skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So right to Godwin's Law we go then - yeah.

I get the feeling it's not me who is the radical here.

There is a difference between wanting to remove content that a company don't want to associate itself with and genocide.

For you to even suggest there's a connection says far more about your twisted logic and dysfunctional thought process than mine.

Also AI dungeon is a multiplayer game so yeah - YOUR freedom of expression is limited by OTHER players freedom of not being subjected to certain content. If you don't understand that, work on your social skills.
Popularity of Pokemon cards, not necessarily Pokemon as a whole
Did u try using typescript with esbuild? React + esbuild + typescript is a perfect combination for me. I had the chance to kick off a new project a few months ago and started with this stack. It needed roughly 50 lines of code to get a decent server side rendering development experience set up. Compile time is still below 200ms.

The only issues I had in the beginning was esbuild's compilation of typescript enums: the import order was off from time to time. Besides that, no issues. I am also super glad I do not need to configure webpack any longer.
Or those that won't trust the science and insist on masks and distancing even after vaccination.
> should defer to the experts in the area

There is not always such a thing as "the experts".

People who look the same, grew up in the same place, have the same parents, can still have the opposite opinions.

Then, who is the expert -- when they disagree with each other, the complete opposite.

(Real world example from where I live.)

I'm not in the US though, actually things seem a bit weird over there. The history looks quite different here where I live.

> put words in my mouth all day

Not sure what you have in mind, I still think that what you wrote, sounds weird (I hope you don't mind). As if someone who got bullied in school, automatically should know better how to mitigate such problems in school. (Be an expert?)
You don't need to own a card to make an NFT "of" it. You can just make the NFT.
I’m under the impression that people were supposed to be allowed to return to their nursing homes, from where they left.

After they left the hospital they needed somewhere to go. Otherwise, they would be homeless.

If nursing homes couldn’t safely take recovering patients back then people were in danger before these people left for the hospital.

I also imagine there were COVID patients in the homes who didn’t need to go to a hospital
There’s very few homes in America where land is 60% of the property value.
I think that says less about democracy and more about the US' former president.
Who is the Jon Carmack of nursing? How many more patients did they treat in a shift than the median nurse?

(Jon would have started with entry-level credentials at some point.) Substitute with Dennis Ritchie, Linus Torvalds, Bjarne S, Peter Norvig, James Gosling, Brenden Eich, rtm, rms, or whomever your idea of someone obviously on the right tail of the distribution is.

I'm sure there are famous and outstandingly accomplished nurses, just as there as there are for SWEs. My claim is that there are likely more of the latter and more continuous distribution of them.
Well, it kinda died in developing countries because of the west too. There was a sweet spot in human history where communication was strong enough and technology limited enough where some many groups managed to find themselves on the brink of democracy, and the USA and other powerful bully nations replaced those regimes to keep the exploitative world order.

It's no surprise with a house of cards like that that it all eventually collapsed. Extremely depressing though.
None, actually.

It’s a chemical reaction which means all mass is preserved.
Thanks for reminding me I'm getting old and corporate.

My first two thoughts were:

* Imagine all the smart people in webdev world would improve the existing tool rather than create a new one. [0]

* "if you do less, it will go faster". I.e. Vite is young and new, supports a subset of Webpack and of course boasts how fast it is. Yet my repos can't use it because it doesn't has the support it needs for my repo sizes with legacy stuff. Of course it is "on the roadmap" and by the time it will be supported Vite is as slow (if lucky) as Webpack. Doesn't matter though as a new tool will be there long before Vite reaches Webpack..

Yup. Getting old and also cynical in the evenings. Dammit!

[0] https://xkcd.com/927/
The pH of soft drinks is more typically in the range 2-4, due to the addition of various acids.

And the negative effect of soft drinks on dental health is primarily from the action of acid-producing bacteria metabolizing sugar. Diet drinks aren't nearly as bad for your teeth, carbonated water barely has any effect.
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Well, sure, but energy=mass; just as an atom's mass is not equal to the sum of the protons, neutrons and electrons masses but depends also on their binding energy, in the same manner, a compound with highly energetic chemical bounds has a (very, very slightly) different inertia and gravity than the separate components. The difference of this effect between atomic and chemical bounds [spelling? English isn't my main language] is quantitative, not qualitative; chemical bounds have much less energy, so the effect is much smaller, so for most purposes it can be considered as insignificantly small, but it's still there and not zero.

Any system that loses energy (e.g. releases an energetic photon - no matter if it's because of a nuclear or chemical reaction) also loses mass, though E=mc^2 means that losing reasonable amounts of energy mean losing very, very small amounts of mass.
If you figure out how to get Webpack to solve all these issues, that makes one working Webpack installation. When Vite solves their issues, all Vite installations will have the issues solved.
One quirky hack that no one asked for that I figured out in 1997: You can take the assistant files Rover, Skuz, Shelly, etc... and copy them into MS Office's assistant directory to get Bob assistants in Office!
When you can define the laws, any content you dislike becomes "Illegal content".
I've always wanted to ask the HN community about this problem, what exactly can be done from a technology standpoint?

I feel we're already at a point where tools are available to make a censorship resistant social network.

The main challenges would be:
- Kickstarting a network is a difficult problem
- A way to ensure sane content moderation (child porn / abuse, etc) while still keeping the decision-making decentralized enough
- Easy enough for the first time mobile internet users to onboard

Would love to hear your thoughts. In my opinion a blockchain based solution seems appropriate (I know there's a lot blockchain-hate on HN but requesting for constructive comments).

I know something needs to come up soon because the situation on the ground is actually quite bad.
Unfortunately, people do program that way, and I've seen it way more in closed source Windows code than in the open source world where someone will (rightly) call them out.

For instance, in a previous job, a C++ codebase existed where the architect had horrendously misunderstood the actor model and had instated a "all classes must extend company::Thread" rule in the coding standard. So close, yet so incredibly far away.

At the end of the day, wine (like windows) still has to run these programs and do it's best with terrible choices that were made in the past.
Yes, research has been done, if only because knowing about that is essential for figuring out at what distance from each other you should place your turbines.

See for example https://energyfollower.com/wind-turbine-spacing, https://ep.liu.se/ecp/057/vol15/014/ecp57vol15_014.pdf
How to look at demand and product market fit from the Jobs-to-be-Done angle
Is there some service in India that actually delivers oxygen cylinders when you tweet? If you are in dire need to oxygen, the last thing you’d be doing is tweeting.

The irony is that elections that were held is the biggest cause for this spike and the government did not oppose or stop that.
There will be two approaches of Visibility and Control. It will be the same to data what is happening to identity now in the IAM and CIAM space. You will want to have visibility into how the data is used and controls over it. I assume the big boys will try to come out with some features while some startups try to figure out a novel approach to it.

I have some thoughts on this but I think it is a very difficult undertaking for startups to reach escape velocity before the incumbents “innovate”.
WhatsApp happened and no one cares about iMessage outside US.

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There was an analysis done on the Redis API in Scylla back in 2019 (https://siddharthc.medium.com/redis-on-nvme-with-scylladb-5e...). The implementation, while still experimental, has come a long way since. I would be very interested to hear additional feedback from Redis users.
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I don't know. Android is not exactly a place with a lot of paid software. No way Apple would make it free for Android and ad supported. Maybe they could have come up with some kind of iCloud Android bundle, and maybe it would have done well, but I am not convinced there is a massive market for a paid consumer messaging service.
That reminds me of that recent finding that wind turbines would be a few percent more efficient if they turned anti clock-wise (at least on the northern hemisphere), but practically turbines in use today turn clock-wise. Sure, it should not be to much engineering to change that but still you need to adopt the entire manifacturing process to it.
Yep, I agree, it's a pretty big upcharge. That's precisely why our 'free tier' is the 'no account' option (https://ufincs.com/noaccount). I'm not kidding when I say it's the full version of uFincs; the only (real) difference is that you don't have an account to sync to. And if you make sure to never log out (or take the time to export/import your data every time), then you can basically simulate having an account. It's just a free tier of 'inconvenience' rather than 'features' or some such.

But yeah, there's definitely some pricing psychology at play there. Thanks for taking the time to leave some feedback!
I find that discussing if a task is small, medium, or large works the best rather than numerical points that might get too granular.

And as others pointed out, the value is in the conversation it drives and being able to skim a list of tasks to get a rough feel for the scope of the project you're working on.
Vavilov was prosecuted for political reasons not for his stance on genetics per se.

Also painting Lysenko as a pseudoscientific snake oil seller is a bit reductionist. He did have some high level ideas that have been proven right by modern science in the field of epigenetics. He just greatly overestimated the importance of environment factors and his idea did not prove practical for large scale farming. He did so at a time when genetics was still far away from the agriculture revolution of modern day and did not yet offer much in terms of practical solutions.

Did ideological reasons and certain structural deficiencies exist that explain the popularity of Lysenkoism? Sure. Though these problems exist in capitalist countries as well. Especially the social sciences are riddled with it.

By the way, when someone tried to put a pseudo-Marxist spin on linguistics, claiming that all languages would have a common origin, it was Stalin himself who put a stop to it, arguing for more a honest and open debate.

> It is generally recognized that no science can develop and flourish without a battle of opinions, without freedom of criticism. [1]

[1] J.V. Stalin https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1950...
Well the main reason they print money is so that there will be money. That's where money comes from. It's printed. Hence the pictures on it.
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This I find is true, globalisation is eventually failing as imo it was always about cheap labour never anything elss and nationalism is on rise. Every country protects rights, America being leader of free world have those patriotic acts where they stopped raw material in name of America first(full blown nationalism), that too when leader is from by democrat party(left)

Nationalism is on rise even Germany's chancellor gave some taste of it(on parma industry comment), but still democracy is all good in india as I see, where to do you see democracy falling in india?

P.s. pardon my english, still learning.
AAA is an example company like that.
> most international money transfers use the IBAN system

Source?

And while it may be the case by number of transactions, I'd be very surprised if that was true by volume.
They are implementing the same things everyone has to implement to be a public implementation. It is part of their terms of service. I went through the same process making a Slackbot that could sort of pretend to be me and other folks given different prompts.
This is on Biden's watch.

Trump was berated for even contemplating deploying the National Guard as American cities burnt last summer.
I'm unclear on what you are correcting. I didn't state he was the first to do a lunar orbit in his own spacecraft, but he was the first to do it without any other nearby craft. As far as I'm aware, the lunar module and the command module were never actually that far apart during Apollo 10. So while they were separated, the distance between the two was measured in hundreds of miles rather than the thousands of miles that was true during Apollo 11 and the later lunar landings.
I believe the only reason they take it "seriously" is because they try to get more funding for things such as the space force.

With all the HD smart phones in the world why are all UFO sightings filmed through potatoes?
Also in the article

> None of this means that ventilators are not necessary in the Covid-19 crisis, or that hospitals are wrong to fear running out.
No, actually, very very little, not zero. The candle (summed with its gas emissions) loses mass equal to the relativistic mass of the photons emitted. For something like a candle it's an undetectably small amount but it's not zero.
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As a Signal user it does not make me happy either that they seem to enjoy thwarting law enforcement for its own sake. I'm not a criminal. I just enjoy privacy and good software. I don't enjoy thumbing my nose at the justice department when they're just trying to do their job protecting citizens from criminals.

Signal, just follow the law and quit acting so happy whenever your software helps a criminal get away with criming. It's not a good look.
So far as I can see, “alt left” is a recent neologism to denigrate anyone who opposed Trump. What do you mean when you describe them thusly?
Maybe the initial decision, but not the deliberate coverup that occurred immediately after it and since then.
Thus far I have seen screenshots of it flagging the phrases "I would like to buy 4 watermelons" and "I just broke my 8 year old laptop". Regardless of your opinion on the ethics of this feature it seems to need a little polish.
And if there aren't enough bodies to meet that requirement, then what?
If you start being critical at work -- of efforts to curtail transparency, or quietly reduce employee ownership, or lower the bar for diversity efforts or whatever -- sooner or later the leadership will start making insinuating and hostile comments indirectly targeting you. Weaving comments into company-wide emails to the effect of "some people are avoiding having a productive conversation here" and "we should curtail salacious gossip that makes everyone unhappy." This sounds exactly like how an elementary-grade teacher bullies a classroom of children into quiet obedience, and young startup employees eat that shit up, because their life decisions are completely built on peer pressure and going with the flow.

So yeah, if you start rattling cages, be prepared for an all-hands where the COO waggles his eyebrows and pointedly says that he wouldn't want anyone to get... hurt.
Also from animal fat.
Exactly, yet all of the studies blaming sugar concentrate on fructose and glucose concentrate studies.
We make up rules to attack anyone we don't like. :)
so do Brian Acton and Jan Koum send Craig Federighi the world's largest fruit basket every Christmas?
The US just had a pretty good election. Democracy is alive and well.
What does it matter if construction is cheap and efficient?

Nobody cares if cars are “built to last” 30+ years, because we can just make new cars. There’s a persistent mythology in construction about “they don’t make ‘em like they used too” and “back in the day they were true craftsmen”.

It’s mostly BS, old houses are incredibly shitty compared to modern standards. But this type of attitude slows down progress. Any sort of innovation or productivity improvement gets looked down upon as just being a way to cut corners.
Previously I've been a heavy user of Webpack + plugins, but I've now moved over to ESBuild for all new projects. This means letting go of many fancy features, but the overall complexity is so much reduced and I'm a lot happier.

Before: Chain together style-loader, css-loader, postcss-loader and the MiniCssExtractPlugin in some weird way. So complicated to understand which PostCSS plugins interacts with resolving imports. I often need to look into the webpack.config.js to understand how everything work. After: Use PostCSS and its tooling for CSS. Yes, there's now a separate process I also need to run in order to watch and build CSS. Yes, I can no longer `import "./style.css"` from the JavaScript files. But it's so much easier to reason about! The CSS tooling creates a CSS file; the JavaScript tooling creates a JavaScript file. Do I want to build SVG sprites? Well, that can very easily be a separate script which I can debug independently and _not_ couple into my builder's plugin system.

In addition, now my JavaScript files are actually just JavaScript and I can be pretty sure that it will work with any new tooling without any problems. Once the successor to ESBuild comes out I will most likely be able to point it at index.js and everything will work.
That's fine, but AI Dungeon is purely text based, right? I might be wrong so please correct me, but if you were to write say.....a book with very explicit minor sexual content.....that's not illegal. Images are illegal. In some places drawings are too. But text isn't. I mean, surely? We cannot be at a point as humanity where text is illegal. Right?
Because of antitrust concerns. It amuses me every time this suggestion resurfaces here because this community is most familiar with anti-Google pressure when it tries to use its market share like this.
Here's the tweet:

https://twitter.com/khanumarfa/status/1386757457393770496?s=...

It's in the article as well. The text message was tweeted out.

I understand the wire can be considered left-leaning but does that automatically make everything they report on as false?

You can ignore their "alt-left" opinion but screenshots of texts and tweets are actual facts that happened.
General Motors Licenses Neural Network Tech from National Lab
Hold a spoon above the flame, it takes a long time to become black, if at all. Hold it into the flame, it becomes black instantly. You need to explain why that is so to convince me.
Several security teams do this. Project Zero and it's various researcher have been thumbing their noses at software companies for a long time.

The Cellebrite hack is not a shocking thing, similar demonstrations have been done for other digital forensics, IDS/IPS systems, and others over the last 20 years (longer?).

This notion that directly, and clearly calling out your adversaries deficiencies is unprofessional or a risk is kind of asinine, whether it's another business like Cellebrite, or ongoing government overreach in support of mass surveillance, or specific cases of investigation.

Failing to call them out leaves room for to imply agreement with their tactics and practices.
That line of thinking has brought the worst obesity epidemic in history to our world.

Please go and read all of Gary Taubes books to see the politics and bad science behind this propaganda.
I just read this over lunch, good read.

Made me think of the AAAI conference in 1982 when we all went home with bumper stickers saying "AI: It's For Real".

I agree with most of Melanie's points. AI is so very much more than deep learning. We need better metrics for measuring progress towards real AI, common sense knowledge, etc.
It pretty much has to be. 1kg would be 1L of water, which is not that much to lose over 5 hours.

But 1kg of fat is 7700 kcal, which would be a massive amount of energy to expend in 5 hours. Unless your "walks" involve running uphill with a 25kg pack or something like that. :)
> I believe that's the line.

I believe you're misrepresenting the line.

Free speech in the US is about being protected from government-inflicted consequences. I can say "fuck you" all I like, but that's never meant I can say it to my boss and demand a First Amendment right to remain employed.

It's never been an absolute, either. Incitement to riot, fraud, libel, actionable threats; all are speech, but we've long accepted restrictions on it.
Look a little closer Peter, I doubt you arrived that fast at that conclusion being right.

It's not a dodge, the MySQL process is in the same server and can even use shared memory.

He claims in total to be better.
That is a Gandhi quote, nothing to do with zen.
That said, the Cellebrite hack scratched an old-school itch that hasn't been in awhile in a time when in person security cons where some of those demos happen haven't been happening :)
Of course not, because that study analyzes concentrates and not natural source of fructose. Eating the equivalent amount of fructose used in those studies in fruit will never get you similar effects to ethanol. These studies are interesting but vacuous.
I think they’ve explicitly decided against such a feature to reduce addictive engagement patterns, and limit potential for long running flamewars.
Yes. Back of envelope, took physics in college many years ago[1] analysis:

E=mc^2, or energy = mass * (speed of light)^2. According to Wikipedia a candle can produce 77 watts of energy "combined." I guess that means 77 joules (1 watt = 1 J/s). So we have:

77 = m * (299792458)^2

Solving for m via Wolfram Alpha:

m = 11 / 12839369696240252

Which is in grams. That's a _very_ small amount, but it's not zero.

edit:

[1] If I'm being honest, I got E=mc^2 from watching the Twilight Zone as a kid, not college physics.
Division is orders of magnitude slower than multiplication.
Is there a way to specify the % of income that is allocated to cash holdings vs. investments? The modeller seems to assume that I will keep all future income as cash, which seems unrealistic.
Trace amounts of radioisotopes found in the candle will be subject to decay while the candle is burned (much as they would be while the candle isn't burning), so there would presumably be some negligible amount of alpha, beta and/or gamma radiation.
A comparison between BLM protests and precautions against the storming of the federal legislature by people who sincerely believed the election was "stolen" is infantile and skewed in the extreme.