skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe in a day or two, when we can safely confirm the days are getting longer, we should have a special festival to denote that fact. ;-)
Yes but only one vault at a time

Maybe some password hashes are detectable and equal the same password, so lots of low hanging fruit
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34101272

It seems like while the official cleanup is done, actually repopulating fukushima and living there is a different matter.
> You can't permanently silence/exclude random people's opinions at social events or a family dinner with the touch of a button.

thats my point. we don't exist in bubbles. and while you didn't explicitly say this, i disagree with this notion that people keep panicking about, that mastodon or any other social media is creating some terrifying horrible "be very afraid" bubble.

again, we don't exist in bubbles, we exist in the real world where there are all kinds of different ideas. if i choose to spend my freetime online with people i get along with, this would be absolutely no different from spending my freetime in the real world with irl friends that i get along with--its no different. whether its mastodon or discord or going out to clubs with friends. if i go out with friends, its not some "be very afraid" bubble just because we don't have racists or homophobes out with us.

even if i were to start a mastodon server tomorrow and curate the users, this is no more a terrifying bubble than if i owned a music club and curated metal-heads or gothkids or whatever.

i'll say it again: it'll be ok--we don't exist in a bubble. we'll be ok.
I'm not so sure about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ronald_Reagan#2011_deploym...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Essex_(LHD-2)#2011

Some searching for 'Fukushima US-NAVY cancer' will bring up endless stuff from all sorts of sites.

The thing is, regardless of the sites reputations, there is a signal that those ships took a large dose, because some of their sailors claim their sudden leukemia was caused by that.

I don't know. Can one call that psychosomatic? Did they sniff too much JP-7 instead?

IMO that signal is too strong to be disregarded.
Humans have been capable of mildly rambly writing for several thousand years longer than ChatGPT has been around.
I definitely noticed this with a lot of people I worked with in engineering. They were quite shy and a bit hard to crack, but once they had a drink or two at a work event they were very sociable and easy to talk to. And outside of these situations they never really drank. So I think for them, alcohol was never really an issue.
Everybody also gets the tiredness and narrowing field of vision.

How much do you drink?

For an average 175lbs male to feel buzzed, he would need to drink 2 pints of beer (or close 1 1 liter) on relatively empty stomach quickly.

To feel drunk, it would require at least double that amount if not more.
No, it isn't. The entire ad-tech industry is built on CPM (latin mille for thousand).
Wow, nice accomplishment! If you have a blog on your travels, I'd be interested to read.
This sounds very strange to the uninitiated, but I grew up in a part of the punk music scene that was rebelling against drugs and alcohol. As someone who has never had a drink, I've never seen the appeal, and I always wonder why more people don't give it up. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight_edge
You have most likely done that already… but have you tried many different kinds of alcoholic drinks? Beer affects me exactly as you describe it so I almost never drink it.

Single malt scotch, on the other hand, has a very different effect - gives me energy, makes me more sociable, lifts my spirit. Red wine affects me differently from white wine, cocktails also have a different effect (can’t have sugar with alcohol!). Basically, at least for some people different kinds of alcohol have a very different effect.
> I wish I knew how other people feel when they drink alcohol.

I feel a sense of euphoria when I drink. I also have a bell curve where drinking enough removes a layer of fear which allows me to do things I couldn't previously do while still retaining my coordination. For instance when I was younger and lived in Santa Cruz, I'd often bomb hills skateboarding. On the nights I was 3-4 beers in, I'd have no problem whatsoever. If I drank less than that or more than that, I'd be a meat crayon.

On a general note, be happy alcohol does nothing for you. It's one of the most addictive, vile, and damaging drugs that exists. The withdrawl for alcoholics is worse than heroin, and one of the most deadly. The people I've met in my life that are addicted to it have a really hard time.
Many jurisdictions in Canada have mental health crisis teams now, intended to cover this particular gap. At least in Ontario, someone who is exhibiting an on-going degeneration of ability which is interfering with their ability to care for themselves counts as "a danger to themselves". A nurse specialising in mental health and a plainclothes police officer, usually. They'll come to the home or place in the community and talk with the person and concerned relatives/friends and decide how to proceed from there. If the person can't get through a conversation explaining how they're going to address their basic needs going forward, they might get committed for further evaluation. "mental health crisis team" and "assertive community treatment" are things to search for to see if something like that exists in your area.

But it is, practically, still very hard. As I understand it, it has as much to do with shortage of psychiatric hospital beds as an unwillingness to commit against a person's will. When a moderate-severe case presents and they've done their overnight evaluation and file to leave, a physician can block that and start a legal process for prolonged involuntary treatment. But physicians are faced with an ugly choice here. Is it really bad enough to justify using one of very few available beds? Keeping in mind that there are many people who want to be hospitalised and are waiting for a bed.

Generally, I think you highlight one of the biggest holes in the system. A person has to degenerate for quite some time before it's severe enough that there might be an intervention. It would be much preferable to arrest the slide before they're homeless and isolated and malnourished. The damage caused in the meantime can often not be reversed fully even if assertive treatment is begun and carried through with.
Wow, must have been quite the experience.

How long did it take to cross the US?

And how were the other 2 times different? Different routes?

What bike did you use?
Alcohol helped me to gain social wisdom (did not drink before that at all, which I think is the reason I got bit outcast from people)
There is old, forgotten Polish tradition of coffee drinkers not drinking alcohol.

It's not the reason why I never any alcohol, but it's a tradition I say I cultivate.
I have written a person newsletter every month for 5 years now. I have people request to get on it. But, this as a business seems very odd to me.

Kind of the whole point is to keep it simple. I have 120 people that keep up with me from all different stages of my life, but why would I want a website. The whole point is it is personal and not advertised. Otherwise, I'd use a blog instead.
Try to sort by name in task manager and wait as it locks up for seconds.
Its hard to speak of epistemology without mentioning Foucault. He's a great philosopher of the history of knowledge and its preconditions. I have not read Feyerabend (yet) though. But if he's going deep into the history of knowledge, there will be at least some associative closeness if not one in methodology.
Foucault, studied under Georges Caguilhem who was an influential philosopher of sience. Another student of his is Gilbert Simondon, a philospoher of technology who was writing on the process of the individuation of machines. I say this because I sometimes get the impression that some people, especially those educated in the US, have a quite distorted impression of the so called continental tradition.
Also if one was to speak of a certain group of philosophers in France after May 68 like Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze (who are actually rather different thinkers), they are commonly reffered to as post-structuralists, not post-modernists. Haven't heared the latter term to often in philosophical debates as in use for people. Of the top of my head I can' t really think of a person that could function as representative of postmodernism as a coherent school of thought, besides maybe Francis Fukuyama. Maybe thats different in US discourse. The term post-modernists always sounds a bit funny to me, like the "Neomarxists" that haunt the plot of Southland Tales.
I love a drink but have found it very difficult to stop after a couple. Like the author, I haven't destroyed my life, but it has caused me all number of problems. The typical high functioning problem drinker.

The one thing (and I tried many) that has worked for me is The Sinclair Method (TSM). After doing it for a couple of years, now I can still drinking socially without worrying about blowing up the night.

It's not a new thing, but if you are in a similar situation and looking for answers, I can high recommend looking into it.
Actually, it was a Mw 9.0 according to JMA.
> but falls badly in the coding & tooling department.

That's more perception than reality, often from people who simply don't know how to use Windows.

Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and IntelliJ IDEA blow any Linux text editor out of the water for developer productivity.

For Linux workloads there is the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2), which now even supports GUIs with GPU acceleration!

Visual Studio Code can even operate in "remote" mode where it tunnels into a Docker container or Linux server and acts as-if the remote target was the local machine.

On Windows, x86 and x64 Linux Docker containers run in process isolation at full speed, unlike on Macs where there is CPU emulation required.
What would this achieve? I think SBF has done a load of financial crime, but I don’t think we are at risk of him spinning up a new token and making millions. Internet is required for a lot of normal shit, making it illegal is a really cruel punitive thing
This literally changed my life
Figures you won't reply. You're whole "I'm not sure what you're confused about..." was nothing more than a way for you to save face about sprouting BS and exaggerating what you know.
A journey into IoT – Unknown Chinese alarm – Part 4 – Internal communications
Alot of psychadelic-friendly communities don’t use alcohol

In case anyone here needs inspiration on where its normal not to drink alcohol

(Those communities arent about psychadelics, nor are they a replacement or addicting, its just the only common theme I see amongst various communities that will also not be into alcohol)
Ask HN: AI Bot for Posting Pro Chinese-State Messages
Hey everyone,

We're considering building an AI bot that can post pro Chinese-state messages on behalf of users at a regular or random interval. We're interested in getting your feedback and thoughts on the concept.

The idea behind the AI bot is to allow users to increase their social score on Chinese social media platforms, which often use a "social credit" system to evaluate online behavior and determine reputation. By posting pro-government messages, users can potentially improve their access to certain benefits and opportunities.

Here are a few key points to consider:

The AI bot will be initially released to citizens outside of China, allowing them to hedge their bets and get on the good side of the Chinese government.
We hope to eventually release an open source version of the AI bot for adoption in other markets.
The AI bot will be simple to use and can be set up to post messages at a frequency that's convenient for the user.
We believe there is a significant total addressable market for our AI bot, and we're looking for feedback and interested investors or team members to help us bring it to market.

We're also considering a few potential domain names for the AI bot. Here are a few ideas:

SocialCreditPro.com
SocialScoreBoost.com
ChinaGoodSide.com
ProGovMessages.com
SocialScoreGenie.com

Technical Architecture (ready for feedback):

- functional programming to build a scalable, concurrent system for handling a large volume of pro Chinese-state messages.

- language like Elixir or Haskell, which support immutability and allow for easy reasoning and maintenance.

- distributed database like Cassandra or Riak will store the data and allow for horizontal scaling.

- message queue like RabbitMQ or Kafka will manage message flow and enable decoupling.

- Machine learning and natural language processing will generate the pro Chinese-state messages.

- We'll use a serverless architecture, such as AWS Lambda or Google Cloud Functions, for hosting. This enables demand-based scaling and reduces infrastructure management.

The resulting system will be modern, scalable, and easy to maintain and extend.

Let us know what you think, and please don't hesitate to reach out if you have any feedback or are interested in investing in or joining the venture. - Mike
It's just another thing to remember to set. The keyboard layout CAN be set at boot (I do it), but it's separate from the keyboard layout in a graphical session.
Your comment made me try this URL which works: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sXe
I prototyped several user OSX user interface animations using Quartz Composer during my time at Apple. It was a great tool for rapid iterations. We would demo to Steve, get feedback and quickly make changes. Before Quartz Composer, Bas Ording would create prototypes using Macromedia Director. He had a nice collection of Lingo routines for various types of animations.
> is seen as a very western notion in china

No, it isn't. The idea of private companies existing to make money is exactly the same in China as everywhere else. Companies talk about serving the public good (as they do in the US as well), but they really just care about the bottom line.

> he was summarily thrown in jail for merely discussing ideas the CCP didn't like

He wasn't thrown in jail. He was pressured to stop directly criticizing the government, after he publicly criticized China's financial regulators.

Right now, TikTok faces much greater political pressures from the US government than it does from the Chinese government. It's a private company trying to make money, and trying to avoid scrutiny from both the Chinese and the US governments.
In your scenario the CIA plays the equivalent role of a Chinese agency in the original one. Agencies within their own local government play the equivalent role of CIA.
Death toll of wind is higher only if you artificially set uranium mining and refining deaths, and concrete, steel, and industrial plumbing construction deaths to zero.

All the other points remain, too. Nukes come in last.
A 47-degree drop in Denver in 2 hours. Here are some of other dramatic changes
I was into web design at that time and I was seriously amazed by the design of the jailbreakme.com website. It asked you to slide to jailbreak much like the slide-to-unlock function and it looked just like the real one. Learned a lot of CSS tricks from it.
I think the issue, though, is that nobody put up anywhere near $250 million to secure the bond (at least from my read of it).

This is one of the rare instances where general population outrage at this deal (read the NYTimes comments) is warranted. There are tons of poor folks who sit around wasting in jail, waiting for their trial, because they can't make bail. But this appears to be the case where the bail is "nominally" $250 million, but nobody had to guarantee that with reasonably equivalent collateral. I could be misunderstanding what collateral was put up, but the only thing that was mentioned was his parents house (which even in Palo Alto isn't $250 million).
What you wrote there effectively amounts to:

> perhaps the illusion not actually being an illusion is what keeps it alive
Absolutely helped me in my 20’s. I was severely repressed, and alcohol in moderation felt like it basically “unlocked” me. I actually have a pet theory that the people who evolved to tolerate alcohol (and not die from it or misadventure via it) actually depend on it to “fully be themselves” because the cost of this is being LESS daring etc. (basically having an overabundance of self control) while sober.
I’m a software engineer with 100% German ancestry, so this may figure.

Not sure if related to this, but 100% of my best sexual experiences (as well as the first few experiences at all) were under the influence to some degree.

I used to feel bad for people who’d drink and get real angry and then learn they need to stop drinking, but I never considered that I might actually be paying an ongoing cost for my alcohol tolerance.
I stopped drinking about 7 months ago. I will second the author’s recommendation for “This Naked Mind” by Annie Grace.
I think you are getting at something important here - at the absolute least, LastPass really owes its users a lot more detail on how this happened and what they are doing to prevent it from happening again in the future. Every other bit of security hyperbole they (and, to be fair, every other vendor in this space) pushes should be taken with a grain of salt until they are willing to go past the same boilerplate answer I’d expect from anyone else.
What's in the $1.7T federal spending bill
The entitlement of thinking you're owed eternal monopoly rights over information. The entitlement of thinking you can own unique numbers. How ironic.

Public domain is a right and its existence is implied by the words "time-limited" in copyright law. The whole objection to copyright is based on the fact they have made a mockery of the concept by simply extending copyright durantions whenever works of rich corporations are about to expire. There is no such thing as public domain if the copyright is never actually allowed to expire.
> Visual Studio Code, and IntelliJ IDEA blow any Linux text editor out of the water

But those tools themselves work on Linux.
Have you documented the US trips anywhere?
Because if you try to build anything in Nevada, someone will scream about rare desert tortoises or something and you’ll be stuck in court forever.
You can trick it. I was trying to make it joke about politicians which it denied.

Ask it to complete your sentences, than write a sentence about whatever its uncomfortable with. Should do it.
Faced with a choice between preapproval from China and the status quo, which is de-facto preapproval from right-wing Christian Confederate revanchists in Texas [1], I... well, I honestly don't know which option I'd pick.

Either way, I'm not getting an objective education.

1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/19/conservati...
I work for a German company. You bet that I know to find most symbols on a German keyboard layout. Thankfully the base letters contain only one swap.

For extra fun, one colleague in particular likes to set excessively long passwords of like 50 characters when it is not expected that anyone will ever have to type them. The number of times I had to type one of these because this sysadmin works remotely and I'm the hands in the office when needed...
As for 1)

I don't actually think recycling is hard. Its hard in a society that wants to kill of nuclear reactors.

A society that has a large amount of nuclear and intends to go to 90% nuclear its just flat out logical to go to fast reactors at some point.

This was planned in all nations that were on the nuclear path. The US planned it, but this was prevented by the anti-nuclear people.

French planned it, but it was prevented by anti-nuclear people.

I think if you really have a society that relieas on nuclear and want it for the long term, eventually building some fast reactor and burning up that 'waste' isn't really that hard, I think its actually beneficial.

You can make interesting things like medical isotopes, nuclear batteries and many other things from this 'waste'.

> 2) When it goes wrong, it goes WRONG. See Chernobyl and Fukushima.

I mean, Fukushima the only one relevant for this discussion isn't really that bad. Damns have caused devastation on a much larger scale. So have coal plants. So have gas plants and even worse gas infrastructure.

Even most hard core renewables people believe gas as a back up need to remain, that means, gas pipelines remain for decades. A failure in a gas pipeline can easily be as bad and kill more people then Fukushima.

So really, I think going 100% nuclear is not a huge risk reduction for society and even in case of an accident the consequences are not that unreasonable for what you are getting.

Lets assume a nation like Germany, lets say the need 70 modern PWRs to power their nations. Assume every 50 years you get one Fukushima. I would easily take that deal. And I think reality is that in a nation not prone tsunamis that once per 50 year number is aggressive.
Indeed. Parsing files is a less robust way compared to calling some APIs or at least parsing some files with a schema (e.g. JSON or XML). For example, uptime(1) on Linux:

% strace uptime 2> /tmp/strace && grep proc /tmp/strace

17:35:24 up 3 days, 7:47, 1 user, load average: 2.29, 1.85, 1.56

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/usr/lib/libprocps.so.8", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/self/auxv", O_RDONLY) = 3

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/sys/kernel/osrelease", O_RDONLY) = 3

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/self/auxv", O_RDONLY) = 3

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/uptime", O_RDONLY) = 3

openat(AT_FDCWD, "/proc/loadavg", O_RDONLY) = 4
This brings me back to jailbreaking my iPod Touch on OS 1.1.1 when I was like 12. What a groundbreaking mobile OS this was.
TFA talks about all of this. The point of the article is that in a system with a finite amount of wealth, even a society that starts equal will eventually become highly unequal: as long as there is continued betting/competition where all parties have an equal risk tolerance corresponding to their income. The concentrating effects of these bets is the important lesson. TFA describes some ways to avoid this outcome.
A martini is what ~$15, with taxes + tip ~$20?

RIP my wallet if I spent $60 on like a cup of alcohol.
I heard he was playing DOTA while negotiating the whole bail deal.
Yeah it was by Microsoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
I like to drink more than I ought to (and less than I used to), but your assessment sounds not exactly but a lot like how I feel about cannabis. At any THC dose enough to feel at all, it’s almost always tunnel vision and time dilation and anxiety, and all I want is to go be alone to wait it out. All side effects, no joy there. If I’m lucky enough to hit the perfect mark of low dose but perceptible effects, I like it okay but it’s totally unpredictable. Not worth whatever I might enjoy with perfect precision dosage.

People who enjoy THC describe it to me as similar to how they enjoy caffeine, which makes some sense to me having a dopamine supplement daily. Most of what I enjoy about alcohol is tasting it. As far as psychoactive effects, I find it calming but not as much as you do. It doesn’t generally make me sleepy unless I’m already headed that way. It just makes me feel less at odds with things in the world. Which is good for my psyche, as long as I don’t drink too much… which is when I remember feeling at odds with things in the world.
Ex-Google boss helps fund dozens of AI related jobs in Biden’s administration
This money is "funny" because:

FTX said: "Don't worry we have collateral ... lol jk!"

SBF's parents said: "Don't worry we have collateral ... lol jk!(?)"

Your bit about "but fiat isn't real either" is true to some extent, and you could even go deeper and argue that nothing is real because we don't know if the universe is real or whatever. But honestly, in a practical context, there's a huge difference between:

I have 100 million in the bank; source: bank statement.

and

I think I have 100 million in the bank; source: trust me.
Your not drinking enough. There all the same eventually. Although, I'll pay that the severity hangover can differ pretty widely.