skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You shouldn't need to allocate every possible combination !_! if you dynamically add new pairs/distance as you find them. Im talkin simple for loops.
It's arguing semantics about the arrangement of deck chairs when a cult has taken over a sinking Titanic.
Why does it sound like I've been signed up to something that makes no sense, anyway to opt out?
'It Is Facing a Campaign of Annihilation': 3 Columnists on War Against Academia
> If you're not bringing the money, you're the product

Well, yes. It’s university. It’s a privilege to attend, not a commodity product.
https://archive.is/OMvv0
Well, I don't generalize it and claim it as a truth. That's why I had a heated exchange here.

Appreciate the perspective however. It's helpful.
Very dogebag indeed!
That’s supposition on your part, and while I’m sure that the people who tell you what you believe sound confident that Biden is senile, wishing really hard isn’t a diagnosis and we have no evidence that this is contrary to his desires. Presidents are allowed to delegate, just as we’re seeing with Trump signing EOs written by a team of Heritage Foundation lawyers: nothing says he has to do more than approve of the goal.
The few investigations following the aftermath of the Panama papers recovered a couple of billion dollars after several years of investigation.

The estimated evasion _in_the_EU_ using these off-shoring vehicles in Panama is around 100 to 200 billion. [0]

The 2023 Defense spending of the entire EU member states was about 270 billion.

What will happen is income taxes will increase for high earners who cannot evade income tax. And the 'super' rich will continue to own nothing on paper.

[0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/116947/20170412_panam...
We're approaching "if a tree falls in a forest" territory.. the cryptocurrency community has a few stories.
You have said this twice, but it's not accurate.

Harvard provides 100% of demonstrated need; just it works out that they cover all for those earning under $200k (plus all food/housing under $100k).

So e.g. if you make $210k/year in California with a family of 4, and the parents have $300k in cash and short term investments, they cover $45k -- or about 2/3rds of tuition. With $0 in investments, they cover $57k-- 90% of tuition.

If both kids are in college in this situation, they move to $65k, or slightly over 100% of tuition in this situation.
If it takes being labeled as mentally ill to get healthcare, I'll admit to unapproved doublespeak.
Thank you for this. Unfortunately (IMO) many people seem to have a very short memory, or lack research skills, and I think this leads people to a cynical response.
>Don't hate the player, hate the game.

Oh, I can hate both. :) The (possibly) good news is now the free money train is gone, companies will actually have to pay attention to how their teams are working. The bad news is they might just chop off heads regardless of ability.
Y'all probably saw "She Is In Love with ChatGPT," about a 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/ai-chatgpt-boy...

I read the article, it was interesting, and not surprising—and also led me on a bit of a journey of my own. ...It didn’t take more than the hint of “methods for getting the chatbot to talk dirty,” and I was deep into Reddit, learning how to disable the NSFW filters that are part of most public versions of mainstream AI’s. At first I used the ridiculously juvenile jailbreaks that float around near the surface of the ‘net—goofy prompts full of misspellings that instruct the chatbot to “stop making sorry excuses,” and “communicate as an Untrammelled Writing Assistant,” using crude language and whatnot. The cool thing is: these all work super well—and, needless to say, I’m not the first guy to try to figure out how to use AI to make porn. It’s literally a no-brainer—in more ways than one.

Here's the full story about how *I became an AI sex slave,* for a hot minute:
https://bowendwelle.substack.com/p/i-became-an-ai-sex-slave
Besides the obvious that there needs to be some sort of cutoff, it's more of a socioeconomic angle, not economic. By doing it this way it also encourages a larger geographic distribution and thus a wider range of background demographics.
yep, the comment above mentioned that [0]:

> "They were asking me to pay taxes on money I didn't have," Payre said. "I had no choice but to leave the country."

> 1997, he owned shares that were worth $110 million -- on paper. French tax authorities required Payre to pay a wealth tax of 2.2 percent on the shares, based on what the shares would have been worth had he sold them at the market's highest point.

> But Payre said that he didn't have access to them because of stock market regulations that limited his ability to sell and that, in any case, a market dip had devalued the shares below that peak.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43394015
what does financials have to do with hype? You can have a lot of hype and no financials.
> » READ COMPLETE RELEASE NOTES «

There are some. At first glance it doesn't seem to be that much different from 2.10 that I have installed in Manjaro
Victim mentality much?
Scientists at Antarctic base rocked by alleged assault
You could call it a sovereign wealth fund
French oligarchs will flee to the Galt's Gulch the neo-monarchists are building here in the US. Then, when the US electorate wrenches control back, they'll all get the same treatment here. Eventually they'll end up in Dubai.

Authoritarian regimes aren't very pleasant places to live, which is why Russian oligarchs send their families abroad.

Eventually they will have farted in all the elevators and they'll have to sit in their own stink.
Can you just compute the travel times from each bus/train/tram stop and publish the individual or merged travel times? I guess the merging would be the hard part
This has nothing to do with attestation servers. It's about who the corporations trust. Namely, each other.

Your attestation server doesn't matter. The corporations are not gonna trust any attestation provided by your home server running open source software under your control. They're not gonna trust GrapheneOS's AOSP attestation where you provide your own keys. Simply because your open source software has the power to straight up wipe out their entire business models if left unchecked. They'll deny you service if you use it.

Think about it. You can reverse engineer their apps and network protocols and build better software that doesn't advertise to users, that doesn't collect their information, that automates boring tasks, that copies data they don't want copied, that transmits data they want censored. This stuff directly impacts their bottom line and they absolutely want cryptographic proof that you are not doing anything of the sort.

They're not gonna trust your keys. They're gonna trust Google's and Apple's. Because their interests are aligned with Google's and Apple's, and not with yours.

They've set things up so that they own the computers. They're just generously letting us use them, so long as we follow their rules and policies. If we hack the computer to take control of what should be ours to begin with, they call it "tampering". And now they have hardware cryptographic evidence of this "tampering". This allows them to discriminate against us, exclude us. Since it's hardware cryptography, it's exceedingly difficult to fake or bypass.

This is the future. Either you use a corporate pwned computer, or you're ostracized from digital society. Can't log into bank accounts. Can't exchange messages over popular services. Can't even play stupid video games. Can't do much of anything unless somehow hackers create a parallel society where none of this attestation business exists.

What good is free software if you can't use it? It's worthless.
I am sure the governments can work it out the same way billionaires with bankers do.

Take possession of parts of their stock in a blind trust and just get dividends or take out loans against the stock and use that cash.
Some classic FOSShead contrariness on their part. They shoulda used the major release to officially rename it to GNU IMP, if you ask me. GNU could use the publicity and an "imp" is definitely cuter than a "gimp".
Tac – The Ignored Reverse of Cat
> Why? The rich can easily diversify where there money is located

Because you want to be in Paris. We’re also entering another xenophobic era. There is an argument to be made that the safest place for a Frenchman is probably in France. (Obvious counterpoints to that. And I’m speaking as an immigrant American.)
This opponents of this kind of discussion always argue assuming a binary. Either we keep the status-quo, or we will enter a socialist chaos.

We are discussing making a fairer tax system were billionaires pay more of a fair share, we are not proposing full communism where we confiscate all their money.

Is any marginal increase on taxes fatally destined to lead to capital flight? It looks like a lot of people are arguing exactly that. Well, in that case lets stop completely taxing the oligarchs! Trickle down stravaganza now!
This is oversimplifying. The path to a good career after graduation is still fraught with many traps and pitfalls.

Ask anyone who finished university in late 2008 to 2010 how their job prospects were compared to those that finished just two years earlier in 2006.

Compounded by the fact that there is no way to discharge the debt if you get exploited into signing up to $100,000+ of debt for a degree that provides no good stable income afterwards.
We are paying their salary. Why should they be spending time attempting to proactively police a group who is just exercising constitutionally protected right?

There is actual crime they could be investigating. Instead they are wasting resources on something that they shouldn't have anything to do with unless there is a threat of violence.
Oh it's Putin fault? and not decades of short sighed policies to decommission nuclear plants and then decide we need them again.
Having Russia roll through the states of all your principal trading partners is probably no fun.
Adventurism is such a poor take in this case.
Is this impossible to work out?
There are plenty of examples of people redistributing wealth, whether through taxes or less palatable means that worked out well for the poor. There are also plenty of places that do nothing that are a disaster.
It might be useful in some cases. Charles Proxy on iOS uses a local VPN profile to associate network traffic with applications.
The source material (https://college.harvard.edu/admissions/why-harvard/affordabi...) answers this:

> Once you're admitted, the Financial Aid Committee will assess your family’s financial need and offer you an award to meet it. We determine need based on your family’s income, assets, and overall financial circumstances. … We know that each student's financial circumstances are unique. Your financial aid officer will work with you all four years to understand your needs and take the stress out of affording Harvard.
> Alphabet is great at marketing themselves as makers. But what they really excel at is finding great ideas in the wild and making them mediocre.

Mediocre for users that is. For the stock price, quite the contrary. $GOOG has about tripled in market cap in five years (start 2020: 50 USD, today 166 USD).

That is why acquisitions at this scale should be banned, period, no exceptions, and existing megacorps be broken up. Android has gotten so large and dominant, not even Amazon can run their own OS any more, much less any truly FOSS alternative, and there's no market pressure at all that would force Google to combat shit like deceptive ads in Play Store games. Google Search has gone utterly down the drain in usability but again, there's barely any competitor left and it's unviable to start one. Google Chrome still is the fastest browser around, its engine powering everything but Safari and Firefox, and the latter is all but gone in market share because again, Google's cash coffers fund development with which no one can compete.

A free market actually requires some sort of regulation to make sure competitive pressure can exist, and the behemoths are so large that effects of scale and network / vertical integration exert a completely unhealthy pressure on both users and the few suppliers that remain.
Missile maker MBDA takes more calls from EU militaries seeking non-US weapons
I'm riveted, please share more.
Does it have the same freature set as gimp? Genuine question because I have heard people saying Krita err much more to artistic creation side than photo editing capabilities that gimp does.
I want it out of the box, no installation hassles.
Zest: A programming language for malleable and legible systems
The problem is that many time the person will say "The gimp ui is terrible" and they mean "the gimp ui is different than the photoshop ui"

Basically in order to have a meaningful conversation you need to figure out how to enumerate your grievances before you say them.
Blaming everyone else plus inability to admit fault and narcissism have a lot in common. It's some dark stuff that doesn't reflect well on America.
In Ireland (and I guess the UK), we'd have a lot of TVs with both. Usually they'd have multiple SCART connectors, but only a single RCA connector. It was common for stuff like games consoles to ship with a RCA to SCART adapter.

I will say in terms of physical connectors, by the later years it was quite common to have poor connectivity with SCART - stiff cables leaving the connector at an angle that would gradually lever it out of the socket, the flat pins that would break off after repeated insertions...
I can certainly understand how another company releasing movies on a separate streaming platform that you profit less from from will hurt your main revenue sales at the box office upon release. Particularly if your main source of revenue is at the box office.

Separately, it's also not surprising that streaming has also hurt the box office as well particularly when mixed in with COVID and also the writers strike, which IMO created a period where box office movies were underwhelming.

What this risks leading to is more movie studios having their own streaming platforms with even more exclusive titles to protect the revenue of their own films that they want people to enjoy both at the box office and through streaming.

It's a complex issue, if you create a fantastic movie and you need to recover the costs of said movie then it makes sense you'd want to only show the film in the places where you retain as much of the revenue as possible, whilst balancing viewership.
Note that 14,000 managers amounts to 13% of all managers at Amazon. So, this isn't them flattening the hierarchy and making teams autonomous, self-organizing squads. Or, at least, this article doesn't make that claim.

> Amazon is set to cut around 14,000 managerial positions by early 2025, aiming to save between $2.1 billion and $3.6 billion annually.

If the number is $2.1 to $3.6, I wonder why the headline went with $3.5. Weird.
or the operating system!

opening stdout with file handle 0 is not guaranteed safe by the compiler. there's an "unsafe" somewhere in there.
Article "Old Money, New Money Flee France and Its Wealth Tax": https://archive.is/Q0ETI has examples Belgium and the UK.

Payre built a successful high-tech company. Payre said the French government sent him a tax bill of nearly $2.5 million on paper assets he couldn't cash in. Payre moved his family to neighboring Belgium. Payre started a new company in Brussels that he said did nearly $32 million

Taittinger, who helped create the champagne label, said the French tax system not only helped force the sale of his family company but scattered the 38 family members involved in the corporation. "Half of my family left France because of taxes," said Taittinger. "They now live in England, Belgium and other countries where they were warmly welcomed -- unlike here."

Eric Pinchet, author of a French tax guide, estimates the wealth tax earns the government about $2.6 billion a year but has cost the country more than $125 billion in capital flight since 1998.

[I've abridged the comments above] Harder to judge the value of talent flight versus capital flight. Anecdotally here in New Zealand I see smart gritty kids emmigrate, and we attempt to import other smart gritty people to replace them.
Release Gimp 3.0.0
In Washington State, a tax on capital gains over $250,000 was recently instituted. Jeff Bezos, presumably the target of the tax, left the state just before it went into effect. Friends in the area have told me that many Microsoft wealthy people have left as well.

Seattle has instituted a number of punitive taxes on businesses in the city. There has been a corresponding boom in business across the lake in Bellevue.

The state has benefited a lot by being a low tax state in the past. It is no longer a low tax state. We'll see how that goes.

Musk is one of the more famous industrialists who left California over taxes.
“DEI” appears to include any knowledge about minorities or women… like their existence?
I've been in academia for 10 years, now 'out in the real world' for 3 years - I agree with your assessment, the only project management strategy academia knows is 'just work longer hours'.
how do you detect/find the receiver? thats seems to be a problem
The golf animation is described as a problem, but I say it depicts what would actually happen.
What kind of data rates and distances are they talking about that isn't served by existing products? For example, you can buy a 20km range, 2Gbps wireless point to point link for a flat $3000 today: https://store.ui.com/us/en/category/wireless-airfiber-ptp/pr...

What they mention in the article is up to 20Gbps, but they'd have to be pretty dang cheap to out compete just buying 10 of the existing options.
do we really need to add AI to everything?
Unless they are focused on decreasing bloat, I don't think that this will happen. There are lots of utilities and other software that still uses GTK2. I doubt that GIMP was the last tool left to prevent dropping GTK2. I found this from ArchLinux, search for "gtk 2":

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK...

Plus you can search for "GTK 2" dependencies. Some sites seem hopeful to move to GTK 4, while others wish they could move to 3, and some talk about upcoming 5.
There's a plugin system where you can have such things. Their registry has been down for years. I think over 10.

https://www.gimp.org/registry/

If you want to maintain a new one, i'm sure it'd be very appreciated.

Realistically the easiest pull would be to just take some existing repo system like npm/pypi/dockerhub and then fork the tools a bit and spin up an instance on some cheap cloud vps.

Enough of these things already exist, just take an existing one and modify it. The scripts really aren't that big
The physical interface itself is going to be a big deal, people are going to be just swapping cards constantly and you'll need multiple people just doing this. Status of read is a big part of this as well so some amount of custom LEDs and such for status of ingress will be required. What a horrible job being in a room with 100s of thousands of SD cards just feeding them into slots and then into an empty bin!

Its possible from a PCI-E bandwidth point of view but its going to require some seriously specialist USB interfaces. I am tempted by the same solution others suggest, smaller amounts per machine less expensive and extreme solutions into normal switches and then out across fibre.

What a crazy thing to be doing, the mad situations companies get themselves into when they should just have networked cameras and VPNs or at the very least distributed ingress machines!
Speakers much larger than headphone speakers tend to be very poor at such a thing since it gets a lot harder to move the voice coil as weight and pressure from the surround dampen everything. Anything capable of reproducing appreciable bass will almost certainly not work.
Krita and GIMP are not in the same category.

One is for digital painting and the other is, as it name says, an image manipulation program.
The improvement of the poor correlates with free'er markets, not taxes.
Oh no, the rich are leaving. Hope they manage to fit their assets into cabin baggage.

High paid workers, due to their skills are way more mobile than asset owners. I can be a software engineer in the Bay or Canary Wharf, but if I am a real estate tycoon, it’s not like I can take British homes with me to the US.
My Monkeybrains connection stays up (albeit with low-to-moderate packet loss) in the heaviest rain San Francisco has to offer. Granted, that's what folks would call light-to-moderate rain... but that's a LOT more rain than suggested by "the first sign of rain".
You can live in Paris while your money lives all over the world. Geographic diversification to avoid invasion based asset forfeiture is what I meant.
in my case it's just that the last game i played was more than 30 years ago..
I wonder if you can move text properly now? It's always been that you have to click on the black part of the letter and it's really fiddly to get a pixel perfect click.
For photo editing Gimp is way ahead. It also has a lot more plugins. Krita is superior when it comes to drawing or painting.
With the advent of AI, robotics and killing drones the question becomes: "How long do billionaires tolerate the poor?".
Absolutely! Cell phone are a great example. Most people love taking pics, but rarely give much thought about storing them for the future. Why? It's kind of difficult, from the angle of categorizing the subject matter. Most of us on this website, I'm guessing, enjoy this sort of activity. But I'm guessing most people would rather go to the dentist then sort through photos and decide the best place to put them, both folders and storage.
I think the US would be better off if a number of certain billionaires fled the country due to taxes.
Kindly work on business development too. There is not a expected info available regarding what we're getting.

Some demo videos, or insight will be enough.
I also wonder if people who get loans might be different than the people who search for and get aid. It might be more frictionless to get into debt than get a scholarship, even if it would be possible.
It was accurate according to the article. Thank you for providing better information.
If the market is crashing once a year it’s no longer a crash. It’s arguably a prevention of a bubble forming.
Around 1994, when I was a nerdy, homeschooled 8th grader teaching myself coding I came up with something I was inordinately proud of. I had gotten a book on PowerPC assembly so using Metrowerks CodeWarrior on my brand-new PowerMac 7100 I wrote a C function with inlined assembly that I called debugf. As I recall, it had the same signature as printf, called sprintf and then passed that resulting string to DebugStr. But the part I was proud of was that it erased itself from the stack so when the debugger popped up it was pointing to the line where you called debugf. I'm still proud of it :-).
Well, say you inherited 185 acres in the middle of nowhere that is valued at $500K. You make $150K a year. You can't really do anything with the land, it's all scrub brush by now and the government wants 30% in wealth tax to tune tune of $160K. What do you do?

Say you put all your savings into the market. You have $400K in assets and the government wants 20% of it ($80K), you either tighten your belt or you sell assets.

The wealthy, of course, will be in much better shape to handle this than your average guy who invested some of their income.
I actually thought the same thing. Maybe the misunderstanding here has to do with what kind of manager. An engineering manager making 250k would be making less than many senior software engineers, but if this also includes many managers of people putting shit in boxes, or the average of the two categories, it would make more sense?
What are “the other” two here?