skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think this is arguable. A forest of unchopped trees is only ”wealth” in the sense that all the minerals on the Moon are. It’s really potential wealth — it becomes wealth when we extract the resources. That’s why they’re resources and not just stuff. (Whether we have done a good or bad job managing the Earth’s resources is a separate matter)
Ugliness is subjective. Tokyo is varied but to me that's generally nicer and more interesting than uniformity. I don't think there's any part of Tokyo that looks as bad as the Barbican or the Brunswick, and to me the endless rows of identical beach-hut-style houses in San Francisco were far grimmer than Tokyo. YMMV I guess.

I'm not a huge fan of the look of the gravel parks, but every kid having a nearby park that they actually use beats a handful of parks that look nice, IMO. And it's not like Tokyo doesn't have big beautiful parks as well.
I think that one of the main reasons YouTube became so huge was music piracy.
What’s your experience been? I also have never drunken, and really don’t plan on it.

My mistake was avoiding parties and socialization in college along with drinking.
I too host a Matrix homeserver, but I chose not to use the central name server when I setup. So you cannot discover me on Matrix. I might later setup my own name server as others do.

Mastodon does not have an official central name server, but people have setup unofficial ones that people can choose to list themselves in such as https://fedi.directory/ and twitodon.com.
If your definition of “leftist” doesn’t include anyone considered “leftist” in the US Zeitgeist, then there really isn’t a point in having a conversation here because you’re just pointlessly getting hung up on irrelevant details.

Replace “leftist” in what I said with “elected under association with the Democratic Party in California”.
In the summary section they talk briefly about this:

"It is reasonable to expect that the relationship we observe would differ in younger individuals who have not experienced the chronic effects of alcohol on the brain. An additional limitation stems from the self-reported alcohol intake measures in the UK Biobank, which cover only the year prior to participation. Such estimates may not adequately reflect drinking prior to the past year and are susceptible to reporting and recall bias.

Further, our analyses do not account for individuals with a past diagnosis of AUD. Earlier studies have shown that the brain shows some recovery with the cessation of drinking in individuals with AUD, but this varies with age and sex, and recovery might be incomplete. Thus, a past diagnosis of AUD would likely influence our results. We hope future studies will shed light on how a history of AUD with prolonged recovery is associated with brain structure in middle-aged and older adults."
No, 80x is about right for the 20-year time horizon; Wikipedia lists it as 86. You're right that the 20-year Global Warming Potential is lower than the 100-year, but the 20-year is already what the poster you were replying to was using. The 100-year is around 25 to 31.
This seems to have been known for decades with respect to heavy users, now it's being found it lighter users. For background:

> "Partial recovery of brain function with abstinence suggests that a proportion of the deÆcits must be neurochemical in origin while neuronal loss from selected brain regions indicates permanent and irreversible damage. The factors influencing these two components are unknown..."

Kril, J. J., & Halliday, G. M. (1999). Brain shrinkage in alcoholics: a decade on and what have we learned? Progress in Neurobiology, 58(4), 381–387.

https://sci-hub.se/10.1016/s0301-0082(98)00091-4

Here's something on mechanisms from 2021:

> "Various mechanisms underlie ethanol-induced cell death, with oxidative stress and endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress being the main pro-apoptotic mechanisms in alcohol abuse and FASD. Oxidative and ER stresses are induced by thiamine deficiency, especially in alcohol abuse, and are exacerbated by neuroinflammation, particularly in fetal ethanol exposure."

https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/16/8678

Yes, psychedelics and cannabis are safer recreational drugs than alcohol is, and maybe opiates and cocaine are not really any worse. Revising drug laws to account for such realities is long overdue - although banning marketing and promoting public health campaigns on risks and side effects are also good ideas.
To some degree it already is, for people who have the checkmark you haven't heard of outside of Twitter.

It's a well worn meme to mock people throwing a fit over not getting a checkmark.
Great article. I hope whatever idiots at Google who made these decisions are held accountable. I was a Google Talk, Google Voice, Google Hangouts user who also felt their product negligence was going to eventually catch up with them.
Yep. In New England [1] roughly 2,000,000 households heat via "heating oil" or kerosene (which is more expensive). There are slightly more folks that heat with natural gas, but this is a rural vs suburban divide and New England is quite rural overall.

Heat pumps are in vogue now but usually they are supplemented with fireplaces, wood stoves or pellet stoves.

[1] https://www.mass.gov/service-details/how-massachusetts-house...
Mission, and there are a lot of smart people in the world. Also, some people identify with him because he acts completely the same as That One Guy in the university who had studied programming before getting to the CS classes.

I think that a lot of people also don't have to directly work with him, and there are a lot of assholes running companies. That being said, Musk's behavior personally turned me off from all of his companies' products, despite maybe 5 years ago thinking "if I ever buy a car, it'll be a Tesla"
From what I can see on Craigslist in New England there are a lot of pianos being given away for free, on the condition that you come and move it. I helped someone do that once, and it really didn't click how big of a task that was until we did it. The new owner also gave away that piano, and transport was again someone else's problem :-)
> How do you propose to keep artists able to pay their bills and live a decent life if you're completely cool with training AIs on them?

Why isn't it a concern for any other automation?

How do we progress, exactly, if we randomly decide that nothing can disrupt any of the current ways of earning income?

What about, IDK, coal miners?

> And also if I am reading this right, you have absolutely no problem with an image generator that's been trained on copyrighted work producing work that's either copyrighted or copylefted? You are utterly fine with disregarding the copyrights of the original artist and/or whoever they may have assigned the copyright to as part of their contract?

Copyright maximalism is bad. It also doesn't make any sense. Someone learning to reproduce your capabilities by looking at your stuff isn't violating copyright. If we allowed copyright to somehow mean that someone's skills can't be reproduced...
I'm guessing: rate of carbon-dioxide-equivalent being added to the atmosphere each year.
It is used in some formalizations of quantum field theory. Quantum field theory is used to make testable predictions about physics, and historically, giving scientific theories a rigorous mathematical backing has been useful. So that could be an example.
Unclear why this is getting downvoted, it is accurate statement. Only 20 of the top 50 channels are not brands. Of those 20 if you exclude music channels like BTS, Blackpink, Justin Bieber, etc. you're only left with 10 channels.
"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."
On the plus side, per-capita alcohol consumption does seem to be on the decline in many countries over the past few decades [1]. So hopefully in the future it will be less difficult for others to make a similar choice.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-alcohol-1890?t...
>>> engineering challenges could be overcome so that ... developed and deployed ... within the 2050 timeframe.

Wow ... thirty years. That's the engineering document equivalent of "if I say 5 million they will stop asking"

>>> political, legal, regulatory and environmental impacts ...

Wow. That's, that's all the impacts. At once.

>>> 5km

Yeah they need a 5km diameter antenna to receive the whole beam. It spreads out a bit ...

Ok this surprised me - a lot.
And frankly it's the kicker. If you are going to go to the trouble of laying out
twenty square kilometres of "antenna" then... just stop with the whole satellite business and go with, you know, 20km2 of solar panels. I mean you get power after the first 1km2. And you don't have to have a satellite launch.

Or "turn off the power if another satellite crosses below your beam."
Starlink anyone? Yeah seriously this will fry every LEO satellite and the plan is to turn off the beams as they cut across. Turn off what is labelled "base load" electricity, for a whole nation.

Sorry your hospital will go dark for thirty seconds. And again. Oh again. And again.

Aaargh. I am channelling Adam Something at this point. Trains. We could put trains in the 20km2 as well.

Ok - more seriously thank you @timthorn for the paper - sorry for not taking it as seriously as I should. But thank you - worth the skim read.

Edit: clearly I am not a physicist but I am wondering what does a satellite that is designed to collect 3GW of power from the Sun constantly actually do with the power of it is going to "turn off" the beam. I mean, could you really turn all the mirrors and panels away from the sun and back again reliably? Or do you keep the power flowing and pour the beam elsewhere ? (which sounds like you are actually frying a slice of the earth as you aim away. and hitting those satellites in the way. Oh wow this is complicated.
I mean, american people is as intelligent as anyone else. By the sheer number, is not rare to think that they should have more people of high training on difficult areas to master.

What happens to the US is that they "borrow" a lot of intellectual capacity from abroad, and they have been doing that for a lot of time.

Also, stealing IP and resources has been the eternal strategy of empires to build themselves, US and Europe included.
"Full Thrust" is the name for Falcon 9 v1.2 when they upgraded to Merlin D engines which are a lot more powerful than Merlin C. All current Falcon 9's are Full Thrust, expandable or reusable.
The silly way Stephen King distances himself from the unwashed masses is the 400 million copies of his books that he's sold to them, and the various movies and TV properties built on his IP. Again: you're not talking about reality if you think people like King care about blue-check status more than Twitter cares about keeping them happy. You can wishcast that away any way you please, but that's all you're doing. Twitter needs Taylor Swift on the platform talking about Midnights. Twitter could kick Swift off the platform and do nothing at all to her popularity.

What's pretty clearly happening in these conversations is that Twitter-believers are conflating blue-check remora users who have no public profile outside of Twitter with actual celebrities. King is right, and Musk knows it: if he's smart, Musk will in fact find ways to kick things back to King, Swift, and LeBron to keep them happy. He needs them, and they don't need him at all.
I think you missed the “civil suit” part. Common law business torts are not found in statute.
Oh, it doesn't always mean personalized price gouging. My take was always simply that the product is overpriced to the point the vendor needs to employ a full time salesperson to make you want it. I think that was why I've always avoided making those calls. Not only did I know I was going to be annoyed, I was going to have to pay to be annoyed. "contact us" pricing was always the last option to try, especially from the well known brands.
I think you might be conflating the activity of instance admins that run Mastodon with the actual developers of Mastodon, which isn't fair. Similarly, the developers of Chrome shouldn't be held responsible if people use Chrome to browse CP and terrorist advocacy sites.
> Well, put bluntly, the reason is that you probably are not using the Nikon properly.

Probably one of the biggest mistakes people make: not understanding at what aperture their lens is sharpest - typically stopping the lens down too much.

Other mistakes: not using a fast enough shutter speed to eliminate blurring from mirror slap (or using anti-mirror-slap features in their camera), not using a sufficiently sturdy tripod and mount, and so on.

Also, sometimes lenses just don't leave the factory in very good shape. If you struggle to get sharp results, it may be beneficial to send it in for service. The stuff sent around to reviewers has been obsessed over by the manufacturer, perfectly tweaked on a lens testing bench to get it as close to perfect as they can.
Amazon Prime now comes with 100M songs and ad-free podcasts
I would've found abstainers vs non-abstainers more interesting.
Amazon Freezes Hiring Levels in Profitable Advertising Business
Criminal code is specific to jurisdiction, in California this would probably be the most relevant section - https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-499c.html . Whether a customer list is a trade secret depends on a bunch of factors in that state's (or countries) trade secret laws (the penal code is just a fraction of them) but in general a mere list of names and telephone numbers likely will not qualify, but a list that includes their buying habits or pricing of current contracts likely will.
I just setup FreshRSS for myself to get off feedly and am much MUCH happier.

While I'd like to use that service I have to agree with you. I want to self host this goldmine of personal information myself as well.
Here's a good one: https://www.amazon.com/Democracy-Economics-Politics-Perspect..., but there are many.
> One is explicitly being reversed, and the other is protection of a vulnerable group regardless of majority status.

The “reversed” case is because people don’t actually care enough to elect representatives that reflect those views. There is a Democratic majority house, senate, and president. Why isn’t abortion protected?

> and the other is protection of a vulnerable group regardless of majority status

It’s protected because the majority decided to protect it. The majority could easily remove that protection. They aren’t constitutionally protected.
Sure, and I had to accept it because they would bully me into it. "Here is a contract for $200,000 and you'll bill us $30,000 each month, but we'll pay you 90 days later".

They know I don't have a choice to turn down that work just because I don't like the 90 day rule, and they only have that rule so they can keep money in their bank account longer.

And when I was on the corporate side, the vendor specifically would not do the work for me because they didn't agree to the 90 day terms, so I had to fight with my own people to get them paid faster so I could work with them.

It's just a pain all around.
> When Twitter started there were no celebrities on there

When Twitter started its unique selling point was posting & reading via SMS, and it had essentially no competitors. The market Twitter is in now is radically different.

> Stephen King can announce a book tour or new title and reach millions of fans for a meager 20 bucks a month.

The current planned price for the algorithmic juicing plus reduced ads plus verification that merges and replaces the existing verified program and Blue premium subscription is $8/mo in the US, adjusted by PPP in other countries.
> “It’s a fantasy that somehow more supply will start driving the price of housing down,” said Joseph Smooke

San Francisco, a city so exceptional it doesn't even follow supply and demand!
Not really? Germany is a mid-range, slow-moving sort of country, and they get about 40% of their energy from renewables. They still get 30% of their energy from coal, but it's being fairly steadily phased out.

Energy sources are fungible. Solar power is cheaper than coal in a lot of places, as is wind, and the US has a ton of natural gas to make up for the intermittency problem.

I think you're mistaking a political problem for a technical one.
When some dipshit pundit throws that hissy fit, the meme is dead on.

When Twitter annoys people like Stephen King, it's exactly backwards.
Experience: A piano doesn't have an on/off switch. It can't be anything but a piano. Electronic pianos can be guitars, drum-kits, or entire orchestras! It can feel more like a toy than an instrument, especially for younger children. So right off the bat, a piano will give you or your children focus when they sit on the piano stool.

Sound: a hammer hitting real strings vs a speaker replicating the sound. If a speaker gets dust in it or becomes damaged in some way, the sound is greatly diminished. Also, pianos are made of wood which vibrates. The strings at the higher end which aren't dampened vibrate. If I sneeze loud enough, the piano in my room sometimes hums with vibration. It's a living thing.

Yes, pianos need to be tuned and electronic pianos don't... but if you or your child is actually taking lessons and practising, you want a piano. Your technique, I think, will be much better if you learn on a piano with real hammer action vs an electronic piano.

I think the trick to buying a piano is taking your time and only buying the one that sounds right to you. Some people like a more warm, mellow tone. Other people like more brightness and brilliance. The "family" piano we have was purchased 20 years ago and it's a standard upright piano. It's absolutely rock solid, still sounds beautiful.
The sound is really good on digital pianos these days (and I mean digital pianos as opposed to keyboards).

The main playing difference between a digital piano and a real piano is the key action. Depending on how much you want to spend you can get realistic key feel and action on a digital piano.

Merriam Music (a Canadian music shop) recently made a couple of interesting videos talking about Kawai's different key actions on their various models of digital piano:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oRWQ6OVqq0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6f6-sx4b-c

The Kawai ES110 (soon to be replaced by the ES120), for example, is a solid entry level digital piano at a good price. As you progress with playing you might find you want more out of the key action than the Responsive Hammer Compact action on the ES110 offers, in which case getting a model with the Responsive Hammer III action is a good upgrade.

I like digital pianos because they can be cheaper than the real thing, they don't require tuning, they are smaller, lighter, more portable with audio out, MIDI, and bluetooth connections for integration with software. I like that I can play it silently (or at least quietly) with headphones whenever I want.
I think any code that's posted in public should be considered free to use by anyone for anything and its corresponding license be ignored and invalid. If you want restrictions on how people use your code, don't post it publicly, or have a proprietary portion that's required for compilation
> There's nothing inevitable about it. Laws exist to protect people.

Amen.

I think one thing we're going to have to look at is having the expectation of a separate agreement for having ones work go into a training set. Maybe equity should even be the standard here.

And informed consent associated with it. People need to know they're training something else to do their job as well as doing the job, selling the cow instead of the milk.
Artistic expression is, I would say, an inherent feature of the human brain. It is also a consequence of the available tools. Even if I grant that people are simply going to stop drawing and painting (which I find highly unlikely), what would happen in that instance is that new techniques will arise to harness these new tools in novel ways. "Okay, I can get the computer to more or less generate anything I want. How can I compose and combine this tool into giving me something unique and interesting?"
Are you saying he won’t leave or that he will accept paying money to Elon Musk for his checkmark?
There's a reason there are entire companies that focus on the problem of ID verification, it's difficult problem.
I'd argue that in all of those cases, the ultimate objective is (or should be!) to serve the requirements. Even maintenance tasks are in service of requirements - if not customer requirements, then internal or environmental ones. Performance can be a requirement too. If requirements aren't changing, the code shouldn't need to change. And if the code doesn't need to change, it doesn't need refactoring.
The ratio of sensor areas between full frame (864 mm²) and for example iphone 13 pro max "wide" (main) camera sensor (44 mm²) is actually larger than the ratio between a 4x5 large format film plate (12903 mm²) and a full frame sensor.

edit: changed "sensor sizes" to "sensor areas" for clarity.
Oh, calm down. It has nothing to do with "conservatives". The same thing happened to me several times, and I hadn't even followed anybody. Their bot-detection is cranked up to 11, so it's hyper-attuned to anything that seems suspicious. Confirm your email, have it send you a text or whatever it wants, and move on with your life.
An interesting study, but I worry how this might be interpreted by those outside of academia. There are a lot of people who like to make normative health recommendations based on studies like this.
»Meanwhile, recently published studies set the estimate for total global methane emissions from the industry at 80-140 million tons per year, while the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) methane tracker estimates emissions at the lower end of this range.»[1]

[1] Progress on methane emissions by energy companies, but numbers still don’t add up: UNEP | 31 October 2022 | https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/10/1130047
YouTube is full of trash burning tutorials. Some of them are exceptionally stupid and talk about "clean burners", which is essentially a burn barrel connected to a leaf blower, such that the smoke is dispersed, creating the illusion of "clean" air.

Such dumb tutorials have hundreds of hundreds of thousands of views. Each video has dumb comments on them like "Oh yeah this burner is awesome, I made the same thing at home and it worked, thank you". YouTube declines to remove the videos.

A burn barrel burns trash at a lower temperature than an incinerator and doesn't do any sort of filtering. A burn barrel can generate more pollution than a small city, including harmful chemicals like dioxin and furans.

YouTube should ban all trash burning content. The makers of those videos should be deanonymized and be reported to environmental authorities. There should be a large crack down on stupid backyard burning content. It should be made illegal and each one of those residential superpolluters should be hunted down and thrown in jail.

It is so upsetting to watch those videos, with people saying "I saved $50 burning my trash at home, I am so smart". Fuck!

Also, the government should require garden equipment to have a fucking catalytic converter. But they won't because that will hurt their numbers. A gas powered leaf blower pollutes as much as a multitude of cars.