skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article isn't about the USA... The USA were an empty continent so used immigration to fill it quickly and build the country but on historical terms this was arelatively homogeneous immigration (mostly Northern European, then European at large). The USA also ended up with high communitarism, which is not something known in many/most other countries.

But look at Korea (most of the article refers to South Korea) and the situation is very different and more representative of an 'average' country.
Seems pretty easy to achieve if you have text editing software that tells you the number of words written so far?
Rewilding the UK is a great idea, especially considering that we have so little boring wildlife. Why is it so painstakingly slow, Lynx should be introduced urgently, the countryside is overrun with deer causing an unbalanced eco-system and many road traffic accidents.
Cheap Hackable Smart Ring Gets a Command Line Client
Excluding the enterprise use cases - it's the same type of people who used Fedora Core back in the day.
Isn't incredible how we have achieved programming by writing in plain English?
It learns through the context. The context is state.

There's a bit of a cheat that's going on here though in that the model is being given the fundamental integration operations as part of the problem. That means the model hasn't had to learn what they are. It might not have needed to be given them, but it does feel like that's giving the model a leg up in the benchmarks that it wouldn't otherwise have, and when there's a direct comparison to (e.g.) DeepSeek, that's an unfair advantage.
First of all, I'm not a gun control activist, and I do agree with some of your views.

However:

> I think this is a uniquely American problem because America is a unique country. No other nations have the incredible wealth, diversity, and rights of America, and looking to other countries to emulate is imo, a mistake.

- increased wealth should be correlated with a reduction in shootings,

- population diversity is not a unique feature of the USA, it is comparable, or arguably lower, than most European countries,

- same for rights: the rights of a USA citizen are comparable to the average EU citizen. Many EU countries allow the possession of guns (although most forbid taking arms out of one's home unless it's for transport, e.g., to the firing range, and most EU states vehemently forbid concealed carry). There are some differences regarding Free Speech, however, where most EU countries allow it largely, but restrict hate speech more.

It's true that shootings are a somewhat unique USA problem, but I'd look more into cultural differences than into rights and demographics.
I'd usually bow out at this point but if you've ever been on any Windows/Microsoft-related subreddit, there are many many people that download these betas.

I did it once, many years ago, for Windows 10 and my printer started printing out garbage in multiple pages no matter what you printed. At that time I used the printer quite frequently. I'd had no issues until then.

I remember checking to see if printer issues were a thing in that build and they weren't listed.

That was it for me.
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They prefer the wrecking crew (in cowboy hats) with bulldozers.
yeah people think i was talking about the name. but i was just saying that 100/10 with a 5g modem does not make any sense
The beta versions contain lots of bug fixes. Some of those bugs are bad enough to want the fix fast.
This has prompted some interesting points around the value of using a mobile in a chamber which I've enjoyed reading. However, I wonder if the tool could be re-purposed to catch drivers using mobile phones whilst driving? I imagine there are privacy concerns here, but it might be interesting to explore it.
Small discussion (21 points, 8 hours ago, 8 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43286569

Related Trump announces strategic crypto reserve including Bitcoin, Solana, XRP and more (51 points, 4 days ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43233455
Even if it is intended as a hint to human observers, during a big scandal in my country a few years ago turned out all the gov officials where blindly following the computer advise. Many where falsely accused of fraud by tax authorities, almost all where from ethnic minorities.
That's any cryptocurrency by its very definition.
and if you want to go that route you just buy a 5g phone with a cracked screen and connect it to any openwrt router with a usb port.

turn on usb tethering in the android and gone.
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Days Since Starship Exploded counter made it to 48. It's back to zero again now
Flinkoo
Help people figure out where to invest money, based on their goals or by fund criteria (search)
> Audio books are fine but actual reading is important too. The "escape from reality" is not relevant part but being served without doing the work is.

I disagree that audiobooks are not a substitute to actual reading, with respect to your point regarding the medium itself. Perhaps you have a point regarding the kind of material and listening that one can multitask/commute while listening. But stories were first transmitted orally and provoked imaginations and creativity with the same limited information all the same, and continue to. It is arguably the more primitive and natural medium for storytelling but that for a period it was only economical to disseminate them very widely by writing. Whatever beneficent mental work goes into reading fiction especially I believe happens in aural listening.

If on the other hand you argue that it is the work that goes into interpreting the written word visually, I would say that the same work happens outside of fiction as well, including all the lowbrow and instrumental reading that we do all the time nowadays.
There’s two of them. Very tasty
AI models are evolving along "freaks and geeks" lines
American Airlines Moves Up to 30% of Its IT to India
But do they have the capabilities to put satellites into orbit cost-effectively without supporting 'evil Elon'?
For me any modern service that uses subscription model feels like unnecessary fraudulent scheme. I use bandcamp to buy music, because it's a clear and a straightforward way to do it. Never ever am I going to subscribe to anything, because every day the market comes up with more and more ideas how to mess with you. It's become a really unpleasant experience and it's depressing to see how people simply don't care and just go with everything the marketing guys come up with.
When it comes to search Google needs to do something. Asking LLM chat questions + asking for sources of information works better for me then Google search responses, cluttered with sponsored links/infomercial/spam blogs, etc.

We are at the moment Google search was introduced, Lycos, Alta Vista, Yahoo Search, etc. had to give the ground to the new player, now we are at the beginning of the next cycle.

One more thing that kills Google is social media and European GDPR regulation - those two factors are connected, as they destroyed "the old Internet". Nobody blogs anymore because it is much easier to get attention by posting on social media (slight exaggeration, but still...). GDPR made having an independent forum a nightmare. Right to be forgotten, data export on demand, data accuracy requirement. Big players can afford all this stuff (and it is not easy, I've been through that), hobbyist forum rather not, besides, it is easier to create Facebook (Meta) group or Twitter (X) community.

As a result Google crawler does not have too much value content to read. Yes, there are niches, like StackOverflow, so Google is a nice search engine on top of SO content. Until SO people will decide that free lunch is over, they will train their own AI to make some bucks.
Well most of the west still does, its just that US is right now much bigger evil and bully to rest of the world than China is or ever was. Expect some realignment in next 4 years, maybe oil won't be yet traded in CNY but who knows.
Wow, this is nice. I've had a thing like this (well, for German) in my mind for years but knew I'd never create it. Thanks!
True, I never thought of that one.

I know that Windows gets a hard (justified?) time for stability and whatnot these days but it's been pretty solid for me so I forget sometimes.
[Roy Lee, the student facing down Columbia] said he’s booked a one-way ticket out of the city and won’t even be on campus when Columbia wants to talk to him.

Honestly, fair to him, he caught the interviewers with their pants down, made an absolutely amazing promotion for himself and created a useful product that points out a terrible societal error. That's some hacker spirit.

I'd honestly be interested in his MRR now, it has to be at least on the level of an internship wage, right?
It looks great, but I wish these would be more flexible. I'm going to have an extension, I'd prefer one that doesn't do only full translations.

I'd love a similar one to this that'd give you an "make this easier" button that'd start by providing a vocabulary for the paragraph, simplifying the language, or interjecting explanations in simple language, move to replacing words with English translations, and only as a last resort to a full translation.

With current LLMs it ought to be relatively easy to offer a UI with an "stepwise easier" option and just a handful of prompts to direct the "translation" result complexity accordingly...
I guess the biggest limitation of this approach is that the max output length is fixed before generation starts. Unlike autoregressive LLM, which can keep generating forever.
> Nonsense. The range proofs are the proof of supply. If you have a cryptocurrency where the range proofs don't work, you obviously have bigger problems than the supply.

Would you mind explaining how I might do a full audit of the total Monero supply using range proofs?

> I wouldn't store your value in a cryptocurrency. They're currencies not gold bars or value generating assets. They require a value transfer to the miners in order to be secure.

bitcoin on the Bitcoin network is not really a currency - the transaction fees are independent of the transaction size making small value exchanges extremely expensive, and large value exchanges extremely cheap. It's a crypto-asset that's optimised for storing large amounts of value of large amounts of time (similar to gold, but much improved).

> The lightning network is not private. I mean it's private, but only in the sense that you are still broadcasting your transactions publicially but without paying others to permanently record them.

The lightning network does not use public broadcasting of transactions. It works in a similar way to the Tor network, with an onion protocol.

> Using centralized services like paypal to send bitcoin is just recreating the existing financial infrastructure bitcoin was meant to solve. It is self-defeating. There is no purpose to bitcoin unless people can practically self-custody and use it for transactions.

No it doesn't recreate infinite money printing, which is the problem bitcoin solves, and why it will ultimately suck all the value out of fiat currencies. People can already practically self-custody, there is no need to use it for everyday transactions - it will have enormous success simply as a savings tool. In addition, it is fully auditable, meaning you can have your bitcoin fully or partially custodied by a third-party but have full access to the public keys for the bitcoin wallet, proving your money is where the custodian says it is. Something that's practically impossible with gold/fiat.
> Second, for a lot of things you want to order, the manufacturer has its own online store these days and a lot of them are actually well-built, perfectly pleasant to use.

Which in my experience are ALL a combination of:

- More expensive,

- Very long shipping times,

- Paid shipping which removes the benefit of the lower price in the rare event they do exist,

- Abysmal customer guarantees and return policies.

I think the rest of the article is good but frankly there just isn't a real alternative to Amazon.
Back then, when I was using Windows my Start Menu was empty, I just used Search all the time. Of course, you have to disable all the other search features like web search and suggestions etc.
> It is now up to the software / Windows to show what the are capable of.

They did this in Windows 2000. Now Microsoft and Windows are only showing what they are _not_ capable of.
From CLI to Homebrew Using Golang
Last December I bought a Asus Zenbook S14 with the Core 7 Ultra (lunar lake) and to be honest I'm loving windows + wsl, being able to have a premade ubuntu image configured with my building tools and just import and work on my balcuny for 9h is amazing. On top of that , although it's not the best gaming machine (far from that) I can still run a cs2 and Halo inifinity prety well :).
True. I'm a .NET dev and for the most part that's always worked on Windows really well so bugs (apart from the ones I introduce) are pretty rare.
If it's before they get here, there's no constitutional right at play. They're not a citizen nor in the US.

Once they're here, it would be weighted against their rights and the public interests. Previously I would assume it would get shot down by SCOTUS, but it seems like a coin flip these days imho.
The more I use the Amazon, the sketchier it feels. I was misguided and spent the last year buying way too many niche things and was invited into their Amazon Vine program. I got a tax bill I can't actually afford but opted to put it on my credit card rather than a loan situation because I don't trust our institutions now that DOGE is pillaging IRS data.

Edit: Right, done being discouraged from feeling like an equal participant on a gamified karma platform run by startup jerks.
Arranging invisible icons in quadratic time (2021)
Butterfly numbers have fallen by nearly a quarter since 2000
Solution 1 DLQ that you retry but what’s reason for the database failure?
MWEB complicated the simple Mimblewimble protocol to emulate Bitcoin's non-interactive tx, foregoing the robustness and privacy benefits (payjoins) of interactive tx. The atomic swap uses adaptor signatures (a scriptless script feature) on the BTC side only.
>Second, for a lot of things you want to order, the manufacturer has its own online store these days and a lot of them are actually well-built, perfectly pleasant to use.

It depends on what you buy but in general, the manufacturer's website will often cost more than Amazon. E.g. In the USA, Apple Watch 46mm GPS+Cellular is currently $429 on amazon.com but $529 on apple.com

Also, manufacturers are often contractually required to have higher prices (i.e. MSRP) than the retailers that sell their products. So getting a discount from Amazon is more realistic than the manufacturer's official website. Another example is buying TurboTax software on Amazon ($55.99) costs less than Intuit's website ($80)

>Third, Amazon’s prices aren’t notably cheaper than the alternatives.

Again, it depends on what types of products you're buying. For things like USB cables and rechargeable batteries, Amazon costs less than Best Buy. Buying a Fiskars garden shears cost $10 less at Amazon than Home Depot and Lowe's. What's happening is that those local stores are using price discrimination to upcharge the impatient walk-in customers who need "instant gratification". Home Depot charges $5 more for a toilet plumbing repair kit than Amazon because they know customers are likely making an emergency purchase. Yes, the local stores sometimes have a "match Amazon's price" policy but it's a hassle to hunt down a manager and get an override of the price at the cash register.

Where Amazon often costs more (often 2x because of shipping) is commodity household items like toothpaste and Windex glass cleaner. A local Walmart will have cheaper prices on those.

Lastly, I recently went through my 200+ accounts in my password manager to migrate my email address and the lesson I've learned is to avoid creating new accounts at more ecommerce websites. It's not worth it. Maybe I'll make an exception for Shopify in the future because a lot of sellers have consolidated there but I'm going to hold out as long as I can.

I really like having my orders history in one website instead of scattered across Newegg, ZipZoomFly, BHPhotoVideo, etc, etc.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Apple-Cellular-Smartwatch-Aluminium-A...

[1] https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-watch/apple-watch
Windows is spyware, every time you update it asks if it can use a keylogger on you and track you. It doesn't matter if you've said no before. There is not a single windows application that doesn't include a lot of telemetry.

It's sad what Windows has become.
This may come as a shock but European companies have been putting commercial satelites into orbit since the 70s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretism
Just wait until you learn about Cyber Resilience Act that will quelch any hardware startup
Anecdotally, we also found Gemini Flash to be better.
This was a timely reminder for me to cancel it too, for pretty much all the same reasons. But also primarily because the content on Prime Video is like the clearance bucket in a closing down Blockbusters and then they had the brass neck to put adverts in something I'm already paying for.
Is it worth it though? You could build a half-decent base in Factorio in that time.
> I just wish we would look at the big system and strive to fix that as a whole.

This takes time and you can't score quick rewards. That's why it doesn't look good on an agenda.
There are Windows 11 debloaters that I use.

https://github.com/LeDragoX/Win-Debloat-Tools

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

If you must, of course.

I stick to Linux.
I don't think he is "evil" as in "wanting to make people suffer", just going through a peculiar period of his life and because of the power he has he is able to influence the lives of others more than earlier when he was just an interesting and at times funny Internet phenomenon.

Apart from that, we do see the world change in front of our eyes so when your ex-allies are becoming unstable it's natural you are evaluating your options, it's not specifically about Musk in this case.
> The search-results page is a battle of tooth and claw among low-rent importers. Also it’s just really freaking ugly

Yes, the search result page is truly horrendous. It shows many results, while most of them are not actually available.
Some methodology here:

https://yougov.co.uk/about/panel-methodology

They have a panel.
Bray says he doesn't think amazon is any more objectionable than is mandated by capitalism. Perhaps he's right. But their participation in the genocide in Gaza should be objectionable by any definition. It's clear that Israel would not have been able to completely destroy Gaza and kill probably [1] 100,000s of people without the cloud tools provided by Amazon (and Google and Microsoft) [2]

[1] Numbers you've heard like 40,000, reflect only the absolute minimum number of people killed directly by Israel, and not those killed indirectly (running out of insulin, starving, etc). https://data.techforpalestine.org/updates/gaza-ministry-casu...

[2]

- https://www.972mag.com/cloud-israeli-army-gaza-amazon-google...

- https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/5/12/how-us-big-tech...

- https://www.commondreams.org/news/idf-aws
The chip in your phone (or non intel computer) would like to disagree. It is most likely manufactured using tech from the EU (ASML).
Wolf is an unfortunate animal. Since one ate vdL's poney, the whole EU is after him. /s
Is that a reference to something (emporer..clothes)?
Pretty excited for this but looks like the testing program is still behind a waitlist - even for Google One subscribers
That rings true to me and probably has some truth on other platforms as well. We’re trying for transparency but it does feel like there’s a gap in perspective and goals that could only be reconciled by making space for two really different objectives or, as we’ve been doing, remain focused on the original goal and hope that users who want to pursue other activities in the space do it on one of the other forums for the community, like FB or Reddit.
> cost-effectively

becomes less relevant when national security is on the line.
Windows 2000 was really great.
To me these movements always remind me of "free testing". If they want testers, pay for them.
Of course. The US "negotiators" for the so called mineral deal trying fleece Ukraine, a state fighting valiantly for it's freedom and continued existence, out of 400 billion dollars in protection payments, had it as piece of the coercion to threaten cutting Starlink access. In context, that's literally an act of war.

Nobody wants to be addicted to this and vulnerable to being coerced and manipulated by threats of having service revoked at catastrophic times unless they do exactly whatever Musk and his puppetmasters say.
To be fair to MS I remember almost everyone was copying aspects of the Metro UI in the early 2010s.
I'm rooting for it to have a great run at the BAFTAs (which - if maybe in part due to some British bias - feels like the gaming award of highest renown due to its proximity to the film and TV counterparts, even if _The Game Awards_ generally get more fanfare).

I think GOTY is probably a tough call against Astro Bot, but there are a lot of categories it could do well in, and even the volume of nominations it's received I think is really impressive and a great achievement for a solo effort.
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A good example to illustrate this perhaps is Babbage. He invented the computer first, but nobody using computers today was influenced by him, impressive though his achievements were! Nor would we say that computers are a kind of Babbage “analytical engine”. We say they are a kind of computer.
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Reminds me of a quote by famous number theoretic mathematician Hendrik Lenstra:

For every problem you can't solve, there's a simpler problem that you also can't solve.
An odd take. How can you downplay the iPod and then jump over the iPhone? They also got the iPad, Air Pods, Apple Watch, and Face ID just right. Not always as era-defining as the phone, but certainly pushing their own category.

Of course, the VR thing is a remarkably well engineered thing nobody needs.
Perhaps employers doing background checks are lenient on women in America? Or perhaps times have changed from your aunt's generation to your son's.
This isn’t a ‘phase’, this is who he is [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/15/elon-musk...
All stimulation is not the same, obviously. Social media is very stimulating, after all. It just happens to be in a numbing, harmful way for little to no benefit. Gaming has the same if not more potential than shows and movies have, it just happened to have suffered the fate of the visual entertainment industry. It shoves large parts of the potential aside for the sake of maximizing profit, opting for cheap stimulation over valuable stimulation. Aside from the de facto benefit that the act of reading itself has for the brain, maybe the distinction isn't so much between long form written content and other media. Maybe it's just that this form of media isn't quite as susceptible to deterioration and profiteering, leaving more tangible value in it. I don't think that is entirely unreasonable. Maybe those other types of media being so much newer makes them more compatible with hyper-capitalization.