skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for me, the most impactful thing in terms of users, was introducing graphite/grafana to a large news org.

Before it was all splunk, everything took ages, and you needed to have a degree in weird regex/SQL syntax to get anything useful.

I started showing off graphite/grafana to a few devs. I put some basic CPU/Memory/HTTP request time metrics in. They started putting it in the expressjs layer they had. This meant that any HTTP call was automatically logged, along with CPU memory and anything else they wanted.

By the time I left, splunk was used to do post mortems, and virtually every team had a grafana dashboard, with the Product/buisness owners setting the SLAs/alerts.
> Especially when the change you champion will only happen when those that make money from meat no longer do.

We can all think of a couple historical instances of radical social change which necessitated short-term economic sacrifices and paradigm shifts. Yet, the grass isn't purple.
My point is that it's meaningless both ways
I’m referring to those for whom the initial response to the flavor of most vegetables is disgust. I’m talking about the signal between your taste buds and your brain, which like all signals the body uses to communicate, has a processing delay.
They have a billion dollars in assets and are making $600 million/annum if I'm reading their financial statement correctly. That is well into the 'corrupt until proven otherwise' range of wealth. Firefox's development needs orders of magnitude less than that, the browser's market share collapsed and it is notable that Eich [0] of all people went on to develop a browser based on Chrome after thinking about what would be the best base for a company. And Brave is at least trying things - it probably won't work but there is a vision there of reshaping the internet and toppling Google's advertising model. That could be Mozilla. It isn't.

There is a lot of room here to criticise this project. It seems to be off the rails, and it is likely to go further off the rails.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Eich
I can understand giving a user the option to filter out something they might not want to see. But the idea that the technology itself should be limited based on the subjective tastes and whims of the day makes my stomach churn. It's not too disconnected from altering a child's brain so that he is incapable of understanding concepts his parents don't like.
Well, isn't that by definition true for any system of measurements? I mean, as long as we're talking about a simple straight-line distance in some real-dimensional space, it's going to be possible to measure that distance in meters (or yards, or whatever). Yes I know about fractal lengths, coastlines and so on.

I think the point is that the US customary units are typically used in a very different way, with fractions being way more important than in metric. See the image in this [1] article that talks about drill sizes for DIY use, for instance. You guys go like "oh no the 5/16:ths hole is too small, I'll step up to 19/64ths that should do it". Over here in metric-world we go more like "oh no the 7.9 mm drill was too small, I'll step up to 8 mm".

Again, the fact that it's easy to convert the 5/16:ths to 7.9375 mm is not the point, the point is how the decimal/metric units are used in practice.
It's hard to pin it down to a single drug. Having had both my grandmother (80) and mother (60) in the ICU, and both got hallucinations without Ativan. It could be so many things:

* The aftermentioned lack of sound sleep

* Anesthesia

* Painkillers

In the case of my grandmother, hallucinations and incoherence lasted about three months after she was home. My mother's lasted about 2-3 weeks. It was scary. They both eventually recovered. But it is true that nobody in the hospital bats an eye when acute dementia-like symptoms are mentioned. "It's normal," they say.
From personal experience, one of the most frustrating things about the ICU (if you're there for any anything beyond a day) is dealing with the variability in the availability, skills, and temperaments of the nurses on duty. The 'right' nurse can make a huge difference in how fast the patient recovers and how difficult the stay is.
Security Kit for Drupal: https://www.drupal.org/project/seckit. I built it when I was a junior QA engineer both learning how to program in PHP and doing first steps in the security. I open sourced it, pretty much moved to Ruby and forgot about it just to learn several years later that it's used on 50k websites across the world.
So they will treat the following two tweets differently?

• down with people who believe X!

• long live people who believe not-X!

The line between negativity and positivity is just a matter of framing.
I mean that whole idea sounds extremely dystopian. You can only post things that the AI considers “positive”.

Putin is a piece of shit who bombed my family! I’m sorry Dave, I can’t allow you to post that.
Zero interest rates make the rich desperate to find a new money printer.
Solar noon, or the solar meridian, is the time of day in which the sun is highest in the sky. If our times were completely natural, solar noon would be at 12 PM exactly.

Today, the solar meridian in Madrid is at 12:59 PM, while the solar meridian in Belgrade is at 11:23 AM. This is because Madrid and Belgrade are within the same time zone, in order to more easily coordinate European commerce.

If that's an acceptable tradeoff, I don't really see the issue in drifting something on the order of dozens-to-hundreds of seconds per century.
dang's a mod
> Because he loves journalism?

i mean. yes.

while im sure there is an investment piece in their as well, do you think its unreasonable to say journalism is immensely important to a healthy society?
Uk is metric, but we do use a mix. Speed limits are still in mph, and we rarely if ever use kilometres for distances. Height is in ft and inches, and your own weight is in stones/pounds. All other weights are in grams and kg, except for some larger ones (industrial/shipping) which are in tonnes. Pints are used only for… pints, everything else is in ml.

And, the best, is “football pitches” which is often used by the news to describe large (but not too large) lengths.
This is really helpful, thank you for sharing.
Sorry, but I would not quit a job right now, with tech hiring freezing and a recession coming up, unless I were working for literal Nazis or I had at least a year of liquid savings set aside. I've been through 2000 and 2008 and know how hard it was, even for talented engineers. A lot of people reading HN were born after 1992 or so and have never yet been of working age during an acute tech downturn. They have no idea what it's like when zero companies are hiring. It's not a joke.
> I also pay taxes

Do you really get nothing? And who is paying for whose care? You mention taxes, but they've probably been paying taxes even longer. And why do you think health care is a strict quid pro quo anyway? Some of us believe care should be allocated where it's needed, not where it's paid for. Put another way: why is it a problem that they are getting care? Isn't it that you aren't? This doesn't have to be a zero-sum game. If you feel that you're in competition with someone else for care, the problem is pretty clearly that there aren't enough providing it.

Saying others have less right to health care is pretty terrible no matter which way the finger points.
That sounds like quite the bad faith comment there. I will still refrain from downvoting or flagging you in the interest of impartiality.
I use your site often. Thank you for creating it, it's a great resource!
Interesting write up but kind of moot considering there are many nsfw models that are super easy to plugin and use along side stable diffusion (via img2img) to generate all manners of imagery to your hearts content.
Please yes.
How would that help? Anyone can lie on a spreadsheet or deck.
> Earth weighs around one ronnagram

I think this is a error by nature.com, and Earth weighs around 5.97 ronnagram
But not necessarily nicer than io.Copy(destination, source).
> The only thing that will change now is that liberal politicians and views will start being targeted rather than conservative/alt-right ones.

Conservative speech like "lower taxes are better", "extract more petroleum", and "prayer should be allowed in public school" were never targeted.

The "conservative" speech banned were things like "LGBT people should have their human rights denied" and "Let's get together and attack the Capitol to stop the transfer of power".

> It is simply a shift of power from the left to the right, financed by a handful of billionaires, Wall Street banks and Saudi/Qatari Princes.

That raises the question of what are the "dividends" for those parties, regardless of the financial success of Twitter.
At the beginning of the article is says:

"But it does not explain how adequate land to reach a 90% clean electricity penetration can be acquired or how reliability will be protected beyond that 90% penetration, stakeholders acknowledged."

I'm confused that they can put a time frame on a problem they have no idea how to solve yet.
"Nuclear is likely to be 9% to 12% of generation in 2035" - this is absurd. We should have much more aggressive targets for nuclear. Because it is the cleanest, safest and most reliable source of 0-emission power.

France gets 70% of its electricity from nuclear now.
Can this technology eventually detect their heartbeat, or is it just looking at slower changes over time? If the latter it sounds much simpler to defeat, if the former that would have many repercussions.

Live heart rate by video analysis would make things like televised court proceedings, congressional hearings, and news interviews much more invasive. Elevated heart rate is a sign of stress, and it wouldn't be long before people were jumping to conclusions over whether someone was lying or hiding their true feelings/intentions.
Like the discomfort from being banned from someones private property from saying dumb crap?
Interesting pivot! I've never seen a framework for one language pivot into another like this. I like this approach, too often good frameworks just die with the language.

I hope its an opportunity for the Mojolicious team to do things they just couldn't do their Perl framework due to legacy constraints etc and they get to take on fresh new ideas and see them through! I've heard good things on the peripherals for years about Mojolicious
Extending forgiveness is ruthless indeed.

Thomas Hobbes makes the following observation in leviathan, that is thoroughly depressing and at first perhaps paradoxical. A person who wronged you will only ever be able to hate you afterwards: either because of fear for your vengeance, or because of distaste for your forgiveness.

The positive action of forgiveness only applies to those who extend it; those who are forgiven are rendered impotent. it's somewhat of a manipulative act if it's not accompanied by magnanimity and reconciliation.
The desperate stay.
Communication skills vary wildly.
Just a general statement on people commenting on this saga: Sam wasn't doing effective altruism. He was lying about doing effective altruism.

It's weird to me that people talk about this as an indictment of EA...but this rings similar to me as claiming that this is an indictment of DeFi or cryptocurrency generally. Sam/Caroline weren't doing DeFi, and neither were they really doing anything related to cryptocurrency. This was just a pretty staightforward scam.
The only use cases I have seen for units larger than 'petabyte' are those representing the maximum allowed file sizes for ZFS, Btrfs and such. I also don't see a point in inventing more prefixes so that statisticians don't have to use scientific notation for large numbers. What use is that? How many people know how much a yottabyte is? If they need to Google the answer, that defeats the point.

1e12 terabytes seems easier to digest than 1 whatever-the-hell-,-I-don't-know-what-this-unit-is-meant-to-represent-byte. Not to mention, easier to read.
From reading the abstract you are completely mischaracterizing this study.

For the average person healthy food usually means food with fewer calories and more micro-nutrients, like eating more broccoli and less white bread.

This study is about malnourished patients who need more calories than they can even digest from an average meal so they need specialized high-calorie foods that are customized for their own metabolism. It's essentially exactly the opposite of what "healthy food" means in any other context.

So it has nothing to do with any narrative about cost cutting and the quality of ingredients used in hospital cafeterias.
> Into one of United's big hubs.

> With 14 hours notice.

Also, into an office building that he just declared to be closed to all access until next week.
> pure utilitarianism

> a sort of nihilism

The SBF saga is a great example of how easily the former degenerates into the latter. We're talking about someone who graduated MIT. He clearly has some amount of smarts and personal drive. "He's just a dipshit" is not an adequate explanation.

Though, yeah, he ends up a dipshit at the end of the story (presumably).
Elon is doing a great job at Twitter :)

What do I really mean?
The fact that some people need to have it explained to them that just because you _could_ cause someone more harm doesn't justify causing them a lesser amount of harm is just mind blowing.
I'd say this is a solid portion of the reason. Ideally, we could talk about software in a completely neutral and dispassionate way without worrying about how the recipient will receive the information, or what the potential implications on ourselves are; this is the idea behind no-blame retros and psychological safety, etc. The fact is that a lot of work cultures are not in a state where this works, so even if people might be naturally inclined to do this, they may have been trained not to.

The other big piece of it is... communicating is a messy activity. I'm always amazed how often you can think people are aligned on something, then dig in a little farther and realize that people have wildly divergent ideas of what's going on. It's exacerbated when you have folks who are operating in a second language (this isn't a slight on them, I have nothing but admiration for anybody working as a software dev in a second language - I don't know if I could do it TBH).
> Currently software has to be built to accommodate leap seconds

Plenty is not.

The Swift time type ignores them in its implementation. I filed an issue, and they said there were no plans to implement them.

Good choice it turns out.

Who would of thought that adding a second on random new year changeovers would be worse than letting clocks drift.

Me for one.

We can have a "leap hour" in a thousand years. Till then do we care, I do not, if the clocks and the sun drift very slowly apart from each other?
I built a content management system back when that meant something like Slashdot instead of Wordpress. It powered many sites but the main one was https://www.coffeegeek.com. It was launched in 2001 and I stopped working on the software in 2007 and it continued to power that site, basically unchanged, until 2020.

I think a 20 year run for a popular website and application was probably most impactful thing I've done.
How was he not doing EA? He was lying AND donating to causes. I'm very pro-EA but that's a weird claim.
Who loaned him that money, and did they know this is how he'd treat that loan?
"burning cash" in this context doesn't refer to the literal burn rate, it's more that he's spending a great deal of money without presenting any clear vision or direction for the company
Nah, considering he's let Jordan Peterson back on, and apparently is considering Trump - I think Elon is just a right winger who realized he was surrounded by lefties (apparently Twitter graded managers on empathy? Lots of pronouns on profiles, etc. not saying that's a bad or a good thing) and decided to dump them all.

Basically Elon is a soft Republican/Trump supporter who is like "Trump didn't do anything wrong" and intends to make the platform a free for all.

It makes sense with a lot of his statements as well. Why obsess over the blue ticks? Cause the right wing was upset about it. Why obsess over freedom of speech? Because the right wing said they were being removed en masse from platforms. etc. etc.

There was a great twitter thread explaining all this that I read today, but for the life of me cant find it.

Ah found it here - https://twitter.com/MattBinder/status/1593474503996280833

all the why Elon Musk bought Twitter theories are overthinking it.

it’s simple.

Musk is in a right wing filter bubble. he bought Twitter believing their problems were real & that others felt the same
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23577228
The idea behind the lack of regulation is that the impact is contained to the investors. It's obvious that in sufficiently large cases, that's not true. If these actors are able to do damage to entire sectors, they should have to do some minimum stuff: keep track of their money, have board meetings, submit to audits, etc.
> OTOH, very sunny areas like the southwest could do quite well here.

from the article:

> Locations must be chosen carefully to avoid tidal forces and stormy weather from destroying the panels as well as their mooring and anchoring systems.

That sort of removes anywhere we have hurricanes, tropical cyclones, typhoons and such; mostly where we have ample sun.

That said, it does look interesting. Maybe if they have some more built-in self protection from weather?
> How are you going to bring irrational people back to rational society?

This is probably where our work needs to be, and I agree it's not everyone's burden to undertake. It's taxing and requires a lot of emotional energy that some might not have. My personal experience with people that believed in conspiracies is that with enough normal human contact they eventually adjust. Sometimes there's an underlying issue that leads to conspiratorial thinking; I'm not even necessarily talking about mental health. It could be financial or interpersonal.

I'm just saying that the alternative of banishment isn't great. It doesn't dissolve the things we don't want, generally.
When when one of my parents had a stroke years ago, we spent a week in the ICU. It was a special ICU for stroke victims. The care and staff were exceptional. We were lucky such an ICU was in our area.

On the other hand, subsequent hospital visits (non-ICU) were a cluster fuck. Noise, lights on, nurses constantly waking my parent up, could-care-less doctors, etc. And getting healthy enough to be transferred to an extended care facility was a shit show. It's was like the hospital but worse. Both experience seemed to have little to do with health and recovery.

My point is, the article author is in for a shock once his dad gets out of the ICU and into the "general population". I can't imagine that's going to be better than the ICU. I hope I'm mistaken.

My take away from this experience is:

1) Make choices that maximize your health the best you can.

2) If you can, be rich - like fuck you money rich. The kind of rich where your "general population" hospital experience will be like being in the ICU.
I built a decentralised ai network, it is more like openAI but like without content policy.
> There’s no sense of a scientific method, reasoning from first principles, or even reasoning from similar cases though. It’s all shooting in the dark, and most of the time I felt like I could have done just as good a job on these longterm issues...

This articulates very well what I've usually felt when dealing with doctors. It's like the story of a programmer finding that his code outputs 5 when it should be 4, and then adding...

if(return_value == 5):
return_value = 4

...to fix it, and being satisfied. What I want is something like in the television show House. The main character is unhinged and anti-social and takes extreme risks, but at least he demonstrates curiosity to really figure out and understand the root of what's going on. To be fair, I don't actually think that doctors lack curiosity or are incapable of doing this, the medical system as it's set up just doesn't allow it. For chronic issues, I've usually figured them out for myself, as a layperson, by persistently keeping track of things, searching the web, reading, and experimenting over months and years.
I went on a cruise and met some Canadians (they told me). I noticed they were speaking French and said “Is that French you’re speaking?” “Yes.” “That’s really cool! What part of Canada are you from?”

“The part that speaks French.”

I just frowned and walked off as it was meant to be a polite question. An educated guess would have said that they were from “the French speaking part of Canada,” but I guess they didn’t like small talk.

In hindsight, I find that interaction funny.
There is never going to be a way to conclusively ascribe the drop in stock price to any one event. However, the act of pointing out the high cost of insulin to a large audience not causing a drop in stock price would be highly suspect. I personally doubt it was the Tweet itself that caused the drop. No one should/would have believed it was an actual statement by Eli Lilly.

But in a bear market, this bad publicity about the high price of a mandatory medication for a large population is likely going to have an effect.

Or it could have also been a coincidence... there's no way to know.
Exactly. I'm staff at Google.
> The amount raised contained numerical references to marijuana and oral sex: $420.69 million raised from 69 investors. An article published by one of FTX’s investors, Sequoia, called that fundraising a “meme round,” referring to the embedded jokes.

Is Sequoia going to need to rebrand itself after this? Sure does raise some questions about their judgement and professionalism. Hey Investors, we're raising a round of almost half a billion dollars and the theme is...
>I could argue that I am shouting so that everyone can hear me. I could be shouting important things.

You could argue that, yes. What you can argue doesn't matter. I can also, equally, argue that I am free to DDoS someone I don't like, because there is no technical limitation to my doing so, and that anyone attempting to stop that is inhibiting my free speech or free use of whatever hardware I control. Where does anyone argue that? Where has anyone argued this version of free speech that you are presenting the fallacies of? I have never heard even the most die-hard free speech supporter advocate that someone is free to follow you around all day, yelling to drown out your voice. And if this free speech absolutism is a position that no one holds, why are you arguing against it?

>"I order you to kill/hang that vice president" is speech, and the dead don't speak.

This started by you giving the example of an order to kill someone as being free speech that so-called free speech absolutists would logically protect. But the thing that is actually a problem, in that example, is that you are (presumably) using whatever existing power you have to unlawfully kill someone. The fact that someone could literally say those words to cause that effect in no way mandates that free speech advocates defend literal murder.
CZ announced that he was going to sell a certain amount of FTT and people could see that there wasn't that much liquidity on all the markets combined which implied that the price was going to near zero eventually, so other people completely rationally started selling FTT before CZ.