skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again. The point is a reductio ad absurdum on exponential growth.

Exponential growth in a static environment is impossible. This is provable.

With that conclusion ironclad you no longer get to tapdance around the point. Which is that we must end reliance on growth.

There are other much sooner limits. Thermal forcing becomes as important as GHG forcing within a century, for example. Similarly you can't assert light water reactors as a solution (including idiotic ideas like making depleted fuel permanently unavailable) because there is not enough uranium to maintain exponential growth for more tha 80 years or so at 3% burnup.

Without exponentially increasing energy you don't get exponentially increasing resource extraction.

'The pie will grow exponentially fast forever so it doesn't matter that I'm stealing an exponentially larger share of it' is a lie.

There are enough resources for everyone to thrive, we just have to stop giving them to liars as a reward for already having some.
>Are you just going to ignore it? Would you expect some security to remove that person so that you and others can have a peaceful funeral?

Having someone removed for being loud and obnoxious is a much different thing than being arrested and potentially incarcerated for same.
Theres a handy extension called sponsor block that skips sponsored content (and other non relevant content if you wish) from videos.

If you have both adblock and sponsorblock you can pretty much have a completely ad-free experience.

But at that point, is it fair to the creators? I guess as long as not enough people are aware then it's not a problem; though obviously not a solution.

In reality, the whole "creator economy" that's based on using the creators influence to sell products (which btw are almost always unrelated to what the creator actually does) seems to me like a problematic way of finding art and content.
Is there anything like this but for fiber optic?
> Lately HN feels more like a bunch of lawyers quibbling over semantics...

There is no semantics challenge in a random coming at someone out of the blue with accusations of being a liar. The only lawyering involved is determining if it would represent libel or slander.
Funny. You could kill a company with too much money because they hired people they now need to spend time to manage. Instead if doing the thing.
Men actually do benefit from soft affirmative action in college admissions because of this disparity.

You can look this up for yourself, but here's one source[0]. Men are admitted at a higher rate, with worse grades and test scores, by selective universities that want to make sure they have a "balanced" class of undergraduates.

[0] https://www.ivywise.com/ivywise-knowledgebase/resources/arti...
> Bioweapon Defense Mode. Nearly nobody ever needs it

Raging wildfires causing smog all over the west coast beg to differ. Having built-in HEPA filtration is fantastic.
Most technologies with a huge installed base are obsolete compared to the state of the art.

The larger the installed base, the higher the likelihood it is lagging behind the current patch revision.

Magstripes and internal combustion engine ground vehicles are probably the two biggest examples outside of sociology/government.
> Everyone should get this new booster.

Why? Seems pretty indiscriminate.
Indeed, they did not create all that value alone. They also provided stable jobs for many thousands of employees along the way. We should also celebrate that and I was remiss to not mention it originally.
De jure illegal, sure, but we all know it's de facto required for institutions of a certain size. Laws are only as good as the enforcement.
Privacy, yes.

Security qua security (ie, not counting security loss due to privacy loss) it's pretty tight between Android and iOS:

https://zerodium.com/program.html
Why/How would it screw you ?
Want Utopia? Privatize the Government
Isn't it coinbase that made a "no politics at work" rule? While I agree with that, it seems weird to simultaneously launch a political involvement campaign, and to some extent calls into question the political discussion ban.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2020/10/01/coinbase-w...
I've been using Lockdown for a month or two now with the beta, and did some writing on it: https://www.sevarg.net/2022/07/20/ios16-lockdown-mode-browse...

Results of enabling it and using my phone as I normally would:

- Some websites don't display images. I've no idea what they encode to, but they won't display. Fine, don't care.

- Animated GIFs don't play in Messages when coming in via SMS (perhaps iMessage too, haven't tried). Annoying when people communicate in animated GIFs, but... people just expect my tech to be weirdly broken, so this doesn't actually impact things significantly.

And that's it. I couldn't tell you the performance delta in casual internet use, though I don't use my phone very heavily either.
Half page popup cookie banner with no opt-out option. I am completely fine with cookies but clearly there is something wrong with the state of things when I have to click through a completely non-actionable popup
For a "network map" I'd hope to have something that showed which routes services ran on. An international version of that would be really cool.
That isn't always easy to verify though if you aren't familiar with the person, their public image, and their current events.

For example if Ed Sheeran changes their profile picture to an X, how do you know he means his Multiply album and not some terrible Lil Nas X impersonation. What about if a performer changes their stage name? Can we reliably expect Twitter research this change and know that its the same person?
Ad buyers can claim to be defrauded because of anything. Welcome to the USA. You're saying there's no reason any of them could sue. That's clearly wrong. You think none of them would win. I doubt that as well. But assuredly they could cause havoc with distractions, subpoenas, and huge losses of public good-will, and giving Musk a reason to petition for delay, etc.

Nothing said by Mudge directly implicates the number claimed, but everything else about his report is a massive indictment of their ability to properly report on it and their honest desire to do so. I imagine their constant reclassification of mDAU applicable-users won't help them here. If their actual numbers were 10% high, because of an accounting error or whatever, then you'd likely be right that it wouldn't be enough to break the deal. But if they misrepresented, or tried to avoid relevant data about, the numbers this very likely would be a deal breaker. If you can prove they lied about one thing you can safely assume they're willing to lie about more.

As for the value of Twitter, the perceived value plummeted when they were revealed to not have decent test/release procedures, fragile DCs, a CEO who hides from data, no privacy controls or logging of dev activity in prod, etc. There are a lot of things other than the mDAU numbers that are materially changing the industry's view about, and thus the reasonable value of, Twitter.
This post is the living embodiment of https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/we-should-improve-society-som....
What a smug dismissal of a comment obviously crafted with care.
Right, I'm aware of table-returning functions and the general idea of functions as table sources in a FROM clause. I think the biggest gap is not having complementary table-consuming function signatures and ways to use functions as table sinks other than aggregate function calls.

I'd also want to allow a function to be both a table source and a table sink, which I think means that you might need a sub-query like syntax to supply the source that will be consumed by the function. This is a vague idea and not a well-defined language proposal:

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
-- invent a table-sink func signature?
func1( TABLE t1(a int, b text, c text) )
RETURNS TABLE (x int, y boolean) AS $$
-- access input set via declared name
SELECT
a, b < c
FROM t1
$$ LANGUAGE SQL;

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION
func2( TABLE t1(a int, b boolean) )
RETURNS int AS $$
SELECT a WHERE b
$$ LANGUAGE SQL;

-- implicit positional matching of func input cols?
SELECT f1r.x, f1r.y
FROM func1( SELECT e1, e2, e3 FROM ...) AS f1r;

-- explicit input mapping to override positions?
SELECT f1r.x, f1r.y
FROM func1( SELECT e1, e2, e3 INTO b, a, c FROM ...) AS f1r;

-- function composition
SELECT func2(func1( SELECT e1, e2, e3 FROM ...));
No, I'm saying you have raised the severity with your example perhaps to further your argument in favor of storing this data indefinitely. "What about the children?" Indeed.
Gift economy and post-scarcity is where it's at.
At the left end of the dial
The choice of "Star Wars" as an example is pretty ironic. There has been so much discussion about how Star Wars was a result of the work of so many people. And how George Lucas, who would be the candidate for "single person", when left to his own devices made worse quality Star Wars films.

In particular, there was:
- Marcia Lucas, credited for "saving Star Wars in the editing"
- John Williams

Not to mention all the people working on the special effects, the sound designer Ben Burtt, the list goes on.

The reality is that a "single person" doesn't create things like that. The "visionary/great man" ideal is just good PR.
> You can't find 32 bit PCM music anywhere

The real reason is that there's no 32-bit floating point digital audio converters, so distributing the audio in a format which needs to be quantized to be played anyway has no purpose (outside of deceptive marketing, of course).

Even integer 32 bit makes no sense for a final format - the available noise floor is just beyond reasonable, 24 bit is more than enough. In practice, 16 bit is too.
I suspect this is a direct response to the NSO Group related hacks.
There is a ton of waste generated by the clothing industry that ends up being pushed onto the third world. Endless amounts of waste through fast fashion generated by companies like Shein.. ask any young women. We can do more than one good thing at a time, and we have to, our existence depends on it.
A nonprofit should always be held to a higher standard. Slack is a profit making concern valued by its utility, not its cost.

Nonprofits are cost centric and it’s both valid and essential to question the cost structure. $100M turnover seems like a lot of opex
Not a payment security expect, but based on my limited knowledge, the transaction is verified with the chip embedded in the card/device itself so I don't think that skimming devices like these can bypass NFC protections.
>you cannot be stupid and work hard and be successful.

Unless you are born into wealth, of course. One of your three/four criteria. Lots of examples of people grifting and grinding to fail upwards who have no special talent or intelligence of their own. Some are very powerful, even.
100 years ago the population of California was 3.4 mil vs 6.7 mil in the Netherlands. Today California has 40 mil vs 17 mil. The problem is not "too many restrictions on development" its too much development, which has ruined the quality of life. You want to add more people? How many more?
It's crazy how I never carry cash anymore. I can't even think of the last time I used an ATM. I often just leave the house with my phone and buy stuff with apple pay.

Also how is magnetic strip still a thing? I thought this was replaced with chip and tap years ago...
Without trying to be mean, I'm less charitable. He's had a lifetime to prepare and the resources of money, power, staff and literally an entire nation to support him in his time of transition.

I have deep compassion for him for the loss of his mother. I have zero compassion in terms of the position he finds himself in. With the support he has, he could run his life on auto-pilot. By comparison, I'm more impressed by the average Joe or Jane in the street holding down their lives (often alone) while coping with that loss. And I'm damned sure that a leaky pen wouldn't be their breaking point.
Surely only works for the biggest companies. You would need to hire
millions of people to drain the global pool of developers. Maybe thousands to drain the best ones intersect US working rights.
You'd still have edge cases where a change in verified name is needed (marriages, avoiding deadnaming, etc). A solution like this might narrow the problem space, but it doesn't solve the issues.
Oil itself isn't the problem. Climate change is about adding the carbon from fossil fuels to the air. If we could magically convert all remaining unburned coal/oil to an enormous cube of polyester, it would more or less immediately put a cap on global warming. Of course it would also cause worldwide famine, but my point is that global warming itself isn't a directly result of the extraction/use of fossil fuels, but specifically the burning of them.
Obviously the answer is to fire the expensive engineers (keep a skeleton crew for maintenance and bugfixes) and keep the sales & marketing folks. If 20 years working in engineering has taught me anything it's that sales and marketing is where the real money is made.
If He didn’t want them shorn, He wouldn’t have made them sheep.
So glad almost 90% of the machines I use have this these days
Privacy policy for searched strings?

"Rutkowski" returns a bunch of book covers, repeated a lot. Can you ensure images returned have diverse embeddings? I expected digital art, not detective stories.

Do you use CLIP or just metadata?

What is intended process that starts after you get artist's email (for either of purposes).
This has the potential to be an interesting test case, as it challenges the prevailing Chicago School doctrine on antitrust/monopoly enforcement.
Username checks out?
I thought this looked familiar: the title should have (2021). The dramatically increased cost of capital presumably makes this proposal less attractive.
The author should update this post to describe about abortion stuff in US. Perfect example of how data privacy (or lack thereof) is a literal direct risk to individuals.
> There are facts about systems which the system itself can not prove. Statements like that can be expressed in some formalized subset of English and proven following the rules of that formalized English. What is that "formalized English" that we use in our reasoning? Or does it not matter?

Again, the normal, routine thing is to just use a slightly larger formal system to work with them. But it really doesn't matter.
I dislike "climate change" too, because it carries the idea that we can change it back. I think "global warming" was fine, but if i had to pick something, it would be "climate drift" i think.
- Spotify discover weekly or song radios

- Wikipedia Album release lists

- reddit /r/listentothis
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1983)[video]
Physicist Richard Feynman talks about his childhood and the influence of his father, his feelings about having participated in the development of the atomic bomb, the influence of scientific logic on his perceptions and philosophies, and his seemingly unorthodox teaching methods
That would kill a lot of Twitter culture though (for better or worse). Changing a name for "spooky season", updating a profile pic to promote a new event, etc. It also would make it risky for a large company to change their logo (if Volvo loses verification for a few days it opens them up to a ton of scams).
You don’t think that before the Constitutional Amendment to allow taxation of wealth is ratified that there will be 1000s of CPAs and attorneys looking for loopholes?

GRATs and IDGTs will look like quaint children’s toys compared to the schemes invented to receive the benefit without formally having $10^9 of net worth.
Capitalism rewards effective producers by routing capital for them to expand. When consumers conspire to force producer shutdowns, the problem is politics rather than capitalism.
This is the point. What’s important is how ownership and management of economic production is allocated. Who runs businesses? In capitalism they are largely owned and managed by the people that built those businesses. In communism and nationalised industries they are owned and managed by a government bureaucracy. In this case the owner transferred that control to a charitable trust.

Personally I believe each of these can have advantages in various situations. Some critical shared infrastructure and services I think do belong with government. Defence, healthcare, emergency services, perhaps some utilities. Charitable trusts have a place. But I also believe private citizens that demonstrate the ability to build and run businesses also have a place, a big place in the system. Private capital investment is a massive and highly productive and efficient force for economic good. Typical billionaires don’t spend billions on themselves. Millions yes, but most of those billions exist as shares that represent control of productive businesses that provide goods, services and jobs. If they spent it all on themselves they wouldn’t be billionaires for very long.

I don’t think it’s generally in the public interest or beneficial to society to confiscate businesses from their owners, and what? Give it to who? There is a legitimate concern that such control can lead to negative effects like exercise consumption or political influence, but the way you deal with that is to address those problems directly.
There was the ft podcast about porn in which the creator of nats https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Thylmann played an important part in the consolidation leading to mind geek.
Also, has anyone tried building a puzzle game using a proof assistant?
I don't think human right activists and journalists are the most at risk here. They are more at risk than you and me but at least, they can keep a low profile.

CEOs and celebrities and politicians are not only at risk because of their influence and insider knowledge, but they also have a huge target painted on them at all times. They simply can't keep a low profile due to their occupation. They also have money, much more than journalists and activists, so they attract "regular" criminals too.

Human right activists and journalists probably won't be their main user base but it will be the most prominent for public relations reasons, because who doesn't like human right and investigative journalism? VIPs are less marketable and let's not talk about criminals. To keep things clear, I think it is a good feature, even if it can help criminals. After all, human right activists are often technically criminals where they act.
Even boosters are a bit of a question in my mind. I had forgotten they were already approved recently. There really ahsn't been much discussion at UCSF about it other than
"it's available we're still evaluating data before making recommendations".

What I should have said was "nobody should take the pre-bivalent boosters with any expectation of seeing a reduction in infection chances, or severity of disease, based on our current understanding of omicron, while bivalent boosters seem promising, even though we have extremely limited data and won't know for sure until after the winter cycle."
Giving away money is a form of undemocratic power, too. A billionaire recently gave away all of his money to the Republican Party in the US, for example.

Even if Gates gives his money to ostensibly non-political organizations, he's still deciding how an enormous amount of power is transferred.

Even Steve Jobs' widow, who is giving small amounts of hundreds of organizations, is reshaping society according to her own design. While I'm aligned with her values for the most part, it is still terrifying to think about all the Powell-Jobs' who have billions that they are spending on things that harm us all.
Ask HN: What is your opinion on electronic voting?
Here in Brazil there is somewhat of a debate if electronic voting (for presidency, senate, everything) is a good thing. We have been using it since 1996 here, and most people are fine with it. There is no evidence of fraud since then, but I don't know how easy it would be to know for sure. I've seen some opposition to it, like Tom Scott's videos[1][2], but I also remember seeing knowledgeable people being in favor of it (though I can't remember where). I have a programming background, so personally I lean against it, but I don't know enough about security at this level to have a meaning opinion. I would like to know what everyone here thinks, especially those with a career on cyber-security.

P.S.: I'm not talking about online voting here, which is a whole other can of worms. I'm only referring to electronic machines used to vote, without any internet connection.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
Dagster already offers Dagster Cloud which came out a month or so ago[1]. It's a fully hosted solution for teams that don't want to run their own.

[1] https://dagster.io/cloud
Working on this: https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes/issues/316
I'd love to know how this works. I entered my own name for the lols, and it returned mostly paintings of the Cape Winelands in South Africa where I grew up, which is pretty creepy.
The relevance is that some of those donors are donating the little money they have because they think there's a chance Wikipedia might cease to exist otherwise, not knowing that the WMF is actually using that money on gold water dishes rather than saving it for a rainy day.

Simply put, if Wikipedia asks for donations to continue operating, 100% of those donations should go towards server costs. That can include the hardware costs, the power, the bandwidth, and the people who maintain those servers. Using the money that was raised to keep it running for any other purpose is at least deceptive.

>Imagine you were donating to an animal shelter, but you discover that they spend more on dogfood than you do on feeding your family. You imagine the reason is that they are feeding the dogs caviar, but the real reason is it costs more to feed 150 dogs than it does to feed 4 people.

Now imagine that the shelter spends only 10% of its donations on dog food and other dog-related costs, and the rest goes to salaries for people who aren't caring for the dogs and to awareness campaigns. (I'm not implying this is the breakdown in Wikipedia's case; it's just an example.) Even if you think these are worthwhile uses for those funds, don't you think donors should know that their donations will be spent this way before they donate?
"everyone before" you created America's state with the richest and largest population. It has the highest desity of people West of the Mississippi. If you want cheap housing move to Wisconsin and work remotely. If you want to live in the most desireable state in the world, dont complain people before you "messed things up".
Thanks! Qt is great.
IMO this is just a bad counterargument. I do in fact have nothing to hide and it's not worth it for me to worry about very unlikely potential changes in geopolitics 10+ years from now. I know how companies like Facebook and Google use data, I know how the US government uses data. I'm fine with it, I have nothing to hide FROM THEM.

The probability of something bad happening to me is low and the expected value I get from sharing data is high. It's a perfectly reasonable preference and I'm pretty well informed about the history of oppressive governments and the current state of data usage.

Personally I would never pretend to lick somebody's food. However I've don't equally bad shit and left a paper trail online, but I trust both Google and the government with that data. It's possible in 10+ years it could be used against me, but so unlikely that it doesn't offset the benefits I receive from freely sharing data.
Twitter's moderation, like every major such website, is a Kafkaesque nightmare with little transparency or review. It would all be fine if they just deleted individual posts. Then it'd be no big deal on an occasional bad call. But nuking accounts in this slipshod way is terrible.
My first question was, "Who the hell is Vitalik?"
You can add an exception for those sites in safari
Silicon Valley was a documentary.