skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Living in fast-paced, industrialized societies with constant access to entertainment, it’s easy to lose sight of the value of doing nothing

what is the value? Why is this part of the conclusion?

Also, why isn't "thinking" a category? Are the people doing nothing really doing nothing.
So did my grandpa, until the day he and his pacemaker walked through the security checkpoint at Schiphol.
Hear, hear.

So is Merriam-Webster now going to say "here, here" is equivalent and acceptable?

Legalizing a hearing mistake is not the same thing as adjusting to usage changes.
I used to really like these

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_Dash_8

but airlines that serve my airport have switched to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_CRJ100/200
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embraer_ERJ_family

which are less fuel efficient but easier to maintain, an important consideration if you are flying in and out of small airports half the time.
plus the "beta" testers treat it like some kind of fun game. they're like "whoops, almost swerved into traffic. whoops, almost ran into a pedestrian crossing the street."
We maintain an automatically updated list of "trivial packages" (defined as less than 10 lines of code) here: https://socket.dev/npm/issue/trivialPackage

Is this the type of list you were looking for?

It's not a perfect metric and isn't meant to disparage any of the maintainers of these packages, but it's one factor in our Socket.dev risk analysis.
Maybe it would be simpler at an international level rather than for individual companies?

E.g. based on last year's co2 vs rolling 5 years average, calculated by weather satellites rather than self-reported.

I've got no idea how gdp would be taken into account though. Enclaves and disputed borders are also less clear.
Valve barely makes games anymore. Are you referring to the steam platform in general somehow getting bad/worse than competitors?
Catch-22 was written by Joseph Heller. Similar in ways to Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-5 though! And the two were friends.
> Suppose all of the world’s cement plant operators agreed to offset their emissions this way. Suppose that this succeeds so well that 100% of the world’s remaining rainforests are protected forever. We’re still nowhere near net zero!

This is true, but as a side effect you've saved the rainforests, which would be amazing!

Maybe we shouldn't judge the worth of a carbon offets scheme solely by carbon emissions? It can be kind of dubious and still have good side effects.
Boeing's issues were written on the wall about 2 decades ago when it moved it's hierarchy from an engineer-centric one to a Chicago accountant-centric one. That alone wouldn't have been an issue, but they had an immediate brain drain as half their HQ staff didn't follow the relocation.

Imagine a thousand employees, half your HQ staff, that leave. There are several possible reasons:

- they're older -> more corporate knowledge and knew the "magic recipes"

- skill based mobility -> they're so good they can go anywhere, and Chicago isn't Seattle

- etc

https://hbr.org/2001/10/inside-boeings-big-move

This was widely thought on ... what was I browsing back then? Reddit? as a fore-warner of bad stuff to come

The fore-warning came to fruition when the issues at various Boeing plants started developing over the next ten years (insider videos talking with an employee about being on drugs during crucial assembly work and shift mates being similarly high, "get it through your station" attitudes) and the Dreamliner issues that were hand-waved away (no training, 1-hour tablet self directed training, certification delays, and eventually crashes).
We're using the cloud version and we're fine too (no outage). What's your point? Are you claiming that self-hosted is never down? Or that self-hosted is more reliable? Because I doubt that. Difference is just that when self-hosted goes down, it doesn't end up in the news.
>The US needs to push Ukraine to agree to neutrality.

Russia's version of "neutrality" is a joke.

Russia's demand for "neutrality" means letting Russia decide Ukraine's foreign and military policies. Russia want to enforce specific limits on the size and capabilities of Ukraine's military. That will never be accepted by Ukraine.
> You'd think 'are the lights on' would be a self-check it would perform, though.

If it wasn't before I would bet it will be soon.
MNF was not a NATO operation, if you are referring to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
>side with the buyers?

Isn't it obvious though? The buyers are the ones transferring their money from their account into the coffers of Etsy. If they piss off one seller, 2 more will pop up in its place.
Definitely in the air. I just watched that video last week and was blown away by the rubber band analogy. So simple and intuitive what's happening as the wheel takes up the infinitely-stretching rubber band.

I always thought I understood logarithms—and I actually did somewhat—but that visual really drove home the "continuous ratio-ing" that's happening as the scale is built.
I forget the comedian but I found this observation funny:

- a lone person leaning on a building having a smoke: no problem

- wandering in circles in the park talking on the phone: no one gives a second thought

- sitting on a bench by yourself doing nothing: who the hell is this psycho?!
Greco-steampunk certainly makes sense. In ancient times, Greeks were considered master automata makers:

Robots were so prevalent in the imaginative and material culture of the
Greek-speaking world that they were seen as emblematic of Hellenistic
culture by others. Buddhist legends focused on north-eastern India from the
fourth and third centuries BCE recount the army of automata that guarded
Buddha’s relics, built with knowledge smuggled from the Graecophone world.
In one version, which features both killer robot-assassins and
robot-guardians, a young man travels in disguise to the land of the Yavanas
(Greek speakers) to learn the art of automaton-making, a secret closely
guarded by the yantakaras (automaton makers) there, knowledge that he then
steals to make the artificial guards. We find stories of automatic warriors
guarding the Buddha’s relics in Chinese, Sanskrit, Hindu, and Tibetan texts.
Additionally, mechanical automata also appear elsewhere in the Chinese
historical record: for example, at the court of Tang ruler Empress Wu Zhou
(c.624–705 CE).

https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-ancient-history-of-in...

Nowdays, we're better known for our army of civil servants guarding state pensions :/
At work yes. At home certbot does it’s thang.
I’ve been saying this for years, language models are the ML equivalent of the billionaire space race, it’s just a bunch of orgs with unlimited funding spending millions of dollars on compute to get more parameters than their rivals. It could be decades before we start to see them scale down or make meaningful optimizations. This paper is a good start but I’d be willing to bet everyone will ignore it and continue breaking the bank.

Can you say that about any other task in ML? When Inceptionv3 came out I was able to run the model pretty comfortable on a 1060. Even pix2pix and most GANs fit comfortably in commercial compute, and the top of the line massive models can still run inference on a 3090. It’s so unbelievably ironic that one of the major points Transformers aimed to solve when introduced was the compute inefficiency of recurrent networks, and it’s devolved into “how many TPUs can daddy afford” instead.
I worked at a company that self hosted Jira, and it was miserable then, I can’t imagine depending on the cloud. I’ll never approve Atlassian products after that experience.
The security review you mentioned is actually called a ”säkerhetspolitisk dialog” by Tobias himself. Directly translated ”säkerhetspolitisk dialog” means "security-political dialogue", and the dialogue it refers to is an internal dialogue within the social democratic party.

Nothing is decided yet, and although it is a lot more likely to happen now than a week ago the foreign sources make it sound like a decision has been made. If that was the case it would be headline news in all the swedish newspapers.
Things like leaf blowers have solutions between "Wild West v8 supercharged beasts" and "every leaf must be hand picked up by your current cadre of indentured servants".

A perfectly practical solution would be for the town to designate "outdoor power equipment times" such as "Saturday, 10-4" or "any day, 10-12, 3-4" or similar.

Electric is helping but even then there's noise created from just the action of the device, and you also reach a paradox where as things get quieter the remaining noise sources become more annoying.
OK, I'm now on the PC. My main PC with the hi-res monitor is being refurbished so this 2nd PC will have to do, it only has an old Dell E228WFP monitor (1680x1050) attached. The browser is now Firefox.

This is a Windows PC with the browser font set to its default size. The webpage is now readable but it's still low in intensity (contrast) and the MS ClearType is having considerable difficulty in keeping certain characters sharp—in fact it's hardly working—the 'i' 'l' and 'm' look annoyingly fuzzy.

When I increase the font (CTRL +) several sizes in the browser it improves out of sight and the text becomes completely and easily readable. It's a shame I can't post some screen shots to show how significantly different that typeface is under different viewing environments/conditions. It only proves the point that web designers shouldn't just take what they see on their own monitors and assume it's the same as everyone else sees it.

As mentioned, I'm not alone in complaining about low contrast grayish typefaces, here's the first other complaints I've just found:

https://www.wired.com/2016/10/how-the-web-became-unreadable/

https://www.contrastrebellion.com/#page2

Incidentally, an interesting observation is that the character pi, π, in the webpage is perfectly viewable on the smartphone and has good contrast. Clearly it's from a different typeface set, it also proves that the text's typeface is the culprit in that it doesn't view well on all displays.

I'll now go back to the smartphone and figure out what typeface the phone is displaying the text in.

Thanks for your comment.
I think it depends, right?

If you have a small number of high cost, high impact UAVs, you will target infra and supply columns.

If you happen to have a cargo plane full of cheap, mass produced head-popper slaughterbots which you can dump over a town, they will remove all the humans and leave you with intact buildings, vehicles, and infra. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HipTO_7mUOw
It does say you can make plugins, but the link doesn't work.

It would be huge if you could make cross-platform AU/VST*/AAX without the costs of JUCE, but I suspect that isn't on offer here.
Driverless cars are just one more added to the list

It's a qualitatively different change than any of the above (driven by a messianic view that AI is here and now and about to change everything), plus an instance of the

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog

apologue.
`state:unscheduled` works just fine, I tested it before writing this comment. There's no limit to the variety of analogies you can dismiss if you simply allow yourself to declare them inapplicable. As for control, it sounds good to me. Honestly, not being able to run reporting is a feature from a developer's perspective.
exactly; resting is not dissimilar to napping. And in hot climates, doing nothing (not moving) has the advantage of not producing heat, i.e cooling.
See, I never got this experience. The computers I had growing up were Windows boxes I was deathly afraid of breaking and locked-down consoles. I never got an easy-to-use programming environment.
Clipboards can be a hassle, for sure. Can you help me understand the impact of dotfiles / ssh key management not being a "first class concept?" How much of a time / productivity hit do you take? Thanks so much for helping me understand.
Is it cynicism to notice that capitalist system that created the problem is trying to solve the problem it created with more capitalism or is it magically thinking to believe this is the moment where self imposed regulations will come together to solve the problem?
>"The Russian government lies about everything."

You do not need to convince me. I know it.

As for journalists I've already said that Russia stinks when it comes to treatment of its own populace.
'You owe your lifestyle to oil ' Madeley accuses Stop Oil protester of hypocrisy
Sure, the market for cheap imported goods is much larger. It's also more competitive. Do you really think Etsy is going to stand against Walmart, Amazon, etc?
I don't know where you live, but my "training and certification process" was mom driving with me for a few weeks, then I went to the driver testing office, drove around a closed course, proved I could stay on my side of the road, stop at a stop sign, and parallel park. Then I got my license without ever being tested at over 25mph. Even with the state of today's technology, I'd trust a driverless car more than I'd trust a new teen driver.
Just guessing what would drive a situation where some customers were restored quickly, others stuck for days, and matches somewhat with the limited statements they do make about the issue. Like this one: "The rebuild stage is particularly complex due to several steps that are required to validate sites and verify data."

Also matches with it being a cross-product outage.

But just a guess.
The NATO has no power to restrict actions of its members - it can just decide not to support them, which is common. Any action unilaterally taken by a member state or a group of member states that is not explicitly adopted by the NATO council is not a NATO mission.
I think there is a strange psychological trait that I have, and others may as well, where I am much more forgiving breaking my own stuff than having someone else do it.
> "We need governments to take action if we’re going to make progress on challenges like avoiding a climate disaster or preventing the next pandemic," Gates wrote. "But declining trust makes it harder for them to be effective. If your people don’t trust you, they’re not going to support major new initiatives. And when a major crisis emerges, they’re less likely to follow guidance necessary to weather the storm."

This is where Bill's msg breaks down for me. Simply put: Trust is earned. The fact that governments have broken that bond uncountable times is not the fault of those who have had enough. Bill is attacking a symptom, not the root - power controlled - problem.

Gates is an adult. He should know this. Yet he promotes a narrative that's otherwise. Sadly, he doesn't get the irony (i.e., his false spin undermines trust).
I don't want to defend him, what he did was *wrong*. He should absolutely face consequences for gross over-reaction. I never said his response was reasonable given the circumstances.

But the way the story was presented was extremely biased. I believe the US cops are trained to actually use the "pit" maneuver to stop offenders who otherwise refuse to stop. In this case, he should've known better - but one can totally see how an asshole cop would interpret the situation as "lady is refusing to stop, I need to compel her to do so".

I guess what I'm saying is that it wasn't a totally random act of unprovoked cop violence.
I think it's because eBay, since it's founding, has had a scam problem that it's been actively trying to address. They aren't perfect, but they have certainly been putting in multiple measures to increase trust.

Amazon, on the other hand, has nearly done the opposite. They don't do anything about scammers and have created an environment where even when you buy something directly from amazon you might get a knock off. You can't trust anything there.

Everyone knows the amazon reviews are garbage, even amazon. Yet they keep them because having 1000 garbage reviews looks better than having 10 legitimate reviews (and many of them negative).

Amazon has optimized for moving any and everything.
How does NATO "get into a conflict" between China (not a NATO member, last I checked) and Taiwan (not even an UN observer)?
Yeah I wasn't a customer just a follower as I am fascinated by the efforts used to create these devices. At the same time, PSIO(which I also referenced) has taken as many efforts as possible to provide the product in sufficient quantities and be as supportive as possible but there is a loud portion of the community that still berates them for their anti-clone efforts.

The gaming community just seems to suck as customers. You see this with all the hate a publisher gets when they release something that isn't perfect as well.

There are also people buying the Everdrive clones and then expecting support. I have seen these complaints on Reddit and in various forums. I don't know how rampant this is but its so silly.
My biggest beefs with Spring is its use of Hibernate being a solution for late 90's EJB apps not well suited for shorter transaction scopes used today.

Sadly most Quarkus references seem to use Hibernate as default. Micronaut seems to be showing more choices, but then still Hibernate comes up more than others. Leaving Spring/Boot and keeping Hibernate isn't much of a change other than perhaps some possibly efficiency (e.g. startup time or infrastructure cost).
From here looks like we’re headed into the fall of the Russian Federation, and an endless series of NATO interventions in regional conflicts all over Russia. The Chinese strategy will be to trade debt for resource access, and wait for this to end. 100 years from now, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Ukraine, and the rest, will all be considered one historical chapter, like the 30 or 100 years war.
I'm puzzled that it's not the other way. Domains without MX, SPF, DMARC should not be trusted..
Well that's completely wrong. Please read this[0] so that you have some real context on this matter.

[0]: https://euvsdisinfo.eu/into-the-heart-of-darkness-what-russi...
JavaScript is so much larger than every other ecosystem, so even a very small probability event (somebody introducing malware into a package) can happen surprisingly often given the scale of the ecosystem. Supply chain attacks are a problem in all open source ecosystems – not just JS – but they are a bit rarer and don't effect as many people so fewer people take note.
[Author of the original post here]

I agree that some carbon offsets / credits are "high quality", i.e. represent actual, durable reductions in someone's emissions. They can help with the important projects you mention.

When the result is to durably sequester carbon from the atmosphere, I also agree that this is a good contribution toward net zero. I don't know anything about mangrove planting, but that sounds like it might fit. Certainly the Climeworks project someone mentioned elsewhere in this discussion fits.

The problem is with "avoided emissions" offsets. Suppose X and Y are both emitting greenhouse gases, and X pays Y to stop. That's a half solution, but it is often treated as a complete solution: X looks good because they bought an offset, and Y looks good because they're no longer emitting anything. That's the shell game.

Concretely, let's consider rainforest preservation. This is critically important, and plausibly (I don't actually know a lot about it) requires payments to relevant actors in places like Brazil. So yes, as a society, we need to come up with money for those payments. But we need to come up with that money in a way that doesn't let some other polluter permanently off the hook for their emissions. If an airline pays to protect some rainforest, says "hey look an offset", and declares victory, how will we ever address the airline's emissions? We've done some good in the short run (we accelerated the effort to preserve the rainforest), but then we arrive at a dead end.

Cap-and-trade systems avoid this problem, if all of the buyers and sellers of credits are part of the system, and the cap is gradually reduced to zero. But if a company says "my plan to reach net zero relies heavily on purchasing offsets", outside of a cap-and-trade system that eventually squeezes avoided-emissions offsets to zero, then we're back to the shell game.
Insulation is a huge factor - up north the sounds are as present but much less noticeable because the houses have to be insulated, and have double-pane windows.

Down in San Diego the noises are much MORE noticeable because many houses have poor or no insulation at all, and the windows are single pane (or open).
Gender 'X' is now an option on U.S. passport applications
I read your $2B in 1979 is $7B today and thought “that can’t be right!” (Thinking that was much too high.) It turns out that it’s almost $8B in actuality, making me far more wrong than I thought.
>While running a maintenance script, a small number of sites were disabled unintentionally.

https://twitter.com/Atlassian/status/1511870509973090304

Most likely they wiped the data
I prefer the Carbon Fee and Dividend approach https://citizensclimatelobby.org/basics-carbon-fee-dividend/
My assumption would be because Ukraine "was last".
Noise cancelling headphones definitively promote tinnitus
11 has the ridiculous rounded bezel, which makes it difficult to pick up, hard to handle in general and very easy to drop (it looks cooler though). Luckily, after years they've finally come to their senses and returned to the uglier, but 1000x more functional cornered bezel in 13.
Why don't they remove the gender if you can choose whatever you want?
Gross. I very much dislike snap. Thanks for sharing though, i will probably just have to postpone the jump to 22.04 a bit longer. Im doing fine on 20.04 without any snap packages.

Very disappointing news.
> Maybe something like joining NATO, the EU

Ukraine did not joined either.

> maybe because he just woke up one day and said "I feel like I want Ukraine to be Russian".

There was progression of Putin theories. He expressed some of them in written form, others in speeches. Both about Ukraine and about Russian place in a world he envisions.
No. This is Mearsheimer brand of bullshit.

Not everything is a US plot. Countries join NATO by their own volition. Because they want to.

East European countries wished to join NATO. Exactly because they knew what Russia is - like we all do now, based on the events in Ukraine.
At the same time, they're also increasing their reliance on China[0] for piecemeal components. Specifically, their display, camera and storage has been pivoting to Chinese suppliers.

Assembly does seem to be moving out of China, but that was never the hard part (hell, assembly is even economically viable in the US). Their supply chain itself is a whole different story it would seem. From an economic and logistics perspective, Apple is now integrated deeper in China than ever before.

[0] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Apple-taps-more-...
More discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30973808
Will Blockchain Replace APIs?
I live in Sweden. He said that the chats will be done in summer [1], not that Sweden will _join_ NATO in summer. I can't see what being a major British newspaper has anything to do with the veracity of Swedish news, and besides, when has journalists not blown crap out of proportion for clicks? What a weird hill to die on...

https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/s-drar-i-gang-natodebatt-...
> Ansible can be plenty slow at time too.

Yep, I've never been a fan of Ansible. Beyond that slowness of it, the fact that it's duct tape of YAML and shell with randomness and a sprinkle of YAML craziness make it really hard for me to like it.