skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> One could just as easily argue that society exists to organize labor in a way that increases specialization and efficiency. The reduction of scarcity is just a side effect.

If so, then what is the purpose of specialization and efficiency, if not for the reduction of scarcity, in terms of individual access to resources? If cooperation wasn't beneficial for the individual, nobody would cooperate (unless forced to do so, but I personally wouldn't want to live in such a society).

> The artifice in making distribution of it remain difficult is therefore an extension of the natural place of scarce ideas in a world of abundant things.

The whole idea of monetizing ideas the same way we monetize material things comes from their representation in scarce material things, such as paper. There's nothing "naturally scarce" about ideas - I'd argue the opposite, the ideas can be multiplied and shared at zero cost to the original author of the idea. The only cost comes from the way in which ideas are distributed.

The golden age of music industry happened when the only way to distribute music at scale was to sell records. Producing records was costly, but since there was no other way to listen to music at home, people paid for them. Companies charged more than production cost, and they made profit. Nowdays, music can be distributed at almost zero cost, and every attempt to restrict that is just an attempt by old money to keep the old ways of business, since it was so profitable for them. Spotify and other music streaming services grew as an alternative. I'm not saying they're perfect, or even good - just that there's no reason why alternative models of monetization couldn't be invented.

My whole argument is that treating manifestation of ideas as scarce things is an outdated view - in the digital age, all it takes to share an idea is a few button clicks. Trying to force scarcity will never work unless we devolve into a surveillance dystopia, and we need another way to reward the authors.
I don't see how investigative journalism would fix the situation though. Theranos scammed wealthy investors. Wealthy investors should be able to do at least a little bit of due diligence. If they had done that then they would've known their idea was not feasible.

It's the investors themselves that added to the hype regardless of the press releases.
Cases are very different and the outcome here has no bearing on the Falklands even if Argentina might try to claim otherwise.
The advantage of a chest-style freezer/fridge is that cold air is trapped inside because the only opening is at the top. With drawers, the cold air from the drawers above the open one will still partly spill out. Plus then you have more seams that might not close perfectly than with a door.
Do absolutists have gradients?
Not sure if serious or sarcasm.
> You are (hopefully) focusing 8 hours "straight" during work _every day_.

I refuse to believe that 8 hours straight focus every day is common.

I have about 4 - 6 hours of really focused, deep work focus available. 6 hours if I am really interested in the project and 4 hours for normal days. The rest is doing low focus work like writing mail, planning ahead, attending workshops, reading up on updates for relevant libraries, reading documentation etc.
The Pirate Library Mirror: Preserving 7TB of Books (Not in Libgen)
Aside: Where do you live that has a postal service where zip codes match in different cities? Sounds like someone misunderstood the point of a postal [zip] code. Or, did I misunderstand?
The only thing worse than vertical fridges are those supermarket fridges that are both vertical and doorless. Those should be banned and IIRC in some countries supermarkets must have fridges with doors (I think France is one of those).
Your drag area figure for Tesla Semi is absurdly high.

Note that drag area is cross-sectional area times drag coefficient. If your numbers are otherwise correct, Semi's "drag area" should be 0.36 * 7.3 m^2 = 2.62800 m^2.

2.62800 m^2 (Semi) / 0.562 m^2 (Model S) is approximately 4.68. So I think 5x energy consumption is completely feasible.

> I doubt regenerative braking will scale well with increased vehicle mass

Why would that be an issue? 500 kWh magnitude battery can absorb about 7x power compared to a Model 3 LR AWD battery. Regenerative braking is probably only ever issue when the battery is somewhere above 95% full.
People need to be held ultimately accountable for their own actions, without recourse to «they told me to».

If you cultivate a strong culture of ultimate responsibility, people will learn to think twice.

If everyone took ultimate responsibility for their own actions, then the cult leader / dictator / influencer would just be a person shouting in a room.
Not quite as good, but much better than open shelves.

Our upright fridge freezer has deep drawers in the freezer compartment, presumably for this reason.
Absolutely not, the principle is self-determination which means we keep the Falklands by a very clear margin.
My parents' ancient fridge consumes 2kWh a day.

They refuse to buy a new one because it hasn't broken down yet.
Note that Postgres has built in range types which makes much of this cleaner. See https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/rangetypes.html#RANGETYPE...
Of course the forecasts are terrible, they're terrible everywhere. The attempts to fight COVID and especially lockdowns were a disaster. Things were pretty normal up until they started. This has nothing to do with Brexit.
You could have read the MIT license in its entirity in less than five minutes. It is very clear that the preserving attribution is a required condition. Other permissive licenses even explicitly require attribution in binaries / documentation.

MIT License:

Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Python is still pretty limited as a language & platform compared to Common Lisp though.

(just a famous example: https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/05/why-is-pgloader-so-much-fas...)
Or a chest fridge with vertical drawers (:
Sometimes, yes.

Or perhaps there is something like a legacy IT team that has to review every app that wants to connect to the internal O365 tenant (or similar). That process sometimes takes forever and the resulting friction grinds my motivation to keep exploring to near-zero.

I'm coming from a start-up in the cybersecurity space that uses O365 but is overall reluctant to link other products to O365. So, we can instead use whatever lives within Microsoft's garden of products available in Teams (for example) but not link most 3rd-party apps like this one.
Spanish air space closed because of uncontrollable Chinese rocket
Thanks, I remembered I was receiving a few dollars a month from patreon which added up over the years, I just transfered a big chunk of that out of my account.

At this point, I'm not worried about Paypal's security, but more about their own policies of shutting down accounts. I wish companies were required to specify why an account was blocked, but I'm 99% sure they don't and they've weaseled their way out of it so that challenging the decision becomes more difficult. If they specify a reason to someone who is more ligituous or who knows legalese, they could probably pick the reasoning apart.

Or just a "oh you have ruled 'fraudulent activity'? Prove it"
As mentioned elsewhere, the laptop story was not restricted for being misinformation, it was restricted due to Twitter's policy (at the time) on hacked materials.

Some background: https://www.techdirt.com/2020/10/16/twitter-fixes-bad-policy...

It was a policy that had previously received criticism, and had already come into play in a significant story: https://www.techdirt.com/2020/09/16/content-moderation-case-...

And, following the laptop story, Twitter changed their policy on hacked materials.

And that's the thing with content moderation - specific examples of content moderation often themselves go viral, but often also shed the actual context of said moderation (as was the case in your example), and thus feed into existing narratives around bias in content moderation. With full context, one might still disagree with the policy, but the narrative falls away.
Thanks, can't fix that anymore but duly noted.
It means infrequently.
A brilliant example of how energy-efficiency plays against space-efficiency.
What are memory and CPU costs of using this in web pages? For example, when a page with 100 images loads, won't decompressing hashes into 100 canvases take lot of resources and block the page or entire system for several seconds?

If you're sensible and use small input images, and therefore small hashes, it should be fine. It's not actually doing all that much 'work'. Besides, browsers are much faster than people think they are, especially for things like canvas drawing because that happens on the GPU (even in a 2d context.)

I assume that creating blurred images is pretty expensive.

The input image is converted to a hash. When the placeholder is needed the hash is converted to a gradient. Essentially it's like picking a few points in an image and then using a gradient function to fill in the spaces between the points. That's something that's easy for a computer for do quickly.

Also, as it happens, blurring an image is fast too. You can implement a Gaussian blur in a convolution filter, and that's just a simple matrix.
Almost there. We have good retention on specific cohorts and we are working on the 3 main reasons for churn
Dumb question: Can I lay down my vertical door fridge on its back to achieve these efficiency gains?
It's funny that geohot/tinygrad chooses to not meet the PEP8 standards [0] just to stay on brand (<1000 lines). Black [1] or any other python autoformatter would probably 2x the lines of code.

[0] https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/

[1] https://github.com/psf/black
Is it like this Chandler software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software)?
> he couldn't hire a few CS grads and make a site people wanted to go to?

The Times has a strong digital presence [1]. It's also a uniquely-successful media property.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-nyt-q3-earnings-...
More details on this PDF: https://mtbest.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2021/03/chest...
Undemocratic countries do not like self determination.

If the vast majority of people who were born and live in a region want to be an independent country, that's their call. That could be Scotland, Falklands, Catalonia, Northern Cyprus, Texas, Ceuta, Crimea, Tibet, Hong Kong, Quebec, Reunion, etc. If they want to be part of another country then it's still their call, but obviously the other country also has to agree.

(I accept there's probably some discussion about how recent immigrants count, and the size or duration of the majority to make something change but the principal of self determination is one of the most basic rights people have)
what makes sex-realism hateful?
Totally playing devil's advocate, does this loophole work in Twitter's defense?

The WARN act requires large enough employers "provide at least 60 calendar days advance written notice of a plant closing and mass layoff affecting 50 or more employees at a single site of employment."

Ok, so say everyone laid off clearly worked from home for the past 12 months. There was no single site of employment with 50 or more employees. It was just 1 or 2 employees cut from each of 3000 different sites of employment... their own homes?

Obviously, this logic has little chance of working, but I welcome more clarity around whether every w-2 employee needs to be tied to a company office address, and how labor laws might need to change for remote-work situations.
While Common Lisp is my favourite programming language, I didn’t necessarily get the Eureka moment by just programming in it (although I understood quite early how the interactive REPL driven way of programming is superior to any other form of programming) but instead when I started to learn more about lambda calculus. Then it really clicked for me.
A good example that people with Blue Checks are idiots?

When Blue checks mention each other they get notifications. This is valuable to journalist who want to interact with other people of note.

Ever wonder why Blue Checks seem to interact more than the unwashed masses. It's more than respect or following, it's also the Blue Check technology pushing them together.

Will allowing anyone with a Blue Check give Stephen King a notification, meaning it'll all get blocked and make the whole thing pointless and not worth $8. Probably, but something new will emerge with destroying the old money that goes with Twitter journalism, and that at least is interesting.
Zitadel looks interesting, but their website is quite confusing. I'm not sure is it open source and free to use (as keycloak) or you need a commercial license to use "open source".
Yes, it is pretty common these days. Most decent to high-end desktop PC motherboards seem to include it these days, and it can also be added easily now via USB 3 dongle or newer USB/thunderbolt docks (e.g. on laptops, where it seems to not be that common to be built-in).
Newman!!!
You can tell " UK to hand over Chagos back to Mauritius" isn't a Guardian title -- no spelling mistakes.
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Clojure is pretty sprightly, perhaps even prolific, surely. For example, if you're in any way interested in databases, you will have come across https://jepsen.io/ who do all their testing using Clojure.
Yes, that is exactly what HTTP allows: multiple data streams over a single TCP connection. In general, that's a good thing: if you have a page with dozens of small files (icon images, CSS, JS fragments, etc.) then you don't want to instantiate a new TCP connection for every one.

Browsers typically have multiple HTTP connections open as a compromise so that you don't need a new TCP connection for every file but don't have the head of line problem so severely. But it's not as good as fixing the underlying problem.
Nobody can blame people wanting to return to their homes. But if I were in their shoes I'd be very careful about what their new government will do next.

People of Chagos were useful as a leverage and international shaming tool. But once they return, and islands go to Mauritius ... they will be tiny, economically deprived minority, sitting so far unexploited resource trove. And you can ask East Timor how that goes.

The marine protection area, one of the largest in the world, is obviously going to disappear. UN calls it illegitimate land grab, and it technically is, so without the only backer (UK), there will be nothing holding back exploitation.
The tendency of open internet discussion to inexorably tend towards talking about Nazis (and the Godwin corollary that when open internet discussion reaches Twitter-scale, it inevitably attracts participants wanting to defend the Nazis) was the point. Publishers don't have to deal with that bullshit, which is one of the reasons why publishing isn't remotely similar to forum moderation. If they did, they'd be a lot more censorious on the ideas and opinions side.
What country has those monstrosities? Never seen them
This is only a problem because platforms weigh any post equal to any other, but for their rudimentary upvote systems. If posts with actual backing behind its claims were weighed more positively, they would gain more prominence and status, and people spewing out unsupported info could get filtered out as simply noise.
I'd say 99.9% of the western worlds workforce doesn't focus for 8 hours straight in the work day - its not really eve possible to in a great deal of jobs where there's context switching (meetings etc)
A Synology NAS works well for this as a 'just works' plus plenty of space configuration
How exactly could these costs be 0?
>I had just arrived in China, had an unexpected overnight stay in a remot-ish city with my wife/kids, none of us could (yet) speak/read any Chinese, and the restaurant menu had no pictures (and of course no one spoke a word of English).

That was always a favorite of mine. Walk into a restaurant in (NYC's) chinatown where there were only Asian folks and no English menus.

I'd usually just point at something someone else was eating. It was almost always glorious. :)
A notable number of PS5 players [are] playing the PS4 version of Destiny 2
A credit card is tied to your ID through your bank or other cc provider.

If you abuse the rules your payment account and your Twitter account will be banned [0].

Maybe you have more than one CC, but keep playing shenanigans and you’ll eventually run out.

An $8 disincentive is also enough of a bar to knock out 95% of the problem.

0: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587853006699401216#m
Anna deserves/needs the support just as much if they have to deal with US takedowns though
There is no guarantee that a ML network only produces the input data under those two conditions. But even for

> If 'your' code has actually already been replicated hundreds of times over, such that the AI was over-trained on it. In that case it's a copyright violation... but how come you never went after the hundreds of other violations?

Replication is not a violation if the terms of the license are followed. Many open source projects are replicated hundreds of times with no license violation - that doesn't mean that you can now ignore the license.

But even if they did violate the license, that doesn't give you the right to do it too. There is no requirement to enforce copyright consistently - see e.g. mods for games which are more often than not redistributing copyrighted content and derivatives of it but usually don't run into trouble because they benefit the copyright owner. But try to make your own game based on that same content and the original publisher will not handle it in the same way as those mods. Same for OSS licenses: The original author does not lose any rights to sue you if they have ignored technical license violations by others when those uses are acceptable to the original author.
Nixon Cleveland?
I see a lot of posts justifying why Lisp is nice and should be used. These are good. I agree with them. But I would also like to see posts about actual projects written in Lisp.

Compare with Rust and Go. Rust and Go devs write articles evangelizing Rust but that's not all we see. We also see posts about so many useful Rust and Go projects too.

How can we see a similar trend for Lisp? And no, it cannot be writing a Lisp in a Lisp or writing a Lisp in your favorite language or writing your favorite language in a Lisp. I am looking for useful projects that do something useful for users who can't give a damn what language the project is written in.

I searched https://github.com/topics/lisp but a vast majority of the projects there are not software used by actual users in the wild. Most of them are projects that teach how to make a lisp or documentation about lisp. There are some useful software like browser, editor, etc. in there but they are few and far between.

I know Reddit was written in Lisp but it isn't anymore. So that's a bummer.

Does Roomba still run on Lisp? I can't find out with some quick searches.

HN is written in a dialect of Lisp so that is one example. Can we have more such examples? Even better would be open source examples where any college student can contribute?
It's base83 hash, not base83 image so using base64 won't help any.
And yet there are plenty of developers who happily loop through an array a couple of times looking for an object with a specific key. In Javascript.

Knowing the theory doesn't mean people apply it in practice.
The bigger problem is recording taking too much cpu. That's why I don't record full work day, just chunks, whenever I feel I procrastinate. Youtube is an option here, I've tested it however cpu problem doesn't go away.

My plan is to make this obs-ndi plugin work on ubuntu, so I will be able to record on ubuntu to take the load off of mac which is my primary laptop.

PS. I forgot to read obs-ndi instructions properly, it works ok so now I can delegate regording to second laptop
It's also part of the dispute. https://www.jlevy.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/OECD-July-28...
It was never Mauritian. I think what you mean is it was part of the British territory in the region prior to gaining independence.

Mauritius itself was an unpopulated island before being discovered by the Dutch. The Dutch have more claim to call themselves indigenous to Mauritius than most Mauritians
Does it has functions for sending data, i.e. submitting forms? I'm curious if gopher could be a sufficient lightweight web protocol for all normal real life tasks including internet banking and shopping.
I don’t think so. Part of it is that chests tend to have more insulation (also the reason why mini-fridges are absolute dreck efficiency wise), and the coolant / radiator circuit won’t be set up properly: in a traditional vertical fridge the coolant circuit is through the back or racks (for freezers) and the radiator are on the back, if you lay it on its back the radiator is now on the bottom, and trying to heat up the insulation, with the coolant circuit also at the bottom.
Maybe try Haskell in your next attempt? For one thing, you won't be writing for loops at all. It's also much higher level than most languages
The US has some, usually in the deli/cheese section.[0] It's the big shelf in the center of the image.

The freezer section has doors for more effective temperature control.

0: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/austin-texas-circa-...
> The beauty of it is one can mix and match compiled code with interpreted code

That's a standard feature of many Lisp implementations since the dawn of time.
Ask HN: Why JavaScript experts tend to not use TypeScript?
The creator of Preact/Signal
https://twitter.com/_developit/status/1570973592665620482

The creator of uhtml/usignal
https://twitter.com/WebReflection/status/1272276063222222852

The creator of Svelte (not go all-in)
https://twitter.com/Rich_Harris/status/1350436286948122625

And many others experienced devs I didn't collect evidence that it's hard to dig later.

Mostly they do just because folks on github demand support, to satisfy audience.
What's the equivalent energy cost of a new fridge though? And it's not just that, there's the pollution of dumping the old one (how much refrigerant will be leaked? how much plastic sent to landfill?). And there's costs of the new one that aren't factored in, like transporting it halfway around the World.

I wish government put money into guidance on these matters for domestic goods.
Fairly common in Norway
I guess their device is something similar to the homebrewing tool that I use Inkbird to control fridge/freezer temperature. Except from the less wasting cold air, I dislike the chest freezer for food storage because it's difficult to organize and then find things at the bottom.
> Nothing suspicious about this at all.

This type of low effort comment is generally frowned upon.

Perhaps they didn't feel comfortable discussion controversial matters on their main account?