skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Americans should, I think, not be allowed to write fantasy because none of them know fairy tales well enough, and worse, none of them are capable of dry humor. I assume if I watch this Rings of Power show it'll turn out to be written by Joss Whedon and everyone will constantly be quipping at each other and looking at the camera like on The Office.

I'll watch it if the writers room turns out to be staffed by weird old British Catholics though.
> For one thing, preserving the purity of a local ecosystem is not the same thing as preserving the purity of your local human race, but it's not entirely different either.

It is entirely different. We are all the same species. Race is a social construct, and unlike foreign species introduction, the introduction of a wider genetic or cultural pool does not cause an ecosystem collapse.

> Also, the idea that new species "destroy" ecosystems is really flawed. What they do is change ecosystems. With a new species, an area finds a new balance after a while, and life goes on

This is just optics. You could say nuking a city just “changes” it into a desert wasteland instead of destroying it.
Given that many people don't have any symptoms, how do you know that you haven't had it? The latest wave seemed to be very thorough at infecting every last person.
The Shocking Problem That Could End Nuclear Fusion
TLDR; There's not enough Tritium to go around.
Jeremy, thanks for Chitchatter and for bringing this up here. The first feedback I can give you is about the threat model and the associated OPSEC measures mentioned in the README.

Anyone with knowledge of the room UUID can listen to the conversation, even though the presence of the eavesdropper may (or may not) show up in the connected peers' counter. It is of essence to share such UUIDs over a secure channel, or the communication security will be compromised trivially.

It is mentioned in the README the relevance of government level threat actors and email, SMS, Discord, among the possible mediums over which the UUIDs can be shared. Of course this leaves Chitchatter open to be attacked by governments and network operators, who do have access to the phone network(s), email servers, and other platforms involved. It would be best to prefer other out-of-bound channels, or come up with one-time UUIDs generators able to resynchronise and shared among the peers.
Yeah, a little peeved that they called Maniac Mansion a Sierra game
The Expanse is different. Different premise, rules, and stakes compared to other sci-fi on screen. It’s complex. Easing us into the story could have taken a whole season.

Instead, they dumped as much of the setting as possible into those first few episodes. We learn so much about the players, cultures, technologies, physics, histories, economies, even languages, etc. It’s exhausting. So much detail! Go back and watch. But then when the Donnager battle hits, you get it, and the payoff is huge.

I don’t think the writing is bad. I think they had to rush the setting-onboarding to get to the good parts of the story, to create excitement, to better their chances of justifying additional seasons, all within the constraints of their budget. I think the writing is excellent in hindsight.
We're about to experience sovereign debt crisis caused by Europe energy crisis
There's a podcast interview you should listen to where Peter Attia interviews Gerald Shulman (MD, PhD) about the mechanisms underlying diabetes. Shulman clearly implicates excessive intramyocellular lipids (which diets high in saturated fat increase) as the culprit, and Attia, former keto zealot, does basically nothing to dispute this, presumably because he can't. It's pretty damning for the low-carb dogma, which I confess to having been at least somewhat taken in by:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5291812/

(I never did keto or paleo, but I did harbor an irrational fear of carbs years. Today I still eat animal products in moderation, but I absolutely try to keep it as low in SFA as I can.)
On the other hand, users are idiots.

"Hammer was not able to turn my screw. I don't know what this is for"

"THIS THING IS BAD I WNT MY MONEY BACK"
Author might be interested in a recent thing I released to use a cloudflare worker instead of webtorrent servers for signaling:

https://github.com/gfodor/p2pcf
It wasn't really primarily about the generals. It was mostly about the captains (who are YOUNG) and soliders. It was the movies, not the books, that made LOTR a powerful tool for DoD. They didn't just know about it. It was an organizing piece of ideology and shared identity. Any analogy or metaphor that made reference was more likely to be funded.

> Naming a government contractor Palantir is a joke on whoever did it of course, since the palantirs destroyed everyone who tried to use them.

Sometimes trolls are all in on the same joke.
Commercial fishing at sea should be banned IMHO.

It's unsustainable, and even if quotas could make it sustainable, they are all but unenforceable.
I've found fake chicken is pretty good for curries, etc.

However, I mostly just care about environmental footprint, and chicken is already pretty good on that front.
There are a few different models at play: surround sound like 5.1, 7.1, ambisonics and the 7.1.4 Atmos static bed; and object-based where mono point source sounds are attached to a location. The former traditional models can be interpreted as individual objects positioned at the speaker locations and folded down to stereo passing through the HRTF that way. It’s a mixed signal so it really is at the end of the chain. For object-based, those are more precisely located but have other downsides (e.g. they break our mixing concepts for things like compression and reverb) and each object would need to be upmixed to binaural stereo through the HRTF.

Higher order ambisonics strikes a pretty good balance in terms of spatial resolution while still being a mixed signal. You can then pair it with objects for specific highlights. Atmos is a 7.1.4 static bed plus dynamic objects, so similar idea. In either case, most of these 3D sound systems support very few dynamic objects. For example, Windows Sonic only supports 15 dynamic objects on Xbox:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/coreaudio/spa...
Be forewarned that (to the best of my knowledge) they haven't, and likely don't intend, to document the sqlite structure. The contents in the sqlite file seems to mirror the api responses from their new rest apis, so their Burp analyzer (https://github.com/1Password/burp-1password-session-analyzer...) may help matters, as will the absolutely essential reading (https://darthnull.org/inside-1password/) along with its code (https://github.com/dschuetz/1password#readme) and I just found this while digging up those other links: https://github.com/mickaelperrin/onepassword-local-search/bl...
Critics, aka online blog journalists, are paid to generate content. The goal of that is to get you to click on it to look at an ad, either by getting you angry at it or just by producing tons of it so you'll read it all.

Complimenting people doesn't come into it - who do you think is going to pay them for that? Amazon's not going to block them from watching the show.
9 Kings of Men fell to the power of the Dark Lord. What is a steward who can’t even love his children equally going to do that they couldn’t?
Rapid retreat of Thwaites Glacier in the pre-satellite era
> Note that these instructions are neither documented nor supported by Apple.

What does that mean? Someone pointed out below Apple ships accelerate framework as a higher level supported mechanism to use these instructions?

Intel/AMD have been always good at documenting most of their stuff so perhaps we will see proper supported ones whenever Intel ships it.
This article argues for it.

"The most commonly-used word in English might only have three letters – but it packs a punch."

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200109-is-this-the-mos...

It makes sense since "The" imbues importance to any word. A word gets power in people's mind once "The" is used.
I enjoyed the 2016 ghostbusters, in particular McKinnon and Hemsworth. I can see someone involved trying to justify the lackluster economic performance.
Yeah hunting is not in the same moral landscape as some of the Texas wild hog "hunts".

A lot of people are drawn to it because it involves shooting semi automatics at fleeing pigs from a helicopter, without even gathering the meat.

Killing an animal for meat/hide/oil or as part of a cull is in a different universe from gleefully shooting at them as a form of entertainment.
Interesting point. I guess the issue with these countries is that their energy reserves are simply used to enrich the state and a small elite, instead of being shared widely with their citizens.
The HN comment threads above indicate there's a fair amount of vitriol.
In case you are curious why would Ukraine shell own plant https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-official-tells-inspec...

People wondered why the grass around the plant was burning for the last month, and then this leaked out https://theins.ru/en/news/254677
I think a lot of it was the network file system issue I mentioned -- the shell felt slow, and I suspect it was because of a network disk. I can't be sure, but I think that is a significant difference between Dreamhost and NearlyFreeSpeech.

Also at that point I had used Dreamhost for ~10 years, so I was just more comfortable with it. I like how my files are in ~/oilshell.org and my logs are in ~/logs/oilshell.org. If I had started with NearlyFreeSpeech I'm sure it would have been fine

IIRC the reason I tried it was because I was looking for FastCGI support (i.e. non-PHP dynamic sites that you don't have to maintain a daemon for)

I don't quite remember, but I think they did have some FastCGI support, but it wasn't quite what I wanted, or maybe the Python version was different, etc. It looks like a great service, but I don't currently use it
As a dream scenario, yes. It's a reasonable goal.

MRIs vary widely in cost and that cost will continue to fall. We'll get monthly scans within our lifetimes.
Are you willing to pick up a gun to find out what a company is paying for a job? I'd sure like to see that!
Somehow that's worse. Is it really that hard to call someone "they"? Please excuse my bluntness, but this is an English language construct that's existed since Beowulf (an epic poem that predates even Middle English). Saying '[edited out "he"]' looks like you are invalidating my own view of my identity. I have to deal with enough of this already. Why do you feel you need to add to the pile? What have I done to deserve such treatment?
The Last Jedi was not panned by the populace for being too highbrow, quite the opposite.
There's still a "web server" in front of those files that speaks HTTP and delivers those files. An extremely simple one, but it still exists.

What they're proposing is cutting out the "speaks HTTP" part in favor of entirely pre-recorded responses. Whether you think that's feasible or not depends on where you draw the line in the sand, but it can certainly be easier to implement than nginx.
Why does everything good have to become a fucking turf war?

Seriously. I grew up absolutely loving the hobbit. Imagine my shock when in 9th grade I came across this huge red book in the school library that I realized was the sequel to one of my favorite books ever.

It wasn't until years later that I ever realized this trilogy was so popular. I'm old enough that the internet wasn't really a thing back then.

Fast forward to now and I'm having to read about someone using guilt by association (oh snap, MILITARY people like Tolkien!?!?!?!) to decry the author and his work.

I mean, of all the things to give that much shit about, Tolkien? Just let it go and find something useful to worry about.
I mean, you could view any story as a "recitation of facts" if you're really determined to take that point of view, but I don't think it's at all fair to dismiss the Silmarillion that way.

It's true that the first 50 pages or so are pretty much just worldbuilding, mainly focusing on the mythology behind the creation of the world (Arda) by Iluvatar and the various demigods. After that, you start getting into the details of what the elves did upon waking up as the first quasi-"mortal" inhabitants of Arda, and the subsequent eras of history. Some of it is painted in broad strokes, but there are plenty of chapters that zoom in on specific characters and their heroic and evil deeds, personal conflicts, betrayals, hubris and other tragic flaws, etc.

Sure, the style of the prose is a bit dry, but there's plenty of drama to be had in the story.

Wikipedia has a pretty good summary of the overall plot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silmarillion#Synopsis
Withdrawals frozen at crypto mining firm Poolin amid 'liquidity problems'
My wife and I went vegetarian just over two years ago. Cold turkey, so to speak. I was very surprised to not miss the sensory experience of eating meat. Texture, color, and to a lesser extent smell and flavor. For a while I think I chased it a bit out of habit, but as I began to incorporate other sources of protein in to my diet, the desire for those meat-like qualities quickly faded.

Tofu is probably what most omnivores know as a common vegetarian protein replacement (at least this was the case for me). Tofu is okay. Not my favorite, but very flexible and easy to come by. Seitan is my current go-to protein, composed primarily of vital wheat gluten, and it’s proving more versatile than tofu. Kind of expensive to buy off-the-shelf, but extraordinarily cheap to make yourself, and you can season and prepare it to your liking. Unfortunately not an option for someone with celiac disease. Plenty of tutorials/recipes on youtube.

Textured vegetable protein, commonly known as TVP, is next on my list to start experimenting with. I’m sure there even more options I haven’t explored. Honestly, since removing meat from my diet the variety of foods I eat has exploded and I’m kind of excited about being in the kitchen again trying new things.
Delaying the effect of human actions seems like a great idea in general. Humans tend to get angry and do/write something they would either regret later or something that hurts others.

Even if the reviews aren't verified, simply confirming with the poster a few days later whether they want to make changes before making it public may reduce the number of rash remarks.
There are other reasons why people would be paid less, other than race and gender, but when aggregated might appear to show bias.

Imagine that there is a company that is entirely fair and pays people solely based on their seniority at that company. Currently, that company only has employees of race/gender combination A, with various tenures. If a new employee of race/gender combination B joins the company, the employer will look as if they're underpaying race/gender combination B, even though race/gender combination A and B would be paid the same, given the same seniority.

Because the aggregation discards useful information that would explain the disparity, it can induce in error. There are also other effects such as Simpson's paradox [0] that show disparity when data is aggregated, but has a different effect direction when analyzed in more detail.

Reporting this information is an improvement over no reporting, but I'm not particularly optimistic that it will always be looked at with the proper statistical background to interpret it correctly.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox
Lessons Learned from Implementing “Wave Function Collapse”
i can't speak to what happened with Ghostbusters 2016 but before watching I checked the metacritic user reviews for LOTR:ROP and there was blatant "review bombing" if that's the right term, where it was so blatantly obvious that a large proportion of the 0/10 reviews were manufactured by one person. (they made the exact same points, and had ~100 users supporting that review, whereas genuine appearing reviews rating 2-8 had at most ~5 users supporting a review)
> I have yet to understand why it is “racist” to explicitly prefer one race over another

Then I’m not really sure you’re getting the core concept?
You can’t parent something that is everywhere else in society unless you homeschool your kids and I’m not going to do that.
If one has been working remotely, gotten everything delivered, and not spent any time out and about since January it's reasonable to assume that they never caught it. Little to no contact with outsiders means little to no chance of contracting it.
This feels different though.

(a) Most of the angry people haven't even watched (!) the few episodes (!!) that are out.

(b) I'm not sure most of the outraged are Tolkien fans. It honestly feels more like dog piling / mob hysteria.

When did we become consumers of visual media where "I don't like it, and I haven't and won't watch it" is a valid position to publicly kvetch about?
Because it breaks with how we always imagined Tolkien's world to look.
Shouldn't this rule applying to everything instead of just the amazon one's ?
can you please share the objective metrics for quality ?
Culling is not the issue. The passion is.

You don't need to be any of the things you mentioned to understand the problem with killing for entertainment.
No, I’m very insistent on not working late, almost ever. I know the velocity isn’t bullshit because having been a developer for years I know the estimates are reasonable. I also had a 100% retention rate on my team this year with a sizable team and my company paying salaries only a little bit above average.
This is the mostly thoughtfully written review I've seen in a while, thanks.

I fight against the purists all of the time, and creators should be able to make whatever they want, that said, it stink when they just make something 'generic' where it's 'themed' as the source material but really isn't.

$500M in production but can't just hire some writers and people to make it at least 'true to the spirit' of the material.

I mean, they could set LOTR in Compton/Hollywood Hills if they wanted to and it might still work (!) but when it's 'generic' it's really sad.
Aside from the great sibling observation, I'll pile onto that by pointing out they seem to have truncated the URL for their LGPL repo citation

IANAL-either but my mental model is that one should not "blaze trails" in making up licenses. I find it does not pass the straight-face test that no other license in the known world captures the author's intentions, so they had to make one up on the fly, typos and all
I think Devlin Henney complains several times about story points per week being a graph that plots time on both axes, which does not make any sense at all.

It’s predominantly recording point inflation over time.
An Optimistic Comment on Eliezer Yudkowsky’s AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities
Butnernote.com could be a good way to share the room URL over generally insecure channels. After MVP, maybe an ephemeral room link could be created using the code from burnernote to save a step.
there is a youtube channel (or several) dedicated to killing iguanas in south florida...it's basically a sporting channel, justified by the fact that these lizards are invasive in florida...here is one such channel:
https://www.youtube.com/c/TheIguanaHunter/videos
Ah, this continues to be good feedback. Thanks for continuing to hash it out with me! I see I made it sound like there were a lot of moving parts in my argument for why our incentives aren't so perverse. I don't think that's the case! In particular, I don't think my argument relies on what kind of people we are. I mean, it relies on us not turning totally evil and myopic, but that's true of any company. If we started effectively wrongly charging you, you'd cry foul and quit.

I'm worried I'm not really grokking your underlying argument though. Maybe it just feels gross to have this kind of setup with a third party as opposed to doing it with friends. That's the kind of thing I can't argue with so if it's something like that we can leave it at that. Thanks again for helping me think through how to convey our pitch for the general non-perverseness of it in any case.
The problem is, what typically happens is an author writes an original story and then it's "extended" by filming a completely unrelated off the shelf plot with some of the names changed and lore added. If something isn't a Hollywood hero's journey it's going to be one now. Scouring of the Shire would've been a lot more original than any new material we're getting here.

Though American TV has improved a lot since the time they had directors of making sure none of the protagonists were women.
This is super smart. I've been working on a pet project that requires a VFS, and I ended up with a FUSE impl for Linux (and macOS if so inclined) and a userspace (specifically, JVM) NFSv4 impl :D Really excited to throw out some code.
Environment is one of the factors for my preference for fake meats, but the much bigger factor is the ethical one. Both at the fundamental level of “killing an animal for food is bad” and the larger “modern animal farming is monstrous and inflicts incalculable suffering”.

I still enjoy a burger and I can do that relatively guilt free. Totally worth it for me.

Also, this space is still very young so I expect it to improve dramatically over the coming years. Which is a great aspect about fake meats. They are a technology that can evolve and improve a great deal. Technological development with regular meat appears to result in worse treatment for animals, not a direction I want to support.
I'd recommend giving tempeh a try. I like that it has a more substantial texture than tofu and it soaks up flavor really nicely.
> automation will kick in which will make the workers worse off

*temporarily

The history of humanity is one of automation improving the quality of life for everyone.
To keep things simple, I'll only keep three data sources: products, news, and technical data. Three unrelated data sources are sufficient to highlight the problem.
I'm using Python and Flask in the demo, but the underlying technology is unimportant because BFF is an architectural pattern.
The starting point is a monolith. The monolith provides an endpoint for each data source as well as a unified aggregation endpoint for all of them.
have you looked at amazon product reviews recently ? while this particular approach (locking reviews at the outset) may not be the best approach, i would LOVE to see companies put some more effort into combating review "fraud" either by verifying watch time or restricting reviews per ip including captcha etc etc the exact same stuff that any social media platform needs to do to combat spam because for me personally reviews on the internet have lost almost all value as they no longer represent a collection of human opinions where each person gets only one review
The fact that I can avoid harm by leaving the place where I otherwise want to be doesn’t mean that the person causing harm bears no responsibility. This is known in my he literature as the “Bart Simpson I’m just walking towards you swinging my arms defense”.

It also doesn’t change the fact that I am annoyed that I have to leave the area I otherwise desired to be in when someone else decides to smoke.

In most of the US smoking near the entrance to a public building is in fact illegal.

If I am waiting under an awning for an Uber in the rain and you decide to light up, you are an obnoxious, asshole, scofflaw who is actively harming me. Despite the fact that I choose to accept that harm rather than stand in the damn rain.
>Of course, but I think a threat to kill someone with a bomb is unambiguously threatening and intimidating

The "bomb threat" was posted by a recently-created and otherwise inactive account, immediately flagged by multiple users, and deleted by a moderator within minutes. The user who posted it was immediately banned. It was also clearly unserious.

https://archive.ph/damIX