skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> no one in the world will literally care about the childless person.

This is entirely dependent on the person. I think you're partially right that nobody will care about you (as much) as your kids (potentially) will.

If you spend your life focusing on yourself, then yeah, nobody will probably care about you. If you spend your life devoted to serving others and making an impact in your community then plenty of people will care about you when you're old. I've known many older people who have done great things for the community and the community gathers together to help them in return.

You affect other people caring about you through your actions.
Weak little people love stuff like this -- it gives them power they could never hope to have to interfere with the lives of better people who they live in envy of.
The other way would be to look at the facts: for example, that in September 2021 the United States came out with a strong policy statement, calling for enhanced military cooperation with Ukraine, further sending of advanced military weapons, all part of the enhancement programme of Ukraine joining Nato. You can take your choice, we don’t know which is right.

The logic of this argument doesn't work; it's a false dichotomy. On the one hand, he says, perhaps Putin is a monstrous, twisted dictator. On the other, the US extended military support to Ukraine.

The two statements have nothing to do with each other. Accepting military support from the US isn't grounds for an invasion, let alone the massacres at places like Bucha and Motyzhyn. I don't think Ukraine belongs in NATO anymore than Chomsky does. I also don't think people should steal packages from my porch. But when they do, I can't beat them to death with a hammer.
Growing Knowledge Bases from the Bottom Up
First things first: the following is not in any way intended to demean/attack/"throw shade" at you or anyone else in the slightest. Not whatsoever! So please forgive me if it comes across in that way despite my best attempts to the contrary.

That said...

The above, while fantastic for the person who lived that way, "smells" (for lack of a better word) like it comes from someone who hasn't been forced into a rough life. Bouncing around like that is easy when you don't have to worry about whether or not you'll be homeless in the next week because you were illegally fired from your job and the government doesn't care because it's not an easy open-and-shut case where they can automate litigation six years from now (because their caseload is literally that high).

You can't really do that kind of stuff when you have one - or both - parents dying from cancer and they both need full time, in-home care that, being unemployed, you can't afford to provide them. Especially when for whatever reason, they have no retirement savings, pension, 401k, absolutely nothing, and no health insurance either.

So please understand that while I'm honestly happy you've been able to do that, a lot of people just flat aren't for many reasons, the above being mere examples. You might think they're made-up, fictional or convoluted, but they're not: they're my life experience from 2017-2021. I lived those things, and worse, all at the same time.

> A brief note for context: you mentioned "pounds" so I'm assuming you're in the UK, which has a famously fantastic healthcare system. I'm in the US, where ours is...well, we all know what shit smells like, don't we? And herein lies a real life example of how government investment in people - aka "socialism" to some degree - is not a threat to an economy or capital investment, but in fact enables economic growth. /rant

Point is, for some people, that grind is the only thing keeping us alive. There is no safety net. There is no plan b. You either go nose-to-the-grindstone, or you go live under a bridge and eat scraps out out of the dumpster. There's no in between for some of us.

Again, not in any way intended to "throw shade" at you whatsoever. I'm just raising awareness that for some people, this advice, while technically valid and something I really wish was actionable for everyone, is in many cases just flat out impossible. You try it, you wind up homeless, a pariah, and unable to re-enter the industry because who's going to hire somebody without any relevant work experience in the last 3 years? Next!

That said...

> I've done farm work, [...] blacksmithing [...]

I've always wanted to try some kind of blacksmithing! I'M SO JEALOUS!
The ones undoing the damage caused by dumb pattern recognizers and generators? ;)
Anecdote time:

Once upon a time, I wrote a program to handle email in VB6, it used POP2, SMTP and some crappy logic to decide what to reply. It was a long time ago, when you could still send messages from mickey@disney.com to your friends without worrying about DKIM, juts plain text.

Now I had to make something similar, but the level of security and signatures is insane. Lucky I just glued a few standard libraries in Racket and call it a day. Writing it was much much faster than the old project and I didn't have to study again the difference of HELO and EHLO.

Back to your problem:

Enjoy the new tools. One interesting part of programing is figuring out which libraries to glue to get high level result that is useful. Magician call it "effects" and "method".

Try to get permission to contribute to some of the projects you are using. Explain that it's better that it's merged mainstream instead of keeping a local fork. Choose the one that are interesting to you. Start with small features because you never know if it is not in the vision of the maintainer or if the maintainer is a moron.
Why even go to the effort to fake/edit a screenshot, when you can just fake the tweet directly.... /s

https://shashiirk.github.io/fake-tweet-generator/
I think those people exist, but they don't have much influence or defer to more bellicose factions within. Another ironically "great" example was the Iraq war. Who the hell let that go though and then not leak that the words coming out of the mouths of the higher ups were pure bulls--t. "Greeted with flowers, alright".

Now, where are these people, why don't they pipe up and tell us that they told the higher ups what would happen but got ignored? Why can't we be honest that we made a grave mistake in this case?
Twitter says it's been working on it since last year.

But as for the whole "3 days before he bought the shares" - He's been accumulating for far longer than that and even the CEO of Twitter mentioned they were in talks with Elon about being on the board "in recent weeks" [1]

With that said, yes it may be manufactured coincidence mostly driven by the new CEO change and not by Elon buying shares

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/05/elon-musk-spent-2point64-bil...
When it comes to mobile push notifications, your mobile app registers itself with the platform's (Apple or Google) push notification service and gets a token. It then has to send your server that token and your server can send pushes to it by talking to the platform's notifications endpoint and quoting that token.

These third-party push notification services are essentially overlays on top of the above, don't actually change the workflow at all (the above is the bare minimum you'd need for the functionality to work) but introduce extra complexity, moving parts, and more importantly, extra rent you now need to pay to them.
deep breathing - music (classical works well, but anything you like) - focus on your work/task to regain confidence and outside of a crisis: regularly go out - sun exposure - contact with nature - smile and laugh
Interesting, but one issue with the monoculture of Android devices that impacts a non-insignificant amount of people is the fact 'top-tier' devices such as the Google Pixels that have reliable firmware support or security also have OLED displays with aggressive PWM flickering. That makes these devices a non-starter for many people with headache or some seizure disorders.

I really wish Google and other OEMs would do something about this at some point.
Do you think some of these techniques could be slightly modified, and applied to DNA sequences?
I gave up the fight to get Emacs to read Outlook emails. Instead, I figured out how to set up Org mode links to Outlook emails, as well as a VBA macro to create an Org mode TODO item based off of an email.
seriously, with all the qualifiers it hardly seems newsworthy.
As much as you disagree with it, posting it on twitter to harass and get your followed to dunk on that person is not acceptable. https://twitter.com/ZoltanKochan/status/1511638290608308228

Also please do not misunderstand, people mention the US acts in order to point out the hypocrisy shown, not to justify the invasion.
Twilio is actually somewhat useful. Airship is not.
Used to be checkouts for things like hotel wifi passed the price as an unvalidated URL param. All you had to do was change `&price=9.99` to `&price=0.01` and you got cheap wifi.
I'm a cyclist who often rides with a helmet camera due to misbehavior from drivers, including speeding. Does the app only allow one to measure speeds in video recorded in the app, or could I upload a short clip of an offending vehicle from a separate camera?

In the past I've measured speed by manually counting how many frames it takes a vehicle to pass landmarks, but this can be time consuming.
p9999999 is alot easier when you process 100000000000000000000000 requests
Its default stack includes an AppleScript-like language that compiles to JS (Hyperscript) and a “feature” that automatically deploys to production every time you save… Doesn’t exactly inspire confidence.
Do you really have trouble of deciding who is closer to truth given the imagery that comes out of places that Russians occupy and occupied? Does any of it look to you as attempting to avoid civilian casualties and damage to infrastructure?

And why would you believe Ukraine defensive capabilities are running out given all the weapons that flow into it from outside. Don't you think if they were running out of fuel they'd just ask and get as much as they need? NLAWs and Switchblades are still a tad more expensive than gas.
It's always interesting to see what ridiculous limitation they place on these to make them not work out.

Popular ones are:

Refusing to allow energy to be traded with neighbours.

Refusing to allow demand response.

Refusing to allow over building (so the installed capacity exactly matches the yearly required energy and storage needs multiply).

Refusing to target efficiency measures.

Refusing to use existing low carbon power sources (hydro, biogas).

Often they use low volume prices for a massive rollout but at least in this case they're estimating storage capacity rather than price so they won't have done that one.

edit: reading through it now, they cite other people who didn't do the above, and then state that they know some of their choices will overstate things:

> the fact that we model Germany as an island may lead to an overestimation

Guess that bit didn't fit in the tweet.

I don't fully understand this next one, but their headline number is based on running biogas as a constant baseload, which seems utterly ridiculous. They also claim that allowing that to flex with supply and demand has this impact:

> "Adding other sources of flexibility for the example of
bioenergy, the duration of period that defines storage requirements lengthens to more than one year."

That's a very strangely worded sentence, with a very counterintuitive plain reading. Are they trying to intentionally confuse people? I'm not sure, can't figure out anything reasonable from the article. How can adding 8GW of flexible biogas generation increase storage requirements? Are they counting the storage of biogas?
As prior art. You cannot patent things which are not your invention and a prior knowledge. Would be hard to proof it is your invention if you use knowledge from your main competitor in the patent application
Friday.app, run over by monday.com
Are those t-shirts from last month gone for good? I didn't hear about it at the time and I would have snapped one up in a second.
Long story short of Google's rise and "fall" in quality:

Altavista was dominant internet search engine in the 1990s but search quality was bad compared to what could've be done.

Google figured out machine learning was the key to success e.g. PageRank.

Google got incorporated in 1998.

Good leadership(Larry, Sergey and Schmidt) and vivid vision propelled Google to 90% of market share in search.

World Wide Web was drastically smaller two decades and one decade ago and Google was still able to "handle" it with already established machine learning algorithms.

Fast forward to today World Wide Web is zettabytes big and not even Google can rank it "reasonably" and efficiently. Google doesn't care that much about search quality anymore because they have 90% market share in search, billions flowing in ad revenue plus 99 other projects they need to manage and develop.
GPT-3 tokens, entropy and the unanswered question
It's not like this is out of the blue. NATO has been training the Ukrainians for eight years because of the risks. The Europeans should have been hedging their bets against Russian gas as well.
We Will Fix Climate Change [video]
yes HN is rife with Russian propaganda, and has been for years.
I was the first person to accept bitcoin payment for a certain class of goods (not illegal, just don't want to out myself) - so yes, I'm aware of the pizza transaction and have friends who retired off of BTC. That doesn't mean I can buy a cup of coffee with what started as a cool currency idea and turned into a speculative asset for tech bros.

In fact, just yesterday had a conversation with a friend and realized at current prices we jointly spent several hundred thousand dollars on VPN services. So yeah, I was there before there was a there.
This.

As I commented recently on another thread:

This was done on purpose. There was the hope, that strong economic ties would make war between Germany and Russia impossible. While it now looks really stupid, it worked really well between Germany and France after World War II (first with European Coal and Steel Community and then later with the European Union).
Midnight Gospel is one of my favorite TV shows. I've never heard of Psychomagic, but I'll check it out. Thank you for the recommendations!
Hybrid work for many is messy and exhausting
I'd guess no since it's using the wheelbase size.
Can you really describe kids or parents with any kind of meaning using a binary "good" and "bad"? Aren't most people great in situations that suit them and allow them to thrive and use their skills and talents, and bad in situations where they don't have the tools to be successful?
What percentage of American communities do you think the police force or council would do either of those things on the basis of a request? In Oakland it took years after multiple fatalities at crosswalks for there to be enforcement and road works.
I don’t remember if it did or didn’t have a single exit point.

But the thing as a whole didn’t follow any best practices I’ve ever heard of: the project also had what looked like a bizarre attempt to reimplement the concept of properties(!), in that the UI classes had fixed length arrays of all their subviews, which were accessed by constants. Each section of the UI had its own god class, where different views in that section were all the same class, called with a constructor that determined if a view ought to be created for any given constant.

There were also something like 20,000 blank comments. No idea why, the guy who added them didn’t even understand my question:

int something = foo();
//
double baz = bar(something, 5);

That kind of thing.

(The project is no longer available and the business who made it has since closed, before anyone asks).
magic was, what came prior enlightenment. Then came technology.

'Magic' is, when things – after proper enchantment and ritual – sometimes happen as expected. But you cannot explain why (other than 'because of proper enchantment').

I guess we got, what we called for.
That isn't what first to file means. First to file doesn't change AMD's publication from being prior art. You cannot create a valid patent by filing patents on other people's publications.
How does "reporting to the city" differ from "reporting to the police"? Where I come from the reports to police do influence things like speed traps and speed bumps.
Funny, just dealt with the whole O365 authentication just this week. With moving to 2 factor authentication you need to use OAuth 2 to do anything with it. I have my (work) O365 email forwarded, so I do have normal IMAP access. I use isync/mbsync [1] to receive email, goimapnotify [2] to get pushed new email, read/reply/etc with mu4e [3] and org-msg [4] and org-mode, and until recently just plain SMTP to send mail. This last part will break with 2 factor, but found oauth2ms [5] to set up the OAuth to work with O365 SMTP. The trick was to find the "tenet ID" from the Azure page of your organization and to use Thunderbird's credentials [6] (or another mail program, since I can't make new app registrations on Azure to have my own "application"). That should also allow you to use IMAP with OAuth 2 as well, but haven't done that since I still have the forwarding. (As usual, I think the Arch Wiki [7] covers most of this too.)

[1] http://isync.sourceforge.net/

[2] https://gitlab.com/shackra/goimapnotify

[3] https://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html

[4] https://github.com/jeremy-compostella/org-msg

[5] https://github.com/harishkrupo/oauth2ms

[6] https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/file/tip/mailnews/base/s...

[7] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Isync#Using_XOAUTH2
Without mastery of any particular skill or subject, only interest in many, then you're pretty much limited to writing about it, making Youtube video content about it as someone else said, and stuff like that. If you learn enough about something you may be able to write a book about it one day. But pretty much everything else requires mastery.
Found a similar article from one of the twitter comments

https://www.inputmag.com/culture/report-airbnb-owns-ai-tech-...
Speaking of cross platform surveillance, can we get an auto link to cached tweets or something?
GitHub Availability March 2022
Excellent comment! A lot of projects already failed the "too much complexity" problem by just using the Internet when the Internet is unnecessary.

I remember a project I worked on in the past where the requirement was to have the app display a notification to the user at a certain time, like an alarm clock. Pretty simple, and could be implemented with a line or two of code as a locally-generated notification.

But no, the lead declared that we needed a push notification from a server in order to do this properly. Even after the difference between a local notification and a push notification was explained to him (he didn't know that local notifications existed), he insisted that notifications = push notifications, and we must have a server. AND that server needed to run a complex web service. AND it needed a way for devices to log in with credentials, so it needed a database. AND it needed to be fault tolerant since this was a critical user journey in the app. AND the clients had to check in with the server periodically, since their location might have changed to a different time zone, therefore the push notification time had to change. AND this AND that AND so on. All for what was essentially an alarm clock--something you could implement in the client code running on the device in 5 minutes.
Two senior executives resign from Trump’s Truth Social startup
Not-so-open.ai
It's scary and destabilizing to Russia, that is. I mean a country so scared and destabilized that it just invaded a neighboring country. I can't recall right now anyone else bothered by the expansion. Is there any other "everyone in the world" you care to mention?
Airbnb owns AI tech that discriminates against sex workers
Why not? As long as we're not locked in, if a product is good and we're early adopters we're getting the benefits from it that other people who are afraid to dip their toes in the water aren't getting.
Very very rarely, I don't feel like I have enough free time to sit and watch a stream for several hours.
>anything which normalises surveillance by citizens on citizens is a death spiral for society

FWIW, speeding causes actual deaths of members of society

But I don't think this is the solution. The solution is better road design (road diets, narrower lanes, etc)
I think his reluctance is best understood as that of a proud man slow to admit he was wrong rather than that of someone trying to improve the posthumous image of Pol Pot in the west.
>Speeding kills and seriously injures people.

No, delta-speed kills and seriously injures people. I was stoped on an off ramp yesterday in traffic with cars passing feet from me going 55+ mph. This was FAR more dangerous than being in a group of cars going 85mph in good conditions on a controlled access superhighway.

US speed limits are a joke and aren't even taken seriously by the people whose job it is to enforce them. Most of the US lets you go 10+ over with near-zero chance of police interdiction.
Hahaha, classic. OS is a fun one.
I imagine it will affect artists much the same way wordpress has affected web designers.

Maybe everyone will have an AI image as their desktop wallpaper, but if you've got cash you'll want something with provenance and rarity to brag about.

Also, I think creatives are valued for their imagination. If you wanted something decent, would you pay someone to sift through a million AI generated images to find a gem, or just pay an artist you like to create one for you?
I paid $1500 for a commissioned painting from an artist I respect and follow as a birthday present for a friend. The painting meant something to me because I worked with the artist to have some input about what kind of a person my friend is, what kind of features I want to see in the painting and how I want it to feel. The artist gave me 5 different sketches and we had tons of back and forth. The process and the act of creating the painting on a canvas from someone I respect is what I paid for.

Even if an AI could generate an exactly equivalent painting, I would pay $0 for it. It wouldn't mean anything to me.
> Doing it as an insider would be truly insane

Why? The concerns (how to steal the money, how to launder/tumble it) seem orthogonal.

Random question: is there a statute of limitations on this type of theft? If so, insiders would be highly incented to steal 600M today and then wait X years before using that one-time, anonymous wallet.
> if it becomes accepted as an automated solution where either a very quick human check (e.g. that the wheel locations are indeed correctly identified) or no human check is required, it would reduce their burden

To put it politely, please take off the rose tinted spectacles.

Incase it had escaped your observation, a whole industry has sprung up where specialist lawyers make themselves available to challenge speeding tickets.

These speeding tickets are challenged on technicalities.

These technicalities relate to ?

That's right, issues with CALIBRATED fixed or mobile speed detection equipment, operated and maintained by trained individuals.

Typically the crux of the legal challenge is built around ?

Yes, that's right. Issues with the calibration of said equipment.

So, the chances of law enforcement issuing fines based upon "evidence" of speeding based on something that some random app on someone's phone has spat out ?

Yes, that's right. Zero, zilch, nada.
Speedcam? More like Snitchcam.
This model is not yet in full production, and while they claim it will be shipping this summer, it's possible we won't see it this year.
That makes perfect sense. I'm a fast typist and OmniFocus user, myself.