skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was the comic that made me lose respect for Mr. Munroe, because he is too intelligent to miss the point so badly: Free Speech is an age-of-enlightenment concept, not a legal construct from the US constitution. Worse, while it is true that no-one HAS to listen, actively preventing OTHERS from listening is obviously ethically wrong.

If you feel harassed by an user, filter that user. If you feel harassed by every single account on an instance, filter that instance for yourself (this option currently does not seem to exist in Mastodon). But do not go crying to our admin and deny me, who happens to be on the same server as you and is semi-ok with some of the folks on that other server the ability to interact with them.

This is creating filter bubbles, your users will at first love the friendlyness and fluff, but it also is exactly what led to the right-wing successes we've seen all over the world in the last few years. Filter bubbles destroy democratic societies.

> Yet others are run by bigots and ban anyone who objects to the hate and vitriol.

You see the dangers of giving admins that level of control? Now you got an instance in which there are no more discussions, only self-assuring and groupthink, and which will slowly become more radicalised. If filtering was strictly an user's issue, other users may have seen the objection to hate and vitriol (which often starts underhanded), and have had another view.

By the way, that is true no matter which political fringe a server admin belongs to: I know a Mastodon instance on which some users become increasingly radicalised against car owners right now, to the point where mass executions are being normalised by joking about them. Guess what happens when you try to become a voice for reason... But are ALL of them just evil, unredeemable beings that need to be banned from talking? Should my Mastodon admin block that instance for spreading hate and vitriol, even though the majority still talks about other things? Obviously, that's a silly idea.
Neat product! I have a couple of questions, mainly surrounding the SPN.

* How does SPN differ from a VPN, in detail? In other comments you said that it's similar to Tor, but what does that actually mean?

* Does traffic get routed through multiple nodes before being routed to the destination? If not, what sets it apart from a VPN - apart from being able to choose different servers for every program on your PC?

* Is SPN intended to provide privacy against nation-state actors where simply masking your exit node is not sufficient, similar to what Tor claims to do?

* Who operates exit nodes (and any intermediary nodes in the SPN network), are they owned or rented dedicated servers, and does it include residential connections - to provide unblocking for streaming services?

* Is traffic routed through other Portmaster users' internet connections?
Coal is cheaper than crating solar panels and storage of electricity for them.

Wind has other issues. There is no silver bullet here.
Having annoying activists is unavoidable, especially as long as we also have climate change deniers or climate emergency underestimaters, and therefore, we should learn to not be deterred to still do the right thing.

People opinions on what actions are probably similar to Gaussian curves, with two consequences:
1) you may be situated on the mean value, but you may not, and you have almost no way to know (personal assessments are so biased they are worth nothing)
2) it is unrealistic to expect that no one will exist on the left or on the right of you. There will always be annoying people that will go too far. As long as those are agreeing on the climate emergency problem, considering that they are a problem that need to be solved is just a waste of time. Just live with it.

If it makes you feel better, you may even consider that the existence of those annoying activists is the consequence of the lack of action of people who are downplaying the climate change emergency. If the second ones don't exist, the first ones would not exist too.
Ask HN: How do you navigate Seasonal Affective Disorder?
Now that the sun is setting earlier with daylight savings time, I’m finding that I struggle with the increased hours of darkness in the evenings.

I’m finding hanging out in well-lit areas with people and music in the evenings are good to counteract this (mall, cafe, gym, book store).

Do you do anything to offset fewer hours of daylight?
Australia has the 3rd largest coal reserves in the world, and relatively small population, so economically it makes sense for them as upfront investment is lower for coal compared to renewables, as a lot of the cost of coal power is in the extraction.

Obviously not good for the long-term, nor good for the planet, but this is the same driver for coal power also (which we indirectly contribute to due to the sheer amount of goods they export to the advanced economies).
That may all be true, but i think its an argument that physics entropy is bad metaphor for human "energy", and doesn't really match.
I also think there is a somewhat hyperbolic anti-China sentiment in the commentary on all of this. Plus a perhaps frustration at the US Space authorities on the lack of communication from their Chinese counterpart, something of course they themselves are entirely to blame for.

Anyway; the Chinese have done a few of these "uncontrolled reentries" now. All crashing into the ocean; so they are either very lucky or it is not so uncontrolled after all.
He meant that each droplet would be nearly 100% H2SO4, not the entire volume of the cloud.
Nothing is a better alternative than Twitter.

I mean that literally: "Nothing" is a better alternative than Twitter.
This, and using the web has trained me to just not see ads. While I don’t run an ad blocker, ads have to be subliminally effective as I’m idling waiting for them to complete (usually looking for the skip button). Maybe the younger, marketing-relevant groups watch them, but they’re just the crap one puts up with to see what I want.

The ai fails in at least two ways, showing me all sorts of stuff that’s irrelevant and then spending days or weeks sending me ads for X after I bought X on line. LensCrafters is particularly good at the latter.
> Coffee, tea

Not everyone is looking for caffeination.

> horchata, oat milk, lemonaides, frescas, aqua du jamaica

The sugar content on these is on-par with soda.
Nearly all binary searches and mergesorts are broken (2006)
Which companies are those that aren’t “tyrants”?
I'm curious if any of these requirements are met in this case: https://europa.eu/youreurope/business/dealing-with-customers...
Good thing are only 60 seconds in a minute other wise the 8:00:85 "boobs o'clock" morning meeting would be awkward.
Google search sends you to where it found the code.

That the copyright and license information are maybe available there is not something Google search actually knows to be the case.

That information might not actually be there, and Google does not care either way.

Similar to photos, There’s maybe a common misconception that code produced by copilot is free to use for any purpose. Is copilot under an obligation to point out that that might not be the case?
For anyone interested in different upscaling models, there is a collection in the wiki here:

https://upscale.wiki/wiki/Model_Database

My personal favourite is Remacri for photographs, but you should download a few of them and try what works best for the photo/image you have.

You can use either Automatic1111's repo for stable diffusion to try them out (put the model file in the ESRGAN directory), or also chaiNNer (https://github.com/chaiNNer-org/chaiNNer)
You also have to factor in how terrible post-doc pay and job security is, just to have a shot at getting on the tenure track. In the US it's half of that 80k number in bio research.
The trending images have only a handful of likes.

Are likes not federated through the Fediverse? If someone on mastodon.social likes a post on pixelfed.social, will that increase the like count on pixelfed.social?
A related question is that of code density, but that depends on more factors than just on which raw arithmetic or bitwise ops you have available. For instance, having a greater number of registers can be a benefit for some algorithms. Then, how many bits are used to encode each instruction.

There have been studies comparing code-density of common algorithms compiled to or hand-optimised for different instruction sets.
For instance: <https://web.eece.maine.edu/~vweaver/papers/iccd09/ll_documen...>

In general, the top densest have been 2-address CISC ISAs such as Motorola 680x0 and x86 variants, followed by 2-address RISC for embedded processors such as Super-H, ARM Thumb and RISC-V's C-extension.
They’re evidently selling shovels for the gold rush, before the gold is found
i have yubikey (usb hardware dongle) for paypal and it doesnt have this one-time option?

cannot reproduce bug
I’ll say that Into the Breach was what I had hoped FTL would have been. But I don’t like rogue-likes and love puzzles. (I suppose logic puzzles were more like what work was instead of debugging AWS configurations…)
In a sense, yes. Email contents in gmail are technically accessible to Google. But they are protected like hell via a bunch of dedicated systems that make it very difficult to access this material without an explicit auditable ticket associated with helping that user with some problem and permission to access their gmail contents. Attempts to circumvent this will get people fired.

This does rely on you trusting Google to implement and use these systems. The question is whether you trust a major tech company or whatever Mastodon server owner more to not peek at your DMs.
At least it is still the case that if my bike needs something beyond my skill/toolset, I can go to any good bike shop in my area. I’m not dependent on the manufacturer.
It was always cool to follow the masses like Disney's depiction of lemmings.
Are we coming full circle back to blogs? I would be excited but these people just want to be mad at something. So nothing with come of the fake out rage.
I look forward to the followings:

- silo-effect: selective countries being blocked.

- Steep increase in Echo chambers thereby not getting closer toward fostering a common goal of mass mutual understanding and common knowledge.

- numerous moderators of unknown quality can peer into your direct messages (DM). Not so private.

- apps have terrible privacy control. Then again, so does Twitter.

- log files are an iffy proposition, some servers do and some don't.

Not!
Could it? Yes, a thing is possible.

Will it? Almost certainly not.

How do we know? We don't, but that just means no one knows. It doesn't mean you should fling yourself towards one extreme opinion because it claims certainty.
I only guess because renewables don't yet provide a solid base load power guarantee around the clock in all weather types.

The obvious solution is not having so much demand, but we all want to have that cake and eat it.
it sounds like the danish word for carrot: "gulerod" which translates to "yellow root".
It's quite sensible really, why would you leave a method of disseminating official statements vulnerable to the whims of a private American corporation? Discussion still can and will be held on platforms not directly controlled by governments.
I can imagine some utility, beyond the inherent benefits of making such a thing. For one, something like this could act as an accessibility device for locating the cursor.
Nixon's voice sounded synthesized and not very much like him. To be it was still reasonably compelling with sound though
Username checks out <3
I think there's a misconception that types are meant to tag things according to the programmer's mental taxonomy. They're not. Types should be based on significant distinctions in how your particular program treats and processes the data. For instance, you don't need an EmailAddress type because your program doesn't do anything special with the knowledge that this string is actually an email address. It just treats it like another string. It takes some judgment to determine this, but I consider that part of the learning curve in using types rather than an inherent tradeoff from the tool itself.
I agree, the fall of the ACLU has been particularly disappointing. The former longtime executive director Ira Glasser has done a number of press interviews on how the ACLU has been taken over by 'progressive' ideologues who don't support free speech or other civil liberties.

I was amazed at their intervention in a recent lawsuit where they argued against releasing public records. The ACLU of old would never have done this.

I think this case is also what you are referring to when you mention denial of biological facts? For others reading this comment, here's what the ACLU actually submitted to the court:

> Proposed Intervenors deny the allegation that "it is precisely a combination of anatomy, genitalia, and physical characteristics that differentiate men from women[.]" Proposed Intervenors also deny the allegation that "human beings" are "sexually dimorphic, divided into males and females each with reproductive systems, hormones, and chromosomes that result in significant differences between men[] and women[.]"

It is absurd. They have really lost the plot.
here's keith coleman (twitter's vp of product) explaining why sometimes notes disappear: https://twitter.com/kcoleman/status/1588596686477459457

and here's a screenshot of a MORE helpful note that got added https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1588896632547905540
Happy to see this here! I'm a long time fan of Jesse's work [1] and love seeing independent software developers ship their own products.

1. https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/about/
I've been really into psychology and how to adapt your communication based on that. I've really enjoyed the article taker vs giver on HN, I especially enjoy learning about cognitive biases and things like NVC.
An open question is whether this property will persist through growth.
Environmental “engineering” by ancestors of elephants is a possible factor that contributed to the environmental change that likely lead to the extinction of Gigantopithicus, the enormous, ancient ape.
Wash your hands, get dry mucus out, wash hands again.
You basically have these options:

* connect your solar to the grid, sell off the excess (default for larger installations)

* connect your solar to the grid, donate the excess to the grid (easier from the paperwork perspective, doable for very small installations)

* have an "island" installation that's not connected to the main grid, move some devices to that island (you need two separate circuits, need to manage which device to put on which circuit)

* go fully island / off-grid (you only need one circuit, but need battery and enough power generation to go through the winter all by yourself)

The first two are definitively easier, the latter two only for real tinkerers / enthusiasts. So unless you count the latter two, the alternative to selling to the grid is donating the excess to the grid.
I couldn't imagine living without a smartphone. Even the homeless have smartphones nowadays. Everything is either a web page or an app.
If you want something lightweight, consider https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk - despite the “whimsical” UI, it’s very easy to run.
Tail-caw optimized.
From the description, the device made by the Chinese team is for a free-electron laser what a transistor was for an amplifying vacuum tube.

A free-electron laser is also a kind of vacuum tube, and one that is extremely large and expensive.

The new kind of free-electron laser, uses the free electrons from a solid-state metal wire instead of using free electrons from vacuum, so it can be much smaller, much cheaper and much more reliable, exactly like a solid-state transistor is in comparison with a vacuum pentode or triode.

Without access to complete text, it is not known in which wavelength range the metal wire can act as a laser and which is the energy efficiency.

Nevertheless, it could revolutionize the use of free-electron lasers. Such a laser has a much more limited domain of applications than a transistor, so it will not have a similar impact, even if it is a similar kind of invention.

The traditional free-electron lasers have the advantage that they can be designed to produce light of a desired frequency, while most other kinds of lasers are constrained to produce only certain frequencies from the spectra of various kinds of atoms, ions, molecules or solid crystals.

It would be interesting to know if this new kind of free-electron laser can also be designed to produce light of any desired frequency (within a certain range).
The dev is working on a major update to the Pixelfed equivalent of joinmastodon.org.
Some people are just wet. My sister blows her nose several times a day and I've never needed to blow mine without having a severe respiratory infection.
The threat model here isn't about trusting one third-party repo and distrusting another. It's about trusting any third-party repository without exceptionally good reasons.

I trust Signal, the company, as an author of specific type of communications software. I hesitate to trust them with root on my systems. The company and their intentions are, for the best of my knowledge, benign - but I have seen far too many well-meaning packaging snafus over the past 25 years to add even them to my sources.list.d; and in fact, I believe that with the actions of the company over the past ~three years they have squandered lot of the goodwill they had built up. I'm sorry to say, but the theme to me has felt like one of miscommunication combined with a lack of foresight.

I do trust they have had good reasons for everything. But optics are important, and for stewards of such a critical piece of software Signal have come up with questionably announced surprises. In a domain where boring is the characteristic everyone looks for.[ß]

A bit more context. As of now, there are only two third-party APT repositories that I can stomach. The official Postgres repo, and the Deadsnakes PPA. Both are maintained by the actual package maintainers, so they benefit from the assumed baseline and robustness.

ß: btw, I understand the SMS stuff. From an engineering effort perspective it makes sense, given what shitshow the SMS/MMS protocol stacks are. And with RCS, future integration would not be guaranteed at all. But it still came as a surprise.
Yeah but those licenses don’t matter if it is fair use or if the sections of code were not covered by copyright in the first place.

I agree that if SSO [0] didn’t exist that it would create poor incentives for open source software but that is not what these tools accomplish. They are the poetic equivalents of rhyming dictionaries. Should I figure out everyone that has rhymed “book” with “look” when I publish a new song?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure,_sequence_and_organi...
GoToSocial: 6849 files plus dependencies

Pleroma: 2289 files plus dependencies

I might miss my target of 2 files. But I will surely not get the filecount go up to these extremes :)
Better apartment architecture could go a ways towards ameliorating this, I suspect. But I’ve definitely not seen any.
I kind of hate articles like this. Taking some cliched advice (a stitch in time saves nine) and pretending that you can get to it from some intellectual principle of science, which somehow makes it more true or "wise".

Like what insight is entropy or negentropy providing into this situation? If you hadn't heard of negrntropy would you be under the mistaken impression that your apartment was going to clean itself?
> While I won’t be using it as much, I will still be on Twitter, and it will still be around

It's like the "berlin wall" moment but Bryan will be holding on to his communist party membership card, just in case.

https://nitter.net/Jarvis_Dupont/status/1585929998816485376#...
I quit my job recently to work on AGI.

I have some unique insights that I wanted to put into practice. The past month has been the most intellectually stimulating, challenging, and rewarding period my life. Some interesting utility has already appeared. I won’t discuss the details but I will say it does not involve statistical learning.

And don’t worry, I’ve read Bostrom :)
https://archive.ph/uZa0n
Ask HN: Why did Google keep Waze around after their acquisition?
Why not just absorb it into Google maps?
I dont think this "free market" thing exists and is used in practice, yet alone is viable.
> EU Voice is open for registrations only to EU institutions, body and agencies.

Disappointing. Better then nothing, but why not provide a platform for everyone, or at least every EU citizen?
Two reasons: lots of fraud requires continual maintenance, and when you're away someone will presumably take over your duties and might notice what you're doing.
The download goes to tgz files. No GitHub or GitLab repo?
You jump on the roof while your fellow activist glue their hand to the side. 14% of those activists polled were down with it, not 0.01%.

"A poll on the Extinction Rebellion Telegram chat showed 86 per cent of members were against action targeting the London Underground. Just 4 per cent approved of the action, while 7 per cent approved if they could be sure trains wouldn't get blocked underground."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-angry-commute...

These ones actually managed to get the glue on... https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/47946205
Also making it about picking your nose specifically when the research is really about “anything in the nose” is clickbait.
Wells are running dry in Southwest as foreign-owned farms feed cattle overseas
A rough rule of thumb is about 1 EUR per 1W of nominal / peak power output if you buy the parts yourself and handle installation, a bit more if you pay for installation as well.

This is from Germany, I hear prices differ a bit between EU countries.
My wife was struggling with the password reset flow yesterday, which behaved in unexpectedly and seemingly broken ways via the mobile app she was using. Just basic usability.
Poland is nearly all coal too while Germany is right next door and 50% renewable.
Very sad indeed. Curious if there’s any aussies here that can share the local perspective.
As long as it implements the same activities. They often do.
When do people eat? I presume not from 13 to 14.

Also, how long do the meetings last? If you're serious, it's a nice gimmick but terrible for actual time management.
> What other actively exploited bugs are Big Sur and Monterey now vulnerable to?

Actually, Apple sometimes patches actively exploited vulnerabilities in "unsupported" older versions of both macOS and iOS. The vulnerabilities that don't get quickly patched are the ones that aren't actively exploited.

In any case, security researchers talk about known vulnerabilities that have or haven't been patched, but as the author says, "New versions of macOS are full of bugs". This includes security vulnerabilities! Every new major OS version has brand new, unknown (to Apple) vulnerabilities that did not exist in the previous version. So just because the latest version is "fully patched", that doesn't mean it's "safer". I've seen it happen many times in the past where a new security vulnerabilities in a new OS isn't discovered by the public until many months later.

As far as stability and safety is concerned, I personally consider macOS N-1 to have the best tradeoffs.

Moreover, the most dangerous software on your computer is not the operating system per se, it's the web browser. The browser is where you're mostly likely to encounter "malicious crafted code" (i.e., JavaScript). Apple supports Safari for macOS N-2, and Safari on macOS N-2 is more similar to Safari on macOS N than macOS N-2 itself is to macOS N. In other words, Safari is likely to be fully patched even if macOS isn't.

You can also use another browser such as Firefox or Google Chrome, which ironically support older macOS versions than Apple supports, and the latest versions of those apps are identical and fully patched on every macOS version they support.