skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The main problem is not that content on other sites is 'being filtered to suit my desires', but rather that content that THEY want you to see is often being shoved down your throat, whether you like it or not. Likewise they censor content that THEY don't want you to see.

There are just too many news stories that show how media sites and social media are being manipulated to push the agenda favorable to those who control them.
It very much is, actually, that simple

The model was trained on eight specific body parts. If it doesn't see those, it doesn't fire. That's 100% of the job.

I see that you've managed to name things that you think aren't in the model. That's nice. That's not related to what this company did, though.

You seem to be confusing how you think a system like this might work with what this company clearly explained as what they did. This isn't hypothetical. You can just go to their webpage and look.

The NSFW filter on Stable Diffusion is simply an image body part recognizer run against the generated image. It has nothing to do with the prompt text at all.
Do they pump the hydrogen back into storage or bleed it all into the atmosphere if they need to empty the fuel tanks?
Artemis I Launch: NASA’s Moon Mission Launch Called Off
Sorry to disappoint but it you feel it is necessary to root an Android phone to get an acceptable experience wait until you experience iOS
No alternative means the outside option is to not fly, so your price sensitivity is impacted.
It is wrong to compare these two very different eras. The Apollo program was an ideological race, so there was a mush higher tolerance of risk and financial and human costs. Remember, people died on the US & Soviet space programs as they were figuring things out. There might not have been many launch scrubs but there were plenty of failures.

Today, the tolerance for risk is much lower, the costs higher and the budget much more controlled. There are many politicians who want to greatly reduce NASA's budget in favour of private ventures. A failed launch is ammo for their cause. So whereas Apollo could proceed (with some delays) after people burnt to death in a capsule, if that happened today the whole program would be halted indefinitely and NASA heavily questioned as to why it needed to take such risks. 50 years on from Apollo, NASA has learnt that an abundance of caution is needed.
This pretty much squares with my experience as well. I also want to shout out CS3110 as being an excellent (free!!) learning resource, and that having both a well-written textbook with exercises and short accompanying video lectures is a wonderful combination. I will never not be amazed at and grateful for high-quality university learning material like this being made freely available.
Very interesting article indeed. Should we have stronger stances regarding personal decisions, to protect them in the future?
This is a fun thought experiment. It usually comes up in the context of how would we rebuild if a war or some natural disaster threw civilization back into the Stone Age.

From a science point-of-view, a lot of progress was just about figuring out things we didn't know (obviously). Things like we live in a spheroid planet that orbits a Sun and matter is made up of ~93 naturally occurring elements and a bunch of others we can make. Those elements are made up of atoms that are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons.

I just summarized what took millenia to figure out originally. You'd likely never have to figure that out again and that would greatly accelerate any progress from bashing rocks together to building rockets.

So the issue then is how do you preserve information. The more information dense storage methods require more technology and/or don't last as long. The longest method of information preservation we have thus far is probably clay tablets.

I wonder how long ink and paper could survive in a vacuum chamber.

And then we get into what to preserve (in this article). This project includes works of literature and other cultural texts. This seems to be rather arbitrary to me. I mean in 1,000 years will people have the same cultural context to appreciate that? What about in a million years?

We're already selective in what we retain and learn because there's simply too much. If, like me, you believe a Dyson Swarm is humanity's future then this problem gets much worse. I read once that if we had a full Dyson Swarm around the Sun, you could write one page about each orbital and have millions of pages, more than any person could ever read. At that's one page about the entire history and culture of each orbital, each being possibly millions of people.

The very idea of a universal culture seems absurd in such a situation.
What clowns, how much time and money do they need?
I have a standing desk, gamer-style ergo chair, a Lay-Z-boy, a bed, a table and chair outside, and a cafe nearby I'm fond of. The laptop can go to all of those places.

I can't work in bed for hours. But I can for a half hour after lunch, take a nap, then set back up at the desk as I am now.

I lived without a monitor for several years, you get the hang of it. I did have to bump up from 13" to 16" so I can use it without reading glasses for a few more years.

I'm definitely more efficient with more real estate, but not in a way that holds me back most of the time.

I've also trained myself to type on a laptop in a way that's hard to describe but: left hand V to Q, right hand N to P/[, so at a natural angle for my wrists. I've been using a split keyboard for long enough that twisting my wrists to accommodate a narrow keyboard isn't something I was willing to keep doing. This lets me get paragraphs/pages written without pain, whether I'm at the desk or not.
A Who’s Who of Silicon Valley Lawyers Up for the Musk-Twitter Trial
> Well, the cookie popups are only there because of regulation.

You don't /need/ them if you only have essential cookies:

> At GitHub, we want to protect developer privacy, and we find cookie banners quite irritating, so we decided to look for a solution. After a brief search, we found one: just don’t use any non-essential cookies. Pretty simple, really.

https://github.blog/2020-12-17-no-cookie-for-you/
>I'm somewhat confused by statements like these because they imply that the reason why we're mostly excited about it is not what she achieved but where she could potentially achieve many years later.

Did you just describe the stock market?
APIs Management has several benefits, but in this article, the author has covered five key benefits of APIs Management that help businesses grow faster and increase customer experience.
Ah yes, the glory days of Apollo 1 and Challenger.
> Eventually such systems are rejected by their subjects and collapse, either totally or into anarcho-tyranny.

Are there any actual examples of this happening? The link doesn't cite any.
Wow good for Garry
This is the viewpoint of somebody who doesn’t have any other loves in their life.

I love my job. A lot. I also love my wife, my kids, my friends, my community, and a wide variety of time intensive hobbies.
It's not. Ironically, the influence of the ultra-mega-wealthy causes so much distortion and irrationality in markets that it ruins the predictive power of those markets and the ability to rely on markets to efficiently allocate resources. It's no longer a functioning system, just a game for the rich to play among themselves.
Somewhat disingenuous to boil it down to this, when it's merely one of the ways presented with 4 other ways of installing it, including downloading the binary, package managers, building from source...

Looking at said install script it's also pretty much just figuring out the host OS and architecture, downloading the corresponding binary, checking its integrity and copying it in place.
another vote for Brave browser - switched and never looked back.
I remember reading about this years ago but I don't remember the "realtime" aspect. I remembered it just being a general Clojure-to-C++ compiler. I wonder if the authors "pivoted"?
ublock takes care of quite a few of those things, too. There are more lists you can activate in the options.
Oh wow, my SO has had sleep issues over a long period of time, where she claims there's a low rumbling noise, like a truck idling far away, preventing her from falling asleep. She's talked with her doctor about it but so far nothing. However she is being treated for having a clenched teeth while sleeping...

Just the other day, she noticed that tilting her head in a particular way made the rumbling go away. To us both this indicated that the rumbling must be coming from within, and not an external thing.

Could it all be her jaw?!?
Different products. GitHub, more or less, has zero marginal cost for an additional customer. So they can afford to give away their product solely to starve the market for competitors.

Supermarkets can't do that because they have a significant marginal cost for each good sold/given away. They can't afford to give away milk to 10 million people to get 500k of them to pay for something else. So the market distortion effects are much more limited in the case of physical goods.
Having fish installed is a big one, and then a bunch of additional binaries and shell functions that are installed in ~/.local/bin. Most notable among those is direnv, which I want on any computer where I have a project directory. After that, it’s mostly little things that happen rarely, like the tmux configuration for those cases when I am spending a lot of time on a remote server.
Apple has a great opportunity to compete with Dell (and their XPS laptops) to re-conquer the mindshare of prosumers and IT professionals.

The Apple hardware is IMHO superior (in particular their trackpad), but the customer support is generally pretty bad, even when you live next to a physical Apple store.
One of the [few] advantages of becoming a crusty old fart™, is that we tend to waste a lot less time, worrying about what others think of us, and just do what we need to do, to get the job done.

I was just talking about this, to someone, yesterday.

I'm often accused of being a "killjoy," or a "dreamkiller," by today's yutes. This is because I say 'orrible things, like "Have you considered what happens if..?" or "We tried that, a couple of years ago. It didn't work out, and here's why...".

In actual point of fact, I'm exactly the opposite. It's my job to Make Things Happen. I plan to ship everything that I do, and my work is generally focused around the endless practicalities and compromises, necessary to get products out the door.

This has often resulted in me being called every name in the book, as I try to avoid chasing shiny, and keep the eye on the ball. In my days of yute, this would keep me awake at night, worrying whether or not I had made the right decision, if I was an unintended, out-of-wedlock child, or if I really was a goose-stepping fascist.

But I have been getting stuff out the door, for pretty much my entire adult life.

These days, I sleep like a baby.
Web ads, yes. App ads, or ads served in in-app browsers, no.

I use Firefox Focus as the ad block extension, and it works relatively well.
> I really don't understand how most people can stand to browse with all the ads

People don't browse, they app.
For all the love I have for Blockada I'm not going to send my traffic through their cloud. I wonder if I can run something like PiHole on a VPS somewhere so that I can protect my devices both when I'm at home on WiFi and when I'm outside on 4G. I'll investigate but does anybody already experienced such a setup?
Create Simple No-Code App with Workflow Designer (Tutorial)
There was an article[0] recently about just that thing. In this case the issue is overhead line capacity in the area by us-east-1 rather than generator capacity.

0: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/dominion-energy-a...
Those requirements are almost always just a wishlist
> Poor reference letters hurt students. They give us no insight into the applicant's true strengths, and no ammunition to support the best candidates in scholarship competitions or the admission process in general. I decided to write this guide for students so they can share it with their professors when asking for reference letters.

How about the university itself sharing the guide with professors when asking for a recommendation? Students have enough to do and adding more one on their list sounds ... odd.
We've been here before many times in history. Some debt gets repaid, some is inflated away, some defaults.

The real crisis won't be in developed countries because whether you like it or not, you need to borrow and spend in their fiat to do business and EVERYONE wants to do business in developed countries. The crisis will be in emerging markets where no one will be willing to lend if rates hit 5% in the US.
I have a surface studio laptop and it’s great. Keyboard has good travel, trackpad has a nice click to it, build quality is sturdy, battery life gets me through the day, performance is great, and it has a pen/touch display to boot that folds down. I also have a MacBook Pro, and I much prefer the surface.

As far as support, I bought an extended support contract from Microsoft that I haven’t had to use yet, but I’ve gone through the replacement process with them in the past and it has been seamless. Highly recommended.
Huh, thanks for elaborating!

I'm surprised that the OS doesn't have a safeguards for this and isn't retrying the read the EDID after it sees a "blank" one after wake-up, but the display controllers in Mx chips are stupid complicated already it seems.
I got T14s AMD gen2 a year ago, with 4k display, 32GB. Swapped the wifi card to Intel ax210, since back then year ago the realtek was not yet supported by kernel.
Since end of mast year, after few bios updates, it has worked flawlessly. Battery lasts long with 5850U while using and suspend works properly and can last many days when not used.
The new models with Ryzen 6000 series look to be na excellent upgrade with usb4 support.
At what point do we say “you were wrong, project canceled!”

We are way past the original timeline and budget. You fail!

After 2 decades, time to acknowledge it:

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2004/04/08/the-wrong-stuff/
I also use adguard DNS that filters ad urls.
I dev on a System76 Pangolin running Pop! OS. My only complaint is that there's no Ubuntu terminal that I like as much as iTerm.
I have looked at Thinkpad x1 carbon, and they are so expensive! People complain about Apple Tax, but the x1 Carbon is so much more expensive for what it does.
>Romania has too many issues with minorities

What kind of issues and which minorities?
They probably do, I think it's the U.S. Senate that doesn't (which is why it has the nickname Senate Launch System).
> in order to have slightly quicker wake times.

Unless it pulled a breaking Windows update at night so the laptop won't boot anymore the next morning.
The Apollo program cost was roughly $257bn adjusted for inflation. The Saturn V rocket project cost roughly $50bn adjusted for inflation. Artemis is roughly $35bn. The SLS rocket project cost $23bn.

Perspective helps
Dell Precision 7530 i7-8750H 32gb ram ... on ebay for less than $950 tax and shipping included ... its super fast ... been running Ubuntu ... very happy
I think I needed to hear this. Thanks.
Ask HN: Why haven't we seen more designer babies yet?
I know He Jiankui (Chinese biophysicist who created the world's first gene-edited children in 2018) was recently released from prison but I feel like I haven't heard much in the space. I understand the moral conundrums of such research and the applications of it, but frankly I'm shocked that there haven't been people who still go through with developing designer babies given the allure of having more intelligent, healthy, etc. kids. Any ideas why this tech hasn't gotten more adoption? Or perhaps it is just that people will not disclose it now and there is actually a non-trivial amount of gene-editing of babies happening.
That's all well and good but how many congressional districts have jobs working on Starship?
2 weeks ago someone asked

> Ask HN: Can I see your scripts?[1]

I really like this[2] solution from /u/hoechst,

> Not really a script, but a `.ssh/config` to automatically deploy parts of my local cli environment to every server i connect to (if username and ip/hostname matches my rules).

> On first connect to a server, this sync all the dotfiles i want to a remote host and on subsequent connects, it updates the dotfiles.

> Idk if this is "special", but I haven't seen anyone else do this really and it beats for example ansible playbooks by being dead simple.

Match Host 192.168.123.*,another-example.org,*.example.com User myusername,myotherusername
ForwardAgent yes
PermitLocalCommand yes
LocalCommand rsync -L --exclude .netrwhist --exclude .git --exclude .config/iterm2/AppSupport/ --exclude .vim/bundle/youcompleteme/ -vRrlptze "ssh -o PermitLocalCommand=no" %d/./.screenrc %d/./.gitignore %d/./.bash_profile %d/./.ssh/git_ed25519.pub %d/./.ssh/authorized_keys %d/./.vimrc %d/./.zshrc %d/./.config/iterm2/ %d/./.vim/ %d/./bin/ %d/./.bash/ %r@%n:/home/%r

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32467957

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32468605
I recently switched a couple of my projects to non-commercial:

https://polyformproject.org/licenses/noncommercial/1.0.0

I would recommend it to anyone, but it does have some drawbacks. Notably, GitHub and the Go programming language refuse to support it:

https://github.com/github/choosealicense.com/issues/1015

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/54683
Do these results suggest no treatment will be possible?
It was a time of, frankly, reckless engineering and hubris, though with great results. Challenger taught us a lesson. They pushed ahead into disaster due to ego. NASA won't do that again.
Tailscale have a knowledgebase article on doing it - https://tailscale.com/kb/1114/pi-hole/

There's probably other ways.
> As a result, less and less of the independent web is getting traffic

Tracking cookies are not mandatory. You are not obligated to present cookie banner: you can simply drop nonessential cookies.
Node-RED is also fairly popular in home automation circles, but it's a generic tool that can be used for different purposes.

For example, it can also be used to build chatbots.

https://nodered.org/
It's fine. I don't even notice. It's certainly not enough to warrant seeing ads and sacrificing the free web to google.
The great lie of technology: How innovation is overrated
According to the updated description of the YouTube livestream:

"Teams are currently troubleshooting an issue with engine number 3 on the SLS rocket core stage. A new launch date has not yet been confirmed. The next available launch opportunity is Sept. 2."
There are a lot of steps that I've observed in CA that would seem to cause drought rather than prevent it, this is one of them.

- Aggressively irrigating water away from hills / plateaus, presumably to prevent mudslides onto road infrastructure.

- Tree-farms, everywhere throughout Southern California.

- Steps like this that appear to further prevent maintenance of any sort of below-ground aquifer.

And even better,

- Offshore wind farming for the stated benefit of reducing hurricane storm force / total rainfall.

- Building new cross-country infrastructure (CHSP) which will demand more aggressive irrigation to protect.

- Delaying construction of a large water reservoir for financial reasons, and failing to collaborate with neighboring states to fund it effectively.

Moves like this look like 4D-chess rather than any sort of science.
The GP is paraphrasing the 10 Commandments as a "Manual for Civilization," I can't imagine respect for medicine/science is high on their list.
Is your app like this? Oh, that’s been done before
You’re a social media company, like Instagram? That’s been done before

Phone, like the iPhone? That’s been done before

Car dealership, like Mercedes? That’s been done before

Bank, like JP Morgan? That’s been done before

Restaurant, like the Olive Garden? That’s been done before

Gym, like Equinox? That’s been done before

Tennis player, like Federer? That’s been done before

Human, like Adam and Eve? That’s been done before

Video platform, like Vibehut.io? That’s been done before

It’s allllll been done before, what you feel like working on is the only difference.
Takes anywhere from 30s-1.5m on my M1 Max.
How many versions of Starship did Space X explode or crash?

They seem to have produced better results on less money — so if NASA can’t follow the strategy that works, why should we throw more into the money pit?
I love my Lenovo ThinkPad. For a laptop, the keyboard is amazing and I have been using it for 4 years now without any major issue. I did have the CPU fan die on me, but with Lenovo's practically 10/10 repairability score for 40 bucks I overnighted another CPU fan, just unscrewed the back and replaced it myself.
> Except... we haven't failed? We're still around.

The use case for a "Manual for Civilization" is a scenario where we have failed, so it's a valid assumption when considering something like this.

It might be pretty unwise to create such a manual, because it would almost certainly be a manual for repeating the last set of mistakes.
> soon we'll get proof of pork barrels being able to do so.

Leaky pork barrels don't fly it seems, the launch was scrubbed due to (among others) an engine bleed problem [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637493
I will never stop to talk about PiHole and how much changed my home browsing experience: https://pi-hole.net/

I suggest everybody to give it a spin
Do you think there is a way to get papers reviewed to the same quality without a journal?

If we are paying for reputation and the journals reputation is a function of the reviewers skill, maybe there is a way to cut out the middleman and pay for skillful reviewers instead.
fish, neovim, alacritty, bat, karabiner, lsd, tmux, skhd, yabai, sketchybar

fish, neovim, tmux, skhd are the most important ones. Can't live without them.
Singapore Mulls Making It Harder for People to Trade Crypto
Where are you located where it's 32F in May, lol
Don't worry the new ThinkPad batteries are just as good awful.

And... It's not actually the batteries, it's just the newer CPUs. If you want good battery life on intel you simply have to downlevel the CPU as much as possible or go back a few generations to an i5. My old x260 still gets 8 hours of coding on a charge. But my recent X1 is lucky to get 3 hours.
"NASA is not being run by Germans anymore."

Literally laghed out loud on this one and had to explain to coworkers what was so funny :)
Deep Dives
Canadians. British?
If you want lightweight alternatives to Macbooks, just beware that most of the small factor Windows laptops emit much greater fan noise comparing to M1/M2 Macs under load, although the Macs will probably reach similar levels on full load after a while. Recent platform designs target much higher power limit to achieve optimal performance, while the manufacturers keep pushing that envelope frame on sub 15" machines, creating conflicts between form and factor. Many recent Thinkpad and XPS machines have difficulties cooling the components.

I use an Alienware X17 for works including demanding graphics tasks. I know that Alienware does not have great reputation among enthusiasts, but at least for me it is pleasurable to use. Very decent build quality, sleek exterior design after lights off, amazing Cherry low-profile mechanical keyboard. On light modeling and compiling tasks there's barely any noise coming from the fan systems, and on higher load it isn't much louder comparing to M1 Max/Pro Macbooks, with performance being top-notch for sure. Overall very enjoyable experience comparing to lighter design systems, but the trade-offs are obvious too - 3kg+ weight, and the battery drains fast due to the aggressive power targets on CPU/GPU. It's clearly not for everyone, but if you need performance without workstation features (Quadro, ECC, Xeons), it's definitely worth a try.