skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, because the US wanted especially Germany to buy US LNG instead of Russian gas. The latter worked since the 69s, it worled all the wayvthrough the Reagan admin and the end of the cold war, the fall of the soviet union until Putin turned nuts. All in all, tgat bad dependency worked nicely for 50+ years.

Now that changes an Europe will adapt.
> Do you think striking is not an essential tool for unions?

I do think that the threat of industrial action and withdrawal of labour is an essential tool for workers; nobody should be forced to work against their will, if they are prepared to forgo pay.

That extends to unions, in the sense that workers can band together, negotiate collectively, and withdraw their labour en-masse.

> a clause in the union’s agreement, which is a contract

I believe that agreement is between the union and the employer; it doesn't bind individual workers (although they might face being kicked out of the union). I don't agree that a collective-bargaining agreement amounts to a contract, neither between the union and the employer, nor between individual workers and the employer. Courts might well disagree with me on that, but I say that nobody can make a contract on my behalf, unless they have my power of attorney.

So the existence of a collective bargaining agreement doesn't put me in violation of any contract if I participate in wildcat industrial action, other than my contract of employment; but there are several ways in which I could be held criminally liable, if I don't have the backing of the union, such as violating court orders, and maybe conspiracy.
The big numbers don't impress me, but the fact that such tiny machines can correspond to complex and even meaningful theorems is fascinating. I wonder what the smallest number of states you need to encode a pre-existing well-known mathematical conjecture is.
The issue with paywalls is the bait and switch - you push the whole content for SEO then force users to pay money.

Nobody cares if you want to sell the secrets of the universe for $5000/mo. We care about the bait and switch.

By setting up this bait and switch, you hurt your own paywall - if the search engine can get a full copy, so can I. Want these extensions to stop working? Stop the bait and switch.
To restate, then: the status quo is that men die earlier than women, because of certain social and perhaps biological factors. On top of that, there are trends that are increasing premature death rates. What's surprising is that those trends affect men more than women.
It's not kind, but it is a really important point.
Russia’s economy is contracting so in what sense are sanctions not working? They aren’t 100% effective but they do appear to be having an effect and long term the effects, if sanctions remain, will force Russia into a pseudo vassal client of China.
Pakistan's floods have created 100km-wide inland lake, satellite images
Nearly 90% of U.S. households used air conditioning in 2020
It's not misfortune it's a failure.
Thank you for clearing that up
So I watched basically every bit of video that includes Zeihan and I have never once been able to actually confirm the stats he says. That paired with how convenient it is that as the world is going into turmoil we have an academic-ish person taking a bold pro-american stance I am very wary of trusting/promoting him.

If you want to take away that global supply chains are fully breaking down and that demographic trends are going to lead to labour shortages I do think that is pretty unassailable.

But he also says that the Chinese navy is only a coastal force and can't power project into the Indian Ocean to protect its trade routes, which is utterly wrong. Or the bit where he says about only ~10% of German electricity comes from wind + solar (while claiming they built out wind + solar to a theoretical 200% of daily capacity, and it's mostly just idle). It's actually 33% which is too wide of a miss for me to trust any numbers he states.
So does Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and every large platform. There is so much harassment, doxing, and other disturbing behavior on all the platforms.
Actually Switzerland released a Study today that they can cover the entire electricity demand in the country by building 3000 additional windmills. So maybe the nuclear power plants aren't needed after all. But of course, what will actually happen is that the power plants will be closed while the windmills are on the bureaucratic drawing table.
> In my 2020 survey, I’d relayed an open problem posed by my then 7-year-old daughter Lily: namely, what’s the first n such that BB(n) exceeds A(n), the nth value of the Ackermann function?

Time for some pedagogical articles?
At least for me, "I disagree with what you say, but I'll protect your right to say it" doesn't cover verbal abuse leading to suicide.
It's fun to imagine an alternate history where the left were more pro-nuclear power.

Like if they'd just built the best power stations rather than the ones that had military crossover.

I mean, if the fossil fuel powered right wing can demonise Elon Musk and Tesla as subsidy junkies, and wind turbines can be accused of giving you ear cancer, can you just imagine what they'd say about nuclear?

What, you think we should building nuclear power like the commies and the French and worse the Democrats? Are you one of those vegetarians? We've got cheap fracked American gas and clean coal, why would we waste taxes on nuclear? Climate change? But CO2 is good, it's plant food for God sake. If anything we want it warmer, so we can get more gas in the artic circle, drill baby drill. Nuclear doesn't have a high enough ERoEI to sustain civilization, you're trying to intentionally destroy capitalism.
Let's not beat around the bush. Those directly responsible are mostly pretty much everyone who has "smelled" power in CDU and SPD in the last 2 decades.
Second place goes to those responsible for nuclear mismanagement in France. It takes a lot of negative talent to have more than half of your nuclear reactors have corrosion problems at the same time.
Thank you for also hosting this as a tampermonkey script!
It'd have to get itself into the dataset, as if it was 'Snoop Dogg' or some other identifiable person that the AI can reproduce. The degree to which you can generate stuff that is deepfake 'Elon Musk' doing whatever you say, is the degree to which you can invent a character and have the AI generate images (or video) of it following (sort of) your script and directions.
I agree with this, although my memory is probably selective (as it usually is for authorities).

But "the fact that he still has a job" is too far - HN should rethink it's moderation for the greater good, but HN will hardly die otherwise.
This shows exports/imports from today. Yes Germany is exporting to France, but importing similar amounts from the Netherlands so seems like a wash.
https://app.electricitymaps.com/map
The novel part is finally the approval of dextromethorphan for depression. It has some chemical similarities & results of ketamine but with a much better safety profile. (Hence it's use in OTC cough medicine for decades).

As with just about all mental health medications it's no silver bullet, but it's a significant addition to the repertoire of officially recognized treatments, made even more significant for it's rapid effectiveness.

Annecdotally, I can attest to its effectiveness. It's how dextromethorphan came to my attention for this purpose. I was in a depressive period when I caught COVID, and significant cough/chest congestion were part of my symptoms so I was dosing the max daily of robitussin DM. Getting covid while depressed was not a spirit-lifting contribution to my mental state, but after a few days while my covid symptoms still sucked I felt much better, right about normal, mentally.

I didn't know why, of course, but I went looking for possibilities (including pure chance: sometimes that's just how things clear up). But I went through the OTC & prescription meds I was on one by one:

--Prednisone: Not really going to cause improved mental health

--Advair: Also no indication of mental health benefits

--Guaifenesin: anecdotal case studies QoL & corresponding mood lift for people with chronic congestion-related issues, but no direct MH benefit indications

--Doxylamine Succinate: As antihistamine, and some of these are associated with limited anxiety relief, so this seemed a candidate or at least a contributor

--Dextromethorphan Hbr: This was the "ding ding ding" big hit. Researching this immediately revealed some of it's similarities to ketamine and showed a variety of ongoing trials to determine its effectiveness in treating depression and had shown promising results in this.

So in the end I figured it was the dextromethorphan, perhaps with some help from the Doxylamine as anxiety featured in my experience as well. Again it's merely annecdotal, but combined with this approval from the FDA I'm well convinced it's a useful addition to the arsenal.
Ok, but again, why should I, or even Richard Stallman, be bothered about this? I couldn't care less, as does Richard, I assume..

I have the feeling OP feels left out because of closed binaries and thinks he should be entitled for everything based off Stable Diffusion __should__ be open source.

OP asks how we should deal with this, but there's nothing to deal with actually.
> Europeans, what are you doing for preparation?

By chance I moved to a country with mild winter, close to the seaside (which helps regulate the weather, both in summer and in winter). I just had my open fireplace (which wastes 80% of the burned wood's energy and which requires me to constantly refill) replaced with an efficient closed one (which moreover looks gorgeous). 5 K EUR investment which I'll regain on energy bills in no time.

Buying wood is great, especially so if you happen to have an efficient way of burning it (which an open fireplace certainly isn't).

I'm, so far, one of those who still can deal with crazy energy price raises but I wouldn't want to suffer actual gaz or electricity shortages preventing me from warming the house during the few cold months.

A fireplace and reserves of wood, medieval style, should help.
I would feel better about Zeihan's predictions if he ever directly addressed criticism of them. For example, his "China can only do low-end chips, anything you find in a cell phone or a laptop is made in the US" claim he regularly repeats.
You should be able to just load the script file in a userscript manager for firefox.

According to the original link the URL for the script is https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jorgefsilva/beatthatwall/m....
so is this like cutting the nose to spite the face?
No one actually believes this outside of brain-rotted partisan contexts. eg. The fact that I'm not donating all my money to combat malaria in developing nations does not make me pro-malaria.
”who needs to heat so much anyway?”

When outside temperature is -30 C pretty much anyone who does not want to freeze to death…
This why we have the fair use defense for ignoring copyright [0]. It’s more efficient for society to limit the control copyright allows authors of works so they can be leveraged to enable something even greater. While many in the media community ask permission for almost any use, to maintain good relationship, and limit liability you don’t have to for many uses.

“Copyright” and fair use are human defined not absolutes, so the real debate is whether AI models should be allowed to learn from copyright works like a human does. This use case is also close to people who use clips or samples snippets of works in other bits of art which they then profit off of. It is way more efficient at this process than previous methods (having an artist study and practice a style then reproduce it), so that is where the debate is.

0 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
I agree - his narrative is largely a lullaby about how great america is. He gets somet things very wrong, like e.g. how china cannot produce anything of high quality. But many of his points are well justified, like this energy crisis or the looming pensions/welfare crises in europe. Europeans seem to care less about these than zeihan does. His predictions are not to be taken verbatim (they are linear extrapolations based on demographics trends), but some of them will surely pan out. (Some of them will not, like e.g. how japan was not ruined despite its abysmal demographics).
I have an issue with calling three years "long term" support. Most companies won't update to the new LTS for 9 to 12 months in order for any issues to be ironed out, so that means you get only 24 to 27 months on the LTS. Between CVEs and upgrading to dotnet6 before the end of life on dotnet3.1 most of my coworkers and I have gotten almost no new coding done on our applications this summer (and this was after a three month blitz to get all of our code up to dotnet3.1 ahead of the dotnet2.1 end of life less than a year ago). As long as the LTS doesn't introduce a lot of breaking changes then it's not that big of a deal but when you have to refactor and rewrite non-trivial chunks of code this gets to be really wasteful.
I would actually love to see a demo of this used for comedic effect. "Unlogin, use your browser fingerprint as your password. We already, know who you are, why put up with the hassle of typing a password."
EU recently passed ban on selling cars from 2035, plus taxation etc.. So every car should be electric eventually. It takes decades (30 years) to build new new power plants, power lines etc..

So to make this plan realistic, there should be 50 (maybe 100) power plants under construction or in planning phase right now. Instead we are closing down power plants and reducing electric grid capacity!
Checkout this thread from last week:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32606348
> nuclear is demonstrably not working well

You are jumping to this conclusion way to fast.

First, you are cherry picking: you should look at the yearly load factor, not a random day and time of the year when it supports your argument. And you will find that nuclear has the highest load factor of all, 80-90%, while solar/PV will never be above 30-40% (because of physics, you can not change that).

Second, and since I just demonstrated that on a yearly timeframe nuclear works very well, the right question to ask is: why are there so many nuclear plants offline right now? The answer is quite simple, and is due to one of the advantage of nuclear: you can choose when to switch it on or off, for ex to perform maintenance. So, when is the best time to perform maintenance? Answer: just before the peak load, which happens in winter (Mondays around 8 AM in January, to be more precise), so you switch nuclear off in autumn, ie now. It's actually a good news that the load factor of nuclear is so low right now, it means that nuclear will be ready and will work well in a couple of months when we will need it the most.

> Currently Germany is exporting lots and lots of energy

Again, cherry picking, show me the yearly stat. But actually the only comment I will make here is about the criteria you are using: is exporting a lot of energy a good thing? I would say it depends. High variability is bad, it makes the grid unstable. I would rather have low and steady import/export rather than big swings. Exercise for the reader: what allows you to have steady production of electricity (nuclear, hydro, solar, wind, ...)?

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We need more nuclear. Simply because that's the only low carbon, controllable option that currently exists (hydro needs mountains, fossils are high carbon, solar/wind are intermittent)
zopflipng typically beats pngcrus and optipng (on Linux at least) but by default it drops auxillary PNG chunks [0] which can result in browsers (and other applications) using a different color space, causing the resulting images to look more washed out than the original. To prevent this you need to explicitly pass --keepchunks=cHRM,gAMA,pHYs,iCCP,sRGB,oFFs,sTER to zopflipng.

cwebp seems to have a simmilar issue when starting with png files. Sucks that color space support is still so inconsistent.

Unfortunately zopflipng (and most other tools) don't have APNG support, keeping only the first frame :|

[0] https://github.com/google/zopfli/issues/113
I disagree extremely with cloudflare's position here.

One area I'd like to call out is that they think they are a utility. But they are not bound to the same legal restrictions as a utility. It's greedy and slimy to fall back on that argument.

If you're actually a utility, then change your company so you're treated like one legally. I'm sure you'll love it, Cloudflare leadership.
I'm not sure hosting something and ensuring it's accessible are different really. But the Cloudflare CEO is. And they don't host Kiwi Farms.

Or do they? The CEO said CDN isn't hosting. But it fits the common definition.
Sounds like something for the courts to handle and not cloudflare.

https://casetext.com/case/scott-v-moon-1
And before that 2014, Obama after the invasion of Crimea

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-eu-summit/obama-tells...
Guess what? They do. FTA:

> Our decision to disable access to content in hosting products fundamentally results in that content being taken offline, at least until it is republished elsewhere. Hosting products are subject to our Acceptable Hosting Policy. Under that policy, for these products, we may remove or disable access to content that we believe: [...] Is otherwise illegal, harmful, or violates the rights of others, including content that discloses sensitive personal information, incites or exploits violence against people or animals, or seeks to defraud the public.
France is really not the worst in Europe at the moment. It’s probably one of the large countries that can the best withstand the next couple of years, if they can get their heads out of their arses.
America won the landgrab lottery and sits on plenty of oil and gas, which makes this kind of talk really cheap right now. Having a democratic neighbor like Canada with equal resources and 1/10th of the population also helps. Europe is not in that position and I wish people would understand that.
I can give a nice example of how some of UpToDate’s information is compiled, and why its so high quality.

I built a new diagnostic test that replaced and upgraded upon one that had previously been discontinued. After building it a clinician who is a top expert on that specific diagnostic reached out since he was responsible for the relevant up to date page. We had a knowledgeable discussion and they gained a full understanding of the diagnostic I had built. After that they wrote up a new and high quality UpToDate piece describing the new diagnostic and its clinical usefulness. Overall it felt like a very effective process, and one that happened pretty early on in the life cycle of the new product.
Well, that was a terrifying watch.
I am sorry, I could not parse your comment. Can you explain what it means in simple terms? Thanks.
China is literally reselling Russian LNG to the Eurozone.

Incredible. Trump was right when he warned them about being dependent on Russia. They laughed and dismissed it.
It is utterly inexcusable that Germany continued to rely entirely on Russian gas after the invasion of Crimea in 2014 at the very latest. We didn't have a single LNG terminal!

Pick your mix of blind stupidity and outright corruption, but I lean heavily towards the latter.
Extra fun fact about tinkering: The air gap in the transformer means that your GFCI won't detect a ground fault, and your circuit breaker won't detect a short because as far as the mains line is concerned, there is nothing wrong with the circuit.

This doesn't happen under normal operation, because the chassis allows for a short and/or a ground fault. But when you take that chassis off, and especially when you take the transformer out, you're putting yourself into a life threatening situation.

TL,DR: Microwaves cook things, including you.
It's funny to me that there is always someone that predictably asks this question because they can only imagine living longer while being unhealthy.
>Europe's already in recession.

Funnily enough, if we look at the most dumb recession criterion (2 consequent quarters of negative growth), the EU is definitely not in a recession while the US is.
Agent battery limitations, physics?
I'd be potentially interested in a Newcastle meet-up
The death of Gorbachev has reminded me that one effect of the end of the USSR was a catastrophic drop in the life expectancy of Russian men, by something like 20 years. It's quite a good "marker" for decline.

> "Although the U.S. health care system is among the best in the world, Americans suffer from what experts have called “the U.S. health disadvantage,” an amalgam of influences that erode well-being, Dr. Woolf said."

That's an impressive piece of equivocation. So good that it has a special disadvantage?
Unless they're referring to a different report than the one they linked to [1], the report did not say this. They did not offer anything in the way of explanations besides hand-waving proposals that, in some cases, were contradicted by their own data.

They proposed the greater loss in minority life expectancy as being driven by "systemic racism as well as inadequacies in the US handling of the pandemic." What that's supposed to mean was never stated. The next sentence reflected upon a higher rate of non-minority deaths the following year which the paper claimed "likely has multiple explanations." None of those possible explanations were offered.

They concluded with offering an estimated life expectancy in America of 76.44 for 2021. The final official numbers from the UN numbers ended up with 77.2.

[1] - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.04.05.22273393v...
Every atrocity the US has committed has been committed by any comparable (like China), but Chinese vs US tyranny looks very different (especially today).

If that’s how you feel, then don’t spread it, but when the stakes are as high as the future of billions of lives, neutrality or forwarding the most despotic perspective makes you in part culpable for what they do.
And why would anyone considering a talk to the Iowan Pork Producer Indusyry a valid source for the geo-political and local situation of Europe?
Pro tip to parents out there:

Your kids will want to see other people in those childhood photos, more than they'll want to see 100,000 photos of their own faces. You, when you were younger; their now-gone grandparents; that friend they had for two grades before one of them moved ("OMG I totally forgot about them!"), that kind of thing. You'll get way more than enough photos of your kids, so far as your kids themselves are concerned, without even trying—it's the others you may neglect.

Now, for your own purposes, yeah, you probably want the photos of your kids more than anyone else who might get in the shots—but try to think of them and snap one or two of other people in the room, when you're taking e.g. birthday photos, or pan around from time to time when shooting videos of them. They'll eventually get more enjoyment out of the stuff, if you do.
That would explain why I couldn’t find any 400+ cubic inch Buick V8 engines back then. Had a blown piston. Not a total loss for the engine block. I had just preferred to do a swap out then, me being a weekend mechanic and all.

Had to toss the car then … to the junkyard, of which they probably bought it too and probably did in-house engine rebuildings.

We can probably safely surmise that those start cart guys transitioned into stock car racing once their military stint was up.
Does it need proprietary drivers at all? I don't think I've seen a printer that does for decades, but I certainly haven't used all printers.
The part I'm having issues with is "taking", which is e.g. in the Merriam-Webster definition of "steal".

If someone hands/gifts you something you're still taking it (which would match that), maybe I was more thinking along the lines of robbing.
"even trump"

I think that tends to undermine the point though.
Fountain: Plain Text Markup for Screenwriting
Then why are you sharing it?