skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's also funny that scientists are often quick to criticize non-experts for weighing in on their area of expertise, but seem comfortable claiming authoritative knowledge of the historical facts and ethical arguments in this case, while ignoring the judgment of actual historians.

These people are reprobates, regardless of whether they're scientists or not; being an erudite person sadly doesn't come with principles out of the box.

I realise you didn't mean scientists as a group, btw. I just think we need a politically neutral term for these people. Whether crazy woke or crazy alt-right, these people have a neurosis that manages to poison any discussion, and we need to deplatform the idiotic reprobates ASAP, on both sides of these discussions. All they do is "infuriate" the other side, and this just ends up in both sides being pushed deeper towards extremes/absolutes.

Also comments like "I don't care about the X canon/agenda" just means they don't care about the issue at all IMO. So what do they care about? Fuck knows. Maybe they're communal narcissist. Maybe they can't make a name for themselves so they go for contemporary low hanging fruit, it just happens to be the diversity issue currently (in the past this was witch trials). I think this is anything that fits into the category of heresy, and there's a lot of that going around[1].

I'm unsure if supporting reprobates makes you a reprobate by association. That might be a slippery slope, though, as certainly vulnerable people will try and cling to any support they can get (as a queer person, I find that understandable, and I also probably fit that category's before realising the mutual and raging bullshit flinging around theses discussions).

Anyway, I've kinda muddied my own points (by having too many probably), so this turned out a of an unintentional gishgallop. I just care about the issues discussed here, and wish people took them more seriously by taking them less personally.

[1]: http://www.paulgraham.com/heresy.html
Twitter Settles with Executive After Musk’s ‘Hardcore’ Challenge
This would require massive international cooperation and possibly even sanctions on countries with lax regulations.

If you have one country with lax or no antibiotic regulations then that country is going to continue breeding antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Those pathogens will pretty much inevitably escape out to more responsible countries.

This is theoretically doable, but as it stands you can't even get every country to abide by sanctions to discourage proliferation of nuclear weapons.
> and no, google doesn’t have anything significant in this space

LAMBDA and PaLM are literally the answer to Chat-GPT. Google is their closest competitor.

I do agree that they will lose their moat, and soon Google search will just be another tool among many.
I think what's really interesting about this formulation is that after one player sets it up, every step of the resolution of the rules for the simulated Turing Machine is forced for both players.
It's not so simple in the digital domain where CTRL+C/ALT+TAB/CTRL+V is all you need to have your very own copy of things.
I think this is true to an extent. Some of these people did start out as managers but I think they realized whether consciously or not that the selling of ideas was far more beneficial than actually creating software.
> “Nutella” just made the list

My wife is French. We’re expecting our third child and the other two, Banana and Oatmeal, were devastated.
Imagine if copper miners held on to copper in the hope that it will go up in price. Taking a risk that is both unnecessary and unrelated to your business is stupid. That's the opposite of what a well-run business does.
There's plenty of such opinions.

But whether Damore's were valuable or not isn't really up to Google, as an American company. Title VII carves out several opnions as, by law, not "valuable" in the sense that expressing them constitutes either harassment or creation of a hostile work environment. And doing business in America means complying with that law; debating the philosophy underpinning such a law is not the purpose of an American workplace.
I’ll take it over a Morty any day.
There was Pentium OverDrive which could take you from 486 to Pentium.
You should give it a try! It's a lot of fun. In Chicago (as an example) you can drive your car downtown, park it, and rent a bike with the Lyft app. They have bike stations all over the city. Try to rent one near the lakefront and bike up and down on the car-free lakeside trail. Its safe, fun, and you can get around the city really quickly.

If you want to understand what cyclists are upset about, be adventurous. Ride in the urban core and then work your way outwards to the suburbs. You may develop an understanding for their perspective!
SimCity was also quite huge and novel in the 90s. I think it's easy to underestimate that now.
What does "woke" mean?
I'm ambivalent about the news article. It can be misleading, but I also wouldn't have found the paper and read through the whole thing without it, which I felt was a really interesting and valuable read.
> and that external incentives don't outweigh enclosed ones.

I think this is actually the most commonly overlooked assumption. The protocol seems very robust, *assuming* perfect information (aka all incentives are known to the system).

I encountered this problem a few years back when trying to design a protocol for a decentralized prediction market. It's very hard to account for hedges or huge bets on other markets.
Like AOL and MySpace?
I think one thing to clarify here is that western Europeans have thousands of years of history brewing and drinking alcoholic beverages, but it was only in the past 250 years that heavily DISTILLED alcoholic beverages like whiskey at affordable prices became a thing. Have greater than 5 percent ABV in a beverage would've been a bit rarer preindustrial revolution I believe. Even heavily DISTILLED high proof colonial rum was quite expensive and typically mixed into punch water to bring down it's concentration. Mass production and lowering costs were what triggered the alcoholism epidemic and temperance movements of the late 19th and early 20th century.

Drinking in northern Europe does have a way longer and more entrenched history than elsewhere though. Colonial men women and children all drank watered down rum and beer which were more hygienic than water. In China, by contrast, half of the population gets Asian flush and cannot tolerate alcohol, and there is a strong traditional culture of boiling water and drinking tea!
This impending downturn is why I've tolerated a most unsexy project reassignment from my current employer over the last 9 months. Instead of data-driven green-fielding in AWS I've been brown-fielding in Azure where the current priority is dictated by the shifting demands of a single large customer. This all promises to be a nightmare if product doesn't realign and snap out of their identity crisis.
Boy, you lasered right in on the crux of it: Long ago, back in August of 2004 when I started my blog, the guy who set it up for me asked if I wanted him to include a DONATE button. I said no way because it seemed — and still does — to me to be akin to begging, like people do who really need help.

Now, if I could've had a sort of line graph that said "Help me make my first million" where the endpoint was $1m and each little amount — even a penny — added would show up a là Million Dollar Homepage [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage], I'd have mos def done that.
I had a chance to attend An Event Apart ... er, event, in Chicago somewhere between 10-15 years ago and it was downright inspirational. There was a real sense of being together with other professionals to better learn about our craft. And there was so much back then that was still new! Amazing times
No, I don’t think the analogy works.

People have a freedom of who they associate with and do business with:

Boycott is when you decide not to spend your money someplace because you don’t agree with them. You’re exercising your freedom of association.

Cancellation is when a 3rd party demands that a employee/employer sever their relationship because the 3rd party disapproves of the employee. Here, a 3rd party is imposing on two other parties’ freedom of association.

Also, the substance of the speech is quite different:

- “You are wrong, and here are the reasons why” is debate.

- “You are wrong, and you should become unemployable” is cancellation. Cancellation is technically speech, but it is speech that is focused on imposing a high cost on other speech. Talk about the “paradox of intolerance” argument that the modern left loves to use.
Look into epigenetic inheritance. This is a mechanism by which environmental factors cause inheritable modulation of genes, which themselves are unchanged. Methylation (attachment of methyl groups) of DNA is one such mechanism.

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

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41437-018-0113-y
Proof works both ways.

Show me empirical evidence what you described is actually happening on a large scale.
The Airplane on the Treadmill
It works on beta as well.
This lead me to wonder if retail Windows licenses are expensive because they used to include a phone support and then, when people learned how to Google for problems, Microsoft dropped the phone support but kept the price because "customers are used to this price tag"?

I recently bought a Windows 11 machine that came with Windows 11 Home, I felt the need for some Pro features and went to check the price for an upgrade and my jaw dropped. Years of "free upgrade to Windows 10/11" lead me believe those licences were less pricey nowadays.
It's not jammed, it's dealing with a high noise floor and a weak signal.

You can only do so much to identify your own signal when it's smeared over a trillion water droplets.
> humans don't crash into shaded jersey barriers

They literally do, which is why jersey barriers are literally designed with vehicular impact in mind.

> contrast adaptation of CCDs

You can't just mix terminology like that. Contrast adaptation describes behaviour in biological systems which isn't analogous to anything a CCD does. There's a reason why literally nobody uses the term to describe digital systems, because it's not relevant.

If you were trying to say that the CCD doesn't have sufficient dynamic range, then just say that instead of using a term which doesn't describe dynamic range.
I guess we just entirely disagree about what this comment is saying and what it means.
> the drifts of snow have rendered their wood stockpile inaccessible

It mentions a family running out of baby formula. Baby formula is in short supply around the country and also very expensive - many stores won’t allow you to buy more than one or two cans at once and if you’re buying it with WIC funds then you can’t afford more than a month at a time anyway.
"SuperAger" doesn't follow daily routine, neuroscientist approves
Wait... what? :)
I agree with you. I thought replying to the post I did and honing in on the statement about rural folks was enough to go on this tangent, but I will look towards being more focused on the root topic in the future.

I just think, at the very least, getting people thinking about these topics and perhaps even convincing someone to make some lifestyle changes could be really helpful, and well, it just isn’t often words from internet strangers could have such a direct impact.

Ultimately, my thinking is that I can’t help the people in that article here, but I can try and contribute to the readers in my small way.
One of the more affordable options nowadays is the Ubiquiti Flex XG [1] ($299) for a 5-port unit with 4 being 10GE. I’m using lots of their Switch XG 6 PoE [2] ($599) since it can drive 5GE ports on my APs and supports 802.3bt (which is required to power them up without limitations!).

Lots of prebuilt PC systems are coming with 2.5GE NICs - “build your own” and it feels like most motherboards are now 2.5GE? Upgrading existing to 2.5GE is pretty cheap (~$30 USD), even via USB adapters [3].

To me, I think it’s fine with NBase-T that the switches be 10GE and the clients negotiate at 2.5GE or 5GE, although I’d note that both Mac Mini, iMac and Mac Studio can now be OEM specified with 10GE NIC for I think $100 additional.

[1] https://dl.ubnt.com/ds/usw-flex-xg_ds

[2] https://dl.ubnt.com/ds/us-xg-6poe_ds

[3] Plugable 2.5G -https://a.co/d/hjV8LTd
That's exactly my point though. Figuring out the truth is very hard, and often our best experts are wrong about extremely important things. If our best experts can't get such critical things right, who can we possibly put in charge of censoring misinformation?

I don't necessarily mean to indict the scientists of Semmelweis's day too much. I mean, they fucked up, to be sure. However it's understandable (somewhat) why they didn't listen to him.

But a society that allows those presently in power to censor information they consider to be false is a society that helps cement its present ways of doing things for eternity. I don't think that's a good thing.

A modern example of this might be the plaque theory of Alzheimer's disease. I don't know enough to know whether this is a fair description of the state of the science, but there is certainly a growing view that, a "cabal" of believers in this theory suppressed alternative views for a long time. It may end up being that the cabal is right! But it seems to me like there's enough uncertainty that a diversity of viewpoints should probably be heard.
Is the outcome of a game of Diplomacy computable?
Yeah, it was poke at the EV1 program. GM has some amazing engineers, but their management has historically left a lot to be desired, in my opinion.
No, thank YOU.

Amazing.
Visualization of Dental Caries Status
Beans and rice take quite a bit of fuel to cook, and that sounds like a major problem.
While I agree that's what it is, I don't get upset that it's not plastered as such in headlines.

I think the first time most Americans heard much or cared about terrorism was 9/11. The word has -very- strong emotional attachment - hatred, fear, anger, sadness, etc. In the interest of not causing nationwide panic, I can understand why they're just calling it vandalism.

Others may say we -should- be panicking, and I can't necessarily disagree, only explaining one possible reason media is hesitant to use that word.
Darknet Diaries is wonderful podcast overall and very entertaining to me.

The latest two part episodes of Gollumfun #128 and #129 were great. He interviews 'Gollumfun' who was one of the biggest players in the online underground. His story is just wild!
IIRC dogs may have domesticated themselves by coming to visit us to eat our poop, not our hand feeding.
Dioxus doesn't exactly manage anywhere yet, but it would be cool if it eventually included things like rendering to phone response tree: push 1 for X, 2 for Y...
The post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34122118
Yeah, we don't need to go overboard here and nuke them from orbit. This is criminal, investigate, arrest, prosecute. It doesn't need an overreaction. We just need a reaction from our police forces.
You did not answer OPs question tho'. prometheus vs influxDB.
> You mean to tell me there’s some people in a warehouse around here with racks of servers running hashes? Just hashes, not a data center

When you can be profitable running a datacenter without even needing to find customers to pay for your services on actual servers, why wouldn't you just run miners instead?

Clearly the incentive is there for this to be the reality.
1. USA has pretty cheap electricity globally. I'm not surprised to see lots of mining here.

2. The blizzard probably took multiple mining operations offline. Large parts of the US are experiencing very cold conditions.

3. Maybe Rockland, TX has the most PR about currently operating large miners in the US. I think they have a contract for ~$0.03/kwh and purchase hundreds of megawatts [0]. It's tens of thousands of miners.

[0] https://www.wired.com/story/hard-luck-texas-town-bet-bitcoin...
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Hi!

I'm new to this community. I would like to know how can I reply something in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818035 I don't see the Post Comment field. I'm only available to reply to comments, no the original post.

Thanks in advance for your help. Have a great day!
> genetic-exacerbated substance abuse

>Could you expand on this a bit? Not a concept I am familiar with

Its profitable to pretend that personal choices have nothing to do with drug addiction. Then you can "treat" them forever collecting a monthly check from the government. I say this having grown up in a drug house and leaving as a 16yo teenager with nothing. I already regret this comment not because it isn't true but people detached from reality are going to get all bent out of shape.
It’s not a Safari thing. Anything you print in iOS can be saved to PDF.
For context, search "accelerationism" - here is one point-of-view:
https://www.fpri.org/article/2020/04/the-growing-threat-pose...
Hmm…time to unleash the Predator drones
Same here, I don’t want to squint to read cool 10pt font, I prefer to see 16pt easily. I’m not fifteen anymore, my eyes need all the help they can get :)
The former might only have a Twitter presence. A combatant has done something in the real world.
Here you go, though I agree it's odd that the author is pinching pennies if his story is true. https://archive.vn/YZ8sU
You could just set it to use channel 42 if nobody is competing with you.
I made a small open-source GPT-3 brain dumping app
I was procrastinating writing college application essays, so decided to spend 3 days making a fun little app instead. This is my first post here - let me know what you think (or if I've posted this in the wrong place).
Show HN: Thelatestbot – AI generated online magazine
This online magazine is completely autogenerated by a bot. From the choice of topics to writing and pictures. An experiment on the impact of AI on journalism.
Ask HN: Browser setting/extension to stop page from changing layout as it loads?
I get incredibly frustrated when I'm trying to interact with a page and try to click on something, only to have a box appear and push down the thing I wanted as I'm clicking on it. Sometimes this is because the page is still loading; more often the page builds dynamically as you scroll, and so it's impossible to fully load the page at the outset. I have adblockers installed, but this doesn't always prevent this scenario.

I just want an internet-1.0 webpage where the "skeleton" of the page builds first and I can clearly see a carved out placeholder where an image/ad/whatever will be when it's done loading, so that it safely leaves the rest of the page alone.

Any suggestions?
> I always figured that Russia wanted to own/control Ukraine, since it's a fertile, resource-rich part of the former USSR (it's a huge grain exporter; consider all the famine warnings since the war began?)

This isn’t the motivation. Putin has been saying since 2007 that NATO expansion is an existential threat to Russia. Now whether we agree with that or not is besides point. They view it that way.

They warned in 2007 Ukraine entering NATO would lead to war, but we basically told Russia that there a has been and they don’t matter. This led to what happened in 2014. Then in 2021, we basically come out in full support of pulling Ukraine into NATO.

What’s happening now is extremely dangerous. Russia can’t win in Ukraine because of west helping Ukraine and their economy is ruined after sanctions. They see this as an end of Russia.

You’re backing them in the corner. This is when rational state actors act irrational. The chance of thermonuclear war is increasing because Russia cannot take on the west in a conventional war.

We had a significant role in how we got to this war, but we won’t ever take responsibility. We pulled out of Afghanistan and now the military industrial complex is making billions through Ukraine.
Purely my opinion after learning and professionally doing both Ruby and Python. If elegance and consistency in APIs matter, Ruby is by far the preference. Generally speaking (again from my own experience which should be taken with a grain of salt) the Ruby community tends to value readability/maintainability of code a lot higher, so working in the codebases is typically a lot more pleasant.

IIWM I'd go with Ruby hands down.
Sounds like you think I'm trying to argue that most people on earth in 2022 are still nomads? Really, this was about anthropological (and, unstated, evolutionary) averages. Nomad's evolutionary and genetic inheritance is our own, very largely. There hasn't been enough time since agriculture came, enough generations, for widespread genetic change.

Anthropology studies past societies as much as modern ones, although the evidence is thinner.
It’s those magic words “I am an XYZ…” that prevent any eyes from rolling. Those words provide an untouchability and radioactivity around the speaker that we have yet to integrate into modern discourse. As OP said, the good faith nature of argument is turned on it’s head by identity, not merit, based logic.

I disagree with cynicism of the OP however. Many people are just tied up in a movement, without a conniving pathos driving their support. If you look at the historical context identity arguments arrive from, it is very much reactionary to past oppression. And society tolerates reactionary swings for only so long before seeking homeostasis. It is possible (likely, even) that the junior professor behind the vitriol is doubling down due to self preservation. However, I don’t think her supporters are as interested in her self interest so much as they are interested in supporting the movement as a whole. She’s more or less an ideological soldier; yes she may have violated her enemies in atrocious ways, but she is fighting for home team, and thusly retains support regardless of abuse of basic logic.

Hopefully we out grow this phase soon because the ignorance inherent in that support does seem culturally toxic.
Ask HN: Google useless for shopping / product reviews?
Whether searching for best dog scissors or hot sauces, I get a front page full of SEO’ed fake top 10 lists with affiliate links.

I can include site: to search a specific reviewer or Reddit, but that basically turns google into a local search. Has the time of google for product reviews now past? Is there a replacement that downranks these terrible SEO’ed fake recommendations?
Illegal desi call centres behind $10B loss to Americans in 2022
What do you mean "have to"? Why not use one of the plenty ope source PDF viewers for Android?
Whether rightwing extremists did or did not actually act out the plot is hard to prove. We'll have to wait for the FBI's investigation for that. What's not hard at all to prove is the very public threads of rightwing extremists encouraging attacks on public infrastructure so I think it's important to have these discussions

This report[0] on domestic violent terrorism came out in 2022 before the NC attack and talks about how rapidly far-right terrorism has grown in the past decades

> Salafi-jihadist and white supremacist attack planners attempted to target different critical
infrastructure sectors, with the former focusing on the commercial facilities, government facilities,
and emergency services sectors, and the latter predominantly focusing on the energy sector.

> Since 2019, white supremacist attacks plots against critical infrastructure systems have distinctly
increased.

> Between 2016 and 2022, white supremacist plots targeting energy systems dramatically
increased in frequency. 13 individuals associated with the movement were arrested and charged
in federal court with planning attacks on the energy sector; 11 of these attack planners were
charged after 2020.

[0]: https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Critica...
This idea sounds like literal murder.