skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I learned nothing new from this piece.

- Buddhist monks being celibate is well-known

- Being comically (to a normal person) non-violent (the mutilation example) as an ideal is also known

- Either you accept Dukkha as self-evident based on your own life experience because you realize that all good things are temporary, or you have to go deeper and have to consider the implications of eternal “rebirth” (a belief that you cannot use your experience to interrogate)

- If merely “the doing of non-evil” is too simple and unpassionate to you you can merely take on the small task of being a Boddhisattva and save all beings from Samsara

- “Meditation didn’t solve all my problems” (paraphrase)–you should have read the “chop wood carry water” fine print

> If the conclusion you take from this story is that you should be Buddhist, you are absolutely missing the point. The point is that we should experiment with everything and pick what best fits our situation, reverence be damned.

The author critiques Western Buddhism[1] and yet gives a firm “should” for individual ecclecticism, the ultimate Western spiritual-but-not-religious lifestyle. Might be nothing wrong with that, but it is for sure not a should. There are benefits to trying to stick to one or a few traditions. Maybe, for example, the tradition fits your personality and you trust the teachers.

> There is a giant hole in the middle of Buddhist contemplative teachings. This is the disinclination to engage with mental content. […]

> However, as a default meditative stance, it is an overcorrection. First of all, it can lead to, essentially, a scolding relationship with the mind, in which you dismiss all of your desires and fantasies as undesirable “ego mind.”

See the slight of hand? “A giant hole” in the teaching becomes “can lead to”. The first part is what is taught, while the latter part is the interpretation of the student. Of course that often does happen, but having a “scolding relationship with the mind” is never recommended by any meditation teacher. It is a common trap that the student is taught to watch out for and avoid.

> However. My friend Jake, reading this section, correctly pointed out that I am engaging in Salad Bar Criticism. People who like Buddhism point at some areas of the giant Buddhist meme cloud—the giant mass of traditions, observations, and modern derivations—and nod approvingly. I am pointing at other areas of the giant Buddhist meme cloud and making grunting noises. I can only hope that some of us are learning something along the way.

How postmodernist to critique your own essay before we do.

[1] But “Asian Buddhism” is also bad so… or maybe he gives it one point for authenticity and deducts one point for backwardsness, evening things out?
Theres unfortunately nothing here related to building in the space of mental health. Would love an article that actually dives in to that instead of fundraising.
more fossil fuels are incompatible with 1.5c target

https://www.carbonbrief.org/new-fossil-fuels-incompatible-wi...

at this point they simply must stay in the ground
There's no medications for that disorder, she was getting people in touch with scientists.
I have a similar system: I manage my dot files and a bunch of other configs by placing a git repository in my operating system's root directory, i.e. file:///.git. I use a .gitignore file to exclude most things from consideration while adding things to git. Transferring to another OS is as simple as copying the .git dir over.
I saw this in an elevator in India recently. The third-hand instructions we heard were that you double-click the button to cancel, so all of us computer nerds were trying to double-click it like you would a mouse, when apparently it's click-pause-click.
My understanding is that 81% of ocean waste comes from rivers in poorer Asian countries. And the rest is from marine sources (fishing nets, lines, ropes, and abandoned vessels) [1]. Not much seems to come from wealthier nations, let alone plastic straws/plates/etc.

I'm no expert, and I do think ocean waste is a problem that needs to be taken seriously. But it seems to me that all I hear is politicians talk about banning straws (to very little effect on ocean plastic) in, say, Australia, rather than helping a country like the Philippines (responsible for one-third of global ocean plastic) improve waste management.

As I said I'm no expert, but is helping poorer countries improve waste management such a monumentally difficult task?

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/ocean-plastics
I don't think drastically.
Have yu tried the AI tools?

It is not like you can just describe what is in your mind and it will appear, from what I read in people workflow description it is a more involved work, including training a model (I seen someone trained a model for RPG fantasy characters for example), then creating some starting sketch, generating many images, selecting good candidates, then use in-painting to fix out of place stuff, then use photoshop/krita to fix stuff .

I think it is like with programming, we have higher level languages and libraries and the number of developer increased because we can do a lot more stuff then just starting each time from assembly. So in this case the same artists will just produce more, we will not have to wait 6 months for a visual novel to have an update, we will not need to wait years for some indie game to be done , but yeah it is possible that some patt of the money that goes to art will end up for a short period of time in the pockets of soem art director , but competition would fix that.
“The trouble with constructors”[1] counts as a good follow-up and example application, I think.

[1] http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/12/14/the-trouble-wit...
> For years, I’ve happily subscribed to the practice of throwing down at least 20 percent almost anytime the little iPad spins my direction ... If you can afford a $7 latte, they argued, why are you bristling at a $1 tip that would help your server?

If the extra $1 constitutes the "true" price then why not set that price and get rid of the tip?

Tipping is stupid. It's much better to have employers pay employees properly in the first place.
ChatGPT bot is causing panic now – but it’ll soon be as mundane a tool as Excel
Portugal’s digital nomad bubble
If you have several commands you're likely to use and possibly pipe together, it might make sense to have lightweight compiled C/Rust command client stubs invoke an Elixir server, so you'd pay the BEAM startup cost only once, in exchange for some complexity.
Much more than 10% of SF by population -- those neighborhoods are where the most people live: https://www.reddit.com/r/sanfrancisco/comments/vtoqd7/oc_san...
I once heard the city spends around $50k/year per homeless person.

The latest estimate for 2022 is 7,754 people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco – https://sfgov.org/scorecards/safety-net/homeless-population

That gives an estimate of $390,000,000/year spent on homelessness in San Francisco alone.

Mind you the official definition of “homeless” is a lot stricter than people assume. Living in a car makes you not-homeless. Here’s a good podcast episode about that: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/according-to-need-cha...

My first question whenever thinking about these numbers is: If we just give them that money, will they stay homeless? I bet many would be more than able to get their life in order, if you gave them 50k … that’s more than minimum wage for SF.
These appear to be dual band 802.11n at best unless I missed one. That’s not good enough these days.
FYI I'm also having trouble sending email to this address. I get a "No Such User Here" response from the email server.
We can get all of the crypto folks in on this, it sounds right up their alley.
I have no idea if Bash has library? It's more like for managing host stuff rather than compute wide range of application.
It should be worth noting that Elon hasn’t paid rent in any of the Twitter offices globally. And has been evicted for rent non payment in some of them. David Sacks is his close ally and I would not be surprised if this was some weird renegotiation tactic for their offices.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-31/twitter-s...
What is good or bad about each?
What does it actually do as of v1.0.0?

I only see it setting themes for very specific terminal emulators.
I did in the prior comment - upskirt photos. You can also see how recording in court rooms is prohibited. Or how recording nudity or partial nudity is prohibited. These are in statute and code (at least in PA, but other states are similar).

Also, your police recording example isn't absolute either. I believe circuits are split on that. Even the ones that protect recording have set limits, like being at least 8 feet ways, or not interfering.

Public recording may be a net positive, but it's also subject to restrictions (at least as the laws stand now).

Edit: Why disagree?
And that's just humans using antibiotics. Roughly 2/3rds of antibiotics are used for veterinary purposes.

But yes, we need to be much more careful with how we use antibiotics than we currently are and I also don't have a good answer for how that happens.
I've seen elevators that ignore short presses of buttons. You press the button, it lights up, you release, the light goes off and the elevator pretends it was never pressed. Any idea why this is being done?
Agree with you on the Joker avatar being pretty irrelevant, but there's a bit more than just nepotism implied a growth-stage financial services company trading billions in assets which had already experienced serious regulatory and fund loss problems deciding the C level appointment their operational issues needed was someone with no prior finance experience but plenty of reason to be loyal to the founders who'd been hired a little earlier to implement the UI for their app. Even in the hacker-founder world of Silicon Valley, that would be an unusual promotion path, for a troubled company in a regulated field like finance it's a red flag...
Connect with people where they're at. Don't ask them to go somewhere else.
Maybe the best place for an alcohol intervention is... a bar ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> We’ve started by building a community to envision positive futures

Looks a awful lot like a midjounrney gallery to me, which, if it is the case, adds up to the pile of black mirror type feeling of what you're trying to solve
I'm not sure what it's called, but I've seen a product which is a database of the time/location of US car license plate sightings. As I understand it, these are OCR'd from a combination of private, and public footage. I wonder if something similar exists for faces, and if some company is performing facial recognition on publicly uploaded footage. It sounds quite paranoid, however we know for a fact that such technology exists, and that there's a motivation for it.
What were the alternative you were considering?
There's already the Dramatron tool from Google that queries GPT3 to write a screenplay. How long until there's an input form for the "bricks" of the memoir that can output a "house?" (To use the metaphor from the article)

I guess it could be done using the GPT3 api if you're willing to pay for the tokens to input lots of text.
Not that its the same return as holding cash (clearly that isn't true), just that if VTSAX doesn't pay off as a bet long term, it will be because the dollar has ceased to be valuable.

Basically, a bet on VTSAX is underpinned by faith in the dollar. If either one crashes the other is worthless.
Yen might work as it has lost a lot of value recently due to loose fiscal policy.
There’s signs that they may have to tighten but it doesn’t 100% mean that yen will go up, just a hope really.
> Nothing else matters.

Not if you’re a for-profit VC firm looking to invest in an area with changing regulation, which could lead to trillions of dollars of economic opportunity.
I think because it became synonymous with the specific things that happened around the fall of the Soviet Union that caused them to rise to power.

Not saying it’s right! But that was a very specific and rare set of circumstances that maybe deserves it’s own recognition.
Correct. The current thing is just a thing after all. Let's try to stop judging people who don't hold the same values we do, just let them do them. (Obviously if they are killing people, such other people might be mildly inconvenienced, not sure what to do about that. One problem at a time?)
https://archive.ph/uczeJ
Very good advice categorizing realistic fantasies, including this:

>have a mental funeral for a long-standing dream

Just don't quit dreaming altogether.
That is the recession, right?
You should check what happened with Ozone. It was a real problem and it ended up being solved thanks to useful regulations and an amazing show of global cooperation.
No, the carbon is released when the plants die. So you’re only holding the carbon for the lifetime of the plant. Even if the plants are “net new”, their CO2 will still be released when they die.
gas is emitting half of CO2 than coal, it's also much cleaner: coal emits heavy metals and radioactivity when burned.

Gas also enables a higher penetration of renewables. We won't get to zero emissions in the next 10 years, but we can get to zero emissions for days on end, because of gas plants.
Image Stacks and iPhone Racks – Building an Internet Scale Meme Search Engine
Yes, it is off topic
Until you want to add an argument to that constructor and find yourself modifying lots of files just to update that call everywhere.

Or need a value from the application config, and have to patch the configuration instance through, several levels of classes deep. After wasting a day or two with those shenanigans, you’ll gladly take the DI framework, which makes both scenarios a single-line, 10 second change.
Of course I was being facetious, and I agree that studies needed (and need) to be done in order to “prove” that tactile controls are safer. It has always been extremely hypocritical to me that certain states like Maryland crack down harshly on mobile device usage but basically ignore distracted driving because of engagement with a screen in your vehicle, which can be just as dangerous.

In my opinion, screens per se aren’t bad, however there should be a set of standards (possibly international) for a core set of redundant tactile controls such as audio volume/mute, any and all essential vehicle functions, ALL climate control functions, and obvious preset buttons for major infotainment functions such as audio, climate, navigation, and communication. I drove a vehicle recently that didn’t have an easy way to switch between Waze on CarPlay and the vehicle’s built-in SiriusXM audio. And some makes have moved to a completely screen-based gauge cluster, which is neat in concept but allows for shenanigans such as the possibility of accidentally choosing a “theme” that hides basic information or is confusing with no obvious way to revert. Mercedes is especially guilty of this. There are so many more examples.

Essentially, we need a Vehicle Control Bill of Rights.
I read 2 examples of the links provided in the archive.today. Is this attack possible because the sub domain is provided by a CDN/S3 (or public cloud in general)?
What if it doesn't use any CDN? just plain web server serving the site but no longer available or the web server is down.
Show HN: Flatstore, simplified state across ReactJS components, suck it redux
I've been using this on my projects since 2019, and it's made my life so much easier sharing and reacting to state changes across components.

Redux has made life a living hell at my job trying to follow code trails for debugging.

In any case, its great for personal projects. The code is very lightweight at about 300 lines and zero dependencies.

flatstore unofficially supports history with undo/redo, but I haven't used it much. The hook `useWatch` is the latest update for function components to track state changes. If you still use legacy class components, it uses a similar HOC approach as redux for state changes.

But I recommend converting to functional components asap, as it shrinks code a lot, and you just need get/set/useWatch to do anything.
> I think Tether is pretty obviously at least mostly solvent.

95% solvent at a bank-like entity (where you are supposed to be able to redeem at par) is a bank run.

> My own theory of what's actually going on here is that Tether is intentionally obtuse

They have been proven to have committed fraud and lied in the past (NY settlement). They have an incredible number of red flags, including management that has committed fraud in previous companies, refusing basic transparency and a shadowy executive team (e.g. refusal to identify CIO, CEO has basically never spoken publicly). I don't know of any organization in history of anywhere near this size that has had as many red flags. 100% guarantee that they have participated in major wrong doing beyond the NY settlement. Organizations on the up and up have no reason to act the way they do. Your theory that a bank-like entity would pretend to be insolvent is implausible: the main thing a bank depends on is its solvency, it's too 4-d chess to think you can somehow manage to persuade the market that you are a little-bit insolvent.

That said, as the article points out, making money on this apparent wrong-doing is more difficult for a number of reasons. One of which not mentioned in the article is that they may have done some fraud that doesn't affect the value of tethers. For example, they were undercollateralized for a time but now higher interest rates have made them whole. Or they are laundering money but are fully collateralized (though I would expect a money laundering charge to tank the value of tether also).
I love this. Playing it text version is still the best way to let your imagination run wild.
The algorithm has no agency so it's not making art, art is made by humans. It's data theft. The art is data. You could also think of it in terms of counterfeiting too.
I like the concept, but on an artistic scale of 1-10, this is like a 1.
brightball is perhaps alluding that the BEAM VM environment itself is treated more as an operating system within an operating system rather than just another process in an operating system.

The BEAM VM is unique (at least compared to mainstream languages) in that everything is run as a preempted, stackful coroutine. The result is an environment reminiscent of an operating system.
I know stores for sure that have cameras facing the street (at least I assume from the position of the entrance which is to observe).

I think there is a law regulating where and if such a camera is allowed to be positioned and how you are allowed to process the imagery.

It is also not forbidden to film out of my doorway, is it?

Law is certainly complex in this case.

Storing close-up videos of strangers indefinitely is hopefully forbidden, but not filming a street per se.
I was also at the same juncture and found the 'The Personal MBA' Josh Kaufman book highly valuable. Because this book is an index book. Each couple of pages is the distilled top level wisdom/knowledge of a separate business domain. If that section takes your attention it provides a curated book list for digging in deeper.

So you just read the entire book for a wide-but-shallow understanding, and then drill in to topics that interest you most.

Getting into the business domain is firstly an issue of awareness. Once you have an awareness of the landscape you build your knowledge bit by bit.

For me it was obvious that sales was my weakest area, so I focussed on that with further reading and practice. (Turned out I was quite good at it in the end - a total shock to me as I am the nerdy techie type personality).
$3.7mm/15 years is shy of $250k/yr TC. There's something to be said for being able to work on your life's passion, but not all of us can think up funny amazing dawrf simulators, and even if we did, there's already a really really good one. https://xkcd.com/2347/ applies. Unless people start being a whole lot richer and a lot more generous, newer load bearing pieces as appropriate for our newer world aren't coming about. Instead they're Facebook and Google supported.
> is the risk of having Microsoft’s army of lawyers throw CFAA at you really worth this?

Well, previously I'd never heard of Truffle Security, but now I have. So ... maybe?
If it is my home and I don't want to leave how long does eviction take and how much does it cost the company? I suspect it is very Tennant friendly for rental law
The website shows code examples for use in non-Roda applications, and the readme states:

> Rodauth is Ruby's most advanced authentication framework, designed to work in any rack application.
The most important problem in the world are people trying to find the most important problem in the world and solve it instead of focusing on their close community. Start humanforming your neighbourhood before terraforming mars
Not sure why this is getting downvoted, I believe it’s correct for the U.S. Reminds me of the famous “Photographer’s Rights” pamphlet http://www.krages.com/ThePhotographersRight.pdf and there definitely are people out there making confrontation videos with security guards and police for YouTube based on knowing they can’t legally be stopped for shooting in public. It might be lame, but it is legal.
Slightly off-topic question: any suggestions for modern presentation LaTeX themes (besides Metropolis, https://github.com/matze/mtheme)?
Why disagree with this?
Bolsonaro supporters storm Brazilian Congress
https://archive.ph/j7eEp
Every billionaire is a policy failure.

You seem to recognize that the three people you mentioned are, by any objective standard, awful people. Depending on which billionaire you look at, you'll see variations of this. For example, the billionaires (eg Koch, Musk) who spend huge sums in derailing (pun intended) any effort to build public transport infrastructure in the US (eg [1][2]).

The question then becomes why. There are really three roads you can go down:

1. You blame a specific group (eg ethnicity, religion, etc). We'll call this the Kanye Road to Antisemitism;

2. You see such individuals as simply bad apples, exceptions. If however you look you'll find pretty much any billionaire is awful and in some way is seeking to destroy the system that made (and continues to make) their very wealthy possible; or

3. You realize this is a systemic problem.

I would put to you that the problem is (3).

[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/climate/koch-brothers-pub...

[2]: https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali...
They are far from useless, I'm writing this comment using one (inside Librem 15 laptop designed to run an FSF-endorsed distro).
As a fairly left leaning European, the thought of labeling more or less ANYTHING in american politics as «left» makes me chuckle.

The most die hard (mainstream) rightwinger in my country would be labeled a die hard socialist by more or less anyone in america.
Going forward, the best solution is to implement Wilson’s "Half-Earth" biosphere reserve proposal, more popularly known in its current, reduced form as "30 by 30", an agreement by 100 nations (currently) at the COP15 meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity to conserve at least 30 percent of our land and water. If more people got behind this initiative, the number of new business and economic initiatives supporting this idea would be astronomical, and would form a new paradigm for thinking about the way we see our planet. Travel, hotel, and tourist opportunities would present unlimited growth opportunities, and the new scientific research coming out of it would benefit humanity in unique ways. My overarching point is we need to stop thinking about the problem of climate change remediation as the only issue, it’s deeply connected to how we see the planet and use our resources wisely.
That's what I just did!

Why would you comment if you have no idea then?