skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure! I'm actually glad you asked, because this is a perfect example of first order thinking giving you the wrong answer. Your understanding is actually (almost) entirely correct! The problem is that a forest is an entire system, and not just the trees. Talk about missing the forest for the trees :)

So a singular tree grows more aggressively when young, but you also have to consider that the tree respires and that it drops matter to the ground which microbes decompose and respire CO2! But the overall system changes once a forests get larger and there is canopy closure. Once we consider the entire system (or at least more of the system) we reverse our conclusion and find that young forests are NET carbon sources (despite individual trees being carbon sinks) and that old growth forests are NET carbon sinks. PBS Terra does a good explanation of it so I'm linking it here[0].

Also, with that said, we should add some information about land management. After all, logging cycles and maintaining old growth forests is part of land management, but it is far from the whole picture. Forrest Fleisch (ironic name) frequently writes about this so I'll just leave one post here[1] and allow you to dig in more.

I hope this clears things up. I'm not an expert so I don't have all the answers myself. But this is what I've gathered from conservationists and those studying forests. And in all fairness, the prevailing theory was that of the first order until relatively recently when we could actually measure the entire system. So old information can be holding us back, but also I think this demonstrates that we as the public understanding can significantly lag that of the scientific consensus. While I agree we should challenge experts this also demonstrates the importance of relying on them.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDdKOmvIKyg

[1] https://mobile.twitter.com/ForrestFleisch1/status/1306221445...
>well okay then, if it's so damn important, what the hell is this complete unwillingness to do everything humanly possible to protect it?

For having chastised people in another post for focusing too much on "regicide" and not on OP's "completely 100% valid point", I am a bit surprised that you're ignoring my own comments, such as:

>Don't confuse this with me saying that espionage isn't possible here

I'm saying, hold the fucking phone before you call for someone's murder, especially before you abdicate for their public dismemberment. Let's see what the facts of the case are before we determine how far to go with punishment (and I say this as someone being fully open to this being an act against the US that should be punished accordingly). At no point have I suggested we take on a "complete unwillingness to do everything humanly possible to protect it".

Is nuance dead? Must things be all or nothing? "KILL THEM NOW, and if you dare disagree with that sentiment then surely you are unwilling to defend the US at all"? Seriously?
conquer? Putin never wanted to "conquer" Ukraine, their goal was pretty simple, uncorrupt and denazify the donbas and prevent NATO from spreading their anti-russia propaganda

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/feb/04/welcome-to-the-...

I can smell the similar "china invade taiwan" american propaganda
Possible violations of the terms of use [1]?

> Engaging in automated uses of the site that are abusive or disruptive of the services and have not been approved by the Wikimedia community;

> Disrupting the services by placing an undue burden on a Project website or the networks or servers connected with a Project website;

I hadn't used wikiless much, but taking it down seems very against wikipedia's stated purpose.

How hard would it be to "fork" wikipedia? The content is already CC. I imagine the hardest part would be social momentum.

[1] https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Terms_of_Use/en#4._Ref...
> Also, they've been fucking with elections in other countries

Sure, but this is much more low level than a war. The US also messes with other countries elections & politics, including Euromaidan in Ukraine.
You mean N would break out of the Otriarchal grip of the system and be a strong, independent constant.
No, it would cost more if it’s not in USD. XXXUSD rates have gone up by 20% for a lot of currencies this year.
I would really like to see a nutrition label for manufactured goods, including what countries parts come from. In particular I would love to see semantic versioning applied to manufactured products so it's easier to see when products change.
Same feeling as a software developer. Programming as we know it will be completely transformed before the end of the decade.
These seem to be altering rules around federal elections in particular. Can you detail where state elections are being 'taken over'?
> along with avahi daemon

Tell us more!
Org mode is so incredibly powerful but also so painfully beautiful in it's simplicity if you dont go overboard with it
OPs comment wasn’t just off the cuff emotionally charged rhetoric though. They acknowledged that there are times for a measured response, and there are times that a measured response is inappropriate. That outrage and pitchfork wielding are appropriate responses. They made the case that this was one of those times.

I agree.
Right. Yeah it seems to make sense that a pandemic followed by a war would have an impact on the economy :-/.
You have sold me on I Bonds as a financial product, but you'll never touch my money. Hire a lawyer.
> Certainly we're very, very far away from that level of cinematic detail and crispness.

Can you quantify what you mean by "very, very far away"?

With the recent pace of advances, I could see feature-length script, storyboard, & video-scene generation occurring, from short prompts & interatively-applied refinement, as soon as 10y from now.

Barring some sort of civilizational stagnation/collapse, or technological-suppression policies, I'd expect such capabilities to arrive no further than 30y from now: within the lifetime, if not the prime career years, of most HN readers.
How long until the AI just generates the entire frame buffer on a device? Then you don’t need to design or program anything; the AI just handles all input and output dynamically.
I believe there's a sweet spot between note-taking as a procrastination cope and adding actual value. As in, storing important insights that might trigger more insights in a different context(future).

The value of note-taking is undeniable, it's like a new "layer" after the neocortex where your memories are not exponentially decaying by the lack of usage. So utilization is not the sole factor for recall.

If done well note-taking be be considered "externalized cognition" where you instead of holding everything in your brain and treat as a storage + compute. You just compute. Anything important will be there in your notes. This allows you to have more "mental energy" to actually draw connections between things instead of struggling to remember them. It's like the beta version of neura-link or other intelligence-augmenting technologies.

I'm working on such a thing right now [1] It's like roam(outliner) but also have a HTML(plain text, stable) Engine for you to build more things inside of it.

[1] https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
To add to this, people would also likely forget that the US west coast is about 1/3 that of Africa’s, so it’ll get you only about as far as Nigeria. Africa is massive!
That update is glorious. Doesn’t seem like the conspiracy theorists had any actual reason for suspicion of this particular firm other than xenophobia though. I wonder if they caught this guy because the firm conducted an audit in response to the conspiracy theories.
So is something like an EMP ? Shouldn't it cause damage to the surrounding electronic devices ?
I beg to differ. Art isnt just fancy paintings for pseudo intellectuals to show off. Art is a good looking app, a nice looking car, a cozy feeing house design or kitchen furniture, an ad that communicates vision, and so on. Art is emotion which ai cant create. Sure it can randomise visuals within the constraints of what it has “learned” but it definitely cant create human emotion. No amount of micro-dosing can convince the world it is going to completely replace artists or indeed programmers.
Is Apple important? They produces nice gadgets but those don’t seem to power anything truly important and could be replaced easily.
> it's the logical consequence of trying to channel public money into private economies, public money that is meant to fund our most basic civic activity.

Yes, and that logical consequence is being exploited by foreign governments. By "infiltrate" I mean "taking advantage of our shortsightedness," similar to how we ignorantly offshored pharmaceutical sourcing/production to China [1].

There's plenty [2] of loose threads that warrant my "only the paranoid survive" POV on stuff like this.

Hell, there's even a book that goes into detail about the strategy [3]:

> "If one party is at war with another, and the other party does not realize it is at war, the party who knows it is at war almost always has the advantage and usually wins.” And this is the strategy set forth in Unrestricted Warfare: waging a war on an adversary with methods so covert at first and seemingly so benign that the party being attacked does not realize it’s being attacked." - Qiao Liang

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[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/u-s-officials-wor...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/china-houston-consulate-docu...

[3] https://www.amazon.com/Unrestricted-Warfare-Chinas-Destroy-A...
Are you sure it auto expands the preview of a link without any user interaction? https://www.tatango.com/blog/ios-10-what-sms-marketers-need-...

This could be due to it being sent from someone in your contact list:
https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013199334-Ho...
Why are you referring to India using human pronouns ? He/her? You can just say “India”.
I submit that a still bigger problem preventing people from actually talking to one another about this is the lack of evidence of an actual stolen election.
S O L I D Sketches
Unless you are paying the workers in USD that has no effect on the final price.
Great job by the author for looking more closely and clarifying this was not an issue.
You still need to prompt GPT-3 with something. Stacking two systems won't improve the outputs if your original input lacks precision. Garbage in, garbage out. Granted, GPT-3 requires way less precision to generate something useful, but you still need to pass the proper context.

I think you're right, though. It's hard to speculate how these things would turn out, but I think it's reasonable to assume that we will still need some relatively sophisticated human input to produce the best results out of these systems.
Google has a lot of failures of their own but they seem at least semi-committed to an open internet (with actual ethical standards), something I can't exactly say for Zuckerberg
Tor was taken over by the CIA a while ago when they purged the old hacker board for "inappropriate behavior towards women": https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/11/jacob-app...

You know, the same thing they did to Assange. I wonder how that's going. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2021/06/28/assa-j28.html

>Key witness against Assange admits to lying in exchange for US immunity

Oh yeah.

But hey, we might have destroyed one of the crown jewels of free software because the CIA played SJWs like a fiddle but at least we're good people: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4hh1YhDfbA
I was wondering the same, but then I thought it would probably be easier to just translate the z80 CPM binaries to 6502... That should be relatively straightforward, and since CP/M relies heavily on the BIOS/BDOS ther shouldn't be that many issues... But I'll probably just watch his series on YouTube first, maybe that's something he's planning/thinking about too
I fear that's exactly what an employer wants. They get more hours for less money out of an employee like that.
SD 1.2 and 1.3 are open source too
You can't get 9.62% APY.

The final data isn't available, but the upcoming rate is going to be way lower.
Just fixing their basic stuff
would be a better start from where they are right now.
Multimaster?
Check out https://mailing.run. Similar project that can be embedded or run as a standalone API. Also uses MJML which is indispensable for cross-client compatibility.

Another tip, I highly recommend a CSS minifier which inlines styles to fix a variety of CSS priority issues.
> The app never even got installed and he never signed up for it.

....that is some serious "My computer won't turn on. No I can't check to see if the power cord is plugged in, its too dark to see back there because the power is out." energy.
I have, on occasion, had an existential crisis after contemplating that I spend all day talking to an electric box instead of a human being.
This is why

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/xwdzr5/the_num...
Doesn’t look down to me
Is this service only for individuals or can you set up an account for my corporation too ? The process of setting up a treasury account for my business at Treasury Direct is stalled for some reason.

Edit: I noticed a related comment:

Rebelgecko: how do you handle accounts that require medallion verification

adammoelis: We can't support those unfortunately right now.

That was the problem on my end. I went through the hassle of getting a medallion verification for my business 2 months ago, mailed in the paperwork, and never heard back from the treasury department.
Are you using local talent to lay the cable? I would generally assume you use the same crew and same boats all the way through, who probably dont want to be paid in local currency.
> I'm saying, hold the fucking phone before you call for someone's murder

what is a trial

EDIT: where are you from where people get executed for crimes without a trial, why would anyone need to explicitly state that? I'm breathing fine thanks
Indeed Apple is a frivolous enterprise. MacBooks and iPhones aren’t used for anything important.
Computer software came to maturity in 2017 with the release of Fortnite.
Looks interesting but I'm mostly only able to draw selection rectangles on my phone here. I did manage a black dot somehow...
Canadian ransomware hacker sentenced to 20 years in U.S. prison
Are there legal protections to ensure that you'll give us the TD account directly, like is it like a bank or is it that we just have to trust you?
I was not suggesting SMS 2FA when I referred to "Smartphone-based solution". I meant relying on Secure Enclave or alike on the smartphone as the second factor in a challenge-response fashion that makes the "OTP" bound to a specific domain and thus unphishable.
Oh, I agree that elections are not 100% unassailable. In fact, I strongly believe that they are being assailed. Mostly through voter suppression and disenfranchisement.

A good example of this is when the state tells you that you can vote, and then arrests you and charges you with voter fraud, because you actually can't. [1]

Or, alternatively, when the state bars you from voting until you pay all outstanding court fees and fines, but also refuses to tell you whether or not you actually owe any outstanding court fees or fines.

You can't have a free and fair election when you secretly disqualify people from voting, but refuse to tell them that until after they vote.

[1] https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/08/27/2-people-...
Sounds a bit like Zapier. Love that tool.
I'd say in less than 10 years we will be able to turn novels into movies using deep learning at this rate.
Perhaps, but jobs are what you make of them. I know a guy that does floor polishing and epoxy floors. Not a very creative job but plenty of work.

Him and his crew spend a lot of time together. They have deep discussions about philosophy, art and ethics while spreading smelly goop around concrete floors. I bet they go home pretty intellectually satisfied from doing epoxy floors.
I never cease to be amazed that the radon fan my wife had installed on the house she purchased in 1996 has run 24/7, 365 days a year, ever since, with zero maintainance. I don't know how this is even possible for an exterior electro-mechanical device.
In the article, the right-leaning groups (that the Times called 'election deniers', despite not offering evidence) claimed the company stored data in China. That is likely true. Or at least it's true enough that a judge issued a warrant.

Nothing in the article says these groups are claiming this company participated in fraud. Only that they are stealing american data.

The article lays out exactly what True the Vote claimed:

> Ms. Engelbrecht and Mr. Phillips claimed at the conference and in livestreams that they investigated Konnech in early 2021. Eventually, they said, the group’s team gained access to Konnech’s database by guessing the password, which was “password,” according to the online accounts from people who attended the conference. Once inside, they told attendees, the team downloaded personal information on about 1.8 million poll workers.

Based on the case notes, I think this allegation is merited and not a conspiracy theory at all.
> I am not worried given that.

YOLO is definitely an interesting approach for a financial company. Didn't people shit all over Plaid for taking this approach? Training people to give their financial credentials to 3rd parties is not the best.
I was referring to the cost of the materials. If we are talking about labor, sure. Most of the cost I presume isn’t labor though. Materials are imported with a weakened currency.
There's no evidence presented in this arrest warrant that CCCP had access to this data or was even aware of its existence.

The only charge is storing the data on servers in China.

Slow your roll.
Bring enough people together with varied enough opinions and each of them will feel their own personal deep concerns are worth wielding pitchforks for. Eventually every conflict will involve pitchforks and the temperature of any discussion will be high enough that all you have are flames whereupon conflicts will just be hidden from public view and taken care of under the table so as not to risk the public flames of wrath.
I wouldn’t say that’s a fair characterization.

Besides the ham fisted approach, the original vuln idea seemed reasonable.

They were wrong, it happens to the best of us.

I’d say the potential security risk was worth raising the flag over.

Better be wrong and safe, having many of us learn something along the way, then overly cautious and leave a potential problem unaddressed.
Maybe I don't fully understand this:

does this mean that they would manually backport/reimplement fixes to whichever (old) version of software X that has implemented security fixes for its higher version (but not for the lower version used by the "Ubuntu Pro version Y", assuming that Ubuntu Pro would stick to a specific version of software X)?
Something you didn't mention in your posts, nor asked me if I was in favor of doing, prior to you demanding that I defend the US and implying that I'm unwilling to do so.

I think you need to go outside and take a few deep breathes.
Pretty sure if there was such a split, gulf coast states and their ports would go with the inland farmers. So petroleum would be imported around the Mississippi.
Likely a split would have the ‘red’ states net exporting petroleum.
Even with non-manufactured goods, I wonder how the nutrition in things like broccoli change over time. I remember hearing somewhere that some of the nutrients had gone down due to changes in farming practice, but I don't think I've seen much evidence that anyone is even tracking this.
I doubt this is new, probably happening during the low inflation times too.
Yep!

"Restyle that last scene, showing different mixtures of fear/concern/excitement on male lead's face. Try to evoke a little of Harrison Ford's expressions in his famous roles. Render me 20 alternate treatments."

[5 minutes later]

«Here are the 20 alternate takes you requested for ranking.»

"OK, combine take #7 up to the glance back, with #13 thereafter."

«Done.»
Ouch. I take a perverse pleasure when journalists screw up, but this is bad.
My PII is not public information in the USA, and it should not be in the hands of the CCP. Although it's not the case in my situation, many completed SF86 forms contain information that could be used to blackmail the applicant, such as DUI convictions, mental breakdowns, credit problems, bankruptcy, drug use, etc. The USG collects the information to "protect" the applicant from being exploited by the enemy, but such information could still be embarrassing if publicly disclosed.

Aside from the problems that publicizing information can cause, there's also the risk of a bad actor using the information to fraudulently obtain credit. The SF86 contains everything that anyone would need to obtain credit using somebody else's identity. At a minimum, the information could be used as a form of harassment.

A worst-case real-world example of how such information could cost lives is what the Mossad has been doing with Iranian nuclear scientists over the past two decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nucle...
Global Internet Map 2022
They work at the level of convolutions, not images.
What browser doesn't have a built-in PDF reader?
OPEC Makes Deep Supply Cuts
I can see it if it’s purely domestic end-to-end.

But at least in the US, we have a bad habit of outsourcing our problems away: Out sight out of mind.

If there’s any significant portion of the build out that’s non-domestic, then I have reservations.
It would also not begin construction until 2044 when all the CEQA lawsuits are complete.
You can create as many simple revocable trusts as you'd like using a Nolo offering and a visit to your bank for notarization.

I've heard TD will sometimes complain about a trust with your SSN as its TIN, but I've had no problems. After all, it is still a separate entity and that is the technical requirement.

Managing your own records and dealing with TD's horrible login process are the main hoops to creating multiple accounts. I appreciate the GreaseMonkey snippets for fixing their password input, that are listed elsewhere in this thread. But what would be really fantastic is if OP published their code for programmatically interacting with Treasury Direct.
Wow, and I thought I knew C pretty well. Great post.

edited to add: I really like "Modern C" and just re-checked -- no mention of the preprocessor feature!

https://hal.inria.fr/hal-02383654/file/ModernC.pdf
> It then “exploded” just as he was throwing it out the window. The watch left burn marks on the user’s couch. He also ended up visiting the emergency room because of lead poisoning concerns, but it’s important to remember the Apple Watch does not actually contain nearly enough lead to actually cause poisoning. He was simply concerned about it.

Wow, quite a few surprising angles here. I didn't expect the extra MI:7 drama or the burnt couch.

(Meanwhile, it's also kind of funny to note that CountyComm just released a barebones Casio homage for $25.)
> We train our models on a combination of an internal dataset consisting of 14 million video-text pairs

The paper is sorely lacking evaluation; one thing I'd like to see for instance (any time a generative model is trained on such a vast corpus of data) is a baseline comparison to nearest-neighbor retrieval from the training data set.
Former Uber security chief found guilty of covering up data breach
Yea, start 5 LLCs and have them each by ibonds to get around 10K limit I would be more interested. As is, treasury direct website is fine.