skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Splitcast Technology built this in 2012. The company folded (couldn't find revenue, and had founder struggles ) but as far as I remember the tech worked. It still needed a lot of seeding nodes, but a significant chunk of the bandwidth was provided by the "viewer peers".

Key part of that tech was that it synchronized the playback between all peers. That was nice for stock market announcements and sport events for example.

https://web.archive.org/web/20131208173255/http://splitcast....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5UYu9jeQbY

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/splitcast-technology
> word is not subject to a strict legalese interpretation in these comments

Disappearing has been consistently used to refer to illegal and inconspicuous detention since WWII. The person was there and now they are not. There is no arrest record. There are no lawyers. There is certainly no case record where government officials are being questioned [1]. They may be detained, dead or on holiday. The ambiguity, which permits bystanders to assume normality, is the terrifying key.

Diluting the term, particularly on this precipice, is incredibly dangerous.

> How long could he be dead without anyone knowing?

Going off sworn statements to courts (again, something victims of disappearance do not get), a few hours.

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/12/abrego-garcia-el-sa...
You have a good idea. Ignore the armchair idiots. Another take on this idea is using plankton that has been seeded with iron.

https://www.whoi.edu/know-your-ocean/ocean-topics/climate-we...
I think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacarpophalangeal_joint
Those are all local systems, all the cross country and intercity (for cities where their suburbs haven't merged like Chicago or the NE) stuff has to share tracks with cargo rail.

That lack of delays from cargo is also why they work a little better. One other big delay though is that basically none of the trains operate as expresses so they have loads of little stops along the way serving all the little towns along the route where little delays build up and by the end of the run they're sometimes hours behind schedule.
besides the fact 4chan is a cesspool I think there's a certain sadness that comes with the possible death of another "early-internet" forum.

I feel like 4chan was the last living source of what the young internet was like - raw, unfiltered, and honest. You've got to admit in today's day and age that's genuinely something rare especially in current time of grift culture.

so much history potentially gone, just like BB.com's forums...
Things like this are why we don't run general screening for rare diseases.

The risk from screening, and the risks from further diagnosis and accidental treating of false positives can be much higher than the disease itself as long as it is rare enough.
I see, I have removed the popup.
They just make it very hard to complain. And it always is necessary to do a lot of back and forth
Truly one of the most purest of video games in terms of player freedom, I’m still sad that I didn’t think to record my own playthrough as everyone’s path of discovery is more or less unique.

The freeform gameplay and incredible ending makes OW easily my pick for best game of all time, even though it’s also my least replayed favorite game.
Both, but primarily due to the lack of training materials. 10 or so million native speakers of my language will never be able to generate the same amount of training material as over a billion English speakers do.

There is a steep drop in quality in any non-English language, but in general less native speakers = worse results. They tend to have a certain "voice" which is extremely easy to spot and the accuracy of results goes out the window (way worse than in English).
>I don't see how this is different for smart contracts, as opposed to, say legal contracts written in english

It's different because the whole purpose of smart contracts is to circumvent governmental power structures. Otherwise, people would use regular contracts.

Technologically, it's much easier to set up a payment system using a centralized database in a specific jurisdiction and have people sign normal contracts to use the system. People create cryptocurrency systems to avoid that. They put much effort into creating payment systems independent of existing power structures. If this system does not work without backup from the legal system and governmental power, then all that effort is pointless.

>I thought originally that you were in favour of smart contracts

I think they're interesting.

>Are you saying what he did is wrong, but he should be allowed to do it anyway?

Yes.

>If so, why?

Using existing governmental power structures to punish people who adhere to smart contracts in ways some system members don't like invalidates the whole system. If cryptosystems don't work purely technologically without judicial support, they don't work, period.
sorry u hate a whole generation
One overlooked variable here is that price is a huge consideration factor into IoT acceptance. Convenience is one thing, but having to pay 10x more is another.

China(up to now, now with tariffs stuff... who knows) has been exceptional in that they produced IoT devices for many use cases at very reasonnable prices. Want a water leak detector that's zigbee connected? that's only 5 bucks. if I want to buy one from a "western" company(still produced in china) it instantly gets marketed to a premium market and costs 10x or 20x more.

They have no incentive to make their products work in pure local when companies like Tuya provide SDKs, chips, and frameworks at a low price and easy entry barrier. But of course that locks into their ecosystem.

It's possible that a company making an open toolkit with easy integration for esp32/etc could gain enough traction to get many devices to use that, but at this point it's unlikely.

As for HA... I love it and run it locally, but it's not for the faint of heart. And spending dozens of hours modifying devices and configuration to get everything running is a priviledge few have the skills, time and knowledge to do.

As always... this is a case of "the only incentive is money and hence the system will lock itself".

Wouldn't it be great if the EU could force these companies to surrender local control?
People get weird when using math to calculate human lives.
150 dollars/month as salary won't get you no one from no country and if it happens to, the person will have so many things to figure out (war, hunger, political instability) that they would obviously not be productive.
I actively avoid adding to my life devices which require charging. Still at any moment at least 2-3 devices are being charged.
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I feel too many people who don't conflate /pol/ with the whole website, as well as the others, don't know why /pol/ was created.

It was eventually a replacement for the /new/ board, where news of the arab spring first started, shortly before it was shut down. However, it was plagued with proto-pol behavior before anyone was bothering to complain about pol.

There was always these 'cells' of non /jp/ shitposters, if they weren't the OG shitposters themselves, that would post about left-right politics ad nauseum, and in the most hallmark unproductive ways. It was when trolling evolved from 'clever this and that' to shear brute forcing. It was the topic of the news that attracted these unsavor political actors into that place, which was for a short period of time, a great diverse place for collecting news.

This social phenomena and history could never be repeated enough, particularly since we might be finally ending the story of pol/4chan - which was more popular than 4chan itself.
Agreed, the ideal solution would be to control these devices without being on your home network at all.
We are using JSLinux over at https://barebox.org/webdemo to let potential users see the conveniences of the bootloader's shell without having to flash it to actual hardware.

I am glad to see all the forks mentioned here, need to see which one runs bareDOOM best and if any have working sound perhaps..
It should be obvious that using the intense amount of ionizing radiation that CT scans use that of course they're causing a lot of cancer.

It's a shame our medical systems invested so heavily into CT machines at the expense of MRI's
Could you elaborate on what you wish to convey with this comment?
Yes. And the current precedent is very clear that these independent agencies are constitutional.

The current court has not, yet, overturned that precedent. There is lots of reason to believe they will, in an extremely contentious ruling. But for now they haven’t.

We are going to find out one way or another though because this admin is pushing hard up against the question.

Of course it’s also pushing hard up on the question of if the courts can constrain it at all so the grade school understanding of separation of powers is real.
He entered illegally, had no legal status, had his asylum request rejected [1]. He was not innocent, he could be deported, just not to El Salvador.

[1]: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/abrego-garcia-and-ms-13...
Providing support for known criminal groups would immediately raise flags on any background check.

Do you need a source on that claim as well?
No, not necessarily.

CT scans are likely overused; my spouse has several chronic conditions and after receiving dozens a year for a while, we started asking if a CT was clinically indicated, or just precautionary. Mostly the response is "just in case". I wish EMRs did a better job of highlighting how many CTs someone's had recently for this sort of decision making.

There've also long been problems with kids getting unnecessarily high adult doses of radiation. My dad's a peds radiologist and was heavily involved in the founding of https://www.imagegently.org/.
You still have to build a business around it. Marketing/sales being the biggest effort.
I think they probably know what they are doing.
Or to flip that around, life has existed on Earth for about 25% of the lifetime of the universe.

The fact that we are part of that life introduces some nasty sampling biases, but if we find even one more planet that shows a similar ratio, the implications will be that life is ubiquitous.
Wow didn't known silicon valley still had anyone with this kind of creativity in it
> What's wrong with Signal? Or, worst-case scenario, Telegram?

IMO from a technical perspective nothing but more of how do you get your entire network to migrate from one chat app to another. Everyone here says just get your parents, siblings, friends to switch but it's far more complicated than that.

My wife is from Brazil and uses WA all the time. Getting her to switch would mean getting her entire network of family and friends to switch and you would have to make that pitch to everyone in the "network". All of a sudden it goes from getting a few people to switch to getting literally thousands to switch which is next to impossible.
Applies to eBay and Amazon too ..
Nope not AI generated, I have used excalidraw. Only the cover page is AI generated.

Clock drawing was an asset, I didn't really spent time trying to match the time on clock to the time mentioned by the actors.
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Don't forget the whistleblower intimidation!

> Meanwhile, his attempts to raise concerns internally within the NLRB preceded someone "physically taping a threatening note" to his door that included sensitive personal information and overhead photos of him walking his dog that appeared to be taken with a drone, according to a cover letter attached to his disclosure filed by his attorney, Andrew Bakaj of the nonprofit Whistleblower Aid.

I'm so sick of the endless attempts to downplay or misdirect on the outrageous things Republicans/Trump/DOGE happening everyday.

If a Democratic admin were to do this they would be howling and rightly so. Trump and the GOP are turning the federal government into an authoritarian mob state.

Everyone should be outraged - even if it's for only the fact that you yourself may be a target of this or future administrations as it becomes normal practice.
Doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
For most low-resource languages, support in LLMs is trained through translation pairs between english and the other languages, because translation data is easier to come across than say, conversations about coding, history, physics, basically the kind of data that is usually used for instruct training.

This kind of training data typically looks like ChatGPT style conversations where all the prompts are all templated like “Translate the following text from X to Y: [text]” and the LLM’s expected answer is the translated text.

LLMs can generalize through transfer learning (to a certain extent) from these translation pairs to some understanding (strong) and even answering (weak) in the target language. It also means that the LLM’s actual sweet spot is in translation itself since that’s what was trained in, not just a generalization.
Weird take, since most of the people still in charge are old boomers who've barely even learned to use a computer.
Leave it as an exercise to the reader.
It's easy to bring manufacturing back, just give it a decade or two, but impossible to make it internationally competitive without large-scale market regulation such as tariffs or handing out government subsidies.
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This is still authoritarian bullshit. Your argument is that you think independent agencies are a bad idea, and therefore it's a-okay for Trump to simply ignore 80 years of law and Supreme Court rulings.

More generally, nobody in the executive branch serves any master. They serve the law and are legally obligated to refuse and report illegal orders. The idea that they serve Master Donald Trump (or Vizier Elon Musk), and that illegal orders must be enforced because it is Trump's will, is precisely why Kilmar Abrego Garcia was illegally deported and why Trump is musing about doing the same thing to US citizens.
Out of curiosity, does vous/tu change its behaviour?
I looked through the filing cited in this comment and every instance of the word "background" just says that backgrounds for a given employee are either complete or in progress, plus the quote. Nothing indicates anyone failed any background check (to the contrary just by count it seems like about half of them have been completed), and certainly nothing indicates that "most of them could never pass" one. Which again just by virtue of about half of them having been completed already seems to be false on its face.

It's not unusual to give an otherwise-qualified person limited access to certain data while their background checks are completed.
Our economy was designed to NOT have citizens work at factories. We pay thousands of dollars a year in our public schools to teach each of our citizens calculus, literature, world history, and physics, so that they DON'T have to work at a factory, or perform manual labor like picking strawberries or driving trucks or cleaning toilets.

Why would anyone want to go back to an economy that can be run by a third worlders? What is our competitive advantage then?

Economics works when the people do the things they are most efficient at. If a person in China can make iPhones for cheaper than an American, LET THEM. Our citizens should be designing them instead, because that's what we train our citizens to do.

Trump and the Republicans really do think of our citizens as third worlders performing manual labor like we were oxen.
> "despite practicing animal husbandry—a cultural innovation that originated outside Africa"

Animal husbandry was a response to unproductive hunting. And since desertification - hence unproductive hunting- started long time ago in Africa, it makes sense that animal husbandry started there too before it appeared elsewhere.
->LGBTQ and gender aren't mentioned.

yes they are

"discontinuation of DEI"

aka not giving someone a position of power purely because they are e.g. a hispanic homosexual and a quota needs filling.

and kicking out the activists that push that policy over academic credentials.
Well, sure, but perhaps some kind of plan is warranted?
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That's a good question. I don't know about the author's credentials but it seem very high and indeed I'm sure they would find a job anywhere they apply to.

But from the PoV of a higher up making layoff decisions, the sooner they severe the organization from the rest of the company, the less traumatic it will be when the time comes. I think at this point they realize it's better to start treating Chrome et al more like Waymore, which seems to have some isolation from the borg collective.
I agree. It takes the user out of their intended action (using your product) and puts them somewhere distracting (their email).

I've also seen it confuse users who aren't used to it.

It's great from a tech/security perspective but I wouldn't put it into my own product for those reasons. I definitely would not make it the only login mechanism.
I am not sure how it's possible to defend the kind of stuff DOGE is doing anymore. Even the veneer of looking for efficiency is gone. There have only been claims of 'fraud' with no real evidence backing up the claimed scale of fraud.

At this point it simply looks like DOGE is yet another attempt to use a popular trope (Govt fraud and waste) to push through changes specifically designed to give unchecked power to one individual.

This much concentrated, unchecked power opens up vast opportunities for fraud and corruption and there are pretty much no instances in history where it turned out be to a good thing in retrospect.

Also, very surprised this story made it to the front page. Typically, stuff like this gets flagged off the front page within minutes.
Man Hospitalized After Sniffing Dirty Socks Made Fungus Grow in His Lungs
https://barebox.org/demo being the correct link..
Its the integration and overall combined effect of the entire industrial pipeline that makes China so incredible. It processes all the raw materials and the recycling/reuse of off cuts through every possible way to turn those raw materials into components and then into goods with very little need for import from other countries. Its the complete system for a huge variety of goods.

To compete with that the entire pipeline from raw materials through components and final product needs to be reproduced and its taken China 40+ years to build up to this capacity and capability.

I think its something more countries should consider and do for certain pipelines but we are in a world with vast international trade and the winner(cheapest) takes most of the trade so whatever it is needs to be worth while within country.
Crap, you are right. I had a lapse in memory for a moment. Thank you though.
> My own hypothesis: any serious JS engine is going to recognise the [a, b] = [b, a]

This. As the author of this blog I actually run a benchmark, the loop body was only doing swap, I remember the penalty was around ~2%. But yeah, if it's a critical path and you care about every millisecond, then sure, you should optimize for speed, not for code ergonomics.
Isn't the point of capitalism to not have a plan and let the market figure it out?
You need a dot at the end for it to resolve correctly

https://ai.

It’s unreachable anyway
That's why I said extraction and production.
I bought a bunch of off-brand Lego kits usually with Chinese themes (pagodas, nine-tailed foxes) from Temu. What I thought was hilarious about Temu was that the size of things was usually different from you had in mind. Most of the time Temu items were smaller than I imagined but once in a while you'd get something much bigger.
Stop sealioning. Anyone can read the article. The evidence of suspicious behavior is clear and according to the article corroborated by a dozen experts.

The fact that someone tried to intimidate the whisteblower by posting threatening and stalking messages on his door shows there is something not above board here.
Transit and peering agreements between ISPs typically exclude multicast, meaning packets are dropped at network boundaries.
And yet A&W campaign for 1/3 pounder failed against MacDonald quarter pounder because Americans believed 1/4 > 1/3.
But aren't China's learning outcomes higher in calculus, physics, etc?

Also the US is already the 2nd largest manufacturer in the world.
The author along with some details are mentioned at the bottom of the article.

Can you share the information that supports your accusation?
It's not clear if the overall number of needed software developers will decrease or simply stop growing. The amount of software necessary in the future will only keep growing. Using the same folks to produce more is a large possibility. I imagine it will take decades to see a shrinking workforce that meaningfully displaces many existing software developers.
The whole dataset seems like something hard to work with, population that needs CT scan in the first place is very biased, people don't do CT scans for fun but because there is something weird that docs can't explain already.
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Its also worth noting that the NLRB has a proposed budget of $320M for the the 2025 fiscal year and a total of around 1,300 employees [1].

I'm a strong proponent of small government and don't know enough about the NLRB to say if I would find them useful, but that is well within the range of a small federal department today.

[1] https://www.nlrb.gov/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/n...
>App Store (note the capitals)
You want to send them to El Salvador?
The Quarter Pounder plus
I dont understand why twitter is so prevalent in the tech community; and it's not like you can just 'not use it' - you are at a true disadvantage if you aren't on twitter because of how much discourse around new tech, private equity, etc transpires on it.

I'm surprised a literal echo-chamber in which free speech is suppressed for disagreeing with the party line is responsible for so much productivity because of how many techbros are active on it. What happened to the time where being a techbro meant you were an open source libertarian like Stallman?