skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Importantly, we're posting on a forum where this exact idea is true. HN doesn't stop all hate speech, or flaming and what have...but the moderation system stops enough that people generally don't bother.
I've just started learning Elixir very recently after nearly 23 years of working solely with languages such as VB, C, C#, Ruby, Python, Javascript, and Go.

I know exactly what the presenter means when he says learning a language should be a "mind-blown" event. It's opening my eyes to an entirely new way of thinking about solving challenges. Absolutely love it, and I feel like I did myself a serious disservice for not learning something like Elixir or Erlang earlier in my career as opposed to always learning just another new imperative language.
You don't just move along and forget. A functional society is one that makes sure it never happens again, or here. It may seem like privilege in the context of a sophomoric critical theory, but here in the west we call it freedom. The entire communist system was designed to liquify any moral clarity that would pose resistance to it, and it is as objective an evil as racism, which we all have the imperative to confront. For this reason it deserves the very same level of confrontation. The best thing about these opinions that one might say are worthless and disgraceful is that, I get to have them. And in exchange for making them constructive to discourse and entertaining, I also get to present them in a civil and thoughtful form in open debate.

The jokes in the article were funny, but to accept them as comforting normalization of the horrors they were a coping mechanism for does not do justice to the targets of the system that produced them. Keeping the horrors of communism in frame is the very least we can do.
Compare this to alfalfa, an ultra-low-value crop the Saudis are growing in California because they bought senior water rights, then shipping to Saudi to feed cows, essentially laundering water.

Alfalfa is used/needed locally for cattle feed. Unfortunately for all of the noise over growing nuts in the desert nobody's talking about the immense amount of water used to raise cows.

https://www.sfgate.com/science/article/California-drought-No...

But reforming the system would take so much litigation no California politician has dared to do it.

Yeah, it's a bit like Prop 13 in that respect. One only needs to drive down I-5 to see how militantly opposed farmers are to water conservation. California's got a vast system of aqueducts dating back sixty odd years and we're only now getting around to talking about maybe covering them to reduce evaporative losses.
Absolutely. Not only do I think that the general public has a good, though vague idea of what their social media data is used for, but I also think they're rationally alarmed about it (aside from the anti-China, anti-Russia, anti-Republican, anti-Democrat talking points they're taught to repeat by people who should be trustworthy.)

We like to call users stupid or confused for using something that is bad, then we only give them one choice. People aren't using Facebook because they don't care about what's happening to them, the use it because it's the only/easiest way to get certain things done and they have other problems in their lives to worry about.
What is this Atlas Shrugged in real life?
Wren seems great. Last time I needed to embed a language I used Lua, and I haven't had the need since then, but I've been thinking for years that next time I'll use Wren. It looks really nice. I skimmed through the code a few years ago and it was surprisingly small and seemed very well structured
> who is 'you'?

Those of us who want to live in countries without concentration camps.
Zoltan Pozsar: War and Industrial Policy [pdf]
You might be able to get audiobooks through your local library and through an app called Libby! I love using it since I can’t afford a monthly audiobook subscription, and I struggle to buy things without knowing if I’ll like it or not.

Also, a great alternative to Audible is Libro.FM. It functions the same way, and you can set it up to support your local bookstore.
So now we're discussing implementation? Does that mean we've moved on from "this is a good idea"?
https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...

Tufte decrying PowerPoint in relation to a shuttle disaster was about about the Columbia, not the Challenger.
Land comes with grandfathered water rights in CA. What’s good for the goose..
Petroleum is a critical ingredient to land war supply lines.

We won't have mass adoption of EVs until this fact changes or becomes irrelevant (eg if land wars become irrelevant).
This isn't getting swept under the rug successfully, everybody who spends a few hours researching shuttle knows this.

However having o-rings that are this fragile was a large part of the problem with shuttle. It was fragile, to get it to be able to launch at all an increasing amount of issues had to be ignored. To many failure points, leading to far to many close calls.

What is actually surprising is that only 2 shuttles failed.
A proper way to handle this is to charge a little bit extra, and use that money to process the broken devices.
> Spam, misinformation, phishing, and triggering language are already major issues. These models could make it 10x worse.

Or 10x better, as the barriers to entry for doing this kind of thing right now aren't high enough to make it not happen... they are only high enough to make it sufficiently hard to pull off that people can feel comfortable assuming that most of the content they see is legitimate; in a world where nothing is necessarily legitimate I'd expect you'd see a massive shift in peoples' expectations.
> Pakistan isn't allowed to have as much free speech as the rest of the world because it's too violent?

Not all speech is free speech. In the US, there are limitations, such as harmful or offensive content, and this includes speech that is both false and dangerous.

This is not a free speech issue. The OP is being stalked. Fundamentally, stalking is a threat of injury or death, as well as unwanted surveillance by an individual or group, and stalking behavior includes precisely this type of harassment. The OP's life is in obvious danger. This is a criminal issue.

If the OP is in the US, I'd recommend researching how to request political asylum.

Unsolicited advice to all: stay off of any social media unless it includes anonymity. Protect your identity. In the US, only two things can happen to you by participating in non-anonymous social media:

#1) nothing

#2) you get fired

Pakistan has raised the stakes and turned #2 into "you get abducted and killed."

Fuck Twitter. What a shitty platform. If I wanted to effect political change in a third world country, I would found a secret society, secretly install a printing press somewhere, and run it 24/7. That is how you kill fascists.
I need a tool that converts the Terraform AWS provider 3.x s3 resources into 4.x resources.
Japan always got a lot more cool stuff than the US. The first network connector by Nintendo that I’m aware of was from 1988!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Computer_Network_Syst...
If it helps bring one down, I say focus on it. Bring down one social media platform, itll shine a light on the rest.
The fact OP included the dark web in this list shows how little they paid attention while constructing this list
Result, unless I use the profile with fingerprinting enabled, I just have to buy elsewhere.

Have you tried contacting them about it and teling them that you're taking your business elsewhere because their site blocks you? If enough people do that, they may actually do something about it.
Your point is... what? Because some other "harms to children" turned out not to be, that nothing harms children?
Cool. I dont have a medical degree - but I can design hospitals (and have) so your approximation of knowledge/ability to the problem at hand is meaningless.
12 nukes sounds like a small price to pay to never have to hear California bitch about water again. The other 49 states should chip in to pay for it.
I don't work for an early-stage startup, however, the company I work for is early mid stage. They share everything except (annoyingly enough) individual employee compensation. They also share risks/opportunities in a very transparent way. Note that they share most of the data with the general public as well, which is quite unique for a company of any size, and likely the big reason we basically own our niche.
The TFA is clear that this is not aimed at adblocker users. It's aimed at booking bots/resellers and there's a false positive.
FWIW, I just replicated the exact same behaviour in Stable in a brand new profile (plus resistFingerprinting enabled). So, maybe it's something special about VPN IPs :) (I thought the Nightly theory was a bit of a long shot since I was pretty sure my friend tested in Stable)

Perhaps they whitelist generic profiles coming from VPN services.
That is absurd, and little more than a platitude. Let's set the stage here:

* I am not an epidemiologist
* The authors of this study are not epidemiologists
* The paper has not been peer-reviewed
* The authors invent a new statistical method for estimating excess deaths, it is at odds with all other sources, and it just so happens to show no excess deaths from Covid until the vaccine is released

In situations like this, you should always default to disbelief.
They operate at a loss so every extra dollar counts
>It seems pretty serious and real when the real money and power institutions in the country are getting concerned.

or it's a convenient scapegoat to cover for their mismanagement of the economy as we deal with massive inflation and, by most common definitions, a recession
The Colorado River is the source of water for a huge chunk of Southern California, six other states (Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming), and Mexico. You're not going to change that unilaterally without causing an international incident.
Which part is a conspiracy theory?
> Imagine if we could take that number back in time.

What would you differently if a couple of years ago you knew that the public health precautions put in place followed a couple of miracle vaccines that appeared out of the blue led to an inferred death rate of 0.27%? Would you press harder for vaccination and to follow basic higiene and health precautions such as wearing a mask?
There's a patriot in China talking about you and your government in exactly the same way. And his government has a quarter of the incarceration rate the US does, and bases its governance on the work of one of Hegel's students.
No one is walking down your path of false logic other than your own baseless assumptions.
Im in Taiwan, I downloaded tiktok, and basically in between a bunch of Taiwan content, was bombarded with propaganda videos about how covid started in the US and it’s all the US fault, and how amazing China is…

So I don’t doubt they push content that keeps us dumb while they try to use their own platform for good inside China.
I did in fact send them an email. Never got a reply. I'm guessing it went to the web team then straight to the trash.

I suspect possibly a registered letter might help, but to be honest I don't actually care that much, and as much as I like my local Lowes, switching to Home Depot works just fine too.

And you know... I kind of suspect given the fact that FedEx suffers from this too, that it is a generic failure of an Akamai service they both enabled, since they both use Akamai.
> EA is like a skyscraper of assumptions, built with paper: send money through three continents in order to help Africans in a very specific way without necessarily knowing anything about their specific needs. Maybe the malaria nets will help save millions. Or maybe they will just end up polluting the waterways.

I don't follow this line of reasoning. It's basically anti-empiricism which can be used to support pretty much any ideology you want. There's evidence that the malaria nets help save lives. We can see that fewer people get malaria. We can see death-rates declining.

You can argue that that doesn't actually improve life/quality of life. You can argue that there are better ways, but the claim that "maybe they will just end up polluting the waterways" is based, fundamentally, on an intentional lack of knowledge.

Calling donating money to malaria nets or deworming "a skyscraper of assumptions built with paper" is like calling modern physics or modern cancer treatment "a skyscraper of assumptions built with paper". Sure, yeah, it's complex and you don't understand all of it, and neither do I, but we have very clear and obvious evidence that it works!

> If I ask that person then I get first-hand experience with that person.

No you haven't, you've been told something through their biases. It's second hand experience, which you claim is unreliable. They could be lying to you! If what matters is your direct experience and observation, a study on what is most beneficial to homeless people, and a recorded interview with a homeless person, and a direct in person conversation with a homeless person (or a study on malaria nets, or a recorded interview with someone whose describes how their town has far fewer malaria related deaths than a decade ago) are all equally bad and less reliable than your preconceived beliefs and in-the-wild observations of what people struggle with.

> See above.

You don't actually define "effective" anywhere. I'm asking you to do that. You say it's a foundational assumption, and that sticking with things you know well helps you be effective, but we still don't know what effective means, and certainly not what it means to you, hence my request, which your above post doesn't address.

Consider at least two possibilities:

1. To you, "effective" means provably done. That is, if you do not have incontrovertible (say, directly observable evidence) that your work has done good, you assume the value of your investment is zero.

2. To you, effective means something akin to utilitarianly efficient, e.g. most utils per $.

It sounds to me like you initially claimed (2) and had a number of higher level assumptions about low trust, but it appears now you're claiming (1), and perhaps there are other possibilities that I haven't thought of. So once again I'd implore you to actually say what you mean.
The idea is that if religion is like an opium for the masses, and if Facebook is more like morphine, TikTok is like poorly made fentanyl.
Apple also wasn’t anything close to a startup when they released the iPod or iPhone.
I make tools for artists and am afraid to incorporate AI generation because I am pretty sure then everyone will just discount work creates with my tool, assuming all of it was AI generated, and then no artists will want to use it.

What I am actually leaning towards is a tool for users to "enhance" art with AI, but only if the artist allows it.
Mile High Comics is now a grow operation, which pretty much describes what's happened to Denver over the last decade.
Now that the moment has passed, I find it amazing people are still able to maintain the mental gymnastic / reality control that the GP is espousing (unless it's just to be argumentative). You can see how all sorts of human rights abuses get justified once you realize how people can play with language and definitions
> We get a special TikTok that isn't bound by Chinese censorship

Content negative to China gets removed all the time while content negative to the US stays up. So I would assume there is still censorship.
Maybe you should elaborate in the interest of having a meaningful discussion.
You can get an off label vaccine even if you’re too young.
At the pace that these things are progressing, I bet we’ll have that kind of control in like a year or less
Those old phones didn't run Java for anything that mattered. The OS itself and all the core apps would be native code. Java - J2ME, usually - was for third-party apps, and it was slow enough that you didn't really see anything "serious" there (e.g. I haven't ever seen a full-fledged J2ME web browser - the most we got was Opera Mini, which did all the layout computations server-side).

Same thing for early PDAs like Symbian and WinCE devices - all software running on those would be native. Well, WinCE got .NET at some point, and it was usable, but that one is fully JIT-compiled.
Is it really possible for anyone to doubt that it is anything but this?
> entering personal details, creating an account, entering address, going through seat selection, insurance, car rental, etc. Not to mention a CAPTCHA is filled out during checkout anyway

Perhaps the state of the art in competitor price discovery does actually do all these steps (probably via mechanical turk rather than automated)?
The authors are data scientists. So articulating what exactly the pitfalls are that disqualify them from working with an epidemiological dataset would be really helpful. As a non data scientist, it is not obvious to me what qualification they are lacking when it comes to working with an existing dataset.
Is it possible to generate AI art but also provide a list of citations (maybe weighted) as metadata to help figure which original images most contributed to the generated image?

I feel this would help a lot with giving artists more credit with the AI art outputs.
Apart from asphyxiation/kinetic risks and cold burns from crackers (none of which are really high risk IMHO), there's also methionine synthase inactivation. The last one is what the kids need to be told about.

It's unfortunately so nearly completely harmless that it catches many people by surprise that chronic use (like, daily for months for most healthy people but maybe sooner if you're low on B12) will eventually cause nerve damage.

Recommended absolute minimum 2 week interval between "sessions" for long-term use.
> If there's significant overlap with ICBMs I could see it being reasonable from the perspective of maintaining military production readiness.

In the US this is partly historical. The Shuttle style large solids have no practical military application.

In general, I think by now the technology has diverged quite a bit as the requirements for launching potentially humans and ICBMs is quite different. I don't know how closely the technologies are still linked between the solids used on rockets like Vulcan and ICBMs.

In France this is certainty the case for example.

> major power broke out you'd need to ramp up production massively and instantly.

Lets hope we don't need to rapidly ramp up production of ICBMs since they are mostly just used to carry nukes.

If you think its politically necessary to fund that infrastructure just do so with your military budget. Tying down other space activities, specially civilian, is a bad idea.
The host of that video is Andrew Millison, who is deeply involved in permaculture design, and has a lecture series with the University of Oregon. Permaculture design is a fairly involved design process, so if you think this video is about "just plop down a pond!", you missed a lot of the main ideas.

For context:

- Millison's lecture on different pond designs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AadLCOqalFk
- Related is the design for slope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McopD04XP3s
- Keep in mind, you actually start with site analysis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XNiacRhzuM (starting from the global and coming down to the local, and then moving on to sector, zone, and slope analysis, all _before_ figuring out the placement of water harvesting structures)

Instead of thinking about these ponds as "ponds", these are really one form of water harvesting structures in permaculture design. And there are many kinds of water harvesting structures, each with its own tradeoffs, and how the work holistically together with other considerations such as microclimates (or even creating microclimates), sun, rain, wind patterns, and how they work with the inhabitants (both human and otherwise).

These ponds are not created for just irrigation. It's more sophisticated than that. The ones in the video are created as percolation ponds, and intended to recharge ground water. The idea is to slow water down and circulate it within the site before letting it flow on. The water held in percolation ponds are intended to be leaky. By redirecting flow laterally, the water is distributed across a larger area. It isn't just about water, but also about regenerating the soil in such a way that it is able to absorb and retain more water and nutrients, while cooling and regulating the local area, forming a microclimate. Counter-intuitively, more water becomes bio-available downstream rather than less.

Beavers used to do this across North America, and many of the permaculture patterns for managing water has analogs to what the beavers naturally do.

It's the modern irrigation practices which maximizes water usage without really considering how soil health plays a huge role in retaining water makes it less efficient in water usage. So we end up with water wars and the inability to grow crops during drought conditions. We fight over water rights when it is our land and water management practices that causes much of the problems in the first place.

Millison has a video series about what people in India are doing to regenerate wastelands that receive very little water fall. The general problem are the same -- monsoon season water running through the landscape too fast, eroding soil, which means less crops, and setting off a pattern of rural migrations. When villages are able to slow down the water flow, they were able to grow more crops. Many of the water harvesting structures built at the higher elevation slow water enough down where the downstream areas became more abundant.
There are now a few comments in that thread explaining why people flagged it.
Wake up and smell the fraud [audio]
Which is why ads being introduced to a product in any form is a sign to start looking for alternatives. It may not impact your tier yet, but it's only a matter of time before an executive thinks that enabling ads on all tiers is free money. They've already done all the actual work of integrating with an advertising network, and the only thing left is flipping the switch.
That the content is promoted to create disorder. Facebook has similar issues (they're even being sued for contributing to genocide) but they were never accused of the same thing (but mostly of negligence).
My coworkers really like their Xioami laptops. I'm not sure what country you're in, but in my "developing economy" country, their service has been perfectly decent.
A Western democracy invented nuclear fire, is the only country to have ever burned anyone in nuclear fire, and is currently threatening the two largest nuclear powers on the basis of their border disputes.
Thank you for building it. Screw the haters on this website.
weird thing to be proud of
@patio11, HN commenter extraordinaire, is part of this story, which covers the newest kind of ecommerce based fraud.
I agree on the latter point. The advice of be transparent applies much more to earlier stage companies.

Often, engineers and other employees have great ideas that lead to a development that changes your product or your market and helps you find fit. That can only happen if they both: a) have the info, and, b) care enough about the mission / company to think about it. That varied set of experiences gives you (the founder) a greater surface area to draw from when coming up with solutions.
I need something like stable diffusion but with transparent backgrounds. Does anyone know how I might do that?
Don’t we just pay the fine for violating the treaty each year?

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-06-23/water-is...
Sounds like people who passively waits for orders before doing anything ("what should I do?") instead of actively seeking out and doing things that aligns with the team's current goal ("what are we doing [now]?").