skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thought it was strange that they claimed nuclear killed 2x as many birds as wind turbines. Turns out it's based on a 2012 study with 2009 data: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1943815X.2012.74...
"no one":

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2022-04-28/elon-musk-t...
Can you expand on what you mean with the identity/security services?
I thought they were different entities?

Also, big aside here, but is Meteor still a thing?
Uhh, they obviously can do what they want? But pre-Elon Twitter never claimed to be a bastion of Free Speech.
Honest question: why does this matter to you? The vaccine doesn't stop transmission, that's widely acknowledged now, and can't establish herd immunity (unless you plan to vaccinate deer).

It doesn't affect you at all so why waste time thinking about others' cost-benefit analysis?

We all have our reasons. They're all unique and inevitably personal. For my part, standing my ground and resisting the pressure to get jabbed is one of my proudest achievements.
Maybe. I mean, on my mastodon feed, I have a filter to automatically skip over any mention of 'twitter', 'elon', or 'musk'. I guess they're doing the same thing?
Twitter has suspended ADS-B Exchange
Eh, https://github.com/urql-graphql/urql is considered the improved re-architected project that doesn't contain the legacy baggage from the beginning of GraphQL like Apollo does.
The gap here might be on combining social innovation with tech, which alone will not succeed.
He doesn’t need to. His legion of cult fanboys will not even bat an eye.
I prefer Option 3, but IMHO the "&" should be required in all cases. Having it present in some places and absent in others makes the resulting code less readable, more ambiguous, and generally harder to understand. I'd rather keep things simple and uniform, even if it costs extra keystrokes.

Also: it would allow things like ".a { &.b { x: y; } }" (which would be equivalent to ".a.b { x: y; }") to be clearly differentiated from ".a { & .b { x: y; } }" (which would be equivalent to ".a .b { x: y; }"). Just ".a { .b { x: y; } }" looks ambiguous between the two, since it doesn't "look like" a descendant selector.
Sorry for being harsh but that is completely, objectively, wrong.

Physics is not "dealing with" explanation, observation, prediction in some fluid way. It is the minimal model that correctly and succinctly predicts phenomena with sufficient statistical evidence.

There's no role to question whether phenomena is involved.

This is why SUSY is not part of the standard model - because it has not yet been confirmed with sufficient experimental data.
> modern sentiment rather than actual moral reasoning

To me, the phrases "modern sentiment" and "moral reasoning" describe the very similar things. That follows from the observation that beyond a certain point, deterrence has very little effect. That point is remarkably low.

For most of us a traffic fine is enough. The additional deterrence provided by jail time is not that large. If you reason about it with the rigour your "moral reasoning" phrase suggests, a holiday at her majesties expense might even be welcome. (Actually, we know for a fact it is - people commit crimes to get into jail to be fed and housed.) For the rest of us it looks to me like it's not the jail time that's the deterrence, its the public record of the transgression and the resulting ostracism.

The additional deterrence over minor stints in jail and a criminal record, for punishments like longer terms, barbed wire instead of jail farms, small cells, isolation and capital punishment are so small, they could well be a net negative cost to society. Their only positive contribution is to keep a possible repeat offender off the streets, but they also create repeat offenders by robbing of their ability to survive outside of jail. The evidence that Scandinavian like emphasis on rehabilitation over retribution reduces both crime and the cost of law enforcement is so strong, I consider irrefutable.

Given all that, you have to wonder what is this thing you call "moral reasoning" that leads to the conclusion that strong deterrents are justified in some sense. It doesn't lead to maximising any Utilitarian measure. About the only thing it does seem to maximise is some individuals sentiment about what is morally right - modern or otherwise.
In a low interest rate environment even if you were profitable, if you could get cheap money it might have been worth it to grow vs. slow down and let other competitors get market share. Many companies that could be profitable choose to invest low cost for capital in growth
I'm not saying it's easy but you could probably run your own instance and subscribe to multiple different servers that have the diversity you're looking for.
Amazon Games and Crystal Dynamics to Develop and Publish Next Tomb Raider Series
> a lot of human meaning comes from providing value to others

This is not intrinsic, though. It is a cultural imperative, so perhaps we need to revisit that?
The great thing about being a hypocrite is that anytime you get criticized you can just call your detractors hypocrites.
For the nth time: that's not why people are upset. People are upset because Elon positioned himself as some kind of free speech absolutist and turns out to be a worse dictator than anybody even had predicted.

It's the hypocrisy that does it, not the fact that he runs the place as he sees fit.
I have no idea what evidence there is linking the former president to this, but anyways... If the big secret were that the CIA was involved, why would Trump have extended the secrecy? The CIA is supposed to be at the core of the deep state.
The argument does not hold water. As Omikron replaced Delta, case mortality reduced immediately, despite skyrocketing cases. Population immunity does not explain this. The figure of 75% is only arrived at by correcting for underascertainment, which is an arbitrary estimate.
It was cool seeing https://mathstodon.xyz/ on the HN front page recently.

I really like the idea of different organizations running their own instances. You don't need an overbearing, exhaustive and centralized system of verification for journalists when something like WAPO or NY Times can run an instance for their employees, much like how email works.

Edit: A lot of journalists just learned about the value of owning their distribution platform now too lol
Musk is an authoritarian at heart. Hypocrisy is the expression of his authority.
Show HN: Pym – A Python package manager works like NPM
As I see peer mentioned the package managing in python is sub-optimal, I've a quick idea to make a simple package manager on top of venv with the DX of npm.
Already happening, even in this thread.
> Since such art can be generated for essentially no cost, it will follow a simple popularity model, and will soon suck like your Netflix feed.

I'm not so sure. Considering how successful AI-driven social media feeds are, which already include substantial AI-generated content, why would a feed consisting entirely of such content be any less successful? The quality will only keep increasing.

> Art will not be challenging but designed by the algorithm to get us to like it.

I don't think these advancements are a threat to art created by humans, just as any art created by humans isn't a threat to other art. It's just... more art.

Eventually, AI will be capable of being truly creative, instead of being trained on human art and producing permutations of it, which will also be wonderful.

The role of humans will be to train these models to produce art we find enjoyable. Imagine if your AI media feed was an infinite stream of artworks personalized just for your taste. It will be TikTok on steroids. I can't say I'm thrilled by that prospect, because it will also be used for exploiting users, but the entertainment potential is huge.
Would be interesting to look at his ( and the whole families ) DNA for precursors.
Almost all climate tech is greenwashing; superficial solutions. Climate issues require deeper system changes. We need a system which encourages financial prudence and frugality instead of one which encourages financial recklessness, infinite growth, consumerism and bullshit jobs. The problem needs to be solved at the lowest monetary incentive layer.

How much energy is wasted by people travelling to and from their bullshit jobs? How many flights they need to take each year for holidays in order to heal from the accumulated stress of their mind-numbing jobs? How much surplus consumption do these bullshit jobs generate? How much plastic is thrown on the side of the road and into the ocean because people are too concerned about their own survival to give a crap about the environment and the future of mankind?

It's quite clear that if we all had less money and worked fewer hours, we would produce less greenhouse gases and live healthier, more fulfilled lives. Unfortunately, the current system is only good at depriving money from some of the population (while giving others a huge surplus) and it only ever demands more hours of work from everyone... So it barely even solves half of the first problem while making everything else worse.
> Copyright law doesn't cover general "style". Try to imagine the minefield that would exist if it were changed to work that way.

We don’t need to “try to imagine”, we just need to wait a bit and watch Walt’s reanimated corpse and army of undead lawyers come out swinging for those “mice in the general style of Mickey Mouse”.
> Fortunately, sane people basically controlled the board and acted largely with benevolent neglect, but there were always a couple obnoxious people who made trouble for others.

Did they ever have the (political and procedural) power to vote to remove the crazy rules?
> If you fancy your chances as an artist then go for it. At worst you will fulfill your ambition and create some daubs. At best, you will traverse reality and be a wealthy living artist.

With AI art gradually improving, I think that line of reasoning will convince less and less people that would otherwise have second thoughts. They would spend a couple of hours on Midjourney and decide that's as far they want to take their "art" hobby. The power of instant gratification will convince many faster than spending hundreds of hours honing a craft.

I think in the future a lot of people's gut reaction to failing as a manual artist will be to retreat to Midjourney or similar to satisfy their remaining desire to have creative work they can call their own instead of trying again. I personally find the near-instant feedback loop very addicting, and I think it will have a similar effect to social platforms in normalizing a desire for quick results over the patience needed to hone a craft.

But as opposed to scrolling newsfeeds for hours, at least the user obtains a creative output through generative art, and it doesn't carry the same type of guilt for me. This kind of thing is unprecedented and I don't look forward to how it will polarize the various communities involved in the coming years.
Solid gold. CIA FLIPPER Report 19 March 1971 "From the Desk of Milton Ellerin":

The New Left - Where Is It At?

https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/10...
Desalination produces extremely concentrated brine as a waste product. Dumping that brine into coastal waters can kill a lot of marine life, so I imagine keeping the plant offshore helps.

The current way the waste is handled is by laying a pipe from the shore deep underwater away from the coast. The brine is diluted with fresh seawater and pumped all the way down.

By having the plant offshore, drawing in fresh water to dilute the waste becomes cheaper, and it's cheaper to build a vertical pipe to discharge the waste deep underwater.

There's other byproducts like chlorine gas and sodium compounds released from cracking salt molecules. Small amounts, but keeping that offshore is a plus in my opinion.
When you give responsibility to teams themselves the result is O(1) size problems becoming O(teams) sized problems.

> How can I check the health of the service?
In the definition of service, you define a field for
health check script.

> How can I safely and gracefully restart the service?
This will exist within the script used to push new code.

> Does it has any external dependencies?
This could be defined in the service configuration and
used for setting up integration tests and automatically
generating a dependency dashboard.

> Do you have a playbook, or sequence of steps, to bring
the service back up?
You could generate a field in the service defintion to
automatically generate a dashboard and include the
playbook link at the top of the page.

> Do you use appropriate logging levels depending on the
environments?
Production could be extremely opinionated about what
acceptable logging looks like, forced via code review. Log
level could be defined in service config.

> Are you logging to stdout?
Why would any production service get to choose?
Service owners shouldn't be able to log into machines.

> Are you measuring the RED signals?
Required fields in service config that could be used to
generate a service dashboard.

> Is there any documentation/design specification for the
service?
Required config field.

> Are you using gRPC or REST?
Trivial grep.

> How does the data flow through the service?
This is complicated, but can probably be easily replaced
by asking what state your service keeps and how it's
stored. This is the only question I think the author
should/needs to ask.

> Do you have any PII/Sensitive data flowing through the
service?
While this question is important, this is one of the
problems that has to be a particular person's
responsibility. Any dev that answers anything but
"probably not, but I don't know" shouldn't be trusted.

> What is the testing coverage for this service?
Some form of this would exist in a service config.

I don't think the question of responsibility is as simple as "it's the team's problem."
Base64: if this format wasn't secure why are kubernetes 'secrets' stored in it huh?

;)
We definitely do not share reading data with meta or google.

Honestly we installed those a while back when experimenting with ads, but dont use them anymore… will look at ripping out!
Switch to ruby and have all of the prototyping capabilities, way more fun, less surprising behaviour, and none of the package management shenanigans.
Thanks. Unfortunately only few are a bit skeptical on this, almost all are approving this move “in the name of science” unconditionally.
The list is a lot longer than that. The interesting bit is that this will inevitably end with Elon banning every reporter out there because if he kills an account someone else will get assigned the 'Elon beat' and then as soon as that person pens a word that doesn't suit Elon that account will be gone too.
I think we miscommunicated somewhere. I was being sarcastic when I said cooperations were people. If we had a model of capitalism dominated by collective employee ownership I think your ethical argument might work. We don't.
The simple type of handle, if anyone is interested, is extremely similar to a shipboard "dog" for a hatch. Very practical and simple.
> we’ve taken full advantage of outside capital to speed our growth...But economic conditions have changed and we believe that it’s no longer prudent to rely on outside capital to support us

Lots of companies have been hiring for growth or for investment. What the companies should have done, though, is hiring to unblock. A couple of engineers build a product that turns out to be generating amazing growth, and then hire a team to polish the system.
I loved the way those guys have found a great way to distinguish between action focused and content focused queries. It is a big problem to solve, especially for complex UIs.
I was suspended for posting this https://infosec.exchange/@micahflee/109520648205436407
> So any country that goes all in on the carbon-free world will end up economically worse off -- it's goods won't be competitive in the global marketplace. A government cannot subsidize itself to competitiveness in all markets.

Isn't this just the tragedy of the commons writ large?

It makes no sense for anyone really to make personal sacrifices for the planet. Why should I stay at home riding my pushbike to the artisan markets when my neighbour will gleefully fly to Hawaii for his holidays, undoing in a few days whatever carbon reductions I've achieved in a year?

The logical course is to accept that your actions mean nothing and live a greedy life, amassing wealth at the cost of the planet's health and hoarding it for when things get bad, whether that's this generation or the next.
> Does the fact that product XYZ has a BSD-based product reduces or affect the continuity of the opensource project? No, it doesn't. And that is the beauty of BSD. Some companies build closed source products on it, some companies actually give back contributions (such as Netflix). Its fine either way.

The irony of the GPL is that it does not require giving back. The only requirement is to provide source code when you do binary distribution. There is no provision about giving back to the upstream developers.

Forced code dumps are not giving back and projects like Linux do not consider them to be a form of giving back. Sending useful patches and responding to maintainer feedback would be giving back. The GPL is no better at obtaining that than a 2-clause BSD license.
Twitter Is Banning Prominent Journalists Criticizing Elon Musk
My goal is to make it painfully easy to live in communities where you can walk, bike, or take public transport to all of your daily needs, which is a completely low tech problem with a huge social science component.

The first step, I think, is making it obvious when purchasing a home whether you will be able to do this yourself.

Want to collaborate? I have a pilot project going for Ireland and am unsure where to take it - www.gaffologist.com (it's buggy AF but it got me my own home!)
The content is great, but am I the only one that’s annoyed by those gnarly red image overlays on the mobile website breakpoint that (accidentally) activate as you scroll down?
So.. free speech works best when everyone you don't agree with is silenced?

Here's what Musk said in April (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1518623997054918657): "I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means"

I think you all need to make up your minds.
Ironically many YCombinator businesses support the opposite. Perhaps the first thing YC needs is a mirror.
What these companies offer (another one I am using is "The Guild") is mostly tooling and DEX. GraphQL is a specification. The implementation will depend on the tools/infra you'll use. That's what these guys offer.
This sounds good but I doubt it will pass the senate even if the house approves it. Too bad, since the industry will always have the air of fraud if there's no way to make sure it functions within the law.
I know there's a large part of the Python community that loves Poetry but I've never understood why. It adds a lot of complexity and I've never found it does a good job of solving complex problems, where as requirements and constraints offered by Pip are simple and when you have complex problems provide just enough (and no more) functionality to solve them.

For very simply requirements you can just have a simple requirements file or setup.cfg that lists what packages you need and use pip install.

As your requirements get bigger you can start putting sensible lower bounds on everything. This can be achieved manually or if you're struggling to extend an existing environment run pip freeze and replace all the == with >=.

When you start wanting to have reproducible environments or you're having to keep multiple requirements in sync with each other such as prod requirements and development requirements you use a constraints file. Install all your requirements at once, run pip freeze and save the output as a constraints file, now always specify -c constraints.txt when you pip install in any environment unless you are updating the dependencies in your environment.

Better still, you want to add 1 package without changing an of your other dependencies, just run pip install new_package -c constraints.txt and you either install it or find out what it's not compatible with.

It's not perfect but in my experience other tools have always seemed to add a lot of complexity but only solve a narrow set of problems, which I can usually just workaround in some other way with Pip.
For consumer purchases of disposable goods you can use a browser plugin like choosefinch.com/ (disclaimer - I work here).
It seems like you conflate protecting the financial position with futile efforts to halt the progress of this technology.

You can make sure the people from which their jobs where taken by an AI should be able to live from its proceeds. We all benefit and make progress.
A Twitter that's free of reporters? Where do I sign up?
This is absolutely a problem, but it's also very clear that, as a problem, it has nothing to do with the technology, and everything with the society. If we are wary of new tech that improves productivity because someone might starve as a result of its deployment, that alone shows just how fucked up things are.
Modern artists use photoshop and benefit from a lot of computational tools already. There isn’t much difference between a computational or AI-assisted tool such as a “paint style digital brush” or “inpainting” and a tool such as a physical brush, paint knife, or toothbrush when used by the artist to achieve an effect. There is no universal rule that says only me mechanically made art is real art. Collage artists who literally copy and paste other people’s photos are also making art. In fact Photoshop already incorporates many AI assisted tools to add to the artist’s repertoire, and being able to generate unique images from a statistical merging of all the art styles online is just another tool in this fashion. Automation is the foundation of all our progress, as it is just the enhancement of another tool that replaces our hands and makes them bigger (metaphorically) so that we can build bigger and better things constantly.

Ok so now many more people can generate cool looking photos now in an automatic fashion. So what? It just means we’ve raised the bar… for what can be considered cool.
I agree with you. Mastodon does make it easier to migrate between users. ActivityPub (or is it Mastodon-specific?) has something built in to broadcast account migration announcements, supports account aliases, carry followers over, etc.

It's better than email in that regard.
Why was this downvoted? You raised an important issue. Does this mean the health plan has terrible mental health coverage? I guess so. (It would be great if someone who works for Apollo care share details about your mental health coverage.)

When I worked in the US, my health plans had pretty good mental health coverage. You could spend 1,000s of USD per year for psychotherapy / counseling with zero-to-minor co-pays. If you required medication (prescribed by a psychiatrist), that was also well-covered with zero-to-minor co-pays. I remember specifically that mental health care had "higher coverage" because therapists were rarely part of the insurance company's network. You paid the health professional directly, then require reimbursement from health plan. (Yes, I know this isn't true for all health plans.)

To hire an experienced mental health professional in SF Bay Area, I guess the rate is 100 to 200 USD/hour. Most will have sliding scales, but that will not apply to well-paid engineers.
A good amount of people are also upset that he seems to be burning it to the ground.
It's bigger than that, democrats currently just cry about how bad the Republicans are to get votes and donations then when they're in office they do nothing to fix anything.