroll of a billionaire you can potentially do some damage.

'Potentially'.
A decent number of redditors moved to Lemmy instances after reddit pulled that move with the API/unofficial apps a few summers ago
One non-cynical take on why modern software is slow, and not containing optimizations such as these: The standardization/optimization hypothesis.

If something is/has become a standard, then optimization takes over. You want to be fastest and meet all of the standard's tests. Doom is similarly now a standard game to port to any new CPU, toaster, whatever. Similarly email protocol, or a browser standard (WebRTC, Quic, etc).

The reason your latest web app/ electron app is not fast is that it is exploratory. It's updated everyday to meet new user needs, and fast-enough-to-not-get-in-the-way is all that's needed performance wise. Hence we see very fast IRC apps, but slack and teams will always be slow.
Unless they got specific consent that sounds like unauthorised access and unauthorised alteration of a computer system (which I gather to be judged criminal in UK & USA at least).
This is the coolest submission in the thread so far
Buffett is not a public servant in any way, on or off the clock. He is entirely a private citizen.
Seems like maybe you forgot what happened to Germany’s economy after WWII, which they also lost?
Surely that's just the result of Windows blindly trusting and running any insertable media? That was such a stupid design choice by Microsoft
Its deflationary if you can consume your reserve currency.
The US is a global leader in personal freedom? According to whom?

Anecdotally I don't consider the US a particularly free country, nor do most people I know. Americans might have all these nice sounding rights on paper but they're all blatantly undermined in practice.
George Orwell's 1984 as a '90s PC game has to be seen to be believed
> There we go again. Claim: compression <something something> intelligence.

I don't see how this could possibly be controversial. Do you agree or disagree that, on a long enough timeline, intelligence lets you build a model of a system that can accurately and precisely reproduce all observations without simply remembering and regurgitating those observations? The model will always be smaller than simply remembering those observations, ergo, the intelligence maximally compressed the observations.

> Evidence: 34.75% on ARC AGI.

With no pretraining. Literally the only thing it's seen is 3 examples. And it does it with a very reasonable timeframe. I don't think you appreciate how impressive this is.
I'm not sure that "distrust of thing I don't understand" can really be considered a fallacy. Certainly it sounds like the other party's tone wasn't constructive in this case. It also sounds like they are fairly ignorant.

Still, the underlying sense that you shouldn't trust people making claims based on things that you don't understand is probably a fairly solid survival strategy in general. Better to miss out than get scammed.

To put it another way, a call to "trust the science" in the absence of further elaboration is itself an appeal to authority. Despite that, it's not actually wrong - you generally should trust openly published science that has been reproduced by at least one unrelated party. Which serves to illustrate the rather glaring issue with the premise of the linked article, at least for practical everyday use.
Disappointing but unfortunately not really unexpected in this world. AFAIK Brother didn't even make any official commitments to not pulling this and hasn't been pushing they previous above industry standard behavior in their marketing.
These extremist billionaire libertarians are such cowards because they're not really libertarians. They're all for fascist, authoritarian regimes in which they are in control, have power, and make all the money. They are for freedom and liberty only in the sense that they just want the U.S. government and its regulations and laws to get out of the way so that they can do their bidding.

It's about power and control to them. They are actively against freedom and liberty.

These billionaires and corporations have long been a threat to the U.S. China actually recognizes this and does not allow billionaires and corporations to dictate.
I've moved our forums to Xenforo a few years ago, by the creators of vBulletin. It's alright if you liked vB but it doesn't seem to get much updates, but that might be because it's "finished" software.

I also tried some years ago to install Discourse but you need all kinds of server setup for that, too complicated to be an alternative to "old fashioned" PHP forum software. And that's before going into the UX, which is more webapp than old fashioned forums. I'm glad I didn't push through with that migration.
Americans voted to give rich people more money and those countries didn't.
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The author left out my favorite example: that you are mathematically more likely to be the slow line at the grocery store (or the slow lane on the highway). It’s not just bad luck!

> you actually are, on the average, in the slower lane, because slow lanes are (on average) the ones that have more vehicles in. So you are more likely to be in these lanes than in the faster moving ones which more vehicles are in.

https://leightonvw.com/2019/04/04/the-slower-lane-paradox-in...
The customer is always wrong because the customer is too small to matter. Google's scale gives them all the power in the relationship, undermining the market's role in forcing them to compromise in negotions. We would need something like consumer unions that can collectively bargain on behalf of customers to offset this power imbalance.

Or, antitrust laws that can break them into smaller units, recognizing that strict monopoly is not the only market failure scenario. That would be good too.
I Have seriously read about 1/3 of SICP. Seing this level of dedication and actual time required is very reassuring. I found many of the exercises to be be deep, deep rabbit holes where you eventually had to set a time limit for moving on if you have any ambition actually completing the book. The depth seems to increase for every chapter! You could probably spend a lot more time than 729 hours and it would still be both a productive use of time and well worth the investment knowledge-wise.
To add to the language problem, when I travelled to Europe, some websites (like YouTube) changed to whatever regional language based on where I was, despite me being logged in and Google knowing full well which languages I speak. Even the ads changed language, as if advertising in a language I don't speak will help anyone
Literally the first sentence in the article:

"Gum arabic, a vital ingredient used in everything...."

The identity of this secret isn't what makes this article worth reading.
Its not that scary because their patch sets form part of several other browser forks (ie cachybrowser but also several others) so they get a decent amount of scrutiny
Probably this place: https://cat.org.uk - Llwyngwern Quarry, Machynlleth, Powys, SY20 9AZ
> Swiss have most direct democracy in the world, and they vote sanely even on emotional topics thinking of greater good

eh, somewhat.

There are still plenty of emotionally charged decisions being made by Swiss voters, like banning all minarets (in a country that had ... 3 minarets before), blanket granting all pensioneers one additional month of payment per year or routinely wrecking your relationship with the EU.

I agree that on average, the Swiss voters don't do too badly. But it's also easier to vote rationally and for the common good when you're as well off as the Swiss are.
> No, that's simply not how SMTP routing works.

So you want some third party provider to be delivering mail on behalf of a domain for which they don't have even have the basics like DKIM and SPF set up, and hope for better deliverability than you could easily obtain with your own server?
Russia doesn't have a domestic technology base of any kind, yet Russia has a few hundred spectacularly rich families. This is what Trump is thinking.