skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, private jets are also wasteful And unnecessary. Yet there's no talk of banning them...
> AFAIK there is no "scripts" section (for e.g. "poetry start" like "npm start") in the config file, or at least no one is using them.

There is a scripts section in pyproject.toml, which is leveraged by “poetry run”. This is different than for npm, though, since these aren’t dev-environment scripts but the executable scripts that are installed with the project
To be fair, very few people can really give informed consent on this topic. There's a million and one ways that you could be taken advantage of in a scheme like this.
Or even better. A device capable of sending that distress signal automatically without any intervention of the crew. It's not difficult to automatically detect emergency situations based on the different sensor readings available in a commercial plane.

A similar solution could also be applicable to other means of transport. E.g. A similar solution would have been extremely useful for the indonesian submarine lost weeks ago.
I thought I was the only one who thought pricing on Azure seemed rather high for what you get.
But I also have free credit I can use each month, which offsets the cost to "normal" levels, but can't imagine being a business and opting to pay for Azure services by choice, unless they provide something no one else does.
Note that this is not Lisp interpreted in Python, but transpiled into Python AST on the fly. Which is how Lisps should be implemented on top of modern environments.

(IIRC the ‘gisp’ project takes that approach even further: it transpiles a Lisp to the AST, and then spits out Go code that would generate the same AST: https://github.com/jcla1/gisp)
Giving the parent comment a charitable and close reading, it seems to only be mocking the performative and fake-nice corporate checkbox culture engaged in by non-trans people that puts being trans on a pedestal, and is not directed toward trans people themselves.
I wonder if all the gender variants / skin tones etc gets put into much use in real world? I mean yeah, having them is a good idea but they don't seem to be easy to use on emoji keyboards.

Do people care enough to choose the correct skin tone and stuff? It is mostly "set it and forget" though for the singular person emojis, so it makes sense. Would you spend time to choose the right tones, genders etc on a handshake emoji?
What you see here is the effect of opening the floodgates and letting the masses in without any barriers of entry. Be it a social media or a trading platform. You know who they are. I think we underestimate greatly the rock bottom levels of average attention spans and intellectual curiosity.

In the past, you had to be a somebody to voice your opinion - you had to publish an article, a book, be on TV. Not an easy feat.

Then came the web and democratized this a bit, but it was still not trivial. You had to find a hosting provider, learn HTML, spend one hour on the phone with Network Solutions, etc. If you wanted to say something - you could, but it wasn't free and easy. And that's why the early web was so high quality.

I was an early customer of WebTV, and I got a glimpse into the future by browsing their fenced-off usenet. It was a tornado of flame wars and just pure stupid. And why? WebTV made it super easy to access the web.

2007 changed everything. The iPhone came out, Facebook, Twitter, big data. Now, every idiot could whip out their phone and type in "owning the libz 24/7! MAGA! Lolz!" [SEND].

And we all have to process that shit. A barrier of entry is good. It ups the quality of whatever it's applied to. Social media fundamentally destroys the hardship of voicing an opinion, which, as we can see, most should probably not voice. If you are not willing to work for it, then it's probably not worth hearing.
> if it's not clear exactly why the account is disabled, it is irresponsible of Signal to create a blog post blaming it on Facebook

I trust HN’s opinion on this. But speaking as a layman, nothing in those images screams “easy solution here” to me.

Facebook isn’t Google when it comes to service. But I can totally see someone well meaning at Signal interpreting that messaging, and the lack of any call to action other than “see details” in the error box, as a permanent and irrevocable (without a Twitter or front-page-on-HN tantrum) ban. Hell, the second image even calls out "not complying with [their] Advertising Policy or other standards."
"Even regular sites used to be full of punch the monkey ads, popups and pop-unders."

Commercial sites were. But there was a time before corporations started treating the internet like the Gold Rush. Before that the internet was actually not full of ads, much less all the spyware the likes of Google and Facebook brought.

But Google and Facebook are just two big worms in an internet that's been rotten by corporate influence.
> This makes each iteration of the 'while' loop take 4 times as long as the previous, or about O(2^N) time.

That would be O(4^N) time, which is certainly not O(2^N).
But in fact each iteration does NOT take 4x as long.

Thanks to the prefix-free property, each iteration only takes twice as long. Consider programs as half-open subintervals of the unit [0,1) interval. The whole interval corresponds to the empty string "" (which by prefix freeness is not a program), and the left and right halves of a subinterval corresponding to string s, correspond to strings s0 and s1. Prefix freeness means that all programs are disjoint. In the Levin search at complexity c, a program p of length |p| contributes 2^{-|p|} interval space and 2^{c-|p|} steps. By induction, any set of programs of total interval length x contribute at most x*2^c steps to the Levin search at complexity c, which means that it takes at most 2^c steps altogether for the entire unit interval.
Is anyone else getting concerned about Signal's trustworthiness lately?
> but as time goes on we're learning that the spectrum might subtly encompass far more people than we ever realised.

The autism spectrum is a continuum that fades into normality, with no clear boundary. Part of that continuum is individuals with broad autism phenotype (BAP), who have significantly more autistic traits than the average person does, but not enough to reach the diagnostic cutoff for ASD. That cutoff varies from clinician to clinician, and is moving over time, which renders the boundary between BAP and ASD particularly fuzzy.

> (With no small amount of irony, I find that many "normal" people have a very hard time truly empathising with the ways in which people on the spectrum are different.)

Damian Milton speaks of the "double empathy problem" – it is claimed that a defining trait of autism is deficits in empathy, and yet very many non-autistic people are at least as deficient in empathy for autistic people.
Pricing for auto insurance is all fully public information, that states' approve. There is no "discretion". You can look it up yourself. Search for "SERFF" and your state.

Also, auto insurance has the lowest profit margins of any type of insurance.
I vote the Twitter Chicken become official
My father related this story of a German farmer in the northwest of Germany, who it turned out, was Dutch. Apparently somebody incorrectly mapped the border line of 1648 after the 30 years war, and so this family had (barely) lived in the Netherlands ever since, without knowing it, despite considering themselves German citizens.

I don't remember how this was resolved. I guess it thankfully just doesn't matter that much anymore, these days.
Updated styles for radio buttons and checkboxes on GOV.UK (2016)
I haven't used a mac in years, but I know for sure that I had found a workaround. I would go insane without "Alt+." on the shell, I use it very, very frequently.

Try this:
https://lorenzo.mile.si/macos-iterm2-use-linux-keyboard-shor...
Intent to issue € 2,5M fine to Disqus Inc. – Datatilsynet
Listen to ‘New’ Nirvana, Jimi Hendrix and Amy Winehouse Songs Generated by AI
CIA's Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-1990
>(...) where every Monday and Friday you can read new posts about how everyone is well-intentioned, stupid, and desperately in need of checking out from politics.

Why would I, though?
It's not a fresh perspective, it offers nothing new. Also, the author calls almost everyone idiots yet has a hard time proving that he is not one himself.
Right, but when your ad campaign shows no rejected ads and you don't actually know if it was due to the ad campaign.

Then I would be reluctant to spread Twitter posts and Blog posts regarding that being the reason. If signal investigated and came back with a legitimate Facebook response, then absolutely.

It's not the benefit of the doubt, its conjecture. Based on the information I can see I have no reason to believe that the campaign was rejected by Facebook, the screenshots show that the campaign did not even run, nor were any of the ads rejected.

I'm not trying to defend anyone however the profession I work in, I cannot raise observations unless they're validated and I don't think Signal have validated enough the reason why the account was disabled. I also don't think the photos they have provided directly point to it either as it is highly plausible that the deactivation is related to something completely legitimate.
How the middle class became downwardly mobile
For those looking DSM: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnostic_and_Statistical_M...
WebComponents are an amazing replacement for jQuery, get the best of frontend Component based development without the bloat and the JS toolchain! Vanilla JS is great with WebComponents. We even write them in python with Ryzom's transpiler:

```

class DeleteButton(Component):
tag = 'delete-button'

class HTMLElement:
def connectedCallback(self):
this.addEventListener('click', this.delete.bind(this))

async def delete(self, event):
csrf = document.querySelector('[name="csrfmiddlewaretoken"]')
await fetch(this.attributes['delete-url'].value, {
method: 'delete',
headers: {'X-CSRFTOKEN': csrf.value},
redirect: 'manual',
}).then(lambda response: print(response))

```

Speaking of which, Rails ViewComponent looks a lot like Python Ryzom, except the later optionnaly supports data-binding over websockets.

But writing JS in Python is extremely satisfying if you already like writing Python more than you like writing JS ;)
I thought “Empire” translation would suit here, although I am not a native speaker. Realm should fit as well.
I assume there is some tradeoff with some kind of out of control stuff / abuse that happens by some minority people that cuts in if this is not managed.

I feel like organisations should be leaving that to line management rather than controlling it through blunt policies, but I can see how from the top level there is a perception they need to enforce stuff like this. The real problem is that the abuse can often be measured and quantified while the cost of inconvenience or chilling effect on activity can't be, so I always think the costs likely are not weighted appropriately in whatever assessment is done.
In that case they will get banned, because Facebook does not allow advertisers to let the targeted group know why they were targeted.

https://twitter.com/dmarti/status/1389737052091027460/photo/...
I doubt it. We have known for a while that the brain is not multithreaded. The kids that can focus - they are the ones that will lead, build, and succeed. It's amazing what you can achieve in a short period of time with a quieted down brain.
> roles have taken a left turn from becoming equals in society to striving for sameness.

That was actually also part of this interview. They had the therapist with this thesis and another sexual/couples therapist, and the general consensus between them was that "sameness" kills sexual tensions in a relationship. This results in less sex, which in turn, for most people, means a less happy relationship.

There is an expectation men and women should be the same, expect in the bedroom, where the man should return to some classic or traditional role. That just doesn't work, that duality isn't something most people are able to deal with mentally.
> Social media fundamentally destroys the hardship of voicing an opinion, which, as we can see, most should probably not voice.

Well, you can put the blame on the sender. But I think that everyone is allowed to have an opinion and voice it.

Maybe the receiving end needs to learn and distinguish between "important feedback" and "just ignore it". We should stop treating everyone's little issue as top-notch priority.
If we're talking about protecting users still trying to learn the cloud, what if they mess up the setup of this cloud function?
Racket v8.1
Ah, thank you for the clarification, that is a nuance I completely missed.

A follow-up question since you know more about this than I do: if some number of people each buy a fraction of a share, who gets to vote that share, nobody? Does it become effectively a non-voting share?
Why couldn’t they do HANDSHAKE + ZWJ + SKIN TONE + ZWJ + SKIN TONE? I don’t understand why a new emoji is necessary — the author alluded to “making sense without an OS update” but without an OS update the new emojis won’t render at all, whereas this solution would at least kinda make sense (it would be a yellow handshake followed by two skin color blocks, I believe, just like on devices that don’t support skin tone modifiers for other emojis)
Outrage bait is so yesterday. Outrage over the outrage bait is the new opium of the masses. Article after article of why you should be terrified of the existential threat that hyperpoliticization represents to our society.

It's still fear porn. It's still designed to drive clicks. You're not doing yourself any favors reading it. You're not becoming more educated, or more mindful. You're just trading one boogyman for another.

Want to really solve the problem for yourself? Stop reading news, and stop reading articles about news. Stop using social media and stop reading articles about why you should stop using social media.
Good article. Would also add polarisation & political extremism is a major catalyst in converting people of good faith into people of bad faith through questionable narratives, false statistics and all the other means of propaganda available.

This is the main reason why the political forcefeeding we are experiencing right now is highly dangerous.
I don’t get it. What’s there to assess? Producing power for Bitcoin mining impacts the environment in exactly the same way as producing power for anything else.

If the price of electricity produced by e.g. coal plants doesn’t include externalities then we need to fix that. But it shouldn’t matter whether this power is used by a Bitcoin miner or an aluminum smelter.
Why? Can you please elaborate more. I recently started using Signal and like it very much. It seems that more and more of my contacts are also starting to use Signal.
>Never thought Oracle would have such a nice free tier.

Attracted a fair bit of attention in some corners of the internet for this reason. Then they canned a bunch of accounts using "always free" stuff for myself and others. Do not trust.
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> But don't we face a huge collapsing if people stop considering this huge amount of dollars still have the same value than 10 years ago ?

How so? What does a collapse mean and what are the mechanisms through which it can happen?

I'm not saying that it can't or won't happen btw, I just think that it's much more useful to discuss specific outcomes and market processes than a vague feeling of "the numbers are going up too quickly, we'll have a crash soon".
Anyone can still voice their opinion. In most parts of the world, either to a neighbor or go out on the street, write a sign, have at it. The world is not better off by letting everyone broadcast their opinion to BILLIONS of people.
> To do that we must find ways to aproximate the western standards of living in sustainable ways.

And this is where we come full circle to magical thinking.

The Earth is struggling to support the current number of people living at western standards. “Approximating” it for a few billion more people will require even more resources than we use today no matter how green you theorize we make things.

This is never going to be possible, no matter how much nicer it would be if we could make it happen. We’re simply too far past the point where it’s a plausible solution. Which, I want to be clear, is super awful. It would be great if that were still an option but it isn’t even close.

> Global population growth has been slowing for half a century.

Growth has been slowing which means… we’re still growing. At a time when we’ve blown past the CO2 threshold to reach +2degC with barely a speed bump. That’s going to happen even if we stopped emitting today and started sucking CO2 out of the air. Which means the actual reality we face is going to be much worse.

> ecofascism

If the only real argument you have against this is ad hominem, you’re on shaky ground.

Unless we cut back our resource consumption—not just the growth rate but the real absolute amount—these things you find so unpalatable will happen. Wars will be fought over resources, hundreds of millions will be displaced and/or starve due to lack of fresh water and arable land, and a host of other increasingly displeasant situations I don’t care to list.

Do I have any practical answers to how we avoid those things? Of course not. Nobody does! But calling people epithets for simply pointing out the abysmal future humans have wrought upon ourselves is childish.

Maybe you disagree that we’re past a point of no return. That’s completely fine. I think the overwhelming quantity of evidence is in my camp but we can disagree here. But if you take a minute to consider that there’s some point where these things are true, what would your perspective be if we were there?
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I don’t think that the social media has something special.

A cliche in the movies is the bar scene where everyone fights with no apparent reason .

Social media is like a bar, It’s optimized for engagement, so it’s only gas no brakes large gathering space and it’s well known what happens in such environments. Stadiums, concerts etc are all known for for the antisocial behavior of some the participants.

The social media is a supercharged stadium. I used to think that it’s the way it is because the human communication tools are implemented without the self control tools but now I believe that it’s simply because people are incapable of living in large groups with no barriers.
How is it not true? They will terminate your account (like Amazon drops sellers), without any warning, and that's it.

There are stories about this right here on HN almost each day. (Yes this naturally only affects a small number of their accounts, but it's not negligible, and it's the exact opposite of a well managed and understood risk which would be needed for reliability.)
Using a cellphone while driving is illegal? Let's just make the whole car a cellphone! Brilliant!

It makes new wonder how these non-tactile buttons and entertainment systems are even legal to use while driving. And if you had to stop your car to adjust the radio then these touch screens would immediately disappear.
>though you’ll need to do nontrivial custom coding to tie together the various pieces to do it,

Let me guess...hosted on the cloud we're trying to shut down?
I'm a big fan of the $1 Unistroke Recognizer - it's just so cool that it works so well with minimal training. I was itching for a reason to use it and threw it into a flag semaphore decoder. Then I realized it was completely the wrong tool for drawings with only (8 choose 2) combinations where rotation does matter, and did something else instead. So, I'm still itching for a good reason to use it.
"Being a past employee of Google or Facebook should make it harder for you to find another job, unless you can justify your participation in a monopolistic, damaging-to-society company."

That would be lovely, but unfortunately 99% of people probably don't care.. especially if they themselves are owners of capitalist corporations (who are probably advertising their own products and services on Google and Facebook).
One of the most famous word embedding methods, Word2Vec, actually approximates word co-occurrence PMI matrix through matrix decomposition. Check out Omer Levy and Yoav Goldberg's work.
In that case given enough dimensions it could approximate any matrix well - i.e. linearity shouldn't be a limiting factor.

Correlation (vs causation) and linearity are orthogonal concepts.
Announcing YS Flight (2003)
Damn, I can't imagine how you felt...
Only the unique experiences in this thread are enough to know how f*cked up AWS billing is.
> This project is, very literally, stealing from me.

That is, literally, not true. I have always had a safari subscription through my employers, but found the app to be unpleasant to use. Using this project to generate epub is not much different than me printing the pages through browser as pdf, or saving the HTML page to read offline.

It would be stealing if I distributed the generated epub, but then that's not really the author of the tool stealing from you.
This is a really interesting perspective. Thank you for posting it. The author also neatly outlines why it's so hard to talk about controversial stuff nowadays.

> Most who expressed outrage at my post, even most in the mass media, did not offer counter-arguments to my analogy.

> They were instead content to identify me with sex-poor people today willing to do or sympathize with violence in order to advocate for sex redistribution.

> Such ‘incel’ advocates were said to be personally deeply icky, and therefore so also were any policies they advocate, and also anyone like me who did not attack they and their policies immediately with extreme prejudice.
Dear JetBrains, can we have Hy supported in PyCharm please?
Imho the real damage from games is the addiction aspect. A secondary problem is the 'Good guy is allowed to do anything because he's good' attitude, but that's shared by a lot of tv and books. The actual violence isnt much of a problem.
Try to practice a ritual like writing the names of websites down and then throwing the piece of paper into the trash. I find that it helps to interrupt the mindless opening of the distracting sites. It gives me a brief moment as I'm opening the distraction where I remember that I chose to sacrifice this thing, and I bail out. This requires regular practice of whatever ritual you create.
Difference being that Apple doesn't have a visual indicator before you send the message to let you know you're sending it to a non-iMessage device.

Edit: I was completely wrong, iMessage does do that, my apologies.
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This is something that people have known for a long time: a lot of money has been spent on making compilers make fast code. For many intents and purposes we know what kind of reasoning we want to be able to do to produce fast code. Strict modules is probably one of the sinples yet efficient optimizations you can do: being able to reason about where and what something is without having to do an expensive lookup every time it is used is brain dead simple to understand.

Yet many of the languages that evolved as "scripting languages" threw much of that knowledge out. In the middle of the 90s we knew how to make fast dynamic languages. Maybe not as crazy dynamic as something like ruby, but not far off. Or at least, they had the sense to codify it as a separate thing (CLOS in common lisp comes to mind).

Something like SBCL is more dynamic than you need(TM), yet produces code that is often at least an order of magnitude faster than python.
Even though Signal does seem like a step in the right direction, the fact that Signal is still a centralized platform makes it less trustworthy than say, Element. I must say this nonsense with the ad campaign isn't helping either.