skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's 60 million children missing over almost 50 years, or ~830K/year. But not all of these were "unwanted". Many women are pressured into abortion by abusive, manipulative, cowardly, and responsibility-shirking men.

As for the truly unwanted ones, ~33 million couples in the U.S. are infertile. There are untold thousands of families waiting to adopt. A few of them are listed at https://www.americanadoptions.com/family_profile/browse

As for me, I'm raising several children. My wife and I have considered adopting on top of that. I was adopted.

Steve Jobs was adopted.
So was John Hancock.
Nelson Mandela.
Leo Tolstoy.
Ray Liotta.
Simone Biles.

In terms of economic and societal impact, I'd wager somewhere in those 60 million missing children, there were a few hundred kids that could have grown up and made a real positive impact on our lives. We'll never know how many diseases would have been cured by now, or Olympic medals won. Millions of lives. Just gone.
IBM Db/2 also bought it, and uses it to implement SQL/PSM.

https://www.enterprisedb.com/resources/ibmr-puts-oracle-swor...
Well, I’m glad that I added it to my bio when it was still possible. I hope it doesn’t get removed.
Very sad to see what’s happened to Twitter in such a short time
I wouldn’t trust anything posted on Twitter as a source. Anyone can get blue checks these days.
Thank you, no, I was not familiar with it.

In line with what I have noted elsewhere:

Many followers had given up their possessions in expectation of Christ's return...

There were also the instances of violence: a Millerite church was burned in Ithaca, New York, and two were vandalized in Dansville and Scottsville. In Loraine, Illinois, a mob attacked the Millerite congregation with clubs and knives, while a group in Toronto was tarred and feathered. Shots were fired at another Canadian group meeting in a private house.

Perhaps we shouldn't give people so much hell for simply being wrong?
Elon has lost all of the respect I built up following his activity from 2008-2018. What a doofus.
Clicking through to Mastodon links is a breath of fresh air. Posters can actually write a few substantive sentences straightforwardly, rather than having to break their thoughts up into sentence fragments punctuated by nn/?? and unnecessary username repetitions and reply frames.

Also the fact that it just loads quickly. There's some delay and it's not as quick as plain web pages could be, but it's lightning fast compared to Twitter.com with its "infinite scrolling" (aka never finished loading).
Wonder what the analog to how severely -IMHO- the hacking and cyber security problems were underestimated at the dawn of the internet to how malicious forces will employ AI ? How will a criminal mind use AI to make a living?
Trump should’ve forced that sale to $MSFT.
Amazing project! Here is a demo including an input for negative prompt. It's impressive how it works. You can try:

prompt: relaxing jazz melody bass music
negative_prompt: piano music

https://huggingface.co/spaces/radames/spectrogram-to-music
I don't know why it's so impossible to believe there are people who truly do want free speech.

I wasn't sure if Musk was going to deliver it, but I tried to remain open-minded. I did think previous Twitter management leaned left with some admittedly difficult moderation decisions, but obviously I'm finding out that Musk is even less supportive of true free speech.

Ironically this banning of Mastodon links is the #1 thing pushing me to start exploring Mastodon or other platforms.
When this happens, you can load pages quickly (and help with the congestion) by reading in a logged-out window. Works most of the time for me!
Time to move to https://www.SpaceHey.com
Completely agree with what you say.
To get through the inertia during the pandemic, I finally got started with reading Upanishads and ended up reading 6. A lot of content may not make sense, but there were such absolute profound gems of wisdom that I was astonished how someone sitting in a forest thousands of years ago could go into the depths of thought in order to produce such deep insights.

A few years down the line I hope to enter into a guru-shishya (teacher-disciple) regimen to understand more of it, the way it is supposed to be learnt.

For those interested, Aitareya Upanishad by Swami Chinmayanand would be a pretty good book to get started with, it has commentary which most of us should easily understand.
So the private vehicle driving around a public road equipped with a government required license plate that can be used to ID who owns the vehicle…yada yada yada. Zero parallels there.

Also I should note, that nobody asked me if I think people who intentionally cyberstalk folks online using public information are slimy either…(but I do).
Oh yeah Blake3 is just the best if it's accessible to you. I get that other algorithms are more ubiquitous. But if I need a crypto hash, I consider Blake first.
No, it’s because it reveals the burgers location
He is mostly a con man who was found out.
> The clinical trials were supposed to show that the jab (and therefore the mRNA, and the resultant spike protein generated, which is known to be toxic) stayed in the muscle local to the injection site.

They didn't. The data Pfizer released to the Japanese government showed that the lipid nanoparticle could be found all over the bodies of the test rats in hours. It's a small proportion of the overall shot, but the data only goes to 48 hours and in most areas (particularly the ovaries, which is what people kept calling out from this) it was still increasing.
Trick question, it's not possible
I read the other day that Hughes suffered pretty severely de-habilitating mental illness, and that it isn’t fair to him to compare his decline to Elon. He had severe OCD, allodynia, and other things driving his increasingly erratic behavior.
> Those journalists weren't reporting specific locations of his jet...they were reporting on a legit news story about it.

Do you have evidence of that? He claims they were reporting the location.
I was going to ask how this differs from what PDM is doing, but then I see that it’s “just a bash script” that provides the workflow you’re going for.

PEP 582 [1] is mentioned in the README, which IMHO is the golden path for npm-style project dep management.

[1]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/
Appearing as if your device is in a different country (streaming services) and potentially circumventing state level censorship (China) or some forms of throttling. Some cell carriers also do some dirty stuff that can be circumvented by VPN use.

There's not too much reason to use a VPN (for web browsing) outside of that imho. The privacy gains are at the cost of a single point of failure and its just a matter of time until EvilCo acquires your favorite VPN.
> How is that different from e.g. cars? The roads are a public good as well, not?

For one thing, it's different because there is no law that cars need an active transponder while operating.

But cars do have a license plate anyone is free to look at while they drive by so in that sense it's the same.
Energy prices to blame?
Not likely a lie.

False memories are not uncommon with traumatic events like a child's death. I'd give anyone a pass on that one and give the benefit of the doubt.
I think that Java made three wrong decisions.

1. Checked exceptions.

2. Crusade against properties.

3. Bad API is not being actively deprecated. StringBuffer, Vector, Date, Calendar, File. Replacements exist, but old classes are still in core.

Also I think that Java community is crazy with their love of Spring Boot. Like Spring is not magic enough, let's put more magic to autoconfigure its magic. But that's not a failure of Java.
That seems pretty narrowly scoped to protecting witnesses, jurors, informants, public servants, and their immediate family members. The personal information it covers is also limited to SSN, home address, phone numbers, and personal email.
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.PP.KD?locat...

On a PPP adjusted basis Italy/Spain/Portugal are no richer than they were 20 years ago. They can no longer devalue their currency like they used to when they ran into trouble.
Conflating "died from the vaccine" with "died with the vaccine". Quite ironic!
This reminds me when I started some internet companies in the early days of the internet and the newspaper refused to run ads in their classifieds for internet companies, since they said they were a competitor. :)
The true meaning of free speech means freely saying things that Elon likes. It’s hard to tell now, but pretty soon we will have Musk chips in our brains to tell us which free speech is absolutely free.
If it brings in revenue it's running correctly, as far as the business is concerned.
I had a bad reaction to an mRNA vaccine that I’m still dealing with, and feel exactly the same as you do. This technology is too important to politicise. We need to look at it scientifically, make it better, and continue to deploy it in situations where the risk profile makes sense.
It would avoid some IP-based tracking. I assume this is why I get ads for things on my computer that I previously searched for in Firefox Focus on my phone.
I was interested in the title but man, I feel like trying to read this will trigger a migraine.
INNOCENT dev did THIS, and what happened next was <truncated text, click to follow article, followed by being bombarded by 20 ads which magically bypass ublock origin>
Sounds amazing. I might give it a try. For reference, I use pocket, netnewswire, and zotero for pdfs (zotero is a god send). But pocket is a mess, so I end up making lists in hackmd.

I think it’d be enough for this product to match zotero for me to move to it!
Whats the story with Freenode in a nutshell?
Why should layoffs be encouraged though? Even if a corporation is bloated, I don't see why we should care if we aren't investors. It can even lead to cool stuff for everyone else, such as more open source tools and software that can usually be contributed by those "bloat" teams
What's particularly strange is they seem (from the thread) to only be banning "mastodon.social" links, which are by far the least likely to be suspicious.

Not that I believe the excuse anyways; it's just remarkably flabby.
This list of things free speech protects doesn't include statements of fact?
Mastadon is a decentralized social media platform, so a competitor to Twitter. It has nothing to do with the location of Musk's jet.
Elon is pulling the wool to incite his mob. He states people are doxxing his real-time location. The only people he’s banning are those that reference publicly available FAA flight data. I even think the owner of the Twitter account put the tweet on a time delay. Far from the truth.
That horrible, horrible taste in your mouth is the stench of musk. Some say it has an earthy note to it.
This is such a weird comment to read on hackernews. I miss the product/new app oriented community that HN once was.
Why the Twitter Files Matter
I haven't tried to in a while, but every time I've tried it's been a huge pain with crufty looking software and poorly written walkthroughs.

What do you recommend setting up?
Had a whole one planned out and prototyped for using the renewed twitter api as the in-app community so that I could avoid the insurmountable challenge of moderating UGC as a small business ʕ⁎̯͡⁎ʔ

I’m moving to a decentralized and self-published model for community UGC but discovery suffers dramatically
Yeah, if I ran Pocket I'd be really concerned now-- particularly because they've made it so easy to onboard as a Pocket user, with it automatically retrieving all your saved articles.
> One guy once said, who never changes his/her opinion, is a moron.

You might be referring to JM Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind."

The question is what facts are changing? Here, it looks like the only difference is that something bad happened to HIM.
Freedom of speech intensifies.
Yea. Gwynne Shotwell is a great rocket scientist. isnt she?
A great game with a lot of potential. Sort of like if DCSS was mixed with Fallout.
The logical conclusion of this argument is to disable all links on Twitter, as any domain that resolves to a server running an HTTP server could serve up malware, and that is not the world we want to go to (I say even having left Twitter long before the Elon buyout)
A Spy Among Friends
The Pepsi Cola Addict (1982)
Best part is every action he takes with Twitter further tanks Tesla's market cap as everyone realizes he's an unhinged pathetic ignorant fuck.
Would you ever consider a one off purchase rather than a subscription service?
And absolute power corrupts absolutely
The lengths humans will go through for success will always amaze me
For me, on safari, ~70% of the viewable page was google advertisements. That’s usually a good sign that they’re trying to make money.

Jack, if you see this, you should fix this before the big G suspends your AdSense account (definitely a ToS violation)
If you can afford a private jet, you can probably afford a bodyguard.

There are a few people with less money than Mush who have bodyguards.
https://archive.ph/b3YEb
For me the simpler explanation is that he had a legitimately scary experience involving his child. Combine that with the (self-inflicted) stress of his last few months, his thin-skinned nature, and him firing anybody at Twitter with a backbone and it seems very plausible to me that he's lashing out and thinking he's doing great.

Somebody described his Twitter purchase as "fragile narcissist buys criticism factory", so I think he has wedged himself into a situation that his ego makes both intolerable and inescapable. If he had somebody in his life to talk sense into him ("honey, put down your phone and come to bed"), I'd expect him to walk away and consider it rationally. But here I could imagine him continuing to spiral for quite a while.

To me, it's tragic in the way that Rudy Giuliani or Kanye West is: too much success can create the conditions for a long, lonely downward slide.
96% of Twitter users haven't heard of Mastodon.
I want to quit but there's nothing that truly replace it. I might try Mastaodon but in the meantime, I will do my job by blocking every ads I see on the app.
More about the author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_and_Jennifer_Gibbons
Ask HN: Is a work methodology worth doing if it's easy to do wrong?
for weirdos who only have ad-hoc constraints instead of knowing what typeclasses are, it means that you can first say "I only have ad-hoc constraints" then say "wait wait I need to make decisions based on the specifics of the type" which may be useful for e.g. generating serializers and deserializers at compile time instead of using code generators like protobuf
Why didn't you leave when they blocked tweets that linked to the Hunter Biden laptop story?
That doesn’t make sense, there are legit reasons to report location, there cannot be a blanket policy like this. It needs to be handled on a case by case basis if it gets reported. Problem is, musk is figuring out how to create and run a social media company on the fly and in full public view. He need not have stopped to this but his ego and seemingly infantile need for attention has blinded his judgement. He is still good enough and Twitter still really strong as a brand to survive this all.
If they reported the specific locations of the jet, could you… point to where they reported on that?
Oh damn :/ that indeed sounds like a blocker for me. I was looking forward to try that app.

EDIT: looks like there’s a bookmarklet. I think that’ll do the trick.
Example:

- Get a list of your 10 most listened artists

- For each artist get 5 similar artists

- Now make an new playlists, and for the 50 similar artists, get their most popular song and insert it into the playlist
You are probably thinking of ECPG's "Oracle compatibility mode", which makes it behave more like Oracle Pro*C - https://www.postgresql.org/docs/15/ecpg-oracle-compat.html

However, few people actually use Pro*C nowadays. I spent almost 10 years working for Oracle, and I never once came across anybody using it. I think almost all use of it is in legacy applications which date back to the 1980s, first half of the 1990s at the latest. Obviously still enough use for Oracle to keep on supporting it, even with some occasional minor enhancements, but rather fringe all the same.

I don't think many people use ECPG either. I'm sure some people must, but I myself have never seen it. Probably most use is in porting existing applications from Oracle Pro*C, or its equivalents such as Informix E/SQL. Actually, it is interesting to observe that the section on ECPG's Informix compatibility mode is a lot longer than the Oracle equivalent. I don't know if that's because less compatibility is required (maybe Pro*C is closer to ECPG already), or if that's because Informix compatibility has received more investment.
Yes, this is the study I was thinking about.
I expect it wasn't simply being wrong that got them tarred and feathered.
Not while Facebook is still there, IMO. A way more toxic and widespread influence.
> People keep saying that yet no one has been able to define to me what “legitimate interest” the public has for tracking a private plane. I don’t believe one exists.

If you have an objection to this tracking, you'd have to take it up with the FAA. Because the legitimate interest is that the rules require airplanes to transmit this information any anyone is free to listen to it.

Which is a great thing for aviation safety, so I'm glad the rules exist.
And the bans are obviously designed to make sure it stays that way.
Somehow I became the “poetry guy” at work, and I spend a meaningful amount of time debugging shit for people because the environment somehow got corrupted or something. If there’s no issues I guess it’s fine (dependency resolution time notwithstanding), but when you experience a persistent bug or environment issue, it takes nothing short of expertise to figure out how to sort it out without losing half a day.
My mistake, I had forgotten about Rudy Giuliani's involvement.

> I meant the Republican Party.

Which contains many thousands of people, many of whom do not get along. It's a minor miracle that it is still holding together at all!
Honestly, I feel like the forum alone is enough social media for me.
> AI will create more engineer jobs then it will destroy.

I second this, but humanity will soon (or already have) hit the wall, because there are simply not enough talented people to work on them.
When I'm stuck I go on a long walk in the forest where I live. It really helps clear my mind and relieve stress.
You could pretty easily make it be very low overhead. Store the length of 128 or fewere byte strings with 1 byte for the length (starting with a zero), and if the first bit is a 1, then the string length takes 4 bytes (or use extra bytes with the same format).
Don't forget natural/recovered immunity, which people seem to finally be considering again. For a lot of people any vaccination was unnecessary risk for no reward.
One of the saddest parts of this affair is that he has kicked a hornet's nest. Twitter is one of the homes of the OSINT movement and these moves, including the lawsuit against Sweeney, have pissed off enough people in the OSINT movement that they stopped tracking Russian war crimes and the FSB to find where the stalker video was taken.

It was nowhere close to an airport. Of course, the person could have followed the car from an airport, but we currently don't have any third-party evidence for that. I don't wish anyone harm. But the response and rage directed at someone merely reposting publicly available information from an API seems to be disproportionate.

The excuse used to purge elonjet was being held together by a fairly thin rope that seems to be down to a few threads.

From the founder of Bellingcat, https://twitter.com/eliothiggins/status/1603454821700452365

I looked at the discord on how they did it, and they went frame-by-frame, found a very specific curb, then they looked for that specific curb in the area. After they found the curb, they then cross-referenced it against a building that was visible in a reflection of the car window that they then used to confirm their find.

It took them just a few hours.

I expect that the more this hornet's nest gets kicked, the closer they'll look. I, personally, wouldn't want to be in their crosshairs.

edit — a link to the images,

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1036758130761158677/1...

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1036758130761158677/1...

the building itself,

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1036758130761158677...

This was done by https://twitter.com/Sepulco1
And even worse than that, he would have had to have been deposed before paying for it. A bunch of his conversations about the deal were already released in discovery. Twitter lawyers were salivating about catching Elon in a lie at the deposition. It’s notable Musk was willing to deal juuust before the deposition was finally going to happen.
I'm assuming it's a cylinder 500 m tall, lifted by 500 m so it almost clears the hole (assuming basalt at 2.9 g/cm^3, that's only 1.6 TWh, but close enough.) Watching a 1 km-wide 150-story structure rise from a hole and then disappear would certainly be a majestic sight. However, a few issues:

- The Mir mine, 4th deepest open-pit mine in the world, has roughly these dimensions (1,200 m wide x 525 m deep) [1]. Of course, its approximately a cone, so its total volume would be about half the proposed cylinder. The mine took 40 years to excavate, albiet in very harsh conditions.

- Simply removing the rock from the hole, with 100% efficiency, would expend 1 TWh of energy (average lift 1/2 of total height). If diesel powered construction equipment is used, theoretical maximum efficiency of just the engines is 50%, realistic is more like 20%. I'd be surprised if you could get a total efficiency of over 1 or 2%.

- Of course, you'd also spend energy moving the overburden away from the hole. If the angle of repose was 1-in-5, then the pile would be roughly 150 m (45 stories) at the tallest point, and form a circle 4 km wide centered around the hole.

- You could be clever, and just dig out the circumference and bottom of the cylinder. At the bottom every square meter would have 500 meters of rock sitting on top of it. That's 1.5 million kg, or 14,000 kPa (2,000 PSI). That doesn't sound... impossible... but it would require a dense forest of supports. It would be the world's most expensive room-and-pillar mine [2], by several orders of magnitude. Integrity of the rock would be a problem, too. A fault wouldn't just risk a tunnel wall blow-out or cave in, it could litteraly drop a 500 meter mountain on your head.

- Speaking of pressure... how do you perfectly maintain the integrity of a 3 km circumference piston ring? The water is going to really, really want to slip past the rock piston. Anywhere it does it will have very serious erosion. How do you fix a problem? Picture one of those submarine movies with water spraying everywhere, but unable to shut it off.

- Speaking of pressure, again... how do you maintain the integrity of the rock? You'd have to girdle it in a 3 km x 500 m tall wall.

- You still need a very large water reservoir.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir_mine

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_and_pillar_mining
Prompt engineer : Someone who is quite good at providing the right prompts in order to guide ai towards the solution that is needed.
FTC will have a sweet ride on Twitter