skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are we just hearing about this kind of stuff more or is my prediction that we eventually won’t have enough competent people to run all the machines coming true?
My personal view is that most ads drive materialism and fulfillment through consumption which is evil. We also have research correlating familiarity and trust, so ads are there to brainwash you into trusting brands you have no reason to trust. If the ad business was boiled down to ads that were good for society it would be so small there’d be little conversation about it. The dark side of the ad business is what keeps everyone in it, the abusive user tracking is just the newest horrible dimension of it.

> People want ads

Says who? Sounds like rationalization from someone who works in the industry. I could be wrong.
Seven people were infected, four died.
AWS provider seems to be covering for some of Terraform's shortcomings. Until I was using just AWS, Cloudflare and other widely-used providers the problems weren't that much annoying. After switching to some niche services with not so extensively developed (yet not buggy to my knowledge) provider modules, the whole Terraform experience went sideways.

Those "let's just use silly count or for_each to enable/disable the block" suddenly not always worked for randomish weird reasons requiring digging into TF_LOG=trace logs. Other simple things that you are used to with AWS were not so simple anymore.

DRY writing wasn't an issue with AWS provider but I find it to be an issue with Terraform itself when provider module isn't covering for tf's shortcomings.
I find that with friends a slower conversation style works fine, but in any professional context (even if you are otherwise friends) you should try and make your questions snappy.

"Hey, you there?" works for a text to your partner

"Hey, are you available at 12:00 tomorrow?" works much better for your coworkers.
I think they just moved the ship with some tug boats. Get off Fox news.
From experience, they've built a company on SaaS and your data will soon be everyone's data.
I bought one with most extra bit sets. I don't have any good screwdrivers and wanted to buy a good toolsetnfor years but never got around to it. And I honestly don't want to do the hours of research to find an actual good quality deal.

Instead I outsourced this decision to ltt. I trust them much more then some random tool company.
OSM Tile Service Degraded Service: Postmortem
Fake ‘YouTube’ DMCA Notices Exploit Suspension Fears to Install Malware
Just want to say that I work with and have worked with many stellar coders from India. I'd suggest not writing off over a billion people.
After playing around with GPT-3 a bit, I've started to suspect a lot of humans are actually very good at manipulating semantic sentences, without necessarily understanding their content.

It would explain why so many "smart" people will often speak long sentences that sound right, but have zero information content in them.

Maybe it's just not that hard to construct grammatically and semantically correct, but zero information gain sentences, paragraphs, speeches (as in, very hard, but much much easier than thinking new novel thoughts).
(former tenured prof here)

This is exactly right. Just like it's better to think of McDonald's as a real estate company with a food business on the side, these days it's better to think of big state schools as mechanisms for ingesting federal research dollars, with an education business on the side. (Never mind that state schools shouldn't be education businesses _at all_, they should be _public services_)
I think the parent comment is referring to how corruption seems to be a given for everything the government is involved in.

There are a lot of reasons we can come up with to explain this, but it does seem to be a fact that the more control the government has over something, the more inefficient and corrupt the process.

However, this inherent corruption seems to be ignored when (typically liberal) people argue for more government control.
California ruins everything. The problem is they're exporting the people that came up with the ideas to other states.
I think members of congress should only be allowed to invest in index funds or sufficiently broad mutual funds. Let that be an incentive to improve the business environment broadly.

Barring that, I wonder if it is possible to institute trading windows in the same way trading windows are required for employees of public companies. A congress person has inside information about the larger business environment in the same way an employee does about their employer.
- bundles let you ship less code (tree shaking)

- dependency versions being fixed is a feature. I've had package installs fail because a dependency published a semver-compatible update that broke something. In a web context this would break the app until the dependency pulled the update or the dependent pushed an update disallowing that version.
Do people want to be obese? I doubt it.
For starters, they could stop encouraging unhealthy eating (cough food pyramid cough). We should be be eating like our grandparent's grandparents (or as I call it: 'A real food' diet) but instead they tell us to shun meat but feel free to eat all the heavily processed carbs with HFCS and canola oil foods you want. Don't eat red meat, but pizza and fries are just fine!
Plus with PSP and Vita they had second screen, remote play, output to TV, OLED. A similar journey that Nintendo have taken with the Switch.
Tell these people that their tickets will be closed as WONTFIX. The company should back you in just never solving problems specified in such a useless way.

If they respond to this not by opening a new, better ticket; but rather by just sitting around doing nothing indefinitely… well, sitting around for weeks when you could be working (where “helping IT to solve your problem” is working) is a pretty good justification to fire someone.
These examples aren't very convincing. It seems like Stable Diffusion's inpainting has a bit of catching up to do.
> James E. Sullivan was a chief organizer of the Olympics, and decided to allow only one water station on the 24.85 mile course of the marathon even though it was conducted in 32 °C (90 °F) heat over unpaved roads choked with dust. His ostensible reason was to conduct research on "purposeful dehydration".

Running research experiments during an Olympics marathon??
Working out more and eating less is a pain. Rezoning and rebuilding is fun!

Jokes aside, an environment that softly pushes people towards better choices has a far, far better chance to push them towards these choices than an oppresive self-discipline regime. In the long term, only the former works.
https://twitter.com/QuiverCongress/status/156511559981831372...

Nancy Pelosi knew what was coming.

You literally cant make this stuff up lol
I love a good cynical take as much as the next HN reader, but as a researcher working in the environmental/climate space many of us are using these words because the are true. Sure there are some folks I consider full of buzzwords and light on substance but I think it's warranted for scientists to make "inflated" claims to get their research noticed. Yes, there are structural problems in academia and research funding that do need to be fixed, but I'm not sure this shift in language is completely a symptom of it. People are actually dying out there and we are pleading to get funding to try to help.

Just the last couple of weeks:
- Flooding in Pakistan kills 1000+: https://www.vox.com/world/2022/8/30/23327725/pakistan-floodi...

- Ongoing slow disaster in the Colorado River Basin: https://www.npr.org/2022/08/27/1119550028/7-states-and-feder...

- Jackson, MS water crisis: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/us/jackson-water-system-faili...

- Record breaking heat forecasted for CA this coming week: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-31/the-heat...

- Spanish drought destroys harvests: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62707435

- China factories shut down because of heat wave: https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinas-factories-hurt-amid-covi...

- Drought dries up rivers in France: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-river-loire-set...
Explosion in indie animated series. Going to go from $15-$20 million for a season of an animated show (requiring industry buy-in, expectation of profit, etc.) to something 2-3 people can make as a passion project in a year. As with indie games and YouTube channels, a couple of these shows will become cultural gems.

First to market with an easy-onboarding decent-looking AI animation platform will build a self-perpetuating position. Think like Roblox for animators.
not to mention those of us uninterested in seeing their bodies.
Riding your lack of ethics to the top doesn't always work out as planned.
> While the legislation has raised concerns over freedom of speech, the bill’s sponsors said the extensive harm caused by false information required holding incompetent or ill-intentioned doctors accountable.

There was no addressing the actual issue in this statement. If you're arguing an issue falls under free speech, then the response of "OK, but it's really bad" doesn't change the free-ness of the speech.
For reference, I'm expecting windowing behavior in macOS to do exactly what Windows does: when you drag a window to the boundary (edge or corner) of the screen, it should automatically resize to that half or quadrant of the screen.

Monterey doesn't do this out of the box (I don't believe I'm using it wrong- even if there is an unpublished keyboard shortcut to trigger it, I don't have to use such a shortcut in any other WM), and the behavior it does have is severely lacking.

For starters, you have to manually hover over the button hiding the feature to use it, and that button isn't on the edge of a window (worst-case for accessibility, per Fitts' Law). Additionally, its window-arranging features aren't capable of arranging more than 2 windows on the screen (you can't do it by quadrant like you can with other tilers), and it also puts them into full-screen mode so it both hides the menu bar and you can't easily just pull them out of the arrangement like you can with other WMs.

I don't believe there are currently any plans to fix this, and that might be just as well (the term 'Sherlocked' originates from Apple for a very good reason), but the fact that it took them 15 years to come up with a half-assed version of what Windows was doing in 2006 isn't actually that great a look.
I’m not going to read a 43 page paper, but it seems like you’re just promoting FUD here because you don’t want to actually say anything other than to ddos us with 43 page papers.
I like the Philadelphia Experiment version better where it disappeared and reappeared across the world.
That sounds terrifying, sorry that happened to you.
Won’t this just spur investment in alternatives in those markets and backfire?
I recently bought one of these after seeing this post. I had been looking for something along these lines for a few months. So far, I really like the form factor— it’s tiny, but just large enough to type comfortably.

However, it came with a somewhat shady version of Windows 10 installed. Automatic downloads were disabled and other policies were set by “my organization”.
So, I wiped it and installed Pop!_OS with an encrypted drive.

How worried should I be about key loggers/spyware after a full reinstall? I’m debating whether it would be risky to log into my password manager/financial accounts.
There are over 3 billion active Android devices

https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/18/22440813/android-devices-...
They intentionally choose not to.
They actively teach the value of collectivism vs. individualism. When I visited a few years ago I read an article in a local paper that asked high school kids what the biggest danger to Japan was. They replied "individualism".
Or maybe the water level in suez canal has depleted enough that it no longer allows smooth pass through of these giant ships.
i feel uncomfortable when people watch me browsing or worse reading email or the like, but not when coding. especially not when it's colleagues, since it is their project too
Space Engine: Volumetric Accretion Disks
I’m more in agreement with him as opposed to your viewpoint.
FWIW I have a degree in formal logic, and his logic is not “wrong”. I’d very much like to hear how it is. :)
That's a terrible idea. It just pushes us further into the realm of no software ownership. It also makes gaming harder.

The best implementation of Diablo 3 is the Switch version. Works offline. I can play it anywhere, any time without waiting for some network connection. And it supports local multiplayer with other Switch owners who own the game.
This might make sense for performing a "final" build or for very small libraries, but IMO not really for anything beyond that or for any sort of application level codebase. Some of the links in OPs post mention projects and not necessarily libraries, where the amount of code included can increase pretty quickly and tsc is just so so so much slower then using a tool like vite/esbuild/tsx/vitest or similar swc derivatives. I think relying on your IDE for type checking and linting while periodically performing a full typecheck via tsc in CI could be the sweet spot. Not to mention other features like hot reloading, auto re-running tests, etc that these bundlers and tools that utilize them expose for you.

At least for me I think maintaining a tight feedback loop between "make a change" => "verify it works" is important to not be distracted by another task. esbuild taking 100 or so ms while tsc taking 30+ seconds makes a world of difference for that.
Looks intriguing—I certainly hold onto fasteners too long—but “a box idea” isn’t selling it.
As someone who works on performance sensitive code with great regularity. I would note that moore's law has beaten most attempts to be smart on performance for the last ~20+ years. If code is written correctly, with correct algorithms, in a reasonably performant language - no amount of micro-optimization will beat moore's law.
> you might have a romantic impression about what science is and how it works.

Not really. But something which is already bad can still get worse.
I got a great deal on a Canon MF743C (a pretty decent color laser multi-function). MRSP is something like $600 (but in deals can be $400).

A guy on FB marketplace was locally selling one brand new for $250 (and took $175 if I picked up same day), because his dad had one that ran out of toner so the father had just bought a new one. It actually came with the new receipts from Best Buy. Looks like BB upsold on lasers too.

Except, it's a low-end business class laser, and they last forever. This thing is great.
We'd be seeing significantly less concern in the West if the "official" Chinese worldview were more democratic, less authoritarian, more humanistic, and less illiberal.

How long will it take for the emerging Chinese middle class to force changes internally, move up Maslow's hierarchy, and demand freedom of conscience, speech, religion, assembly, press, petition, and privacy? IMO it's a bit of a race between the Chinese middle class' moderating influence and whatever spark (Taiwan?) sends us tumbling to war. Maybe if we can make it 60 more years (2 generations) without a war, the Chinese middle class will pick up some momentum in demanding their rights. That's the larger, longer-term tragedy of Tiananmen Square, that it set this process back decades (again, IMO).
The nginx master process runs as root, but the worker processes don’t. You can set the user those processes in nginx.conf
The primary purpose of a nude beach is not to look at other people naked, but to enjoy being naked yourself.
Considering cheating is practically an Olympics tradition even going back to ancient Greece, I'd guess a TON. Sad but true.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-history-cheat...
Agree with this statement. The problem now becomes not a choice of what to believe, but what you’re told to believe.
Maybe it's not Internet but the camera phones? I mean they are everywhere.
It's not that "I don't like" the plan, it's that the plan is impossible. We don't have anything like the technology required to created a self-sustaining colony on Mars, and we may never have it.

Also, I'm not saying that SpaceX or Tesla are a scam, they are clearly companies that have achieved huge milestones and are producing and selling real products. I'm just saying that he massively over-promises and over-hypes his products, far beyond what other CEOs of actual companies do.

He does sometimes end up over promising so much that he has run afoul of false advertising laws, or very near - particularly with "full self-driving".
> Your valuation of your worth and that of your labor is laughably overinflated and the market is telling you so. Period.

Good luck with that. :)

Everything around you is a product of Intellectual Property.
Your logic is laughably naive.

The market will shift to AI generated nonsense moved by greed and over-optimization. People will reject this en masse.

And there is one big undeniable reason: Human Psychology.
SELinux on CentOS 7+ is basically turnkey. If you’re turning it off you’re doing yourself a disservice.
> I like the Manhattan Project version better where it disappeared and reappeared across the world.

You must mean the Philadelphia Experiment.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Experiment
Have you checked https://github.com/getlago/lago ? Open source billing API for SaaS.

Disclaimer: I am one of the cofounders, but looks like this could really fit your needs, especially as you add more complex logics afterwards: prepaid/offered credits, probably discounts, etc.

Also, if it’s the first time you’re building a billing system, you might want to check this thread about billing nightmares. It seems very simple at first but it becomes messy very fast. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31424450

Happy to help more (whether you use Lago or not!)!
I thought the article touched on an important point: the reluctance to be nude in public is the commodification of bodies (through photography, social media, plastic surgery, porn), where effectively people drawing a line where they did not have to before. I think people are increasingly aware of this in their interactions in public spaces, especially when so much more of our social interactions are up for commodification through social media and the like (even the commodification of sentiment and political issues which is raison detre for many Twitter personalities, journalists and podcast hosts)
This was fun while it lasted! Lightly loaded, it worked great, and provided an introduction to the technology for which I'm grateful.

Sadly, now if you put in a prompt, you are told that the queue has 20-something items in it. OK, that should surely clear in the space of ten minutes. Couple hours later, no update, no images; the ETA countdown has hit zero and reset umpteen times.

I obtained numerous images and kept over 70 fascinating, aptly generated ones.
In other words, California approves Bill to punish not pushing government-sanctioned information. How far away are they from becoming China?
As you can see in Ukraine, Americans love an underdog. If Russia’s nuclear deterrent were any weaker, American soldiers would be fighting in Donetsk and the Harry S. Truman would be in the Black Sea.
Chips are mostly supply limited over the past few years. Economies of scale go away or even decrease once you reach the limits of your production.
In my experience, the clubs cater to a niche. They’re effectively a kink in and of themselves and there’s a very explicit innuendo that sex is to be had on premise. Nude beaches on the other hand are a casual exploration of being clotheless. And while sexuality plays a part, it is not the focus of the experience and is often generally discouraged. I think nude beaches are cultural and thus more prone to the ebb and flow of said culture. Swingers clubs are a fetish and will exist regardless of culture as long as there are people with the kink.
Not to the user, but to the program, it can be expecting some errors as natural outcomes of a certain call, while not expecting others.

“Unexpected error” basically means “I called a function that threw an exception, but didn’t have code in place to catch it, so it hit some toplevel global exception handler that just aborts the whole thing.”
> For everybody or for some people? What is the causal chain?

The study it is based on is from Al Aly [1], who is using a dataset of (mostly elderly, unhealthy) veterans who regularly seek hospital care from the US government hospital system (VA).

It is an older, sicker population, and no, the results aren't generalizable. Moreover, his methods are dubious. I've dug into one of Al Aly's other paper's downthread [2], and the comments cross-apply. He has a bunch of papers using the same dataset and core methods, and they're all pretty bad, but the press loves them. Eric Topol is either ignorant of their problems, doesn't care, or a little of both.

As an editorial aside, Eric Topol really isn't a reliable source of information. He's pretty much on par with Eric Feigl-Ding at this point. He's someone who has surrendered all former scientific credibility to sensationalism. Even if you 100% believe every word in these papers, unless you acknowledge that they're a study of older, sick people, you're sensationalizing the results and misleading the listener.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-022-01689-3

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32671383
The international organization where his country happens to have a permanent seat should decide the fate of the invasion! No need for further study, this is simple politics.
What does Google say about “last day of march 2022”
Where are you seeing your UK claim in the first link? Those look like US - not UK - graphs, showing the trends in the opposite direction.
How about a simple explanation of why it seems palpably absurd to some people that it will not be a dead end?

Consider a teratoma or lab-grown organ. Is grafting or engineering another attached sensory mechanism going to bring it closer to being an ordinary organism?

I think whether capabilities are super- or sub- human is a red herring.

Even a really primitive organism is still taking all of its computational capabilities and outputting, implicitly, decisions in one context that is its perceived reality.

A collection of computation and perception modules does not do this, without something else.

I don't think developing "something else" is obviously impossible or would require magic. But I'm not sure anyone sane would want to create it when it inherently creates unlimited risk of running amok. This is what the LessWrong people are afraid of, aren't they?
hey seriously, i've been grappling with this: what better candidate to be a global variable than a shared cache that otherwise has to be passed through dozens of function calls (which imo adds cognitive load at many places through the stack).
Those are your go to for examples of the US lacking determination and resolve to stand by allies? Sure the US abandoned the South Vietnamese and the Afghan Governments, but only after two decades of military conflict in support of each. A dragged out conflict over Taiwan hurts the CCP the most.
I like the "The Final Countdown" version where the ship goes back in time to WWII.
Unlike the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal is at sea level. If anything, rising sea levels have increased the water level in the canal.
What do you think they are that isn't French or Danish?
That's been avaialbe on iPad and Android tablets for a while now

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-au/game/heroes-of-might-and-magic...
The next step will be attaching one of these AI models to a robot that paints, to create unique physical pieces that will be exhibited in galleries everywhere. Much like there are art styles using recycled garbage, this one will use recycled pixels from its training data.
For all the interesting ways to name an object, see [0]:

man 7 gitrevisions

and for this particular naming "describeOutput"

[0] https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/git-man/gitrevisions.7....