skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Regardless of the practicality: why do they think it’s their role to be the morality police?

It’s not just morality - there reportedly have already been multiple subreddits of non-consensual porn trying to mimic real people and underage porn. The legality of that is a minefield but it doesn’t end there. If that’s what they become known for it affects funding, hiring, people deciding whether to use their software, etc. and the more prominent that is the more likely that they’ll be hauled before legislators to talk about problems. Even simple things like legal demands to remove celebrities from the training sets could be pretty time-consuming.
Very exciting to have a brand new technology that you can see quickly advancing and branching out into all kinds of things every week. I wonder how long this current run is going to last and where it ends up.
They are entitled to release at the end of the war.
I literally spent the whole first 3 hours figuring out ways to generate porn. They don't allow words like sex, cock, etc so you use prompts like intercourse and phallus. At one point I thought they were screening for particular names so you'd say things like "the brother of mako in the legend of korra" instead. It's just an endless game of cat and mouse not worth putting effort into. Got bored, now I'm playing with the dev api. People have been showing how to integrate this into Photoshop and Gimp and it's pretty cool.
> I was just pointing out what I think is a major flaw in your logic. I think it’s entirely possible to have some stocks of whale which are endangered, and other stocks of whale that are not endangered and are eating large amounts of fish and krill.

OK see this is where you are wasting everyone's time. Japanese whaling fleets are targeting those exact whale populations that *are* endangered. Most of the international community opposes their practices and there are many international protections on various whale species that the Japanese whalers simply ignore. pointing out "flaws" in what random people are saying about some random NYT article that mentions it is irrelevant to understanding what is actually going in the world, things that are true and actually happening that you can confirm (or whatever you feel like) on your own, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whaling_in_Japan.

> Do I think that whales are decimating fish populations? Probably not, but I would need to see some data to say with any degree of certainty. And again, this is something you would need to look at in terms of local whale stocks and fisheries vs. just looking at all whales as a whole.

your time then would be better spent *researching that* instead of wasting it nitpicking people. If I make a comment here, my audience are those people interested in making good faith interpretations. Sitting back and saying "hmmm, what if whales DO actually eat too much fish, and maybe the Japanese are only hunting whales that are not endangered? Here's one that's stopped being endangered for 8 months! ah HA! a flaw!" that's what we call a "bad faith" interpretation. it's non-constructive and reveals you aren't really very curious about the actual issue. I am not very interested in word games myself.

> I think it is relevant to point out flawed logic or overly simplistic thinking in pretty much any discussion - regardless of whether or not it will be printed in a newspaper.

The argument made by Japanese whalers in that quote is clearly idiotic, which you can confirm through a little bit of googling, where you would then know more about the subject. Correcting people who are failing to convince you of something due to small inaccuracies in their language OTOH fails to teach you anything new at all.

Put another way. an actual rebuttal to my comment would be, "I'm a marine biologist, and here are whale species X, Y and Z that are not endangered at all, to which the ecosystem is now being improved thanks to the Japanese whaling industry wiping out a third of them, and here's why the vast majority of the international oceanic community is wrong on this issue in their opposition to Japan's killing fleets". That would be some argument for sure, since it doesnt exist, but if one did, would at least be an informed comment that's valuable to the discussion.
Yeah, drivers in Austin are atrocious but while I was in the Denver metro it was nuts how many angry drivers would tailgate me at 80mph or cut me off at highway speeds seemingly for no reason.
No. Falcon 9 can launch objects to the moon as well.
Arrogance is an unfounded sense of one's abilities. My abilities are well founded.
Why not? Our electric utilities complain about nonuniform load. Isn't a desalination plant an excellent variable load given that its product would get dumped into reservoirs? You could totally flatten the duck curve if you wanted.
I have some PowerPoint templates to sell to you for the low price of $100.00
Why make a string when you can create a new StringValue class, StringValueFactory, StringValueFactoryIterator, StringValueFactoryIteratorFactory, StringValueTemplateDecorator...
> But I don't want to steal attention, so I cannot write comments advertising my app. I am not that kind of person.

I get it. But this is the kind of advertising that's OK in my book. Exposing people who are clearly interested (rather than maybe interested based on, for example, previous shopping habits) to something they have not heard of. And of course you don't want to steal attention, but you can do it in a polite way, demonstrating respect to the other product. Maybe you have to be a little shameless in those situations if you want your products (not you) to get attention.
Hopefully it blows up so we can change the course toward more rapid and sustainable missions.
You’d think so, but no. Non-citizens in United States territories possess no civil rights. None at all. And definitely not a right to trial or to avoid false imprisonment.
Yep, and ETH Denver. Good people, interesting crowd but decidedly second rate or clearly missing something. Granted, I left NYC and SF for other reasons to improve my quality of life / to have more space.

Just like Austin was likely far more desirable ten years ago I think the same is clearly true for Denver.
The baroque cycle was great, if a bit long. Connie Willis, another great sci-fi author, has some good historical fiction like Doomsday Book
Your past experiences still are true in many places. There definitely are scores of companies with poor culture and processes still in place. Startups.. start up all the time, and I presume many will be rediscovering america on industry knowledge (e.g. the benefits of source control) as they transition from university student projects, garage projects, etc. to businesses. In my gig we have been chasing the unicorn of automated test for years, but in practice most tests are still manual as there's never the time to do it properly in between releases and the product portfolio is large.

On the plus side, if you're taking mature systems such as GitHub Actions, it has never been easier to chain together automatic verification builds, unit test runs and code quality checks on code when it's committed, so there's that.
I think the fans of SLS are the ones who are selfish and self-absorbed. They just want to see a big rocket launch irrelevant to the damage it's doing to the US space program simply by existing.
I really like chezmoi. It is powerful enough to setup an entire organizations dot files.
Try Zodiac. It's not even sci-fi (or if it is, it's _barely_ sci-fi, and only near the end).

If they like the writing style and etc. of that, should be easier to talk them into maybe Cryptonomicon or something next. Cryptonomicon might also be a good entry point, but it's long, so it's a harder sell.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32356428
FYI, most hydropower and flood control dams have minimum flows they must sustain to avoid overtopping during spring flood seasons, and a maximum height they are allowed to store water at because of it. It's called the Exclusive Flood Control Storage Capacity.

If they can use that for power generation, it's 'free power' - they'd literally have to put it through the spillway instead of the turbines instead. That water also ends up in whatever farming areas can use it during that time too.

The issue of course is that weather is unpredictable, and if there ISN'T a flood, that was storage that could have been used for water for later. Either power, or crops, or drinking, etc.

What you're referring to I believe is prioritization of water - humans get x percent up to a certain cap, then the rest is fish and wildlife, or on demand power, etc.

That is what folks in the thread are generally referring to as 'water rights'.
Yes, agreed. Hopefully it fails so we can get moving towards a more reasonable and sustainable system in the future. It's inevitable so the sooner it happens the better.
Facebook wasn't created to create social disorder as a first principle, it was created to be addictive and make MarkZ and crew billionaires. TikTok is being used to do something similar but it is completely designed to do that by a foreign power and use algorithms specifically to damage the psyche of westerners with distracting videos, tuning them to give just enough of a dopamine buzz to keep you there and coming back, and in general distract youth from pursuing more enlightening and educational activities while building a psychological profile on them to be filed away for future clandestine purposes. Or that's just my 5 minute take on it.
Chrono – A Git Time Machine
This is just mindless parroting of propaganda.
I have one for home for 4 years and a new one for work. I like them a lot. I had one issue upgrading the OS after installing steam, but they have good support.

I really like a Matt screen and these have them. They’re rebranded Clevo machines but I found them to be decent quality. I had to replace a fan In the older one which I was able to do (we have a husky…..). They’re expandable and fast enough. Depending on the model some have a descrete gpu.
That is why the market should be used as an efficient distribution mechanism.
It's still amazing to me that people care about low-level details of their Linux system, like PipeWire. Personally, I'll use PipeWire when the most popular distro switches to it (which is Ubuntu). (If Ubuntu is already using PipeWire, good! Don't tell me. I don't want to know.) This is my act of rebellion against the Linux community, in hopes that my act of obstinance will help bring about a truly Windows-like Linux environment.
4B-year-old chunk of Earth's crust found below Australia
why would it be in the long term interest of NASA for it to fail?
I love Ben Eater. I really do, but I found every time I listen to this playlist at night, I would fall asleep. I decided to use it to my advantage. I've tried it dozens of times now and it never fails to put me to sleep.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLowKtXNTBypH19whXTVoG3oKS...
>The state of something is not as interesting as the why? What are the why's for these things?

Why not seek out positive stories that contain the why yourself? Why only post stories that are negative?
I'm not quite grasping how to use this. I tried uploading a photograph and erasing part of it. But instead of painting in the erased portion, it left the erased area blank and replaced my photograph with an entirely new image.
The summer after they passed the plastic bag ban, I worked near the SF bay. Nearly every day, I'd watch a garbage scow go out full, and come back empty.

I often wonder if those scows are still operating. I'd guess one load put as much plastic in the bay as a year of litter.
Or the ones who are tortured for years before getting dumped, half dead, on a random street corner.
> Do they really expect this launch to go right the first time?

Yes, they really do. They want the second flight of this rocket ever to be crewed. That's obviously not going to happen if the first launch goes wrong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Space_Launch_System_la...

They aren't doing the SpaceX thing of iterating fast and blowing up a few rockets early on.
Wait, back up, Gloomhaven Helper is gone? I shut down my campaign when the pandemic started and was just gearing up to resume!
> The main problem with Go when it comes to raw performance is heap memory allocation. `fasthttp` (and the rest of Kawipiko's code on the main serving path) does all it can to avoid any sort of memory allocation (or "heap escape").

How do they manage to do that? One aspect I can think of is, trying not to use pointers and data structures with dynamic size
> Unlawful combatants, by contrast, are not entitled to a trial, and can even be executed on the spot if it seems advisable

When you write these things, imagine how they work when your simply replace names of countries involved.

You are saying it's right and proper when a Russian soldier executes a Ukrainian civilian putting up resistance? Or a civilian that looks like the guy that was putting up resistance?

Either you are a combatant, or you are a criminal. If you are a combatant, Geneva convention applies. If you are a criminal, system of justice applies. There isn't some sort of third subhuman category you can just execute willy-nilly.

Civilians can and do take up arms to defend their homes. They do not have uniforms just for such an occasion and Geneva convention recongises that.
> A dangling bag of coins is a famous cheap EMC test for products.

Actually never heard about this before.

What is the trick? It cannot just be to shake a bag of coins next to the monitor?
I’ve owned approximately 8 apple products with essentially zero issues in the past decade sans some slight Bluetooth connection issues with my AirPods Pro. Apple makes the best laptops at the moment and it’s really not close. I’d take my chances if I were you.
> Reamde (not the most technical, but one of his best paced and a good thriller)

Funny, as someone who loves Anathem, I couldn't stand the pacing in Reamde. I found the whole thing quite souring, coming off the tail of his other works. Whoever edited that book did a miserable job, as far as I'm concerned.
If SpaceX is able to get Yusaku Maezawa and his crew of social media influencers around the moon before the end of the decade that might just happen. This does assume that NASA has received delivery of Lunar Starship which is still a big if in my mind.
I had an xps 13 9300 and struggled with battery life on any Linux distro ( tried fedora, Ubuntu, pop, elementary, solus, Arch, void ) and I'm not a beginner or anything. Even with combinations of tlp, powertop, gnome power profiles, kernel shit to make it run lower speed.

Framework is really nice from a hardware perspective, but the display res is wonky with scaling, 100% is small and 200% is big, which puts you in the no no zone on most display servers which employ fractional scaling. MacOS is the only I've ever used that doesn't completely butcher oddball scales. Battery life I've observed to be around 4 hours of light usage on stock fedora. (11th gen main board)

I personally run a new MacBook Pro M1 running any Linux I want in Lima or parallels, depending on GUI needs. Damn thing is god tier on battery, outlasts any other laptop I've ever owned by a factor of 3 at least.
Thanks for trying it out!
Modern parlance, imo.
It’s like bed time stories for devs
That defines this pretty well. It's interactive.
I think the bad things would be targeted use of realistic images: for example, imagine the horrible things some people experience in school multiplied by “leaked” photos, or someone’s abusive ex distributing “proof” of their infidelity / unsuitability to have custody, etc. There’s a theory that over time people would stop believing everything they see but there’s still plenty of time for millions of tragedies before that happens, if it ever does. Forensics is going to be a growth industry.
Radio play-by-play of baseball games.

I’m not really a baseball fan and I don’t care who wins or loses the games. But the calling of the pitches and the banter between the announcers provide something for my mind to latch onto so that I don’t think about work, war, climate change, or other topics that would keep me awake. I usually drift off in less than ten minutes.

I started this a few years ago listening to classic radio broadcasts downloaded from the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/classicmlbbaseballradio

The first game of the 1949 World Series between the Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers was particularly suitable for drifting off, because it went scoreless until the bottom of the ninth inning. I must have listened to it four or five times.

https://archive.org/download/classicmlbbaseballradio/1949%20...

This past April, I took out a one-year subscription to MLB streaming radio. I am now recording as mp3s all of the games this season for one team. Last night, I fell asleep to the May 7 game. This season’s full set of games should last me the rest of my life.

I listen to the mp3s on the iPhone app Bound with the timer set to 30 minutes.
I never heard of that rule, else I wouldn’t have eaten a bowl of chili while entering Basic programs into a Vic20. Food and computers always went together.
> SpaceX does not say how much Starship is costing them to develop, but external estimates seem to be under $8 billion. So for the cost of 2 SLS flights, SpaceX is developing a rocket with a cost to LEO orbit of under $10 million, and that they are aiming to get down to $2 million.

Some of that sounds like unreasonable optimism.

Given the track record of SpaceX, it's safe to assume that Starship will eventually fly and that the lower stage will eventually be reusable. Getting the Starship itself to survive reentry and landing in good enough condition to fly again without major refurbishment is another story. Something like that has never been achieved before. It's plausible that SpaceX will make it happen, but it's also plausible that it won't work. Then Starship will be simply an expendable upper stage that's too big and too expensive for the purpose.
> In the US this is partly historical. The Shuttle style large solids have no practical military application.

The huge Space Shuttle SRBs were never an ICBM part themselves. The military angle enters the picture when you realize the SRB fuel is the same fuel used in ICBMs, made by the same company (originally Thiokol, then ATK, which merged with Orbital Sciences to form Orbital ATK, which was then purchased by Northrop Grumman.)
You’re saying the city is dumping plastic in the bay? I may be misunderstanding your comment.
For anyone who enjoys future world-building that dives deep into religious and political systems, I recommend Ada Palmer's Terra Ignotta series. She's an Associate Professor of Early Modern European History and the College at Chicago University, and creates a future (set in 2425-ish) using rich historical cultural references that is also not terribly improbable.
It's because open-source favors "those who show up and code" (I recall a blog post about the Apache Foundation saying that was what they valued). If you can't code, but you can make UI/UX suggestions, or come up with a way to productize the raw codebase, you're usually ignored or (worse) mistaken for a coder and people ask you when you'll have a PR ready.
According to a quote by the illustrious German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the fight is fought and determined by the quartermasters before the gunfire starts. The value of logistics is often only acknowledged in passing by students of military history, who would rather read about artillery and tanks, mass movement, and attacks and counterattacks. The causes of that bias are simple to comprehend. It is getting easier and easier to think that wars are always fought on the battlefield because there is no obvious drama when looking at supply lines. For instance, several books have been published about the tactics and plans of World War II, but very little about how practically every significant choice made during that fight was influenced by the requirement for a single item that no modern army can function without—oil.
This is great. I made my comment in a rush, the thing I was trying to describe wasn’t a single permutation, but the concept. Turns out you made that easy for me too: “the ways you can line up a group of things”.
Next steps:

- Get rid of the rounded buttons
- Add some sick drop shadow
- Party like it's 1999
Obama will get around to that promise any day now.
Some people here are asking why should someone care about people who killed innocent men, women, and children. It's a question worth answering.

Since 2002, nearly 779 Muslim men and boys have been held at Guantanamo, nearly all of them without any charge or trial. Of those, 532 were released by the Bush administration itself, and 197 later by Obama [0]. Today the number of detainees is 39.

Almost all of them had nothing to do with the 9/11 attack.

0. https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/detention/guan...
> Non-citizens in United States territories possess no civil rights

You sure about that? I believe US territories are subject to the jurisdiction of the Constitution. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is notably not a US territory.
I started using Chezmoi as well a year or so ago. Its the only one I've managed to stick with and not end up with a mess of different setups across machines.
Nobody is going to starve if California stops agriculture growing the wrong plants in arid climates. There are plenty of places to grow things that don’t require abusive amounts of irrigation (and many that require zero irrigation at all)
Some power stations (coal, nuclear) take a long long time to spool up, from a cold start. As such it is cheaper for them to stay online and generating and paying users to do so that to shut them down.
Ad blockers blocks ads, it does not block bot detection scripts. Even if ad blockers did block bot detection, all the bot operator have to do is… not run any ad blockers on their puppets?

Wizz Air’s explanation smells like bs.
If that were the case, then you would say that Jobs and Wozniak were homosexual partners. Homosexuality involves having a sexual relationship.
The way is see ValueObjects is as the most convenient tool when working with a very well-defined space. For example, integers on the number line. There’s no uncertainty— 2 is 2 is 2. Same goes for a 2D coordinate within a 2D space, or 3D coordinate… etc. The “date space” is quite well-defined these days, as long as you’re working with a Gregorian calendar and typical timezones. It’s at the limit of “coordinate within a space” but as programmers and with training we can handle it.

Once you start getting away from simple, well-defined spaces, things start to get complex. What is a “phone number space”? Or a “given name & surname” space? They exist, but they are insurmountably complex — both for us and for code — and are ever-changing as the world changes. So we bring order by converting these problem to a well-defined space that we know how to work with: strings. Or rather, strings that conform to certain patterns (numbers for a phone number). This is a grey-area. ValueObjects may be useful, or may just complicate matters.

But not all problems can be mapped to strings. Customers have N sales orders. Sales orders have X lines. Lines refer to inventory items with Y modifiers. You could probably define the “space of all customers, sales orders, inventory items & modifiers” but it would have so many dimensions, and be mostly enormous regions of non-sense. This is where ValueObjects have no place.
How convenient that we don't ever declare the end of wars these days.
Also well done! Much better than I would’ve done on my own.
Developing models that can predict if stuff is harmful ironically makes it easier for people to optimize for harm.

e.g. the one line of code in Stable Diffusion that predicts if stuff is NSFW, can be inverted to generate only NSFW stuff.

I tend to agree with OP that there is no technical solution to this problem.
The Viable Systems Model, and where my team fits