skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is relevant information. IMO the secondary consequences of buying a product are important to discussions of that product: e.g. effects on the environment, climate, labor conditions, human rights and society.

Closer to this thread: Any discussion of a MyPillow product is incomplete without a mention that part of the purchase price might go into undermining democracy in the US.

The parent's argument seems similar: the founder/owner participates a hindu-supremacist organization known as the RSS, which has been implicated in religious violence; part of what you pay for a Zoho subscription may therefore go into funding these activities.

p.s. perhaps the parent could explain it better: the link is broken for me on Firerox, perhaps use a non-AMP URL?
New Orleans even being able to continue existing at all is due to the Army Corps Of Engineers. The Old River Control Structure keeps it from flooding too hard, and a LOT of resources go into keeping the river along its current route so that NOLA can continue as the premier port for the mid-west to import and export from/to the world.
Honestly, just tax land.
Given the size of the armed forces, assigning some percentage to domestic infrastructure seems like a fantastically good idea.
Yeah, it's possible to install v8 or spidermonkey shells and use them to run code - we use them to run parts of the .NET wasm test suite - but they have a bunch of arbitrary limitations, so if you're trying to emulate a browser I'm not sure I'd bet on them. It's certainly going to be easier than a C++ embedding, so it makes sense that they took that route.

Another option is to use node, but it also has weird limitations/behaviors when running code.
So our intention is to not go back into the office at all. Or to hang outside of work.

looking at things that make work fun as "useless info" is a pretty bleak way to live life. I enjoy knowing that my co-worker is a soccer fan. So, after the weekend I can talk to him about the game. That doesn't mean I don't have other friends to talk soccer with. But talking to a co-worker about it makes work fun. It also builds great relationships which is always dependable in the corporate world.

"Fit into company" isn't an American thing haha. As you said, everyone changes and you are still there. So, lets say you join a new company tomorrow. Wouldn't it be great to know what similar interests you share with your new team from day 1? It makes it easier to get to know them, start work and even gives most people the confidence to ask difficult questions. Thats what fitting into a company fast looks like. It also increases productivity for the new people because they have fit in faster.
Ask HN: Is AI generated artwork my artwork?
I've been generating images with AI for a while. First with Nightcafe Studio, then Disco Diffusion, and eventually settling down with Midjourney. I love the images I generate from MJ, especially after I've figured out the techniques.

For context, I can spend hours generating a single image that I like, continuously refining my prompts and word weights, stylization, composition, and so on. It certainly takes skill, but obviously very different from drawing the entire thing myself (which I can't).

I liked one of my recent images so much that I decided to post it publicly on an online forum for the first time. The response I got was very polarized. Among the standouts were: "stop claiming AI artwork to be your artwork, unless you made the AI that generated it." I disagree, obviously, but it got me thinking. What do you folks think?

I think that the democratization of art through AI is revolutionary, but I don't think we've figured out how we treat the ownership of artwork from AI yet. It learns to make images much the same way artists learn from other artists, but does that count?
Very cool, I'll have to remember that this exists! Looks useful.
Had some fun with this. I used fireprox[0] to grab a ton of AWS IPs, and some proxy vendors for some other random ranges. Sadly my ASN has only /24s in disparate ranges so it wouldn’t make a dent for most of them.

[0] https://github.com/ustayready/fireprox
Ofc this depends on the industry, people in infrastructure for example prefer battle tested tools so breaking into the market is harder and requires a significant investment. Same with game engines, people don't write them these days.
> My impression is that when it comes to Rust, some of the arguments in extreme favor of rust (Rust protects you from everything) and also against Rust (Rust is useless because the compiler uses LLVM, which is C++) IMO both stem from mistakes in how the safety story is taught.

I see this, and I agree that rust evangelists often go way too far and motte & bailey in arguments about safety. These arguments are safe to ignore. More importantly, if you engage with that class of argument; there's no winning. You certainly won't convince them of a thing, but you risk looking the fool. Keep your head up and talk about the many merits of Zig.
I have no idea how these people think that size has a relation to meaning.
PM2.5 can come from any kind of combustion engine. It also comes from rubber-road contact, among other sources.

Even as the technology improves with decades of R&D, it’s inevitable that fine particulate matter results and potentially enters our bloodstream.

https://www.epa.gov/pm-pollution/particulate-matter-pm-basic...
But seems like ads matter.
Ne star is the largest tv station owner in USA. I’m guessing the business model is consolidating everything onto as few back end setups as possible:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexstar_Media_Group
A histogram of how many books sold a determined amount last year would be better to explain what the article means.
I actually read their book that they produced about mental models. It was interesting, but I wish there were games or behaviors that allowed me to actually use the models taught
VMs and LXC and occasionally some docker. Modern hardware is powerful enough that overhead is a non-issue for most of these apps

Generally your just serving a single user - you - so even potato grade gear is fine
I can't fathom what this has over kroki, plantuml, or diagrams.py, mermaid
Relevant tweet:

>A massive step backwards for the industry. :(

https://twitter.com/pcwalton/status/1568306598795431936?s=46...

:(
I purchased new construction once. They were putting up a thousand cookie cutter houses like ours in that neighborhood. And even that estimate missed the mark by more than 3 months. Even estimating building the same floor plan the hundredth time is hard!

Now imagine, you are tasked with building a house with no floor plan. You have to procure some materials last minute, and at least two of the materials you must create from raw materials. Occasionally, you have to remove structural parts of the house to account for changes to the requirements. Someone built their own power tool instead of using the out of the box nail gun, which injured a fellow worker and required replacement of drywall. The crew had a holiday, then it rained, then a shipment of materials was delayed. After your electrician recovered from the stomach flu, he was unable to wire the house for ceiling fans -- a late stage increase in scope from the customer -- because one of the workers wanted to learn a new technique for framing for the block and wire, which he read about on hacker news. When the construction is 95% complete, the boss asks the crew to go ahead and start on another build. Another month elapses, and the home is nearly done. Your office contacts the customer to schedule closing, only to discover that the customer changed their mind and got an apartment 6 months ago. All is not lost, however: your boss receives a bonus for a job well done, which he thanks you for. Good job! A few months later the home is found to be in violation of a recently ratified law making smart homes illegal in the county, but no one involved in its construction works there anymore so they'll each likely repeat the mistake at least once more.
on the plus side, let's hope this drives a significant enough portion of traffic to things like peertube, odysee, archive, self-hosted vids etc, to create the required network effect that will make them viable alternatives.
I really like Aldi's dark chocolate (cheaper variety), but it seems a bit sweeter and smoother than most (which some don't care for).

I need to avoid sugar, so I have been adding unsweetened cocoa powder to my coffee for the health benefit, so I haven't had them for a while.
Switzerland comes to mind. Very high gun ownership rate, much lower gun violence/death rate.

Edit: One might also point to the UK, Canada, and Australia, but that wouldn’t be a fair comparison due to how heavily firearms are restricted in those countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Switzer...
Which is also the reason why a $100/ton carbon tax won't raise the price of a laptop that currently causes 0.3 t to be emitted by $30: Some of the components will (somewhere along the value chain!) be replaced with less carbon intensive alternatives that were just slightly too expensive to be worth bothering with. That's how carbon taxes achieve most of their benefit - not by shifting consumption or pricing consumers out!

The above numbers are realistic examples for the magnitude of carbon taxes typically discussed and the manufacturing carbon footprint of a laptop, btw.
I appreciate the humility here. For the record, I'm not immediately concerned about the Zig community; my comment above is more of an elaboration on why such behavior can be offputting.
This is great. You highlighted a path for how to fit into a company in our current culture.

How about all that leg work wasn't needed?

I wanna run a hypothetical scenario by you. Lets say you are a fan of the new Game of Thrones: House of the Dragon fan. There is a platform only within your company that you can see which other coworkers you connect with that are also a fan of this big show. Lets say 8 outta 10 people in your team watches the show. So, meetings become more interesting because now you can talk about this immediately.

Now add tons and tons of other topics that you might have in common with your team. Instead of waiting months and years to find out your co-worker of 2 years also loves Tennis, you can know it now, talk about it now, and socially have a better dynamic now.

What do you think of a platform that already does the legwork for you? To bring the teams closer and connect more people based on what they love.
I considered testing out whether spoofing was blocked on Vultrs network, but too lazy.
U.S. Army Professional Reading List [pdf]
No, because there are likely so many trackers embedded, with nobody really knowing where they are, that they'd basically have to engineer an entirely new site.

The fixed engineering cost is the problem here.
My wife and I make road trips here from fort fun. As a jaded old guy it's pretty fun to have such a thing put a smile on my face. Highly recommended if you are a local or traveling to CO.
"Until Linux, UNIX didn't even run on PCs at all, only expensive proprietary hardware"

Not true. There was Xenix, SCO, and Coherent as 3 examples off the top of my head.
This appears to share lineage with Umbrel. I haven't looked deeply enough to make any particular claims, but I feel fairly confident that one of these projects is violating someone's copyright.

For an example, compare https://github.com/meienberger/runtipi/blob/master/scripts/a... with https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/blob/master/scripts/app.
I assume you're referring to the Old River Control Structure?

I know it's a controversial project, but the alternative -- to let the Mississippi divert itself away from New Orleans and Baton Rouge -- would be an unthinkable economic (and social) catastrophe. So I don't think it can be chalked up to mere incompetence.

(Yes, I know and agree that the ORCS has been environmentally destructive. But what's a workable alternative?)
> Isn't China exploiting the same way? Wasn't USSR exploiting the same way?

Neither of those are green, degrowth systems like the one described in the article. Sure, you can say no true Scotsman, but it's a fundamentally different framework.

>I asked for a metric, not for emotions. Same people were living beyond poverty and dying of hunger 100 years ago. Now a small fraction of those are committing suicide.

Do you have a metric for that? Because it's true that a lot of people were lifted out of poverty in the past 100 years.

However, three quarters of that happened in China, which is explicitly not Capitalist. [0] To call this a triumph of Capitalism is cynical propaganda.

> Did it get drastically better in the last 100 years? Absolutely.

It did. But not because of Capitalism, despite it. The one country that made a difference self-defines as Socialist.

[0] https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2022/04/01/l...
Empty offices are becoming apartments in Texas’s big cities
I see the opposite as an equally big problem: bad messaging creates Rust haters who occasionally try to interact with the Zig community, lowering the quality of the community experience if not pushed away. That's another thing that I've been doing and thus fueling my annoyance towards bad messaging around safety.
California cities should take note.
That's all true however that doesn't mean photography created compassion.

In context of the hugely transformative society of 19th century Europe and America, it is more likely that the emergence of the bourgeoisie and more generally a middle class who, unlike the aristocracy, did not consider the worst off people as suffering the lot allotted to them by God or providence, gave rise to expressions of compassion, equality, etc.. It may even be that thoughts along the lines of "by the grace of god there go I" stirred compassion in their hearts. [Photography then simply was a tool to communicate these thoughts and ideas.]

(edit)

p.s. I also found the assertion about photography and painting rather shaky. They didn't have photographs when this man was painting:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20140826-the-time-travel...
Compare: the percentage of gun purchases that result in ending a human life; the percentage of abortion service purchases that result in ending a human life.
I don’t believe that shrinking themselves is required for a correction and even to that extent the governments in the west at least have shrunk themselves several times by removing or reducing regulatory agencies
I think all these approaches should be looked at. It's not obvious to me that farming algae to sequester carbon would be cheaper/easier per ton of CO2 removed than farming duckweed or azolla.
It was a read-only page of zeroes.
Object-Oriented Software Engineering is the title of Jacobson's 1992 book describing a reduced tool-less version of Objectory that was referred to as OOSE. ISBN 0-201-54435-0

To this day I still use OOSE notation when sketching a design, I alwas thought UML was a step down.
Marvel has become worse these days, it peaked at Infinity War, then a slow decline since then. I'm looking forward to a franchise or a movie that's entertaining as the first Star Wars trilogy.

That being said, if you like the story you'd really appreciate the movie RRR. I was pleasantly surprised when I went there without any expectation.
Yup!

I’ve been on Reddit basically daily for 15 plus years…

I only use old.reddit with RES and UBO and I never see ads…

And my Information density this way is so much more enjoyable than anything the new shitty reddit can show!

New reddit is worse than new DIGG was.

But they are trying really hard to fuck up the UX via their new UI…
IMO, the best way to do this is to provide multimethods to give you both polymorphism while letting the compiler know how objects are laid out.
unless you count the fast mobile chip year over year for the last decade, developed and designed in-house
I definitely remember a time when you could refer to Apple computers as Fischer-Price machines and most people would find it an apt comparison.

That time seems behind us, except for the particularly salty FSF warriors.
The SMS content blocker API gives that plaintext access. It doesn't work like the browser content blocking API.
> "Lies, damned lies, and statistics"

There's a good book on this called "Damned Lies and Statistics" that I recommend to people.[1,2]

[1]: https://archive.org/details/damnedliesstatis00best

[2]: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520274709/damned-lies-and-s...
I don't think Frank Herbert can take credit for the imagery in Villeneuve's Dune, even though he came up with the text prompts. He gets full credit for the text prompts, though!
I think your point was fair. I don't intend to bend to every single outraged comment on social media, but my ultimate interest is to experience (and contribute to) the best that computer science has to offer. Humility is a small price to pay for that as otherwise it's impossible to recognize one's own mistakes.
Practice more. Speed comes with experience.
It used to be that Addison-Wesley was the unrivaled king of CS publishing. If you saw the AW logo on the cover, you knew it was gonna be a rock solid book. Sadly, at some point they seem to have slacked off on their standards a bit, and now it looks like they play second fiddle to O'Reilly. (I don't know if at present there's much of an advantage in quality either way.)
They just don't want to use any external dependencies... There is also an AES implementation: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/master/youtube_d...
Trolling is unwelcome here.
Usually to be a regular on HN you're in the startup/web world in some fashion.

I guess there's people out there who like to complain about stuff they don't use?
Gunpowder based nail guns for putting nails into concrete are definitely a thing.

Additionally you can use certain attachments or rounds with guns for breaching doors. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaching_round
The real sauce was on the [Dead] comments on the HN post about her death
All I can say is, it doesn’t make much sense to form your opinion about a programming language based on Twitter drama.
It appears you didn't read the article. Argentinians literally don't care about Bitcoin or Ethereum or any other cryptocurrency of the week. They only care about USD and that means they hold USDT or TRON and they often hold them on Binance.

Bitcoin is as much of a danger as gold, in other words not much.

Read this article https://dankradfeist.de/ethereum/2021/09/27/store-of-value-f...

Gold is easily outperformed by the S&P 500 in both volatility and returns. Is it a threat to the USD? No, people investing in stocks is good for the US. But people don't get crazy ideas like pricing everything with in S&P shares.
I'm not hip to the slang. What's a "coomer"?
Source spoofing wouldn't get you far enough into the connection to make the claim and BGP hijacking is prevented on Vultr (you have to file a ROA and update RPKI before they'll accept the advertisement).
UIs have trended toward flat minimalist utilitarianism while everything under the hood has trended toward bloated web UIs built on 20mb of JavaScript or apps larded up with spyware and gratuitous telemetry.

Simpler UI, gratuitous complexity beneath.
It’s worth noting that this isn’t a merely academic musing. The connection has profound implications on our society and economies:

“Another EPA study of the Clean Air Act36 found that a more complete accounting of health care costs would lead to greater reductions in the annual costs of respiratory and cardiovascular hospitalizations by up to $488 million for respiratory and $809 million for cardiovascular hospitalizations (in 2006 dollars).”[1]

Those costs are now worth well over $1 billion in 2022 dollars. If invested, that would alone pay for transformative amounts of renewable energy. What if instead of fintech bros piling their millions into the next get-rich-quick crypto scheme, we could think of ways to invest prior to chronic yet foreseeable health conditions? Some long-term investments for a cleaner and healthier future.

1-https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.00081
Part of me thinks it's just the media trying to manufacture conflict and rage for more clicks.

Somehow we have accepted the idea that showing up when you are supposed to and doing the tasks you are required to is not "doing your job" but rather "quiet quitting

I agree that the notion is ridiculous. Ridiculous to the point where it looks like bait.
Youtube-dl is impressive. This particular hack is not.
One solution one be to use our service called Hoppy. It provides a public IP even if you are behind a NAT using WireGuard. Plus you get an entire /56 IPv6!

https://hoppy.network
I feel like this is a good time to plug Bot Net as a Service vendors like https://brightdata.com/
> But if nothing else, we can assume that there's less money in politics because campaigns are less expensive.

I don't think this is self-evident even for money, if the money is simply being spent in ways that can't be tallied.

It's even less assured for all undue influence, including insider networks of non-financial favor-trading – as you note in your (fairly cynical!) observation that "the key to becoming French president is basically being friends with Xavier Niel".

Is that really tangibly better than overt, measurable money influence from many competing sources?

It's possible the low (above-board) spending totals are really a negative indicator: evidence that a de-facto cartel has enough levers to repel challenges without explicit cash outlays. When spending on wages seems suspiciously low, as with American college athletes or French IT workers, it's not a sure sign evil money has been kept out of a lily-pure process, but rather that insufficient competition has kept all the real money/power with secure incumbents.

I am not an expert on French politics, but from the outside it seems just as protetive of traditional elite/insider interests as politics elsewhere. Maybe more so!
What bank? Every US bank requires phone-based 2fa so far as I know

I bought a YubiKey a few years ago, and was extremely disappointed to find that there are only a tiny number of important services that actually support it without requiring insecure SMS as a backdoor
Yeah, was going to post Nethack if no one else had. It’s so well written, I think even people who’ve never seen C before could understand what was going on.
Hard money made the Romans very interested in conquering gold and silver bearing territory.
You dropped “from a technological standpoint” from the parent comment. Removing words from a sentence changes the meaning.
> I also noticed for people born after 1995 there are 18% identify themselves as non-binary these days, I wonder this is also from the same cause

I wonder about this too. We have a lot more PFAS chemicals in our environments (and bodies) these days and they are known to be endocrine disruptors. It seems plausible that these could be affecting sexual development/identity.
Apparently, I can't edit my comment after a period of time, but I just found this comment in the YC library

https://www.ycombinator.com/library/4A-a-guide-to-seed-fundr...

> Do not spend too much time developing diligence documents for a seed round. If an investor is asking for too much due diligence or financials, they are almost certainly someone to avoid. You will probably want an executive summary and a slide deck you can walk investors through and, potentially, leave behind so VCs can show to other partners.
In that case I’ve never failed. This is not a value judgement around my work or what I deliver. Only that I’ve never had a thing with which I couldn’t figure it out and deliver it (eventually)
Our history is different. Since our government is made of us, and not an alien body of rulers, they are also not THE root problem.

Unfortunately I don't think there is a single, tidy reason like "the government", or "public spending", "printing money", etc. Those who sell those simple solutions have vested interests in that narrative.