skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a larger sense, that's a general trend of "innovation". Social media is just advertising that avoided regulation by being on the internet. Now it's rediscovering why public broadcasting laws are necessary. The whole gig economy is rediscovering why workers' rights & protections were invented. AirBnB is rediscovering why zoning and safety standards were created for hotels.

Nothing has really changed at all. Innovation seems more about inventing a way to do an old thing that feels new enough to avoid legal scrutiny until a company gets large enough and the public angry enough that laws create regulatory capture.
Yes, but also that you can't refill with gas on Mars. And of course we do have nuclear powered vehicles cruising around on Earth. We have also had nuclear powered bombers and cruise missiles, none of which were exactly successful, but not even the US DoD has ever suggested a nuclear powered helicopter. It would be a great introduction to our relationship with Mars if one of the first things we ever did was to spill plutonium across its surface when the helo crashed (as it would, eventually).
Breakfast is definitely a good place to start. We eat eggs for breakfast nearly every day in my home. It’s not as simple as cereal but scrambling a batch of eggs is not too bad.
> Care to explain how I'm paying for the "very wealthy, celebrities, and so on"?

Sure.

1) Look at financial crisis of 2008 and the banks bail out. I have always been taught there is no such thing as a free lunch in economics. Well, apparently you can overleverage yourself, profit insanely on it and when it finally goes tits up, you cry a bit and yell "too big to fail". I have always been taught that risk is the basic principle of capitalism. If your idea or product is bad, no one gives you money for it, you run out of money and go bankrupt. Obviously not if you are a bank or military contractor (looking at you, Boeing).

2) One of the biggest company in my country, owned by our current prime minister Andrej Babiš... oh sorry, it is owned by 2 trust funds which are indirectly owned by Babiš. Anyway, that company is currently asking for 123 million CZK in subsidies. This is a company with a turnover of 161 billion and 3,8 billion CZK profit. Why are they asking for subsidies? Can't they use ~3,24% of their last year's profit?

3) Continuation of previous point, except in US terms. You can strong arm government into giving you subsidies, otherwise you are gonna leave the city / state / country and it's gonna lose jobs. See here for examples: https://subsidytracker.goodjobsfirst.org/top-100-parents

One of the biggest recipients is Tesla. On this note I find it absurd that tax money collected from normal people is paying for a billionaire's wet dream. Notice how I said normal people. Because the rich have ways to steal... damn, sorry - evade... dang, I did it again. Avoid taxes is what I meant. https://itep.org/55-profitable-corporations-zero-corporate-t...

4) Look at coronavirus V-shaped recovery. It was apparent airlines are gonna be in a bit of a trouble, becaues of the... oh yeah, the global pandemic which put lockdowns in place. Anyway, airlines bought back stock and then asked for bailouts. Which they of course got. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/airlines/2020/03/18/amer...

I have stopped caring for explaining how you are paying for the very wealthy. If these examples above didn't sway you, nothing will.
Can I use this to write solidity contracts ?
GameMaker Studio 2 switching to a subscription model that includes exp. free ver
This is false dichotomy. Investment capital builds and improves all real estate. The real issue are zoning restrictions that limit supply and Fed policy that has flooded the system with few places to invest.
It's been suggested (but not proven) that amanita muscara inspired portions of Christmas mythology (Santa, flying reindeer, etc).

https://www.npr.org/2010/12/24/132260025/did-shrooms-send-sa...
Pizza alone accounts for a large fraction of junk food consumption. I was shocked to learn that more than one in five kids and teens eats pizza on any given day.

https://www.ars.usda.gov/ARSUserFiles/80400530/pdf/DBrief/11...

Overall, 13% of the U.S. population aged 2 years and over, consumed pizza on any given day. The percentage consuming pizza ranged from approximately 22% among older children (6-11 years) and adolescents (12-19 years) to less than 6% among older adults, 60 years and over
It sure would be interesting to see how much green house gasses and similar are emitted as a direct result of autoplay. It takes computing power and bandwidth and electricity. Much more than text and images. Autoplay is anti-environment, if you really think about it.

If you added up all of the electricity consumed from start to end for autoplay for all people who encounter it, and compare it to bitcoin mining, what do you think consumes more electricity globally? I don't factually know, but I have a guess.
Om Malik: So why is SpaceX buying Swarm?
How come most Linux desktop environments have it?
So, I'm gonna address the elephant in the room...

I don't know much about oilprice.com, but aside from the obvious information we can get from its name and general presentation, the first ad I see going on the site is a sponsored article from Saudi Aramco (the national Saudi oil company).

I'm confident saying this is the exact kind of lobbying outlet that would have the strongest incentives to deflect attention away from the oil industry by publishing articles about how the coal industry is worse, regardless of whether these articles actually help environmental policy.

That doesn't mean the article's claims are automatically false, just that we should be skeptical of them... and with this skepticism in mind, I'm not impressed with the headline "Top 5% Polluting Power Plants Account For 73% Of Global Emissions" implies that you could remove 73% of all CO2 emissions, whereas they're actually talking about CO2 emissions from electricity production, a much smaller fraction.

tldr Maybe there's an insight in there, but it's drowned in the corporate hot-potato throwing.
Most people don't care about the specific UI changes. But they feel frustrated and helpless when they have to relearn what they knew suddenly with no benefit to them.

Things like lower contrast aren't just about taste or getting used to it.
Sxmo is a minimalist environment for Linux mobile devices
> The ETH this person acquired cannot be confiscated.

That's only because there's no ETH. All there is is a ledger. And ledgers can be "ammended", as they have been in the past, effectively stealing the hacker's ETH back.
I've recently been cutting back on salt, and it's crazy how difficult that is. Even something seemingly benign like a bag of mixed frozen vegetables has so much salt added, a few hundred grams (a reasonable portion) would be almost my entire daily sodium intake. And for all that, it doesn't even taste well seasoned.

Gotta be careful and stick with the frozen vegetables which have nothing added.
> Symptoms can span localized pain or swelling, fever, ulceration, abscess, cough, chest pain, high fever, headache, anorexia, respiratory distress, abdominal discomfort, joint pain, disorientation, weight loss, stomach or chest pain, muscle or joint pain, and seizures, the CDC notes.

This is the first time I've heard of a bacteria causing anorexia or for that matter the first time I've seen anything (apart from possibly genetics) being a direct cause of anorexia
Wouldn’t an airship be a more viable option for a long term mission on Mars?
It'd be great to see more investment in antibiotics, and we need world governments to lead the charge. It'd be even better to see our current drug prohibition regime pivot from recreational drugs to antibiotics. Development of new, fantastic antibiotics is only a matter of time and money. We as a species have the capabilities, we just need to make the move.

Investment is a problem because ABX aren't profitable relative to other opportunities (in biotech / pharma, think cancer or Hep C). ABX cure, rather than treat, which means you have a single revenue event rather than recurring (chronic) revenues. Even in that space, Hep C was way more profitable. And if you're successful with ABX in a public health sense, the number of new cases generally goes down. Compare to a cancer drug, or a urinary incontinence drug, where that doesn't happen. There have been precious few new ABX developed in recent years. One is daptomycin ("Cubicin" in American marketing-speak). It was a few tens of thousands per course of treatment when it came out, pitched (and approved) as a narrow treatment for a very few indications, because that's how you have to sneak a new antibiotic through the system these days--you won't command high enough prices otherwise. It is, in fact, a broad-spectrum drug and I'm sure it's used off-label.

I think what we need to do to fix this is recognize it is a public health problem that the market is not forward-looking enough to fix, and use government power to fix it. We could do this by subsidizing the cost of pushing a new molecule through the FDA. Or we could, you know, fix the FDA and make their review processes more utilitarian and less costly...but that's bigger fish. There are limited government programs trying to do this at the moment.

A lot of the reason we see new, ABX-resistant strains in SE Asia is unrestrained use of our better drugs, which are cheap in generic form (ciprofloxacin, for example). We should be regulating ABX use with the fervor we now reserve for so many low-harm recreational substances. Perhaps we could just pivot that whole industry rather than taking them apart...
You can't just stop paying and take the credit score hit. If you're solvent then creditors can get a court order to seize your assets, and if you have a job then they can levy a portion of your pay. For small debts creditors might just write it off but if you owe a lot then they'll absolutely come after you.
Are you sure that this attitude is the minority?

I can easily go have fun with people outside of work, so I have no incentive to put up with the annoying parts of office work just to get to interact with people.
Yes, for the FAANG at which I was gainfully employed for a number of years.
Is there a Tank Driving test or something?
Politicians in areas with most climate risk tweet about it least
In my company (a famous company which builds trucks) they introduced those bullshit happiness surveys during Covid. So we coordinated so that the average of our marks were 1, 3, 4, 10, 5, 5, 10, 4, 3, 1, which is a Batman graph. Fortunately the “1” matches the first lockdown, but the managers are still wondering why the spikes at 10.
Pack him a lunch instead of letting him eat cafeteria food. A ham sandwich is a lot healthier than a slice of school pizza.
This is perhaps a good indicator that “processed versus unprocessed” isn’t a great signal for whether a particular fooditem should be part of one’s diet.

Using your cereal example: I grew up eating grape nuts[1], which are probably in the ultraprocessed category. But it’s just barley flour and I ate it like most people eat muesli (with fresh fruit) — what should that count as?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grape-Nuts
>but now it feels like the government can basically commandeer your property at will.

This is one of the scariest outcomes of the eviction moratorium. It is basically solidified the fact that you own nothing and the government can take and do with "your" property as it pleases when it pleases.

>you are just going to be left with large corporate landlords who are diversified enough that they can take the risk.

Again, so very true. Why do people think that big corporate landlords are going to be better than the small mom and pops they killed off? Soon everyone who rents will be paying to large kafkaesque monolith who makes you wait on the phone for 5 hours every time you have a problem.
I mean, arguably this is the issue with corporate bailouts— executives can take giant risks knowing that they'll reap the upside but be rescued on the public dime if it goes south and they can convince us all that they're too big to fail and "no one saw it coming." (Even the one bank that was allowed to fail—Bear Stearns—seem to have had the execs do pretty all right by themselves: https://www.businessinsider.com/bear-stearns-where-are-they-...)

I think in general I'm +0 on debt forgiveness for individuals. But it's not fair to speculate about the behaviours it would induce when we can observe already what related behaviours very much already induce.

IMO the real losers in a debt-forgiveness scenario are the "responsible" ones who avoided doing something beneficial in order to not be overstretched— or maybe were even prevented from taking on debt by structural/classist barriers around credit-worthiness, job status, etc.

For example, someone who now makes less money because they went to the cheaper state college, and has lived a simpler life afterward because they diligently paid it off every month. This person could be understood for feeling a bit crummy if they look over and a former peer who traveled far away for school, lived extravagantly, and rolled the debt forward for years now enjoys having it disappear in a poof.
> The "language models don't really understand anything"

This is still true. By all account, human doesn't need to read 159GB of Python code to write Python, or we simply can't.

But it doesn't necessarily indicate language models aren't useful.
That'd be difficult in Mars' atmosphere -- but the planned *Titan* helicopter will actually be RTG powered:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfly_(spacecraft)#Design_...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18947350 ("NASA May Decide This Year to Land a Drone on Saturn's Moon Titan")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20337042 ("A technical look at the Dragonfly Titan mission")

>"Flight on Titan is aerodynamically benign as Titan has low gravity and little wind, and its dense atmosphere allows for efficient rotor propulsion.[35] The radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG) power source has been proven in multiple spacecraft, and the extensive use of quad drones on Earth provides a well-understood flight system that is being complemented with algorithms to enable independent actions in real-time.[35]"
https://etherscan.io/txs?a=0xf8b5c45c6388c9ee12546061786026a...

binance charity and donations to archive.org, etherscan, infura.io, rekt... and Vitalik!
That's what I get for Googling "8 light minutes in km".
the tire pile arrangements look different than in the photo in the article

Is it possible they have moved some of the tires out of the way to create a fire break?
I don't understand how they expect tenants to be able to backpay all the rent if they weren't able to work due to the pandemic.

If they were prevented from working or lost their jobs due to the Government lockdowns it only seems fair the Government pays their rent.
Changing away from a career in tech could be a one-way operation. Future employers may read a five-year foray into an unrelated type of work as a negative, and make it harder to find a job similar to what you did before.
Obligatory plug for Dragonfly: https://www.nasa.gov/dragonfly/dragonfly-overview/index.html

You _can_ use nuclear power similar to the rover if the lift / weight isn't prohibitive. That means a bigger copter in a thicker atmosphere and lower gravity. Since the power is generated by temperature gradients, cold helps too.

Perfect for Titan.
I gave up sugar in my coffee ~4 teasoons a day without any problems, but salt I am finding is more difficult to avoid.
I did not renew leases and instead sold my properties. Seemed like a good time for selling and mass evictions is not something I wanted to be a part of as a mom-and-pop landlord.
The opposite claim 'humans are okay lackin meaningful work' also needs a citation, as its easily demonstrably false in history.

Contrary to popular belief our civilization is not the only one that has come close to being able to provide basically all its needs. Many other civilizations have and eventually the class whose needs are provided for disintegrates due to their own decay. We will make claims that the 'barbarians' sacked rome, and while this is technically true, they are not the reason for the decline of the Roman Empire. The truth is, by the time the barbarians attacked, rome was a shell of its former self. In times past, the Roman army would have put an end to the barbarians. But the societal decay from the elites of the empire meant the systems that preserved them there slowly fell into disrepair.

Broadly speaking we are witnessing the same thing now except at a grander scale because now even for the lower classes it's not obvious they need to work.
lmao; copyright muted so you can't even hear them speaking.
> a long list of negativity

I am a Firefox user since Firefox 4 (2011). The thing is, that negativity was not there prior to 2017.

I'm guessing they are making the assumption that if they keep approximating towards a Chrome clone, that it will somehow reduce the friction of new users joining. This a colossal strategy mistake from corporate/product people.

They cannot compete with Chrome/Edge on a massively unleveled playing field. They either have some giant corporate deal to come pre installed on devices other than linux distros or they accept that it will be a niche browser that wins users over by having killer features privacy/foss ethos etc.

The decision of removing things that were previously customizable or remove features because only a few hundreds of thousands of people use, is alienating users. In the discussions I always read Mozilla staff arguing that this is a vocal minority but the reality is that irrespective of which statistics you look at they lost a huge chunk of marketshare last year.

The way they are refusing to engage with the community on this matter is creating a lot of frustration. WONTFIX is pretty much a meme in Bugzilla at this point.

Firefox needs to refocus on being Firefox instead of half-trying to compete with other browsers.
We need browser diversity and we absolutely need non chromium browsers in particular. I hope they will turn this around and engage with the community and user voice.
Good: https://goactualize.com/blogs/news/the-cure-for-obesity-is-p...
The attitude that the oceans are huge and that it is just a minor event here or there that could not possibly affect the sea a lot is exactly the source of the problem. A fire here, a garbage patch there, some mercury from gold mining, ... it just adds up.
I suspect that those evicted will [understandably] have a tough time passing the rental application/credit/history check for their next place. Why would a landlord rent to anyone who is looking for an apartment right after the eviction moratorium expires without doing significant investigation into "are they looking for a place because they got evicted?" vs "are they looking for a place because they chose to move?"

It's far better to have an empty unit than a unit occupied by someone not paying rent. I remember having to show canceled rent checks as part of the application process for a new place. If I were a landlord, this [or an equivalent] would become part of the application process.
I have been training the crows in my neighbourhood to solve puzzles. They visit me every day now.

One goal I'm really excited about is to see if they can solve a puzzle that requires two crows to work together, because I've only seen videos of individual crows solving puzzles online. Can you tell me more about the teamwork that you're referring to? Are there videos or papers I can look at? I'm super curious!

Thanks!
The complete lack of rigor and the use of shock-headlines around "ultra-processed" foods drives me nuts. It conveys very little useful information.

Pharmaceuticals are ultra-processed and completely unnatural, yet many of them are life-saving. Clearly then, mere act of processing something doesn't make the thing bad for you.

It shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody that constantly horking down Mountain Dew, Little Debbie snack cakes, and Doritos isn't good for you. We all know this, we don't need a headline for it.

Give me some useful information. What are reasonable thresholds for these junk foods? How about for specific ingredients?

Ranting and raving out of the way, do yourself a favor and skip to the UN Food and Agricultural Organization classification document [1] linked in the article. It actually answers some of the questions I posed.

[1]: http://www.fao.org/3/ca5644en/ca5644en.pdf
Seen this before too.

1. Company makes unpopular decision (cuts a benefit, partners with someone unpopular, enforces some tedious process to make management life earlier)

2. Next poll season comes round

3. Shock, results are down

4. Declare an aggregate engagement measure as an action item which incorporates both the happiness metric but others such as understanding of company strategy

5. Declare the problem with this metric are line managers not conveying company direction well enough

6. Declare you're taking action by measuring line management on this metric

7. A bunch of ensuing makework on something execs think is important (at a certain size, a singular company vision is just too generic for line employees to care), yet they sell it as taking action
Obviously it's not Joe Biden. And it's not an "evil" conspiracy of mustache-twirling villains, either, although it may seem that way if you don't agree with their worldview, which is not exactly secret.

We know there is a global elite who have virtually unlimited financial resources and massive influence over nearly every key institution on the planet, including intelligence agencies. Some of them publicly attend meetings like the one in Davos. And yes, that includes names like Rothschild, Soros, and Gates. These are incredibly smart and hardworking people, and because of their powerful positions, they have an enormous responsibility over the governance of the planet. It's not all about money; this group has control over monetary policy, and are therefore above the fray of being divided into abstract economic units.

This group is making decisions like enacting free trade policies that reduce opportunities for the American middle class in order to more equally distribute opportunities to developing countries. Or creating surveillance networks to prevent catastrophic events which may include nuclear, biological, or cyber attacks that could threaten the global order and feasibly be deployed by a small group of individuals. Obviously, these policies give this group an enormous amounts of control over populations, but it's easy to argue it's for the greater good.

Something like CASM is more like a Noble Lie used to manufacture consent for a vital tool needed to advance their agenda, for lack of a better word. The tech community, for the most part, knows it's bullshit. But the media will control the narrative (or just ignore it), and the tech community will sound like paranoid nerdy pedophiles.

If you feel like CSAM is an overreach, then please continue to pay attention as the cyber-pandemic narrative gears up. Although anti-vaxxers are currently in the spotlight, you may have more in common with them than you think.
> I think the shock will be releasing the dam all at once after you've held back all of the water in its entirety for over a year instead of letting it trickle naturally

There was no "trickle naturally".

Unemployment rate February/April 2020: 3.5/14.8%

Now combine this with:

- Higher chance to be crippled by healthcare debt

- 78% of US workers live paycheck to paycheck (2017)
Also know as the holodeck from Star Trek.
If we didn't have oxygen and oil, we probably would.
FWIW execution guided code synthesis is a thing. Get a few possible outputs and ditch those that don't pass a parser as an example. At least in the SQL generation realm this is well worth the time it takes to tack onto a large language model.