skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I took my gap year in israel with a religious Jewish friends. We were slight stoners back then and on sabbath in order for him to get high I’d have to light a bong in a cupboard and fill the cupboard with smoke and then swap places with him. This was multiple times per sabbath every sabbath. I also had to constantly open the fridge for him because of the automatic light. I found these rituals ridiculous (20 years later I still do) and we fought over it and decided to part ways for the rest of the gap year.
Other sizes, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sargent,_John_Singer...
Yes, this is a very large JPEG image (13549x5075 pixels, 46MB).

You can view smaller versions on the Wikimedia Commons page for the image (which is what should have been submitted instead of this enormous image - the page even includes a warning about this):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sargent,_John_Singer...
I've wondered if there could be a way to use the Earth's heat by drilling a small hole in your back yard a few km deep and somehow embedding a tiny generator down there to take advantage of the heat differential between various layers of rock. Maybe a Stirling engine? I'm thinking like a long thin tube filled with liquid that boils at low temps. The liquid would boil, expand, rise up through an insulated tube, condense at a cooler layer and circulate back down. A little generator could use the constant motion to power a house.
I think people are wary about a government making an official demand that content be removed. Trump's ban was entirely Twitter's own decision; by contrast, the Indian government seeks to compel removal of material.

I don't have a problem, per se, with governments having the ability to remove content from public platforms on public safety or security grounds. But the Modi government has also sought to remove content that's much less plausibly likely to inflame public violence, in particular related to its handling of COVID.
You can directly boot a Pi from USB now with the Pi 4. Switch to a SSD and you won't worry about SD card corruption as much. The bigger issue is that you need to cleanly shutdown any embedded system instead of just yanking or hard cutting power--flash memory and filesystems need time to sync. The Pi is no more or no less susceptible to this problem.

Also you're comparing to a tablet, a device with a _built in battery_ that prevents hard power loss in 99% of circumstances. Just because you press the power button on your tablet does not mean it is immediately cutting power to the device. If you add a battery backup and soft power switch to the Pi you would be just as reliable as a tablet. If you remove the battery from a tablet and hard cut the power, you can just as easily corrupt its flash memory filesystem.
Melanotan 1 for Sale
What is your idea of a beautiful protocol/method?
IMO, geothermal doesn't really make sense. It's expensive, and the heat gradient isn't huge- you have to drill or dig huge trenches to make up for it.

Solar water heating is extremely efficient (and less complicated), but I have never seen it in the US.

As for cooling, if it's hot out, the sun is probably out- solar PV with AC/heat pump should be fine.
abstract: We introduce Codex, a GPT language model fine-tuned on publicly available code from GitHub, and study its Python code-writing capabilities.

A distinct production version of Codex powers GitHub Copilot.

On HumanEval, a new evaluation set we release to measure functional correctness for synthesizing programs from docstrings, our model solves 28.8% of the problems, while GPT-3 solves 0% and GPT-J solves 11.4%.

Furthermore, we find that repeated sampling from the model is a surprisingly effective strategy for producing working solutions to difficult prompts. Using this method, we solve 70.2% of our problems with 100 samples per problem.

Careful investigation of our model reveals its limitations, including difficulty with docstrings describing long chains of operations and with binding operations to variables. Finally, we discuss the potential broader impacts of deploying powerful code generation technologies, covering safety, security, and economics.

HumanEval: https://github.com/openai/human-eval
I think it might be time for an ~80 year old convention to be revamped if it kills the environment...
If the loophole seems to go directly against intended meaning, can you say it’s there?
> This sounds very similar to participating in a clinical trial and to me ironically seems to be the opposite of precision medicine.

yes, to be clear this is a description of "standard of care" in which oncologists follow a playbook based on the type of cancer. Precision medicine (as I, a lay person, understand it) involves picking a treatment that is very likely to work based on an individual's genes, the genes of their tumor, their past medical history, and other relevant factors. The idea is to use all available information to identify the treatment that is the most likely to succeed for that individual.
Taxis, lower variance? Where? Ever had a smelly driver, or one that smokes in the car? Drives like shit? Dirty seats? With the micro entrepreneur taxi apps, it basically never happens.
Not emitting it won't fix the fact that we have already emitted tons of it. And there's the potential feedback loop from methane release from the Arctic and Siberia, which would require active measures to stop it once it gets going (capturing greenhouse gasses or blocking light). Obviously though, you can't have CCS instead of green energy. You need surplus green energy to power it with, otherwise you're not really accomplishing anything.
Unless we embrace nuclear energy for space flight this would never happen.

Looks like NASA is developing thermal nuclear rocket https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/spacetech/nuclear-propulsi...
I've been using one of these for over 5 years as a home router, it's been very stable, not a single issue, only reboots have been for OS upgrades. Very nice little boxes. Had to put it together initially (think the heat sink and nvme and case) but that was straight-forward. Has supported everything I've needed over the years.
Yeah! And let's have the taxpayer fund it! And subject it to common carrier regulations!

Yeah?
Oh no, an easily-replaceable $10 part will fail instead of having to pay a vendor thousands to replace an entire unit? What a problem.
I have little faith in the government to do anything about the overbroad reach of tech companies, but I do think it's pretty obvious that there has been coordinated censorship of right wing accounts.

Add to that the fact that Republicans are in fact also consumers, and I don't think it's fair to say they are ignoring consumers.

Edit:

As usual here, this post sympathetic to Republicans is immediately downvoted through the floor. It is still technically here, just grayed out and downranked to the bottom of the feed.

I think this is similar to much of the censorship we've seen.

"We're not censoring anyone, we're just preventing people from seeing things we disagree with"
Hm, this was a few weeks ago. I just thought it was ridiculous that a creator would put an ad every three minutes on a three hour video. I guess it's possible.

There were some other creators that I saw some less egregious but still questionable cadences with, which I thought would go against their general ethos (like ads every five minutes on an hour long video by a person who is generally against a culture of over-capitalization).

Maybe A/B tests?
> There is very close to zero wiggle room for landlords to raise prices.

This is disproved very easily by reality - most places have increasing rent YoY. Same goes for house prices.

Because of low supply and large demand, like you say, landlords can charge monopoly prices. Not sure why you claim they don’t go up?
That is why I use x.com
also has a very shall payload
Goes well with the Eruv around NYC:
https://www.npr.org/2019/05/13/721551785/a-fishing-line-enci...

It is hilarious the lengths people go to.
In addition to medical developments, I think that clean living has become more popular than ever. In 2021, you see people who would never have been interested in a healthy diet eating properly. And obesity is an significant risk factor for cancer.
Right, and my point is that the middleclass lifestyle doesn't care whether those industries/supply-chains are fueled by solar or fossil fuel.
Yes you'd have exactly the same kind of lawsuits and arguments that already exist today around fair use. It doesn't matter if a tool creates the new work or a person creates it (without tools?!!?) because ultimately it is a person who claims the new work as their own and distributes it, and that is the person who will get sued by the record companies if their work is too derivative. Establishing the line for "too derivative" in any particular case is a very lucrative field already I'm sure.
In my experience its one of those solved problems where only a handful of products do it well, and well = pretty terrible for anyone SMB.
"immediately raise a ticket with Azure Support, who were able to grab the resources from “somewhere” (I guess when you delete a resource in Azure, it’s still on a disk somewhere, for a while), and we got our database and backups back"

what the hell is Azure doing pretending to delete things?

How long do Azure keep your data after you think you've deleted it?

Is there a way to ensure data stored in Azure is actually destroyed when you ask for it to be destroyed?
The second law of thermodynamics is defined on closed systems, so unless you are the type of person who doesn't eat or breathe then it isn't really applicable.

It is rather like saying E=MC^2 is good diet advice.

That's not to say CICO isn't true, but trying to link it to base physics is a red herring.
There's a song in Hamilton that I'm always reminded of when terraform applies run:

"Blow Us All Away"
For anyone having trouble viewing the image, visit the Wikimedia page for smaller resolutions (this is the page that should have been submitted instead of the full resolution image):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sargent,_John_Singer...
It seems like microsoft should have just said that fixing this isn’t a priority right now, instead of saying it couldn’t be done.

It's great though when someone says it's not possible to make something faster, and you say “here, I made it” and leaving the existing console to scroll while you do the rest of the video is great showmanship.

I interviewed Casey[1] and I learned a lot from his perspective on development, particularly not being afraid to just build things yourself from scratch and to try to understand what is going on at the level of hardware.

[1] https://corecursive.com/062-game-programming/
> Obsession with supposed censorship

This opinion piece forgets or (more likely) completely ignores that these companies have in fact censored people including a sitting president. People, including some doctors, were being censored because of thoughts on the Corona lab-leak theory (which seems to have some meat to it), hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin (both of which have been proven safe and moderately effective, though the jury is still out on long-term effectiveness), and vaccine hesitancy (mRNA vaccines are still new and the public has a right to be a little skeptical). Right or wrong, that is what happened.

This action is investigating the perceived coordination among the major social media networks that engaged in such censorship. This coordination, if true, is a version of antitrust because it is anti-competitive much in the same way OPEC is an anti-competitive organization. I don't think however that attacking section 230 is going to solve this. I also think that those claiming censorship are going to have a hard fight in court to prove their case, because tbh they don't have much of a case - there are other outlets and other ways of communicating. That and I frankly don't like the thought of the government pressuring companies on matters of speech or press.

However this action is _not_ claiming traditional antitrust rules have been violated as the author attempts to inject. The Democrat plan is more traditional antitrust in that it wants to break up companies rather than prevent coordinated censorship.
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Only if you agree that copyleft licenses are also stupid; without copyright, there's no way to prevent companies from making closed-source forks of code you wrote and intended to stay open.
Atlantis is great. If you've grown beyond 5 or so engineers you should have no excuse to be running terraform apply from laptops.
You're claiming variance in basal metabolic rate (for people with similar activity levels/lifestyles) is potentially significant, but also variance in digestive efficiency is negligible?

I don't know if either is false/true, but its interesting to consider. Maybe someone from that domain can shed some light. Happy to look at anything you or others link to.
Can't really take anyone seriously on matters relating to tech unless they at least support broadband expansion/net neutrality/municipal ISPs, especially since all of these lead directly to large corporations having less power over the internet. Last I checked the GOP's position was the exact opposite.
Can you still apply Fair Use if they make Copilot a payed service?
Yeah, these people might be ensuring more optimal prices for corn, and maybe that's a good thing. But in doing that, they aren't doing something else which may be more important for society.

My point was that very smart people are a finite resource. And misallocating them can have devastating effects on a society.
I hope you're right, but over the past year we went kept packing on weight.

A majority of adults (61%) reported experiencing undesired weight changes since the start of the pandemic, with more than 2 in 5 (42%) saying they gained more weight than they intended. Of this group, adults reported gaining an average of 29 pounds (with a typical gain of 15 pounds, which is the median).

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2021/one-year...
Most of the worlds farmland is used to feed the worlds population and farm animals.

The worlds use of fuel is many times greater in terms of calories than use of food.

That means if we want to use farmland to grow fuel, we're going to need a lot more farmland. We already farm most of the land that's viable for farming. So there isn't really much more available without destroying a lot of ecosystems and chopping down rainforest...
> I'm confused though by his comments about "our species’ one-time amazing levels of genetic diversity." Overall, he seems to be espousing the idea that "diversity" is something we once had lots of, but have lost over time. Is this true?

"Diversity" can mean a lot of things. In this case, he's referring to the variety of individual alleles. Due to population bottlenecks, most of humanity has reduced variation: for example, at a certain spot in the genome everyone has a T, because everyone who survived the bottleneck happened to have a T there; but in the population that didn't go through the bottleneck, some people have a G instead.

On the other hand, for phenotypical diversity it's not just the set of individual alleles that matters, but their distribution and correlation. For example, let's say height is affected by thousands of genes, for each of which there is an allele that makes you slightly taller and one that makes you slightly shorter, and the combined effect of all these genes is approximately additive.

Then you may have a population A which has both variants for each gene, but they're independently distributed, so everyone is of medium height, with some variance. We also have a population B, which has only one variant left for several of these genes (they have lost diversity!). But B is split into two sub-populations, which differ in the distribution of the remaining height genes: B1 has more tall alleles, and B2 has more short alleles.

Now the average height of B1 is higher than that of A, and the average height of B2 is lower than that of A. You will find very tall people in B1 that you would never see in A, and very short people in B2 that you would also never see in A. So B has more diverse height phenotypes, even though B1 and B2 (even put together!) still have lower genetic diversity than A in terms of the available repertoire of alleles.
I use Atlassian Jira regularly. The UI is actively hostile to coders, making things like code blocks hard to work with, and layering on a few gratuitous stupidities like rendering the common Python filename __init__.py as an italic-_init_ dot py, or O(n) as an O and a thumbsdown emoji.

It's a good thing people don't use Jira to write softw— oh.
I seem to not get the twist. What am I missing?
I know me and you are not going to see eye-to-eye but I have trouble seeing how Ubers are more monopolistic than taxi companies which wanted a cap on the number of permitted taxi's per city - when they already had all the permits/medallions owned themselves.
Humans have planned and executed multi-generational projects before, even if that scale of project seems out of fashion right now.

This article (Starships & Cathedrals) explains the ideas better than I can in a short comment: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2020/07/17/the-cathedral-and...
how does it slow itself down for entry into the alpha centauri system? seems like it would just blow past it
The first geothermal wells in Germany have exhausted their heat gradient; after less than 30 years … so, unless you’re actually in Iceland or the Canaries or something similar, this might not even sustainable for even one full generation …
Firefox also defaults to HTTPS by default nowadays. Lots of content blockers block third party content too. Regardless, if literally anything goes wrong with the third party dependency that the article's contrast depends on, the best case scenario here is that the text falls back on the body's background.

Interestingly, the author also appears to control yu8.us

Breaking one's own content by https-ing one site but not another is a great example of why to not prop up a website's basic legibility on a third party dependency, even if it's one you own and control.
Need Xerox 9700 laser printer fonts (ca. 1979). 300 DPI fonts, one font file per point size. "Font" files could also store logos. Max 512 x 128 pixels per character.
I don't think that's particularly new. There's a long standing saying "You can't cheat an honest man", and it's very topical for long cons to make the mark believe that the objective is to swindle a third party.

Many, though not all 419 solicitations also hint at an illicit source of the purported money, and explain the advance fees demanded with bribes, etc to be paid.
I can't speak to any specifics, but asynchronous behavior, including deletions, is very common in large distributed systems, and Azure I'd wager is no exception.

Update: I'd forgotten that even filesystems often do a soft delete. https://lwn.net/Articles/462437/
Senior Google exec opposes remote work, moves to New Zealand to work remotely
I guess all I can do is grant you the fact that political science has had a difficult time proving the impact of money on policy in representative democracies.

But I also know it is not an accident that someone as wealthy as Elon Musk paid no federal income taxes in 2018 and pays very little in many years. As wealthy people concentrate more power, they bend the system to their favor - distorting both social systems and the markets.
You can (and always should) decouple the plan and apply steps. For a non terminal approach this can be done by outputting the binary plan to a plan file (with -out=path) and reviewing the plan terminal output which will show all actions Terraform will perform in human readable format. Then have the plan file be used as input for the apply step. The apply won't perform any other action that was not in the plan file (which matches the output that was reviewed) and if state of the environment it would apply to has changed in the meantime it will abort without causing undesired changes and you can restart the process again.

There is also the prevent_destroy[0] meta argument for resources but afaik it has no effect when you remove the resource from your .tf files[1], so it would not have helped in this case.

[0] https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/meta-arguments/lifecy...

[1] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/17599
copilot isn't distributing copies of itself either.
> In conclusion, BobbyJo deserved it and it was a right thing to do. Disrespectful? Yes, that's the point.

This is absolutely against HN guidelines, general common decency, and just pure logic. You do not get to decide who "deserves it" and who doesn't.

Even in cases where the information is easily found, there are polite ways to say that, and you appear to have intentionally chosen an impolite manner.
I've been keeping an eye out for anything like this. There's Sam Zeloof, doing one-offs in his home lab [1], and there's Libre Silicon [2] putting together their fab too, but the info there's more scarce.

Neither one has published an easily-replicable process, meaning I can't really repeat what they've done. IMO what this space needs is an open source build plan/BoM, with a cottage industry of people selling DiY and pre-assembled kits. Once the 3d printing community got there, that's when things took off -- before kits or at least build guides with proper BoMs, it was just disparate individuals doing their own thing.

Connect me with anyone who's got a good approach to building some sort of replicable open-source fab though, and I'll quit my job and join the project full-time (that's not a joke: I'm serious).

[1] http://sam.zeloof.xyz/category/semiconductor/
[2] https://libresilicon.com/
>There is no copyright for genes in nature

Since when are humans not a part of nature?
Or contain new chords that it synthesized from its knowledge of the ones the Beatles used.
So only going 0 to 2 and that’s it? Not sure I understand the use case.
Looking for feedback on new Mobile Game Beta
Hi, me and a friend just released a beta for a game we've been working on and are looking for people to beta test it. I thought this might be a good place to get some honest feedback. The link will have you put in your email and you'll get a message with a download link. It's currently only available on iOS but we plan to release an Android build in September. Anyway, we hope you enjoy it. It's very simple, but very fun (and maybe a little addicting lol).
In my opinion, databases are not cattle, and don't need to be automatically created (and destroyed!) in your main Terraform plan.

It's perfectly OK to have a completely separate Terraform project that just configures the DB initially (or even manually, I see lots of places running DB's that predate Terraform with immutable infrastructure for everything else), and applies minor non-destructive changes in the future. This way you get the benefits of IaC, but the DB plan doesn't participate with the rest of your infrastructure that IS ok to blow away and re-create at will.

BTW, Amazon RDS backups work the exact same way: Destroy the database and the backups are also destroyed. Therefore, same region automated RDS backups are fine for day-to-day, but in a true "DB goes poof" disaster you should expect that you WILL lose them too! You need cross-region, or even better, cross-account DB replication or snapshots to survive this.
I mean republicans are consumers too.

EDIT: apparently HN shills don't believe republicans are individuals who consume things? Are we not human now too? Come on this is ridiculous. Based on the last election, 'Republican' can include at least 75 million people. That is a significant portion of the country. What part of my statement was wrong.

Articles like this dehumanize republicans. If you're okay dehumanizing 75 million people, then I guess my statement is wrong.