skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In particular this would include me -- as while black out drunk I was subject to a graphic homosexual encounter for which I could not consent.

I don't know the backstory, and I don't know OP, so I want to be careful and clearly state that I am not minimizing or in any way commenting on the facts of his case.

However, the statement above is dangerously wrong from both a legal and a biological standpoint, and needs to be debunked. Any forensic toxicologist will tell you: the point of alcohol intoxication which interferes with forming long-term memories is lower than the point at which one cannot consent.

Exercising poor judgment while drunk and later having a spotty memory of it does not mean you were a victim. Consenting to something when you're black out drunk is still consent. If you exercise poor judgment about having sex and later can't remember, it does not mean you were sexually assaulted. If you exercise poor judgment about buying more shots and later can't remember, it does not mean the bartender stole from you. If you exercise poor judgment about driving and later can't remember how you got home, you and you alone are still responsible for your decision to drive drunk.

The neurobiological capacity to make decisions and the neurobiological capacity to form long-term memories are not identical. Conflate them at your own peril.
Doesn’t change the fact that promiscuous sexual activity among gay men is how monkey pox currently spreads. Of course that could change once there are more cases.

Makes you wonder why there are no lockdowns for the types of gay venues and events that have been identified as ground zero for the disease.
Seems like a really cool an interesting project, but their hardware requirements (you have to use their hardware) and the lack of hardware availability (no public price listed and the hardware is ordered and shipped ad-hoc by some students) are seriously negative aspects of this kind of grass roots project.

I was expecting an adsb-exchange type data sharing network type situation but instead I found an academic project with a lot of public participation that appears to have very little visibility into the overall current project health and status. This has the classic feeling of a project where loosing one key person totally ends the project.

None of this is to denigrate the work, it’s an awesome project and even the real-time map data is an amazing tool. But I just have my concerns about the health and longevity of the project based on what I could read in the forums.
Finding Center of Gravity for Backpack
That's why I'm bringing it up in the conversation of WordPress. The platform has probably the largest slice of PHP developers out there and lack of proper debugging techniques and an ancient-feeling codebase drives a lot of the negativity towards PHP. It's giving the language a bad name. Laravel is a wonderful framework and helped me bridge the gap towards .NET, as I was a self taught WordPress dev to start with.
The Silicon Valley bit will always ring true.
Here's the thing - the launch costs are only an insurmountable issue if you aren't SpaceX. The math might not be great if you assume dependence on dedicated Falcon launches, but SpaceX gets a lot of Starlink satellites to orbit by piggybacking on top of contracted commercial launches basically for free. You also need to consider that Starship will likely be orbital-ready next year with a launch cost of only the fuel and parts refurbishment, and a single Starship launch could put an absolutely stupid number of Starlink satellites in orbit.

Basically, cost calculations assuming traditional launch economics are incorrect. That's pretty much the whole point of SpaceX as a company - their business proposition is massive reduction in kg-to-space costs.
no feelings
Would you be happy with government-designed (so presumably democratic) tests and quotas for which charities get the tax breaks?
Just yesterday I was speculating that current AI is bad at math because math on the internet is spectacularly terrible.

I think you’re right, and it’s unlikely that we (society) will convince people to label their AI content as such so that scraping is still feasible.

It’s far more likely that companies will be formed to provide “pristine training sets of human-created content”, and quite likely they will be subscription based.
If I where to ask “So what should he have used instead?” it would quickly derail this thread. There would be no consensus. Knuth probably foresaw this exact problem and more.
How can you be for civil forfeiture? What is the argument for it?
>It's particularly offensive to see the state and local tax deduction (money that actually goes to help one's fellows in the ways they see fit, without being beholden to the whims of the "donor") capped while 503c "donations" remain an unlimited deduction.

The point of charitable deductions is to incentivize certain types of behavior (ie. charitable donations). On the other hand the SALT deduction is effectively the federal government subsidizing high-tax jurisdictions at the expense of low-tax jurisdictions. The first seems far more defensible and in line with the federal government's mission[1], than some sort of mechanism to pad the finances of certain states. This doesn't necessarily exclude redistribute policies by the federal government entirely, but doing it by tax rate is baffling no matter how you look at it.

[1] and no, this argument doesn't work for the SALT deduction because state/local taxes aren't optional
Haha. I've got some personal experience with that one. I used to live in a house with many other people, and one girl was rastafarian and from jamacia and had dreadlocks, and another girl in the house (who wasn't black) thought that her hairstyle was very offensive. We had to have several conflict resolution meetings about it.

As silly as it seemed, I do think everyone is entitled to their own opinion and I respect the anti-dreadlocks girl for standing up for what she believed in even when most people were against her.
How would that really happen? It seems to me you're assuming that there's no such thing as extant databases of actual oil paintings, that people will stop producing, documenting, and curating said paintings. I think the internet and curated image databases are far more well kept than your proposed model accounts for.
It's really incredible how far they e been able to maintain compatibility for sure, but there are just objectively bad parts of the platform they're keeping around for fear of backlash. There's a lot wrong with WordPress, and the editing experience shouldn't have been the first thing to tackle. I think it's bred many poor development practices.
> I try to do a good job at whatever I'm doing, because it's more fun to do a good job than not.

Yes it's "fun" and I'll add that it's a great primer for the more significant tasks.
I’d much rather skip the blog format and replace them with an AI that can answer “Please provide a pie recipe like my grandparent’s”, or “I’d like to make these ribs on the BBQ so that they come out flavourful, soft, and a little sweet.”
Miss it cos there's no free tier now. Speaking of codespaces I just got an invite last week. Still to check it out tho.
Software Debt and the Iron Triangle
The real kicker, hidden between everything, is that you can combine f-strings and r-strings.

fr”this is both an f- and an r-string”

I had no idea. I wish Python allowed for custom string types. I would love a sql string type if for nothin else than to show my code editor how to highlight inside the string!
In what sense? With the company treatment of QA? QA team behavior?
> Consenting to something when you're black out drunk is still consent.

This is not at all true. You don’t have the capacity to consent if you’re black out drunk.
Yup but no free tier now :D not paying for it for open source dev stuff. Rather just run the IDE on my laptop. Was handy when using someone elses computer.
Sounds like you should start a mechanical Turk equivalent for video game testing?
A rave without significant mucosal contact (e.g. people going around french kissing with each other) is unlikely to be a superspreader location for monkeypox.
The article incorrectly reported that statistic? I’m just making sure I understand.
>the product itself is mediocre in both cost and implementation

Getting a phased array antenna with a gain enough to get range of more than 500km for $500 is mediocre in cost? I've got curious and googled Starlink antenna teardown - man, that looks like a fighter radar hardware, may be not of a 5G fighter, yet definitely not every 4G fighter has such a radar. There is no way it costs $500 even in BOM. The BOM itself must be several thousands at least. Starlink is basically giving away its hardware in order to get customers.
curious: how large was each compressed s3 sqlite db?
Isn't that already the case? You can't set up a charity to throw parties for yourself, for instance.
The OpenAI access agreement actually says that you must add (or keep?) a watermark on any generated images, so you’re in good company with that line of thinking.
Effective Power is a viewer for Apple's power logging diagnostics
Condom would help and yes, gays are more promiscuous, they tend to do more anal sex than straight people and they tend to use more drugs which cause them to be less responsible. The statistics regarding HIV are overwhelming, most of it is contracted by gay anal sex (the second cause is infected syringes among drug users). HIV almost doesn't exist among straight people.
You can sort of do that with https://fairuseify.ml
I'm gay, and I downvoted you. Obviously transmission rates are very different around the world, but I'll just speak for the US: in the US the majority of new HIV infections are still men who have sex with men, with 66% of all cases and 81% of all men (and gay men make up 5-10% of men): https://www.hiv.gov/hiv-basics/overview/data-and-trends/stat...

Heck, the reason I'm on PrEP, and the reason virtually every other sexually active, non-long-term-monogamous gay man I know is also on PrEP, is because I know my risk of HIV infection is an order of magnitude more than straight men.
"Flagship" needs some clarification. If you follow naval affairs, this may seem too obvious to mention, but the term "flagship" does not indicate anything about the technical capabilities of a vessel. It just means the ship where the commander of a fleet has his office. The Moskva, despite being antiquated, was probably chosen as flagship just because it had the most room.

Also, a plea to everyone posting technical details. Please provide links to sources. It has been extremely hard finding solid data on this war.
Please don’t spread the idea that viruses necessarily become more virulent and less lethal. I believed this prior to Covid, but have subsequently learned that it’s not a reliable assumption. It may be true in some cases, but I’ve seen several scientists cast doubt on it, and you can easily find research saying it’s not always the case. It hasn’t really happened with Covid—Delta was more transmissible and equally lethal, Omicron is massively more transmissible with only a modest reduction in lethality.
Which OS prevents you from installing another python runtime?

I install python using asdf on both MacOS and various flavours of Linux.

https://asdf-vm.com/
Anything going directly into the colon is bypassing a number of the body's protective mechanisms:

"Prostaglandin E2 in human semen given via anus during anal intercourse may cause an immune dysregulation in the male semen recipients; this immunosuppressive effect of prostaglandin E2 may be one of the underlying factors that stimulate AIDS-associated virus infection or that trigger the latent AIDS-associated virus. This hypothesis is supported by the following experimental results. Anal infusion of prostaglandin E2 or D2 into male rats reduced in vitro responses of T lymphocytes to phytohemagglutinin. However, the T-cell response of female rats was not reduced significantly by the anal infusion of seminal prostaglandins."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3458226/

"This method of alcohol consumption can be dangerous and even deadly because it leads to faster intoxication than drinking since the alcohol is absorbed directly into the bloodstream and bypasses the body's ability to reject the toxin by vomiting."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_enema
The irony is that when the majority of content becomes computer-generated, most of that content will also be computer-consumed.

Neil Stephenson covered this briefly in "Fall; or Dodge In Hell." So much 'net content was garbage, AI-generated, and/or spam that it could only be consumed via "editors" (either AI or AI+human, depending on your income level) that separated the interesting sliver of content from...everything else.
Don‘t forget bird flu and swine flu
You might already be aware of this, but 'pegs' likely refers to Parsing Expression Grammars [1], a super powerful and imho very chill concept which translates into great tooling in lots of languages.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing_expression_grammar
Exactly. Cant even enforce a lockdown this time for this. More lockdown == more sex with whoever is in sight.
I own one M1 with 8Gb RAM, one with 16Gb, and one with 32 - 8Gb was enough only for basic tasks (I’m a web developer, TS + Rust). Anything non-trivial was causing swapping.

Memory management is quite usual, nothing magical. The disk is faster, but it's not the reason to rely on swapping, still.
I run gitlab on my kube cluster and installed that via helm charts and configured the omniauth system to communicate with my keycloak server via oidc. Overall complexity 6/10 took about 5 hours to fuss with it the first time. Subsequent deployments became easier. I hear Gitea is also a good selfhosted solution and less complex to install. However, I went with Gitlab specifically because we use it at work and I want to practice gitops/devops with it.

https://docs.gitlab.com/charts/installation/
Maybe I'm getting old, but I don't want to do all development-related tasks in my web browser. As a software engineer, I want local control, where an internet connection is optional. I want to be able to experiment with the software in various local setups. I just don't get why Gitlab thinks this is a good idea worth a huge amount of engineering effort. Are people really clamoring for this feature?
Sum types let you define a type with a set of fixed possible values (a.k.a. inhabitants). You can define Boolean as a sum type:

data Boolean = True | False

The pipe character would be read as “or”. Boolean has two inhabitants. True being one, False being another one. 1 + 1

Alternatively, when you have a data structure like the example suggested by the author, it’s a product type with 3 fields, with Booleans inhabiting each (isDynamic, isVisible, and isEnabled), 2 * 2 * 2, 8 inhabitants.

The argued criticism of this encoding is that when isEnabled is false, no valid values exist for isDynamic or isVisible. They have no meaning for a disabled object.

My earlier definition for Boolean looks like an enum in some languages, but sum types can be more powerful if you’re allowed to define inhabitants with different shapes (curly braces denoting a record with named fields, “::” read as “has type”):

data GameObjectStatus = Disabled | EnabledWith {isVisible :: Boolean, isDynamic :: Boolean}

Now instead of having 8 inhabitants, you have 5 (a sum of 1 and 4) and they each have a valid conceptual meaning.

Languages with algebraic data types (sums and products) like Haskell (and IMO even better PureScript) let you easily define types that have only valid states.
Gay and bisexual men account for 66% of new HIV infections in the US, according to the CDC.

It's obviously different globally, where homophobia and prostitution mean different groups are vulnerable to HIV.
One of the subjects on an experimental HIV resistant drug managed to still get HIV while having sex with on average 20 men per month (iirc, it's been a while since I read the case study). While promiscuity isn't inherent to gay men, it is more likely among them, and generally to a greater extent than promiscuous women.

With that much risky behavior (with no protection), it is indeed a long series of dice rolls.
There is no magic, and “unified memory” just means that you need some more memory because you have no additional “VRAM”.
Interesting. Which problem did Manin give him? How do you know all this stuff?
The developer behind Tortoise is experimenting with using diffusion for music generation:

https://nonint.com/2022/05/04/friends-dont-let-friends-train...
That's a start, but for me to be "happy" I'd want there to be similar level of accountability and safeguards from bottom to top. So those charities would need to be subject to the same kind of legal rules as a government agency - FOIA, equal protection clause, that kind of thing. And there'd have to be a similar culture of holding them to account. (Like, counterintuitively I'd be happier if I started seeing a lot more news reports of charities wasting funds, because that would suggest that reporters at least cared enough to investigate)
If that is true, though, then they're not actually talking about taxing them -- they're talking about taxing others more heavily too -- otherwise all of them donating would have the same effect as increasing their taxes.
This is weasel wording on their part.

Health care access is a factor for sure.

But there are also two main variants - one western africa, one central africa.
The central african variant has high fatality rate in children/teenagers (1 in 10)
The western african variant does not (1 in 100).
All current cases are the latter, not the former.

(Not tons of data on health care factors involved in the two variants, but seems unlikely that the fatality difference is due mainly to health care).

We also have effective vaccines that are fully FDA approved.
They can even be freeze dried :)

Production is always a factor, but if we needed to produce it fast, i'm sure it could be done.

Put another way - this seems ... unlikely to go the same way as COVID if it becomes a thing. We don't need to go do tons of research and studies and figure out how to fights it and etc. We just need to produce an already-approved effective vaccine.
Have you ever been to a rave?
Ukraine is somewhat of an exception in that being able to provide any service at all is sufficient. But I do recall that last year, there was an incident of someone driving around with an antenna strapped to their car.
As someone who went to a very poor school district - I can tell you that what the state and federal government has sent in the past is not sufficient. My school district was only 4-days a week. It has not changed since I left to the best of my knowledge.

Four days. We couldn’t even afford five days a week. There were other effects to this besides four day weeks but I’m giving a good sound byte here.
You pretty much can, if you can afford the O(1) legal costs to get it approved and set up. An "art museum" set up next door to the "donor" and open only by appointment with the "donor"? Perfectly legitimate according to the IRS.
I wrote a comedic "Best Apache Chef recipe" article[1] mocking these sites.

I guess the concern would be: If one of these recipe websites _was_ generated by an AI, the ingredients _look_ correct to an AI but are otherwise wrong - then what do you do? Baking soda swapped with baking powder. Tablespoons instead of teaspoons. Add 2tbsp of flower to the caramel macchiato. Whoops! Meant sugar.

[0] http://slimsag.com/best-apache-chef-recipe/1438731.htm
This has not picked up people's attention. Not sure if this is something folks here do not care about or is it so off-target that people do not think it's worth commenting?

I am eager to hear people's views on this topic, especially from those who are in engineering management positions or higher up on that ladder. I also want to know what engineers would like to see in a new SDM if someone new is stepping in as their manager, and whether these books are relevant.
Not really. Flyover and southern states in particular mooch off of the productive locales.

So not only do I need to pay more taxes for the US government to fund almost double my states pro rata aid to places like West Virginia and Mississippi, but I get to pay even higher taxes because my locality actually provides things like sound education.

You know what, I think we should exercise the people’s desire for small government and relocate military bases to the places that pay for them.
Purportedly the individual unnamed herein was "convicted of rape and possession of Child Sexual Abuse Imagery in 2011"

https://patricia.no/2022/03/08/proposed-cppcon_safety__trans...

Purportedly a "moderate" risk to reoffend
You’re being pedantic (“black out drunk doesn’t mean you can’t consent”). If you want to be specific, which based on your profile you would want to be, the exact terms are “evidence of the victim's mental incapacity or defect is admissible to prove that consent was not intelligent, knowing, or voluntary.” (Florida state statute 794.022(4) specifically as an example)
We've got color TV, but it still isn't satisfying.
because lockdowns discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation are likely going to be challenged legally in almost all democratic countries, and rightfully so by the way. Reminds me of calls to 'intern' gay men in the 80s here in Germany during the AIDS panic by some politicians.
Thanks for all your work on these projects!
A DAO.
No, it literally does not.

Lower down it discusses the nationally averaged poverty line. At no point does it make any claims to a number for a SF specific localized poverty line. As you say, local values are going to be different, but the national number is far below the "low income" threshold set earlier in the article.
> Are people really clamoring for this feature?

Yes. Because local development environments (at least for the languages I work with, Python and JavaScript) break ALL THE TIME.

With 20+ years of experience I can just about keep my own laptop ticking over - but it takes work, and every time I mentor a new learner this is the number one sticking point.

The browser-based cloud IDE experience, where it doesn't matter what you've got going on with your laptop, you just visit a URL and start work, is an incredible productivity boost for the vast majority of people.

When I think about how much time was wasted on broken personal development environments at my last big employer (several hundred engineers)... I reckon the lost productivity was easily in the low millions of dollars per year.
Step 1. Create a TODO list
Step 2. Do the TODO list.

... there is no Step 3
How about the UK?

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/new-hiv-diagnoses-in-gay-...

>A new report by Public Health England shows that for the first time the number of new HIV diagnoses in gay and bisexual men outnumber new diagnoses in heterosexual adults by only 100 cases.

So there's as many new HIV diagnoses among gay men as straight people, except gay men are only around 2% of the population. Notice you have to include all heterosexual people, not just the men, and it doesn't get up to just the cases among gay/bi men. The difference is staggering.

I'm sorry, but the real world data doesn't match the mythology around HIV. You are right about prostitutes though, I should've included that as a risk factor.