skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was my takeaway after building API Blocks. The goal was to display arbitrary data from APIs on a dashboard.

APIs just aren't standardized or stable enough, and it took too much effort to maintain the API library. The UX just wasn't up to scratch because almost every week a block on your dashboard would be broken because the API changed,or your auth expired or broke. The cost to maintain was not worth it.

An interconnected public web as data would be incredible but we just haven't built that.

Not to detract from the concept here with Benthos Studio, the use case is a bit different. But it is something to keep in mind, the end user might not be technical and APIs constantly changing might not be something they expected.
Dremel & gcode makes for some interesting attempts.

https://opg.optica.org/prj/fulltext.cfm?uri=prj-7-8-823&id=4...

at least gives a purpose for making functional electrical chromaticglass & way to reduce power requirements of google glasses.
Yeah, if we go down this path, then maybe (just maybe), introducing robots with guns isn't really the best approach.
Seems like a potentially good time to launch it, lots of young people with free time.
All of these others mean something to me, but what does "Stanchebost" mean?
OK, WTF Is 'Longtermism', the Tech Elite Ideology That Led to the FTX Collapse?
I can buy a 1 gram ampule of mercury right now for $6.

It's an amazing children's toy. The metal is beautiful as it flows around the glass. It will fit down a child's throat easily.

I can buy 30 grams for $61. Even better toy but you can only imagine how bad it will be if they drop the glass enclosure.

I can buy caltrops, throwing stars, matches... any number of objects that are more likely to injure a child than a magnet.

Dozens of children choke on bottle caps every year. Marbles are still a common toy available in every toy store.

There's literally nothing about magnets that makes banning them rational.

I have no children. I will never have children. Can I submit proof of sterility to buy magnets?
For most languages it takes a few weeks to be reasonably productive.

This is not a criticism of Rust, just a trait which needs to be acknowledged if the situation has to be improved.
The fact that we exist and live is baseline extraordinary.

What we do after that is so-called gravy.

But seriously. Measuring ourselves against the Einsteins is a path leading nowhere.

What you do adds to the universe.
Been in it for a decade. Bought my house with Bitcoin, get paid in Bitcoin, and frequently buy things online or IRL with it.

Privacy, censorship resistance, proof of reserve, inflation resistance, digital payments for the unbanked, and near-free international money transfers are all highly valuable advantages of cryptoassets over fiat that will be here long after the luddites and speculators move on.

IMO cryptoassets are likely overvalued in the short term and dramatically undervalued for those planning longer term for another decade of inflation.

As long as you diversify and dollar-cost-average it all balances out.
Onyx Boox tablets can convert your handwritten notes to text, and export them as TXT files. I'm not certain but the export can probably be automated.

At work I use the handwriting keyboard input to write directly into Confluence notes.
Agreed, especially since it's a well known topic in the philosophy literature and one generally agreed to be contentious. See Frank Ramsey's famous rejoinder to Wittgenstein, "What you can't say you can't say, and you can't whistle it either." FWIW, I think Ramsey was wrong (for once), but my point is that it's clearly a very difficult topic.
Except it is the case in the joke I was replying to:

> "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_if_it%27s_a_big_hoax_an...

This joke asserts that climate change mitigation measures would be justified even if climate change was a hoax. And that joke only works if you assume that those measures are free, or at least very cheap.
> But can anyone external honestly look at what Twitter has shipped for the last few years and justify that it was at all likely their productivity problems in engineering had anything to do with the build system.

You say you've worked at a "major public tech company before", so why would you assume Twitter's paralysis was the fault of engineering and not management/product?
Here's the part explaining the active chemistry:

> The team were also surprised to detect sulfur dioxide, which had appeared as a mysterious bump in early observation data. Its presence suggests a photochemical reaction is taking place in the atmosphere as light from the star hits it, similar to how our Sun produces ozone in Earth’s atmosphere. In WASP-39b’s case, light from its star, slightly smaller than the Sun, splits water in its atmosphere into hydrogen and hydroxide, which reacts with hydrogen sulfide to produce sulfur dioxide.

Wikipedia has this to say about sulfur dioxide in our solar system:

> On other planets, sulfur dioxide can be found in various concentrations, the most significant being the atmosphere of Venus, where it is the third-most abundant atmospheric gas at 150 ppm. There, it reacts with water to form clouds of sulfuric acid, and is a key component of the planet's global atmospheric sulfur cycle and contributes to global warming.[11] It has been implicated as a key agent in the warming of early Mars, with estimates of concentrations in the lower atmosphere as high as 100 ppm,[12] though it only exists in trace amounts. On both Venus and Mars, as on Earth, its primary source is thought to be volcanic. The atmosphere of Io, a natural satellite of Jupiter, is 90% sulfur dioxide[13] and trace amounts are thought to also exist in the atmosphere of Jupiter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur_dioxide

This doesn't necessarily mean that the the exoplanet has active volcanism, but it could be an explanation.
I've pondered p2p apps that are secure from traffic analysis, sniffing, and leaking metadata. Chat being the easiest. Chat is low bandwidth and tolerates latencies well, much more so than audio or video streaming.

Tor has a much harder job, it's trying to handle full TCP communications, low latency, variable packet sizes, efficiency (no fake traffic), and high bandwidth all compound to make it very challenging.

However you can make the challenge much simpler. First nix TCP, variable packet sizes, and low latency. Pick a packet size like 256 bytes, send packets every 300 ms, and use any spare traffic to maintain the health of a DHT.

Then clients would use the same onion approach, decide the number of hops, and encrypt for those hops like an onion.

So each node would receive messages, decrypt it, if it's a DHT update handle that, if they are the intended recipient decrypt, if it's a forward request decrypt it and queue it for sending on the next free 300ms boundary.

Suddenly it's much harder to track traffic through the network, even with perfect knowledge of each packet's source and destination. Timing attacks don't work because everyone sends 256 bytes ever 300ms. Using packet size to watch traffic go through relays doesn't work.

So much less useful than Tor, but also more resistant to traffic analysis, and plenty of bandwidth for chat.
It is.

The benefit of officer risking his life is that he/she a literal stake in making a decision. It is not supposed to be an easy job. The moment that officer is plopped down behind a screen, the situation immediately becomes less real. He does not have stakes in the situation, which has benefits ( less officers killed ) and serious drawbacks ( population is policed by unaccountable robots, which does wonders for the population accepting that level of control ). And police already has a LOT of latitude is US, when it comes to policing.

Do I really need to explain the basics of policing? The only reason it even works to begin with is that society allows it to be so ( because you know.. there is only so many officers and so many more non-officers surrounding them ). You do NOT want to further separate them from the society, in which they operate as it will become easier for the populace to believe that they, the police, is, in fact, the enemy. Even despots know this, which is the reason why they absolutely fear any real demonstrations, because they are hard to quell with pure, brute force -- especially these days.

Do you need proof? Look at BLM protests. Note, that police was literally afraid to touch those for fear that it could really escalate.

<< People generally don't like dying.

I think like with a solider, that person picked a wrong job. The job comes with a risk. It is not in small print either. Them are the breaks.

Killing someone is not supposed to be a simple choice, but this is a step to make police even less accountable.

<< Removing all risk from the situation for an officer only serves to make them more accountable.

Removing all risk means they will be reckless. That is how an average human responds to 'no stakes' situation.
I'm no expert here, but I wonder about the economics around the 13MW of heat that it outputs. There are certainly applications around the world where that could be hugely beneficial. Take Reykjavik[1] for example. How much are they paying for their system now on a yearly basis? How would they like an extra 5MW of energy along with it?

[1] https://vahterus.com/resources/cases/10-mw-heat-pump-system-...
No, you need too much data and it’s too specific to the environment.
I think the content on newer platforms (TikTok, Reddit, Twitter whatever) is presented in a more mentally stimulating way, so people just tend to gravitate towards those things. And yes, ads too probably.

That being said, any time forums come up in discussion there is so much nostalgia there. Messing around with forums software like vBulletin and stuff as a kid taught me a lot about the internet, ftp, php, hosting things, graphics design, etc.

I wonder if older people feel the same way about BBS?
In practice, it's unclear how well avoiding training on NSFW images will work: the original LAION-400M dataset used for both SD versions did filter out some of the NSFW stuff, and it appears SD 2.0 filters out a bit more. The use of OpenCLIP in SD 2.0 may also prevent some leakage of NSFW textual concepts compared to OpenAI's CLIP.

It will, however, definitely not affect the more-common use case of anime women with very large breasts. And people will be able to finetune SD 2.0 on NSFW images anyways.
I think drone operators actually notoriously experience high levels of PTSD compared to other operators, but can’t find a source right now.
If I'm evil, I never login to Windows for copying files to avoid logging. Just connect drive to Linux machine, or boot USB Linux if SSD is soldered. Even if BitLocker is enabled, I'll try to get password and decrypt it on Linux.
lulz certainly abound here--there's been a lot of great comedy in this.

But I read the GP to mean they've seen people crossing a thin line.

I doubt any of us are above a bit of schadenfreude when the fates deal a fair dose of karma to someone we think deserves it.

But actively cheering (and trying to multiply, in the case of aggressive trolling) the sadism in public is a kind of dark prayer.
Charts That Capture How the World Is Changing (Part II)
Because they want to know if someone stole your creds.
It's definitely an interesting thought experiment! A key question is how extreme outliers like Bolt are distributed. There's certainly a chance that there are others in his cohort who match or exceed his genetic potential, but 1000?

I also don't think you can assume the greatest outlier who has been discovered would be significantly exceeded by others who weren't discovered. If they could be better, my intuition is it would be by a very small margin.
In spite of the curious mention of a banjo, I clicked through hoping for a discussion of the work of Jack L. Chalker. (don't bother)
> Classes just become a design pattern

You haven't really got rid of classes though, you've just moved them from being explicit (something the language itself knows about) to implicit (something the developer keeps in their head). You still have some objects which play the role of "classes" (they are used as prototypes for other objects) and others which play the role of "instances" (no other object will use them as a prototype).

How much of an improvement is there really if the concept still exists, but the language itself is ignorant of it?
I really enjoy my Shapeoko Pro XXL, but it's on the "upper entry" end of entry level.
USAL: A New Source Available License
You're correct, there is no legal basis. In fact, the police have a supreme court ruling which affirms that the police has no legal duty or responsibility to protect anyone. Even when they're given roles that would imply the responsibility (such as serving in a school).

Could we hold police more accountable? Potentially. Will we? Based on historical evidence, no.

And without that accountability, this is just another deadly weapon, one they can and will (again, based on historical evidence) use with impunity.
Looks good. I've gotten bored with AI image generation these days however, after using a lot of SD the past few months. I suppose that's the hedonic treadmill in action.
Thanks - that gives me a nice overview of what's going on. Will check out Axum the thing i was excited about actix-web (Actors) is apparently not part of it anymore anyway.
How to implement a safe sandbox.
Hrm...

That does make things more complicated.

The dynamic nature of HTML as a whole means that 1) page contents can change interactively and 2) follow-up network requests can be made.

Limiting that would be difficult, and might require something like, spitballing here:

- Limiting extension functionality to subtractive network requests, or specifically permitted requests. Given that I've just installed LibRedirect, which points surveillanceware sites (Twitter, YT, Reddit, Instagram, etc.) to open, less-surveilled alternatives, I'm already contradicting myself here.

- Limiting extension functionality to changing displayed content after an initial pre-render has been achieved. sort of:

{ Web } <-> { Unmodified fetch } <-> { Extension } <-> { Displayed content }

That ... obviously ... fails to work for any number of content blocking or tracker-blocking tools (uMatrix, Ghostery, amongst others).

This leaves us with the option of tools which are audited and certified as to behaviour, have some specifically limited sets of requests, and require those back-ends to treat any such requests in specific manners which preserve privacy and confidentiality. That's a lot more cumbersome, and doesn't work off simple allow/deny rules on-device.

Thanks for the reality slap.
In the US, that's like 2.5+ hours of ads. I just can't understand how these people don't lose their ever loving mind every 7 minutes.

In the rare occasion I'm in a hotel or something I almost always turn the TV on out of sheer boredom and find myself absolutely blown away by how obnoxious and prevalent commercials are. Same for terrestrial radio.
There is a similar iOS app implement in pure swift, run directly on your iPhone, open App Store and Search: Maigret to download this app.
> They are very difficult to use if the game play semantics are complicated and require lots of interaction with world state or world geometry.

Could you give an example? I’m trying to understand what the limits look like. It appears to be trivial to you, but for someone outside of game design, I can’t imagine what those might be.
Combination of reddit swallowing everyone and every php webapp being a dumpster fire of vulnerabilities making them a constant source of maintenance headaches.

source: I ran & hosted zx6e.net, a niche but active motorcycle forum, for over a decade. Sunsetted the site for lack of user growth combined with becoming sick of operating php trash.
The future is probably models trained almost exclusively on porn.
My grandma cheated at solitaire.
They reportedly did so to stop people from generating CSAM [0].

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/y9ga5s/sta...
I use StartAllBack with Windows 11 and it works really well.
There is no big problem with solar energy. In the US at least the industry is installing as much new solar as possible.

Take a look at this EIA webpage [1]. Of all the new installed capacity in 2021, solar constituted 39%, followed by wind with 31%. Natural gas comes at a great distance, with 16%, and the next one is not really a source of electricity. It's batteries, with 11%. Nuclear comes with 3%. So, the only new installed capacity that can produce CO2 emissions is natural gas, with 16%.

EIA does not have the split for 2022 yet, but a quick google returned [2], that shows solar kept its share of 39% through the first half of 2022. It would have been higher, but for the supply constraints. Going forward, it is expected that new solar installation will increase significantly, not in small part due to the Inflation Reduction Act.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=46416

[2] https://www.seia.org/research-resources/solar-market-insight...
NB, above was a slightly kneejerk response on my part to misreading "over-60s" as somehow referring to the 1960s.

That said, awareness of television as a generally harmful medium has in fact been recognised for quite some time. Along with other mass media.

And yes, older adults seem to have their own specific susceptibilities.

Kara Swisher speaks and writes fairly frequently over her own issues with her own mother's television viewing and its impact upon her mother's politics and general (mis)understanding of the world.
iProletariat
> greatly improves the quality of the generated images compared to earlier V1 releases

That’s great!
I have a deepseated aversion to outright censorship when it comes to my kids' media but this is somehow more palatable to me. What a pleasantly dystopian compromise!
What is your point? Do you think I promote unapproved ingredients? Of course, manufacturers do not use toxic ingredients, and of course, the active ingredients should be approved. How does it say that skincare manufacturers should conduct a randomized controlled trial?
I really wish they hadn't framed it this way. They could have just said "Possible new historical mass extinction event discovered".

See, because of the way they have framed it we now have people in the comments arguing about global warming.

While I certainly believe that we are doing a lot of damage to the planet right now, we dont need to incorporate every news article into the permacrisis narrative
You can generate all the bloody violent gore you like, but god forbid anybody see a human body in its natural state
Management Lessons from Elon’s Twitter
Sorry, but I have to ask, what are you talking about ?
I should have been more clear that I am assuming an hostile nation-state with some minimal capabilities : the biggest difficulty is probably to be able to deliver the bomb to a target once you have one, which gets even worse if you want to use it as an open threat for deterrence rather than a (frankly suicidal) surprise attack : you pretty much need an ICBM (see all the North Korean failures before they (supposedly) stole SSR-Ukrainian tech).

Difficulty of enrichment seems to be heavily proportional to time : the whole "game" around Iran's enrichment seems to be about not letting them get it high enough that they can go from weapons-useless uranium to a ready bomb in a short enough amount of time for the other countries not being able to react.

(There's also a possibility of a much smaller actor to make a dirty bomb from that mildly enriched uranium, but I have even less ideas about how likely that is.)
On the contrary, the rulemaking specifically targets hobbyists; see my remarks above about jewelry-making sets.

For the foreseeable future, you will probably still be able to buy a hundred-pack of tiny magnets on AliExpress because the seller will lie to evade shipping restrictions, as many do today to ship batteries, although the rulemaking points out that the existing restrictions have already convinced 80% of sellers to stop shipping to the US.
I absolutely believe that, and I think the two are absolutely connected: drone operators aren't stupid, and the dissemblement the drone provides is traumatizing in its own way.
Less likely journalist whingers will pick it up too.
I guess Elon Musk will be interested in taking one of these things to Mars. He is almost getting the transport capability part done.
Now that's a can of worms I don't think anyone wants to open.
> They also have a follow up video about using Jupiter to create a jovoscope

Just for fun, if you wanted to form the word from Greek roots instead of mixing Latin into it, it'd be "dioscope".

If you stick with the Latin, it's ambiguous whether the combining vowel should be -i-, agreeing with the Latin root ("joviscope") or -o-, agreeing with the Greek root ("jovoscope").

(And for completeness, if you wanted to do it entirely in Latin, the word would probably be "jovivide", but it is generally Not Done to form verbal compounds like that in Latin, unless the verb you're using is either ferre or gerere [both meaning "carry"].)
That only means they're likely to become even more dominant, thus proving parent's point.
I did a search on this to see if I could find some source of what you’re referring to. Came up with nothing. Most of the information out there on this topic is in stark contrast to what you’re saying here.
I'm going to try to engage you seriously even though your question seems rhetorical and just making an appeal to emotion...

Assuming we are in agreement that our police force must be well trained and operating with good checks and balances it would be great to have a police officer on every corner. It would certainly reduce violent crime and make cities safer.

Of course we don't have the resources to do that. Putting gun turrets instead would only be useful in dangerous situations of last resort. It would be a gross misuse of resources and introduces unnecessary risk. So I'm against it but not for the reasons you might think. It's the same reason we probably don't need the police to have all of the decommissioned military hardware. An effective police department probably only needs a few remote controlled guns to be used in those dire situations and would require strict oversight.
Exactly this. And if the company has corporate clients, they are one LinkedIn search away from the client wanting to distance themselves from an employee that was part of the another fraudulent company. Especially, if you are a dealing with other people’s money. It’s not worth the additional risk to the company’s image.
The first post was that old timers not sharing their experiences was bad which in my mind extrapolates to old timers should all be teachers.

The second post was that acknowledging the fact that teachers no longer teach but instruct based on a preset curriculum arranged to get grades for specific tests higher.

The fuzzy logic in my head might not be clear to me let alone others, but I feel you're trying to make something out of nothing as well.
The FBI has an annual budget of $9.7-billion. How much more do you think they need to use tools they already have to scrub a hard drive image of sensitive information and send the rest to this FOIA requester on a thumb drive? FOIA allows the government to set a reasonable price for the labor and equipment involved in processing such a request, but that doesn't appear to be the sticking point here.
With enough dimensions, everything is on the Pareto frontier: https://erikbern.com/2016/10/25/pareto-efficiency.htm
He seems to think that if we stop polluting the earth, the trees will not have enough CO2... Never heard THAT one before. He also mentioned the sun going 'quiet', so he's probably one of those that thinks global warming is only because the sun is hotter right now, not because of CO2.
RoR peaked in 2013.