skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> its hard to draw a distinct line that my belly has more justifaction to their life than much more valuable scientific progress.

Ironically enough, I'm vegetarian and keep a snake. He is a Ball Python, and not a particularly good eater, so I feed him live rats. Doing this can truly makes me sad as Rat's death is sometimes... prolonged, and sometimes Rat is friendly and smart. But Snake needs to eat whole animals, while conversely I can get by just fine on beans and rice. Keeping and feeding Snake is very–philosophically enlightening(?)–I can't quite grasp the words for it–but it acts as a reminder of the natural order of life, and a reinforcer of why I think of animals the way I do. Snake is a simple, reptilian killing machine[1] juxtaposed by rats who often are smart, curious, capable critters, yet Snake must eat rats or he will starve.

It seems you understand this, but you can't realistically develop new products for human use on any type of a time scale that most people would be happy with, and the amount of human happiness those products enable, especially through longer, healthier lives to share with family, and the literally billions of lives affected, makes testing on animals a worthwhile evil, at least to me.

I've been party to this(your) view before, typically when I defend animal testing and someone points out that I'm vegetarian with confusion and outrage, both mild, and proceeds to remind me that I often cite animal welfare as a significantly motivating factor in my diet. So I guess my comment is to say that I think it comes at least partially from a place of not being close enough to death. We hide away slaughter houses and even import immigrants to work at them, meat comes to us in plastic packages often with specific names that further us from the animal that much more. Indeed, I know that if I had met the cow that produced the cheese that I so love and keeps me from becoming a vegan, I would refrain much more than I do.

But that is just me, I've met plenty of people who raise pigs named porkchop, bacon, and babyback, or a cow named Angus, and while they don't slaughter the animal themselves, I have no doubt they would. They just really love meat and don't have the same reverence for animals that I do, but most of them feel the same way about my (lack of) religion. Different strokes, live and live, it takes all kinds~

[1] I must admit Snake gets curious sometimes wishing to escape and explore, and it makes me sad that I can't let him act upon those wants because it wouldn't be in the best interest of his welfare.
They issued for over $1B worth of shares in 2021: https://news.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-release-details...

According to Google their market cap is currently 7.78B but I don't know what it was when they issued them so it's hard to say how big of a proportion it was at the time. The stock price did go up when they did it too, against all odds.

There are issues with issuing shares as described in the link you shared, I don't want to minimize that. And you're right about diluting existing shareholders.

My point was more that many companies do it and the money the company raises by doing so gets added on the balance sheet, which can be used to fund profitable ventures, or to burn. The main differentiator is whether they are raising money because they believe they can make more money out of it (ie Shopify) or because they have to in order to avoid bankruptcy (ie Hertz).
Just make your own personal email address/domain.

I already have my domain firstlastname.com with Google domains. I can setup email forwarding for free. All goes to my gmail address.

As far as normal people their reaction was "That's cool you have your own email like that"
I don't if this is greed or desperation, especially in the US without a proper a social security system.
"After learning about milk production, I'm leaning on being more ok with meat production then dairy."

It's not either or. Both are terrible for the animals. Just in different ways.
> “It’s important to keep these parts around,” said Franklin C. Miller, a nuclear expert who held federal posts for three decades before leaving government service in 2005. “If we had the manufacturing complex we once did, we wouldn’t have to rely on the old parts.” He added that other nuclear powers can and do make new atomic parts.

This is depressing. It’s much like the F-22, we’ve lost the capability to make those too. It’s remarkable how rapidly the USA has declined in the past couple decades. Pretty much the only thing we have going for us is a stranglehold on international payments, and that won’t last.
Nice! I just hadn't seen it referenced anywhere before - the last big ID wave I can remember was the swath of content about moving to snowflake style IDs
I tried spinning up lejos for the RCX again a few years ago, but you do have to find a JDK 1.5 bundle somewhere.
ok. It's not really a "crippling condition" when natural experiments do crop up from time to time, though.

For example: if Amsterdam suddenly had an MHL, that would be one. In fact, any city that instituted MHL would be a natural experiment. The number of riders, the number of accidents, the % of accidents that involve injuries -- all those things would change, while the city design and transit situation (other than bikes) presumably would not.
Thanks for the input. Had similar experience with solution based on top of on-prem flavour (gravity - name came from pulling stuff from cloud back into traditional data centre) of k8s. Countless effort and resources have been wasted on troubleshooting customers' infrastructure rather than focusing on the real goal, get apps/APIs up and running quickly to generate value and realise goals for the business. The solution ultimately become a burden to both engineering and customers... Long sad / bad story.

Fortunately, decision makes heard the voice from the field and customers, eventually offloaded the container orchestration layer (and underlying infrastructure) to managed k8s service provider, the solution is delivered as helm charts to be installed on customers' own managed k8s (EKS, AKS, GKE and OpenShift - oh, the Red Hat OpenShi(f)t is just another rabbit hole...). But again, lack of knowledge and hands-on skill operating / running k8s (not yet a commodity although it is hyped to be...) makes the journey quite turbulent from a business PoV (technically it's easy, built the skills in house, hire the right talents).
> A direct example I can give is that I have many friends who live in shared accommodation with shitty kitchens because they're shared amongst 4 people or more and inevitably someone is a cretin.

Ok, that makes more sense. I guess housing is so bad that not even shitty apartments that people can rent individually are available?

I'm not familiar with such arrangements, so I'm not sure how bad it can get. I guess it's an issue with the dishes, a permanently filled sink? Why not just use disposable dishes and have very few shared cookware so it's not possible to fill the space in the sink?

If home is totally useless for cooking for whatever reason, one might be able to make a kitchen portable enough to fit in a backpack by getting a single-burner portable stove. If you get a gas one, you won't depend on an electrical outlet. For cookware, a small pan and a small wooden spatula takes you far. Eggs, canned food, etc. don't need refrigeration. If one avoids using too much oil/fat, one should be able to skip needing water to wash the cookware by wiping with a paper towel. This ought to be cheap enough even for students. Park in the daily commute? There's the kitchen. Just do breakfast, and snack on e.g. carrots for other times of the day.

Who am I kidding. We're talking about people in general and not anyone in particular. That's quite awful...
This is super cool. This is like a bare minimum framebuffer coprocessor. I remember pouring over the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual and figuring out how to position sprites in hardware.

https://retro-commodore.eu/files/downloads/amigamanuals-xiik...
If someone says ACLU is "propaganda for the Biden regime" I would say that person is pretty conspiracy theorist adjacent and not expressing themselves like someone in touch with reality.
It does have a 2x larger context window, which is nice for some applications.
How to Destroy Earth
Sorry, can you clarify what you mean by this? The ACME spec (RFC 8555: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8555.html) fully specified both the HTTP-01 (Section 8.3) and the DNS-01 (Section 8.4) challenges nearly four years ago. The TLS-ALPN-01 challenge was fully specified in RFC 8737 (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8737) about a year later.

In addition, the new work mentioned in this letter is ARI, or ACME Renewal Info, which is not directly tied to any of the aforementioned renewal methods.
Chances are that it will end with lots of people either dead or with substantial psychological issues for at least a generation. Keep in mind that a lot of our self-value is tied to being 'productive members of society', if you remove that bit then a large chunk of the people alive will lose their main reason for feeling good about themselves.
An allegation is evidence. It's not proof, and it's not necessarily very high in probative value, but it is evidence.
Bad disks and a suboptimal NFS setup.
I-series bonds from the US Treasury are at 8-9 percent, and that’s about ask risk free as “risk free” gets.
I share your concern.

I develop industrial control
systems. It's been a hot topic for decades that automation will replace factory workers.

From my vantage point there is still the same number of workers in factories. The difference is that they are now doing more meaningful and less labor intensive work. This level of automation is what has made manufacturing sustainable in the US.

While this anecdote is not completely analogous with your example, I'm optimistic that we don't quite know yet how humans will be able to leverage these kinds of tools to increase their own productivity.
Act-1: Transformer for Actions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32842860 - Sept 2022 (77 comments)
I like to avoid cruel experiences for animals where possible but I think there are times that we can justify it. Medical science is one of the few times. I'm not a fan of cosmetic testing on animals but medical testing is worth it IMO.

If this device can help someone that is otherwise paralyzed interact with the world that is life changing.

It does expose that I value human experience way above animal experience but I've yet to find a reason not to. We use them for food, as many of them do to other animals. It's an odd part of life that suffering is part of the circle of life.
I’m very much less experienced but have really enjoyed the Affinity apps, especially the illustrator replacement.
MDN is still the gold standard for web docs, but my understanding is that Mozilla fired most of the people responsible for it [1] and it's currently run as a joint project with funding from microsoft, google, and various other companies who contribute to it. the list of MDN advisory board members [2] is a good reference for what companies are actually leading MDN these days

[1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90539632/mozilla-vows-mdn-isnt-g...

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/MDN/MDN_Product_Adv...
China has also de facto militarily annexed territory larger than France in the South China Sea; territory that very clearly belongs to other nations. It was an act of war, they used their military to invade and take the territory of their neighbors.
Again, that is a wildly inaccurate reinterpretation of what she was actually talking about.

When criticizing what someone has said, please consider addressing their actual viewpoint, rather than some fantasy you've invented.
18 months runway is included all expenses including wages, awards (that Mozilla gives out, for example to political initiatives), travel, social events and so on.

If we only looked at costs related to hosting the website they have almost 100 years. They got total assets of 191 millions, and the website hosting costs are 2.4 millions each year. 55 millions each year goes to wages (up from 46 millions previous year).

https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/annualreport/2020-annu...
“Whys” are hard but arguably —- and not a direct answer to your question of course — the why of cows producing (most of their) milk is analogous to the why of dogs acting cute: it’s for humans.
Literally "spread out over the lands"...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/19/us-state...
"Investing" in BlockFi was dumb, but it's funny in the year 2022 seeking negative real interest rates (roughly -2%) is supposed to be the obvious tip it must be a scam.

The fiscal policies at the fed and federal government really sent people chasing wild risk just to almost (but not even) break even.
Can somebody from LE explain why "Rust in the kernel" is a story for LE, rather than for Linux itself? Did LE e.g. do the coding? or help? is this a cross-product activity? LE is a system for bootstrapping CA certification, Rust in the kernel is a generalized memory/systems security & safety coding activity.

Not that it isn't good, but "why talk about it in a letsencrypt end of year message" -is this the wider "we" at play, or was there something specific I missed?
Why can't I reply to the top posts with archive links? Very strange.
Browsertech: Ambitious applications that make use of modern browser APIs
When are there posts about Chrome, other than the rage-filled threads about manifest v3?
Yes. Though it's easy to miss.
I find that this will wipe out a lot of Software Developers who are doing something that isn't really unique - and people will move on to more interesting work.

The internet wiped out travel agencies - but opened a new, more interesting world of better products (Expedia, Google flights, etc.) that made travel more accessible to everyone. Instead of travel agents - we hire software developers to benefit everyone
All of the problems you listed around trusting TLDs applies to Let's Encrypt/ACME DNS-01 validation though...
You might try McMaster-Carr, which will (surprisingly to many) have a better selection of sizes and sell down to single, small cut sheets. Their prices are likely to be slightly better on a per-kg basis, which when coupled with less kg waste, could be even more savings.

I’ve also bought copper sheet from Aliexpress. What I got was copper sheet of apparent good quality. (I am using it for RFI/EMI, not medical, application so my tolerance may be wider than yours, in which case, McM-C is a more trusted supplier than “a rando on AliExpress”.)
Artificial neural networks in machine learning
The number of chickens will blow your mind. There was a world clock I saw once counting like population and a bunch of random statistics including chickens in approximated real time.
I’m not sure I fully agree. I think there’s no reason it has to be tied to feeding our kids and putting a roof over their heads.

But I partly agree with the idea that it might take generations to adapt fully. I know people who retired early and ended up just kind of rotting away. I guess we don’t all have the self-drive.
I've experienced dairy farms here in New Zealand. It's a pretty good life for the average cow. What part are you referring to?
Ah, looking like is not enough, as we know from the fates of children branded as changelings....
I mean you do realize he put $69 million into the midterms for Democrats right? Pardons have been had for far less from much more notorious people.
Which it's worth noting also requires incentives in your life to actually improve it. Kicking someone out of rehab when they're cured with no job prospects, no support network and no home has rather predictable results.
I have some familiarity with people who work with animals. From what I've seen, for most, the nature of what they're doing never really ceases to haunt them to some extent, however justified or comfortable they feel about it at an abstract level. They just carry on. Something praiseworthy about human nature there I'd say, apart from all the rest of the stuff of course.
https://devforth.io/blog/gpt-j-is-a-self-hosted-open-source-...
That makes the "look, the monkey likes doing this" a bit funnier than it already was. It was clear that it was a (pathetic) response to the cruelty allegations.

That said humans are cruel to animals at a scale far, far, far larger than this.
I suppose it's better than the alternative...
Chat GPT is freely available.
I got ChatGPT to roleplay as Satan, was amusing and had some clever answers:

https://twitter.com/cwkoss/status/1598873483198730240
Can't help but wonder what the heatmap of location choices looks like for everyone using the app.
It's free to use after you jump through a few registration hoops: https://chat.openai.com/chat
What non-sense? When you take charge of a startup and grow it 2 000 000%, it's quite normal to be granted a title of a cofounder.

I work at a company where a cofounder joined later and no one ever thought it was weird since he plays a significant role in the company's success.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jodiecook/2021/11/15/why-adding...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10208321
Building GPT-based AI agents today, and their implications for tomorrow
This was written by ChatGPT... Right?
Misunderstanding of an Executive Director, or the direction of a company?
Could you be more specific about "holding the keys"?

Sure it's annoying to change to a different service, but they don't have access to any server secrets and all their certificates are logged.
Orion (Mac only) has a great implementation, and in my experience has been quite fast. It's also supposed to be good on battery life, though I've not really tested it.
Same! I was trying to figure out async diesel in rust and I couldn’t figure out why the tutorials weren’t working. There were several that had similar code snippets, but different (and sometimes nonsensical) explanations. Couldn’t get anything to compile. I finally found a GitHub repo that they all seemed to be stealing from and managed to figure out the missing parts.
There's a hint at the limitations in the article:

While developing the process, the team produced 3-D printed structures made from copper, nickel, silver, and various metal alloys.

Copper, nickel, and silver are all relatively "noble" metals, easily reduced to the metallic state from their salts or oxides. I'm guessing that this technique does not work with more reactive metals like aluminum, titanium, or magnesium. It may not even work with iron.

EDIT: the full article in Nature is open access and has more details: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05433-2

Calcination in air converts the metal-salt-swollen hydrogels to metal oxides, and subsequent reduction in forming gas (95% N2, 5% H2) yields metal or alloy replicas of the designed architecture.

So this process is limited to elements that can be reduced from the oxide to the metal by gaseous hydrogen. Iron could work but aluminum, titanium, magnesium, and other reactive metals would not.
He had the money because he sold his house. Was looking to grow it before buying.

It’s mentioned in the article
You don't need a 1987 van, anything before ~2007 should qualify. For example, I own a 2006 Honda. I made the mistake of leaving the windows open several years ago before a massive downpour. As a result, virtually all of my onboard electrical systems no longer function (radio, interior dashboard lights, ect) but the actual function of the car (as far as driving is concerned) is unchanged. I shudder to think about what would happen to a "smart" car in a similar situation.
What if chatGPT is defining the problem too ( ⊙ _ ◎ )
I have a family member trying to produce some novel materials. To prove it is safe for human skin contact he is required by federal regulations to perform testing on beagles.

Something on the order of 60,000 beagles are bred per year for animal testing. Most of the testing isn’t actually helpful or valuable. But it’s the only way to get through the regulatory approvals.

It’s all super gross.
I'm not fully convinced, and I say this as someone who is wildly impressed by ChatGPT and reeling a bit at what it's capable of.

Over the past few days, I've tried a number of experiments with it.

I had it generate song lyrics. They were funny but not anything that I'd actually use .

I had it write a few stories featuring my son. We were both impressed by the stories and entertained. But none of them were very special or particularly good.

I had it write me a few regexes. It did the job essentially perfectly, I made some mild tweaks for things like capture group names, but the regexes it generated were perfectly functional.

I had it try to parse some Advent of Code inputs. It failed miserably on today's, but did pretty well on day 3.

I had it generate an AWS lambda function which uses the Spotify API to get a users recently played tracks and put them in a DynamoDB table.

I had it write a short incremental style game, which I deployed to GitHub pages with minimal modification.

So these are all impressive as hell in their own ways. But the thing is, I had to know what to ask it, and it also gave some incorrect results very confidently.

If I had to make a prediction, it's that this will make experienced developers more productive, but it won't turn juniors into seniors. It's not going to make someone who has no idea about coding into a developer. And it doesn't feel to me like it's going to obviate creativity in writing or lyricism or poetry.

It feels like an augmentation of productivity more than a replacement.

Now, who knows where we'll be in a decade, maybe I'm wildly wrong and unemployed in 2032. But if I think about the closest analogue I can - self driving cars - I'm reminded that the technology amazed me 6 years ago and still isn't to the point where I would trust it with my life. I suspect this is a case where the first 90% is incredibly impressive, maybe even game-changing - but that the last 10% is going to take a long time to attain, and may not be reachable with the current approach.

Feel free to argue the other direction, I'm not convinced either way yet, but as amazing as this thing is, I'm still confident I'll be working valuably for at least the next
few years.
Much the same mechanism sans radiation.
> Others might also ask, if not for BlockFi, would he have pissed away his life savings?

Wild comment to make about someone who saved up $600k. You don't save up that much if you are the kind to "piss away" money. Expecting 6.5% return is not greedy. S&P 500's average return is around that
It's fun and educational. I nabbed first@last.me. Unfortunately my last name isn't quite so easy to spell so it isn't quite the easiest but it's me.
What if pressing the button means humans will suffer?
> Kind of feels weird to act like people can't cook or prepare their own food from cheap ingredients, but I guess homeless people, for example, can't really.

This is a good start to understanding the correlation. Going further, poor people are often time- and energy-poor as well, whether working irregular hours or multiple jobs or simply doing themselves and their families what people with greater means might pay for. Add that being poor doesn’t afford the best kitchen conditions (space, cookware and other equipment, fuel/electricity), and working around those limitations is added drain on any available time and energy one might afford… like so many other things, it’s expensive to be poor. While it may be objectively possible to eat healthy, it’s often an unrealistic or at least demanding expectation given the circumstances.
no LLM has agency
> 3% of that $77m is to run the site

And that are outdated numbers from 2015.

2021 report:

$153m dollars in donations spent on $67m in salaries, $10m in grants (surprisingly low, in 2020 it was $20m), $2m in hosting and like $10-20m in other professional expenses.

Net assets at the end of 2021 now at $231 mio.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/foundation/1/1e/Wikim...