skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing is worse so another thing is not bad?

This is the same level of logic used against nuclear power, yes if we'd invested in this in the 80s and 90s (even the 00s) we wouldn't be having these conversations and Russia wouldn't be an energy superpower... I feel like a certain amount of "what's going with people" because I'm having to grow up with these decisions not embrace living through the era that made them...
Ask HN: What is the job market like for niche languages (Nim, Crystal)?
Elixir, Nim, Crystal, Elm...

Currently I am a JS dev, and not enjoying it at all. I looked at Elixir and Crystal, like both. But I am open to learning anything that is unlike JS at this point. How is the job market like?
And new housing, .. but not built in their neighborhoods. Oh, and don't build over farmland or undeveloped green spaces.

Without being snarky, the problem here is that there is a tension between what people believe in general, and what they believe about their situations specifically, especially when they have an incentive to feel the opposite way about it. For example, people may know (or believe) that building duplexes and apartments in their neighborhoods will reduce their property values, or "ruin the character of the neighborhood" and so oppose them.
"Going in with a co-operative mindset (at least until the other party demonstrates they are not) should be win-win."

Completely agree. However, the underlying reason for many divorces is that they no long have the ability to cooperate or view things rationally.
Tangential, but:

KDE Connect [0] is an awesome app that does not require the KDE desktop. I use it with Xubuntu/Android. You can:

- Share files and links between phone/computer.

- Control music and video with the smartphone app.

- Ring your phone from your computer.

- Use your phone as a trackpad.

- Get notifications from your phone on your computer.

- Control music/videos/youtube on your computer from your phone.

- And more....

Just a great app!! It's so good that I'm planning to try out KDE after using Xubuntu for at least a decade.

[0]: https://kdeconnect.kde.org/
Ha I suggested this on the C++ proposals mailing list 7 years ago:

https://groups.google.com/a/isocpp.org/g/std-proposals/c/b6n...

Enjoy the naysayers if you like! I'm glad someone spent the time and effort to push past them. Bit too late for me - I have moved on to Rust which had support for this from version 1.0.0.

> There's also the standard *nix/BSD utility "xxd".

> Seems like the niche is filled. Or, at least, if you want to claim that

> (A) XPM

> (B) incbin

> (C) "xxd -i"

> (D) various ad-hoc scripts given in http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8707183/script-tool-to-co...

>...do NOT completely fill this evolutionary niche

> This ultimately would encourage a weird sort of resource management philosophy that I think might be damaging in the long run.

> Speaking from experience, it is a tremendously bad idea to bake any resource into a binary.

> I'll point out that this is a non-issue for Qt
applications that can simply use Qt's resources for this sort of business.

(Though credit to Matthew Woehlke, he did point out a solution which is basically identical to #embed)

> I find this useless specially in embedded environments since there should be some processing of the binary data anyway, either before building the application

In fairness there was a decent amount of support. But given the insane amount of negativity around an obviously useful feature I gave up.

I wonder if there was a similar response to the proposal to include `string::starts_with()`...
I have used all possible DEs and Window Managers, and finally settled on Gnome.

I feel that I am very efficient using it, more so than when I was using tilling window managers (wmii, i3, dwm, etc.).

Gnome is just an incredible piece of software that works out of the box. Try it.
Ok, where can I buy this?
Good human reviews are, well, nearly impossible at the scale of Twitter or Google. It would require employing hundreds of thousands of reviewers, training them, and paying them decent salaries for one of the most horrible jobs in the world. So, everybody is trying to automate as much as possible in this area. I am sure that in this case, if there is a human even involved in the escalation, it takes them a few seconds to decide on each case, with poor decision quality.
> To be a one person contractor you need to accept you will not have job security.

On the contrary, I’d say you have _more_ job security since you tend to switch assignments often.
I'm not so sure I agree.

The typical argument for AI moderation in these situations is something along the lines of "Twitter is so big how could we possibly moderate at this scale without AI?"

Does a company have a right to scale faster than it has the ability to properly moderate? Should they?

Looking at a more extreme example: If General Motors used AI to design cars and they increased the likelihood of fatalities, would we feel any different?
The post said they simulated the universe

It doesn't? It only mentioned "a supercomputer the size of the moon" to simulate that one person. It says nothing about simulating the extra-person part of the universe.
The Presence Shortage (2021)
Cloudiness in the populated eastern/southeastern part of the country.

Tibet's insolation is really good, though.
Look closer. Most of the fixes mentioned in this weekly update are small and niche stuff you don't encounter too often.

And nobody is claiming all the bugs are fixed. Quite the contrary. There is a huge effort on fixing bugs, but this desktop is overall quite stable. You can try it by yourself, but don't do this if you are happy with your current setup.
People doubting there is enough land to be used for solar panels should check how much land is used for parking lots.
An AI arbitrarily banning someone for a completely innocuous post isn't broken?
Although this is more than likely a PR piece for Sudowrite, it's really well-written (with or without AI?)

I especially liked the part where one author describes working with AI like teaching a clever cat to do tricks, or having a crazy but never tired writing pal, and that "prompt programming" is an art in itself.

It's a very good read; highly recommended.
I think you're misinformed. As parent request, you need citations to support your honestly pretty wild claims.

Land used for growing livestock feed would in a very large part be just as suitable for human food production, and we wouldn't even use that much of it. Ruminants are not any kind of necessary part of food security, on the contrary -- without livestock large parts of current farm land could be released back to nature.

Nobody is suggesting to eat "natural plants" as neolithic gatherers might have done.
Not a bad start.

A similar sense of humility would be appreciated here in the west too from politicians and public health officials.

For misleading the public about masks, school closures, random lockdown rules for thee but not me, mode of transmission, vaccinations and it’s efficacies among many others. But the ruling class is too worried about its image and message it signals to its most benevolent donor class.

To start gaining credibility you have lost, it’s useful to acknowledge you were wrong. I think public would understand we are all humans. But alas our ruling class is too arrogant and dismissive to do that. Ever.

And that includes NYT for shamelessly bashing Covid as “the disease of the unvaccinated” as little as a few months ago and continuing to gas light and divide the public over a disease that is at its endemic stage.
> This depends a lot. In most of the cases delay is only about 1 second on modern PCs. A bit more when you cite and build the document twice.

I agree that for many (or even most) documents, LaTeX's compilation delay is generally manageable. However, when it comes to documents with bibliography management, footnotes, margin-notes, and multiple figures, the compilation delay can get quite high.

In my own experience, I had a document of notes containing over a hundred citations managed by biblatex and bibmla [1]. It also had footnotes and margin-notes, requiring an additional repaint. The compilation time on that document was well over several seconds on my laptop, up to dozens of seconds when on battery-power.

> I finally ended up for just using vim and zathura. Optimised docker image with LuaLatex builds the document. Second favorite would be LaTeX plugin for Jetbrains products. Overleaf is only good for collaborating.

I'm very curious to hear about the docker image that you are using. What purpose does the docker image serve in the build pipeline? I know that for compiled software, sometimes having a build environment allows you to better define the environment variables, but to my understanding this is not a worry for LaTeX.

[1] https://github.com/ShenZhouHong/sartre-notes
Usborne computer and coding books from the 1980s
try this https://raw.githubusercontent.com/amit-tewari/random/master/...
For chemistry, you usually care about the quantum mechanics of an ensemble. Simulating a single molecule is less useful and chemistry is already a very good heuristic system for this. We would care about say: we have a 2-dimensional membrane with lipids and cholesterols, and, say, two proteins interacting in this membrane. Now, give me a molecule that either enhances or inhibits the interaction, and please constrain your search to molecules that can cross the blood brain barrier and which we can synthesize in under five "undergrad ochem" steps[0] using a set of feeder molecules with low supply chain risk (let's not depend on glutamate from China, e.g.)

I'm not sure this is something that QC can easily solve.

[0] undergrad ochem is actually a pretty good heuristic for which reactions one can perform at industrial scale, though high scale reactions might require catalysts you don't learn about in ochem
No offense - but insulation doesn't really work like this. If you insulate only one part, you will get massive problems with moisture through heat transfer. With insulation of old houses, so much can go wrong and then the only solution _is_ tearing down the house and building a new one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_experience_officer
That is utterly horrifying. It's so nakedly racist and sexist, and proudly so.

I comfort myself with the idea that such rabid hatred isn't sustainable in the long run. People mellow out, society mellows out and becomes ever more accepting. Fifty years from now this sort of thing will seem just as alien as, say, the McCarthy era, or indeed the alternate reality of communist states.
I disagree, not because I disagree with the fact that this happened: "Recently, we had the first generation in history where the wisdom of our elders was more harm than boon", but because I think the phenomenon is temporary.

The reason that the life advice of the Boomers, Silent Generation, and a lot of Gen X doesn't hit is due to the fact that we underwent an information era shift during their lifetime, and that due to advances, such shifts can happen more quickly than they used to. However, now that we're settled in this new digital, informationally networked world, generations are going to grow up and build new wisdom to pass on. This just takes time. A lot of the Gen Z people I've run into are happier to listen to me than I expected, but if I step back it makes sense: I was one of the first people to grow up online (I was 4 in 1993 when I joined the party) and really internalize the new way of doing things, so more of what I say is actually relevant and I can also read digital context far better than most people my age or older. In 30 years, there's going to be a lot more guidance for young people from the now older Gen Z and the very small portion of us Millennials who got to be very online our whole lives.

In addition, while most elders had harmful wisdom, not all did, and this is an important point because it disproves the idea that elders should inherently should not be listened to/were useless for one or two generations because of the technological advancements. Instead, I would say the fault lies with our cultures/societies. I'm a 3rd/4th generation geek, and so I, my siblings, and my cousins grew up with adults whose wisdom was still helpful, even in this weird age. There are dozens of us in my generation with varying temperaments, religious + political affiliations, ability levels, etc. and we all know things like troubleshooting skills, how the internet and Web work, basic systems-thinking, hacking stuff together to get the results we want, etc. So my generation and the one after can/could just walk up to pretty much any random adult and get some technologically/informationally literate advice. We also learned things like how to resolve nerdy arguments and got to hear conversations between our adults about things like why the Web was a Big Deal and what it meant. We received context and it's been key in keeping us all sane. This was a rare experience for my generation, but I think it will become more common in the next 50 years.

I do think the disconnect is one reason for a lot of social upheaval we're seeing/about to see, though.
Private property developers simply dont want to build affordable housing. The margins are just lower than they are for luxury housing. Who would choose to make 4% profit when you could make 20?

They do lobby hard to remove building regulations in the name of building more affordable housing but they never actually build it unless local government actively forces them to with some of those regulations they hate, at which point they build the bare minimum and install a poor door.
If you're looking for an app to divide your assets, your marriage has already broken down.
Nullptr, constexpr, embedd, safer enums, type inference approved for C23
> What people don't realize is that solar power is not enough to support industrial production. Neither is hydro and wind power.

We don't realize it because it's not true.
It seems like the problem with many of these tech companies (and many modern companies in general) is that they've scaled faster than they have the ability to operate properly.

"How can we possibly moderate properly without AI?"

is really just another way of saying

"We don't want to pay the money it's going to cost to moderate effectively and we're going to cross our fingers that we can solve problems caused by technology with more technology."

That failure to operate is causing harm but the kind of harm it causes is hard for the public or politicians to understand, so it goes on unaddressed.
Off topic but season 3 has been fantastic. I hope there'll be a season 4.
> But there’s also a larger thing here where Twitter apparently has moderation tools so powerful that they can immediately trigger bans for things other than what they’re actually looking for. The actual execution leaves a lot to be desired here, but the itchy trigger finger cannot be denied. Somehow they can do this, but racial slurs are generally pretty okay, white supremacy is largely ignored, and every Twitter troll I’ve reported for harassment gets a three-week investigation and then a “We find they did not violate our rules” email.

This is one of the things that annoys me most about major sites like Twitter or YouTube. Inconsistent enforcement of rules and little to no avenue for appeal.
Given the increasing duck-curve [https://elements.visualcapitalist.com/the-solar-power-duck-c...] of solar energy production, this makes sense to me, economics and efficiency concerns aside.
In addition to this if one runs unbound as their DNS on their home router and they block DoH then one could add

local-zone: "it" always_nxdomain

to NXDOMAIN all requests for the .it TLD and protect non browser devices. I use this method to stay off sanctioned country TLD's and to remove the cheap/free spammy domains and TLD's that often contain more malware than anything useful.
Human review is pretense, it costs more to do anything else. A human is told to process these as fast as possible, so the issue can be resolved. With these incentives, it wouldn't be reasonable to actually watch the videos in question. That's not what the system is designed to reward.

The human is there to rubber stamp the AI decision as fast as possible, so that Twitter can tell you your case has been reviewed by a human and settled. The important metric is speed, because that directly translates into cost.
For adhd. Ear plugs are or similar is a handy trick for staying on task.

If I could turn off hearing while working I would.
We might be thinking of very different countries. Taxes are largely the same in most developed countries for couples or singles. Couples just have double the allowances. I'm not sure if you meant emigration, but I've lived in 3 countries while single, and I never heard this being easier married. And for sure I was never asked about my marital status for traveling.
In Europe, roof PV is actually making the grid worse off when residential areas become over-producers. The capacity is not available to move the peak solar power away from residential areas or between residential areas. The grid is apparently designed for top down generation.
I really don't get why so many people are willing to give Cloudflare a free pass on stuff like this. Why is it OK for a company to facilitate and host (1) thousands of scam domains, making reporting arduous and ineffective?

Anyone trying to infect others with Trojans and viruses just need to check user agents or use dynamic redirect URLs, and suddenly this clearly illegal activity becomes black magic that is way beyond the comprehension of the folks at Cloudflare.

Cloudflare is basically making the shittiest parts of the Internet safe for scammers and spammers, and this is just one example.

If that's not bad enough, they're trying like crazy to become a monopoly. If this what they do now, imagine how bad it'll be when they control even more and feel even more immune to making money from scammers.

(1) Hosting is providing services on the Internet without which a site would not function. Providing DNS is hosting. Providing proxy is hosting. Providing email is hosting. Don't fall for Cloudflare's "we don't host" bullshit.
I don't have any experience with using Ghostscript as a post-processing step, and I am curious to know if it works well for complex documents.

LaTeX does have a native way of generating PDF-A compliant documents, using the pdf-x package. It's still in beta, but it is quite stable and works very well. The advantage of enforcing PDF-A compliance using native LaTeX is that it allows you to take the further step of implementing reproducible builds. Once that is done, you can be certain that given a LaTeX source file, you will be able to generate a bit-for-bit identical document.

Additional post-processing steps will have to be at least documented, and will probably tie the output on the specific version of your post-processor.
Nice tour of student typesetting today. Not surprising to find roff
still in service too. My thesis in the late 80s was set using nroff,
fig and eqn, all of which I've fond memories.

Surely WYSIWYG and "office" suites were a disaster for writing.
Students seem to spend lost weeks and months fiddling with MS-Word
only to create mediocre looking output.

Personally I's say it's hard to beat Org-mode, separate plain text
files, then adding the desired exporter and style files at the last
minute.
> Overnight, I received a response that my appeal had been denied. So a human being, someone who works at Twitter dot com, looked at that video, looked back at the rule it was breaking, looked once again at the video, and went “Yeah, this all checks out.”

My guess is that appeals are either processed by some simple code or offloaded to some cheap labour service - such as Amazon Mechanical Turkey or some sweatshop in a developing country.
I don't think a dichotomy of options between respecting every fringe idea and civil war is all there is.

The fabric of society has been weakened by leaving others behind, I agree and it is frustrating to me as well since it is the cause of preventable harm.

The population explosion hasn't helped as well. Like many disasters it is the fruit of a combination of factors. We need institutions closer to the people, we need to be able to converse with our neighbors, we need to be able to have a voice with our institutions and never being able to even meet with our elected representatives is a major problem to which there are solutions.

>This is categorically untrue.
Yes. I meant in Europe.

>those people were very religious
Yes. However I don't think they had a choice.

> Because you don't know how to communicate your views to those you disagree with without insulting them and their beliefs?
That's not my intention, however if beliefs cannot be questioned there's a bigger problem at hand. If questionning beliefs results immediately in being perceived as insulting there's either a communication problem, or a misunderstood/ununderstandable morals problem.

Edit: contemporary science has a lot of problems too.. to me it's just a heap of papers from citation mills. Using that for any purpose is a very delicate act.
"Going in with a co-operative mindset (at least until the other party demonstrates they are not) should be win-win."

Do you have a source for this? In my state, and many others, temporary protection from abuse orders against spouses are very easy to get just by saying the right things without any real evidence. Those stay in effect for a couple of weeks until a hearing. Then it's difficult to get them overturned unless you have physical proof because the course want to "err on the side of caution".

There are divorce lawyers who actually recommend filing false protection orders during divorce, for the very reasons stated by the previous commenter. It's well known amongst divorce attorneys that some in their profession do this. There is generally no punishment for those attorneys since you can't prove their involvement easily, nor for the false filer in many cases. After all, if your spouse is a felon (perjury) the courts will likely make you pay more in child support and alimony due to their limited earning potential.
This is wrong. Steel manufacturing happens near ports.

We can't shift cities to electricity generation. We historically choose population centres in places with optimal conditions like having good water flow or natural protection with mountain ranges or good level land.

Most industry needs access to transport with shipping being the cheapest.
The problem really, is that people want to believe. So it doesn't matter how many PhDs pile in to explain that "no, this isn't sentience, it's just statistical modelling", a whole class of people (including very smart non-domain-experts) go "yes but... <insert opinion/hope/imagination>", and the whole thing hangs up on semantics.

Google firing this guy simply stokes the flames.
Questions I ask upon seeing these results:

How much more fertilizer and water input is needed to realize these results? As these two resources become scarce, we should start thinking about yield per unit input rather than simply yield per acre.

Is this new crop safe for humans and animals to eat? How do we know?