skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Glory to Ukraine!

It was exactly the ship in that famous phrase of being sent very offensively and very far by the defenders of Zmeiny island (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_warship,_go_fuck_yours...) which has become a Ukrainian battle cry since then, and looks like the ship has ultimately reached the prescribed destination.

Interesting that the ship was hit by the Ukraine developed missiles which Ukraine put in service just about a year ago. Looking at this war (and compare it to the fighting in 2014-2015) it is very noticeable how much a progress Ukraine has made in the last 8 years and in particular absorbing all the new developments in the technology while Russia in many areas hasn't progressed since 1945. I see that is a perfect illustration of constant learning and adaptation vs. stagnation.

Anyway, for anybody who likes Odessa and hates its shelling by those Russian Navy ships - the video of the burning "Moskva" with the wonderfully matching occasion soundtrack "Moscow" by GenghisKhan https://twitter.com/i/status/1514481957962657794
No chair ($0)

Been using a standing-only desk for about a decade now and the only thing I'd recommend.
You're talking about a specific subset of Twitter. The Twitter I use is 99% positive, good news, friendly interactions. I've gained at least one job directly through Twitter.
With these sorts of technologies I wonder if it just makes more sense to lay whatever needs to be paid to build a space elevator or equivalent and be done with it.
Iosgods
Nexmo/Vonage.
I was expecting this to be about radionuclides somehow.
I grew up using a lot of mechanical pencils, but I was too reckless and the cheap ones I used broke easily.

Now I just use a standard #2 pencil.
Windows explorer is quite good. It could still improve a lot, as you can notice after using Dolphin, but it's good. I don't think it qualifies for "great", but well, that's subjective.
Just for giggles, that works out to ~17.42 kilowatt-hours per kilogram of mass, just for the pure kinetic energy. Then you have inefficiencies like electricty-to-kinetic-energy conversion losses and atmospheric drag to contend with.

It's honestly a smaller number than I expected it to be. So I suspect that those inefficiencies add up pretty fast.
Is this the i7 (10th gen) Chromebox you had in mind? Is currently going for $876 on Amazon. I guess surplus is the reasonable way to get them. Where is a good place to look? EBay?

ASUS Chromebox4 with Intel Core i7-10510U, 16GB RAM, M.2 PCIE 256GB SSD Storage, Power/DisplayPort Over Type C, Dual HDMI, Gigabit LAN, WiFi 6, MicroSD Card Reader, VESA Mount, Chrome OS https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TGT71MG/
Credit is loaning you money and providing an interest rate. Usually something insane like 15%.

DeFi is unlocking the value of an asset, making it liquid and allowing me to participate in other investment opportunities without an APR.

One example is on Kaurura. I have KSM, Stake that KSM for a 19% APR Rate. Throw that LKSM into a vault and mint AUSD as long as i have 160% collatoral ratio. I can then use that aUSD i printed, buy other assets and participate in liquidity pools, which are giving anywhere from 50% to 300% APR.

It's a new era of finance. Play around in the space before you say it's worthless.
Yep.

> The program can dissect a financial report the moment it appears and spit out an immediate news story that includes the most pertinent facts and figures. And unlike business reporters, who find working on that kind of thing a snooze, it does so without complaint.Untiring and accurate, Cyborg helps Bloomberg in its race against Reuters, its main rival in the field of quick-twitch business financial journalism, as well as giving it a fighting chance against a more recent player in the information race, hedge funds, which use artificial intelligence to serve their clients fresh facts.
“The financial markets are ahead of others in this,” said John Micklethwait, the editor in chief of Bloomberg. In addition to covering company earnings for Bloomberg, robot reporters have been prolific producers of articles on minor league baseball for The Associated Press, high school football for The Washington Post and earthquakes for The Los Angeles Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/05/business/media/artificial...
> If you want to fix GNOME, you'll have to replace the entire leadership structure _and_ a good portion of the devs

Isn't Cinnamon pretty close to doing this anyway? And arguably other alternative desktops like Pantheon or Budgie.
Isn't there still the small problem of actually having the technology exist to do it?
In my work experience so far, when it comes to A/B testing what I've observed is that:

* The better the tooling in general increases the proportion of people doing it _wrong_, because when it was harder, this selected better for people who wanted to do it right. Making it easier means more people do it right, but more people who would otherwise not do it at all can now do it, and do it wrong.

* Making aspects impossible by design will impress and amaze you with how humans and groups figure out how to not only prevail over what you tried to make impossible, but do it even harder than if you did nothing at all.

The best I think we can hope for is making things by default easier to catch, or easier to find later, or less deceptive.

Hard things are hard and that's ok. I think we should spend more time channeling our empathy into aspiring for ourselves and others to be better and do hard things, and making the ability to learn and do hard things accessible to everyone who wants it, as opposed to trying to pretend hard things are easy.
By that same logic the US should immediately stop giving foreign aid to developing countries or investing in other programs since we still have homeless people here. The reasons why entities spend money on specific things is not a univariate. Also, there is a whole meta discussion to be had about what sparks creativity and innovation, I have a pet theory about over abundance of resources creating stagnation and dulling people's motivation and creativity. Beyond a certain point, throwing money at a problem can be counter productive.

At the end of the day, results matter and SpaceX has shown results.
State the Problem Before Describing the Solution [pdf]
Build cheaper housing farther outside of town where the land is cheaper and provide a bullet train to transport people into the expensive land areas. It might take time for the train to be built, but these areas have had decades to solve the problem while frittering away trying to build a few, token, and small small low cost housing projects. There really is no other solution for many areas like San Fran and New York … the land is simply not there and displacement of current landowners is expensive, impractical, and ineffective.

They need to bite the bullet … train … or some other effectively fast transport.
Coworking sessions are great ime. People come in with some project they want to work on for the next 2 hours and every 30 or 45 minutes the host checks in on everyone and everyone says what they did or didn’t accomplish, everyone does a little yay to every accomplishment even small ones each check in so it’s all dopamine. I’ve seen this model successful in multiple definitions of craft (writing, coding, painting etc)
We Can Help Ukraine – In the Long Run
They've done that from NYC to Albany and it's great. As you say, no traffic. I can't think of a much safer way to bike.
Twitter (the community, people, concept) is going to exist. Period.

If Twitter (the website / company) was shut down today something else would fill that vacuum almost immediately.
Mach 6 or 7 at launch? No big deal to mitigate that.

On reentry from orbit vehicles are going mach ~25.
Facebook is not a competitor to twitter. It is culturally just a dead space. Nothing interesting happens there, I can't think of the last time an interesting subculture or meme originated on facebook. It's this bizarre place where you're surrounded by old people but at the same time you're subjected to infantilizing speech restrictions that make you feel like you're in some kind of adult kindergarten or something. You can't make fun of journalists or do anything subversive or culturally alive, it's a place where there is no fun allowed.
The next step is a social media company that is (1) private (2) membership based (3) no reliance on huge ad contracts, just promoted content (4) can tell the difference between political opinion and hate speech (5) gets out of the way of legal public discourse.

It doesn't need to be web3. It just needs to be somewhat transparent and minimally auditable. Web3 doesn't know what web3 is yet. Most is just garbage, sorry.
A ton of countries would join NATO ASAP (if allowed in, and several would be) or rush to form new collective defense coalitions that include at least one other nuclear power, which in many cases would likely come with significant concessions to that nuclear power (i.e. China gains a de facto, if smallish, empire overnight).

Everyone refuses to trade with Russia until they're reduced to one of the most miserable countries on the planet. If their nuke program falls apart, several countries take some territory from them and no-one minds. Possibly they're reduced to selling parts of the country (maybe on a lease-like arrangement, which isn't unprecedented) in exchange for re-opening limited trade with countries that are willing, but see that they really have them over a barrel (China, again, is a likely beneficiary)

Several countries start or re-prioritize nuclear programs. Turkey, Iran, South Korea, and maybe even Japan, all likely candidates. Maybe more.

That's roughly what I'd expect the world to do about it, if the result isn't a spiral into outright nuclear war, or a swift and decisive coup in Russia. No, it's not good, but it's especially not good for Russia.
That only holds true assuming a 2-body (earth and rocket) system - add in forces from the sun or from the moon and you can actually achieve orbit with only a single surface level impulse, although it does require some pretty precise aim.
Near the end of “Understanding Michael Porter”, there is a Q&A with him that touches on this subject:

Q: “How do you do a five forces analysis if you’re an entrepreneur starting a new business in a completely new market space? Is strategy even relevant when there’s no existing industry or when conditions are still so fluid that there is no discernible industry structure and no direct competitors?”

Porter: “Strategy is relevant for any organization at any point in its trajectory. How to develop and sustain a competitive advantage is the core question that every organization has to answer if it’s to be successful and to prosper. In emerging industries there’s a lot of experimentation. What will the product ultimately look like? What will the distribution system look like? Will the product or service scope produce a stand-alone industry, or will this new idea become part of a larger or existing industry? There’s more uncertainty about the shape of things, but the five forces exercise is fundamentally the same with one big exception: instead of analyzing what already exists, you’re forecasting. And you probably know quite a lot about all of the five forces but one. You know the customers you’re targeting. Are they likely to be price sensitive? You know who your suppliers are or who they are likely to be. How powerful will they become? You know the substitutes and can identify the likely entry barriers. What you don’t have yet are actual rivals. That’s where you need to think through who those might be. Will the rivals most likely come from adjacent industries? Or from companies that already exist in other countries? Or will the likely rivals be new start-ups? How would each of these rivals be likely to compete? So even when you’re inventing new market market space, you probably already know more about the five forces than you realize. Doing such analysis is important because if you’re creating something that’s truly valuable, don’t kid yourself that no one will follow you. There is no such thing as a market where competition is irrelevant, as nice as that might sound. The idea that innovation allows you to ignore competition is a fairy tale. So you have to have a hypothesis for how the industry might take shape once there is an industry. Early on, there are many paths the evolution can take, many choices you can make that will have an important impact on how attractive the industry will become. Decisions you and others make over time will begin to lock in the basic economics, making industry structure less fluid. So it’s crucial to see different paths for how the industry might evolve, and to ask the basic questions about the five forces, so that you can make choices that will put the industry on the best possible path.“
while this might be true for most of Twitter, my experience is very different. I've been following researchers mostly and aside from very recently published work there are very interesting conversations or thought threads.so i guess it heavily depends on your Twitter bubble
MATE is the Gnome2 fork, Cinnamon forks Gnome3.
There were many ways, all of them hidden very well, one of them was pressing Shift+Z in the web interface while selecting a file or directory.
I can understand this sentiment. I certainly do it for some things (like reddit accounts, or things to do with say....gaming online, steam etc).

For most things though I dont mind too much about things that are already public anyhow. Like name, address etc.

That said for services that extend beyond that, If i feel the need to go that far i just dont participate. Like facebook for example.

I do carry a google voice number. That is the only thing a company, service or basically anything that gets typed into a computer gets. It has signifigantly cut down on spam calls to my actual cell phone, which friends and family do have.
Add Libyan intervention (2011) as well - that put the country into 9 years of civil war (is it still peaceful there? IDK). Though this one is combined mess of NATO.
> To me, it seemed that west expected Ukraine to fold too

That was pretty explicitly stated by a number of officials, I just get the feeling that they thought the timeline would be longer than what the Russians were thinking, but probably in the 2-3 week window for the government, in any meaningful form, holding out, with the situation, at best being guerilla resistance after that.
Unfortunately very few large companies truly operate to make the world a better place if their making money depends on the other direction.
this is a really nice asset!
There is also tax loss harvesting, paying yourself via loans against assets, and using LLCs to purchase items like houses etc. to avoid taxation.

It doesn't surprise me that billionaires pay substantially lower rates than long-term capital gains would imply they should.
My favourite part about https://www.openrailwaymap.org/ is that it shows abandoned and razed tracks, although you have to zoom in somewhat. I wonder if there is a way to make it highlight those tracks at a higher zoom level.
> We have no sworn defense pact with Ukraine, except that if nuclear aggression arises from some other power, we defend them from such.

What document do you believe said that?
Musk made his money from a combination of generational wealth and government handouts.
> plethora of services available for static content

when I think of static content, I think of buying a domain name + shared hosting for monthly EUR 2,-.

And not assigning rights nor control but having a legal claim on both service and name. Am I missing something?
What you seem to be afraid of is something that might or not happen in a distant future. At that point they just change the rules again. Ethereum has done it several times. If they don't like the direction things are going they just change it. Some people get mad about it but it just keeps chugging along and these people go out and possibly create a fork that goes nowhere.

I still think crypto is high priced poop people currently view as valuable. But I don't see how your point goes anywhere to prove it.
Ah of course it's thundrfoot.

His phosphine "debunking" video was high on "hot takes" but low on actual intellectual honesty

There are ways of criticizing and going about that don't involve patronizing and shallow dismissals
It could easily be that unvaccinated people are more likely to get a test when they have no symptoms but did have an exposure, because they know C19 has worse outcomes when unvaccinated.

Or, as you say - they are tested more often, routinely, without symptoms or exposures because of their status.

I'd say both are more likely explanations than the vaccine makes people more likely to contract covid, which appears to be what you're suggesting.
What makes you think the problem is money and not materials science? We have no substance suitable for the cable. The closest we've come is various nanofilaments that we can perhaps produce in centimeters, not kilometers.
> I keep seeing this "eternal six months away" FUD, but no one wants to admit

that it has literally just been postponed again https://twitter.com/TimBeiko/status/1514010098145759232
Ask HN: How to introduce game rules gradually without breaking earlier levels?
In particular, suppose I introduce a new rule in level 10 but the player decides to replay some earlier levels. The new rule doesn't apply to to them but the player may have forgotten that.

And so it would not be clear which rules are active when replaying earlier levels.

Is there a good solution to this problem?
Discovery is difficult on telegram
> Arizona Ice tea. Unchanging price, changing costs.

This just means the demand curve is very price sensitive, but it doesn't mean the supply curve doesn't exist. There is an element of survivorship bias to all of this. Products on the market exist because there is a point the supply and demand curves intersect. It's totally that the price people are willing to pay for Arizona ice tea will be less than the cost to produce it, at which point Arizona ice tea will cease to exist.
As a counterpoint, you are also describing any large group of people at scale.

On Twitter, you can follow, mute, use lists, or block anyone you want so you don’t have to see any of the stuff you don’t want.
Saw the posting and wondered if the site listed any of the many abandoned lines I see here in Montana. Turns out it does: https://www.abandonedrails.com/montana
I'm particularly fascinated with the Homestake Pass line, which is easily visible from the adjacent I-90 freeway -- you can see the rails are still in place. Apparently it was never actually closed, they just never ran another train after some date in the 1980s. Subsequently there have been some tunnel collapses that make the line unusable.
This is awesome. Not a fan of logging what the user enters, but I'm glad the source is open for that to be stripped out.
There is a standard protocol for audio (and other realtime media) over an IP network: RTP.

But your problem doesn't have anything to do with a lack of standards; Amazon has no incentive to just let you send RTP to the Echo Dot on a port — nobody is asking for that, and they would have no control over the "experience".
You need to migrate all the other google products you use with that email, including Photos, Play Store, Contacts, etc. It's about 20 products.
What’s the highest level look like? Maybe chained to the desk or sumo wrestler blocking the doorway?
> It could be life or death.

What does this mean? Isn't it better to teach them how to be safe so when they grow up they will be safe? Instead of teaching them nothing but to not trust you?

Once your monitoring no longer exists on their devices, what do you think they'd do?
The human hive mind existed long before Twitter. Very little of a human's knowledge is discovered by them, it's passed from generation to generation. First it was spoken, then written, then typed.

But social media, when looked at through the lens of collective thought, is unwell IMH(umble)O.

I remember participating in old phpBB forums in the mid/late 90s. You'd show up for an hour, read everything that happened over the last few days, go off an think about it, come back later and respond. The conversations were deep and thoughtful, even if the topics weren't. If I sat in a room with someone who thought/behaved like these forums, I'd be comfortable. It would be a good conversation, I'd feel safe, and I'd probably walk away learning something new.

If a physical human thought the way the Twitter hive mind thinks - I'd avoid them. They would be terrifying. Jumping from thought to thought, rapidly transitioning emotional states, unable to focus on a topic for more than a social media cycle, constantly checking to see if people like what they said... The hive mind on many of the popular social media platforms is not healthy.

I don't think this outcome is inevitable when large groups of people come together to communicate. It feels like a byproduct of engagement driven social media - where the flywheel of growth/profits is coupled to humans constantly indicating to the system that they are "engaged" by interacting in some way.
This is insanity. You cannot protect children forever. What will you do if your kids go to a friend’s house and have access to devices which are not heavily restricted? What if a friend comes over with their own similar device? As a child of parents who did similar things as you are doing, I can say confidently that it did not protect me, it created a resentment towards my parents, and it increased my motivation to break rules in general.
That has no parallel to reality.

At all.

None.

Billionaires have far more rights than normal people. Their wealth affords those rights to them. "Rights" without ability to achieve actual results is just bullshit meant to placate the rabble.
Will Google Create an AI God?
https://github.com/flozz/cover-thumbnailer works well for creating thumbnails.
Right you are, but in defense of the author, understanding this concept while looking through readouts done by past colleagues has also made me feel depressed at times.
Mainstream tools are gravitate towards lowest common denominator and have to accommodate ease of use. It’s no different in other fields.
I dislike trends toward finding a way to make you pay as much as possible for your own time & attention, is the reason it bugs me.

[EDIT] More generally, I just prefer my commerce to be fairly straightforward. I don't like having to second-guess whether there are hidden tricks going on to screw me.
Looks like one comfy armchair.
I'm curious on your point 1, and I tend to disagree. The number of parameters in these large language models is increasing faster than Moore's law. Currently you need a server full of GPUs just to run inference on a PaLM model. How do you see the size shrinking so drastically? Hardware is improving on important factors like power consumption, but inference hardware needs to scale with the size of the models. Don't get me wrong, it's likely that PaLM itself can run on 2032 phone, but the real advances will be in even more scaled up models.

The future of AI will be in the data center for a long time to come. Maybe after some point the models cease to scale up and that point will be where the model would even overfit on the amount of data we can possibly give it e.g. the entire internet. The PaLM authors allude to this in their conclusion
I've personally hidden the trending section - fair point, though. But that was the only time I really saw 'random stuff'.
It appears that rail service might get shut down if they can't reach an agreement with the local government on route maintenance costs.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/popular-roaring-camp-r...
Yes, I am diagnosed by two different psychiatrists and have been taking medication and been in therapy for over 7 years. It impacts my life daily and has caused a great amount of harm in my life. This includes self-destructive behavior and (long ago) suicidal ideation.

Don't make assumptions about people you don't know.