skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
S2E8 is arguably the best episode in the series, so at least get through that.

S3 is rough. You can see what they were trying to do, but they failed in the end. I wouldn't say it isn't worth watching, just know it's a steep decline in quality.

I quite enjoyed S4 and thought it was a return to form. It wasn't quite S1 levels of good, but it was a marked improvement over both S2 and especially S3. The finale was a little disappointing, but they clearly knew cancellation was a possibility and wrote it in a way that the story could be considered complete after S4 while also leaving it open for a final S5. So no real cliffhanger, at least.
It is actually very simple. Everybody can check easily. You do not have to believe me.

You need two numbers:

1. Amount of carbon emitted by humanity. The easiest way to get this is to find all production of coal, nat gas and oil and convert it to carbon.

2. Amount of carbon in biomass. You can find the estimate of weight of Earth's biomass online. Then you need to multiply by a factor of how much carbon there is in biomatter on average.

All necessary numbers are readily available and not controversial.

As to how much plants use CO2 it is IRRELEVANT. The only way it would be relevant is if you also had a number on how much plants emit CO2 back to atmosphere when they burn or rot. But this is extremely difficult to measure directly.

Just as you can't figure out how much you are saving up just based on your income without knowing your expenses.

But you do not have to estimate any of the two numbers. It is enough to imagine that, given constant weight of the biomass, all carbon converted from CO2 to biomass has also roughly equivalent release back to atmosphere one way or another.
Commonmark is most proper specs
Most news and law enforcement will always inflate the numbers like that.
One of the most convincing analyses I read, and I may dig up the link someday, is that the US sucks compared to Europe because every project is treated as a one-off unique effort, and there are so few of them, while Europe just builds transit the way the US builds houses: ongoing, repeated, standardized.

It's easy to compare this with an aspect of software development, something most HN readers are no doubt familiar with: If something is hard, do it more frequently, until you get good at it.

Nobody masters a skill by planning and thinking really hard about how to do the skill, then suddenly doing the skill perfectly. No, you start out with a goal and a general idea of the method, begin with the basics, try, fail, learn, try again. For days, weeks, months, years, until you master the skill.
> Well, it depends.

I broadly share your opinion on Torvalds' style of communication and what it takes to keep a complex project on track, but it is not clear to me that I should change my above opinions on account of that - it does not seem to me to be the same situation as the one we are nominally discussing.
No. I’m a member of the best paid group _ON EARTH_, so I make sure people working on the software I use can put food on the table.

Never mind the fact the incredible savings time wise not having to hunt for serialz.
Something of a minor nit, but the US does not allow blood donors to be paid, only plasma donors.
The general education requirements are redundant and drive up costs, along with unnecessary labs and classes intended to supplement graduate income. American public universities are almost predatory in their excessive costs.
Is the Wayback Machine even able to save the preview streams? Trying it for some other artists that are still live on Bandcamp this doesn't seem to be the case, and in any case it certainly wasn't the case for the particular album I was looking for.

Ultimately, unlike the OP I luckily found at least the one album I was most interested in "elsewhere", though it's still a bit of a shame that it's no longer regularly available and it'd absolutely would have merited paying for it.
Isn't storage just exactly the problem? From what I understand every single possible storage tank in Europe is filled to the brim, and most if not all of the LNG ships are already there or en-route.
Yes, it’s all bench racing but caselaw provides some small manner of clairvoyance.

I think it really depends on jurisdiction. If it was adjudicated somewhere with the Roger’s test, I think it would have a very decent chance. For example, take Seuss v Comicmix, in which Comicmix didn’t sufficiently meet the bar for parody on copyright grounds but cleared trademark fair use.

https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=ebdcd5aa-17b1...
Clear Writing Means Clear Thinking Means… (1973)
> Why should Microsoft produce a hack for a particular piece of software?

Because if software app Foo works fine on Windows X, and suddenly breaks on Windows X+1, users don't care if Foo is actually buggy or not. It worked on Windows X. What they see is that Windows X+1 broke Foo. And they talk to each other - "Do you use Foo? If so, don't upgrade to Windows X+1, it breaks Foo!"

And if there's another app Bar which has a different bug that nevertheless works on Windows X but breaks on X+1, those users will chime in saying "Oh yeah, we noticed it breaks Bar too!"

And then you get the general conversation go around "Don't upgrade to Windows X+1, it breaks random software!" Do you rely on some niche app, or even a semi-popular one made by anyone who isn't Microsoft? If so, better stay away from Windows X+1 - it breaks a bunch of random apps dontchaknow.
Fair points if you’re talking about fraud, but this is comedy. And comedy traditionally has greater latitude as misleading the viewer is the intent.

This issue of being required to label parody is headed to the Supreme Court, so perhaps it’ll be settled there (on a public level — Twitter is a private company and can implement whatever custom rules they want).

The Onion filed an amicus brief on this specific issue of the necessity of labeling parody.

Their argument is that believing the content is true is essential to the comedic function of parody. Parody progresses into a mocking absurdity and the force of this pivot can only happen to its maximum extent if the viewer thinks if only for a brief moment that the content might be real. Labeling it as a parody effectively takes all the energy out of the joke to follow.

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33481989

And the hilarious Supreme Court brief: https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/2022...
As a Rust beginner, have to completely agree... A lot of the examples are overtly complex. Beyond this, sometimes finding appropriate use case examples for libraries harder still. Mostly in that you have to have a very deep knowledge base to even begin in a lot of ways. I mean, I get it, but it's still much harder to get your feet wet beyond "Hello World" type examples in practice.

Note: been a rust beginner for a while, as I play with it, (re)read a couple books I have on Rust, but then set it aside again as I'm unable to justify using it vs. just getting something done. I really like a lot of the concepts but digging in has been repeatedly difficult.
The Myth of the 1% Better Every Day Theory
Ask HN: Are privacy concerns around Microsoft Windows 11 overblown?
I see a lot of FUD and fearmongering around privacy invasions via Windows 11 (and 10, as well). Is this unfounded, or overblown?

I'm getting more and more concerned that our private data is no longer private, or even ours. And this does not seem to be set to improve in the future.

What's the best way to go forward if this is the case?
I enjoy making art, but I don't have the technical skill take the things I can visualize in my head commit them to a medium. AI art tools let me iterate using image transformation to get those things out.

I enjoy creating written stories, but I find the process of going from an outline/abbreviated rough draft to a polished story to be tedious. AI tools automating the process of finishing a written story would make the process of writing much more enjoyable.

I enjoy building software, but I don't enjoy writing a ton of boilerplate. AI writing the boilerplate for me would make the process of creating software much more enjoyable.
This is totally it.

The tech is getting a bunch of hate right now for some reason (possibly the open disgust the Meta thing seems to provoke, inherited directly from the already loud anti-Facebook voices), but it seems shortsighted to me. I wish Facebook had just stayed Facebook and kept Oculus going as a separate brand-- in some ways they've almost harmed the market with their choices.

VR can be great fun for anyone who can tolerate it, and even many of those with motion sickness issues can overcome it (I did). It also gets you moving around, something that doesn't get enough credit.

That said, I think AR will absolutely dwarf all else in a nearer time frame. People are going to come up with all kinds of wild body sensory interfaces with friends and/or internet audiences, and I'm not even talking about sex stuff.

Accessories which light up specific colors or patterns based on anything from biometrics to video views to investments, cascading emoticon displays sewn into clothing fed by live feed responses, sunglasses showing secret geocache stashes (or human contacts) related to alternate reality games... the kids are gonna come up with all kinds of ways to be cooler than their parents, as they always have.
Truly democratizing social media would mean getting rid of social media completely. The only reason we need Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc. is because they store our conversations for us and help us find each other. The problem is, they have to (want to) monetize their position as the middleman and end up mediating our conversations, even when we ask them not to.
Even if sed and grep are available their weird syntax is enough to make people write modern replacements.

I don't care if they're not 100% feature complete, the fact I can remember how to use them for my simple everday tasks (searching, finding/replacing across many files) without needing to consult a manpage or search online for answers is enough.

I used grep daily for years and _still_ it didn't feel like it made sense. I remember reading about Ack (https://beyondgrep.com/) some time in 2009-2010 , installing it and switching over entirely within about five minutes.

Modern sed:

https://github.com/chmln/sd

Modern grep:

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
There are addons for this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/markdown-view...

as well as rss: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/rsspreview/
"I have nothing to hide so why should I care?" is the worst, misinformed argument in the history of mankind.
It's also possible to have `&str`s with smaller lifetimes than `'static`, in which case you will have a different lifetime specifier there.
As a millennial, I was telling college friends in 2005 not to specify their hometown, school or religious affiliation on the then-new Facebook, because

a)it wasn't mandatory

b)ask yourself why you would need to put that in when the majority of your connections are with people who are right there on campus

Some people listened, but most did not. FB was college-only at the time, with no ads. People just wanted to e-stalk others. Not too much has changed, except that people now e-stalk influencers they have parasocial relationships with. And you click a button to throw a couple of bucks at them.
> you want to abstract over it.

What does that mean? Any example you could point to?
As the author of the post... :) We don't see this as bad news, quite the opposite in fact. Feature detection (if you're running JavaScript), Client Hints (if you're running code at the edge), etc are all a lot better to use for logic decisions. We've been making changes to rely less on the UA header directly for our Akamai products.

Our goal of the post was more around educating our customers, who may not be aware of these changes, and these changes can affect their custom logic, if they depend on the UA.
With this global, free advertising, perhaps they can.
> "he or she" doesn't include everyone though

Hard no on that one — just because someone declares "I have no gender" doesn't make it so, any more than if I were to declare that I have no eye color.

> is longer and harder to say than the more inclusive variant!

Agreed — but in formal writing, confusing readers by appropriating the plural is not the way to fix it.
You laugh, but that was literally the strategy behind XCOR and Virgin Galactic picking non-automated, non-fly-by-wire guidance systems for their space vehicles. The regulatory overhead and avionics development costs of using uncrewed systems is far higher than for crewed systems with test pilots. Or at least, that was the argument in the late 90s and early 2000s.
Thank you. Looks very interesting.
SMS is limited to 140 symbols per message (half of that for non-Latin languages), costs money, multimedia messages are a royal PITA to handle.[0]

Most providers moved to bundled plans with tons and tons of SMS included, but only when they already lost to WA.

[0] Last year I needed to send a photo through MMS. It took me 3 attempts to find a proper combo on how to photo in a format acceptible for MMS. Think 640x480 at best. Only three because I've used MMS in the past so somewhere back in my mind there are still info about it. If I were 20 y/o I wouldn't even figure out what I need to do.
This is absolutely crazy and saddening. My whole childhood and teenage years I dreamed of recreating some locations from my life in an action-adventure/FPS setting (was thinking more urban exploration than shooters, but still). I also couldn't understand why even games happening ostensibly in a well-known city would be so obviously inaccurate with their recreation. Nowadays I know why...
Radare 2 Cloud: disassemble binaries online
>Perhaps, like any other tool-set... C has an optimal problem domain not everyone can understand

Maybe this is true specifically for C. However you imply this is true for "any other tool-set".

This is also a form of bias. It is illogical and irrational to think that every tool set is good for something. Things that exist can be horribly bad for everything and things that exist can in theory be good for almost anything.

There is not magical rule that says all tool-sets are great because they're always optimal for some niche problem domain.

The universe is not made up of apples and oranges. There are rotten oranges and rotten apples as well.
Ask HN: Is it better to be a consultant in a time of layoffs?
Considering the massive layoffs in the last week, I am curious if these companies will begin to rely more on consultants/contractors or if budgets will be cut for consultants.

Is there any historical data on this? What have you seen in your own workplaces?
Cf. https://suckless.org/philosophy/
> If that's the case, corporations are obligated to do shit like bully video game developers,

IANAL, but AIUI they're only obligated to do something, but that something can be "tell the developers that they need to get approval to use trademarked stuff and then immediately hand them permission to use the trademark for free". It's all about controlling use of the trademark, not being obligated to be a bully about it.
I know it's sarcasm, but you don't have to have "big secrets" in order to want privacy. Everyone knows what you're doing in the restroom, doesn't mean you're ok to going to a see-through public restroom.
> 1999

> CPUs are now 1GHz

> C is obsoleted outside small sections of code such as image processing

> 23 years later

> "What if we just stopped using C?"
Every country spies on every other country. The difference is that the US does have some amount of democratic oversight, rule of law which applies to everyone, reasonably functioning courts, separation of powers, basic commitment to humanistic values, etc.

None of this is perfect and you can aim a lot of criticism at various aspects, but I do think the differences are pretty fundamental and do matter.
>With your permission, I'd love to share these tools and tips with our coaches,

Well, sure, it's not like I own them!

I guess the first line of my post came off a bit jaded. After having people paid to deal with my ADHD not come up with anything truly effective in my whole education since high school, it was both relieving and disappointing to end up figuring out something myself. If your app helps people figure out what works for them, then best of luck to you.
The annoying part is having to endure the Astroturfing campaigns.

I'd prefer a clear 1 liner in Julia or Prolog over 80 pages of unknown correctness. ;)
I can see why I was downvoted for this but my point was actually these were not really Californian jobs lost if these employees were remote (and twitter allowed remote for everyone as far as I know). How do they calculate 700 San Francisco employees? Is that number based on office or residence?
>Stick to things like apple, orange, pear

While I am no pedagogical psychologist, I have witnessed mutiple times, how poor unrealistic examples give people a bad understanding of the thing they are trying to learn. Going with Apple, Orange, Pear would give people an idea of what the keywords did, but no understanding of when it was a good idea to apply the technique.

I think that is one of the primary reasons OO sucks so badly today. Everyone was trained on Fruit, Shapes, and Cars so they know the keywords, but don't have the foggiest clue of when it is a good idea to use them.

Not that I am suggesting LendingIterator! is a super wonderful example either. A good motivating example like 95% of the difficulty, and reward of programming tutorials.
Ukraine recently discovered it had large reserves of natural gas. Enough that it could potentially threaten Russia as Europe's main supplier. Many people suspect this was the primary reason Russia invaded.
That was the value at the time of seizure, which is most-likely the correct time at which to value it.

It is true that the news would probably use the larger number if BTC had gone up in price since then, but I suspect that the official statement would always quote the value at the time of seizure (perhaps with a parenthetical to highlight a greater present-day value).
I've elucidated about this somewhere before, but I view this perspective as a little too cynical for my taste. I think exposure to public perceptions shapes people into more civil individuals, and this can translate to private life.

A good simple example is the way people tend to tidy their house before having guests. The cleanliness isn't "false" by most people's view.

Edit: Another perspective is that people use the company of trusted friends as a staging area for shaping their own nuanced positions. It's safer.
Bayer invented heroin.

“A century ago, scientists at a German pharmaceutical firm investigated a chemical modification to morphine that made it more palatable as a cough suppressant. The Bayer Co., predecessor to today’s pharmaceutical giant, marketed its popular new remedy as “Heroin.”

—- https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/from-cough-medicine-t...
When installing office, you are told in the fine print to go read: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement ... it counts. The verbiage in there is quite disturbing.
Many times, switch is used when an object would suffice
T keeps its type info statically. So if you put a Set in, you can get a Set out.

Casting to Collection loses the static type info, so you couldn't write foo(bar(set)) if bar returned a Collection but foo accepted a Set.
"Nonbinary" [sic] people should not be doing "cultural appropriation" of the plural pronouns the rest of us know; if they insist on not being referred to as "he" or "she," then they should come up with their own.
The part that says `T<i32>`. GATs don't allow you to do that, not directly. GATs allow you, as said by Boats in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33506540, have a generic type as an associated type, nothing less, nothing more. If you want to express `T<i32>`, GATs _enables_ you to do that as a kind of a distorted encoding, but it's not as simple as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33505810 makes it seem.
I guess it hits extra hard in Dunkirk because of the ominous soundtrack that you're exposed through all the rest of the movie. Then with the plane safely landing in the end, the arrival of the trains full of soldiers, Churchill's speech and Nimrod placed over it, all that tension gets resolved at once in a beautiful way.
The solution to this is to have two examples: Beginner and Practical/Advanced
I'm jealous of the ability that he has to do whatever he wants, not the means by which he does it.

I'm over here expecting to lose my house as interest rates crank up, barely able to afford daycare and he's what, pissing off easily upset internet people while doing literally whatever he pleases?

I'm jealous of the power.
Economic upheaval in UK is not because 'free market policies', but because of Liz Truss's irresponsible fiscal policy during inflation times, which shows her (and her chancellor's) basic macroeconomic incompetence.
>Specifically, law enforcement located 50,491.06251844 Bitcoin of the approximately 53,500 Bitcoin Crime Proceeds (a) in an underground floor safe; and (b) on a single-board computer that was submerged under blankets in a popcorn tin stored in a bathroom closet.

It's interesting how the defendant tried to hide his bitcoin holdings in very low-tech ways.

The utility ease of holding bitcoin is apparent with this seizure. What other asset could you hide the equivalent of $1B USD in a floor safe and a popcorn tin and without having to use a 3rd party custodian?
Acknowledging humans are more valuable is as simple as just adjusting the minimum wage to productivity growth since the 1960s. Would be over $20/hour.
PowerPoint has a feature where it uses machine learning to suggest layout and design changes for your content. This feature most likely can be turned off, but of course it needs some data on what's on your slide to suggest changes.

I hope this submission is flagged and removed. Just because you don't like Microsoft doesn't mean such misrepresentation is okay.
Read Aurynn Shaw's essays on "Contempt Culture". Tech people can, and need to, change.
Better link: https://social.bund.de/explore
> Did we consent to this?

I did. I guess the author didn't read the T&Cs.
It finally happened. You met your very first cyber-bully.
>> Given this situation, I'm seriously considering changing the mold/macOS license (not mold/Unix license) from AGPL to a commercial, source-available one. Something like individuals would be able to use it for free but companies have to pay.

That is assuming Apple would need to use mold in the first place.

It is probably easier to crowdfund $1-2M from companies and turn the source to MIT or BSD. But then the idea is generally not well received on HN and by its author.
And that the user may not have capacity to consent.

That seems the salient issue today with regards to children and social
media. Most of the giant social media companies profit from
participants who cannot legally enrol.
If artists didn't want their art to be used (for a variety of purposes!) they shouldn't have made it freely available on the internet.

Maybe art websites will add checkboxes to the effect of "don't use this art to train AI models" to submission forms. That won't be enforceable in court (unless the law changes), and it will only deter completely scrupulous actors much like robots.txt.

Art websites might start using javascript to compose images in the browser so they can't be easily downloaded, but that will be quickly defeated and ultimately that arms race is unwinnable.
I also like FPM and the ecosystem. In case anyone is just getting started with Fortran, definitely checkout the Fortran Standard Library project:

https://github.com/fortran-lang/stdlib