skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It wasn’t a no true Scotsman, but simply stating an area where generative content has a particular implication. You clearly read it closer than many would, and I almost commented on that. I also think that perhaps some background on the publication and author might relieve some of your specific cynicism.

As for fascination and terror, it is not about GPT-3 itself, but the larger question of our utility in the face of an imagined AI’s eventual capability. Heck, some degree of novelty can be generated by Markov chains, chatbots or Mad Libs.

Further, the fact you are implying the dead are more important than the living dealing with loss would make me a the values by which you determine what is sacred.
Oh wow, you made my day so much worse with just one link!
In other settings I can add a new feature to one of my dependencies and start using it within days or weeks. You're telling me you prefer having to wait years to get any newly implemented feature?
Grab an image with non-free firmware and drivers included (for WiFi, GPU, etc): https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/image...

Put the image on a USB stick, boot from it into Live mode or start the installer, which is quite good.
You also should add “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
> If they are doing CGNAT further into the infrastructure, how would I even be able to tell at this point?

Check the IP on your WAN interface of your modem? I mean, that's how I have always been checking for CGNAT.
macOS 12 will also scan uploads to iCloud and I'm pretty sure iMessage for minors will also have the backdoor active. So, macOS is as vulnerable as iOS.
https://www.amazon.com/Penn-Tennis-Balls-Case-Extra/dp/B001C...

It's Saturday morning. I can get 45 balls delivered Monday.

Click-bait shortage-mongering?
Please explain how something "is X" and "is not X" at the same time, without changing the definition of X between assertions, and without referring to quantum superposition.
are we talking about someone that believes in free speech, a free press, private property, the Rule of Law, opposes cancel-culture, believes in social policies, free elections, Separation of church & State, supports a progressive taxation, abhors violence as a way to change govt, and generally supports the constitution?

Or, are we talking about someone that believes in controlled/regulated speech, a controlled press, speech codes, reductions in private property, Law as a living construct, supports cancel-culture, thinks of the State as the Church, wants massive wealth redistribution, supports violence as a means to change govt, and does not support the constitution?
I'm sad this conversation has been flagged. It does not reflect well on the HN community that we can't discuss the topic of how to confer immunity in a rational way.
Then again, at the height of the times, the registries handed out one /8 per month more or less, so whatever small pockets of (seemingly) unused /8s, or /10s you can find, gives you weeks to delay your ipv6 transition.
That's not a realistic analogy because driving is a privilege you must earn, not a human right.
Debian upgrades between major versions are supported and tested (contrary to other OSes). Reading the release notes of 11 is a good idea though :).
That is super helpful. I've done a little bit of research on this, but apparently not nearly enough because I haven't really thought that much before about the distraction angle at all; I assumed if I got the contrast right for everyone, that there just wouldn't be any other problems with color.

I guess this is a good argument for not just testing in grayscale, but at least thinking about actually shipping the grayscale mode or individual color channel adjusters. Because I know in a worst case scenario that a grayscale test will be accurate to what people see if I provide a toggle that turns it on in the final product.

Just... yeah, to your point, need to make sure that whatever colorblind mode is shipped is actually an improvement :)
Well, let's wait and see. Apple wants it to be easy for semi-technical people to write apps.
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
This is just the attitude of bored people online who comment on politics and imagine themselves as keyboard warriors. Most people have genuine problems that consume their lives instead.
It's more fair to compare Presidents with George Washington than with their predecessors. I can't imagine George Washington standing in front of a church holding a bible upside-down, or advocating that people ought to put cleaning fluids into their lungs.
> is a paradoxical effect of (amongst other measures) masks

Also an 100% known and predictable effect.
I know this is going to be extremely controversial here, but bear with me. They gave customers more power for the same money. For those of us who don't really care too much about emissions, why should we be mad at Volkswagen? If anything we should be happy.
There is a discussion on the topic here: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=976811

> The timing of this request makes me uneasy: php8.0 has been in Debian for less than a week, and we are a month away from the transition freeze.

> My point of view after actually working on those issues is that there is a significant number of packages that are not working just fine with PHP 8.0, and require a fair amount of work before that. Some of them being security sensitive, so just working around visible issues may not be of the best interest of anyone…

And by the time the maintainers decided to go with 8.0, they missed the deadline:

> The transition freeze has started, so we'll not transition to php8.0 in bullseye.
China’s Port Shutdown Raises Fears of Closures Worldwide
Sometimes doing the right thing is hard. We need to give kids the right masks (it’s true, cloth masks don’t do anything, but multi layer/N94/95 do reduce transmission). We need to teach kids to wear them properly, and train staff to keep up with them. A small datapoint obviously, but my child’s (< age 6) school mandates at least 3 layer masks. The kids can choose patterns and designs to match their clothes and do fine wearing them. They have had zero covid cases since day 1.
Or just use the Debian Alternatives system to install PHP 8.0 and make it the system default:

https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

Once setup, one command can toggle between your version and the Debian repo version as the system default.

DA is great, I used it for years on Ubuntu to override Debian's older default versions, or to install anything I wanted to build from source.

I eventually migrated over to NixOS because, in a way, NixOS takes the concept of Debian Alternatives and applies it to the entire OS.
It would be like a cross between RSS reader and podcast app. So I can listen to my favorite blogs instead of reading them. And the list would update from the RSS feed. It would probably require some text cleaning like [1] and a good text-to-speech API.

[1] https://newspaper.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
I just checked and `openjdk-15-jdk` `openjdk-16-jdk` are only on sid/unstable - which `openjdk-17-jdk` is only on testing.

So yeah, the only alternative is mixing version which is playing with fire.

These seems like pretty basic distro problems, no? Since no one seems bothered I figured I was missing some obvious solution.
I feel you. Sometimes I browse projects on GitHub and I'm astonished by what people can do and I can't. Example, OpenCore[0], a famous bootloader in the Hackintosh scene. How can people even start to code this.. Awewome work, awesome people.

[0]: https://github.com/acidanthera/OpenCorePkg
The abusive tactic known as DARVO begins with downplaying, denying or deflecting. I sure read a lot of those things in this article. I hope the author learns more rhetorical techniques, the one they used here made them come across as abusive.
I turned down a pretty big publishing contract today
When considering opportunity cost, it’s more time efficient, imho, to live a life well lived and buy lottery tickets than spend decades to “earn” a billion when it’s more luck than “hard work.” You can do everything right and still fail (startup failure, early employee dilution, etc). You can also fail your way to being a billionaire (Adam Neumann @ WeWork). Best to recognize the sham (most startups fail, most startup equity ends up worthless or at parity with what you would’ve earned as wages elsewhere) before you’ve spent too much precious time on it you can never buy back. Survivorship bias is rampant in the startup scene, Silicon Valley even more so.

One of my side projects is a website where you can convert startup equity offers to the number of lottery tickets you need to buy to have equal odds of financial success (while working a more stable and/or lucrative job), it’s just not done yet. I hope to share it soon!

TLDR Don’t work at a startup, get exposure to that asset class or equivalent returns via other means. You’re just making founders and investment funds wealthy with your precious time.
In Linux allocations can fail in some situation, for example in case it's set a resource limit on memory, because it was set a memory rlimit for the process, or the cgroup that contains the process runs out of memory (so if you run the program in a container with constrained memory).
Well. Maybe we do live in some sort of simulation. That would imply there is some code running on some substrate of whatever nature. Code has errors, and bitrot on storage media is universal. So deviations from that plan resulting from bugs and bitrot could be the free will :-)
They can scan before sharing a file, like Dropbox does.
There's no real rationale, of course. It's just trolling. But the kind of reaction we're seeing from the Perl community is just as disappointing. The worst possible reaction to a blatant trolling attempt like that is to make a huge deal out of it. Just remove the trollishly-named packages and revoke the person's CPAN commit access until they grow up and apologize for wasting everyone's time. Everything else is just pointless.
It's not just the sugar, it's the sugar in combination with other ingredients. Even the example you gave the fat is 10x as high and obviously has no fibre.

The nutrient density of fruits is magnitudes higher than sweets.

And water mass matters as it contributes to satiety vs grams of food consumed.
Insulting others as having mental problems because you aren’t able to relate seems to belie a pretty large lack of tact, much less an ability to empathize.
They don’t draw out the comparison, but they do mention the protection.
Apart from obvious disasters, nature has also killed pretty much every human that has been born, so far.

It seems pretty good at what it does! :)
> President of the United States Thomas Jefferson – fearing that slaves gaining their independence would spread to the United States – stopped sending aid that began under his predecessor John Adams and pursued international isolation of Haiti during his tenure.[3]

This skips over the context of why people absolutely feared the idea of slaves gaining freedom after the Haitian Revolution.

The reason for that was the genocide carried out against non-black Haitians. [1] Even those people who actively opposed slavery, including children, were murdered. Americans feared that if slaves were freed, they'd all be raped and murdered as well

I'm not here to justify slavery or anything. But people 200 years ago didn't consider all races equal, and they were especially put off by the events that transpired in Haiti and wanted to actively prevent anything similar from happening in their own hometown.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1804_Haiti_massacre
We also support socialistic elements too.

In the Marxist sense, we are a synthesis . Our competition is most likely the Chinese Communists which have broadly adopted capitalism, but retain the oligarchic power structures at the top, and state control of enterprises. They represent a different synthesis
The Access Guides and the Contradictions of Design
From the article -

Modernism here has become a rote exercise ten times removed from its origins, reduced from an analytical procedure that stood for a new world to a cliche that stands for the old.
Both sides have a tendency to cry wolf. Bush was awful, but he wasn't Hitler. Romney was treated particularly unfairly during his presidential run.

Regardless of one's feelings on Trump, it's clear that he wasn't treated entirely fairly by the media from the start. Sure, for a while they would tiptoe around calling him out for outright lies, but I also saw how his words and actions would at times be twisted and presented with with bad faith or the worst possible meaning taken as a presumption.

He may have been extraordinarily corrupt, and a constant embarrassment to the country on Twitter, but in terms of policy he was a relatively vanilla conservative. I've even given him credit for being the first president to enter office supporting same-sex marriage, and more broadly I don't dislike the libertarian-ish element of his base that also supports that in addition to legal weed.

None of the above negates the fact that Trump and his allies spent at least the second half of 2020 attempting to subvert our electoral process, came very close to succeeding, and then attacked the United States with intent to violently usurp control of the government. It doesn't negate that Trump-inspired white nationalist militias are currently the greatest domestic terror threat in America, while Trump continues to stoke their anger with lies. Whether his coup was "fascist" or parallels the actions of 34-year-old Adolf Hitler is irrelevant. I'll criticize the left for crying wolf as loudly as anyone; it doesn't logically follow that wolves don't exist.
> In a 2016 Slack message that was quoted in the BuzzFeed article, Mr. Mikkelson explicitly outlined this strategy. “Usually when a hot real news story breaks (such as a celebrity death), I just find a wire service or other news story about it and publish it on the site verbatim to quickly get a page up,” he wrote. “Once that’s done, then I quickly start editing the page to reword it and add material from other sources to make it not plagiarized.”

Interesting article, I'm not sure I feel the above approach to be that egregious
> I am not sure how many users (outside of the ones who got used to it) want UNIX-like flexibility vs "give me an app that does everything I need". If the later group keeps getting larger the walled garden approach to apps might actually work.

I think this is crux of the matter. Even outside the Apple ecosystem I see a tendency in people to not think about composing multiple tools but to look for an app that does everything.

I'm talking about my colleagues, working in IT, but in a Windows environment.

And on Windows there's PowerShell, which, although slow and to me not as flexible as bash, still allows one to do quite a lot of things. But people seem to see using it as a last resort, when there's absolutely no way of doing what they want by clicking around some window.
Wood Pellets: Green Energy or New Source of CO2 Emissions? (2015)
OP didn't say anything about reducing fat intake. Aspartame is a sugar substitute, OP talked about switching from sweetened beverage to unsweetened beverage neither of which has any fat. OP also said "your teeth will thank you" which again is an association between sugar and tooth decay, of which fat plays no part. Fat is a nonsequitur here; the linked article is about a sugar substitute.

The nutrient density of desserts is magnitudes higher. Carbohydrates, protein, and fat are the primary nutrients. You must mean micronutrients, i.e. individual amino acids, vitamins, and minerals. Of these, the snickers bar does quite well with amino acids thanks to the peanuts, but yes, a serving of strawberries will give you vitamin c which the snickers won't.

However, that single vitamin is the only real difference in micronutrient quality!

The fruit and candy are both negligible 2-10% amounts for the remainder. They're also very similar on mineral content, with the candy providing 8-10% dv on 5 minerals, while the fruit provides 7% and 29% of two minerals, the rest negligible in both, averaging 5.6% dv for the fruit or 7.6% dv for the candy across the ten minerals.

I already addressed water mass and caloric density, but for completeness I will say again that you're getting these very comparable amounts of micronutrients for a tenfold caloric difference.
Ask HN: What DBMS would you recommend for read-intensive geospatial queries?
I want to develop a game that will let user pin objects to the world map with a timeout value after which that object will not be visible anymore (user can also set an infinite timeout that will leave the object visible on the map forever). Each user that is playing will see these objects coming and going, particularly they will see objects that are located on the visible map.

Right now the only query that I would like to serve FAST is (I don't care about super precise results):
"Given a rectangle of the user's map visible area, return all the objects that are inside it"

OR something similar:
"Given a user location, return all the objects that are within a certain radius specified by the user"

It's the first time I am dealing with geospatial data and geospatial indexes. I have seen that Elasticsearch is a good starting point for giant data and little queries. I have also taken a look at PostGIS which I liked a lot and seemed to be a good DBMS for the geospatial task above. What I am concerned about right now is scaling this service (which probably is not the priority right now but I want to be prepared in case this is going to work).

I've never tried to benchmark these kind of queries but this seems to be a very read-intensive task, I imagine that 500 queries per seconds is going to be very hard to keep up with, but this are just my unproven thoughts. Also keep in mind that I will probably need to remove rows that have their timeout value expired (maybe every 10-5 minutes?) so triggers will need to be fired over the giant database.

Again, I have no experience with this and this is probably a very bad implementation of the game, but I am here to ask you for advice on this.

What DBMS would you recommend for this task?
What kind of optimizations would you apply to this problem?
> If you underestimate this pandemic, you are a fool.
I don’t, but fortunately, it’s just a little factor for children.

> If you advocate others to underestimate this, you are a menace.
If you advocate for interventions that harm children, which are barely affected, you are a menace.

Your 1 and 2 just point towards Delta being the most dominant variant, which surprises no one.

[1] https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2782164

Long Covid in kids. No significant difference between seronegative and seropositive children.

[2] https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.11.21257037v...

Long Covid in kids. Simular conclusion. The paper poses the question: “suggests that Long-COVID19 might be less common than previously thought and emphasizing the impact of pandemic-associated symptoms regarding the well-being and mental health of young adolescents.”.

[3] https://ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13054-01...

Invasive ventilation by itself leads to neurological symptoms.
Shortage of something? Let me try to do without.

No wait, let me try to order 24 (24 for goodness sake) tennis balls online!
From the article:

Riedel's complaint to the board points out that this isn't Spek's first racism rodeo. CPAN still offers downloads containing a 2017-era tarball from Spek with a folder named "perl6-n[word]". We downloaded the linked file and can verify that it's still available from CPAN, and it does in fact contain that folder.
Wildfire Incident Commander Responds to Social Media Criticism
I actually haven't tried doing multiple installs in the same container, but there's no reason why it wouldn't work as far as I know. It would be easy to change the installer to let you do that.

Though there isn't much of a difference for Linux; you can't actually share the Recovery image (since it's per-OS, even within a single Recovery volume), and since you need to repartition to create standard Linux partitions anyway (since linux-apfs isn't quite at the point where you'd want to use it as your root filesystem as far as I know...) it doesn't make much of a difference if you create a 2.5G stub container too, and makes it much easier to blow away the entire Linux install without affecting macOS. Perhaps in the future, when linux-apfs is solid enough, it would be interesting to support this in the installer in order to have a fully space-sharing dual-boot macOS/linux system, without partitioning.

Also, U-Boot would have to grow APFS support in order to have a truly all-APFS system :) (we plan to use U-Boot as a layer for UEFI services and such, so you don't have to burn kernels into the m1n1 image, which would suck for upgrades).
I asked for data to support your claim that masks stunt social development in school age (5+) children.
The Unix shell was exceptionally good for its time. Powershell, IMHO, go it right by not sending strings but objects around. This gets you around the issue of spaces and means you can send more than one value.

I haven't been able to play with the shortcuts functionality because I don't have an iPhone, but if it is what I think it is it, it is a powerful tool to do things with.

We shouldn't fail to acknowledge that most, if not all, spend more time consuming than creating.

Then you have the group that isn't served with something as powerful as a real computer. My grandparents would be much better served with an iPad instead of a computer, since all they need is a browser and a system to do video calls.
> Lots of classes function are infeasible to compute, but they're deterministic nevertheless.

Exactly, and it also depends on the timescale and precision you're looking for.

It should be obvious that planets in our own solar system aren't showing up at unpredictable locations after a few years, even though our solar system has significantly more than 3 bodies in orbit.

The chaotic behavior in these systems shows up eventually but it's a mistake to think that it's chaotic from the start. We can, and do, predict these systems quite accurately around the starting conditions and time.

The philosophical mistake in the OP's comment is equating a hands-off chaotic system (n-body problem) with a system that has many feedback loops (a person's life). Planets orbiting in space can't take action to change their trajectories. Humans navigating their lives can and do take actions to change their trajectories.

Humans can make moves to correct their own course. Planets cannot. Equating the two is a misunderstanding of personal agency.
Interestingly though, when asked Americans rate luck as much less important in financial success than other cultures. Euro countries in particular are more comfortable attributing a higher fraction of their success to luck than those in the US. And by asked I mean a reasonable well designed study… I can’t find the ref just now but will post if I do when home again.
Here is link to author's previous blog series about Europa Universalis IV: https://acoup.blog/2021/04/30/collections-teaching-paradox-e...

Vic II was the first paradox game I played seriously. Later I bought EUIV after playing Victoria II, and while it naturally has prettier graphics and UI and maybe "better" designed, I was disappointed that EUIV didn't have the pops model.
Also in CFNetwork. Probably a one line change to replace all session keys with an Apple generated symmetric key.
> Do not do in infrastructure what can be done in code.

While I agree, I just wanted to point out that Terraform allows defining infrastructure as code.