skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an alternative to smoking cigarettes, it seems like a great choice. As someone fairly young who was still in high school when vaping started to pick up, the amount of people I know at my age (recent college graduates) that vape and picked it up as a habit without ever having smoked before is insane.

I was out with some friends and two people I had never met before, and they immediately hit it off on their shared habit. I guess that's kind of like the social aspect of cigarettes. It's an interesting thing to see, and it's less intrusive than cigarette smoke for sure, so to each their own.
Sounds like you're conflating connector types with which side goes on the cable. Your ontology only works for simple connectors where the gender metaphor is trivial. But it's still a metaphor, and a poor and crude one at that. You could say "pinned socket" and "holed plug" and be simpler and more direct.

But sure, keep with the 6th grade penis joke instead.
I wasn't there and could inform myself only through media. So no climate data wasn't actually deleted? That'd be a big relief =)
Google started as a search engine. Their results were accurate and there were no ads. Gradually they started doing ads on search results, related to the search itself. This was better than what many of the competitors at the time were doing, which was for paid searches to be at the top.

Gradually Google became more and more an ad company. In 2007 they bought DoubleClick that was one of the leading ad companies on the Internet. This was part of them moving towards providing ads not only on search results, but on sites as well. At the time most ads were site or context sensitive.

So Google has been making money off ads for a long time. More or less from the beginning. The big change, however, was the move to surveillance-based ads, where the ads depends not on the site or page you are viewing, but on the person viewing the ad. That is where it went all wrong.
That's Hanlon's Razor. Occam's Razor is one that developers seem to constantly forget when they're debugging.
If CATL and other LiFePO battery makers get them to 200wh/kg, which they teased in 2020, and they maintain the same cycle endurance, temperature range, safety, and cost advantages, it will be a real game changer.

I've heard pumped water is like 90% efficient, but you need a gradient and space.

Does wind power decrease in winter? I also remember schemes for making a huge solar farm in the Sahara and a superconducting conduit to Europe, and that was several paradigm shifts in solar cell performance ago (15 years). But almost all large countries seem to have a sufficiently sized desert to do this with (US, Russia, China).

If solar gets good enough, and it is still on some prime parts of the economies of scale price drops, you don't care as much about long-distance transmission loss.
Why would you assume I'm selecting the language of the projects I'm working on?
The averaged temperature anomaly, relative to pre-industrial temperatures (or even relative to a few decades ago), as measured by various scientific means, is hot and getting hotter. That isn't an explains-everything theory. That's prediction and confirmation.
> Why can't they just be replaced with what is essentially a normal/embedded PC, in the form factor of a printer/fax machine?

That is effectively what a modern dedicated fax machine is. They are very cheap commodity items. The issue here is not the hardware, but the use of faxes at all.
Can the Airship Rise Again?
I used to use approach, but the new heavily typed languages bring a lot of really nice tools that you only get to use at compile time.

Specifically in Rust, you can use the language to guide you through things like refactoring, thread synchronization, correctness verification and a lot of other things. But you have to run the compiler.
Snip share: share self-destructing end-to-end encrypted secrets on the CLI
For business? Absolutely
Similar story I've heard with applying to jobs - blasting resumes over fax (thanks, Windows Fax and Scan!).

From what I heard it was an extremely successful tactic landing quite a few callbacks and interviews, compared to blasting them out online.
Learn about the Heroku for Kubernetes, Devtron at 3:00 PM UTC. LiveStream
Devtron is an opensource Experience of a SaaS product with the tools of your choice without the lock in of a SaaS product. It manages and Operationalizes applications on Kubernetes.

https://github.com/devtron-labs/devtron

It integrates with the existing open-source systems like argocd, Argo workflow, Clair, hibernator, grafana, Prometheus, envoy, and many others and add capabilities on top of them to enable clean self serve UI for developers and DevOps
We got a lot of questions on how to use it, what are the use cases, how to get started and others . That's the reason we are conducting a LiveStream. One of our maintainers Prashant would be joining Saiyam Pathak, Director at Civo and YouTuber, to have a chat and a demo of Devtron.
I've been using a metal earpick for about the last 4 years every couple of days. I'm very gentle and have a very heightened awareness of the inside of my ears and don't believe I will ever rupture or harm my inner ear or eardrum. I've never had blocked ears or a bad ear infection I just enjoy the ... Ermm... Excavation process. Okay, it might be bordering on something akin to dermatillomania. Didn't even know these cams were a thing, but I've always wanted to see what I'm doing to really find the gold.
Why do you feel that the people who work on and with these models for their careers have different opinions than you?
> numbers tend to move back up, or at least stabilize

South Korea's fertility rate is below 1 and still dropping, for many decades. Many other countries are on a similar path. Has there been any precedent of a country recovering from such deeply negative trend once more land and houses freed up?
You are once again completely correct! It definitely sounds an awful lot like MRA whining.

It just might be worth considering that what is in one context baseless sexist whining might in another be an accurate observation of the effects of decades of policy and the suggestion of a control group. Some readers might take this as an opportunity to check their assumptions and refer to relevant data.

I recognize that this is a matter of opinion, and thus reasonable people might differ. Again, you are inconvertibly correct in every single moral and ethical dimension!
You want the company to Akt as a whistleblower, so that option must be more attractive than all others. The easiest way to get closer to that is to not fine then.

In the US, (individual) whistleblowers can walk away with millions of $ as a reward. Even if they were part of the wrongdoing before.

The 45% I have no idea about. Once you know somebody is doing something, how much is it worth for them to cooperate? But I’d trust the investigators to have a better idea on that than anybody.
[game author here]
Note that I am Czech living in the US. Czech Republic and USA are the countries I follow most though I had discussions with other (mostly European expats).

Note on the "social stability score": the game population is by design very "permissive" people will generally not revolt even if you implement very harsh lockdowns of if many people die. This is because we primarily wanted to allow the player to explore the epidemiological model even for fairly extreme strategies (and public opinion is hard to model anyways). In addition, we expect that most player will play the game only once and we didn't want to frustrate too many new players by "game over" screens.

For context: here is how I see what was happening in Czechia. The spring 2020 was handled well and country avoided any significant surge in Covid cases. During summer 2020, people get used to the pandemic. New view got a significant traction: Covid is not that serious and the best course was to let it sweep through the population and gain natural herd immunity.

Since then, there was a constant tug of war between side wishing to relax the rules and the side wishing for stricter rules. Every time the disease started to decline, the "relax rules" side gained more traction and every time the hospitals were close to the capacity (or arguably above the capacity), the government implemented fairly strict measures (there was a strong consensus that everybody must be able to get healthcare).

This explains why the popular "zero covid" and "no intervention" strategies were never attempted. It is hard to tell how well our model works for these strategies. My guess is "not too poorly" but the we have much better confidence in the model in the regime much closer to real world behavior of the country.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27771742

The above thread is a dupe of this discussion but with interesting discussions already in place before being marked as a dupe.
If you are a tech founder and are going against big tech, this is for you
And the most hilarious part? Altria is laughing all the way to the bank.
I don't get why Americans target their own companies when it comes to vaping. A couple of years ago regulators banned all the popular flavors of Juul while other brands still have plenty of vaping flavors.

The flavor ban completely destroyed Juul as a company, and I would argue Juul is already dead, and more sinister products are taking its place.

Vaping (and Delta 8) markets are now ran by a bunch of Chinese companies now, and their safety standards are much lower than American companies.

With Delta 8 exploding in popularity, I would much rather prefer large and established American companies (such as Juul) making the product with American safety standards.

But after most of the Juul flavors have been banned, Juul is now an empty shell of a company compared to what it once used to be, while Chinese are still cracking out those flavorful vapes, but now they're also disposable (which is even more appealing to kids) so you throw out a battery and plastic shell when the cartridge runs out of vaping juice.

I miss the days of DYI vaping where you would have to build your own coil and cotton - maybe even mix your own fluid - and the whole thing was more akin to a hobby.
Sure, I clearly remember how Bush Jr. along Cheney, Powel and Rumsfeld went to court and were imprisoned for life for all the misery they inflicted. Oh, wait...
Is there nuance here in what is used to train vs what is used in completions? For example, if all public code was used to train a ML model, but then the autocomplete feature only pasted in uniquely generated or licensed code, that would be different than if it pasted in verbatim licensed code without attribution or whatever the license requires.

It could be like a dev reading public code enough to understand it, but then coming up with her own implementation. Not saying copilot works that way - I haven’t tested it yet. But could be one nuance here.
thanks for explanation! and sorry for me being hostile

should say, the automation feature is pretty neat though :)
Unless they strapped themselves to the bomb, Doctor Strangelove style, I can't see how they "knew exactly". Bombing is by definition impersonal.
>But it's downright dishonest to say we don't care or do.

If I exercise once a month and spend the other 29 days sitting around, is it dishonest to say I care about physical fitness?

>The solutions left to be found are nowhere clear or easy.

They're very clear, they're just not easy, because they're unpopular, because they involve people being less greedy and selfish. We could tax pollution and punish polluters far more than we do now. We could take some of the unimaginable wealth away from billionaires and use that money to improve infrastructure and other parts of society to be more green. But we won't, because greed and selfishness are virtues of modern life and we believe that a single person should reap all of the benefits from the work of the thousands of people below them.
This comment is what led me down the rabbit hole of building a Dropbox like UI for FTP [1] and generalise the approach to work with SFTP, WebDAV, S3 and ultimately any system that can be modelled as a filesystem [2] with the magic of interfaces in OO [3]

[1] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

[2] https://www.filestash.app/img/illustration/filestash-framewo...

[3] https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash/blob/cddbcfc6d1...
ΔMi−1 = −αΣn=1NDi[n][Σj∈C{I}Fji[n − 1] + Fexti[n−1]
Possibly because the channel on which the "fax" would travel (e-mailed PDF) is not the same as an actual fax (although nowadays it is probably going to be over T.38 transported over IP, so in the end probably not much changes in terms of security). If those PDFs were properly encrypted using a widely available PKI, then it would be a better replacement for an outdated technology. There might also be legal requirements preventing the unencrypted transmission of some type of documents (e.g. court documents) over the Internet.

There is also iFax, which is supported by several vendors, which is essentially like a fax over e-mail. Many multipurpose fax/printer/scanner machines support it.
If such a tool were built well and worked well, wouldn't that be a good thing?

I think "commoditizing" programming would be great for humanity.
Turning IoU's into a Blockchain Asset
Why nobody is doing this on a bigger scale?
Maybe the fundamental assumption that society needs to provide help to keep people alive as long as possible has to be revisited.

I think it well may be that the tradition of supporting elders forever either worked when they were not living as long in such large numbers, and persisted due to the outsize political and economic power they have (or had).

Once the younger people have power, they might choose that the best use of their resources is not supporting those 70+ year olds.
Education of women is a strong predictor of low fertility rates.

Send the girls to school and they won't have to rely on a future husband to sustain themselves later on.
You can customize the touchbar to have a blank space there instead. It's dumb and stupid that you need to do that though. The Touch bar wouldn't have been so stupid if it was a 7th row of keys basically instead of a 6th row replacement. Remember when laptops had a dedicated row of keys for stuff like volume? That was nice.
Society and corporations are comprised of, and run by, individuals.
> It's completely different from the US

What a laughable notion. Utter the words "national security" and all your checks and balances go right out the window. There are also no checks and balances for non-US citizens: it is free to violate my non-existent rights as much as it wants.
Archive without paywall : https://archive.ph/VtO3p
Many "UX persons" are engineers or computer scientists, and having a good working relationship with them and seeing them as equals goes a long way to allowing you to provide your own insight and give suggestions and feedback.
Picture rsync... as a service!

I mean I would've thought that by now the competition for Dropbox would be as aggressive as for todo apps, but I guess it's more complicated due to legal (= content checking) issues.
No. It gets killed by capital costs and operating costs.

In the time that an airship could do one sortie, an airplane could do several. Thus the capital investment of the airplane is much more productive. The airship also ties up the pilots, flight attendants, and will require high expenses for hospitality.

The ocean liner died not just because it is slower than an airplane, but because it's much more expensive. Cruise ships exist, but they compete with hotels, not with forms of transportation.
Considering what Muslims constantly do here in Europe, I applaud China for taking measures before things spiral out of control.

Hope EU will finally get their heads together and act as well before it's too late.
I am not surprised given who the owner of GitHub is. Now, let's assume for a while that a private repo is left marked as public by mistake and Copilot regurgitates it... Lawyers are going to have fun with that one.
Public-facing intimate-touch services carry numerous risks of hygiene, chemical exposure, techniques, identifying potentially hazardous conditions in the client, and more.

I'm not going to argue that all regulations and licensing within the industry are sensible, that's simply never the case. And there is self-serving regulation for all the usual reasons (guilds, education, limiting competition and entry, all of which you can find in, oh, to pick a random example, the tech sector).

But the case is also not nearly as black and white as Reason would like to have you believe.

More generally, in my view, in any technology, the greatest elevation of knowledge and expertise comes not in applying the basics and in positive effects of the methods and systems involved, but in what I've called hygiene factors: the unintended consequences, side effects, complex interactions, and risks.

The notion of manifest and latent functions was developed by sociologist Robert K. Merton.[1] In discussing these, Merton makes the perceptive observation that because latent functions are not immediately apparent, obvious, or significant, they represent a greater increment of knowledge and understanding than manifest functions, which are obvious, evident, easily understood and communicated, etc.

TL;DR: there are nonevident hygiene and side-effect factors.

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Notes:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_and_latent_functions_...
Read receipt pixel/trackers can't prove something has been read. Thunderbird for example doesn't load remote images by default, by design, as they can be used for tracking purposes (including by spammers).
I can't really understand the reasoning behind making a macOS-exclusive Electron app. You don't get any of the benefits of making an application specifically made for one operating system, and you don't get any of the benefits of a cross-platform framework.
[1]:

> You grant us and our legal successors the right to store, archive, parse, and display Your Content, and make incidental copies, as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time. This license includes the right to do things like copy it to our database and make backups; show it to you and other users; parse it into a search index or otherwise analyze it on our servers; share it with other users; and perform it, in case Your Content is something like music or video.

> This license does not grant GitHub the right to sell Your Content. It also does not grant GitHub the right to otherwise distribute or use Your Content outside of our provision of the Service

The core of it (IMO, IANAL) comes down to "as necessary to provide the Service". It claims a right to "otherwise analyze it on our servers", but the clause "as necessary to provide the Service, including improving the Service over time" likely still applies to that.

So it comes down to whether Copilot still counts as part of their "Service" that the user agreed to when using the site, or if it's different enough that it's unreasonable to apply that proviso.

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o... (thanks themanmaran)
I would not think of it as dangerous. Apart from the danger of car accidents etc etc. Some interesting places on the way, Turkmenistan is particularly strange, like the slightly moderated not known little brother of North Korea.

It took 11 month an 40k km all in all. But it was 80% detours. Had to leave my car at the boarder to China. No chance to take it there. The most magnificent place on the way was Iran for sure. Lovely people with a hate for their own government and not afraid at all to voice their contempt for religious fanatics, the city dwellers at least.
you might want to check out gofumpt too, if you haven't already: https://github.com/mvdan/gofumpt
I don't write production code in Rust (though I learn for my embedded hobby).

But you can say the same for Java. IntelliJ IDEA internally does equivalent of compilation and tells me exactly where my code would fail to compile.

So in a sense I am not strictly practicing my approach, but I also don't see reason to do so if the tools are reliably giving me hints when I made mistake writing something that will not compile.
DIY Acoustic Camera
This decision should have been taken a long time ago, it is obvious that it will help spread all variants all over the world.
Rusts type system is turing complete if I recall correctly. Obviously, in practice everything is in a way decidable because we have limitations everywhere.
Also bad for the people who might benefit from the product even though it didn't help a statistically significant portion of people in an expensive clinical trial.
> To the people moaning about Electron apps... you're not the market. To the people moaning about $100 price... you're not the market. To the people moaning about Mac-only... you're not the market. To the people who missed the value-prop COMPLETELY and think some free taskbar widget is the whole idea... you're not the market.

Then who's the market? Because it's obviously not us and I think the (accepts Electrons) ∩ (uses mac os) ∩ (pays for expensive apps) population is VERY restricted.

And why post it here if we are not the market?

> missed the value-prop COMPLETELY

The idea of "value proposition" is so absolutely inane. If people were always paying for a what a tool is "worth" in term of revenues then working would be useless as you would be spending as much on your tools as to what they bring.

Do you value Linux at >50K a year? Would you pay 5000$ a month to use an OS? No? Well that's weird because that seems in line with its "value proposition".

> I'd like to introduce to a little startup/email client called Superhuman. I'm sure these naysayers were posting all these negative hot takes on that too. And the naysayers were wrong then. Because they aren't the market.

Then stop advertising this type of apps here.
Well yeah, poor round trip efficiencies are an important part of what makes power2gas expensive. I find it unlikely that we'll have enough batteries to cover cold, dark winters, so I assume that we'll won't get around power2gas completely. The infrastructure to store large amounts of gas is already built, so that is nice.
I used to work on anti-hijacking "risk based analysis" at Google. Here's what's even more likely to happen: Apple's IP addresses get marked as VPN/Tor ranges and treated exactly the same way as other such ranges. This may trigger e.g. requirements to use two factor authentication on an account if you wish to log in from such ranges.
The output is legally toxic to any company who uses it and opens up legal avenues to delay your software release in court. Github may be legally okay because it shifts the legal issues to their paying users.

A legal case could be made that they are assisting in ip thief by selling a product that makes copyright breaking easier (we have seen those cases) the majority of legal issues will be on the user. Imagine the Google / Oracle legal battle replayed with this tool involved..
"Couldn't you just put a text file in Dropbox instead of use a todo app / password manager?"

"Couldn't you just rent a server instead of Amazon's?"
I'm not well-versed enough into "modern" web stack to troubleshoot, but there is something wrong with the scrolling on their website. Doesn't inspire much confidence into web audio. I'm not entirely sure why browser would be a good fit for an audio synth plateform, to say the least.

Faust is nice tho, a combinator language with stream processor semantics. There are lots of things to improve (quality of life things for organizing code, more typing, better semantics for the surface language which currently is ugly macro expansion where it could've been a simple lisp or even better a mini-ML), but it's also currently one of the best thing in town for functional synthesis.
One of the things that really surprised me working as a software engineer was how much my work would be judged how how well it matched the drawing.

It often seems like there is more verification of that than whether it does what was intended.