skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller

Lulu Miller, a host of the Invisibilia podcast, turns what at first is a simple story about an obsessive taxonomist, David Starr Jordan, into a deeply personal and poignant exploration of the chaos that rules are lives. This part-historical non-fiction, part memoir brilliantly sets itself up for a grand reveal at the end that will stick with you long after you finish. By far my favorite of the 62 books that I read and one of the best books that I have ever read.
Overdoses are something like 10x higher than 20 years ago. I know there may be some cause for this that isn’t related to medical profession or BigPharma, but we are clearly doing something wrong today that we weren’t doing 20 years ago.
Are you concerned about name collision with dark matter coffee?
Now that we have the MA law, how come CA doesn't have something similar ? Is there something in the works ? Usually, CA is at the forefront of vehicle compliance laws.
This would be amazing on iOS.

I saw an issues thread from 2017 (https://bitbucket.org/heldercorreia/speedcrunch/issues/702/s...) that discussed porting to iOS but nothing since.

What are the GPL implications of porting this to Swift even with putting all source on a public GitHub/BitBucket repo because of the App Store?
I definitely think it is. However “old” and “boring” are not precise terms. Perhaps a more accurate way to define the rule would be: “Prefer the oldest, battle proven, known to the team tech that can do the job.” For example if long polling and WebSockets are both capable of doing what you need to get done then pick long polling. Because it is older, more used, proven, used by many web applications out there, compatible with everything on the planet, and known to the team.
Numbers does not mean much in this case, you can follow 1400 people/bots but be exposed to a subset that generally agrees with what's socially accepted and thus have a false impression of free thought. For an instance you can't follow those that were banned or left on their volition.

I'm disgusted by your unsolicited insinuation. What you said, for me, it's similar to someone saying that Navalny might be a criminal because you know many people and don't recall any of them being arrested. It's ignorant and patronizing at the same time.

In this post-truth era it's not uncommon for someone to be falsely accused and persecuted. It's not uncommon for someone to be cancelled just for not agreeing with the mass. In my experience, if hate speech and pseudo science were to be truly banned Twitter would cease to exist.

Also, if you follow ~1400 people how can you be sure that many of those weren't banned or shadow banned?
In other words, your trust is anchored by Twitter or GitHub. I have to gauge that the key I got was uploaded by you rather than someone else and the thing building that trust is by linking it to an identity established on those services.

PGP had the same problem: the web of trust didn’t scale well outside of existing communities – and where people signed keys for strangers, they also relied on trusted third parties (driver’s license, student ID, etc.) to establish that.
My recollection is that the recipient of the claim could also voluntarily waive DMCA immunity over that specific claim by consciously deciding not to honor it. I don't know how to substantiate that recollection, though, and even if that's right, it would definitely be a heightened risk for the service provider to choose to take on.
ok dang, I knew this was forward, but I did not expect a 'flag'

my bad, I will do better
> In the future, people will be trying to please the algorithm. They will double-check if what they are doing right now could be considered by algorithms as something strange, something that most people wouldn’t do.

That's the real "Terminator" of today. It's not time-travelling killer robots (yet?). It's letting algorithms deciding the fate of humans. That's especially problematic if the developers of those algorithms don't even understand them (yes, I'm looking at you, neutral networks).

Tinder is one thing, but imagine some algorithm identifies you as a terrorist. E.g., via cameras at every airport. My favorite example is a couple that ordered a steam cooker and a backpack online. Some days later some federal agents knocked at their door. Apparently, these two items raise flags in their algorithms.
Yardbird's Effective Usenet Tradecraft, Survival in an Adversarial Env
I run an https://hanami.run email forwarding service with advanced features:

- SMTP
- Maillog: which can eanble you to use IMAP
- API integration to read email as JSON
- WebHook
- Complex routing with regex and custom rule from header
- Sieve filter

Note: We're re-branding to https://mailwip.com due to nameconflict with hanamirb.org
Probably not (I mean, really...if you're otherwise invested, it's unlikely this one thing would make you go through the hassle.)

That said...it might be the LAST one you buy, and you'll take the opportunity to tell everyone you know how slimy the manufacturer is.

Potentially much more financially damaging than one person returning one car.

(I'm looking at YOU, Samsung.)
Lick it up: Japan professor creates 'tele-taste' TV screen
It depends on where you live and the kind of earthquakes that occur there.

I spent a couple of years in Chile, where deep earthquakes are common. Anything below magnitude 5 was often not even noticeable. Magnitude 5 earthquakes happened a few times a year in the area, and they were business as usual. The ground shook a little, there was some noise, and tall buildings were swaying afterwards. I experienced one magnitude 6 earthquake, which was a bit scary, but it didn't do any noticeable damage and the locals didn't seem to care.

Now I live in California, where earthquakes are rarer and more shallow. Magnitude 4 is already noticeable, and I guess magnitude 5 could do some local damage.

The biggest immediate danger is usually getting hit by flying/falling debris. Outdoors, you should get away from trees, power lines, traffic signs, buildings, etc. Indoors, you should avoid windows and tall furniture such as bookshelves, and maybe take shelter under a sturdy table or in a doorway.
It's sad they introduced two kind of classes: "value" and these "kinds" together with both classes and records, java becomes much more complicated IMO.
The Great Gospel of John - Jakob Lorber
Appealing in theory, but not necessarily attainable in practice.

I use Rust to write CPython extensions... it's a well-known fact that GCs are solitary creatures and you're in for a lot of hassle if you want two different GCs to play nicely together.

I use Rust for all sorts of things because I like the high floor Rust sets for the crates I depend on, and I pair that with being more likely to rewrite or find an alternative for a dependency that uses `unsafe` in a context I don't feel it's merited.

A lot of what the borrow checker brings is fundamentally about requiring the programmer to be more precise about what they intend, rather than patching the cracks with extra CPU/RAM or waiting until runtime and hoping it won't come up.

My main concern here is the risk of Rust running into a more minor version of what happened to D, where you effectively had two language ecosystems and the one with a GC and all the libraries wasn't an alternative to C or C++ and wasn't a very appealing alternative to Java.
Why not mine more if it is this easy? What are your electricity costs?
> AWS then stopped providing service to Parler due to the content they were hosting exposed by this action. Well within their rights! But they excuse the same sort of content hosed by Twitter....

AWS cut off Parler after several months of moderation problems (https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/29095511/parler-llc-v-a...). They weren't motivated by Parler being hacked.
Huh? Driving laws are working really quite well on the standards of comparison to their total abolition?
I just make sure that I will net $20 before I commit to purchasing an item from the thrift shop. This is:

final eBay sale price
- eBay fees
- shipping // unless you have the buyer pay actual shipping
costs
- the cost I paid for the item
--------------------------------------
my net profit (hopefully more than $20 for my time and effort)

last week this happened:

two refrigerator filters new in package ($3.99 each) - selling on eBay for about $40 each - retail for about $50 each.
My total sale price was $69.95 for both (I undercut the lowest listing by a dollar or so and offered 'free' shipping)

My shipping cost was about $5. My eBay fees were about $10 - they take quite a chunk.
$70 - 25 = $45 profit

I probably could have held onto them longer, charging a higher price and not offering 'free' shipping, but sales have been slow because I haven't been buying much so I made them too good to pass up.

$45 for about 20 minutes of hustle isn't terrible. It took me all of 3 minutes to list them on eBay. I plopped them on my kitchen table, snapped a picture of them, searched for the same item in the 'sold' section of eBay. Clicked 'sell one like this' link, filled in a price, selected a shipping option and clicked 'post'.
Air taxis are unlikely to become as common as the industry hopes.

But helicopters are already viable. Increase reliability, drop upfront/operating costs an order of magnitude, and make it autonomous to remove cost of a pilot; then you have a lot more cases where it would be a viable option.
> How do you folks in the west ever get any work done?

Twitter is very much not real life.
It's not open source versus closed source, and loss of money is never irrelevant.

It's the alignment of what I value (security, safety, government guarantees) versus what you value, which is ... well I don't know.

I feel it's one of the following though:

Decentralized trust is great for the world.

And/Or

You have a huge stake in crypto, and you need others to believe in it as well, or your crypto assets will fail.

I just can't tell whether you're in it for the money or to change society. It's fine if it's both, but your arguments justifying crypto don't share the greed angle.

I just feel like people should know who they're arguing with.
You seemed to miss the part where I don't give a fuck about what you think, so, let me underscore that.
I stumbled on this fascinating article while reading about Charlie Parker on Wikipedia (nicknamed "Yardbird" because of his fondness for eating chicken). The article is one of the references in this other entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yardbird
you're taking me too seriously. I'm sardonically pointing out that the parameters for the original statement to be possible exist, but they are at least two standard deviations over the median reader of HN, even, thereby supporting the sentiment of the parent post (if not the letter of the parent post), not undermining it.
y’all got it twisted
Since iOS 12 or 13.
I kinda have hard time believing a lot of people would report а Merry Christmas post as discriminatory. I'd believe it about any other political post, and I know there are some people who are triggered by any mention of religious holidays, but there wouldn't be hundreds of them flocking to brigade а relatively obscure Canadian politician. It just doesn't look like a realistic scenario. I think it's a pure artificial idiocy. I may have some conspiratorial thoughts about why artificial idiocy FB is designing leans in this particular direction, but since I don't have any data I'd just leave it at that.
If it's Apple only, and moreover requires iCloud, why would I not just use iMessage?
I’m in favor of people contributing to society and I find meaningful work to be necessary to my own well-being but the idea that people need to make something productive in order to compensate others who do is laughable in a world where capital gains are so superior to wages.
I've never seen an employment contract, period. I'm in the US and have always worked as an employee, not a contractor.
When Bell was broken up, it was into regional companies that were forced onto a common interchange that accepted traffic from competing telcos. I'd desperately like to see the same, where social media sites above a certain size are required to import/export data and play nicely with eachother's content.
Aaand, I have said it many times that E2EE does not exist for desktop.[1]

Telegram's UI is pretty. I would use it as a replacement for WhatsApp, but it is not a replacement of Element, XMPP, Briar, Wire, Ricochet, and so forth.

Telegram is not an IM for secure communication where privacy matters. Do not use it as such.

[1] https://tsf.telegram.org/manuals/e2ee-simple#2-why-are-there...
I am really glad he was able to talk about this, and that you chose to post it.

I read the abstract and conclusion from the preprint listing before reading the comments here. I was hoping for something beyond "dumb ppl no vax" and here it is.

I'm glad he got vaccinated. God bless him and thank you very much.
Which crypto?
freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences. google is a private company and can show whatever they want.
Love Daemon and Freedom, some of the few books I’ve read twice. Strong recommend
You're taking a deontological[1] view instead of a consequentialist[2] view. That's a valid viewpoint, but legal systems typically incorporate both views, and consider both intentions and outcomes.

In your example, how much of a civil penalty should each perpetrator pay to reimburse the victim's medical expenses? If we only considered intentions and not outcomes, the civil penalty would depend on the average cost of medical expenses the victim would incur from this type of attack, multiplied by the probability such a throw would result in a hit, regardless of whether the stone actually hit the victim's head.

But in reality, a court would focus more on outcomes than on intentions for this kind of civil penalty. The perpetrators would pay a civil penalty that depends on the victim's actual medical expenses. It's simply not practical to make accurate probability-based calculations for every damage assessment, and the victim should always be fully reimbursed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deontology

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequentialism
I think the valuation of most NFTs is insane, but underlying all that I think they just tap into the desire to collect things. Personally, I've collected much dumber things than NFTs in the past. I don't think collecting NFTs is any dumber than collecting bottle caps, baseball cards, conceptual art certificates of authenticity, or digital goods managed by centralized entities. The big difference is that NFTs are liquid and visible, so it's very easy for a culture to form around collecting weird shit.
an opensimulator 3d virtual world directory (metaverse, as the kids call it). I'm not even sure if it made $500 this month. Which has me convinced that all those metaverse worlds that sell for billions are total bullshit.
Who's stealing? Why the red herring?
> ML trained on video, applied to gamedev, seems like a matter of time. You could do it right now.

Indeed!

Photorealistic GTA V using ML : https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2021/5/12/22432945/int...
Hmm, you contradicted my belief about what is ironic based on knowledge of what I "seem" to have expected? Remarkable mind-reading powers, sir.

The definition you quote is silly when taken literally, since it makes irony a completely subjective matter. The fact that you're quoting it to me while failing to correctly apply it (since you could not possibly know what I expected) is richly ironic in itself :)
"They can't be an idiot, they have millions of views" is not something I've heard before I must say.
I don't disagree that hard work is rewarded...

But I have never seen a bottle picker driving a pickup.

Usually they are lucky if they can find a ripped garbage bag to carry the bottles in.
Congratulations on launching because that's no easy feat. However, I'm not sure what an Apple only chat application adds to the world. What does this do that iMessage doesn't?
Do you/will you ship internationally?
Moving to where work is available, for starters.
The catch is you need to be safe:

- Where is the heat going? Are you exhausting it out the window? Are you going to burn your house down?
- How are you distributing power? Are you using a PDU and a 240V 30A breaker or are you maxing out several 15A 120V lines?
- Is the humidity dropping rapidly to dangerous levels, risking shock? Are you going to fry that brand new $10,000 ASIC miner because you dried out the air too much?
- Did you short out the GPU pins removing a GPU from the socket? Did you just cost yourself thousands of dollars?

Safety is important not just for yourself and family but you need the hardware to actually survive. If you have a bunch of 3090s that just finally reached ROI 9 or 10 months in but the cards themselves just died, you’ve effectively broken even after all that effort.

Surprisingly GPUs are quite resilient so long as you’re not massively overheating them, and you open them up every now and then to replace the thermal paste and perhaps thermal pads. I have a monitor visible at all times that displays all the temperatures, and I have one eye on a humidistat making sure I don’t suddenly drop below 30% relative humidity on an unseasonably dry day.

There are lots of resources available. If you’ve ever built your own PC you already have like 80% of the knowledge you need.
I recommend watching this interview with the creator of NFTbay, there are a lot of misconceptions on it's current usage.

TL;DW: it's an immutable representation of some data (usually a hyperlink), put on to a public blockchain such that ownership of this representation can be verified.

Not much different to a regular certificate just different trust assumptions (certificates use a trusted party, while NFTs use a "trusted" technology).
"You're supporting massive drug lords that wear suits and work alongside law enforcement."

So Heineken, big tobacco, folks behind the opioid crisis, Wells Fargo, etc?
This is something I've always wanted for virtual textbooks. A single .html file with all the JS, CSS, images as inline data blobs, etc. For most physics, math, CS, etc books, this should be possible. It would make it trivial to download the book for offline use and share it with others. Other than the raster images, the entire content of these types of books would probably fit in a couple MB of text. The use of #anchors or other smart URL manipulation would also make it easy to share internal hyperlinks if you want to tell a friend to look at chapter/section #foo_bar of the book.
Well, as someone making a similar amount on Patreon, when it says $100/mo you’re more likely receiving <$85/mo thanks to the fees.
Depends on what you want to achieve:

Javascript: run anywhere

Python: utilities

Java/C#/C++: prepare for enterprise jobs
I’ve been helping some friends tour their large fire sculptures to various music festivals on the weekends and building my own for the same purpose.
> MSSQL which is a nightmare in pretty much every conceivable way (licensing, tooling, packaging, and so on).

Licensing, sure. It's more convenient with Free software for small self-hosted instances... But the rest? You can even get a Linux build in a docker container supplied by MS...
The advice I give more and more to my clients is to stop focusing on absolute numbers. Instead, pick a decent analytics package and use it to monitor changes over time. Focus on the relative, not the absolute. (You still need to be careful to make sure your changes over time aren’t because of an increase/decrease in bots.)

Similarly, focus on a few core metrics and don’t go down the rabbit hole that something like GoogleAnalytics tends to compel. Usually those metrics are a few basics (uniques) plus a small number of domain/operation specific conversion metrics.
I made Nodewood (https://nodewood.com/), a SaaS starter kit/boilerplate. An unlimited-app license is around $500, so a single sale a month puts me into this territory.

It could probably be higher, if I were any better and/or more persistent about marketing, but right now I'm focusing on the last two releases I have scheduled on the roadmap before releasing "1.0" (easy scripting and an easy deploy system), then I'll switch much harder into marketing for it.
Your wife is talented. This is a cool idea. Added to my list of gifts to buy for folks.
Why ego-maniacal?
The Odyssey, translation by EV Rieu. Made an effort to read a bunch of the Classics at the start of the year and the Illiad and Odyssey were very enjoyable.
So, you expected a site that most people think is about "slacking off" to be able to hold up under the pressure? O, such an eternal optimist you are.
OT: first time reading FANGMULA. Top hit:

"FANGMULA" is a dumb acronym that a cringey YouTuber made up because he couldn't get into FAANG, so he had to make up a new acronym that would include the company he did get into.

Comment on the note:

FANGMULA is from blind
FANGULTAD is from youtube

I still don't know who ULTD are. I usually just say FAAMG to mean all the like.
This is basically how I did it. Max for me was three jobs. I started pre pandemic. I was thoroughly burned out after five years. Took a break before getting back in. I could retire, but keep working for healthcare and the lulz. (One job)

There are a lot orgs out there where if you can spell java, your golden.
heated seats as a subscription? that's actually hilarious. it's a resistor hooked up to your car battery, i love the idea of paying for that on a monthly basis (in a bad way).

but everybody knows the big money is in brakes-as-a-service
It's a good title... My instinct is to ridicule the entire concept of the smart home with its dozens of internet-attached devices from TVs to refrigerators to light bulbs accessible from one's smart phone. I suppose I should instead be curious as to why anyone would be comfortable with such a system?

I can see the attraction of using a Raspberry Pi on a closed local network instead of timers and so on, for example if one has a lot of houseplants and so on, but I don't really understand the desire for having that network be internet-accessible.
> The entire premise of your argument is incorrect.

I think we'll have to agree that neither of us is providing any citation for what they are saying. I'd like to do some legwork to get you proper citations and evidence but I'm not sure what the purpose of that would be.

BTW much of what I said regarding how Internet protocols work is not an argument but merely undisputed facts.
First conceived of then perhaps, but general acceptance came around Euler’s time where they found value (and anchoring in the real world) as a fundamental component of the representation of wave-like behavior.
Also, those SPAs are loading the React literary off of a CDN. It’s not inlined into the page.
> Not having data races is one of the key benefits of using Rust

Exactly. Lifetimes, borrowing, etc. are the complexity of thread safety. It's like saying that airplanes are easy to fly, if you replace the airplane with a car.
Abraham Heschel, "The Sabbath" (1951)

“Gallantly, ceaselessly, quietly, man must fight for inner liberty” to remain independent of the enslavement of the material world. “Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things. This is our constant problem—how to live with people and remain free, how to live with things and remain independent.”
If universal basic income causes most people to stop working, and if the people who keep working get to amass all the power, then wouldn't everyone want UBI so they could keep working and have all the power?

In my head, universal basic income is more like tax returns, but each month instead of each year. Like a tax refund for food and shelter.
Have you ever tried kotlin? I've found it to be an encoding of best practices from Java with nullability pinned down. Really made me enjoy working in a most OO/procedural language again after fleeing to scala for a few years.