skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's only popular if you want to avoid big biz to use your software under that license. Big biz avoids AGPL like the plague.

You could do a dual license model, where a traditional license can be bought if you dont want to go with AGPL and have the money.
> The basic definition of theft is taking something from someone without their consent.

I can go with that.

> The government has a monopoly on violence

Yes, but not unconstrained or arbitrary violence (mostly, in democracies at any rate). Property rights depend on them being enforced. So while the absence of a government might mean you didn't get taxed, good luck holding on to any of your property without laws, courts and police.

> And we're better off with government than without it.

I think we basically agree :)
Technically I only read (as in completed) 2 books last year. My average pages per day was ~466 though (e-reader pages, which are not quite 1:1 with real book pages but pretty close, I think).
That's only potentially true for the Dionysian. Others were open to both. See 76e in Plato's Meno, for reference.
>that node becomes your gateway to the world wide web of Lightning nodes

My point is that you need to constantly have your lightning node running to service the channel. Whereas before with SPV or something you don't need a constant connection to the bitcoin network, and you can just receive transactions offline. That basic use case is necessarily gone in lightning.

>just to steal a few dollars

It's never just "a few dollars" because the amount in the channel needs to be much greater than the fees to open and close it. It is always a serious amount of money. This is the type of issue that gradually gets worse as bitcoin becomes more widely used, which it won't (because of issues like this).

The thing about payment channels is that bitcoiners use them to make up for the low transaction throughput caused by bitcoin's outdated 1MB block size, but payment channels are most efficient when the fees to open and close the channel are low, and there is little risk associated with closing a channel.

Want to break the lightning network? Just open a massive number of channels, then maliciously close them all at the same time. Because bitcoin's transaction throughput is so low, you can create enough channels such that not everyone will be able to close the channel at low enough fees.
And 90% have lied about it.
I am more worried about confiscation from government or money that can be stolen or lost.
Is there any crypto currency that cannot be stolen by third-party and only myself is able to access/transfer?
The list of these slow journalism sites is painfully short.

I recently watched the 'documentary' about Gabi Petito's murder on Netflix. At three hour-long episodes, it was a well made series, with lots of background information. Even after these three hours, I could not really comprehend everything that happened, and I could not possibly make an opinion on this tragic event.

After she died, the documentary showed the media response - instant, with lots of talking heads shouting their opinions, many of which have been debunked very well by the documentary. But the commentators did not necessarily care about facts, nor nuance, they just shouted their opinions violently and outragedly.

Context is everything, nuance is everything. This is a big loss for current media, as everything has to be cut down into the smallest possible size, just to fit on Reels, TikTok, Shorts and other short-form content. If it is not in the form of a witty tweet, it is worthless and has no value.

I really thing there is no such thing as black and white, that there is not one thing better than other. There is no singular topic on which you would find 100% agreement. There is no topic on which you would find 70% agreement There is always somebody who will have some other angle on a topic.

I don't know if the current form of journalism is better or worse. I'd guess a bit worse, but there is nuance. You can find information (and misinformation) a lot quicker. You know about more that has happened in the world. Is that good?
I must admit that I find it honestly laughable and pathetic that people are not able to identify the benefits of reading. Reading makes you smarter in large part from the information contained within the book that you learn by reading it, not from some kind of abstract mental exercise you get from looking at words. If you wish to exercise yourself mentally, you would play video games. Yet despite the high cognitive effort of them, no one attributes to games this great enlightenment that supposedly comes from reading. This is because games do not confer any practical information to the player where a book might to the reader.
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Best to send such queries directly to the mod / support team at hn@ycombinator.com

I've seen occasional glitches and emailed them for rapid confirmation and resolution.
Their LinkedIn seems to have more info compared to this "Show HN: a login-wall".

https://www.linkedin.com/company/repello-ai/

My shallow dismissal: Looks like a game made for those who want to brag about their 1337 h4x0r skills on LinkedIn.
You're right, it's the intent that matters. <any_word>, used to describe something stupid or negative while also being an outdated description for a specific group of people...

The fact is, it's _that_ word that's evolved into something hurtful. So rather than be the guy who sticks up for the_word and try convince everyone it shouldn't be hurtful, I just decided to stop using it. The reason why I stopped was seeing first hand how it affected someone with Down Syndrome who heard me saying it. Sometimes real life beats theoretical debate. It's something I still feel shame about nearly 20 years later.

It wasn't a particularly onerous decision to stop using it, or one that opened the floodgate of other words to be 'banned'. And if someone uses it and hasn't realized that, then move on - just avoid using it next time. Not a big deal. It's the obnoxious, purposefully hurtful use of it that's not great (which doesn't seem to be the case here tbh). It's the intent that matters more.
But how can test-time compute be implemented for diffusion models if they already operate on the whole text at once? Say it gets stuck—how does it proceed further? Autoregressive reasoning models would simply backtrack and try other approaches. It feels like denoising the whole text further wouldn't lead to good results, but I may be wrong.
I love how they insist that china is the terrible country that does nothing else, while in the west we have freedom.
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Dan Brown far beats doomscrolling. No idea who Grisham is.
The same AI search results that recommend that their users eat glue or kill themselves.

I don't believe this is a right move for Google, but Google does not care about that. Google cares about showing ads, and I'd love to know how they plan on doing that, when everybody will google a term, read the (terrible) AI description and close the tab. Will the ads be injected directly into the responses? Will this be fairly and transparently disclosed?

There was a running theory that google results have detoriated in quality because google wants you to scroll down, to look at more ads. This runs contrary to this expected behavior, so I don't know what to think. I might have to start looking for an alternative.

I really like Ecosia, but if anybody has any recommendations, do tell.
> don't we get that from long-running TV series, audiobooks, visual novels, videogames, manga?

Different media affect and engage us in different ways/modes, and reading is a process that requires a particular set of skills that is different vs watching TV.

Much like listening to music with one's eyes closed vs reading the notation – one might get a sense of the composer's intent, structure, theme, emotion, etc. from both, but there are major qualitative differences in the two media.
I just reread the article and went to look for the publication.

> The discovery, published in the journal Nature, happened by accident as the scientists were not researching aspirin.

> The team in Cambridge were investigating how the immune system responded to cancers when they spread.

> They were using genetically engineered mice and found those lacking a specific set of genetic instructions were less likely to get metastatic cancer that had spread.

From the publication :
> Here we show that inhibitors of cyclooxygenase 1 (COX-1), including aspirin, enhance immunity to cancer metastasis by releasing T cells from suppression by platelet-derived thromboxane A2 (TXA2).

Safe to say my assumption was wrong, they didn't use generally modified mouse because they had no other choice but because they were looking for something else.

> This is not something that happens on every human?

It's usually much harder in science to understand and prove the 'how' than it is to check the 'if'. To prove a mechanism you got to be able to track it, for instance by using radioactive product, or use such a way that you refute all other casualties.

I think in that case, it would have been possible to prove the mechanism by using several different inhibitors of cyclooxygenase, checking if the effect on spreading cancer is still there. If yes, it's a good indication of casualties.
I suggest you look at closely at DHH for an example of what you're really talking about.
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They have no problem with US holocaust deniers.
You're quite naive if you haven't seen those two positions conflated.
You're beating around the bush but you seem to want to accuse this of being AI generated, just because it's unfamiliar to you. I get it though, and it's going to get worse. Was this written by an AI? Who knows? Maybe I put all my HN comments over the years into an LLM and it's now writing comments for me?
Maybe the point is that the trait "supporting Hamas" will be judged by AI.
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> Just because a model generates text doesn’t mean that the text actually represents anything at all, let alone a reflection of an internal process.

What does it represent then? What are all these billion weights for? It's not a bag full of NULLs that just pulls next words from a look-up table. Obviously there is some kind of internal process.

Also I don't get why people ignore the temporal aspect. Humans too generate thoughts in sequence, and can't arbitrarily mutate what came before. Time and memory is what forces sequential order - we too just keep piling on more thoughts to correct previous thoughts while they are still in working memory (context).
Sure it can, it's the US.
> I remember growing up, pastors lecturing me that "no other religion is like Christianity".

These pastors should go back to school; they should have gotten education about other religions in their training so that they fully understand the origins, similarities and differences between them. They should know the origins of their own religion, like how the date of Christmas was established in the 4th century based on the date of the winter solstice in the Roman Empire.

These pastors are reciting dogma instead of learning.
More like “paid 20bn to ignore that logical check”:
https://untested.sonnet.io/notes/defaults-matter-dont-assume...
You might enjoy Shopenhauer's "On Authorship":

<https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11945/11945-h/11945-h.htm#li...>
ex-pat meaning westerners right ? You do know the world doesn't revolve around the west ?
We don't know if and how the AI distinguishs between those two groups.
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I’ve been quite happy with Kagi so far.
Well it comes in phases. Last year I read a new book every few days. I probably read 30 books or so, then I got sick of it and stopped. Haven't read a single one since then but also dont care too much about it.

I've found watching a tv series and reading a book are very similar. They both share two key issues:

First reason there are good and bad books, and finding the good ones is really difficult for me. Just like with a tv show, I will stumble on a book and read it, it will be a great book that really moves me and makes me think. Now hooked on books, I will look for more books. I will read one after the other. I will eventually find one thats tiresome or "bad". I will fight through it. But then when the next book is also not great, I will stop entirely. Exact same happens to me when watching tv shows (last great one was succession).

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Second reason is just getting sick of the medium in general. Like with many things in live I just get sick of reading. It also happens to me when I regularly watch tv shows, at some point I get sick of the activity all together and stop for a few months (or years).
> Liberals are right to point to immigration as the obvious way to mitigate the economic effects of demographic contraction.

And the key is "economic effects" while ignoring all the other effects of high immigration, that will ultimately destroy a country's cultural and ethnic fabric (perhaps that's the aim).

Anyway, as the article rightly points out this is not a solution, it just kicks the ball (a wrecking ball in this case) down the road.

Ultimately we need to adapt to a decreasing population and aim for a stable population at a significantly lower level than we have now. There's no escaping that but on the plus side it will allow us to have a sutainable presence on this planet while enjoying good living standards and individual freedoms.
From my own experiences: children aren't small adults, adults are large children.
I think matching in coverage, not necessarily matching in the same LEO scheme as Starlink
Unless they open-source the AI, I assume it's just going to revoke visas of students with Arabic names or students with even a modicum of support for Palestinians. Then they can launder that practice by saying an AI did it.
I think the complexity of Iceberg is overblown. It's just a table format and it's strictly better than the Hive-style /schema/table/partition_key=partition_value/one_of_many_files.parquet

It has a lot of knobs to fiddle with (more than Delta Lake, which tries very hard to come up with good defaults), but even if you don't touch any of them, you already end up with tables that are as good as Hive's, except now your writers don't break your readers.

This is already a massive boon that lets you escape the rigidity of a timetable schedule for your data pipelines. Anything else you can come up with (switching your table to MOR and rewriting it as a separate step etc) is further improvements.
You can get most of the privacy benefits of Monero without its complexity and chain bloat [1], and with a much fairer emission to boot [2].

[1] https://forum.grin.mw/t/scalability-vs-privacy-chart

[2] https://phyro.github.io/grinvestigation/why_grin.html
Can you link me to a proof demonstrating that the error can be made arbitrarily small? (Or at least a precise statement of the theorem you have in mind.) I would think that if the last step of error correction turns a correct intermediate result into an incorrect final result with probability p, that puts a lower bound of p on the overall error rate.
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oh I disagree deeply.

as other said:

- focus is deeper on a book, even more on paper (your brain can only turn pages)
- most social media or web content doesn't describe landscapes, feelings, humans thoughts. due to various mental issues, I could clearly feel how reading novels about humans change your brain state in way other text don't.

the whole tech era is wrong on this, a lcd with characters is not the same as a book
If you've been reading the news, you might laugh if I told you that the original goals of cryptocurrency were to combat the high fees, surveillance, and insecurity associated with centralized payment infrastructure. But that just goes to show how deeply original goals of cryptocurrency have been undermined by speculators and gamblers.
I’ve personally replaced about 2 out of 5 searches with chatgpt queries so I do believe it’s in the right direction

I think the first paragraph while true is not indicative of anything since it can be fixed and improved
This comment (while possibly well-intentioned) seems very disconnected from the ground level realities of how a large number of opinions are conflated (often deliberately) with support for Hamas: ranging from expressing horror at the killing and maiming of children, to expressing concern over arms exports to criticizing statements of specific politicians.
I read this neutrally, then in a positive tone, then in a negative one, and I agree with all three statements.
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IIRC it was the only way to support 56k.
The article is pretty scant on details in terms of how the judgment would be made but using AI to process for an initial review followed by a final human review seems like a slam dunk choice imo
Will that nuance be understood by the models? It might be understood by people, of course, but will the models take into account that some people might support Palestine because of the alleged crimes against humanity commited by the attacker, and that some people might support Palestine because they are represented by HAMAS?

What will be the reasoning taken, what are the guidelines for AI to make this choice? If, as a government official, you are using AI for any action, you should be required to publish the model you are using and the specific prompt you are using.

An analysis could then be run on many different seeds for the model and prompt - some will label you as a 100% traitor to democracy, some will label you as a fighter for justice. That is almost certain.

Now what is the extent you are comforable with? Should we ban somebody whose actions are marked as traitorous in 10% of seeds? 20%? 80%? Do you actually believe anybody in the government, making these decisions, sees this nuance?
They certainly have no problem sending billions of tax payer money and sign missiles to m*rder children.

I think the point here is to prime the public for this discriminatory use of AI. Today it's "bad hamas", tomorrow it can be whatever the current government deems "bad". And by then, it'll be too late.
Well if you think brain stimulation is the benefit of reading, then you must surely think playing video games is much better for you than reading books since it is no doubt much more stimulating for the brain. Call me crazy, but I think the benefit of books is limited to the information you might learn from reading them. Smart people read books for the useful information in them, rather than people who read books become smart simply through the act of reading making their brain better.
What about those who support Russian invaders?
Yes, often said - here's a quote from some guy (Sir John Lubbock) writing in 1894:

There is a certain art in reading. Passive reading is of very little use. We must try to realise what we read. [...] we must endeavour to realise the scenes described, and the persons who are mentioned, to picture them in the "Gallery of the imagination."

That's not set in contrast to the TV or computer games of 1894, of course, but in contrast to "reading listlessly or mechanically". So is it really true that the TV, with its greater bandwidth that uses all the senses*, prevents the viewers from imagining things? This is no more than a matter of taste, I think. If you watch The Walking Dead instead of reading it (I've never done either, this is only what I assume) you'll have certain things set in stone, like how a character looks, which might otherwise be flexible in your imagination. But so what? If you then have a daydream loosely based on the same theme then you have complete freedom to introduce whatever elements you like: therefore, don't read a book, take a siesta instead?

*Several of the senses. It doesn't make smells or caress the viewer yet, but you know what I mean.
MIGA more like
Yeah, the super magic big brother AI will definetely only target explicit supporters of Hamas and not anyone else, with no room for any abuse whatsoever :)
This is one of the many initiates where the process and details matter. What’s the due process here, can people see the prompt that judges them to be supporters? Is AI just highlighting “supporting” content for human review?

Even if you support the idea in principle, the actual practical implementation should be treated with skepticism.
Hah..

"That belongs to the previous tenants. The probe is one of the few interesting things they did, otherwise they were terrible planet owners, they fought with each other and didn't appreaciate what they had, they wrecked the whole place."
It doesn't seem to work atm, just stalls. I guess too many people are trying it.
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SOTA ChatGPT models have a hallucinaton rate of 37.1%! [1]

I can't say that I have not used it in similar ways though, and it might be very often the best alternative. I just worry that in this age of misinformation, many incorrect 'facts' will be absorbed blindly into these models and spewed forth.

(edit - wrong source, my bad)
[1] https://nypost.com/2025/02/28/business/sam-altmans-openai-la...
What happens if you google your subdomain?
Maybe the bots have some sort of dictionary files and they just run them, and when there is a match, then they append it with some .html extension, or maybe they prepend it to the match as a subdomain of it?
I don't think news will give you a well rounded vocabulary. Im studying with an Anki deck which got its word order scraped from news.

I know three different words for price (price in general, specific item, and formal) but I have yet to see, say, oven.
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I once was invited to apply for a job by a company that I quit less than two years earlier, specifically because I worked there so they kept a whitelist of former employees rather than a blacklist. And I know of at least one person that took such offer and came back and was happy about it.
Really nice illustration of how to use eBPF, I wish more people would share this