skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't Amazon do blackout periods for most grunt-level employees?

Usually only executive-level and higher employees have access to information considered material to the business trajectory at large. Emphasis on usually; all that boring bigcorp training covers the ins and outs.
How much electricity is generated from gasoline?

Or petroleum?
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The rules of "never eat or drink while using a computer" or "food and drink don't belong around computers" still applies in a clean environment.
This story reminds me that the most successful entrepreneurs are often those who have wealth to begin with, which enables them to keep playing with ideas until the random walk bumps into something that customers actually want.

Segment’s founders may not have raised another $600K had their search ultimately failed. And did the founders have the cash themselves to try again? The panic attacks indicate perhaps not.
obj.f() shouldn't necessarily be synonymous with f(obj) though. How would the latter case handle private fields, for example?
I think the Dell XPS line is fine.
Could you please explain these terms and why it's is wrong to conflate them?
I think the ideal UX will be the ability to markup images with little comments and have it adapt accordingly. The prompt interface is bad. One of the biggest reasons being that you have virtually no control on the spatial aspect of your additions. Being able to say "add an elephant here and remove this lamp" will be big. Being able to do so with a doodle of an elephant to suggest posing will be even better.
That yields no results and the hint „Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe.“ for me.
I reread Cryptonomicon every couple of years. It's so very 90s, so very startup, I revel in it every time. It's delightfully appealing and appalling
On Lowes.com? Retest in a clean profile. Seems that once they trust you you are ok for a while, at least from a friend's test, who was able to reproduce in a clean profile. But maybe it is IP linked and takes a little bit to accumulate. Did you just enable privacy.resistFingerprinting recently?

Also. Doublecheck that it is enabled. Also, I'm using Nightly firefox. It may be the resist fingerprinting is more robust there.

BTW, this isn't using a VPN or anything that might seem suspicious. Just my bog standard US broadband.
More than that, the book begins in the mid 19th century, to explain the discovery of oil as a source of superior fuels for the modern industrial world, which then became heavily dependent on acquiring it to maintain economic dominance. That securing control of oil rich territories was the main strategic goal of both World Wars. At least that’s what I took from the book.
If you use tiktok then you already know what tiktoks are worth your time.
Sure, better notifications can help. Maybe once idle, can send a notification to the phone to make the user put it on charge overnight.

I had the occasion where the battery died by surprise. That’s why I keep repeating that the device works for hours after few minutes o charging, you don’t have to fully charge it before use.
So from a quick glimpse, everything is served as immutable with 60 minutes max-age?
So swapping out the cdb, will take 60 minutes for client caches to be fully updated?
> actively aids and abets human misery

The implication being that without policies that are friendly to struggling/addicted/ill/homeless folks there would somehow be less of them?
Watch Russian state media. Literally stuff they say...
What would make a competitor weak, exactly?
I kind of liked how openly seveneves seemed to be about building some fantasy world for stories (or perhaps even for some video game or p&p rpg, with a number of clearly cut out character classes?), then getting gloriously sidetracked in the background explanation story and finally accepting that the world just built isn't remotely as interesting as that background explanation story. It's as if at some point half way through he realized just how much he was being "typical Neil Stephenson" and decided to go with it, to ten-up himself.

That last part almost seems like a form of trolling, the smallest viable story to claim "I had you on a sidetrack all the time and you did not even notice"
I posted the link to the thread linking to the preprint
Yeah, it's taking the impulse to control everything from our own mind and putting it into an artificial one. Seems to me a lot of our suffering is borne of that impulse.
Great, now I have a new worry.
The copying of features isn't one-sided. Both companies have had firsts there: https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/stolen-features-android-app...

When I switched from Android to iOS in 2016, I was shocked at how little was different, and I can only assume gulf has narrowed since then. A lot of features Android users just assume iOS users don't have are there: vendor-agnostic password manager integration, Safari browser extensions, Safari content (ad) blocker API (Chrome is restricting ad-blockers soon!), more complete home screen customization and widgets, lock screen customization and widgets (iOS 16, upcoming), custom third-party keyboards, grouped/customizable notification system, native console wireless controller support from all three consoles.

Features like granular privacy controls and screen recording (with the exception of some obscure Android OEM builds) debuted on iOS first.

I'd be skeptical with anyone declaring either platform "best," I think they're both roughly equivalent.

However, I do think that anyone who uses macOS is insane to go with Android. There are simply too many useful integrations between the platforms to ignore, combined with the fact that, even if the iPhone isn't the best phone, it's usually in the top handful of choices in terms the overall package.
I believe “revolutionary efforts in Russia“ above means attempts to bring about a revolution; these spanned a period of many decades before 1917.
I doubt they make very much money off of Pakistani users. It might even be a small net loss. I don't think twitter publishes ARPU per country though, so this is speculation to some degree.
This is never how it works out. The ticket price is set to what people will pay for it. Everything else — ads and all, are just additional profit.
For predicates, I’ve abandoned the p postfix as it’s then so hard to know which predicates you have. Instead we now use the ? as a prefix to any Boolean predicate, so in the repl you can just type ? Hit tab and see all available predicates.
Same! I love Diamond Age and to a lesser extent Cryptonomicon, but for my money Seveneves found him leaning into his worst instincts.

At his best, Stephenson’s love of oddball, hyper-focused engineers leads him into in-depth explorations of niche fields & communities. In Seveneves though it manifested as boring Heinlein-esque heroic Mary Sue libertarian engineers who are never wrong, while every other character is somewhere on a spectrum of stupid to nefarious.
Please let me know if I missed anything:

1) because neither a woman nor a minority has landed on the Moon, so to do that

2) to possibly build a refueling station there or in Moon's orbit for space exploration beyond the Moon

3) to train astronauts for increasingly complex missions in deep space

4) to develop science and technology necessary to send humans to Mars

5) to study the origin and evolution of solar system planets

6) to better understand water and ices on the Moon and how to get to it for human use

7) to compete with the Chinese lunar program
All time high is not enough for a war situation.
I’ve been to a gas station where they have loudspeakers on the building itself and they pepper their customers and everyone else in a few hundred foot radius with noise.

Thankfully it’s been long enough I don’t remember the contents but I think it was for food and drinks inside.
I don't think it's true for more intelligent animals like pigs

https://sivertimes.com/tame-wild-boar-in-poland-went-on-a-be...
Zero chance that was an inability to calculate. Far more likely that it was economically driven somehow.
There is a presentation by Edward Tufte claiming that PowerPoint caused, in part, the shuttle disaster. Hang on...

The claim is that PP's economy of words meant that the presentations to each level of management got more and more dismissive of the danger, the higher up the chain they went. Euphemisms got more and more bland, until the top people thought "screw it, we're launching."

Note that I'm not endorsing that theory, since I haven't seen the slide decks that got used. It's disputed here: https://eagereyes.org/criticism/tufte-and-the-truth-about-th...

I find that dismissal to be completely missing the point. Tufte wasn't arguing physics, he was arguing that PP euphemisms caused top execs to minimize the danger.
Facts. Why this keeps getting swept under the rug successfully when there’s first hand witness statements to back this up is beyond me.
I still got ads with Premium YouTube so ended up canceling. What’s the point of paying for no ads when I get ads anyways?
The ask here is not for twitter on itself be some kind of safe place. It is for twitter as a company or platform to stop enabling this sort of thing. Or at least, enable it less.
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I don't think that suggesting that a possible affliction X is actually psychological or caused by something else is inherently harmful. It could just as easily lead to people getting the right treatment.
It isn't going to impress the person in the street until it actually follows your instructions. I tried several times to express "a tall three-legged stool" but even with the "CFG" (how much the image will be like your prompt) at max, it gave me stools with four or ultimately, two legs. Also tried "a four-legged spider" (don't ask) and got first an eight-legged spider, and next, a spider with eight legs, but four of them were blurred. Sure, dumb, pedestrian requests, no imagination, but a five-year-old would quickly get impatient with its inability to follow simple directions.
I trained mine to not be shallow. I’m getting bite sized macroeconomics and pickleball lessons now. And this random corn song keeps showing up though.
Sure it would be a fools errand to filter out "harmful" speech using traditional algorithms. But neutral networks and beyond seems like exactly the kind of technology that is able to respond to fuzzy concepts rather than just sets of words. Sure it will be a long hunt but if it can learn to paint and recognize a myriad of visual concepts it ought to be able to learn what we consider to be harmful.
VSCode dev containers seem to have a lot of potential but I've found the documentation and official examples severely lacking if you want to do anything beyond simply booting a container. There are nice things like the way a devcontainer can symlink the contents of your 'dotfiles' repository into place as .bashrc, .git, etc, but I couldn't find this behaviour detailed in relation to devcontainers (it's a vscode Container extension feature) and found it by accident having spent too long trying to work out exactly how to achieve this functionality. It's also not well-described but on a windows host with linux container it seems the best setup for disk performance is to have the project with .devcontainer located in a WSL2 vm and launch the devcontainer from within WSL2. It's a bit tricky if you don't want to use Ubuntu as MS seems entirely oriented around Ubuntu as the preferred container platform and all examples and useful scripts which launch ssd, etc, assume Ubuntu.
Paramount+ (formerly CBS All Access)? As far as I know it still offers two subscription modes, ad and ad-free, and subscriber stats on Wikipedia seem to be trending in a positive direction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramount%2B

But I think the real issue is this: aside from services that use ads as an explicit differentiator, there is really no reason for a service that charges customers not to also add ads. It's just extra revenue. The only reason I could see for services not wanting to do this is when they want to specifically cultivate a "premium" feel. Cable in the US was/is a classic example: people paid inordinate feels for access, and then also put up with ads on top of it all. And for a large segment of the population, cable was so ubiquitous as to be unthinkable not to subscribe to it.
Known to.
You can generate things the author doesn't like. And since you're doing it on your video card at home, nobody can stop you.
The restrictor sounds like a great idea but it seems like very quickly the worst offenders will install tanks to buffer the water they need to keep their lawns green. Maybe 1 gal/minute across all their greenery might not be enough though but at least they can shower and do dishes at the same time then.
Wizz Air are on the rocks and should be avoided unless you really like to gamble. There have been a few flights cancelled at very last minute - one group I know were halfway through the ~10 of them checking in when they learned their flight was cancelled (on their way to a wedding). There was also a famous case this summer of a flight being cancelled after everyone had already boarded and the plane was on the runway.

Don't bother, even if your ticket is 50 EUR cheaper it's not worth the risk.
Lay the crack pipe down.
>The worst thing is that these apps addict one to unrealistic expectations and instant gratifications. Digital tobacco.

You could say the same about the internet, even pre-broadband, as anyone who spend significant time on websites, message boards, etc during the 90s and 2000s (or earlier with Usenet, IRC, etc) could attest to. Shall we just do away with the whole thing then?
COVID infection causes nutrient deficiencies that weaken the immune response, yes. Zinc, B6, and few others maybe like selenium.
You're not alone. I've had the same experience since pretty much back when it became clear that security would become an issue "down the road". I've been repeatedly ridiculed as "paranoid" over the years for my stance on security being an important factor in networked or multi-user systems, and it left me feeling pretty "burned out" as well.
Courts act completely separate from the government actually, at least in Austria.
The threats against lgbtq and especially trans run WILD on twitter. There are whole accounts dedicated to harassing them and outing them to huge amounts of followers. It takes super log for twitter to even delete a tweet.
> If housing isn't the solution to homelessness, what is?

Decent, long-term medical facilities.

The problem is that solution is expensive. It's way cheaper to simply move the problem somewhere else (jail, different neighborhood, etc.) than fix it.

In addition, it has odd failure modes. You want to create a cluster of people to amortize the healthcare costs. However, your treatment options generally want your homeless to be separated as much as possible. The standard treatment for drug addiction generally starts by separating the patient from those who also do drugs or who provide access to drugs, for example.
>TikTok is unique in its control of the user experience, its use of data, and its popularity.

How so? I don't use TikTok, so I might not be aware and I would appreciate you expanding on what you're asserting here.

What is it doing different than other social media in regards to the control of user experience?

What data practices are employed which are different and worse than the other social medias? Is it just where the data is going, i.e. the 'wrong' people have the data? Or are they capturing more data than, say, FB is?
Italy and Euro
It's probably related to Zinc deficiency caused by covid.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3897803/#:~:text=Zinc%20ions....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22845574
That usually won't work. If a site uses SNI and has many sites behind a single IP (like cloudflare, for example), the server won't know which host's content to respond with.

If it isn't a shared IP, your own browser will block it because of a cert mismatch.

The best way to do this is to update your own /etc/hosts file to point the domain at the correct IP.
Have you seen the img2img results? You draw kind of a crappy Microsoft Paint style image, give it some text for how you want it to actually look, and it does the transformation.

For example: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wwgge8/ano...

Consider also this example of someone splicing Stable Diffusion into a proper image editor and using a combination of img2img, text to image, inpainting, and normal photoshop tools: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho...
I’ve been using TikTok for search lately and it kind of works. Web is at a point where it’s faster to watch a video than open a search result. Click a cookie warning, figure out how to disable my ad blocker, and hope I’m not on an SEO page.
Hmm never heard about it! Thanks for sharing... Have you already use it?
GP was talking about population, not GDP. Do you have those numbers?
devil's advocating, given they have trained it so well to generate images in spite of all expectations, is it really so hard to imagine that they can't also train it to understand what images not to generate? It already had to understand not to generate things that don't make sense to humans. How does this not just amount to "moar training"? The hardest thing is that the training data it will need is a gigantic store of objectionable (and illegal) content ... probably not something many groups are eager to build and host.
How do we kill TikTok?
What exactly are affordances in this contexts?
The stats you linked includes people who use "some form of ad blocker" and indicates "If you use Google Chrome, you probably already know that it has a built-in ad blocker that has a default setting to block ads across websites" and "Firefox has an ad blocking feature as does Safari".

So if they count built-in adblocking features as abblockers, of course the resulting figure is very high, as it's basically equal to the % of internet users who installed Chrome or Safari. This does not mean that regular folks use and understand adblockers, just that they use the two most popular browsers in the world.
All sorts of price discrimination in the travel industry. Expedia has been advertising lower prices in their app, but at least they’re upfront about it? I dunno, but it’s annoying because you know it means “we can sell the additional data we gather if you have our app installed”.
Plausible deniability at its finest. While it could really be a robot filter indeed, the airline seems to be okay with charging customers if they can't show ads to them.

Shady, but also kind of fair TBH.
Fortunately some Scihub domains are not blocked in Austria, you just gotta try some.
I’m curious about this too. Are any of the private companies anywhere near ready to send a ship to the moon and back?
Launch frequency is almost certainly a function of budget - if you want more launch, apply more budget.
What the heck are you even talking about? I gotta say, Hacker News is probably one of the least welcoming communities on the internet.
Just a couple of days ago I read a short-short SF story titled "Argent Blood", by Joe L. Hensley.

(Spoiler: in order to kill a coven of vampires - who run a lunatic asylum whose patients won't be missed - the protagonist, and feeding target, poisons his own blood with silver chloride).
I'm surprised to hear that, given how closely Wren's semantics resemble that of Lua's.

Lua uses the left metatable's metamethod for two tables or userdata, or the metamethod if the binary operator has a primitive on one side of the argument.

This gives elegant results at the expense of some implementation complexity: there's no mechanism to figure out what's happening inside the metamethod, all you know is that if both sides are metatable-able, you're in the left side's method.
There is more complaining about kids making tiktok videos then there was about them making super offensive memes on 4chan.
> It's the apocalypse fortold by John the Revelator.

I literally read a chapter of Inhibitor Phase where there's a ship called "John the Revelator" less than an hour ago. I haven't otherwise seen that phrase written down for years.

Spooky (and cue links to the Baader-Meinhof Wikipedia article).
This happened around the same time mechanical keyboards and floppies were being phased out in favor of cheap membrane keyboards and liquid-impervious CDs. This was a progression throughout the '90s starting with the end of the IBM PCs and PS/2 machines in the mid '90s - replaced by cheap clones with even cheaper keyboards and CD-ROMs - to the introduction of the iMac in '98 with its (terrible) membrane keyboard and no floppy drive. Casual computing was pretty mainstream after that.
Nitrous seems like about the best drug a kid could use. Basically no risks, fast acting fast eliminated, non addictive, no evidence of any long term negative effects.

Compare that to basically anything else you can inhale (or swallow or snort or inject).
Thanks for linking Doug Smith's website, he has some excellent EMC/EMI info for us hardware engineers.
Of course they absolutely should be. It's how I learned to build rectification columns from cookware after all. Education is a responsibility of the entire society after all.

It's just the stated goal - minimising alcohol consumption - is phony and misleading.
My friend got this money from Aer Lingus for a flight that was delayed until the next day because of weather. They could have argued it was unforeseeable but they didn't. They just paid up. It doesn't always work this way.

The money was more than the flight was worth but the whole ordeal was terrible, literally every hotel in Dublin was booked out on every website (this wasn't the only flight cancelled, every one of them was) and she had to stay in this horrible dirty hostel. So it was kinda nice to get that money.
Related from 4 months ago "Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31094361 First comment-thread is about Apple but once collapsed the next 10 are non-Apple recommendations.
Weird, I‘m from AT as well and I know people from every income bracket who pirate content. Except for elderly people, currently.
It’s like Design for Machining, if you’re fabricating metal parts.
The transformational force of oil, and the quantities involved, were indeed staggering.

I'd like to add: I don't share Yergin's sympathies and enthusiasm for the oil industry or petroleum itself. Despite that, his book really is a treasure, and is among the better histories of energy out there.

I'd include the more broadly-scoped works by Vaclav Smil (Energy and Civilization <https://www.worldcat.org/title/959698256> and Energy in World History <https://www.worldcat.org/title/30398523>) and Manfred Weissenbacher (Sources of Power <https://www.worldcat.org/title/416715097>).

Wiessenbacher in particular emphasizes the political and military implications of energy regimes.
I think they are just afraid of bad publicity. We remember some AI experiments mostly for their ability to generate profanity.
This is really really reductive. There is a range of prices that people will pay, and the final ticket price is probably a a study of how long it would take to pay off a project with a range of demand levels. As a plus, advertising is more effective with more traffic, so lower prices to get more demand and offsetting that with ads could be worthwhile.

Now tbh, I have no idea if this is how it works. Just my own reasoning about things.
Point: Tobacco is especially bad for young children. Therefore we must restrict it for children.

Counterpoint: Caffeine is bad, too. Therefore, should we also outlaw Coca-Cola for children?

The argument that "TikTok is no worse than other social media" is the Counterpoint.

TikTok is very bad for children and adolescents, and we should do the difficult-but-honorable thing and prevent them from using it. If that's difficult, TikTok will have to deal with it.

I suspect that the EU will do this.