skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've received seemingly hand-written "thank you/please buy more" notes from Soylent. Given the source, I have always suspected that they are an automated "forgery" in some sense. I wouldn't be surprised if they are truly hand-written, but it is interesting that I just can't accept them the same way as I do a hand-written note from, let's say, a local shop or a charity.

(I don't recommend Soylent, I just use it sometimes when I'm feeling mildly self-destructive and not feeling like eating healthy food, so it's my occasional "harm reduction" alternative to getting fast-food or trash processed food)
IMO exploration of complex semantics and/or libraries is quite often a bit futile exercise without appropriate boilerplate/scaffolding.

Which means ultimately, a good REPL is an advanced debugger with code sideloading and reloading/monkeypatching. Running in isolation (in context of the REPL, not the attached-to program) would be awesome, but not trivial (if possible at all) in many cases.

To illustrate, suppose you have some network service (an API in todays talk) and want to play with some form of middleware or new endpoints. You need functional boilerplate to encode, sign, send a request and receive, decode, parse a response. You want to load those parts of the program and play around.
Netflix settles ‘Queen’s Gambit’ defamation suit
The other commenter mentioning reddit is probably right that it is closer to HN. All my writer friends use vocal.media though if you want to check that out
> That said, a hydrogen gas station exploded near me, so yeah. There's definitely challenges, and it shouldn't be used where it doesn't make sense.

Why did this happen, out of curiosity? Do you have a linked source?
I recommend you take a look at co2.js. This was just mentioned in the latest issue of branch magazine (https://branch.climateaction.tech/issues/issue-4/co2js/) and I haven't played with it myself yet. Code is linked from the article but also https://github.com/thegreenwebfoundation/co2.js/
I have a document on my bookshelf a few feet from here comparing the 386 to the 486 for space mission purposes. Its core conclusion was that the 486 on-die cache was not spaceworthy and that with it disabled integer math was not really faster than on the 386. The recommendation was to use the 386+387+plus an external cache, partly because compilers for the 486 all optimized for that internal cache and compiled code poorly with it disabled, even if adding external cache. Putting computers in space is not a simple thing, of course. Such documents as this point out some of the difficulties.

"Analysis of the Intel 386 and i486 microprocessors for the Space Station Freedom Data Management System"
Yuan-Kwai Liu
NASA
May, 1991
RTOP 488-51-01
ISBN 9781729173374
https://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/analysis-intel-386-and-...
Short version: Website that tracks the salacious details of internet celebrities' lives appears to have crossed a celebrity who is very interested in having that information erased from the public.

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Long version:

Kiwifarms is a site dedicated to discussing the affairs of famous people. Often, this goes as far as public records searches and weird internet sleuthing to find addresses and other such information that is usually considered private. The odd thing about kiwifarms is that it is organized so that individuals have a single thread, which is essentially a record of all the past information and rumors on that person in one convenient place.

There are disputed reports about Kiwifarms being instrumental in the harassment of 3 individuals to the point of them committing suicide, and people on kiwifarms have taken pictures outside of people's houses, etc. Lots of creepy behavior. Threats of violence have also appeared on the site, but are against its ToS and the owner of kiwifarms claims that they get moderated pretty quickly - whether they do is up for debate. It's mostly a center for sharing creepy levels of information and bitching about famous people, particularly when those people do weird things. Critics of kiwifarms believe that they are a center of information gathering (and thus coordination) for harassers.

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One notable individual, who uses the online handle "Keffals," did not like the content of their KF thread. Keffals is a transformation who has engaged in some behavior that is at best borderline, including sending hormones to kids without their parents knowing and running a discord server ("the catboy ranch") that involved prurient contact with minors. Keffals has also done several embarrassing things online, such as producing pornography and participating in internet drama.

Keffals was served with a search warrant recently, presumably regarding the former activities. At least one armed officer came to their house, but no guns were drawn, and Keffals' devices were seized. After the search warrant was served, Keffals erroneously claimed that someone from Kiwifarms had swatted them (and later walked back the claim), and then said that they were being threatened to the point of running from Canada (weirdly to countries with no extradition treaty), and started a campaign to get the site taken down. A gofundme was put up, also.

In response, people on Kiwifarms stepped up the creepiness, finding the hotel that Keffals was staying at in Ireland based on one picture of the bedsheets, ordering pizzas to the hotel, taking pictures outside the hotel, etc. Keffals later went to some other location, and I believe is not posting pictures any more.

During this time, several bomb threats and threats of violence against Keffals and the people who support Keffals also appeared on their kiwifarms thread. Also, people from kiwifarms tried to get the gofundme taken down.

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IMO the whole situation looks really bad for everyone involved. Two groups of internet trolls went to war. One side had a lot of institutional/media backing.
Even crazier, there was a time where someone proposed running at least one copper pair to every home just so people could talk to each other over long distances. Two wires per home! That's impossible.
Do you believe that being on the Internet Archive is a god-given right and that only a judge should be able to tell IA to delete the work that IA chooses to do on their own?

If you're a shithead in a club, you get kicked out. If you're a shithead with your family, you get kicked out. If you're a shithead on the internet, you also get kicked out.
By the looks of it they also rely on oversizing the columns and beams to achieve fire retardation.
Show HN: Follow-up “With a 9-5 job and 2 kids I finally finished my first MVP”
Hello HN Crowd
Original Post one year ago : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28320346

Last year I have submitted a "Show HN" post that got my MVP thousands of visits and a ton of valuable feedback. I have decided to continue on my projet and to release it as a product.

I finally made it https://postoptions.app

It is a Live Options scanner that can extract profitable trading opportunities in (pseudo) real time.

Why I have created this product?

I have created the product to solve a personal need finding reliable option screeners that analyse live option data and not intraday data. At this stage I'm satisfied with the value-added since I'm personally using the product to profitably occasionally trade iron-condors.

What technology stack is used?

The stack I used is from frontend to backend : React, Laravel, c# .Net Core app running on Ubuntu, and Hetzner+OVH for hosting. Stripe as a payment processor, Tradier as Market Data provider (I have signed an agreement with them to not get doomed by OPRA)

Where are you going from here?

My goal is to get my first paying customer. Then I plan to add some major features: - Expand to more financial products (Stocks, European Options....) - Add more data points such as different price patterns and measures - Add a desktop application to build automated trading bots with a backtest engine - Add scanner alerts - Incorporate Tradier Auth into subscription plans. (Sigh, If I only had the time...)

Looking forward to you feedback and comments.
Most social interaction is best when it is a win-win for both parties, not manipulation for status.

However there is a visible minority that is about exploitation.
Besides the legal issues, isn’t there also a technical problem? Facebook is potentially storing the same information multiple times, or missing opportunities, because a engineer did know that some data was available.

I guess storage is cheap enough, but even for Facebook, being able to save say 10% on storage must mean something.
I was about three years behind wallawe’s reply.

The technical parts are fun…the core thing for us was that it was actually written by a real pen. The difference between a print and real writing is obvious to most people, so we wanted it to be believable.

Our system used a set of handwritten fonts, along with a bunch of “fuzzing” of line height, line direction, and character swap outs. This created an SVG path that a robot used to trace with a pen.

The hardware and margins were what killed us. As wallawe noted, there’s still a lot of manual labor that goes into a system like this, even if the writing is automated. Envelope stuffing and card-envelope matching are big problems.

Its not a super competitive market yet, but the margins on what could be charged per card were pretty low, especially factoring in paper costs and labor costs.
> No, "diet and exercise" is not the only recommendation.

What else is there though? I consulted many physicians for my hyperlipidemia and all of them suggested 'diet and exercise' as the only solution. It is the only thing that worked for me.

yes 'not all' high cholesterol can be managed by lifestyle modifications( eg: your genetics might predispose you to high cholesterol.
Do you know how much of healthcare spend goes to to the exceptions you are talking about. I certainly couldn't find any data about this, not sure why.

> Hypertension? Being older than 65 is a cause.

Yes we don't know the cause but we do know the fix even if you are over 65.

AHA recommendation

https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/high-blood-pressure/c...
I bet you're wrong on both claims.

Not everyone enjoys living in a human zoo, dude. Really.

There are people who actually enjoy (e.g.) having a yard for the kids to play in that's not full of dog (or human) feces and used hypodermic needles.
It doesn't in any way rely on exchanges.
Just because we like something doesn't mean we should do it

I'm sure there are plenty of people who would like to use cocaine every day
Because it's a necessary but not sufficient condition. You can't store fat if you don't get enough calories, but many people don't store fat at the same rate others do for the same overage.
> Still not a natural energy source, fusion as envisioned requires D+T fusion, not extracted from hydrogen gas but from seawater and lithium irradiation.

You can fuse hydrogen, too. It's 'just' harder.

> Hydrogen gas is not naturally occurring on Earth, so by definition it cannot be a "natural" energy source. It's an intermediate product.

Not quite sure anything would count as 'natural' in that sense. Almost everything is processed in some way. I thought the problem was with 'energy source', not with 'natural'.
E=mc^2

Calorie-in vs calorie-out, or mass-in vs mass-out is really the same thing in the end.
Ya the way he responds saying a full team would be needed to uncover this sounds like he was treating "where" holistically. Every bit of information in every server, application, etc. Feels like a trained response.
> You're also forgetting the countless screenshots and other documentation that exists of KF from prior controversial incidents.

Screenshots are not a trustworthy medium. Many of the articles published about Kiwi Farms contain significant factual errors and rarely cite sources for the claims they do make.

For example, the CBC recently published an article claiming that the Christchurch shooter "revealed his intentions (on Kiwi Farms) hours before carrying out the attack".

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/kiwi-farms-online-forum-1.6565...

If you read articles from 2019 it was claimed that the gunman posted on 8chan shortly before the massacre. The claim that he posted on Kiwi Farms hours before is completely new and unsubstantiated.
This might be somewhat accurate for personal computing, but business computing will continue to be done with desktops and laptops for decades. Windows itself is mainly dominant because of its dominance at an enterprise level.
I totally believe this. I often get coffee delivered, and some baristas write a little "Thanks!" Or "Have a great day, Om!" or "Enjoy your coffee, Om!" on the paper bag, and it always makes me feel like 'Oh nice, they care!'.
VSMTP 1.3 Is Out
Today we released vSMTP 1.3.0! vSMTP is an MTA server that is fast, safe and easy to configure. It comes with a scripting language used to define complex email filtering rules.

This version add DMARC policy, MySQL plugin, aarch64 and Debian 11.4 support.

Feel free to follow the project on our github page !
Sure not, but when was it the case in capitalism? It is an illusion to think this kind of thing is reserved to marketing
The IA can easily switch visibility of sites in the archive on or off and the most common case is when somebody changes their robots.txt settings. No data is lost. You don't really believe they would be unwilling to comply with a subpoena for information from a prosecutor investigating Kiwi Farms, or an attorney seeking damages in a civil suit, or whatever, do you?
Sexual harrassment is not the same thing as being crude or vulgar.
That doesn’t do what the FooIF functions do: take a range, evaluate a user specified function on each of its cells, and then call Foo on the cells for which the function returns true.

Yes, you can create new cells that compute the Boolean, then use IF to populate a new range with the values that pass the test, and then call Foo on the new range, but avoiding such ‘pollution’ of spreadsheets is the whole reason these functions exist.
The idea that the police cared or were going to do shit is laughable. As is the idea that we should keep KF online for that purpose.

> But now they got away free.

That was always going to happen. Keeping them/old content online was never going to change that. Our "justice" system is horribly broken.
Planetary heist: Astronomers show stars can steal Jupiter-sized planets
Isn't parent star flare star stripping atmosphere from any planet in habitable zone?
This is something I'm really hoping will take off when electrified trucks become more common. With an electric truck you have an enormous amount of power ready to go for having something like a bed-mounted CNC in the back.

The next phase for something like this--to bring more utility--is to make a CNC with an automatic feeder and ejector. That way you could put a stack of 4x8ft plywood in one side and get finished parts out the other end. Presumably at the speed at which a worker can take the finished part, install it, and come back for the next one.

The first use I'd imagine for something like that would be custom crown molding, drywall with electrical and plumbing holes pre-cut, perfectly-sized shims and frames for anything and everything, turning regular floor boards into snap-lock flooring, shelving and cabinetry, and other housing materials that could be made on-site if it were not for the complexity/detail.
I'm afraid you're the one not getting it. The passion, and the deed go hand in hand. It is hard work to cultivate and maintain something against encroachment by Nature. Anyone that tells you there is no satisfaction gained from securing the safety of their environment from an intrusive force is either lying to you, or deluding themselves.

Death wish, and its management is all a weird part of being alive, and in fact, it's channeling into productive active activity instead of straight up warfare is crucial to peaceful coexistence. It's one of the few things Freud may have actually kind of gotten right, tbqh. Heidigger calls it angst, and it's central to the concept of care, and by extension, to the act of Being.

It takes time to become comfortable with.
I like handwritten thank you notes. Especially when they are from a small shop, include some message like "enjoy!", often from one of the owners, and they don't offer me anything else. No promo, no discount, just a thank you.

It feels human. I like it.

So of course there's now some kind of marketing scheme trying to deprive it of its soul and see if it can be automated and optimized for.
>> switch automobiles from ICE to EVs

How soon before we have electrical grids capable of handling all the people charging their cars at the same time?

This was five days ago - are we putting the horse before the cart right now?

The announcement by the California Independent System Operator (Cal ISO) on Wednesday asking California residents not to charge their electric vehicles during peak hours to help conserve electricity continued to face backlash on Thursday, due to the state approving a ban on the sale of new gas powered vehicles by 2035 only a week earlier.

At the same time, the power supply in California has been in a state of constant flux due to the same 2045 policy removing oil, gas, and coal plants at a rate faster than wind, solar, hydro, and other renewable sources of energy can replace them. On Thursday, a huge 9% loss of energy in 2025 was averted by the legislature passing a bill saving Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Station for several more years as a bridge to help meet power needs in the state.

https://californiaglobe.com/articles/california-backlash-ove...
IPython is probably the most rounded out, but if you want to see some functions it does not have, you can try BPython[1].

[1] https://www.bpython-interpreter.org/
Since no one is making anyone pay those, those aren’t ‘real’ costs. I could throw a couple more on there too, doesn’t change the economics any.
Kind of serves as a good example of "single central conspiracy" versus "many actors given common cause to act in a certain way" ways of thought. It's easy to imagine Zuckerberg going to work every day and laughing maniacally as he personally shepherds your stolen conversation with friends yesterday about your experiences with laundry detergents into The Facebook Info Vault and then personally uses that information to send you ads about Tide laundry detergent, but what Facebook really is by sheer necessity is a whole bunch of agents operating with their own goals. The end result is a massive machine that turns privacy violations into money, but there isn't necessarily a single place where the bad thing happens. In fact you could conceivably be taken on a tour of the system and agree that every individual component is acceptable, or that the vast bulk of them are OK and there's only a single-digit number out of thousands that are problematic.

Nobody could possibly manage Facebook as a centralized single entity, but it's hard to imagine it any other way from the outside.
I looked at handwrite.io when I was getting started…impressive!

Sounds like y’all made it further than we did, so congratulations. :)

Totally agree on margins. I vowed to skip physical products on my next effort (moneyhabitshq.com).
Palmer Archipelago Penguins Data in the Palmerpenguins R Package
Note how everything you categorize as 'high-impact' is basically politics.

"Rather than focus on delivering results (which again is difficult(!), might be wrong, and often not easily identified by leadership), these people spend time making alliances and crafting narratives about outcomes instead of delivering. Title acquisition becomes the goal, seeking to maximize the expected organizational rewards, at the expense of direct results, all while working to minimize accountability."
I think we agree like 80% of the way, but that our disagreement is that I believe a political action is necessary to bring about the culture shift we're discussing, whereas you seem to believe that consumers can demand it in the marketplace. But I do agree that this movement is a nascent potential that seems to be developing and that it may well be realized.

I think there's an widely held conception, which comes from orthodox economics, that consumers demand something and then businesses respond to give them what they want. But I think that's wrong in a subtle but important way; it neglects the ability of business interests to shape what consumers demand.

For instance, I believe Facebook's pivot to Meta was precipitated by Apple's privacy update which limited FB's ability to conduct surveillance on iPhone. Presumably they feel it's an existential liability to rely on their competitor's platforms, because should a privacy-focused arms race break out between Apple and Google, it could destroy FB's ability to monetize their service. So they looked at the resources at their disposal, came up with a path forward which would result in the outcome they desired, and set about trying to convince the public they wanted a metaverse. This is a particularly ham-fisted effort, which makes it a good illustration, but I believe this is a more subtle element of many products. The key element here is that Facebook decided what product would best serve their interests, and tried to synthesize a demand, rather than responding to an organic demand for a metaverse.

This is why I don't think it's sufficient for consumers to simply change their behavior. Consumers cannot put options on the table; they can only express interests and hope they are fulfilled. Additionally business interests can collude much more easily than consumers, as there are fewer of them and their interests are better aligned. Consumers can demand nonhostile products, but at best they'll get differently-hostile products which address some of their concerns while innovating bold new ways to undermine the consumer. Something like, we've stopped shipping DRM with games because we know you don't like it, but we've also moved to a games-as-a-service model where you can't play without connecting to our servers, so we've actually ended up with even more control over your ability to play. It's sort of like a chess game where black has two rows of pawns. The only winning move is to change what game you're playing.

> Then we should use a less general word than "technology".

When it comes to language, I'm a descriptivist. I neither agree nor disagree that this is a bad word choice, my only claim is about what people mean. A framing you may appreciate more is, swapping "technology" for "the social institution of technology" (I think "Big Tech" isn't quite right to swap in, as it excludes, say, technology used by the government or intelligence agencies) is the steel man of the argument, and we ought to consider the merits of the stronger version of the argument and avoid arguing about the semantics of words.
Even then, we'll still need to use the same language as our colleagues. Can you imagine the headache of trying to have a conversation about the code if each programmer is looking at a different translation of the algorithm?
I guess by doing it for inappropriate amounts of time during my youth just gave me that confidence. Also I mostly debugged random problems in random stuff, so that increased my range of confidence.

Of course I've seen people who could pull out the same without having that much time. I respect and admire them.
Most of the "engineering managers" I've had to work under have been utter bullshit. Didn't learn anything from them (technically or in regards to leadership) and were there merely to check a box, play babysitter and/or sit in meetings all day that had zero impact on our work streams.

The few who did have impact (1) were skilled engineers in their own right and were able to translate that into more management, (2) understood that managing down is much more important than managing up and (3) knew how to say "no" to upper management effectively. Those are very few and far in-between imo.
And here's another tip: exercise is for after you get in shape, it is not in order to get in shape. You get in shape by eating only beef. Then after you're in shape you will want to exercise.