skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> span across a variety of unrelated industries

Lippo group[1] is one such conglomerate in Indonesia. During my stint at a company of SEA we partnered with one of their subsidiaries, Ovo. At that time I wasn't aware of Ovo's parent company and the extent of their reach. A visiting exec said that Lippo group has enough businesses to cater to a person from birth to death. Later I found out he wasn't joking, they own hospitals as well as graveyard and everything in between.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lippo_Group
The quick answer is that we are not short of any of those materials. We might not be producing enough right now, but there's far more than enough that can be mined or recycled inexpensively.

Increased prices will cause more mining and recycling, eventually the price will settle at the cost of production + something for profit. The something for profit is quite small, the coast for low risk capital is ~5% a year.

There might be a 5-10 period when profits are high for miners, but eventually the profits will be competed away by new entrants. (Except if you have a mine that produces very cheaply because it is so rich or easy to operate, these people will stay high profit. The most expensive mines will just make back they're capital costs + return).

You can see this with fracking which is horribly unprofitable. Hedge funds have lost billions over building fracking wells.
If you cut down and burn trees that take 50 years to grow in 3 seconds, you've increased the amount of CO₂ in the air. Sure it will eventually go away, but the thing that causes climate change is the CO₂ being in air at elevated levels, even if it's in a cycle.

Biofuel is almost as bad as fossil at 230 gCO₂-eq/kWh. [1]. Compare to solar pv at 40 and nuclear at 12.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...
I don't know when he made the repo public, but the first commit was 2021. If this were published, say, the week or so after Carbon were announced, maybe you could argue it was a reaction to it (though still, it started before Carbon was announced, in what direction does time flow again?). But a more likely reason for it coming out now is that Sutter gave a talk at CppCon last week on this material.
Sounds better than drought, so long as there is no flooding.
The internet should be a common carrier. A private company that sits on top of the internet is not a common carrier. Why should the government be able to regulate what private companies publish?

I bet you dollars to doughnuts that neither RedState or Truth social would want to be under the same regulations. I’ve been banned from RedState twice.
https://archive.ph/kgD5r
Interesting point, I guess I’m making the assertion that conservative ideas can spread better in small groups then liberal ideas since liberal ideas are trying to change the status quo they just have to plant a seed. Conservative ideas have to be fought for since “everyone already know them” (quotes for broad generalizations without data, but leaning into the fact that conservative ideas should be inherently more well known since they’ve been practiced in the past.)
Is there anything to prevent a platform from categorizing content without censoring it?
> No it wouldn't. Indentured servitude requires someone to be indentured, which is immediately in conflict with OP's correct observation that no one is being forced to work.

You're thinking of slaves. Indentured servants chose to enter into binding contracts. No one forced them to sign away years of their life; they did so of their own volition. US case law would no longer recognize such contracts as valid.
The title is clickbait; the bill total is not what is generally paid by the patients (whether nothing be paid at all in such cases, is a separate topic):

> On average, hospital emergency departments charged $3,551 for urgent medical care coded as caused by sexual violence. People who were sexually assaulted while pregnant faced even steeper bills, with an average of $4,553. Uninsured victims or those who chose to pay themselves were served bills that averaged $3,673.

> the study found that insured victims paid an average of 14 percent of their bills out-of-pocket, which for the average bill would work out to nearly $500.

> [...] Among the 112,844 records, an estimated 17,842 victims were expected to pay their hospital bills themselves.
"How does forcing Twitter to allow Donald Trump to post translate to forcing you to hear words you don't like"

Not other users but facebook itself is forced to do this
Great idea. Too bad it is not Open Source
Sure, why not... so my pet project is basically for managing my audio files. There already is navidrome[1] and audiobookshelf[2]. They work great so far, but some minor details are kind of annoying...

The first milestone will be providing a basic API for my files - the main components of this will be the database (postgres), the API (C# + swashbuckle + JsonApiDotNet + Websockets) and the file indexer (C# HostedService). All parts except the file indexer are pretty much done, but it is a critical component, because it has to be as fast and correct as possible.

There are multiple approaches to index files... A best case scenario would be an "import" / "move" of files into a library or repository. That way you would be always up to date and always perfectly sorted. Unfortunately, an import would also be a big amount of work, because analysing the files and getting metadata from online sources is... lets say a huge project. And NOT getting metadata would mean, that I cannot move the files while another app manages the metadata. So I took another path - scanning an existing and well tagged library (that I manage with beets[3] for music and m4b-tool[4] / tone[5] for audio books).

My current Idea is to have a file indexer that:

- can run on multiple sources

- runs one full index scan after starting the app

- registers a filesystem watcher for every file source and reacts to events

- To ensure, no filesource is blocking others, each source is processed by a fixed batch size and then move on the the next file source

- If sources are modified (added, changed, deleted), there is a decision, what to do with already running indexers and registered file watchers (added just go to the queue, changed and deleted cancel already running tasks only for this source)

- All files are hashed (content only) to ensure, a change of metadata or tags will not change the hash, and if a file is moved, it will recognize this and update instead of delete and insert

The database will contain Tag-Values for every possible value. E.g.

File.Location music/album/AC_DC/Back in Black/01 - Hells Bells.mp3
FileTag.Type Artist
Tag.Value AC/DC

That way I can add a fulltext index on the Tags.Value field containing a searchable value while maintaining the FileTag.Type for recommendations.

Let's say I search for `AC/DC`, it will provide an auto-complete for all FileTags.Type values, that show a match + a generic one for searching ALL values:

Artist: AC/DC
FullText: AC/DC

Searching for 2010 will show:

Released: 2010
Title: 2010
FullText: 2010

because it contains matches in Releasedate and title.

There may be a lot to optimize, but I think my current plan goes pretty well. Let me know what you think about this approach :-)

[1]: https://www.navidrome.org/
[2]: https://www.audiobookshelf.org/
[3]: https://beets.io/
[4]: https://github.com/sandreas/m4b-tool/
[5]: https://github.com/sandreas/tone/
> What we are talking about here is judges ignoring the constitution, the law, past precedent, the will of the people, and the facts of the case, in order to make up a logically incoherent "argument" that happens to promote the judges’ pre-decided zany partisan outcome. Such rulings are profoundly corrosive to the rule of law and the legitimacy of the court system.

Yes, and this in fact happens in every court, that's my entire point. I can provide endless examples of outcome-oriented rulings from every single appeals circuit, and from SCOTUS too.
I continue to be confused why social media companies want to censor, and not let users themselves censor content how they want (including with algorithms). This gets around basically all issues for all parties.

Basically let me block Nazi content or whatever from my feed, but if someone wants to see it, go ahead. Honestly this would be great, as I could probably block all political posts as well, leading to a better user experience.
It's not even close to these super apps outside the states. You can renew your drivers license in WeChat.
It took me a loooong time to intuitively understand how a ship can sail upwind. The diagrams and explanations made no sense to me.

I finally figured it out, though. Take a drafting triangle, which has 30-60-90 degree angles. Place the 30-90 side against a wall or something rigid. Take a block (wind) and press on the 30-60 side. The triangle will squeeze "upwind" in the direction perpendicular to the 30-90 side (in addition to a larger movement sideways towards the 60-90 side).

The keel of the boat plays the role of the 30-90 side against the wall, the sail the 30-60 side.
Nonsense, east European countries are still Christians and very poor, then you have the gulf countries that are Muslims and very rich, there basically is no correlation between religion and wealth on nation level.
Extreme peril if true: now I'm hoping someone better informed will weigh in.

May not be related but it shows there's more to be understood:

https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/1...

Check out a couple of other titles; the authors aren't shy about their headlines (so I hope they ain't right, but...)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362805618_Collapse_...
The central premise of The Godfather is right in the opening scene - it's that organized crime was really a kind of alternative government, serving many of the functions that governments serve, but one whose 'citizens' were mostly criminals. The claim that the Italian mafia was also looking out for the interests of the Italian immigrant community is also presented, though the counterargument is that organized crime always preys on its own community as much as it does on 'outer society'.

The parallel to the white-collar mafia on Wall Street is instructive: if a mid-level employee of a Wall Street hedge fund steals from their employer by some scheme, then typically the FBI would investigate, the DOJ would prosecute, and the thief would go to prison. The blue-collar mafia operated similarly, though since they didn't have their own prisons, murder of mafiosi who stole from their bosses was the more common outcome.

The author does seem uncomfortable comparing the US government and business world, with all its wars and plots in the name of 'national interests' since the end of World War II, with Washington and Wall Street washing each other's hands, to a large organized crime cartel, but the similarities are rather striking.
Thank you! This is the first time I've heard of Meta Filter.
Doesn’t pretty much every author of an opinion on pop culture (or really anything) do this?
As a series of propositional arguments frozen in time, it's a little difficult. As a story it's a little easier.

Licenses to drive taxicabs, called Taxi Medallions used to limit the number of taxicab drivers below demand. Buying the license to operate was a valid investment choice, for hundreds of thousands of dollars. This ensured secure work, wages and support admin for taxis. It wasn't perfect, it just was what it was.

Gig economy apps disrupted this process heavily by soaking up the demand for extra taxi cab services and providing a plug'n'play model for contractors to drive for their taxi service. This was a good deal in the beginning as wages were favourable and lower overheads gave individual drivers a chance to compete with taxicab co's. Medallion prices cratered, meaning a 600k+ medallion had to be bought out by the gov years later a one-sixth the price.

Prices and wages dropped on Apps. Apps never stopped signing up drivers, leading to a glut of taxi drivers that exceeded demand. App surge-pricing models meant the best times to drive were the most expensive for the customer and the highest-competition for the glut of drivers. Drivers could not guarantee consistent customers and therefore wages, or growth in wages so they had varying degrees of economic pressure. Some with car rental payments and personal expenses can not break even.

Apps do not enforce normal working conditions, so if someone cannot meet financial requirements with an 8hr shift, they are incentivized to hit 12hrs driving, for an average wage. When do you get a new job when you're trapped in a 12hr shift, dead end job with no growth or exit strategy? It's lose-lose. Or maybe lose-break even.
I think what you're proposing is that major providers should have either obeyed the law (with all the claimed negative consequences taking place instantly through that compliance) or they should have disobeyed the law and waited for a "case or controversy" to emerge from that decision.

I don't think the court actually wants appellants to disobey the law, so I find it hard to take this argument seriously.
I understand your objections and in fact I mostly agree. So I should qualify some of my prior statements. They should be understood in the context (my context when I began this line of thought) of anarcho-capitalist values as expressed in David D. Friedman's book /The Machinery of Freedom/. (By the way, to anyone who read this 1973 book, Uber and Lyft were inevitable; the book was prescient enough that it may still contain gems worth mining.) My goal was to make professional law enforcement less important.

I am not quite still an anarcho-capitalist, as after 2004 I began to see a lot of truth in Marx and other anti-capitalist writers. So I'm in a healthy tension that enables me to embrace paradoxes and even hypocrisy. (Anyone not a hypocrite, I suspect either has less than an admirable set of values or is in prison or dead or swiftly heading toward one of those states.)

Bottom line, my hunch and hope is that some of us will see that if our goal is safety, we need not always give up freedom for it. There are other ways to achieve some of the goals we've entrusted to the State.

Yes, I am aware that with alarmingly increasing frequency the State can compel us to divulge our encrypted evidence and the keys to it. Perhaps there would be more pushback against this if such evidence were to play a greater role. Right now, people tend to say "I have nothing to hide." If everyone had a lot to hide, already recorded and encrypted by default, then I think most of them would push back against 4th amendment violations (in the US; and equivalent protections in other jurisdictions).

I am aware that the stupid and the evil will mess things up. I don't know what to do about that. I suspect they'll always be with us. The latter we might reduce in number through greater accountability, through more evidence. The former, I have no idea; our society doesn't really quite have natural selection.

I should walk back "24/7" or whatever I said. I was a bit hyperbolic. I think certain types of situations known for being contentious should be recorded routinely by both parties, by default, maybe. That should be normalized, maybe. For instance, in any situation wherein at least one party is required to carry liability insurance, the insurers could compel recording -- maybe.

Also, and I am VERY FAR FROM CERTAIN about this, but POSSIBLY even in some instances of sexual encounters, at least where there is not a fully executed (signed, maybe notarized) written agreement, i.e. enthusiastic consent -- possibly, if the tech were sound enough (which should be our goal) these too should be recorded, as a matter of course -- MAYBE.
Gotcha? No.

I'm referring to people whom are given the same legal benefits of being able to work besides me when they haven't gone through the proper channels of legalities nor sought to do so. I remember my parents immigrating to the US and not have to cross a river at night with just the clothes on their back or pay off a "coyote" to do so.
This style of argument is nonsense.

As to earnings, if I have a company and I earn $20k/yr on the side for myself I am not "transitioning that cost to the state" and I should not be prevented by law from operating my business. The same is true if I employ someone to do the work rather than doing it myself.

As to determining the cost of living: How would you propose this even be done? The cost of a student living at home is very different from a single person, and in turn is very different from a family with arbitrarily large numbers of dependents.

There is no such thing as a universal cost of living. Prohibiting part-time work only hurts people who could otherwise benefit from it -- like students who do not have availability to work full time hours.
Not sure I understand this comment very well but should have added it’s “the thing I personally find most difficult”. I was referring to “putting out fires” at work mostly, even with tests and other checks there are often regressions in a “large codebase” when working with a team of devs
"Is a Horseless Age Coming" is the story directly beneath it... another story with nerve-wracking relevance if you rewrite it about the rapidly-progressing-and-soon-to-be-omnipresent technology of today as opposed to 1900.
When people call themselves "prompt engineers" it's only half in jest. Half of generating something good is guiding the program into generating something good. That means knowing the right keywords to get specific styles or effects, a little bit of luck, and sometimes generating a prompt several dozen times and then creating variations from a seed once you find a specific seed that generated something close to what you liked. It's an iterative process and many of the fantastic images you see weren't "first generations" but likely the 20th or so generation after tons of trial and error working around a specific prompt/idea.

I'd recommend keeping a prompt list and finding what does/doesn't work for what you're after. Try shuffling the order of your prompt - the order of the tokens does matter! Repeat a token twice, thrice, hell make a prompt with nothing but the same token repeated 8 times. Play around with it! If you find an image that's very close to what you want - start generating variations of it. Make 20 different variations. Make variations of the variations you like best.

Also the seed is very important! If you find a seed that generated a style you really liked take note of it. That seed will likely generate more things in a similar style for similar enough prompts.

It's a semi-creative process and definitely takes some time investment if you want great results. Sometimes you strike gold and get lucky on your first generation - but that's rare.
Programming languages are serialization formats for source code.
It's Herb Sutter, you don't have to worry about it being enforced except on critics. (https://twitter.com/pati_gallardo/status/1561093468121956352)
ostensible premise

"appearing or claiming to be one thing when it is really something else"
A lot of decisions made, BTW, have been explained in proposals for the C++ committee that came out of this work.
Attractive female students get better grades
I tried this but feels like I'm holding my breath for too long and that I don't have enough air to exhale for 8 counts. Also it feels impossible to take a deep breath through the nose, I only can through the mouth...

Any tips from people that use this technique and believe that it's beneficial?

Thank you
What's most interesting about this is that, as far as I can tell, no current "big tech" company violates this law.
A research paper is much more likely to be highly ranked if the author is famous
> Canonically in the western world it's usually "gumption" or "intelligence".
The nice thing about the M1 is that the GPU and CPU share RAM so even though I have a 14" MacBook Pro, I also have a GPU with 16GB of VRAM. I pushed as high as 11GB on images and the fan didn't even turn on.
lstein's fork [1] isn't that bad and the instructions are pretty easy to follow. It definitely requires some knowledge of how to install software via brew, but these are generally good to figure out anyway.

[1] https://github.com/lstein/stable-diffusion/blob/main/docs/in...
They were just defining the unknown acronym in a playful way, presumably.

You got the joke, but didn’t even notice.
Servers are privately-owned and on private property
Diluting the blood plasma of older human beings rejuvenate them
nmap reports clock skew.
Becoming a successful lamnguage does not seem to be a goal of the project:

"Cppfront is a personal experimental compiler from an experimental C++ 'syntax 2' to today's 'syntax 1,' to learn some things, prove out some concepts, and share some ideas."
Right. Reserves are really just a measure of "things people bothered to look for at the current price." High prices can and do induce more searching.

Part of the whole hullabaloo about "peak oil" is that people stopped looking for oil reserves in an environment with low oil prices. Once prices started rising you saw fracking come into play that regenerated areas previously thought dead for oil production.
Familiarity breeds contempt?

I'm sure many would dislike rust if they were forced to use it. Same with python, etc, etc, etc.

I'm not saying the criticisms are wrong per se, but the reason we have so many languages is probably because there's no 'right' language.
Full opinions here: https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/21/21-51178-CV1.pd...

Each judge wrote their own opinion. You can see the first two judges are in agreement, the last writes, “ I concur with the judgment in Part IV of the majority’s opinion. I respectfully dissent from the remainder.” So they were 2-1, except for part IV, where they were 3-0. (I am confused about this part as I’ve read each section IV several times and it seems like they disagree here, one side arguing that the platforms are, and they other that they are not, entitled to pre enforcement relief. But IANAL.)
> If the US had full employment and decent unemployment benefits (like it used to) jobs like these wouldnt exist.

We don't, though, and that has much deeper causes than the existence of gig companies. A large swath of the American voting public supports political candidates who oppose providing an adequate backstop for people balancing on a knife edge.

I think there's a legitimate market for people who want to earn cash in their spare time on their own schedule and gig companies seem like a good fit for those people, such as people who already have stable employment or cannot work regular hours for one reason or other. Very few industries/companies offer that level of flexibility to their workers.

The issue is that gig companies are also gutting already-existing labor markets by burning investor cash to undercut established competitors, so people who have stable employment find themselves forced into precarity and turn to gig work due to the lack of full time employment in the industry combined with the lack of adequate support in the American social safety net.
> reach millions of people

I think this is the heart of the problem. These social media companies didn't merely build agoras, they built amphitheaters. They build amphitheaters so large that control over the amphitheater makes you a kingmaker. Now they can't let go of that control, because doing so would risk the wrong people using it.

They never should have built amphitheaters this large in the first place. Better if they had built thousands of smaller amphitheaters, or none at all. Stop giving anybody bullhorns that can reach millions of people. Let ideas reach millions of people the natural way. One person tells a few hundred people their ideas, using the un-amplified power of their own voice. If what they say has any sense, each of those hundreds can tell hundreds more, and each of those can tell hundreds more again. That's how one person can reach millions, without the existence of massive kingmaker amphitheaters.