skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get what you're saying, but you're missing some important aspects.

I wasn't commenting on the quality of moderation, instead on the scalability. Instance owners are easily overwhelmed and this problem gets worse as things grow.

Second, if your point is to create a tightly-moderated instance bubble, then Mastodon's federation features will largely go unused. If that is the outcome, then there's no point to Mastodon. You can recreate such spaces everywhere, for free.
I like this comment a lot, but I think there is a lot more context inside “printing money” that goes into inflation and money supply in unexpected ways via debt. My rough and probably inaccurate understanding is that debt isn’t necessarily money a bank has on hand to provide you, but what a bank gives you can be created “out of thin air” depending on what the government wants to promote economically. Money can be pulled out of the economy entirely by increasing interest rates so that debt payments go up. In other words, this is very different to the war-time inflation of 80 years ago, and the government has a lot of extra levers to try to alleviate the the problems inflation can bring.

But the other side of it is that we’ve built our economy on the foundation that growth and inflation will always exist. All our retirement funds are in, say, index funds which rely on stocks to be worth significantly more in the future. Same for home property values. A business can only get investment and make their public investors happy if they continue to grow year after year. All of this only works if inflation exits in moderation.

The downside is our economy is not equipped to handle an equilibrium — what if we reach neutral or even negative population growth? What if automation makes more jobs unavailable? We’ll need to severely rethink how our economy works.
Deductibles often run $5,000 to $10,000 and usually only 80% is covered after that.
this reminds me of the end of Lawrence of Arabia

the entire film thus far about destiny, fate, making our own paths... and then to pinch a bit of flesh and understand what we are. magnificent and sorrowful, all at once
Twitter just went offline
Don't forget that even supported phones can have unpatchable hardware bugs.

For example checkm8 back in 2019.
Dialectic of Enlightenment crystallized a lot of thoughts in me around critical theory and philosophy in general. Before that book the closest I had ever been to philosophy was John Gall's excellent "Systemantics" which although wonderfully written and a delightful read didn't leave me with much insight into how to actually critically examine my surroundings. Dialectic of Enlightenment on the other hand left me with some basic tools I can apply to understand my surroundings, some understanding that the problems faced by a system (society) echoes the features of that society. That the ills we feel are the ills we create.

Dialectic of Enlightenment convinced me that philosophy itself is actually useful and constructive, rather than just a pointless navel gazing activity.
>One of my kids, 15 at the time, ...

You had 15 kids at the time? How many kids do you have now? My hat is off!
That video was the first time I felt like I understood the Javscript stack. Really grateful you put that talk together.
Is this an official variant, if it exists at all? I assume one can come up with different ways of transforming Cyrillic alphabet into Latin one.
And so the long term effects of the treatment are uncontrolled.

I think it's standard practice for therapeutics, but not for vaccines?
I know this feeling, I think.

There seems to be a personality type that is willing to entertain wild ideas and ignore "reality". Sometimes that results in actual new possibilities that nobody else was crazy enough to consider before. So there is potential value.

But often it just means ignoring reality and reallocating the resources that are available in favor of a few.

Tesla was a great company because they proved that electric cars could not only succeed but could accel (and accelerate! ... I do love seeing a family car kick a stupid ICE car's ass on the dragstrip.

But they pushed too far, promoting self driving at the cost of lives.

And for the anti-government people out there, Tesla would not exist had it not been for government funding.

Even so, the guy at the helm had enough chutzpah to believe his own crazy big ideas and follow through with them. Unfortunately, he followed through well beyond the real successes and far into lunatic territory.
Still running the latest iOS on my 6 year old first-gen SE.

Why can't Android do the same?
The brain feels like a quantum alien that took over a biological shell to survive on this planet and is now trying to optimize its casing options. (Deliberately changing the terms for a concept can help us see it in a new light.)

- Some wants damage the casing but feel great to the brain (sugar).

- Some wants take over a portion of the brain's activity and tax it to eternity (addiction), so its best to never ever try them.

- Some wants are very very bad for other brains and casings, so carnivores draw the line making non-carnivorous varieties inferior and thus worth sacrificing (meat consumption).

- Some wants damage the connections and relationships between human brains and thus ability for all of humanity to survive collectively, so religion and laws have stepped in to set the rules of engagement.

- Some wants are psychological and financially a bad idea.

- Few wants are fundamental, and most wants are based on something we've seen others done that we want to try.

- Wanting not to want something is a tax and conflict with our own brain, and just like addiction it can be tackled if the want was caused by exposure to the activity, or exposure to the idea, or the subject/object of want and that exposure is reduced or removed from view.

- If you are the subject of the want (an attractive person, a VC, a Billionaire, a person of influence), all of a sudden your life incurs an overhead and a cost for deterring everyone else's wants towards you.

Psychology/Philosophy may have more insight into whether the origin of bad wants is curiosity, wrongful exposure, greed, or inborn instincts based on biological/genetically ingrained habits.

Economics + Business has the job of satisfying the wants of an increasing number of intelligent agents in the system by encouraging those who want more to make more and increase supply of the the most wanted kinds of objects of want. Government has the job of satisfying the needs of everyone in its jurisdiction, while entrepreneurship has the luxury of picking which wants and needs to serve that are most profitable and desirable to the entrepreneur.

Advertising has the job of involuntarily planting more wants in the brains of everyone.

Fun paths to explore. Thanks PG!
If women let guys cum inside them without a condom, they share the same responsibility as the guy.

Pulling out doesn't work in many cases, and two condoms are dangerous (i have no idea why you are spreading the two-condom idea, it increases the chances of ripping).

So yeah, if women don't want kids, don't let guys cum inside them (rape excluded) so by your logic, they don't need abortions (except for rape and medical reasons), right?
If you wish to participate in society, you have to abide by the rules of the society. This is a feature, not a bug.
Hurry gershy!

In the meanwhile, others might be interested in visualizing a Reddit (and HN) hug of death:

https://www.tylermw.com/visualizing-a-reddit-hug-of-death-an...
While I was in highschool I attended a lecture by David Spivak on a whim and was fascinated by the field ever since. Before really discovering Category Theory, I was more interested in low-level computer architecture and design (although I'm not very knowledgeable by any means) so I didn't really encounter Category Theory through the means that most Computer Science people do (FP, Haskell, etc). Once I learned Category Theory I became more interested in other fields of math.
There appears to be mounting evidence that Drax is sourcing wood from primary / old-growth forest to burn.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63089348

Additionally, my mostly-ignorant intuitive sense is that the wood ecosystem in US + Canada is an important maintainer of local wealth and literally sucking all the fuel out of it to burn on another continent is harmful to Canadians' well-being.
Yep, the "nice" thing about AT&T is that, from a parsing perspective, you don't really need to know much about the target architecture to be able to determine what's an instruction vs. a register vs. a label, etc.
Yes. Well, I use vim, but the principle is the same.
>Obamacare, which was forced upon us

The ACA individual mandate penalty was eliminated in 2017.
A fine tautology, if you can keep it.
And then the big public instance decides it's not worth even federating with small folks because if you block them they will come to your instance because you have "content" - a bunch of big names that use it - and also display their site's ads to them.

...aaaand we're back to Twitter in all but name
On the Timbuktu manuscripts, I found this book really fascinating. I knew about bits of the story on a very rough sense but the details about various people, and excerpts from the manuscripts made for a book I had to finish.
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Bad-Ass-Librarian...

Syria’s Secret Library By Mike Thomson was suggested to me while I was reading the previous book, but I haven't made time to read it just yet.
Gym stipends have been terminated, and the in-office gyms at Twitter have been repurposed as offices for the employees who must now return to office.
Sounds very contrived, I would like to see side by side comparisons performing the same tasks.
From the author|rider [0]:

> After 13 months, and 15,825 kilometers of pedaling, my South America bike tour is finished!

that's 9,833 miles.

The road distance distance from Cartagena, Columbia to Ushuaia [1] is ~ 10,433 km (by Google) so the actual distance pedalled over 13 months seems reasonable given side trips, indirect paths, back tracking, non main roads, etc. [1]

[0] https://www.peterispedaling.com/blog/wet-wheels

[1] https://www.peterispedaling.com/the-ride
I installed rembg and tried it on the command-line without any arguments, expecting to see some usage information. Nothing. Is this behavior typical of python tools?
catching covid always involves an infection of a respiratory tract (nose, mouth, etc) but not necessarily an infection in the bloodstream

covid vaccines are always present in the bloodstream after injection, even if injected intra-muscularly

an early study in japan showed only ~25% of the vaccine stays at the injection site
Wow, that's a really cool site. I browsed around and didn't see any ads.

Side note: I had to laugh when it recommended "The Little Engine That Could" because I looked up "The Hobbit"
> Accounts with zero balance won’t be impacted by this fee and this charge won’t result in any negative balance.

> If an account no longer has a positive balance after being charged this fee and remains inactive for another 60 days, this account may be closed after the 60 days have passed.

It's a way for PayPal to slowly siphon and eventually drain your account balance.
You might also find it interesting to implement a CPU on an fpga, a double win if you’ve never programmed an fpga before. For me it helped soldify exactly how a basic cpu works. In uni we had to do this for MIPS architecture with 5 state pipeline. The project was similar to [1] we also used the same book “ Computer Organization and Design”. You end up making your own assembly language in the process too.

[1] https://github.com/valar1234/MIPS
Yeah but nobody has that granular logs of Gates' net worth and donations. At best, it's calendar months, sometimes you can try to assume weeks, with a big maybe.
When the cloud was first really taking off, I had a friend who swore by his mainframes, touting high reliability, great performance, excellent customer service. It would be interesting to do a cost comparison.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_IBM_Z
You're the second person to reply with this "forever" take. I never said forever, I'm talking about normal timelines where users on central networks expect their content to persist, which is what typically is the case.

And for the record, Mastodon content is stored on the Great Servers in the Cloud. Most instances run on AWS VPS.
See also PEP 638 – Syntactic Macros https://peps.python.org/pep-0638/
Yeah, you gotta adjust each leg individually. That's what tripods are designed to do after all :)
Specifically the use of military jargon to describe consumer software
I agree. I always find my computer speeds up after I delete that pesky SYSTEM32 folder
> Empower the users to filter and pick what they want to watch, not moderators

I can imagine a friends and family instance that solves this: only invite people I wouldn't need to moderate.

Honestly, though 1 person per instance makes more sense to me. There needs to be a way to drive the (time and money) cost of hosting an instance to zero.

There probably also needs to be some sort of web of trust style reputation system. (Or just a way to whitelist users instead of blocking them.)
After much digging, here is a way to prevent account changes from the device.

Steps:

1. Settings > Screen time > Use screen time pass code > Enter a different passcode to your main one that you will remember

2. Settings > Screen time > Content & Privacy Restrictions > Scroll down to Account changes > Don’t allow

This prevents account changes from the device, unless you have the second passcode.

This would not prevent a thief who was aware of this (they could attempt to disable screen time then request the second passcode), but it would prevent a pickpocket who happens to see your passcode being entered from changing your iCloud account details.
I agree with this, but you do need to "refill sealent" every 3-6months. The fallback from tubeless->tubed is an advantage that I've used for both recreational and racing.

The other nice thing about tubeless is less rotational mass, meaning less caloric burn.
I outsource as much as possible, I have a maid clean our house twice a week (+ laundry, dishes, etc), a concierge service for all of our grocery shopping. An accountant and personal assistant which work together for all of the households and my businesses administrative tasks. The only shore I spend time on weekly is cooking. Living in south east Asia, I am paying around 500$ per month for the entire convenience. It buys me a full workday per week of time I can spend on leisure, working out or being more productive.
Medium-sized businesses can easily buy IBM stuff through VARs. (If your VAR does not recommend any IBM products, that's a different situation.) If you're smart enough to buy IT directly then you're probably also smart enough to realize that very few IBM products are good.
> Kind of? The fact is that we've turned into a society where we can't even be unified in trying to prevent disease. If "the left" is for vaccines, masking, social distancing, etc. then "the right" has to immediately be against it.

That's your takeaway? Perhaps you should start taking people at face value. It was about coerced vaccination, and enforcing masks, lockdowns, expanding government power, etc. You're conflating that with spreading the disease.
Exactly!

Everyone loves the speaking part of being a "free speech absolutist", but having to learn to handle the speech of others who enjoy similar absolutism is a far different thing!

Frankly, Elon does not appear to be very well equipped in this area.

And he has options! Lots of them that could be spun in a good direction for everyone.

The thing about free speech absolutism is it goes both ways. All ways, frankly.
I fully believe they're doing it to retain control of their money, and I don't mind, Bill Gates is a master handler of money - in fact I find the system that led to people like Bill Gates working on things that are good for the general humanity to be genius. It's not like he's going to embezzle the money out of his foundation to buy another villa. Bill Gates doesn't fucking care about a hundreth villa. He's really working on the projects, and he's deploying the money in a way that promises results - that's exactly what I want to happen. I am happy.

And the PR? Let the guy have his fame, he's really worked for it.
Which countries does this or does this not apply to?

I wonder if a creative lawyer could argue that the users with a PayPal card effectively have a gift card - which would make this illegal in the US for at least that specific subset of US users.
About ten years ago I made a learning aggregator (worked kinda like Reddit) that organized and rated content- so the best explanation (voted by the group) for every topic was front and center, with others in secondary and tertiary (and so on) positions. I kinda let it go. Would something like this still be useful?
The president was not promoting snake oil, for example.
Have been using /e/OS for 1.5 years on my Fairphone 3+, I love it!

Not sure what you mean about their ecosystem, I personally don't have an eCloud account. They have a NextCloud integration that I don't use but could work with your self-hosted instance.

So yeah, no lock-in as far as I can tell.
Apple job listings suggest the company is building a metaverse of its own for
Would love to! I feel like a luddite who doesn't know Discord super well yet, but will definitely explore
Yes, you're right, that's worth pointing out. Both instances are mind boggling.
That is a nice thing to do, but I think people will still be hesitant because there is no way to know whether that code you open-sourced is actually what's in the Chrome Store, or that the Chrome Store listing won't change ownership in the future. (Chrome extensions auto-update, so it's easy to ship users code that does something "new and exciting", and when dealing with software supply chain risk, "new and exciting" is something many people don't want.)

I get that you just wanted to make something cool, and it is very cool, but people are also right to be paranoid here. Compare the value between having a certain tiny image in your PRs versus being able to check code into any organization's Git repo as a trusted engineer at that organization, and how much someone would pay you on the black market for either of those things.
Ask HN: Has anyone created an open source dead mans switch that uses Twitter?
It's an interesting question but (at least in the US) a culturally very well-settled one. There's an extremely long history of vaccination being required for participation in various aspects of society, from the military to public education.

During the pandemic, it broadened to "presence in office."

The three tools a society has to defend against rampant disease are hygiene, vaccination, and quarantine. Those who cannot or will not participate in the first two may, if necessary, be handled via the third, and this is pretty bog-standard "How not to have a whole city suffer from typhoid" stuff. As we're talking morality and not the law: there's nothing immoral about "No shirt, no shoes, no service."
The ability to place calls is the absolute last feature I want from my phone. I'll even call it a misfeature.

An os that will let an old device live on as a wifi only device is sorely needed.
In Kate you can turn off auto complete in the Settings, Editing, Auto Completion tab, or set a minimal word length to complete to something long so it's less likely to appear for common letter combinations but still possible for longer words

Of course as always no settings to have a way to enable auto completion but not use the standard typing keys :(
Do people even use email anymore? Looking at the number of sent emails I have across all email addresses, usage is going down down down.
Just wondering how this guy finished his MIT Physics undergrad studies without reading a book ? LOL
Cascade Failures
Yeah you’re also disadvantaged as a senior when you apply by a form - people will obviously think ‘why is this FAANG-level person applying blindly like that’ and think it’s off and discard your application.
Embedded Web Server for electronic devices
My first spoon
> USD has become worthless ever since Nixon removed the gold standard in 1971.

This is verifiable by looking at inflation figures. But of course the question is was it caused by coming off the gold standard, and was coming off the gold standard a bad idea? I am not an economist or historian, so I don't know. I can see the argument for having "control" over your nation's money rather than rely on some fluctuating commodity. Also would a gold standard cause gold wars? On the other hand, if you peg to Gold, there is less scope for a nation to "cheat" it's citizens.

These films and in general the ideas, such as calling money "Fiat" as an insult, talking about creating money from thin air, and so on have been around for a long time. Often they leave out important details. Yes you create money from thin air when a bank lends you money. But they create equal credits and debits, take on risk, and need to fund the operations of the bank, and perhaps pay interest in an almost guaranteed way (with no guarantee of the loan being repaid). So the bank is providing a lot of value there, and is no different to a bakery creating bread out of ingredients and taking a profit.

I think I ready once that the inflationary effect of the new money is countered by the interest obligation, so it doesn't tend to lead to hyperinflation. And by setting the base rates, central banks can try to contain inflation.

I think it is a bad idea to keep money long term as cash. It is designed to lose value over time. I am sure I will lend my kids or grandkids a million dollars in the future. Not because I am rich. Maybe just enough to buy a car :-).

I kind of think you should see decent assets, as defined by your research, as "money" and dollars and cash as "a convenient but expensive tool to do trade with", if that makes sense.
Real-Time Object Detection + OCR Using YOLOv7 in Google Colab Free GPU
I'm going to channel the efficient market hypothesis (I apologize) here and say that people have done that cost comparison and not one of them bought mainframes. Heck, Google ported their entire monorepo to Power but not to z.
> In other words, suppose I create token SCAMMER, and I say its supply will be capped at 1 million tokens (or 10 million, or 100 million - that's the "nice" thing about crypto, I can kinda choose whatever number I want), and then I'm able to sell 10 of those tokens for $100 each. According to FTX math, I now have $99,999,000 of assets on my balance sheet, but of course if I actually tried to sell a lot of my "kept" tokens I would tank the SCAMMER price.

Anybody can do that, true. What you also need is credibility and willingness to destroy that. Look at Fried Bankman, he had had tons of pedigree and knew what ears to wisper too. He apparently wasn't saying anything smart and yet people believed him. He was even rude and playing videgames during meetings and yet people believed him. It's easy and yet it isn't. I think scammers have qualities normal people don't have and when all those line up we get a super bankrun like what happened in this case.
>Unless you consider all of crypto to be a fraud

This seems to become clearer every day.
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