skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> risk of injury to self

This is the big one for me. This will be very alien to a big portion of HN users, but I am NOT a hardware hacker. Browse the DIY subreddits and for every single impressive thing someone has done, you can read the comments about how they have somehow stumbled into building a death trap for themselves and their family.

I guess professionals are probably no better, but what else can you do.
It probably has to do with the economies of scale in refining oil into gasoline.
Agreed, if it’s a success, I still want us to stop pork barreling but with style. Regardless of funding politics, lot of people worked hard and earnestly to make this possible. I wish them success.
I'm having a good experience with the Dell G15 (Core i7, 32gb of ram, NVIDIA GTX3060) on Ubuntu 20.04. Everything works (besides, ofc, what has never ever worked ever in Linux: suspend) and it's a very performant machine.
> The source article doesn't say that anyone has stalked him, surveilled him, or threatened him. His complaints are that someone said he's "inciting violence" when that's not an accurate characterization of his perspective, and that someone said he works for an organization he doesn't work for. In the US neither of these things are a big deal and could not be a criminal issue.

No. I'm the one who said he is being stalked.

> In Pakistan, activists and journalists are routinely picked up (abducted) and tortured by the country's police and secret services. Same happened this time, some of the top journalists and anchors were picked up - some without warrants with fake cases filed post-arrest. Some of these journalists remain under custody till date. These journalists, according to reports, have been stripped and tortured under custody.

> The current Minister for Planning and Development falsely accused me of inciting violence, probably in the hopes of building a false case and narrative against me, when I had only called for people to question their politicians. These people were showing their frustration because I was out of their reach and could not be abducted for the time being. What came from the Minister was maybe an exaggeration or a veiled threat, but what started happening after was more insidious.
To start off their harassment campaign against me,

He is definitely being threatened and stalked. It's the abuse of the parody account to defame the OP. That would be all fine and good if not for the regular disappearing of Pakistani journalists and protesters. If anything like this happened in the US, let's say the KKK started disappearing journalists and protesters, once that kind of environment existed, any sort of online shenanigans spotlighting private individuals, slandering and defaming them, if it regularly happened to the disappeared before they disappeared, then it would be a very big deal, investigated, prosecuted, with felonies and significant jail time delivered, even without that particular victim being kidnapped or murdered.
Um, virulence and mortality is expressed as a percentage.
> Sometimes it really does seem that "the cruelty is the point".

Yes, this is very much as American as apple pie, as they would say.
A secular buddhism/meditation revolution is currently happening in the west, with many neuroscientists and other academics involved in the mix. It kind of matches what you are describing. I'd recommend starting with Michael Taft's "Deconstructing Yourself" podcast, in which he interviews many of the most prominent western representatives of meditative traditions and human potential movements, most secular. He also is the chair of a meditation center in San Francisco called The Alembic that opened recently.
I assume you are trying to say they are Nazis? The Nazis used the phrase Final Solution (The Final Solution to the Jewish Question) with no s at the end. I don't think you can draw the conclusion that they are Nazis when the name isn't even the same phrase the Nazis used. If this company was trying to copy the Nazis why didn't they name it properly?

Also, there are multiple companies called Final Solutions LLC in the US, do you think they are all Nazis or do you think it could literally just be a name?

Your username starts with an 'm'. Hitler's book Mein Kampf starts with an m as well. Does that mean you were trying to copy the Nazis?
>Do you want the news stories to be dominated by whatever heinous shit some bad-faith giggly teenager with a call of the void to offend as much as possible (i know, i was one) is able to generate?

How is that the only alternative?
Can we also restrict golf courses too please?
Oh yeah, peak clowne world not quite yet. Soon.
And never stops. (Which would be the Z-Combinator!)
Well she needs to be as dishonest and ignorant as possible to grift for their Patreon newsletter on their followers.

Even some of the prominent critics, like Stephen Diehl are now grifting by pushing their books, preaching the same thing on their Twitter every day about the absolute and complete desolation of the crypto industry; which just isn't going to happen. Perhaps this individual in question is enraged by all of it and especially by Cardano which killed his private blockchain startup and is on an impossible mission to destroy all of it. (Won't happen)

Like many critics of crypto in the past, they eventually give up as they realize later on that they had wasted their time.
We can look back further at the Hays code. That's just religion plain and simple. The feeling of, "we're sliding into a decadence which will lead to the downfall of our civilization" is a meme propagating this very sentiment. It's not a simple as just the government, but that does co-occur.
Oops I see a little bug. I forgot that on mobile instead of the wheel event you need to look for the touch move event because I think if you're not actually moving the screen then you don't get a wheel event on mobile and maybe you don't get one at all. Sorry forgot about that little quirk between mobile and desktop browsers. I should kind of know because I've dealt with that before but anyway I'll add some touch event handlers to implement the swipe stuff on the mobile... damn, must have been kind of annoying for you people who saw swipe and then. Sad, sorry :(
That is quite the first video of a channel!
If you are in the domain of easily-copied technology, you probably shouldn't be building a startup around it, because there are very few barriers to entry for someone else to do the same and eat your lunch or at least cream off some customers without ever having paid for the R&D behind whatever the anchor is.
It wasn't a mistake, just a deliberate compromise.

My goal was a very small, simple, but flexible language. It needed to be pretty tiny to be embeddable in lots of applications. (And pragmatically, so that I could design and build the whole language myself.)

Single dispatch works really well for, like 90% of the kinds of operations you want to perform in programs. It reads really well syntactically and avoids having to namespace every function with its argument type like you see in C and Scheme (hash-remove!, dict-remove!, set-remove!, etc.). And it does this without needing types or static resolution. Also, it's simple to compile to something fairly efficient at runtime using a vtable-like structure.

It just sucks for binary operators. But coming up with a better solution for that requires something like:

* Static types and static dispatch like C++, C#, etc. do.

* Multimethods and multiple dispatch.

* Double dispatch like Python.

* Hacking something special into the language for operators like not allowing them to be overloaded and just having a fixed set of types they apply to.

Static types and multimethods are a huge jump in complexity. Python's approach is really slow. Special casing operators makes me sad.

So I just took a relatively small expressiveness hit and decided that, yes, operators aren't symmetric. In practice, it's mostly fine.
There aren't too many keyboards with a ¢ key included, so I suppose that alone could be a show stopper.
I put ferrite rings on a ton of stuff to reduce interference, so much I questioned how reasonable it was to do so. Thank you for providing additional confirmation bias for the things I do.

On the subject of interference, this is why a good amount of shop equipment doesn't use USB. Especially for vinyl cutters, serial/RS-232 tend to have less issues than USB. USB tends to be more sensitive to the static buildup caused by moving and cutting vinyl.
Stephenson is one of my favorite storytellers and one of my least favorite writers. It’s quite maddening. :)
I think these AI art tools are great for finally enabling the masses to unleash their creativity without having to have true art skills. It’s like the equivalent of “no-code” style platforms, except because this is art, we can be a lot more forgiving if the results aren’t perfect. No need for “artists” to have a monopoly on artwork, we’re all artists.
This is awesome... I wonder if we'll get something for video upscaling like this?
Where has any US official threatened Russia or China with nuclear attack?
I have my home directory as a git repo: works great, simple, no symlinking
Show HN: Task management web app, uses LocalStorage
A country where the people who by necessity must work to survive, draws from a much wider percentage of the populace those who have the ability to engender an entrepreneur culture... It's very easy in the USA to live off free government dole and so that enormous portion of the populace is effectively unmotivated to work at anything.... and I quote : "The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load."

Thomas Sowell
It's really a tragedy that 4 RS-25 space shuttle engines, marvels of engineering and fully reusable, are going into the drink tomorrow.
California resorts to rationing. Nobody seems to understand how supply & demand works (and that it can't be repealed). Rationing means half the people will get more than they need, half will get less.

To reduce water consumption, raise the price.
Yes, some times.
First successful orbital flight was 2008, first crewed flight was 2020.
Just print your blog to .PDF or .PS and send it to these guys for printing. I'm in for a copy!
Why, so more money can be wasted so it can fly again? This needs to fail to clear the way for more practical systems.
I would prefer Cremation by dropping my coffin into earths atmosphere from an orbiting spacecraft
"==" considered harmful? :)

Maybe we should explicitly say O.referenceEquals(O2) or O.fullDepthEquals(O2) or O.itemsReferencesEqualInAnyOrder(O2). etc.
afaik airlines pay a surcharge to systems that have authoritative data on flights (GDS/Amadeus) iff their look/book ratio is too anomalous, which is exactly the kind of number scraping bots really play with
The best way to get high launch frequency for a crewed rocket is to have it launch on top of an existing, heavily-used uncrewed rocket.

Falcon 9 and Atlas 5 are two examples. NASA's safety advisory board has said very positive things about the safety aspects of using a frequently-launched rocket.
The First Chinese Restaurant in America Has a Savory–and Unsavory–History
Happy Dynadot user here. Dynadot passes on the ability to "domain taste" to its users. Users are able to cancel a domain name purchase and get a refund within a limited time.
It all changed when we started building computers that looked like fruit
What's huggingface's business model? How do they pay for all this compute and (apparently) 140+ employees?
Agreed, this mission will be under a microscope and any faults could be grounds to scrap the entire program - finally.
Carried over from "No eating, drinking or smoking in the computer room". Went by the wayside at some point. Now I just make sure most of the crumbs get cleared away every now and then. :-)
The three aspects to consider when buying a laptop:
Weight, Performance and Price.

Laptops that are cheaper and lighter weighted usually have a lower performance.

Laptops that have higher performance and lower price usually are heavy weighted.

Laptops that have higher performance and lighter weight are usually pricey.

You have to sacrifice one of the three.

I’d personally go for the Dell Precision 5520.

Cheap, high performance, moderate weighted.

P.S. (usually) heavier laptops are more upgradable and repairable so thats why I chose to sacrifice the weight for the other two…
I didn't say "I don't know anything." I'm telling you -- I am certain you could find it because astrologists and macroeconomists are all over the place enough such that you could cherry pick correct ones.
To be fair, it's pretty common for "mature" organizations to reach orbit on the first try. SpaceX had three Falcon 1 failures before their first success, and a few other startups have shown similar numbers. On the other hand, the first Falcon 9 reached orbit. More directly relevant, Shuttle was a success on its first launch (good thing, too, with a pair of astronauts flying!). On the third hand, the first Ariane 5 failed 37 seconds into flight, for reasons discussed on HN every so often.

I'd give SLS an 85% chance of reaching roughly the correct initial orbit, and only a small chance of leaving a smoking crater.
If you ever drive through the part of the Imperial Valley which is just artichokes, you'll viscerally get the point I'm about to make: you shouldn't be deciding whether square miles of artichokes are a more productive use of water than someone's lawn. No one is starving without artichokes, lawns make people happy.

We solve this kind of problem with markets, or in California's case, we flagrantly ignore the solution and start fucking with people's supply.
The command back when I did this was sudoedit but I didn't know better, although I don't think it did any checking of the file for validity, just made sure that the correct permissions were in place when I was done. Now, the default sudoers file on MacOS has a comment saying to edit with visudo. But there are enough footguns possible with sudo that any friction to using it is a good thing.
Had some issues on recent Ubuntu with my XPS 17, but it runs wonderfully on Fedora.
A Y-combinator was proposed to be added to the ISO C++ Standard Library. It was not adopted, as everyone agreed it would not be useful. If anyone ever did find a use, they could copy its proposed implementation into their own code. But everybody knows that will not happen.
For a fun introduction to this field, check out Raymond Smullyan's To Mock a Mockingbird. If you have kids, this and his other books are a great way to let them get interested in puzzle solving and math without realizing that they're doing math (he cites such an anecdote in another book).
'Inflation fever' finally breaking. Central banks should stop hiking interest
Big fan of Windell Oskay and his stuff. I wandered into Evil Mad Scientists Laboratories many years ago (in Sunnyvale, as I recall) and I believe I met him but it was a decade ago....

Over the years I picked up a clock that used LED shadows cast onto a gnomon to create the clock's "hands".

Picked up a Peggy — giant LED display board.

And then some weird plywood thing with marbles and chutes that was a kind of mechanical adder..... I think that was when I went in and chatted.
How to shut down the internet – and how to fight back
Flatpaks can be an issue depending on the sandboxing. The application may be restricted from accessing the target. Using a hardlinks works, so it isn't that big of an issue to have a couple hardlinks, but it is still something to keep in mind.
> (2) creative nature of the work

Is AI even capable of having a creative nature. All that I see is re-use of source images.
for me, comment is a must for configuration format.
But Artemis does not, in fact, reuse them.
What claim did you find unconvincing?
Population declines for 2nd year in CA

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/04/us/california-population-....

AND, there is a social ritual that has developed. We now have the "FINE, GO." cake which is shared with those departing at a say-goodbye party.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=fine+go+cake&t=osx&iax=images&ia=i...
If you want to maintain both syntaxes and have there be some sort of equivalence between them, then I think think the type system should handle it. Where a type operator ‘private-access’ grants access to some objects private fields and then obj.f() == f(private-access obj).

Maybe this would be seen as a violation of encapsulation, but to make the two equivalent requires the ability to allow private variable access at the call cite.
This. Additionally this should lead to more responsible decision making when questions like “is my re-architect gone wrong going to sink the company?” are pondered at all levels. This could lead to more stress sure but if someone can’t handle it probably best to go work at big corp.
It's been a consistently effective strategy to assume any amount of surveillance or control they can implement without leaving evidence is already something they're doing.
You should try UI design. Open Sketch or Figma. Start putting buttons and boxes together. You'll quickly realize that having adequate spacing is absolutely a must. Everything just looks awful without enough spacing.

Usually, the biggest problem a piece of software has is adoption. People are far less likely to adopt your software if the first time they look at it, it looks like a huge complex mess. The sales people certainly won't want to present software like that to potential customers.
NOT TRUE you would of course choose Odin over C unless you could not for some reason.

Odin is 100x better environment to program in than C. C++ is used for AAA games.
Rust is not really used if hardly at all because of the highly competitive and time critical nature and very much the need to change things fast.
They are building a model of what everyone else is typing into these open models.
If you think it's the government's place to prohibit color TV on the grounds that it promotes social inequality, you've largely disqualified any opinions you might have about totalitarianism, social science, or color TV.
Seriously?

You think someone acting within all legal bounds is immoral because they are using a resource in a manner you disagree with?
Which countries are at the top of your list to move to?
The evidence is that the major sources of plastic pollution were not put under further regulation subsequent to the regulation of this minor source of plastic pollution, even though the threat they present has not diminished.
It’s not the only alternative. It’s the alternative that will absolutely will happen eventually. But, will happen later and to a lesser degree because of all of the crude, annoying, imperfect filters that have been holding it back so far.
I do machine learning and use Python a lot, and even then I'd sometimes prefer something packaged like this. Dependencies are Python's hell and I can't usually know in advance if a repo will be a 1-minute install or a 15-minute install.
That's bullshit, at least in California. Most of the problem water usage from Farmers, for example in the central and antelope valley, has been from private wells on private property they themselves sunk, or an equivalent small co-operative they were a member of did. They've been tapping huge underground fossil aquifers that way for nearly 100 years now, to the point it's been collapsing. No canals required. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Valley_land_subsidence]

It's estimated the ground has permanently sunk ~ 28 ft. from this alone.

Before this started, the water table in the Antelope valley was at ground level in many places, with literal artesian springs popping up. It's now well over 2500 ft below ground level.

The Delta Mendota canal (finished in '51) was an extension and redo of a number of existing canals that were there far before. The army corp of engineers did a lot of the work then - but it wasn't that new. And this was all water just a few feet above sea-level and that would shortly become seawater if left unmolested.

Most of these original Canals from the Sierras existed before the concept of a state water organization existed. Some of them existed literally before the state did, and were from Spanish colonization/slavery. They weren't as mechanized or as large scale, but they were there.
It's fucking hard to be honest.

It's easy to create an app, but it's not easy to create an app that sells continuously. There are lots of things other than development too like figuring out better solutions, sales cycles, customer support, etc etc.
If we are expected to believe AI have a "creative process" then they should abide by labor and copyright laws.
> Hitler lost sight of his material goal and instead fastened on one of only symbolic importance - Stalingrad.

This is oversimplified. Stalingrad was of enormous military importance in securing the advance into the Caucasus, it was relatively starved of resources and reinforcements for nearly the entire battle, and the degree to which its symbolism factored into decision-making is massively overstated and indirect.

The idea that Hitler (or Stalin, for that matter) had an overriding primarily symbolic obsession with Stalingrad is substantially just popular myth.
SLS has been dead for 4 years at least - landing boosters, Dragon 2, and Falcon Heavy were the nails in the coffin. After that the writing was on the wall that SLS is obsolete. At this point it's some sort of society wide sunk cost fallacy that few can face.
Reference equals doesn't make sense for a value object anyway.
Robot helps Northeast Portland hotel cut down on vandalism
You may find my blog entry useful: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Aug/29/stable-diffusion/
That's because black typically looks less comforting than dark grey.
When can we finally close this farce.
Guantanamo will exist until everyone involved in its creation and maintenance has been prosecuted for engaging in torture.
You can escalate your own war by volunteering into the ukrainian battlefront, don't bring it to the homes of your fellow citizens.
This piqued my interest so I had a read of the below which explained things very well, although I’m only about 70% fully comprehending it:

https://lucasfcosta.com/2018/05/20/Y-The-Most-Beautiful-Idea...
I met the woman who is now my wife back when I was working at AOL in the mid-90s. She was working as a lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission. One year I got a big payout from cashing in stock options, and that ended up going to pay off her student loans. But except for that year, she has always made more money than I have -- for most of that time, if you compare her worst year against my best one, she still made like 3x what I made.

We have one main account we both use, and we make sure it's always got enough money in it that we don't have to worry about accidentally bouncing a check. We have set limits on how much either of us can spend without talking to the other person. And we don't really fight over money.
I'll second this recommendation, as I've found it very pleasant to use as a developer laptop.
This site is honestly one of the worst sites on the web. It's dumber than slashdot at its stupidest, but with a big dash of arrogance combined with Dunning-Kruger hall of mirrors effect. At its worst (which is frequent), it'll give the daily stormer a run for its money.

"Hacker" (lol) News is pure, unadulterated, proto-fascist garbage for narcissistic jerks.
Since obviously California is going to do nothing about this, can we just tackle the problem at the source and restrict water outflows from the Colorado river authority itself?
the state isn't going to do that by following its own rules or acting in its own interest
Very few pieces of software could justify having support for multiple layouts to increase or decrease content density.

Gmail is one that comes to mind.

I can't think of anything else I use that I would want more density.