skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He appears terrified of being deposed and later getting caught in lies under oath.

Do honest people tend to behave this way?
It's usually 4%.

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/04/12/noisy-poll-results-and...
A few of these problems are fixed with flakes - namely the dramatically improved composability. It becomes much simpler to understand how to use something when you are able to work on it in isolation. With the previous mono-repo nixpkgs assumption, you were basically required to not only learn nix-lang, but also nixpkgs and the nixpkgs workflow making it much harder to grasp the fundamentals.

With flakes, it is now significantly easier to create an standalone package or module for your specific needs since you import it just like nixpkgs. It also means that software doesn't have to be part of nixpkgs to be usable on the system - if a git repo has a flake it's just a matter of adding it as an input. Flakes represent such a massive improvement to the way that you interact with nix, I sincerely hope they become the default here soon. In the meantime, it is well worth your effort to learn them even if they aren't 'required' yet.

Unfortunately all of this is contingent on being able to grok the language in the first place which is where the documentation really falters. The nix pills talk about the basics of the language but it is very difficult to make anything useful without importing some libraries (i.e. nixpkgs) - and these libraries are not very well documented. I am aware of a documentation team being formed to help address this but it still remains the number one issue with nix, especially for newcomers. The unfortunate thing is that there are so many moving parts that it will take a considerable effort to explain the entire ecosystem without being overwhelming but still providing enough intuition for newcomers to get things done with Nix.

If anyone is interested, a recent SoN talk was given about efforts to improve the documentation. It touches on many of the things I bought up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFRQvkfPoDI
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Same as i18n (internationalization) and l10n (localization).
Clearing Cloudflare and Nginx Caches with Ansible
One of the quicker cycles of "extraordinary claim" to "retracted" I've seen recently.
U.S. Believes Ukrainians Were Behind an Assassination in Russia
Also there are "near-breeder" CANDU heavy water moderated reactors: they are a proven technology that exists today and can use non-enriched uranium. They also in theory can use a plutonium/thorium mixture, so can burn thorium.

They are cheaper as far as fuel, but it turns out that fuel didn't become as expensive as anticipated in the 1970s (when it was thought that there would be 1000s of reactors). They are physically larger, so have a higher construction cost that put them at a disadvantage compared to conventional LWRs.

The tritium needed for fusion reactors comes from these CANDU reactors (some of the deuterium from the heavy water is converted to tritium, it is collected).
"Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner".

I can confidently say this about every account I have barring my primary email (outlook).
What happens when a small object rolls into that blindspot? What happens when the car goes into deep sleep and the AP computer state is lost? Reloading all those nets takes like 40 seconds on startup from deep sleep.
Auto-generated content has a tendency to raise only the baseline in industries. For web development first it was Dreamweaver, then WordPress templates, then SquareSpace and Wix. Bootstrap came along, then Material and a thousand other prepackaged design languages. While these advancements reduced the income from building mom & pop restaurant websites, the demand for high-end curated sites never really changed.

Just focus your efforts on continuing to produce quality work, those clients never dry up.
Save the Environment, IMPORT

Demand Living Wages, IMPORT
I will say, I've enjoyed playing with stable diffusion, I've been impressed with the explosion of tools built around it, and the stuff people are creating ... But all the stuff about bias in data is true. It really likes to render white people, unless you really specifically tell it something else ... in which case, you may receive an exaggerated stereotype. It seems to like producing younger adults. If all stock photography tomorrow forward was replaced with stable diffusion images, even ignoring the weird bodies and messed up faces and stuff, I think it would create negative effects. And once models are naively trained on images produced by the previous generation, how much worse will it be?

I don't think "don't let the plebes have the models" is a good stance. But neither is pretending that the ethics and bias issues aren't here.
I think individual special effects sound very plausible. "Okay, robot, make it so that his arm gets vaporized by an incoming laser, kinda like the same effect in Iron Man 7" is believable to me.

But ultimately these things copy other stuff. Artists are often trying to create something that is, at least a bit, new. New is where this approach falls over. By its nature, these things paint from examples. They can design Rococo things because they have seen many Rococo things and know what the word means. But they can't come up with a new style and use it consistently. "Make a video game with a fun and unique mechanic" is not something these things could ever do.

I think it's certainly possible, maybe inevitable, that some AI system in the distant future could do that, but it won't be based on this style of algorithm. An algorithm that can take "make a fun romantic comedy with themes of loneliness" and make something award worthy will be a lot closer to AGI than it will be to this stuff.
Lol ok thank you.

The playlist I’ve been adding to is quite certainly over 493 hours long.
At some level, slave labor or literally wage slavery is necessary to make the things most of us enjoy. It’s not just the low pay that’s the issue though. Big companies need to be able to dump production waste somewhere otherwise costs increase.

An Apple product that was truly, 100% made in the USA from parts that are also 100% made in the USA would be extremely expensive. The Librem 5 USA is about as close as you can get at $2000 for a phone with pretty anemic specs; and many individual parts and raw materials still come from abroad.
We are many orders of magnitude away from needing to worry about solar using up precious land.
> And I hate to be a snob about mics

I wonder if you just need a mic with a calibration file?

this one is less than $25:

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00ADR2B84

and you can use the serial number to download a specific calibration file
That creates risk when we decide to upgrade, should bugs be fixed or new tools be implemented. Right now we are up to date and hope to keep it that way.
Because anything that an AI can produce, no matter how "intrinsically" good, becomes trivial, tedious and with zero value (both economic and general).
Update: never mind
https://twitter.com/hodgesmr/status/1577739222412312578?s=20...
Oh I don’t take it personally so much as I find it sad how quickly people in the tech sphere are so quick to extol the virtues of things they have no familiarity with.

Every AI art thread is full of people who have clearly never attempted to make professional art commenting as if they’re experts in the domain
Tbh it was only the SRI confirmation that caught my eye.

I've mostly written this off but was curious what the relevance of it was as it did seem to be verified by an independent body.
The question of if the tech can actually be used for power generation..no idea but never seemed likely.
> ... forests (which when young are actually carbon emitters).

Can you expand a bit on that, since it doesn't match my understanding? Where does the carbon come from that young forests emit?

My understanding is:

A tree is a carbon sink, i.e. it captures carbon as long as it is growing (the carbon goes into its organic matter). Once it stops growing it has a constant amount of organic matter, a constant amount of carbon, and no net exchange of carbon. That is until it burns, or decomposes, or parts of it are eaten by animals, or whatever.

The same, but on a larger scale, goes for a forest, or any ecosystem really: when total organic matter increases carbon is captured from the atmosphere; when total organic matter decreases carbon is emitted.

Still to my understanding, young forests are forests that grow pretty rapidly and are therefore excellent in capturing carbon.

What am I missing?
> The country could see a 50% collapse in a single quarter and see 2-3% growth each quarter for years, and not be in a recession by that definition.

But that's not receding, that's has receded.

If your implied definition is slipping below the growth trend, then any '50% collapse' is going to ensure 'recession' (by this definition) for probably (or even hopefully) a long time.
I known neither this professor nor this university nor chemistry but you can find advice on Reddit like this one which was written 11 years ago

"It depends on which professor you have. Jones is a crazy ol' coot of a professor who will make you enjoy orgo but then will rape you with the insane amount of work he assigns and his really really terribly worded problems. He also tests on things chapters ahead and his tests are really difficult"

https://www.reddit.com/r/nyu/comments/q1a1l/has_anyone_here_...
> Hum, no

Um, yes.

I'm sorry, but the "Agile works, it's just that you are doing it wrong" line of argument is weak and unconvincing. The theory of a methodology means little when there is no buy-in from stakeholders, as is often the case. They reinterpret it to mean whatever they want it to mean. If you haven't struck this wall, then congrats! Most of us in software have to deal with it, though.
Modern farming is indeed dependent on imports. But modern-"ish" farming, with tractors, combines, and some degree of mechanization can still be done and maintained without microprocessors, sensors, and precision pumps and machine tools.

And if your supply requirements decrease by 150MM people, that makes the job substantially easier to manage.

> I do not believe the people yelling "secession!" are prepared to revert to a pre-WWI world.

Ah, but they think they are. Which is really the only thing that matters, since beyond a certain point, it's too late.
> There will be no fusion.

Scream it into the ether with veins popping out of your head all you want, it doesn't make you correct.

Additionally, there's literally no reason to not pursue both avenues.
Why is it any more pretentious than “developer” or “engineer”?

Also businesses don’t always go for cheaper. They go for maximum ROI.

I’ve worked on tons of marvel films for example, and I quite well know where AI fits and speeds things up. I also know where client studios will pay a pretty penny for more art directed results rather than going for the cheapest vendor.
Show HN: Speed of all of your processes across entire stack in one dashboard
I built Checkpoints App out of my experience of not being able to quickly and easily measure the speed of processes across my tech stack in my startup.

All startups optimize for speed in all of their operations: deploying code, responding to API requests, loading the UI, and in background processes such as sending emails to users or processing data in an ETL pipeline. But the tools available to measure the performance of all these operations are separate and time-costly to integrate, in the first place.

Checkpoints App allows you to measure the speed of processes across your entire stack with minimal overhead and collects that data into a single dashboard. Integrating it into your tech stack is as easy as dropping a `print()` statement in your code, while you're writing it.

It comes with client-side Python, JS and Bash scripts. You drop checkpoint statements anywhere in the code, defining a process name and checkpoint name, for example: `./checkpoints.sh process1 checkpoint1` where process1 is your process name and checkpoint1 is your checkpoint name.

Once you've dropped checkpoints in your code. It will automatically create the process pipelines in your dashboard along with the speed metrics i.e, how long does it take, on average, to go from checkpoint1 to checkpoint2 . Then you can start optimizing for speed.

Another major problem I saw was that most lightweight tools out there let you measure performance in a single part of your stack, for example, you need to use Lighthouse in the front-end UI and CloudWatch for your backend API endpoints. With Checkpoints App, however, you can create tailored processes across your tech stack. For example, you can add the first checkpoint in your backend and the second checkpoint in your front end.

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I've used it in the past, but it hasn't seen updates for over 2 years now. Does the app still work with iOS 16?
Aren't recovery codes associated with TOTP authenticator use? In this case it seems phone number was used as the second factor.
It's a good thing no one was suggesting you should then!
So says Jim Jones (Drink the Apple flavored Kool-Aid)
For those unfamiliar with this clown[1], he is a shill for fossil fuel companies who has a bachelor's degree in philosophy. He has no scientific training.

His anti-climate science opinions are so extreme, he argues in favor of burning more fossil fuels and against renewables (even when they're cheaper than fossil fuels). At this point, he's denying the science that even major oil companies are admitting they've known to be true since the 70s and 80s.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Epstein_(American_writer)
Discovered. I'd go as far to say that all "invention" is actually just discovery that we find useful.
The point is that if all the bad happened in half the quarter, that can make quite a difference, and the quarter start/end date is entirely arbitrary.

That said, you can apply the same to GP's suggestion of months, if the timescales are even shorter.
Helion energy?
Yesterday I watched a video about the commercially available options for installing an electric power generation plant on the balcony of your rented apartment. Commercially available, now.

More seriously, off-shore wind takes up virtually no land, and on-shore wind and PV can share land use with pasture, feed crops and horticultural crops. PV actually improves crop yields in dry regions because of the shading and reduced stress on the plants. So in some places it has a negative footprint. Storage uses no more land than peaker gas, and probably less when pipeline right-of-ways are counted.

There really is not a land footprint problem.
Exactly - IF we can get it to work, we'll know much more.

And IF we can do it affordably (these are both big IFs), the amount of energy available is huge. I see 1 gallon of water to 300 gallons of gas numbers thrown about; that's huge.

https://www.energy.gov/science/doe-explainsdeuterium-tritium...

(Gotta love their optimism - "when").
Cut the pay of your highest paid and they’ll just leave and go somewhere that won’t cut their pay. At my last job I saw that writing on the wall and left. That company slowly imploded over the next year all the while steadily cutting everyone’s pay promising a turn around each quarter. I saved probably a 100k by leaving let alone what I added with the new job.
Current proposals for nuclear fusion, most notably hydrogen fusion variants (ie deuterium-tritium in particular), increasingly seem like a pipe dream to me. Fusion seems attractive because stars do it but stars also have gravity on their side. We hafve to build lmeter thick concrete walls to protect against errant neutrons (as mentioned in the article) but that doesn't solve the real problem: escaping neutrons are energy lost.

You also can't ignore the fact that those neutrons also destroy the precise equipement designed to contain the reaction.

Add to this, you need to perfectly contain an ultra-high temperature plasma and you run into fairly fundamental issues with fluid dynamics (ie turbulence).

I'm disappointed but not the least bit surprised that the pro-fission HN crowd tries to hijack this thread into a fission energy argument. Is it possible to discuss nuclear fusion without bringing the quite unrelated fission issue into it?
The problem is that it is hard to define what a "democracy" is. Obviously one-party states and countries without elections aren't democracies. But other countries, like Russia, have all the trappings of democracy, with elections, a parliament, multiple parties, and so on and yet obviously aren't really democratic. Then there are countries like Poland and Hungary which seem to be on a similar path to Russia. And Western European countries and the US aren't immune to these trends either.
CIA Thought Putin Would Quickly Conquer Ukraine. Why Did They Get It So Wrong?
A company borrowing money to buy back stock sounds like me borrowing money to go on vacation. Rates are cheap, its a no-brainer right? Government will anyway bail me out as soon as a crisis hits, right?
Over the last couple of months I went from maybe one per day to dozens. I am lucky that my phone's area code is 1200 miles away from where I live so for the most part I can ignore everything from that area code. In addition, I changed my default ring tone and then went into each of my contacts and set my normal ring tone. This lets me know if I should be motivated to answer the call or let it go to voicemail.

For me the increase correlates to buying a car so I thought that the dealer was at fault but maybe it is just a coincidence.
> non-cloud & cross-platform

Small question: how do you expect "automatic sync" to work "between platforms without a cloud"?
Back in middle school the "F" word for a bundle of sticks was often used as a derogatory term directed at people you didn't like, regardless of their sexual orientation. That doesn't make it okay for me to call someone that on the public stage because as an adult you are supposed to know better and keep up with changing public opinion

Just because you did something stupid and wrong as a kid doesn't mean you should be able to get away with doing it as an adult.
Imagine you have a company. You can get your work force and double your gross or keep half your employees and leave your gross unchanged.

Which would you pick? Keep in mind you don't have to go through the headache of actually hiring people - all you need to do is not fire them.
Double tapping the power button on Android has been the shortcut to open the camera for quite a long time. It should work on the Pixel 3.
You know you've done something pretty cool when your equipment catches fire after the experiment is complete.

Either that or you've made a mistake somewhere. :D
This is plain wrong. France has been one of the most reliable exporters of electricity in EU for over a decade https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_France...
I say it's easy to make L2 street parking ubiquitous _anywhere_, not _everywhere_ all at once.

Obviously taken in totality it's a massive undertaking, but you could say the same thing about streetlamps, or roads, or basically any ubiquitous infrastructure.

Many places have started with 1-2 spots per neighborhood, which is prudent and scalable. As demand rises they should be able to keep pace with that demand without significant technical challenges.
There’s a photo of the book cover that disrupts the article but it continues beyond that paragraph. The section you’re quoting from makes it pretty clear they’re describing how *McKinsey* holds themselves out to the world. A paragraph or two later they get into the things that McKinsey isn’t so keen to advertise.
I think part of the idea is that many of the reasons people are radicalized is because optimizing for engagement/eyeballs on ads at all costs/magnifying any possible trend means optimizing for the most volatile and evocative news, events and opinions. The loudest and meanest get the most attention, which means that systems to optimise for attention will naturally favor and bolster loud and mean and divisive content.

So by taking twitter private, Musk can technically care about that less than if the company is kept pubic. In theory. In practice, he's not going to burn $40+ billion for purely altruistic goals.

That said, solving divisiveness can be as simple as just banning all opinions that disagree with your own.
Apparently it has been allowed since 2013: https://usa.visa.com/dam/VCOM/download/merchants/surcharging...
Yes, it parallel parks perfectly reliable, in gaps that intuitively feel too small.
This claim has been retracted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33100130
I’m actually a big fan of Ricardo and free trade. Protectionism is not the only (and a destructive way) to address the dislocation of these kinds of transitions. But the USA of the 80s and 90s took then opposite path.
i always took that to mean that writing them was the primary thinking process, but it's certainly not clear from just the quote
Go read _The Hubble Wars_.

It will make you angry. Aside from the mirror fault, there were a number of operational issues that Hubble ran into that the TLAs knew about (e.g., solar panel flapping, radiation around the Southern Atlantic Magnetic Anomaly resetting Hubble's computers, etc.) . . . and didn't tell anyone because of secrecy concerns.
XSLT (or rather XPath, and even more so XQuery FLWOR) have very expressive ways to walk the tree while filtering/mapping/folding data - much more so than JS over JSON.

XSD is just a way to define schemas for XML documents. I don't know what you mean by "extended XML standard", but islands of one schema within another were not uncommon.
"We fortified the election boss, it's now behind the great wall."
trying for years to pivot to other forms of two-factor authentication that are
more phishing-resistant than an OTP

Yes, that probably explains why they prefer OTP over SMS --- because it is more secure --- and it totally violates your privacy.
Probably not. We're actually headed towards many smaller models that call each other, because VRAM is the limiting factor in application, and if the domains aren't totally dependent on each other it's easier to have one model produce bad output, then detect that bad output and feed it into another model that cleans up the problem (like fixing faces in stable diffusion output).

The human brain is modularized like this, so I don't think it'll be a limitation.