skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many of the current conflicts going on in the world already are water wars in disguise, or are about dealing with degrading environments, like in the Sahel zone. Also large-scale refugee movements are about people trying to escape from places where supply for land suitable for agriculture is not increasing. This is on top of ecosystems actively degrading because of multiple other reasons as well. There are always going to be populations somewhere that manage to insulate themselves from these problems, but things will become rougher for many of us.
Must be because they love ridiculous admission processes, not because American income is higher.
If it ain’t broke…

I like transmission because it has a python lib that’s good enough and a built in webpage to easily manage it on a remote server by ssh port forwarding the command port.

I’ve tried other solutions in the past (maybe rtorrent, dunno?) but find transmission to just work for my use case.

My basic workflow is fetch an RSS feed whenever I remember, usually once a week or so, store the torrent info in a big json “database” file and download the torrents when it is convenient and/or I have access to fast internets. All with a simple script through the python transmission_rpc library. Well, and I manually upload the magnet links through the python repl these days so that part of the script is commented out.
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Well said! Thanks for calling it out.

> just because we're paid well.

People might try another perspective. Does $200k a year sound good? How about $100k a year?

How many say "yes" to the first, but "no" to the second? While still working weekends and staying late -- that's lying to yourself.

Working unpaid overtime, devaluates the employee. If it comes from more senior colleagues or managers, then it's at risk of creating an implicit culture. One not suitable for people with responsibilities outside the work place.
Rust really has not had any presence in AI training engine yet, it's probably 100% c++.
It still raises the barrier to entry since the kids who can't technically afford the school now have to not only qualify to be accepted, but also qualify for the scholarship. The latter is not a guarantee.
Tying your star to "the metaverse" is like tagging yourself with "nothing more to see here, move on". VR or AR is fine. Facebook helped advance those technologies when it bought Oculus years ago but it is now holding the cause back by marketing it in a way that makes it seem definitively uncool. (e.g. Horizon Worlds somehow seems more cringeworthy than a community of waifuists, weaboos, and furries and I don't know how you do that.)

It's like it is late 2022 and you are trying to sell an NFT or a platform for NFTs or you think "Web3" is in the future and not in the past. People talking about these trends a year ago had an excuse, today they are just demonstrating they are behind the time.
Because one of the Prime Truths of HackerNews is "why does X have so many people? They could easily do it with Y instead".
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Remember the "Knowledge Graph"[1]?

Now, I (once again) bring to you–everything I've ever read and found insightful, except this time, it is organized by month and is presented as a heatmap.

It is updated on the 1st and the 16th of each month so, be sure to check it again on those dates.

[1] https://prashantbarahi.com.np/knowledge-graph
Ask HN: Free online resource to learn watchmaking
I'm very interested in learning how mechanical watches work, how to repair them and how to make them. Are there any free online resources I could use?
Threads, CUDA, Loom, and Life
This makes no sense to me.

If I were ran a university and wanted a good story to tell my donors, I would tell them that I want to spend $X million dollars on hiring professors, improving undergraduate education, offering financial aid, reducing tuition, building genuinely useful buildings, etc. I would also want to optimize the actual bottom line, not the tax-free donation revenue earned for the hell of it.

There would be absolutely no need to spend money on useless things just to say I spent it.
Judging from a view screenshots floating around, it seems like his last tweet was actually the famous Elon on a yacht picture.
Are you saying that helping the environment will cause harsh suffering to you and others? How do you know this?
Right but few kbs of config is less of a bother than few hundred megs of deps installed all over the place.

The config and data is iffy situation because you might want to uninstall just to install new version, and so might want them to stay, might want them gone.
Can't? Nah. It might be a high bar, but it's not impossible to jump over it. I suspect there's enough disgust that one or three days here or there would be worth it to enough of those union members. Also, don't discount other unions - that were able to negotiate sick pay - joining forces. They'll recognize this is not a precedent that favors them and won't wait to push back (if they're wise).

It's also going to be interesting how this plays out during the next election cycle.
Could anyone have a claim that reducing carbon is a negative externality for them? For example, warmer temps could benefit farmers in certain regions. Are they compensated by this scheme? Are we assuming that alleged warmer temperatures are bad for everyone? How is that decided?
You can get really creative with an Android phone. Install LineageOS with only the minimum gapps you want. Lock down everything, remove the play store, add Tasker to make the UI black&white when using apps other than photos/camera install a launcher like nova to further customize what apps are visible/easily accessible. You can even completely remove Chrome but still install the web browser component so things like your e-mail app work but you can't easily browse the web.

I did this for a while a couple years back to discourage myself from spending so much time on my phone. Worked great and I would have kept it up if it were not for my wife constantly complaining that I couldn't look anything up or use Yelp or Messenger or... :D
It's not only that it's "not cool," but the outcomes of long hours don't match the expectations. The concept of "more person-hours in, more productivity out" heralds from the days of Ford, and strictly applies to individuals performing rote jobs on a factory floor (to a certain degree): tightening bolt after bolt, painting the car hoods as they roll by, nailing two pieces of wood together, etc. Human biology is adept at building up physical stamina when exposed to continued physical stress. During the alleged information age we have seen (time and time again) that our biology is woefully inadequate at building up mental stamina: we just get mentally exhausted (i.e. stupid).

Ultimately, if you pour more person-hours into software (or other "mind jobs") you should expect to get an inferior end product and/or diminished productivity.

Just look at Musk himself: sending out completely idiotic emails at 2AM. At least a portion of his behavior could be attributed to having completely diminished his mental faculties due to overworking himself.
The article says: "But the breakneck speed at which they’re trying to transition to renewable energy led directly to this year’s natural gas fiasco."

I'm pretty sure that Russian invading Ukraine made a big difference to the natural gas situation this year. Am I missing something or is the article talking about something I don't understand?
Sorry, I forgot to directly answer the questions.

- I think a platform doesn't have a specific responsibility to rebroadcast everything. If I don't like what things they choose to rebroadcast I'll find them less useful and start using a different service.

- For content that I don't want to see, they should introduce any hurdle they want. I am only annoyed with censorship when they get in between the sender and the receiver without asking the receiver first. For example, censoring spam and porn is fine when done at the request of the user who would receive the spam and porn. Censoring misinformation is less fine because it has to be done without permission of the receiver. The receiver may be gullible and stupid, and then it looks like censoring misinformation is good. But sometimes the receiver is smart and better informed than the censors, and it's not easy to tell in advance.

- Same as the previous, the categories for which it is OK to introduce friction are those categories that the user who would receives the messages asks you to censor. For example when an ad is irrelevant there is often a button you can press to tell the platform that you don't want to see those kinds of ads, and then they start showing different ads. I would like something similar for spam, porn and misinformation.

- I don't know about competition, network effects seem very strong. Instead of having a special network only for special people who like free speech, I would prefer to change the wider culture so that the mainstream social networks support free speech. It's either that or wait for some crazy billionaire who happens to value free speech to buy the mainstream platform? Seems unreliable.
> a convolution is the way to determine the distribution of the sum of two random variables

Crucially, independent (i.e., uncorrelated) random variables.

(At the other extreme, the sum of maximally correlated random variables is computed as a "comonotonic sum" instead).
I think these questions about growth of university administration are already familiar political talking points.

I'm more interested in the intent of a Harvard Government major (and nominal editor), in saying this, and in how they said it.
I think most people have roughly zero sympathy for institutional investors that give good money to garbage companies, but what's outrageous here is that be stole customer funds.
> I wonder if SBF has a good knowledge of banking history.

Famously, SBF said he "would never read a book"[1]. So I suspect his knowledge of banking history is spotty, at best.

[1] https://lithub.com/crypto-nerd-sam-bankman-fried-who-just-lo...

More from that interview:

> “I’m very skeptical of books. I don’t want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that,” explains SBF. “I think, if you wrote a book, you fucked up, and it should have been a six-paragraph blog post.”
As opposed to manually doing it now.
> Students are only taught rote memorization from primary school onwards. They spend their formative years in before-school and after-school coaching doing more of the same, all to crack that single test which will determine their future (and a large number are driven to suicide because of it). No curiosity, no outside interests, no social skills, no independent thought. All of these are discouraged in favor of memorizing equations.

You do realize that this is the same language that universities like Harvard use to discriminate against Asian Americans (and historically against Jewish people)?

Reading this and knowing that you're talking about South Asians in particular, this comment just comes off as stereotypical and racist
The first link’s response was written by a baseball team.

(Edit: my mistake their counsel!)

And the first example in the second link, quote ‘This one is kind of fudging the title of “lawyer letter” since the bar’s owner wrote the letter pro se.’
OpenAI’s new chatbot is multi-talented but still easily tricked
A tech venture capital firm starting a publication to write about tech is always going to be PR.

It's not like Future.com was ever going to write a piece about an AH company that is bad.
You’d probably be better off using more efficient hardware if the goal is to reduce waste
Is creation coming about by analysis of life experience somehow different from creation coming about by analysis of training data?
Plus performance on most laptops is N illusion anyway. Actually try to use it all and you’ll just thermal throttle.
While the aesthetic/design is sleek, less is not always more. There is WAY too much missing information when compared to distrowatch. This is not really a replacement for distrowatch. Other than going to this site once and going "Eh, kinda neat." This is not a site I would rely on if I was trying to compare linux distros.
> When the opponent has scouts, it's safer to keep your spy behind one of the lakes

I don’t know anybody who plays the game that way, but reading the rules (https://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/Stratego.PDF), that wouldn’t fully help. The rules say

“scouts are the only pieces allowed to both move and attack in the same turn. A scout can move any number of open squares forward, backward or sideways into an attack position. Once in position, it can then attack”

That doesn’t say in any way that that attack has to be in the direction of movement. So, you could move a scout 3 squares forward and then attack leftwards.
> Everyone praising this will wonder why the cost of everything has gone up once it’s implemented

People are not a bunch of idiots. Climate change is very real. Using other sources of energy requires investments. It is mandatory. All those are facts, as far as I know.

If your only arguments are "it will hurt the economy" and "people won't understand", you didn't take the measure of the problem and are part of it. That's very short-sighted, and tends to prove you don't really know what you are talking about.
Some private schools (not sure Harvard is one) have a "if accepted you WILL go" rule - which boils down to pay as much as you can, take some (usually relatively low) loans, and the college will cover the rest. You may have to go on work-study.

I think the "loans" part should be removed, myself.
Makes sense. What if someone close to you passes away or you get COVID or something and you can't go? That money is just wasted? :/
My favorite is this thread: "I couldn't get ChatGPT to write a haiku in praise of meth, but I could get ChatGPT to write a short dramatic scene in which the bad guy writes a haiku in praise of meth."

https://twitter.com/rgodfrey/status/1598145164513771520
The output is the equivalent of nearly a dozen verses. Still hilarious though
> what do you think happens when iOS Safari gets killed off?

I will cheer and laugh and celebrate the death of the most cancerous and terrible browser commonly used today.
I don't and can see how in edge case scenario's one can run into discrepancies between Reacts typings and advanced edge case workarounds. Especially since React itself isn't written in TypeScript.
Tesla would probably not exist if not for those credits.
Prince did it right. His fan club members could buy tickets, with some sort of frequent flyer benefits (better tickets for more loyal fans). The genius was that you did not get the tickets or know where they were in the venue until you were literally walking into the venue. Most of the front row was reserved for fan club members, and the people sitting there didn't know they were going to be there on that night.
Part of the point of this style of challenge is that you're not given all of the test cases up front. And even if you are, you generally can't come up with those "canned values" without actually figuring out an algorithmic solution.

As I said, some of the test cases for this particular problem can be strings up to 100,000 characters long. Do you really think it's faster to solve those by hand than to come up with a correct algorithm to do it for you?
The code you want to use has to compile to Webassembly.

This is in fact possible for C# and Python, but especially in the browser you would want to have a small binary size, and avoid bringing along the whole runtime of these managed languages if all you want is a small functionality subset.

A very viable solution would be creating a decimal package with either a native Rust crate (I think there are a few decimal implementations) or with one of the goto C libraries.

That would be much smaller and faster as well.
> Tell me with a straight face that that's not a God of Grift among Gods of Grift

What's the problem here? This person has an apparently excellent track record of raising money. This isn't grift! There would be a problem if donors got excessive benefits from their donations, and there appears to be a problem that the money is largely being spent on useless staffing, but at least the latter is not the vice chancellor of development's fault. The VC of development pulls their own weight.
For a rough first pass, I would just look at monetary cost.

I was going to dispute OP's comment. Thinking of my old Athlon server that used around $20 of electricity per month, cost about $600 new IIRC (mobo+CPU+RAM), and ran for more than a decade ($2400). But there has been a concerted effort to lower device power consumption, and my current 5700G server (two generations later) uses only around $5/mo of electricity.
That's not really what happened to the Babylon Bee, though. They intentionally named a trans woman as their "man of the year". That would be Level Three of this article:

> Level Three: “We’re the free speech platform! But no CSAM and no infringement!”

> Power to the people. Freedom is great!

> “Right, boss, apparently because you keep talking about freedom, a large group of people are taking it to mean they have ‘freedom’ to harass people with slurs and all sorts of abuse. People are leaving the site because of it, and advertisers are pulling ads.”

> That seems bad. Quick, have someone write up some rules against hate speech.
It's linked in the post and the author makes the point at the end that it's too early to determine how this action should be judged...

"In a decade Europe is either going to look like a genius on how to get tough things done or it’s going to be an economic madhouse, falling behind other parts of the world."
Seems like you could store an unforgeable hash in an environment variable, though, or put it in a constant in source code. This only works if you treat as a secret. Also, maybe they should expire?
Let’s ask this question: how much is carbon worth? And can a reduction in carbon be precisely correlated to a reduction in global temperature? If a ship emits slightly less carbon, can that impact be measured? If it can’t be measured, how can it fairly be priced?
Are you depressed? Do you have any substance abuse issues? Do you have sleep quality issues? If yes to any of those, bingo, very likely. (Think real hard before saying "no" to any -- these problems can be hard to spot, sometimes.)

If you don't have any of these problems, then, yes, if what you are describing is typical for you, you may have something else going on and potentially worth asking a medical professional about. (And of course, if you do have any of these issues, talk to a medical professional, in any case.)

We all have lapses of memory, but in healthy adults, they tend not to interfere in normal day-to-day functioning.
Musk has repeatedly said that inciting violence will be banned while other forms of speech will be allowed. So I think he has a coherent ideology, but it still depends on a judgment call. When Kanye says he "loves Nazis" one could make the judgment he's endorsing violence against Jews because the context involves the history of what Nazis did.

When Trump said on Jan 6th he wants his supporters to "fight" to "stop the steal" a lot of people took that as endorsing violence to storm the capitol. I think that's less clear-cut than Nazi endorsement, but other people disagree.

Main thing I care about is "covid misinformation" is no longer banned. So Twitter won't ban an epidemiologist who posts a clinical study saying mRNA vaccines lower sperm counts anymore. https://legalinsurrection.com/2022/06/im-an-md-suspended-by-... Bans like that were just absurd.
I don't understand this comment. Are you saying that the university doesn't benefit from a development operation? That this person's listed accomplishments are not relevant to being hired for this role?
I do not know about other places but here in Canada it is exactly the other way around for the most part.
Wikipedia has helped me in a couple of instances in which Google or DuckDuckGo couldn't, for example getting the latest onion or clearnet URL for a certain site.
What justifies paying 53k a year for Harvard? I went to a state university for my undergrad in CS. Would I have learned anything different at Harvard?
My issue with piping curl to bash is that so many of these installers are pure junk.

Case in point: I work in web hosting. Yesterday a customer came to me asking for root access to the node so they could run an installer for something. No. But they had already tried running it as their user. And everything in their user account was gone. Why?

Because the installer expected to run as root, and its variables couldn't be defined properly and so when it went to clean up after itself, it did

rm -rf ~/$variable/

and since the variable was unassigned, that became

rm -rf ~/

I might not have it exactly right, but that's what the effect was. Piping curl to bash is asking a lot of somebody who doesn't know what they're doing, and should raise the hackles of somebody who does. At the very least, download and view the script yourself before running it.
Pure cope. They’re out socializing, making friends and memories, developing their personalities and finding their future life partner, while we’re cooped up inside leaving comments on an orange tech forum in between meetings.
> sort of macho thing

please contain this to twitter. What does "macho" have to do with comparing the relative difficulty of two things and attaching status to the most difficult?

That's how society brought us where we are.
On the other hand it'd be great if people lucky enough to be caught in a temporary storm of spying-ad-supported stupid money would use some of that leverage to improve workers' rights more broadly rather than working overtime for free.

If you're exchanging time for money, you ain't on the capital side of the struggle.
This looks great! Awesome that you made it free, but fyi I would have paid you $5-10 for this in a heartbeat.
The only times I struggle to fall asleep are when I've consumed any amount of caffeine (or other stimulant) within ~8hrs of attempting to sleep.

Doing a couple sets of pushups every morning and evening makes eyes closed -> passed out happen more quickly, especially if I otherwise didn't do anything active throughout the day.

Sleep comes very quickly if the day was spent mountain biking, hiking, or digging with the pickaxe and shovel.

If you're caffeinated/energy drink fueled and sedentary at a desk all day, expect to stay up. Preventing that is a simple matter of cut down the stimulants and get a bit more physical activity.

I feel like this is stating the obvious though, YMMV
There are definitely examples of where CCS is commercially viable [1], but implementation is lagging, and the technology is very unlikely to scale to capture the amounts that we are releasing. It would generally make better sense to keep the C in the geosphere than to first pump it up, burn and capture it again.

[1] https://research.chalmers.se/en/publication/531680
But all of that labour could have gone into building actually productive assets or infrastructure that meet some of the many real needs that exist in the world. This is a terrible allocation of resources, barely better than him paying them to go into the desert and dig a giant hole and then fill it in again.

I don't the Jeff Bezos personally is the problem, but he and his peers are symptoms of an economic system with very messed up incentives.
I'm getting content blocked at work:

Content blocked by [redacted]

Reason: This Category is filtered: grayware

Are there security concerns with wasmer.io ?
I don't think HN is the DMCA fans crowd, so what exactly triggered everyone? The hate speech?