skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIL I live in a marine environment. When I first moved here many decades ago, everyone said you don’t need AC. Nobody says that anymore. The winters have noticeably gotten wetter and the summers have gotten hotter.
> but if the poorest are helped accordingly

Good joke!
Crypto Is Not Here to Stay
I don't believe anyone is suggesting they should be drilling but they can build terminals, use nuclear and otherwise broker more trade deals.
> No one actually believes this outside of brain-rotted partisan contexts.

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

> The fact that I'm not donating all my money to combat malaria in developing nations does not make me pro-malaria.

Are you a system?
One of the weirder HN tropes is being upset that new software continues to be released, or that languages get updated with new features.

I've so rarely seen truly major breaking changes that require substantial effort in updating your own code. Like, the Python 2->3 transition is notable because it's unusual.
Dr. Peter Attia did a thorough summary several months ago of what we know about rapamycin as an anti-aging therapy. There are plausible reasons to think it might be safe and effective, but human studies are lacking. This is a promising area for future research.

https://peterattiamd.com/ama35/
What is your current height and weight? If I were to lose 80lbs I would become emaciated.
Except that they don't respect court verdicts - e.g. in one case they lost against an Italian court "US-based Cloudflare disagreed. It countered that the Italian court didn’t have jurisdiction and that the e-Commerce directive didn’t apply to foreign companies, but those objections were rejected." How can you argue that a legal ruling is legally invalid (besides appealing it) and use this as a supposed justification for not complying with a court judgment?

Even in that article they say "While we will generally follow legal orders to restrict security and conduit services," - how can you say this? No other business says "while we will generally accept court judgments..."
Looking at the source, it seems like the page is proxied through a CloudFlare worker black box called “cfworker-beatthatwall.jayass.workers.dev”. It would be easier to trust if all the work was done locally.
Yes, I nitpicked because OP was speaking in absolutes. The larger point that “technology destroys jobs” is not novel or interesting.

But to know that these jobs still exist, and might be more common than you realize, now that’s interesting!
"The sanctions" in this context being Russia's refusal to supply gas to Europe. The EU has not sanctioned Russian energy because they are dependent.
If there were a simple to examine and pick through localstorage, maybe. Of course if there were, localstorage would be intentionally obfuscated.
How Crash Bandicoot hacked the original Playstation (2020) [video]
Nothing. I'm in an apartment lol. I don't use much electricity and I don't pay separate for heating.
Because they have a vested interest in understanding the parts of the global economy that affect their competitors.
The key assertion of the fine article seems to be that if you've worked as an engineer in a startup, then you at least have seen first-hand how startups work, how they are run, what problems they encounter and what solutions work/fail there. The dynamics of a startup are quite different from those in a large, stable (even if growing) company, so an ex-startup-engineer might have seen more relevant things than a middle manager from some Fortune 500 company.
I’m not sure individuals -or- organizations can be fully trusted. It’s one reason for the 4th amendment, or the requirements for auditing of companies by independent accounting firms, or all sorts of laws restricting individuals, organizations and even governments in one way or another.
Benign tumors? Moles?
How Climate Change Is Transforming the Pacific Crest Trail
How did Germany buy US LNG for the last 50 years? They certainly can't buy it now they since they don't have the terminals to receive the ships.
Yeah, bad management that corrosion in reactors of roughly equal age happens at roughly the equal time.
Maybe I missed this, but 2 weeks in fruit flies and 3 months in mice probably translates into something much longer in humans, on the order of a year or two maybe, if not longer? That's a pretty long time to be on an immune-suppressing drug with pretty significant side effects.

It's still an important bit of information if it replicates, but I think it might not be as clinically practical as it sounds from the press release.
Germany is neither sunny nor windy, and is maintaining an anti-nuclear stance for the moment. I'm sure it will try a renewable play, waste tons of money for marginal results, and end up burning its local coal deposits instead. That or concede to Russian demands.
The most efficient appliance still needs electricity 24/7 to run. Even when it's dark and the wind isn't blowing.
Because it's part of the economy! All sorts of non-intellectual goods make up the economy. We eat sausage, sausage comes from abroad, Germans can't make sausage because of Russian gas drop off, etc.
How long does it take to bring a gas field online?

If you're going all out to get off russian gas, you may aswell move to something clean, and that can probably start generating sooner.
> I'm not pro-Russia either

Yes you are. If you really think you aren't, you are deluded.
Local, as in your own home? What happens when the home burns down and you aren’t there to grad the backups?
Learning to paint hyper realistic paintings is something that takes years if not decades of hard work. Learning how to formulate your queries in a way that the algorithm outputs what you want takes days at worst.

If you want something unique and abstract, you're going to need to go through a lot of trial and error to get what you want. That's still a lot easier than teaching yourself how to create such art.

"Graphical starting states" in this instance isn't as hard, a very rough MS Paint picture of the general shapes you want things to appear in is enough. Alternatively you can grab rough cutouts from stock art, position them right, and the algorithm should figure out how to turn it into a single, flowing picture.

Take a look at these examples (https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/diffuse-the-rest/d...), they're far from perfect but the autocompletion is done quite well. It should be noted that the demo application doesn't expose a lot of the flexibility the underlying model provides (like blend strength and such) but I don't know a free online alternative that does.
The definition of famous is just too relative. The tag should be considered harmful. Social media platforms should not dictate who is famous or not.
Brit here, so I'm observing from outside. If they're cutting workforces and raising debt, I'd reckon this is the beginning of the end. Frankly, I think it's throwing good money after bad. I've taken a casual interest on some of the travails of the US retail sector, and I'd rate the odds as being against them.
Gavin Belson approved.
You can't argue with someone who doesn't understand logic, which is literally true here. I have run out of jokes at Go's expense.
"I genuinely don’t understand why the Instagram platform is so permissive to clear scammers" - more traffic, apes together strong?
Kids homework
> If you're interested I can show you the source code

This doesn’t really solve the old problem that there’s no proof the source code you show is the one that runs on Cloudflare. Couldn’t that code run locally?
Lots of ISPs have AUPs that would prohibit a site like KiwiFarms and the sky hasn't fallen. Why can't Cloudflare do the same?
I've had several YouTube ads telling me I should use a "hybrid" approach to self host some of my services, on hardware in my building, to keep cost down. I had to check a calendar to see what year it was!
Why is that relevant? They've created their content - if they want to share it with a search engine that's none of your business.

The technology does not allow them to do this without sharing it with you as well. But that is ethically irrelevant.

(Of course, we also deserve a good search engine allowing us to remove paywalled sites and seo spam from our results.)
That's not true -- many people think advertising as practiced is abusive in its own right.
I said this: We'd all be happier if everyone was politically correct.

Which is saying if you "met the conditions" of being politically correct.

I did not say if you were forced to act politically correct. Two different things.

So literally I did say: "If you met the conditions that proved me right, then I'd be right" and you responded by completely ignoring that and introducing your own conditions.

You misunderstood. We're on the same page here.
>What's the "green agenda" that you're referring to?

eg:

https://ec.europa.eu/info/strategy/priorities-2019-2024/euro...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_90/The_Greens#Energy_...

>How are ICE cars being "banned" soon?

eg:

https://www.autoevolution.com/news/california-decides-to-ban...

https://www.electrive.com/2022/06/29/eu-council-decides-on-1...

https://www.just-auto.com/news/uk-government-confirms-2030-i...

These are very easy questions to answer.
> They are exact type of customer who need DDOS protection the most.

They (KiwiFarms, Daily Stormer) would be better not on the internet.

> They've decided they want to be seen as a utility.

This isn't how law works - just as you can't say "we don't have a banking license but we'd like to be seen as a bank and provide banking services" you can't say "we're not a utility but we'd like to be seen as one". Note that being a utility also comes with a host of other legal restrictions.
Takeaway: more people in California and the Southwest want AC.

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2022.05.31/Chart2.s...
Average life expectancy in the US is 78, with some states seeing average age around 74.

Do you want to live no longer than average, so lets call it no older than 75?
You may have been more active than usual, also? Even just walking to get places each day, instead of spending your entire day sitting at a desk or in a car, makes a huge difference.
When you say power plants, do you mean wind turbines and solar panels?
Your link is the second in the article. This is the link the article provides in the second paragraph, the one they refer to as "the new report":

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr023.pdf

The paragraph I quoted is drawing from the chart on page 5.
America's Pork Producer Industry is quite knowledgeable about producing pork, which involves competing with global Pork Producers. The LNG section of the video contains insights you may apply to other aspects of your life.

Personally, I was unaware of the differences in the price of LNG between Europe/China and North America, and I was completely blindsided by how much recent developments in the Ukrainian conflict have exacerbated the differences!
If you're in a globalized economy that has scarcity, yes. That is the unfortunate truth of it. And you're mostly deluding yourself if you manage to outsource your need for slaves to other countries and think you've done anything particularly good. It's a prisoner's dilemma over and over.
Can you give some round numbers? I'm curious.

And do you know why insurance didn't cover all but the deductible? Was it the crappy balance billing that's so common now?
It's all about good hygiene early.

- MDM for laptops/phones, don't let people use their own devices. The point of MDM isn't to stop people installing their favourite IDE, the point of it is to make sure the device is patched and running latest OS. If you have a VPN (even AWS Client VPN supports this...) tie MDM together with device attestation so only patched machines can connect to your VPN.

- Unified login, for a start up you can use Google workspace or even GitHub as your identity provider (this gets weird if you have non-devs but you can push it for a bit). Don't have more than one account/password for things, you just log into your google account then use OIDC/SAML to auth against internal apps. If you do this you probably don't need VPN. Use this to auth into AWS too.

- Don't share accounts on SaaS services (e.g domain registrar), this will make rotating stuff when someone leaves a nightmare. If a service doesn't support teams or you don't want to pay for the enterprise version then it's OK for the CTO and 1 other person to have their own login.

- Minimise/avoid static credentials for your infra (e.g. web server talking to postgres) prefer to use AWS Instance roles with short lived dynamic credentials.

- Make sure network isolation is set up correctly, your Mongo db shouldn't be listening on the internet

- Use 2fa but make sure it's WebAuthn/FIDO. Issue everyone with 2x security keys. People wipe / screw up their phones/TOTP authenticator apps far too much.

- Centralised logging, make sure your apps can output logs to opensearch/datadog/whatever. Whenever a user performs an action make sure this gets logged.

- Don't let people manage prod infrastructure without using Infrastructure as code tools (CDK/Pulumi/Terraform), best thing would be not to give people prod access and all changes have to go through CI

- Make sure you know your product is down before your users start calling/emailing. Set up healhchecks.io / pingdom whatever.
Where there is an opportunity for exploitation and humans, there will always be an exploit used. It's just how we are, how our brains are built. Until that exploit yields you no benefit socially.

Meanwhile we see just how effective targeted advertisement can be for both money and political influence.
As added information: metformin, a common anti-diabetic drug, is a inhibitor of mTOR. It potential adverse effects are less severe than rapamycin but are still significant. Specifically, long term usage can cause renal damage. Its mechanism of action has yet to be fully elucidated.
Can someone explain to me why the US is the next source for energy rather than directly from the much geographicly closer Middle East, which the US spent a significant amount of political & military resources bringing into its sphere for its own energy needs?
Yes, that is sort of a string attached, but I’m not sure it has any real cost. Has anyone ever been harmed or even inconvenienced by VS Code telemetry? I usually turn it off, but it doesn’t actually make any difference to me. Seems like it’s just politics.
CBD has way more interactions than NAD but I don't expect my barista to be able to know all of them off the top of her head just because she's selling me a cookie with it in it.

It's a nurse, who's giving you a shot of you want it of a supplement that may or may not do anything.
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CIS Top 18:
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CIS have a top 18 critical security control checklist, which is pretty incredible.

https://www.cisecurity.org/controls/cis-controls-list

CIS Top 18 Version 8 works sequentially too, so you implement control 1 and it sets you up in a good place to then implement control 2, and so on.

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Cyber Essentials:
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The UK's Cyber Essentials scheme is a certification standard (but you can ignore that and just use it as a checklist if you'd like).

It's designed for small to medium size organizations, and focused on getting the foundations right.

This would be a useful place to start but it won't cover some of the specific threats and risks associated with software/app development. See @snowstormsun's comment about OWASP Top 10 for that.

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/cyberessentials/overview

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There's loads of other standards like this out there, that are free to use and are each focused on different security challenges etc.

I've shared these two standards as they both setup a solid foundation.
Look no further than Gerhard Schroder (ex Chancellor of Germany). He was a strong advocate of the Nord Stream pipeline between Russia and Germany. He later became manager of Nord Stream 2, he joined the board of directors of Rosnef (biggest Russian oil producer) and 20 days before the Russian invasion he joined the board of directors of Gazprom
I find it difficult to imagine life without air conditioning.

I'm generally hot and without it ... can't imagine how I'd make it.

I sometimes think I"m not far from living life like the people in WALL-E, tied to my machines (in their case chair) unable to manage otherwise.
Perhaps we should discuss the problems with the term (and implications of) "stochastic terrorism" -

namely, the conflation of a terrible, deliberate act with clear and consenting, perpetrators (terrorism); with that accusation that the wrong kind of free speech might lead to terrible consequences, and the implied accusation of malicious intent.

Lets approach this as if ST was literally a crime - do the recipient communities of said terrorism bear no responsibility e.g. those that choose to be provocative? Will they also be accused of ST and be told to shut up? Or just those with no stake in the matter?
I brought the air and it sounds like it’s not for you. I love it and don’t find that it gets hot, but it sounds like you need a work horse not an ultra book.

And 16gb is too low if you were to ask me, in general and for the work you are doing. Remember it also has to be enough for four years from now.

That said, I don’t have any regrets with mine, for what i need it’s a fantastic machine.
> It's not, and I will tell you why: in my opinion, an okayish criterion that's applied consistently is better than a good criterion that's applied inconsistently. The best compromise is the one where all the parties are left equally dissatisfied. And why is that?

A corollary of this opinion is that a good criterion that's applied with 99.99999999% accuracy is worse than a mediocre criterion that's applied with 100% accuracy. That is an absurdity which comes from forcing the real world to fit into rigid binary categories.

> It's because it's easier to convince everyone that one is being fair than that one is taking the optimal course of action.

Perceptions of fairness isn't my primary objective. My primary objective is to make life better for myself and the people I care about. Yes, that's not an objective ideal, morality isn't objective, we agree on that.

> Would I take any steps at all to prevent that, beyond possibly arguing against such ideas? No.

> I'm a moral nihilist, yes.

> [don't] unilaterally ascribe beliefs to me

I withdraw the moral nihilist comment, because I've realized you can't be that, given that you're prescriptively arguing for no moderation as being superior to moderation. That means there is some moral system there that you're not disclosing, since without some moral assumptions you would not be able to argue for one possibility being superior to another. Regarding your political beliefs, I was presuming more than assuming them. If you're not arguing from some tribal culture war motivation, then I find your opinions to be bizarre and can't understand the system of principles or axioms that they come from.
> They've decided they want to be seen as a utility.

Cool! They should restructure their corporation then. But they're not, because their greedy CEO is trying to have his cake and eat it too.
I played Mixed Up Mother Goose as a child and later took a job at the same company as one of the developers (not Sierra or Mattel). It was kind of disorienting.
Which no one uses.
I call my buddy who lives 20 minutes away and tell him I need my backup drive back that I keep in his safe and swap every few months.
Nuclear in Germany got shut down, and Europe could have chosen the US as a trading partner over Russia (I am assuming as a non-economist, non-FP expert).

If I were on a jury to decide if European leader should have acted differently in the last decade regarding energy stability, I know where I lean.
Ask HN: Merge vs. Squash Merge
Hi HN!
How do you merge your PRs? Merge or Squash & Merge?

Thanks!
I run Debian off and on, and have been doing so for years. I generally start a new computer on Fedora because the hardware only works in newer kernels, and Fedora sends new ones all the time.

But after awhile, I gravitate back to Debian. I like the stability. I like the quiet in terms of updates, even with Debian's strong security model.

Debian is my home distro. I know it.

I might have said the same thing about Ubuntu, but I haven't run it in years. I'm glad it's there, but Debian's release cadence and the philosophy behind the Stable/Testing/Sid cascade is something that works for me.
Yeah, PF2's still the more complex of the two, for sure, but PF1 was crufty as hell, and they did succeed in making it a smoother experience than that was, at least. I'd say PF2's what you should go with if you want a modern system but like the idea of older-school RPGs, without necessarily loving the reality of them—it gives you some of the crunch of traditional systems with some QOL improvements and some of the dead weight removed, plus some attention to improving the actual experience of play (especially combat, and double-especially combat for non-casters).

Meanwhile, I'd probably tend to point someone interested in D&D but without much knowledge of or opinions about systems, toward 5e—if you don't know you want a somewhat-fiddlier ruleset of something like PF2, then you probably don't want it.
I see what you mean about GPT returning copies. But is there really a difference if your model just happens to 'calculate' an exact copy instead?

For example, if you enter in something simple and high profile, what it returns looks pretty close to an existing work...

Try, for example, typing in "Banksy", "Brad Pitt" or "Starbucks".

So if you type in "Photo of a Coffee", "Impressionist painting of a fruit bowl" or "Blue canvas with one red line in the middle", how do you guarantee that the image you get back isn't actually a copy of someone's work?
The Latest Announcement of Hotbit Platform: Part 1
If someone where to want to try and build their own startup, this seems like a perfect situation to be in. Does anyone know how to land one of these?
Instead of what? Making the switch will require tremendous effort that must come from something else, which Germany will necessarily lose (not produce). Likely this would be distributed through the economy so that there will be a bit less of everything else - shoes, haircuts, food, etc.
> but if the poorest are helped accordingly it's not so bad

Prices for consumers increasing thricefold will send a major part of the population deep into debt (e.g. >20% of the German population have no financial reserves at all, living paycheck to paycheck) and drop a major part of the middle class down to the living standard of the (pre-2020) lower class.

I mean, sure, you're right, it's not the end of the world, we will recover from this and hopefully emerge with renewables everywhere, but even if we manage this crisis optimally, the next few years will be quite rocky both politically and economically here in Europe.

And I'm quite scared what happens if we should fuck up, because...

> and will actual push people to be more responsible

... this whole mess can also, alternatively, push people to extreme, simple "solutions" offered by more extremist parts of the political spectrum instead. :/
Von Daniken's theories are transparently false. I read his books in the 1970s, and they were bad fiction even then.
But, are all those computers in the same location? Just one fire away from losing everything? I have all my photos and videos on local storage, but it is all mirrored to a secure cloud storage service that costs hardly anything. I’ve pulled the backups from that cloud service (you can’t access the files directly) to make sure it works properly.
Com.Samsung.Android.Game.gos:2290:9908:313b42360002
Yes, sanctions on Russia are working
> namely BGP

DDoS attacks would still occur if we used a routing protocol other than BGP. It's not created by BGP, it's created by the fact that the Internet is end-to-end oversubscribed.