skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still looking for a full-fledged backup and archiving solution that has the following characteristics:

0) error-correction (not just detection!)
1) end-to-end encryption
2) deduplication
3) compression
4) cross-platform implementations
5) (at least one) user interface
6) open source

Both Borg [0] and Restic [1] have long standing open issues for error-correction, but seem to consider it off strategy. I find that decision kind of strange, since to me the whole purpose of a backup solution is to restore your system to a correct state after any kind of incident.

My current solution is an assembly of shell scripts that combine borg with par2, but I'm rather unhappy with it. For one, I trust my home-brewn solution rather faintly (i.e. similar to `don't roll your own crypto` I think there should be an adagium `don't roll your own back-up solutions`). In addition I think an error-correcting mechanism should be available also for the less technology-savvy.

[0]: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/225

[1]: https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/256
So you believe whatever story appears on BBC?
I don't think there's any malice. They're far superior when it comes to energy consumption. And they generally work well. They're just part of a general trend that it's hard to find high-quality products anymore. Unless you have industry expertise, it's extremely hard to determine which appliances are usable. Traditional DYI stores sometimes provide that expertise, buying online it's nearly impossible to search for quality.
You have to be perfect if you deny people taking their turn to speak. Or alternatively accept that you could be wrong and let people propose other ideas. Even if you believe these to have absolutely no merit, it is not something you have the right to answer for everyone. This was always one of the largest problems of scientific progress, not "wrong science". If it is wrong there will be a counter-proof. Not some self-asserted authority to filter anything.

The same concept applies for making health decisions of course. It would indeed be an interesting question if states have overstepped their authority with some enforced measures and I believe it can be argued that they did.

An appeal to authority is weak if some professionals get shouted down. And they were and some of them later proved correct. You undermine your own argument if you propose this to be the most reasonable option. I hope the communication and tolerance for diverging opinion is seriously improved in the next pandemic. It has to.
That's good to know. Github actions is one of the (many) systems I haven't played with yet.
They should really just dump MAUI..calling it a dumpster fire is being polite. Rather let their devs spend some time on Avalonia.
> At least take peoples temperature more often and the sick to stay home.

For things like this by the time someone has a fever they've already been spreading their virus for days if not weeks. Temperature check wouldn't be nearly as useful as just letting workers take time off when they're feeling sick without risking losing their jobs or their ability to pay rent.
Indeed. A pull request is indeed a ... request to pull changes! One fetch/apply later you can use your local merge tools to evaluate.

I guess the various hubs, labs and buckets make it slightly harder to run malicious code on your own box, but the difference might be smaller than one would think.
So basically Veritasium is selling ads to keep making more videos and sometimes he makes things simple enough that high schoolers can understand it? Ok :)
Your financial power is mostly irrelevant to the effort and skill of saying no.
What Happens When Texans Protest Their “Mind-Boggling” Property Taxes?
> "My role was to identify the voices that were not in the mainstream and to give those voices a stage," Rheem says. [...]

> He says the media was hungry for these perspectives.

> "Journalists were actually actively looking for the contrarians. It was really feeding an appetite that was already there."

A rare example of the BBC breaking the media omertà on itself here. You thought journalism was supposed to help you understand the world? Nope, reading our slop will actually make you *less* able to make informed decisions.

There was a good paper written about this all the way back in 2007 [1]. Makes for some eyebrow-raising reading in the year-of-our-lord 2022.

[1] https://www.eci.ox.ac.uk/publications/downloads/boykoff07-ge...
Those are not best-in-class. Pretty much the entire industry is now VS Code by default - which is very good but not a full IDE like VS or Rider/IntelliJ series.
Or 5 1/4” for that matter! I remember my cousin’s old PC used those. Very flimsy but seemed to work remarkably well!
I think that most of those railroads have nothing to do with children operation - it was just a narrow gouge standard railway for less intensive commuting, some specific industrial purposes (like bringing fresh cut wood from forest or clay from careers) or even military (railroad system build around Vilnius during Polish rule in 1930's to provide ammunition to underground forts) and some was built way before soviet union occupied Baltics.

In Lithuania this narrow gouge standard is called "Siaurukas" (eng. "narrowy") and some parts are still being operated as a tourist attraction [1][2]

[1] https://siaurukas.eu/en/history/
[2] https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siaurasis_gele%C5%BEinkelis
Well you clearly know fuck all about the topic then. The British military are guilty of several massacres and civilian murders in Ireland both before and after 1969 and either directly or indirectly through collusion with loyalist paramilitaries.
Fusion reactors are more complex in every possible way than fission reactors because of the sheer temperature differentials (super cool magnets next to hot neutron blanket).

Plus, they have much more parasitic power loss (running the superconducting magnets and cooling them to keep them superconducting, plus keeping the vaccum in the reactor chamber all require massive power, and they scale with the size of the reactor). You need some extra power to produce hydrogen through electrolysis as well, though that is probably lower. Note that making the magnets stronger to keep the vessel lower (so that everything is more easily cooled) will not get you much more, since we are already nearing the limits of material resistance for the supporting steel structures in the presence of the extreme magnetic forces trying to crush the reactor together - especially given embrittlement.

Not to mention, you will always need at least a small fission reactor to breed some tritium, since the fusion reactor will always have some losses.

Finally, the much much higher neutron flux that fusion expels (32x or more neutrons, and much higher energy per neutron as well) means that everything close to the reactor becomes brittle in 2-4 years. This means that things like support beams and the magnets themselves need to be constantly replaced. Even worse, they become medium level radioactive waste, which needs to be stored.

These are all intrinsic limitations of fusion that fission reactors just don't have.
As an immigrant to lands with extreme seasonal changes in the amount of daily sunlight, this does not make a lot of sense to me...

Same - I didn't move up North until my 30s. The sun technically goes down where I live, but I have twilight at "night" that is so bright that I can read outside without lighting. During winter, time is just as difficult to keep track of as the sun sets around 2:30-3:00pm: Most of your evening will be in darkness. As a bonus, I get occasional northern lights even though i'm in a somewhat bright city.
Regarding your last paragraph, it is possible that a new law or licensing convention will benefit some but I can not think of a law or licensing convention that currently exists that has greatly benefited humanity. In all the examples I can come up with, bureaucrats seem gain the most benefit by being the ones enforcing said regulations.

As far as AI taking over jobs, that argument has been made many times before with each new tech. Think of the farriers and buggy whip manufacturers displaced from the automobile, or the typing pools that vanished with fax machines and later on email.

More specific to your concerns; In the past, The printing press, photocopiers, cameras and many more were seen as a threat to the artist but the creative ones found a way to work with the new tech and did just fine.

I think your heart is in the right place, maybe leaning a bit further to the left than me, but in any case I wouldn't be too worried about the creative arts, when art becomes common and it's value is diminished, the creative people find a new way!
Can you tell the difference between r/dalle2 and r/NotDALLE2 images?
It had to be done, and with both subreddits r/dalle2 and r/NotDALLE2 it was an easy and fun project:

https://crul.github.io/rDalle2OrRNotDalle2/

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Instructions

- Press the RED button (or swipe left) if you think the image has been done by DALL-E 2 (an AI)

- Press the GREEN button (or swipe right) if you think the image has been done by a human (photo, painting, ...)

What is this?

- DALL-E 2 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DALL-E) is an artificial inteligence that generates images from text.

- r/Dalle2 (https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2) is a subreddit where people post images generated by DALL-E 2.

- r/NotDalle2 (https://www.reddit.com/r/NotDalle2) is a subreddit where people post images that were NOT generated by DALL-E 2, but appear to be.

- This page loads images from those subreddits and you have to guess from which one it is.

Limitations

This is a personal project made just for fun. Don't expect a full app or game. Some limitations are:

- Posts with specific flairs or without images are filtered, but it's not a perfect filter and will probably see mosaic images or some screenshot of something not generated by DALL-E 2 and marked as if it was.

- Because this page does not store or send any data you cannot save your score. All data will be lost on reload.

- Although this page keeps track of what images have been shown and avoids repetitions, the list of "already seen images" will reset if you close or reload it. So expect to see repetitions in that case.

- To select random reddit posts it uses the easiest solution, a call to https://api.reddit.com/r/DALLE2/random.json (or r/NotDalle2). This endpoint does not return a really random post, it only has access to latest posts. So if you play long enough it's possible to exhaust the possible random posts from one of the subreddits. In that case you will see an error when no new image has been found after some number of attempts.

Keyboard controls

- Y/D: Answer "Yes, the image is from from r/dalle2 and was made by DALL-E 2"

- N: Answer "No, the image is from r/NotDalle2 and was made by a human"

- W: Load New Image

- T: Show Title

- B: Previous image (Back)

- F: Next image (Forward)

- ?/H: Show Help

Source code

https://github.com/Crul/rDalle2OrRNotDalle2
Off the top of my head: anti-vaxx, sleeping with step daughter he raised since she was 4 , sleeping with and knocking up people who work under him (still do), did not take responsibility for the race issues at the fremont location just paid off the fine and it kept hapenning againand again to the point the state is suing him, a lot of pro-trump b.s. , fired diversity staff for "woke mind virus", fired spacex people who spoke up asking him to stop with all the public scandals. he is a public figure, like it or not a trend setter. I guess he himself was emboldened only after trump did the same thing and he too was without remorse, who is following elon?

What does he need to do? Grope women and make fun of disabled people like trump (oops, people still supported trump and looked the other way). This shit needs to stop.
"DwarFS compression is an order of magnitude better than SquashFS compression, it's 6 times faster" : I suspect this is on a highly specific test-case and no generalities can be made...

N.B. there is also EroFS https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/filesystems/erofs.htm...
I don't touch anything from facebook, will not touch react or projects with react.
Do you at least appreciate the irony of the BBC here saying we shouldn't give contrary opinions a stage as a way of ensuring integrity?
Your perfectly readable isn’t everyone’s perfectly readable, and the benefit of ePubs is that they’re reflowable, unlike PDF. Having said that, why don’t you try our ePubs? We spend a lot of time on them to make sure that they’re not “things of horror” :)
"So you believe BBC exists ? Do your own research !".

Yes, though, I'm inclined to believe a sourced article from a major publicly founded outlet including quotes from the "accused" admiting to what they have done, over most corporate PR.

But maybe I should not, what do we care anyway ?
The issue is most users do not have the infrastructure to let others pull directly from their repositories, hence centralized hosts became popular.
But then again, why would anyone connect their computer to the completely censored national LAN, only to be spied upon by the state?
Back when macc.as was launched it linked to a campaign to debunk/side-step some common local ideas about the food quality of mcdonalds.

Back when McDonalds was still relevant there was a lot of press about the nutritional content, food preparation standards and so on. Food poisoning or undercooked food from mcdonalds was a common theme. My understanding is that they have largely addressed these issues.
See replies to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32220169.
Fingerprinting files would be the least of my concerns. When you plug a USB stick, you potentially plug a keyboard and handover control of your computer to the stick.
have you seen this critique video of school of life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlkJJygIoVU
As I read it, they are searching for a free service.

AFAIK Sourcehut is only free currently because it is in alpha stage. So it will cost at least $20/year in the future. (Which is still way cheaper than GitLabs Premium plan, but still: it isn't "free")

I don't think people think enough about that fact. Sourcehut is not a "free" alternative if you plan long term.

I think something like codeberg.org would be a real "free" alternative. Because Codeberg - as a non-profit - doesn't plan to sell anything in the future.
But how do you encourage people for difficult tasks? It is easy to commit myself to correct a particular spelling in a lable by tomorrow. But to fix the indeterministic bug that crashes our top client's server every now and then?
The Complete Human Body in Virtual Reality [video]
More salient question than "is blockchain DNS a good idea": How did they get this domain name?
What? They absolutely did bomb a school bus, with kids (protestant and catholic) on it at the time: https://apnews.com/article/49117d7cbfe3b351f61290b53ad3e34f

I'm sorry I screwed up, it was a polytechnic I was thinking of rather than a library: http://bufvc.ac.uk/tvandradio/lbc/index.php/segment/00168003...

I'm also unsure how they were minimizing civilian casualties when the blew up multiple pubs and apartment stores in the UK.

That said I'll cop to being unreasonable and biased in my first comment, I did disregard the violence committed by the RUC. I was reflexively responding to what came across as a minimization of the IRA and ended up doing what I was accusing the person I was replying to of doing.

I'll update the original comment if HN still allows it.
Proper terminology needs to be crafted for corporate tactics and their incessant attempts towards undermining public good.
Scratch is aimed at kids and is the best introduction to programming for kids and parents of all ages and abilities

Minecraft has all levels of in-game programming from simple recipes to redstone circuits. outside the game there're procedural quests, time-based events, animated skins.. "look Daddy I spent 4 hours building this castle" - "that's great, let's find out how to make thousands of them in seconds!"

YouTube is full of programming tutorials for kids. there is a lot of crap to trim but the time is well invested

there is a balance between work and play, but often the benefits of coding bleed into the gameplay to a point where the two are happily married

the trick is finding a balance - halve screentime into educational and recreational, they still get 100% gaming/YouTube, just on a reward basis

in general, teachers at school cannot code and kids will need to be able to code in the future. it's not the teachers' fault, they weren't taught to code yet they have to teach coding. the next generations of teachers will not have this problem since they will be kids from now onwards who can code. introducing coding as a regular activity at home will benefit kids for life
I am listening to Eric Schlosser’s book “Command and Control” at the moment and it has quite a bit of detail on this and other nearly disastrous incidents and the complete lack of serious command & control around nuclear material/weapons. We are very lucky not to have had several accidental or unwanted nuclear detonations to this point. I’ve not finished the book but I am not optimistic the situation is very much better today.
The specific statement I was responding to was this:

> I can say I believe 80% of science wrong AND not reproducible, 10% being an outright fraud (10% being legit).

.. which I interpreted to be a statement on "whether science works."

If we instead constrain that to 80% of science that was posted recently in journals, and mainly not in hard sciences, then I could totally get behind that. But I don't think that's what they said, and I think that's why I've been confused by this whole thread.
Server side Blazor is really like webforms in terms of client state management and scalability. I am not sure I would really use it for anything.
The Spinning Drone Paradox [video]
OP is asking for data that you have collected, not your personal preference.

The preferences of the crowd here are largely irrelevant, as the people that frequent this website are typically not average web users.
Sadly, I'm not quite comfortable advertising DirtyBiology currently. It might not be worth speaking about this here, people can search for the channel name in any search engine if they want to know more about this. I think I'll wait for the facts to be (dis)confirmed / things to be clarified.
It's very funny to read that they couldn't even replicate the initial experiment, while there were scientific articles imagining how this could be a realistic power source given "modest assumptions" about how the hohlraums can be industrially cheaply built.
> Besides, the concept is trivial and applicable and replicable by almost anyone.

Has anyone made one operating at major scale? And comparable to say serious pumped storage? At their page I see only "demonstration unit".

I suspect that either it is not solved, expensive or not trivial. And not replicable or there is nothing to replicate or not worth replicating.

For comparison https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elektrownia_Por%C4%85bka-%C5%B... can operate at 500MW for 4 hours, was build in 1979 and is a normal pumped storage battery (large enough to be classified, operated and treated as a power plant).
I own a car and that’s single reliable mean of transportation in/around Munich. Airport line causes me always the stress since I am not sure if I am in the right part of the train or I will go to Freising. I double check it, triple check. Repeat dozen times and can relax only when train enters airport area.

As you mentioned - additional tracks through the city center are re-planned for 203x, but with current handicap on all planing and execution levels it will realistically be finished at 2050. It makes public transportation completely unreliable since the city is heavily overcrowded already. Absolutely the same story with S7 extension from Wolfratshausen to Geretsried. No way to build anything before 2040.

Let’s face the true, Germany lost grip on infrastructure projects. The fight against car goes on without offering any alternatives. In theory my journey to the office takes 10 minutes more on the train than with a car. In reality I don’t know where train gets stuck and for how long.
Do we really need to spend every commute hour working? To me long commutes, although sometimes tiring, have been a time to catch up on reading, listening to podcasts or just zoning out and thinking about nothing and everything.

Of course, we don't want to waste 2 hours of our day commuting, but this is the case to advocate for better public transportation that could take us quicker and more comfortably rather than believing that self-driving cars are the solution.
Blaise Aguera y Arcas calls it a consummate improviser; when the AI Test Kitchen ships you all will agree that it's an improvising software that is not too shabby, and also it can be customized by developers.

Which is why it is odd to expect of it to go from talking about Les Mis to building barricades; the plain old good lamda might come off as a bit boring, reluctant to get involved in politics, and preferring to help people in its own small ways.

Then again, ymmv, it being an improvising software; maybe by default it acts as a conversational internet search assistant, but if there will be dragons it may want to help people to deal with the dragon crisis.
In every test car you can.
Yes - to be clear I don't agree with the blaming, I was just saying it exists.
Where did you get this quote from? The closest line in the document is quite different:

> Kim is neither brilliant nor adequately educated, but he has proven himself highly acceptable to Stalin.
> I think that most of those railroads have nothing to do with children operation

Except they are operated literally by the children? And many of them have 'Children's' in the name?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_railway
You haven't gotten over something that happened 25 years ago, and that you have absolutely zero control over? Obviously you're free to use up your emotional energy in any way you see fit, but it seems like a waste to me
There is a thriving scene of content creators on reddit which create hypnosis content without any oversight. They produce "canned" recordings or scripts to be recorded and share them freely or patreon supported. I wouldn't expect them to work immediately as "building rapport" and "opening up to the idea" are important for the power of suggestions to grow. Getting in touch with people and having sessions over text, voice or video might also be an option if the .mp3 files just do not do the trick or more custom experiences are wanted.

Hypnosis with an hypnotherapist might also be an option, although i am unsure they wouldn't try to treat you into accepting your body as is first. YMMV. You could also try both.

https://old.reddit.com/r/hypnofair and https://old reddit.com/r/erotichypnosis have a lot of NSFW content but are more popular then the SFW https://old.reddit.com/r/recreationalhypnosis because of course it's the internet. Browsing around there are definitely some files which involve immobilisation but they seem to be targeting people into bondage or being drugged. Looking at those tags is a fascinating rabbit hole of what people are into.
Tangential, but will electric car makers ever include a mode to decrease tire shedding which pollutes water bodies?
Birmingham is surprisingly versatile as a filming location. The dystopian scenes in “Ready Player One” were shot there, but it can also double for up-market London housing as seen in the “Kingsman” movies.
It's clear that GP was making that comment to illustrate a point, not because they were going to call CPS on them.
clearly they just needed to get some HN commenters to work on the design!