skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly 60k people have died of Covid in China in past five weeks
Disordered behavior and addiction is dependent on the specific action having a meaningfully detrimental impact on one's life. Addiction is not a subjective thing, this is why I don't like when people use that word the way the author did. It's a clinically defined thing.

I appreciate that it lets me live my life with less struggles. I am far from an outlier in any way. I would recommend looking up average watch time statistic across various social media platforms as well as Netflix, Amazon, etc. As well as viwer stats of seasons sports like College Football, Formula 1, FIFA.

"According to Insider Intelligence projections, while overall time spent with media per day will decline slightly from 13 hours, 13 minutes in 2021 to 13 hours, 7 minutes in 2022, time spent with digital media—video, smartphones, CTV, subscription OTT, and digital audio—will maintain steady gains and continue claiming even more time going forward."

https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/us-time-spent-w...
The C9 was the last LG OLED with a non-full screen app launcher.
I’d like to call out that the author is not living “off the grid”, they’re mooching off other people’s grid access to live and work. As others have called out, this doesn’t scale.

Instead of couchsurfing, should we say they’re gridsurfing?
Good point. This BBC article said that a man was sentenced to two year in prison for having a copy of it on his computer[1].

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-60051861
I was a big fan, but I stopped buying anything Uniqlo after it came out they were beneficiaries of forced labor in Xinjiang.
Some of the best PMs I've worked with had CS or similar degrees, but switched to PM because they didn't get the enjoyment or satisfaction out of software development. But, because they understood the concepts, they were much easier to communicate with about technical skills.

Do you have people skills? Do you enjoy working with people to hash out details and then someone else does the work? That might be an option to pursue. Salaries aren't in the same league though.

Otherwise, also look for programming adjacent jobs where you can develop your programming over time and then switch at some point. In-house IT, QA, system admin (if that still exists as a job category), some customer support but only if you're empowered and not just picking scripted answers. Smaller business are more flexible, and you'll have more opportunities to do things outside your job description that help you develop.
I use the one-handed keyboard[1] sometimes and swipe has always been great on that one. not so much on the main keyboard though.

[1] https://www.iphonelife.com/content/how-to-enable-one-handed-...
“Japanese food craftsman”, “DancingBacons”, “I Will Always Travel for Food”, “Japanese Noodles Udon Soba Osaka Nara”

In that order.

Yes, these are all channel names.
Assuming you did this in the past 30 years, it’s doubly worrisome that you got this blessed, because the book is absolutely notorious for being dangerously inaccurate.

Supposedly the “The Terrorist Handbook” series of filez from Usenet corrected the errors, but I’m not a chemist, so I can’t judge either’s reputation.
In secondary school, I remember some people buying this book. You could not buy it off the shelf, but you could order it just fine. They were more interested in the drug recipes, but I don't think any of the recipes worked out or were practical.
Configuration software like Docker is the new Java.
I've set myself Screen Time on iOS for this exact reason.

Yes, it takes discipline to stop, but it's still a good thing that the OS notifies "You've spent a hour on social media already".
There's just some lessons everyone's gotta relearn in life. Touching the stove, accidentally committing manslaughter of your childhood friends, etc
Leela Analog Chess Zero?

If they could do StarCraft, I don't see why they can't do this.
They tell you why they spend so long justifying it as a thing, because people around them said it wasn’t a thing.
Ha this is funny. My partner was the exact same.

The developers made a great release awhile back that allowed you to make custom groups of users with their own whitelists. I created a group that whitelisted all google shopping links and then put her in it. Works flawlessly
It's a good solution, but there are popular programming languages where that doesn't work.
Non-archive link: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2017-May/011552.html. I don’t know why the number is different, but it seems to be the same message.
normal culture rot happening to any empire? Greens vs. Blues (byzantine), Guelph vs Ghibelline (HRE), etc.?

What factions had the pre-Suez brits?

[Edit: Joseph de Maistre has a most excellent rant about how the rot sets in first in the Universities, and then spreads to morals and national spirit and institutions — only he is writing in the early XIX about the doom which awaits Europe, what with these newfangled Republics and all...

Essai sur le Principe Générateur des Constitutions Politiques, ca. 1814

cf https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k57137914/f72.item.r=u... et seq]
That picture cracked me up. I was not expecting that. He looks bored, too, like he's watching Rings of Power.
> that is not how dopamine works

People these days love talking about nonsense like "dopamine hits", it's textbook pseudoscience.
Yeah, my experience with swine flu was at least as bad as COVID...
Cyberselfish Redux (200)
What card has the same fraud protection?

In the US, debit cards do have "fraud protection", in that if someone steals my card or number somehow and spends $500, after an investigation it will be restored to me.

With a credit card, I am never out the money. I see a charge, report it, and none of my money is ever missing. I will never have to pay the $500, and it will never come out of any account that belongs to me.
Watch this get flagged
Did any of them involve sticking a banana in a car's exhaust pipe?
My copy was a very tall book, black cover. I think this is what OP meant - not book length.
That's a lot of extra weight for maybe 9-10kWHr of energy at most (assuming a full day of perfect summertime conditions)... One gallon of diesel fuel contains about 35kWHr of energy.
You could get a Sony TV, they’ve been making OLED tvs since 2017. A lot of them (all? I had a hard time finding sources on some) use the exact same panels as LG.
You can also set it so that triple tapping on the sleep button brings up the accessibility menu so you can turn black and white mode on/off quickly if needed
Chestertons fence is often used as a defense for traditionalism, the sort of traditionalism Twitter is not known for safeguarding
These days you can create a custom group for users that have their own whitelist and blacklist. Put her in that group and whitelist anything you want
But this has not happened. You're basing a decision today on something that might or might not happen in the future.

"One day," Apple could do anything. One day, they could totally prevent installing things that are not notarized. One day, they could entirely prevent non-AppStore, non-sandboxed applications from running on macOS. They haven't, but they could and indeed all signs point to these being on the very long-term roadmap. Does this mean you stop writing Mac apps today?
I'd argue that many artists are also fine with their art being reused and reposted elsewhere, as long as it's done with the necessary attribution.

For example, I don't think Sarah Ander­sen, one of the plaintiffs here, would've reached the popularity she's gained now if it wasn't for her comics being shared on meme sites and social media, for example, and I don't see any "do not repost" watermarks on her recent work like others that do object to resharing on other platforms have started doing.

I think many artists and copyleft programmers have the same positions. The biggest difference is that drawings are considered "art" and code is generally not, despite that fact a technical drawing and business logic are both hardly artistic and mostly an expression of skill whereas the demo scene, the indie gaming scene, and many online artists are very much about expressing themselves within a given set of boundaries.

When Microsoft steals code licensed to Github, people considered that to be a license dispute more than a copyright dispute. I'd argue there is no difference at all between artists and programmers when it comes to their work being absorbed and then reproduced by an AI company.
Is it legal to print out a "stop" sign, attach it to the back of my car, and watch all the Teslas doing full stops on highways?
We all wouldn't be were we are without a stable social structure.

The structure is necessary to find the right people who are then able to change the world.

You know the poor kid who got fed and support from school etc despite it's upbringing which then studies and finds a cancer treatment.

But hey who cares right? I mean look at everything you actually own in your flat or house: non of it comes from your family and you clearly find it totally fine that other people are working for you and you probably despite that they also want to have a good live because this is also social and happens through gov and not through the free market.

Gov is the opposition to pure capitalism and gov is us the people.
You must have misread those claims.
Just what I came here to say. The very use of the term "content" raises my hackles.
> And it also served to indoctrinate a generation of us that Anarchism as a social movement was nothing more than blowing up shit; illegal and violent by definition.

Anarchism has earned this reputation for a reason, and it's definitely not
a conspiracy.
Correct! It’s like rent to own homes, when the operator knows the renter will default and won’t take ownership. The profit is the transaction duration.

(family member is a truck driver)
Ha, yup. We had metrics for any endpoint that was attempted and we got paged for zounds of 404s being generated. We thought it was an attack and reached out to our infosec team. "We are scanning for vulnerabilities." They wouldn't stop the scans so we had to stop alerting on 404 spikes. After, we have no way to detect an actual nefarious scan. Yay checkbox driven compliance.
I prefer this method.

Even something as simple as the regulation requiring the site to make it EASY to turn those things off (But give the choice to consumers via big, easy to see toggles in the right places). Rather than having them put in browser extensions.
That's not a fair comparison though -- if you screwdriver slips or you put the wrong screw in the hole, your sofa doesn't stop working -- but you could do real damage to your OS.

IKEA furniture assembly involves very simple tasks and tools, and a guide that's purely pictorial -- and even then, there are an array of services where people will do that assembly for you, even offerings from IKEA themselves.

Software neither has the same physical presence, nor the same relative lack of risk. The average person can appreciate something "made with their own hands," but lacks the specialist knowledge to appreciate a script or code deployment.

Given how scared and how easily-scammed people can be by having someone open Event Viewer in Windows and claim this means their computer has viruses, opening some script and demanding verbatim typing of commands is more likely to lead to anxiety or unsureness than anything, and certainly not attachment.

You're thinking as if the average person is the average HN reader -- they're not. At all.
When gzip turns my 10k character ASCII text file into a a 2kb archive, has it "compressed each character down to a fifth of a byte per character"? No, thats a misunderstanding of compression.

Just like gzip, training stable diffusion certainly removes a lot of data, but without understanding the effect of that transformation of the entropy of the data it's meaningless to say thing like "two bytes per image" because(like gzip) you need the whole encoded dataset to recover the image.

It's compressing many images into 10GB of data, not a single image into two bytes. This is directly analogous to what people usually mean by "compression"
Usually these things end up with instructions like:

How to make a car bomb:

Ingredients:

1 car

1 bomb (large)

Directions: Mix.

That may be practical instructions if you’re in a war zone, but getting four live 105 mm artillery rounds is bit harder in the suburban United States
> (Not mentioned in the article is that they collect garbage from platform trash bins the same way.)

Armed guards seem like overkill for collecting garbage.
Maybe AI is the visual shortcut of an Excel Pivot Table: people use it, slice and dice, and get further insights to some purpose.

It's a tool. Folks get excited about statistics, massive datasets, and computer science is hip again.

Would we not want a push for folks to experience the exacting caress of an unforgiving compiler?

I thought this stuff would be easy!

Hopefully what doesn't happen is a fragmentation of folks into content caverns, where they may gaze into a mirror and see exactly what they wish, day after day. A literal instantiation of Plato's Caves, where scientific progress is frozen and forgotten.
Some paranoia is rational but in this case I would judge the potential risks: (I) extremely low probability of 'future' problems involving ordering testing kits which are not themselves illegal (II) high probability of youths doing illegal drugs (III) extremely high probability of illegal drugs being impure (IV) moderate probability of impurities being dangerous
Since the code is working and the main problems are the lack of documentation & structure, would it be possible to refactor & add comments with AI techniques? Or transpose it to javascript so we can play online?
He’s truly Nostradamus.

By which I mean, the predictions (at least from what the article relays) are vague enough that you could make an argument they were accurate regardless of what actually happened.
Probably because:

1. No one knows. Real expert IP lawyers I know tend to think it's probably OK with various caveats.

2.) Under even simpler scenarios fair use is a pretty fuzzy line even for things that are better understood and often end up litigated on a case basis. Someone else gave various examples from music. I cited the Obama "Hope" poster elsewhere. Very little is absolute at the margins.
I work with CWCB and have never heard of hail cannons applied. I believe a few car dealerships have a sonic device for hail suppression, but I don’t know if it’s the old-school conic acetylene projector.
I like how almost everybody back then earnestly believed that if power dropped, the drive would use its spinning-down motor as a generator to power finishing the current sector write, and then home and lock the head.

I don't know if any drive ever did that. But certainly the drives actual people actually had would not. Power hiccups, and whatever is being written becomes garbage (and maybe a few sectors after it, too), and the heads flop loose.

Maybe a top-quality drive would turn off current to the write head if power sagged, so that the controller going crazy would not have lasting consequences. But certainly cheap drives never had anything that might have cost an extra penny.
The FAA earlier called it a "damaged database file". I'm not convinced it was data entry exactly.

For example, running "/some/script > data-file" instead of "/some/script < data file" still fits the very generic wording the FAA is sharing publicly.

Could have been accidentally overwriting some idx/dat pair, or some raw database file, etc. Though, yeah, there should still be some controls, troubleshooting tools, logging, descriptive errors, etc, that would have made things more clear and recoverable.
(Which it does intentionally.)
It’s tempting to pick holes in this in a snipey kinda way. Or highlight it as a bit sanctimonious. But if I’m really being super honest, I think I’m just irritated by it because I’m jealous. This person seems to have the drive and ethical fortitude to put their principles ahead of their lifestyle. And I’m probably embarrassed that it showcases my selfishness at not doing so on a routine basis.
$100 is cheap. Getting an Extended Validation code signing certificate to accomplish the equivalent goal on Windows (having no scary security dialog box when users download and open your program) costs even more.
So lame. Reminds me of the weird Ukrainian backers posting videos of every house fire within 500 miles of Moscow and hinting that something nefarious happened.

There's conflict in America?!?!? Must be the Commies making trouble!
Datasette-OpenAI, SQL functions for calling OpenAI APIs
Did you read the article?

It explains that procedures were circumvented and something in production was edited - something that was not allowed.

You can put as many procedures in place as you want, but unless the humans follow these procedures (I.e. not circumvent them deliberately) then someone always has some level of access where they can cause mayhem.

Sure you can programmatically enforce this to a large extent, but ultimately there are always some humans with prod access, or BGP editing access, or firewall write access, or access to that validation logic itself! And it requires that the humans follow the organisational procedures in place.

From what the article says, it sounds like the humans deliberately circumvented procedures, in which case, it is the engineers fault, and they should be disciplined.
That's been my experience. I stopped using Facebook and twitter, and hacker news doesn't keep me occupied for hours. So YouTube has taken over all that desire for content.

I don't think it even matters that most of the stuff I watch is educational, fascinating, and helping me learn new things. It affects my sleep and is still a bit of a passive time suck (like I could just be experimenting with wok cooking in the hours spent watching dozens of videos of others learning how to cook with a wok). So will check out these various extensions that remove recommendations, etc.
Parents in walkable cities also want extracurriculars for their children. It's the suburb that makes the shuttling to/from required.

Sidewalks are illegal for cycling, and even if a stroad had a shoulder, the vehicle speeds make it far too dangerous for a not-yet-fully-mentally-developed child to cycle along. And even within the suburb, vehicle speeds are often 60-70 kmph and drivers are often inattentive. Cycling on roads within suburbs in all but the most limited sense is not safe for children.

It just takes one wayward glance at your mobile phone for me to be attending the funeral of my son. Cars and bikes don't mix.
No one except beautiful Portland, Maine. And probably loads of other towns in New England.
The way I think about it is: I can either program calmly for myself or in SV mode for millions of "users". And when I look around, my dilemma seems fairly common. Programming for lots of people is inhuman. I don't yet know how to program calmly and get to something others find useful. It takes too long, nobody will fund it, I can't convince others to join me, even I can only devote limited time to it.

So my conclusion is: calm programs only happen when people are willing to be more than users, to take ownership of them and agency in their evolution. And that's the kind of people I build for:

http://akkartik.name/about

http://akkartik.name/post/roundup22

https://github.com/akkartik/mu
Why does ddrescue care about "file systems"? Again, I was under the impression that ddrescue does bit by bit copying that I can then mount (and tell it the "filesystem" required).

Is this false?

I have also noticed that, sometimes, ddrescue has trouble ripping dvds, chocking out or producing a low quality rip, that will play perfectly on the same hardware with VLC
> 1929-10-14

Hmmm, about 2 weeks before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, so I doubt it refers specifically to that.
> In theory, you could also circulate cold water in the summer

Yes, but it isn't very common at all for one simple reason: condensation. You have to keep the temperature of the coolant above the dew point, which requires knowledge of ambient temperature and humidity. That means your coolant isn't actually that cold, so it can absorb less heat before needing to be re-chilled. It's overall pretty inefficient.
So the error are used to trip traditional tools like ddrescue like in the days of old?
Yes, that is definitely a downside for these tests. The worst is when the text of some exception is printed and it includes line numbers. It does still require some discipline to think about what you're printing and avoid output that will be very noisy. This problem is mitigated quite a bit by the ease of accepting changes when these tests fail for obviously nonsense reasons though (just hit a couple buttons in an emacs buffer).
Abuse of Discretion
Due to life's twists I have had to learn about abuse. In my reading to try to make sense of things I read about descretion, and how it can be abused. Its so obvious in retrospect, but interesting to contemplate.
The open source use pattern for expect tests in OCaml (via dune) is exactly as you describe (see https://dune.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tests.html) - you run the tests with `--auto-promote` to tell it to update. The editor integration is a very simple keybinding on top of more generic tooling.
I found YouTube exciting around maybe 2015, when content was novel and less commercialized.

Now most content is repetitive, streamlined for ads and with sensationalist ugly thumbnails. Basically like the Internet at large, which has turned into a gigantic tabloid.
Could be an excuse. Could be genuinely too expensive for them in the US. Stelline are not nearly as popular as in Italy, and their suppliers might prefer to focus on higher volume production. They're also aren't elaborate enough to command a higher price as a specialty item. The company buys this pasta instead of making it themselves, so they're at the mercy of what the suppliers charge.
We did not say that we got the idea / recipe from this book of course. We actually got the idea from our previous chem teacher who retired the year before. (Meaning first year for the new teacher.)

This was in 2010.
Because it's uninteresting except to some small subset who just happens to find that an interesting problem they happen to like to work on.

Everyone has their own particular things they happen to become interested in, so some few people are into security, just like some few are into stamps.

But outside of that, security is merely important, not useful or interesting or productive or functional or cool or fun.

Fundamentally the useful function of any machine is to do something. The problem that is interesting and fun and gratifying to solve is how to get that something done at all.

Other considerations like optimizing the design for some parameter like manufacturing cost or materials availability or reliability or field repairability, or writing the documentation, are all secondary puzzles that can be gratifying but are far less so than the initial creation. It's gruntwork and 'mere engineering'.

Figuring out how to ensure that the machine can only be used by approved people in approved ways at approved times and log all activity for auditing... that is even less interesting than optimizing or documenting, unless that just happens to be your kink.

It's hardly a boggling mystery. It's like asking why developers don't seem to like meetings and 7 bosses.