skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Computer generated content has its place, as it already does in many procedurally generated games as others have pointed out but I do not think it will play a central role in the near future.

One reason for this is technical. AI (not AGI but the systems that actually exist) can synthesize existing game data into new things but you'll still be in an uncanny valley of recycled information and in the worst case be in some bizarre feedback loop of old content that is permanently recycled and reconfigured in ways that players will notice. No Man's Sky is an example.

The other reason is social, and I think it's the stronger case. We already have many games were computers could replace humans, chess is the most obvious one. Yet computer chess competitions only create marginal interest (by AI engineers) and players vastly prefer human interaction for the sole reason that it is human interaction. In the same vein there is computer generated music that actually is good enough to fool people, but there doesn't seem to be any market for synthetic artists.

Or take Esports. Deepmind's AI systems are actually good enough to produce Starcraft tournaments solely played by machines. The games even look like high level human gameplay. But there is zero interest in watching a bot tournament.
The arguments against turning back on the nuclear reactors in Germany sound so fundamentally unserious that you are forced to choose between "these people are paid by Russians" and "these people have a phobia about nuclear energy and won't consider any rational arguments". I'm not even talking of the moral position of "we'd better sponsor a genocidal maniac to the tune of a billion euros per week than temporary suffer a minor inconvenience that may require some small investment and a bit of work to solve".
Does anybody actually type those? They were a neat solution 10 years ago but they’re so common now for even inconsequential actions that I always copy and paste, on complete autopilot.
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No they are a US vassal state. If they only cared about themselves they would have zero sanctions and Nord Stream 2 would be pumping cheap gas in vast quantities.
Yeah, I also found that tone sort of jarring, but they do bring up a good point; the warning banner and inputs should be contextual and having to input the number of things affected would be a UI improvement. And I can understand why they would write this in anger/frustration.
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There is a lot of skepticism around spinlaunch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ziGI0i9VbE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibSJ_yy96iE
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> A 2/3 majority is needed in both the Bundesrat (senate) and Bundestag (house). Not happening.

Absolutely not ever going to happen.

> The author makes it sound like those are cars which can be easily refitted, upgraded and certified. This would take enormous amounts of time and money for the three plants which are still online, and who knows how much for the ones which are offline.

Even Lindner says that extending the lifetime of nuclear power plants isn't really a realistic option. With what the FDP said in the past and what they are saying now this makes me really believe that there is something more to the whole debate than the fundamental opposition of the green party towards nuclear power.

> It's simply not worth it, when the money could be spent on other technologies.

It likely is. Nuclear isn't really a feasible option for short term actions. Given the political barriers and the progress of the nuclear exit it would be an extremely long play with little to no effects on the current conflict. My gut feeling is that investing this into increasing renewables and investing into improving the energy efficiency of buildings (where the majority of gas import goes) has a significantly bigger impact on energy requirements.

Generally this is a debate that nobody seems to want to have. Everybody is talking about how we can substitute energy imports. Everybody talks about LNG terminals, storage facilities and nuclear power but nobody talks about the low hanging fruits. We do have basically free measures to take to at least slighly reduce the fossil fuel consumption. Mandatory home office availability for suitable jobs, car free/reduced days, speed limits, encouraging less heating, etc.
Is security there the same as what we'd call security or is it like `securité` in French which is safety? I'm pretty sure the former is not that hard, and you can bypass it if there is a real national need.

The real thing is that Germany has NS and NS2 and so they're happy to just guzzle gas.
You really think that adding contextual information in a destructive modal (i.e. "You are about to erase 54,000 stars") is "beyond being reasonable" ?

It seems like a pretty reasonable suggestion that doesn't feel like a lot of work, but could potentially prevent an irreversible mistake.
That's bad because it lies to users and you can't remove the star when it's in that state.
>thunderf00t is a very smart dude

I just saw one of his videos on why Falcon 9 will never be economically viable so I would strongly disagree with this assessment.
I was so badly hoping they were building a launch loop. Still giant centrifuges are always fun.
Have you been living under a rock? Everyone judges repos by their amount of stars. Why do you think every social media network has the concept of likes?
I think "moderation going away" is a gross exaggeration of what Musk has said he wants.

Twitter has had spam and crypto scams in replies for years now. Every tweet by Elon Musk has had scammy fake giveaways that steal people's financial info, from accounts that copy his profile picture and name. Anyone would agree Twitter's response has not been adequately effective, and he has complained about this for a while, and even said during today's TED event that he wants to stop this sort of spam.

If anything, I think it's more likely we'll see hardcore engineering efforts - I'm not sure why Twitter hasn't looked into some sort of perceptual hashing database for profile pictures of popular accounts, and hide replies from anyone who uses a similar profile picture.

This is obviously different from the political censorship, such as Hunter Biden's laptop, where I think Musk strongly disagrees with current leadership.

Parler/Gab failed in having approximately zero engineering efforts to prevent spam.
Nuclear waste anyone? Case closed. That alone should be reason enough to sympathize with the german position.
Arthur Fleck wasn't very funny either, but the situation of giving a standup comic great power is.
>> you really don't understand wealth distribution in America

A false statement. I really do understand "wealth distribution in America". Using your terms. Although "distribution" there is a propaganda term. Wealth isn't distributed.

>> the wealth of the super rich is growing faster than the wealth of the bottom 90%

"Super rich" is another propaganda term. During stock market downturns your assertion is simply false. If the S&P falls by 50% will you say that the wealth of the "super rich" is collapsing so something needs to be done?

No, no you will not. Because that would be ridiculous.

>> Even with a flat tax, the top 400 Americans should be paying at least 3.4% of all income taxes in America

Don't agree. When you tax something, you get less of it. Don't tax success, tax failure.

>> But given that a flat tax is morally abhorrent

Don't agree.

>> You, like so many, vastly under-estimate how much richer the ultra-wealthy are than everyone else. Vastly.

False.
The twitter app is unnecessary - works fine in a browser.
Surprising amount of people blaming the user here. I agree completely with the author, the UX should be different for clearly "big" repos.
I think you misunderstood.

If you remove the content, that's fine.

If you make the link itself disappear from where I saved it, that's gaslighting.
Ships can now be attacked from shore. That really hadn't been much of a thing since the era of seacoast forts. But that's changing. China has invested heavily in shore-based anti-ship missiles. There are now more things you can launch from a truck that can take out a ship. As seems to be what happened here.

Look at a map of western Russia's sea access. Choke points everywhere, most of them controlled by others.
China doesn't embrace capitalism. They're thoughtful about where they have and haven't embraced it.

On the whole, I am glad for China. I like having multiple systems, and unlike many others, I feel like the government is trying very hard to improve, and sometimes succeeding.

However, I think your view of it as closer to a utopia is a little disconnected from reality. The US is still a nicer place to live than China, unless you're a tourist. The gap has closed rapidly, but it's still there.

I think each system has upsides and downsides. I'm glad for having multiple systems. I hope they can learn from each other. The Chinese concepts of meritocracy, family, and long-term planning, as well as the emphasis on education, would go a long ways here. I also like what's socialized and what isn't. I like weak IP laws and contracts; I think China's in the right place there now (I wouldn't have said so a few years back, where it was the wild west)

The US still has lower corruption. The US is much more transparent. I also don't like the way Chinese politicians are kinda dicks, openly insulting the US. Then there's issues like Tibet, Honk Kong, Taiwan, and the Uighurs, as well as mass surveillance (although the US is not much better on the last one, as of late).

I feel like at some point, China might find a chill government who will let a lot of those slide or move into a more balanced position.

I hope they do. I can see path for China to really become closer to a utopia than virtually any other place right now.
The quote is from 2020 before the vaccine. The author says, "Approximately two hundred thousand Americans had already died from COVID. The last thing the public needed was an exaggeration of the future risks, implying to some that ten times that number could still die."

Math says that 200K * 10 is 2 million.
A google search says that the death count in America is creeping up on 1 million.

And now we have the vaccine and have 60+ percent of the people in America immunized.

Sounds like the original estimate isn't grossly far off.
> And so on and so forth..

Or we could just take the word of the KGB/FSB who has lied about everything. The same people who say we can't trust anything from putin because he is/was a kgb/fsb agent are the same ones saying we should trust their version of events absolutely. Katyn massacre was rife with conspiracies too because the official narrative was a lie.

The official narrative was that in 1970?, the kgb dug up their bodies, burnt them, ground them up into fine powder and dump them in a river so that nobody should visit their burial site. Were there many people in the soviet union/east germany looking to visit hitler's grave to pay homage? Of course not. Does that kgb narrative make any sense to you?

Also, it's hard for me to believe that the kgb didn't keep some dna material. After all, by 1970, dna was old news.
Murphy's law strikes again. Really appreciate the writeup. Making the best of the situation is a valuable lesson in itself. Hope you can get the stars back one way or another! =)
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The Pulgas Water Temple is such a strange, strange place. It feels so out-of-place. I tend to stop by during my annual-ish Filoli visit.
There are surely satellite SAR images available, though.
Having read through the article I'm really not getting the same vibes of Github being wholly blamed for this mistake - they clearly call out their own user error directly in the article but offer suggestions to make it less of an issue in the future. I got the sense that a long time user had went through a hellish week of trying to restore data and is feeling bitter but mostly just wants the product to improve.
Valve.js would also work, since it allows access to the innertube.
Do you have a source for this? My poor google skills can't find anything after the '67 fire for an American carrier.
Yeah I like this perspective I don't think it's anything more than that
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I mean, they totally could have built it that way. But they didn’t. I was answering why stars were removed.

From a data complexity standpoint, it sounds like they decided they didn’t want to have to make calls to the authorization layer when parsing a user’s stars. The downside is the behavior seen when a repo goes private, but my bet is that repositories being made private is far less frequent than calls to get a list of starred repos.
It's not so easy to make this accident - one needs to type the full name of the repository. AWS does the same, for example, when deleting RDS instances, and I find it effective.
The team does a great effort in putting these together, so happy someone notices the detail that goes into documentation, thanks!
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"Gap" is a value judgement. I don't share your values.
Richard Woolley springs to mind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_van_der_Riet_Woolley#V...
So all those people got notifications and then some of them looked further at the notifications and then engaged. Now those people won't get those notifications and won't engage. Most of these people won't notice they don't get these notifications. They won't resubscribe. They're lost forever. This is kind of like losing your email list.

Your comment reads like you don't understand how a community works.
I run a software dev/ digital services company and my take on this is for her to consider retraining in a business analyst or change management role.
- These require very complementary skills to teaching,
- good fundamentals training (iiba, acmp) is usually private, short and no too expensive as opposed to going back to college
- the market demand is massive (at least in NZ)
These kind of roles fly under the radar in startup world but it's a huge, well paying field in enterprise, local govt etc
That's still a far cry away from an oligarch.
Kanye is just a clown, far from the greatest troll in the world.
Neither one of these is gaslighting.
It doesn't suggest that you type a any old "specific thing". It specifically suggests that you type something to demonstrate you acknowledge the scale of the destructive operation you are about to perform.

The OP's main suggestion is along exactly those lines. It's actually less extreme, in some ways (see OP's "Lesson 1").
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Yes, deleting things from a layout would be much easier than adding them. And, who's checking?
Can you just clarify if that statement was sarcastic or not?

I've had a very different experience around stars - they're just a bit of fluff and pretty unimportant compared to watches.
The confusion is justifiably well explained by the article:

> What put me on the wrong path was an otherwise completely unrelated action: I had just done the same (i.e., hidden an empty README) on my personal profile by making jakubroztocil/jakubroztocil private.

> GitHub’s conceptual model treats users and organizations as very similar entities when it comes to profiles and repos. In this context, and since I just wanted to repeat the same benign action on our organization’s profile, my brain switched to auto-pilot mode.

> I didn’t realize at the moment there’s an inconsistency in the naming of this special repo containing profile READMEs and that it differs for users and organizations: name/name vs. name/.github.

> That’s why I proceeded to make httpie/httpie private instead of httpie/.github without realizing my mistake.
>With every conventional defeat faced by the Russian military and with the massive loss of credibility this causes, at what point does Russia decide that it's time to take the gloves off?

I've been thinking about this possibility for a while:

* Putin fires tactical atomic weapon at some empty plot of Ukrainian land, and announces it as a "demonstration" of Russian might.

* The weapon is a dud.

I'm not sure whether this outcome might not be worse in the long run, in terms of geopolitical stability, than if the weapon performs as expected!
There have been concerns about the risks of flooding to nuclear plants in Germany.

https://energytransition.org/2013/06/german-nuclear-plants-f...

Restarting nuclear isn't a bad idea, but it needs to be approached systematically and cautiously such that the risks from natural disasters and economic impacts are minimized, while also weighing the risks of continuing to support Russia.

Unfortunately, many plants across the world have not had accurate risk assessments done, both for natural disasters and economic risks.
> 'World Peace' is not just a pipe dream, it's a fantasy that it is ever anything we'd want - it would require global stasis, enforced by some kind of extreme global authoritarianism that would keep the 'have nots' in the have-not pile, and the have's in the have pile forever. Or everyone to always be happy with each other, even if that means some of them starve to death due to lack of resources (extreme brainwashing?).

I really do not follow your argument.

Turning it around world peace requires authoritarian enforcement of global inequality.

The argument as presented is a very depressing outlook on humanity. My personal experience is the exact opposite. Wars (and other social chaos) are organised by a small minority. The vast overwhelming majority of us want peace
There are some bike rooms but not nearly enough imo. Every station should have a perfectly safe place to stow a bike where it can't be robbed.
Yeah, once you can point them to something they could test themselves it becomes a bit more real.

Flat earthers I'm not so sure about. There are so many things just by looking at the horizon or up in the sky that make it absurd. I've taken to simply stating that I don't believe that they really believe in a Flat Earth. They're just faking it... prove me wrong.
It seems like Twitter's barely done anything new since going public over 8 years ago. Making a UI that was actually usable for following conversations would be a good place to start. What are all these product people doing? (I'm a small TWTR shareholder. It's one of my worst tech investments.)
If you live in Columbus, sure!
Isn't that what Mastodon, or various projects using Mastodon, are trying to do anyway? It's not such a thing can't be built, it's just it's unlikely for such a project to gain mass adoption.
I wonder how different the response from Github would be if this blog post was instead, "Oops, Github's confusing UI made me delete the entire project metadata... so since we're forced to start fresh we decided to move to Gitlab/sourcehut/etc."
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But if your star doesn't effectively exist why does that matter?
As another commenter pointed out: It’s Elon Musk.

While selling all his shares would make the price dip short-term, no one who knows his tactics will take that as a serious commentary on the viability of Twitter itself.
It's very much a matter of reputation. Losing the star as a user is a pretty small inconvenience, tantamount to losing a bookmark.
The post addressed this.

> What put me on the wrong path was an otherwise completely unrelated action: I had just done the same (i.e., hidden an empty README) on my personal profile by making jakubroztocil/jakubroztocil private.

> GitHub’s conceptual model treats users and organizations as very similar entities when it comes to profiles and repos. In this context, and since I just wanted to repeat the same benign action on our organization’s profile, my brain switched to auto-pilot mode.

> I didn’t realize at the moment there’s an inconsistency in the naming of this special repo containing profile READMEs and that it differs for users and organizations: name/name vs. name/.github.

> That’s why I proceeded to make httpie/httpie private instead of httpie/.github without realizing my mistake.

There's a subtle naming difference between profile README repos for users and orgs that was the root cause of this. The user typed the repo name in however because it matched the same format for the previous profile README repo, it didn't register that this was not in fact the profile README repo they were looking for.
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> That comparison spot the difference pic is really scary. I had to check it 2 times myself before I could spot that the last line is different.

That's not the only difference. The other difference is that you also have to type the full repository name, including the organization name.

If they wanted to delete the correct repository, they would have to type httpie/.github, but instead they typed httpie/httpie.

It's unfortunate what happened, but without GitHub removing the possibility at all to delete repositories/change the visibility, I don't know what else they could have done to try to prevent it. It's really hard as a user to affect the wrong repository, as you are gonna have to mentally and literally pause to write out the organization name + repository (httpie/httpie in this case) and if that doesn't stop you, I don't think anything would.
See also:

Fennel – Lisp in Lua (2020, 112 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24390904

Fennel – Lisp in Lua (2018, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18016168

Neovim Configuration and Plugins in Fennel Lisp (2019, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21676606

Raymarching with Fennel and LÖVE (2019, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24835766
Assuming you're not being sarcastic: a company providing a metric and telling you to care about it does not oblige you to actually give a shit.
The post did not omit that, it included the very similar thing they typed as context for how they auto-piloted it.
In that autopilot state having to type out 54000 would probably have snapped them out of it.
I get why you'd think the author is being unreasonable, they seem to imply that this should already have been done, but I think that is mostly them feeling upset about the situation. The actual observations would be thoughtful improvements to the UI.
HTTPie's watches were irreversibly deleted, too.
Your comment is omitting that the post covered this exact point in detail: they had just done the same operating on their personal profile where you have to type [username]/[username]. [organization]/[organization] is the obvious corrolary.

Anyways it's embarrassing that Github made this same mistake themselves, and yet couldn't spare the time for a massive content creator contributing to their platform
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For me, what makes it believable are the casualty numbers. Ukraine claims Russia lost ~750 tanks. Oryx visually confirmed about 500. The 2/3 ratio of confirmed kills, only via OSINT is insane. That makes claims about lost aircraft - which is way harder to confirm - at least decently believable.
> We do have basically free measures to take to at least slighly reduce the fossil fuel consumption. Mandatory home office availability for suitable jobs, car free/reduced days, speed limits, encouraging less heating, etc.

Lindner: Not on my watch we don't
Then why is a Gallium that's out-of-date be an issue? If you have an older Chrombook, from the time when Gallium was maintained, and if Linux indeed "updates forever," go with Gallium.