skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's also coherent in between seasons, since it was pre-planned as a 5-season show spanning exactly 5 years on the Babylon 5 station.

Though the 5th season is weak, because the show was threatened with cancellation. IIRC, each season had an "major plot" and a "minor plot." To adapt to the cancellation threat, they crammed the season 4 and 5 "major plots" into season 4 (IIRC defeat the Shadows, liberate Earth), leaving season 5 with two "minor plots." The season 5 finale was originally shot as part of season 4, but delayed when the show was renewed.
What an overly polite article. Kaczynski would not approve.
I'm glad I read this comment. I had conversations with people who used "skin in the game" and "intellectual yet idiot" constantly, but I always had other books on my to-read list. The added context sheds some light.
I've lived here for close to a decade and was stunned by the reaction from the press. Even the NHK (which is a well known LDP mouthpiece) started covering the Unification Church angle early on. People like to bash the state of journalism here but I think this shows it to be worthy of more credit.
You can also use a firecracker runner in k8s to wrap each container in a VM for high isolation and security.
DreamOnLittleDreamer
I'm very offended you are generalizing the distinct five regions of Mexico.

Or should I be offended you are generalizing Oaxaca as a singular region?

When does a pile of sand become a beach?
Grandma is probably more than happy with her familiar experience and rather the iphone son user who loves his iPhone but hates the limitations of having to send SMS essentially with his grandmother. So in this scenarios Tim saying son should by an android would make more sense as he’d be able to learn a new system easily than her presumably or them both having to use a separate less ideal app just to communicate with each other. If they both preferred signal or such they would use it but even in that case the rest of their friends and fam would still be using another app. So just get person an iphone isn’t realistic especially if some have to use one or the other since work pays for phone or such.
As I replied to the comment, it's about having a filesystem that scales from floppy disks to hard drives. This is quite important for hobby OSes.
I love the kitchen-sink and batteries included of Angular. It made our small team very productive on large projects. But I really dislike the separated component files convention. On the other hand, I love React single components but hate having to shop-around and piece together every basic platform feature.
You will find more direct evidence and reporting on the KCIA's ties. At the time South Korea was a dictatorship propped up by the US. Not a big leap to go from the KCIA to the CIA.

Wikipedia is a potential starting point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church

Here's a Washington Post article linked by Wikipedia, House Subcommittee's Report Links Rev. Moon to the KCIA (1977)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/08/05/h...

New York Times covered it too.
https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/16/archives/unification-chur...

Please post any specific materials you find useful. Apologies for not having good links/books at the ready.

Journalist Tim Shorrock posted (https://twitter.com/TimothyS/status/1558478761615626241), "Speaking of the Unification Church ... has anyone else noticed how US media coverage of Abe's assassination stopped the instant that the Japanese media began uncovering the unsavory ties between LDP, Abe, and the Moonies? Nothing about this event in the US press. Zilch."

Sounds like the recent Japanese press might be a good place to look.
I don't think you can treat phytoplankton as having this singular property of O2 production. The ocean and its food chain is a complex system.
Historically, the immortals on MUDs used to optimize for thing like "fun" and "clout" - how much do you enjoy interacting with the players and being seen as the person in charge of their game? How much do you enjoy telling people you volunteer your time to work on it?

If WSB members were doing bad stuff like, making mean jokes about the leadership of companies Ryan Cohen divests from in; or coordinating real-life harassment of family members of employees of the Depository Trust Company or something; you'd probably want to put a stop to that and focus them somewhere else. Because it wouldn't be fun.

If Fox News interviewed you and you sounded silly and all the community members got mad at you, you'd probably also quit the volunteer job.

But as long as you make choices that make the community a fun and engaging place to hang out and feel like you're part of a big secret treasure hunt, that seems awesome, and you would probably want to make choices that maximize that.

TBH most MUDs were not data-driven and kinda govern by feeling -- they'd sort of add steering they thought was interesting and keep it in place unless there's a backlash. The tedious administrative stuff (bans, moderation, player requests for item reimbursement) would always have a backlog and you'd recruit junior imms to help out and they would feel like they were part of the fun too.
Got bitten by this this morning trying to run a `clj` Clojure command, nearly ten years after this piece was written.
VMs can have private networks between each other just as containers do. That's pretty much what EC2 is about.
Mesh Shading for Vulkan
I don't understand why people don't base their apps and frameworks off of standard browser and JS supported techniques like custom elements and template literals with tag functions like Lit. Is this fragmentation really still serving a purpose or just legacy support for choices like JSX that were made in the past when these standards weren't available yet?
Last I checked even their "smart" folders synchronization was broke. I've never had a good experience with OWA and find Microsoft constantly crippling or breaking products which somehow seems to also make their users some of the most Stockholm syndromed people I've ever dealt with.
Google Easter Egg
There is a grove of red pine near where I grew up that was planted row on row about 15 feet apart. These trees are 70+ years old but most of them are only 7-8 inches in diameter. The floor of this grove is just red with pine needles, nothing else can grow and any animals are just passing through.

Whenever I hear about planting trees for "carbon sequestration", I immediately remember walking through that forest and thinking how quiet and dead it felt.
I think if you comingle inventory (SMS messages and iMessages) and don't make that very clear to your users (Apple wants to do the opposite, to make it feel seamless), you have some obligation to not mess up the user experience on other people's devices. So I guess since then.
Imagine if 50% of US lawmakers had deep intimate connections with the Mormons or Scientologists.
I think we need some kind of sales tax for large corps that makes it too expensive to be that big.
Bitcoin is the ideal alternative. It was designed to be exactly that. Crypto, on the other hand, is to Bitcoin what Herbalife is to healthy food.

In terms of details, Bitcoin is straightforward. It can be boiled down to: instead of obscuring the system we use globally for exchanging value—leaving it prone to manipulation and corruption—Bitcoin makes this system trustless (meaning you don't have to take someone's word for it), transparent, and accessible to anyone, without limits, allowing them to transact globally.

The reason most ignore Bitcoin is because the very people that run the existing system have the ability to push propaganda against it. The two favorites being:

1. It's bad for the climate (ignoring the existing system's required infrastructure which makes Bitcoin look like a hippie commune).

2. It doesn't have enough transaction capacity (ignoring or being oblivious to the Lightning Network/off-chain settlement).

There is no technical reason that Bitcoin can't work; it's purely a problem of perception and operant conditioning.
Why does the state make it that restaurants don't pay waiters enough? There is no obligation to only pay the minimum wage. Some countries in Europe don't even have a minimum wage at all and there's still no tipping culture like the USA. It really is just something that's considered normal in the US and bizarre everywhere else.
Fantastic policy, would love to see it elsewhere
Saying no is overrated.

I mean, of course, it's a good thing to know when to say no, if used parsimoniously.

The problem is that we now have zillions of wannabee Steve Jobs who believe saying no to everything automatically makes them brilliant visionaries.
When you click through to the page, I don't see what MalwareBytes could be concerned about. It's a pretty simple page.
I am renting my apartment in Switzerland, where split AC installations are prohibitively expensive ($3000 or more for a single unit) and usually forbidden by landlords.
You can even buy reddit accounts that are aged(>1 year for like 5 dollars)
Central Register of Foreigners: Almost Three Million Refugees in Germany
Summary:

The author argues that the popular productivity advice to "eat frogs" (i.e. do the things you don't want to do first) is based on a false premise, that humans are naturally lazy and gluttonous.

This false premise leads to a lot of unnecessary suffering, as people try to force themselves to do things they don't actually enjoy.
German €9 transit ticket would be even more effective, if they didn't mandate wearing masks in public transport.

I know many people that previously used public transport, and now use cars exclusively, only because they don't have desire to wear masks during the commute.
Yeah, it was quite tiring for the agents and strained the infrastructure, but they now have solid data on the effect of such policy, and can now plan how to incorporate the policy completely, or find a middle ground, and adjust the infrastructure accordingly.
Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20220905084011/https://www.suedd...
I get your point and agree with you from a user perspective... but from a customer support perspective, why?

YOU want help, if you can't be bothered to sit attentively to receive it, why should I send you text messages?
Fun product, I can see myself using it.

A feature request - I’d like to be able to adjust the time frame. Things like basketball shoes move a lot year to year, and it can be hard to find ones from 18 months ago.
This claim was already discussed, and arguably refuted[1] a week ago.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32659581
At point is the image distorted when you bend it? I always had an issue with that with curved monitors. Is there such a thing as bending calibration? Am I looking at an accurate image if I bend it?
All your confidential data in one place
> May turn off some other devices over night, but as they're all energy saving they probably won't make much difference.

I've seen some iffy advice for adding smart plugs to everything (in at least one case in an article sponsored by a smart device manufacturer, go figure, though that fact was not exactly clear in the headline or main text). It is one of those things where the maths often doesn't work out: will that media player or microwave on standby really consume significantly more power than the smart-plug with built-in wireless (and the alexa/google/other hub to control it if needed)? And would it not be just as easy to flick the switch yourself given you won't need to use it remotely?

I am adding smart plugs to some things, but for convenience (that “being to lazy to physically go to the switch and press it” factor) more than power saving.
Nice one ;-)
Show HN: A serverless alternative backed by Terraform
After years of fighting against serverless.com and cloudformation problems, I finally decided to take matter into my own hands and make a Terraform backed replacement for it.
In the process of making it, something potentially way bigger came out of it, so I built it in 2 parts: a programmable syntax manipulation engine: https://github.com/Plenituz/barbe and a list of template that use that engine to help with serverless projects: https://github.com/Plenituz/barbe-serverless

Looking forward to some feedback, thanks for taking a look!
I wouldn't put USPS and Amtrak on any list of "best organizations" but they do have a somewhat different structure than, say, the Department of Agriculture.

If I can play devil's advocate for a moment: there are some businesses (passenger rail, universal postal system) that are not attractive to any private entity unless they're heavily subsidized. Nonetheless, there's a public interest in providing them.

As for SpaceX: the tech boom's brought us some people with billions at their disposal, and space exploration IS within reach for them. I don't think there was anyone in the 60s with the money and the inclination to do that.
> But I can confirm Loab exists in multiple image-generation AI models

Or they're lying and this is just a stunt to generate buzz.
tonnes of carbon per hectare is not relevant.

What you need is tonnes of carbon per hectare per year.

We don't have enough space to let these plants be there, we need to convert them into coal and throw it back into the mines.
I agree the other benefits justify it independent of the CO2 picture. But given the headline, the cost effectiveness wrt CO2 would be a good perspective to have as well, and to evaluate this aspect you can just divide it like that.

Trains are so fixed cost heavy that I think it would always be worth it to price them for maximum utilization of capacity. It probably makes sense to subsidize them this way for that reason. The marginal cost of more passangers is so small.
Bay Area Elizabeth Holmes wannabe faces up to 65 years in prison for fraud
I don't think always that's a good thing. Every ecosystem I've seen that happen in has just bred an army of lazy developers who rely on libraries for basically everything.
I think the human race is about 100x closer to cheap electricity storage than we are to building a useful fusion plant.
What are some examples of equities to look at?
It's time to upscale FSR 2 even further: Meet FSR 2.1
And the owner of one of the largest investment firms in the world.
> France has been into nuclear for a long time but hasn't actually built a single new reactor in over 2 decades. The newest reactor running at the moment they have went online in 2002.

> (Yes I know they have the fancy new EPR reactor under construction in Flamanville but that is not ready yet)

Wikipedia says: In December 2007, construction of the unit itself began. This was expected to last 54 months, with commissioning planned for 2012

They've been building that specific reactor for nearly 2 decades, so it's not for lack of trying and rather puts a different spin on their lack of nuclear at the moment.
White House Report: Climate and Energy Implications of Crypto-Assets [pdf]
"this is necessary for building truly data driven apps".

So where should we try to draw the line at what is truly the kind of "app" that deserves this much JavaScript, versus a "glorified website" that management wants to see lots of interactivity/animations/etc.?

In my career, I've struggled far less with choosing a JavaScript framework for front-end interactivity, and far more with justifying how much JavaScript goes into Web experiences these days, without any concern for the end-user performance impact or other impacts that may not be as obvious, e.g. accessibility.
The Burden of an Open Source Maintainer
This program was made to help the German people with the rising price of fuel for the Russian war. Not to cut the emissions, this is only a consequence.
C doesn't have the abstraction abilities of languages like C++ while Zig does, thanks to this feature. This is more than an exponential increase in expressivity (i.e. there are Zig programs that would take exponentially more code in C).
Cannabis is typically grown with all males removed prior to pollination (aka sinsemilla), so this scenario isn't likely to exist.

This must be tongue in cheek, as even if there are grows with that scenario, that it being a "business idea" is questionable from the start.
It's way worse than you think. Central banking is a Marxist invention, he was all for it. It's not coincidence that many globalists today worship his ideas and have Lenin's busts in their offices (e.g. Klaus Schwab does). Listen to Audiobooks and podcasts of/with Robert Kiyosaki, he talks about it in great detail. The goal of communism is one-world govt, you have to have central banking system for that to be in place.
By state misdeeds I mean labor camp, concentration centers and war crimes, etc.

Very few private companies in history could have enough power to be able to commit crimes against humanity.
Pagan gods are still gods.
Fair, given the 36.8mil of revenue for Globalstar, the annual deal for apple is going to be around that number, actual pocket change.

I do disagree however, that global satellite coverage is a commoditised service just yet.
Following some stuff from that person, I came across this, a post trying to replicate Loab with various prompts. Shows visually what might be going on. https://twitter.com/chrysopoetics/status/1567673870433546242
Perennial grasses are a great option for CO2 capture, and one that has been removed across large areas of the Midwest for farms and pastures. But I don't know if it would perform better in poor soil?
> We need a framework that will not tie components and libs to itself, so they can be used with other frameworks or with plain ts as well.

That's why I wish web components would see greater adoption. Having worked through jQuery, Backbone, Sencha ExtJS, AngularJs, Angular 2 and React over the course of a 15 year career, It's frustrating when you can't switch frameworks because the cost to rewrite your existing components trumps the potential efficiencies of adopting a new set of design patterns and affordances.
This:

>a repeated event that carries non-zero probability for an adverse effect increases the cumulative probability of said adverse effect when it recurs.

is true by logical necessity. It doesn't need peer-review citation because is it's a synthetic apriori proposition (and also straight out of Probability 101, which unsurprisingly you haven't attended/understood), it's not an empirical claim depending on data.

I would say "learn to read with comprehension" but I fear it's not possible.

>posting medical misinformation

Very rich coming from a person literally reposting conspiracy talking points off from antivax twitter.
Something else to be mindful of when reading about economics is that the more centrist, middle of the road, technocrat type of stuff that underpins modern economies tends to not be all that loud on the internet, whereas you get people endorsing more fringe, absolutist theories who make a lot of noise.
It's the Holy Roman Empire of modern times.
Your money is someone else's debt. It's more correct to say money is credit.
No, but many engineering managers are. The key is not to be one, or work for one.
https://www.whoi.edu/fileserver.do?id=24744&pt=2&p=28442 is specifically on the deliberate introduction of iron into the ocean ecology to stimulate plankton growth.
I wasn’t ‘railing’ against anyone. I understand profit.

Please reconsider your comment if you would like me to engage in any meaningful exchange with you.
this was my first thought. Bendable technology doesn't just mean curved viewing, it has some really cool pratical uses like this roll-y up thing. You could also imagine one from the ceiling like a garage door. No more wall mounted TVs plz
No, while Snyk did make it hard for SEO, I changed it from Synk so that I could do more than that idea in the long run.

My goal is to create a platform for tabletop games, not just synchronize audio.
You are looking at minified output there; of course nobody writes that.

You can see the compiler output in the "JS output" tab here, it's very easy to follow: https://svelte.dev/repl/12aefec27f0d4ec5ad85ab7e5a123642?ver...
Dumb phone won't solve your addiction, it's more like giving an addict clean needles.
I'm still waiting for a web extension that sends a copy of the webpage I'm looking at (for more than 1 minute) to an endpoint I specify along with some metadata like the URL and user-agent. Obviously, block certain domains like banks or email.

I'd like something to build up a searchable index of everything I've read recently so I can easily find content again yet this is NOT something I want a 3rd party to do. I want to self-host something like a tiny Go or Rust server that only uses 10mb of ram to index all the pages into an embed rocks/level/badger/etc. database.
Ironic. Correctness is indeed a curse on the few.
> The nonsense words of someone who really wants to be the creator of the next big creepypasta.

It took them about 24 hours to come up with a merch store[1] for this character, too.

[1] https://twitter.com/supercomposite/status/156756520182584525...
If you do not like it and have tried getting used to it for 2 years, you might want to consider selling it on ebay. Used EZs are seemingly keeping a lot of their resale value.
Maybe big ass fans, even.
> the reason "engagement" is the metric is because that's what platforms monetize

...and the implication of that is that if we change the monetization model, then the metrics also change.

For a company selling a paid product, metrics become things like the effectiveness of the sales funnel, how much support the average user requires, the rating of the product on app stores, etc - which are not ideal, but still far better than "engagement".
I mean, they might have modified the midjourney code to patch out the error message. Presumably the programmers put the check in because results for negative weight sums become nonsensical, not because it's impossible.

Thinking in terms of classifiers, an image is almost never categorized as exactly 0% something, instead it's a positive value. Negative weights would make the net optimize for the smallest possible percentage. For the birthday cake, the negative weight is not strong enough to favor any "anti-autumn-landscape" patterns, only to remove features associated with autumn landscapes. But for weights that are all negative, it's plausible that the system will produce all the features that, in the training data, are anticorrelated with the prompt.
If the goal is to reduce CO2 emissions, why not tax CO2 emissions?

Shouldn't the market work it out in the best possible way then?
Or maybe businesses see more of a need for causal reasoning, with or without a controlled, randomized experiment. If you're making a decision, you need to have some model of how your decision affects outcomes you care about. But that model needs to be causal--predictive models can be useful starting points but may also lead you astray due to spurious correlations.

Economists are trained to approach these kinds of problems methodically, so it makes total sense to me that there is high demand.
Just to be clear:

> “I can't confirm or deny which model it is for various reasons unfortunately! But I can confirm Loab exists in multiple image-generation AI models,” Supercomposite told Motherboard.

this is almost certainly a creepypasta which Vice is for some reporting as if it is real.

He probably found a creepy picture and then started using it as a seed or something like that.