skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As others have pointed out it's mostly noticeable on mobile, I only consider looking something up on mobile if I know I can append my search with a domain that I trust to be ad-free or ad-light. Recipe... too risky to go on a random site (because of ads and also proliferation of fake recipes that are just stock images and Ai generated copy to garner pageviews), so I do "{dish} + seriouseats.com". Movie or TV trivia... "{movie} wiki"... etc.

News is the worse, I rely on twitter for headlines or go straight to my paid app (NYT + WSJ) if I hope to read more than 140 character on any topic.
Agree, these are 'jokes' are pathetically trite, bland fare. However ironically, liberal college grads are mostly the ones writing the shows. Hard to wrap one's head around.
Despite the ideology that it shouldn’t matter, the lottery of birth is probably the single largest factor on someone’s life trajectory today - changing that is incredibly difficult and would likely require the dissolution of many countries
Because why else would such an aversion arise?
I don't think there are any sensible "defaults" for human cultures. But I wouldn't expect aversion to talking any sex to arise spontaneously among a population that hadn't had it imposed by prior generations or from outside. We're naturally curious beings and have lots of sex (compared to other species).
those guys are also working on it atm :-)
https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion/pull/179
Exciting news and big congrats to you Garry!
It is great to see articles like this, as Reserved Instances are a fantastic way to save some money, and they are widely misunderstood.

I work for a company [0] that specialises in Cloud FinOps, and I helped write our in-house billing system, which has to deal with _all_ of the intricacies of Reserved Instances, so I know very well how deep this rabbit hole goes.

This article opens by categorising RIs as "one of the most complex but crucial AWS offerings", but I think it perhaps glosses over some of that complexity, which might cause people to get burnt. For example, it suggests that you can safely sell your way out of trouble on the RI Marketplace, but in many cases you can't: there are 5 products you can buy RIs for (EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, OpenSearch, and Redshift), but the RI Marketplace only lets you sell EC2 RIs, and only Standard EC2 RIs at that, not Convertible.

I don't want to take anything away from this article, nor do I want to frighten people away from buying RIs, but please take care. If you aren't sure, I encourage you to use one of the many companies operating in this space to help you out (and you certainly don't have to give away 20% of your savings to do that).

0: https://strategic-blue.com
What censorship are you referring to? Streaming services as far as I know can show anything that isn't illegal. Is that not the case?
When I saw the comment about "perfectly aligned with China’s “main melody” perspective that justice always wins.", I was immediately reminded of the Hays code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code

(reading that again I discovered https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Film_Corp._v._Industria... ; the idea that movies were not counted as free speech for several decades in the US may come as a surprise to other HN readers)
I'm talking about building these "at-scale" which results in massive developments of soulless cookie cutter suburbs. There is nothing wrong with the house by itself- quite the contrary. People shouldn't buy more than they need.

See: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/levittown-new-york
From the article:

> A far more sensible approach, which many scientists and philosophers have taken over the years, is to emphasise that claims about biological group differences have no necessary implications.

Really? emphasize? Then what? You can emphasize all you want, but cultural forces will do whatever they please.

If cultural forces (racism) exist that permit (encourage!) mis-intepretation of research results to disenfranchise entire swaths of humanity, then it will. It doesn't matter what a Substack blogger says.

Shouldn't the insitutions responsible for creating this knowledge in the first place have a responsibility to ensure its ethical employment?

Wouldn't (perhaps) one methodology here be to agree that certain types of scientific inquiry, due to the potential for widespread harm, are to be treated differently than the rest?
Agree. Downvoting disagreeable people will eventually completely silence them with that logic. One has to be generally agreeable to maintain positive karma. Not sure if the side effect is worth it. There are a lot of amusing assholes out there with unpopular opinions. Opinions that are highly relevant to the topic at hand can be polarizing, but these will likely result in the poster having negative karma long term. pg and dang are simply wrong. It encourages a hive mind.
MPAA ratings are decidedly not government censorship.
https://go.dev/
My understanding is that that's only true for comments not posts?
Say the word "Bullshit" and then show a erect penis on Wheel of Fortune and see how that 'we don't censor things' goes for you.
1. A bad graph. I know it is an government website and not something you produced, I need to call it out.

From 1970 to 1980, the metric jumped to 300% (an increase of 200%).
From 1980 to 1990, the metric jumped to 210% (an increase of 110%).
Whereas from 2010 to 2020 (just before covid), the metric jumped about to about 190% (an increase of 90%). But this is not obvious on the graph.

They should use log scale.

2. The covid jump is something else. But I can understand why they spent money then.

(Even from 1960s to 1970s they went up by 100% or to 200%, so I buy your point, just do not like the FRed's visualization)

Edit: Just plotted these in Excel. Bush-1 and Clinton-1 were the only years with flat curve on logarithmic basis, every other era is a gradual increase.
Yeah my expectations for this comment thread were low, but it's funny to see people with literally zero background in biology skim a paper and suddenly become experts in physiology and experimental design
Mercury does accumulate in the body but I was more pointing out that serum mercury levels can fluctuate greatly in a relatively short period. My mom eats a ton of that tuna from costco and had blood levels far above the reference range; which dropped into the reference range 4 months after consumption cessation. She saunas and exercises; so that may have something to do with it. I agree mercury is a bad example for the reason because the actual levels of mercury burden an individual carries can be nuanced (serum + housed into organs etc). I'm not sure I follow your final sentence.
I agree the second form is preferable to the first one. But I think, most people will use the second form anyway. In my projects, ocamlformat chooses the second option.

In the case of OCaml, we can certainly find a few oddities, but really, I never found the OCaml syntax to be such an issue or to make me unproductive in any way. I'm much more prone to syntax errors in Haskell actually.

I suspect people who complain are mostly used to C-like syntax and aren't familiar with any language of the ML tradition. I agree that the barrier to entry would be lower if the syntax was more "mainstream", but I don't find there's really anything wrong with OCaml syntax, except that it's "different".
> Typically a language supporting /* */ will treat them like parentheses

This is not the case for C, C++ or JavaScript for a start.
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That's an opinion and a boring argument, but I don't think it has much to do with "horseshoe theory". I think that read (that adopting "leftist policies" (like... social security? immigration liberalization? not sure what we're talking about) invariably(!) leads to a result that is not legible as 'left' at all but for its history) is probably incompatible with "horseshoe theory".
This may or may not be true. In fact, it seems unlikely to me your claim is true.

In nature, sounds produce harmonics i.e. when two objects collide they usually create waves of frequency f, 2f, 3f, 4f... in various (usually exponentially decreasing) weights. It's very rare to find pure sounds (i.e. only f frequency) in nature. The interval between f and 2f is an octave apart (1:2 ratio); the interval between 2f and 3f is a perfect fifth (2:3 ratio). So, when you actually hear a sound, you actually hear an octave and a fifth too, and how dominant this octave and fifth changes the "timbre" of the sound. This way, you know the source of the sound independent of the frequency. For example, both a violin and a piano can produce the note A4 at 440Hz, but anyone can easily determine if it's a piano or violin. The reason is, when a piano produces A4, it sounds not only just 440Hz but also 880Hz and 1320Hz etc... too and the relative volume of 880Hz and 1320Hz will be different than that of violin. Your brain automatically interprets these volume weights as "timbre" and the fundamental frequency 440Hz as "pitch".

Consequently, in order for your brain to be able to process the timbre of a sound it needs to find octaves and fifths between each fundamental note it hears. This means there might be something universal about octave and fifth (and other decreasingly consonant intervals such as major third etc...). Maybe we "understand" music because our brain is hard-wired to search for octaves and fifths in all sounds, in order to analyze timbre and in order to process spoken language. If this hypothesis is true, maybe an alien species could have octave/fifth/major third based music too! (if they have music at all, of course)
Possible name collision: "alpaca" is an animal: https://www.getalpaca.io/_next/static/media/logo.30fd61b8.pn... :)
Association of body mass index with mortality
No. There is no way for them determine ethical employment. Just because someone racist wants to use some research for a racist claim doesn't mean all researchers should abandon pursuits. Don't fear racists. Fear people making policy from their views.
It would be great if threaded conversation was normalized to anchoring on the original context. Using every reply as a partially-yours-partially-new starting point makes the conversations treacherously convoluted until many points are concurrently true; only if you focus on the right parts.
I could be wrong but I think he spells his name Garry, not Gary.
> "emphasise?"

If you're objecting to the way he spelled this word, note that the author is British: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Carl
What was the purpose and context of that quote?

I’m not familiar with the lore enough.

What is the significance of there being a/the buddha existing?
Pitch Removal System – Santiago Bernabéu
The SENER engineering and technology group is the brains behind the idea and technology involved in the Santiago Bernabeu stadium's retractable pitch system. Based on SENER's own patented system, it was recently presented by Real Madrid in a video, with the construction project being developed by SENER for Real Madrid.
IIRC they also all live together.
Plenty of island communities actually ran out of resources, especially firewood.
I still feel that way about certain keys, even playing on an exactly equal tempered keyboard. I don't think the degree to which certain intervals might vary between keys is necessarily the important factor.
Nothing. This post seems to be just a promo with the intention to cause some stir and publicity for Blokada.
No, the spelling is not relevant. I removed the quotes.
I rarely use the cloud at my current role and it was pretty awesome to see sysadmin skills I got when I started in 2014 were still relevant. Sometimes I wonder how insanely productive a PHP developer must be when he's given an Apache Server and MySQL to build a CRUD app after 20 years experience of a single stack, compared to my eight years experience of completely random technologies.
The difference is that asshole isn't a term that preys on the weak. Asshole can describe anyone you don't like, whereas terms like "gimp", "midget", or "retard" are terms that belittle those who might not be able to fully defend themselves in a physical fight. It's a whole 'nother level of cruelty that implies bullies beating someone up and then laughing.
It is a new phenomenon when the the thing that goes extinct is critical infrastructure (e.g., pollinators). We've seen similar things with the great potato famine: a critical resource went (temporarily) extinct due to blight, and the results were catastrophic. The paper is trying to make the same statement with minerals, but at a global scale, not just referring to the poor in one country in the 19th century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

map of population death toll:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#/media/...
IMO good programmer writes code that:

1. Solves task.

2. Does that within a necessary performance constraints.

3. Uses commonly accepted approaches, libraries, style, does not reinvent things which are not necessary to reinvent.

4. Readable by programmers who'll work with that code in the future. That could be juniors or seniors, that depends on a particular company and project.

5. Extendable for changes which are likely to happen in the future.

6. Not extendable for changes which are not likely to happen in the future.

Every item is necessary and going down this list requires more skill and more humility. It's easy to write complicated code. It's hard to write simple code which is as good as complicated where it matters.

That's what my opinion is and that's what I strive to.

That said, I might be completely wrong about it, as I see great churn with modern software, things are being rewritten over and over again. Code maintainability seems not to matter as much as it mattered in the past. May be that's my bubble. Sometimes I think that the good programmer is one who can spew JavaScript nonsense faster than his peers can review it, because who cares, that stuff is going to be rewritten tomorrow with revolutionary new age framework.
Truly a strange article, like the author has never tried breakfast tea which has almost as much caffeine as coffee and will definitely keep you awake…
Guide to Web3 Companies
It’s extraordinary that people are taken in by such videos. Those videos are selectively edited to make the creators point.

Tell me, when Jimmy Kimmels producers go out on Hollywood Boulevard and find that not even one person can point to a country other than America on map (https://youtu.be/kRh1zXFKC_o) - do you think that’s real too? Or is that selectively edited for laughs?
The joke is the latter. The woke college grads who write the shows think it's funny to have/lampoon racist characters. However, it is a staple of the fare that these characters must exist in the shows to add foils and character depth.
One thing I loved about the internet back when these types of effects were popular was how collaborative and innovative web design was. People would see something they liked on someone else's website and just add it to their own. It might be an animated gif, a cursor effect, a background image, or a site's entire layout. Everything was fair game.

You'd see something cool on one site and suddenly it'd be all over the place and then it'd eventually get edited until it became something new that got spread around again.

Even though everyone was shamelessly copying everyone else the effect was that websites were very diverse yet familiar. Then people started using social media where they didn't even have to learn to copy/paste HTML and everything slowly became very bland and generic.
> This is where e.g. much of "free market" rhetoric and e.g. Libertarianism need to take a severe backseat.

No, it's where we the people need to understand that rights come with responsibilities. If you want to claim the right to keep your data private, you need to not give it to third parties that you know are not going to honor that. And knowing that is easy when it comes to Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc., because of the simple rule that if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.

The problem here is not too much free market and libertarianism, but too little. The ultimate reason for this...

> It's increasingly difficult, if not impossible, to opt out.

...is that the government has inserted itself more and more deeply into our lives, and we have let it. For example, your kids' schools are beholden to Google because they are run by the government, which is insulated from free market competition and can just punt on providing proper infrastructure. And the reason why Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. can survive on the ad-supported business model, instead of having to make their users actual paying customers as would be the case in a real free market, is that the government has set things up to favor them. They can get cheap loans to build the massive infrastructure they need because of government monetary policy. They can insulate themselves from any effective legal challenge because of the way the legal system is set up.
Git’s own: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Documentation/gitform...

I also used gitoxide’s source when I got unsure / lost about the nomenclature / varints.

I’d suggest giving it a pass unless you have to or are really interested though.
You're helping my argument, not yours. :) The energy market is different/better than education and health care, so subsidies are more likely to flow to the consumer.
You're both describing two similar consequences of the same mathematical fact: 2^(7/12) is close to 3/2:

* The reason that in their 12-note graph the red line very nearly overlaps with the seventh green line is that (2^(1/12))^7 is very close to 3/2.

* The reason that twelve fifths nearly make an octave -- (3/2)^12 is ~2^7 -- is that if you use 2^(7/12) to approximate 3/2 then it's (2^(7/12))^12 which is exactly 2^7.

Since you're applying the approximation twelve times instead of once, that also explains why we've gone from being off by 0.11% to 1.4%.
Your comment applies to people who would use Firefox+uBlock if they were ok Android (e.g. I use 1Blocker).

GP’s comment was asking about normal people who browse the internet without adblockers on any device.
Better redirect to a multi GB Linux ISO download.
If you're interested in this, a while ago, for my personal photo site with image galleries[1], I wrote a fast static site generator in Rust[0], which also supports plugins now.

[0] https://www.getblades.org

[1] https://grego.site/photo
As the recipient of subsidized loans, I was already fixed at an interest rate lower than inflation. So I have already been costing taxpayers money every year my debt has been on the books.

The current White House announcement only applies to federally held debt. Private lenders are not included. Forgiveness for federal debt-holders involves forgoing future revenue. A hypothetical forgiveness for private debt-holders would likely involve just paying the companies some sort of discounted rate.
Guy does not know that whereof he speaks.

Starship's engines use methane. Very little black carbon produced.

25kt of aluminum in the atmosphere per year is less than we get from meteor dust by at least an order of magnitude.

Etc.
Those contributions were much appreciated and were merged as:

https://zulip.com/integrations/doc/slack_incoming

It probably deserves another pass on the documentation; it's been improved a few times since then and may no longer deserve the "beta" designation.
I don't think Google's doing this out of a deep concern for CSAM and hatred for due process, but I think it's in fact the law itself that essentially requires corporations to have these trigger bans otherwise they'd face liability.

Think about Google's alternatives here.

They could (1) not have CSAM filters -- your data is private no need for Google to scan anything -- in which case people would use their platform to distribute illegal content and they'd be a nice target to get massive damages from.

Or (2) give people due process, rights, appeals, etc despite not having any of the tools of a court of law, it's even illegal for them to look at the evidence, and if they make the wrong decision or they make the right decision too late they're still liable for their platform being used for illegal activity. Keep in mind the only way to truly know if material is sexually explicit is to show it to Potter Stewart. He'll know it when he sees it.

Or (3) be proactive in building systems that detect illegal use of their platform and aggressively, without process or appeal, remove any user of the platform the moment you have any evidence at all they are engaged in this activity.

Because people will try to use Google's platform for illegal activity and Google knows this, (3) is not only the only sensible option but it's actually the only legal option. It would, in effect, be illegal for Google to do anything other than scanning all your files and aggressively ban people.
"everything was terribly broken and half-baked"

What are you talking about? My S22 Ultra works great.
Add Howard Stringer (CEO of Sony, 2005-2012). He's pretty close to a cautionary tale, but that time period also included a major earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster as well as the 2008 credit market collapse.
I appreciate that the author implemented OK? in Go -- the language which it is most obviously parodying. Lends a bit more weight to the critique!
No argument from me; but I think the debate around this research is focused on what the biological effects are when one undergoes a prolonged period of grounding; i.e. for 8 hours during sleep, or several hours during the day, rather than for momentary periods.
> The Earth has special electrons

Nowhere in the article is this stated. Walking barefoot on soil would ground the body, as opposed to being in shoes. That's it. It's not woo woo. Either your body is grounded or it isn't. Any electrician knows this.

The article is stating that your body regularly may be carrying some charge (again talk to anyone who works on computers), and (according to their studies) yes it has an effect on your health.
Now if only there were some way for you to express that opinion in some objective, algorithmic way…
I tend to associate it with GLaDOS. I think the Portal series may have raised the profile of that particular turn of phrase.
"Rather, it is due to the corruption of science by left-wing ideology"

Science is not an organization, business, political party, or group of any kind.

The definition of science:
"Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe"

How are you going to generalize whatever grievances to everyone in the world who might work in a field that is scientific somehow. What a right wing nonsense article whose sole purpose is to make people fear one source of factual information.
Citation needed. Please show an example of a foreign piece of content which has been chopped to bits by the US government before being allowed to be distributed here.
A small correction: GTK, or Geological Survey of Finland, is a public research agency operating under the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Employment.

https://www.gtk.fi/en/this-is-gtk/
10mA is enough to lose control of your muscles. 4mA is incredibly insensitive [1] compared to a more direct measurement, with volts from electrons, rather than trying to measure their weak magnetic field, at a distance, as they zip by. With a sense resistor, you can use a bench top voltmeter [2] to measure nA.

1. 10fA resolution, over 400 billion times more sensitive: https://smt.at/en/products/electrometer-nv-meter/picoamperem...

2. > 1 million times more sensitive, with GΩ sense resistor: https://www.keysight.com/us/en/assets/7018-06774/data-sheets...
I’d probably agree with you - but only just. 60 years ago was pre-Civil Rights Act.
> Don't fear racists. Fear people making policy from their views.

And when they're the same?